Chapter 125 Welcome Ceremony
When there were 300 players, they had tortured Hal and his dozen people to death. This time, 3,000 players were allowed in at once. Yang Qiu knew very well that if there were not enough "high-level NPCs", they would definitely not be enough for these huskies to toss around. So he prepared for the rainy day and arranged all the more powerful members of the "Sea Lion" mercenary group to come to the Exile Town in advance...
Both the Walker Guild and the Warrior Guild added more than a dozen "mentors", some of whom were responsible for issuing tasks and some of whom were responsible for watching the construction sites.
The various workshops in Life Lane, the daily quest points in charge of zombies, and the canteen of the Undead Chamber of Commerce have also added combat-capable "senior NPCs". They are mainly responsible for stopping new players from making trouble, such as trying to attack civilian NPCs, trying to steal items from workshops and quest props, or trying to rob the canteen.
Yang Qiu knew too well the nature of these Chinese players who were both lawful and chaotic. No matter how earnestly the 300 veteran players posted experience posts on the forum to discourage people from committing suicide, the 3,000 new Huskies would definitely cause trouble.
The preparations were not in vain. From 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., the 900-plus newbies who logged into the Brand Matrix behaved very well overall. There was no situation like that during the initial public beta test that almost drove a good person like Rex crazy.
After noon, the alien world entered the middle of the night. Except for the zombies, all the NPCs "went off work" and went to sleep, no longer issuing tasks. The Exile Town gradually became lively...
"It's poisonous, right? We can only play for a short while at noon, but all the NPCs are gone?!"
A group of players who had just logged in happily went straight to the Traveler's Guild, only to find that the gate was closed, there was not a single living NPC in the square on the construction site, and they had no way of accepting any tasks. They were dumbfounded and immediately started cursing.
At the construction site next to the guild, an old player who was moving bricks laughed when he saw the newbies: "Did you not read the experience post of the big boss Ou Yan or what? If you don't accept the quest before the NPC goes to sleep, you won't be able to accept the quest during the few hours of darkness in the game."
The newbies stamped their feet in anger: "Damn it, I forgot! This NPC gets off work so punctually. With so many people online today, he didn't even ask for overtime?"
"Human NPCs are like this. You can't see them in the game after dark." The old player said kindly, "Or you can go to the zombie NPCs to complete the quests. Zombie NPCs have professional ethics and don't sleep."
A bunch of newbies looked at each other, and one of them suddenly said in a sly voice: "Brother Meng, let's go?"
"Let's walk!" The other newbies also laughed slyly.
Then, the group of people ran towards the buildings of the Walker Guild with laughter...
The veteran players were all dumbfounded: "Hey, hey wait a minute! Don't mess around, something's going to happen!"
“What’s there to be afraid of? The worst that can happen is I’ll just die once!” A newbie looked back arrogantly.
The old player stopped talking and just looked at them with his arms folded across his chest.
This group of newbies, who had clearly read a lot of veteran players' experience posts but were still very brave, jumped over the wall into the NPC's house and moved the quest tools stored inside ...
"A steel knife is nothing, we need a pickaxe to kill monsters!" A newbie happily raised a sturdy pickaxe that was still covered in mud, "Hurry up and grab one, let's go and kill the rat at the town gate!"
"Don't be so coquettish. I don't think the rat will work. Even my Vanilla wife and her elite group can't defeat it. It's better to go to the spider's nest to be safer."
"Can we kill monsters without any equipment?"
"What equipment do you need? With so many people piled up, the monsters will be killed!"
The gang happily looted all the mission items, and then they opened the door and prepared to flee...
Behind them, the oil lamp lit up.
A group of high-level NPCs with titles like "Assassin Mentor", "Ranger Mentor" and "Treasure Master Mentor" looked with grim faces at this group of people who carried out burglary as openly as visiting relatives.
With a cry of “Fuck!”, the two newbies who were lagging behind were hacked into white light.
The others were startled and ran away with the pickaxes they had just stolen.
If they were to drop their pickaxes, the newly arrived former mercenaries might not dare to chase them, after all, Yang had told them not to kill the undead unless necessary; if these guys ran with their pickaxes, the former mercenaries would not be polite, and they would roar and chase them...
The old player crossed his arms as he watched the screaming newbies being chased and killed by the senior NPCs. He calmly turned to the newbies who were doing the brick-moving task with him and said, "See? This is called not listening to the advice of the old people, and you will suffer the consequences. It's night time in the game, and those senior NPCs are not easy to mess with at night. Even Rex, who has the best temper, will kill people if he wakes them up, let alone the other NPCs!"
"Are the NPCs in the Novice Village so advanced? They even have bad tempers when they wake up?" The newbies who were doing their tasks honestly expressed shock.
The Walker's Guild on Second Avenue and the Fighter's Guild on Fourth Avenue have suffered varying degrees of theft... and robbery incidents. The Life Lane on First Avenue is even more lively.
A large tailor shop compound with a large population.
Late at night, the tailor Anthony sent the twelve female workers under his care to bed. Then, this old acquaintance, who knew the crazy nature of the undead well, walked to the large cabinet where miscellaneous tools were kept in the store, took out several heavy hammers, and distributed them one by one to the three former mercenaries who had just been assigned to his store to do security work.
The mercenaries had been robbed when they were captured by the undead, and when they were sent to Yang, they had nothing but two sets of clothes to change into. They were quite confused when they received the big hammers that Anthony gave them.
"You've seen it during the day. There are many new undead who are not wearing clothes in this town." Anthony said to the three mercenaries with a straight face, "Based on my experience, these newly arrived undead will not be very well behaved, especially on the first day - those bastards can do anything!"
"Listen carefully, if there are any undead that try to enter our territory, we will kill them all! Do you understand? Kill them all!"
"Hit them hard on the head and chest. Hitting anywhere else will not work!"
"If we don't teach them a lesson, they will continue to harass us without limit!"
"If you want to sleep well in the future, you all need to cheer up!"
Three former mercenaries: "...(° △°(° △° (° △° )"
"Did you hear that clearly?!" Anthony shouted.
"I heard it clearly!" The three of them stood up straight subconsciously.
At this time, a surprised shout came from outside: "There's someone in the tailor shop! Come quickly, the NPC inside is not asleep!"
After a series of "click, click" sounds, several undeads pushed the door openly and walked into the store as if they were entering their own home. They waved at the four high-level NPCs who were full of murderous intent: "Boss, give us the waist bags--"
"Die, you bastard who broke into my house!" Anthony shouted and rushed over with a sledgehammer in his hand.
"Is the NPC crazy?!"
“Oh my god, oh my god!!”
"Is it so hardcore that I have to fight with an NPC before buying a backpack?"
"Hey, isn't this the life profession instructor? His temper is even worse than the combat profession instructor?!"
The undead fled in a hurry, and Anthony chased them with roars. The commotion soon attracted the attention of players wandering on the street outside.
"I'm so awesome! I can fight with NPC right after entering the game?" The players who came to watch the fun were particularly surprised.
"What the hell, this is a one-sided beating, thanks!" The player who was chased everywhere was furious.
Qin Guan happened to be doing the Novice Set Quest with his friends and relatives who had just entered the game. He heard the noise and came over to take a look. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Can you take the experience post seriously? If you break into the NPC's residence at night, you will be killed. How many people have posted to remind you?"
Before Qin Guan could finish his words, he saw several newbies sneaking into the store while the owner Anthony was chasing others...
Qin Guan lost his temper and pointed at the three NPCs standing in the store and shouted angrily: "Can you please respect the NPCs? They are standing there looking at you!"
The three mercenaries woke up as if from a dream, and rushed out with their hammers raised...
The newbie who tried to fish in troubled waters but failed was chased and angrily yelled at Qin Guan: "Where the hell are you from? You're playing a game and you're still a dog to the NPC!"
Qin Guan: “?!”
...He suddenly understood why these super-intelligent NPCs with super high IA in this game were always so irritable.
Yang Qiu, who had happily spent the whole morning shopping during the Double 11 promotion, came back to the alien world after lunch and was not surprised to find that... in just half a morning, there were only about eight or nine hundred players who had logged into the Brand Matrix, and more than a hundred newbies who tried to commit suicide had been kicked off the line.
Yang Qiu casually scanned the players connected in the matrix and saw several of them being chased by former mercenaries all over the street...
"Tsk, even cutting off their hands is not enough to make me worry." Yang Qiu shook his head, "There is no way to solve the problem of the number of people on the task at the same time. If there are too many idle people, it will easily cause trouble... We still have to find something for these idiots to do."
The three thousand novices cannot be released in a short period of time, otherwise even Yang Qiu can't tell what kind of trouble these stupid players will give him...
The vast Tarantan Wasteland is perfect for these guys to go out and have fun.
Yang Qiu opened a subspace barrier to hide his body, and walked through the eyes of the players being hunted and the mercenaries hunting the players, and left the Exile Town.
Yang Qiu summoned the undead horse and trotted across the wasteland. Soon, he arrived at an open-pit coal mine about ten kilometers away from the Exile Town.
This open-pit coal mine, where coal seams can be seen a hundred meters below the surface through spiritual power exploration, if it were located within the borders of China on Earth, the mining around this open-pit coal mine alone would be enough to develop a small town of hundreds of thousands of people.
In this world, if it were not located in Tarantan where monsters are rampant, or if the neighboring countries were not small countries like the Kingdom of Rhine and the Principality of Shiga, but large countries like the Kenya Empire and the Sokri Empire, it would definitely be able to be developed.
Unfortunately, these prerequisites do not exist... This place, which contains huge reserves of coal and can be discovered by any spellcaster, was only briefly used by the first batch of builders of Exile Town.
Yang Qiu knew very well that it was unreliable to let players mine coal.
No one who plays games would be willing to turn himself into a coolie or tool. Even relatively simple labor like moving bricks and building a house requires players to have a good reputation in order to do it. Once the job is changed, players can say goodbye to the construction site as cheerfully as they want.
We can't use players to mine coal, but we can use players to clear the area - wandering monsters and monster nests within a ten-mile radius around the coal mine. If we send a mercenary group to clear the area, the cost will be uncertain.
"Let's set up a mining area and monster spawning point here."
