King from scratch

The slightly empty city became lively due to the influx of players.

The altar in the center of the city is still the birth point and resurrection point of the players, and a steady stream of players emerge from it.

Some players koi appeared at the birth point as soon as the server opened, while some players were half an hour late.

As for why there is a difference in time, it is very simple, because the game has introduced a face pinching system.

Those who appeared in the kingdom at the first time were basically players with random template faces, and those who were half an hour later were basically players who carefully selected and pinched a satisfactory face before entering the game.

Wu Xing stared at the figure that emerged half an hour later, and wrote down the key points in his small notebook: People with average aesthetics are not recommended to pinch their faces.

The face pinching system of the holographic game is different from the pinching system in previous online games. It is entirely up to the players to fine-tune it, which is a test of aesthetics.

By the way, the so-called micro-picking refers to subtle adjustments, that is to say, under the premise of a random template face, the player makes minor adjustments to it.

So, don't even think about it, the beauty of the country, the beauty of the prosperous age, the system doesn't support it at all.

Half an hour later, the surging crowd once again covered the entire birth point. Wu Xing, who was squatting at the entrance of the birth point, moved aside to make room for the jumping players.

The players who just came out of the birth point were not in a hurry to leave the birth point. On the contrary, they circled in the birth point, jumped, waved, and smiled... The painting style was peculiar and full of wisdom.

That's a beginner's guide.

The novice guidance in the online game era usually teaches players how to operate characters, and the novice guidance of this holographic game is to teach players to know their own character panels and how to communicate with NPCs in a friendly manner...

Very distinctive.

Although Wu Xing had already stepped back a few steps, some players who were jumping too vigorously bumped into him.

The player who was being guided by the novice had an immediate conditioned reflex: "Sorry, are you okay?"

Look at what kind of player he is, all using honorifics.

Wu Xing could feel His Majesty's urgent desire to make the players play in a civilized way—but it was a little unrealistic.

After the new player apologized, he quickly checked his reputation and found that it hadn't dropped, so he resumed his novice guidance.

The player's personal character interface is another focus of the game.

In addition to the name, occupation, level, and ether points at the top, the personal panel also has the prestige value, favorability, task interface, and unlocked friend interface and friend channels, full map channels, etc. of different races and forces. Function.

Wu Xing glanced at his personal panel. The internal beta players are different from the public beta players. When creating a character, they will directly import the previous internal beta account. The account retains the basic data of the internal beta, including name, appearance, and level , prestige value and so on.

The benefits of inheriting the beta account are obvious.

It's like at this moment, Wu Xing is not in a hurry to complete the task, but is wandering around the map in Xinshou Village, and he can still say hello to familiar NPCs.

"Hua Xing? Long time no see."

"Good day."

"It's so lively traveling there."

While greeting the npc, Wu Xing continued to write down the key points in the small notebook in his heart: the npc speaks like an npc now.

To explain in detail what npc flavor is, it would be...every sentence has the aura of being able to issue missions.

A certain npc: "Hua Xing, you seem to be free now?"

Wu Xing didn't plan to accept the task: "The kingdom has changed too much, I plan to take a stroll first."

The npc forcibly advanced to the part of issuing the task: "It's great that you are free, I left something with xxx, can you help me get it back?"

Wu Xing glanced at the small map floating in the corner, and continued to decline: "It seems that the road is not going well..."

npc: "You can take a single-person suspension vehicle as a means of transportation open to the people of the kingdom. This is the best choice for visiting the entire city."

Wu Xing looked in the direction he pointed, and saw the suspension vehicle site, as well as spherical vehicles neatly arranged in the site.

"I'm really interested in it."

Following Wu Xing's words, a notice popped up in front of him whether to accept the mission.

[Ordinary tasks from Mu:

Travel around the entire city with a single-person hover vehicle and retrieve the quest props that were left behind in the xxx.

Task success reward: [Favourability from Wood +20] [Credit Points +20] [Kingdom Prestige +10] [Random rewards]

Mission failure penalty: [Wood favorability -10] [Kingdom prestige -5]]

This kind of ordinary task is very common, and each npc will release it randomly, which belongs to the existence of enriching the player's game experience. There are not many rewards, and the punishment is very symbolic, which can be accepted or not.

As for the random rewards in this mission reward...

Wu Xing just got a new pair of shoes, ate a barbecue, and got an extra money bag.

Of course, these NPCs also have long-chain tasks and mainline tasks, but triggering these needs to meet hidden conditions, which is a test of luck and character.

The long-chain mainline tasks that players are most likely to receive are in the game. The tasks issued by the game will guide players to understand and integrate into the world, and further explore the stories behind the world.

Wu Xing is very interested in the single-person suspension vehicle. In fact, he is very interested in all the new things that appear after the kingdom update. After all, this is also part of his mission—a part of the real mission.

After Wu Xing accepted the task, Mu showed an official smile, and led Wu Xing towards the suspension vehicle site, kindly instructing him on how to use the suspension vehicle.

"Sit in and enter the destination." Mu patted Wu Xing's shoulder: "Remember to help me get the things back."

After finishing speaking, Mu didn't intend to listen to Wu Xing's answer at all, so he turned his head and left.

Wu Xing stood next to the single-person suspension vehicle site, and after watching the other party walk for a while, he suddenly took out a book out of thin air, and carefully compared the process of the task he announced just now with the process in the manual.

The npc already has a personal space?

After Wu Xing wrote down the key points, he turned his attention to the book and contacted the other party's performance. It wouldn't be some kind of NPC playing manual, right?

His Majesty the King has spent a lot of thought on the public test.

Wu Xing withdrew his gaze and got into the single-person suspension vehicle.

The chubby spherical vehicle sank slightly, and the transparent membrane quickly rose to seal the vehicle.

Wu Xing watched its changes with some surprise, including the maps and sites that appeared on the film, and the screen that replaced the cockpit.

Standard Chinese appeared on the screen, and at the same time, Mandarin with a perfect accent rang out from inside the car.

"Good morning, it's a pleasure to serve you, please enter your destination."

Smart navigation program?

Is this technological jump a bit big?

Wu Xing: "Travel around the entire Xinshou Village."

"The navigation route has been planned for you. The current urban traffic conditions are good. The estimated time required is about one hour. If you need to speed up, please apply for permission. If you need to specify the forward route, please apply for permission. If you need to go into the air, please apply for permission. ..."

In a series of reminders to apply for permission, the one-person suspension vehicle started and moved along the road at a steady speed.

Wu Xing looked around the car, and the screen in front of him showed the obstacles around the single-person suspension vehicle, allowing passengers to see clearly at a glance, while the film above his head displayed real-time changes in the position of the single-person suspension vehicle on the map.

No matter how you look at it, this is a step from the magical world into the future world.

Another public transport vehicle surpassed Wu Xing's single-person suspension vehicle and rode across the public transport lane.

Wu Xing belatedly realized that the current speed of this levitating car seems to be only a little faster than walking...

After Wu Xing realized this, another single-person suspension vehicle that followed him also overtook him, riding away at a speed not lower than that of public transportation.

Wu Xing was silent for two seconds: "Accelerate."

"Authorization verification, identity acquisition, point information acquisition..."

After a slight pause, the other party continued: "The authority has been unlocked, and we are speeding you up to a safe speed."

The spherical vehicle shook slightly, accelerated, and chased the vehicle in front.

Wu Xing tentatively asked, "Ascension?"

"Permissions are limited."

While Wu Xing was experimenting with the function of the single-person suspension vehicle and admiring the entire Xinshou Village, the school outside the Xinshou Village was also very lively.

The school is located in the center of Novice Village No. [-] and the main city. After the expansion of the kingdom, it was upgraded to a complete building. However, because of the expansion of the kingdom, the distance between it and other cities also increased.

Relying on the players alone, it would definitely take ten days and a half months to as long as a month, so considering the needs of the players for the school, almost every city has a direct train to the school.

This train is a suspension train jointly developed by dwarves and mages. Because of the first attempt to effectively use the energy of the black bloodstone, it has reached an astonishing speed.

Of course, after the kingdom update, the train will inevitably be upgraded.

The specific performance after the upgrade is that the core energy components jointly developed by the dwarf and the mage to effectively control the energy of the black bloodstone have completely changed into another model.

Objectively speaking, the safer and more effective way to control the use of black bloodstone energy has allowed the speed of the train to increase again, making it the only means of transportation between the vast areas of the kingdom.

"How much do you dislike the black bloodstone energy control parts we developed?"

Dorona muttered: "Although it is indeed unstable and has certain dangers, it is enough to become an epoch-making invention. It turned out that it was as bad as we did. Help us upgrade the furnace to a forging table that can use black bloodstone more efficiently..."

Dorona glanced at Adisseo who was standing around the forging table: "Adisu, don't you care?"

Adisseo, who was immersed in the research on the use of the black bloodstone on the forging table, did not hear his words at all.

Dorona jumped up and down: "Since the king has a blacksmith of this level, it's not too much to introduce us to each other, right?"

"Dorona," Adisseo looked up, "You are so noisy."

Well, Adisseo had no such idea at all.

Dorona shut his mouth, leaned over, and then immersed himself in watching the efficient use of new energy.

"It's just art."

"How did you do it?"

"No matter how many times I watch it, it's amazing."

"The gap is too great to replicate."

The dwarves around the forging table uttered endless praises, exhausting all words to describe the ordinary energy parts placed on the forging table.

Although it is so unremarkable, it cannot conceal its technical content as a core component that can completely control the energy of the Black Bloodstone.

This is far beyond the technological level of this world. Whether it is the dwarves, the Arcane Academy or the Salfa Federation, their research on the energy inside the Black Bloodstone is still at a very rough level, let alone complete control.

There was a knock on the half-open door.

The npc who has fully understood the dwarves went straight to the point: "The players who learn the dwarf forging skills have come, is there anyone who can go to the class?"

The dwarves didn't even look away, they answered each other in haste.

"Let them teach themselves."

"Is Li Ming here? Let him teach."

"Yes, yes, compared to those idiots, Li Ming is considered outstanding."

"Besides, didn't An Mai give Li Ming notes?"

The npc was not surprised by the answer he received. The dwarves have maintained this state for several days. Whenever they have free time, they come to stare at this thing. It doesn’t look like they are looking at an ordinary part, but rather they are looking at something. Unprecedented baby.

The npc turned to look for Li Ming.

Players who flooded into the "Black Factory" because of the dwarven infrastructure video and the mechanical army crowded the lobby on the first floor.

The second floor was too empty because the players did not have permission to enter, so the npc found Li Ming here.

In fact, Li Ming, who had just been able to control his special ability, didn't do any tasks after the public beta began, and went straight to the renovated Dwarf Academy - the official name of the "Black Factory" hanging on the Dwarf Academy.

Then he swung the hammer silently for a long time.

"The dwarf asked you to teach the players." The npc cut to the chase.

Li Ming stopped his movements, showing the same "disgusting" expression as the dwarves, but he obviously had no right to refuse being squeezed by the dwarves.

The teaching building, which was originally just one building, has become a vast college, and different areas are divided according to the nature of the college.

For example, in the Dwarf Academy, there is a vast factory, the entire production line and the fully automatic forging area provide the most comprehensive and advanced forging tools for the dwarves.

And the Arcane Academy—although the name is confusing, the official name hanging in the teaching area of ​​the mages in the school is indeed the Arcane Academy.

In the Arcane Academy, there is a vast laboratory, which includes comprehensive experimental facilities.

In the Druid Academy, the most eye-catching thing is the huge greenhouse used to take care of different plants by category.

It is worth mentioning that, excluding the three academies that already have tutors, the other academies have been upgraded and completed, but because they do not have tutors, they are currently closed and not open to the public.

Not to mention the reaction of the players who were looking forward to having a mechanical army when they saw another player come to teach them, the Arcane Academy is also very lively at the moment.

Out of practical considerations, most players came to the teaching building of the mages in order to learn how to further control the ether, and what greeted them was an empty hall with no trace of human activities.

"Where's the mage?"

"Is there no one here at all?"

"No? Don't mages have classes?"

Amidst the doubts from the players, the ubiquitous NPC calmly replied: "Because of some special factors, the mages have not yet reached an agreement with the kingdom to return to their work place."

It was the first time for the players to hear such a reason, and the players who rushed over from the Novice Village at the first time raised several question marks.

"Does this mean that the mage is not in class?"

The npc nodded, confirming their guess.

The public beta player who entered the holographic game for the first time turned his head to look at other players in confusion. The internal beta player was familiar with this and explained to them: "The brain circuit of planning has always been so magical, and I am keen to follow the game plot..."

Speaking of this, the closed beta player turned to ask the npc: "So the mage and the kingdom didn't agree on what?"

The npc recalled whether this was classified as confidential information in the manual, and after a simple judgment, he felt that this should not need to be kept secret, so he told it frankly.

"The mage is dissatisfied with the expansion speed of the kingdom. The Arcane Academy exists independently, and seems to think that this behavior of the kingdom is a kind of provocation."

The closed beta players understood clearly, turned their heads and explained to the public beta players who were exposed to the planning brain circuit for the first time: "It's time to fight."

What?I just entered the game, how come I'm about to fight?

The beta players stood where they were, weak, pitiful, and helpless.

"Hurry up and upgrade, there will be another big mission soon." After finishing speaking, the closed beta players scattered and ran towards the Druid/Dwarf teaching building.

While the players of the Arcane Academy were stunned, the players who ran to the Druid Academy were not in vain. The treants were diligently stationed in the greenhouse, taking care of the plants that were in poor condition.

Although the number of druids has decreased by more than half, there are still a few left behind, busy with the tree people.

As soon as the players appeared, they were captured by druids and received a bunch of tasks of fertilizing, sowing, and entering the forest to mark the location of plants.

After visiting Xinshou Village, Wu Xing returned the single levitating ball at the station, returned to the city center, walked around the altar, and walked into the brand new commercial building.

The building has a vast area and many floors, almost comparable to the commercial center of the earth in Wu Xing's concept.

Ai Zhijin made full use of the entire building, not letting it fall into an overly deserted state.

When you enter the first floor of the building, you will be faced with a map of the interior of the building.

Wu Xing stopped and looked at the functions of each layer on the map.

Clothing, snacks, handicrafts, daily necessities, art, luxury goods, skill books and special customized services, etc., are classified into categories to achieve the ultimate in trade.

It is indeed the gold of Egypt, a business empire that monopolizes the market.

Wu Xing took down the map and continued to walk forward. He discovered the second point. Aizhijin did not hire other employees to run the store and serve customers. These stores are all based on the model of customers purchasing, placing orders and paying independently.

This is really... a very bold shopping model.

After all, his customers are players, and Wu Xing reasonably doubts that, if there are no restrictions, the players can vacate the entire building overnight.

When Wu Xing stepped into the building, there were already pure-life players who were not interested in missions or controlling the ether, shopping in the game.

Judging from the current situation, it seems that there is no situation where the player took something and rushed out.

Wu Xing walked into a clothing store at random, checked the amount, and quickly exited the clothing store, looking for things he could afford on this floor.

He found a convenient commodity sales window at the side door, a window that can be directly consumed outside the building without stepping into the building.

In the window, there are familiar products for players, such as blood recovery potions, as well as newly launched products, such as city return scrolls and space bags.

Wu Xing came to his senses, first looked down at the price, the city return scroll: [-] credits, the small space bag: [-] credits.

Wu Xing took a look at his credit balance, saved an internal test, and only saved seven or eight hundred...

Can't afford it, sorry.

Wu Xing picked up the blood recovery agent, which was priced at 120, and a payment notification popped up on the personal panel. Wu Xing didn't rush to click on the payment, he took a step back with the blood recovery agent.

A warning pops up on the payment notification.

"It has been detected that you are violating the kingdom's laws, please pay attention to your actions."

Wu Xing did not easily try the consequences of violating the law. He clicked on payment, and then waited against the wall for 2 minutes. A player rushed over from a distance, picked up the blood recovery potion smoothly, paid and left quickly.

There seems to be something wrong.

Wu Xing waited on the spot for half an hour, but he didn't wait for a theft/robbery incident.

Wu Xing stood up straight, and when the No. 11 player who bought the blood recovery potion was about to leave, he stopped him.

"Sorry, I have something to ask..."

The stopped player showed a puzzled expression, stopped and said, "Say."

Still use honorifics?Wu Xing began to suspect that he had stepped on the wrong world line and came to a holographic game that he was not familiar with.

Wu Xing weighed his vocabulary and said: "I waited here for half an hour, it seems that no one just took something and ran away."

The players stopped by him deepened their doubts: "What are you running for?"

He glanced at the blood recovery potion in his hand, suddenly realized, lowered his voice and said to Wu Xing: "Are you a novice mission that you didn't accept?"

Wu Xing explained: "I am a beta player."

The other party suddenly realized: "The internal test method will not work. There is a long-term task in You's novice mission, which requires not violating the kingdom's laws and being an excellent citizen of the kingdom. After completing this long-term task, you can obtain the status of a kingdom citizen."

Wu Xing: "Obtain the status of a kingdom citizen?"

"Hey, you are a temporary citizen now, and you haven't become a full-time citizen yet." The other party waved at Wu Xing: "You still have time to do some novice tasks."

When Wu Xing was at a loss, someone had the same doubts as him.

forum.

What is the difference between a temporary citizen and a full citizen of the kingdom? "

[When I first started the novice mission, I took a long-term mission from Youna to become a regular. After reading the mission introduction several times, I still didn't understand. What is the difference between the two? 】

[What, the player is not an official citizen of the kingdom yet? 】

【What's the difference between these two? 】

[You explained very clearly, the landlord, you didn't listen at all? 】

[Original poster: I was used to playing games before, and subconsciously skipped the plot, but found that I seemed to have missed something important. 】

[The difference is that temporary citizens have limited authority in the kingdom, cannot drive vehicles into the air, cannot allocate houses, and have to use credits to buy goods, etc. Many full-time citizens can enjoy the treatment.

I think everyone should have noticed that npcs don’t use credit points, and the basic materials such as daily necessities they need are directly distributed by the kingdom, while luxury materials are distributed according to their contributions to the kingdom. In other words, their The house is also assigned directly. 】

[I know this. The kingdom does not have a currency system, so things are produced and distributed by the government in a unified manner. Some of the things purchased from Aizhijin are also purchased by the government, and then distributed to each npc in a unified manner. 】

【etc?The house is allocated directly? !Don't stop me, I want to turn positive. 】

[So what is the specific long-term task of becoming a regular? 】

[Before the end of the mission time limit of several years, do not violate the kingdom's laws, the reputation and favorability must not be less than [-], the king's favorability must be more than [-], and more than half of the npcs in the kingdom must have more than [-] favorability. 】

[Ask so much? 】

[It's quite simple to increase the favorability. Like the previous large-scale mission rewards for the Diman Empire, the favorability of all the kingdom's citizens is directly +50.】

[No, I have never seen the npc king, and I have no chance to gain favorability at all. 】

[Until the end of the closed beta, I only had 40 points of favor with the king. Absolutely, this is the biggest problem of this mission, right? 】

[Wait, don't discuss how to complete the task, why did no one discuss why the plan suddenly added the setting of official citizens and temporary citizens? 】

[To be honest, this doesn't seem to be a temporary addition. Judging from this differential treatment, the beta players are also temporary citizens, and have never enjoyed the treatment of full citizens at all. 】

【That said, I remembered.

One of the laws of the kingdom is that the people of the kingdom cannot be attacked.

But didn't we form a group to fight demons at the beginning of the internal test, and were killed countless times by demons?But the devil finally died because he violated the law and destroyed the kingdom’s public property, not because he attacked the kingdom’s people…]

[Damn, co-author temporary citizens are inferior? 】

[There are reasons and evidence, I believe it.From the very beginning, the player is a second-class citizen. 】

[But thinking about it the other way around, when we attacked demons, we didn’t die because of violating the law? 】

【First of all, are demons citizens of the kingdom?Secondly, I have reasonable doubts, that is because our attack at that time was not an attack at all to the devil. 】

【...I was persuaded. 】

[It's gone, I'm going to pick up the mission, although the mission lasts for a long time and the conditions are very harsh, but no matter what, it gives away a house—even though it's a house in the game]

[I feel that in the end, few people can complete this task. 】

[The requirements are too harsh, I'm here to play games, not to be played by games. 】

[Upstairs, your attitude is not correct, who said you are here to play games?This is an etheric emulator, with a bonus game function, understand? 】

[Stop arguing, the holographic game live broadcast jointly organized by the xx live broadcast platform and the official will start soon, the anchor is Lun Lun Lun, Yun players can go to his live broadcast room to stay. 】