Chapter 246 Hostage Value
Time goes back to an hour ago in the other world, when the unconscious Ms. Shirley was still stuffed in a carriage and driving around the city.
The time in the other world has come to late January, and the timeline on Earth has also advanced to January, and students in schools have begun to have winter vacations one after another.
This year's winter vacation started a week earlier than in previous years. Tang Jia, who was addicted to games, found an excuse to stay in school instead of going back home, and happily stayed in the dormitory playing games.
It was almost five in the morning when Tang Jia got out of bed, brushed his teeth in a daze, ate some breakfast, climbed into bed , put on his helmet like a sleepwalker, and hung a U-shaped neck pillow around his neck.
In reality, she was so sleepy that she couldn't even open her eyes, but once she logged into the game, Tang Jia became full of energy...
Being able to play games while sleeping is the biggest highlight of the game "Another World", but sometimes it can also bring inconveniences - when school starts, there are many classes during the day, so you can have fun playing games before going to bed at night, but when the holidays come; if you play too crazily at night, you won't have time to log in when you are energetic during the day, and you can only play with your phone and browse forums to satisfy your cravings.
Tang Jia had to rely on her phone to endure twelve hours of gaming time the day before because she had played all the game time in one go. After the game time was refreshed after midnight, she didn't dare to mess around. She calculated the flow rate ratio between the game time and the real time and only went online during the daytime in the game.
If you go online at 5 a.m., it will be 9 a.m. in the game.
For players with fixed teams, the first thing they do when they go online is to check if their relatives and friends are online. Tang Jia stood at the online point of Exile Town and opened the friend list. When he saw that Yang Ying was online, he immediately sent a team-forming application.
"Xiaotang, you know you should save your online time today. Why are you coming online at this time?" Yang Ying teased when he added Tang Jia to the team.
"Don't mention it. I didn't calculate the time well yesterday. I couldn't even get up when you guys went to push the elite monsters." Tang Jia replied dejectedly, "Sister Ying, what are you doing?"
Jia Luo bluntly exposed Tang Jia's past in the team channel: "What do you mean by not calculating the time? You didn't calculate it at all. I told you to log off and take a break when it gets dark, but you refused to do so and insisted on running around everywhere. Yesterday, we almost failed to kill the wandering elite monster because we were short of damage output. You, the main damage output, can't even go online. What's the use of you?"
"Hurry up and report to the main city. There is an exorcist mission." En Bu Zeng said concisely.
Tang Jia used the CD that was transmitted every half an hour without saying a word.
Tang Jia was teleported to Innadli City. When he opened his eyes, he found that many other people had teleported there at the same time, and there were bursts of white light around him.
"What's going on? Why are so many people coming here? Didn't Brother Lahong and his team monopolize the exorcist mission this time? Or are they fighting for it?" Tang Jia asked his friends in the team channel while running out of the city hall compound.
"They can't monopolize this mission. The announcement was made ten minutes before you came online." Yang Ying replied happily in the team, "Qingyue Jialuo and I just formed a team and prepared to go to Westram to brush up some Guild reputation. Before I chose to teleport, I saw the announcement and immediately went to the main city to accept the mission."
"Yeah, Brother Lahong's group was just pulled out to the wild to kill monsters, and they haven't arrived yet, but many individual players have already taken on the quests." Jia Luo gloated, "Now the individual players are calling for a big group, saying they want to reverse monopolize the exorcist quests. It's going to be exciting to watch later."
As soon as Jia Luo finished speaking, several people in the team saw Vanilla Pudding posting in the Blood Alliance channel: "Captains online will be deducted 1 and join the team! Gather in the main city!"
Qin Guan, the leader of the Blood Alliance, came forward to start the group, and Yang Ying and her small group of friends had to give him face and joined in as the first batch.
Last time, Qin Guan personally took charge of the two military advisors, La Datuan, Miao Bi Sheng Hua and En Buzeng, and came up with strategies to snatch the tasks from Brother La Hong, and successfully snatched away two groups of side quest NPCs; but the vampire worth 10,000 game coins (the Vampire Viscount offered a bounty of 50 gold coins) did not "refresh" at the side of the side quest NPC they snatched, so they worked in vain.
This time, Qin Guan made it clear that he wanted revenge. He changed his previous style of only playing with people from the Blood Alliance. After pulling all the online teams into the group, he extended an olive branch to the individual teams. By the time Tang Jia ran to the assembly point, the number of teams that had joined the group had increased to more than 40 teams, and the total number of people had soared to nearly 500.
Innade built this "main city of the game"... It is ridiculously large and completely unnecessary for players. When they have nothing to do, they have to run for a long time to pick up a single-player mission from the bounty hall.
But if players organize large group activities, there are not many places that can accommodate hundreds of players to gather together - except for the free market on St. Joseph Street and the mule and horse market outside the West City Gate, only Sunset Boulevard in Midtown is spacious enough.
For example, in the streets of the South City, or the bar area with the most NPCs, or the Mary Street Market, a team of dozens of people would have to block the road tightly when going out... There is no other way. For the local residents, streets that can accommodate two carriages running side by side are considered formal streets, and streets where carriages cannot pass are called alleys. The standards are different from those of Earthlings.
Hundreds of players gathered at Sunset Boulevard, which was about the size of Earth's standard four-lane double-sidewalk road. When most people had arrived, Qin Guan, who had the authority of the team leader, shared the mission "Exterminate Vampires 2" with everyone.
"Oh, this guy suddenly becomes generous?" Sister Gala whispered in the team channel.
"Hush." Yang Ying glared at her.
Hao shared the task with all the individual players who came to try their luck. Qin Guan then spoke generously in the group: "Everyone knows that the rewards for the Exorcist task are very generous. The fewer people who do the task, the more you get, but that's not how the game is played!"
"If you care so much about the data, why don't you just play the cracked version of the stand-alone game? You can get as many resources as you want with just a flick of your finger!"
"Online games are only fun when played with many people. The more people there are, the more fun it is. Today we won't talk about profit and benefit. It's fun to have fun playing the game!"
"All the proceeds from this mission will be shared by the wizard, who will get half of the subsidy. Everyone else will get a salary! Even the team leader and commander will not get any subsidy! No one should take more than they deserve. We want fairness and satisfaction!"
"Hey, if Huahua and our Qingyue were not both mages and could both get an extra half of the subsidy, do you think he would dare to say that?" Sister Jialuo continued to speak sarcastically in the team channel.
"Jia Luo." En Bu Zeng stared at her with a smile, "Don't say this outside. Give Vanilla some face."
"Who told this idiot to try to get his people into our team yesterday to just sit there and do nothing?" Jia Luo said unhappily, "What about July Snow and August Melon? Do we know them?!"
"Xiaoxue just competed with you for filming materials once, why have you been holding a grudge for so long?" Yang Ying was also at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
"Anyway, I'm just stingy. I've never seen anyone who claims to be one of us but still raises the price." Jialuo turned her face away.
"Forget it, forget it. You are going to play in a gold group. Isn't the gold group all about gold? If you want to hold a grudge about this, don't go out to form a wild group in the future. Let's form our own group." Yang Ying said.
En Bu Zeng shook his head and whispered to Tang Jia, "I finally understand why the hatred between La Hong Ge and Vanilla has been getting deeper and deeper since the last auction of the Book of the Dead."
Tang Jia just giggled and said, "Anyway, the materials needed for the second level of warrior are not scarce, so you guys who play as walkers can just tear them up for yourselves."
While the girls were gossiping among themselves, Qin Guan gave a mobilization "speech", divided the people into two groups, and announced their departure.
This time's Exorcist mission "Exterminate Vampires 2" is not like the last time when Lahong and his friends led it, where they had to search the whole city for vampires by themselves. The mission information directly provides two locations: one is Viscount Darcy's Mansion on Sunset Boulevard in Midtown, and the other is the Gold Coin Church Cathedral on Church Road on St. Joseph's Street.
Jimmy, a lieutenant of the police department who came from the militia, could figure out from the vampires' activities that the vampires this time would most likely target the Darcy family and the Gold Coin Church. Of course, Yang Qiu could also think of it... After all, killing the undead with a reputation for immortality is really meaningless, and looking for trouble with him, the summoner Nightmare Butcher, is like asking for trouble.
Vampires have done many disgusting things, such as creating killings similar to terrorist attacks to intimidate humans.
As for why the vampire didn't think of venting his anger on the City Hall... the reason is very simple. In the eyes of vampires, a demon race with stricter class systems than humans, the City Hall, which does not have any high-ranking civil servants with status and is filled with civilians and former prostitutes, is far less valuable as a "hostage" than nobles and priests.
If you put Mrs. Virgil and Ms. Shirley together and let the vampires choose a target that can better hit the Innader Territory, the vampires will not even give Ms. Shirley a second glance...
Similarly, when choosing between the target of attack, the family of the old aristocratic Viscount Darcy, and a group of city hall officials, operators and clerks of humble origins, the vampire would only think it would be more useful to kill the former.
The only reaction Yang Qiu could give to this was... to hold back his gruff laughter.
Calling back all the operators that Zhao Zhenzhen had arranged to investigate in the Central City was Yang Qiu's most "active" response - he would not blink an eye if the Darcy family was wiped out, and if the operators that Zhao Zhenzhen had worked so hard to train suffered losses, even his milk tea would not taste good.
While the players were calling for groups, teams, and heading to the mission location, Yang Qiu didn't pay much attention to the progress of the main force of destroying the vampires. He just waited patiently and seriously for Ms. Shirley's anchor point to react...
Half an hour before Ms. Shirley was awakened by the nightmare in her memory, a large group of players led by Qin Guan personally arrived at the gate of Viscount Darcy's house.
The players didn't notice the vampire who had been sneaking into Viscount Darcy's mansion for who knows how long, but since this place was marked as a suspected mission location, the players didn't hesitate to attack and started to chop the door...
If the undead usually approached the noble mansion, a group of strong guards would rush to the gate to guard it from a few dozen meters away. But at this moment, the undead chopped the hollow iron gate until it was flaming, and there was no movement at all inside.
After hacking at the gate for a while without being able to break the lock, a player volunteered to climb the wall, jump into the yard and open the door.
As soon as this group of brave players jumped into the courtyard, the players who were blocked outside by the hollow iron gate pointed behind them and screamed.
Jialuo, who was the first to climb in, was startled and turned back quickly.
But... in the quiet courtyard, a strange monster suddenly jumped out, with half of its body mutated and swollen and its head turned into a large tumor, and rushed towards the player.
“What the hell?!”
Jialuo and several walker players who climbed over the wall were frightened and ran away.
"Lesser Demon"
"LV3"
"A low-level monster that was transformed and degenerated from a pathetic human being contaminated by vampire blood. The rationality and wisdom of humans have completely disappeared, leaving only the instinct to kill and destroy."
"Possible drops: Imperfect Demon Core (Excellent), Inferior Magic Residue (Common)."
"Guaranteed drop: Inferior vampire blood (common)"
"A monster that drops new materials?!" When the identification technique scanned out the information of this strange monster, the players' eyes lit up.
There is no material in this game that can be classified as garbage, all materials are valuable.
"let me!"
A knight player pushed aside his companions who were blocking his way, walked to the hollow iron gate and stood still, raised his shield, threw a provocative skill at the charging inferior demon, and shouted an accompaniment: "Hey, grandson!"
The skill rune "Provocation" loaded into the body of the knight player's skeleton is not a product of this world... Not to mention the alchemical puppets played by alchemists, no knight of the church can use this trick .
This rune that Yang Qiu "developed" on his own when designing the knight's skill tree was actually a modification of the magic tricks of the illusionist...
The illusionist is the spellcaster who is best at single combat. In a one-on-one situation, Yang Qiu is no match for an illusionist of the same level ( there are only two legendary illusionists in the entire continent).
But the illusionist is not good at being besieged. If the black magician summons a large number of undead creatures to besiege the illusionist and the main body runs far away, then the illusionist will be at a loss.
Of course, the illusionist also has corresponding means to avoid being "kite-flying" by the black magician, and this means is mental magic·passive gaze.
Enemies who are hit by this move will involuntarily only be able to see the illusionist and can only move in the direction of the illusionist.
However, this mental magic, passive gaze, also has a big disadvantage, that is, if the target's mental power is stronger than yours, this magic trick will be immune... This is also a common problem of all mental magic.
The current mental strength (potential value) of the player 's main force is around 200, and the provocation skill in the knights' skill runes can only be effective against ordinary people and low-level monsters without intelligence.
This inferior demon was just an ordinary person before being polluted, and his mental power was not higher than the player's potential value. After being polluted, his mental power was slightly higher than the player's, but it was still within the affected range.
Influenced by the provocation, the inferior demon that was chasing the walker player suddenly turned around and rushed towards the big iron gate like a tank.
There was a loud "clang" sound, the door lock could not bear the heavy load, the lock core broke, and the big iron door opened.
