Chen Xu was a little hesitant. How should he introduce Yang Jinxia's identity? Mu Shang looked at the two of them, as if he remembered something, with a surprised look on his face, "Could it be that she is your partner?"

Chen Xu saw that he had guessed it, so there was nothing to hide, and said, "That's right."

"Tsk tsk, I never expected that. The first time I entered the battlefield, I met someone who had a partner." Mu Shang exclaimed in amazement.

Seeing his reaction, Chen Xu thought it was not common for people to have a partner.

"My name is Mu Shang." Mu Shang took the initiative to introduce himself.

"Yang Jinxia."

Mu Shang said, "Let's go to the Novice Village first and collect some information to see what the main plot of this world is."

Chen Xu and the other person naturally had no objections. This crappy game never gave any hints about the game content. They were all clueless and followed Mu Shang to familiarize themselves with it first.

After they came out of the valley, they could vaguely see a village not far away, so they headed towards it.

On the way, they met a musk deer. As soon as it showed its head, Chen Xu hit it back with a stone.

"Your perception is quite high." Mu Shang was a little surprised.

Chen Xu said, "I have good eyesight." In fact, this is due to his second talent, "sense of crisis." He could sense the deer before they appeared.

Mushang's eyes lit up and he said, "If I give you a bow or a pistol, it will be very useful in killing monsters."

Chen Xu felt something strange when he heard him say this. This style of painting seemed a little wrong.

After a while, we arrived at the village.

They were not the first players to arrive. They could see quite a few people wandering around the village, obviously players.

"There are ten NPCs in this village. It seems that this game is very popular." Mu Shang observed for a while before whispering to Chen Xu and the others.

Chen Xu asked curiously, "How do you say this?"

"Artificial intelligence requires a lot of resources. If it's a less popular game, it certainly can't afford so many NPCs." Mu Shang explained, and asked in surprise, "This is common sense. You don't even know this?"

Chen Xu said a little embarrassedly, "Yeah, I was just busy playing games before."

Mu Shang opened his eyes wide, "Don't you usually even visit forums?"

Chen Xu shook his head. He had indeed never visited the forum, because he had only been online for a few seconds before. He didn't even know where the forum was.

Mu Shang was speechless. He didn't expect to encounter such a weirdo.

He couldn't help but explain to Chen Xu, "Dream Game is actually just a platform. All the games on it are self-financed by the developers. If a game wants to go online, it can only rent the space and resources of this platform. The most expensive of these is artificial intelligence. If the popularity is not high enough, designing a few more NPCs will lead to bankruptcy."

After hearing what he said, Chen Xu suddenly understood something that had troubled him for a long time, and said, "No wonder I rarely encounter NPCs when I play stand-alone games. They are basically scenes of the end of the world."

"Ha ha."

Mu Shang couldn't help laughing. "In fact, the resources used by NPCs in stand-alone games are very few, and they are incomparable to those in the battlefield. But dream games are just a rip-off. Stand-alone games always give you some doomsday scenes with few NPCs. That's why not many people like to play them."

In this case, it is reasonable.

Then they talked about the content of the game.

"You heard it just now. Monsters are rampant here. Most of the people in the village have been killed by monsters. Now there are only these ten people left, and they are determined to take revenge. This should be the main plot."

Mu Shang said, "Take the corpse or head of the monster and you can exchange it for gold coins as a reward. If you kill the monsters that participated in the massacre of the village, you can also learn skills."

However, before they went out to kill monsters in the wild, they went on a few missions first, and each got a weapon before going out.

Chen Xu really had a sense of déjà vu as if he was playing an online game.

A month later, Chen Xu was almost sick of killing monsters, and he doubted whether such a game was interesting. The main reason was that their team was too strong. As soon as they went out into the wild, the monsters were discovered by Chen Xu before they appeared. Even the fastest ones could not escape his arrows.

As for those that were slow and had thick skin and flesh, it was the turn of the herder wearing leather armor to take action. With a machete he would chop down the wild boar, which would be half dead. Then Chen Xu would shoot hidden arrows from the side, and they would be killed in a few strokes.

And Yang Jinxia just needed to shout "666" there.

After a month, they had cleared out all the monsters in the surrounding area, earned a large amount of gold coins, acquired several skills, and upgraded their equipment.

Next, the three of them went to a nearby market town, which was a larger map.

The biggest difference between this game and the online games Chen Xu remembered was that you could not gain experience by killing monsters, let alone level up. If you wanted to increase your strength, you could spend gold coins to buy various elixirs to improve your basic attributes. The second was to learn various skills.

What’s even worse is that, according to Mu Shang, the attributes and skills that you have worked hard to improve in the game cannot be retained after you leave the game. When you go to another game, you have to start from scratch.

Because different games are operated by different developers, the data are definitely not the same.

Of course, it is not impossible to improve your personal level. You can use game coins to purchase general equipment, and you can also use diamonds to purchase skills or talents.

These can be brought into any game.

Whether it is game coins or diamonds, you can recharge directly.

The subtext is, if you want to become stronger, just spend money.

Chen Xu originally thought that the combination of his two talents was buggy enough. Unexpectedly, he encountered a real cheater. A player fought with a four-meter-tall fire-breathing ape with bare hands and beat it to death.

Mu Shang said afterwards that the fellow had at least five talents: immense strength, bones of steel, the ability to anticipate the enemy's moves, immunity to fire, and immunity to all poisons.

More importantly, this is a novice battlefield, where all the players have only played a few games. It is impossible for them to have accumulated talents through playing games. In other words, it is all about spending money. These talents cannot be obtained without tens of millions of credit points.

After Chen Xu figured out the purchasing power of a credit point, he found this practice difficult to understand.

Mu Shang said, "Of course it's to get on the list. If you can create some records and achievements in the game, you can get a medal. How proud would it be to show it to others?"

Chen Xu felt that with such a group of krypton gold players, it was almost impossible for ordinary players to get on the list. So, why do they play this game so hard? "Of course, it's to earn credit points. Gold coins can be sold to those rich people. They want to build power, and they can't do it without money. In many popular games, many ordinary players rely on selling gold coins to earn a lot of money."

This was good news for Chen Xu. From then on, he consciously earned gold coins and sold them. The credit points he earned could be used to recharge game coins.

Game coins are very important. They are needed to watch replays, pick up friends to enter the battlefield game, and buy some props. Now that he has a way to get them, he is of course happy.

Chen Xu calculated the time, and when three months were almost up, he sold everything he had, including the equipment on his body, and then quit the game with Yang Jinxia.

In reality, two hours had almost passed, and the plane might land soon. At that time, the signal would probably be interrupted. In that case, his character would definitely die in the game.

If you die in the game, you can be resurrected, but all your belongings will be lost. These are all gold coins. It took him a long time to save them, and it would be a pity to lose them.

All the gold coins were exchanged for 500 credit points. According to Mushang, this was a very high income. If he could maintain this efficiency, he would definitely be one of the top gold players.

Five hundred credit points can be recharged into five hundred game coins.

After Chen Xu quit the game, he did not rush to recharge, but clicked on his personal page. At a certain location, he saw a personal game development option.

There is a reminder next to it that in order to activate this function, 10,000 credit points are required.

Sure enough, Mu Shang did not lie to him. Every player can develop his own game, but the prerequisite is to spend money.

PS: I have to take a bus tomorrow, so there is only one chapter today.

(End of this chapter)