Chapter 9: The Village Lady Wants to Make Money

Once a strange digital being in a sea of virtual networks, Rococo has been exposed to many fantasy adventure novels from countries around the world.

In adventure novels, the protagonist encounters a variety of difficulties at the beginning of the journey, such as guarding the boss of an area that the protagonist must pass if he wants to travel to become stronger, such as the obstruction of an early villain who can only be cannon fodder in the later stage, and for example, he must complete a certain task or obtain some key props to advance the plot stage to the next stage.

If we use the storylines in these novels as an analogy, Rococo once felt that the first difficulty he faced in his journey to save the natural creator god should be either some accident when collecting the original godhead fragments from the Holy Cult, or the obstruction from the other party when he went to the Free Federation to stop the plague king from messing up the plot...... Soon, however, Rococo realized that he had been naΓ―ve at first.

In order to compensate those Earth players who unknowingly became time-travelers to help save the continent of Emissia and the goddess of creation, Arya, Mira used her legal authority to modify the external perception of the game "Redemption" in the time and space of the earth, so that the virtual game currency of the game "Redemption" was connected with the actual monetary economic system, and a virtual physical currency exchange system protected by the laws of national organizations around the world was established.

However, in the early days of the game, in order to protect the enthusiasm of the public players who do not have abundant real capital, the currency exchange mechanism of "Redemption" was not opened at the same time as the open beta. Therefore, at this stage, the total amount of in-game currency is scarce, and the value of the currency is relatively high, both for players and for NPCs.

The currency mechanism in "Redemption", or the common currency mechanism of the human kingdom in the plane of the original Eumisia continent, is a gold, silver and copper hundred system with the traditional RPG style on the earth, and in the early days of the game, the most popular currency is undoubtedly the lowest value copper coin, as for the gold coins worth one hundred silver coins or ten thousand copper coins, it is still quite rare for players and ordinary NPCs of non-rich merchants and nobles in this period.

However......

"Hello, I want to teleport to the Holy City of the Holy Sect."

"It costs 5 gold to teleport across borders, do you want to confirm the transfer?"

…… Huh?

Rococo looked at the spectacled man in front of him, who was in charge of managing the business of this teleportation point.

"Uh, how much does it cost to teleport to the Holy City of the Church?"

"It costs 5 gold to teleport across borders, do you want to confirm the transfer?"

The man with glasses replied coldly (in fact, he was formulaic and expressionless because he only had low-level intelligence).

5, 5 gold coins?!

"What's wrong, Xiaoke?"

Relying on others not to see her, so she sat on Rococo's shoulder and watched the scenery unscrupulously, Alia, noticed Rococo's somewhat twitching expression, so she asked.

Rococo silently turned away from the waypoint and came to a sparsely populated spot on the street, then took off the package behind him and opened it, turning out a small package from the inside. I saw a small stack of silver coins and copper coins neatly stacked inside, and then she took out an inconspicuous small cloth bag from the inner pocket and outer pocket of her simple clothes that were very in line with the identity of the village girl, and after opening it, she took out a golden gold coin and a small handful of copper coins from it respectively.

Well, a total of one gold coin, fifty silver coins, and nineteen copper coins, which is quite good for a village girl from a small village, in fact, before leaving the town as the initial base, Rococo, who ran a flower shop alone, was indeed a Bai Fumei (village girl) with good economic conditions in that town.

It's a pity that such a family belongings that are enough to have food and clothing in the villages and towns are not even half of the transmission to the holy city of the Sect, nay, less than one-third.

The big city is so scary, she wants to go back to the countryside......

Watching Rococo spread out all his belongings there and count them one by one, although Arya was a little natural, she was not stupid, and it was easy to figure out Rococo's situation.

"Uh, Xiao Ke, it can't be that you don't have enough money, right?"

Rococo sighed.

"yes...... I had expected that using a teleportation array would be expensive, but I didn't expect it to be so expensive. Obviously, it only costs 10 silver coins to take a caravan passenger carriage from the previous town to the royal city, and I'm still thinking that maybe the teleportation array can be done with only 1 gold coin......"

Arya looked at Rococo's somewhat depressed appearance, and suddenly didn't know which thread in her head was touched, and immediately became indignant.

"How can this be! But you obviously want to go to the Holy City of the Church for the purpose of saving this world, how can they still ask you for money! ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Then you go to them for a theory. ”

"But they couldn't see me...... Xiao Ke, you can go and explain it to them! ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦β€¦β€¦β€¦β€¦β€

Not to mention that only those low-level intelligent NPCs have no ability to communicate with people, Rococo made up in his mind the scene of himself claiming to be a "savior brave" and then asking the teleportation array manager to take credit...... The picture is too beautiful.

Forget it, she still has to find a way to make up the 5 gold coins as soon as possible.

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As mentioned before, in the early days of "Redemption", before the currency exchange function was opened, the monetary economic situation here was roughly similar to the normal monetary economic state of the original plane of the Eumisian continent.

Generally speaking, for ordinary civilian families living in human kingdoms on the continent, copper coins are commonly used currency, silver coins are occasionally used as large-denomination currency, and gold coins may only be seen by many commoners in their lifetimes when they show off their wealth in the Chamber of Commerce or nobles in public.

Therefore, although it was decided to scrape together 5 gold coins as soon as possible, it was not an easy task for Rococo. Since the NPCs in "Redemption" usually have their own ecological lives, it is not very difficult to find odd jobs in the royal city that NPCs can apply for, but the remuneration is almost a few copper coins a day, more than a dozen copper coins, which is enough for ordinary country girls who want to settle in the royal city alone, but it is wishful thinking to save enough 5 gold coins with this savings.

Rococo asked Alya to search for the work that NPCs could do to make money in the early days in the information that came with the NPC system, but she could hardly find any useful information. After all, this information is a summary of player feedback collected by Mira from outside forums and other places during the last failed salvation plan, and players who don't know that this game world is actually a real world, how can they care about where NPCs can make a lot of money, so it basically has little to do with game tasks.

Eventually, giving up the low-paying jobs that could be found in NPC storefronts down the street, Rococo came to the Adventurers' Guild with the last hope. Although "adventurers" have basically become the name of NPCs for players after becoming a game world, the adventurer's union organization existed long before the game-based plane of the Emissian continent, and its purpose is to provide a place for related businesses to engage in employment transactions and related information.

In the game "Redemption", the main role of the adventurer's guild is only to release ordinary NPC tasks or repeatable daily tasks to players, or provide some common monsters and map information, but in fact, according to the information in the NPC system, the daily tasks released by the adventurer's union often have tasks such as allowing players to assist the NPC adventurer team in danger in a certain place, which shows that there may indeed be entrusted tasks in the adventurer's union that can be claimed by NPCs.

Rococo came to the Adventurers' Guild, and the Guild Hall was still empty, with no one except for a few NPC adventurers whose fixed position functions were likely to only serve as backgrounds. Players will not be able to walk out of the Starter Village until level 10 to make it to the main city of the Radiant Empire or the Free Federation, so it is only natural that there are few people in the Adventurer's Guild at this time.

Rococo saw at a glance the bulletin board of commissions placed in a prominent position in the union hall, and went over with hope. Now that she has not awakened a little bit of her strength as an original goblin, even if she fights monsters, she will not be able to gain experience and cannot be upgraded due to the identity restrictions of NPCs, so she naturally skips those tasks that require combat and looks for them in the remaining field gathering tasks.

However, it is a pity that in the protected area where the monsters outside the city are weak and scarce, even if there is a gathering quest released, the reward is not much more than working in the city, and as long as the reward price is slightly higher, the collection location is almost always in the commonly known wild monster area as players. Since the main city is the main activity area for players after leaving the novice village, the mobs in the surrounding mob area are at least level 10 or above, which can be called dangerous for Rococo with only level 1.

Although Rococo will not die as an NPC, after she dies, it is very likely that she will return to the original town as her initial base because of the NPC's refresh mechanism, and everything will have to start over, and I don't know if the original money in the package will be lost. Or once she is attacked by wild monsters and does not die but is trapped in the wild, maybe there will be an additional entrusted task such as "rescuing the village girl Rococo who encountered wild monsters in the wild" on the side of the city union, and then she has to stay in the wild because of system limitations, and after the players come to the main city at level 10, they will be "rescued" back by those players as a valuable "mission target...... God, save her poor shame.

Eventually, Rococo searched around, but still couldn't find anything suitable for her to do. Just as she was about to turn away in disappointment after one last glance at the board, a commission at the top of the board caught her attention.

[Countess's troubles: Countess Tibers recently purchased a sapphire moonflower for her cherished flower garden, but this precious variant of the moon ring flower from the north is obviously not well adapted to the warm climate of the royal city, and before the countess entrusts the merchant to buy the ice crystal magic stone that can adjust the temperature of the flower garden for the moon flower, she needs some ice blue salamander corpses to temporarily use as fertilizer for the moon flower to ensure that they can survive. Commissioned content: The carcasses of at least 30 ice blue salamanders; Reward: Submit the corpse of 30 ice blue salamanders to get 1 gold coin, and the number exceeds the additional reward to calculate ......]

After reading the background information of the mission on the bulletin board, Rococo's eyes couldn't help but light up.

This task...... Maybe she could try!