Chapter 39: Emergence

"Nine-character mantra - soldiers, fight..."

Throwing a pill to restore energy into his mouth, Qiao Maning God launched the Soldier Word Trick and the Fight Word Trick. With only two skills at the first level, the added attributes are very small and completely negligible. Qiao Mai used it over and over again, purely for skill proficiency.

"Crunch, crunch..."

"Go away... Ahh

The four ghouls had just snapped the necks of the two riflemen, and then turned around and surrounded the other two swordsmen, their hideous appearance terrifying the newly recovered navy.

Seeing that the two subordinates could not escape, the captain of the navy, who had just woken up, decisively turned around and ran. Whether it was the strange monster in front of him or Qiao Mai's powerful spiritual attack, it scared his guts.

"It's getting more and more fun to run away..."

The captain of the navy behaved like an ordinary person, but Qiao Mai was surprised. The self-consciousness of these NPCs was completely beyond his expectations, and the monsters they encountered in the bubble world and the secret realm were completely incomparable to them.

In Qiao Mai's eyes, these guys are just NPCs in the game, and their fate is to be killed by players such as themselves. However, even Qiao Mai can't deny that the difference between these NPCs with complete intelligence and himself is only the difference in camp.

At the very least, they will also be afraid in the face of death and the unknown, and they will also choose to flee in the face of an unmatchable enemy.

"Roar..."

Ghouls have an additional stat - movement, and after taking out two swordsmen, they quickly catch up with the embarrassed Admiral. The claws glowing with an eerie light, after hitting the target, turned the Admiral's body into the same eerie color.

"Ghoul fever..."

Qiao Mai's eyes instantly became hot. The only attribute that a ghoul can count as a standout is this powerful character trait.

"Damn, shit... Give me death..."

The sudden drop of 20% of all attributes made the captain of the Navy desperate. Knowing that there was no hope of escaping, he instantly went berserk, and his huge fist, flashing red light, smashed the ghoul blocking the way, and pounced straight towards Qiao Mai, his momentum was like a mad tiger.

In this four-star difficulty map, the strength of all NPCs cannot be viewed from an ordinary point of view. Even without weapons, the strength of the naval commander did not decrease much. His fighting characteristics are also proficient, and he is as powerful as hand-to-hand combat.

"Hey, stupid..."

Qiao Mai stared at the figure that flew over, the corners of his mouth pulled up slightly, revealing a mocking smile. He's not just a weak summoner.

"Poke your feet - Mandarin duck step, run thunder..."

The wrong body easily flashed Wu Chang's ferocious fist, and in his stunned gaze, Qiao Mai hit the other party with a wild knee, directly knocking the other party away.

"Hehe, bye-bye......"

"Nails..."

Gracefully turned around and kicked off, Qiao Mai directly kicked and broke the neck of the Navy Captain. Until he lost consciousness, the eyes of the captain of the navy were full of disbelief.

"Bang dang..."

A small, dilapidated wooden box fell from next to the Admiral's corpse, and Qiao Mai's eyes lit up.

"It seems that these bronze-level monsters are not unsucked, but the explosion rate is too low..."

When he was in the secret realm before, Qiao Mai killed hundreds of bronze-level rotting corpses, and there was not a single hair. Compared to the bubble world, it's a world of difference. Obviously, the explosion rate of the bubble world was deliberately raised, and after officially entering the Gaia world, this benefit disappeared completely.

"Crunch..."

Qiao Mai opened the treasure chest with great anticipation. Enter the first box of the world platter, and don't know what to open?

"Successfully opened the treasure chest (Normal), the player has obtained Berry*300, Onigiri*1..."

Staring at the two things in his hand, Qiao Mai's whole person was not good.

Berry: The currency of the One Piece world. For 300, you can buy about 3 newspapers...

Onigiri (Normal): Within one minute, restore 20 points of stamina to the eater

Not to mention equipment and skills, this treasure chest has not even been able to open a few Mandate of Heaven copper coins. Only a few hundred berries of unknown purpose were exposed, and there was also a rice ball.

You must know that for every hour that the player survives, they will consume 1 Copper Mandate Coins. After entering the World Platter, the consumption increased to three pieces per hour.

Silently staring at the rice ball in his hand, Qiao Mai's thoughts raced.

If each game map has a currency representing its own civilization, it means that the Copper Coin of Destiny is an independent special currency that belongs to the system. Because for players, Copper Destiny Coin is essential. There are special rules that are necessary to support the player's survival.

"Damn, there's still too little information..."

Tucking the two things into her belt, Qiao Mai became anxious. As soon as you enter the world platter, you are assigned to a difficult four-star map. But even the most basic rules of the game, Qiao Mai didn't figure it out. At least, Qiao Mai is completely confused now, and he doesn't know what to do next.

Sure enough, you still have to find other players.

The shattered sky, emitting a faint red light, keeps the whole world from being completely dark. The only thing that made Qiao Mai uncomfortable was that apart from those terrifying cracks, there was neither the sun nor the moon in the sky, let alone the stars. However, even though the sky was an eerie dark red, the space he was in was normal. At the very least, the trees and grass are still green. The glow in the sky was still warm sunlight, not an eerie red glow.

Qiao Mai walked cautiously in the dense woods, and he had been groping for more than two hours. Probably because the time was close to night, the number of NPCs he encountered suddenly decreased in the second half an hour.

Along the way, Qiao Mai encountered dozens of waves of NPCs in different costumes, most of them formed a small team of several people. Qiao Mai can roughly tell that these NPCs are mainly divided into two camps: the navy and the pirates. Interspersed with rare bounty hunters and adventurers. In addition, there are many powerful beasts that will attack every intruder on their own.

As long as the navy and pirates meet, a battle will break out 100%. Bounty hunters and adventurers, on the other hand, were directly ignored by all navies. However, if the pirates encounter them, most of the time there will be a fight.

These NPCs also roughly follow the setting of the original book and move according to certain rules.

So what role do players play in this?

Qiao Mai racked his brain, and he seemed to grasp some key point.

At the moment, Qiao Mai had no idea how big the map of the Golden Island was really in, and compared to the small island in the original book, it was magnified thousands of times. Moreover, the characters who appear in the plot have also changed. In the original book, except for the Golden Dragon Pirates and the Straw Hats, there were no navies and other pirates, and bounty hunters and adventurers never appeared in the whole process.

And in the current map, the number of navies Qiao Mai has encountered alone is already in the hundreds, not to mention the even larger and more chaotic number of pirates. The previous system prompt also explained that characters that have appeared throughout the East China Sea have a certain chance of being refreshed on the Golden Island. In other words, it is not surprising that "His Majesty the Seven Martial Seas - Hawkeye Mihawk" and "Four Emperors - Red-haired Shanks" appear here. Of course, the odds of them appearing are probably infinitely close to zero.

"Well, something is wrong..."

Suddenly, Qiao Mai suddenly stopped, and the quiet surroundings made him instinctively uneasy. In the distance I have walked before, I can always encounter NPC battles every other section, and in the more than two hours that Qiao Mai has been dangling, he has encountered twenty or thirty battle scenes. It's been more than ten minutes since I entered the forest in front of me, but I haven't encountered a single NPC or a beast, let alone a battle scene.

"It won't be so unlucky, will it..."

Beads of sweat began to appear on Qiao Mai's face. He had deliberately stayed away from the coastal areas where warships and pirate ships existed, where the number of NPCs was the largest and the most chaotic, and all the most powerful NPCs should have stayed there. And the closer you get to the center of the island, the fewer the number of navies and pirates, but the figure of adventurers can be seen from time to time.

"Phew..."

Qiao Mai had just tentatively stepped forward with his right foot, and a cold bullet flew out of a corner and shot directly in front of Qiao Mai's right foot. The sudden attack made Qiao Mai stop all his movements. Powerful perception played its due role at this moment, and Qiao Mai could vaguely feel several blurred figures and their cold gaze.

It's the player, Qiao Mai breathed a sigh of relief, I'm afraid that he has broken into the territory of some powerful beast.

Now that the sky is getting dark, the number of active beasts is increasing, and even a large number of NPCs are forced to return to their respective camps to recuperate. Of course, the fact that the sun rises and the moon sets on this game map like the earth, and there is day and night, still shocked Qiao Mai.

With his left hand behind his back, Jomai suddenly made a gesture that would summon a ghoul as soon as the player on the opposite side made another move. Jo Mai would rather face stronger NPCs than treacherous players, at least, they won't surprise and stab with knives on their backs.

What do you want to do?

In the shadows of the gloomy trees, the corners of Qiao Mai's mouth pulled up again