Around 8 a.m. on Christmas Day, the streets of the starting town are filled with idle players.

While the "Earthmen" have dressed up the entire town in celebration of Christmas in this lacklustre winter, their show décor seems pretty shabby to players, nowhere near as bright and colorful as in the real world.

Therefore, except for some players who want to experience the Christmas atmosphere in the "original" European medieval small towns, most players don't think that the Christmas decorations of the "earthmen" are anything to appreciate, and the reason why they ran out on Christmas Day is mainly to watch the beautiful girls of the "Knights of the Holy Black Cat" who made their bold words last night.

Now the vast majority of players already know the content of last night's meeting, although the proposal of the "Holy Black Cat Knights" is very popular, but to be honest, if they are allowed to vote, they will definitely support these girls who are full of a sense of justice, but let them personally shed their blood for this "just cause...... I'm sorry, they're just here to make soy sauce.

"My lord, up to now, the various guilds that have built their guild stations in the wilderness safety zone have still not moved, neither surrendered nor strengthened their vigilance, and it seems that they do not believe that the 'Holy Black Cat Knights' will take the initiative to attack their station."

"Really...... And rightfully so.

Even me...... In fact, intellectually, I don't believe that the 'Holy Black Cat Knights' alone can defeat those evil virtue guilds, but I always feel that if Chu Xuan decides to do this, then he must have prepared a reasonable plan, but I didn't think of it. ”

Cheng Hui, who was waiting by the city gate like the rest of the crowd of onlookers, after listening to the return of his guild member, the unusually petite beautiful girl Assassin Xiao, pushed down his reflective round glasses with a confused expression, and muttered to himself.

Although it was the first time he met Chu Xuan last night, maybe it was "heroes know heroes, and pity them"...... Or because of the natural resonance between the "belly and black glasses", he always felt that Chu Xuan should not be the kind of reckless person who is not sure and wants to uphold justice with his blood.

Cheng Hui always felt that there should be something he hadn't calculated, but what was it?

"Indeed, although it is a little different from the feeling given by the lord, His Excellency Chu Xuan also looks like he has a good mind......

Hey? Lord...... Look over there......"

The beautiful girl Assassin Xiao who went out to scout early in the morning (can she be called a "girl" if she is twenty years old!) Well...... Although judging from the figure, it's not wrong...... She was going to talk to her lord Sei Cheng about what she had seen at the "Knights of the Holy Black Cat" last night, but the neat procession that appeared on the main road in the city immediately caught her attention.

"Click, Click, Click......"

As the team approached, the sound of armor clashing seemed to be heard only in ancient war movies became clearer, and from the main road in the town towards the city gate were rows of neatly armored elite soldiers.

"Huh...... Wasn't that Chu Xuan on the horse?

But aren't these soldiers NPCs...... I understand! But how did he do it! ”

Cheng Hui confirmed the identity of the officer on the tall horse through Chu Xuan's reflective glasses that would never be mistaken from a distance, and when he saw the "Earth People" soldiers behind Chu Xuan, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he immediately figured out what he had been ignoring before.

No...... It can't be said that it is ignored, Cheng Hui just subconsciously felt that "that is impossible", so he subjectively denied his guess.

What are the NPCs ...... Is this really possible?

According to Cheng Hui's observation for more than a month, the NPCs living in this game world, that is, the "earth people", can be said to have too regular life, which proves that their activities are actually limited by the program.

If the "adventurers" want them to do something that is not specified in the program, such as borrowing money, borrowing things, asking them to help lead the way, do things, spend money to buy their houses, furniture, clothes, etc., these "earthmen" will refuse with reasons that seem very reasonable, but in fact are very unreasonable.

Cheng Hui once tried to spend money to buy the clothes of the "earth people", but even if he offered a price dozens of times higher than the market price, there was still no "earth man" willing to sell him clothes, and those earth people refused him for various reasons, no matter what Cheng Hui said, the other party would only shake his head and take the initiative to leave him.

Through these experiments, Cheng Hui estimated that the attitude of alienating "adventurers" displayed by the "earth-people" was actually a cover-up by the game designers to avoid too much contact between the players and the earth-people, so as to discover that these "real-looking" NPCs were not at all as "smart" as real people.

But it's also a matter of course, if all NPCs were powered by AI that was almost identical to humans, the amount of computation required would be too great, and it would be enough for the average NPC that players don't even bother to touch to make them "look like individuals".

It is precisely because of this that Cheng Hui denied the idea of using NPCs, if it is still possible to hire those NPC mercenaries to serve him, such as mobilizing NPC soldiers who have been stationed in the city to fight for himself or something, it is absolutely impossible.

――Can anyone imagine that one day, most of a sudden, the player walked up to the level 90 NPC guards who had been standing at the gate of the city or the main gate of the castle lord's mansion, and had been completely regarded as part of the "background screen" by the players, beckoned to them and said "Go, go with me", and then those NPC guards left their posts and went to cut people with him without saying a word?

Obviously impossible, right? Unless those guards are all GMs of game companies pretending.

However, what Chu Xuan is leading now are those soldiers who are standing guard in the town, up to level 90, and they are not one or two, nor one team or two, but nearly a thousand people!

Cheng Hui estimated that Chu Xuan might have pulled out all the troops in the entire town - except for those who were still honestly standing guard all over the town.

Although Megumi believes that it is almost impossible to gain access to NPC soldiers - at least at the beginning of the game, it is basically impossible to disrupt the balance of the game by mobilizing a large number of level 90 soldiers, but in theory, it is not absolutely impossible.

But...... The question is how did Chu Xuan do it, this is not only Cheng Hui, all players who see this scene should want to know, right? (To be continued.) )