Chapter 519 Our War (I)
Among the old players, there are still some who can get 3,000 territory reputation, and they are not too few.
For example, the famous orange cat boss, as soon as the announcement was made and the "button" to add luggage appeared on the character panel, he immediately spent 3,000 reputations to exchange for the initial "grid" and got a one-cubic-meter space luggage, and then spent another 6,000 reputations to expand the luggage to two cubic meters...
"Oh, it's still nice to have a bag. At least I don't have to carry a big bag everywhere I go."
The orange cat boss was very excited. He immediately contacted the studio to purchase reputation, intending to spend money to expand the luggage space to the maximum at one time (upper limit is ten cubic meters)...but then he found out that the studio was out of stock.
“Out of stock?! How could you be out of stock?” the orange cat owner was shocked.
The studio was also in a tough situation: "We didn't know that the territory reputation would suddenly be updated to be tradable. Boss, we all used our wealthy reputation to exchange for high-quality equipment and materials. Didn't the Chamber of Commerce NPC just refresh the equipment a few days ago? We organized a centralized exchange here..."
The orange cat boss was speechless.
Before territory reputation was "monetized", the way studios sold reputation was to exchange it with the Undead Chamber of Commerce for equipment, supplies and materials and then sell them. Last month, the 200,000 newbies from the fourth test have gradually entered the first round. If the studio wants to make this wave of hot money, it must exchange the reputation of its own gold farmers.
There was no other choice, so the orange cat boss had to contact those professional and semi-professional players he was familiar with.
Then, there was no stock - even professional players like Yang Ying and Ai Pin Cai Ying who made a living from games had a strong demand for carry-on bags, so their own needs had to be met first... The gaming experience with and without bags was just too different, and no one wanted to carry all their belongings on their backs like a homeless person wherever they went.
"This is just forcing people to improve their reputation, right?"
The orange cat boss angrily closed the chat window, ran to the teleportation point and returned to his knight's territory in anger.
He could also gain territory reputation by selling fresh lotus roots and loaches produced in his territory to "NPC recycling", which was quite efficient , better than ordinary players working hard on the battlefield to capture prisoners; the only problem was that the cycle was longer, after all, it took time for the lotus roots to grow well and the loaches to grow fat.
After the Knight's Territory was on the right track, the Orange Cat boss came less often . After the fourth test players entered the market, the Orange Cat did not return to his own territory for ten days or half a month. All his thoughts were focused on how to make a little money from those new players in the fourth test.
Now, the orange cat, who is driven desperate by the gap in his reputation, can only temporarily give up his hobbies and shift his energy back to his small territory.
Standing on the hillside of his small mountain village, looking down at the river bank and looking up at the mountains, the orange cat boss raised his arms and shouted to his secretary NPPPC who ran out to greet him: "Open source, we must continue to open source! We can't be so lazy anymore, we must continue to develop and make big money!"
Secretary Miss Linda was very calm: "My Lord, please speak."
"Live by the mountain, live by the mountain; live by the water, live by the water!" A ginger cat said in a sonorous voice, "Let's start semi-wild breeding on the slopes! Let's start aquaculture! Hire more civilian NPCs as workers, I want to develop this entire area!"
Miss Linda, who originally thought that the Undead Lord was just having intermittent convulsions, was shocked and immediately winked at the guards beside her. The two of them went up together to hold the orange cat on both sides to prevent it from running away without saying a word, and questioned the Lord about his development plan on the spot...
On the other hand, after becoming a player lord (Chapter 461), the lone wolf Emperor Ouyang was still addicted to SOLO. He exchanged all his accumulated territory reputation for two cubic meters of luggage space. After a brief silence, he packed up the materials and supplies he had obtained, and resolutely headed for the nearest teleportation point and headed for the Principality of Shiga.
Brother Lowell not only conferred an honorary lordship on the European sturgeon (which cannot be inherited... but the players don't care about whether it is hereditary or not), but he was also generous with the fiefdom. The town he conferred on the European sturgeon was more than twenty times larger in population and area than the knight's territory of the orange cat.
Ouyang only regarded this small town as his personal offline point. Although he opened two small shops in the town to sell his personal life skills and monster-killing products, he never thought about how to manage this territory... After wandering around the town for two rounds, Ouyang, who had no idea, quietly opened his friend list.
"Boss Ou Yan, you actually contacted me on your own initiative?! Oh my god, what day is today? Is it raining red?!"
The orange cat who was privately chatted with by the beluga sent a shocked voice message directly.
European sturgeon: “…”
"Managing a territory, huh? Don't worry, wait a minute, I'll come over to help you once brother has made arrangements here! Wait for brother!" Before Beluga could continue sending messages, the orange cat excitedly sent another voice message.
For a few seconds, Ou Yan really wanted to block this guy from his friend list...
Out of consideration for the urgent need to expand the luggage space, Ou Yan resisted the urge to block the person.
The orange cat did not take advantage of the sturgeon's verbal favor in vain. After arranging his NPCs to go out to do something, he immediately teleported to the sturgeon's side, dragging the sturgeon around and helping him survey the territory.
"Since you are running a territory here, you can only do business with the pretty boy. Let's first see what advantages your territory has and what industries it is suitable for. Then we can go to the pretty boy's place to investigate the market and see what is urgently needed there. This way, we can recover the funds faster and avoid the goods rotting in our hands."
"Don't worry, big brother. I promise to arrange everything for you. I looked up a lot of information when I was managing my territory. Maybe what I didn't use can be used by you..."
The orange cat and beluga that have already moved to the luggage space are so active, not to mention the players who haven't even unlocked the luggage.
“Damn it – couldn’t this announcement have come out a few days earlier? I just used up all my reputation!” Qin Guan’s face twisted when he went online and saw the update announcement.
"Well, I was hoping you could lend me a few hundred reputation points so I could unlock the bag first, but I didn't expect you to be such a penniless person." Miaobishenghua said weakly, "I originally had enough reputation points, but I bought two enchantments a few days ago and now it's not enough... It's really annoying. Take medicine, has the Queen's quest progress moved? How long will it take for the combat quest to start?"
"I went over to check as soon as I logged in, and there was no movement." The only one among the three who exchanged for a bag gave me medicine and shook his head.
Miaobishenghua was very angry: "What the hell - putting the luggage button there to seduce people, but not starting the battlefield activity quickly, isn't this just teasing people? Forget it, I don't have the mood to play now, I'll go to the forum to urge them."
"Come on, Huahua, hurry up and form a team. Besides, what's the point of you going offline to urge them? The planners of this game don't listen to us." He hurriedly said to me, "Since there are no activities, just kill monsters first. Killing monsters will give you reputation anyway, so a little will add up to a lot."
"No, I won't be able to make sense if I don't go and criticize you. Or you can bring my account over for me, and I'll come online to play with you guys after I finish criticizing you." Miaobishenghua didn't listen to the advice and logged off on the spot.
I had no choice but to go forward and collect my friends’ equipment and put them in my own bag, and continue to call people online to join the group...
Qin Guan stared blankly at the action of giving me medicine to slap the wonderful skull on his waist and put it into the bag, and couldn't help but ask: "This bag can even fit player characters?"
"Yes, I tried it right after it went online." He said with a hint of pride while giving me medicine, "As long as the total volume does not exceed one cubic meter, you can stuff anything in there."
"Uh...what about when Huahua comes online?" Qin Guan said in confusion.
"She's in my bag when she comes in. If I see her online or she messages me, I can release her from here." He patted the bag on his waist and said, "According to the normal settings, this storage space can't hold living things, but players are undead, so they can't be considered living things, so it doesn't matter."
Qin Guan was stunned when he heard this.
After accepting the setting that players can put each other in their pockets, Qin Guan became even more itchy and cursed: "The Undead Chamber of Commerce just refreshed the equipment and consumed my reputation and then opened the event. I reasonably suspect that the idiot planner is targeting me... Damn it, when will this continuous battlefield be opened?! No, I have to log off and rant too!"
Then this guy irresponsibly went offline...
Give me medicine: "..."
The players who had already gathered were getting a little anxious, so they quickly shouted at me, "Just log off and start swearing, don't run away! I can only fit two in my bag, there's no more room, don't expect me to help you with the account!"
Yang Qiu took some time to return to Earth to check out the players' feedback. Not surprisingly, he saw a lot of criticism and warnings on the forum:
"If you have the guts to force players to work hard, then you have the guts to start a battlefield activity!"
"I want to fight on the battlefield! I want to fight on the battlefield! I have shed blood for Tarantan and I have fought for the undead race! Let me see the Marshal! I want to see the Marshal!"
"Three days without a battlefield, planning collective ascension"
"Paying a high price for prestige, challenging all kinds of scams"
…and so on.
Yang Qiu was very pleased with the overwhelming martial virtues of the players. No matter how troublesome the natural disasters were at ordinary times, they were still very reliable at critical moments; when the time came, they could be sent out to destroy other people's houses directly, without any need for mobilization.
Of course, players can skip the pre-war mobilization, but the indigenous people cannot.
While the players were urging the war to start in a polite and easy-going manner in various ways, a number of inconspicuous small boats sailed down the tributaries of the Barcelo River and quietly gathered in the mountainous area on the southwest side of the eastern wasteland of Odysseus.
On August 3, Anthony and Tuttle Joe, who were observing the enemy's movements at the front line, received a telegram from the rear. Anthony stayed at the front line to hold his position, while Tuttle Joe went alone to the southwest mountainous area to join the troops in the rear.
Ranger Tattle Joe, who was faster than the players, traveled quickly in the dark for half the night and successfully connected with the army in the early morning of the 4th.
This force drawn from Innadri, Adler, and Tachia... is the first regular army with a formal military organization under the Undead regime: the Rhine People's Army.
The backbones are elites selected from the officers and security guards of the three counties and four cities, and the soldiers are elite militiamen from all over the country who have passed intensive training, multiple selections, and assessments in "Survivor". The total number of officers, cadres and soldiers in the entire army is less than 4,000, but it can already be regarded as the leading strong army in the Eastern Royal Capital.
Of course... this army, which has not participated in any open battles, does not have a name at this time - even under the rule of the Undead regime, not many locals know of the existence of this army.
When Tattle Joe saw Knight Jerome, the first commander of the Rhine People's Army and a former member of the bandit group, again after two years, he did not recognize this former bandit group member for a long time. The two held hands together, and Tattle doubtfully confirmed again: "Are you really Jerome?"
"It's me, Joe. Long time no see." Jerome smiled brightly. "You are so busy that you overlooked me. It was you who provided us with logistics when our troops were stationed in Westham."
"Well……"
Tuttle thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case; it seemed that Jerome also came to the town hall to see him at that time, but because he was fully focused on dealing with Ji Tang at the time, he didn't think much about this matter.
"Well, it seems that you are doing much better than us." Tattle Joe patted Jerome's arm, and then looked at the soldiers behind Jerome who were setting up camp and carrying supplies in an orderly manner, and said with emotion, "I didn't expect you to have this ability. Your team looks completely different from the armies I have seen - do those militiamen know about your unit?"
"Of course, our soldiers are all selected from the militia. Major Kirk (former officer of the National Garrison Army of Dutata City, the public militia leader under the rule of the Undead Regime) has sent a lot of outstanding militiamen here for training." Jerome said with a smile, "Originally, apart from me as the commander, the best candidate for deputy commander was Wagner Peter (former officer of the Defense Army of Naderi City), but Mr. Peter seems to have adapted to working in the civil affairs field and cannot let go of the new town, so he turned down the invitation of the People's Army."
Tattle Joe nodded and was about to say something when he suddenly saw Ms. Shirley leading a group of civil servants, clerks, and operators who should not be on the battlefield walking towards him. His eyes almost fell to the ground: "Huh?! What is——?"
"Good day, Mr. Joe." Ms. Shirley smiled and waved, "Don't be so surprised. We definitely didn't sneak over here like you did."
Behind Ms. Shirley, Operator Sam Hank, who was knocked unconscious by Tuttle Joe and forcibly replaced, appeared with a resentful look on his face.
"Uh...ha, ha." Tuttle Joe looked away awkwardly.
"We came here because of Ms. Zhao's arrangement." Ms. Shirley pretended not to see Tattle's embarrassment and explained with a smile, "It has always been the undead who have been fighting for us, which is not conducive to our own development. For our future considerations, this battle is closely related to the people of the Eastern Kingdom. As the people of the Eastern Kingdom, we cannot be absent."
