Chapter 252 Life is a drama

Thanks to the selfless dedication of several "friendly" elemental gods, Ji Ruo already knew a lot of information before entering the secret realm.

Of course, this has little to do with the man named 'Henry' who looked like an ordinary and simple man that Ji Ruo had followed before.

The reason why Ji Ruo did that was simply because he had just arrived and was unfamiliar with the place and didn't know where to go, so he planned to follow Henry to see what these guys usually did.

I didn't expect that when I took one look at him, I immediately realized that this man was ordinary, but not simple at all.

The things like 'a celebration will be held soon' are all lies.

Playing until eight o'clock and going home, can that be called a celebration?

Thinking of this, Ji Ruo secretly rejoiced.

Fortunately, I discovered it early and repaired it in time, otherwise I would have been cheated.

These people in the secret realm are so scheming!

"It's almost there, why don't we..." When the time came, Henry hesitated again.

That is the mansion of a noble lord!

If these bastards approach without permission, the consequences will be...

Henry couldn't help trembling at the mere thought of it. Like the other person who was traveling with him, his previous ambitions and vigor had long since disappeared.

Ji Ruo looked at the two of them and said sincerely, "Henry, and that other guy. What do you think we are doing now? Do you think we are just trying to kill that foreigner?"

The two of them widened their eyes.

Even if this is true, you don't have to say it so bluntly!

Ji Ruo did not wait for the two to answer, shook his head slightly, and continued: "You are wrong, what we are doing now is not just for now, not just for this year's sacrifice.

The great Kyris doesn’t care what we think. He is God and God doesn’t care.”

"Ah? But you said before..."

Ji Ruo raised his hand to interrupt Henry and said, "What we are doing now is for our future! It is for our descendants!

Do you want to be a lowly person for your whole life? Do you want your children to live at the bottom of the world for generations and spend their lives in misery?

Do you want to live in a clean and spacious house? Do you want your descendants to live in a clean and spacious house as well?

If you want to eat meat, eat meat. If you want to drink alcohol, drink alcohol. Ask yourself, do you want to live like that? "

The two of them stared at Ji Ruo in a daze. Although his features were obscured by the dust, they still found his face inexplicably pleasing to the eye, and his golden hair was reflecting a faint glow in the sunlight... (The glow emitted by the protective Qi of the Vajra Invincible Divine Art when it is illuminated by the sunlight)

Every word Ji Ruo said was like a heavy hammer, hitting the two men's chests hard, even making them cough.

“Ahem!”

Henry and the man pushed away Ji Ruo's hands that were covering their mouths and beating their chests, and said angrily, "Just talk, why are you hitting us?"

Ji Ruo retreated slightly and the black shadow disappeared in a flash.

The two of them did not realize how Ji Ruo, with only two hands, was covering their mouths and hitting their chests at the same time.

Ji waved his hand imperceptibly towards Rosie who was squatting on the roof not far away. Rosie nodded quickly. Then, three black shadows, including Rosie, crossed each other at a speed invisible to the naked eye under the light and shadow blocked by the roof or the house.

Ji Ruo also said apologetically:

"Sorry, I just think it makes my words more meaningful."

Just now, Ji Ruo seemed to be beating these two people unreasonably, but in fact, Ji Ruo wanted to test the strength of these two guys in this way, to roughly estimate the strength of the defense of the so-called "noble old man", or the "noble mansion", and even guess the strength of "Kerris" -

These seemingly unrelated information actually have some implicit connection.

As the saying goes, a leopard can be seen through a tube; a glimpse of the whole leopard can reveal the whole picture.

Logically speaking, "aura" has been a ubiquitous objective thing since the advent of the secret realm thousands of years ago. Although "aura" was harmful to the bodies of the Daxia people at the beginning, after a long period of research and adaptation, the Daxia people have gradually mastered the method of strengthening themselves with the help of the ubiquitous aura of heaven and earth.

That is martial arts.

Even for ordinary people who have never practiced martial arts, their bodies will be subtly refined by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth over the years. Although the effect is not very obvious, it is not completely without effect.

If this is the case for ordinary people, the physical fitness of warriors will naturally be even stronger.

This is the general theory.

However, it is different in the Mother Earth Continent. In this secret realm, because of its special belief in Shinto rules, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is not a whole, but is divided into various elemental forces.

Qiao Xi, who was captured by Ji Ruo before, was blessed with the power of the God of Thieves and was also a veteran thief. His physical condition was not of reference value.

It is unknown whether the differentiated elemental force has any strengthening effect on the human body. The captured gods were once high and mighty and would not understand such trivial matters.

They are elemental forces themselves, and there is no need to use elemental forces to strengthen their bodies.

So just now, Ji Ruo was not just joking, his main purpose was to use his own strength to conduct a simple exploration of the bodies of the two people.

The result was as expected.

The physical fitness of the two men was ridiculously poor. If they really started fighting, even a seven or eight-year-old child in Da Xia would be beaten to tears by these two guys... If it was Ji Ruo, if he had used a little more force just now, their ribs would have been broken, or even dead...

This also indirectly illustrates that the elemental force differentiated from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth does not seem to have the effect of strengthening the physical body of living beings, at least it cannot strengthen the human body.

Then there is the garrison of the 'noble mansion'.

Let's just call those guards knights and make a rough estimate.

Considering Henry and the other two as the 'base', as 'lower class', due to poverty, they may not have enough to eat or eat well for a long time, and their nutrition must be insufficient, so they are a little malnourished. Just now, Ji Ruo's dark power penetrated their bodies almost unimpeded - there was almost no fat buffer.

Then, because of poverty, they certainly do not take good care of their personal hygiene. That is to say, they may have various diseases. Although these diseases will not endanger their lives in the short term, they will make their bodies weaker.

So...

'Guardians of the noble mansions', or 'knights'.

The combat power of the individual starts from the "base 1" represented by Henry and others.

Eat well, drink well, have adequate nutrition, combat power +1

Serving the nobles, paying attention to hygiene, combat power +1

Well-trained, combat power +1

Well-equipped, combat power +1...

To sum up, a qualified knight's fighting power is at least five times that of an ordinary "lower person"!

This is based on the assumption that there is no "identity bonus" and the other party does not possess extraordinary abilities.

"Five times the combat power..."

It seems to be still very weak...

Then there is 'Kerris', which I will think about later.

…

After ascending to the Xingxuan Realm, Ji Ruo's qualities in all aspects have been greatly improved. Compared to Henry and the others, it only took a moment for Ji Ruo to use specific actions to help him roughly estimate the combat effectiveness of ordinary human knights in Rouen Town and even the entire Mother Earth Continent.

This is one of the characteristics of the Xingxuan Realm, seeing the big picture from the small details.

Although the long speech just now seemed lengthy, it actually only lingered in Ji Ruo's mind for a few seconds before he came up with the answer. All that was left was to verify the answer.

While thinking, Ji Ruo was not idle either. He divided his attention and continued to persuade Henry and the others.

…

In reality.

Ji Ruo looked at the two of them with eyes full of "sincerity" - although Ji Ruo had not yet mastered the common writing of the Mother Earth Continent, he had the [Common Language].

Eye contact can also be used for communication, and the contact lenses that Ji Ruo has been wearing happen to have the special effect of being able to customize 'eye emotions'.

Normally, Ji Ruo often uses this special effect to customize "text eyes", just because he thinks it is interesting.

But in fact, something like 'eye emotions' can be expressed abstractly and understood by others.

The eyes are the windows to the soul, so it is reasonable to communicate through eye contact and fully translate the meaning of your eyes to the other person in the [universal language].

Henry and the man seemed to be moved by Ji Ruo's sincerity, or they were really worried that Ji Ruo would "touch" them. After keeping a certain distance from Ji Ruo, they gently rubbed their chests and looked at Ji Ruo with resentment on their faces, neither agreeing nor refuting.

"Gentlemen, whether you believe it or not, what we are doing now, once successful, will benefit our descendants, and all of this is obtained through our efforts. What I want to say is that even if you are an inferior person, you can work hard with your own hands to strive for everything you want." M. cascoo

Ji Ruo looked at the two of them seriously and said: "Although they are inferior people, they are still people. The noble lord is a human being, and so are we.

Today, we take this step. If we fail, we may be beaten to death for offending the dignity of the noble lord, or our limbs may be broken and thrown into the stinking ditch... But what if we succeed?"

The two looked at Ji Ruo in shock.

"How can it be that serious! It's just a beating at most, how come in your mouth, he's either dead or has all his limbs cut off!"

"Ahem..." Ji Ruo realized that he had just thought too much and accidentally described the consequences as a bit serious, so he quickly changed his words and said, "In short, if this thing succeeds, it will benefit our descendants, and if it fails, we will also be the pioneers of emancipating the minds of us 'lower people'. No matter what, we will become heroes... So, both of you, you have already come here, do you still want to retreat?"

The two hesitated.

Ji Ruo sighed, "I have said all that needs to be said. The choice is in your hands. I will not force you... Henry, and that other person, thank you for accompanying me here. From now on, let me go alone. Even if the end is death, at least I have tried my best... I don't want to be an inferior all my life. I also want to be respected.

That’s all I have to say. I’m going to go look for the noble master!”

After saying this, Ji Ruo turned around decisively and walked towards the 'noble mansion' without looking back.

Not far away, Rosie waved her cat paw, signaling the other two shadows to follow. The three shadows, including Rosie, crossed each other, just to find an angle that would make Ji Ruo's back look particularly "tragic".

Henry and the other man stood there, deeply moved by Ji Ruo's words. They looked at Ji Ruo's departing back, feeling inexplicably shocked and confused.

"Well...how did things develop to this point..." Henry asked in confusion.

The person who was traveling with him was also confused: "You ask me, who should I ask... I just found out that we are actually doing such a great thing... Obviously, this kind of thing happens every year, isn't it just reporting the content of the celebration to the noble elders..."

"Yeah, I suddenly feel like we have no chance of surviving today, what's going on..."

The two were at a loss for a long time, and Ji Ruo had already gone far away.

Suddenly, Henry seemed to have finally made up his mind. He gritted his teeth and turned to look at the person he was traveling with.

His eyes were firm, as if he had made up his mind.

The man was surprised: "We..."

Henry grabbed that guy and turned around and ran, whispering, "Let's go back and tell everyone that the guy is a little bit mentally ill! Damn it, he almost got me tricked!"

Who is that: “???”

He was a little embarrassed to say that he actually believed it...

…

"Meow~ (Master, they didn't catch up.)"

"No? Tsk." Ji Ruo curled her lips and said, "As expected, unscripted performances are prone to accidents... Forget it, have you done what I just asked you to do?"

Luo Xi immediately patted her chest with confidence and said, "Meow~ (It must be done!)"

Ji Ruo smiled and rubbed Luo Xi's head: "That's good, Luo Xi is really amazing."

Rosie immediately started to giggle.

"Meow~ (Master, do you want to take more pictures?)"

Ji Ruo wanted to say no, but after thinking it over, he said, "Go ahead, but you can take a break for now."

"Meow~ (Good!)"

Ji Ruo held Luo Xi and climbed up the stairs.

The town of Ruang was built on the mountain. The place where the noble old man lived was a small manor, located at the highest altitude in the entire town of Ruang, with the best lighting conditions and the widest view.

There were many patrolling knights on the road, some looked tough and some were just slacking off.

Ji Ruo silently lowered his previous assessment of the combat effectiveness of these noble knights and walked towards the manor gate on his own.

He is blessed with Rosie's talent for illusion, and with his [disguise] and [sense of being immersed], he almost blends in with the surrounding environment, and no one can detect Ji Ruo at all.

Things were much simpler afterwards.

Ji Ruo easily sneaked into the manor and successfully found the so-called noble old man by asking for directions.

Ji Ruo first repeated the words "The great Kairis might be very pleased with the improvement of the food, and might bestow the blessing of God on you, the honorable noble sir" as a local.

Under the theory of "God is supreme" in this continent and the title of "Diplomatic Spokesperson", he successfully obtained temporary residence rights in the manor for his "foreigner" status...

The nobleman was in a good mood and also agreed to allocate funds for the revised celebration items...

Although it is called temporary residency, in reality it is "keeping outsiders under house arrest to prevent them from discovering the clues and escaping."

But these were of no consequence to Ji Ruo. In any case, he had already taken the first... half step towards this mysterious world...

Afterwards, Ji Ruo left the manor as a "local", took a casual stroll, pretended to be unaware of the situation, and changed his identity to a "foreigner" and rode his bicycle back to the manor.

If Ji Ruo calculated the time very accurately, he would return just in time for dinner.

The noble old man naturally "warmly entertained" the "foreigner Ji Ruo" who was completely unaware of the situation.

And the 'foreigner Ji Ruo' also showed an expression of gratitude.

In order to "thank" the noble old man for his "warm hospitality", Ji Ruo, a foreigner, was so moved that he reluctantly sold the treasure he had obtained after traveling all over the country for so many years - a "bicycle" to the noble old man at a "low price".

In the evening, Ji Ruo lied that he was drunk and carried Luo Xi back to the guest room.

Now I have a place to live. Although the conditions are a bit simple, it is suitable for working.

"Rosie, show me what you took today."

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(PS: Volume 4: The Light of Hope (tentative))

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Title: This NPC is too strong

When Li Yu woke up, he found himself traveling to the game world of "Dao Yongheng".

At this time, there is still half a year before the players arrive.

The evil demon catastrophe has not yet begun, and the forbidden death areas such as the Rotten Swamp, the Golden Desert, the Yinshan Ghost Country, and the Infinite Demon Sea are still silent. The entire Earth is calm and peaceful.

Li Yu took advantage of his foresight and took the opportunity to develop rapidly.

After the game was launched, players would often see a high-level NPC with a golden ID fishing by the Qingshui River.

Whenever a player excitedly approaches to chat with him, to see if he can become his disciple or trigger a mission—

"What? You want to take me as your master?"

Li Yu shook his head: "Excuse me, you are too poor. But I once lost a Chilong jade pendant in the Zombie Cave. If you can find it, I can teach you a spell."

"You want to learn the art of alchemy?" Li Yu smiled. "There is a group of evil cultivators in the Five Ghosts Cave in Qilao Mountain who have committed many evil deeds. As long as you can eliminate the evil for the people and bring their magic weapon, the Xinjin Copper Bottle, to me, I will teach you the art of alchemy. How about that?"

…

Li Yu used the identity of NPC to issue various tasks to toy (crafts) and furniture (tool) people to seize their own practice resources.

And they are the leeks that water and fertilize the players, and they are the cannon fodder that takes the blame when they step on the mines.

Hundreds of years later, many of the top figures in the Digan Realm had fallen or disappeared, and the players had been replaced one after another, but Li Yu was still active in the Digan Realm and was even about to transcend the calamity and ascend to heaven.

Many players couldn't help but sigh: This NPC... is too powerful!