Chapter 41: Strange Village

"Deduction 1" is also a common "jargon" in this kind of multiplayer team game.

The meaning of "1" is a bit like a concise expression such as "received" or "understood". It was widely recognized as the fastest input in the PC keyboard game era, so it has been passed down and used in the era of virtual reality game cabins.

Of course, most of the time, stupid players won't honestly deduct 1. Seeing the team channel full of "2" and even "0", Wang Ergou couldn't help laughing: "No, brother, I understand deducting 2, they don't know how to count! What's wrong with you deducting 0? Are you from Chunxi Road?"

The stupid players started to make all kinds of nonsense: "Captain, why are you so excited to see 0? Are you 1?"

"Captain, how do you know that Chunxi Road is full of people floating around? Are you one of them?"

"I don't believe it. There is no 1 in the "Records of the Ten Continents"!"

"Pass it on: The leader is not 1!"

"Pass it on: The leader likes 1!"

"What? The leader is 0?"

"Sister, your formation is messed up!"

As a team leader who has been in various games for many years, Wang Ergou has long been accustomed to this kind of teasing. He smiled and said, "You are really like old sows wearing masks, one after another. Why don't you take this time to sit down and practice? Look, Lu Renya has already gathered a lot of spiritual herbs!"

When the players looked in the direction, they discovered that Lu Renya, who had just completed the shared task, was taking advantage of his idleness to dig spiritual herbs not far away!

The Taiyin Mountain sect's headquarters had long been completely destroyed by the players. It was more than two hundred miles away from Taiyin Mountain, and generally no players would run that far, so the resources were very abundant. In just a short while, Lu Renya had already dug up a large bag!

Seeing his teammates all looking at him, Lu Renya guiltily pressed the spiritual herbs he dug into a small ball, trying to prove that he was not that Huang Shiren...

After more than an hour, almost all the players who arrived here early had a big bag of spiritual herbs and ores, and the last player in the team finally arrived.

"Brother, please level up more, you are too slow!"

The player explained tearfully: "I really didn't mean it. My proficiency in [Wind Control] is low, and I used the skills [Pray for Clear Sky] and [Pray for Rain]. It's useless! I have it so hard!"

In "Records of the Ten Continents", the player's novice skills are completely random, and a random skill will be given after drawing qi into the body. According to incomplete statistics, in the skill demonstrations posted by players on the forum, the most used skills are [Swordsmanship], [Divine Movement], [Wind Control], and [Strong Power], and there are basically three or four of them. Skills like [Pray for Clear Skies] and [Pray for Rain] are really unheard of, and I'm afraid they are as precious as Wang Ergou's [Carrying] - they just sound like they are really useless.

Seeing that everyone was present, Wang Ergou said in the group microphone: "Okay, okay, now that everyone is here, let's split up into teams and look for clues!"

Upon hearing this, all the players dispersed and rushed towards the valley with strange cries. The fastest runner, Zhao Qing (Zhu Tu Meng Jin), disappeared in the blink of an eye.

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However, this task is not as complicated as one might imagine.

Even Fang Xianyu, who was secretly following Zhao Qing, was stunned when he saw a small village covered by a formation just a few miles away from the valley entrance.

That formation was not advanced, it was just a concealment formation. Once it encountered a cultivator with a little bit of cultivation, it would be ineffective.

Fang Xianyu had been blocked outside the valley by the demons, and even his spiritual sense could not penetrate the valley to detect, so naturally he did not find this village. Zhao Qing was the player with the highest cultivation level, especially because she even relied on her own cultivation, so as soon as she approached the formation, she noticed something was wrong, and then she used her spiritual power to lightly sweep it according to the method that the senior sister had taught her, and the formation was easily broken.

The whole process was even more standard than what her senior sister had practiced during her private lessons!

Zhao Qing immediately typed in the team channel: "Sisters, I have a village here!"

Fang Xianyu also quickly updated the task.

[New Sect Station]: [It turns out that someone has already arrived in this beautiful valley. Why is this strange little village here? And why is it covered by a hidden formation? You decide to investigate it carefully. (Can be shared, the upper limit of the number of people who can share: unlimited) (Reward: 2000Exp, 100 points of sect contribution)]

Soon, all the players noticed the changes in the mission content, and everyone rushed to the mission point marked by Zhao Qing on the map.

Compared to Taiping Town, which players have already encountered many times, this nameless village is indeed very strange: although the scenery is beautiful and the houses are quaint, the villagers inside are full of fear. The first few villagers who saw Zhao Qing even knelt down the moment they saw her, mumbling something incoherently.

Zhao Qing looked carefully for a while before she realized that these villagers seemed to treat her as some kind of deity. They thought she came to the village to ask for tribute because they were not satisfied with the tributes the village had recently offered.

Zhao Qing wanted to find out the details, but the villagers were so scared that they wet their pants. One of them even fainted. It was obvious that she could not get anything out of them.

"What's going on?"

Wang Ergou and Jieran were the first to arrive almost at the same time, and they felt a little puzzled by the scene in front of them.

"I don't know either," Zhao Qing spread her hands, "They seemed to have mistakenly thought we were here to ask for tribute. I don't know why they were so scared."

Seeing two more "gods" coming to Zhao Qing's side, the villagers who had been begging for mercy were so scared that they rolled their eyes and fell to the ground.

Wang Ergou felt even more confused. He scratched his head and couldn't help saying, "No, are we that scary? My face isn't ugly!"

The player who arrived later and didn't speak but witnessed the whole process suggested: "Why don't we go in and ask someone about the situation..."

Wang Ergou nodded: "Okay, then you all wait here and let the main force gather together. I will go in and find the NPC to see if I can get anything out of them. If I am killed instantly, you all should leave first and wait for my arrangements!"

After saying this, he walked towards the village.

All the houses and courtyards in the village were closed, and the villagers who were vaguely seen walking on the road ran into the nearest houses in panic.

Wang Ergou couldn't help but frown - this situation was too weird.

He had not walked far when he saw an old man with a gray beard, led by a little girl, hurrying towards him, shouting as he walked: "God, please slow down! God, please slow down! I am sorry for not coming to greet you! I hope the gods will forgive me!"

Wang Ergou stopped vigilantly - although the old man's beard was white instead of yellow, he was an old man after all. He instantly recalled the melee combat of Gandalf the Great in another world that he had witnessed with his own eyes.

I only heard him ask cautiously: "You call me a god? Do you recognize me?"