Chapter 71: Unseen NPC
[The Destination of Believers]: Miracle Buildings! This is a building artifact created by the God of Death, which can be placed in any area of the player's main city. This building is a miracle building of the undead. After the building is placed, the "Public Mission" and "Skill Advancement Field" will be automatically opened.
"Miracle world buildings!"
Long Aotian blinked his eyes. He didn’t know what a miracle building was, but he saw the five words “architectural artifact”.
Especially the word "artifact", no matter what the effect is, it is a magic weapon!
Xu Ercong thought more deeply than Long Aotian. He paid attention to the two specific building effects: "public tasks" and "skill advancement field".
"It seems like this should be a new way to play the game."
Xu Ercong lowered his head and pondered.
Seeing that the two were silent, Xu Xiaofan smiled and said, "You will gradually find out that although it is not a powerful Death God's Artifact, it has special effects that the Death God's Artifact cannot provide."
"In my opinion, this should be the most helpful artifact for you at this stage. It can bring you great help."
After saying that, Xu Xiaofan turned around and left without waiting for the two to reply.
To be honest, although this thing is not a real artifact, Xu Xiaofan still spent a full 500,000 points of divine power to make it.
The structure of this thing is huge enough to affect the strength improvement of all players.
"Hey, why did Lord Death leave again?"
Only then did Long Aotian react, but when he looked up he couldn't find Xu Xiaofan.
"The God of Death should have his own things to do. How can he accompany you every day?"
Xu Ercong laughed out loud. He was in a very good mood after getting the artifact. He posted the attribute introduction of the artifact in the group: "Everyone, take a look. The artifact is already in hand!"
"Fuck, Brother Cong is awesome!!"
"This is the divine weapon. I thought it was a dragon-slaying sword or something like that, but I didn't expect it to be a miraculous building."
"Since it is a miraculous building and a divine artifact, it must be amazing."
"What are public missions? And how do you improve your skills in the skill advancement field? These two must be new ways to play the game!"
"Brother Cong, hurry up and place this building!"
The senior players from the three major clubs in the group were extremely excited and urged Xu Ercong to place this miracle-like building.
"Ok, no problem."
Xu Ercong agreed, and he said in the group: "Philosopher, Wang Dali, the two of you go to the game forum and post a message to announce the matter of the artifact."
This artifact is obviously not a prop to improve personal strength, but a welfare item for more players.
Although Xu Ercong couldn't figure out why the planner would come up with such a task reward, it was obvious that it was in line with the main gameplay of the game.
Scourge of the Death God is a faction warfare game, and anything that can improve the strength of the player's undead faction must be more useful than a single artifact.
Since the reward for this mission is a building that affects most players, Xu Ercong certainly won't waste it so much. He has to create some hype.
"Yes, sir!"
The Philosopher and Wang Dali are both senior executives of the Paradise of the Dead Club, and they are well aware of Xu Ercong's plans.
The two of them brought the club's posters and headed straight to the game forum.
Today's game forums have long been a gathering place for Death Note players, and are even more popular than forum branches opened on other game platforms.
As the popularity of Death Scourge grows, a large number of players have joined it, and the URL value and traffic value of the game forum itself have reached a terrifying level.
As the club's posters were in place, the inside stories of posts related to the artifact were exposed one after another.
Under the manipulation of the water army, it became a hot post in a very short time and was even pinned to the top by the administrators for more players to see.
《Artifact attributes revealed! This is a national carnival for players!》
"Death Scourge, a different artifact! Unexpected new gameplay!"
"Is it the planner's remorse, or is it Congge's cry for the interests of the players! A mysterious man takes you into the story behind the artifact!"
Under each hot post, there are a large number of players following suit and replying.
“Miracle-type building artifacts? They can also bring new game content. That’s awesome, my Cong brother!”
“This time, I support Congge! Congge must have sacrificed a powerful artifact and asked the planner to replace the mission reward with an artifact that would benefit many players!”
"Long live Brother Cong! I love Brother Cong! I want to give birth to a dog for Brother Cong!"
"It's confirmed. Brother Cong really did have a PY deal with the game officials. He can even change the attributes of artifacts at will! An artifact reward can actually lead to new game content!"
"I understand this skill advancement, but what is a public task? Can someone explain it to me? "
"Where are Brother Cong? Hurry up and place the buildings! I need to upgrade my skills!"
"As a clumsy person, skills are my life!"
The discussion among the players was very heated, and every player wanted Xu Ercong to place the building as soon as possible so that they could see the specific appearance of the artifact in person and experience the new gameplay firsthand.
Xu Ercong did not disappoint everyone's expectations. After he asked Wang Dali and the philosopher to lead people to post, he took a group of club members to analyze where it would be best to place the building.
"Just put it in the training ground! It's far away from the NPC crowd, so we can send someone to watch over it, and we don't have to worry about it being destroyed!"
"After all, this is a building given by the God of Death. It shouldn't be that easy to destroy. Besides, the training ground also needs to be garrisoned. Those NPC troops have surrendered. We can't drive them away. It will shake their morale!"
"How about this, let's put it next to the Magician's Guild. There happens to be an open space here. It will also be convenient for players to go to the Magician's Guild to accept quests."
"No, no, do you know how this empty space came about? Those magician NPCs conduct magic experiments every day, and there are explosions all the time. Everyone nearby has moved away because of the explosions."
"This is the best place! The residential area! There are a lot of vacancies, but the residents might be a little disgusted because the buildings will definitely attract a lot of players to stay, and the resident NPCs don't seem to like the undead."
"There's nothing we can do about it. We'll just have to put it in a residential area!"
Xu Ercong made the final decision, very domineering: "This is the player's main city! If the NPC residents don't like the undead, move out! Every NPC here is not allowed to hate the undead!"
"As expected of my Cong brother, so domineering!"
Long Aotian gave a thumbs up: "I'll chop all those guys who hate the undead!"
Wang Dali rolled his eyes and said, "Brother Long, can you please stop killing people? Brother Cong is just expressing his determination to manage the city. Can problems in the field of management be solved by killing people at will? There is a lot of knowledge involved."
"You are the only one who knows more."
Long Aotian snorted and stopped talking.
"Oh, my brother Long is so arrogant."
"If you keep talking nonsense, I'll chop you up."
After the final plan was finalized, a group of people led the players to the residential area in a mighty manner. A large group of undead entered the residential area, causing the NPCs to panic.
The city lord has come in person with the undead army. What is he going to do?
Later, after asking around, everyone found out that the city lord wanted to build a new building.
"Can these undead souls still build houses?"
"It's really strange. It doesn't look like a ghost at all."
"Go, go, go, Goudan, hurry up and stop looking at the undead. You'll have nightmares if you look at them too much."
Some people watched out of curiosity, while others were afraid and panicked. There were all kinds of reactions from all walks of life.
One of the pleasures for players is to observe these NPCs who are observing them. Although this is a bit confusing, it is indeed a special landscape of the Northern City.
When a novice player walks on the road, he will often see that while an undead player is observing an NPC, there is also an NPC following and observing behind the undead player.
After all, for humans, it is an interesting thing to observe creatures that are different from themselves, and there is no shortage of such idle people in any world.
The NPCs of Death Scourge are highly anthropomorphic, and players are happy to observe them.
As for the native residents of the continent of Esk, they have never seen this special kind of undead. The brave people from other worlds also like to observe this group of undead.
Under the watchful eyes of the NPCs, the city lord Xu Ercong took out a black pointed tower from his arms and placed it on the open space.
Soon, the prompt sound of the divine system sounded.
[Dear player, you are placing a building. We have detected that the city has been occupied by a player and belongs to the player's territory, which meets the conditions for placing a building.]
[Do you want to place the "Family's Home" here? If you agree, the system will deduct 300 days of your life points. ]
[Please check whether you have enough life points. If you do not have enough life points, the building placement operation will fail.]
"Fuck, this bastard planner!"
Xu Ercong cursed inwardly, charging for placing a building?
It's such a rip-off.
Although the output of life points has increased due to the influx of a large number of players, the trading ratio of Death Scourge life points has dropped to about 1 to 200.
But this is also the value of 200 yuan for one day of life!
300 days, that’s 60,000 yuan!
But for Xu Ercong, 60,000 yuan is just enough for him to complain.
money?
Haha, for Brother Cong, as long as it’s about money, it’s not a problem.
“The handling fee is the handling fee!”
Congge waved his hand and said cheerfully: "Go ahead!"
[The building is being installed. The whole process will take about 10 minutes. Please do not approach the installation area and do not go offline. ]
Following the prompt from the Godhead System, 300 days of life points were deducted.
A black light suddenly emerged from the black pointed tower and turned into mist, quickly covering the area.
"What is this!"
“What a thick fog!”
Not only did the NPCs and players watching exclaim in amazement, but even places like the Magician's Guild and the Adventurer's Tavern a little further away could see the gradually rising black fog!
"What an evil aura."
The old president of the Magician's Guild stood by the window, frowning as he looked at the black mist in the residential area in the distance: "What are these undeads doing?"
"Another big deal."
The tavern owner sat on the roof of the tavern, took a sip of barley beer, burped, and laughed: "A big villain is a big villain, he always gives people new surprises."
The black fog attracted the attention of most people in the city. Many players at the scene turned on the live recording function and opened a live broadcast room to broadcast the process of placing buildings, providing a live perspective for players who were upgrading and fighting monsters in the forest outside the city.
The black mist condensed but did not disperse, rolling endlessly in one area. It continued to rise higher and formed a tower shape with a wide base and a pointed head.
After the black fog dissipated, the "Family Home of Believers" building was completed!
A large spire-like building about a hundred meters high appeared out of nowhere in this large open space, filling the entire blank land area.
The black spire exudes a captivating evil aura. There is a faint black mist lingering around the body of the spire. Even if you look up and try your best, it is difficult to see the top of the spire.
It stands here, as if it is eternal evil, or as if it is an evil giant, emitting strong malice all the time.
The base of the tower is like any other church, with a gate, a fence, and a lawn covered with black grass.
“This…what is this thing!?”
"How on earth did it come out!"
"Oh my God!"
The sounds of people gasping for breath came one after another , and most of the players had no expression on their faces and no emotional fluctuations.
But the NPCs went wild.
What shocked people was not the evil aura emanating from the huge black spire, but the magical means by which the undead created something out of nothing.
Creating such a large physical building out of thin air is a skill only God can possess!
"These villains are not simple."
Whether it is the Magician's Guild or the Adventurer's Tavern, similar exclamations can be heard.
"Look, this is what it looks like to be new to the world."
Long Aotian pointed at the NPCs who were watching and laughed: "They don't even know the most basic game operations. I feel sad for these game data."
"But you know what, the shocked looks on the faces of these NPCs really make me secretly happy."
"Yes, it's very realistic. I don't know what program the game engine is written in. The details of the NPCs are indeed very realistic."
"This is the charm of Death Scourge."
Rather than discussing the fate of believers, players are more willing to discuss the performance of NPCs, and most players are discussing it excitedly.
"I don't think so. This NPC is not very good. The expressions are not immersive enough, the body movements are not tense enough, the eyes are too exaggerated and lack emotion."
"It's all because we players are too strict. My poor NPC didn't get a high score for his hard work."
"If they had seen this scene online, they would definitely say it was horrible."
