Chapter 37: Tool Player Quota
The number one player in the game, with the ID "欧鳇", completed the first-level task of changing his job to a magic apprentice on the 12th and then went offline. He did not come online all day on the 13th.
On the 14th, Beluga was still not online, and the second batch of players who stepped into the first level of the game were born. One of them was our old friend Give Me Medicine.
I had already upgraded the reputation of the treasure expert who gave me medicine a long time ago. After several days of trying to get the last bit of potential, I finally reached level one. I took advantage of the lunch break to excitedly go online and go to Pansy to accept the job change.
And then... not long after, I died after taking the medicine.
Let’s not talk about how angry the one who died and went offline was. In short, our Medicine Brother, as an engineering dog, has a strong ability to withstand pressure. As soon as the death penalty time is up, he immediately goes online and fights again with high morale.
I didn't work for long before I was given medicine and died again...
In just two hours of lunch break, I had to wait three times to get my medicine.
When I went to work in the afternoon, I squatted on the construction site wearing a safety helmet (in reality) to take medicine for me, and then I took out my phone and angrily posted on the player forum -
"Production team, come in! Are job transfer tasks for humans?!"
"Players who are leveling up or gaining reputation, please take note! The job change quest is a complete rip-off!"
"I can't contact Boss Ou Yan, so I don't know how the first job of the magic apprentice is done, but the job change of the walker is so bad that I can't recognize it!"
"The first stage of job transfer! Seriously, the first task requires the player to sneak out from under the nose of the big rat in the south of the town and pick a task item called 'Leafless Flower' outside the valley where the town is located! It's outrageous!"
"I was chased to death by that big rat three times in just one noon! Was that rat a monster created by the player or was it a monster that used the player for fun?! I didn't see it from dozens of meters away, and it ran towards me!"
"Is it really that difficult to just transfer a job? Are we going to let people transfer jobs? We firmly demand that the difficulty of the tasks be reduced!"
There are many working people among the players. When they are at work, it is like taking medicine and they cannot play games. After seeing this post denouncing the difficulty of the task, many players who are just one step away from upgrading hurriedly shouted and begged the dog planner to show mercy...
Of course, any public discussion on the Internet is bound to be full of people who claim to be reasonable. In posts that speak out for the players' gaming experience, there are also all kinds of sarcasm:
"I think there is nothing wrong with the design of the job transfer quest. The walker profession should be a combination of the thief and hunter in traditional games, sneaking over/kite killing monsters. There is no point in becoming a walker who can't sneak/kite. Noobs should just play the life profession."
"You can't even kill an elite monster. You guys are such a failure at this game."
"It's not the game that's difficult, it's you guys who are bad at it!"
If it were any other game, if this kind of yin-yang person showed up, it would definitely trigger a war of words. I don't know how the post, which was originally intended to protest against the game officials' inhumanity, would be steered in such a direction.
This is not the case with the game "Another World". There are only 310 internal test qualifications, and among the ten helmets sent out by the dog planner PY, only two "newcomers" have been seen so far. Players can't say that they can remember everyone's ID, but at least it is quite difficult for cloud players to blend in with them and fish in troubled waters. These nitpickers were quickly identified as not official players at all, and were given a lot of ridicule.
Then… this post didn’t go off topic, but there were a lot of posts saying “Cloud players are discriminated against”, “Cloud players need to be respected”, “Cloud players also want to spend money on games”, pushing the post asking for me to take medicine to the second page…
A player with the ID Ou Yan, whose real name is Lin Rulong, went through two and a half days of rebuilding his self-confidence and came back to browse the player forum. He scrolled through several pages before he saw the post asking me to take medicine.
The "number one player in the game" was silent for a moment and clicked "Post a new thread".
Unlike Ou Yan's aloof style, his posts are always full of cuteness, and this post is no exception:
About My Change of Career to Magic Apprentice
"Hello everyone, I am Beluga (〃'▽'〃)"
"I was lucky enough to receive a job transfer mission to become a magic apprentice two days ago."
"The job change mission is really difficult, it has severely hit my self-confidence┭┮﹏┭┮"
"The first task is a test that requires an accuracy rate of more than 70%. The task panel will list the names and characteristics of dozens of plants and ask you to remember them, and then ask questions. This is actually very simple."
"The second mission is painful. The mission requires the player to enter the underground passage, activate meditation in the townspeople's shelter, and enter a mission plane called 'Spiritual Experiment'."
"It's a bit like a hundred-level test. You have to concentrate and make various choices quickly. If you fail in any one of them, you have to start all over again. I worked so hard but only got to the 60th level_(:τ」∠)_"
"And I don't know why, but 'Spiritual Experiment' seems to consume a lot of energy. If I fail several times in a row, I have to log off and rest. ヘ(_ _ヘ)"
"Anyway, I've decided to challenge this level again. Everyone should work hard to complete the job change and learn the skills as soon as possible (づωど)"
Not to mention what kind of debate was sparked by other players after seeing Ouyang's post, the two girls from the wise general duo, Miaobishenghua and Enbuteng, who both gained enough reputation today, called each other after seeing this post.
Enbuteng, who already has friends, has no intention of joining the two emerging player organizations. On the "Carnival Night" on the 12th, she even led a group of individual players to snatch a lot of meat from the two major player organizations. But this does not hinder her friendship with Miaobishenghua - let alone the two of them who sympathize with each other , even Lahongge and Vanilla Pudding, who have a falling out with them, many of the players who follow them team up to complete tasks and kill monsters when they have nothing to do.
That night, the two girls agreed to log in at the same time and complete the magic apprentice job transfer task together.
When they arrived at the town hall, they happened to meet Huan Ling and Ming Feng Chun Pu, good friends of La Hong Ge, who came to accept the reputation mission together. Two days ago, they had been killing each other happily. They greeted and expressed their hope to share their experience...
"No problem. We were planning to post an experience post after successfully changing jobs." Miaobishenghua smiled and waved to them.
After bidding farewell to this pair of good friends, the two girls officially interacted with Lord Yang, who stayed motionless in the town hall all day long.
Compared with other high-level NPCs, Lord Yang is a more handsome NPC, a middle-aged handsome uncle full of mature masculine charm and the temperament of years. He has a clean-shaven beard, a neat slicked-back hair, a thin face and melancholy eyes, and he still has an oriental face that makes Chinese people naturally like him.
Every time the player sees this NPC when handing over a mission, Yang is either wearing a very classy long black robe and sitting on a recliner reading a book, or wearing a formal shirt, vest and suit pants and sitting at the table drinking tea. If you say that Yang is the face of the human NPC in this game, it is completely worthy of the name.
But... no matter how handsome the NPCs in the game are, they are still NPCs. In addition, Yang really didn't have much of a role in the main quests that players had done, so even female players who like handsome uncles can't say that they like Lord Yang...
"Are you ready to embark on the path of a magic seeker?"
As the two female players who had gained friendly reputation approached, Lord Yang, who was drinking tea from a cup, raised his head and took the initiative to strike up a conversation with them.
"Yes, Yang, we want to change our jobs to magic apprentices." Miaobishenghua stepped forward to interact.
The high-level NPCs in this game are very intelligent. Even if the dialogue used during interaction is not very formal, the NPC will react accordingly if the keywords are mentioned.
Of course, it’s also because these NPCs are so smart… so when interacting with them, be polite and don’t be too rude, otherwise you’ll probably anger the NPC and get hacked to death…
Lord Yang put down his teacup, clasped his hands on the edge of the table, and said solemnly: "Magic is a dangerous power. Although magic is beautiful, it is easy to make people lost. Seekers who explore the path of knowledge must have the most determined will. No matter what situation they are in, they must not give up the purest perseverance in the depths of their hearts; no matter how powerful the power they possess, they must not lose themselves. Friends who were born from the evil chaos, are you really ready?"
The two girls in "Writing Brilliantly" and "Entropy Does Not Increase" had no expression on their faces.
——You are an evil black magician who deceived even the pure zombie general, took advantage of the opportunity of the revival of the undead race, and even snatched the position of lord. What are you talking about? !
Considering that this guy is the only wizard among the high-level NPCs, if he is angered, he might be smashed into ashes by the fireball on the spot. Miaobishenghua had to keep a straight face and try his best to be polite: "Yes, Yang, we are ready."
This time the NPC finally stopped nagging. He nodded, and said in a very pretentious manner, "I admire your courage, undead." Then he issued the task.
When they were leaving, the two girls were muttering, "This guy will be in the dungeon sooner or later"...
After sending the two girls away, Yang Qiu immersed himself in the matrix again.
It is now six o'clock in the afternoon on Earth, which is morning in the alien world. It is the peak online time. Including Ji Tang, a new player who got the helmet from Director Lu of the Brain Intelligence Center, 301 players are online in an orderly manner.
Yang Qiu has also paid some attention to this new player Ji Tang... This guy is quite awesome. He has 53 potential points when he initially logs in. Yang Qiu also discovered that this person seems to have suffered a great mental trauma. The 53 potential points that are digitized from the runes inside the skeleton character that can be controlled by the player are the values after suffering a severe mental trauma.
Considering the player's peculiar temperament and behavior after logging into the game, and the fact that he undoubtedly had a Chinese military background, Yang Qiu did not find it strange.
Even though he was only sixteen years old when he traveled through time, he had full confidence in the Chinese soldiers. In the entire earth, no, including this magical world, only the Chinese soldiers could be regarded as the benchmark for soldiers.
It is for this reason that after Yang Qiu decided to add civilian NPCs, he has been waiting for Ji Tang to change his job... Without Ji Tang to be the leader of the "dynamic storyline mission to receive civilians", Yang Qiu is really worried about those other players who have given up like Husky.
Look, after two days of wandering around, Ji Tang decided to change his job to a warrior. He had just finished a task initiative to take care of Charlie Rex, who was obviously a patient...
It was the players' "Carnival Day", but Rex, due to his poor mental state and incompatible relationship with the former thieves, rested in his tent that night and was not involved at all.
Rex, the "high-level NPC", is relatively transparent in the eyes of players.
Although warriors have always been a large population group in MMORPG games, and there were indeed many players who came to brush up their warrior reputation in the beginning, after all, most of the players are earthlings with normal IQs, who know how to analyze their own situations. After discovering that the undead race did not have the advantage of strength and had the disadvantage of being unable to withstand collisions, most of them ran away , leaving only Tang Jia, Yang Ying, Qin Guan and other "believers" who were still persisting.
There are fewer players to deal with, which is a good thing for Rex. Although he has become much more stable after joining the Matrix and is no longer on the verge of losing control, it is not so easy to recover from mental trauma. He still sees hallucinations from time to time, and his whole spirit is in a relatively tense state. If a bunch of huskies are noisy in his ears every day, his condition may even worsen...
On the first day when Ji Tang came with Tang Jia and Yang Ying to brush up his reputation, he couldn't help but notice Rex who was always sitting stupidly beside the tent.
Today is the second day that Ji Tang has been working on his warrior reputation. He calculated the time according to Entropy’s reminder to go online, meet up with Yang Ying and Tang Jia, and come to the Warrior Guild construction site again.
Rex sat in front of the tent, staring blankly at the deserted place. There was a pot of boiling water on the fire in front of him, but the fire was so weak that it was almost extinguished.
Tang Jia was so annoyed when she saw this half-dead NPC: "Our warrior instructor is really amazing. Other NPCs would pick up knives and chop people at any time, but with this NPC, I'm worried that if I make a loud noise when interacting with him, he will scare people to death."
"If this really happened, it's because you have a loud voice." Yang Ying laughed and mocked his friend, "It's a waste of your talent if you don't work in a hypermarket."
Tang Jia complained: "It's natural, what can I do——"
Ji Tang observed the NPC in silence for a while, then walked out quietly, slowly squatted down on the side, and whispered, "Friend, are you okay?"
"It's okay, it's okay. This NPC has always been like this, especially when it first came on the job. Its reactions are extremely slow. We are used to it. It will be fine after a while." Tang Jia said indifferently.
Ji Tang looked back at the two friends who were already standing there chatting, then turned back to look at the NPC who seemed to be suffering from some mental illness and was extremely slow to react to the outside world. He silently grabbed the wood next to him and helped the NPC to make the fire burn.
During this process, the NPC with the green name Charlie Rex above his head remained motionless.
Ji Tang took it as his "tacit consent" and took the bag of food that the NPC had placed at his feet and took a look...
Fried dough cakes sealed in unmarked transparent plastic bags, instant noodles bags in their original packaging probably because they are too trivial to deal with, dry and hard expired bread, tin cans with trademarks torn off, original boxed milk, re-sealed starch ham, re-sealed dried vegetables and sweet potatoes... a bag full of three-no food.
Ji Tang: “…”
If ordinary players see this bag of things, they will just be annoyed at how idle the planner is that he can even model the food that NPCs eat so realistically.
As for Ji Tang… When he got the helmet, he had read the expert group’s report and came in with a mission, so when he saw these “targets” buying off-shelf goods from offline supermarkets on Earth appearing here, his feelings were much more complicated than those of ordinary players…
No matter what others think, Ji Tang feels that the "goal" of creating the "alien game" should be re-educated - let's forget about the other "senior NPCs" who are full of bandit spirit and obviously have something to do with them, but this Charlie Rex is obviously a patient who needs care. Is it appropriate to feed a patient such a non-nutritious thing?
Unfortunately, the superiors strictly prohibited anyone from contacting the "target" privately. Ji Tang had a lot of complaints but nowhere to vent them, so he simply rolled up his sleeves and took care of this patient who only he knew was not an NPC to the best of his ability.
After playing the "game" for a few days, Ji Tang, who had wandered around Exile Town almost everywhere, had already memorized the town's topography and the growth of green plants in the surrounding valleys. He also determined the approximate temperature and the longitude and latitude of the town based on the position of the sun, the distribution of plants, and the clothes worn by the "NPCs". He also took the opportunity to separate from the other players to set up a simple squirrel trap and catch a family of squirrels, and tested whether the wild vegetables in this world, which were similar to those on Earth, were poisonous and edible...
So... Ji Tang asked the two female players to help watch the fire, and he went straight to the upper reaches of the river that passed through the town, and picked some purslane and water celery near the outlet of the groundwater flowing out of the mountain...
Then he went to the side of the mountain where no players usually came, found the rabbit hole he had discovered earlier, broke off a thorn branch and poked it into the hole upside down, and successfully poked out a big gray rabbit that was fatter than an old hen...
He used Pansy's white dagger to kill and clean the big gray rabbit, and then carried it back to the Warrior Guild construction site with a straw rope. In front of the astonished eyes of the two female players, he used the existing ingredients to cook a pot of "troop stew with added ingredients" for Rex, which was barely rich and balanced in nutrition...
Not to mention Tang Jia and Yang Ying, even Rex, who had just woken up from his morning doldrums, was stunned.
These skeletons were quite intelligent and self-aware, and were willing to work for the black magician Yang for copper coins and so-called reputation points. This was already something that shocked Rex's worldview. And now, this skeleton who had just come to him to do a task actually knew how to cook?!
What made Rex even more dumbfounded was that this strange skeleton actually mashed the berries he picked, added hot water to brew, sprinkled with white sugar scraped from the biscuits, mixed it, put it in a jar, tied it to a bucket and sank it into the well, and then said to him naturally: "Ice it for two hours and then take it out and drink it. It can relieve the heat."
Rex: "...Thank you."
"You're welcome." Ji Tang nodded.
Before Rex could remember to "take the initiative" to strike up a conversation and deliver the task, the skeleton walked away on his own.
Rex looked at the skeleton's back as he left, turned his head blankly and looked at Tang Jia and Yang Ying, whom he was already familiar with.
"Don't look at me. I don't know what other magical tricks this old man has." Tang Jia's eyes were dull. This carefree girl was rarely guilty. "Uh... Charlie Rex, do you need our care?"
"No, thank you." There was no way Rex could make such a humiliating request to an undead lady.
Tang Jia didn't know what to say and looked at Yang Ying helplessly.
Yang Ying: “…”
Yang Ying tried to correct his worldview and decided to play the role of a player honestly: "Rex, can you give us a mission?"
"Of course... the tools are over there, you can take them yourself." Rex's tone and attitude were much more polite than usual.
Half an hour later, Ji Tang came back dragging a bunch of wooden boards and pillars tied with straw ropes, which he had collected from the ruins in the south of the town...
Under the dull gazes of the two female players and NPC Rex, Ji Tang personally built a simple but usable pavilion next to Rex's tent...
Tang Jia felt that gaining reputation was no longer interesting, and Yang Ying also felt as if he had done something wrong. The two of them silently put down their task tools and took the initiative to help Ji Tang.
Qin Guan, the believer who insisted on playing a warrior, finally dealt with the miscellaneous affairs within his own team and ran over to brush up his reputation. He was shocked to find that the players who arrived earlier were all circling around Rex, the half-dead NPC.
"What are you doing? Have you received a hidden mission?" Qin Guan hurried over and asked.
"What mission? If there is no mission, then we can't do what we are supposed to do?" Tang Jia rolled her eyes at him, "You are so vulgar. You have a pretty face for nothing."
Qin Guan: “???”
In the town hall, Yang Qiu touched his chin with satisfaction and nodded to Ji Tang, the reliable leader of the reserved players.
"It's a pity that there's only one of him...it would be nice if there were a few more like him."
As the saying goes, "Birds of a feather flock together." If a celebrity player with influence is a troublemaker who stirs up trouble without restraint, other players will follow suit. If a big player is a very upright and positive person, the atmosphere in the game will be much better.
It was a pity that he couldn't directly ask Director Lu to arrange for a few more people like Ji Tang to come in...
"He did give me a reminder. When choosing 'tool men', you don't have to stick to the natives. You can also consider letting players take on the role."
Yang Qiu tapped the table and pondered for a while, then took out his cell phone and wrote down his inspiration in the memo.
"When arranging the 'dynamic storyline missions to accept civilian NPCs' for the first batch of players who have completed their job transfers, we will also open up the quota for 'tool man' players... We don't need too many of them, about ten or twenty should be enough. Currently, the matrix can only accommodate this many people..."
"The people recruited must hold functional positions in the town, and will be paid copper coins according to working hours. Their treatment will be similar to that of brick-moving workers, and those with relevant special skills will be given priority..."
