Chapter 976 These days, NPCs are starting to compete with players for quests

  Chapter 976 These days, NPCs are starting to compete with players for quests.

  Just as Fang Chang and Miss Dolly were being affectionate, Gui Gui, who was sitting on the other side of the tavern lobby, had already covered her mouth and nose, and made an exaggerated expression to complain to Feng Qing, who was sitting opposite.

  ”Oh no… I smell a sour smell of death potion!”

  Feng Qing, who was calmly drinking coffee, tilted his head and looked at Gui Gui with an exaggerated expression in confusion.

  ”How can a death potion smell like that?”

  ”It’s that kind of death potion, that kind… Oh, forget it,” Gui Gui gestured for a long time with a red face, but was too embarrassed to say it out loud. Finally, she sighed and held her chin with both hands, “By the way, wouldn’t it be strange to fall in love with an NPC? Especially if you have a family in real life, does this count as cheating?”

  ”Emmmm…” Feng Qing thought for a while, shook her head and said, “I don’t know about that kind of thing.”

  She had no interest in love in either reality or in the game, but this kind of thing should be considered a personal matter, right?

  However, Gui Gui was still struggling, and even cared so much that she started biting her fingers unconsciously.

  ”…Damn it, I can’t stand it when I think that the lovely Miss Dolly is sitting opposite an uncle who has five or six children in real life. Damn Fang Chang, please explode soon.”

  It turned out to be because of Dolly…

  Feng Qing made a helpless expression, put down the coffee cup in his hands and said.

  ”I think if you care so much about what others are like in real life, why not ask them in person… It’s very rude to make up stories about strangers’ private lives behind their backs.”

  ”Wow… I was wrong.”

  Gui Gui seemed to realize that her behavior had no sense of boundaries, and raised her hands in surrender.

  Looking at her aggrieved girlfriend, Feng Qing smiled and said.

  ”I don’t mean to blame you. It’s more like comforting. There are many cute NPCs. Why don’t you discover them yourself? And I think the couple doesn’t really like living in the spotlight. It’s all because of the friends from the Burning Legion who made fun of them on the forum that they attracted so much attention.”

  ”That’s true,” Guigui, who stretched out his arms, sighed in despair. His expression was like a broken heart, but he soon became energetic again. “By the way, Ganju is already in junior high school.”

  That was the girl Feng Qing rescued from the orphanage run by the black gang in the slums outside the old Boulder City.

  That incident was also the fuse for the Alliance to purge gang members outside the Boulder City. After that, the children who were raised like goods moved into normal welfare homes.

  The Alliance has a complete social support mechanism to take care of these orphans, including raising them until they are 18 years old, including the expenses during compulsory education, etc., so they don’t have to pay out of their own pockets to raise her.

  But they still visit her occasionally, take her to make cotton candy, buy her beautiful new dresses… treat her like their own daughter.

  When talking about tangerine, Feng Qing couldn’t help but reveal a nostalgic smile on her face.

  ”The last time I saw her, she was preparing for further studies. She will probably take the exam in the middle of the year.”

  Gui Gui, who was holding her chin, also sighed.

  ”She is going to junior high school… Time flies so fast.”

  The players’ bodies didn’t change much.

  Of course, maybe it was because they died frequently, and everything was refreshed after resurrection.

  I heard that there are also hardcore players who have never died once after leaving the novice village. As they grow older, their bodies will still undergo some changes.

  Looking at the sentimental girlfriend, Feng Qing thought for a while and said.

  ”Although that’s what I said, in fact, it’s only been two or three years since we met her.”

  Gui Gui scratched his head.

  ”Well, it seems so.”

  It always feels like these two or three years are longer than twenty or thirty years.

  Maybe this is the feeling of fulfillment.

  Putting the coffee cup and used tableware back on the plate, Feng Qing looked at Gui Gui sitting opposite and said.

  ”I’ve rested well, continue to do the task?”

  Gui Gui stood up.

  ”Oh yeah! Mission, mission… I almost forgot about the mission. We have to find that little rat from the Enlightenment Society.”

  Feng

  Qing, who opened the VM interface, reminded. “There are also packages to be delivered to the City Hall and the mutant rat nests to be cleared in the sewers.”

  ”Huh, huh, huh?! Did I accept the mission to the sewers?”

  Looking at Gui Gui with a horrified face, Feng Qing tilted his head.

  ”I accepted it… But the reward is quite high, 1,000 silver coins, and the mission process is also very short, so bear with it.”

  …

  Just as Gui Gui, who was about to cry but had no tears, was pushed by Feng Qing to leave the tavern, a pair of enemies were arguing in another street not far from the talent market.

  One of them was Ye Shi from the Burning Corps, and the other was Jiang Xuezhou, a C-level researcher at the academy.

  The two were originally active in the southern quarantine area of ​​the Weilant Province, but now that the focus of the quarantine area has shifted from prevention and control to the development of vaccines and antidotes, the two people with different professional backgrounds can’t really help.

  In addition, a major incident happened some time ago. The academy lost a research ship and the entire Beacon Team in Yavent City, so Jiang Xuezhou was sent to Yavent City.

  As for Ye Shi, he was dragged here by force, and he was also worried that he would encounter some danger if he acted alone. As

  for the missing Beacon Team, the academy’s top management no longer had any hope that they were still alive, but the lost research ship must be found.

  There are too many things floating in outer space that people may not be able to grasp.

  Once someone who shouldn’t touch those things arrives there first, the consequences will be disastrous.

  Knowing the importance of this mission, Jiang Xuezhou searched for the whereabouts of the missing research ship very seriously as soon as he arrived in Yavent City. However, the two of them had been searching for almost two weeks, but there was no clue at all.

  The longer the time dragged, the lower the possibility of the missing members surviving, and the slimmer the hope of finding the research ship.

  Jiang Xuezhou was also a little anxious, and couldn’t help but vent his anger on Ye Shi, who was looking proud.

  ”Don’t you have that sixth sense? Can’t you use your sixth sense to find that guy?”

  Ye Shi, who was inexplicably shot, rolled his eyes and retorted without any courtesy.

  ”That’s not how you use the sixth sense. Do you think I know magic?”

  It’s possible that the guy was aiming at him from a distance.

  Searching for the enemy in the void from an unknown distance, this is already cheating!

  Jiang Xuezhou’s mouth fell.

  ”Tsk, it’s useless.”

  Upon hearing this, Ye Shi was immediately unhappy.

  ”Why am I useless? When I was playing Kerry, you were still a little D-level! By the way, aren’t you from the academy? Don’t you have the technology that can lock on to the target we are looking for in the crowd?”

  Jiang Xuezhou blushed and glared at him.

  ”Kerry, I don’t understand… What are you talking about? Why don’t you organize your words before expressing yourself?”

  ”Kerry, it means MVP… Forget it, a hero doesn’t brag about his past achievements. I don’t even have a younger brother now, alas.”

  Looking at the confused Jiang Xuezhou, Ye Shi, who hugged the back of his head with his arms, looked up at the sky and sighed, paused and continued.

  ”But I’m telling you… your academy is one of the three major forces after all. Since it’s already been confirmed that it was the Enlightenment that took away your research ship, why don’t you just send the Alpha Task Force over there? Even if you turn Avent City upside down and find that little mouse, the Enlightenment will definitely not obediently exchange hostages with you, right?”

  The Alliance has captured prisoners of the Enlightenment before, and even the Thorn Corps of Pioneer City can capture one or two every now and then.

  But it’s useless.

  All they can do is let those misguided shelter residents accept labor reform, see the results of the Alliance’s work, and then persuade those guys to turn back.

  As for finding the headquarters of the Enlightenment or extracting intelligence through these prisoners.

  Those shelter residents who were deceived by the Enlightenment don’t even know it themselves.

  There’s no need to think about exchanging hostages, because those sneaky guys don’t have the concept of compatriots in their hearts.

  Hearing that Ye Shi was slandering his own organization again, Jiang Xuezhou’s eyes were a little complicated.

  Normally, she would have definitely argued with him, or even raised her eyebrows and argued with him, but this time she was indeed a little confused.

  ”I don’t know… but I think the top management must have their concerns, and finding the only clue is the only thing we can do.”

  Ye Shi glanced at this guy, and then cast his eyes on the street ahead.

  ”I believe that it is no secret that the academy has ten thousand tricks in the wasteland… I’m just worried that you are not within their scope of concern.”

  So what if it’s C-level.

  As long as one seed survives, it is a victory, and the rest are nutrients in the soil.

  It’s probably not just C-level researchers that the academy doesn’t care about. He even thinks that they don’t care about A-level or even the only S-level.

  They are the real Leviathan.

  Unlike the family association, which uses ideals as a cover to cheat, they are an organization that is truly united by faith, an organization born for knowledge and completely serves knowledge.

  Except for the only goal, everything can be sacrificed.

  Including the chief technology officer himself.

  Even Dr. Conclusion.

  A C-level researcher is too insignificant in the face of the narrative that takes civilization as the highest level.

  Ye Shi originally just wanted to persuade her not to work so hard, saying that it was not worth risking her life, but he did not expect that the latter suddenly fell silent.

  He looked aside in confusion, and saw that Xuezhou’s expression became coy for some reason.

  Just when he was about to ask “What’s wrong with you”, a mosquito-like voice came.

  ”… Were you worried about me just now?”

  Worried?

  ”That’s not the case-”

  ”Hey, Ye Shi, we’re on a date.”

  An inappropriate voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting what Ye Shi was about to say.

  What the hell?

  Ye Shi quickly turned his head to look in the direction of the voice, and saw Da Yan and the construction site man winking at him and grinning.

  ”What a good relationship.”

  ”That’s right, their feelings are so pure, unlike you who only enter the body and not the family.”

  ”Get out, get out, get out!”

  Da Yan, who was smiling a second ago, suddenly turned his face, but unconsciously became a mouthpiece for Ye Shi, saying what the latter wanted to say.

  Seeing the big-eyed brother who raised his fist and chased after the construction worker to torture him, Ye Shi retracted his venomous tongue.

  Jiang Xuezhou, who was standing next to him, looked at the two people running away in confusion, and then tilted his head to look at Ye Shi.

  ”What are they talking about.”

  Ye Shi was about to explain, but he didn’t know how to start. His old face suddenly blushed and he said in a muddle.

  ”The bastard is slandering me.”

  ”Oh, hum…”

  Jiang Xuezhou had completely misunderstood the meaning. A smirk appeared on his face, his left hand covered his lips, and his right hand gently poked his arm.

  ”It seems that you don’t have a good relationship with people in the alliance. Why don’t you come with me to the academy? A ticket to the Ark will be provided.”

  Ye Shi rolled his eyes.

  ”No.”

  Jiang Xuezhou raised his eyebrows and said with a grin.

  ”Why! Am I not good to you?”

  ”That’s not the case… Wait, why should I go with you just because you are good to me! I am doing well in the Alliance, okay?” Ye Shi was shaking his head, and suddenly came to his senses halfway through his words, and found himself in a logical dilemma.

  Jiang Xuezhou glared at him with gritted teeth, but in the end he just snorted and didn’t say much.

  ”…You are an ungrateful guy.”

  In the second half of the journey, the two did not communicate a word.

  Ye Shi didn’t know what medicine this guy had taken wrong again, and he suddenly got angry.

  By the way, why did this guy insist on letting him join the academy

  ? Isn’t it good now?

  This is too loyal!

  At this time, the VM worn on Ye Shi’s arm suddenly vibrated, and he raised it to open the screen and took a look, only to see a line of text messages floating in the center of the screen.

  [Edge paddling: There is a new clue about the disciples of the Enlightenment Society. The guard booth on Street 17 received a report from the masses that there are suspicious people entering and leaving the alley between No. 203 and No. 202. They don’t look like locals, nor do they look like our people. If you are interested, why not go and take a look. If it is a misunderstanding, let the masses sleep peacefully. ]

  Ye Shi’s eyes lit up and he immediately replied.

  [Haha! Thanks, brother! ]

  After a few seconds, another line of messages popped up.

  [Edge paddling: You’re welcome! Remember to share a bite with us when you catch a big fish! (grin)]

  Ye Shi: [Gah! Am I the kind of person who eats alone? Wait! I’ll be back soon. ]

  Glancing at Ye Shi who was typing on the screen, Jiang Xuezhou couldn’t help but move his head closer to that side, wanting to see what he was doing.

  Just as she did so, Ye Shi suddenly grabbed her wrist.

  ”What are you doing?!” Jiang Xuezhou was shocked and stood there in a daze.

  However, Ye Shi did not wait for her. He opened the navigation function of the VM map and pulled her away.

  ”Don’t ask so many questions, just follow me!”

  ”???”

  Jiang Xuezhou was pulled forward with a confused look on her face. The two of them crossed two streets in a row and came to an inconspicuous alley.

  This place looks like an old city. Many houses are empty. The residents have either moved away or died in the war. Only some old men and women live here.

  Jiang Xuezhou blushed and pulled his arm away, staring at Ye Shi who finally stopped and asked.

  ”Why did you bring me here?”

  Ye Shi showed a smug smile on his face and cast his eyes to the alley in front.

  ”Didn’t you say that I was a scumbag? I’ll prove that I wasn’t a scumbag.”

  Jiang Xuezhou: “……?”

  Looking at Jiang Xuezhou with a confused look on his face, Ye Shi patiently told her the clues he had.

  To put it bluntly.

  This kind of needle-in-a-haystack job has to be handed over to the “Beggars’ Gang” brothers of the Death Corps.

  These guys are running around everywhere, especially Big Eyes, who like to communicate deeply with local NPCs. It’s too easy to find any clues.

  He greeted the edge guy as soon as he came to Yavent City, and the latter told him as soon as he had a clue.

  Jiang Xuezhou stared at him blankly for a long time, and suddenly lowered his head and whispered “thank you”.

  Unexpectedly, she suddenly did this. Ye Shi’s first reaction was not to be happy, but to look at her vigilantly.

  ”…Why are you thanking me all of a sudden?”

  Jiang Xuezhou hesitated for a while, but finally confessed.

  ”…I shouldn’t think you didn’t help.”

  Ye Shiyi looked at her speechlessly.

  ”Good guy, so this is how you see me.” Do

  you have to use a magnifying glass to find bugs in the cracks of the wall to call it hard work?

  Damn!

  This guy is becoming more and more like his nosy old mother.

  Jiang Xuezhou blushed and turned his head away, snorting softly with his nose.

  ”Who told you to always look like it’s none of your business?”

  ”I do think your top brass is pretty speechless, and I don’t really want to get involved in your shit, but it’s none of my business…” Ye Shi looked at Jiang Xuezhou, whose face was red from the roots of his ears to the back of his neck, with a smile or two . He sighed and scratched the back of his head randomly, “Wait for me here for a while, I’ll go in and take a look.”

  Seeing Ye Shi walking straight into the alley, Jiang Xuezhou, who had come to his senses, hurriedly chased after him.

  ”Ah, I’ll help too!”

  Ye Shi rolled his eyes.

  ”Just don’t make trouble!”

  Jiang Xuezhou glared back viciously.

  ”I want it! Bah, when have I ever made trouble? And this is my mission!”

  ”Yes, yes, your mission.”

  Ye Shi sighed, and his originally indifferent mood became a little more serious.

  These days, NPCs are starting to compete with players for missions.

  This game is too real!

  (End of this chapter)