Chapter 231 Investigation Plan
When the players surrounded and attacked the blood slaves, Yang Qiu, who had not yet returned to Earth to sleep on his Simmons mattress, just happened to sense it.
When I quickly switched the online player's perspective and found the vision of the addicted student who killed the blood slave, the blood slave had already been chopped into ashes.
Yang Qiu couldn't help but hold his forehead with his hand.
So, he is not a fool to secretly select the trigger of the hidden task, but without reliable players to do important tasks, it is easy to make such nonsense...
You can't even track down blood slaves to find vampires. Did you guys put your brains on Earth when you logged into the game?
Now that the blood slaves have been discovered, Yang Qiu can no longer go back to Earth to sleep peacefully. He immediately leaves the City Lord's Mansion, opens a subspace barrier to hide his body, and rushes to the City Hall.
At the City Hall, Zhao Zhenzhen, who spent all her online time serving the people of the other world every day, looked serious when she heard Yang Qiu's explanation: "You mean, this vampire will kill people indiscriminately and use fresh corpses to create zombie blood slaves?"
"If it's a vampire who has lived for a long time, he won't do this easily. It's easy for people to trace him back through the blood slave's identity in his previous life." Yang Qiu said, "Joey Rachel, a native of Moses Port, has been in Innadri for less than ten hours. The vampire who targeted him released the blood slave. Obviously, this vampire is still a rookie."
Zhao Zhenzhen's expression became even more solemn.
Anyone who has had some dealings with grassroots law enforcement agencies knows that the most ruthless people among marginalized groups are often not the old hands, but the reckless little brats.
Yang Qiu continued, "The blood slave that the players just killed had been corroded by the blood of the vampires, and its clothes turned to ashes. I only had time to see part of what the blood slave was wearing. Judging from his quilted cotton trousers and rubber-soled shoes, he looked like an adult male with a stable income in South City. Of course, it is not ruled out that he is a low-level servant of a wealthy family."
Civilians in the city can buy cotton cloth at a relatively cheap price, but the quality of this cotton fabric... is not the same as the pure cotton on Earth. People in Nadali who are a little bit particular will not wear this kind of cotton cloth (real pure cotton cloth absorbs sweat but does not release sweat, and it is easy to wrinkle and deform).
If you can afford to wear double-layer cotton trousers with reed quilting and rubber-soled shoes, then you are not extremely poor, at least you have a stable income - the truly poor people would not be able to afford to wear rubber shoes. The world's rubber industry is not yet large-scale, and rubber products are still a long way from becoming affordable consumer goods. If you take a walk around Nancheng District, you will find that most people wear wooden-soled shoes or even straw sandals.
"Nancheng District is very big..." Zhao Zhenzhen suddenly felt a headache. Compared with the cities in China, Nancheng District was not particularly densely populated. But the problem was that she did not have the strong grassroots organizations like those in China!
"I've dealt with vampires several times." Yang Qiu said, "It's unlikely that this kind of monster would choose to hide in civilian areas. Instead, it is very likely to lurk in the middle class and aristocratic circles."
"Have you ever dealt with vampires?" There was something wrong in Zhao Zhenzhen's eyes.
"Oh, this is a more euphemistic way of saying it. We should remove the word 'jiaodao'," said Yang Qiu.
Zhao Zhenzhen: “…”
"If we're just investigating the Granser District, I have enough manpower here." Zhao Zhenzhen also said tactfully, "But you know, the City Hall is still in the stage of building a team, and our internal education work does not have the conditions on Earth."
Innadeli's grassroots team is not the same as China's grassroots team. Don't think that just by doing administrative work and talking, she can make the local natives fearless and willing to sacrifice risks like China's front-line comrades.
There are tens of thousands of party members in China, but Innadeli is not one of them!
It's not that the world lacks revolutionary soil. It's just that in Nadeli, the contradictions have not yet reached the point where a single spark can start a prairie fire. The people are lazy, short-sighted and self-interested. They can still muddle through life and have a place to eat, so don't expect them to spontaneously develop a fighting consciousness to change the world.
You call on people to fight to change the world and to bring down the rentiers, but they will blame you for destroying their stable lives.
Not to mention the alien world where the illiteracy rate is as high as 90%. In America on Earth, neoliberalism has easily and peacefully transferred national assets to the hands of capital leaders. Yet the American people still haven't come to their senses after several decades. Even if they did come to their senses, they would be led astray by identity politics.
It’s true, others have lived a peaceful life with you for a few days, but who would listen to you if you call for sacrifice and dedication before they have even gained weight?
If there are heavy casualties during the process of screening vampires, the morale of the newly assembled team will immediately fall apart. This is a very practical problem.
Yang Qiu knew more about this world than Zhao Zhenzhen did, so he certainly knew what Zhao Zhenzhen was hinting at. He said directly, "We don't need many people to investigate, and we don't need to conduct household surveys. We just need to ask how many guests came from Moses Port, entered the Granser District, or stayed at a certain household during the day. We will let the players take on such risky tasks as determining the results."
Zhao Zhenzhen didn't care at all about Yang Qiu using his compatriots as tools, and asked, "Are you sure our staff won't be in danger of their lives if they find the vampire's residence?"
Yang Qiu smiled and said, "Didn't I tell you to let the players go? The investigators will lead the players to knock on doors and visit, and let the players stand in front. The combat power of vampires is not very good, and the investigators have enough time to organize an evacuation."
Zhao Zhenzhen was still worried: "When you say that the vampires' combat power is not good, are you using your own standards or our players' standards?"
She knew very well how awesome this man in front of her, who was over 300 years old and had a lot of "deeds" in the rumors from another world, was. He was highly suspected to be a Chinese compatriot.
Yang Qiu waved his hand and said, "Don't worry. As long as it's not a thousand-year-old monster, the players can handle it. A thousand-year-old vampire is at least a Grand Duke, and he has many followers. It's not necessary to target a clerk in a shipping company."
The fighting power of vampires is certainly not weak, otherwise they would have been strangled to death by the church long ago.
However, vampires are rather biased... First, a large number of their talent points are used for concealment and camouflage, and second, their attack methods are all focused on dealing with living things.
In battle, they absorb the enemy's blood to replenish their own consumption. This offensive talent that all vampires have is enough to give most races a headache - they lose too much blood in a fight and lose their combat effectiveness, or even get sucked into a mummy. Who can stand this!
Players who control undead bodies and have no blood to suck are definitely vampire nemesis.
When Yang Qiu was traveling, he fought against vampires. His method of dealing with vampires was to summon a bunch of undead creatures to smash at him...
The longer such a vampire who kills people at will stay in the city, the greater the harm it will cause. After agreeing on the plan, Zhao Zhenzhen immediately went to gather the operators. Yang Qiu was not idle either, and quickly sent a notice to the online players:
"【System Announcement】: The progress of the Exorcist dynamic story mission "Destroy Vampires" has been updated."
"The player's team, who are obsessed with learning, discovered traces of vampire servants and blood slaves on Mary Street. The City Hall speculated that the vampires were hiding in the Granser District and its surroundings, and decided to send operators to investigate."
"Players who have accepted the 'Exterminate Vampires' mission, please go to the City Hall to cooperate with the investigation."
"The side quest "Protect the Operator" has been activated."
“Players who have received the “Eliminate Vampires” mission can automatically trigger the “Protect the Operators” mission by responding to the City Hall’s investigation plan.”
When Lahong Ge and his gang, who were searching the whole city, saw the announcement, they rushed to the City Hall without saying a word.
The players who didn't rush in to receive the quest while the Night Watch Hall was open were furious and started cursing... They even cursed the stupid planner and the blood alliance led by Brother Lahong that monopolized the good quests.
In addition to the Blood Alliance Order, which requires one to go to the Desolate Stronghold to find the Undead General to accept a long and tedious task that requires handing in a lot of materials, the conditions for upgrading the Blood Alliance are also very harsh. In addition to territory reputation, a huge amount of materials must be paid.
You have to know that there are only about 3,300 people in the whole game, including the lazy players and studios, and the material output is limited. Even if you go out and kill a small monster, the low-quality magic residue may drop, and the daily output is not that much, and it is far from reaching the saturation level.
The price of materials remains stable and high, and it is not only the casual players who don't want to form a group to kill monsters or do brick-moving tasks to gain reputation, but also the people who want to form a blood alliance. Currently, only Brother Lahong, a rich man, has krypton to the fourth level of the blood alliance and can add 350 people. Qin Guan's blood alliance is still hovering at the third level.
But the fact that Brother Lahong relies on his large number of people to monopolize the fat exorcist mission is bound to arouse public anger, and the players who play games are not as tolerant as the ordinary people who make a living in reality... If someone willing to organize stands up and shouts, even individual players dare to form a group to push down the big blood alliance (guild, gang).
While the people of the Lahongge Blood Alliance were gathering in front of the City Hall in a lively manner, another group of undead with a larger scale and larger number were also rapidly converging at the St. Joseph Street Free Market, about 1.5 kilometers away from the City Hall.
After evening self-study, En Bu Zeng went back to the dormitory to review until eleven o'clock in the evening. After washing up, he put on his helmet and played games before going to bed. As soon as he came online in Exile Town, he was frantically chatted with by his online friends.
Under the constant urging of a group of people, he was teleported to the main city and ran to the big square of the free market to meet up with his friends. Before En Buzeng had the chance to ask if there was any big event tonight and why so many people came... he was filled with anger from his friends.
"Mingfeng Chunpu is such a bad guy. He was the first one to call for a monopoly on exorcist missions! I even helped him when he was changing his job!" Tang Jia, who had the loudest voice, cursed, causing everyone around him to look at him sideways.
"That's right, those guys are really unfriendly, especially the one who's addicted to studying. She's the one who attacked us the most!" Jialuo said angrily, "And Huanling, damn, next time he brushes up his life skills, I'm definitely going to go and trick him!"
"Uh... the Exorcist mission is open again?" En Bu Zeng bypassed the complaints and went straight to the point.
Entropy doesn't care whether Lahong's gang is monopolizing the tasks. They have a large blood alliance, and if they want to have a comfortable game, they must try their best to fight for resources in the game for their own people. When their small team is active, they still give priority to their own people.
Anyway, there are only more than 3,000 players in the game, and only a small number of people are good at playing and stay online. Even though they fight and curse fiercely when there are conflicts over resources, after the activity is over, these people will still call each other to team up to kill monsters and do tasks... If you take things in this group of players seriously, you will lose.
Yang Ying didn't have as much resentment as Tang Jia and Jia Luo, so he pushed the two of them aside and told En Buzeng about the important events in the game today.
"A vampire who can disguise himself and blend into the crowd?" After listening to a few words, En Buzeng's eyes lit up.
"Yeah, this mission is quite difficult. It seems that they received the mission before 9 o'clock in the evening. Brother Lahong and Mingfeng Chunpu called all the people in their alliance to the main city and searched the whole city for several rounds, but they couldn't find the mission monster." Yang Ying said, "I asked about it in private chat, and they said that the monster seemed to be perfectly disguised as an ordinary citizen NPC, and the identification spell couldn't identify it. If they weren't lucky enough to encounter a blood slave that could be identified and pushed the progress, this mission might have been stuck for them for a few days."
En Bu Zeng's eyes lit up when she heard this. She really liked this kind of challenging task. She said firmly, "We have to grab this task. If we can't grab it, we have to let Brother La Hong and the others share it with us!"
