Chapter 37
Following the template provided by the customer service, Bei Qiao posted a message in the alert area.
The Alerts section is a special section of the forum. Typing the word "alert" into any chat box redirects you to the corresponding page. The Alerts section is divided into two sections: immediate help and regional anomalies. Customer service asked Bei Qiao to add the word "urgent" to the title, which corresponds to help posts, and the word "doubt" to the title, which corresponds to anomaly posts.
The world of "Another World Martial Arts" is real, which means that the bad guys here are also real. Whether you are a diligent player or an opportunistic player, there is a chance of encountering malicious incidents such as kidnapping and robbery.
While the staff of "Issue Wuxia" is spread across various locations, they only have absolute jurisdiction over the Novice Village. Elsewhere, their dispatches are mostly yamen runners and constables, with some serving as delinquents. Sometimes, when players encounter danger and report to the yamen, they're instead targeted by the wealthy and powerful local tyrants. In these cases, they can request assistance through a help post, asking for help from official staff. The price for assistance increases with the difficulty of the task and is negotiable.
To prevent players from being unable to access the forum to post a request for help due to being blocked, a quick method for posting a request for help is available that ignores any environmental conditions. However, in this case, players will only see their own post and the replies from the staff who handle the request, and other sections of the forum will remain blocked.
To ensure players' requests for help are discovered immediately, help posts are pinned to the top of the queue immediately after being posted, and then picked up by local staff. After assessing the difficulty of the task, staff will choose whether to complete the task independently or collaboratively, and then contact the player to provide assistance.
Of course, officials are only responsible for rescue, not revenge. No matter how wicked the local tyrants are, they will not kill anyone, except in cases of self-defense.
Unlike help posts, Bei Qiao's unusual posts were not charged and were not pinned to the top of the page. In a sense, unusual posts were similar to gossip posts, but while gossip posts were not guaranteed to contain genuine content, unusual posts were true. The inferred information was also based on real information and was inferred according to reasonable logic.
Abnormal posts must be true, and exaggeration and fabrication are prohibited. If officials discover that a player has fabricated false information, then congratulations, they will be banned from accessing the forum for the next three months, whether online or offline.
In addition to information authenticity, abnormal posts have another particularly attractive feature, which is that if the information in them can be effectively used by the staff to eliminate possible dangers or losses, the players will earn information fees and the staff will also receive rewards.
In the online world, you're bound to encounter one or two bizarre things, whether man-made or coincidental. Players, driven by the belief that free posts are worth sharing, are highly motivated to post unusual posts. Even when staff don't have any requests to complete, they frequently browse these posts. After all, who can complain about too much reward?
Of course, players can also solve problems in abnormal posts, but without information channels from staff, it will be more difficult for players to solve the problems.
Changling City, where Bei Qiao is located, is a relatively prosperous place with quite a few bad people.
After the post was published, most of the bad guys immediately opened the forum to take a look, and then judged that the poster had persecution mania. After clicking ignore, they continued to check the help posts: Although there are rewards for abnormal posts, you can't get them just by wanting them. It's better to use this time to read more help posts. At least you can make some real money and improve your real life.
Ding Chuan, who had been a bad guy for five years, had the same first reaction when he saw this post: this player had paranoid delusions, but after thinking about it, he still accepted the alert post.
There is no way. Wuliangren himself has KPIs. Because he had to recuperate for a period of time due to a leg injury, it is difficult for him to get suitable help tasks now. Even if he can't make money from the alert post, he has to take it, otherwise he will not be able to complete the KPI this month.
Unscrupulous person Ding Chuan: Do you have any detailed information?
After getting more detailed but perhaps somewhat subjective information from Bei Qiao, Ding Chuan wrote down the information he thought was useful on a piece of paper, spread it out on the table, touched his chin, looked at the table and began to ponder.
"There are indeed many more players in the city these days because of the gathering of players for a certain native's business, but this alone is not enough to prove... The possibility of catching monsters does exist, but..." Ding Chuan rubbed his brows: There is still too little information. Fortunately, even if the abnormal post is not completed, it can make up the number.
Bei Qiao had no idea about the conflict in the other person's mind. After replying, he sat cross-legged on the bed and started practicing martial arts.
In the game, it was just getting dark outside and there was a lot of noise downstairs. When Bei Qiao finished practicing martial arts and opened the window, he could even smell the aroma of snacks blowing in the wind.
"It's quite lively and hot." Bei Qiao closed the window to block out unnecessary sight, picked up the fan on the table and started fanning himself: "I'll practice for a while and then log off."
Meanwhile, Xin Ji, who had just entered the rice shop, had already followed the natives in a carriage into a large mansion. This mansion was located east of Changling City, and the courtyard was vast. Xin Ji and the servant passed through countless doors before reaching the west wing, where guests were received.
"I now believe there is a big business here, but are you sure we can grab it?" Looking at the people from the martial arts world all over the yard, Xinji fully realized for the first time what the martial arts in "Martial Arts in Another World" meant.
Last year, Xinji, armed with his muscular build and unwavering tenacity, embarked on a long journey on foot. He only returned when his bag's rations were nearly exhausted and he couldn't find any short-term work to earn a living. He had seen many powerful warriors in that time, but he had never seen so many warriors gathered together like today.
The yard, corridors, rooms, and the west wing were all filled with muscular men. Occasionally, a few women with swords on their waists passed by. Their sharp eyes and steady and powerful steps scared the talkative men into silence.
"Whether we can snatch it or not, we've already paid the deposit. Don't you dare say you can earn five taels of silver after working so hard in the village for a year?" The player who had called Xinji over to join him in making money held the silver in his hand and proudly played a game of toss and catch. When he saw a beautiful woman passing by, he winked at her: "Rich people are generous."
The woman rolled her eyes and left without looking back.
Xinji: "..." It seems more and more unreliable, but now that so many people have gathered here, even if we really run into a monster head-on, it shouldn't be too dangerous, right?
...No way! I'm so naive!
In the middle of the night, Xinji, who had been chased by a demon and had to flee into the mountains, wished he could travel back to this morning and give himself a sack for accepting the order: "Why did you accept it? It was just five taels of silver! Now, I'm going to die, and my account is going to be lost!"
The story begins at 11 p.m. After being led to the west wing, Xinji settled into the only remaining empty room and never left. He was unfamiliar with the house and worried that wandering around in someone else's house might violate some taboo.
The player who had called him here to make money didn't stay in the west wing. Before Xinji could put his things away, he was called away by a servant. If it weren't for the large crowd outside and the fact that he wasn't restricted, Xinji would have almost thought that he had been tricked by this player and sold to the natives.
Xin Ji only knew that the content of this employment was related to the demon tribe, but since he entered the house, no one came to see him again. The people in the yard were wary of each other. He tried to talk to them several times but was ignored, so he finally gave up.
He was not in Yuanshan Village now, and the room he was staying in was not secure enough. The natives might suddenly knock on the door or even break in. To avoid exposing his identity as a player, Xinji only logged off mid-game to take care of personal hygiene. The rest of the time he stayed in the room practicing martial arts, intending to stay up until midnight before logging off in a sleeping position.
Unexpectedly, at ten o'clock that evening, a servant suddenly knocked on the door of each room and called out all the warriors and knights in the west wing, saying that they wanted to catch the monster under the cover of night.
Xin Ji, who was diligently hunting monsters late at night, tried to get more detailed information from the servant, but the servant refused to say anything: "Catching monsters is just catching monsters, there's no need to ask so many questions. The Fang Mansion doesn't keep idle people. If you don't dare to go, then leave on your own."
It has come to this point. How can I leave on my own? If I leave on my own, will I be beaten up by these servants with extremely bad faces and have my deposit taken back? Confused, Xin Ji went back to the house to get his weapons, and left Fang Mansion with the others. Following a housekeeper, he walked out of the city.
Xinji didn't want to recall what happened next. He didn't know how the Fang family got the news about the demon clan, nor did he know why they wanted to capture the demons. But if a large group of unruly people took on the demon clan and tried to capture them alive, the result would be defeat.
In fact, to say that it was a defeat is an exaggeration. Without anyone to lead them, these people in the martial arts world have been dragging each other down, and even more people have died at the hands of their own people than at the hands of the monsters.
Raising his hand, he quickly wiped the sweat from his forehead. Xin Ji covered his tracks and looked for a place to hide. "Catch the monster, catch the monster! Ha! The difference in strength between monsters and ordinary warriors is so huge, and yet they don't allow the use of gunpowder, claiming it's to protect the integrity of the monster race! What on earth are they trying to do?"
Remembering that the demon tribe was heading towards Changling City, Xinji hid himself and quickly opened the forum to post.
Xinji: Urgent! There are demons outside Changling City!
"Holy crap!" The constable and the bad guy who were awakened by the system message alert and climbed online were frightened awake: How can the demon race be so unlucky! Is this account going to be lost?
"What's wrong? Why are you so flustered?" Just as Constable Qin finished reading the news and rushed out of his room in a panic, he bumped into Huo Qi, the prefect of Changling City, who was walking towards him. Beside him was a girl in gorgeous clothes with a proud look on her face.
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