In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu. Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one.

- Song Wang Anshi, "Yuan Ri"

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"What the hell is wrong with you, you've been sullen all the way!" In the carriage, Xiao Jia, who was sitting opposite, shouted.

Tu Shi smiled and didn't speak. He hasn't completely come out of the shadow of losing his love sword, and he can't be happy and angry, so he has been blamed many times by Xiao Jia, who wants to talk to someone.

Today is a real weekend, and only on weekends can a 9-to-5 office worker like Xiao Jia play games during the day. Tu Shi didn't have any feelings about weekends and weekends, after all, he was the owner of an Internet café, and the Internet café was open to the public twenty-four hours a day, which can be understood as working every day and resting every day. Of course, for heterosexuals like Lu Lingchuan, weekends mean leaving behind a great game time to live a two-person world with his girlfriend.

("People are snubbing girlfriends to play games, why are you snubbing games to play girlfriends?!") Tu Shi once accused in the group)

(Lu Lingchuan made a "sweat-wiping" expression: "What do you mean by playing with a girlfriend, it sounds too sexy!") ”）

In fact, Tu Shi also knew that although "Qiankun" was very fun, everyone invariably encountered a lot of resistance, so that the enthusiasm began to fade.

Life Professionals level up by crafting, repairing, and creating, which will inevitably consume a lot of materials and items, but this is not a way to make a profit, because almost all Life Professions are disproportionate to their inputs and outputs. For example, Lu Lingchuan made a bearing, and it is likely that he wasted four or five bearings of wood, so he must sell the bearing at a price of four or five times the original price to recover the loss, but the problem is that the system store also sells bearings, and players want to get rid of their own bearings, but the price is lower than the store.

If you can improve the level of life professionals just by losing money, it will not be a big problem, there must be local tyrants like Xuanyuan who are willing to spend money, but the question is, how to spend money? At present, the exchange platform between the RMB and the game currency of "Qiankun" has not yet been opened, and all that can be searched on the Internet is the black market price. It is said that this phenomenon has emerged all over the country, and many local governments have put up slogans of "cracking down on Internet fraud". Based on this situation, even if Xuanyuan is low-key, he can't invest funds into "Qiankun", let alone a group of life professionals who are just for entertainment and leisure? From this point of view, the design of "Qiankun" is too unbalanced, who will choose a career in life if it goes on like this?

In addition to themselves, a group of classmates have chosen life careers, so there is a gloomy fog in the group. Lu Lingchuan is quite good, after all, he participates in the task of "building a post station" hosted by the government, but he is also the same as the migrant workers on the construction site, he eats two mouthfuls when he is working, and tightens his belt when he is not working; Xiao Jia was so poor that he used the "blue bird" that was only suitable for stationery to paint; And Liu Dacai simply stayed at the pitiful level 10, went out for a walk, and made sure that no one dared to believe that this guy entered the game on the first day of the open beta......

Speaking of which, the player base has now been clearly divided into two parts, one part entered the game on the first day of the open beta, and has always firmly occupied the top 1,000 on the level list, belonging to the first group; Part of it was because of the delay for various reasons, and it was impossible to catch up with the first group. A common feature of the first group is that they only spend less than three days in the novice village.

The difficulty of the beginner's village has far exceeded that of all previous games, and it is the talent that can stand out in three days. As mentioned before, NPC mentors have their own characteristics, but they do not accept disciples as widely as the official mentors arranged by Liye, often only accepting a few or even only one student, so every NPC qualified to be a mentor is a scarce resource, and players who can turn in three days have a first-come, first-served advantage, and immediately occupy this batch of valuable resources, further widening the gap with the players behind. Liu Hanshi's mentor is Sun Bin, Lu Lingchuan's mentor is Mozi, and Xuanyuan Longshen's mentor is "Goose Trace Knife" Yang Zeyu, which can be seen from this, with a celebrity as a mentor, the potential has been more than a step higher than that of the same professional player. As the first person in the public beta, Xuanyuan Ruofeng was directly co-opted by the various avenues, and finally entered the Three Mountains Fugu and became the personal disciple of Zhang Ruiming, the head of the Shenxiao faction, I don't know how many people were envious, jealous and hateful.

It's like the murder incident of the leper and ugly man on the street, as soon as this incident came out, a large number of NPCs left Yibei City, which reduced the chance of players getting unique skills. In fact, even if there is no such thing as killing people on the street, the "Qiankun" system will definitely control the refresh of NPCs intentionally or unintentionally to ensure that the first group of players can maintain their advantages, which is also a kind of feedback to this group of players who supported "Qiankun" on the first day of the open beta.

It can be seen that "Qiankun" is overall fair, but it is not blindly fair. If a player has confidence in Qiankun, enthusiastically enters the game during the open beta, smoothly blends into the game's atmosphere, and spends a lot of time leveling up, doing quests, and exploring the story, he will definitely be rewarded; On the contrary, those who have a wait-and-see attitude, did not pre-purchase holographic helmets first, and the public beta is late, and the leveling is even more intermittent, and they still think that this is not good, that is not good, this kind of person will never enter the first group. It's a two-way street, the player chooses the game, and the game chooses the player.

Thinking like this, Tu Shi returned to Yibei City.

He took Xiao Jia to Liu Dacaizi, didn't have the heart to reminisce about the past, hurried home to find the two teachers, and the first sentence was: "Master, I lost." ”

The two teachers were sitting opposite each other in a rare way, and when they heard this, Yi Wuya frowned: "Who did you lose to?" ”

Haiqing is truly humane: "A dead body, Yintang is black, and his eyes are blank, probably because he has encountered a ghost." ”

Tu Shi told the story again.

Yi Wuya snorted: "I thought it was something amazing, but it turned out that I lost to a little ghost." It's good that you should be frustrated a little bit, so that you don't know how great you are. Give me sword practice a hundred times tonight. ”

Haiqing Zhenren got up and said succinctly: "Follow me into the house." ”

Entering the right wing, Haiqing Zhenren took out the spices built into the incense burner, took out a variety of materials from his sleeves, and began to mix new spices in front of Tu Shi.

"After hitting a ghost, the connection between the three souls and the seven spirits of a person is unstable, and it is easy to lose the soul, so the first spice is the root of the soul tree, which is also the main material of the 'soul return incense', which can make the soul veins connected and harmonious; The breath of the ghost is ' Dead gas', for the deceased grievances mixed with yin qi, this qi is not in the five elements, can restrain the five elements of things, can infect the human body, and can be turned into anger to affect the mind, if not removed in time, the light is impulsive and thirsty to kill, the middle is depressed into a disease, and the heavy is reduced to a living corpse, so the second spice is the white elephant water lily lotus seed oil that has the effect of Buddhist meditation, which can make your body clean and unblemished, and the inside can make your Taoist heart white and flawless; , Yu Lei accompanies each other, and ghosts are easy to change. This flavor is called 'peach charm', and the Sanskrit name is 'Selesnya'. ”

"The peach branch of the big peach tree in Taodu Mountain? This name is so ordinary, can it be regarded as a spice for cultivators? Tu Shi asked whatever he thought.

Haiqing Zhenren took out a piece of ugly tree roots, and cut it into thin slices with the kind of slicing knife of the Chinese medicine pharmacy, and his movements were as skillful as an old pharmacist: "Taodu Mountain is an immortal mountain that has existed since ancient times, and there is a big peach tree with a radius of 3,000 miles on the mountain, and under the tree is the ghost gate leading to the underworld. However, after the Buddhism interfered with reincarnation, the big peach tree had died, and the ghost gate was completely closed. ”

"Wow, that sounds amazing. So who is Shen Tu and Yu Lei? ”

"These two are the gods who guard the ghost gate on Taodu Mountain, one holds a peachwood sword, and the other holds a reed rope, once there is a ghost to make trouble, they will tie it up and feed it to the tiger, so the ghosts are afraid of them. It is said that after the death of the big peach tree, the two gods have been transferred to the ghost city of Fengdu to take up their posts. ”

It's cruel to feed a tiger with a ghost. Tu Shi had an idea: "Peach Wood Sword? Could it be that the saying 'peach wood wards off evil spirits' came from here? ”

Haiqing's real jaw head.

Tu Shi's mouth snorted: "So, the reed rope also has the same status as the peach wood?" What can the reeds do, light and fluttering. ”

"Reed is one of the earliest wild plants that the ancient ancestors came into contact with, can be used in medicine, can make paper, and has a variety of values, so it has also left a deep imprint in the alternation of floods and famines. It is rumored that the Japanese people in the Fuji continent have gods who make reeds as boats, and I think that the ancient civilizations are common to all places. ”

Fuji Continent? "Fuji" server in Japan? Oh my God, I can actually hear the information of other servers here from Master You!

Tu Shi wanted to ask again, but Haiqing Zhenren lifted a withered branch as if he had seen through him, and preemptively intercepted the conversation: "Break it with force." ”

"It's too easy." Tu Shi grabbed it and asked while folding: "Master, Fuji-ah?!" What's going on? He looked down to make sure that it was a dead branch in his hand, not an iron rod. His hands were in pain, and the dead branches didn't move. It seems that this thing has a doorway, could it be the peach branch of the big peach tree in Taodu Mountain? He was energetic, the yin in his body descended and the yang rose, the true qi was agitated, the green tendons of his hands burst out, and he broke it hard, but the dead branch was only slightly bent, and it returned to its original state as soon as he let go.

Fragments of the Great Peach Tree: Fragments taken from the large peach tree in Taodu Mountain. The vitality contained in it has dissipated, and all that remains is a trace of the laws of the world. Not decomposable. It can be used for life occupations (raw materials for pharmaceuticals, spirit refining, etc.), and can be used for quests (ghost quest items).