Izumo Castle is the largest city on Yingzhou Island. Most of the buildings in the city are wooden bungalows, occasionally two- or three-storey, and most of them are taverns and chambers of commerce. Carp streamers are hung all over the city, probably celebrating some kind of festival.

At the city gate, there were two guards dressed in cloth and armed with fishing guns, and without questioning, they let her into the city.

March glanced up at the words engraved on the city gate, and although it was an otherworldly text that she had never seen before, she understood that it was called "Izumo Castle".

The dress and architectural style of the guards, the inhabitants of the city do not seem to be wealthy. The guards did not check her, indicating that this is a relatively friendly city to outsiders, and the security should be good. It was late at night, there were no pedestrians on the streets, and March couldn't get any more information for the time being.

It was drizzling in the city. In March, I walked around this city full of Dongying style, and the white coarse cloth robe was wet from the rain, and it was uncomfortable to stick to my body.

In the northwest corner of the city is a cliff covered by clouds and fog, making it impossible to see anything clearly. A bright moon hung on the cliff, only a little bit complete, and it looked extraordinarily large, as if as long as you climbed the cliff, you could reach out and touch it.

On the edge of the cliff, under the bright moon, there is a big tree, on which are hung many colored balls, ribbons, lanterns, pieces of paper and other decorations, and under the tree sits a young woman wearing a navy blue robe and dark blue hair, weaving wool by the light of the tree.

March walked up to her before she knew it.

"Hello." The woman looked up and smiled, "You're an outsider, aren't you?" What do you want to ask? ”

As soon as she spoke, March understood that she was an NPC, that is, a character controlled by artificial intelligence. With the development of technology, artificial intelligence is almost indistinguishable from real people, but there are still some characteristics that can distinguish NPCs from real people. For example, most NPCs exist to provide information to the player, issue quests, and advance the story. In order to make it easier for new players to integrate into the story, as well as to take care of some players with social phobia, many NPCs that players come into contact with in the early days are set to take the initiative to talk to players whenever they get close, with common phrases such as "What do you want to ask", "Can you do me a favor" and so on. In the face of the player's inquiry, they are all knowledgeable and endless, and the information they provide is extremely credible.

As a veteran gamer, March naturally didn't miss the opportunity to gather intelligence, asking, "What is this place?" ”

"This is the Muyue Cliff, which is known as the closest place to the moon in the entire fantasy world, and many tourists come here to admire the moon, and the annual moon worship ceremony is also held here."

"Who are you?"

"I'm a resident of the city, my name is Xiaoqing, and I'm in charge of guarding the wishing tree."

"I want to know the origin and function of the Wishing Tree."

"This tree has been here since I was born, and legend has it that it was planted by an immortal, and no one knows how old it is. It is said that if you hang a piece of paper or ribbon with a wish written on it on the tree, your wish will be transmitted to the fairy world and fulfilled by the immortals. In addition, you can also hang the words you want to tell others on the tree, the wishing tree has a magical power, and when your designated recipient comes to the tree, a token with your words written on it will fall from the tree. ”

It sounds like this tree is just a guestbook...... In order to pursue authenticity, this world seems to lack functions such as thousands of miles of sound transmission and sending letters, so a message board such as a wishing tree is set up to facilitate players to communicate?

"Is there anything I can help me with?" March asks the most common phrase between the player and the NPC, and in general, just asking this sentence will confirm if the NPC has a quest on it.

"No, thank you, kind outsider." Xiaoqing suddenly pointed to her feet and said with a smile, "It looks like someone has written to you." ”

March looked down and saw a note at his feet, which had fallen from a tree at some point. She bent down to pick it up, and though it was otherworldly writing on the paper, she could understand its meaning:

"I've arrived at Izumo Castle. See you at sunrise under the Wishing Tree. ”

The inscription is conserved, May 12.

Judging by this person's name and handwriting, it should be a male, and it seems that he is a relative and friend praying tears. The moon worship ceremony is held on May 15 every year, on the night of the full moon, looking at the shape of the moon, today is mostly thirteen or fourteen, which means that this note was written a day or two ago. Well...... It should be systematically arranged, and the characters who brought her into the plot may be able to provide some information about the life of Qi Tears.

Although this kind of role-playing game has a high degree of freedom, and players can completely follow the route arranged by the system, March has not forgotten that she chose the puzzle type, and she needs to collect as much intelligence as possible, and following the plot in the early stage is the most convenient way.

A few hours before sunrise, she found an inn to stay at. The cost of a day's accommodation was five silver coins, and she had more than two hundred silver coins on her, so it seemed that there was no financial problem in the short term. For the sake of saves, RPG players can only go offline in an inn or safe house, so players will be allocated a certain amount of property at the beginning.

There is only one bed, a wardrobe and a dresser in the room. As for the toilet and bathroom...... Why do you want to seek reality in the virtual world (doge face), players don't have the need to take a bath and go to the toilet in the game, and they will be clean if they are dirty and change their clothes directly.

March sits at the dresser, the polished bronze mirror reflecting the character's face. Tear's figure is exactly the same as her set, but her face is better-looking, she is a delicate girl about sixteen years old, and her royal blue hair is tied into two buns, which is commonly known as the hairstyle of "Chunli head".

Is the setting of this world such that humans are born with colorful hair...... Thinking of the white-haired caretaker and the blue-haired Xiaoqing he met before, and seeing that his character was also blue-haired, March made such a judgment. Fortunately, the appearance of Qi Tear is relatively high, and it is not strange to wear colored hair, if it is a passerby's face that she pinched herself, it will probably be very disobedient......

The white robe on his body turned out to be relatively neat and could be worn, and he had a gourd tied around his waist, which contained some commonly used pills. According to the few pieces of information she received from the system, the dress of a cloth robe and a medicine bottle hanging from the waist was the standard for pharmacists.

After the observation, March lay down in bed and chose to go offline.

*

The ratio of the game to reality is 1:1, and there are a few hours of free time in March, so I chose to visit the game forum. There isn't much content on the official website, but the forums are quite popular, and players are sharing all kinds of information here.

March went straight to the "role-playing" section to search for information that interested him.

An unlucky player dies in the first battle, and then resurrects himself on an NPC that was originally controlled by an AI...... The characters played by the players are usually more good-looking, and the settings are also relatively good-looking, which is simply the treatment of the protagonist...... Regarding the task objectives assigned by the system, most people received a long-term task with a high degree of difficulty, and a few people received multiple tasks or serial tasks with less difficulty......

Since the game has just been released, and the oldest player has only been playing for three days, there is not much useful information on the forums. According to most players' guesses, the goal of the mission at the beginning of the game is the ultimate goal of the player in this world, and after completing it, you can get rich rewards and move on to the next world. Until this ultimate goal is completed, players are free to move around and experience life in this world.

According to the information revealed by other players, March deduced that in the world she entered, in addition to "suspenseful puzzle solving", there should also be elements such as "combat adventure", otherwise the characters would not be assigned combat skills.