Chapter 1 Chasing People

Chi Dong is an ordinary junior student, and his major is a bit of a bummer.

Shortly after the start of this semester, the dormitory leader fell in love with a girl from the Broadcasting Department at first sight during a club activity. After much inquiry, he learned that the girl was playing a game called "Xia Jiang".

In order to pursue a girl, the boss asked the entire dormitory to play games with him. Unfortunately, the girl was not moved by the boss's passionate pursuit and bluntly rejected him.

In the end, he didn't get the girl, and he quit the game because he was sad. The other two roommates also stopped playing due to real-life reasons, so Chi Dong was the only one playing.

Seeing how much he liked playing this game, several roommates simply gave him their accounts, and when they needed to complete team tasks in late winter, they would open four accounts.

Chi Dong studied digital media technology. Even though it is a rare major, it is also related to games. I chose this major because when I was a child, I heard neighbors mention that the gaming industry is very developed and that you can make a lot of money. I also heard that the village chief's son studied this major and joined a big company with an annual salary of hundreds of thousands.

However, when he entered the university, he found out that this was not a major that could make a lot of money, and the school he attended was just an ordinary undergraduate college. Big companies would not come to their school to recruit people. Even if they did, they would go to the top university next door - Peking University.

He was quite disappointed at first, but after studying hard, he really fell in love with this major.

When he was dragged by his boss to play the game, he took it very seriously. After all, he wanted to put his knowledge into practice. He finally had time to play the game, and this "Hero" was a popular game that has not been surpassed for five years.

He has known about it for a long time.

I often hear my classmates discussing "Hero" in class.

It so happened that when the boss dragged them to play the game, they encountered the game's fifth anniversary event. Perhaps the game company attached great importance to this fifth anniversary, and the welfare it provided was unprecedented.

Before I knew it, I had been playing for several months.

Since his roommates stopped playing, he simply stopped doing dungeons and went online every day to play games and chat with NPCs. Occasionally, when he encountered holiday activities that required teamwork, he didn't want to socialize, so he logged into his roommate's account to complete the game in a team.

The game "Hero" is highly realistic. NPCs will react differently based on the player's answers, and the chat content is also different. There are many easter eggs hidden in it. Players can look for clues based on these easter eggs, and they will receive mysterious rewards for completing menu tasks.

There are both high-level and common rewards. The official has given a reminder that there is a chance that the easter egg rewards will give out god-level items, including materials, divine favors, etc.

For a long time, a large number of players in "Heroes of the Storm" went to chat with NPCs in order to obtain god-level items. Almost every NPC was surrounded by people. However, in the end, no one got a god-level item, but some people got some purple equipment and high-level materials.

Until players found out that the so-called god-level items were too time-consuming and expensive to obtain, and the rewards they received were worse than the rewards for completing system tasks, most of them chose to give up the Easter egg tasks, and only a small number of players persisted.

This time, the fifth anniversary event of "Heroes" is very grand and has many prizes. All players have rushed to participate in the anniversary event, hoping to get the best rewards in this event.

However, Chidong's equipment was too poor, so poor that even with god-like operation, it couldn't be saved, not to mention that he was just a rookie.

Furthermore, he was playing the role of a nanny, a profession that was already extremely popular, and all his relatives and friends were playing A-game and had abandoned him. As a result, when he went to a dungeon and applied to join a team, no one was willing to let him in.

But even so, he had no intention of playing A-game. He logged in on time every day without fail. The first thing he did when he logged in was to go out into the wild to search for materials and pick up all kinds of garbage until all his energy was used up.

Afterwards, he was contentedly teleported back to the city and started his daily "chat" activity, chatting from the South Gate to the North Gate, having detailed conversations two or three times, until the NPC got annoyed and bored and his favorability began to drop, then he gave up harassing him and looked for the next one.

He marked the key points of every conversation with an NPC. This was a little habit of his.

This day was the same as usual. Chi Dong opened the mall as soon as he came online. He first bought two bottles of fixed vitality pills and drank them quickly. Then he went straight to the wild to mine, collect herbs, and refine medicine.

After finishing the work, I put all the sellable materials in my backpack on the shelves.

In order to get the fastest profit, he directly marked the lowest price and put it up for sale, so the materials were sold out in seconds as soon as they were put on the shelves.

Fortunately, all his materials were not sold in large quantities but in batches. Otherwise, his price-cutting behavior would be despised and scolded by other colleagues, and in serious cases, he might even be deprived of a bounty.

After finishing all this, two hours had passed. He glanced at the clock and thought it was still early, so he ran excitedly to the main city and started catching NPCs from the place where he had not finished the conversation yesterday. He was lucky as he triggered two Easter egg missions during the conversation, but they were both very simple missions, so the rewards were average.

After completing the task, he continued to capture NPCs for "chat". By the time he arrived at the city gate, it was already past 9 o'clock in the evening.

The NPCs at the main city gate are the last few.

[Present] Dongdong hides: Good evening, Mr. Guard, what’s going on recently?

Chi Dong always starts his conversation with a greeting because he recently discovered something very surprising, which is that saying hello can increase the chance of triggering the Easter egg mission. Although this may be because he is thinking too much, he still firmly believes it is true.

[System] Guard: "There has been an abnormality in a volcano recently. I don't know if the geese will be hurt. I am a little worried."

When chatting with NPC, you must mention keywords to trigger the NPC's content. If you don't mention it, the NPC will answer in a different direction. Therefore, every time Chi Dong chats, he habitually answers in a weird direction.

[Present] Dongdong hides: The fireworks on the volcano are beautiful.

[System] Guard: Young Hero, what you said makes sense. I haven't seen fireworks for a long time. I don't know when I can see them again.

Seeing this sentence, Chi Dong said it without thinking.

[Present] Dongdong hid: How difficult is that? I’ll let you have one.

Then a task prompt pops up on the game interface.

(Player Dongdong hides to accept the guard's request. Please complete it within the time limit. Mission reward:???)

[Present] Dongdong hid: Wait, I will find a volcano for you to set off.

After saying that, he ran to the warehouse to pick up the fireworks that the system had given him before. This kind of fireworks is only given during the novice period. After the player's level breaks through level 20, there will be no more of them. This kind of fireworks is also not available in the store.

At first, some players thought these were treasures, after all, they were only available during the novice period, but later they didn't find anything special about them. Gradually, everyone stopped paying attention to them. These ordinary fireworks were not as good-looking as those sold in the mall, and they took up space in the backpack.

In the early stages of the game, there is an extreme shortage of warehouse and backpack slots, so most players will directly use or destroy useless items like these.

Apart from novice players, few people will stay. There may be a few players like Chidong who have the habit of hoarding things, but not many.

Chi Dong likes to hoard things, so his warehouse and backpack are filled with miscellaneous items. Especially when he was doing dungeons with his roommates, he picked up unwanted things on the ground while doing the dungeons. His roommates even joked that one day he would become rich by picking up junk.

Because of this hobby, within three months of playing the game, Chi Dong quickly earned a title that other players would need to play for a year to get - the "junk picker winner".

Although the roommates were envious and jealous, they still politely declined Chi Dong's invitation to pick up trash together. After all, not everyone likes to pick up trash.

Chi Dong took the fireworks and some small explosives and ran straight to the largest mountain opposite the city gate, [Yanyun Mountain].

In the game, he plays a female character, and a doctor at that - Mengli. There are not many male players of this profession. Compared with other DPS output professions, this type of profession is not popular among male players.

He chose to play the healing role at first because he didn't like fighting and killing, and secondly, he had read on the official website that the operation of the doctor was relatively simple and did not require too much time to practice the skills. The most important point was that none of his roommates liked to play the doctor, but they had to have it when they went to the dungeon, so the task fell on him.

Doctor Meng Li only has one choice, becoming a woman, but Chi Dong doesn't care more about gender.

After all, playing games is fun, and the costumes of the female characters in the game are particularly exquisite, much better than those of the male characters. I heard that there was a fashion dispute on the "Hero General" Weibo some time ago.

The new male characters' outfits were so ugly and not as sophisticated as the female characters', which sparked controversy among players.

I heard that in order to calm the public anger, ET. spent several weeks redesigning the clothes to make them more in line with the players' wishes. They also gave away a new set of clothes for free, which could be claimed by logging in online.

Late in winter, I arrived at [Yanyun Mountain], stood at the foot of the mountain, opened the small map and studied the terrain here.

Although the task prompt did not indicate which mountain it was specifically referring to, the limited-time task made him choose [Yanyun Mountain] which was closest to him without thinking.

[Yanyun Mountain] is the largest volcano in the game "Xia Jiang". The temperature here is high all year round and the fire is raging. The official introduction says that it is a dormant active volcano that contains a mysterious power.

From the launch of the server to now, there has been an endless stream of players coming to [Yanyun Mountain] to explore, but so far no one has been able to find where its mysterious power lies. Many people came with high hopes but left in disappointment.

Most of the people who come here now are players who need to do gathering tasks. [Yanyun Mountain] has a large amount of sawtooth grass, which is an essential material for making hemostatic powder and is also one of the NPC's favorite herbs.

In the early days of the server, some new players believed the posts in the game forum and ran to [Yanyun Mountain] to try their luck in finding treasures before they even reached level 60. However, before they could even reach the foot of the mountain, they were sent back to the resurrection point by the heat wave of [Yanyun Mountain].

After being sent back to the resurrection point, there will be a weakness buff on the game panel that reduces the player's health by half. Later, this malicious post was complained by many players, causing a dispute between new and old players. Finally, the official deleted the relevant posts and added a ban on entry to the game for those under level 60, which calmed the dispute.

Chi Dong, who already had a general understanding of the terrain of [Yanyun Mountain] at this time, wore a set of tattered equipment that was half blue and half green. He staggered around to avoid the few players who were leveling up here by killing monsters. He pressed the Enter key and used the sect's great lightness skill to jump into the cave.

The equipment levels in this game are white, green, blue, purple, orange and artifact. White is a set of blank equipment given for completing novice tasks. After reaching level 20, you can go to fight wild monsters and bosses and go to dungeons to accumulate other higher-level equipment.

Green, blue, and purple equipment are obtained from ordinary dungeons, while orange equipment only drops from large-scale team dungeons. Artifacts are made from materials dropped by killing strange bosses. Strange bosses appear once every six months, and each boss only drops one material. In addition to the materials from strange bosses, artifacts also require Tears of the Sea. This material is a necessary item for the production of artifacts, and artifacts cannot be synthesized without it.

However, the way to obtain it is more of a test of the player's luck. After such a long time since the server was launched, only five players have obtained Tears of the Sea. Three of them are well-known masters, and the other two are ordinary players who chose to sell it at a high price to realize their dream of getting rich overnight.

The other players envied these two people so much that they gnashed their teeth and wanted to rush up to ask how they got the materials, but no one was willing to tell them. In the end, they were harassed so much that they had no choice but to delete their accounts and stop playing.

The Tears of the Sea are not only a material for making artifacts, but also one of the materials for upgrading artifacts.

The players who were AFK and killing monsters outside didn't take it seriously when they saw someone rushing into the cave. Instead, they laughed at their friends and family, saying, "Another fool seeking his own death."

"Don't mind your own business. I've already finished mine. How about yours?"

"Just enough."

"Then let's go back to the city. I don't want to run around anymore."

Several other people responded, opened their backpacks and used the return scroll to return to the main city. After this group of people left, there were no other players in [Yanyun Mountain].

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