"In the summer of 195, Ren Woxing died at the age of 23. His last words were: I really want to...catch river shrimps with my brothers again..."
"In the summer of 195, Ren Changsheng inherited the position of the head of the family and changed his name to Ren Woxing. From then on, all the heads of the family changed their names to Ren Woxing."
"In the autumn of 199, Ren Changsheng died at the age of 23. His last words were: I have never regretted being born into the Ren family."
"In the autumn of 199, Ren Xiaobai inherited the position of the head of the family and changed his name to Ren Woxing."
"In the spring of 206, Ren Xiaobai and Baima Lingjun's son, Ren Luo, was born."
"In the summer of 209, Ren Buhui died in the ghost den at Chibi, at the age of 15."
On the third day after getting the game, Ren Suo reached this point and basically knew that his save file was useless and there was no hope of completing the game.
Ren family cultivators can only practice at the age of 8, and can communicate and fight at the age of 14. The trembling of newborns in the first eight years is just a population number and has no meaning.
Ren Suo originally thought that after Ren Woxing died, he would only be able to sit in front of the screen and watch the live game. He didn't expect that the heads of the family in all generations would change their names to "Ren Woxing" - that is, handing over the control to the players.
When the time advances to 209, Cao, Sun and Liu had just finished the most important battle of the Three Kingdoms period at Chibi, Ren Suo asked Ren Feifan's daughter Ren Buhui to go to the newly refreshed Chibi Ghost Cave to brush up spiritual crystals. Because the only cultivators that the entire Ren family can dispatch are Ren Xiaobai and Ren Buhui, and one of them has to stay at home, so only Ren Buhui goes to the battle.
Ren Buhui is not the 'third generation Ren Woxing', and Ren Suo cannot control Ren Buhui. However, after sending Ren Buhui to the battle, the only news she received was that she was killed. It seems that the demons in the Chibi are far more powerful than Ren Buhui could have imagined, and she couldn't even escape.
Now, the Ren family only has 3-year-old Ren Luo and 18-year-old Ren Xiaobai. Ren Xiaobai has only 21 years to live because of two near-death experiences.
Even if Ren Xiaobai died, there would still be one Ren Luo left, but as time went on, the monsters of the Three Kingdoms would become stronger and stronger, and Ren Luo, who had started from scratch, would not be able to defeat them! If he could not defeat the monsters, he would not be able to earn spirit crystals, and naturally he would not be able to find elves to reproduce!
At first glance, it seems that there is no solution, because the total training time of the Ren family cultivators is from the age of 8 to 23, and the training time is constant. Maybe it can be accelerated by the number of villagers, but once the old generation passes away, the new generation will definitely be too weak to be put into the battlefield due to the short training time. If they spend time training, but the demons continue to grow stronger, then their survival period will be shortened - they will only have 10 years to survive!
However, the 2-star difficulty does not mean there is no solution. There are two ways in this game that can always make the Ren family cultivators superior to the demons. First, find a powerful elf to conceive. Not only will the children born have special attributes, but the cultivation speed will also increase.
For example, Ren Xiaobai, born from Ren Woxing and Taibai Yuandi Ling, mastered the attack spell "Earth Vein Magic" after training. This spell is essentially the same as Ren Changsheng's "Fire Magic". However, if Ren Xiaobai chooses to practice attack, her defense will also be +0.5, and if she practices defense, her defense will be +1.5.
In other words, when Ren Xiaobai practices attack, he gets attack +1 and defense +0.5; when Ren Xiaobai practices defense, he gets attack +0 and defense +1.5.
This does not take into account the impact of the number of villagers!
The Taibai original spirit itself is still a relatively weak spirit - from her cheap price of only 300 spirit crystals, it can be seen - if a more powerful spirit is found, it is not impossible to increase all attributes by +10 after one quarter of cultivation. Of course, this requires the Ren family to kill more monsters and make more money...
The second method is inheritance! In the spring of 199, when Ren Xiaobai just turned 8 and was ready to practice, a new function "Inheritance" appeared on the left side of the family hall.
"Inheritance" can instantly consume all the lifespan of a family member and transfer his/her attributes to another family member. Depending on the blood relationship and attribute compatibility of the two family members, the family member whose attributes are transferred can obtain between 25% and 50% of the attributes of the transmitter.
Ren Suo chose Ren Changsheng, who was almost at the end of his life, to pass on his inheritance to Ren Xiaobai. Ren Changsheng died instantly, and Ren Xiaobai obtained 35% of Ren Changsheng's attributes. Otherwise, she would not have been able to earn enough spirit crystals in the Guandu battlefield for her to have sex with Baima Lingjun.
This is the most reliable and cheapest way to become stronger. Passed down from generation to generation, the next generation will always be stronger than the previous one, and naturally they can catch up with the pace of the demons - the premise is that the inheritance cannot be interrupted.
Moreover, Ren Suo discovered that if he wanted to become the Sword God of Shilipo, it was completely unfeasible to cultivate to a very powerful level before killing monsters. Not only because the cultivation period was shortened, the monsters were getting stronger, but more importantly, the monsters would not stay still after becoming stronger, but would actively destroy the nearby elves!
In other words, they will take the initiative to reduce the targets of Ren family cultivators!
After Ren Changsheng's death, before Ren Xiaobai could grow up, the Battle of Guandu took place in 200 AD. Cao Cao's army won a great victory, and the Guandu battlefield became a demon resource point again. Because the Ren family cultivators could not go out to fight, they could only leave it alone.
In 203, Ren Suo suddenly received news: "The Guandu Flame Ghost Army killed the Liyang Earth Spirit."
It was only then that Ren Suo realized that demons actually had the habit of attacking elves - when Taibai Yuandi Ling asked for help before, Ren Suo thought it was just a plot!
However, by this point, Ren Suo had basically figured out the game's settings and basic strategy sequence. Undoubtedly, the places where the demons appeared were closely related to important events during the Three Kingdoms period - to be more precise, they were related to historical events that killed many people.
Hulao Pass, Guandu and Chibi have already happened, and there are Xiaoyaojin, Hanzhong, Jieting to come... and in between there are demons created by natural disasters such as locust plagues, snow disasters, and flooding of the Yellow River. There is also the great plague in 217, and the Central Plains will be turned into a den of ghosts. By then there will be no worries about monsters to spawn.
Family business, unpredictable human hearts, generational changes...
Ren Suo wrote down his ideas for a strategy, read it over and thought there was nothing wrong with it, so he prepared to start the game again.
At this moment, the cell phone suddenly rang.
Ren Suo took a look and it was a number he had never seen before, but it was a local number. "Hello?"
"Hello, is this Ren Suo?" There was a girl on the other side, with a crisp voice.
"Yes, you are?"
"I am An Suyu, a member of the Anti-Special Crime Countermeasures Bureau. I am now officially notifying you that you have been accepted by the Anti-Special Crime Countermeasures Bureau. Please report to the National Security Bureau at 220 Revolutionary Road, Yuexiu District, Lianjiang City within the next two days and start work the next day."
Ren Suo was somewhat stunned: "I'm still a senior, so I should be in June..."
"I don't know the specific basic salary and allowances for members of the Anti-Special Crime Countermeasures Bureau," the other party interrupted Ren Suo, "but the training ground built by Lianjiang City has been completed. Currently, it is only open to state civil servants... To be precise, only members of the Anti-Special Crime Countermeasures Bureau have the qualifications to enter the training ground. Each person can stay in the training ground for one hour every day."
"Okay, I'll report in this afternoon!" Ren Suo said immediately.
No matter how much you play the game, there is no benefit except for the mission rewards; however, if you become a national civil servant practitioner one day earlier, you can go to the practice place with highly concentrated spiritual energy to practice earlier!
Ren Suo was still very rational in this regard - just from the fact that he bought the game console only after receiving the offer, we could tell that he was a person who was used to experiencing hardship before enjoying the sweetness.
The Small World game console won’t run away if placed here, but whether you can catch up with this wave of the times, become the first generation of Xuan Country practitioners, and then spend the rest of your life eating and waiting for death, depends on your efforts in these few years!
Ren Suo remembered something, picked up the controller, returned to the main interface, and selected "Game Character".
The skill he was currently equipping was "Good Dreams", and the backup skill was "Unlimited Energy". He was going out in the afternoon, and it was better to be more careful when he was out there, so it would be better to equip "Battle Entry" - he was not familiar with the two spells of clothing and locks yet.
However, when Ren Suo saw the list on the left and the skill list on the right of "Game Character", he was immediately stunned.
「Game Character」: Ren Suo.
"Ability column": Good dream technique.
「Item Bar」: None.
「Spare Bar」: Unlimited energy.
[Unequipped skills]: Introduction to fighting, spell·clothing, spell·lock.
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「Game Character」: Ren Woxing.
"Ability column": None.
「Item Bar」: None.
「Backup column」: None.