Chapter 64 63 Rewards for the Brave and the Rescuers [360
Chapter 64 63.Rewards for the Brave and the Rescuers [360]
(Additional reward for brother ‘Tepal, the head of the novice village’ [3/5])
While Brother Woo Meow ran off to go solo, the other players weren’t idle either.
The various trash in the outer city was pretty much picked up, but the young players soon found new ways to delight themselves with their play.
For example, after completing Mrs. Tris’s 12-ring quest, they could take the opportunity of delivering wine to hear a lot of “gossip” about the outer city from Tris.
For example, which family is said to be hiding something powerful in their house, for example, a certain blacksmith store is very good at making certain special things, or the location of the base camp of the city gangs that used to dominate the outer city.
It was like some boring urban legend, but if you looked into it, it wasn’t hard to realize that Mrs. Tris’s tidbits of information actually hid important information.
These special areas that she mentioned were hidden very secretly, and if there were no locals to lead the way, it would be difficult for a small player to accurately find the location in the ruins of a city that had already changed beyond recognition.
But if a certain piece of truth was actually pieced together from the various details, then the rewards that could be gained would be very lucrative.
For example, yesterday afternoon!
The three of them in the student party, Bionic Snail, Goo Goo Chicken, and Badger, followed the instructions of Mrs. Trice’s tidbit of information and found a finely crafted-veteran-grade hunter’s ceremonial sidearm from the ruined cellar of an old local captain’s house.
It’s all over the forums like crazy.
Happy Stick and his base have been busy with this for the past two days as well.
They traded wine for information from Tris, and ran to the survivor camp to ask around, and they really found a place that might have tons of good stuff.
It was in some abandoned passageway down from the seventh sewer entrance in the outer city.
It was said that there was once a secret stronghold of the gangs in the outer city, and it was suspected that there was a gangster’s treasure trove inside, and there was also a large blacksmith store not far away from there.
So if they were lucky they could get a large sum of money to use as the team’s start-up capital, and Maxim also gave them the task of bringing back the blacksmith store’s equipment somehow.
This was definitely a good opportunity not to be missed for Happy Stick, who was in a hurry right now.
The reason why Stick was in a hurry and on fire was very realistic.
No money!
Mainly, he also didn’t expect the thirteen friends he recommended in one breath to actually enter the game in the same batch, and in addition to the five who hung up and waited to be resurrected because of recklessness and bad luck, he now had eight owers under his command to feed.
The ammo consumption of these assholes every time they went out was a huge burden, and it was hard to meet their daily needs by scavenging alone.
Desperately in need of extra money, Stick is a righteous man, and for the sake of his brothers’ rations had to take a risk, choosing to head to the only place in the outer city that hadn’t been explored on a large scale yet.
That is, the sewer area.
According to the descriptions of the local residents, the city’s sewer area was well-connected and hid a lot of dark and dangerous things, of course, compared to the disasters brought about by the Star Realm Rift, those things were far from being dangerous.
This exploration was also in Murphy’s plan.
He arranged the “Great Burning” program for this evening, ready to officially wrap up this special event that lasted seven days.
However, before releasing the next main quest to the small players, he still had one more important thing to do.
“Swish.”
As the blood-colored bat wings closed, Lady Adele’s figure landed precisely in front of Murphy.
She placed her hands iteratively on her abdomen and whispered to her honored elder:
“The life breath of the last native has disappeared from the ruins of the outer city, the location is near that sewer that your servants went to explore.
In three days, they brought over 460 people back to earth from this land of despair in a relay style of non-stop searching, and by all accounts, your servants are indeed true warriors.”
“They always have been, and I never doubted it.”
Murphy was quite satisfied with the result.
Although he wasn’t able to save everyone trapped in the depths of the ruins, he had seen the efforts of the small players, their search over the three days had more than doubled the number of people in the survivor camps, and the survivors who had been rescued from despair were thankful to these warriors who spoke a foreign language.
Along with that, the vampire Lord Murphy’s image in their mouths had turned very positive.
This was exactly what Murphy wanted to see.
The first step of collecting people’s hearts has been perfectly demonstrated, so that he can smoothly start the second step of the promotion, as a decisive role in which the small players must be ruthlessly rewarded!
Especially the first five small players who triggered this “hidden mission”.
Thinking of this, Murphy decided to go to the forums to explore, he instructed Mrs. Adele who was waiting for orders:
“You and Missy get ready, at dusk we will go to the underground ‘Serenade’ secret place and transport the three underground hubs out of the ruins.”
“As you command, Master Murphy.”
Lady Adele took two steps back and spread her batwings to fly into the sky, disappearing into the dim light.
This silent half-elf bloodblood was truly fond of flying, and after becoming a vampire, Murphy had never seen her treading on her feet.
As long as there were conditions, she would definitely choose to fly.
“Strange fetish.”
The rookie vampire venerable who hadn’t been able to grow wings yet spat sourly, then found a place to sit down and called out the forum interface to skillfully dive into the game group and start peeking at the screen.
Since the active login function of the game was opened, the time for players to go online also became fixed, they would all choose to enter the game at the moment when day and night met, so as not to miss the vampire NPCs’ activity time, and also be able to get a few quests from the humans in the survivor camp.
And this time the only ones who hadn’t come online yet, apart from Lumina who had a different time difference, were the five small players who had just come online yesterday and had ended up in the hands of the Despair Derivatives.
A few of them were chatting away in the group.
Instead of participating in it, Murphy tapped on Lumina’s private chat and sent a message over:
Alpha: [Just now the system background showed that the large hidden quest you guys triggered was completed, the development team is quite satisfied with the result, to be honest, they didn’t even think it would be triggered so quickly when they designed this hidden quest, so they only left a placeholder when designing the quest reward.
They’ve sent me here to ask you guys if there’s anything in particular you want.
As the first player in the game to trigger a large plot-type hidden mission, the development team can give you a small ‘egg’ to commemorate your outstanding performance.
This kind of ‘customized reward’ is a rare opportunity, so think hard about it, oh.]
Lumina-Yang Scar: [Wow, is there such a thing? But this is considered a serious work error, isn’t it? Will the development team get their pay docked? Squinty-eyed grin.jpg] Alpha: [Wiping sweat.jpg, can’t help it, the development team is a bit heavy tasked, thanks to your activity a lot of bugs that weren’t found during the previous internal testing have been found in a steady stream, but it’s normal to have a bit of negligence under this kind of work intensity.
Just don’t say anything with your big mouth.
Lumina-Yang Scar: [Hmph, so this is the legendary ‘hush money’? Then can I make some excessive demands, like teleporting my character to the elves’ territory . I found a book of fairy tales in the ruins yesterday, and after the player interface translated it I confirmed that there are elves in the game, right?”]
Alpha: [Yes, there are, the Castilian elves are a pretty powerful force in the background, but that advanced map is thousands of kilometers away from Transylvania, the “newbie zone”, so it’s not ready yet, it’s basically a folder that’s just been created.
Let’s be realistic for a change, do you like elves?
Lumina Yang: [Hey, Hairy! Just look at my game ID, right? I always choose elves in all my games, but it’s a shame that I can’t pinch faces at the start of this game.
But let me guess, the devs didn’t just give us five ‘customized rewards’ to commemorate this big hidden mission, did they?
I guess, the development team is trying to use the excellent rewards to guide the current players to change their thinking about the game a little bit, so that they will be more active to look for these details that they have carefully designed to exist between the lines to promote the game process?
Alpha: [Hmm? What makes you think that? Tell me about it.]
Lumina Yang Trace: [It’s simple, I realized that as much as Brother Woo Meow and the others are into it, they’re actually still fooling around in Real Otherworld with a traditional gaming mindset.
For example, that gangster sewer camp they’re going to explore today, no exaggeration, I actually found out about ow on the first night.
Newspapers scattered around the city occasionally report on that place, and if they’d paid attention to those everywhere while scavenging, they wouldn’t have had to serve Mrs. Trish’s insatiable, pretty drunken ass in order to get the key information.
What they’re doing is clearly that ‘NPCs drive the plot’ idea in traditional games, and while they look diligent in their actions, they can’t hide the laziness ow their thinking!
This game is done very, very realistically.
It’s following the underlying logic of how a real world works in constructing the game world, and I’m getting the feeling now that if I want to really play and understand this game, I can’t treat it as a ‘fake world’!
Hehehe, Fat, am I right?]
Alpha: [You’re quite the little wit, I recognize that you’re right about everything, but officially we don’t do this kind of explicit guidance, we don’t want to teach players to play the game.
We also don’t have the power to deprive players of the pleasure of exploring the ‘new world’.
So, you confirmed that what you want is an elf-related item reward, right?
It looks like the development team is going to have a headache, the Transylvania region has never been related to elves in the background, but let’s leave that to the development team’s headache, I’ll just pass the word.
You contact the other four people offline as soon as possible, then summarize the rewards you want and give them to me, and the development team will try to meet them.
Lastly, I emphasize that this matter must be kept a secret, oh…]
Lumina Yang Trace: [OK, leave it to me. emmmm, Fat, when’s the next time we’re going to send out invitation codes? I’ve just talked two friends into it, they’re both pretty awesome guys oh.
The kind that are much smarter than me.]
Alpha: [Let them fill out the application and go for internal recommendation, they will be prioritized next time when recruiting testers, I can’t give you a specific time, the test plan will be fine-tuned depending on how fast the plot advances at the moment.
So if you guys want more buddies to play with, you can’t afford to be lazy in the testing part of the game.
Ending the forum exchange with Lumina, Murphy got up in place, casually drew the swift sword at his waist and swung it forward, and under the unique spectral pace enhancement, the whole person strangely slid forward for a few steps, and then sheathed the sword again in a dashing manner.
Like elves?
Don’t you see it’s a coincidence?
I have a set of secret swordsmanship from the Shadow Elf Mejva family waiting to be taught, and perhaps the secret of Mrs. Adele’s bloodline is a “hidden mission” that Lumina can take forward.
I don’t think that “elf-controller” will say no, right?
That said, shouldn’t he recruit more deep roleplayers like Lumina? These RP players might be the most suitable group of people for the current situation in Transylvania.
About half an hour later, Murphy, who was wandering through the ruins of the city in search of astral beasts to hunt and kill in order to practice his Catacomb Sword Guards swordplay, stopped in his tracks, and received a reply from Lumina in a private message on the forums.
Clicking on it, he realized that the other four guys’ ideas weren’t as pie-in-the-sky as hers.
Ring Rush and Black Silk Brother were very realistic, wanting skill handbooks or weapons and equipment that could enhance their characters’ strength.
Dirt Truck and Shovel, the two middle-aged guys, had no pursuits in this regard, and not looking for strength, they looked like they had already immersed themselves into the management of the camp, enjoying the fun of directing hundreds of people to work in the game.
What they wanted was some tools that could help the camp quickly regain its productivity.
“What a plain and simple request, what good players! Look, they don’t even want money where to find such good labor.”
Murphy sighed.
He took out the map from his psychic energy pack and scanned it, then changed direction and brought his Star Realm Giant Wolf towards the other direction of the ruins.
There was a store alley there that specialized in selling various farming tools and seeds, where he was sure to find what the two elder brothers wanted.
As for weaponry and skill books, they were even better to get.
Ring Chong is a double sword swordsman, black silk brother is a big sword swordsman, give him two blood vulture sword art proficiency manual plus warehouse guard series of fine weapons can be fixed, blood vulture sword art this thing is not high grade but is the basis of the blood vulture clan’s physical occupation system, is not everywhere in the street goods.
At this stage, the mastery manual to raise the skill limit can only be obtained through Maxim’s “Trial of Strength”, the entire game only pomegranate sister stuck a bug to get a copy of the book, is really in short supply.
According to the current “upgrading” speed of the small players, at the end of this special event two days later, the most talented group will probably reach level 8 or so, which is just one last shiver away from triggering the Black Iron Trial.
The growth speed of the young players really made Murphy feel surprised.
If it wasn’t for the game time limit, the speed of these tireless guys would only be faster.
He knew that he had to speed up and take care of his power trials first, a mainline NPC that couldn’t stay one step ahead of the players would be disliked, but how easy was it to find a black iron ranked enemy with blood in the current Cadman city ah?
Those witch hunters might be ideal targets, but they had a gold ranked white knight to protect them, unless Tris regained her strength overnight, for the sake of his own life, Murphy still had to play it safe.
It doesn’t matter!
Slower is slower.
I don’t have a game time limit, so walking slowly is not a problem, as long as I walk steadily enough. You can’t afford to fall down now that you’re starting your career.
Travel to different dimensional worlds, acquire different modules, and utilize the modules with their own characteristics to combine them into different skill sets, thus DIYing your own extraordinary skills.
As a result, Lupo was picked up 77 years after his death and started his own traveler’s journey.
The book “Death Compensation” is waiting for you to read!
(End of chapter)