Chapter 5: Things in the Novice Village (1)

Complaining is complaining, and if you want to meet your roommates, you still have to go through it step by step.

When Chen Dashao was told through the game's external communication software that they were born by the sea 6.4 miles east of Blackwater Town, they were unexpectedly ridiculed by the "warm" ridicule of the dead friends.

After telling them that it would take some time to pass and telling them not to move and not to run around, Cheng Zhi breathed a sigh of relief and continued on his way.

Walking on the suburban road composed of dense vegetation on one side of the beach, Cheng Zhi naturally opened the character panel to view - this is a habit formed by years of gaming experience, and looking at the character panel can better help you control your own state by knowing all aspects of yourself.

People panel interface

[Responsibility], Gender: Male, Race: Terran, Occupation: Scholar.

Level: 1

Health/Mana: 150/120

Strength: 10

Intelligence: 12

Dexterity: 10

Spirit: 12

Stamina: 15

Attack: 8

Defense: 8

Armor: 5

Resistance: 5

Equipment Slot: None

Lacklustre, mediocre! This is the first word that flashed in Cheng Zhi's mind after reading his role panel, indeed, such a data panel, is it a novice who will have such feelings, right? And the word "none" in the equipment bar is really an accurate and concise description, in fact, from the first time he opened his eyes after the system threw him on the edge of the sea, he found a strange thing - he was naked!

Of course, it's not that he is naked to the extent that he is naked, but that he only has a white pants on his whole body to cover his shame, and this pants is part of the character's appearance, no wonder the equipment column shows the word "none"!

When he first found out about this, Cheng Zhi was very stunned, because throughout his nearly ten years of game career, which is not short so far, whether it is the most primitive keyboard and mouse control stage or the later game helmet era, whether it is a large-scale terminal game or a small mobile game, I have never seen a game in which the player is almost naked at birth.

When I think of the scene of dozens or even millions of men and women at the beginning of the game, the boys dressed in inches, the girls protecting the spring light under the "freshman clothes" comparable to bikinis to avoid the male compatriots "feasting their eyes", and the men and women on the street treated each other naked for a while, staring at each other, Cheng Zhi couldn't help but feel cold, the bad taste of this gang of sub-game research and development department! System: Wouldn't it be good for you to put on the newbie outfit in my backpack for me?

With a sigh of relief, Cheng Zhi opened the backpack interface, and suddenly, the items in the backpack were "clear at a glance": worn-out novice cloth clothes (chest, cloth armor), worn-out novice shorts (legs, cloth armor), worn novice cloth boots (feet, cloth armor), novice book (weapons, classics), inferior black bread*5, diluted magic water*5, and the novice-exclusive teleportation scroll and teleportation area of Blackwater Town have been bound (number of uses: 3).

Four whiteboards! As expected, the whiteboard novice outfit,As is the case with all games in the novice stage,The initial belongings given by the system must be a number of tabula rasa,Cheng Zhi, who was originally a rookie in the game, once yy, why can't the system send a better level of equipment at the beginning?

The answer is, obviously, all systems are very picky, emotionless and shameless people.

In "Holy Demon Continent", the quality level of equipment from low to high is: Normal (Whiteboard), Excellent (Green), Excellent (Light Blue), Rare (Dark), Legend (Golden), Rare (Red Orange), and Artifact (Streamer). According to Cheng Zhi's speculation, including the first-tier players who have opened the service so far, at this stage, the top quality of equipment that players can get their hands on should be of excellent quality, and the quantity should not be much, while the equipment of excellent quality should be close to saturation among players of the first-echelon level. As for the whiteboard equipment-

Sad! Something that no one wants on the rotten street.

Another long breath of depression, Cheng Zhi equipped the three novice whiteboard armor and the novice's book, the attributes of these three armors are very consistent, all of them are "intelligence +1, spirit +1, physical strength +2, defense +2", because the default armor type of the scholar's profession is cloth armor, so only the intelligence, spirit and physical strength in the five main attributes are attached, and the attributes of the scholar's exclusive novice weapon book - novice's book are:

[Newbie's Book]: Classic Weapon, Requirement Level 1, Quality: Normal

Attack: 8~10

Intelligence +2

Spirit +2

After wearing all the equipment, Cheng Zhi's attack became 16~18, his intelligence increased by 5 points, and the new 5 points of spirit and 6 points of physical strength increased his mana and 60 points of health respectively, making his extremely scarce upper limit of health slightly higher. That's better than nothing, right? Cheng Zhi walked while thinking about it, and walked slowly to the destination - Blackwater Town.

Standing outside the town, Cheng Zhi habitually stopped to observe the nearby terrain and environment, on both sides of the road, it was no longer the beach and bushes of a quarter of an hour ago, but instead the large area of golden fields that came into view, the golden wheat waves in the distance under the blowing of the sea breeze layer by layer to the deeper noisy, the air seemed to be filled with a faint smell of ripe grains, which was refreshing.

In the middle of the large field on the right hand side of Cheng Zhi, there is a small river about three or four meters wide running through, under the cover of the sun, the water quality in the river looks clear and clean, but the riverbed should be black pebbles or something, making this river look like black water flowing from a distance, I think this should be the origin of the name of the black water town, right?

On the other side of the Blackwater River, there is a cluster of low-rise buildings and houses, forming a simple settlement, this is the Blackwater Town. Walking all the way from the spawn point for 6.4 miles, it took almost half an hour, and Cheng Zhi silently calculated in his heart, and he had a rough statistical impression of the basic movement speed and movement efficiency per unit time of "Holy Demon" players.

Walking into Heishui Town, there is a low tile wooden house as far as the eye can see, and occasionally there are one or two slightly taller two-story buildings. Between the houses and small buildings, on the streets that are not very spacious, Cheng Zhi only sees dozens of players, generally below level 10, these players have sturdy orcs, dexterous gnomes, and handsome elves; Most of the players are male players, only one or two female players, these players either run with their heads down, or stay, or gather in pairs to talk, and the country town under the afternoon sun presents a harmonious and quiet atmosphere.

There is no hustle and bustle and crowds - this is normal, after all, it has been more than half a month since the service was launched, and the high-level players have long left, and most of the players left are newly logged in like themselves, and the rest, of course, are rookies!

Cheng Zhi walked by silently, and didn't see anyone who wanted to come forward to say hello, thinking about it, in the novice village, for people like himself who were wearing a tabula rasa, as if they had "I'm a novice" written on their faces, they should have turned a blind eye and become commonplace, right? Cheng Zhi thought as he walked, and as he walked, he was about to arrive at the place he had agreed with his roommates, the fountain in the middle of the town.

Although this town is not big, it still maintains a very strict medieval architectural style - all the building rules are distributed around the town, leaving four symmetrical five-meter-wide roads paved with broken stone slabs leading to the town in the middle, like a crossroads, and at the "intersection" of the crossroads, is the central fountain of the town, at this time there is a group of players by the central fountain of the town, listening to the conversations of those players along the way, Cheng Zhi knows that one of the few novice NPCs in Blackwater Town, Lieutenant Cott, is standing by the fountain.

But before he could get closer, he suddenly heard a voice from the group of players by the fountain, someone saying "Don't go too far" in the public channel, the voice, as if speaking with the vocal cords, and the quiet voice was full of resentment, coldness and oppression - Cheng Zhi heard that it was the voice of his roommate Chen Dashao.

Chen Dashao: Is this a contradiction with others? This is a lot of effort, Cheng Zhi frowned, breathed a sigh of relief, and stepped forward.