In the Misty Forest dungeon.
After the boss died, a bunch of things dropped: five seven-star wood attribute fragments, and a complete four-star wood attribute card "Flower Fairy".
Brother Chen was in a good mood, and his voice was also a little bit funny: "I'm lucky! I got fragments and whole cards on my first try."
Xie Mingzhe asked curiously, "Brother Chen, is the drop rate of this flower demon card very low?"
Brother Chen nodded: "Well, the drop rate of the whole card is less than 10%. Usually it drops flower demon fragments and you have to synthesize them yourself."
As they were chatting, Chi Qing suddenly spoke up, "Brother Chen, I just received a private message from the boss. He said that in addition to the 100 pieces of Seven Star Wood Attribute Fragments, he also wants 100 pieces of Water Attribute Fragments and 100 pieces of Fire Attribute Fragments. If we can deliver the goods within a week, the total price of the three orders is 66,000, payable in one lump sum."
Everyone was stunned.
Brother Chen was the first to react, his tone full of surprise: "Who is this great god who wants so many evolution fragments at once?"
Pang Yu guessed, "Is this to upgrade three seven-star cards? Could it be that a certain guild is collecting them?"
Chi Qing shook his head: "It should be a personal acquisition. When he posted the task on the trading platform, the ID was a string of garbled characters, which was obviously a fake account."
66,000 gold coins, such a big order certainly can not be missed. Brother Chen thought for a while, and said: "Take the order first, Ah Qing, go and recruit a team, play the team dungeon at 9 o'clock in the evening, and clear all the material copies in the next two days, and take all the fragments that should be taken. If there is still not enough, think of a way."
"Can I help?" Xie Mingzhe asked. For example, beating soy sauce, adding to the atmosphere? He was a very professional soy sauce beating player and would never cause trouble.
Brother Chen looked at him with disdain and said, "Your level is too low. You can't join a 10-man team. Go level up first. Come back to me when you reach level 35."
"Oh!" Xie Mingzhe had expected this answer. He waved goodbye to Brother Chen and ran back to upgrade quickly.
After returning to my apartment, the system voice immediately rang in my ears: "Welcome back! The magical world of Star Cards is extremely vast. Are you willing to follow me to learn about this world?"
System options: 1. I am willing. 2. You have to be willing even if you don’t want to.
Xie Mingzhe: “…”
System, you are so naughty! It seems that the official copywriter of the game is also a funny guy.
He chose the first option. The system voice sounded relaxed and cheerful: "Let me show you the magical world of Star Cards! The planets in the Star Cards world are divided into three categories. The first category is [Functional Planets], the second category is [Resource Planets], and the third category is [Open Planets]. Please go to the Galaxy Navigation Cloud Map and find the four major functional planets."
Xie Mingzhe followed the instructions and walked to the interstellar navigation map. As expected, he saw four large planets in the vast universe and galaxy map - as big as his head, and it was very obvious.
When you get closer, a detailed text introduction will pop up.
The entire Gemini star field is the residential area in the game, where all the players' personal apartments are located. The Aquarius star field is the business district, where auctions, shops, and stalls are all conducted. The Peacock star field is the entertainment district, with movie theaters, amusement parks, food courts, bar streets and other leisure and entertainment venues. The Phoenix star field is the competition area, where all activities related to competition are held.
The four main stars have different functions and can be transmitted directly from the personal space.
System voice: "Now that we know about the four functional planets, let's take a look at the resource planets. There are five resource planets in the game, namely Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. There are countless small planets surrounding the resource planets, which are the entrances to the Star Card Fantasy Dungeon. The five resource planets will drop cards with corresponding attributes, evolution fragments, strengthening materials, etc. If you want to make your cards stronger, you must go to the resource stars frequently to obtain materials in the future!"
System voice: "There are two open planets in the Star Card World, called Egret Star and Crane Star. Egret Star is home to a variety of phantom creatures of different levels. You can defeat them to gain experience and material rewards. Crane Star has abundant natural minerals, where you can collect game resources such as nebula paper, repair stone, furniture wood, etc."
System voice: "Introduction is over, please go to explore the Egret Star."
Xie Mingzhe was teleported to the Egret Star from the galaxy map.
This planet is equivalent to the wild scene in the online game. It is a fully open mode, and players can meet each other and PK freely. Unlike the undead protection measures for players in the dungeon, players may die in the wild, so they must be extra careful. There are forests, deserts and oceans, as well as swamps, grasslands and snow-capped mountains. There are countless exotic beasts and plants in the rich natural environment. For players, these are just small monsters, and they can gain experience by killing them.
Xie Mingzhe is currently still a level 5 novice, so the system considerately took him to a lake with low-level monsters.
As soon as I reached the lake, I saw a skinny little girl being chased by several stone spirits not far away. The girl's health was dropping rapidly, and she was stumbling. She was running while shouting, "Help, help!"
Xie Mingzhe took two steps forward, and the girl thought he was going to help, so she ran in his direction. However, Xie Mingzhe immediately stepped back, staring at the huge stone spirits with a vigilant look, fearing that he would be affected by their attack.
He moves very well and dodges very flexibly.
The girl was beaten to death by the stone spirit in less than three seconds and fell directly at his feet.
The girl who died at my feet was named "Sisi". She couldn't speak after she died, so she posted a text box above her head asking, "Why didn't you help me?"
Xie Mingzhe asked back: "Why should I save you? I don't even know you." It's not his style to meddle in other people's business.
"..." The girl was so angry that she immediately pressed the resurrection button and said, "Even if you don't know him, you can still save him. It's fun to help others!"
"I can't save you." Xie Mingzhe analyzed, "I only have a one-star card with an attack power of 100. The HP of each stone spirit chasing you is 1,000 points, and the total HP of all five is 5,000. I can't beat them. If I save you, I will be dragged down by you and die here together."
“…………”What he said made so much sense that I couldn’t refute it.
Seeing him turn around and leave, the girl quickly got up and followed him: "Hey, Fatty, let's gain experience together!"
Xie Mingzhe: “?”
Fat uncle? Who should I call him?
He looked up at his ID and almost forgot that he had created a very friendly name called "Fat Uncle" when he entered the game today. No wonder people called him that. Xie Mingzhe was too lazy to explain. After all, they were just online friends he met in the game, so there was no need to bring it up in real life.
At this moment, a boy's deep voice came from the side: "Sisi, what happened?"
Xie Mingzhe turned his head and saw that the boy looked quite decent, but his expression was a little serious. Sisi, on the other hand, was petite and cute. He didn't know if it was a real image or a virtual character created in the game?
The girl felt a little aggrieved and walked over and said, "I just accidentally attracted five stone spirits and got beaten to death."
The boy reached out and touched her head, his voice very gentle: "I asked you to wait for me here, why are you running around?"
Xie Mingzhe: “…”
——Pat him on the head, isn’t it not good to feed dog food to single dogs like this?
Not wanting to see the couple show off their affection, Xie Mingzhe was about to turn around and leave. But the girl caught up with him and said, "Uncle Fatty, let's gain experience together! This game has been running for ten years, and it's hard to find low-level players in the novice area. I've been here for ten minutes, and I only see you, a novice."
The boy also took the initiative to invite him: "Come together, it will be faster if we form a team of three."
Xie Mingzhe thought it would be nice to make some friends in the game, so he joined their team.
The boy's ID in the game is "Senior Brother Qi". From their chat, we can infer that this Senior Brother Qi is a smurf to accompany his girlfriend. He has been playing this game for five years, so of course he knows more than a newbie.
Senior Brother Qi suggested: "Little Stone Spirit's experience is very low. We have more people so we can go and kill high-level monsters and just connect the control skills."
He is a veteran, so what he said must make sense, so the two newbies followed him to the lake.
The level 4 monster by the lake is called Willow Spirit, which hurts people very much, but can be controlled. The three of us have ice snake cards given by the system in the novice stage, which can freeze single control, each person controls one, and then use Thunderbird to launch a group attack. As long as the skills are well connected, it is very easy to kill small monsters.
After half an hour of grinding, the three of them reached level 10, and the cards they brought also reached level 20 by gaining experience points.
Cards must be evolved when they reach level 20, otherwise they will stay at level 20 and cannot continue to rise. It just so happened that the willow spirit also dropped a lot of low-level evolution fragments, so Senior Brother Qi said, "Go back to your personal space to evolve the cards, and prioritize upgrading the Thunderbird with group attack."
Xie Mingzhe called out his personal space portal and went back to upgrade his cards.
In front of the operating table, a light green level 20 one-star card was slowly devouring 100 two-star fragments while spinning continuously. The pattern on the back of the card was also constantly changing, and the original green card gradually turned blue.
——Level 20, two-star evolution, blue card.
Xie Mingzhe noticed that when a card evolves to a higher star level, the color of the back will change, but the pattern on the front will not change. In terms of values, all basic attributes will be doubled. For example, the basic attack of Thunderbird was originally 100, but it became 200 after evolving to 2 stars.
In other words, upgrading will increase the skill coefficient, and evolution will increase the basic attributes.
First upgrade the cards, then evolve them, and their strength will be comprehensively improved.
Since it takes a lot of materials to cultivate a seven-star card, for ordinary players to cultivate a good card by themselves, it is not only a technical job, but also a physical job - just brushing the materials will make you exhausted!
Xie Mingzhe sighed, and after upgrading the card, he returned to the lakeside of Bailu Star, and saw that Sisi and Senior Brother Qi had also returned.
Senior Brother Qi said, "Let's go buy some more attack cards. These cards are not enough if we want to form a team to gain experience."
Sisi asked excitedly: "Where can I buy a card?"
Senior Brother Qi said, "The black market."
Sisi was stunned: "Black market? There is such a place?"
Senior Brother Qi said, "There is an underground city behind the commercial street, called the Black Market. Players can set up stalls freely without paying rent. You can bargain for things in the Black Market, and you can find a lot of good stuff, especially low-level original cards, which are much cheaper than regular stores."
Sisi ruffled her hair and said, "But I heard that the original card is more expensive?"
Senior Brother Qi explained: "Of course I'm talking about the original cards with average or even bad data, and some are even failed works. The real top-notch original cards are the ones that will be auctioned."
Xie Mingzhe listened to the conversation between the two and thought that only failed works would be sold at low prices on the black market. However, for new players like them, buying a few "failed works" from veteran players would be enough to help them get through the early stages and kill small monsters.
So, the three of them were teleported to the Aquarius star region.
This was the first time that Xie Mingzhe personally came to the game's commercial area.
There is a square in the center of the planet Aquarius, with a beautiful crystal bottle sculpture standing in the middle of the square. There are four skyscrapers located in the east, south, west and north of the square, which are the "Auction House", "Star Card Bank", "Trading House" and "Service Center".
Behind the four buildings are a series of crisscrossing commercial streets. All the shops in the commercial streets are rented to players and run by the players themselves. At a glance, Xie Mingzhe saw that the shop names were very different in style, such as "Loving Couple Repair Shop", "Seven Star Boutique Card Store", "Dou Dou's Material Store", "Boss Wants to Hire a Boss Lady", etc. - many players go shopping here, making it more prosperous and lively than the pedestrian streets in the real world.
The three of them were originally going to go to the black market together, but they found that there was a crowd in front of the "auction house" on the east side of the square. Sisi stood on tiptoe curiously and asked, "Brother, what happened over there?"
Senior Brother Qi followed her gaze and said, "The auction house holds an auction every afternoon at 3:30. These people must be attending the auction."
Xie Mingzhe had only seen the auction on TV, and it was very grand. He had never been to the auction in person, and he wanted to see it for himself. But before he could say anything, Sisi excitedly said, "Can we go and see it? It seems very interesting!"
Senior Brother Qi nodded: "Okay, let's go to the black market after we finish reading it."
As the three of them walked to the door of the auction house, they saw a sudden commotion around them, and screams came from afar: "It is said that there will be Tang Shen's cards at today's auction!" "Is it Tang Muzhou's original card?" "Inside information, I don't know if it's true or not, hurry up and join in the fun!" "Hurry, the tickets are about to be snapped up!"
The crowd behind him surged towards him like a tide. Xie Mingzhe was startled and quickly slipped into the venue.