Chapter 12 Is This Really a Game?

While Zhao Qing was talking, Han Tiaotiao was pulling up a handful of weeds. No one knew what he was doing nearby and he did not join in the discussion.

However, when Zhao Qing said "you can do anything that can be done in reality", a small straw fish suddenly appeared in everyone's sight.

It's a bit ugly and sloppy. The edges of the broken grass leaves are jagged as if they were gnawed by a dog, and the whole thing looks loose, but it is indeed a small fish woven from straw.

Han Tiaotiao shook the straw fish and said, "It seems that this game is more free than we thought."

Looking at this ugly little straw fish, everyone fell silent.

Is this really just a game? Even Zhao Qing, who had long realized that the game had an absurdly high degree of freedom, couldn't help but ask this question in her heart.

You have to know that even the top three VR games on the market cannot achieve this level. In those VR games, you cannot "create".

In other words, it cannot be "created" "at will".

Two bundles of grass can be combined into a rope, several iron ores can be combined into an iron ingot, and a broken weapon can be repaired by touching it with repair tools or materials.

Even the texture on the rope is clearly visible, the cracks on the iron ore are so real that they can be mistaken for real ones, and the broken weapons even have maps and models with different degrees of wear and tear.

However, that is not in line with the logic of reality, or in other words, the current level of technology is not yet capable of allowing people to "survive" in a simulated way in the virtual world.

But this game can do it, just like the ugly yet elegant little straw fish in Han Tiaotiao's hand that cannot possibly exist in any game model library.

"Let's go."

Wang Ergou was the first to stand up and leave the "feng shui treasure land" carefully selected by several people to guard the mission point.

The Jade Emperor quickly followed: "Where are you going?"

"Let's go to Taiping Town to buy some ropes. I remember that Old Han got a lot of copper coins from the ruins of Shixia Village. That should be enough to buy some ropes, right?"

Zhao Qing said enthusiastically, "I'll go buy it. After I drew Qi into my body, I learned how to [Control the Wind], so I can fly directly over there. It's faster, so I should be able to run back and forth in half an hour. You can do the daily tasks first to level up, so that you may have a better chance of winning."

"You haven't been to Taiping Town yet?"

"Not yet, but after Senior Sister told me about the place, it was automatically marked on my map."

Wang Ergou was a little hesitant. Indeed, letting Zhao Qing go would be the best solution in terms of efficiency. But she was here to help out of friendship. If he let a girl do all the dirty work, he would feel bad if she died in an accident and ended up in a small dark room.

At this time, Han Tiaotiao suggested very considerately: "My initial skill is [Godspeed], and I can run pretty fast. I can go with you, and I shouldn't be a big drag."

"That's fine! It just so happens that the money was collected by Lao Han, so you two can go together. In addition to the rope, if you have enough money, you can also look for other things you might need and buy some. Lao Han, I will return it to you when I collect the copper coins later."

Wang Ergou didn't like to take advantage of others, so he said the last sentence to Han Tiaotiao, but Han Tiaotiao said generously: "It's a bit polite to say this, isn't it? You shared this task with us for free!"

"Okay, let's do this first. You two go first, and I'll help the emperor with his daily tasks."

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Then, the two of them would brush for an hour.

Wang Ergou and Jade Emperor worked hard for almost an hour to move bricks. When even Jade Emperor, who was bearing a 30% debuff, reached level 7, Zhao Qing finally arrived. From a distance, she was seen flying and jumping over, and took out a bunch of ropes from her game backpack and threw them in front of the two of them: "Lao Han is still behind, I brought the things here first - alas, the level is too low, the mana is really not enough, and it will be empty after flying for a while!"

Then he continued, "We also met someone from Guangcheng Sect. After hearing that we were going to investigate the Huanggong Temple, they gave us several pieces of talisman paper. I wanted to tell you about it, but you ignored me when I called you in the team channel just now, and you didn't respond to my private chat either. What's wrong with you two?"

The Jade Emperor said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Second Senior Sister. I was just carrying a tree with Master Ergou and didn't have time to check the private chat."

Zhao Qing waved her hand nonchalantly and said, "It's okay, it's okay. I thought you guys were in trouble again. It's okay. Submit the tasks at hand, and then we'll find a tree and tie the ropes. We'll wait for Lao Han."

Wang Ergou stuffed the tree he was carrying into the arms of the Jade Emperor, pushing him down on his buttocks. "Emperor, go and hand it in. Your 30% benefit reduction debuff is too damaging! I'm already level 9 and you're only level 7! Second Senior Sister and I will stay here and work on the rope first!"

The Jade Emperor stood up with a bitter face and resigned himself to his fate by carrying the tree: "Okay."

After a few hours of trial and error since the server was launched, everyone has discovered that the method of submitting tasks is not fixed.

For the daily sect tasks that everyone is working hard on, you can directly place the collected materials near the special supply storage area in the camp and submit them in the task interface of the game panel. You can also carry trees and stones to the NPC Baili Shuang and talk to her to submit the task. It is very free.

Among them, the most efficient one is the tree-cutting task, which is jokingly called "tree-pulling" by players. Basically, one tree can be exchanged for 200 experience points. At the beginning, chopping down three trees can level up. However, the resources [stone] and [river mud] that are also required for daily tasks of the sect cannot be brought back too much at one time because players do not have suitable containers, resulting in very low experience points in exchange, and the efficiency is at the bottom.

Therefore, tree felling has become the first choice for most hardcore players.

As the man with the lowest NPC favorability in the entire server, the Jade Emperor no longer dared to get close to Baili Shuang. Every time he submitted a task or accepted a daily task, he did so through the task bar, for fear that the NPC would dislike him and deduct his favorability.

On the other side, Wang Ergou was sorting out the tangled ropes and asking about the so-called talisman paper.

"They are two True Fire Thunderbolt Talismans and two Wind Calming Talismans. Old Han exchanged them for the Bone-Breaking and Muscle-Growing Powder."

Zhao Qing replied.

Wang Ergou's heart moved, and he asked curiously, "Bone-breaking and muscle-growing powder? Is that thing valuable?"

"We asked, and the person from Guangcheng Sect said that the Bone-Breaking and Muscle-Growing Powder could be sold for more than ten spirit stones on the market, and asked us if we would sell it to us."

"Did you sell it?"

"He definitely didn't sell it! How do we know if he's a liar? But that True Fire Thunderbolt Talisman does sound pretty cool, and it's said to have considerable killing power, otherwise we wouldn't have traded with him!"

"Guangcheng Zong seems to be the local boss in this area, so he shouldn't be the one to cheat people... By the way, did he tell me his name?"

“Eucommia ulmoides.”

Wang Ergou showed a disappointed look: "It's a man!"

Zhao Qing, who has been immersed in a certain flower literature for many years, thought about the adjective and added: "Hmm... her face is like a beautiful girl."

"Hiss...male, male girl?"

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