"Online Games: Half a Step First"

Panting and dragging two floating saucers, Wutong and his party quickly ran back to the vicinity of the underground market, perhaps sensing the infestation of a large number of living people, and the pea demons that had been haunting them all the time finally retreated.

Even if it is a third-order necromantic creature, it does not dare to rush into the place where the crowd gathers rashly, after all, there are few heroes and legends in the human race, but there are still a lot of elites of the 3rd and 4th levels, and any one of them can be killed.

Looking at the crowd walking around them from time to time with curious glances, Wutong breathed a sigh of relief, dealing with elite-level creatures, the challenge is quite difficult, it should be said, very, very, very big!

Players have been in contact with Endless for so long, and nowadays, except for those who are engaged in secondary positions such as scholars and xxx members, or auxiliary positions such as craftsmen in various industries, the vast majority of them have officially taken up their jobs and become full-fledged professionals, which are the so-called "first-order professions", and have become accustomed to the various rules of Endless.

In terms of game progress, "Endless" has officially crossed the early stage and entered the middle stage of development, according to the consistent game difficulty of "Endless", the strength of players has also reached a "high level", and they need to develop horizontally and accumulate enough foundation to climb to a higher level, which is also known as the "rank level".

To put it simply, with "0 to 1" as the standard, the difficulty of "1 to 2" is probably more than ten times greater than "0 to 1", and "2 to 3", that is, "[general level] to [elite]", this cannot be estimated by the difficulty of multiples, without a certain opportunity and luck, it will always be stuck in the [general level] and unable to move!

Therefore, the aboriginal NPCs that players can currently access are basically [general level], and the 2nd level is already very advanced, if you describe the situation in reality:

Tier 1 is the "village chief", the 2nd rank is the "village chief", the 3rd level [elite] is the "town mayor", the 4th level [elite] can almost be regarded as the "district chief", and the 5th level [hero] is considered the "mayor", the 6th level [hero] is considered the "governor", and there are only how many provincial governors are there in a country?

The 7th-order and 8th-order [super-order] characters already belong to the humanoid strategic xìng nuclear bomb at the level of the State Council! There is a figure who belongs to the national treasure level, such a rank pyramid, which can show that in the "endless", if you want to improve the rank, how difficult it is, once you encounter the rank level, the foundation of the "pyramid" is not solid enough, and the "height" will naturally not be reached.

It is foreseeable that for a long time to come, players will probably be trapped in the [General Tier].

In this case, as a first-order professional, if you want to deal with the third-order [elite], it is undoubtedly an act of looking for death, and they can take it out of the hands of an elite unscathed, in addition to their own thick foundation, even if they are the best among the players, but also because the pea demon is not a real elite monster, but a mutated "wild elite, pseudo-elite", just has an elite template, and does not have the foundation of a real elite, otherwise, encounter a genuine elite monster, Wutong and they were killed in seconds, and they didn't even have time to defend.

This made Wutong afraid for a while, originally he felt that he was already very good, but when he fought against real high-level creatures, he found a huge gap in strength, no wonder people said, "The rivers and lakes are getting older and older, and the more bold they are, the smaller they are." ”。

The more they knew, the more they didn't have the courage to rush into the high-level ruins with the strength of the 0th order when they were on the trial island, and they also took the shit luck in the state that the ruins were not officially lived, and they went around in it and came out alive, it can't be regarded as a miracle, in a dangerous area like this in the future, it's better to be cautious, the loss of hanging once is quite huge, and the loss is not just experience.

"So what do we do now?" Lingyue Shuangxue looked at Wutong: "Leaving the underground ruined city? ”

"That guy has his eye on us, as long as we leave this crowded bazaar, it will still find us, this guy is not what we can deal with now, it's not that our damage can't kill it, but our skills and spells can't hit it at all, we can't hit it, so why stay here?" ..., Wutong looked at the huge dark space outside the bazaar: "Anyway, we have obtained information and clues related to the mission, we can return to the ground and report the news to complete the mission, but the mission reward will not be too surprising."

For a long time, they have been accustomed to surpassing the original difficulty of the task and completing the additional task amount, and finally encountered a problem, which is inevitably a little unaccustomed, this is the interesting part of the task system of "Endless", an ordinary task that may seem insignificant, as long as you are willing to dig, it can even be expanded into a large chain of tasks!

"Gone, gone! Anyway, the area of the underground ruined city is so large, the number of confluence points of underground water pipelines and underground reservoirs is so large, there will definitely be no shortage of ghoul dens hidden everywhere, and it is impossible for a few of us to complete the entire mission, and this mission has been expanded into a large mission for the entire player layer. ”

Wutong himself didn't expect that it would be just an inadvertent effort to bring his injured teammates back to the city, which would cause such a huge game event, and the "cause and effect rules" of the core consciousness god were too powerful.

The group of people who didn't dare to stay, under the guidance of Zara, returned to the surface world through another passage in the market, and when they came up, the entrance and exit were actually in a small house in a remote civilian area not far from Mercenary Street, and according to Zara, this was actually the stronghold of a certain thief guild!

Even if someone raids and destroys the Thieves' Guild's stronghold, they will never find the entrance to the underground ruined city hidden in the secret passage of the Thieves' Guild's stronghold!

Back on the ground, Fairhaven City was already at night, and it was under the curfew of the whole city, and Fairhaven, which originally seemed to be a city that never sleeps, was also very quiet at the moment, and the Sycamore and others who appeared on the street were soon discovered by the patrolling Enforcer Knights, and almost arrested them, and finally Sycamore revealed his identity as a baron, and explained that there were important intelligence clues about the plague, and he wanted to meet with the head of the Enforcer Knights, and was escorted to the headquarters of the Enforcer Knights by a small group of Enforcer Knights.

"Is it an underground ruined city?"

In the reception hall of the headquarters of the Knights of the Enforcer, the head of the knights who had seen him before frowned: "In this case, it will be difficult."

Although he didn't say why it was "difficult", Wutong could guess a little bit, the forces in the underground ruined city were intricate, and they were more unregulated than the mercenary streets in the outer city of Fairhaven, although he definitely knew about the existence of the underground ruined city, but if the official enforcer knight representing Andele easily got involved in the underground ruined city, I am afraid it would cause unnecessary internal chaos.

Especially in the underground ruined city, there are also many professional guilds and the shadow of the dragon pattern family's forces, although it is a tacit matter for everyone, but if it is brought to the table, it is a major event that will affect the stability of the entire Adele Guild!

Not to mention those professional guilds that walk in the shadow of yīn, the thirteen dragon pattern families with power all over the entire Kovarare continent, each of which is a behemoth comparable to a state institution, it can be said that it is an empire without territorial restrictions, even the royal family of Andel does not dare to easily fight with it!

There are three main dragon families active in the Adele Guild, namely the Cannes family, which they have contacted before, headquartered in Fairhaven City, and the Leland family, whose family headquarters are located on Stormwind Island, and the Orion family, whose family headquarters is located in Passage City.

These three dragon families, any one, are behemoths with power spanning many countries, and a stomp of their feet can cause an uproar among the kingdoms, and thousands of years of operation have allowed their power and industry to take root in the deep and intertwined roots of the countries of Kovaré.

Once it turns against it, I am afraid that the entire country's economy and transportation will be paralyzed, which leads to the royal family of the countries deeply jealous of these families at the same time, but also has to befriend them, which is similar to the relationship between some countries in the Europa region and the wealthy chaebols, these families can even control and manipulate the country's politics and economy in disguise.

In this case, how dare you make a decision so easily for a small enforcer knight leader?

The enforcer knights, to put it bluntly, are similar to the police in reality, the actual power and status are far lower than the army, and most of the enforcer knights are composed of low-level small nobles or new knights, which is far from the status of the hereditary knights who control the army. ..., "Okay! Now that I know about this matter, I will personally report it to Her Majesty, the Auxiliary Prince and the Ministers, and I will also report to Her Majesty the Queen about the merits of Baron Sycamore."

After thinking about it for a while, the Knight Commander felt that this matter was beyond his ability, and decided to report the incident and let the higher-level people make the decision, which made Wutong and the others disappointed and looked forward to it, disappointed that they could not get a reward from the Knight Leader, and the expectation was that once this task rose to the point where the queen needed to decide, then the expectation of the reward would be doubled.

Coming out of the Knights of the Enforcer, it was already close to dawn, and they didn't plan to mess around outside, so they found a bar to sit down, and planned to go to the Forest of Will to level up after dawn, and the contact with the elite monsters made everyone realize that their strength was still too low in the world of "Endless".

"I guess this will end up falling on us 'adventurers'."

Wutong held a glass of comprehensive juice, glanced at Zara and Wood, who were honestly sitting with Xiaoxiao, did not use the word "player", although it was directly said that the player would not have anything, but it would inevitably cause curious inquiries from the aborigines, explaining that after half a day, it was interfered with by the "fuzzy mechanism" of the core consciousness god, and in the end, it had to be stopped, and the aborigines would never be able to figure out where the players came from and what was going on in another "world" other than Kovare.

Therefore, players who are accustomed to this usually use "adventurer" as a self-title, but the meaning is different from the group of adventurers as understood by the aborigines.

"Why do you say that?"

Lingyue Frost and Snow was a little puzzled: "The monsters in the underground ruined city are not something that the current players can compete with, and they can only be sent to death if they enter, right?" I mean the elitists. ”

According to what happened to them, if there is a nest of ghouls near an underground reservoir, there must be a boss, and it is not surprising that they are basically 3rd order monsters like pea demons, and for the current 1st level players, it is simply impossible to kill the target.

"It's because the boss can't be xxx off, so the task will fall on our adventurers, the current players are generally 1st order, just enough to clean up those ordinary 1st order ghouls, and 3rd order demons can't be cleaned up, so there will be a steady stream of new ghouls, attracting more players to go, and the corpses of players hanging in the ground will become new ghouls, and the cycle continues."

Wutong shrugged his shoulders and said, "In this way, the underground ruined city under Fairhaven City has become a new 'leveling map'. If I guess correctly, then the royal family will issue a mission to the Mercenary Guild and the Adventurer Guild in the name of a bounty, and the player who receives the task will risk rushing into an underground ruined city that is almost as huge as the entire Fairhaven City, or even more complicated. ”

"Khan!"

Lingyue Shuangxue looked left and right, and couldn't help but lean into Wutong's ear, lowered her voice and changed to Yamei instead of the [lingua franca] in the game: "In that case, didn't we open up a leveling map?" Is this what we are doing to move the game, or is it being the game that is driving us? ”

The girl's breath lingered in Wutong's ears, and Wutong shrank her neck slightly in embarrassment, and said with a dry smile: "This is the difference between "Endless" and traditional online games, and the 'cause and effect rules' of the core consciousness are really amazing." ”

Zara and Wood looked at the two of them blankly, as a shapeshifter who is good at disguised as others, Zara herself can be called a master of language, knowing even more languages than Sycamore, but it is completely unable to understand the conversation between the two, which is also a method that players have researched to try to avoid the aborigines.

As long as they don't sync their native language into the [lingua franca] used in the game, the natives won't understand what they say, but unfortunately they can't use this rule to talk across races, and some of the pathetic barbarians can only remember the benefits of being able to speak among themselves.

Looking outside the bar, Wutong found that the time was almost approaching dawn, stood up and threw a few silver coins on the rough log table of the bar, which was considered a tip for the bar shì girls who were standing not far away and dozing off frequently, and they bothered a few late at night, and beckoned to Ling Yue Shuangxue and Xiaoxiao: "Let's go, we still have to go to Mercenary Street, I still have something to explain to Xiaoxiao and Xiaoba." ”…,

As the day gradually turned into a beautiful black green sè, a new day in Fairhaven City began again, and the coachmen drove the carriage through the streets again, although the shadow of the plague was still shrouded, but the situation had been kept to a minimum, so after the curfew was lifted, some of the aborigines began to go out of their homes again and live their daily lives.

Wutong estimated that after the news of his report was delivered, the senior Adele, who knew the source of the plague, would think of ways to solve the spread of the plague in the city, such as putting [anti-plague potions] into the water source, or ordering the civilians to use the water source from the spring instead of the water source in the cold and warm waterways, after all, what the ghouls are entrenched in is nothing more than a reservoir of underground water, and the water of the underground lava spring is still pure, and no ghoul would be stupid enough to soak himself in boiling water with an average temperature of more than 100 degrees Celsius.

Back on Mercenary Street, there are already quite a few people here, after all, players are more industrious creatures than natives, and it is a familiar practice for every player to be ready to travel before the city gates are opened.

When they walked to "Secret Law Store No. 44", they unexpectedly found that Xiao San, who had gone out to do a task, and the handsome Europa girl Lorenna. Artherine actually came back, and when she saw Wutong and Xiaoxiao, the two craziest girls in the female xìng job play rushed over and grabbed the little Lori for a while.

"Ahh boss！ It's only been a long time since you've seen you, and you've kidnapped two elf girls from there? Xiao San looked in amazement at Zara and Wood, who were closely following behind Sycamore.

"Elf girl? Appearing in your true form scares you to death! ”

Wutong sneered, too lazy to explain to her: "Don't make trouble! These are my two new [servants], when did you return?" ”

"Came back yesterday. Isn't this a curfew? We rushed into Fairhaven before the closure, so took a break at a nearby hostel. ”

Xiao San snatched Xiao Lori's embarrassing monkey, pinched, pinched, and smiled: "Recently, the town of Aoraon has been busy with work, after we finished the task, Sister Ling asked us to come back first to see if there is anything we need help here, if there is nothing wrong, we will escort another batch of supplies over today." ”

Lin Linling and Lean Pig transferred almost all the manpower in Fairhaven City to the town of Auraon, it seems that there is indeed a large-scale operation going on there, and Wutong, the shopkeeper who is not very interested in these, he has always dug the pit and buried it, and he will throw it to them to be responsible for finding a deal.

"Alright then, we'll set off with you in a while, and it's time to practice and level up, and besides, I'm going to go to the Will Forest to catch a suitable magic pet."

Wutong said, poured out a lot of things from the backpack and handed them to Xiaoxiao and Xiaoba, the girls didn't pay attention, but when they saw what Wutong poured out, they broke out in a cold sweat, not to mention anything else, just that a lot of thunder stones, like Wutong poured like this, if you accidentally explode one, half of the mercenary street will have to be blown up! RO！。