Chapter 11: The Brocade Building
Sun Yimin opened his backpack and found a mount icon called "Fog Horse" in one of the slots. He right-clicked to use it, and in an instant his character "Grinding Steamed Buns" rode on a batch of jujube red horses. He drove the horse's hooves lightly and strolled through the streets of Chang'an City.
Regarding the role of the mount: This game item can increase the walking speed, and that's it, you can't fight on the mount and do other actions. When not in use, the mount can be "folded" and placed in a carry-on package. You can summon it when you want to use it.
Of course, the function of the character wrap in the game world can be said to be a bit magical. It can not only hold small things such as pills and food, but also armor weapons and even "live horses". It can be said to be all-encompassing, all-encompassing. O(β©_β©)Oγ
The magic certainly doesn't stop there. Drunken Wind Moon is an ancient ideal world, where players play as immortals who do not eat fireworks in the world.
Since they are immortals, they are naturally not stumped by livelihood and food and clothing, and everyone lives a free and easy life as a fairy.
Sun Yimin read the game background story on the official website and learned that the reason why this is so is because there is an essential difference between immortals and humans. Although the immortals are similar in appearance to mortals, they do not have the tedious and filthy physical needs of eating, drinking, and lazing. Xianxia eats and drinks dew, wears the moon and wears xia, and naturally does not worry about food and clothing. Therefore, they are physically purer and more refined than mortals.
In addition to the purity of the body, the spirit of the immortal is also noble. Unlike the dirty emotional needs of mortals, the feelings between immortals and immortals are purely spiritual communication - in the online world, there is no physical contact between players.
This setting also made Sun Yimin feel psychologically comfortable, so his favorability for the game increased.
He turned his perspective with the mouse and carefully admired the scenery of this virtual world.
In the distance is the majestic and majestic main building of the imperial city, the city tower is green and beautiful, magnificent and magnificent. As a symbol of the supreme imperial power of Chang'an, it towers into the sky, proudly overlooking the countless rows of quaint houses and pavilions in Chang'an City below.
Although these residential buildings are not as luxurious as the former, they are also full of elegance and antiquity and architectural beauty. All the city buildings and flowers and trees are meticulously detailed, and they look so gorgeous and colorful under the 3D engine rendering that they are enough to be realistic. So much so that players in it have the illusion of traveling through time and returning to the prosperous Tang Dynasty of the New Century.
Players dressed in different styles of clothing and armor ride a variety of bizarre mounted mounts through the streets, and colorful clothes and mounts form a colorful river that slowly flows through the criss-crossed streets, looking extremely bustling and bustling.
Both sides of the street are lined with shops of all trades. Xiao Er, who stands at the door of the store, is actually a kind of computer character (NPC), which is used to trade some commonly used game daily necessities with players, as well as provide players with some basic game services, such as selling medicines, repairing equipment, teleporting, publishing and delivering tasks, etc.
The term NPC originally meant "non-player character" and refers to a functional computer character in a game that is not manipulated by the player. In a narrow sense, NPCs refer to computer tasks that provide basic services to the player. Broadly speaking, the monsters and bosses in the game also belong to
PC category.
A long staircase leads down to an open square. The square is filled with all kinds of stalls. Sun Yimin clicked on one of the booths and checked it, only to find that these booths were set up by gamers to sell or buy game virtual items. In fact, it's the equivalent of a player trading hub in the gaming world.
Sun Yimin stepped onto a small, delicately shaped stone arch bridge, and the guardrails on both sides of the bridge were filled with colorful flowers. Under the bridge is a turquoise and clear river, the water surface is full of lotus flowers that never wither, along the sound of bubbling water to the distance to see, but see the river at the end of the field of vision into a green lake at the foot of a green mountain.
Slowly find the lakeside along the bank of the river, only to see the reflection of the green mountains and clouds on the surface of the lake, two or three leaves of the flat boat floating on the reflection of the clouds at will, the place where the lake and the mountains reflect each other, it is a pair of couple players snuggling on the lakeside railing, whispering, it seems quiet and romantic.
Looking back, the green mountains in the distance are stacked, and Chang'an City has gradually submerged in the dense mountains, like an unreachable fairyland.
Open the game map and find that the name of this lake is very interesting, it is called "Fengyue Baojian". According to Liu Ronghua, this is the most popular couple tryst scene in the game world, which is commonly known as the "Lover's Lake" by players.
At this time, a dialog box suddenly popped up in the center of the screen: "[Yushu Spring Garden] invites you to join the gang [Jinlou], do you agree?" βγ
Sun Yimin secretly thought: The name of the gang is poetic and unique, which is in line with Liu Ronghua's romantic personality.
Sun Yimin couldn't help but ask curiously: "Gang, why do you want to join the gang?" Isn't it good to play alone? β
"It's hard for a lone ranger to survive in this game......" Liu Ronghua said.
"How?" Sun asked.
"In the real society, individuals can only better exert their strength through grouping, and only by relying on the organization can they be protected and give full play to their individual abilities. This is common sense! β
"That's right...... Sun Yimin nodded, and then asked, "How does this manifest itself in the game world?" β
"It's self-evident that you have to join a gang to get the protection of the organization. Secondly, it is more convenient to make friends in the gang and organize teams to challenge various dungeons and monsters. By completing the tasks released by the gang, you can earn more experience points and gold points, as well as gang contribution points. In addition, the gang will also regularly distribute welfare ......"
After a long speech, Sun Yimin seemed to understand it. Either way, it was the right thing to join the gang, so I pressed the confirm button.
A message appears in the information area at the bottom left of the game interface.
[System]: "Congratulations on becoming a member of the [Jinlou] Gang!" β
Sun Yimin looked at Liu Ronghua: "Where are you?" β
"You'll see me when you come to the Gang's territory."
"Where's the Gang Territory?"
"You go to the northwest corner of Chang'an, find the NPC Gang Administrator, and click to enter the Gang Territory."
Speaking of which, this gang territory is a special kind of game area, and each gang has such an area for gang members to gather and communicate.
The entrance to the Gang Territory is uniform for all Gangs - an NPC located in the northwest corner of Chang'an City, the Gang Administrator. However, members of different gangs can only enter their respective gang territories by clicking on NPCs. Only members of the same gang can be in the same clan's territory.
The internal structure of each gang's "gang territory" is similar, which is actually equivalent to a special kind of "dungeon scene". (More on the concept of replicas.) οΌ
Sun Yimin followed Liu Ronghua's prompt and entered the gang territory of the "Decoration Brocade Building".
There are caves in the interior of the territory, and the scenery is pleasant. In the center of the territory is a wide square, in the center of which grows a towering tree, and the huge canopy of the tree shimmers with a strange green light. Under the tree is a huge bronze tripod, which is constantly burning and emitting smoke.
The square is surrounded by large and small buildings and various NPC characters, such as "Council Hall", "Forge Factory", "Welfare Ambassador", "Commissary", "Repair Workshop" and so on.
In the distance, there are decorative scenes such as small bridges, flowing water, pavilions, pavilions, etc. In addition, there is a farm further away, and I don't know what to do with it.
At this time, there are some chat messages in the information bar at the bottom left of the screen.
The game's "info bar" is a kind of information display window. It is mainly used to display public chat messages posted by some players. Of course, every player can post information here. To put it bluntly, its role is like a QQ group.
The information bar is divided into several channels according to the range of information received: world channel, gang channel, nearby channel, party channel, friend channel and so on.
Among them, the information of the world channel can be seen by all players on the server. The content of the Gang Channel's information is only visible to Gang members. The team channel can only accept messages from members of the team. Messages from nearby channels can only be received if they are within a certain distance of the player who posted the message.
On top of that, the game interface has a separate "system information bar" located in the bottom right corner of the screen. As the name suggests, it is used to display some important information published by the system.
In addition, private messages between players are not displayed in the message bar, but in a dedicated dialog.
Sun Yimin switched the game information bar to the "Gang" channel, and then saw more information below.
[Yushu Spring Garden Flower]: "On behalf of all the members of the Jinlou, I warmly welcome the joining of steamed buns!" β
Below was followed by a row of welcome messages from the gang members, mixed with various welcome personality expressions quickly scrolled upward, and Sun Yimin thanked them together.
Secretly thought: The name steamed bun sounds so awkward, I have to quickly think of a nice name to change it.
[Goddess Wuxin]: "Brother, who is the new one?" Still need to alarm your old man to greet him in person? β
[Yushu Spring Garden Flower]: "Introduction, this ...... Steamed buns are my college classmates and my best buddies, so please take care of them in the future! β
[Weeping Yang Zimo]: "Welcome little brother ......"
γLinen Bagγ: "Welcome to the ...... of small steamed buns"
[A curtain of wind and moon]: "Welcome, steamed buns." β
[Rubbing steamed buns]: "Thank you, thank you, sister-in-law." β
This curtain Fengyue is Liu Ronghua's game wife Yue'er, and she is the only character he recognizes in the game at present.
He asked Liu Ronghua on the side: "By the way, when do you plan to meet this month?" β
"Tomorrow she'll come by train." Liu Ronghua said, and introduced Sun Yimin in the game.
[Yushu Spring Garden]: "Let me briefly introduce, Yue'er is my wife, the goddess Wuxin is my sister-in-law, the flax bag is her best friend, Zimo, Gongsun Yu is my right-hand man, and He Xiaoquan is my apprentice......"
[Yushu Spring Garden Flower]: "There are many other gods that will not be introduced one by one, and you will slowly become familiar with it yourself in the future." β
Then Liu Ronghua secretly told Sun Yimin on the side: "This Yang Zimo is the girl in the same city I talked about last time." I'll see you another day......"
Sun Yimin nodded. made a response on the game channel:
[Grinding and rubbing steamed buns]: "I am new to the city, please take care of me." In addition, I am also a novice in online games, so if you have some childish questions in the future, please don't laugh. β
Then Sun Yimin added them as friends one by one, and by the way, he took a look at the titles of each character, among which Yue'er and Gongsun Yu were elders, and the goddess Wuxin was the hall master. It is also not known what these titles mean.
At this time, he remembered a person and asked Liu Ronghua: "What about Brother Qiang?" Why can't you see it in the gang? β
"Buddha jumping over the wall? He's not in our gang, he has a big gang of his own, I'll take you to meet him another day. Liu Ronghua said.
[Linen bag]: "Is Brother Mantou single, if you need to find a girlfriend, I'll introduce you to ......"
[Grinding and rubbing steamed buns]: "Are you referring to your partner in the game or your real girlfriend?" β
[Linen Bag]: "It can be the same person......"
[Rubbing the steamed bun]: "Okay, thank you...... I will definitely come to you when I need it. Just ......"
[Linen Bag]: "What? β
[Rubbing steamed buns]: "Can I be curious about the meaning of your screen name?" β
[Goddess Wuxin]: "Her company's main business is the production and sales of various packaging utensils. β
[Rubbing steamed buns]: "I see...... That's a really good way to market. β
This serious answer led to a row of laughing expressions under the gang channel, which made Sun Yimin wonder.
(To be continued)