Chapter 450: The Forsaken Realm of Gods (39) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
The Adventurer's Guild in Cyril City actually looked much more deserted than that in Besser City.
They are all main cities. The Adventurer's Guild in Besser City is full of adventurers handing in and receiving commissions. Some people even fought at the door for the same commission.
In contrast, Cyril's Adventurer's Guild was almost empty. There were only one or two tasks posted on the commission board at the door for updating commissions. It looked very bleak.
"This is too deserted, isn't it?" Su Hao turned around and said in a strange tone, "Isn't this one of the four main cities? Why is it so different from Besser City?"
You know, the Adventurer's Guild in Besser City is usually crowded.
"People in Cyril City don't like to entrust others?" He looked at the empty entrustment board at the door in surprise.
This is also too empty.
Even at the first Adventurer's Guild they went to after entering this space, a small guild located in Rossburg, the commission board at the door was piled with commissions that seemed to have no end.
How come Cyril City, as one of the main cities, is so clean in the commissioned version?
"It's not that people in Cyril City don't like to entrust others..." Bai Mo twitched his lips, "Didn't you see the list next to it?"
"What list?" Xu Zichen leaned over and read it out word by word, "This week's performance star on the Adventurer Commission List?"
"Look down." White Moth added.
Xu Zichen lowered his gaze. The number one adventurer on the list, [Brother, You Smell Good], completed a total of 421 tasks in seven days, overwhelming the second and third place adventurers, and almost completed one-tenth of the commissions by himself.
This name is obviously not indigenous.
"Are you a player?" He asked in a strange tone.
"It's the players," Bai Mo nodded sadly, "It's like a swarm of locusts..."
Below [Brother, You Smell Good] who topped the list with 421 commissioned tasks is the second place [Assassin's Dagger, Asking When You Will Die] who completed 230 tasks, and the third place [Pasta Flying] and [Tomato Meat Sauce] who completed 218 tasks and tied for third place. At a glance, the rest of the list are all players.
The top 100 players on the Performance Star list have completed more than 10,000 commissions in total, and even the dynamic branch quest system of "Breath of Slenkmed" is unable to replenish them in time.
Did these players come back just to do nothing but clear the side quests?
One of the original trademarks of "Breath of Slenkmed" was "a breathing holographic western fantasy world". Apart from the cumbersome setting that required players to really learn whatever profession they chose, which was criticized for many years and even abandoned by other holographic game developers, other details in the game are also different from traditional online games.
For example, the commissions from the Adventurer’s Guild. Players are adventurers in the setting, so they can naturally accept commissions from the Adventurer’s Guild. These commissions are the side quests within the game.
Unlike traditional online games with limited text, limited tasks, and side quests that can be cleared, the side quests in Breath of Slenkmed are endless. The NPCs around the Adventurer's Guild will continuously produce new side quests to fill the guild's commissions. If players are interested, they can choose not to pursue the main quest, but just keep clearing the side quests in one map and maxing out the favorability of all the NPCs in that map.
There are many types of side quests, some are limited to levels, some are limited to professions, and some are limited to players who have enabled a certain map or function. Except for mobile games like "Growing a Person on the Liver" that cover all kinds of gameplay, for ordinary players, the tasks that one person can complete are limited. There are always some side quests that they cannot intercept at present, so the side quests in the Adventurer's Guild will not be cleared.
But now it is obviously the other case.
There were only one or two commissions on the commission board outside the Adventurer's Guild in Cyril City, and judging by the time, they had just been refreshed.
As Bai Jinshu and Enoch walked out of the Adventurer's Guild together, an ordinary commission titled "Looking for a buyer of magic sand in Cyril City" was soon added to the latest commissions on the commission board. The reward was 100 magic stones, and 5 magic stones could be provided for providing effective clues.
"Is that all?" Yun Guang paid the deposit and walked out the door just in time to see everyone looking up at the entrustment board. "We're waiting for others to provide information."
The Adventurer's Guild not only took away part of the deposit, but also provided Yun Guang with the Adventurer's Guild's client communication beads. When there is news about the client's entrustment, the communication beads will vibrate. At this time, the client on the other side of the communication bead can come to the Adventurer's Guild to confirm the progress of the entrustment and verify the authenticity of the news.
If the news is true, the reward will be paid in front of the Adventurer's Guild.
If the news is false, the Adventurer's Guild will suppress it, and the adventurer who provided the false news will have his commission fee recovered and be included in the list of high-ranking adventurers, with restrictions on accepting commissions.
"It should be OK," Guan Hongyan scratched his head, "but I don't know if our commission will become a side quest for the players?"
If it becomes a branch line, it will be much easier.
In the game, no matter whether it is a side quest or a main quest, the ending will definitely be resolved satisfactorily by the players. If this can become a side quest, it means that they will definitely find the place where the magic pattern fragment is buried.
"I hope so." Yun Guang nodded slightly and quickly retracted his gaze. "Shall we go to the Adventurer's Inn to rest first and then set off to other places tomorrow?"
All the commissions in the Adventurer's Guild have been cleared by the players. They have nothing to do in Cyril City and can only wait for news.
Since we are waiting anyway, we might as well go find other magic pattern fragments first. This way we can collect all the patterns faster and figure out what this magic pattern is used for.
"This way, Delmis can leave this space earlier," Yun Guang added, "He also wants to celebrate his wedding anniversary..."
They can also get out of the digging simulator earlier.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone expressed their agreement.
"Sure," Bai Jinshu stretched out his hand towards Yun Guang, "Communication bead."
Yun Guang handed over a small white bead.
The white bead flashed in Bai Jinshu's hand, and he threw it back into Yun Guang's hand: "This way, both sides can communicate."
You can ask about the progress of the entrustment at any time, and there is no need to rush back.
Bai Jinshu watched Yun Guang solemnly put away the communication bead and took a step forward to walk forward.
At this moment, he suddenly felt the sound of something falling behind him.
Bai Jinshu:?
He turned his head in surprise and found that the person who fell was a chestnut-haired boy who looked only four or five years old and was not even as tall as his waist.
Now he was sitting on the ground, holding his left hand and breathing in pain.
Bai Jinshu frowned: "Did you want to touch me just now?"
The marks on this child's hands are obviously the deathly aura of Dermis. Whose child is this? Why are you touching him for no reason?
"You only touched his clothes?" He glanced around and saw that there was not much death energy left on the child's wrist. He said casually, "Fortunately, you only touched his clothes. If you had touched his body, you might not be alive now."
The death energy from Delmis attacks indiscriminately.
The child's face froze and his eyes immediately filled with tears, and it looked like he was about to cry in the next second.
The exploration team members were not expecting this episode and rushed over to smooth things over.
"He probably bumped into you accidentally, not intentionally," Yun Guang half-knelt down and looked at the child, "Why are you here alone? Where are your parents?"
The little boy's clothes showed that he came from a well-off family. He was probably not a homeless child, nor was he a child from a poor family who was sent to work in various shops at a very young age.
The boy trembled his lips and seemed afraid to answer.
"Did he get lost?" Lu Changfeng kindly interrupted, "Did this child come to the Adventurer's Guild to wait for his parents to find him?"
After all, the Adventurer's Guild is a landmark building no matter what, and it has a certain degree of credibility and functionality. Most adventurers will do anything as long as they have money.
The parents of this kind of kid, who could tell from his clothes that he came from a well-off family, would not be stingy with their rewards, and many adventurers were willing to send him home.
"It's possible that they got lost," Xu Zichen nodded. "So many players just rushed towards the city gate... it's normal for one or two people to be separated."
Even adults will be hit several times by players who have set up collision volumes, not to mention children. This child may really be separated from his parents.
"Kid, kid?" Zhao Ying called out a few times, "Do you remember where your home is? Do you remember your parents' phone number... No, do you remember your parents' last names?"
I almost forgot that this is a Western fantasy world.
"He's not lost."
Just when everyone was concerned about the child, Dermis's voice rang out coldly: "He is coming for us."
Everyone:?
"Didn't you feel it?" Bai Jinshu glanced at the child who was still wiping his tears, "Someone has been watching us since just now."
He originally thought that there was something wrong with his spell and he was recognized, or that the receptionist at the Adventurer's Guild was looking at him in shock because of Enoch's overly advanced mental state.
But once the child appeared, the feeling of being watched disappeared.
This was the child who had been staring at them just now.
"So this kid has been watching us?" Guan Hongyan squatted down curiously, "Why are you looking at us?"
Are they anything good?
The child raised his head and looked at Guan Hongyan with trembling eyes. Out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of the scary wizard in a black robe behind Guan Hongyan, and another person who looked exactly like him and was leaning against him. He shuddered and cried even harder.
"Why are you crying... Oh, I give up," Guan Hongyan said speechlessly, "Do I look like a bad guy? Or do I look so scary to you?"
This was the first time in her life that she had scared a child to tears.
Shouldn’t this be Lu Changfeng’s script?
"Hongyan, it should be Delmis," Yun Guang said tactfully, "He is standing behind you now."
Guan Hongyan coughed lightly and said, "Then this child must have been shocked by the invincible heroic spirit of the invincible necromancer."
Bai Jinshu: ...
"So you guys still want to surround him?" He raised his eyebrows, "This kid is not simple."
"Could he be trying to attack the teacher?" Hector was squeezed outside by everyone and couldn't see what was going on inside, so he could only make random guesses.
"This kid? Attacking Thermis? Can he reach Thermis' thigh?" Zhao Yinglai was blunt.
"What could that be?" Xu Zichen touched the side of his face, "It can't be that they were attracted by our personal charm."
"Have some shame," Guan Hongyan rolled her eyes, "It was Dermis who was touched, not you."
"Don't dare say such things," Xu Zichen said with a click of his tongue. "Only her partner can touch Delmis, and her partner is right beside her. Don't open your mouth and slander a good person."
Yun Guang sighed helplessly: "You two..."
Guan Hongyan & Xu Zichen: "Hmm?"
Yun Guang: "...The child is still here."
Delmis herself didn’t say anything, but if the two of them kept talking, the room would be booked.
"You're talking like it's your child," Guan Hongyan complained, turning her attention back to the child, "So what are you doing here, kid?"
This child just cried here without saying anything, making it seem like a group of adults were bullying a child.
"Your hand is injured?" Yun Guang was the person closest to Dermis, so he naturally heard what Dermis said at the beginning. It seemed that the child became like this because he touched Dermis's clothes. "Changfeng..."
He turned around and wanted to find Lu Changfeng to treat him before talking.
"No need." Bai Jinshu stood up straight, walked a few steps to the child, and said in a light tone, "He is just pretending to cry."
Although Delmis had death energy on her body, the touch of the corner of her clothes did not carry any malice nor did it launch an attack. At most, she was stung by the death energy, and the pain was similar to being stung by a bee. There was no need to cry for so long.
"What exactly are you going to do?" He said with a cold look in his eyes. "If you don't tell me, I will suspect that you have been following us because someone has instructed you to do so. I don't know what I will do then."
The child sobbed, rubbed his eyes and looked up: "I... I just want to..."
He stammered, "I want to find an adventurer."
"I'm here... to issue a commission."
Looking at Delmis's face, speaking seemed to have exhausted all his courage. After saying this, the child immediately hugged Yun Guang's thigh with a strong desire to survive: "Brother, I'm not a bad person. I want to find you to issue a commission!"
"Why are you staring at us when issuing commissions?" Yun Guang patted the child on the back and said gently, "This is the Adventurer's Guild, why don't you just go in directly?"
"They wouldn't accept my request, saying I was too young," the child replied, sobbing, "and they notified my father."
Yun Guang patted him on the back: "Then you can also find someone else."
Although he felt that the child did not have any bad intentions, Delmis said that the child had been staring at them just now. They were not much different from other adventurers, so this behavior was indeed a bit strange.
“They, they didn’t accept it either…” the child cried and hiccuped, “They said my commission didn’t have that… that… side quest…”
"Hmm..." Yun Guang was silent.
It seems that this child is too young. The Adventurer's Guild does not accept the commissions he issues, and does not believe that he has the ability to fulfill his promises. Other players also do not accept his commissions because the commissions are not considered side quests.
"It's no use looking for us," Bai Jinshu crossed his arms, "We won't answer either."
They had already done what they came to Cyril City to do, so there was no point in taking on a child's commission.
What's more, they are not real adventurers and have no habit of completing commissions everywhere.
"But, but..." the child added hastily, "Why didn't you answer it! I heard that you would answer it!"
"Where did you hear that?" Guan Hongyan narrowed her eyes.
They had just arrived in Cyril City. Who could tell a child that they would definitely accept his commission?
"I heard... from Irina," the child stammered a few times, looking at Hector outside the crowd, "She told me that those adults would not accept commissions from children like us, nor would they listen to us, but Princess Disney in a skirt would..."
Others who thought this was some conspiracy:?
Disney Princess Hector:?
This makes sense.
[I came to find Hector, so it's okay. 】
[What's wrong? How can a person from Cyril City know what happened in Besser City? ? ? ]
[That must have been passed on by adventurers or businessmen over there. In the past few days, they accepted all kinds of commissions in Besai City in order to build a reputation. Now they have a reputation.]
Everyone on the screen: ...
silence.
This endless silence.
"Could it be... Could it be that it is not..." The child said weakly, "I heard that it is like this..."
"Or maybe he's not a Disney princess..." The child's voice became lower and lower, and finally he muttered in a low voice, "No way, I've been observing him for a long time."
So he watched them for so long to confirm whether Hector was the legendary Disney princess...
"Yes, that's right," Yun Guang nodded with difficulty, "We will help you for Princess Disney's sake."
Who could have imagined that the outrageous things that everyone did in Bessey would hit everyone right in the face a few days later? This is too outrageous.
Hector was pushed to the front by everyone. White Moth scratched his head and whispered to Delmis, who was obviously very upset because someone touched him, even though it was just the corner of his clothes: "Why don't you go back first? Let's go see what this kid wants to do."
After all, it was for Hector...
As the saying goes, you can’t destroy a child’s dream of Disney…
Considering that he was hit by Dermis's spell for Hector, I'll just help him.
"No need," Bai Jinshu stood up, "If you want to go, let's go together."
"Let's go then?" Guan Hongyan stood up and stretched her body. "What do you want to ask of me, kid?"
The child who was still about to cry was picked up by Yun Guang and placed on his shoulders. Now he was holding his neck, wiping his tears and whispering, "I want to find Xiao Hong. Xiao Hong is lost."
"Is Xiaohong your pet?" Yun Guang said gently, "Is it a cat or a dog?"
This name sounds like a pet. It is normal for children to want adults to find their lost pets.
"It's not a cat or a dog," the child rubbed his eyes and corrected seriously, "Xiaohong is my flower."
"Flowers?" Guan Hongyan was surprised. "The flowers are lost?"
Why are flowers lost?
"My father didn't let me raise Xiao Hong..." The child pursed his lips, "She let Xiao Hong run away."
"How did you let the flower run away... maybe your parents threw it away?" Xu Zichen muttered softly, "Or are there really flowers that can run away?"
If it were in any other world, he would definitely think that the child was too young and did not have complete judgment and understanding of the world. If his parents threw away the flowers he raised, he would think that his parents let the flowers run away.
But it’s really hard to say in this world.
Who knows if there are flowers with long legs? Although it is outrageous, it is not impossible.
"Dermis, are there any flowers that can run?" Su Hao whispered curiously.
"Yes," Bai Jin paused and added, "A lot."
There are so many flowers that can run in the Western fantasy world.
Not to mention that there are many more species that look like flowers but are actually animals, species that look like flowers but are actually some kind of magical race, and species that look like flowers but are actually the manifestation of certain elements gathered under specific circumstances.
In short, there are so many kinds of flowers that they can be summarized as "flowers that can run". There are too many that meet the criteria.
"So where do you think Xiaohong is now?" Yun Guang asked gently, "Are there any places you want to investigate?"
The child was silent for a while: "I don't know."
"I don't know where Xiaohong will go!" he added hastily, "but it can't survive out there!"
"Hmm..." Yun Guang thought, "Do you have any items related to Xiao Hong at home that can help us guess where Xiao Hong went?"
"It has its flowerpot!" The child pondered for a long time, and suddenly said happily, "I saw Xiao Hong running away, so I hid the flowerpot! My father doesn't know that the flowerpot is with me!"
"The flower pot...it doesn't look like an animal." Xu Zichen muttered.
So that’s the “flower” that needs soil to grow?
"Where is your home?" Guan Hongyan asked.
"I know the way!" The child stood up eagerly, "I'll show you the way!"
Since the child knows the way, just follow him.
Everyone nodded and followed the child towards Cyril City.
There was a child sitting on Tuo Yunguang's shoulder. Although there were many players on the streets of Cyril City along the way, no one paid any attention to them.
The child hugged Yun Guang's neck while pointing the way, avoiding Bai Jinshu's sight uncomfortably and looking very afraid of him.
The strange thing is that as I followed this kid, for some reason, more and more players appeared around me.
"Why are there more and more players?" Guan Hongyan lowered her voice, "Could this kid's home be at the city gate?"
They had just come out of there.
"No," Yun Guang shook his head, "the direction is different."
This direction is not the direction of the city gate.
"Then why are there so many players..." Xu Zichen looked around and lowered his voice, "Could this kid also be a player?"
"The players are nowhere near the size of children..." Guan Hongyan said bluntly.
With this body type, he can't even be considered a shota. He must be five years old at most, no more.
This kid must be n.pc.
Even if you ask him why there are more and more players as time goes by, n.pc doesn't know what a "player" is.
As the concentration of players increased sharply, everyone stopped whispering about the players' problems and instead kept their heads down and walked forward in silence, pretending to be the common passers-by in the game who had no name or information.
Following the path pointed by the child, everyone finally stopped in front of a majestic-looking gate.
"This is it!" The child pointed to the front, "My home is right here!"
"Knight Academy..." Bai Jinshu glanced at the words written on the gate, then looked at the players around him who were carrying swords and shields.
This kid who came to them for no apparent reason to issue a commission actually lived in the knight's professional mission location.
Then will his parents be related to the n.pc in this scene?
The author has something to say:
There are too many player IDs collected before and they can’t be used up (weak)
Save it for use as a netizen ID in future copies (Cheerful)
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