A few ordinary days passed.
During the day, Duan Qing had nothing to do at home. Before he decided to play games, Duan Qing once worked as a ghostwriter for others on a certain media platform. Based on my previous experience and random assumptions, I wrote some unintelligible comments, which not only disrupted the direction of public opinion, but also earned me some food ration money. Coupled with the previous livelihood of helping the chef and working as a security guard in the hospital, combined with the daily frugality, he also saved a lot of wife money for his use.
But that woman didn't become his wife in the end, so he now has the capital to squander it.
Lie in the game cabin and browse various platforms, watch videos, do some trolling or watch the party, or go out for a walk, relax, and think about the life you want after the tragedy called breakup. Having said that, he has been busy in this corner of the world in the past few years and has rarely taken a good look at the things around him. This period of relaxation has really allowed him to re-understand the appearance of his surroundings. For example, there is a storefront on the street in front that sells delicious steamed buns; there is actually a square behind the community where he lives, and many people go to exercise at night; there is a small river three miles away from the community where he rents, but the water in the river is It’s not clear, and I don’t know what year it was under management; and the fast food restaurant he often passed by when he was busy seemed to have closed due to an accident recently...
Although the technology of this era has been extremely developed, things that should be included in daily life still exist. After all, there are still many people who like to go shopping and buy things, and even more people like to be foodies. In comparison, there are more people who like to play games. Although the number is not as good as the wider public, the proliferation of the virtual game industry still drives everyone's enthusiasm. At least at this time, Duan Qing has never forgotten his love for that world.
However, when he walked on the street, he saw all kinds of people passing by him. The floating cars passing by, the fashionable girl wearing sunglasses in the driver's seat; the young woman holding the child's hand and pointing around, and occasionally you can see men of similar age accompanying them, just like a family The appearance of people; office workers who are talking to others in a hurry, and old people who are hunched over their hands and walking through the garden... Whenever he sees these, he can always I feel that I am separated from the world of virtual games and truly feel the reality of real life.
Then I feel lonely, and then I feel sad.
"Perhaps I can just live an ordinary life in this life..." Although I have struggled hard in these years, I want to start an ordinary family, marry a wife and have children, draw a clear line with my past self, and at the same time, strive for my own future. The future has come to an end, but the past three years of hard work and the extremely realistic abandonment of his ex-girlfriend have left him feeling more or less isolated from the real world.
Thanks to his experiences in the past few years, Duan Qing has not easily given up on finding support in life. For the same reason, Duan Qing is still confused about his future life.
Fortunately, Duan Qing gained more from "Free World" compared to the distractions he gained these past few days.
In fact, Duan Qing had already been promoted to one level during the several experiments he went out at dusk on the first day. After all, the positions of those Wuha were deliberately pulled there by Iron Ambition. In terms of level, they were higher than those at the entrance of the village. Those wild rabbits who train novices are stronger and naturally have more experience.
However, Ambition of Iron once solemnly and proudly said that the first dozen levels are easier to practice because they require less experience. After reaching more than ten levels, the experience required will increase exponentially. At that time, it is a good time for players to stabilize their strength and go out for adventure.
To put it simply, if you can’t get promoted, find something else to do.
A sixth-level player talks to you about things that are ten levels or even later, and he also knows a lot about the world. For Duan Qing, he naturally has doubts. Duan Qing also made a vague inquiry about this matter, but the answer he received was somewhat surprising.
"Haha, because I have played it before."
I originally thought I would get a reply like "I have checked a lot of information, I have read a lot of guides", or even "I am a genius", but the result turned out to be reasonable and ordinary: Hearts of Iron is an old player.
In fact, in many games, especially online games, there will always be a group of such people. Because of various reasons, such as not playing well before, getting tired of playing my profession, or having graduated perfectly, I want to experience other professions. Because a certain version is updated, I suddenly find that a certain profession is very useful. Very strong... Then they will decisively give up their previous career, practice an alt and start over, and use their experienced game experience to quickly make themselves stronger.
Of course, there is a more likely reason for this: I couldn't get through playing it before, so I had to delete my account and practice again... Fortunately, Hearts of Iron belongs to the former group.
"Although I am not a master, my level during the time I played before was considered to be in the first echelon. But I followed the two-sword route. Although it was fun to play with two swords on the left and right, I always felt that it was not my style... ....”
When Iron Ambition answered at that time, he scratched the back of his head and looked embarrassed: "If you go further and further, you may regret it in the future, so..." He put a hand on his neck. After scratching it once, he made a "click" sound in his mouth: "Let's start over."
Seeing Duan Qing looking at him like a great man, Brother Tie might have felt even more embarrassed, and quickly made a POS: "Sure enough, the big sword is the romance of men, hahahaha..."
Sure enough, he was still a single-celled man... Duan Qing's eyelids drooped.
In the past few days, Duan Qing had been fighting monsters and upgrading. He had just mixed up a few levels. At the same time, he also learned to take monster corpses to the village to exchange for some survival supplies, and at the same time, he made connections. For example, Aunt Fima at the entrance of the village once gave me a few water bottles; Uncle Ushe from the street next to the blacksmith laughed and gave me a few burritos in exchange, and excitedly asked me to patronize his business more in the future; The grocery store in the square saw how pitiful he was and gave him some cloth bags to put things in. Looking at the traitorous look on the boss's face, it must be impossible to get valuable things... and of course the blacksmith, this Probably the one with the strangest relationship among the villagers Duan Qing knew.
Every time Duan Qing passed by and the blacksmith saw him, he would put away his usual kind face and sit expressionlessly drinking water. But he did not rush Duan Qing away, and sometimes he did not object to chatting with Duan Qing, talking about daily life in the village, talking about the situation on the mainland, and even talking about some thoughts and experiences about fighting—— Of course, this was not because he wanted to recognize a disciple, but because Duan Qing deliberately led the conversation.
But every time Duan Qing wanted to bring the topic to the blacksmith's past, he would remain silent and throw Duan Qing out.
There were still some valuable gains. The most noteworthy thing was that he gave all the carcasses of wild wolves he had hunted in the past few days to a hunter, who then gave him a hunting knife.
Yes, with Duan Qing's current adaptability to the game, the lone wild wolf on the grassland north of the village is already a piece of cake for him, and he has the sharp weapon given to him by Brother Tie, which is better than the one given to him by Orion. This Laushizi hunting knife is much better.
【Hunting knife (normal)】
[Weapon power: weak]
[Hunting knife can be used for cutting, whittling, slashing, chopping, stabbing and other purposes. Sure can be used for combat, if you don't mind its length. 】
As mentioned in the introduction of the weapon, the length of this knife is very short, only about ten centimeters long, but the sharpness still makes Duan Qing quite satisfied. The system gave this weapon a power evaluation, which is comparable to the one in his hand. The same as a rough dagger, which is enough to illustrate the attack power of the knife. But even so, Duan Qing still kept it on his waist and never used it.
And not everything was smooth sailing: Duan Qing had troubles in another area, and that was attribute points.
Through those brief exchanges with Hearts of Iron, Duan Qing can still roughly guess that there are many genres, or gameplays, in this game.
He opened the character's attribute panel many times and observed the four attributes. He also looked at the two short bars of life and stamina from time to time, thinking about the mystery behind it.
Now he is also at level six and has gained 5 points, but he has not added any points because he has not yet... decided on his future career.
There is no such thing as a profession in this game, at least there are no names given to you by the system such as warrior, mage, priest, archer, fighter, and thief. However, there are still distinctions. In addition to the active classification by players in private, organizations in the free world also have their own distinctions, that is, the Warrior House and the Mages Council.
——Looking at these two names, you can tell what their two organizations do.
After all, there are combat professions in this continent, and there are many of them. Compared with the general sword and magic world, this world has almost all kinds of cold weapons, and it also has the field that many players dream of: magic.
When the free world was open to play, many players were very excited to find out after birth that there were intelligence and spiritual attributes among their attributes, because this showed that there was a legal system in the free world. Players who like to be mages are excited to think that they can experience all kinds of gorgeous and magical spells in a virtual online game, and imagine that all kinds of enemies will be wiped out under the bombardment of their gorgeous magic.
And now, a few months later, there are very few legal players. This is also what Iron Ambition, an old player, introduced to him. The reason is naturally: the legal profession is very weak.
As for the reason for the weakness of the legal system, in addition to some factors of the profession itself, the historical background of the Free Continent also has a profound impact to a certain extent.
According to the background setting of the free world, there was an era of prosperous magic in this world a long time ago. At that time, magic skills were very mature and magic technology was also very developed. The development of all fields in that era was almost inseparable from magic. Energy help. At that time, the most powerful forces in the continent were almost controlled by the most powerful mages. In that era, people's social status was almost judged by their level of magic skills... In short, it was an era ruled by magic, and it was also a hell era for "untouchables" with poor magic talents.
Of course, the power of those "untouchables" with insufficient talent is not enough to support them in overthrowing this era. The demise of this era is caused by themselves.
The decline of the Magic Age and the contents recorded in the existing history books of the Free Continent can be studied by various scholars for most of their lives, because there are too many things worthy of study and reflection. However, if we summarize the reasons for its decline, the common theory on the mainland now is: the excessive use of magic elements in the Magic Age, which led to the collapse of the balance of elements.
A classic case of making a profit out of nothing - the opinion that flashed through Duan Qing's mind immediately when he read through the information.
Maybe it was because of the over-development of magic technology at that time, or maybe it was because of the sloppy utilization of magic in magic crafts at that time. In short, after the Magic Age, the weight of various elements on the continent became very low, and various powerful magics lacked the support of elements. , became difficult to use, and even many legendary magics were lost... As for other magic skills, magic products, and even various buildings and facilities that represent the glory of the magic empire, they have all disappeared in the long stream of time. among.
Of course, if you ask the historians who have the most profound knowledge of the history of the Free Continent, the answer they will give is: the large number of large-scale wars at the end of the Magic Age, as well as the abuse of strategic magic, caused irreversible changes in the balance of elements and other aspects. destruction, and this is the main reason for the current lack of elements.
Those who spend their days doing archaeological research can produce some evidence for the above conclusion. For example, the relics of the Magic Age and the ruins of the Magic War left around the world after the Great War are still being discovered and excavated in many places; the loss of various mature magic systems in the Magic Age, and the loss of many spells and technologies, remain in mainland China to this day. The level of magic is still not one-tenth of that of that era; as well as the demonized creatures appearing all over the world now, many scholars believe that they should have been affected by the disastrous wars in the Magic Age...
All in all, it was a great era when great magicians emerged in large numbers, and due to the influence of that great era, magic elements have become very scarce in the free continent today. So it is almost impossible to be an invincible mage now.
However, the group of mages still exists.
Among the current forces of the natives of the free world, including empires and principalities, there are still many people who use magic to fight. Some of the strongest among them spontaneously united to inherit and promote magic knowledge and systems, conduct research and spell experiments, prevent the decline of magic, and set up organizations similar to associations to exchange magic knowledge and system recovery. information, help each other, and at the same time maintain the authority and interests of the mage group. The most extensive alliance of these people, or professionals called mages, is the Magisters' Council established hundreds of years ago.
Inspired by the establishment of the Mage Council, the unofficial organization of the Warrior House also appeared on the mainland. It is obsessed with the research of various cold weapon techniques, and even masters from various places who are good at bare-handed fists, for the maintenance and development of various melee professions. , one after another put their names in the Warriors' Home. In the subsequent continuous development of these two alliances, they have been of great help to various countries and civilians, so they were gradually accepted and tolerated, and then gradually formed the existing structure that is most like a professional system on the free continent.
Later, these things began to be studied by players who entered the game.
Although Duan Qing is somewhat interested in these historical things, as a veteran player, he is more concerned about more practical issues, such as whether there is a future for mages... Earlier At that time, Iron Ambition, who regarded himself as a veteran player, had answered this question.
This is what he replied at the time: "Magician... is very weak."
Brother Tie still used a generous tone, as if he didn't care about his next slanderous words: "Judging from the mage players I have seen...the attack ability is average, and they still need to chant and cast spells." There are very few skills and movements that can be understood. With the spells of your own, you can't do any tricks, and the more tragic thing is..."
"They're so brittle!"
"It's not brittle in the literal sense. After all, there is currently no effective way to increase health in this game. If everyone rushes to fight, they will die in two hits, but the mages... run away. Slow, body reaction is also slow, no life-saving skills, and no way to deal with attacks. Well, at least the mages I have seen fell to their knees when they encountered strange situations such as ADD, hatred transfer, etc., without even using a hand. Also, completely unable to adapt to this dangerous world..."
"Of course, there may be some very strong mages among those professional players, but I have never seen them... You want to play as a mage? Don't get carried away, young man... Do you really want to play? Well, your tangled expression betrays you. Give me back that dagger. Then you can’t think of it and delete your account and practice again. Isn’t that dagger a waste? No, you still need it if you want to play as a mage. What kind of melee weapon is it? You'd better return it to me quickly, I might as well keep it as a souvenir..."
Recalling the scene at that time, Duan Qing screwed up his face just as he did at that time. It was a feeling of powerlessness when he encountered Tang Seng's noisy voice.
However, for a self-proclaimed veteran player, the profession of magician is still quite attractive. In the words of former professional player Maisui Jinhuang, flying in the sky is the dream of every virtual player.
"Mage..." At this time, Duan Qing, like those legal professional enthusiasts when the game was first launched, looked at the attributes of intelligence and spirit, as well as the "+" icon behind the attributes, without any hesitation. A gleam of curiosity was concealed.
"...Would you like to give it a try?"
