Chapter 41 Tricycle Expedition
"Brave King"
"You were passing the third block as usual when Hugh Porter stopped you."
"You learned about the past of a former member of the Shiga Principality Border Guard named Jin. Hugh Porter missed that teammate from Kamoer very much."
"Get more information about Kamoer: 0/1"
Not long after Ji Tang received the task, their small team gathered together and gathered at the unpopular butcher instructor Ma Nan.
When Jia Luo heard that one of their people had received a hidden mission, he was so excited: "Great, it's our turn to receive a big mission! Ji Tang, you are such a lucky star!"
Ji Tang: "Uh..."
Zheng Qingyue (entropy does not increase), who is undoubtedly the brains of the small group, carefully asked about the dialogue of the zombie NPC when the mission was triggered, and said: "The 'Jin' in the mission and the 'Hugh Porter' who triggered the mission are both members of the Border Guard. The last time we did a breakthrough mission, the zombie general said in person that 'some of us are his team members, and some are former pioneer group members.' From the NPC's perspective, this 'we' should include zombie NPCs in addition to players. We should be able to get information if we find the zombie NPCs who are former border guards and talk to them."
"This is easy. Just interact with all the zombie NPCs. There aren't that many zombie NPCs anyway." Tang Jia rubbed his hands in preparation. "We can skip the one near the river, Bildad. That NPC is from the original pioneer group."
It is now 11 o'clock in the evening in real time, and 9 o'clock in the evening in the game time. The high-level NPCs have "gone off work" and many players who were grinding for reputation have also gone offline. However, there are still many players online in the game - there are more and more first-batch players who have upgraded and completed their job transfers, which is a great stimulus for players who have enough reputation but not enough potential. Some players who play more Buddhistly have also started to play hard.
Their five-member team, in addition to the fact that entropy was not increasing and they were stuck at the last step of job transfer , Yang Ying, Tang Jia, Ji Tang and Jia Luo had all completed their job transfers and learned skills. As the saying goes, the more skilled you are, the more courageous you are. This small team did not even consider asking for help, and they just got busy on their own...
There are fifteen zombie NPCs in total, including the zombie general. Excluding Bildad, who was confirmed to belong to the pioneer group during the breakthrough mission, and Hugh Porter, who issued the mission, there are only thirteen to interact with. The four girls accompanied Ji Tang to interact with them one by one, and he responded when he got to the seventh one.
The zombie NPC with the name "Raphael" on his head, who usually issues brick-moving tasks to players, said slowly in a leisurely tone: "Brave Jin? This is such a nostalgic nickname. Fellows, why did you think of asking about Jin?"
"Uh...actually, we want to ask about the situation in Jin's hometown, Kamor Town." Ji Tang tried his best to say the key words he thought were useful.
"Kamoer Town? I know that place, the 'Cotton Town' in the eastern part of the Principality of Shiga, which is famous for its wealth." Zombie Raphael's stiff tone actually carried a hint of sarcasm, "As long as enough taxes and donations are paid, neither the people in the Grand Duke's Palace nor the church will care whether the people there still own land or whether the teachings of the Goddess of Prosperity are blasphemed!"
The five players' bodies trembled at the same time.
It’s just… Although I know that there are various gods in the background of this game, for example, the treasure expert Pansy NPC likes to yell "My God" about "Gold Lady"; but a mere zombie NPC actually cares about the teachings of the goddess of prosperity and gets angry about the blasphemy of the teachings. This is just outrageous…
Zombie Raphael continued to speak passionately: "The mission of the Goddess of Prosperity is wealth and contract. The teachings of the Goddess of Prosperity are to give believers the power to accumulate wealth and the power to trade fairly! The bastards of Camor have taken away people's chance to accumulate wealth. They are apostates and blasphemers. They should be sent to the guillotine!"
Five players: “…”
"Hmm... this means that the Principality of Shiga, which is related to the background story of us undead, has a dispute between fundamentalists and new interpretationists?" Jia Luo said painfully, "It's just a game, there's no need for us to get involved in any doctrinal disputes. I hate movies with strong religious overtones the most. No matter how exciting the plot is, it will become a stupid movie once it involves religious overtones."
"You're overthinking it. This is a story of a local ruler hiding the truth from his superiors and exploiting his fellow villagers!" Tang Jia objected. "It's common for people to misread scriptures on purpose. The Three Character Classic says 'If a son is not well educated, it's the fault of his father.' For thousands of years, when something went wrong with a child, which child didn't blame his mother first? There are countless people in our history who said 'If Confucius hadn't been born, the world would have been dark forever' while secretly trying to pry open Confucius' coffin."
Yang Ying said in surprise: "Hey... you two are always so noisy, I didn't expect you to have such a high level of education."
Jia Luo & Tang Jia: "..."
Zheng Qingyue turned her face away and held back her laughter.
While the players were talking nonsense, the zombie Raphael had already fully expressed his dissatisfaction with the upper echelons of Camor, and instructed the players to find the zombie general Lancelot next.
After the five people found the zombie general standing at the corner of a street away from the resurrection point, the zombie general did not give away any suspense and directly contributed the following plot. He first talked about his nostalgia for Jin, then expressed his regret for not living and dying with Jin, his old teammate, and finally asked the players: "Fellow countrymen, are you willing to do something for our former teammate and fulfill his unfulfilled wish before his death?"
Ji Tang clicked "Yes" on the task interface that popped up. Just as he was wondering why the task text didn't change, the zombie general standing at the landmark suddenly moved: "In that case, let's go and apply to the lord. Fellow countrymen, follow me."
Ji Tang and Yang Ying, who had less gaming experience, followed immediately without saying a word.
Zheng Qingyue, Tang Jia, and Jia Luo, who were experienced in the game, cursed in unison: "Fuck!"
"What's wrong?" Ji Tang and Yang Ying were quite puzzled, and turned back to urge, "Hurry up and follow us to continue the mission with the lord."
Jia Luo stamped her feet and said, "How come you two newbies haven't figured this out yet! Once this zombie general moves, even a fool would know that a plot mission is going on. Our small team can't eat alone!"
Ji Tang: "Uh..."
Yang Ying: “Ah!”
Sure enough, before the five of them had walked fifty meters following the slowly walking zombie general, they were discovered by players on a nearby construction site...
After walking 200 meters, they saw at least 30 or 40 uninvited players around them...
Before the slowly moving zombie general even reached the entrance of the town hall, even the monster spawners from the spider's nest came back and surrounded the town hall in three layers inside and outside...
Ji Tang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, Yang Ying looked dazed, Zheng Qingyue had no expression on her face, and Jia Luo covered her face with her hands.
"Qingyue..." Tang Jia said weakly, "How are we going to end this mess?"
"...Let's form a big team. Tang Jia, give me the captain position, and let's start the team mode first." Zheng Qingyue was also very upset. It was not because she could not monopolize the rewards, but because she was still a little scared of the mess that happened when multiple parties cooperated to do a breakthrough task last time. She was still being criticized on the forum because of that dagger, and there was no hope that she could get rid of the stigma of black equipment.
After becoming the captain, Zheng Qingyue started the team mode - the upper limit of the team size in this game is eleven people, but different teams can be led by the captain to join the team, so that different teams in the same team can see each other's ID and health bars.
After starting the team mode, Zheng Qingyue stood up and shouted to the players: "Everyone, be quiet and listen to me. Someone in our team has triggered a hidden task that can activate a dynamic story mission, which is the same dynamic mission of "suppressing rebellion" last time. If there are any teams interested in doing it together, please ask the captain to come to my place to join a group."
Brother Lahong and Qin Guan were also among the players. When they heard En Bu Zeng's words, these two who already had the mentality of big bosses felt a little weird...
The reason they didn't show up at the beginning was because they found that the entropy among the people following the zombie general was not increasing.
This girl is very opinionated and smart. She is not the kind of person who will come over and ask for a team-up after a few words of deception. But her friends are all good fighters. Not to mention Tang Jia, Yang Yingjialuo, even the newly recruited Xiaobai Jitang performed very well during the last "Carnival Night"...
So... these two big guys would choose to mingle among the players first to see the situation, and see which side Entropy will prioritize cooperating with - as long as it is a larger task, based on the current situation in the game, they have no choice but to choose one side among them.
They never expected that En Bu Zeng would not play these palace tricks with them at all, and did not consider how much attention he would give to the big guys in the two player teams...
As soon as En Bu Zeng opened his mouth, some captains of players who were originally in groups to complete tasks or to kill monsters took the initiative to come over and join the team with their own teams; those who didn't have a team also quickly formed a team with people they knew, and joined the group after forming a team...
Lahongge & Qin Guan were still hesitating whether to be reserved, when they saw their captain also excitedly running over to join the group...
"Come on, those who are the captains, go and add them to the team." Seeing this, Brother Lahong simply didn't bother with the woman. He took the initiative to disband the monster-killing team mode on his side, and walked towards Enbuteng - he was also the captain.
Qin Guan saw that La Hong Ge had made a move and followed suit silently.
Soon, more than a dozen teams joined the large group headed by En Bu Zeng's team. Some were full and some were not. En Bu Zeng glanced at the members of each team displayed on the team interface, and then called to the captains: "Group the people in the teams that are not full, and add those who have not been added."
Some captains followed suit and formed a group, while others shouted to En Bu Zeng: "Captain, my teammate has gone offline to call for help, so I have to keep a few holes here!"
Entropy didn't increase, so he didn't care: "Okay, we'll just fill up the team when the dynamic plot comes."
He also shouted to the individual players who had not yet joined the group and were anxiously calling for a group: "The individual players who have not yet joined the group, please form a group with each other, and the team leader should join the group!"
Zheng Qingyue knew why the two big guys, Brother Lahong and Vanilla Pudding ( Qin Guan), were keeping a low profile after arriving.
From the very beginning, their team of five people all wanted to complete the tasks alone and share the rewards alone. It was normal for Brother Lahong and Vanilla Pudding, who had been leading a large group to kill monsters for a long time, to have such ideas.
But Zheng Qingyue really doesn't want to let anyone make the decision... Just like the last time he gave me medicine and took away the dagger without saying a word, he has the authority of the team leader, so when there is good news, how could he not give priority to his own people?
While the players were busy scheming and forming teams here, over there, the zombie general Lancelot was completely undisturbed. He slowly walked into the town hall and slowly had .
Phantom Lord Yang listened carefully to the zombie general's request, and said solemnly in front of the players who had crowded into the room to watch the fun: "I understand your desire to fulfill your old friend's last wish, Lancelot, but we cannot guarantee whether the people of Kamor are willing to accept the kindness of the undead race from the Exile Town."
"Are zombies considered the same race as us skeletons?" a player whispered.
"Forget it, zombies are all our compatriots," said another player.
"Then why don't you let us choose zombies? Zombies are much stronger than our skeletons." A player complained.
"No, I don't want any zombies among my teammates, unless I want to lose weight..."
The zombie general continued the dialogue and said humbly: "Respected Yang, I know that our image will cause our former compatriots to , but this cannot be an excuse for us to ignore our former compatriots and let them continue to suffer. My compatriots and I are willing to take the risk of leaving the safe exile town to meet the people of Kamoer. We should give our former compatriots a chance to choose."
"Ah, holy light!" a player said exaggeratedly, "This zombie made me see the holy light!"
Phantom Lord Yang was silent for a while, then sighed and said, "I understand, Lansnot, I respect your opinion. Let our undead take sufficient supplies and set off. If... your former compatriots are willing to accept your kindness, then bring them back. Tarantan is a warm land, and she will not reject any new guests who come with friendship. If your kindness cannot be accepted, then give them gifts, which will at least make them feel better for a while."
As soon as Phantom Lord Yang finished speaking, Ji Tang displayed that the mission was completed. The zombie general turned around and solemnly thanked the Entropy Team, and handed over a piece of equipment...
En Bu Zeng took away the equipment without any hesitation, without even showing it to anyone else - when she formed the team, she made it clear that they were grouping people to do the subsequent dynamic storyline tasks, and there was no reason for the rewards for the previous tasks to be shared.
At the same time, online players also received system prompts:
"The dynamic plot "Tarantan's Embrace" has been triggered."
"Zombie General Lansnot Edgar hopes to fulfill the last wish of his old friend Jin and take care of the people of Kamoer."
"Participation Mode 1: Respond to General Edgar's call and join the expedition. Under the leadership of General Edgar and the quest triggerer Ji Tang, carry the supplies provided by Lord Yang to the desolate desert in the west of Tarantan, establish a base, and receive the Kamoer people."
"Participation Mode 2: Repel the pursuers and escort the Kamoer people back to the Exile Town."
"Escort mission: For every successfully escorted Kamoer, all escort personnel will gain 50 points of territory reputation. For every death of a Kamoer, all escort personnel will lose 50 points of territory reputation."
"Repel the pursuers: For each pursuer killed, the killer gains 20 points of territory reputation. For each pursuer captured, the captor gains 200 points of territory reputation."
"The undead race who have lost their lives understand the value of life better than living creatures. I wish the undead a safe journey."
After reading the dynamic plot introduction, La Hongge and Qin Guan simultaneously turned their attention to Ji Tang who was in the Entropy Team.
It was this guy who triggered the quest, and you have to listen to him when doing the quest - they automatically filtered out General Edgar, and zombie NPCs won't compete with players for presence anyway - it's obvious that you have to listen to Entropy But Increase in command of this event, and you actually have to listen to this guy in terms of actions!
Brother Lahong secretly pinched his thigh bone. Why didn't he pick up such a promising newcomer at that time? What a waste to let a group of female players take him away to mix with the crowd!
Qin Guan also pinched his thigh bone secretly. When will En Bu Zeng and his gang be willing to play with them? The atmosphere here is obviously super good, with many benefits and activities. What's the point of just playing with individual players!
Qin Guan poked his friend's shoulder and whispered to me while I was taking medicine: "Take the medicine, go offline and call Huahua to urge her to come online."
Give Me Medicine said hesitantly: "But she said she wanted to write some words and asked us not to disturb her..."
"It's okay, just let her log in, and then log off without going back to the log-off point. We will carry her character and follow the main force." Qin Guan said, "If she doesn't go back to the log-off point and logs off, she will only lose the things stored in her personal log. It's not a big problem. When she comes online, she can do the mission with us."
Give me medicine and nod immediately: "Okay."
The official website has suggested that it is not recommended to forcefully log off, but players will inevitably encounter situations where their helmets are taken off, or they suddenly have to log off for some urgent matter. Therefore, it is not uncommon for players to not be able to sink to the ground after temporarily logging off, and their bones are scattered all over the ground...
Players have complained about this issue countless times: clothes, waist bags and other equipment can be picked up by others after players temporarily log off. However, the official has not responded at all, with an attitude of "if you want to have fun, then get out of here". This has forced many Lone Rangers to find teammates to stick together. If you have to log off for something urgent, at least your teammates can help keep your things, so that you don't find yourself so clean that you can't even find a hair when you log off again.
After discovering that this mission actually required an "expedition" away from Exile Town, not only Qin Guan thought of taking his friends' "corpses" with him, but many people also quickly logged off to call for help...
The NPC doesn't care what the players do. After the plot is over, the zombie general will take the players to collect supplies.
Then... the players who followed the plot were taken to the foot of the mountain west of the town, where they saw two large rows of neatly arranged containers.
All players: “…”
The Entropy Squad, which was brought by the Zombie General because of the mission, except Ji Tang, the four girls all dropped their jaws to their collarbones.
Tang Jia raised her hand tremblingly: "Hey, hey, is my vision not good? These things...why do they look like containers to me?"
Jia Luo lifted his chin and said with a fucked up look on his face, "You're not mistaken, it's really a container, and there are two types: red and blue."
"This is fucking amazing!" Tang Jia held her head in her hands. "Isn't it weird to have containers in a game full of undead? It's so out of place! Very out of place!"
Ji Tang, who knew everything, kept his mouth tightly shut.
He... he was actually also extremely shocked. He was really extremely shocked that the "target" did not disguise itself at all and directly moved in the materials approved by the leader in the same manner.
The "target" is simply giving up! He has given up treatment! He is too lazy to continue to hide his black technology skills! !
Well... Actually, Yang Qiu only realized that it was nonsense to handle so many things by himself after he got the supplies, so he just didn't want to make things difficult for himself...
The zombie general, who had very low intelligence and could only act according to a set program, ignored the players who were shocked and walked forward to open the container, allowing the players to unload the contents...
The first container contained...a batch of pedal tricycles.
That’s right, it’s the kind of human-powered tricycles that the old men and women who collect garbage ride through the streets and alleys. They are produced by a well-established domestic bicycle manufacturer, and they are durable and have a large cargo capacity…
The players pulled out the stacked tricycles in the container with a look of confusion on their faces, and the Zombie General drove the second and third containers.
The two containers were filled with supplies, all packed with thick canvas and tied with ropes according to Yang Qiu's requirements. After being transported to the destination, they were unpacked and the thick canvas could be used directly to set up tents...
Players were so annoyed by the design of the missions in this game that they helped to move the packed supplies onto the tricycles while complaining: "I can't figure out whether the crappy planners are pursuing realism and immersion or just making things difficult for players. Can't they save players some trouble by just pressing an interactive button for this kind of job of moving supplies?"
"Don't be naive, brother. Don't forget that the houses that NPCs live in are built by us brick by brick. I think the idiot planner has a misunderstanding of the gaming experience that players need. It's true that Chinese people like farming, but they don't like it enough to build their own houses!"
"If this game account wasn't so expensive, I would have given up on it!"
After finally loading the supplies, when the players were asked to take turns riding the tricycle to transport the goods, they no longer had the energy to complain.
Of course, this mode with such a high degree of freedom is not without its benefits. Players who are busy and cannot stay up all night are called online and then forced offline by their friends. The "corpses" left behind can be wrapped in clothes and piled on tricycles, and then pulled away together...
"That's not right. There's a giant rat squatting on the road out of town, and it's all ruins. How are our tricycle expedition team going to get out?" As the mighty tricycle expedition team started to set off, some players began to murmur.
The result... When the tricycle expedition team arrived at the ruins of Zhennan, they saw Lord Yang already waiting there.
"Is this lord going with us too? Why don't we try to stab this guy on the way? Any equipment dropped by this NPC will definitely be top-notch!" Among the players who were always rushing to their own death, some of them were rubbing their hands excitedly.
Phantom Lord Yang looked at the "rude" player with an expressionless face.
The other players were also very smart and quickly distanced themselves from this guy who was looking for trouble.
Fortunately, Lord Yang did not bother with this foul-mouthed guy, as the expedition was imminent. Instead, he said to the zombie general seriously, "Lancenot, let me pave the way out of town for you."
Then... this NPC lord who rarely interacted with players raised his hands and chanted a spell in an unknown language.
In the ruins leading to the outside of the town, the ground was shaking slowly. As the powerful NPC Lord sang a long song, the loess rose, pushing aside the waste on the ground, forming a loess road that could accommodate two tricycles running side by side...
“What the hell!!”
The players who saw this kind of large-scale magic with a wide range for the first time were once again shocked.
The player who had been thinking of finding an opportunity to stab Lord Yang Yidao covered his mouth with both hands.
