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Chapter 6 There is no NPC in Tudou Village
Flynn completed [Achievement: First Summoning] before, and the number of players that can be linked at the same time in the reward system has increased by 50.

In this way, Flynn can summon 55 people at the same time.

After the small-scale internal test with 5 people, Flynn is naturally preparing to continue to fill up the system and carry out the internal test with 55 people, which is the upper limit of the system.

More players mean more labor force, allowing Flynn to develop his village on a larger scale.

But calling so many players must be cautious.

Although the summoned players did not need to eat, drink and stay, Flynn also had to keep the players busy: if he summoned a large number of players and ordered them to rush out and fight in disorder, it would cause chaos in the village instead.

As a local lord, what Flynn needs is not chaos, but order under his own control.

Flynn first walked out of the village and walked around the farmland near the village.

Because of safety reasons, no one dares to plant farmland that is too far away from the village. The farmland of the villagers in Tudou Village is basically just a small amount of farmland near the periphery of the village.

Fortunately, the land in this area is still fertile, otherwise, I am afraid that the food will not even be enough to support myself.

Standing outside the village, Flynn looked at the dilapidated village.

Looking at the forests and hills further away, Flynn felt that Tudou Village lacked something.

That is security.

To put it more directly: that is, Tudou Village lacks a city wall.

It's normal for a village to have no city walls. Small border villages like Tudou Village are originally buffer zones for cannon fodder.

At least a town or a purely military fortress would have walls.

To be reasonable, a wooden fence in a broken village like Tudou Village would be very good.

But now Flynn is the lord here, and there is a stone mountain not far from the village, so Flynn feels that he has the conditions to build a stone city wall.

After all, Flynn now has the cheapest labor in the world—as long as he plans well, the players will work for him and pay him back.

Mining and polishing stone will be a long-term job.

Just like long-term daily tasks in online games, players can mine and polish stones to obtain in-game rewards, reputation, etc. for a long time.

Naturally, what Flynn prepared for the second internal test was not only the task of repairing the city wall.

In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the players, and also to allow the players to experience the fun of the game, Flynn knew that he needed to solve the weapons for the players.

How to solve the weapons problem?
The amateur blacksmith in the village was naturally unreliable.

Originally, at the beginning, Flynn planned to order a batch of weapons in the nearest town at his own expense.

But now, with the increase in the functions of the small wooden door system, Flynn, who is carrying a huge sum of 5 grams of mithril powder, has changed his mind.

Because when the previous five players came back to hand in the mission, Flynn also received a new system message.

[Achievement: Completed the first mission] Unlocked, the small wooden door system opens the function of summoning NPC.

This achievement allows Flynn to summon NPCs using small wooden doors.

Not to summon players, but to summon NPCs!

The small wooden door system is a system for developing and making online games. Naturally, this system also has the function of setting up NPCs.

In modern online games, NPCs in games are generally highly intelligent.

For example, in Flynn's "Super Wars", the NPCs in it have a high degree of intelligence-if you don't preconceive them and know that they are NPCs, you can even say that they have reached the level of false ones.

And now the small wooden door can also summon highly intelligent NPCs.

The system presets many NPCs with different functions, such as blacksmiths, carpenters, instructors, cooking merchants and so on.

These NPCs could theoretically be used by Flynn.

As long as Flynn has enough mithril, the NPC can be summoned and kept running.

But high-level NPCs are not unlocked yet.

Flynn can only hire those low-level NPCs, whose functions are relatively weak and single.

The cheapest is the pure passerby background plate NPC, which only needs 1 gram of mithril powder for maintenance per week.

But after all, it is a modern online game, even the lowest level of NPC, the level of intelligence is not bad.

This kind of pure passerby NPC, they will follow the set procedure, go shopping in the daytime, chat for a while, go to the tavern for a sit in the evening, and then go home to sleep.

Players actively communicate with this pure passerby NPC, and the passerby NPC will respond accordingly, but this pure passerby NPC does not have any special abilities.

Naturally, Flynn would not spend money on pure passerby NPCs.

Flynn intends to summon a blacksmith.

The senior master blacksmith, Flynn, can't pay the maintenance fee, and the system can't summon it at the moment.

Flynn's 5 grams of mithril powder can just maintain the mithril powder maintenance fee of an apprentice blacksmith NPC for a week.

The maintenance fee is the computing power required by the system to summon NPCs, and the computing power consumes Mithril powder.

The maintenance fee of NPC can be regarded as the weekly salary of NPC in a sense.

The weekly salary is 5 grams, and the price is not expensive. After all, blacksmiths are technical talents!
Although the ability of blacksmith apprentices is very limited, they can only create the most basic weapons and armor, but it is enough to cope with the current situation.

After spending 5 grams of Mithril powder, following a burst of gentle white light, a young blacksmith in a leather apron with a hammer in hand appeared in front of Flynn.

The blacksmith waved his hammer at Flynn, and then said respectfully: "Apprentice Blacksmith, Ai Enbo, works for you, my lord."

The work content of blacksmith apprentice Ainbo is basically set in the system.

Now Flynn only needs to revise and explain clearly, and then Ainbo can go to work directly.

"Well, hello Ainbo, from today onwards you are the blacksmith of our Tudou Village."

"Although in the small wooden door system, you are only an apprentice blacksmith, but in front of other people, you are a senior blacksmith."

"Let's go, I'll take you to see your workplace."

With Ainbo, Flynn found the original blacksmith in the village.

He said he was a blacksmith, but in fact he just built a tent with a small stove, anvil, a small amount of iron ore coal and so on.

Most of the time, this blacksmith makes a living by farming, and only earns extra money by helping the village forge iron in his spare time.

For a small fortune, Flynn bought the blacksmith's forge.

Then Flynn said to Ainbo: "This is your workplace. First, set up a tent here and hang a blacksmith's sign. Later, I will help you improve housing conditions and forging equipment."

If it was an ordinary blacksmith, I'm afraid they would protest on the spot - this working and living environment is too bad!
But fortunately, Ainbo is an NPC. In theory, he doesn’t even need a place to sleep—it’s just because of his high level of intelligence that Ainbo will eat, sleep, rest and other behaviors.

As a real NPC, Ainbo naturally wouldn't be picky about the conditions. He readily accepted Flynn's appointment and immediately started working - inspecting furnaces, anvils, iron ore, coal reserves, and so on.

At the same time, Flynn also let people tell each other about the arrival of the blacksmith Ainbo.

"Ai Enbo is also a brave man. He was invited to Tudou Village to serve as the village's full-time blacksmith."

The villagers naturally welcomed the arrival of the professional blacksmith, and flattered them one after another: As worthy of the lord, he brought a full-time blacksmith to Tudou Village as soon as he came, and the quality of farm tools in Tudou Village will not have to worry about in the future.

Of course the villagers didn't know that Ainbo was an NPC.

In fact, there are no NPCs in Tudou Village, or everyone is an NPC.

(End of this chapter)