Mengzhu's gaming age is actually not very long. When his family was suffering and life was tight, he had to bear too many things. It was not until he sent his younger brother to a welfare center that he had some free time in his own world. She once considered how to spend her free time, but by the time she seriously thought about this issue, she had already had gaming experience for some time. When virtual reality was widely promoted, originally only professional players in the league could play things of a high level and variety. After it was accepted by a huge number of public players, Mengzhu also truly experienced the unique charm of the game.
Up to now, both virtual reality technology and specific virtual game content have been updated several times. After two years of playing, Mengzhu has more or less seen a lot of talents in the game during this upgrading process. Encounter novel things, such as huge monster bosses, unique main cities, exotic races, and intrigues and intrigues. Although the free world is different, after coming to Green Stone Village for a while, Mengzhu felt that he had experienced the cruelty of this game world, especially when he had joined a quite powerful team, like in the Emerald Forest. She walked back and forth to the strange place several times, and what she saw and heard in the forest gave the little girl a considerable degree of baptism in her nerves and toughness.
But now she had to admit that what was happening in front of her at this time was still somewhat incomprehensible to her.
What I didn't expect was that the uncle in front of me was just stunned for a moment and then responded: "Okay."
What is going on? Am I watching you act?
Mengzhu stared in disbelief, watching the two people who had never met before look at each other "affectionately" for a long time, and then reached a consensus that could be called a task in the eyes of players.
The boy in the corner over there got a positive answer, and his little face finally showed a smile. He got up from the ground, ran to Duan Qing's side, and then stopped again. The child's eyes were blinking, as if hesitating for something.
Mengzhu once again expressed her inability to understand the situation in front of her, but the person next to her seemed to understand again. He pointed at her with his thumb and said: "The eldest sister in the back is with me. We are friends. What do you want to explain? Just say it."
The boy looked at Duan Qing, then at Mengzhu, and nodded again. Mengzhu in the back had glazed eyes and his mouth was rounded, with an expression of "what just happened?"
They just stared at each other for a while, but they already had an understanding...
Oh my god, I can’t understand this game anymore.
In the spring evening, the wind became stronger. Duan Qing and the boy walked to the base of the wall where he was just now and started talking normally. The little girl was messy in the wind for a while, but she didn't restrain her curiosity. She walked over and acted like a curious baby who didn't know anything.
But after listening to it briefly for a while, the simple outline of the little boy's story was already drawn.
The boy originally had a normal family with a father and a mother, but his mother died young due to illness, so his father continued to support him and took care of him, and he slowly grew up. He said that his father was a forest ranger and knew the Emerald Forest very well. He usually made money by going on adventures in the forest or serving as a guide for others. Although his income is unstable, in the boy's eyes, his father is a very capable person and loves him very much. Although he is away for many days due to his work, every time he comes home, he will bring back some jade that is said to be jade. Adventure harvests deep in the forest, such as strange fruits, never-seen prey, and the relics of some senior adventurers... Of course, along with them are one thrilling adventure story after another. .
Therefore, the boy likes to listen to stories very much. I don’t know whether it is a child’s nature or whether he has listened to it for a long time and fell in love with the novel and exciting stories told by his father.
The days passed happily and happily, until one day, his father came back from going out again. The boy, who was waiting for gifts and stories as usual, suddenly found that his father had become very strange, walking back and forth in the room, sometimes yelling, sometimes whispering. He talks to himself, sometimes becoming angry and sometimes sad. That kind of look, the boy had only seen in his father when his mother died.
In the boy's frightened eyes, the father was anxious for several days. Finally, one night, he seemed to have made some decision and told the boy something like, "Stay at home well and wait for me to come back." The equipment went out. According to the boy, his last message seemed to be about going to the Emerald Forest.
"I don't believe it...I don't believe it! When I come back, I will prove it to them..."
After several years of absence, the boy never saw his father again.
The boy grew up from six years old to a teenager. He relied on the help of the surrounding villagers and his own efforts to survive until now. Some older people in the village had heard about the boy. While they were sad, they also had a lot of feelings for him. Help, such as inviting him to play in your own home, teaching him to read and write, letting your own children spend more time with him, etc. When he grows up, he will be assigned some suitable jobs so that the boy can have some income to support himself.
However, those children of the same age bring a lot of trouble to boys. Because they often say that their father has died in the forest.
Naturally, the boy didn't believe it. His father was an excellent forest ranger, strong and experienced. He had gone deep into the forest so many times, and no matter what happened, he would never get into trouble in the forest. In the stories his father often told him, every moment was full of dangerous and surprising experiences. When the boy was young, he would often brag to his playmates about how powerful his father was.
But when those friends said these things, apart from the most important evidence that their father had not come back for several years, there was also a plausible reason.
That was a rumor spread by someone who didn’t know when: the so-called forest ranger didn’t exist at all. Most of my father's thrilling and exciting adventures in the past were just bragging.
The boy himself has lived in the village for so many years. Even as a child, he has already seen some dangers in the world. So on the surface, the boy dismissed these malicious slanders against his father, but secretly he cried many times. However, other than begging highly respected people in the village, such as the village chief and the garrison captain, to find his father's whereabouts, he had no good way to explain his father's greatness and integrity.
The only thing the boy can do is to abide by his father's promise before he left and sit here every day waiting for him to come back.
When the boy was halfway through speaking, Mengzhu secretly shed a lot of tears. Duan Qing did not do this, but his face was naturally very serious. After he finished speaking, he first calmed the little boy's emotions, and then began to ask.
"Did your father say anything else, such as what he was going to do specifically..."
"No... no, people in the village... also asked..." The little boy's voice was still choked with sobs.
"What did you say your father wanted to prove...what was it?"
"I don't know." The boy wiped his tears with the cloth handed over by the little girl: "He, he said he wanted to save... what to save..."
"Hmm, could it be to save people..." Duan Qing and Mengzhu looked at each other and nodded to each other.
"Didn't you ask other adventurers to help you find your father before?"
"No."
"Why?"
"Because they don't want to go, the adventurers have to be paid before they go. I...I don't get paid..."
"Don't worry, kid." Mengzhu on the side jumped out immediately: "We don't want your reward, we will help you."
Unexpectedly, the boy suddenly blushed when he heard this: "I...I have a reward for you now!"
The boy was very excited and took out something from his arms. Duan Qing and Mengzhu took a closer look and found that it seemed to be a pair of gloves.
Without saying a word, the little boy stuffed the gloves into Duan Qing's arms: "Here...this is it. Now that you have accepted it, please...find my father. "
"How can we do such a thing!" In order to take care of the child's low mood, the two of them squatted on the ground and talked to the boy. At this time, Mengzhu stood up with excitement on his face: "We can't accept it! Children, you Listen to what my sister said... We don't mean to look down on you, nor will we stop helping you, but you are so... so... Anyway, how can we have the nerve to ask for it from you? Where are the things, take them back quickly... Bad uncle, please say something!"
Duan Qing on the other side said nothing, he was stunned.
[Katra's Mastery (Exquisite)]
[Defense: Weak]
[Special effect: After you use slash, the stun time of your next normal attack becomes shorter. 】
[Equipment requirements: Strength 12, Agility 5. 】
["The secret to becoming a sword master? You just need to remember one thing: treat the sword in your hand as an extension of your arm. When you can swing the sword as easily as waving your own hands, you will be able to look around."]
This, this, this...
Duan Qing's understanding of this game was once again subverted.
Duan Qing has made countless assumptions about what a battle scene in the free world would be like, but no matter how he imagined it, the entire battle system was too simple. The most important reason for this was the lack of skills.
In Duan Qing's previous mental picture, everyone was slashing, stabbing, slashing, stabbing. You cut and I parry, and after you block, I dodge... Although I heard that there will be some after the level is high. There are new skills, but they are not much more. Even after taking into account the development of virtual reality technology, the movement skills and special moves developed by the league's major masters are still incapable of making any tricks, let alone What a gorgeous fight.
Combat in the free world will become boring, and even if it is thrilling, it will have no viewing effect. If it reaches this point, no matter how real the game is, it will not be attractive enough. But now, Duan Qing looked at the thing in his hand and finally understood a lot more.
If equipment like this filled the entire game world, it would be simply... wonderful.
But the more serious problem right now is that this glove is too powerful. Even though it is such a short explanation, in the eyes of people like Duan Qing, the effect of shortening the stiffness is really a huge improvement for oneself. Many things that could not be done before can now be done. Because of this, it is a bit exaggerated to place this glove in a place like Novice Village. It is obviously a reward that does not fit the background of this little boy and does not conform to the rules of the game.
How could this happen and why? Could it be that the system did this on purpose? No, this is too unreasonable...
Under Mengzhu's puzzled eyes, the bad uncle raised his head and looked at the little boy in front of him with complicated eyes. The other party seemed to understand what Duan Qing meant again, and said hesitantly: "This, this is not my thing...it was given to me by the two elder sisters before. They said that if I need help, Just, just give them this..."
Two...big sisters?
Duan Qing and Mengzhu asked again for a while before they realized that two women wearing similar clothes to Mengzhu passed by here a few days ago. After they heard about the boy, they left this item for him.
"The big sister in red clothes is a very... very good person. She wanted to take me there, but the big sister in blue clothes stopped her and said... that there is more. They couldn't help me with important things now, but later... they gave me this again, saying that as long as a reliable adventurer passes by, they will take the initiative to help me after seeing this glove... ....”
In intermittent words, the boy finally explained the origin of this piece of equipment. Duan Qing looked at the glove silently, then handed it to Mengzhu, and continued his questions while the little girl also looked shocked.
"What do those two big sisters look like?"
"Well, they all wear hats, just like this purple big sister..." The boy pointed at Mengzhu's hood, who woke up with a start, then lowered his head in embarrassment.
"So it's not very clear, but..." the teenage boy blushed, "but it should be very beautiful..."
"Very beautiful? How beautiful, there are..." Duan Qing chuckled and dodged at the same time: "...Is the purple big sister next to me pretty?"
"Well......"
"Don't be afraid, my beautiful big sister never hits anyone, hehehehehe..."
"Hey, hey! You're smiling so obscenely, do you think I don't know what you're thinking? I'll hit, hit, hit, hit..."
Before the word "beautiful" that the boy had just decided to say came out of his mouth, he was startled by Mengzhu who violently hit someone. He quietly hid by the wall and observed the farce in front of him with curious eyes.
"Okay, okay..." Seeing that the little boy's mood had stabilized, Duan Qing held down the head of the little girl who was still waving her arms and asked the final question: "Brave little boy, this That’s the last question.”
"What's your father's name?"
"Trick, sir. Trick Ozzie." After talking for so long, the boy showed a proud look for the first time, "Also, my name is Benny Ozzie."
"Very good, Benny." Duan Qing gave a thumbs up, and then said: "We have accepted the reward. Since we have accepted the reward, we will help you find your father."
He turned around gracefully and left his last words: "Adventurers never break their promises."
"Hey, hey..." the little girl shouted, realizing that Duan Qing didn't wait for her, so she gave Benny a sunny smile as a farewell to him, and then chased after him.
"To accept such an unreliable task so easily, it is indeed possible for a newcomer like you, who has never seen anything and is not afraid of anything, to do it. Do you know how dangerous it is deep in the Emerald Forest... ..”
"Who promised to help others just now... As for the situation inside, of course I don't know, but it's still you... Unless you regret it now."
"Nonsense... nonsense, how could I regret it..." Mengzhu immediately retorted, then fainted again: "But it is indeed very dangerous, just the two of us... ."
"We can find someone to help... Well, I'll leave this matter to you." Duan Qing seemed very relaxed, then thought of something, and suddenly lowered his voice: "Speaking of which, I remember you once He told me about the seven incredible things that exist in this village..."
The girl was stunned for a moment, then trembled all over: "Could it be that, the child crying for his father... I remember it was also in the north of the village..."
"The one just now, could it be a ghost, a ghost, a ghost..." Mengzhu's voice trembled a little.
"What are you afraid of? Besides, he is a manly Benny. How could you see him crying... Also, I have never heard of ghosts being so kind as to give equipment, and they also give such good things... ." Duan Qing pointed to the gloves still on Mengzhu's hand: "If the ghosts in the Free Continent like to treat themselves as treasure chests so much, then I must touch two more..."
"That's right!" At the mention of this glove, the girl's fearful expression immediately disappeared, replaced by a look of joy: "This is... equipment with special effects! I have only seen it on the captain before. once......."
"Captain? Which captain?"
"Uh." The girl did not continue, and then changed the subject: "Such, such good equipment..."
"How much is this worth..." The little girl's eyes were filled with stars.
"Hey, wake up, you are going to fall in love with money. You are saying that you must keep this thing for your own use, why should you give it to others..."
"Well, that's fine." Mengzhu nodded with a smile on his face: "But if we just accept it, is it really okay..."
"People said they borrowed flowers to offer to us. Put away your pride and shame, even though you seem to have dried out today..."
"You...well, in this case, we'd better find a way to help find his father...Hey, you, where are you going?"
Seeing Duan Qing walking towards the entrance of the village in the south, Mengzhu hurriedly jumped over and stopped in front of him: "Wait a minute! Are you going now?"
"Of course, the sooner the better, right?"
"It's getting dark! It's very dangerous in the wild at night, and it's a place like the Emerald Forest..."
The tug-and-pull battle only lasted a short while. With Duan Qing's helpless expression, the girl dragged him towards the hotel again: "We need to prepare food, water, and various medical emergency supplies and tools. It's best to Get a simple tent, and yes, there are also torches. The big trees in the deep forest cover the sky and the sun, and it’s so dark that you can’t see anything..."
"I actually want so many things..."
"Of course! And it's best to recruit a few more people as thugs. We can also pay others in the end, or give something else. In short, more people are more powerful... Oh, anyway, you are like this If you don’t know anything about planting, just listen to me! So the most troublesome thing is to bring newbies..."
Okay, okay, I'm a newbie... Covering his head, Duan Qing sighed and followed the girl. The blurry outline of the hotel appeared in front of the two of them. In the distant sky, the ink gradually spreads out like rice paper.
Night has fallen.
