Novice village.
Blue sky and white clouds, lush grass, and thatched cottages.
Although two months have passed since the game was launched, the Novice Village is still very popular. Amid the bustling crowds, players of all kinds wearing novice uniforms are flocking in.
"Ah..." The young man squatting under the eaves of the thatched hut sighed. He looked somewhat similar to the young man in silver-white metallic clothing, and his expressions were exactly the same, but his face was much more delicate and handsome.
"Master... there are so many people here, and we can't get any monsters. When can we leave the Novice Village?"
Next to him was a middle-aged man with a goatee, his hands behind his back, standing straight, with a sage-like look on his face.
"Master, I don't know. My disciple, go and grab the monsters. We need to get out of this novice area as soon as possible to investigate the situation here."
The middle-aged man raised his head slightly, squinted his eyes, and said seriously.
"Master, please stop posing!"
These are the two people who went to ask for the talisman paper earlier. Their faces have changed slightly because the appearance can be adjusted by 15% in the game.
………
The two watched in silence as the pheasant needed for the novice mission was snatched away again.
"Disciple, there is a profession called power leveling."
"But power leveling is so expensive, Master!"
"Aren't you the fool who rented out the talisman to get the rent?"
"But I'm so poor, Master. Money can't be spent like this..."
"That's how you use money! Go find it!"
………
At night, the crescent moon hangs high in the sky.
Originally in the game, the night should be cool, peaceful and quiet at this time, creating a beautiful night scene so that players can be calm and enjoy the night view of "Jianghu Xiayi" in this environment.
It was noisy and chaotic at this time. Amid the clamor, NPC guards holding torches and lanterns and holding weapons kept passing by hurriedly.
"What's going on? Is there a new plot in the game?" A line of NPC guards passed by in a dusty manner. The player looked back at their backs and asked in confusion.
"Didn't you read the game announcement?"
"Just came online...what's going on?"
"In the main cities of each map, many red-named NPCs appeared and killed players for no reason. Wild beasts outside the city also ran into the city to attack players. The NPC guards of Jianghu Xiayi are short of manpower, so players are summoned to the government office to sign up for the activity of encircling and suppressing red-named NPCs."
“What kind of plot is this…” The player was confused.
"I don't know, do you want to attend?"
"Of course I'll go! What's the reward?"
"Different contribution points will be awarded according to the level of the red-named NPC. Contribution points can be exchanged for suits..."
………
Following the guidance data of the red-named NPC with the shortest coordinate distance in the body, Luo Zheyu ran in front of the NPC guards and headed towards the coordinates of the red-named NPC.
The silver armor collided with each other as they ran, making a dull sound.
Gradually, the distance between him and the NPC guards behind him was getting farther and farther.
The coordinates are in a two-story inn.
The door was half open. There were no lights on in the lobby of the inn, only a little moonlight came in through the door.
“Squeak…”
Luo Zheyu stretched out his hand and pushed open the door.
There is a figure standing in the lobby.
The black figure could not be seen clearly, leaning on the stairs leading to the second floor, motionless.
In the darkness, it was impossible to tell whether the other person was looking somewhere else or staring at Luo Zheyu who walked in from the gate.
It should have been a somewhat eerie and mysterious scene, but the atmosphere was ruined by the name hanging high above the black figure's head.
"The innkeeper's wife Fan Yao."
The font color is dark red, and it seems that many players or NPCs have been killed.
Luo Zheyu looked down and saw the bodies of players and NPCs piled up in the darkness, with blood still flowing out from under them.
The data shows that the fastest player will be resurrected in one minute and will choose to be resurrected on the spot.
He stomped hard on the floor in the lobby of the inn, flew into the air, and leaped towards the red-named NPC "Innkeeper Fan Yao" who was leaning on the stairs. While in mid-air, he placed his right hand on the hilt of the knife at his waist and pulled it out suddenly.
The blade tilted and chopped down at "Innkeeper Fan Yao".
"The innkeeper's wife Fan Yao" raised her head stiffly, her hair full of hairpins and pearls shaking. She had no expression on her face, her eyes were dull, and she swung out her weapon - a long whip - with stiff movements.
“Bang!”
The tail of the whip wrapped around the long sword that was chopped from the air, making a sound of breaking through the air.
The long whip wrapped around the tip of the knife several times, and "Innkeeper Fan Yao" stretched out her hand to tighten the long whip, and the long knife in Luo Zheyu's hand deviated a few points and could not hit her.
It seems that the original setting of this NPC was not an ordinary innkeeper, but most likely a martial artist hiding here.
Instead, the resentful spirit attached to it took advantage of it.
But the NPC guards who maintain public security in the entire virtual online game are extremely strong, not to mention that the guard in front of him has human consciousness.
The long sword slashed at the red-named NPC intensively. As the two fought, there was a sound of weapons colliding like rain hitting a pipa. In the dim environment, afterimages of weapons flashed by. In just a few seconds, dozens of moves had been exchanged.
The movement suddenly stopped and the entire inn fell silent.
The sword was sheathed, and the blade made a clanging sound.
The body of the red-named NPC "Innkeeper Lady Fan Yao" was lying in a pool of blood.
A faint shadow floated up from the body of the red-named NPC, ready to look for the next existence to attach itself to.
His sharp eyes moved slightly, and Luo Zheyu flicked his fingers. A faint and tiny flame, as if it could be extinguished by the wind at any time, appeared out of thin air and floated towards the shadow in the air.
The seemingly shaky and unstable swing was actually extremely fast. As soon as the flame touched the shadow in the air, it made a loud bang and burned into a huge flame, surrounding it and burning violently.
With a shrill scream, the shadow disappeared.
Luo Zheyu raised his head and raised his slender fingers slightly. The flame, which had become much stronger, floated back and disappeared in his palm.
Just at this moment, a white light flashed in the lobby of the inn, and a player was resurrected, with a resentful look on his face and cursing.
It seemed that he just came to the inn to stay overnight and wanted to relieve his character's fatigue, but he was unexpectedly killed by the NPC in the inn, and thus lost a level.
Luo Zheyu looked at the aura around him that was closely connected with the ghost energy, and his eyes couldn't help but darken.
This method of killing red-named NPCs one by one and then devouring the vengeful ghosts with fire is too slow compared to the development speed of the vengeful ghosts.
More and more players are surrounded by ghost energy.
Killing red-named monsters by other players or NPCs is only a temporary solution, and the resentful ghosts attached to them will not change due to the "death" of the attached data.
It is just a matter of breaking away from the "dead" data and finding a new attachment.
He needed a faster and more effective way to deal with the resentful ghosts and the evil spirits around the players.
In the inn, players were resurrected one after another. Amid the noisy background, Luo Zheyu frowned and pondered for a while.
By the way, I chopped down the player who came to provoke me. I don’t know what he was thinking.
The player's brain was probably not working very well. After resurrection, his health bar was only half, and he dared to come forward to provoke before fully recovering. Luo Zheyu accidentally emptied his health bar with a single knife, and he immediately fell face down on the ground in a spread-eagle position.
The rest of the players fell silent.
Don't mess with them. It hurts so much to be hacked to death, and leveling up isn't easy either.
………
"Our department's communication number has been bombarded by players. Have you still not detected any problems?"
"The only problem is that some NPCs and monsters don't act according to the program, but the data itself is very normal. It's useless to forcibly modify the program again... Apart from this, no other loopholes have been detected."
“What feedback have the in-game testers given?”
“…The problems encountered are the same as those players.”
“There really was a huge hole that we couldn’t detect.”
"Could there be a problem with the intelligent brain?"
"No way... There are rarely any problems with the intelligent brain. We have checked it..."
"That……"
"The Director..."
The people who were talking suddenly fell silent.
In this situation, submitting work reports is extremely difficult.
But someone has to inform the superiors of all the progress.
"Our department is only responsible for direct contact with players, and we have no control over this."
“…”
"Hey, Xiao Wu, you were the one who handed in the report yesterday, right? You should finish everything from beginning to end. You should hand this report to the director."
“???” The young man called Xiao Wu had a face full of question marks and felt very nervous.
"No, no... Ouch, my stomach hurts! I'm going to the bathroom. I might have diarrhea. I need to stay there for a while. You don't have to wait for me!" Xiao Wu held his stomach with a painful look on his face. He shouted at several people and slipped away.
Although the director looks friendly, he is still the boss. It is not good for him to report such difficult and obviously critical reports twice in a row.
The remaining few people looked at each other and pushed a report back and forth in their hands.
………
In ancient times, where was the highest place in a city?
There is no need to worry about other places. The highest point of the city where Luo Zheyu is located is the city wall above the city gate.
He was standing on top of the city wall at this time. There were only one or two NPC guards left guarding the city. The rest were summoned by the system to hunt down the red-named NPCs and wild monsters that broke into the city.
He held the huge black sickle in his hand and looked at it carefully in front of his eyes.
A huge flame wrapped around the sickle, and without any fuel, it still burned fiercely.
What he had to do was to separate these flames and let them scatter in different directions.
The only time he had used the flame on the sickle was when he was dealing with Xie Jue, and he had manipulated two clusters of it at the same time.
Now they need to be divided into more.
For a moment, I felt like I had no idea where to start.
Thinking of the flame that popped out between his fingers when he had the idea just now, Luo Zheyu was about to put away the sickle when he suddenly saw a brown bear tied to the handle.
The pair of dark red round eyes looked at him.
The slender and clean index finger stretched out and poked the brown bear's round belly.
I don’t know what’s happening to those people who left the amusement park now.
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