Chapter 9 A Murder Caused by a Rabbit
The three of them ran to the Novice Village together. Zhang Shan looked at the experience bar: 326/2000. Upgrading to level 4 requires 2,000 experience points. Upgrading is getting harder and harder. The experience requirements won't keep increasing exponentially, right? This is scary.
After returning to the Novice Village, Zhang Shan spent all his copper coins to buy 5,000 bullets. Together with the remaining 2,000 bullets in the package, he had a total of more than 7,000 bullets, enough for him to use for four hours.
After Qianli Zou Danqi repaired his equipment at the blacksmith, Feng Chui Feng Ling led them to the wilderness outside. The scenery in the wilderness was completely different from the first and second level monster maps. In comparison, the first and second level monster areas were more like a breeding farm.
The map outside had open wasteland and low bushes, and occasionally there were some wild wolves, wild dogs and other level 3 and 4 monsters. However, the three of them ignored these monsters and headed straight for their destination, the wild boar forest.
After running for about ten minutes, I entered the Wild Boar Forest map. The trees in front of me became taller, but they grew a little sparse. Not far away, wild boars roamed around.
Zhang Shan checked the wild boar's attributes.
Demonized wild boar: Level 5, HP 1000, Attack 53, Skill, Charge. The wild boar has a violent temper and will charge at anyone who approaches it, causing a knockback effect and increasing damage by 50.
"The demonized wild boar is not strong. Its attack power is only slightly more than that of the rabbit. Its skills are not strong either. It only increases the damage by 50, which means it has a little more health. There is no pressure at all." Qianlizoudanqi was full of confidence.
After reaching level three, his health reached 280 points, and his defense also increased by two points, for a total of seventeen points of defense. The wild boar could only hit him about thirty points of health at most. With a nurse around, he had no pressure at all.
Of course, it is precisely because Feng Chui Feng Ling has learned the rejuvenation technique that he is so confident. Otherwise, with his attributes, he can only fight two monsters in a row at most before he has to rest and recover.
"The wild boar monsters here are not strong, but they require a combination of professions to be defeated. Melee combat alone is not enough, and you won't be able to attack the monster if you are knocked back, and ranged combat can't withstand it. It will die after three hits from the wild boar. Only melee and ranged combat can help defeat it. This should be the most suitable monster for us to kill right now." Feng Chui Feng Ling explained to them.
Get to work.
Qianlizoudun rode alone towards a lone wild boar and used Falling Leaf Slash to deal -56 damage. The Falling Leaf Slash skill adds ten points of damage with each level up. He had already upgraded it to level three, and the skill damage was 30 points. Combined with the attribute damage of the skill, which was close to 30 points, he dealt 56 points of damage to the wild boar in one go.
Zhang Shan and Feng Chui Feng Ling also joined the attack immediately, each of them killed a wild boar with six or seven attacks. Feng Chui Feng Ling raised his hand to restore the health of Qianli Zoudanqi.
Experience +17, Copper Coins +15. No wonder Feng Chui Feng Ling bought so many blue coins. It’s not a loss. Level 5 monsters drop more money, which is completely worth the consumption.
There is a monster in less than twenty seconds, and Zhang Shan can reach level four in just over half an hour, which is much faster than the speed of upgrading from level two to level three. It feels great.
"Feng Ling, isn't your brother Feng Yun Tian Xia also here to spawn wild boars? Why can't I see them?" Zhang Shan was a little puzzled. He looked around for a long time but didn't see a single player. He didn't know where the brother Feng Chui Feng Ling was talking about was spawning wild boars.
"The Wild Boar Forest map is very large, and it takes more than ten to twenty minutes to run across the map. I don't know where they are. No matter what they are, we are not fighting a boss. The more people we have, the better. Two or three people working together is the most efficient way to fight monsters." Feng Chui Feng Ling said.
Zhang Shan took a look at the game map. The Wild Boar Forest map had been lit up. However, the map was indeed very large. They had been moving in a small corner of the Wild Boar Forest, and their activity range was less than one percent of the entire map.
As they defeated the demonized wild boars one by one, their experience points increased rapidly. Qianlizoudanqi was full of energy and said happily, "Do you think we can reach level 5 before lunch?"
"If we eat later, we can reach level 5. It's only half past ten now, and we can reach level 4 after eleven o'clock. However, it takes 5,000 experience points to upgrade from level 4 to level 5. With the current progress, we estimate that we can reach level 5 around 1:00 p.m., which will delay our meal. We'll see how the situation goes. It doesn't matter if we finish our meal before leveling up." Fengchui Fengling replied. Maybe she was a girl who ate on time, so she would log off to eat at the appointed time.
"You must be using the gaming console, right? Why do you have to log off to eat? Didn't you say you can stay online for more than ten days and it's okay?" Zhang Shan was a little confused.
"We still need to go offline for some activities. After all, the game is not the real world."
“That’s right.”
Zhang Shan understood what Feng Chui Feng Ling meant. It was actually a matter of degree. Just like working overtime every day, people will become distracted after a long time. Similarly, spending a long time in the game world will also have an impact.
However, I heard that the new world has solved some of these problems by using the most advanced quantum communication technology. For example, when players enter the new world, their bodies are actually just like sleeping, with no impact. Only their minds are still active, just like in a dream.
Of course, it is not good for people to dream all the time. Although it has no direct impact on the body, the pressure on people's spiritual world will gradually increase. Therefore, it is necessary to log off the line and relax every once in a while.
If long-term overtime work puts double pressure on the body and mind, then long-term gaming is just mental pressure, which is relatively lighter and there will be no problem as long as you adjust in time.
Zhang Shan was still thinking about the effects of the game on his body when Qianlizoudanqi suddenly shouted, "Look at the chat channel in the Novice Village. The fight has already started on the Rabbit Map. It's a mess. Haha, it's a good thing we left first, otherwise, we would have been sickened to death by those guys."
"A fight really broke out? Let me take a look, hehe." Zhang Shan also wanted to see how the fight started over there.
Novice Village Chat Channel
"Damn it, ranged players are so great, but they only know how to steal monsters. We worked so hard to kill the monsters until they were empty, but the mage snatched them away in one go. Can't he just kill his own monsters? Since you won't let me play, then don't even think about killing monsters. I'll kill whoever kills monsters, and see who can beat who. At worst, I won't level up today."
"Damn it, which bitch hit me? Use peaceful mode to kill monsters."
"Peaceful mode is bullshit."
"Yishui Jingke, you rubbish thief, why do you keep poking my ass with your knife? With your rubbish attributes, can you kill me? I will use a fireball to send you home. Now you have dropped back to level one, feel good, right?"
"Haha, kill them all. There are no guards in the Novice Village, and there is no punishment for red names."
"There's no punishment. Red name in the NPC store costs double the price. A small blue bottle costs 20 copper coins."
"Double the price for a red name is nothing. The old blacksmith won't repair my equipment, saying that I'm an executioner and he won't help the evil. My clothes only have a little durability left. What should I do? Ahhhh."
"Haha, I'm not afraid. Anyway, I only have novice equipment, so I don't need to repair it. Grandsons, just wait for me to kill you. No one can kill monsters, hehe."
"Don't mess around, go find whoever you have a grudge against, why are you hitting me? I just want to kill monsters in peace."
"Still want to kill monsters? Kill a kiba. I finally reached level 2 and fell down again. Did I offend anyone?"
"Forget it, forget it, I'd better go get some chicks. I can't afford to mess with you crazy people."
Zhang Shan closes the regional chat channel
"A murder caused by a rabbit, haha." Zhang Shan couldn't help laughing.
"By the way, is there really no punishment for getting a red name in the Novice Village? Just not getting double the money for repairing equipment and buying things? Then let others help buy things and repair equipment, then I can kill them with confidence, it doesn't matter if I get a red name, it makes me itchy." Qianlizoudanqi said eagerly.
"You're overthinking it. How can there be no punishment? Since the shops and blacksmiths hate red-name players, what about the village chief? He's also an NPC, so he must hate red-name players too. Although the village chief doesn't seem to have much use now, when you leave the village, you still have to find the village chief. Who knows if he will settle the score then?" Feng Chui Feng Ling talked about her views on the red-name mechanism in the novice village.
"It's possible. Maybe players with red names are not allowed to teleport out of the Novice Village. Even if the red name is removed, there may be other punishment mechanisms." Zhang Shan speculated.
"You should go check the forums. It's not just our Novice Village, the others as well. The Rabbit Map is in chaos. Haha." Qianlizoudanqi fought monsters while still having time to check the forums.
Hearing him say this, Zhang Shan also opened the New World Forum out of curiosity.
Sure enough, the forum was full of posts about the PK events in the Rabbit Map in the New World. Some people also analyzed the problem of the red name penalty mechanism in the Novice Village.
However, most of them are similar to Feng Chui Feng Ling's analysis, saying that when you reach level 10 and leave the village, the village chief may give you a punishment. As for what the punishment will be, no one can explain it clearly. After all, there is no such information on the official website.
One of the posts caught Zhang Shan's attention.
"How do I change my name to red in the Novice Village? I've been red for an hour, and my sin value is always 10 points. I went to the village chief, but he ignored me. What should I do now? I don't even dare to leave the village. I beg the big guys to give me some advice."
"You deserve it. It's only been two hours and you've already been in red for an hour. I'm afraid you want to dominate the chicken map and become the chicken king."
"That's right. He probably saw someone being beaten to zero health by a monster, so he sneak-attacked and killed him. Bitch, you deserved it."
“You deserve it +3.”
"You deserve it +4."
“You deserve it.”
"You deserve it +5, the guy above, you are wrong."
"The sin value hasn't dropped at all in an hour, so the sin value in the novice village may not drop naturally. Since the village chief is ignoring you now, it may be because your level is not high enough. He will pay attention to you when he reaches level 10, but he will definitely punish you. Most likely you will have to pay money to wash the sin value. Hurry up and prepare the money, young man."
"The boss above is right. The village chief should only talk to players when they first arrive at the Novice Village or when they leave the Novice Village. If you want to clean up your sin points, you either need to pay money or it should be a difficult task. Young men, have fun. Why bother in the Novice Village? The stage is too small."
"That's right, sir."
"Worship the boss."
