Chapter Ninety-Six: Capture
Towards noon, as the players went online one after another, Yebian Town became lively again, and the new players of the defense station also carried out daily check-in on Tang Yi's side, which was also one of Tang Yi's jobs.
Although new players don't have the slightest respect and awe for his status as the captain in the game, according to the rules of Dawning City, if they want to receive their monthly salary normally, they must honestly sign in every day, complete the relevant tasks that are released, and spend four hours a day at the outpost, and then clock out and leave.
As their direct boss, Tang Yi will score and evaluate each subordinate player every month according to the attendance rate and task completion or other performance, and the evaluation will be directly related to the salary payment of these people, whether it is paid on time, or whether there is an additional bonus or a part to be deducted.
After a group of persuasions in the early days of the game, except for a small number of Buddhist players who remained in the game, most of the players chose to silently accept this series of rules imposed by the game company.
Although the gameplay is extremely poor and the setting is extremely unfriendly, as long as you play the game online every day, you may earn more money than a white-collar worker sitting in the office, isn't it fragrant?
In any case, relying on a lot of money to open the way, the game has indeed barely established a preliminary management system, although many places are still relatively chaotic, but it is still improving, and is gradually playing a role.
Tang Yi informed the other players of the appointment of Lu Renjia and the restructuring of the defense team, and he didn't get much surprise, everyone didn't care about it, and after the incident, everyone began to shout about today's task.
"NPCs don't care about us."
"Anyway, we're also on daily patrols, why don't I go first?"
"To be honest, it's actually a bit boring.,Those NPCs are too honest.,Yesterday I finally caught a drunken man.,Scared to kowtow and beg for mercy.,It's so boring.,I thought I could fight.。
"As long as you can make money, whatever."
Tang Yi listened to a bunch of complaints with an expressionless face, and he didn't bother to speak, and said directly: "Then let's do some different tasks today, who is interested, go on an adventure in the jungle with me?" ”
Everyone was stunned.
"Didn't the person surnamed Chen say anything about blocking the border and not letting him in?" The person who spoke had no respect for Mayor Chen, but he also knew that what the mayor said could not be disobeyed casually, otherwise he might have to deduct his salary.
"Seems a little dangerous."
"We don't look like you are an internal beta employee, and it's not easy for us to make some money from outsourcing." Someone complained that the new players who stayed basically defaulted to Tang Yi, and these old players in the internal beta were internal employees of the company.
The others nodded their heads.
Tang Yi said: "Each participant in this task will be rewarded with an additional 500 yuan, and at least one A-level evaluation will be given to the participants, as well as several B-level and C-level evaluations. ”
"Boss, I'm ready, when are we leaving?"
"Without further ado, let's go!"
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Tang Yi sighed, it is still simple and direct to the players, as long as there are enough benefits, he is not afraid that these players will be disobedient. According to his inquiry, an A-level assessment can increase the monthly salary of these new players by at least 2,000, and the B-level assessment will also be several hundred more.
A quarter of an hour later, Tang Yi set off with twelve rookie players who were ready. The rest of the players were forced to stay behind by him to continue their daily patrol missions, as their stats were too poor and they didn't have the necessary equipment.
Tang Yi wanted to scout in the vicinity first, but it was always a bit risky to go by himself, so he thought about bringing more rookie players over, although the strength of these black iron newcomers was a little worse, but as long as there were enough people, the quantity could still be transformed into quality.
From Yebian Town, it only takes about half an hour's walk to enter the northern jungle, and the nearest road is the one that the elves used to use to go to and from the market, and there are also the most vigilant magic arrays set up nearby.
The Vigilance Magic Array is a device inscribed with magic runes buried deep in the ground, each device is connected to each other into a line, forming a warning network that completely surrounds the border of the jungle, as long as someone crosses over, it will immediately trigger the device, and radiate strong energy in a very short time, knocking down or stunning those who cross the border.
And the task of the defense team is to bring back these fallen people and hand them over to Mayor Chen to deal with, as for the specific disposal method, it actually has little to do with Tang Yi and them.
Tang Yi led the players directly across this defense line, and the method was also very simple, he only needed to temporarily stop one of the devices, as the captain, he still had the permission to view the burial map of each realm device.
On the first day, he did not choose to go deep into the jungle, but looked around near the defensive line, the jungle was very dense, full of bushes and thorns, and it was difficult to take every step forward after leaving the avenue, it was an almost primitive jungle, and they could only rely on weapons and slashes to slowly carve out a path.
The elves are able to come and go freely every time, and they can ignore these thorny obstacles, but it is said that it is because they are proficient in the power of nature.
Originally, Tang Yi's purpose was just to reconnoitre, but after this whole day, he had returned to the life of a lumberjack when he first entered the game, leading a group of players to cut through thorns and thorns in the depths of the jungle, but he comforted himself, at least when he really wanted to infiltrate the elves, he didn't have to worry about the road.
The other players also found it boring, which was really tiring for the Black Iron player, but the idea of wages and bonuses kept everyone going.
The jungle was not very peaceful, and occasionally a few beasts would pass by, but the new players who were eager to try it didn't even have to make a move, they were directly killed by Tang Yi.
In the dense jungle, Tang Yi didn't dare to use too powerful spells, so he only used the fire bomb technique, this spell he had just mastered was actually very applicable, and a single low-density burst would hardly ignite the other trees around.
After a few battles, Tang Yi's proficiency became higher and higher, and then he gradually discovered another use of fire bombs, in fact, two fire bullets can be released at the same time, and the spell only needs to be chanted once, the secret lies in how to use the perception distractedly, and condense the elements at the tip of another finger at the same time during the chanting.
Practice combat is indeed the best way to quickly improve the proficiency of combat skills.
Tang Yi couldn't help but feel that it might not be the best choice for Dawning City to assign a large number of players to management positions, of course, there are indeed some old players who refuse to hold any positions for this reason, and just concentrate on leveling up.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, seeing that it was not too early, Tang Yi was ready to collect the team and go home, the road was unimpeded and did not encounter any danger, which also made everyone's courage gradually bigger.
"Hey, why are there withered trees here, isn't it supposed to be summer in the game world right now?" I don't know who pointed to a withered tree not far away.
"Maybe I'm sick."
"Don't worry about it, it's not too early, hurry back to the city and go offline."
They didn't care if a tree was alive or dead, and after four hours in Nobian Town, they were already distracted.
Tang Yi was not reluctant, he turned his head and looked at the already bare tree not far away, it was indeed a little strange, there should not be such a withered tree in this season, but after all, such a big jungle, he didn't want to delay everyone's time to return to the city, so he ordered to turn around and go back.
Along the newly opened road, the road back was much smoother and faster, but after about half an hour, Tang Yi, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped.
The road vanished before him, and the thorns and bushes filled every inch of space again, just as dense as they had come.
"Did you lead the way by mistake?" Some people complained that they were too lazy to pat themselves at this time.
"No, we must have come all the way here, you see, these must be the thorns we cut down earlier." Several players searched around, and soon brought a few broken wattles, the neat notches that had apparently been cut not long ago.
This is indeed the way they came.
Tang Yi frowned, looked up at the towering canopy, the light in the jungle was extremely dim, although it was three o'clock in the afternoon, it was a little dim here.
He said loudly, "Don't worry, it's a big deal to open up a way out, we're not far from Yebian Town." "Yes, just to be on the safe side, he never went too deep all the time, just to be able to leave at any time when something unexpected happened.
But the other people's physical strength was consumed quickly, and from time to time they paid attention to the sun gradually setting overhead, Tang Yi finally gave up slowly cutting with the frost sword, and began to chant and throw fireballs directly.
In order to prevent a fire, Tang Yi would throw two additional ice picks to extinguish the fire every time, so that the progress of going back was much faster.
These newly grown thorn vines appear to be exceptionally dark green, and the most eerie thing is that there is always a large cluster of trees that are rapidly withering near these thorns.
Obviously, when they came, they didn't see such a badly withered tree, but in just a few hours, these towering trees withered in an instant, and large patches of withered yellow leaves fell all over the ground.
Especially in the dim light, it makes it all seem particularly weird.
The other players were also a little scared, and under the explosion of potential, everyone didn't care about the exhaustion of their bodies, and under Tang Yi's fireball opening the way, they desperately waved the various weapons in their hands.
Finally, about an hour later, everyone saw the sunset outside the jungle.
It wasn't until there was a thrilling walk out of the jungle again that everyone breathed a long sigh of relief, and when Tang Yi turned his head to look again, he frowned, and he vaguely saw that at the farthest end of his vision, those places that had just been burned out by the flames, and countless thorns quickly broke through the ground, and the speed was very terrifying.
Tang Yi didn't bother anymore, turned around and crossed the defensive line again with the others, and returned to Yebian Town.
As a reward for this outing, Tang Yi and everyone promised that after at least one B-level evaluation would be given at least one evaluation in this month's appraisal meeting, everyone returned to the city a little happily and prepared to go offline.
Tang Yi was still not ready to go back, and stayed in the office to continue to deal with various documents in the past, trying to find some useful information.
The vines that could not be burned by the wildfires today were absolutely strange, he had never heard of the northern jungles, or the plants of this world, that could have such terrifying regenerative abilities.
In the evening, Lu Renjia came over again, in addition to bringing a map drawn by the day's care, there was also news that earlier today, that is, when Tang Yi left to explore the jungle, the people who stayed behind caught another elf who tried to cross the defensive line.
According to the regulations, these elves should be handed over to the mayor of the town soon after they are captured, and then the mayor will hand them over to the people in Dawning City for disposal.
But today, Lu Renjia was a little careful, he used the power he had just obtained as a squadron leader to temporarily detain this elf in the prison of the outpost, on the grounds that the captain was not there, and the others had no right to deal with it casually.
This reason is understandable, and no one embarrasses him, but at most, it will be one night, and when tomorrow comes, Tang Yi still needs to hand over the people, and their defense team can only arrest people, and they have no right to dispose of them.
As for what he can do this night, it is Tang Yi himself, Lu Renjia even thoughtfully said that the people in charge of guarding the prison are his own people, and they have all been supported in advance by him for various reasons.
Don't worry about safety, that elf was already very weak when he was captured, in Lu Renjia's words, it was dying, let alone resisting, I am afraid that I will do nothing, and I will have to return to heaven in a few days at most.
Tang Yi praised Lu Renjia a few words, and then sent him away, who wanted to stay and see what was going on.
The prison of the outpost was built underground, which was used by the indigenous nobles to imprison prisoners in the past, and the environment was very poor, and when Tang Yi entered it while there was still a little sunset, he was almost smoked by the stench inside and vomited.
After the player takes over, a special prison is set up elsewhere, so this place is basically not needed, and only the defense team itself will temporarily supervise some mortals when necessary.
In the small prison, there is only one elven clan.
Tang Yi walked outside the wooden fence, squinted his eyes and looked at the blurred figure in the dark corner, took out another energy stone, pinched it gently, and a burst of white light bloomed, this is a magic prop used for lighting, but it is expensive, and it is usually not used casually.
This way I can finally see this elf race clearly, but it's a little scary.
This elf clan was disheveled, the whole person was as thin as firewood, and his body was shaking uncontrollably, and sure enough, as Lu Renjia said, he did look very weak.
"Can you hear me?" Tang Yi first asked in a low voice in the elven language he had just learned.
The elf hung his head and didn't move.
Tang Yi raised his voice and tried to say it again in lingua franca.
This time, the elven clan finally raised their heads slowly, but Tang Yi was almost startled, that face was like a candle in the wind, full of wrinkles and cracks, and even made people feel that it would be completely shattered with just a few touches.
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