Chapter 67 Internal Test (Part )
Batto City, the player's birth point.
In five years, this former wilderness has undergone tremendous changes and has become a thriving town.
Today, the city of Batto covers several square kilometers and has a population of more than 500 people. There are shops, taverns, blacksmith shops, and tailor shops in the town, but the tieflings have their own duties. Although these houses are extremely simple and more like camps made of wood and stones, they still remind them of their past lives in North Wind Castle and give them some hope for life.
In the square at the center of the town stands a huge stone statue - it is the red dragon, the master of this place.
The most different thing from ordinary towns is that monsters and humanoids live together here: you can see the hobgoblin garrison patrolling back and forth, you can see dragons resting in the square, and you can even see ogres ordering meals for ten people in the tavern.
Although some conflicts and frictions are inevitable, under the supervision of Medoraash, the city of Batto still maintains the most basic order.
But the order he worked so hard to maintain may be broken today.
"Everyone, remember, don't listen to anything they say."
"Anyone who dares to attack will be killed on the spot."
Medoraash led dozens of guards to the cave with a serious face, as if facing a great enemy.
According to the owner's description, these "starfallers" with strange behaviors are not easy to deal with, but they seem to be a force that can be utilized.
Mantou felt a white light appear in front of his eyes, and when he came to his senses, he was already in a cave. There was solid rock under his feet, and there was flickering candlelight on the rock wall, and there was light coming from the cave entrance in the distance.
He tried to move his hands and feet and pinched his cheeks. There was no delay or strangeness at all. It was almost exactly the same as in reality, which amazed him.
"Fuck, is it so real?"
"You may not feel it when watching the video, but what I feel now is that this is the real world."
Mantou walked out of the cave with great anticipation. Hundreds of players had already gathered in the small square at the entrance of the cave.
They have all kinds of nicknames. His "I eat a steamed bun" is considered normal, and there are also some outrageous names such as "Ji Bochang", "Maggot in the sea of dung", and "The sky has a well and there is naturally an empty well". However, everyone has long been accustomed to it.
"There are no novice missions."
"But this feels so good, I have to get my classmates into it."
"What can we do now?"
"Search my ID to get learning materials, thousands of GB of fully immersive images, all kinds of knowledge~"
"Damn, why is there a cereal guy?"
"Go away! I am a man who aspires to become a great wizard. Don't try to corrupt my mind with your beauty."
"Evil Dao, take my sword!"
Players were noisily discussing in the square, and curiously looking at everything around them. After all, Erezega's full immersion quality is unprecedented and unparalleled, and is known as a 100% real tactile experience, which makes players feel very novel.
"As usual, let's take a look at what the hell this is!"
“Is this playable?”
Mantou was about to check his own panel when he suddenly noticed that a guy next to him with the ID "Freedom Wing" began to take off his simple cloth clothes. While he was completely naked, his lower body was covered with a layer of dazzling holy light.
"Great, I'm free—"
The guy was naked with his arms open, posing like Rose at the bow of the ship in Titanic. The holy light on his body blinded the eyes of all the players.
"No buddy, are you serious?"
"Don't you know this is a face-swiping game?"
"what?"
Mantou just left a kind reminder and walked away, leaving the buddy wailing in regret.
"Sure enough, there are still many people in the world who don't read the player agreement and just check the box, and ignore the preparation interface and directly enter the game. They eventually paid the price for their recklessness."
Mantou sighed softly.
Isn’t this the effect of the show?
But soon the players' attention was attracted by the Tieflings marching in a line, and they no longer paid attention to the "Holy Light Brother". "This should be our guiding NPC, but I have studied it carefully, this game has a favorability system, so you must not speak carelessly."
Mantou explained in a low voice.
A player with the id "浪里白条" loudly suggested: "What are those red-skinned NPCs with horns? Are they demons? Can we fight them?"
"How about we give it a try?"
Immediately, dozens of tieflings looked at him with anger in their eyes. If it weren't for the captain's order, they would have chopped him into minced meat.
"Don't try it, don't try it."
"Ahahaha, I'm just saying, why are you guys taking it so seriously?"
Langli Baitiao gave an awkward smile as if nothing had happened, but he was already thinking "Fuck it" in his heart, because his panel was filled with a screen full of favorability -50.
"Look, I told you, you can't just talk casually. But the AI of this game is really smart, it can even recognize what the player is saying."
Mantou looked at "White Shark in the Waves" with a sense of schadenfreude and continued to explain.
He knew this guy, a famous fully immersive player who was courting death. His masterpiece was stealing a fellow villager's chicken in "The Elder Scrolls 10", and was chased by thousands of people as a result.
Sure enough, it’s not over yet.
The white shark took advantage of the tieflings' inattention, sneaked behind the team, and hit the leading tiefling on the back of the head with a small stone.
"Whoosh-"
The stone drew a graceful arc in the air and was caught by the paladin Medoras without even looking back.
However, the next moment, another stone hit his armor, making a crisp "clang" sound.
For a moment, the air almost froze and everyone was stunned.
Finally, Damakos, who had been silent for a long time, asked tentatively: "Captain...what should we do?"
Even the usually calm and composed Medorash lost his composure at this moment.
Medoras had seen all kinds of people. He could even tolerate people taking off their pants in the square, but he had never seen a bitch who would risk her life to throw stones at people for no reason.
"Attack the army...Kill!"
He forcefully crushed the stone in his hand into pieces, his tone containing a rare hint of gritted teeth.
The tieflings, who had been patient with the white shark in the waves for a long time, finally found an outlet for their anger. They all drew their bows and arrows, and tried their best to shoot at the "white shark in the waves".
In a blink of an eye, he was shot with arrows all over his body.
The white shark in the waves raised his arm that was pierced with several arrows, and said with his last bit of strength: "Although I am dead... I am still... a white shark in the waves!"
After finishing his lines, he died with satisfaction.
However, the players were not intimidated by his strict enforcement as Medorash had expected, but instead burst into laughter.
"There are still a lot of good NPCs in this world."
"Rip. White shark in the waves."
"No, I have to sneak over to his house some other day and max out his pain threshold."
Mantou laughed so hard that tears came out of his eyes: "Hahahaha, this guy is really good at making things happen. He directly used the straw boat to borrow arrows and turned himself into a hedgehog!"
The Tiefling guards were immediately outraged when they saw these human-looking guys laughing and making noises without any respect.
But Medorash stared at the laughing crowd, folded his arms, and seemed to be thinking about something.
"It seems that we cannot treat this group of... starfallers with common sense."
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(End of this chapter)