After Chu Xuan said goodbye to Klein, who had a handsome face that had been seriously photoshopped, he walked outside the square while looking left and right.

It's a pity that he didn't see Kiriko in black or Asuna in white, and he didn't see Kuroyukihime, Chiyuri Kurashima, Akatsuki and Himiko, these strategic targets.

Perhaps, these girls, like Klein, have changed their appearance, and maybe even their surnames.

So before Akihiko Kayaba announced that the game "officially began" and restored everyone's faces and surnames, unless Chu Xuan learned their names through direct communication, it would be impossible to find anyone based on their appearance characteristics alone.

However, Chu Xuan was not actually observing the players who kept flashing white light to log in to the game, that is, the "adventurers", but the NPCs in the game, that is, the ordinary people who were called "earthlings" in the game.

Players who have just entered the game are still immersed in the shock of experiencing a real virtual reality game for the first time, and they have not yet set their sights on these "earth people", and Chu Xuan is likely to get some unexpected benefits from NPCs if he takes a step first.

According to Chu Xuan's observations, the actions of those "earth people" were no different from those of real humans, not to say that they had been standing stupidly in the square because they were NPCs set up in the square, but they had left here one after another after the "adventurers" appeared in the square.

And what Chu Xuan has to do now is to make further contact with the earthlings and test whether the intelligence level of these NPCs is exactly the same as that of real humans-by the way.

"Hello uncle, do you know how to learn skills?"

Chu Xuan took two quick steps and caught up with an old man who was about to leave the square, and asked politely.

He'd already seen that his character's skill bar was completely blank, and there wasn't even "running" or "picking up items" or anything like that—if that could really be counted as a skill.

"Ah...... It's an adventurer.

You walk along at the intersection over there, stop and look for the library, and not far away there is a guild building with a sizable footprint, where you can choose to pursue a certain profession and learn a variety of skills. ”

This old man recognized Chu Xuan as an adventurer at a glance, and he also knew "career" and "skills", but these are all right, maybe the "setting" of this world is like this.

Chu Xuan did not leave after obtaining the information he wanted to know, but continued his experiment:

"Uncle, are you going home now?"

"yes."

"Where is your home?"

"It's over there."

"How many people do you have in your family?"

"Eight."

"Can you take me to your house?"

Chu Xuan's increasingly suspicious question aroused the old man's vigilance, he stopped, stared at Chu Xuan with a serious expression and said:

"What are your intentions, adventurer?

I tell you, if you do something bad, you will never escape the eyes of the gods, and you will be arrested by the guards in any city you go to in the future. ”

"I'm sorry, I'm just interested in the living conditions of the people of the earth."

Chu Xuan immediately apologized to this NPC old man, but the other party did not immediately forgive him because he apologized, and then easily took him home, only replied with a slightly gloomy face:

"Even so, I can't take you home by the way.

I'm leaving, don't come with me again. ”

"Sorry to interrupt. Also, thank you for showing me the way. ”

Chu Xuan apologized to the old man again, but the old man just nodded to him coldly and left.

On the way, the old man, who was still vigilant, looked back and saw that Chu Xuan was still standing there watching him, so he immediately quickened his pace and walked into an alley.

It seems that when you come into contact with these earthlings in the future, you should treat them as real human beings.

If Chu Xuan's speculation is correct, then the NPCs in this "game world" can be regarded as people from another world, not just an artificial intelligence program.

――Although Akihiko Kayaba should not be able to design an artificial intelligence that is exactly the same as a human, he can't stand the "main god" who gives him a golden finger, and since he can really make this game world into a different world that exists in the server, it is not impossible to develop a real artificial intelligence.

However, if he wanted to confirm his speculation about the earthlings, Chu Xuan still needed to conduct more experiments.

===== I ask you to support the genuine dividing line ===== as much as possible

According to the old man's guidance, Chu Xuan successfully found the guild building that was about a hundred meters away from the library, the guild building covered an area of nearly tens of thousands of square meters, and it was still a three-story building, seven or eight times larger than the two-story small library here, and it was the largest building Chu Xuan had seen along the way.

After entering, Chu Xuan saw that the hall on the first floor was divided into windows like a bank - only there was no bulletproof glass, and there were big signs and badge patterns hanging on each window, indicating which professional guild's office window this was.

Chu Xuan looked around one by one, and then found a young clerk who was sitting in the corner and looked lazy.

"Hello, I want to learn skills."

"Learn a skill?"

The young clerk who was sitting behind the wooden counter of the old and painted "Navigator's Guild" raised his eyelids and glanced at Chu Xuan, and said to him in an unenthusiastic voice as if he were dealing with an errand:

"You're a first-time adventurer, so if you want to learn a skill, go up to the second floor, but before that, you'd better choose a class and register it at the various career windows.

Then you can take the class's badge to the second floor to find a mentor from the corresponding guild and learn the basic skills of the class for free.

Of course, you can also go to other guild mentors to learn skills, but only if you have money.

Are you going to work as a navigator as a very promising career? However, I advise you not to take office. ”

The young clerk obviously looked completely unmotivated, but it seemed that he had to do his duty because of some kind of constraint - but that was also the reason why Chu Xuan had found him.

Following the clerk's words, Chu Xuan continued to ask:

"Why did you dissuade me from becoming a navigator?

And I don't think you like your current job, so why don't you change jobs? ”

"Why ......"

Asking this question in advance, the young male clerk seemed to be a little energetic, and complained to Chu Xuan a little excitedly:

"Needless to say, because the city is not near the sea at all!

The Navigators' Guild set up in a city that is not close to the sea will not have anything to do all year round, and there will only be a navigator once in the Year of the Monkey, and it is impossible for a novice adventurer to become a navigator here to learn a few basic skills that are almost useless in the interior.

But even if I was staring at the empty counter every day, I had to sit here from morning till night, and I felt like I was going to get moldy!

It's been three years, it's been three years!! Isn't it because I don't have a backstage......"

This young man who was about to go crazy seized the opportunity and confided in Chu Xuan like chatter, if it was other players, maybe he would have found an excuse to run away, but Chu Xuan not only did not leave, but also listened to it with relish, and echoed this clerk from time to time.

Although it is indeed very likely that this clerk will trigger a certain mission, in the eyes of experienced professional players, if the task on this clerk of the Navigators' Guild is very valuable, then it is absolutely necessary to go to a city with a sea, or even sail to sea by himself, and in the process of the mission, it is likely that he will have to compete with other people who have taken the task, and he will not be able to do it in the first place.

And if the task he gives can be completed at the beginning of the game, that is, in this "beginner village", it is just a normal task with a fairly low reward, and it is not worth doing at the beginning of the game - in short, this clerk is not worth dealing with by a professional player until he has reached a certain level and plans to travel to other cities.

However, what Chu Xuan wanted was not a mission, but information about the largest organization in this world, the guild, that would be ignored by the vast majority of "players" in this world.

Perhaps in other games, the meaning of the existence of guilds is to allow players to change jobs, learn skills, and receive tasks, but if the world of "God's Realm" is regarded as a real other world, then this guild alliance that has extended its tentacles to every city is undoubtedly a powerful organization that can influence the world to a certain extent.

“…… Since you hate this job so much, why not change careers? ”

After Chu Xuan had squeezed out all the gossip and shady information about the guild that the young clerk knew, he pushed down his reflective glasses expressionlessly and asked lightly.

"Alas...... In any case, even if I can enter the guild work, even if I burn high incense, no matter how many people squeeze their heads to get in, I will quit this job if I am stupid. ”

After finishing the depression in his heart, the young clerk looked up to the sky and sighed, it seems that even in another world, people's troubles are much the same.

"By the way, aren't you going to learn skills?

Which direction do you want to go? Maybe I can give you some good career advice.

'Men are afraid of getting into the wrong business, and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man'! ”

The young clerk said to Chu Xuan with a sad face, but he didn't dare to ask him to resign to pursue his dreams, he would rather sit and be moldy than guard this iron rice bowl like a national civil servant, which made his "painful lesson" really not very convincing.

"If I want to learn all the skills, can I do it?"

Chu Xuan's glasses reflected a strong light, and the young clerk was stunned by his ambition and was speechless for a while. (To be continued.) )