Chapter 166 Super Fierce Monster Battlefield
If you want to make players be infected with the breath of the Lord of Terror, the easiest way is to place the Fear Crystal in the cave of the teleportation point.
Of course, Yang Qiu never underestimated the group of players who were more cunning than cats, so he spent some time embedding the fear crystal on the wall of the cave, and also excluded this crystal from the player's identification information range -
Then he saw with his own eyes in the Brand Matrix where his elder sister and her friends were trying to use weapons to remove the Fear Crystal.
Yang Qiu, who had already returned to the Exile Town, put his hand on his forehead.
I have to admit, the old lady was glamorized in his memory… How could he forget that this woman was a serious ruthless person?
When he was young, he was bullied by older kids in the neighborhood. His sister ran to the gate of the neighborhood and cursed all night long. It was his mother who felt it was embarrassing and dragged her back home. If we talk about who among the three members of the Yang family is the most domineering, Yang Ying would definitely be ranked first. Yang Qiu himself was also influenced by his sister.
"...Forget it, they will give up if they can't get it out." Yang Qiu couldn't bear to see his elder sister's embarrassing look, so he shifted his attention to the other side, the national team's home court.
Ji Tang and Zhao Zhenzhen, model workers of the national team, are diligently planning the construction direction of the Westham Industrial Zone. Due to limited funds and even more limited manpower, the two national team members are considering using half of the buildings on Zhenzhong Avenue as factories. They are also planning to relocate some residents living near the industrial zone to prevent the start of the factory construction from affecting residents' lives.
"Yes, we need to prepare the production line for them."
Yang Qiu gave the combination of Ji Tang and Zhao Zhenzhen a full score, and turned his attention to another national team with satisfaction.
The railway survey team (actually just a modified infantry fighting vehicle) protected by more than 20 Westram operators has entered the eastern part of the Tarantan Wasteland, and the engineering plan for the first phase of the railway project has also been put on paper.
"The nearly 2,000 pigs kept at the guardhouse are finally put to use." Yang Qiu gave the railway survey team a full score. "We can't rely on the natives to operate the engineering equipment, let alone the players... Let's give the 'expert team' some more helmets."
In fact, it is not impossible to allow players to operate engineering machinery in the "game"; but based on Yang Qiu's understanding of the players... he has no doubt that players who get the right to operate engineering machinery will happily drive all-terrain excavators to fight small monsters.
If he hadn't ordered the indigenous tools to keep a close eye on the construction sites where the players were participating, and hadn't allowed the indigenous tools to kill the players, the pickaxes, shovels, spades, steel chisels and other tools that he had bought with his own money would have been destroyed by the players long ago.
Anyway, the expert group will definitely be interested in exploring this unknown world, and aiding the construction of the third world is also in line with China's national development policy... Let the national team do more work.
The two national teams worked diligently for Yang Qiu, which also increased the pressure on Yang Qiu's wallet, so he stopped sitting idle and started moving quickly - from the teleportation array in the basement of the town hall of Exile Town to the Desolate Stronghold.
Desolate Stronghold is the player gathering place second only to Exile Town. Not only is there the Toxic Mist Swamp, a high-risk and high-return monster spawning point, but also the lumberyard, which is the favorite gold-making site for working players and studios.
The logging site is less than three kilometers away from the Desolate Stronghold and can be reached in ten minutes at the player's speed. It is a very simple and primitive site with only two tents and a large open-air square.
It looks so simple that it makes people cry, but this is really the most stable treasure trove that Yang Qiu currently has - he only arranged two zombie NPCs to stand here to be responsible for issuing and settling tasks, and only provides the most primitive logging tools: a handheld chainsaw with a unit price of 400 yuan (powered by a diesel engine). Players and studios who are willing to make gold in the game will provide him with a lot of good wood.
Although the work efficiency of this makeshift logging camp cannot be compared with that of a regular logging camp...but the cost is low!
First of all, the labor cost is low. Self-minted game coins are the only labor expense, and there is no need to worry about work injuries - some players may saw themselves or be hit by a tree, but they will be alive and kicking half an hour later and will never come to Yang Qiu to ask for disability compensation.
Secondly, there is no need to worry about warehousing and logistics, nor any processing steps such as dehydration and steaming. After the felled trees are trimmed of branches and thrown on an open square to dry, Yang Qiu can directly "transport" them to Earth to sell them. Of course, the wildly growing forests on the Tarantan Desert cannot be full of the rare woods loved by Earthlings. Most of them are common southern tree species such as paulownia, palm, and heather. The unit price (of the wood) is not high, but Yang Qiu's cost is extremely low anyway, so he just sells it as raw material, and some manufacturers are willing to accept it.
The first few timber deals were handled by the expert group, but the rest were transactions directly between Yang Qiu and the manufacturers... After all, the amount of timber that flowed out of his hands was not large, but not small either, so the expert group did not need so many samples.
When Yang Qiu arrived at the logging site, he saw hundreds of players at the edge of the forest a few hundred meters away. They were working like industrious little ants, using electric saws to cut down large branches and leaves, and then putting the roughly trimmed logs on trailers and transporting them to the drying square.
"The gold-farming team has grown again." Yang Qiu gave these players and studios who were keen on earning game coins an admiring look, and happily went to the square to collect wood...
Yang Qiu himself does not have much knowledge of economics. The economic system of the game "Alien World" is actually very immature. Monsters do not drop money, and the materials they drop can only be exchanged for reputation and equipment, or used for job transfers. The only way for players to spend copper coins is to exchange or repair equipment.
But the game is not a mature game, but the players are mature players - the players themselves come up with copper coins and even RMB to collect materials, the players themselves compete with each other to brush up reputation, and rush to serve as tool mayor for Yang Qiu; the players spontaneously open up the second-hand equipment circulation market to ensure that the copper coins do not depreciate; the players speculate on the exchange rate between copper coins and RMB, and actively return a large number of copper coins to the system, that is, Yang's hands, in the top auction activities launched every month...
Mature players know how to help dog planners solve problems such as the immature and imperfect economic system, which deserves praise.
Like a little bee transporting the barely dried wood back to Earth, Yang Qiu was busy notifying the manufacturers to pick up the goods themselves (he sold the wood at a low price and must not include shipping), while also looking for the machinery factory to place an order.
There is no heavy industry in Province G, but there are still machinery factories that manufacture simple production lines. However, they cannot compete with other large factories in the market and can only go to the lower-end markets… relying on low prices to focus on the rural markets, or sell to Southeast Asia, or become upstream processing enterprises of some well-known large factories, with extremely thin profits.
Yang Qiu had previously cooperated with this machinery factory, which was definitely not up to standard in the eyes of Chinese people, when purchasing oil presses and tofu machines. This time, he took the initiative to find the other party's salesperson and threw out orders for more than a dozen low-tech production lines at once. When the other party replied to his message, there were four or five typos in one sentence.
There is no way, these days, no one’s business is doing well…
While Yang Qiu was diligently making money and spending it, his elder sister Yang Ying and the first batch of players who were experiencing the battlefield mode were being tortured to death by the intensity of the battlefield that was beyond their imagination.
"Fuck... I was just hit by that weird creature and died instantly. I didn't even see the scene of myself being killed. Is this game playable?!"
Yang Ying, who came out of the cave covered in dust, excitedly spoke to Miaobishenghua who came out just one step earlier than her.
"It should be because the health bar was emptied when I was hit... The damage judgment in this game is quite confusing. For example, some people died after being hit by the big rat at the town gate, some were knocked into the air and turned into white light, and some died after being knocked out and then hit the wall." Miaobishenghua grinned, "I also died inexplicably. There was nothing around me, but I suddenly came back to life."
"I saw how you died, Huahua." Tang Jia, who followed Yang Ying back, said sadly, "A bone dragon spewed fire towards where you were standing. That thing was in the sky and could only be seen from a distance ."
"Damn... I have to be careful with my head? Is this still fun?" Yang Ying was speechless.
"Let's go and gather with the others first." Miaobishenghua waved his hand, "It's not a good idea to keep destroying them like this. We need to think of a solution."
These girls who had just hung up had not taken a few steps when they heard a burst of scolding coming from behind them.
The writing is so brilliant that when I look back... Well, there is no need to look for the main force to gather, they are all dead and back.
"Hey, didn't you all hide in that cave? How could you all be caught in one go?" Yang Ying said in surprise.
"Don't mention it, that wasn't a hole in the ground, it was the nostril of a giant monster." The captain Qin Guan was in so much pain, "The monster lay still on the ground, and when we all hid inside, it sneezed or something and blew us all up into the sky... I had to fly up into the sky to see the whole appearance of the monster."
"What the hell?!" Miaobishenghua, Yang Ying and Tang Jia, who had fallen behind and failed to catch up with the main group, were all dumbfounded.
Jialuo looked desperate: "I thought that as long as I didn't provoke that big rat, I wouldn't have to experience the treatment of flying into the sky and turning into white light again in my life. Obviously, I was wrong... I have acrophobia!"
"Who would have thought that something that looks like a scene would also require identification?" En Bu Zeng said in a complicated manner, "Forget it, let's not talk about this for now... The time limit for a battle is 30 minutes, and now half of the time has passed and we haven't completed the first combat mission. Should we not rush into the main battlefield and come up with a plan before going out?"
After entering the battlefield, I found that the mode of this battlefield is not like traditional online games where players are divided into camps and kill each other, but the victory or defeat is determined by completing the battlefield mission. At the beginning, all the players were a little disappointed.
What's the point of determining victory or defeat based on completing tasks? Isn't the fun of fighting on the battlefield to not have to worry about death penalties and to be able to let go and work to your heart's content?
After the players on both sides received their missions from the battlefield NPC and ran to the so-called main battlefield...there was no trace of the slight dissatisfaction in the hearts of these players anymore.
This is a super fierce monster melee that is even more exciting than the Battle of the Five Armies in the movie!
Not only are there too many monsters to be identified even with identification skills, but most of them are more than ten times larger than the player's characters!
If some of these monsters that are fighting fiercely, extremely ferocious, and countless times more brutal than 3D movie special effects were not green names symbolizing friendly forces, players might have just typed GG - if all of them were red names, they would be wiped out as soon as they entered, and what's the point of doing a mission!
However, even if there are friendly green-named monsters, sneaking into the battlefield is still a very dangerous task... The monsters on both sides are fighting too fiercely. The position currently occupied by green-named monsters will probably be overwhelmed by red-named monsters in a few minutes - this is how the previous group was wiped out.
In short... infected by the brutal and cruel atmosphere of the monster battlefield and having paid the tuition fee of being wiped out several times, the players have abandoned their previous mentality of "what's the point of playing a battlefield if you can't kill people", and started to take this new mode of battlefield gameplay seriously.
"Our mission is to find an enemy position with a headless knight in charge and throw the flare given by the NPC into the position ." Miaobishenghua said first, "We saw the headless knight when we were wiped out last time. Although we can identify the name of the monster, its level and description are all question marks. It should be a super BOSS that cannot be defeated. To complete the mission, we must wait until the headless knight is no longer in the position."
"But the headless knight is moving so fast that I can't see clearly which direction he came from. The monsters are so dense that I find it difficult to find the mission position." Qin Guan said with a pained look.
"It is indeed difficult." Miaobishenghua said, "But there are 25 of us in a group. If we set out together, we will be wiped out if we are not careful. If we search separately, we will have 25 chances to search. What do you think?"
"I think so too." En Bu Zeng immediately expressed his support. "Anyway, we can't deal with the monsters here. Once we enter the main battlefield, we are doomed to die. So we might as well try to understand the route and environment before we die."
Qin Guan looked around and saw that no one objected, so he said, "Okay, let's charge twice and see."
After the players agreed on a plan of action, they once again heroically headed to the front line...
Qin Guan and others had just left the rear position when another large group of players appeared in the cave that served as the resurrection point.
"This game is playable!!" Brother Lahong was angry and threw his weapon to the ground.
"Calm down, Lahong. At least we know ." The little friend Mingfeng Chunpu said calmly.
"To be honest, finding the mission location is still a long way from successfully completing the mission..." Another friend, Huanling, glared with dead eyes and complained, "Damn, there are giant octopus-like monsters everywhere. How can we sneak in and drop flares? There's no way we can get close alive!"
"If you kill yourself a few more times, I won't be able to keep a good attitude while eating takoyaki." The girl who was obsessed with studying said sadly.
"Eat, why not? Eat more!" Brother Lahong didn't really want to give up the mission. This self-employed small boss had a spirit of not admitting defeat. He walked out with big strides and said viciously, "Damn it, go ask the NPC for a few more flares. We'll split into several groups and rush in separately. I don't believe that there won't be any fish that slip through the net!"
"Hey, hey, 'slipping through the net' isn't a nice word, right?" Huanling continued to complain.
"It's OK as long as the meaning is clear!" said Brother Lahong.
Witnessing the two groups of undead leaving the camp and rushing to the battlefield again in high spirits, Wagner and Ken, two old brothers who had little friendship, sat together.
Yang left the two of them in this extremely dangerous demon world... It wasn't that he really didn't care about their lives, at least he left a few "Mage's Eyes" - four floating above the battlefield in the direction of their camp, one floating on the road from the battlefield to the camp, and one floating directly above the camp.
The Mage's Eye can transmit the image to the mirror in real time, allowing these two "battlefield NPCs" to detect danger signals in time... Once the disaster demon army moves here, they can immediately enter the cave and activate the teleportation array for living people to return to Exile Town.
The six-sided mirror that transmits the image of the Mage's Eye is placed in Wagner's "barracks".
Wagner turned the six-sided mirror and found the scene of two groups of undead heading to the main battlefield one after another. He couldn't help but say, "Although these undead are always confusing and a headache... they still have some advantages."
Ken was silent for a while, then said quietly, "Yes, they won't give up so easily... If it were any other army, even the Iron Army of the Sokri Empire, they would definitely be afraid to fight if they saw such an inhuman battlefield."
After a pause, Ken said bitterly, "But this is also because these undead have the characteristics of immortality. I believe that if these undead only have one life, they will definitely not have such a strong will!"
After all, Kane was the leader of an excellent mercenary group with a hundred men. While he was forced to "provide services to the undead" in the Exile Town, he had long discovered that these undead were actually immortal.
The undead in conventional knowledge are of course immortal, but those ordinary undead can be expelled and repatriated by church monks, or purified and killed by exorcists. They are not like the undead in Tarantan. No matter how you deal with them, they will still appear in front of you alive and kicking soon!
Wagner understood very well the feeling of Ken the Sokri, who admired the undead but was particularly annoyed by them... To be honest, his own mentality was similar.
"At least, the task Yang asked for is no longer so difficult to accomplish." Wagner said with mixed feelings.
If the undead can maintain this attitude of completing battlefield missions at all costs, then defeating the Fiery Sun Cult using these undead as the main force will no longer be a problem.
After flexing his muscles by defeating the Cult of the Fiery Sun, Yang had more bargaining chips in negotiations with the Church of the Gold Coin.
If he could make the Gold Coin Church support Rex with all her might, then Rex could openly launch an honorable, fair, and legitimate territorial war against the Bartles family, one that all Rhine nobles would have to recognize.
Thinking of this, Wagner felt even more complicated...
Innadeli, where he had fought for his whole life but never got fair treatment, was about to change hands.
