"Do you know Situ Heng?"

When he heard this familiar question, the shadows of the boy in red and the white tiger had already entered his eyes at the same time.

The player who met him looked at the face of the opponent, and said tentatively: "Well, if the hero wants to find someone, I can help..."

"—So I don't know you."

The young man nodded slightly, interrupted his words, then waved his sleeves, as if there was a breeze blowing on his face.

The weak, pitiful and helpless player only felt his eyes dim, and suddenly lost consciousness.

"You have been killed by NPC???."

Players who have just been online for less than five minutes are pawns.

"I knock!" Lying on the bed wearing a helmet, looking at the black screen in front of him, the player cursed secretly, "Shouldn't I be called a hero? Do you want me to call him a devil?"

He couldn't help cursing and muttering.

Before going online, I already knew from the forum that there was an NPC in Jinming City who was killing people, and I was still thinking that I was lucky enough to be bumped into by the other party. Even if I bumped into it, I might not be killed.Maybe it will gain the favor of NPC instead, and unlock special plots.

...And now, it's just a fluke.

Waiting for the resurrection time, there is no way to go online again, so the player has to lie on the bed and think about how to break the game.

As an NPC who was born near Jinming City from the very beginning, and whose daily activities and interpersonal network are mainly based on Jinming City, he is of course unwilling to leave Jinming City.Otherwise, wouldn't everything that was built up through the hard work of doing missions to gain goodwill just go to waste?

But hiding and waiting for the mysterious NPC to leave and then go online again is not an option. Who knows how long it will take?Every day of delay will slow down his game progress.

"...What are we going to do?"

At this moment, there are not a few players who have the same confusion.

Dingzhou is originally the top-ranked state in Kyushu. As one of the most prosperous cities in Dingzhou, at least 300 of the 6,000 players in the first two batches of closed beta were stationed around Jinming City.Among the 10,000 new players tested, the number of people who choose the area where Jinming City is located is extremely high.Roughly counting the number of players, there are also ** one hundred.

Jinming City is not peaceful, and it will be killed by mysterious NPCs at any time when it goes online. How can players play the game normally?

Therefore, how to avoid being killed by the mysterious NPC and restore the normal game experience is the number one priority in the eyes of this group of players—and if we can further reveal the reasons for the mysterious NPC's killing spree, and even open the hidden plot and get special opportunities, thenOf course it would be better.

As more and more players died offline, after sharing their death experiences, they really discovered the key elements:

First of all, this mysterious NPC does not always kill people without saying hello. Sometimes he will ask before killing people, that is, "Do you know Situ Heng?" It is generally believed that this is the key clue to start a special plot.

But so far, no one has found the corresponding key.

If you don't know the answer, just be cool.The answer is yes, the mysterious MPC seems to have a way to distinguish truth from lies, and can see through players lying at a glance, it is still cool.As for other answers that tried to be clichéd or delayed, they would be blamed by the other party as "I don't know Situ Heng", or cool.

It seems that the only possibility to break the situation is to find the so-called Situ Heng, any other rhetoric will usher in the end of death.

After discovering this, many players began to inquire about the game NPC named "Situ Heng" in the game.

Based on the name and the age and appearance of the mysterious NPC, they suspect that the so-called Situ Heng is a scumbag NPC in Jinming City who abandoned his wife and son. Now this is a script where a grown-up child comes to Jinming City to find a scumbag father.Or, it’s the script of a mysterious NPC who was wiped out and became an orphan. After many years, he learned a powerful skill and traveled thousands of miles to seek revenge... In short, the classic routines in various martial arts fantasy novels have been dug out by the players and used inOn two people.

No one thought that "Situ Heng" might be a player.

——Since it is a special plot in the game, it is of course the grievances between NPPCs. There may be many years of entanglement, and there may be many secret past events.After players participate, they will crack one by one, find the truth, and finally choose a camp to understand everything.Isn't this a game standard?

In this way of thinking, a wave of players interested in special plots began to look for the whereabouts of NPC Situ Heng.

In addition to the clue of Situ Heng, some players also discovered that the behavior pattern of the mysterious NPC has begun to change.

At the beginning, he just killed players when he met them. Later, he would ask some people if they knew Situ Heng, and then kill them after asking. Now, he no longer kills players himself, but directs the big tiger to charge up.Fight with players.

The level of this tiger is not high, after Gao Wan's appraisal, its strength is about the same as that of a martial artist of the ninth level of the day after tomorrow.But under the command of the mysterious NPC, even the players in the innate realm failed to escape the tiger's mouth, and they became the tiger's rations one after another.

In other words, players have unlocked new ways to die.

From the original method of "died instantly when encountering a mysterious NPC", it has become the method of "extreme fighting tiger dies in the mouth of a tiger".And when they were killed by tigers, the mysterious NPC was still squatting beside them watching with relish... Is it tolerable or unbearable!

But this is not the end.

Soon, a new batch of dead players brought us a new way of death—they actually killed each other.

And the culprit who caught them together, forced the players to kill each other, and watched the show calmly, in their eyes, is undoubtedly an extremely hateful tax evader!

For a while, the forum was full of complaints from players.

...

Wandering inside and outside Jinming City, randomly grabbed a few lucky players, routinely asked them if they knew Situ Heng, and after getting a negative answer, Su Ying threw them in front of him, and cheerfully reminded: "It is customary to choose one of the three.", the last survivor can survive. Well, please start your performance!"

Players certainly don't want to submit, but their resistance will only be easily suppressed, and the death penalty of this game is very heavy-not only has a long resurrection CD, but also drops extremely precious game experience and currency.

They had no choice but to do what Su Ying said honestly.

At any rate, there is still one lucky person who avoids death penalty.Instead of being directly wiped out by this mysterious and terrifying NPC group.

They could only curse secretly in their hearts: "Damn tax evaders!"

No wonder they were so misunderstood, but Su Ying's current expression would be misunderstood by anyone who saw it——

The boy's brows stretched out, his eyes were astonishingly bright, and his eyes fell on the players who were killing each other without blinking. The upward arc of the corners of his lips was lively and brisk that no one could imitate.It seems to be admiring some peerless famous painting.

In fact, what Su Ying was looking at was what the players couldn't see—what he saw in his eyes were the fluctuations of laws, the flow of energy, and the gap between the overlapping of the two worlds.

All the actions he has done, which players call tax evaders, are essentially to explore the secrets of the two worlds.

Killing players indiscriminately is because they are interested in the life force overflowing when players are killed;

Later, I let the white tiger do it. On the one hand, it was training to improve the strength of this big tiger. On the other hand, I wanted to see the effect of the power of life on the creatures in this world. If you continue to feed the white tiger with the power of the player's life, to what extent can it be strengthened?;

But now, let the players kill each other, of course, to see if the players can absorb each other's life force by killing the players!

After many attempts, the result is already obvious——

"Player kills player, is there really no profit?"

After playing happily with the players for most of the day, Su Ying has almost figured out the upgrade mechanism of this game.

The energy he named as the power of life should be the basis for players to upgrade, which is the so-called game experience.

When the player kills an NPC, it will absorb 1/10 of the life force of the NPC and convert it into terms that the player can understand. It will probably indicate that the game experience is constantly +1+1+1.After accumulating a certain amount of experience, one's cultivation will naturally improve.

And the moment the player is killed by the NPC, most of the life force will return to another world along the channel connected to this world, and a small part of the life force will dissipate in this world.In the eyes of the players, it is probably a downgrade, or a reduction in cultivation.According to Su Ying's experience of killing so many players, normally, every time he dies, he will lose a level.

——The premise is that Su Ying didn't take all their life force along the passage and intercept it all.

This set of game upgrade mechanism is doomed that most players will not be peaceful and friendly ascetics.

In addition, normal cultivation in this world should also improve cultivation.But compared to gaining experience points to increase cultivation base by killing animals, the efficiency of penance to increase cultivation base must be much slower!

——Isn't the player's biggest advantage over the aboriginals in this world is the way to have experience points to improve their cultivation?

The aborigines have worked hard for several years, and the players will catch up if they kill more wild monsters.Players who kill wild monsters are probably considered lawful players, and those who kill wild monsters directly kill NPCs.

After all, the amount of experience points dropped by killing does not depend on the strength of the player, but on the life force of the NPC itself.No matter killing monsters or NPCs, 1/10 of the power of life is dropped every time, but as intelligent beings, human beings possess more power of life than wild monsters.

Even if the player is not able to observe the existence of the power of life like Su Ying, and does not understand that the essence of the experience value comes from the power of life of the slain, but the experience value dropped by killing NPCs and killing wild monsters is different.It is impossible for players not to notice, obviously the former is more lucrative.

In this way, in Yuan Feibai's memory, wars broke out everywhere in Kyushu, including the Tiandao League, and the reason why so many players fought in all directions can be guessed.

——The upgrade mechanism of this game encourages players to fight with NPCs and plunder the life force of NPCs.Once the players discover the mystery of the upgrade mechanism and taste the shortcut to increase the experience value, of course they will know what to do.

— After all, it’s a game. Most people don’t have as high moral requirements as they do in the real world.

That being the case, there is only one question: the behind-the-scenes existence of this game, is it intentional?

He encourages those players to kill the NPCs in this world and take the power of life in the way of games. What is the purpose?How would it benefit him?

Looking at the figures of players who hang up and go offline one after another, Su Ying's gaze seems to have penetrated the passage connecting the two worlds behind them, and glimpsed the reality behind the game.