Chapter 73
The five players stopped for a moment at the same time and looked at each other.
They are not agents from the same civilization. Three of the five have backgrounds in different forces, and those forces are not in the same galaxy. They are competing civilizations. Under this premise, they formed a temporary team because of their tacit understanding of personality and combat rhythm to explore the wilderness together.
After all, the Blue Star region is now jokingly called the "Agent Base Camp" by many civilizations in the Star Alliance, and ordinary players without any power background are rare.
Because of his high ranking on the lords' list and because he made big news time and time again, Bai Ye did not remain silent in the myriad worlds after his dialogue with the All-Star Alliance. Instead, he attracted the attention of the entire universe.
In this case, the number of agents on Blue Star has not decreased over time, but has tended to increase.
After changing jobs, the first thing most players on Blue Star do is to start exploring the wilderness, with the goal of finding the legendary White Night Village.
At this time, when the first five-member team actually arrived at Baiye Village, they all had a dreamlike and unreal feeling.
And as they walked along the dirt road and into the territory, this sense of unreality became even stronger.
You call this a village?
Compared with the NPC villages they had seen, Baiye Village not only covered a large area, but also had very complete buildings and facilities.
NPC villages cannot upgrade to so many and such complete technologies like Ye Bai can, and now Baiye Village is close to upgrading to a fourth-level territory. Various configurations have been built, and the only thing missing is the next batch of population.
The steaming smelter, the humming sawmill, the brewery emitting the aroma of wine, the fields with green buds in the distance... The five players who have seen the main city are now observing the veritable "first territory" in the entire game with curiosity, just like Liu Laolao entering the Grand View Garden.
Of course, there are limits to what they can see.
Originally, they saw the military area of Baiye Village surrounded by wooden fences. The five of them peeked in and wanted to observe it because they faintly heard the sound of "Lu Lu" coming from inside, as if some creature was being kept inside.
However, the next moment I received a system prompt:
[You have entered the territory's warning area, which may cause unknown consequences. Do you want to continue? ]
At the same time, a shout came from an arrow tower above their heads:
"Outsiders, you are not allowed to enter here, leave immediately!"
As he spoke, the guard in the arrow tower had already aimed a crossbow with a cold glow in his hand at them.
The five people immediately took a step back. This was a habit they developed in the NPC town. When they came to their senses, they found that this choice was not wrong. Bai Ye was the first big guy to reach level 20. They didn't know what level he was now. He was definitely not someone they could afford to provoke.
The last person who was suspected of provoking Bai Ye was not only killed, but also had all the items and equipment on him blown away.
Knowing that players might come, Ye Bai was certainly not unprepared. She set up several important production buildings in the Tree of Creation, military area, mining area, agricultural area and industrial area as warning areas, and took advantage of the fact that the Well of Origin could be superimposed with other buildings to completely block it by building a residential building.
The warning area can be set within the current 1000-meter control range of the Tree of Creation. When a non-territorial player trespasses, the lord, the intruder, and the guards deployed nearby will be notified. If they continue to trespass, it is equivalent to declaring war, and the player who is killed will also have all his equipment dropped.
If the player can be captured alive, the lord player can even put the player into the prison of the territory - but at present Ye Bai can only kill the intruder, because the prison requires the technology of the fourth level of the territory.
The five people continued to go deeper into Baiye Village, and they also took screenshots of the territory's scenery as much as possible.
StarNet games can take screenshots but cannot record, and each screenshot requires an interval of about three minutes. In essence, it is not a built-in function of the game, but a technology that converts the information obtained by the player's eyes into a similar picture.
Because the five people could not enter the core area, they could only capture the prosperous scene of Baiye Village.
As the five people wandered around Baiye Village for half a day, they did not meet the mysterious lord Baiye. The villagers, like the residents of ordinary NPC towns, had a neutral attitude towards them and continued to do their own things. No one paid attention to them.
But the five people soon discovered that there was not a single player in Baiye Village!
"Bai Ye Village, was it actually built without any help from players..."
One of the five players murmured, and the four people next to him also showed the same shock, and the image of Bai Ye in their hearts was shrouded in a layer of legendary color.
Before they knew it, the five of them had arrived near the residential area of Baiye Village.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, a player exclaimed in surprise. In a flower bed that was obviously used for decoration, he actually saw several clusters of rare magical herbs [Ice Nettle].
As a player near the magical capital of Melo City, he clearly remembered collecting this thing and selling it to NPCs. Each plant could fetch 50 copper coins. With the clusters here, he could probably collect 5 or 6 plants, which would be 2 to 3 silver coins! That's a huge sum!
The player glanced around and saw his companions looking for angles to take photos. The nearest villagers were a group of drunks drinking and chatting about five meters away.
So he immediately approached the flower bed and prepared to pick the ice nettle.
In Melo City, as long as you don't go too far, no one will care if you pick some flowers from the flower garden. There are also many naughty NPC children who will pick flowers. As long as you don't destroy the flower garden and don't pick them in front of the patrol personnel, it's fine.
However, just as the player's hand touched the ice nettle, he heard someone shouting nearby:
“Catch the thief!!”
"ah?!"
Not only the player who picked the flowers, but also the other four players next to him were stunned by this. Then they saw a group of drunkards who were chatting not far away rushed up and pinned them to the ground in the blink of an eye.
The five people subconsciously wanted to resist, but they immediately saw the blood bars above these people's heads.
They were all combat professionals above level 20, and what made them even more unsure was the identity of [Lord's Personal Guards] on the health bars of these men and women who looked tough.
"We didn't steal anything!"
Because they were only suppressed and not attacked, the unsure players could only start to make excuses immediately.
"You said you didn't steal, what is this?!"
Blaise, the captain of the White Night Village lord's personal guard, raised the hand of the player who had wanted to pick the ice nettles before, and took out half a leaf of the ice nettles from it.
"I, I...I don't have any!"
The player who was caught was confused. He remembered that he just touched the leaf and didn't have time to pick it. Could it be that he accidentally pulled it off?
"The evidence is all here. Baiye Village does not welcome thieves. You pay me and get out!" Blaise shouted angrily.
[Bai Ye Village's favorable impression towards you -20, current faction favorable impression: cold (-20)]
Five people received this reminder at the same time.
All players who have experienced the 'tourist period' know what it's like to have a cold relationship with a faction: trade is closed, tasks are scarce, and it's difficult to grow goodwill.
"Ice and Fire! What are you doing?!"
"This is his own doing, it has nothing to do with us!"
The other four people immediately started explaining and at the same time distanced themselves from the player who had picked the flowers earlier.
However, the lord's guards obviously didn't believe it: "Everyone saw it, you are together."
"I saw it too. These outsiders came into the village together."
At this time, the villagers who saw the commotion gathered around and echoed in unison.
Just when the five players felt they had no way to defend themselves and were hesitant to attack due to concerns about Baiye Village's favorability, a gentle voice came:
"What's wrong? What happened?"
The surrounding villagers immediately split into two paths, respectfully greeting the direction of the sound:
"Hello, Lord!"
"Greetings, Lord!"
Lord?
The five people who were still struggling were all stunned - wasn't that the legendary Bai Ye? !
As the crowd separated, the five people saw the true face of this mysterious boss.
As rumored, Bai Ye's image is a female - at least it seems so. There are also a small number of hermaphroditic or genderless races in Interstellar. She is wearing advanced equipment whose level they cannot tell. Whether it is her face, hairstyle, or body shape, they are all the most standard initial templates in the game.
"My lord, these are a group of thieves..." Blaise stepped forward to answer Ye Bai's question.
The five people finally reacted and immediately began to explain in a flustered manner: "Sir Bai Ye! We really don't mean any harm!"
After listening to them patiently, Ye Bai nodded and said, "Of course I believe you have no ill intentions, but... you also know that the goodwill of the territory is not decided by me alone."
"Ah..." Looking at the villagers around them who were eyeing them covetously, the five people felt as if their hope had just risen and then been shattered.
Suddenly, Ye Bai seemed to have thought of something. She hammered her palm and suggested, "How about you buy some things in my territory to increase your favorability?"
It was not until the five of them were brought to the territory's market by Ye Bai and a group of villagers that they suddenly felt—
Why does this direction seem a bit wrong?
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