Chapter 329: People are more popular than dead people
Although the game time limit made players complain, except for some liver emperors, most people were secretly relieved.
Punk City.
Zhang Miao walked out of the teleportation and saw that there were already many first-level professional players with the title of [Extraordinary]. Their figures were very active among the NPCs coming and going.
Walking along the main road towards the city lord's palace, the shops on both sides are not much different from the last test. The biggest difference may be that there are several trading houses built by neutral forces, and the NPPC inside are very different.
The NPCs marked in blue are from the neutral camp and cannot directly issue tasks to players, but can only do so through the mercenary guild.
Copper, iron, and fur are still the main commodities. These players are not interested in them. The things that players are interested in are often worth a lot of money. The system has plugged loopholes in this area, but there are still many players flowing in these 'blue names'
In the middle, try your luck.
"Ah, isn't this Mr. Rogge? It's me, second brother, long time no see!"
"Little...ah, it's you. You are much stronger than before."
"Last time you said you were going back to Free City, why did you come back so soon?"
"Uh...what's the matter with you?"
"Hey, I want to see if there's anything I can do to help you here."
"I have no mission."
"Where's the clue?"
"this……"
"Please help me!"
I was lucky enough to meet an NPC named Blue whom I knew, and the second brother quietly gave him a silver coin, enduring the pain and smiling brightly.
The blue NPC quickly put the money into his pocket, glanced left and right, leaned over and whispered: "...there is a lizardman nest in the northwest, 116 yards away, and there is a treasure!"
"Treasure?" Zhang Miao wondered, "Where can I take the mission?"
"Mercenary Guild, starting with C, commission number 107."
"Thanks!"
The blue NPC patted him on the shoulder, "Congratulations on becoming a professional, extraordinary? Very good!", and then left.
Suddenly receiving such important information, Zhang Miao didn't want to go shopping anymore. He hurried to the city lord's mansion, completed the task of [Recruit Report], and ran to the Mercenary Guild.
The mercenary guild is still in its original place. An unnamed street is now named 'Erfen Street'. The area of Punk City has expanded, but the city wall seems to have not been moved. Technology similar to 'space compression' has been used. There are large-scale construction projects in many places.
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The intersection of Erfen Street and Sansan Street was blocked, and the city guard NPPC came out, followed by a level 6 player with an extraordinary title.
"Brother, what's the mission?"
Zhang Miao came over.
"I caught two little thieves and it was triggered temporarily.", the player said with a smile.
"Good luck, see you later!"
"See you later!"
Zhang Miao observed that most of the employed players are still busy in the city, completing tasks, participating in plots, and encountering adventures. News about the lizardmen's nest and treasures seems to have not spread at all.
He was even more anxious and rushed to the mercenary guild when the street in front was cleared.
"Alchemist's Guild!?"
A special building under construction made him stop. The main body of the building was like a huge beaker. Under the two flashing characters "Alchemy", it attracted a dozen players, vaguely looking at a notice.
[Alchemist Apprentice Recruitment Rules]
As mentioned above, alchemist is a powerful profession that changes the mysterious properties of matter. The scope of alchemy is all-encompassing and all-inclusive. It is very similar to the mysterious discipline that combines chemistry and materials science. Becoming an alchemist apprentice requires both intelligence and spirit.
The main attribute reaches 20 points...
Time was too tight and I didn't bother to take a closer look. The two main attributes of 20 points made the players who were interested in the job complain, and almost excluded players other than mages and bards.
There are surprisingly few players in the mercenary guild. If you look at the mission bulletin board, it's full of players. It's all experience and money!
I'm busy looking for quests that start with C. It's easy to find. The first green quest is that there is no limit on mercenary levels. This will not be a good thing in the future.
Looking at the back, there were more than twenty players who had accepted this task. Zhang Miao suddenly felt a sense of urgency and hurriedly went to the counter to complete the procedures.
After receiving the mission, there was already a shoulder guide on the mini map. He first went to various places in the city to buy it, and then hurried out of the city.
In the northwest direction, 116 yards is equivalent to more than ten kilometers. The so-called "yard" is a system translation that can only be used by NPCs in the neutral camp. It usually refers to a straight-line distance.
These are all experiences, and the advantages of veteran players are reflected in all aspects.
Different from the novice village, there is no refresh area around the main city of the system. It is all wild areas. Once you leave the city, it is pitch black. There are very few players, but there are an endless stream of NPCs. The most are professional template NPCs who act as guards. Level 1
The professions are extraordinary, the second-level professions are outstanding, the third-level professions are outstanding, the fourth-level professions are stunning... Wow, one level is more attractive than the other, especially the cloaks are even more exaggerated. Even without titles, you can still tell which one they are.
The higher one is the lower one.
It is worth mentioning that the level of the fourth-level professional NPC is only level 45. It seems that what the forum said is right. The cloak can be obtained in advance, as long as the merits and combat effectiveness are sufficient.
Zhang Miao was very jealous when he saw the Level 4 Shocking Cloak. He watched the group of NPCs riding tall horses out of sight before he started on the road again.
As he walked, he saw a small forest lit up by his vision. Zhang Miao suddenly realized that something was wrong. He stopped and took a look. This and that were woods, and they were clearly demonized tree demons.
The demonized tree demons are not the demonized little tree demons. The latter is only level 5 or 6, but the former is level 10 or above. Each one is more than ten meters high. They stand still and are not much different from a tree.
Dryads have facial features growing out of their trunks, and their eyes are usually closed and will only be opened when an enemy is found. Fortunately, Zhang Miao did not disturb them, otherwise she would be in trouble.
As he was retreating step by step, he suddenly saw a player riding a horse burst into Zhang Miao's field of vision from the darkness. Zhang Miao was about to remind him when he saw her turn around on horseback and shoot an arrow.
The arrow was lost in flight and glowed with blue light. It had a very long range and finally hit the outermost tree demon.
The dryad's eyes opened and it roared silently. The ground trembled slightly, and two big feet made of roots were pulled out from the ground.
Boom, boom!
The ranger ran in front, and the tree demon chased behind, gradually moving away from the gathering place of the tree demon.
Tsk, tsk, you are really brave for a talented person.
The ranger's ability to fly kites has been greatly strengthened in this test. Although the shooting skills need to be practiced individually and the door frame has been improved a lot, the degree of freedom is much higher.
This is naturally painful for those shooters who can no longer play without system correction and soul lock, but for players who are truly capable, perseverant, foundational, and talented, it is really a powerful weapon.
Zhang Miao only asked if he was not a fool who would not be able to play without the system correction, but he did not dare to take up a job as a ranger, and he had already learned the art of archery.
After bypassing the gathering place of dryads and walking for more than ten minutes, another group of harpies appeared in front of them.
Harpy?
The bright red LV25 made him speechless for a while. This kind of monster only appeared on the edge of the fairy forest during the fourth test. At that time, there were only two or three here and there, but here there is a large one.
Monsters like harpies are different from kobolds and lizardmen. They have no intelligence and no social organization. If two harpies meet together, they will most likely fight. Why do they look like monkeys in the zoo now?
get together?
If you don't understand it, you can only avoid it.
Taking a detour again, we met another group of centaurs...
The jungle has really become a scary place. Hundreds of thousands of players are waiting to be blocked on isolated islands, and the game experience is not as good as it was during the fourth test.
After going around and around again, it took more than two hours to walk only a dozen kilometers, and finally I crossed the stream among a group of level 16 steel spear fishmen and level 8 gray fishmen and arrived at the destination.
In the swamp at the end of the stream, large and small puddles extend to the end of the field of vision. On each small mound, there are tattered fences, dirty flags, branches and mud lakes, just like grave mounds.
cabin.
Lizardmen warriors walking upright, lizardmen females crawling on all fours, small lizards whose scales have not yet hardened... a total of three to four hundred of them were on the mound surrounding more than twenty players.
They were all extraordinary, and their cloak reflected the firelight in the camp. They were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, but they fought their way in and out among the 11th level lizard warriors.
"Hey! Another mage is here, Gouzi, Erniu sent two people down to pick him up!"
The voice of a dwarf paladin with the ID of Thor's Hammer rang out from a nearby channel. Zhang Miao used the 5-second cooldown to run [Acid Rain Arrow] to fight two level 8 female lizardmen. He carefully calculated the amount of mana and flexibly traversed it.
Dodge in the mud of the trap.
A barbarian and a human thief broke out of the siege and came to fetch him.
[The player Hongchen Passer invites you to join the team.]
"Brother, is there anyone behind you?"
Joining the team, the three of them cooperated and easily killed the two female lizardmen.
"No, at least I didn't call anyone else."
The barbarian's ID is Ox Hoof Eight-Kilogram Weight, and the human thief's ID is Ye Liuxiang, the Saint of Thieves. They don't know each other. The barbarian is level 6 and the thief is level 7. Together they protect the crispy mage who is level 6 and go up the mound.
"So many monsters? Where did they come from?" Zhang Miao started to test them on the way.
"I don't know!" The cow's hooves chopped down a small lizard man that jumped out of the water and attacked with eight pounds of weight. He said angrily: "The wilderness is so weird now, anything can happen."
"That's right!" Zhang Miao said about the demonized dryads and harpies he met on the road. "There used to be very few high-level monsters, but now there are a large group of them when you encounter them."
"Good thing!" Level 7 Thief Saint Ye Liuxiang sneaked back, "It's all our savings."
Zhang Miao grinned, and held a level 12 lizard warrior with [Mage Hand] for 1 second, causing both the rogue [backstab] and the barbarian [heavy attack] to deal critical damage, "Bang.
"With a sound, the harpoon exploded.
Zhang Miao quickly looked at the team's picking method and was relieved when he found out that it was a dice roll. Since it was still far away from the main force, the ownership rights only belonged to three people. It must be said that he was lucky.
"Oh, this is the first thing I exploded." Thief Saint Ye Liuxiang said.
"From the time the server was launched to now?" Zhang Miao asked.
Pirate Saint Ye Liuxiang nodded.
Zhang Miao smiled and said: "You have such a dark face? Why don't you come first?"
"You go first, I'm last." Thief Saint Ye Liuxiang waved her hand pretending not to care.
The eight-pound ox hoof was the first to be thrown, and it came out with 8 points. The number was neither high nor low. He cursed and put it aside.
Zhang Miao is second.
He was also a little nervous. Level 12 monsters should wear first-level professional attire, which is very expensive. It just so happened that his pockets were cleaner than his face.
"The sky is Lingling, the earth is Lingling...leopard!"
He threw it out with a shout, and the two dice spun slowly. The first one stopped, 3 o'clock.
Zhang Miao's face fell.
The second stop was at 6 o'clock, which added up to 9 o'clock. He breathed a sigh of relief. The cow's hoof weighed eight pounds but his face looked ugly.
Thief Saint Ye Liuxiang murmured something in his mouth and made a praying gesture. Zhang Miao felt a knot in her heart, remembering what was said on the forum that if your faith is high enough and you pray to the gods, you can temporarily increase your luck.
"Fuck, miscalculation."
The Chinese who steal the holy leaf Liuxiang throw it out at 11 o'clock.
"Haha, I'm not polite!"
Putting away the steel fork, the thief couldn't help but feel happy. He was even happier when he saw that he had changed into professional attire. Although it was just a blank slate, it was now priced but not marketable, so it was easy to sell.
The three of them were talking and laughing just now, but now they are silent, especially since the cow's hoof weighs eight pounds and has a stinky face as if someone owes him a lot of money.
Zhang Miao was also upset. He spent more than 2 million yuan in gold for the job and the gold medal. Now he has nothing in his pocket. Since the server was launched, he has only been in and out, so he reluctantly took the job and made it to the first echelon.
There are about 5,000 people on the level ranking list, and the combat power list is a little better, more than 4,800.
This is not a one-time investment. If you want to maintain this ranking and stay at the bottom of the first tier in the future, you must continue to invest. The little bit you can get in the game is not enough, you can only earn money.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have dropped everything and rushed here just after taking office when he heard about the brood and treasures. It wouldn't have been all about money.
"What happened to the treasure?"
Seeing that they were about to reach the bottom of the hill, Zhang Miao remembered asking for information.
"The caravan of neutral forces is robbing!" Thief Saint Ye Liuxiangyan explained concisely and concisely.
"oh!
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Zhang Miao understood. Thinking of the good things on the shelves of the blue-named NPC shop, he became excited. Looking at the lizard man camp on the hill, his eyes became hot.
Zhang Miao: "How to divide it in the end?"
Pirate Saint Ye Liuxiang: "...I can't say for sure."
Zhang Miao saw that she had more than two hours of game time left, and was very anxious. If she missed the opportunity to make money because of lack of time, she would regret it to death!
Zhang Miao: "How much game time do you have left?"
Niu Hoo Ba Jin gave him a heavy look and ignored him. Pirate Saint Ye Liuxiang smiled and said: "Don't worry, we will be offline as soon as the monsters are cleared."
"Make an appointment to go online together tomorrow?"
Pirate Saint Ye Liuxiang nodded.
"That's good, that's good!" Zhang Miao was relieved.
When they arrived near the camp, there were more monsters. It was very difficult for the three of them to deal with it. A team came down from the hill to help them and finally brought Zhang Miao safely to the camp.
"Another turret (mage) is coming. Everyone, hurry up and try to get it done within two hours!" LV9's Thor's Hammer led a group of paladin tanks and shouted loudly.
Zhang Miao found this person on the ranking list, and suddenly he was an expert with a level in the top 500 and a combat power of 1476.
Zhang Miao's combat power is exactly half of his.
"This is really irritating!", he thought secretly in his heart.
