My players are so fierce

Chapter 403 402. It is indeed a good habit to prepare a batch of monsters in advance as "reserve food" - [Additional update 910]

Today's forum is as lively as ever.

Although there have been rumors among small players that a more convenient third-party platform for the public is already being produced, the most important channel left for players to exchange information is still the "Real Alien" forum.

As more and more people join it, the forum that originally had only a few functional areas now has different sections.

There is the "Transia Daily Morning News" dedicated to discussing game content and releasing official updates, the "Sunset Tavern" used to discuss plot trends and game details, and the "Strandstorm Senate", the base camp of the RP party. The "Propaganda Department of the Stonemasons Brotherhood" is left to craftsmen and manufacturing players, and the "MI8" exchanges various military information and monster intelligence.

More than 2,000 players and greedy parties surf the forum intensively every day, resulting in a huge amount of "spam" generated in this forum every day.

If Murphy needs manual management, then the vampire lord basically has nothing to do now.

Fortunately, Murphy has an assistant, and Xiaocui has fallen in love with the feeling of "surfing the Internet". The best thing is that the Duke of Blood Vulture is also a hundred-year-old otaku in "reality", which gives her a lot of things every day. Time spent wandering around on forums.

However, a piece of heavy news broke out in today's forum in the afternoon. The source was a breaking information post posted by a player in the "MI8" section:

[High-level elite monsters appear in the Smuggler's Grove! Our fleet suffered heavy losses! Brothers, come and support! 】

The guy who posted the post is called "Mountain Demon Bo Gang". He has his own small guild "Demon Eight Heroes Collection". He is not well-known among the player community but is very active.

These eight brothers don't know what they do in reality. They spend a lot of time surfing the forum every day, but the time they actually spend playing games is very little and very irregular.

This post quickly gained attention because assistant Xiaocui marked it as a highlight post.

Half-Zai Happy Bar: [ @Mountain Demon Bo Gang, I read the post. You just said that a group of abnormally large jackals attacked the Smuggler's Woodland, but you didn't say the cause and effect. This game will not happen like that. This is an inexplicable situation of brushing "Mars Soldiers". All random events have causes and consequences.

So I have to ask, what was the reason for this attack? do you know? 】

Moon Demon Curse Blue: [Shit, Brother Bang, we are players and not detectives. Who knows why those crazy jackals attacked us. But new players who are doing missions in Smuggler's Grove will already be killed by pigs. They ride around on ferocious wargs and kill everyone they see.

It was too late for us to escape.

The result of the investigation of the calculation orb is "invincible", come on! We can't stand it any longer. If this continues, these crazy gnolls will storm into the Bloodclaw camp.

Doesn’t it mean that NPCs in this game will not be resurrected if they are killed?

If Chief Hogg is killed, wouldn't the Bloodclaw clan be doomed? This is a force supported by our players. Zhuo! They breached the sentry! The bloodclaw clan's barbarian soldiers can't stop them at all, they are about to collapse! Come on! 】

Ashina Female Swordsman: [ @Moon Devil Curse Blue, Silver Moon Pride Group are approaching the Smuggler's Wood, please report quickly! 】

Frostclaw Fang: [The outpost of the Blood Rat Gang has received a request for help. The NPCs and I are heading through the portal. Hold on tight, you guys. 】

Border Town Prodigal: [The professional special agent team of the Shadow Intelligence Bureau is rushing to the battlefield. Brothers, hold on. A random event has been triggered on Mrs. Adele's side. Our NPC support is expected to arrive soon. 】

Meow Meow King: [We are too far away to join in the fun, but @Border Town Prodigal Son, when did Prodigal Son join this unusual-sounding organization? 】

Border Town Prodigal Son: [Hey, our brothers are not only official agents of the Shadow Intelligence Bureau now, but they are also following Sister E’s warrior mission process.

However, this organization currently does not accept ordinary players. If you want to join us, you must first go through a 7-link task chain. I have posted the specific information before.

Brothers who are not confident in their concealment and tracking skills should not try it.

All I can say is that it's quite difficult. 】

Lorewalker Xiao Zhou: [Holy shit! Sister E is also recruiting warriors? Wow, it’s such a painful loss of five million. I like E girl the most. I even customized her pillow]

Mr. Ziweida: [The Intelligence Bureau is also currently recruiting logistics personnel. The recruitment conditions for this position are quite relaxed. If you are interested, you can come.

In addition to Sister E, Ms. Dorothy and Ms. Dana have also started recruiting warriors. Their quest line is simpler than that of Sister E, and there are enough places. If you are interested in joining a brother with the title of "Warrior" Don't miss it. 】

Mountain Demon Bo Gang: [Damn it, brothers, stop talking! I just managed to kill one of them with a wave of human bombs. I figured out the identities of these jackals!

They are elite barbarians from the Bonegnawing Clan. According to the information given by the Calculation Orb, these guys come from a place called 'Plague Town' in the Filthy Swamp.

Why do I feel that this random event is a plot guide planted by the development team?

Are you heading into the filthy swamp? 】

Lumina Yanghen: [Brothers! Look what we hit! Item link. 】

Precipitated Niu Niu is not afraid of difficulties: [? Reins of the Vanguard Warg? Zhuo, this is the first time I’ve seen a mount of exquisite workmanship. Are you sure you lost it by fighting a monster? 】

Deadly Orchid Flower: [The drop rate of this thing is quite low. We just helped Hogg's guards repel a group of barbarians and only one dropped. This was because Ashina was flying fast and used the net when the wargs were escaping. It was seized after living at one end.

Brothers who haven't passed the Black Iron Trial, don't try it!

The wolf's attack power is super strong. If you are unlucky, it can kill you in one bite. 】

The big pigeon in the lead: [Blank! Drop your mount? You didn’t tell me earlier! @All members of the Scarlet Beast Group, let’s go, let’s go! Take a wave. 】

Ashina Female Swordsman: [Good news! The Blood Claw clan is now open for redemption of small pets, and Hogg got a batch of strange dead thief hands from nowhere. It is said that this thing can help thieves steal things. Don't you guys from the Blood Rat Gang give in? 】

Show off without using your hands: [Xiao Weiming sent a screenshot, we are already on the way. 】

Seeing that the random events happening in the Smuggler's Woodland had completely aroused the enthusiasm of the players, Murphy, who was hiding in the post and peeking at the screen, narrowed his eyes.

He began to think about the logic behind this sudden occurrence.

The vampire's conspiracy instinct told Murphy that this matter was never as simple as it seemed.

"This may have been driven by Hogg himself."

Murphy thought:

"But Hogg will not be so stupid as to provoke a confrontation between the players and the gnolls of Plague Town so recklessly without my order, and the people who appeared in the Smuggler's Grove this time were all the vanguard barbarians of the Bonegnawing Clan. The fact that there are no gnoll warlocks from the Plague Clan also illustrates this point.

Why did Hogg do this? "

He couldn't get an answer.

It wasn't until a few minutes later, when Murphy's eyes scanned the topographic map of Transia on the wall, that he had a vague idea.

The area of ​​the Smuggler's Woodland marked on the map only occupies one-tenth of the total area of ​​Transia. Even if there are harassment by the Skeleton Army in such a large place, there will not be many of them, not to mention that Hogg has come from the Plague Town Jackal. The man's hand has been replaced with a command scepter that can control the undead, and the last batch of young players who entered the game have been moving around there.

It’s been almost half a month!

With the enthusiasm of the players to clear the mission, I am afraid that all the wandering skeletons in the Smuggler's Wood will be killed by those guys. In other words, the "novice leveling area" that Hogg is responsible for has no more monsters to clear.

Thinking of this, Murphy was very sure. He immediately used the orb to contact Miriam and asked her about the main activity areas of the young players in the past week.

The answer given by the Archon is that currently 60% of the players have brushed up the reputation of the mountain people tribe in Xi Ke Territory and participated in the search for refugees, while the number of players near the Smuggler's Woodland has dropped by 20% in one week. .

This data perfectly matched Murphy's guess, and also allowed him to confirm that Hog's bitch deliberately provoked friction between the two parties in order to draw the players' attention back to the Smuggler's Wood.

From this perspective, the origin of the "warg" that Ashina had just captured was very suspicious.

Considering the special relationship between the Silver Moon Pride and the Bloodclaw clan, maybe the "special drops" are the girls "playing a double act" with the gnolls.

"Have my cute little players finally become a 'special resource' that can be fought for?"

Murphy was angry and relieved when he figured out the reason.

Fortunately, Hogg's attention and attraction to the players means that in addition to him, Tris and Maxim, there are finally other leader NPCs who have discovered the value of the young players.

What makes me angry is that this bitch Hogg is quite playful.

Isn't this what you mean by "false propaganda"?

Young players went to the swamp to spawn monsters in order to get the Warg Reins. However, if nothing dropped, they would blame it on the development team. Shouldn’t they have to bear the consequences themselves?

"Ding"

While Murphy was thinking, the vibration from the core orb represented a private communication request.

He lowered his head and saw that it was the communication request sent by Hogg. When Murphy connected the communication, he heard Hogg tell him the ins and outs of the incident quite honestly and proactively.

Hogg asked Murphy for forgiveness. He said that he only realized that he had not reported it to the superior after doing this, but the emergency situation at that time did not allow him to think more.

"No matter how nice you say it, it can't change the fact that you launched a solo operation, Hogg."

Murphy said coldly:

"Because of your actions, I had to disclose information about the Filthy Swamp to my warriors, and in my plan, they should now continue to contribute to the construction of Transia. You did the wrong thing, so Must be punished!

Since you used your warg vehicles to lure my warriors to Smuggler's Grove and from there deep into the swamp, I must ensure that their rights are not compromised.

You must deliver what you promised!

After this conflict is over, at least twenty vanguard wargs will be given back to my warriors as rewards. If you can't do it, then they will take the initiative to 'beg' from you! "

Hogg's heart trembled when he heard this.

Good guy!

Where can I find the twenty pioneer wargs?

Wouldn't this cost you your life?

But soon Hogg rolled his eyes.

It suddenly remembered that there was a stable in the vanguard barbarian camp of Plague Town, in which were tamed worg cubs for use by the barbarians.

But the warriors cannot enter Plague Town yet, so if they want to get those wolf cubs, they have to go out on their own. Lame Claw needs test subjects to be vampire barbarians, and the gnoll warlocks don't trust these bone-gnawing barbarians!

A vicious plan soon took shape in Hogg's mind.

It knew that this was very risky, and that if it failed, its life would have to be handed over to Plague Town. However, Murphy was not bargaining with it anymore, and it could not let its image in Master Murphy's heart become bad.

It's clear.

Master Murphy can 'make' one 'Hogg', and he can make a second one. He is not the only one, he is replaceable.

"I will do it! Lord Murphy, I will make compensation to your warriors."

Chief Bloodclaw gritted his teeth and said with the mood of a beast:

"Please wait for my good news."

"Um."

Murphy responded coldly and then hung up the communication.

He walked to the map hanging on the wall and carefully looked at the current situation in various areas of Transia. After a moment of thinking, Murphy made a decision.

Now that the conflict between the two parties has already occurred, there is no point in hiding it anymore.

It's time for your warriors to truly enter the Filthy Swamp and begin to investigate and attack the Plague Clan. This undead town is a nail that must be pulled out. It makes no difference whether it's earlier or later.

The construction of the Maginot Line is about to begin. Unless the Jackals in the swamp are defeated, the construction of that line of defense will definitely be interrupted frequently.

Therefore, let the warriors who have rested for almost twenty-five days set foot on the battlefield again, and leave the task of searching for the refugees to the novices who have not yet passed the Black Iron Trial.

And in view of the fact that the "novice leveling area" of Smuggler's Grove has disappeared, Murphy also decided to make some changes.

He picked up the core orb and sent a message to the Blood Rat Gang:

"Dorothy, ask your subordinates to gather in the sewers to investigate the undead cave in the sewers that has been sealed for a month. I am going to open it in two days. These vicious undead hiding under the city are a problem, and we are advancing the next plan. Before, these unstable factors must be resolved!”

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Ms. Dorothy, the leader of the Blood Rat Gang, was completely confused when she received the message from Governor Murphy. She immediately responded:

"I can understand your handling of danger, but Lord Governor! There are nearly 10,000 dangerous ghouls in the underground caves. The Wolfsbane Clan's raid also threw 500 barbarians among them. They may have become those ghouls. A member of the wights.

Such a huge scale is destined to prevent us from attacking them with great fanfare. The terrain there is too bad and large troops cannot be deployed at all. "

"Release them to the second floor."

Murphy whispered methodically:

"It's time to recreate the 'Ghoul Night' event, and there are only tens of thousands of ghouls. For my warriors, whether the temporary 'leveling area' can survive for a week is a question.

I never imagined that one day I would be annoyed by the large number of monsters in Transia. "

"Sir! Did you forget a place?"

Dorothy said in a strange tone:

“There are so many monsters in Transia, and there are two to three hundred thousand undead sleeping in the ruins of Xiko City alone.

Mrs. Adele took us on an adventurous reconnaissance there before. We found that although the intensity of the undead inside the city is extremely high, the intensity of the huge number of skeletons, ghouls, ghosts and zombies outside the ruins is actually not as strong as A level that warriors cannot resist.

My advice is, if you're worried that your warriors won't have a place to hone their craft, you're overthinking it.

As long as they are willing to fight, the land of Transia will never lack enemies for them to practice. "

"Well, Xiko City is indeed a good leveling area."

Murphy rubbed his chin and said:

"It's like a delicious pastry waiting to be tasted. It should be able to withstand the constant attacks of greedy adventurers for a few months, right? By then the black disaster will break out, and the entire continent will be full of hostile creatures for a long time. I No need to worry about where my warriors will venture.

It seems that their killing efficiency is too high which is not a good thing.

In short, you need to complete preparations for the re-enactment of the ‘Ghoul Night’ event as soon as possible.

If possible, direct and perform a play to pass this crisis onto the Plague Clan in the Filthy Swamp, so that the warriors who have newly arrived in Transia will realize that the threat from the Gnoll Warlocks is right next to us.

I need to make them aware of the seriousness of this matter in preparation for the big push into the filthy swamp.

Can I trust you to do this? Dorothy. "

"It's a piece of cake! Just watch me perform."

Dorothy laughed and said:

"I haven't moved my body for a long time. After I finish my work here, I will go to the filthy swamp to risk my life. I hope your warriors are as omnipotent as you expect of them, otherwise my little My fate is probably in the swamp."

"They are omnipotent, Dorothy, and they have created miracle after miracle."

Murphy said firmly:

"Nothing can stop them, just like nothing can stop us who follow them. Go ahead and do things boldly. Their existence is our biggest trump card!"