Chapter 3 Chapter 3 "Welcome to the Sunflower Valley."...
The other two beasts paused and growled at the bearded halfling.
Xia Xifeng, who was sitting on the tree, covered his mouth and almost vomited because of the bloody scene and the smell of blood in the wind.
After observing for a while, Xia Xifeng understood why Qin Lang took the risk to save people.
There are three major categories of short human races in "Wonderland Fantasy": dwarves, goblins, and halflings.
Each race in Western fantasy works has its own "stereotypes" and also has very different characteristics.
The dwarves in "Wonderland Fantasy" are neutral, the goblins are evil, and the halflings are a purely kind and optimistic race.
Halflings look like humans, but are only half the height of humans. The largest Halfling in the game is just over one meter tall.
They love life, value family, are good at farming, have talent in painting and music, are very loyal to friendship and love, and are keen to find various excuses to hold gatherings for the whole village.
In the disaster-ridden game setting of "Fantasy of Wonderland" which has entered the apocalyptic era, every time the game operator organizes a low-age fairy-tale style event, it is organized by halfling NPCs.
Even when doomsday approaches and everything is devastated, halflings remain optimistic and cheerful. Unless they go crazy, they will never lose hope.
Qin Lang must have discovered that the person calling for help was a halfling, so he took the risk and took action.
For the two "illegal" time travelers, the best way to integrate into this world is to have a good relationship with the halflings.
There happened to be a halfling in trouble, how could the players not save him?
Although halflings are naturally sensitive to malice, players treat all NPCs equally, without any subjective malice. As long as players do not harm halflings, halflings will be their lifelong friends.
Xia Xifeng lowered the hand that was covering his mouth and suppressed the churning in his stomach.
The bearded halfling had the absolute upper hand and the danger was averted.
Xia Xifeng looked at Qin Lang in confusion as he wandered among the wild beasts, his bloodstained face as cold as ever.
As a childhood friend, Xia Xifeng was sure that Qin Lang was just like him and had never killed even chickens, ducks or fish.
Even though the two of them did not go to college in the same place, they both prepared for postgraduate and doctoral entrance exams in their freshman year and were very busy with their studies. In addition, the security in both places was very good, so Qin Lang had no chance of being exposed to any bloody things.
Xia Xifeng was really surprised that Qin Lang could act without hesitation, was unconcerned about the smell of blood, and remained calm when facing the siege of wild beasts.
He recalled for a long time and scratched his head.
Qin Lang has been overly cold and calm since he was a child, so it’s not too surprising that he seems to have such adaptability to bloody scenes?
Xia Xifeng took a deep breath and forced himself to get used to this strange world that was completely different from the one he had lived in before.
Qin Lang and the half-orc have already met up. One shoots arrows while the other harvests with a giant axe, working in perfect harmony.
It looked like the two men were going to kill all the beasts.
Xia Xifeng's experience points skyrocketed, rapidly approaching level 10, the dividing line between "casual players" and "newbie players." Clearly, this beast wasn't the kind of monster they should be "farming" right now.
He rubbed his face and smiled excitedly.
System, add points!
Since he didn't have a combat class, Xia Xifeng didn't think about attack power. Besides the points automatically allocated by the system, he evenly distributed his free points among spirit, endurance, and agility.
Mental influence spell defense and abnormal resistance, as well as blood recovery spells for professions such as priests;
Stamina affects physical defense and equipment load, as well as the success rate of "cornering" skills such as defensive counterattacks;
Agility affects dodge and hit rate, and adds a bonus to critical hit determination for critical attacks.
For Xia Xifeng, it is all about defense, defense as much as possible, and then dodging and running away.
After getting the skill points, Xia Xifeng did not immediately unlock new skills and blueprints. Instead, he clicked on the gathering skill tree page and clicked on the "auxiliary" ability first.
The system has more skills than the life profession skills in "Fantasy of Wonderland". It is based on the life profession template of "Fantasy of Wonderland" and adds many skills from farming and survival games on the market.
Farming and survival games also involve encountering dangers, requiring many skills to save and escape. Xia Xifeng's system also has relevant auxiliary skills.
Xia Xifeng has activated the three auxiliary skills of "walking", "climbing" and "swimming", which reduce the energy required for walking, climbing and swimming and increase the movement speed.
After lighting up the basic auxiliary skills, Xia Xifeng first focused on training his climbing skills because he was on a big tree.
After the climbing skill is maxed out, you can climb regardless of the terrain environment, and you can also reduce the damage from falling by a percentage, which is very practical in the real world.
Qin Lang has run out of arrows.
After he added points while multitasking, he used his dagger and the halfling to kill the last beast. He turned around and saw Xia Xifeng climbing up and down the tree. The corners of his mouth, which had not trembled when he was injured, twitched involuntarily.
The halfling spoke to Qin Lang in a familiar manner: "Brother, what is he doing?"
Qin Lang said: "I'm bored, so I practiced tree climbing."
The halfling laughed heartily. "How interesting! My name is Leo Sunflower, good brother, what's your name? I must invite you to my home. Please don't refuse my friendship!"
Seeing that Qin Lang had finished the battle, Xia Xifeng hurried over to collect materials.
After hearing the halfling's self-introduction, Xia Xifeng once again felt the pain of the unique half-transliteration and half-literal translation of "Fantasy of Wonderland".
Although "Wonderland Fantasy" is a Western fantasy game, its developer and operator are both Chinese. Chinese people understand Chinese people, and while transliteration may seem more impressive, it can be confusing for Chinese players if there are too many names, so the game uses a lot of free translations.
For example, the world of Fantasy Fantasy is transliterated as "Sanmien World", but when the game was officially promoted in China, the official name used was "Dream World". "Sanmien" is the ancient Latin word for "dream".
Similarly, if the names of important NPCs are short and easy to remember, the game officials will use transliteration, such as "Leo". However, "Leo's" surname is too long to be transliterated, so a free translation is used, namely "Sunflower".
Several of the Halfling families have surnames related to flowers, which are used as crops. "Sunflower" refers to sunflowers.
Xia Xifeng paused and poked Qin Lang on the system team call page.
Qin Lang gave Xia Xifeng a knowing look in return.
Even though Qin Lang didn't care much about the game's plot, he was well aware of the "Sunflower" family among the Halflings. They were the most skilled fighting family among the Halflings.
"My name is Xia Xifeng, and his name is Qin Lang. We are from the same hometown and neighbors, and we are traveling merchants around the world together." Xia Xifeng replaced Qin Lang and chatted with Leo.
He went through all the important NPCs of the Sunflower Family in his mind, but couldn't think of the name "Leo".
But it doesn’t matter if he is not an important NPC. Xia Xifeng has ten thousand ways to please the NPC, not to mention the halfling who is the easiest to deal with.
Qin Lang's gratitude to Leo for saving his life and their friendship already secured a significant degree of security. Xia Xifeng could easily blend into the Halfling community simply by making up a few stories about his background that the Halflings would appreciate.
What's more, his original living environment was peaceful and warm, his family was harmonious and friendly, and he himself was enthusiastic and cheerful, all of which were things that halflings liked.
Seeing that Xia Xifeng and Leo were chatting smoothly, Xia Xifeng soon squatted down and put his arm around Leo's shoulder, calling him a brother. Leo didn't even want the spoils and gave them all to Xia Xifeng. Qin Lang was not surprised at all.
In Qin Lang's address book, the avatar specially set for Xia Xifeng is a silly half-man.
As soon as they arrived in the other world, the first person they met was a halfling. Perhaps it was a fellow creature of Xia Xifeng who had been born into the wrong family and came to pick him up.
After Xia Xifeng became familiar with Leo, he showed Leo his unique life skills.
After a flash of light, the beast's body was taken away by Xia Xifeng and decomposed into useful materials such as lean meat, internal organs, bones, fur, blood, etc. and put into the backpack.
Xia Xifeng took out the decomposed materials and wanted to share them equally with Leo.
Leo was willing to share the spoils with him. He took the spoils first, processed them, and then shared them with Leo, just like a gift from Leo.
"Do you despise the promises of halflings?"
"I've already taken the spoils, and now I'm giving you a gift. Do you despise my gift?"
The spiritual halfling Xia Xifeng quickly gained the favor of the real halfling Leo, and in addition to the life-saving grace, Leo gave Xia Xifeng the sunflower pendant.
Members of the Sunflower Family who pass the coming-of-age ceremony will be given a sunflower pendant.
This sunflower pendant represents the "friendship" recognized by the Sunflower Family. An adult member of the family can only give a sunflower pendant once in their lifetime. A foreigner who possesses a sunflower pendant becomes an honorary member of the Sunflower Family, and the halfling who gave the pendant guarantees their membership for life.
In other words, if he misjudges someone, the halfling will devote his entire life to hunting down his enemy, getting the pendant back, and atone for his mistake in misjudging people.
Although it was a heavy responsibility, Leo gave it to the person he just met without hesitation.
At most, he hesitated for a moment when giving the pendant to Qin Lang or Xia Xifeng.
When Xia Xifeng patted his chest and said that he and Qin Lang were one and would never be separated in this world, Leo gave the pendant to Xia Xifeng with a blessing smile, and emphasized that the pendant did not need to be worn, so Qin Lang did not need to worry.
Qin Lang: “?”
Xia Xifeng: [Perhaps he meant that the pendant is a quest item and can still be effective without occupying an accessory slot in the equipment bar.]
Leo said excitedly, "Feng, Lang, you're amazing! My sister will definitely envy me for finding someone to entrust the pendant to on my first trip!"
Xia Xifeng smiled and said, "You are also very powerful. I didn't expect you to be only twenty years old. This is the first time I have met such a young and powerful halfling."
Xia Xifeng: [Giving away the sunflower pendant on his first outing is so naive, isn't he? I've always wanted to complain about this game setting. How on earth do halflings survive in the apocalyptic era and still live well?]
Qin Lang glanced at Xia Xifeng. Xia Xifeng should understand halflings very well. Wasn't he just a tall halfling?
Leo stroked his beard and said cunningly, "I just came back from the dwarves. Dwarves like people with beards. Thanks to this beard, I only spent the price of one axe on this pair of axes!"
Xia Xifeng gave Leo a thumbs up and said, "Great! You're also suitable to be a businessman. Can you tell me more about the dwarves? I also want to do business in the dwarf kingdom."
Leo said, "Green Sand City has invited the largest dwarf caravan to this year's Harvest Festival. Did you come to Green Sand City just because you heard this news?"
"Oh, yes!" Xia Xifeng nodded.
Green Sand City? A multi-racial capital city still standing in the apocalyptic era? The lord of Green Sand City is a half-elf, seemingly a legend, but with power surpassing that of a demigod.
According to the background setting of Green Sand City, the city lord has never changed since its establishment. Xia Xifeng finally heard a familiar NPC message.
After learning that Xia Xifeng's backpack was an expensive caravan space backpack with a large capacity, Leo gave the gift Xia Xifeng gave him back to Xia Xifeng.
After finding his lost luggage on the road, Leo also asked Xia Xifeng to help keep it, including all the money he earned during his travels.
He gave Xia Xifeng the sunflower pendant, which meant he was expressing his trust in Xia Xifeng, without even considering that Xia Xifeng might run away with the item.
After learning that Qin Lang was not talkative, Leo was tactful and only chatted with Xia Xifeng.
Xia Xifeng started with the Harvest Festival in Green Sand City, and indirectly learned about the information of this world from Leo, and chatted with Qin Lang from time to time in the system dialogue.
Qin Lang had no interest in the game background and hardly answered. Only Xia Xifeng was scrolling through the screen.
The three of them hiked for more than an hour. On the way, Xia Xifeng showed off his stamina-boosting barbecue skills, and Leo was so proud that he almost swelled up.
He firmly believed that Xia Xifeng was a priest favored by God, and that he must be worshipping gods of agriculture, food, etc.
Only the gods can explain such a miraculous method.
In the dream world, everything can give birth to a god. Priests are those who have been blessed by the gods and can use divine magic while adhering to their oaths.
In the game, the player's priest is just a blood cow who adds blood, status and acts as a shield.
In the game context, anyone who obtains the favor of God can be called a "Holy Word Priest", and those who can use ordinary divine arts through practice are ordinary "professional priests".
The Holy Word Priest has a wide variety of spells, which are highly related to the gods they believe in. They have no commonalities, and not all of them can increase health or status.
This type of "Holy Word Priest" has another high-sounding title among players, namely "Holy Son and Holy Daughter".
However, in the eyes of NPCs, those favored by God are just a special profession. There are quite a lot of them, but they are just ordinary people who are more powerful and do not receive any special religious treatment.
Xia Xifeng can easily decompose materials and the food he makes has medicinal effects. This is the characteristic of being favored by God.
Leo happily danced for Xia Xifeng and Qin Lang.
Xia Xifeng was delighted to see the halfling's ability to sing and dance at any time.
Qin Lang was only concerned with eating barbecue.
While Xia Xifeng and Leo were dancing hand in hand, Qin Lang moved a little further away to eat meat.
He said that Xia Xifeng was indeed a half-ling who was born in the wrong body.
After walking for a while, they finally saw a road wide enough for carriages to run.
Leo led them to a narrow path beside the main road and soon came to a valley.
Passing through the gate of the valley, there are vast farmlands, tall windmills, winding rivers, tranquil lakes, neatly arranged houses, laughing little humans running around, and sunflowers everywhere on both sides of the road, on top of windmills, and on the windowsills of houses, just like the CG pictures when opening a new map, which come into the eyes of Xia Xifeng and Qin Lang.
Leo turned around, placed one hand flat on his chest, and bowed to Xia Xifeng and Qin Lang.
"My friend, welcome to Sunflower Valley."
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