Chapter 8: The Benefits of Affinity

After saying goodbye to Li Dalang, Li Xu immediately followed the path guided by the NPC and walked towards the other end of the street.

Walk through the crowd and turn left onto another street, where the number of players in front of you is even denser.

Countless players poured in and out of a spacious gate, and Li Xu understood that this must be the location of the NPC where the system released the tasks of the Novice Village, and he immediately followed in curiously.

Walking into a spacious courtyard, I saw a tall middle-aged NPC standing in the middle of the crowded crowd, with several big characters on his head

Lijia Village Chief: Li Da.

Haha, this village is actually our Li family's, it's really ape dung

Li Xu understands that this is the task NPC of the Novice Village, and all players can receive the corresponding task from him.

He followed the crowd to the village chief and tried to talk to him.

"Honorable village chief, this is the first time I have come to this village, I wonder if you have any tasks for me to do?" Li Xu asked.

"It turns out that you are fighting against fate, you came just in time, there are more and more berserk beasts outside the village during this time, and they are about to threaten the safety of the village, I need you to go outside the village to hunt the teeth of ten berserk hares to study what happened." The village chief said with a smile.

Ding System: Congratulations to the player for fighting against fate, your troubled times newbie main quest opens, the first main quest [Village Chief's Request]!

Ding System: [Village Chief's Request]: Please go outside the village and obtain the rabbit teeth of ten berserk hares. Rewards: 50 XP and 10 Bronze Coins

Well, even if you receive the first mission in troubled times, it is still the most critical main quest plot.

The quest rewards 50 XP and 10 Bronze Coins

Li Xu looked at the pitiful reward, and then looked at the character experience bar in the upper left corner of his sight, he is still level 0, and it takes 40 experience points to upgrade to level 1, it seems that the experience value of upgrading in the early days of troubled times is not terrible.

However, he has played countless online games, and he is very familiar with the situation that it is easy to upgrade in the early stage and more difficult in the later stage in the game.

The reward of ten copper coins made him speechless, and the official in the currency system of the troubled times has explained that 100 copper coins = 1 silver coin, 100 silver coins = 1 gold coin, and 1 gold coin is equivalent to a dollar of real currency

It can be seen that the official approach to controlling the game currency in the troubled times is also extremely strict.

What can ten copper plates do, I'm afraid you can't buy a bottle of low-level potion in the system store, right?

However, there was a rule in the troubled times that only after players reached level 10 and went to the personal finance center in the main city could they open the currency exchange system, and now no one has extra money to buy potions.

The task he has received now is the main quest that runs through the entire plot of the troubled times, and it is a task that players will automatically start every time their strength reaches a new standard according to the guidance of the system in the game.

This kind of main quest is a must-do task for players, and it is related to the triggering of some special plots and the opening of some special systems.

"Knowing the village chief, I will definitely do my best to complete your task." Li Xu ended the conversation with the village chief with a smile, and after making sure that there were no other tasks to take, he turned around and walked towards the gate

He was not in a hurry to leave the village to do the main quest now, but walked all the way down the street, towards the east of the village

Where will Li Erniang, Li Dalang's sister?

The farther you go to the east, the fewer and fewer players are, and now everyone is in a hurry to do tasks out of the village to farm monsters, and there are not many people like Li Xu who are wandering around

Walking all the way to the east street, his eyes lit up, and at the very end of the street, he saw a middle-aged female NPC in a long green dress standing there.

The name displayed on her head happened to be the person Li Xu was looking for.

Tailor shop: Li Erniang!

"Eldest sister, I just came to this village, and I heard your brother say that you seem to be in trouble, I don't know what I can do for you?" Li Xu walked over and asked.

"Young man, I'm in trouble, but you're still a powerless ordinary person, so you'd better wait until you're strong before you come to help me." Li Erniang looked at him sadly and said.

There seemed to be some sadness in the eyes of this NPC, and listening to her words again made Li Xu's heart skip a beat.

It seems that to do this task, you need a certain amount of strength

That said, the rewards for the quest are certainly not far behind!

"Eldest sister, don't worry, you tell me what trouble I have, I will help you solve the problem as long as my strength is enough." Li Xu said excitedly.

"Young man, my little white has been with me for ten years, but yesterday it suddenly disappeared, and it has not come back until now, someone saw it being caught by a big monkey on the east mountain outside the village, can you help me find it?" Li Erniang asked sadly.

Ding System: You have successfully triggered the hidden story quest [Lost White] in the Newbie Village, please continue to talk to the NPC!

I'm going, isn't it, so that the hidden story quest can be triggered?

Li Xu looked at Li Erniang in front of him blankly, and was shocked by the effect of affinity again

He knew very well that if there was no mysterious affinity at work, this NPC would probably ignore him.

In order to open such a hidden Starter Village story mission, it will not be triggered until the player finds the relevant mission item or finds the mission location while exploring the map

"Big sister, what is Xiaobai?" Li Xu asked suspiciously.

"Xiaobai is a kind puppy I raised, with snow-white fur, it has been following me for ten years, I hope you can do your best to help me get it back, I'm afraid it is in danger now." Li Erniang said.

"Okay, you give me a clue, and I'll help you get it back." Li Xu nodded.

"This is the chain I use to tie Xiaobai, you just take out the chain and ring the bell, it will definitely react." Li Erniang took out a prop and said.

Li Xu took the props she handed over, and it turned out to be a long iron chain connected to a leather collar, and there was a small golden bell on the collar.

Jingle bells

Li Xu just shook the collar slightly, and a crisp bell rang from the bell

Ding System: You get the quest item [Xiaobai's Collar]!

"Young man, please entrust you with the task of finding Xiaobai's whereabouts, as long as you can find Xiaobai, I will definitely give you a satisfactory reward." Li Erniang said.

Ding system: Li Erniang will release you the task of [Looking for Xiaobai], the task reward: 500 experience, 60 copper coins, and a tattered iron sword

A tattered iron sword?

Looking at the reward content on the system prompt, Li Xu was stunned, what kind of reward is this, and the system will give a tattered iron sword?

"Young man, hurry up and help me find Xiaobai, I'm afraid that if the time is delayed for a long time, it will be in danger." Li Erniang said anxiously.

"Okay, big sister, I'll go and help you find it." Li Xu nodded, threw the collar into the package, and turned around to walk to the other side of the street.

There was only one gate out of the village in the entire novice village, and he could only walk along the street in the direction of the south

Passing by a lot of system NPCs along the way, Li Xu greeted them as he walked, hoping to try his luck and receive one or two more hidden missions

"Hello Uncle Blacksmith, do you need my help?"

"I'm fine, there's nothing I need your help with."

"Hello auntie, are you in trouble?"

"I'm fine, lad."

Along the way, Li Xu experimented with the role of affinity, and as long as he met an NPC, he would say a few words to them.

The player's conversation with the NPCs is protected by the system, and other players watch this guy get close to the NPCs one by one, but they can't hear the conversation between them

The effect of affinity is obvious, these NPCs are not as ignorant as other players, and will politely talk to him.

But it's a pity that along the way, he never received any more tasks

Could it be that in the entire novice village, Li Erniang has a hidden task to take over?

It's not scientific

Li Xu was puzzled in his heart, and after thinking about it while walking, he seemed to have come up with an answer.

His level is still level zero, perhaps because of his level, making it difficult for him to receive other tasks

Before he knew it, he followed the crowded stone road to the gate of the novice village.

The current time is 9:34, and after more than half an hour, Li Xu finally saw the environment outside the novice village.

The entire novice village is blocked by a stone wall of more than two meters, and the entrance is a simple wooden torii that separates the field from the map of the village.

Two burly men in shabby heavy armor and armed with spears stood at the gate, alerting the situation outside the village, as if to defend against wild beasts storming the village.

Militia: Li Da [Level 50]

Militia: Li Er [Level 50]

Looking at the names on the heads of the two soldiers, Li Xu smiled secretly in his heart, the names of these NPCs are too strange.

His gaze looked through the gate towards the field, and he saw that less than ten meters away from the gate, a large group of players with black pressure were running around on the field map with wooden swords

Every few seconds, I saw clouds of white light shining on the ground, and these hare-like monsters that had just been refreshed, before they could open their eyes, countless wooden swords slashed at them!

I'll go, people are more than strange many times, how can I do it now.

Li Xu looked at the situation in front of him, and his heart was speechless for a while

He has seen countless times when the novice area is opened, but never has the scale of that time been comparable to what he saw in front of him.

In order to avoid the first wave of players surging out of the village, he had been delayed in the village for so long, but he didn't expect that there would still be so many people in the place where the low-level monsters spawned