In the early days, single-player games relied on the computing of computers or game console processors to create a rich and colorful game world for players.

In this type of game, the "life" of the NPC starts when the player opens the game. When the player closes the game, all NPCs in the game, including the entire world, will disappear until the game is opened again.

Even today, the vast majority of games still follow this pattern.

Even in online games, the world built in the game will cease to exist every time there is a downtime for maintenance, and those NPCs that usually look stupid will disappear with the game world. When the game restarts, it will be recreated.

But Lin Chi can see that the current situation is a little different:

He had assumed that his retinue would be "dormant" when they were not brought into the map. But if Medea is right, she's really studying the composition of the ore. In other words, these NPC followers, even when they are not summoned, are doing their own activities!

Are these NPCs really the legendary "advanced AI"? However, if his guess comes true, even if Pulse Entertainment has a quantum computer, it simply can't afford such a huge amount of computing!

Thinking of this, Lin Chi asked another stupid-sounding question: "Where is this?" ”

Hearing his words, a look of contempt suddenly appeared on Media's fair cheeks, and she spoke, "Are you stupid?" This is, of course...... Strange, where did I get my ticket? ”

Looking at the mining queen's frowning puzzled expression, Lin Chi quickly realized that even this woman didn't know where this wooden house was. However, there is an easier way to find out where this place is.

Lin Chi stood in front of the wooden house, opened the tattered wooden door again, and looked out of the house, and what caught his eye was a dusty concrete floor and a thick fog shrouded not far away.

The area outside the private house resembles the legendary Silent Hill, with visibility of less than five meters due to fog, and no markings or footprints on the ground in front of it, which looks like a half-finished map that has not yet been made.

- Would you like to give it a try?

Lin Chi only thought for less than five seconds before he decisively walked out of the house and entered the fog. His feet had just stepped on the concrete floor when flashing red text suddenly appeared in his sight:

"Please note that the map is not yet complete, please do not leave your house."

Lin Chi, who has always had a "spirit of exploration" in the game, of course ignored this prompt at all, and continued to stride forward while observing the situation around him.

The cement ground was cold and hard, there were still no road signs and prompts, Lin Chi only walked less than ten meters, as if he had hit something, and he could no longer take a step forward.

What appeared in front of him was still floating fog, and the flat concrete floor, although it seemed that there were no obstacles, there was an invisible "wall of air", completely blocking his path.

"Do you play this trick......"

Lin Chi raised his eyebrows, took a few steps to the right along the wall of air, and hit the invisible wall again, until he walked around the wooden house and finally confirmed the depressing conclusion:

The wooden house was completely blocked off by invisible walls, and the area that could be moved around was nothing more than a square with a side of twenty meters.

In other words, the private house you own should be the kind of "enclosed space" where only NPCs are allowed to enter and exit, but players are not allowed to enter and exit.

Thinking of this, Lin Chi returned to the wooden house, patted the shoulder of Media, who was still standing in a daze, and said, "Go back." ”

"Okay." The mining queen nodded, walked out of the wooden house with Lin Chi, as if she had not encountered any obstacles, and easily passed through the "air wall" that Lin Chi couldn't pass through with all her efforts, and disappeared into the thick fog.

"Damn, that's true." Lin Chi shook his head.

Although he really wanted to see what the situation was on the outside of the boundary, before the absolute boundary drawn by the system, even Lin Chi couldn't think of a way to break through.

If you summon members of the Resistance, you may find a way to tear through the invisible walls. But summoning those guys for this kind of thing is obviously making a big fuss.

Thinking of this, Lin Chi let out a long sigh, returned to the wooden house and closed the door, closed the "haze" floating in the air, and opened the entourage roster again, intending to summon another entourage.

So far, most of the NPC entourage under his command in the game have already met with him, and Lin Chi also knows the details of those guys. There is only a certain NPC that is inexplicably accepted as an entourage by himself, and Lin Chi has never seen it.

As he pondered, he had flipped to a page of the roster and stared at the skull floating in the white mist in the portrait. and the following introductory text:

Heroic NPC - Kel'thugad.

This NPC is suitable for primitive, ancient, and medieval maps. Cannot be used on Modern, Modern, Future, or Special maps.

"Followers, servants, soldiers from the dark winter, heed the call of Kel'thugad!"

Although he didn't know how he recruited this kind of retinue in the organ city, Lin Chi still decisively clicked the "summon retinue" button next to the text, intending to meet the legendary lich.

……

This time, it was not a knock on the door that sounded outside the window, but the sound of the wind that seemed to be whimpering.

The wind was raging on the outside of the hut, making the glass on the windows crackle. As soon as Lin Chi opened the door, he saw a tall ...... The skeleton is floating in front of the door of the wooden house.

The skeleton's hollow eyes lit up with a faint blue cold light, and his body was shrouded in an almost physical bone-chilling aura, which made Lin Chi get goosebumps. The creature was clad in a long purple robe, with a few bone chains wrapped around its body.

The lich, who was at least three meters tall, looked down at Lin Chi who was standing in front of the door, a hoarse and cold voice burst out from his chest, and his tone was undisguised sarcasm:

"Human, you think you can dictate to me at will and become my 'master'?"

"It's not about being your master, Lao Tzu is your master." Lin Chi corrected the other party's speech, raised his head and stared at the skeletal face of the lich, and suddenly remembered a certain skinny and tall painter.

"I see." He suddenly realized: "It turned out to be you kid, I said why I inexplicably accepted a lich in......"

"What are you going to do?" Kel'thugad looked down at him, his tone still palpably contemptuous. After all, for such a great lich who is proficient in necromancy and can kill hundreds of people with a raised hand, it is simply an unimaginable shame to be accepted as a retinue by humans.

"You know what you are, right?" Lin Chi smiled: "I have a few questions I want to ask." ”