Blue sky and white clouds, the sun is shining.

But these are very panda and it doesn't matter, because he's indoors.

To be precise, he was inside the board room.

The board room is one of the liveliest rooms in the Castle of the Earth, where many people gather every day. With the advancement of magic technology, the setting of the board game room is becoming more and more advanced, at first everyone could only make their own maps, chess pieces, character cards and dice, and then developed into a full set of magic props, and then developed into a panoramic projection like CG animation, and now it has developed to the point where everyone can connect a part of their consciousness to the chess pieces, and actually enter the illusory world and play the role in the game.

Panda has participated in it once before.,It feels like some sci-fi in the "immersion game",A person's thoughts are divided into two parts.,It's still yourself outside the game.,Clear and complete.,In the game, you forget who you are.,Only remember the setting in the game.,And the thinking is a little vague.,Unless it's the content set in advance,Otherwise, everything else is like seeing flowers in the fog.,Faint.。

Interestingly, the "characters" in the game don't even think about questions like "Who am I, where am I from, what am I going to do?", they just act according to a preset plan, and they never act unplanned.

And players outside the game who want to manipulate their own characters can only constantly adjust their plans and let the characters execute them later. From command to implementation, there is a process in between.

The time Panda first played, he was inexperienced and didn't grasp this amount of advance, so that the warrior monk he spent three hours creating died in the second adventure - this man faced a domineering official, directly chose violent confrontation, then killed the official and rebelled, and then fought all the way, and finally died under the random arrows of the city guard.

Seeing this solution, Panda himself was a little stunned - he never thought that his character would do such a thing!

"Personality can't be set too extremely. When his character died, Queen Katerina, who had become a veteran board gamer, told him very experienced, "Characters with extreme personalities tend to act in extreme ways in the heat of conflict, and you can't make amends." So, if you want your character to live a little longer, it's best to be modest. ”

Her characters are all the kind of people who go with the flow, and they tend to survive in the game for a long time. In the past two years, except for some high-risk groups such as "Infinite Terror" style, among the normal running groups, her character has not died once.

On the contrary, her husband Liu Daoqing's character is always very extreme, basically one or two adventures before he dies, and some even end up not long after going out, which can be described as "professional death".

Panda thinks that this is probably because Liu Daoqing is busy with official business, and he really doesn't have time to indulge in games like an irresponsible queen wife......

Today, there will be a very large running party in the board game room, with more than 20 players participating in three groups.

The background of this regiment takes place on a somewhat desolate border. The team of pioneers from the heart of the kingdom, the team of indigenous people working to protect their ancestral lands, and the team of bordermen who move between the two will work together and fight against each other to try to have the last laugh.

"Are you sure you want to use the Paladin Character Card?" Before the game has even started, the host Alice confirms everyone's character cards at the end. She looked at the character card that appeared on the top of the panda's head, and shook her head repeatedly, "This background is not friendly to the Holy Warrior, if you choose the Holy Warrior, it is likely that you will not survive the first game." ”

"The important thing is that you like it, isn't it?" Panda asked with a smile.

Alice's eyes lit up, a pleasant smile appeared on her round face, and she gave the panda a thumbs up.

"You're right! The important thing is that you like it. Everything else, it's all trivial!"

After the decision was made, everyone sat in the special running group seats and put on magic helmets.

On the huge board game board, which occupies more than 80% of the entire board game room, colorful lights emerge and finally turn into an old map.

"It is a desolate frontier located in the northwestern part of the kingdom. Alice began to narrate, "Because of the climate, the monsoon often brings only a small amount of rain here. No more than 10 light rains a year make it impossible to grow strong crops, and only some extremely drought-tolerant crops can survive in this barren land. ”

"They greedily suck from every little water they can find, while stubbornly and indifferently protecting their water from emitting a single drop. Selfishness, toughness, greed, and indifference are the themes of this frontier land, and it is also the ethos of the people here. ”

"For a long time, people in the border areas have lived with this attitude. They fought against the sky, against the earth, against the greedy lords, and against the stubborn and inflexible indigenous people, constantly expanding their own land, and by planting some poisonous drought-tolerant crops, they obtained the necessary resources for life, and lived with difficulty and tenacity. ”

"Now, a pioneer group from the heart of the kingdom and carrying a lot of resources has arrived here. ”

The panda sat quietly in his seat, not chatting or discussing like the others, but just paying careful attention to the development of things and drawing up a plan of action for his character, the paladin Karen, in time.

Under his design, the noble concubine from an earldom in the interior of the kingdom had been operating far from the border slums.

The greatest weakness of the paladins is that they have strict rules of conduct, and they must abide by goodness and justice, which makes them unable to turn a blind eye to the suffering they see, and cannot choose to remain silent in the face of evil and injustice. In order for his character to survive for a long time and play a proper role in the team, Panda had to do this.

As a holy warrior from an aristocratic family, Karen is very likely to have a fierce conflict with various forces here if she comes to the slums. Although he is a strong martial artist and is the undoubted number one master in the Trailblazers' team, a good man is hard to beat with two fists, not to mention that a knife is likely to stab him from behind.

Therefore, Panda chose to let him follow the route of the middle and upper classes, negotiating with the merchants and petty nobles on the border.

Of course, most of those guys are evil, but Karen is not a "trial paladin" who takes the route of "evil is killed", as long as the panda who is the manipulator is careful, don't let him get involved in some extremely evil things, and don't let him witness the evil deeds to his face, then he, as a nobleman and priest, is still very comfortable in the middle and upper classes of the border.

As for the slum operators, it is Gondor's character, the thief Brad, and Jeannay's character, the doctor Bruce.

Although nominally one of the leaders of the Sisling family, Gondor was not as diligent as Liu Daoqing, and he almost never paid attention to the affairs of the Sislin family except for his weekly teachings, and completely threw them to others. The members of the Sislin family welcomed this, although they did not discriminate against Gondor because of his race - the strong didn't need to care about such trivial matters as race, but they always wanted the affairs of the Sislin family to be managed by the members of the family.

To the regret of the members of the Sisling family, neither the Celestial Bow nor the Thief have yet to give birth to an heir. Although they also knew that it would be very difficult for the two legendary powerhouses to combine and give birth to offspring, in any case, they still hoped that the Sislin family could have a more suitable heir.

Currently, the heir to the Sisling family is Emmyway's grandnephew, a very talented and calm young man. His strength is good, he is already close to the high level before he is thirty years old, if nothing else, when he becomes a family manager at the age of forty or so, he can work for another thirty years.

This situation is actually good for the vast majority of aristocratic families. But the people of the Sislin family still hope that there will be a legendary powerhouse to take care of things, so that personnel can be more stable and everyone can be fully at ease.

Jeannay has just retired, he is over 80 years old, although his appearance has not aged significantly, but both physical function and mental state have begun to decline.

Druids belong to the relatively long-lived profession, and Jeanne is a high-level druid, who can theoretically live to be one hundred and twenty or thirty years old.

However, druids, unlike warrior monks, do not have the ability to reject aging.

Monks who step into the high ranks do not age, they can maintain the body and spirit of the prime of life until their life is exhausted, and then suddenly become weak and old when they are about to die. Druids, on the other hand, age like a normal profession, but at a slower rate than others.

At Jeannay's age, it was difficult for him to maintain the energy he had when he was young. Now, apart from lecturing at the Tarahan Academy of Medicine and the Misellele Druid Academy, he spends the rest of his time either sitting in the woods in a daze or spending the rest of his time in the castle's board game room.

Dr. Anka's eldest disciple once sighed, "If I could be twenty years younger, maybe I would have the opportunity to exhaust the wisdom of my teacher." ”

Ankh valued his disciple very much, and wanted to prolong his life more than once, but he refused.

As a druid, although his usual behavior is completely different from that of most druids, Jeanne still maintains his true druid nature in his bones.

Be close to nature, respect nature, and integrate into nature.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are the laws of nature, and as a member of nature, although he is afraid of death, he will still accept the coming of death as calmly as possible.

Although I am a little sorry for the teacher, this is his choice.

Gondor and Jeannay both like to perform in their true colors during the running group, Gondor is always a thief with unclean hands and feet, stealth, lockpicking and pickpocketing kung fu are all first-class, and he is not very good at fighting, he is good at stealing and spying, and likes to walk in the shadows. Jeannay's character is always a doctor who understands the magic of the druids, walking among the poor, treating the sick, and occasionally spreading the druid's teachings of "harmony between man and nature".

The other members of the pioneer group, including the swordsman Fadis, a middle-aged man from a civilian background who had been a soldier, sold all his belongings after leaving the army, scraped together a large sum of money, and wanted to go to the border to find opportunities, strive to make a fortune or become a nobleman.

The last member of the pioneer group is Fei Fei, the dancer of the Seed Girl, who is not very good at fighting, but is very good at negotiating with people. She was originally the child of a down-and-out aristocracy, and for various reasons, she spent an unhappy young age. Now this dancer is thirty-four or five, and her youth has come to an end. She wants to seize the last chance to save a fortune for herself to spend her old age in peace.

Compared to the other two teams, the Pioneer Team has a relatively small number of people, so they get more preset resources.

Gold, social influence, and the character's experience points.

In the Pioneer Group, the role of Panda is the most restricted and has the most experience points.

If the problem can be solved by force, such as a three-way battle to the death, then perhaps the Pioneer Group will be able to defeat the other two teams with strong force.

Of course, this is not possible, as the other two teams are already discussing joining forces.

"Panda, that paladin is going around all day, it's such an eyesore!

"Yes!

"I'm for it too!"

"Seconded!"

"Seconded!"

"I can provide poison. ”

"I'll contact the Killer Organization, and if I can, it's better not to drain our own resources as much as possible. ”

"Great idea!"

When the panda heard a voice not far away, he couldn't help but cry and laugh.

"Hey, you're just talking about how to assassinate me in front of me, is it really okay?" he couldn't help but complain.

"No problem, just get used to it. ”

"You can't jump in and inform your character anyway. ”

"Play games, don't take it so seriously. ”

The gossip replied that the panda couldn't help but shake his head again and again.

What's going on!

The action of the traversers is very strong, and after just over half an hour, a conspiracy against the holy warrior Karen has been designed. According to this plot, Karen will be attracted by the theft that suddenly happens in front of her, and leave the relatively safe upper city in order to hunt down a thief, and then be besieged by a group of robbers in the lower city.

Of course, Karen wouldn't die at the hands of a mere group of robbers, but he would never have thought that the real killer would actually come from the money bag he took back from the thieves.

Inside that money bag, there were several highly poisonous poison needles specially prepared to kill him.

"This conspiracy, it's really ......" Panda couldn't help but shake his head again and again as he watched his character fall down due to poison and quit the game, "You guys who play games, your heart is really dirty!"