Chapter 185: Undead Siege
Thursday, December 5th, 4 a.m. Earth time.
As usual, Yang Ying got up from the bed when she heard the alarm clock, put on a U-shaped neck pillow, put on a login helmet, connected to her mobile phone, and then fell back into bed to continue sleeping.
While she was taking a nap, her soul was projected into another world through the spiritual imprint on her login helmet...
This is standard practice for hardcore gamers. Human NPCs in the game are only active during the day. They either stay in Exile Town to do zombie quests or go to Desolate Stronghold to cut wood. Most hardcore gamers will use their limited online time wisely.
Yang Ying logged in at the courtyard of Westram Town Hall. When he was teleported to the front-line camp, there were already many players who had logged in at the designated location. The entire west gate of Innadri was filled with undead running around.
"Sister Ying, this way!"
Tang Jia's signature loud voice rang out, and Yang Ying turned around to see that all his friends were already there.
"You all have gone up, but I'm the last one?" Yang Ying ran to his friends in surprise.
"Of course, it's a territory war after all." Sang Yeluo, a friend and one of the casual players, said with a smile, "My regular team has announced that it will suspend activities. Brother Yao said that we should finish the territory war before continuing to explore the land."
"Give me some medicine. Have you given up on breaking through the poisonous fog swamp?" The orange cat boss, who hadn't participated in their activities for a while, asked curiously.
"The main purpose is to compete with Lahong and the others. Yao Ge wants to prove that it is possible to swipe the wild monsters deep in the Tarantan Wasteland without outdoor teleportation points." Sang Ye Luo said.
"You have great aspirations, worthy of being a veteran of the closed beta test!" An orange cat gave a thumbs up.
"What are we going to do today? Continue looking for hidden missions?" Yang Ying looked at the think tank in their team.
"Yes." En Buzeng nodded. "The probability of hidden missions in the new map of Inadli City is very high. After Huahua and the others finished "Suspicious Hunter" yesterday, we all triggered it. No one can tell whether the triggering probability will be changed in the future. We might as well play it now before it changes."
Friends nodded one after another... The planners of this game have always been shameless, and they are definitely capable of doing !
"There are too many people at the west gate. Let's go around the slums over there and go to the south gate to have a look." En Buzeng said again.
"Hey, you don't have to go to the South City Gate." A ginger cat said hurriedly, "Yesterday you posted the hidden mission strategy on the forum, and I don't know how many people went to the South City Gate to wait. Anyway, when I was playing the business mode, I saw groups of people going there."
En Bu Zeng's expression suddenly became a little stiff.
Miao Bi Sheng Hua and En Bu Zeng are both good young people of the new era with a great spirit of sharing. They not only shared the full detailed process of the hidden mission "Suspicious Hunter" done by the advance team on the forum, but also made the hidden missions triggered by each of them public on the forum.
The two girls also analyzed the key points of triggering the hidden mission in great detail - keep a close eye on the NPCs entering and leaving the city, and follow any suspicious ones openly.
Not to mention how much trouble this annoying behavior has caused to the locals, the fact that entropy is not increasing is very troublesome anyway... If there were no hidden tasks to do, why would she go online so early?
"Let's walk further away. By the way, we can go to the north gate." En Buzeng said awkwardly.
"It's the city gate that you exit from when doing the Redwall Farm mission, right?" Tang Jia's eyes lit up. "Let's go, there must be a good mission over there!"
The city of Innadli is very large, and it takes several miles to get from the west gate to the north gate. Of course, this is nothing for the undead, and it only takes a few minutes of running at full speed.
The terrain of the North Gate is not as flat as that of the West Gate, but it is obviously better developed than the West Gate. Many houses have been built on the slightly flatter areas outside the city, forming a concentrated residential area of considerable size that is much more presentable than the slums. Not far from the North Gate there is a platform that looks very much like a European train station in the early twentieth century, with a straight railway extending from the platform to the north.
Seeing the "nostalgic" station and the railroad tracks from afar, Yang Ying was shocked: "There's actually a train station in this game?"
"That's normal, World of Warcraft has it too." A ginger cat said, not surprised, "When Cthulhu was born, there were not only trains but also subways. It's not surprising for a game of this style to have this kind of background mix."
Yang Ying accepted this setting on the spot... Although she only studied up to high school, she still knew the hot fact that the London Underground was opened in the 19th century, and Conan Doyle, who wrote Sherlock Holmes, also lived in this era.
"The last time I was loaded into a truck and transported out, I felt like I passed by a place with railroad tracks. It should be this railway." En Buzeng looked around with sharp eyes. "There are few people here, but many NPCs. There must be hidden tasks to do. We will stay here today."
"Let's go!" Tang Jia, who didn't like to use his brain and only liked to listen to conclusions, immediately waved his bone claws.
This "block" outside the north city gate is a suburban village with scattered houses. The loess roads are quite spacious and can accommodate three horse-drawn carriages running side by side. Many families have independent courtyards with fruit trees, and crops such as onions and garlic planted in front of and behind the houses.
Tang Jia rushed into this suburban village excitedly... and did a frustrated forward bend on the spot.
Undead!
Several piles of undead!
The path at the entrance of the village, the river bank beside the village, and the hard-trampled loess square under the north city gate are all filled with ghosts!
It is already daytime in the game, and many villager NPCs have left their homes, but their number is still less than the number of undead wandering around... Of course, it may also be because there are too many undead wandering around, scaring most villagers into not daring to leave their homes.
"Why are there so many people here?" Tang Jia was almost crying. "Can't these people do something more valuable, like moving bricks in the camp? Why do they ignore our battlefield quartermasters? Wagner and Ken are so lonely!"
The players who arrived first didn't understand Tang Jia's depressed mood. When they saw their team appear, two groups of people immediately rushed over happily: "Brother Entropy, are you here to find a hidden mission? Take one with you!"
"Boss, please take me with you! I'm super obedient!"
Entropy does not increase: "..."
Entropy looked at his friends awkwardly and quietly started a group...
Next, En Bu Zeng had to lead hundreds of players in the North Gate area to conscientiously carry out the hidden mission search...
Although the bloated group is not as flexible as a small team that can go anywhere immediately, it must be said that strength in numbers does make things easier. Soon, a player who forced his way into the group shouted in the team channel: "Boss Entropy! I found a suspicious NPC!!"
En Bu Zeng immediately asked this person to post the location in the team channel and asked the people around to rush over to help and prevent the suspicious NPC from running away. He also quickly led his people over.
By the time their team arrived at the location, dozens of undead had already surrounded a farmyard, making it impossible to get in or out.
"Here! Boss, here!" The player who spotted the suspicious NPC was beaming with joy and was loudly showing off his luck. "Other NPCs just walked around us when they saw us, but the NPC in this room opened the door and saw me standing outside and actually wanted to chop me! Luckily I ran fast!"
En Bu Zeng's eyes lit up, and he made a prompt decision: "Go in and take a look. If we can get in, there must be a mission!"
The players quickly climbed over the wall... Breaking into the house was impossible with the undead's strength, so it was easier to just climb over the wall.
In the Exile Town in the rear area, Lao Geng, who was "on duty", quietly cancelled the "protection measures" of this residential house - the GM authority had a setting that prohibited players from entering residential houses, and once a player forcibly approached a house that was not allowed to enter, a pop-up window would appear to warn him; one of his tasks as an "online GM" was to temporarily open the door of convenience for players who found "hidden mission clues".
It is not the peak online period, but because of the territory war, there are thousands of players online; excluding the casual players who play casually (for example, the casual player Emperor Ouyou who is on the front line of the battlefield but actually practices butcher skills), the gold-earning players and the brick-moving players who stay honestly in the camp, there are more than 600 players running around the Innadeli City. It is certainly not practical to keep an eye on so many people at the same time.
However, magicians have their own ways. All they have to do is add an early warning function that all magician towers have in the brand matrix. When a player passively enters a combat state (being attacked), or encounters a creature or non-creature whose mental power exceeds the safe value, the player's "horizon" will actively enter the field of vision of the "online GM".
The player who climbed over the courtyard wall was overjoyed. He opened the door from the inside, let his companions in, and then rushed into the only building.
The person hiding in the house obviously knew there was no escape, so he suddenly opened the door and rushed out, chopping the player in front of him into white light.
Players with an average level of around level two (potential value 100) have to adopt the corpse-piling tactic to deal with the red-named monsters of the Cult of the Fiery Solari, which have an average level of four to five (spirit value 400-800). In the eyes of the players, this level three monster (spirit value 200) is just a small BOSS with a higher AI. They are not afraid of it at all and can pin it down and tie it up after four or five teammates are killed.
Next, it is the looting process that players are very familiar with...
"Damn, a level 3 monster can actually drop a refined longsword! The monsters in the poisonous fog swamp are really poor!"
"Fuck, this monster has a special accessory that increases mental resistance!"
After happily snatching away the spoils of this level 3 monster, the players began to search the house again - and then found the family who had been tied up tightly from the kitchen.
Upon seeing this, Lao Geng quickly sent the task text to the player who had "triggered" this "hidden task"... Lord Yang provided a template, and he only had to change a few words according to the situation and send it out.
"The team with no increase in player entropy triggers the hidden mission "Suspicious Kidnappers."
"While you were wandering outside the north gate of Innadri, you noticed something strange about the residents of a household."
"This is clearly just an ordinary suburban village. How could there be a man who is larger than an ordinary man and is carrying sophisticated weapons?"
"After discovering you, this man attacked you viciously. Such a man is too dangerous. You decided to find out the truth."
"Sure enough, this man is not the owner of the household, but the kidnapper who kidnapped the owner's family!"
"You flew into a rage and decided to take the kidnapper back to Charlie Rex."
"Suspicious Kidnapper: 1/1 (Completed)"
"Bring back the kidnappers: 0/1."
Fifteen minutes later, the "kidnapper", who was stripped down to his underwear, was happily carried into the Westram camp by the players.
Charlie Rex readily accepted the person, paid the territory's reputation to send the undead away, turned around and looked at this "prisoner" with a very obvious temperament... and called Wagner over from the tent.
"They are from the city defense army." Wagner came over and took a look and said, "If I remember correctly, they should be scouts from the scout team."
"Traitor!" The "prisoner" whose identity was revealed shouted at Wagner angrily.
Wagner had no reaction and personally sent his aggrieved former colleague to a prisoner-of-war camp.
As soon as they entered the expanding prisoner camp, the "prisoners" who had been cursing all the way were stunned.
Among the hundreds of "quest monsters" that players have brought in and locked up, there are quite a lot of familiar faces...
After throwing his former colleague into the prisoner camp, Wagner returned to his quartermaster post and said to his old friend Ken, "Since the undead have already surrounded the city, what's the point of sending out spies? It will only provide fun for the undead."
Ken nodded in agreement.
It sounds strange to say that hundreds of undead were besieging a city, but these undead were indeed very good at identifying the enemy from the crowd. Anyway, from last night till now, the undead had captured dozens of spies from various noble families, including scouts of the city defense army...
