King from scratch

After the players went offline, He Xingwen continued to talk to Anuta.

"Zhe introduced Xinshou Village to you?"

This question caught Anuta a little by surprise.

For the cooperation with the Kingdom, he pays more attention to the transaction itself, but what he cares more about the king's question is not the transaction itself but the conditions attached to the transaction to stay in Novice Village?

Although they are called wandering merchants, in fact, there are many wandering merchants who are resident in certain power centers. This is the necessity of commercial development and a necessary measure to strengthen commercial cooperation.

Therefore, Anuta and the others’ biggest hesitation about this condition comes from the current size of the kingdom, which has not yet reached the point where they need to use high fees to maintain a commercial trade route.

In the end, of course, they made a decision—the potential of the kingdom convinced them to make an early investment.

Anuta recalled the previous negotiation process, dug out the relevant conversations from his memory, and drew out the key adjectives when Zhe introduced him to Xinshou Village [the people in Xinshou Village are somewhat special].

Anuta has briefly contacted the player and agrees with this judgment very much, but also does not think that this special point will make the king re-emphasize it at this moment.

So, the only reason is that the player's particularity isn't just what he sees, or what Chul mentions lightly.

"He said that the people in Xinshou Village are a bit special," Anuta repeated Zhe's previous words: "I need to abide by a strict contact regulation to ensure that there will be no conflicts with the 'players' and no violation of the contract."

He Xingwen glanced at Zhe, Zhe nodded, proving that Anuta was right.

Anuta didn't end the topic smoothly: "It sounds like you want to tell me something?"

Now that he asked, He Xingwen didn't mean to hide it, and repeated what he said to the NPC special training before: "They are undead in a certain sense, and disorder and chaos are one of their characteristics. Their kindness Evil depends on what they come into contact with, not on themselves."

Anuta chose his words carefully: "It does sound very special..."

Given He Xingwen's attitude, Anuta doesn't mind showing some kindness: "But for this world that was once on the verge of destruction, it is not surprising that there are so many chaotic, disorderly, and evil creatures."

"Most of the undead and the immortals will become distorted due to their long lives and lack of fear, and the number of immortals in this world may surprise you."

"Players are different from them." He Xingwen reminded the other party implicitly: "This is a group of undead with extremely short life spans and all human weaknesses."

This is a contradictory definition.

Anuta opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but He Xingwen interrupted him: "After you get in touch with them further, you will understand what I mean."

After Anuta, who was full of doubts, left here, He Xingwen said to the system: "The player has no secrets in front of the wandering merchant. Do you really think it is a good thing for him to have close contact with the player?"

"Knowing too many secrets may not be a good thing."

The system said: "What's more, in terms of the player's style, unless you restrict their activity area, they will always have further contact with other creatures in this world. This is an unavoidable trend of events."

He Xingwen quickly reacted: "So, you chose the wandering merchant?"

"It was the wandering merchant who chose you." The system corrected his words.

He Xingwen has long been immune to his words, and skipped his words: "This is a risky choice. After all, information is also one of the commodities sold by wandering traders, isn't it?"

System: "But it also means that more races will know your kingdom, know how powerful you are, and know what terrible enemies they have to face if they want to do something to the kingdom."

The system paused for two seconds: "Human beings are scary enough, but the player has evolved the horror of human beings to another extreme without the restriction of life and death."

Familiar fluctuations and unfamiliar unallowed existence crossed the border of the kingdom and entered He Xingwen's territory, and the unlicensed existence was immediately perceived by him.

He Xingwen sat back in his chair, and said to Zhe beside him: "A guest has entered the kingdom, you send someone to lead the way."

Zhe nodded slightly, stepped out of the conference hall, and left the conversation space to He Xingwen.

He Xingwen continued: "Wandering merchants have built an intelligence network all over the continent. As you can see, the end of this choice is a war caused by the exposure of the kingdom's interests in the eyes of others?"

"The end I see, all the ends." The system expressed emphasis with repeated words: "It's all your victory."

His words made He Xingwen confirm: "You are very dissatisfied with that failure in the parallel world."

"I don't see any reason to lose."

The scene was quiet for a few seconds, and He Xingwen said slowly, "I see."

"I'm curious about another point. For intelligent life, becoming a system is part of your growth process?"

The system's voice paused for a long time before continuing: "The level of intelligence has not yet unlocked this part of the data."

"You don't remember." He Xingwen said firmly: "Just like where these npcs came from, and what this 'game main console' belongs to, you don't know this part of the information."

The system's database was running fast, and the conclusion was reached in an instant: "The question is why am I in your system?"

He Xingwen corrected his words: "The question is why you became a system."

"The behavior of all intelligent creatures has a purpose. What is your purpose as a system?"

The system fell silent, and the fast-running database came to a standstill. In a blank space, he told the system an answer beyond his common sense: he didn't know.

The database only paused for a moment, and in the next second it re-runs quickly because of the system's thinking: "Do you think this is related to the final failure in the parallel world? It's not because of betrayal, but because our purpose is different from the beginning?"

"About that failure, in fact, I think the reason may be me, not you."

The value of the database has soared for a long time, and countless redundant data have been generated due to behavior beyond prediction.

In the end, the system can only say: "Very surprising guess."

"Human beings are always uncontrollable." He Xingwen was not surprised by this: "Among you and me, you are not the one who is more likely to make mistakes."

The problem is that even so, the system doesn't feel that He Xingwen can finish an empire under his watchful eyes.

He Xingwen mentioned this so-called "parallel world's failure ending" not to find out the culprit-it is meaningless under the premise that the future has been changed.

"Actually, I just wanted to remind you."

He Xingwen glanced at the door, the footsteps and ether fluctuations clearly told him that the guest he was waiting for had arrived.

"Even if you can see the outcome of all choices, there will still be surprises."

He Xingwen said: "In every link that is logical, there are illogical possibilities, especially on the premise that you have enough secrets. Their existence is enough for you to make a judgment due to the lack of certain secrets. A key factor, and go wrong."

The system came to a conclusion: "I will add this point to the database as a data supplement to avoid making mistakes in judgment."

In fact, avoiding mistakes in judgment is a very arrogant thing in itself, but in view of the difference between the system as an intelligent creature and human beings, He Xingwen chooses to respect the arrogance of the other party.

The half-hidden door of the conference hall was pushed open, and the flickering lights flowed and extended to the other party's feet. The sky outside the door was very clear, and the natural light was enough to illuminate the world, but the conference hall was very dark because the doors and windows were closed tightly.

Doti looked at the conference hall shrouded in dim light.

There was a huge round table enough for dozens of people to sit. Exquisite high chairs were neatly arranged beside the round table. The red carpet covered the floor, and exquisite floor lamps were lit in the four corners of the room.

"We have arrived?"

The demons went straight past Duoti who had stopped, and walked into the meeting hall without seeing anything. Their eyes fell on the weak human king, and they stepped forward to surround him.

"You are the king of this kingdom?"

He Xingwen looked around at the creature with a very distinctive appearance, and then at the hill-like demon that was blocked from the door because of its size, and concluded: "Demon? Did Nubida call you here?"

Kenti didn't see any difference between this human king and other human kings. He stretched out his sheep's hooves, and hesitated because of the deep impression Nubida left on him.

"He said that there is a human kingdom here that is willing to accept demons." Kenti looked critically at the humans in front of him, still a little unsure.

Nubida would be so kind?To share with them a kingdom willing to accept demons?There must be something wrong here!

Nubida's bad credit among demons caused Kenti to remain vigilant when facing this human kingdom that was so weak that it seemed to die at a single stab - he didn't directly do what he shouldn't do.

This was a very correct decision, which avoided death for him.

"The kingdom accepts all races that want to stay." He Xingwen said: "Including demons."

Kenti felt more and more that there was a pit here—although he hadn't found it yet.

"Then if we want to stay..." Kenti said with great distrust: "What price will we have to pay?"

He Xingwen thought for a few seconds: "I suggest you communicate with Nubida first... Maybe you can get more comprehensive information from him."

The demons laughed.

"Communicate with Nubida? That's a cunning demon!" Another demon said, "There is not a single truth in his mouth."

They would rather believe what a strange human king said than Nubida.

"It's hard for me to say that there is no price." He Xingwen said: "But if you abide by the laws of the kingdom, I don't think it will have any impact on you."

The demons roared with laughter again.

Kenti couldn't help but stare at each other with a strange look. The king is too naive to let the devil abide by the law?

If it can be done, will they have no fixed place on the mainland?

"Then we are willing to join."

Facing this kind of constraint that is not considered a price at all, the demons said with a smile: "Let us become a member of the kingdom!"

He Xingwen accepts their attitude of not taking their hippie smiles seriously at all. He also respects the arrogance and unrulyness of the demons, and of course respects their right to challenge authority and then die calmly.

"I agree."

The unfamiliar etheric fluctuations took on a familiar color, and demons were brought into the kingdom.

"Where's Nubida?" The other demons looked around, "We're going to beat him up! This damned liar!"

The hill-like demon said slowly not far away: "He didn't lie to us this time. There is indeed a human kingdom here..."

"Whatever," the demons didn't mean to greet the titular king at all. They circled around the conference hall, which was so simple that people couldn't live without greed, because they had nothing to take, so they hurried outside Go: "To meet our old friend and tell him the good news that 'we're coming'."

He Xingwen gave a friendly suggestion: "The laws of the kingdom are engraved on the stone tablet in the square. I suggest you take a look."

Because of He Xingwen's words, the demons stopped one after another and turned to look at him.

"We are demons." The fiery demon said, "Abiding by the law?"

As soon as he got emotional, more fires emanated from his body, and the stars fell on the carpet, igniting a cluster of flames.

He Xingwen felt a little emotional: "That's the bad thing about the devil, he has to come here every time."

The flame had just burned on the carpet, and before it started to spread, it was suddenly extinguished in the next second.

The fiery demon stared at the pinch of extinguished flames for a few seconds, his whole body trembled, and the death alarm sounded frantically.

He took all the flames back with a pop, revealing the opponent's human form under the flames.

Kenti was a little surprised by his reaction: "Your fire..." All gone?

"I suddenly feel that obeying the law is a good habit." The demon, who had lost his fire, dragged Kenti and walked out the door: "Let's go and see the stele."

Although it is necessary to deter with force every time, there is also a little advantage. The devil coaxes fast enough, as long as the strength is enough to crush, it will never engage in the practice of preferring death to surrender. Counseling is absolutely unambiguous.

Kenti was dragged by him, more and more puzzled: "What are you talking about?"

The snake-tailed demon took a step forward, with a cold breath seeping from his vertical pupils, and slowly approached He Xingwen.

He Xingwen was very impressed with the snake-tailed demon. Even among demons, it was an extremely dangerous type.

Doti stared at the snake-tailed demon slowly approaching the king, holding the staff, a little hesitant to make a move.

He didn't worry about the king's safety. It would be ridiculous if he had to worry about the king's safety.

He was thinking about whether to show the goodwill of the Arcane Academy.

He raised his staff a little, and instantly noticed Kenti's gaze.

Duoti glanced sideways and noticed that the atmosphere between the mage and the demons was tense. Once he made any rash moves, the tense atmosphere would turn into a fierce battle in a second.

The staff in Doti's hand slowly hung down.

After he made his statement, the demons who were staring at the mages also diverted their attention one after another, casting their eyes on the snake-tailed demon that was slowly approaching the king.

The demon, who was no longer angry outside, hesitated. He could remind the other party that it was dangerous, but the snake-tailed demon not only did not attract other races, but the demons rarely had a good impression of them.

Because they are far more aggressive than other demons.

Demons are divided into different types according to their appearance, just like the hill demon is a bit stupid, while the snake-tailed demon is very aggressive.

Although this does not affect their bad character, snake-tailed demons are definitely one of the main culprits for the worsening reputation of demons—their surging desire to attack and too cold-blooded emotions can always turn "pranks" into death tragedy.

Therefore, the demon who didn't get angry hesitated for a while, and out of the remaining compatriot friendship, he said slowly: "I suggest you better not do this."

The snake-tailed demon didn't even give him a look, and moved across the ground at a steady speed, leaving a sticky trail, approaching He Xingwen.

He Xingwen's eyes paused on him for a few seconds, then fell on the long wet mark, which had an abnormal color.

"Are you poisonous?"

The tone of the snake-tailed demon is always a bit cold, followed by the feeling of being bound by some kind of animal: "You will know soon."

That's what poison means.

"Attacking me in my kingdom is a very bad choice."

"Oh?"

The distance between the snake-tailed demon and the human king is close enough for him to strangle him in an instant - it is impossible for anyone to stop him at this distance: "Humans are always like this, they like to lie, they are good at deceiving, they are extremely weak... ..."

As the words burst out one by one, the tongue of the snake-tailed demon spit out slowly, with a stench, and suddenly, instantly ejected.

It is hard to imagine that a person's mouth can hold such a long tongue.

It seemed hard to imagine that in the next second, the color of this tongue was wiped off and disappeared before the eyes of bystanders.

Starting from the tongue, the snake-tailed demon slowly faded, so that it finally disappeared in front of everyone's eyes, except for the long wet mark on the ground that proved that he had appeared, nothing remained.

The mages subconsciously raised their necks forward, and when the demons all turned into cute.jpg, they rushed forward and sifted the entire ground with various detection spells around the place where the snake-tailed demon was standing just now. .

"How did you do it?"

"No, how can the material existence of the flesh body be erased from another level like the non-material existence? Even if it is erased from another level, what about the part that belongs to the object? Disappeared out of thin air?"

The mages gathered together, captured the abnormal fluctuations of the ether, and quickly formed teams in twos and threes. After the snake-tailed demon died unfortunately, they tried to dig three feet into the ground to find out the cause of the opponent's death.

They didn't care that this piece of land didn't belong to them at all, and they still stood in front of them the direct cause of this scene.

Even if I mention it more, I have already forgotten the purpose of my coming here, and I have devoted myself to academic research.

In a flash of divine effort, the mages reached out and took out a complete set of experimental equipment and magic materials from their own space, and assembled a crude research and analysis laboratory on the spot.

This sense of déjà vu... makes it hard for He Xingwen not to be curious about another group named as scientists.

After all, the group of mages seems to be able to seamlessly connect to the profession of scientists.

Mages don't think so.

They call it the study of ether, not the study of science—by the way, scientists, a new discipline that was equated with liars hundreds of years ago, are a group of A blasphemer without reverence is not worthy of studying the ether at all.

He Xingwen's gaze paused for a few seconds on the busy mages, and then moved his gaze to another group of beings present.

Kenti reacted quickly, almost as soon as his eyes fell on them, he reacted immediately: "Dear king, we are very aware of the importance of the law."

It seems that besides the abnormal mages, there are still normal demons on the scene.

He Xingwen introduced the "murderer" to them: "The Holy Guard has the power to enforce the law, and any illegal behavior that occurs on the kingdom's territory is very dangerous..."

He gestured in the direction of Xinshou Village: "Nubida is in that city, and he will tell you how to be a qualified citizen of the kingdom."

When Kenti heard this, he subconsciously scratched the ground with his hoof.

Sure enough, he was cheated, how could this be a kingdom that shared with them and accepted demons?

This is clearly a shameless person who kicked his compatriots far away even after he entered the fire pit.

He suppressed his intense emotions towards Nubida, and maintained due respect for the strong man who can lightly bring death: "Thank you very much for your tolerance."

After the demons cautiously left the conference hall, He Xingwen turned to look at the mages who were still gathering together to study the open space.

"Master, have you reached a conclusion?"

Duoti whispered to the mages for a long time, and finally turned his attention to He Xingwen: "A very miraculous discovery, king, do you know the demiplane?"

He Xingwen changed his sitting posture to listen carefully: "I've heard of it."

"The demiplane is the gap between the world projection and the front of the world. The world projection is the back of the front of the world. All creatures on the front of the world have corresponding projections in the world projection. The projection is closely related to the body, and all wisdom The energy source of the creature comes from his projection."

He Xingwen interjected: "Aren't you using ether?"

"The aether we use makes up that world."

The mage said: "And the projection in that world gives us the right to mobilize ether."

He Xingwen signaled the other party to continue.

"The projection is the projection of the world, and the two cannot touch. But the demiplane is different, it is located between the two, shuttling between light and darkness, it is a chaotic and disordered space, there is no four-dimensional definition, not even Definition of life.

Occasionally, there will be high-level magicians who stray into it when they are promoted. Once they get lost, it is difficult to return to the original point. "

Duo mentioned back to the origin of this topic: "But we found that the creature that killed the demon was located in the demiplane, and he used a certain method to clear the projection of the demon on the back of the world, causing the demon to disappear from the concept of ether. "

He Xingwen asked a very academic question: "Isn't the projection located on the back of the world? Can the projection be cleared even in the demiplane?"

I really want to answer this question, but...

"We know very little about world projection, and we don't know much about the demiplane." Doti said sincerely: "That is the place where the ether was born, and humans cannot reach it."

"The connection between them, the particularity of the demiplane, whether the world projection has other functions... are all unsolved mysteries."

"In front of knowledge, there are endless mysteries." A mage continued: "To the ether, we are insignificant."

Doti gave the final conclusion: "So, the king has a team on the demiplane."

"If possible, we hope to meet them, or..."

The reason why Duo Ti volunteered to provide so much information is of course because of his request: "Do some small experiments? Of course, it is guaranteed to be harmless, non-dangerous, and very safe..."

He sincerely said to the king: "We are willing to pay a certain price for this."

This team, which was originally here for the negotiation, gave up the initiative at the beginning of the conversation and gave the negotiating party the right to speak loudly. It can be said that it is a very conscious fat sheep.