Chapter 421: The Forsaken Realm (10) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
While Yun Guang was pronouncing this strange name with difficulty, the exploration team members behind him had quietly gathered together to discuss this new discovery.
"This should most likely be a small world derived from a game. Based on my experience, it is very likely an online game with a Western fantasy background," White E whispered, "He just said that the Rossburg we came to is a level 50 map, so the place we landed should not be a player's novice village. No wonder we haven't met a single player."
Or it could be because they hadn't interacted with anyone else in Roseburg.
The player in front of him named "I am Dorothea's Dog" looks and is dressed like an ordinary adventurer. If it weren't for this overly specific name and the words he muttered quietly, no one would have thought that he was a player and that this was a small game world if they just passed by on the street.
"So we are now n.pc?" Guan Hongyan raised her eyebrows and asked curiously, "This is my first time being n.pc..."
"No," White Moth shook his head with a strange look on his face, "Don't be too optimistic. I suspect that we are at best a bug here."
"Generally speaking, NPCs in games are characters that repeat similar actions and have their own plots. Their identities are generated under the control of the program," she said solemnly. "We don't have the player's panel now, nor are we being controlled to act. This means that we are likely to exist outside of this game framework. In layman's terms, we are some random data streams that are not controlled by the program."
[I am Dorothea's Dog] said that Rossburg is a level 50 map. Generally speaking, fixed n.pcs in the map rarely run from one place to another. Even if they do, n.pcs cannot rely on carriages or other means of transportation like players. Instead, they disappear from the previous map and enter the next map directly through data allocation.
The fact that they can leave their birth map and wander around in other maps shows that they are no longer ordinary NPCs.
"What does this mean?" The serious look on her face made everyone sense that something was wrong.
"This means we have to be careful next time," White Moth frowned, "We are likely to be treated as a bug in the game and fixed by the programmers."
This kind of handling comes from the handling of higher-dimensional rulers. No matter how powerful Delmis is and even if he is a necromancer who is comparable to gods, he cannot resist the deletion of his own data by the programmers in the online game world he is in.
"I'll contact the organization that sent us in first." With the threat of death hanging over her head, Guan Hongyan quickly turned on her watch and began to send messages to the other party. "Now we can be sure that this is a Western fantasy online game world, right? I asked them to start checking all the spaces they have now and try their best to find the mother space where this child space was born. Since there is already an online game, we just need to filter out the modern spaces in all the spaces they have, and then pick out all the Western fantasy online games in these spaces and check them one by one."
It sounded much easier than the aimless searching they had done before entering here.
"You go first," seeing that the other team members all looked unhappy, Bai E quickly comforted everyone, "Don't worry too much. Although it sounds serious, the map of any large online game is very large, with dozens or even hundreds of players. There are countless n.pcs in so many game maps. With so many n.pcs, unless many players report us, the programmers will definitely not be able to find us through daily maintenance."
"Our goal now is probably to find as many clues as possible about this game, and provide them to the space owner to find the mother space of this space. Then we can just wait for them to get all the information here from the outside world, and then we can fill in the rules and leave." Bai Mo looked at Guan Hongyan who was still sending messages, and asked casually, "Any other questions?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Although it sounds scary to be treated as a bug and fixed by programmers, everyone present has played games. This large-scale online game is not like an ordinary game. If there is a small bug that is harmless, it will definitely not be noticed and deleted by the programmers as long as it is not widely spread among players.
If you think about it this way, it's actually not that dangerous. Their goal just changes from opening the gate to the Kingdom of God to contacting players to obtain information.
Since this player treats them as NPCs, that's easy. They just need to pretend to be NPCs too.
Just then, everyone heard Dermis' voice: "Yes."
Facing everyone's gazes, Delmis asked in a leisurely voice: "What is the game?"
Everyone:!
hiss……
Oh no, I forgot there’s a real big guy from the Western fantasy world here.
"Dermis," everyone looked at each other, "You haven't played games before, have you?"
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"Are you adventurers from Rossburg?" When everyone was talking about the only necromancer among them who really came from the Middle Ages, explaining the game, [I am Dorothea's Dog] shook hands with Yun Guang enthusiastically, "What are you doing here? Looking for a new job? Buying higher-level equipment? Or do you want to hear the latest news about the front line of Port Fadir?"
"Oh, by the way, Besai City is currently recruiting military members to go to the second front, the Chiha Islands. Many adventurers come here to sign up. Are you here to sign up as well?"
"But I tell you, the PVP rewards in the second front are terrible, and there's nothing good. I don't recommend you go..." [I'm Dorothea's Dog] seemed to know everything that happened in Besser City. Before Yun Guang had a chance to speak, he started chattering on and on, "In the last version... oh, no, a while ago, I remember there was a serious drought disaster in Rossburg. Maybe you came to a big city like Besser City to look for new opportunities..."
"Wait a moment," Yun Guang had to interrupt him, "Please wait a moment."
"We are not very clear about what you said." Yun Guang said sincerely.
No matter how slow he is, he should have realized that this is actually a game world.
The adventurer in front of him, whose name sounds very exciting, is obviously a player. The "favor of the goddess of luck" he muttered before is probably some chance tasks in the game that are triggered by luck.
So their goal now should be to learn everything they can about the game.
"Ah? Oh, you're still here," [I'm Dorothea's Dog] realized that he seemed to have been talking to himself too much, and quickly changed the subject, "So what are you doing in Besser City?"
Yun Guang thought about it and chose a more conventional answer: "We are here to take risks..."
At the same time, a voice sounded behind him——
Delmis: "Come to rob the Grand Mage's tower."
Yun Guang:?
【I am Dorothea's dog】:?
"Wait a minute..." He looked at Dermis, "We just..."
Delmis repeated firmly, "Come to rob the Grand Mage's tower."
【I am Dorothea's Dog】: Shocked.
"Are you here to rob the Grand Mage's Tower?!" His eyes were shocked for a moment, and his sight involuntarily bypassed Yun Guang and looked at the person who was speaking behind Yun Guang, "Damn... cool buddy."
This half-human, half-skeleton creature is obviously not an ordinary NPC!
[I am Dorothea's Dog] blinked and muttered to himself, "Damn, why haven't I seen this NPC before? I can't have forgotten this look."
"Do you want me to secretly take you to the Grand Mage's tower?" He thought for a moment and stood in front of Bai Jinshu, unable to help but ask, "Um, are you the Grand Mage's enemies? Are you hiding your identities and pretending to be adventurers? Or are you actually from other continents? I've never seen you before? I'm really impressed that the favor didn't appear on my main account. Oh, sorry, I accidentally said something supermodel again, you probably didn't understand, what I meant is, buddy, you want to seek the help of adventurers to enter the city of Besser, right?"
This player is really talkative.
This is how everyone felt after listening to his long speech.
This player named "I am Dorothea's Dog" is a bit too active.
As the person who directly received so much of his chatter, Bai Jinshu was annoyed by his muttering and took several steps back. He said in an unhappy tone: "Stay away from me. No one except my partner should touch me."
"Oh, oh, oh," [I am Dorothea's Dog] was not at all upset about being distanced from the new NPC. Instead, he took a few steps back very cheerfully, and continued to say, "Brother, if you want to rob the Grand Mage's Mage Tower, you can't do it, right?"
"Why?" Bai Jinshu crossed his arms.
"Because..." [I am Dorothea's dog] hesitated,
"Because the main city is a safe zone, you can't open a red name and fighting is prohibited in a safe zone," White Moth complained in a low voice, "Isn't this the content of the game that we just explained to him? Did he just forget it?"
Just now, when everyone heard that Delmis had never played the game, they urgently taught him a lot of common settings in the game, and said that their main goal now is to contact players to get more information about the game. Unexpectedly, Delmis forgot about it as soon as he turned around.
"Because there are many law enforcement patrols in Besai City, those who chased me and beat me only dared to do it outside the city." [I am Dorothea's Dog] thought about it and chose an option that was easier for NPCs to understand. "Brother... Brother, if you have a grudge against the Grand Mage, you can't just attack his Mage Tower in Besai City. That's equivalent to declaring war on Slenkmed, and you might be wanted by the whole country."
Don't let him be implicated and become a wanted person.
This is just a small account. If he is wanted, he will be finished. Not only will he not be able to complete the mission, but even his account will be useless.
"And why is it the Grand Mage?" [I am Dorothea's Dog] couldn't help but mutter in a low voice. Even though he knew that the other party couldn't understand what he was saying, he kept complaining, "I remember that the Mage Tower is the location of the Mage's professional quest? Only mages can enter. How can this favor be triggered by my trumpet? The profession of my trumpet is obviously a thief, right?"
Then he saw this special n.pc in front of him glanced up and down at him with a very strange look, and his eyes stayed on his chest for a moment: "Do you know why you can't fight in Besai City?"
"Because... there are people on patrol?" [I am Dorothea's dog] was a bit confused.
Of course it’s because all the skill buttons become gray once you enter the main city.
"No," the necromancer n.pc smiled subtly, "because this city is actually under the jurisdiction of a great wizard, and you carry his mark on you. Within his forest, everyone who carries the mark must abide by the laws here, otherwise he will find out who triggered the rules."
Of course it wasn't that he had forgotten White Moth's words.
It’s because “no fighting in the main city” is just some basic settings used in every game. But in the final analysis, the reason why there is no fighting in Besse City is not because it is the main city, but because it is the territory of a great magician.
In the wizard's territory, all plants, buildings and all living things are ruled by the owner. Carrying the wizard's mark means voluntarily accepting his jurisdiction.
Just like what the person in front of me said, "Don't fight."
This is because in the city of Besser, the Grand Mage has established a rule that prohibits fighting, so anyone carrying the opponent's mark will be forced to obey his orders and will not be able to launch an attack here.
It seems that even players don’t know much about this world, or it can be said that even players have only explored a small part of this world.
"Do you know what this mark is?" Bai Jinshu looked at [I am Dorothea's Dog].
"What is it?" [I am Dorothea's dog] asked hesitantly.
He has been playing this game for many years and has never heard of such a statement. To him, not being able to fight in the main city is a common setting in every game. No player has ever thought about why they can't fight here, and there has never been an official explanation for not being able to fight in the main city other than "there are patrols patrolling here."
This was the first time he heard from an NPC that this was because the main city was the territory of the Grand Mage.
"This." A pair of white knuckles flashed before his eyes, and something was taken off the collar on his left chest. "This is the mark that will prevent you from fighting in Besser City."
[I am Dorothea's dog] lowered his head and asked in surprise: "The emblem of the Adventurer's Guild?"
Isn't this what every player will get after entering the game and joining the Adventurer's Guild?
"Well," the other party did not return the emblem to him, but raised his chin towards the city gate in front of him, "You can try to see if you can get in now."
"Going into town?" [I am Dorothea's Dog] asked hesitantly.
Will I be unable to enter the main city if I take this thing off?
"You don't believe it?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows, "You can try."
[I am Dorothea's dog] He walked towards the city gate in disbelief.
Impossible, right?
This game has never had this kind of thing before? He is also an old player, and his main account has been maxed out for who knows how many years. It's just that he suddenly got interested recently, so he opened a small account to experience the game process again.
Something that no one had discovered for so many years was now so easily told to him by an NPC he met on the road?
[I am Dorothea's dog] I was doubtful in my heart, but at the same time I thought, what if?
What if what this n.pc said is true, isn't this a hidden setting in the game?
As the player walked towards the city gate, the rest of the exploration team quickly came over and talked in unison.
"Dermis, why are you talking about this?" Xu Zichen looked puzzled.
"Don't tell him that we are here to rob the Mage Tower... What 'us'? It's obviously you who are here to rob," Guan Hongyan quickly changed the subject, "We just need to pretend to be ordinary NPCs passing by and talk to him, right?"
"If we are too conspicuous, the game programmer might find out," Yun Guang also frowned slightly, "Since fighting is not allowed in the main city, why don't we forget about robbing the Mage Tower?"
Otherwise, a "Mage Tower" which was originally a fixed safe zone map in the game was suddenly destroyed by them. It doesn't seem right no matter how you think about it, right?
As the person surrounded by everyone, Bai Jinshu remained calm and raised his chin towards the distance: "Do you think he is someone who knows that the emblem of the Adventurer's Guild is the mark of the Grand Mage?"
"Don't know?" Lu Changfeng guessed, "It seems like he's hearing this for the first time."
Delmis, who was standing next to him, nasally responded, "So what does this mean?"
"What?" Su Hao asked.
"It means you might as well ask me instead of asking the players," Bai Jinshu glanced at all of them, with a look of arrogance that only big bosses have. "The players only know that you can't fight in the city, but I can tell you that you can't fight in Besai City because it is the territory of a great magician. Do you still think you need to ask the players now?"
If it is filled in the Foundation's rules, will it be approved as "Because this is the main city of the game, there can be no fighting" or "Because this is the territory of a great magician, people carrying the other party's mark cannot violate the rules he set"?
The surrounding exploration team members fell into deep thought.
Obviously, the current situation is that the game manufacturer seems to have given some new settings to explain the traditional game settings, but for some reason, players don’t know these settings, and the manufacturer has never integrated a setting set for these settings.
This world is not an ordinary game, but a small space that has separated from the mother world and become a sub-world. It is hard to say which of the former and the latter can be recognized by the foundation as the official rules of this space.
"I understand," Yun Guang spoke first. "Dermis, what you mean is that although this is a game, it is already a complete small world. If we still treat this as a game world, the final rules may not be passed."
Although everyone comes here to have fun and make some money from the year-end fake accounts, it would be a bit unreasonable if they fail to pass the rule exploration.
"Yeah." Bai Jinshu crossed his arms.
This is also the reason why he did not show familiarity with the game world at the beginning.
"Well... then our goal is to travel to all continents?" White Moth thought for a moment, "So that you can discover the hidden settings in this game?"
She added, "Generally speaking, in large-scale online games like this, players start from level one and level up, and the plot they experience is the main storyline. We just happen to have a purple-haired guy here, so we can follow the players' tasks and walk through these maps, so that we can discover the hidden settings here?"
"I have no objection," Zhao Yinglai raised his hand to vote, "I agree with both, and I think what Delmis said is more reasonable, because I just tried to fill in the rules."
She raised her watch. "I wrote that this world is a subspace derived from a western fantasy online game, and all the rules in the world follow the rules of the game. The second half of this was rejected."
With Zhao Ying's words, the exploration team members finally reached a consensus.
"Okay, then we will continue to travel across all continents with Hector," Yun Guang patted Hector who didn't understand what everyone was saying, "but our goal will be to follow the pace at which players accept quests."
Everyone nodded.
At the same time, [I am Dorothea's Dog], who had gone to Besse City with doubts, also returned.
"I can't actually get in," he looked at the new NPC in shock, "Are you serious?"
"Then...then you didn't bring the Adventurer's Guild's emblem either," he said hesitantly, "so your favor...ah, no, your mission, isn't right either..."
The player stuttered a bit.
"You guys, this commission you want to ask me to do," he finally found the right words to talk to the NPC, "you want to borrow my emblem to let you enter the city of Besser, right?"
He finally knew what this favor mission was about.
"But I'm only one person here..." [I'm Dorothea's Dog] muttered, "Could it be... This is a team mission, so it requires eleven players to form a team to take it...? Where can I find eleven people for you..."
In front of him, the NPC who was issuing tasks had that very subtle smile on his face again, [I am Dorothea's dog] It felt like this expression was more like a mockery than a smile, the kind of mockery of a big boss.
"No," Bai Jinshu finally said after hearing enough of his mumbling, "Of course I can get in."
There are also differences in strength among mages. When a high-level mage enters the territory of a low-level mage, he will naturally not be under the jurisdiction of the other party.
But even though he can get in, it is not certain for his teammates behind him.
For some reason, they did not receive the Adventurer's Guild emblem when they registered as adventurers, but that did not stop him from making one on the spot.
The Adventurer's Guild emblem of "I am Dorothea's Dog" flashed in his hand.
The complex magic pattern circuits belonging to the Grand Mage were enough to burn and blind anyone who tried to spy on the details of the magic pattern. Unfortunately, he now met a top necromancer.
The magic pattern circuit resisted weakly for a few times, but was completely unable to stop this strange magic power from rushing in and replicating it eleven times.
A flash of light golden color appeared.
An identical emblem appeared on everyone's chest.
"Let's go." Bai Jinshu, who copied the emblem casually, took a few steps forward and swaggered into the city of Besser in front of the players.
The adventurers behind him also followed him in.
No guards stopped them.
[I am Dorothea's Dog] I was stunned for a few seconds, with countless thoughts flashing through my mind, such as "Oh shit, boss", "Oh shit, didn't they say that the emblem of the Adventurer's Guild can't be copied", and "Oh shit, they won't really go in and blow up the mage's professional quest location? Then where can mages accept quests and learn skills in the future?", before I realized it belatedly.
"Wait," the unlucky player suddenly came to his senses, "So this isn't a favor?"
What about the mission?
What is his mission!!
He has been running here for so long, but there is no prompt for a quest that triggers the favor!!!
"Damn it," he hurriedly chased after them, "Why don't you give me a favor! Give me a favor! Can't I take you to blow up the wizard tower? Give me a favor! Wait, you didn't return my emblem to me!"
The guard at the door dutifully stopped him: "I am Dorothea's dog. You cannot enter the city of Besser without permission!"
[I am Dorothea's dog]: Damn.
"I just came out from inside, don't you recognize me?" He tried to reason with the n.pc.
Guard: "I am Dorothea's dog. You cannot enter the city of Besser without permission!"
[I am Dorothea's dog]: "No, I'm an adventurer! I completed a mission you issued yesterday, and you called me a kind adventurer from afar!"
Guard: "I am Dorothea's dog. You cannot enter the city of Besser without permission!"
[I am Dorothea's dog]: "Then how can I get in?"
Guard: "I am Dorothea's dog. You need to obtain the emblem of the Adventurer's Guild."
[I am Dorothea's Dog]: "Then why don't you let me go into the city and get another one from the Adventurer's Guild!"
Guard: "I am Dorothea's dog. You cannot enter Besser City without the Adventurer's Guild emblem. Please obtain the Adventurer's Guild emblem first."
【I am Dorothea’s dog】：……
The author has something to say:
To enter the main city, you must wear the Adventurer's Guild Emblem. To obtain the Adventurer's Guild Emblem, you need to enter the Adventurer's Guild in the main city to receive it.
Congratulations to the player [I am Dorothea's Dog], your sub-account was taken away and the bound items were killed.
Miss in the city: Why is there an extra emblem in my hand? Did I make an extra one? Just throw it away.
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