"The first pot of gold has been obtained, and we will continue to work hard."
Mo Lan suppressed his excitement.
"This game has a lot of potential."
Looking at the huge shadow appearing in his field of vision, Mo Lan walked forward quickly.
The first thing that caught Mo Lan's eyelids was a tall, slightly sloping city wall.
The city wall made of strips of stone tilts slightly inward, with some diamond-shaped arrow holes and some ferocious claw marks vaguely visible on it, which seem to tell the story of the ups and downs this city wall has experienced.
The city walls about ten meters high extend to both ends of the field of view. The tall city walls give people a huge sense of oppression.
"Is this Red Maple City? It's so spectacular."
Mo Lan walked over in surprise. Before entering Red Maple City, Mo Lan saw a dense crowd of players at the door.
This group of players stood at the gate of the city laughing and joking, and there seemed to be many people sitting on the ground on one side, with a piece of cloth spread in front of them, or simply placing their goods on the ground for sale.
Looking at these things, Mo Lan felt like he was in another world, completely different from what he had experienced in the forest before.
"This is an online game. Before, I was just playing stand-alone."
Mo Lan shuttled among the players, listening to the languages from all over the country, and looking at the various products on the stalls.
"Water, black bread, dried meat, fishing nets, wooden forks, ropes, pancakes, candied haws, bone swords, bone daggers..."
Mo Lan, who was walking around, suddenly held back and took a few steps back with a strange look on his face.
"It seems like something weird got mixed in just now. Damn it, there are actually pancakes and candied haws. Brother, how did you do that?"
Mo Lan stared at the two players selling candied haws and pancake fruits with wide eyes.
The two people laughed happily.
"I happened to find the materials and made them. Do you want one? One candied haws, one copper nasi, and one candied apple, three copper nasi."
"Pancakes and fruit, without adding two coppers a piece, the taste will be exactly the same as what you eat in real life."
"Forget it, I won't eat it anymore, I just feel a little weird."
Mo Lan said with a strange expression.
“Playing a game, it’s a game with a Western medieval background and you can see candied haws and pancake fruits... Sorry, it’s really a bit unexpected.
You can actually eat snacks while playing a game?”
Hearing Mo Lan's words, the two looked at each other and laughed.
"Hahaha, you must have just arrived, right?"
"Well, what's wrong?"
"You will find even more surprising things when you enter the city."
"What?"
Mo Lan asked strangely.
"clean."
"Um?"
"Hey, the feces in Red Maple City will no longer be disposed of casually. Do you know why?"
"Because now feces can be sold, there are players who collect feces for retting."
Mo Lan's eyes widened.
"Damn it, there are no people farming anymore, right? Farming just to play a game? That's too much."
After listening to Mo Lan's words, the two looked at him strangely.
"Why not plant it? One copper is now five yuan on the trading platform. In the medieval background, food was hard currency. With our intensive farming skills, we can make a sure profit.
Isn’t it nice to be able to play games and make money at the same time?”
After a long time, Mo Lan walked towards Red Maple City in a daze.
He realized again why this game can be called "Real Game", and he also understood how real real games are.
In other games, no matter how many plot lines or how rich the gameplay is, in the end every player plays the same game and there will be no difference.
But real games are different. Real games are a whole new world. Games are life, and no life is exactly the same.
"This is a second world that runs autonomously. This world will run normally without players, and things will happen as they should.
After the player joins the world, the world will also be affected by the player, resulting in a series of changes.
Calculated based on the current 500 million registered players of "Real Game", the changes caused by the integration of 500 million players into this world are definitely all-round.
In "Real Game", everyone is really changing the world. This is the second world of mankind. This is reality. There are no restrictions. You can do whatever you want and can do. This is the real thing.
The charm of it.”
"But how does such a second world work?
It seems that even if all the service periods in the world are added up, there won’t be enough to run this game, right?”
Mo Lan suddenly had a doubt, but after thinking for a while with no results, he stopped thinking and started thinking about another question.
"What should I do next? Fight monsters, upgrade, and sell materials to make money?"
"Well, it's not that it won't work, it just feels too ordinary. How about I open a store."
Mo Lan carefully thought about the next development route.
While thinking about it, Mo Lan walked into the city gate and glanced aside as he entered.
I saw that all those driving, whether they were caravans or others, were stopped and had to pay the entry fee before entering the city, while those on foot entered the city directly.
"Hello, sir, do you need some guidance? I know all the roads and shops in Dongcheng District.
I know where in Dongcheng District the price for animal skins is the highest, where the shops are the shabbiest, and where the bosses are the kindest.
For one copper you can hire me for the whole day."
As soon as Mo Lan entered the city, a thin, short kid stopped in front of Mo Lan and spoke very fast, as if he was worried that Mo Lan would interrupt him.
Mo Lan looked the child up and down. At this moment, the short man suddenly shouted loudly behind Mo Lan.
"Saler, get out of here!"
Mo Lan looked back and saw a skinny child quickly retracting his hand, giving the short man a hateful look, and then disappeared into the crowd.
"May I have your name?"
Mo Lan raised his eyebrows and asked with a strange look on his face. The short man heard this and said quickly.
"Al."
"Al, okay, I'll hire you for a day."
Mo Lan walked forward and said with a smile.
"The thief just now was with you, right?"
Mo Lan clearly felt that Al's body stiffened and his muscles tensed, as if he would run away the next moment.
"Don't be nervous. After all, you are just making money legitimately, right? You don't have any bad intentions."
Algan laughed twice.
"Okay, let me ask you, how big is Red Maple City? How many people are there?"
"No...I don't know."
Al had an embarrassed expression on his face.
"I only know that there are four districts in the city: east, west, north and south. Those near the city walls are slums, and in the middle are the lord's castle and the nobles' residences."
Mo Lan nodded after hearing this.
A child, especially a poor child in a medieval setting, would definitely not be exposed to this data. It would be a problem if he knew about it.
"Where are the stores usually located?"
"Ah, shops? There are them everywhere, in slum areas and aristocratic areas."
"Oh, are there any requirements for opening a store?"
"As long as you have a house, you can open a shop, but..."
