"...I don't quite understand what you two mean, but." The young man in a business suit, with neatly combed short hair and a clean-looking face paused and continued, "It is clearly stated in the contract that my company will rent your sect's talisman paper for two months before it expires."
"During this period, you have no right to take back the talisman paper unless you are willing to compensate our company for a high penalty for breach of contract."
The middle-aged man in a Taoist robe, with long hair tied up and a goatee turned his head and looked at the young man in silver-white metallic clothes, and said with some difficulty: "This... mainly because this talisman... its function is problematic."
"Are you talking about the so-called summoning of spirits and gathering of evil spirits that you just mentioned?"
"Yes, this is no small problem. If something serious happens..."
"Pfft..." The young man in a professional suit couldn't help laughing, interrupting the middle-aged man's words, and then quickly apologized: "Ah, sorry, I couldn't help it for a moment."
"In fact, my company rented your sect's talisman paper just as a small publicity gimmick. We didn't really expect it to play any role. After all, this is the modern era."
The young man looked down at the shiny silver watch on his wrist and said, "I still have some things to deal with, so I won't sit with you. Sorry, please make yourself at home."
"Tsk, still looking at the watch? What era is this? Who still uses a watch..." After the young man stood up, the apprentice sitting behind the middle-aged man muttered in dissatisfaction.
The young man paused before turning back and said, "Excuse me, this is the latest product developed by Feisuoyuan Company. It simplifies and compresses the hardware of the intelligent computer to the minimum, puts it in a watch, and can be carried with you. Of course, the meaning of this watch is greater than its practical value."
After saying this, the young man left with a smile.
"Master, what's the point of what he said? Is it more powerful than compressing the hardware of the intelligent computer so small?"
The middle-aged man stood up and turned back to glare at him.
"Of course it's a symbol of status. Shame on you!"
"Let's go! What are you doing here, waiting for someone to treat you to lunch?"
"That, that talisman..."
"If they don't believe it and don't want to take it down, what can I do? Now I can only hope that the effect of this talisman is that it will not decay or deteriorate for thousands of years."
"Eh? Master, you're not sure about the effect of the talisman paper?"
"How can I be sure? I just read a lot of books, but I haven't used any talismans."
"Master, you have never drawn anything useful, have you? I told you, those are just bluffs..."
"You little brat!"
The two gradually walked away.
………
The tavern is ancient and has a faint aroma of wine, and is filled with square wooden tables and chairs.
"Fight! Go ahead! Throw the wine jug at them!"
"I'm going to teach you a lesson today! I'm going to kill you all and send you back to the Novice Village!"
"Beat you bastards to death!"
"Ah! How dare you throw a dish at me!"
Accompanied by a chaotic sound of tables, chairs, swords, bowls and dishes colliding and knocking, two groups of people in the tavern were fighting fiercely.
They used tables, chairs, bowls and dishes as weapons and threw them at each other, and then they were chopped down by the other side with swords and shattered all over the ground.
There were players who were eating and drinking in the tavern, hiding behind the counter with the NPC shopkeeper and waiter in the tavern, sticking their heads out to watch, shaking their heads and commenting.
The player, dressed in a long gown and a hat, was holding a plate of braised meat and eating it with relish while watching.
"Bang!" A chair was thrown over and hit the counter hard.
The seven or eight heads at the counter immediately shrank back, and when they heard the chair stop on the counter, they stuck their heads out again to look around.
"Hey!! Why are you all stealing my braised meat!" The man holding the plate of braised meat was originally feeding the meat into his mouth while watching with relish, but unexpectedly he felt two hands in the plate.
The two players who were caught in the act retracted their hands and watched the melee outside as if nothing had happened.
"How long will they stop fighting? I have finished all the braised meat." Holding the empty plate of braised meat with a look of disappointment, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the NPC waiter squatting beside him.
"Hey, waiter." He squeezed over and nudged the waiter with his elbow. "Give me another plate of braised meat."
"Sir." The waiter turned around and said with a sad face, "In this situation, I really don't dare to go out. Please wait a moment."
"It's okay, just go quietly, they won't dare to hit you."
No one would attack a neutral NPC just because they are hungry. They will be captured by the NPC guards. Even if they cannot be captured for the time being, all main cities will be notified and the offending player will be captured.
"Sir," the waiter said with a sad face, "I really don't dare to go out in this situation. Please wait a moment."
The NPC shop waiter is just an ordinary NPC, speaking according to a few fixed procedures.
He looked at the plate in his hand with disappointment. The plate was glistening with oil, and although there was not a piece of meat left, it still exuded the aroma of braised meat.
Suddenly, a group of NPC guards wearing red clothes, silver armor, silver helmets and holding standard weapons in their hands ran in from outside the open door of the tavern.
As soon as they came in, they surrounded the two groups of people who were fighting fiercely.
"Stop it! Put your hands on your head and squat on the ground!" the leading guard shouted loudly.
The players who were in a fierce battle ignored each other and beat each other until their heads were bleeding. Some players were even left with only skin and blood.
Luo Zheyu, who was mixed in with a group of NPC guards, looked around, walked to the door of the tavern, closed the doors on both sides, and put on the wooden bolts.
No one can escape.
Next, the NPC guards started with courtesy and then force, and started beating the players with weapons. The players were completely unable to fight against the NPC guards and were beaten so badly that they screamed and ran away. The door had been closed and they were trapped. They could not beat the NPC guards and now had nowhere to escape.
Soon, a group of players who participated in the fight had their weapons confiscated and stood in a row obediently.
Of course there are some who are undisciplined, but what troublemakers can't be dealt with by a beating? If there is, then give them two beatings.
One player was so angry that he turned into a streak of white light and went offline.
"...a total of five tables, eighteen chairs, and thirty-two bowls and plates were destroyed. In addition to the guests who were frightened away, the total loss is eight hundred taels of silver. There are eighteen people here, and each person must pay forty-five taels of silver."
The leading NPC guard read out loudly.
The players standing in a row in front of him suddenly began to sweat on their foreheads.
The game "Jiang Hu Xia Yi" has only been launched for about two months, but it has already shown its essential characteristic of burning money. Everything from walking, sitting, lying down, food, clothing, housing and transportation costs money.
Poor players said they had no money, and even if they had money they couldn't use it this way.
I just don't believe these NPCs can really do anything to them.
The NPC guards who couldn't do anything to the players took out a long rope, tied up the players' hands one by one, strung them together, and dragged them to the street.
Just like the prisoners tied together in ancient times.
The players were immediately excited and protested resolutely.
The NPC guards had to cut the rope in the middle and tie them up separately.
Then, the NPC guards drove a group of tied-up players through the streets.
As more and more players gathered to watch along the way, the players who were tied up and escorted away finally understood what shame was.
I turned on the system button and wanted to escape, but found that "you cannot exit the game in the current state."
Stupid game, ruined my life!
When the tied-up players burst into tears and vowed to quit the game, the communication number of the developer of the game "Jiang Hu Xia Yi" was bombarded.
You must complain vigorously!
Fortunately, there are not many main streets to pass through, and the NPC guards escort the players to more and more remote places.
The road was littered with rocks, and the few listless plants and leaves were covered with thick black ash.
The "ding-dong" sound became louder and louder as we got closer.
"Damn...it's the mining area again..." One of the escorted players suddenly spoke up, his voice full of fatigue.
"What mining area? Have you been here?" asked the player next to him.
The others all looked sideways, curiously at the person who was speaking.
"...I was here this morning." The man swallowed his saliva, his eyes showing vicissitudes of life, and continued: "I was also brought here by a guard, but he is an intelligent NPC."
Hearing this, Luo Zheyu looked back, and his clear and sharp eyes happened to meet the gaze of the person who spoke.
It turned out that he was the only male player among the players who said that morning that they had no money to pay the entrance fee.
"Ah! He was brought here by that guard! So handsome!" The male player who spoke also recognized Luo Zheyu and pointed at him and shouted.
Other players: ...
You don’t have to say the last sentence.
Luo Zheyu raised the corner of his mouth slightly and replied: "Thank you for the compliment."
………
"…Strange, why is it so gray? It wasn't like this in the morning…"
"What a thick fog! This place is too eerie, could it be some hidden dungeon?"
"Look! Red-named NPC!"
"…I made a profit, this must be a hidden copy!"
After untying the players and watching them walk down the mine, Luo Zheyu originally turned around and left with the NPC guards, but he faintly heard the conversations of the players in the underground mine.
Red-named NPC...
In "Jianghu Xiayi", intelligent NPCs have a certain degree of intelligence and autonomy, and will kill players or other NPCs for various reasons. After that, the intelligent NPC will become a red name just like when a player kills someone.
Except for some special plot NPCs and government soldiers.
Luo Zheyu paused, left the guard team, turned around and walked towards the mining area.
"These red-named NPCs are so fragile, they can be killed in just two hits..." A player holding an axe chopped at the red-named NPC dressed as a miner who was rushing towards him.
However, after two or three hits, the red-named NPC dressed as a miner fell straight to the ground and appeared as a corpse.
When they were brought to the mining area, the NPC guards had already returned the confiscated weapons to them.
The same thing happened to the rest of the players. Soon, seven or eight miners suddenly jumped out from the black and gray fog and their bodies lay on the ground.
"Should we go in and take a look?" Someone pointed at the black and gray fog and asked the player next to him.
The fog was thick and billowing gently, enveloping everything behind the fog, making it impossible for anyone to peer inside.
"Who said you are us? You just threw a plate at me!" The player next to him glanced at him and immediately got furious.
"Yeah, who are we to you?"
"Who hit me on the head with a chair just now? I saw your face. Wait until I find you. You'll be in trouble!"
"It's you, kid!" As he said that, he raised his sword and stabbed forward.
As soon as one person started, the players immediately started fighting again.
"Stop fighting!"
"Stop fighting!"
A short player with a pale and frail appearance did not join the melee this time. Instead, he hid aside and shouted.
His surroundings made him uneasy.
"Fuck! What the hell is that!?"
"Don't try to trick me into turning back. Don't think I don't know you're trying to sneak attack me!"
"I'm kidding you! Anyone who attacks you at this time is a dog. Look!"
The player fighting him decided to trust him for once and looked back.
A face without skin, with eyeballs and teeth completely exposed, pitted and covered with flesh and blood, roared towards him——
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