The Invincible Dad of Online Games

The "Second Continent", which claims to have the highest degree of freedom, is particularly contemptuous of the brainless task mode of "who to find, where to go, and how many to kill" in ancient online games; so the game planner completely freed himself and tossed the tasks in a variety of ways. A simple errand task can have hundreds of solutions, and even the most standardized job transfer task can come up with different levels of completion and different branch directions; players who like to study and explore the plot of the task are naturally happy, but they are willing to brush without thinking Players who are tasked will definitely not do it.

Therefore, after the internal test, the official has added a lot of mindless repetitive tasks in various player towns to appease these players who are only willing to do simple tasks; it stands to reason that everyone should be happy...but it is suspected that this is grading game players, It even got involved in the Bill of Rights and the Anti-Discrimination Act.The official had no choice but to increase the rewards for mindless repetitive tasks, and at the same time killed one point: the difficulty of non-brainless repetitive tasks is like this, if you like to play, you will not roll!

...It is true that the hardened official has kept the fun of the mission, and has attracted many plot parties to explore and study the plot of the mission; but...the vast majority of gamers are willing to enjoy the mindless gameplay easily , Even if the rewards of the task are not worse than that of killing monsters, players are more willing to form a group to kill monsters.There is really no other way, and attribute points are needed, so the big deal is to brush mindlessly and repeat tasks, such self-abuse behaviors as researching and exploring, smashing the completion of tasks, etc., it’s okay to do it occasionally when you’re too idle, this is the main thing Must not do. (How many people spray XX games without automatic pathfinding?)

Xiao Wenyuan and the earth-eating girl are already considered elite players, but it is impossible to devote too much energy to tasks; NPC Sally refused to provide more information, and they could not find Kangna Village, so they couldn't think of a good one for a while way to come.

"If not, let's treat this mission as a detective game... First, let's look at the information provided by Sally. There is a noble family's pasture near Kangna Village. Then let's take a look at the noble manors around Liangyin Town..." Xiao Wenyuan opened the map again as he spoke, and after looking at it for a few seconds, he turned it off expressionlessly, "...Damn it, forget that this is a feudal society background, and the industries of the aristocratic class are not marked on the popular map at all. "

"Why don't you go to the town hall, the library, etc.?" Yang Rui tried to imitate Wu Lin's task method.

"Probably not. The aristocratic information that the town library and the town hall can open to players are all dilapidated aristocrats, and the relevant information of nobles with status is not touched. How can nobles without status keep their farms and manors?" Xiao Wenyuan Shake your head.

Yang Rui thinks about it. This is really the case. The NPC bureaucracy and privileged class are such virtues. Even the country nobles who have to be dealt with by the big men will maintain their politeness before the other party is completely down. He has been taught a lesson.

"I have a stupid way..." The soil-eating girl pointed to the busy peasants not far away, "Sally followed one of these people into Liangyin Town, right? Then at least one of these peasants It is closer to the Kangna village that Sally mentioned, or it is directly from that Kangna village. How about we have a conversation one by one?"

There are many folk husbands on this road, and you can see hundreds of them at a glance.When there is no shortcut to go, it can only be eliminated in a stupid way.The three of them split up and worked together, and each chose a direction to talk to. Yang Rui deliberately found an old man, and said politely: "Hi, old man, can I ask you something?"

"Hello, Mr. Pastor, what can I help you with?" The old man is quite cooperative... This is also related to Yang Rui's occupation. The player's occupation can affect the attitude of civilian NPCs, such as priests and knights. Most of the NPCs with a good background are more polite and polite; if they are fighters, hunters, or fighters, the NPCs will be more fearful; if thieves come up... then many NPCs will treat them with contempt and vigilance. Spray game planning brain damage.

...In addition, when mage players do tasks, civilian NPCs will be quite respectful... It can be regarded as bringing the mage's daily life into the era of simulation. (How are you friends who have played Warcraft!)

"Do you know Kangna Village?" Yang Rui asked directly.

"Sorry, Mr. Pastor, I haven't heard of this place." The old man replied in seconds.

"……thanks."

Yang Rui patiently asked one by one, and it didn't take long for him to feel irritable and dazzled; in fact, these civilian NPCs looked similar in appearance, and after only asking twenty or thirty, he found that he had repeatedly arrested an NPC and asked three times. The NPCs started to look at him strangely; it wasn't because of his carelessness, but because these NPCs were busy walking around all the time, shouldn't they be confused?

After about ten minutes, Xiao Wenyuan's surprised voice came from the team channel: "I found it, come to me!"

Yang Rui and the soil-eating girl ran over immediately, and Xiao Wenyuan stopped him by a middle-aged man in his forties with a messy beard. He looked a little restrained and timid, and he seemed a little nervous after being surrounded by three people.

Although the appearance is not different from other civilian husband NPCs, Yang Rui and the soil-eating girl immediately confirmed that this person is a mission-related NPC, because the name above his head changed from "Minfu" to "Joseph" ".

"Don't be nervous, Joseph, please tell us about Kangna Village." Xiao Wenyuan asked with a cheerful face like a girl who eats soil.

"Okay, okay, Mr. Pastor." Joseph timidly said, "I also heard about Connor Village from my grandma... That was old news a hundred years ago..."

The soil-eating girl yelled in her heart, "Fuck!"

"My grandma said that at that time our Liangyin town was attacked by other lords, many villages were burned, and many people died... After the war, the lord gathered the surviving people to build a village. Our village was built on the original On the former site of Kangna Village, all the original villagers of Kangna Village died during the war."

The three players silently turned their eyes to Sally, a girl who was squatting under half of the courtyard wall a hundred meters away. She was still staring at this side, her strange eyes focused on Xiao Wenyuan, making Xiao Wenyuan feel a little scalp tingling... There is a day and night in the game, the real time is rotated every four hours, and the night time is about one hour.Of course, this night is relatively speaking, not to mention that there are brightly lit street lights in villages and towns, and the three moons hanging in the sky will not prevent players from outdoor activities. In some areas, it is faster to spawn monsters at night; day and night The cycle has little impact on the players, so players often ignore this matter... Now only the patrolling security guards, city wall guards, NPCs who issue repetitive tasks, and these recruited civilians are active in the town. Right now...it is indeed the night in the game.

"Well... Joseph, can you see what's there?" Xiao Wenyuan pointed to the girl Sally.

"Sorry, Mr. Pastor, are you talking about the wall?" Joseph asked suspiciously.

"Sure enough, it's the urine." Yang Rui complained in the team channel, "A hundred years ago, the female ghost issued a mission at night. If you are more taboo, will you scold your mother if you encounter it?"

"I have already greeted the planner who designed this task in my heart." The soil-eating girl who had been talking to the girl Sally for a long time had no expression on her face.

"...What kind of job-specific trigger is this called? It is probably designed to be an NPC that only appears at night in the game and can only be seen by priest players...a mirror image character, making it so mysterious." Xiao Wenyuan also vomited in the team. He continued to ask Joseph, "What's the name of your village? Is there a family in the village whose daughter is Louise? Her parents are Jack and Harley..."

"It's called Clark Village, sir. Are you talking about Louise from Jack's family? Yes, she is from our village, but..." Joseph hesitated, "But Louise's family died after the Harvest Festival last year. Just moved out, sir, and they sold the house to me before they moved out."

"Huh? Is Louise the current person? Then why does Sally call her sister?" Yang Rui didn't understand.

"Doesn't the pets at home still regard themselves as family members? That's probably the case with the female ghost who lives in other people's homes." Think and talk to strengthen yourself, "Speaking of which, there are also hints in the information she provided. She lives in an attic that is generally used to store sundries, and 'sister's parents' ignore her... wait!" She looked ugly Get up, "What did you say 'sister is lying on the table', wouldn't it be her who killed Louise?!"

Yang Rui is already very interested in this task, and he has been thinking about it seriously for three seconds: "It shouldn't be. In that case, Louise's parents have no reason to help cover it, and use moving as an excuse to hide Louise's death." ?”

Xiao Wenyuan asked Joseph some information about Jack and Halle, and asked if he could go to his house to have a look. Joseph nodded without much consideration.

"The task has not changed, that is to say, no more hints will be given until new clues to Louise are found." Thanks to Joseph for his cooperation, the three of them stood aside to analyze. Xiao Wenyuan spoke first, "What we know so far is The female ghost Sally lived in Louise's house a hundred years ago, and Louise died on the Harvest Festival last year, her parents, Jack and Harley, concealed the news of Louise's death and moved away."

Yang Rui also expressed his opinion: "I don't think Sally has anything to do with Louise's death, or she hasn't killed anyone in the current Clark Village. If she is a bloodthirsty ghost, then in the small village There is no way to hide the gossip about ghosts killing people, and it is impossible for Joseph to buy the house happily."

The earth-eating girl glanced at Yang Rui unexpectedly... To put it bluntly, she thought this great god only had well-developed limbs.

...Actually, she did not misunderstand Yang Rui. Yang Rui just lived in Thailand for many years and watched a lot of Thai ghost movies. .

Xiao Wenyuan agreed with Yang Rui's opinion: "Yang Liu is right. If Joseph meets us priests, it's time to invite us to their village to purify the souls of the dead. Jack and Harley moved away in a hurry, maybe they won't Take Louise's body away. Now let's go to Clark Village, if we can find Louise's body, the mission should have a new branch."

As Xiao Wenyuan spoke, he headed towards the south gate, and the soil-eating girl suddenly yelled, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, it's eight o'clock!"

The day and night cycle in the game is a cycle of four hours. The real time is eight o'clock, that is, it is dawn. The soil-eating girl looked nervously at Sally, who was squatting halfway under the courtyard wall, and saw that as the sun rose from the east, The sun gradually fell, and the figure of Sally, who had been staring at Xiao Wenyuan with a strange gaze, gradually faded and disappeared without a trace.

"...It's really a female ghost." The soil-eating girl's legs were weak.

Yang Rui and Xiao Wenyuan were shocked: "Didn't you confirm it just now?!"

"I...does the female ghost in the game need to be so real? It's okay to create a translucent NPC so that players can have a bottom line." The earth-eating girl wanted to cry but had no tears.

"...You can treat her as a time-limited mirror image NPC." Xiao Wenyuan probably knew what the earth-eating girl was struggling with.

"Okay, okay, it's just a game anyway..." The soil-eating girl could only think so.

Clark Village is not far from Liangyin Town, just on the back of the mountain where Gaoshan Village is located, and it takes them three feet to walk for 10 to [-] minutes.

This is a small village half hidden in the green mountains and green waters, surrounded by mountains and forests on three sides, clear rivers, and vast farmland in the east, dotted with scattered houses.

"Hey, this village looks like a murder village. Look, every house is separated by more than a hundred meters. Let alone the sound of chickens and dogs. The neighbor's house may be listening to heavy metal rock when the patient is playing. No sound." Yang Rui saw the layout of Clark Village from afar, and complained.

Xiao Wenyuan looked at the grassland surrounded by fences outside the village, "I said this generation doesn't spawn wild monsters, it turned out to be a noble family's ranch... If the player breaks in, will there be a noble housekeeper or something like that?" The NPC jumped out and yelled?"

Yang Rui also looked over, "If such a flat ground is not used for farming, it will carry out the characteristics of the noble lord to the end."

"Are you still a farming party?" Xiao Wenyuan was surprised.

"No, it's just that the long-term compatriots I met in Thailand must have green onions planted on the available soil." Yang Rui smiled.

"Not counting the pastures over there, this village has enough fields. It's not bad for the free people to have so much farmland. Look at the houses and yards in the village. The scale of building materials is no worse than that of urban residents. There is a noble family next to it. It is a good thing for the villagers to have a large pasture and not spawn wild monsters." Xiao Wenyuan said decisively.

After chatting for a while, Yang Rui noticed the girl who ate dirt all the time, "What's wrong, girl, why do you look like you fell into an ice cave?"

The soil-eating girl's lips trembled: "Isn't it the murderous village you mentioned just now... It reminds me of the legal programs I watched when I was a child. What kind of seemingly peaceful village hides unknown crimes, who's yard rises up How many corpses..."

"Uh... I just said that casually. Don't think too much, we are in the game, it's just a task in the game." Yang Rui hastened to be careful.

Xiao Wenyuan was thoughtful: "Maybe Yang Liu's intuition is really reliable? Think about it, the 'murder village' plus supernatural missions will still trigger a lot of special missions with restrictions. What kind of conspiracy are we going to expose?"

"Old Five seems to have said that simple tasks that are prompted when triggered are more likely to lead to a long plot, because players will have countless branches to develop in the process of deciphering the task." Yang Rui really used his brain, "press In this way, the designation of Clark Village is not simple."

"Brother Xiao, Brother Yang, if you two scare me again, I will be technically disconnected." The soil-eating girl's legs were weak again.

"Don't be afraid, if you really want to trigger a battle scenario, ghosts, evil spirits, and the like are just monsters that can be killed. It's easier not to trigger a battle scenario, and NPCs won't attack players." Xiao Wenyuan comforted people. Much more reliable than Yang Rui.

The earth-eating girl thought about it, no matter how stupid the game planner is, she can't make the mission crush the player like a horror movie, she immediately relaxed: "Yeah, isn't it just killing monsters, the female ghost Sally can't rush Come up and kill me."

Both men were a little confused: "Are you always afraid of Sally?"

"...I treated her as an ordinary task NPC and talked for a long time, but it turned out that she was a female ghost from a hundred years ago and disappeared after the sun came out, making me look like the unlucky heroine in a ghost movie. Is it?" The soil-eating girl was confident.

Yang Rui wanted to say that no matter how horrible Sally's performance was, she was still an NPC... Fortunately, he wisely realized that he couldn't say this, so he kept his mouth shut.

Without exaggerating the horror background, this small village located in the lush green is still very beautiful.The three of them chatted and approached the entrance of the village. When they were less than [-] meters away from the nearest small farmyard, Xiao Wenyuan let out a "huh" with a strange expression on his face: "Yang Liu, don't you think it's a little strange?"

Yang Rui kept walking and looked around: "It's a bit too quiet... The game time is eight or nine o'clock in the morning, right? Now, why isn't there even a bird singing?"

"You two didn't intend to scare me, did you?" The soil-eating girl became nervous again.

"No, no—eh?" Yang Rui sniffled, "It seems to smell like blood."

"Let's go in quickly and have a look." Xiao Wenyuan changed from running to running fast.

Players are limited by their physical strength. Generally, they are in a trotting state when they are on the road. The physical strength is exhausted while recovering. There is no need to run for a while and rest for a while; the three of them who sensed something was not right let go of the speed and ran wildly, and the distance of [-] meters was shortened in a blink of an eye.

"It's really something, I also smelled it." Standing in front of the small farmyard closest to the entrance of the village, Xiao Wenyuan looked around and pushed the door.

The crude wooden door that was concealed opened with a "squeak", and the evil taste of the game planning... No, the blood-red massacre scene is displayed in front of the players; The corpses of four villager NPCs were lying here and there in disorder. There were old people, children and women. The death conditions were quite miserable.

"Damn!" The three rushed into the yard, one went to check the NPC's body, one walked around the yard, and the other went into the main house.

"Not long after I died, my limbs were soft and my blood hadn't coagulated. The time of death was probably a few hours before the game time... It's a big trough! The time I triggered the mission was when these NPCs died?!" Xiao Wenyuan said with a look on his face. constipatedly.

Yang Rui was inspecting the courtyard, and turned his head when he heard this: "You still understand this?"

"I watch a lot of criminal investigation films, and I follow a forensic doctor on Weibo." Xiao Wenyuan's face hurts, "It seems that the setting of this mission is that someone receives the mission, and the plot will start to deduce... Is there something wrong with the planning! Come up and give it to the player Feeling guilty!"

The soil-eating girl also finished checking the rooms in the main house, and ran out in a hurry: "There is no one inside, and the house hasn't been tampered with. It doesn't seem like a robbery plot."

Yang Ruiting was surprised: "Why are you not afraid now?"

The soil-eating girl said dejectedly: "What's so scary about NPC corpses? I'm afraid of unknown ghosts and ghosts, okay?"

"..." Yang Rui felt that the brain circuits of female compatriots were so difficult to understand...

The three of them left the small courtyard of this family and continued to walk in. They spent ten minutes visiting more than 30 families in Clark Village. The elderly, women, children and teenagers were all bloodbathed "in one night", and not a single one was left alive.

Back in the center of the village, Yang Rui wiped off his sweat: "Damn...fortunately, this is a game, otherwise it would be too miserable..." When he said that, his face didn't look like he was talking about a game, and his brows almost knit together I went—seeing the misery of so many villager NPCs, normal people would feel uncomfortable.

Xiao Wenyuan covered his chest, his eyes were lifeless: "I kind of want to kill the plan... Although I know this is a plot deduction, but if no one triggers the mission, the plot will not come to this point... So the player who triggers the mission is forced to feel guilty Is it really good?! I'm almost so muffled that I can't breathe!"

The soil-eating girl looked uncomfortable: "I understand you, Brother Xiao, you are definitely not the only one who wants to hack the planner to death."

"There are enough corpses in this village now, but we still have to find more..." Xiao Wenyuan shook his head and smiled wryly, "Let's go, go and check the small yard of Joseph's house carefully."

During the first inspection, the three of them walked past Joseph's house. The location of his house was quite obvious, the one closest to the mountain behind the village.At this moment, the courtyard door of his house was also open. Joseph's wife and young son were killed in their bedroom, and there were no signs of any other rooms being turned over.

The layout of the houses of the villagers is similar, similar to the small courtyard of ancient Chinese buildings, the main house facing the door, and warehouses, stables, or other buildings of different sizes on both sides, but the shape is relatively simple, and the courtyard walls are also common. not tall.

"This courtyard is relatively large in the village... the building materials are mainly stone, the roof is tiled, and the ground in the courtyard is paved with stone slabs. In other words, the original Louise family was relatively wealthy in the village." Xiao Wenyuan tried his best to reason rationally and calmly, "Let's first search to see if there are any places such as cellars and mezzanines, and also to see if these stone slabs are movable... By the way, the attic was deliberately prompted by the system , I'll go search."

"I think it's unlikely that Louise's parents hid her body at home. Otherwise, no matter how well hidden she is, Sally, who is a ghost, shouldn't be lost all the time, right?" Yang Rui said. , "But this house is the closest to the mountain forest. You can think about it. The couple moved the corpse outside at night and buried it before dawn. Wouldn't it be impossible to find the sari on the attic in the house? Plus the concealment The plot of the couple quarreling in front of the corpse suggests that Louise’s death may be related to the fault of his parents. If you really hide Louise’s body at home, how dare you sell the house to the villagers in the same village.”

Xiao Wenyuan immediately looked at Yang Rui with the eyes of discovering the wild new continent, and whether the creatures on this continent are high-tech aliens, "...Yeah..."

"...I said Wen Yuan, did thoughts like 'this guy can use his brain' flash through your mind just now?" Yang Rui narrowed his eyes.

"No, no, there must be no—" Xiao Wenyuan shook his head hastily.

"Okay, I can see it." Yang Rui was annoyed, "Don't take Zhang Fei as a wise general, the thing on my neck is not just for looking tall!"