Act II: Business Travel

When Su Chen broke free from the darkness that seemed to be the deepest part of the universe, what appeared in front of him was a turquoise grassland. In the extreme distance, you can faintly see the snow-capped mountains, the green grass spreads from the mountains on the other side of the line of sight to his feet, and Su Chen can even vaguely see the mammoths that are trekking on the grassland. They are marching in droves through the savannah, which belongs exclusively to the Northlands.

That's right, the savannahs that belong to the Northlands.

Su Chen vaguely remembered that the teleportation target he had chosen was the Isle of Shadows in the Shipwreck Bay—so he should have seen such a picture: the gray-black sky when the storm was coming, the vast sapphire-like sea, and the busy ships coming and going. He should have breathed in the salty breeze of the sea, not seen the current puzzling scene. Su Chen seemed to have thought of something, he immediately opened his log, and then saw such a text.

[In July 765 of the Age of the Stars, I finally escaped the mage tower of the evil archmage. The inhumane treatment I suffered inside broke me down several times, but luckily I persevered in the end. Unfortunately, when I finally left the Mage Tower, the sudden collapse of the tower caused a major teleportation error. I don't know where I've been now...... The only thing that luckily was that my head and my hands were intact. 】

Well, it's a random event.

Su Chen sighed. Random events are also one of the elements of the game "Authority", and even if different people do the same mission, there will be some differences in some details. There are even times when things go the other way, and the culprit is random events. Su Chen never thought that he would encounter a random event at the beginning. Fortunately, his meeting with his senior sister has to be delayed again.

Of course, the top priority now is to get out of this vast grassland first. A Level 1 Psychic Warlock doesn't have any sense of security in this kind of wilderness, even if his Psychic Warlock is not open to the profession...... Su Chen estimated that a wolf would be able to hand him over his virgin hanging.

Su Chen opened the bag he was carrying and began to check what he had on his body—the conclusion was hopeless. For when he had taken out all his props, he found that all he had on him was a large loaf of bread, a jug of water, a hand-drawn map, a dagger, and a torch. Fortunately, the Psychic Warlock doesn't need casting materials to cast spells, otherwise he wouldn't be able to throw out even a single psionic energy now, so he could only use a dagger to fight. And what really made Su Chen feel cheated was that his race was a machine man, no matter how much he looked like a human, his essence was a robot. So the bread and water in the bag are practically useless.

The novice equipment actually gave me these things, and life is really full of surprises. Su Chen couldn't help but sigh.

But fortunately, Su Chen made a new discovery after carefully flipping through the map that he didn't know who had drawn it by hand. His area was the border between the northern borders of the Flannian Empire and the barbarian kingdom of Bunochi, and there were many scattered villages along this long border, one of which was not very far away, about two hours away.

And he also has some deposits - the initial capital of paying players is 150 gold coins, which is simply the difference between the sling and the rich second generation for ordinary players who are still struggling to make ends meet.

So he should be able to repair the village. However, it is really a big challenge to walk in the wild for 2 hours, and no one can encounter danger in the wild at any time, and Su Chen's dagger with damage of only 1 to 4 is not of much use.

But fortunately, this game is still relatively friendly to new players, when Su Chen walked for about ten minutes, he suddenly noticed a burst of smoke from the ignition of a bonfire not far away - the sun was hanging high at this time, it was time for lunch, so Su Chen estimated that there was either a group of business travelers there, or he just ran into a group of mercenaries. And it turned out that Su Chen's prediction was not wrong, and when he walked to the place where the smoke rose, he saw a group of caravans stationed here.

There were about a dozen horses grazing on the grass near where they were stationed, and some mercenaries in leather or chain mail were laughing loudly around the campfire; Nibbling on the dry food he was carrying. When they saw Su Chen coming from a distance, the laughter immediately stopped, and they all looked at Su Chen with some vigilance, and soon the leader among them walked over, looking at Su Chen with a thick guard in his eyes: "Hello, strange traveler." ”

"Hello. I'm a passenger who came here due to a teleportation array error" Su Chen had a friendly smile on his face: "Please relax, I don't have any hostility." Perhaps because of his kind smile, the leader in front of him didn't show too much guard, he let go of the hilt of the sword that he had been holding tightly, and then showed a hearty smile: "The teleportation array is wrong?" So it looks like you're going to have a lot of stories on you, maybe we can share them? ”

"It's a pleasure."

In Su Chen's understanding, the main world where "Authority" is located is a high-magic world, and the arcane arts in it have developed to the point that they are no different from the highly developed technological world. If you want to find a similar world in the early similar worldview, the main world of "Authority" Yanan is more similar to "Alberon", and even higher than the magic level of the forgotten kingdom "Feron". Naturally, highly developed magic gave birth to a new race of machine people, which was not born out of nature at all.

So when these merchants learned that Su Chen was a machine person, their faces showed incredible expressions: "The current level of magic is really powerful...... It's possible to create a realistic mechanical figure like you. ”

"There's nothing strange about this, the concept of humanoid mechanics has been proposed more than once in the Northland Wizards Alliance, or in the Council of the Rings of black-robed mages." Su Chen's 'Rumor' skill brought constant hints made it easy for him to know the secrets of the game: "They use the blood of dragons, or demons; The bloodlines of otherworldly creatures like the Otherworldly Divine Servants are used to construct the Traps, and they have indeed succeeded in making some fine products. I was one of them. ”

"So...... You also have xenomorph blood in your body? Taking a sip of the spicy liquor, the owner of the business inn said curiously, and Su Chen shook his head calmly: "The blood in my body is very ordinary, but if I can, I don't mind injecting some dragon blood into my body to improve my spell-casting ability." ”

"So you're still a spellcaster." The master of the merchant brigade nodded knowingly, and his eyes that seemed a little cloudy looked Su Chen up and down - even in Yanan, where the magic civilization was extremely prosperous, a spellcaster would rarely appear in front of ordinary people. "But a spellcaster isn't so easy to walk on this grassland, maybe we can go in a group - if only you paid me some fare, and we often travel with travelers we meet by chance in the wilderness, but it's all paid."

"What do you think of a gold coin?"

"That's more than enough." The owner of the business trip smiled and took a gold coin handed to him by Su Chen, weighed its color in his hand, and then put it into the gray-black old bag behind him with satisfaction, "So where are you going next?" Our route was to cross the steppe, pass the Chongsa River, and then follow the river south to the Fort of the Northland in Flanne. We're going to fix it up there, and maybe you can use the teleportation array in that place to go wherever you want. ”

"That really helps." Su Chen nodded, "I do need the help of the teleportation array. "-Otherwise, how would he meet with his senior sister?

While a few people were chatting, the sky gradually darkened. And through this period of communication, Su Chen also roughly understood the method of communicating with these NPCs. First of all, any modern language will automatically be converted into words that they can understand, and secondly, even if Su Chen mentions anything that is not part of this game, they will selectively become deaf and use 'En'ehhhhh

Otherwise, these NPCs are as intelligent as real people. Of course, this could also be due to the fact that they have a perfect script...... But who knows?

Su Chen only felt that this kind of role-playing was amazing.