Chapter 003 Faction Mission
Early in the morning, a thin gauze mist.
A ray of sunset from the rising east pierced the veil of this beautiful woman called 'morning'.
The quiet Xiaohai Town exudes an atmosphere of idleness and comfortable life everywhere, and early in the morning, there are townspeople who get up early in the morning and walk on the old stone streets that are somewhat wet in the town.
No one knew that an uninvited guest had arrived.
On a corner along the street, Ren Zheng appeared there very suddenly, wearing a shabby and often mended robe, and he always emitted a sour smell.
"Huh?"
His nose twitched, awakened by the stench on his body.
Feeling that his head was still a little dizzy, Ren Zheng, who woke up, looked around, looking at the unfamiliar environment, the old buildings along the street, his vision was a little blurry, and he shook it lightly a few times, as if he wanted to sweep away the drowsiness in his mind.
While adapting, he was reminiscing about his previous experiences.
On the weekend, he was resting and received two couriers...... Then, he played a game with no strategy, no background, like to scare people, and probably some future game...... The more he thought about it, the more his eyelids widened.
Spirit.
The dullness in his mind seemed to disappear, and he looked around him as if it were a real feeling.
Slightly wet, cold, real touch, soft earth...... Ren Zheng's fingers slid and kneaded on the ground, everything made him feel like he had come to a real, strange world.
"So real?"
He muttered.
Bite.
A mechanical prompt suddenly appeared in my head, and a dialog box appeared in front of me.
"The game reminds that the game is an interactive way to advance the plot, and all the players encounter are not ordinary NPCs, which can be regarded as people, and some of the past game experiences are not suitable for the player is experiencing.
Please explore all the functions of the game by yourself, and I wish you a happy game. ”
The font jumps and then fades.
"Initial mission (the only self-promulgation of the game): Please choose a side within twenty-four hours, Li Xiaoyao's side, Jiujian Immortal's side, Lunatic Cult's side, Ling'er's side, and others.
Reward: +1 to +3 for rating the game. ”
The quest appears for three seconds, after which there is no hint of the game.
Only in the top corner, there is a small hourglass bottle counting down, with grit inside, and even more numbers changing, counting down from 24 hours.
Silently, time is passing by second by second.
Next to the little hourglass was a model figure that resembled him, flickering, as if to say, click on it.
Ren Zheng raised his hand, clicked, and the character suddenly expanded the dialog box.
Player: Ren Zheng (as a beggar)
Star Rating: Sporadic.
Skill: True Knowledge (Special, Temporary Blessing, 1/1)
Mission: Faction Selection (Initial)
Stamina: 100/100
Force: 4
Min: 3
Royal: 3
......
Ren Zheng looked at it very seriously, okay!
Judging from the list alone, he is a weak player.
As his attention is distracted, the figures and the hourglass bottle fade away.
Boom.
Suddenly, with a strong force behind him, he was kicked out and rolled on the ground.
"Little white face, you can't be a big young master, you didn't pay the money yesterday, and hid here to sleep, it seems that we haven't taught you enough lessons."
An extremely arrogant voice came from behind Ren Zheng.
Blood, it hurts.
The tingling sensation made Ren Zheng look at the torn robe on his arm and the bloody wound caused by rubbing on the ground, and Huo Ran remembered the hint from the previous game.
The real game world, this?
He was stupid.
"Damn, you dare to ignore me, give me a lesson."
Then a group of beggars punched and kicked Ren Zheng, and Ren Zheng was alone after all, only slightly fought back a few times, and was immediately beaten harder by the beggars, with a blue nose and swollen face.
"Okay, don't kill you, little white face, I'll give you a warning this time, remember to make up the money, otherwise you'll feel good."
After a threat, the little beggar leader took the other beggars with him.
"Huh."
Ren Zheng watched those beggars leave, felt the sharp pain on his face, and couldn't help but be angry.
It's a goddamn game, isn't it?
It hurts.
At this moment, he was a little skeptical, is this really a game?
If it is a game, he has never heard of a game that can be so real, legendary virtual reality game after living in the ancient country for many years?
From the mannerisms of those beggars, their expressions, and the mentality of the bystanders...... All this made Ren Zheng feel that it was a living life, a real life.
From an unknown perspective, a few cursor guides made him feel weird.
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Cyan...... Five colors, pointing in different directions.
Following the red road, Ren Zheng could see that the red was pointing out of the town, but he thought about it for a while, referring to the previous hints of the game, and the game must be treated as the real world.
Out of town, this choice is not reliable.
He also didn't know how far the mission out of town was.
It's better to walk around the town first, since he appeared in the town, then it shouldn't be without reason.
As for the beggars' hatred, he wrote it down first.
Getting up, Ren Zheng, who was in pain, took the broken porcelain bowl in his hand and walked along the street, and soon, he saw a red light in an alley.
As he entered the alley, at the end of the alley, he saw a chest, glowing red, but with an extremely delicate surface engraved with mysterious patterns.
Needless to say, Ren Zheng also knew that this must be a 'game treasure chest'.
Can it be opened?
He stepped forward and touched his hand on the "game treasure chest", with a cold metallic texture and undulating carvings.
"Discover a half-star treasure chest."
"No key, can't be opened, can't be collected."
Two sentences of dialogue appeared in the perspective, which made Ren Zheng very helpless.
Then the game has no other hints, and everything is left to him to figure it out.
After some fruitless attempts, Ren Zheng could only reluctantly leave.
Continuing along the cursor road, he walked around town.
The pedestrians in the town gradually increased, and the shops along the street gradually opened, and the figures walked around, and the disgusted eyes of the pedestrians on the street from time to time were like a knife piercing Ren Zheng's heart.
From the eyes of the townspeople, he truly experienced an emotion called 'disgust'.
While enduring the discriminatory gaze of others, he also endured the sour smell on his robe, and lived for nearly twenty-two years, when did he get so miserable.
Ren Zheng was full of emotion.
But before he finished sighing, a wave of joy surged in his heart.
The cursor trail is gone.
This different change, although there is no game reminder, also makes Ren Zheng understand that maybe he is close to the mission goal, but who is the mission goal?
Shops along the street greet customers, and there are even scattered pedestrians walking to an inn not far away.
Clouds come and go to the inn.
The incense of buns came out of the inn, making Ren Zheng's stomach unconsciously make a hungry sound.
Grunt, goo.
He licked his lips, but before he could step forward, he felt a cold gaze, with a little ferocity.
At the doorstep of the inn, two beggars in the same dirty clothes as Ren Zheng sat there, looking directly at Ren Zheng with fierce eyes, as if to warn.
In the town, beggars also have begging grounds.
Places like inns, where it's easy to get a stutter, are of course the favorite places for beggars.
"It's really a narrow road."
Ren Zheng recognized the two beggars, who were the two who beat him.
He paused and thought for a moment.
The game is weird, and he can be sure that it doesn't matter if the game is real or not, but at least it follows certain laws of reality.
It is not advisable to be brute.
As the two beggars approached him before they got impatient, he turned away and walked into the alley behind him, recognizing the general range of the mission's objectives by the cursor path or not.
Since force is not possible for the time being, he can only temporarily use his intelligence to delineate the mission situation.
It took half an hour, according to the law of whether the cursor road leads to appear or not, the distance is far and near, and he drew a circle with the route that Ren Zheng walked, and he could roughly confirm it.
Including the inn, the three buildings on both sides of the street are the target of the mission.
Returning to the mouth of the alley, Ren Zheng, who was standing at the mouth of the alley, made a provocative gesture towards the two beggars at the door of the inn, hooking his hands.
Soon, he succeeded in seducing hatred points.
Ren Zheng ran into the alleyway and picked up the thick wooden stick he had prepared around the corner.
If there is revenge, it is not a gentleman.
He is not a gentleman, but he is a man of revenge.
Bang, bang.
Intentionally or unintentionally.
Ren Zheng ruthlessly went down with two big sticks and knocked the two beggars unconscious at the corner of the alley.
"Phew, you dare to scold me for being a little white face."
This exertion caused the muscles of his beaten arm to pull out the pain again, and he couldn't help but give two feet to the two beggars to vent his anger.
Then, he dragged two beggars into the corner of the alley, and found a small ingot of broken silver and dozens of copper plates on them.
He smiled unceremoniously.
Money is a good thing.
Looking at the money, Ren Zheng groaned slightly and readjusted.
Immediately there was a place to use, and he turned to leave.