6. Representations
The moment she saw Rebecca, Xia Zuo saw her name and lv4 level displayed above her head. However, it is better not to disturb the other party, and not to rashly say her name before introducing each other.
It's uncertain if the NPCs in this world are aware that this is originally a game world. Xia Zuo decided to start by meeting the first "normal communication" NPC, intentionally or unintentionally saying some game terms that he only knew, as well as his own and the other party's worldview cognition. Naturally, it is not a detailed explanation, only hints and fragment reminders, otherwise it may subvert the three views of the NPCs. If the NPCs react to these terms, they are one step closer to finding the clue, and if they don't... I had to accept the fact that "the NPCs don't know anything". Of course, this may come with unknown risks, but if you don't take risks, you won't be able to feel the rewards.
Not surprisingly, the girl should be from the village. If the story of the game is not random but linear like other RPGs, the encounter at this time will be a hero saving beauty, just like when she rescued Celia from Gran Grove while playing DNF more than ten years ago.
Xia Zuo, who pursed his lips, thought to himself, always accustomed to thinking that a killer bee should appear at this time, and the weak herb-picking girl was in crisis, and she quickly attacked to kill the little bee (maybe the process will not be too smooth, only when the killer bee stings herself, counterattack and defeat it.) )
After that, the girl will be grateful to herself, and enthusiastically take herself to the novice village, where food and new supplies are waiting for her.
That's how it should be......
"Don't move!" Rebecca suddenly ordered, took out a scroll from it while taking off the backpack, threw the backpack to the side, pulled the rope on the scroll, and gave Xia Zuo the posture of pulling away the grenade and throwing it.
Xia Zuoyu was stunned for a moment, holding the collection with both hands and no other movements. The unexpected situation of reality brutally dragged him away from his beautiful fantasies.
Even if the girl didn't pull the scroll open to reveal its contents, Xia Zuo recognized it as a red pattern scroll of the "Flame Explosion Class".
In the game, making a scroll requires animal skin paper, magic stone powder, and magic spells, all of which are indispensable, of which magic spells only require the skills mastered by the character.
Players can craft a large number of scrolls in advance, unfold the scrolls to cast predetermined skills during battle, and scroll magic that can still be cast after running out of blue and medicine is a very convenient item skill.
"Maybe you don't know what it is, stranger, but you just need to know that it's dangerous, and if you dare to mess around, I won't guarantee your life." Rebecca swallowed and said nervously. Liv Village is not the only way to get to the royal capital, and it is rarely visited by travelers on weekdays, and it is located in the north, if there are strangers who appear, most of them are from neighboring countries.
Rebecca thought to herself that the self-defense magic scroll given to her by the village chief was supposed to deal with monsters such as wild killer bees, wild mice, and slimes, but unexpectedly, she encountered human enemies.
"Of course I know, the magic scroll of the fire type, but a girl dressed in an ordinary NPC will hold a high-level scroll, which surprises me." Xia Zuo responded slowly, "I won't move, but please don't throw that thing at me, okay?" Nothing good will happen to that. ”
He recalled the tragic situation when he fought back against the goblin - directly twisted the opponent's neck, if the girl attacked him like this, Xia Zuo was not sure if he could control his hand.
NPC…… What is it? Rebecca glared slightly, seeing that the other party was wearing torn clothes, either a refugee or a slave, and actually knew the magic scroll in her hand, "I have some questions, answer me first." ”
"It's Lan Xiang... No, you ask~" Xia Zuo's free hand scratched his head, and he didn't know why some old stalks popped up in his consciousness.
“…… Where are you from, south, south, north, west, answer me in one direction first. ”
"Hmm......" These options are not in the correct answer, Xia Zuo hesitated.
"Say it! Otherwise, this scroll will turn into charcoal along with the tree you leaned on! ”
"East." Xia Zuo chose one at random, and his face should be pinched like an Oriental.
"Lie! There is nothing by the sea in the east, you must be from the kingdom of Standy in the north! There are no dwellings around Liv Village, and there are hardly any travelers. She was sure.
"Standdy?" Xia Zuo had never heard of the name of this country, because every time a new game was generated, the names of places and NPCs would be randomly added.
"Less garlic! You deliberately dressed in tatters, you must have wanted to disguise yourself as a slave who fled from the Standy Kingdom, pretend to hate Standy, and then infiltrate the village to reveal information to our enemies after gaining sympathy, the Standy Kingdom used such dirty methods, but fortunately, the village chief who was more powerful at that time stopped their plot! ”
Liv Village is located next to the Demon Mine, which can be considered a strategic point.
"Wait a minute, if that's what you said, why don't I just say I'm a slave from the north? If he who says that he comes from the east, who has nothing, will he not dig his own grave? Think about it from my point of view. ”
Xia Zuo interrupted the other party, and Rebecca also realized that he seemed to have a point.
“…… How do I know, maybe it's some kind of conspiracy of yours..."She hesitated for a moment, still vigilantly insisting on her opinion, but she didn't intend to throw out the scroll to kill a human without a proper reason, it was just to threaten the other party, "Then tell me, why did you say you came from the east?" ”
"You asked me to choose, in fact, it's not..."
"Where is that!?"
"Actually... I had amnesia, I lost most of my memory, and I woke up in the middle of the day to find myself at the altar at the top of the mountain, "walking", "talking", of course... And the knowledge that just identified the scroll in your hand is a deep-rooted cognition in the past, and I haven't forgotten it, but I don't know where I came from, so I reluctantly answered that you are the East. Xia Zuo didn't think much about it, and felt that he couldn't show that he was someone outside the game, right? How to make people believe that unprecedented thing.
"It takes at least three hours to detour the mountain road from the altar here, you said that you set off from the altar at noon, how could you appear in front of me in more than an hour, and say something incomprehensible as soon as you meet, it's best to recruit from the truth!"
"I was about to say it, and I'm not going to hide it from you... When I woke up, I walked aimlessly down the hill, and then I ran into three goblins..."
"Goblins!?" Rebecca exhaled in surprise, fear rising from her face.
"yes, I don't know which of them is wrong, or will they attack when they see people? Yelling to kill me, I killed two of them by chance, led by a heavily armored goblin knight, and I couldn't deal with them with my bare hands, and was forced down the cliff... Maybe that's how you took a shortcut, so you didn't spend the three hours you said to be here. ”
"Impossible... The territory where Liv Village is located is not inhabited by goblins, and if they do, they will only come from the northwest, where our country meets the Standdy Kingdom, where the goblins were defeated many years ago, and where they were forced to live......" Rebecca's expression of fear deepened, and she didn't look at Xia Zuo, "Moreover, the Goblin King is there." ”
Hearing the name of the Goblin King, Xia Zuo frowned and thought about it, in the original setting, goblins were indeed not found everywhere on the map, and the most important monsters in areas with different climates and terrains were the ones that occupied the most. But the goblins in most places are very ordinary little monsters, with a level of only 6 or 7, and their strength is mediocre, and they often rely on other forces to act as pawns of others.
There is one condition that can make the Goblins very strong - a clan ruled by the Goblin King. This also answers Xia Zuo's previous doubts about why he met Lv27's Goblin Knight at the beginning.
"No wonder..."
"You can't defeat at all, the goblins that appeared in the north..."Rebecca interrupted Xia Zuo, never meaning to relax the scroll, and felt more and more that the other party was deceiving herself, and shook her head again and again, "Not to mention that you don't have a weapon and a piece of armor, could it be that you are a greater magician than the village chief Greveld?" Able to cast spells with your bare hands to defeat terrifying monsters... Just now you claimed that you fell from a cliff without half a wound on your body, so do you have to explain it by mastering superb healing skills? ”
"It's not a healing technique...... Xia Zuo glanced at the shabby skill bar, and took a step while spreading his hands to explain, "It's that I ate some herbs, and my blood volume is full, so you can't see the wound." ”
"Don't come here! Pills can't hurt so quickly, do you think I'm a child!? If you fall off a cliff, you will have to rest for several months if you don't die. ”
It seems that NPCs don't have the concept of HP, so wouldn't they immediately heal their wounds if they take medicine...... Maybe they're just ordinary people, ordinary residents, and their perception of the world is very different from that of players.
Unable to find the north at the moment, Xia Zuo felt the need to gain the trust of the other party, so she led the way to the novice village, so as not to go around like a headless fly.
"Then I can explain to you that I have some special skills that I have used to defeat goblins."
"What skills..."
"I'll show you one of these, miss, other than healing wounds quickly." Xia Zuo opened his waist bag, which seemed to be empty, and then put a large handful of collected items in his arms, one by one......
The herbs and mushrooms included have long exceeded the volume of a small waist bag, but they can still be stuffed inside.
This was discovered by chance in the forest before Xia Zuo and Rebecca met. Xia Zuo, who had picked a lot of herbs at that time, couldn't make a move, so he put some of them in his waist bag, although he couldn't hold much depending on the appearance of his waist bag, who knew that it was a bottomless pit! It's like you've sunk to the bottom of the sea, and you can't touch it anymore.
At this time, Xia Zuo began to wonder, opened the interface of the backpack bar with suspicion, and found that the previous blank inventory square, there was actually an item - the first block of hemostatic grass x4, because he put four grasses into it, they coincided in a grid.
When the eye sees the hemostatic herb, there will be a pop-up window, similar to a mouse pointing, and the pop-up window is an introduction to the hemostatic herb: "...... Herbs that can be found everywhere regenerate 12% ......", which is exactly the same as the introduction in the game.
I put my hand in my waist bag but couldn't touch anything, as if it was a different dimensional space, so how do you take out the props again?
Xia Zuo thought of the most primitive method, of course, the mouse clicked in the backpack bar, correspondingly, he blinked his left eye at the hemostatic grass, and sure enough, a sub-menu appeared next to the hemostatic grass, and the options were use, synthesis, and discard. When blinking at the use, the hand began to be uncontrollable, and it automatically reached into the waist bag, and felt that it grabbed a hemostatic grass, which was more like the hemostatic grass moved into his hand and took it out neatly. Xia Zuo thought that he would automatically feed himself medicine next, but no, he still had to come in person to eat.
"See? A pocket like Doraemon~" Xia Zuo spread out his empty hands to Rebecca, and the large cluster of collected objects was all put into his waist bag.
“…… Doraemon? "Is that the name of magic? It's amazing... Rebecca slowly put down the scroll in her hand, and what Xia Zuo made her see was a magic that even the village chief regretted that she had not mastered - space magic.
If that's the case, it's very likely that the other party will encounter a goblin and have the ability to escape, and the news of the goblin infestation is entirely likely to be true, and this matter must be quickly returned to tell the village. Because there is only one possibility for goblins to appear - to occupy villages and mines.
"Can you come with me? Stranger," Rebecca said with a worried look on her face as her tone changed her tone, "I need you to tell the village chief about meeting the goblin in person, and of course, if we find out that you are a spy of an enemy country, the village chief will not easily forgive you... In return for the message, we will provide you with clean clothes, food, and supplies for the rest of your journey. ”