Chapter 35 Super Crazy Undead
"Who to kill?"
Miaobishenghua looked up in surprise.
"Lord Yang, that's the NPC who was drinking tea in the town hall, the one you're using to gain reputation with!" He said excitedly, "The quest was discovered by the bricklayers. They saw the NPC who was off work was running outside instead of back to his tent, so they went over to talk to him. An NPC inside said they were planning to assassinate Lord Yang, and asked if the player was willing to join them!"
"Wait a minute, isn't Lord Yang the magic instructor... the resurrection instructor of the undead race? If this NPC dies, there is no way for us undead to be resurrected?!" Qin Guan said in surprise.
"Don't worry, which NPC is issuing tasks to players?" Miaobishenghua quickly packed up the tools for the task.
"He's the one next to the armorer, the one who teaches skinning and butchering. Oh, his name is Manan." He said as he gave me medicine.
"The life career mentor turned against us and murdered the lord? What kind of weird plot is this?" Qin Guan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Give me medicine said with a beaming face: "It's not just teaching life professions. Manan said that all the high-level human NPCs in the town united to oppose Lord Yang. It's definitely a big plot!"
"I'll hand in the task first and go over to take a look." Miaobishenghua asked again, "How many people have discovered this task?"
"Uh... it's hard to say at the moment." The doctor who was giving me medicine said awkwardly, "Those brick-moving gangs found out there was a big task and called for help. It was a buddy of mine who came to inform me."
“What the hell!” Miaobishenghua was shocked. “Xiangcao, quickly organize everyone. This mission doesn’t necessarily require assassinating someone. How could the NPC who teaches skills die? But there must be follow-up missions. We can’t fall behind!”
"Okay!" Qin Guan ran away...
On the other side, after listening to the two brick-moving party players' introduction of the situation, Zheng Qingyue and others also hurriedly followed to the place where the high-level NPCs were "connected"...
"Why do I feel like something is not right? Doesn't it say that if a high-level NPC dies, one profession will no longer be able to be transferred to another one? That Lord Yang is a magic instructor, right? What will happen to the players who wanted to play magic after he dies?" Yang Ying, who was running after him, was completely confused.
"Hey, the NPCs in the game are like the monsters that block the road in Journey to the West. Those without a backer will die if they deserve to. They might be sacrificed for a small task, and they won't even get to watch a cutscene when they die. Those with a backer can die no matter what. They can be cleansed even if they enter the game." Tang Jia said nonchalantly, "Now in the town, apart from the combat and life profession mentors, there are several high-level NPCs who have nothing to do and just sit there all day. I guess, no matter who you shout and kill in the beginning of this task, the ones who will die in the end will definitely be those unimportant NPCs with no role. Let's just wait and see."
"That's right. NPCs with backgrounds and missions are generally not killed." Jia Luo also said, "Like Duoduo in Genesis III, he has been in the dungeon several times. If it were any other NPC, he would have been killed long ago. But Duoduo has the identity of Jiutian and he can't be killed no matter what. As soon as a new version is released, the official will release him to show his love with his CP."
Yang Ying was stunned... In a love game, to be an NPC, you need to rely on your background? Too realistic, right?!
"There are exceptions. If it's a plot-driven death, important NPCs may also die." Zheng Qingyue said, "But if it's a real plot-driven death, then a new expansion pack will be released, and one of the high-level NPCs will replace Lord Yang. Anyway, it's a plot of infighting among high-level NPCs in Exile Town, so it's normal for a black magician like Yang, who is obviously a villain, to die."
"Uh... yeah, yeah." Tang Jia didn't insist on her original opinion at all, and supported her childhood friend without any hesitation, "When we were doing the breakthrough mission before, Lord Yang killed and dismembered the hero Morris in the mission, and used his head as a decoration."
"Maybe Lord Yang won't die, but he will become a BOSS in the dungeon." Zheng Qingyue added, "We have already launched outdoor monster spawning points, so there is no reason not to launch a dungeon."
"Master, you're right!" Two brick-moving party players who were hugging Entropy's thighs gave a thumbs-up in conviction, "If you open a new copy, can you take us to play together?"
"No problem!" Before Zheng Qingyue could even speak, Tang Jia took on the responsibility again, "Which mentor reputation did you two gain? What will you transfer to next?"
A group of players who were about to log off saw them hurrying on their way and called out, "Where are you guys going? Are you still going to kill monsters so late?"
"Let's go do the mission." Tang Jia called out in a loud voice, "Want to come together? It's a large-scale plot mission!"
"Damn, there is such a good thing!"
"Count me in, count me in!"
"Boss, please take me!"
Hal, Tuttle and Pansy ran around in the dark for half the night with lanterns, and arrived at the secret meeting point at the agreed time.
In a remote construction site managed by a zombie NPC, three people turned off the wind lanterns and squatted in the corner, whispering obscenely.
"Have all been notified?" Hal asked.
"Everyone has been notified." Tuttle nodded.
Pansy said, "I avoided Charlie Rex. That guy is not our kind. When I called the brothers in the west of the town, I reminded them not to alarm that guy."
"Well done, Pansy. I almost forgot about this guy. We can't alarm him, or else who knows if he will tip off Yang." Hal praised, "I also hinted to an undead to cooperate with our secret operation..."
While the three were talking, the knight Jerome, Anthony who used to be a tailor, the butcher Manan and other brothers came over one after another.
"I've been waiting for this day for a long time!" Tailor Anthony waved his dagger impatiently and said with gritted teeth, "Hal, when are we going to start?"
Anthony is a strong man over two meters tall. He used to be an ordinary citizen of the Kenyan Empire. He did work as a tailor, but that was more than ten years ago. When Anthony discovered that he had a talent for fighting and resolutely joined the ranks of mercenaries, he regarded the tailoring work he did when he was a teenager as a "black history" - he was obviously a legal mercenary, but the reason he fell into a member of a thief gang was because he chopped a guy who mocked him for "going back to sew underwear for women" and caused him to be severely disabled.
Anthony, who was very proud of his talent for a combat profession and proud of his own bravery, was given the title of "tailor" by Yang Qiu, and was asked to sell sewing backpacks and other odds and ends, and to provide teaching guidance to players who were willing to switch to the tailor profession... It is easy to imagine how humiliating this guy must have been during this period.
Compared to Anthony's high morale, Knight Jerome seemed worried: "Tuttle, isn't it too risky to act so soon? We have no idea of the true strength of the Black Mage Yang..."
"Shut up, Jerome!" Anthony glared, "If you're scared, then go hide in your doghouse and don't embarrass yourself here!"
"Alright." Tuttle raised his hand and pressed it, saying in a deep voice, "The dark magician Yang is indeed unfathomable. We may not be able to fight him alone, but we are not completely without a chance. You all know how crazy the undead summoned by Yang are. We can make use of these creatures from the dimensional demon world."
"Ah?!" Jerome was shocked. "Tattel, how could you do such a risky thing?! Those undead were all summoned by Yang!"
"Don't worry, Jerome. I can guarantee that we can use these undead spirits." Hal said with a smug smile. "In fact, I have tried to hint to a certain undead spirit, telling it that if it can help us fight against Yang, then we can give it what it wants... This undead spirit is more active than we thought, and has already contacted its companions!"
As soon as Hal finished speaking, several people heard the unique "click, click" sound of the skeletons in action coming from the direction of the street.
"Look, they are already here. That madman Yang will pay the price for his madness—"
Hal stood up happily and raised his hand, signaling his friends to look in the direction of the "cha, cha" sound...
Then he was stunned.
He saw at least dozens of undead, openly occupying the entire street, rushing towards the place where the plot was being carried out in a very arrogant manner...
The undead running in the front accepted his "hint" and said with surprise that it would bring people to participate in the "secret operation". It waved its bony arms vigorously from a distance and called out to this side: "Halsan! Your undead friends are here to help you!"
Jerome, Tuttle, Pansy and others looked at Hal in amazement.
Hal's balls were in so much pain that he had to quickly make a shushing gesture: "Keep your voice down! Keep your voice down!"
After receiving the "hint"... no, accidentally triggering the hidden task, the player who was working on the project turned around and said to the boss, Brother Lahong: "The NPC told us to keep our voices down."
"Everyone keep your voices down!" Brother Lahong shouted at the top of his lungs.
The players responded positively: “Got it!”
"OK boss!"
Hal: “…”
Tuttle turned his head away silently, and Pansy held her forehead with her hand.
Hal looked back at his friends in despair and explained palely: "I did tell them to gather people secretly and then meet up with us secretly..."
Before others could express their opinions, another burst of dense "click, click" sounds were heard.
The former thieves turned their heads tremblingly and looked in the direction where the sound came from...
Another large group of skeletons arrogantly filled the entire street and headed towards their "secret gathering point" openly.
"Ah, found it! Over there!" The leading player shouted in surprise when he saw the high-level NPCs standing in a corner in a group.
"I finally found it!"
"Brother Lahong and the others are already here, so we shouldn't miss the plot, right?"
"You should have moved faster earlier. There's no time to waste if you keep dragging your feet and waiting for someone else!"
"Manan! Your undead friend is here to help you!"
The former thieves turned their necks stiffly and looked at Manan, who looked pale.
Manan was about to cry: "I, I just... I just wanted to help a little and get a few more undead to help..."
Pansy, the brain trust, murmured with a pale face: "Ms. Gold Coin, can this still be called a secret operation?"
Two large groups of undead and more than a hundred skeletons surrounded the eighteen high-level NPCs on the left and right. The closer the two sides were to each other, the less they cared about the NPCs and their attention was all focused on each other.
"Haha, Vanilla, you have also received the mission." Brother Lahong spoke first without any embarrassment.
"Haha, yes, it was received by a friend who was taking medicine." Qin Guanqiang responded with a smile.
The two sides stared at each other in silence, and the atmosphere became awkward for a moment...
Give Me Medicine The last hidden mission I received was done by teams of both sides, but when it came to the battle level, the bulk of the work was not done by the players, but by the zombie generals; this mission had eighteen high-level NPCs charging into battle, and both sides felt that they could definitely win with their own strength.
In addition, when the two large groups gathered together to clear the spider caves, they were inevitably impatient and blaming each other because of the frequent group wipes. Although it was only a few days since the last cooperation, neither La Hongge nor Qin Guan wanted to talk about "both sides working together to tackle the mission."
A player on Lahong's side couldn't hold back his temper and jumped out and shouted, "Brother Vanilla, even if you guys have also received the mission, it's based on first come first served, right?"
Someone spoke up, and the others followed suit: "Yes, we are all here before you come, it's unreasonable to rob us now."
"That's right. Otherwise, just line up and we'll do it first. If we can't do it, you can come later."
The players on Vanilla's side were no pushovers either. Someone immediately jumped out and said, "That's not what you mean. When Chiyao received the breakthrough mission before, he asked your people to do it together. Why do you want to monopolize the mission this time? You can't be like this, right?"
"That's right. Big Vanilla didn't forget about you when he had good things happen to him. But when you had good things happen to him, did you forget about Big Vanilla?"
It would be fine if we didn't mention the previous task. As soon as we mentioned it, Brother Lahong had something to say. The player in charge of verbal communication immediately yelled, "Have some shame. We also contributed to the task that you took the medicine for, and those few girls from Entropy Bu Zeng also contributed a lot. In the end, when you took the settlement prize given by the Zombie General for yourself, did you ask for other people's opinions?"
Give Me Medicine had to stand up and respond: "Don't accuse me, buddy. What do you mean by keeping it all for yourself? The prize is only a blue dagger. Didn't I also share the money with everyone in the team?"
"Who are you talking to? You took the first blue weapon with special effects in the whole game without even bidding for it. You just gave others a few copper coins and sent them away? Can't we afford it?!"
"No, I want to switch to the Walker role as soon as I transfer. This dagger is required for my profession!" He was anxious to give me the medicine. "At that time, no one in the mission team played the Walker except me!"
"Since you're sharing the money with others, that proves that you also admit that this weapon can be paid for with copper coins. Then whoever has more money should have the final say. If you just take it away, you're cheating!"
"That's right, black equipment garbage!"
"Fuck! Watch your mouth!"
The former thieves hadn't recovered from the shock of their secret operation turning into a market before they watched in amazement as the two gangs of skeletons took out their steel machetes and started hacking at each other...
Hal Maxwell slowly raised his hands and hugged his head.
Who am I? Where am I? What happened? ?
I just wanted to kill Yang, grab some loot if I had the chance, and then run away. Why did such a simple plan turn out to be so complicated?!
When the individual players team, who were attracted by the appeal of the ID "Entropy does not increase", ran to the place... they saw hundreds of players fighting in the street from afar, and white lights flashed from time to time in the crowd...
“What the hell?!”
The individual players, who were mostly brick-moving or casual players, were so shocked that they stopped immediately.
"What's going on? Why did the fight start?"
"Are you trying to steal the mission? That's too much. Can't you just talk properly?"
"Entropy is not increasing, sir. What should we do? Should we still go over there?"
"Wait a minute." Zheng Qingyue was also a little surprised and raised her hand to signal everyone not to be anxious.
She had thought that this mission would be a collaborative one like the previous breakthrough missions. After all, the game had only been open for a few days, and there wouldn’t be much conflict between players.
"Ah." Zheng Qingyue slapped her head, remembering what happened when the hidden task was settled before.
After completing the three stages of the hidden mission, the reward given by the Zombie General was pretty good, which was a beautiful blue dagger with a critical hit bonus effect. Since the trigger of giving me the medicine was someone who wanted to change his career and could use it, I happily kept the weapon for my own use. Of course, after all, it was a mission done by eleven people together, and in order to make others feel balanced, Vanilla Pudding collected a few hundred copper coins and distributed the money to everyone.
Zheng Qingyue herself wanted to switch to a nurse, and her friends Tang Jia and Yang Ying both wanted to play warriors. They had no objection to the distribution of this weapon, but La Hongge's face was obviously not very good at the time - they had already formed a team at that time, and there were people who wanted to switch to various professions, and they were indeed coveting this dagger.
After thinking through the whole process, Zheng Qingyue said to the individual players who followed her because they believed in her credibility, "Don't rush over. Let's wait until they have a result."
After a pause, Zheng Qingyue added, "No matter which side wins, we should not try to snatch the mission. We should negotiate with them. If they are willing to let us do it together, we will go with them. We don't want the big share of the reward, but just a little share. If they don't want us to do it together, we can just watch the fun, how about that?"
The more aggressive players had already gone to hang out with Brother Lahong or Qin Guan, and the players who still played by themselves were more Buddhist, nodding in agreement: "Okay, boss, I'll listen to you."
So the thirty or so players found a place to sit down and quietly became spectators...
Ji Tang silently watched for a while the group of stupid players in the distance, then looked at the crowd squatting on the ground watching the fun in a friendly atmosphere on his side... Well, it seems that the player group is also diverse.
Near the center of the battle, the former thieves stared blankly at the group of undead fighting without saying a word, and retreated silently, again and again.
"...Hal." Tuttle said with difficulty, "I suddenly feel that...it is not a good idea to win over these unreasonable undead."
"I think so," Pansy agreed stiffly.
Hal's expression changed several times, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Forget it! We'll do it ourselves!"
No matter whether this bunch of crazy undead continue to take action in this melee or not, Yang will find out sooner or later - they have no way out!
During the melee, some players noticed that the high-level NPCs were about to leave, and they immediately shouted: "Stop fighting, stop fighting! Hold on! The NPCs are about to run away! The mission is going to be lost!"
The players who were fighting fiercely turned their heads and looked back... That's right! The high-level NPC who was supposed to stand by and wait for them to decide the winner before handing over the task had run away dozens of meters!
Why are everyone fighting and arguing? Isn't it all about grabbing the mission? So the players, who had already suffered many casualties, quickly stopped fighting, and both sides were anxiously chasing the mission that was about to slip away...
"Wait, don't go! Give me the mission first!"
The individual players who were watching the excitement from a distance also became anxious when they saw the high-level NPCs evacuate collectively: "Did the NPCs leave because we haven't interacted for too long?"
"What should I do if entropy doesn't increase, sir?"
"Let's go around in front of them!" En Bu Zeng said immediately, "These NPCs are going to the town hall to assassinate Lord Yang, so let's go there first!"
Here, individual players were moving in large groups, and over there, the players in front had already caught up with the thieves who were evacuating collectively.
"Hand over the mission--!"
The former member of the thieves' group who was holding the line at the end had never seen such a scene of hundreds of skeletons rushing towards them with murderous intent. Seeing that he was about to be caught by the skeletons' outstretched bone claws, he subconsciously fought back and chopped the fastest player into white light with one knife.
“What the hell?!”
The players who caught up with them were stunned as they watched the high-level NPC hack people.
"What's going on? Didn't these NPCs invite us to join them in resisting Lord Yang's tyranny? Why are they still attacking us?"
"I don't know! Where is the person who triggered the mission before? What does the mission text say?"
"No! It just triggered the dialogue plot, and the task didn't appear on the task panel!" The player who received the task on Lahong's side had been consciously protected and did not die in the melee, so he spoke up at this moment.
"There are no tasks on the task panel?" On the Vanilla Pudding side, Miaobishenghua, who was also protecting his friends from death, quickly looked at the friend who gave me the medicine, the brick-moving party who received the task.
"Well, there really isn't. There's only a dialogue plot saying that there will be benefits if we help kill Lord Yang." The Brick Moving Party said hurriedly.
The players' eyes immediately felt something was wrong...
"Let me give it a try!" Without saying a word, he picked up a stone and threw it hard at the high-level NPC who was running at the back.
In theory, players and former thieves who are in the same brand cannot see each other's health bars, but that does not mean they cannot attack each other - otherwise, players would not be so often hacked to death by high-level NPCs.
“Ouch!”
The high-level NPC staggered after being hit, turned around in anger, and rushed towards the players with a knife in hand...
"Can you attack——?"
"Fuck, is this a blood bar?!"
For a moment, countless players roared with excitement...
Because of the difference in military power, and the unspoken rule that "green name & no visible health bar means they are in the same faction", players have not yet discovered the fact that high-level NPCs can also attack...
Miaobishenghua always felt that something was wrong, and wanted to call everyone to discuss it carefully, but the players who had just fought half a melee and were in high spirits were obviously not so easy to be called back; whether it was Vanilla Pudding or Brother Lahong, many people picked up steel machetes and shouted strangely, and rushed forward enthusiastically...
The former thieves had always looked down on the "fragile" players, but they were restrained by the rules in the branding matrix. Now that they were going to quarrel with Yang anyway, they naturally didn't care about the rules set by Yang. Seeing that these crazy undead "did not know what was good for them", they became fierce and attacked brazenly...
To be fair, this group of former thieves are not bad. The lowest fighter has to be above level three according to the "professional level system" set by Yang Qiu, which is stronger than the big rat in Zhennan.
But... the reason why the demonized rat could continue to guard the gate after the players purchased a large number of weapons and equipment was because the skin of the big rat was thick enough, and the players' attack power could not break through it; the former thieves who were born as humans could not compare their defense with the demonized monsters...
Anthony, who was proud of his bravery, killed several players in one breath. He was hit unexpectedly on the part of his arm that was not covered by the armor. His hand shook and the sword fell.
"Equipment dropped!!" Among the players who were surrounding Anthony and hacking at him, one player happily rushed forward to grab the longsword.
The player next to him recognized the ID of the person who had snatched the long sword, and determined that the other party was an "enemy", so he immediately attacked without hesitation, chopped off the player's head with a knife, and snatched the long sword dropped by Anthony...
"What are you doing, asshole!"
"Fuck, they're still trying to steal equipment!"
"court death!"
The players who had just worked together to besiege Anthony, suddenly started a civil war again...
Anthony: “???”
Tattle was an archer, not good at close combat. Under the siege of players who were several times more powerful than him and who were not afraid of pain or death, even a fierce man like Anthony was injured. Naturally, he was also hit several times and shouted anxiously: "No! There are too many of them! Go!"
"Retreat quickly! Follow me!" Seeing several of his companions injured, Hal became anxious, "Retreat to the east of the town, everyone!"
October 13th, 6 a.m. Earth time.
After returning to Earth and sleeping soundly for a night, Yang Qiu got up, washed, and had breakfast at the stall at the door. Then he changed into his robe and cloak, opened the space-time rift and returned to the magic plane.
After appearing inside the town hall where he worked... Yang Qiu was shocked when he saw the situation inside the house clearly.
All the former members of the thieves' gang were squatting in his workshop.
All the people in this group were injured, and they all looked embarrassed and dirty.
All the tables, chairs, cabinets and furniture in the house were taken away to block the doors and windows, and there were traces of knife cuts on the window and door frames.
Through the furniture blocking the door and the broken doors and windows, you can still hear the players outside yelling and cursing...
Yang Qiu: "...What kind of plane are you guys using?"
