Chapter 4: Voice Stones and Phonology
Andam and I walked into a small, relatively separate sealed room in the tavern, and as soon as the door was closed, Andam immediately jumped up and down like a monkey in heat.
"What are you doing here?" I looked at him in surprise with a look like watching a prehistoric gorilla pole dance, and asked.
"Hey, hey." Andam touched her head embarrassedly, sat down on the chair across from me, and said with a smirk, "Sorry, sorry, professional habits." I'll have to make sure there's nothing here or anyone who can overhear our conversation. ”
I shook my head helplessly: "Then you don't need to be so exaggerated, jumping around, can you eat your body bones?" ”
"Thank you Miss Turtledove for your concern, although my body bones are a little old, this kind of elementary exercise is still bearable." Andammu paused, then put away his hippie smiling expression and said, "Don't talk nonsense, let's talk about business next." ”
"Yes, yes. You have something to say. "I was a little excited to think of what news Arya, one of the Seventeen Divine Envoys, the highest authority in the game, would bring me.
"Actually, there's not much I'm going to say. Mistress Arya just told me to give you a few things and tell you how to use them. Andam said as she began to pull a few things out of her small backpack.
"What is it?" I looked at his slow appearance, which monkey was in a hurry in my heart, what were those things?
"There are only three of them, and this is the first one." Andamu first found a translucent, milky white stone the size of a goose egg, with reddish-brown spots scattered on it. Spots are concentrated at the blunt end of the egg. I snatched it as soon as I grabbed it, and looked at it again and again with a greedy look in the palm of my hand, could it be some kind of cherished summoning beast egg, I thought about it and asked Andam, "What is this?" What's the use? ”
"This is called the Voice Signal Stone, which is used for remote communication." Andam's calm words shattered my illusions.
"Damn,." I casually threw the stone at Andam, "Don't, don't." What do you want for remote communication? Secret people can't do it. This thing still takes up storage space. ”
As soon as Andamu saw that I threw the stone over, she hurriedly picked it up, and after finally grabbing it in her hand, she let out a sigh of relief: "My aunt and grandmother, don't do this kind of dangerous boss action again, okay?" This thing costs two hundred gold coins for an ordinary thing, and this one has been enlightened by Lord Arya, but it is a priceless treasure. ”
"Two hundred gold coins?" I swooped out and snatched the gem back into my hand, "So valuable?" What's the point? ”
Andamuni wiped the fine sweat oozing from her head, and then said, "Miss Icardove, you probably don't know that the system has canceled the secret person system. ”
"Canceled the secret person system? That's too exaggerated, so how can we contact people who are 108,000 miles away in the future? Do you still have to write a letter to make an appointment for a time and place a few days in advance? When was it canceled, why didn't I know at all, and I didn't even have a notice? "How can people play online games without the secret person system?
"Don't be in a hurry. Miss Ikaruga, will you listen to my explanation? The Mi man system was canceled during the maintenance of the system.,The main god means that the existence of the secret man system does not conform to the rules of real life.,In order to maximize the principle of extreme virtual simulation of the "God Realm" game, it was canceled. Andam patiently began to explain, "But you don't have to worry. Although the secret system has been canceled, it doesn't mean that you can't contact players and NPCs who are far away from you. ”
NND,The main brain actually plays yin.,I've read the system maintenance announcement several times.,I've never seen such a change.,Is it the sentence "The specific content won't be announced.,Waiting for players to explore by themselves" implied? That's too shameless. However, none of this is important, it is important to hear from Andam what can be done to replace the secret system.
Andamus pointed to the stone in my hand and continued, "In place of the secret system, it is the sound transmission technique. A channeled spell with a 5 second cast time that is channeled after casting, allowing you to communicate with anyone at any distance, but any damage and large body movement will cause the spell to fail. And the sound stone is the necessary magic medium for sound transmission. ”
There is no difference between this sound transmission technique and the secret person system at all, but there are some additional conditions, so that the previous thing of fighting while the secret person comes to help can't be done. However, the essence is no different. I held up the goose-egg-sized gem and looked at it, then asked Andam, "How do you use this stone and telephony?" ”
"Sound stones can be purchased by asking gem merchants in major cities, ordinary sound stones can only transmit sounds, fifty gold coins each, and high-grade sound stones can also transmit images, two hundred gold coins each. Phonology can be learned by asking the gem merchant who sells the sound stone, and the cost of learning is hardware. Andam mimicked the sound of the system's announcement.
What kind of airplane, what kind of system changes are the original bare mastermind scraping money movement. Pulling out between fifty and two hundred gold coins from each player's pocket, this mastermind is really ruthless. As if to reflect this idea of mine, Andam added: "The ordinary voice stone can talk to twenty people at a time, while the advanced one can talk to a hundred people." "It seems that it's not just fifty to two hundred, but people with more friends will have to spend more money to buy more sound stones.
I threw the sound stone in my hand and sighed: "I can only talk to a hundred people, it's too little." ”
"Sound transmission is an improved wind magic, and all people can use it after learning it, but the wind can enjoy the effect of spell bonuses, ordinary stones can have ten more people, and advanced ones can have thirty more." Andam continued.
Damn, knowing that I haven't learned wind magic, and I can't learn it again in the future, is Andam trying to deliberately anger me? I snorted angrily, and then said to him, "Hey, stop talking nonsense, teach me how to use this thing." ”
Andam smiled and spread her palm towards me: "Study fee hardware coins." ”
It's an NPC, it's greedy for money. However, five gold coins were just a drizzle for me, and I felt out five gold coins and threw them in the palm of his hand with a "snap", but he didn't put the money away, and his palm continued to smile at me.
Could it be that the amount of money is wrong? I nodded carefully, and then said strangely, "That's right, it's five gold coins." ”
"And the money from the last career book, twenty gold coins."
In terms of money-related things, NPCs' memories are really good. "Here you go!" I threw another twenty gold coins up, drizzle, I don't care, it's Colliers' money anyway. Hey.
"Yes!" Andamuni carefully counted the money to confirm that it was correct, then put the money in his pocket, and then began to teach me how to use the voice stone and the sound transmission technique, "If you want to communicate with a person remotely, first of all, both parties must have a voice stone, and the model of the voice stone can be different. The two sides should first put their respective sound stones together for five minutes, let them reconcile, and exchange the energy in the two stones. Then, when both parties want to communicate with each other, they can take out the voice stone and recite the incantation to it, "Wind Elf, pass my message to so-and-so." This process takes five seconds, which is the cast time. After five seconds, if the spell is successful, the other party's voice stone will have a strong vibration, and the other party only needs to take out the voice stone and say 'Welcome to the lovely wind elves', indicating that they are willing to talk to you, and you can talk across thousands of mountains and rivers. It should be noted that the main party on the call is always in a spell guide state during the call, and any large body movement or physical and spell damage will cause the sound transmission to fail. However, the answering party is not bound by these conditions. ”
"Do calls have to be paid by the minute?"
"No, the call is the result of a spell, and it has nothing to do with money."
"Oh." I answered, isn't this the "Divine Realm" version of the phone? Fortunately, there is no money when calling, and there is no China Mobile and China Unicom black.
It's a new thing, and Arya gave me this thing to tell me to talk to her. Thinking about it, I recited a spell to the stone: "Wind Elf, pass my message to Arya." ”
Andam's face changed instantly, and he hurriedly said, "Don't! I'm not done yet. ”
I don't know if it's because Arya has ignited it, but I didn't wait five seconds for this sound stone, but as soon as I finished reciting the spell, it instantly emitted a colorful light and lit up. An inverted cone-shaped pillar of light shot from inside the gem all the way to the ceiling. Inside that pillar of light, images gradually appeared, as if a three-dimensional movie was being played. It was a white mist, so thick that you could barely see your fingers. Just as I was looking at what monsters could run out of this fog, it was as if a gust of wind had risen on the ground, sweeping away the fog in the middle of the ground, and a graceful figure suddenly flashed. I felt all the blood rush into my brain at once, and my consciousness went blank, and Andam quickly covered her nose with her hands and turned her head behind her.
At the same time, Arya's lazy and majestic voice had already come from the sky: "Turtledove, why don't you talk early or late, but use the sound transmission technique when I take a bath?" ”
Boss, it's inconvenient for you there, you can choose not to pick it up, isn't it scary for you to run out naked? Damn, I didn't even wipe my body, it's a sin......