Returning to the foxtail forest again, Xu Mo deviated from the path and ran towards the southwest direction. He kept eradicating the luminous leopard and the frantic ring-horned deer along the way, until he ran to the river pond displayed on the edge of the map of Yueyin Village, and he saw it at a glance. A short cat-eared boy and a cat-eared girl with short red hair were sitting side by side by the river, fishing. Except for a wooden shed built on a small boat, there are no obvious buildings around. The interior of that simple wooden shed can be seen at a glance. It is full of fish buckets and empty.
"Excuse me, who is the owner of the fish shop?" Xu Mo stepped forward to ask, he came to complete the task about [bring back 10 brocade fish] issued by the hotel proprietress.
"Shh... speak in a low voice, don't scare away the fish in the water." The red-haired girl made a silent gesture, reminding her softly.
But the little boy with cat ears sitting next to her turned his head and replied, "I am the owner of a fish shop. Do you want to learn art or buy fish?"
"I came here for a mission." Xu Mo took out the kraft paper with mission details written on it, and handed it to the fish shop owner.
"Want to get 10 jinyu? That's fine. Jinyu costs 50 coppers a piece, and 10 pieces total 500 coppers. I'll pay for the delivery." The owner of the fish shop didn't reach out to pick up the kraft paper, but just glanced at the contents on the paper. , the price is quoted.
"So expensive?" Xu Mo was taken aback, thinking: [The reward for this task is only 300 copper coins, isn't this a pure loss? ]
At this moment, the red-haired girl's immature voice sounded again, reminding him: "You don't need to buy Jinyu, you can catch it yourself."
"How to fish?" Xu Mo walked up to the girl and asked.
"Let's learn from him." The red-haired girl finally turned around slightly, showing a playful side face, and looked at him with blue eyes of the same color as Xu Mo, and pointed to the fish shop owner next to her, "The boss just now I asked if you want to learn art or buy goods? You can learn fishing skills from him."
"Understood, thank you for the reminder." Xu Mo smiled awkwardly, feeling embarrassed about his rare slow reaction.
Then he turned his head to face the fish shop owner again and asked, "Boss, I want to learn to fish."
"It's true that you can find me for learning fishing. It's true that elementary fishing skills are taught for free, but fishing rods and baits cost money." The little boss quoted seriously, "There is only one specification for fishing rods, rattan fishing rods. 300 copper plates, a set of 30 copper plates contains 15 baits.”
"It's so expensive..." Xu Mo took out the only 45 copper coins on his body and looked at it again and again, then poured out all the trophies he just hunted in the foxtail forest from the sackcloth bag, including 3 deerskins, 2 pairs of antlers and 4 bundles of Luminous Leopard's whiskers, "Sell these to you, how much?"
"It all adds up to 130 copper coins." The owner of the fish shop said and took out the coins and handed them to him.
"130 coppers, plus 45 coppers, I have 175 coppers... still not enough, it seems that I can only come back later..." Xu Mo scratched his hair and was about to turn around and return to the jungle area when the red-haired girl who was fishing suddenly said stopped him—
"Are you a newcomer? You look like you don't understand anything."
"It's a newcomer." Xu Mo stopped and met her scrutinizing eyes.
"I can lend you the money to buy fishing gear. Is it enough to lend you 300 coppers?" The girl put down the fishing rod in her hand, stood up, handed him 300 coppers boldly, and introduced herself, "My name is Duo Rui, and I am also player."
"Are you a player?" It was the first time in my life that I borrowed money from a girl, and it was also the first time I met a character who was confirmed to be a player in the Brave Continent. Although Xu Mo felt very embarrassed, his curiosity towards her still defeated his embarrassment. He scratched the back of his head, accepted the copper coin offered by Dori, and responded to her introduction, "My name is Xu Mo, I just came in today."
"Just here... what level is it now? Is there level 5?"
"Just upgraded to level 4."
"Level 4...there is a long way to go..." Duo Rui exhaled with a helpless expression, "Then I have to wait for you~ for a long time before we can go to the Sleeping Forest to do elite missions together..."
As soon as he heard the words Sleeping Forest, Xu Mo's cat's ears stood up straight, and asked: "The elite mission you mentioned, is it the one commissioned by the guardian prophet Kleiya, about eliminating hypnotic flowers in the Sleeping Forest?" Is it the mission of the host?"
"That's right, I've completed all the missions in Moon Hidden Village that match my level, leaving only this elite mission and a mission to find medicine for the chief, both of which need to go to the Sleeping Forest. In fact, I also tried to enter that horrible place alone once, and the experience was too difficult... In the end, I escaped without killing any monsters, and almost died in it. Let me tell you, I tried to enter that time It was already level 18—level 20 now." As he said that, Dory couldn't help sighing, "Speaking of which, there are really no people in this village, or maybe I came too late, and most of the players have already left this village. Novice Village, in short, I really didn’t see even a serious player. I got stuck on the task of Sleeping Forest, and I didn’t even have a companion for a team adventure... "
"Is there really no other player?" Xu Mo recalled the lively scene in the city, "I saw a lot of people in the hotel and the square, are they all NPCs?"
"I tried to chat with them, and they all reacted like NPCs. I also find it strange..." Dory sighed again, "Before I started to indulge in brain wave games, I heard people say However, if players voluntarily give up cognition in the brain wave game, or because they stay in a simulated space for too long and have cognitive confusion, and start to regard the virtual world as the real world, their behavior will become Undoubtedly with the NPCs in the game, if this statement is true, those people in the streets and taverns may also be real players, right?" Dory shuddered unknowingly, "Oh, this statement is really scary! It's better not to As a matter of fact…”
"Then, how long have you been in this game?" Xu Mo couldn't help asking.
"The time system of this game is actually the same as the 24-hour system in the real world, but they use the ancient oriental time as the recording method. Although Yueyin Village is always the scenery of night and white moon, it is easy to lose the sense of time. The time has passed, but I can still find calendars and quarter-hours that record the time in different places in each building, if I remember correctly, I should have stayed in this game for almost twenty days."
"So long? It took 20 days to reach level 20?" Xu Mo's eyes widened.
"The first fifteen levels rise quickly, mainly because there are enough tasks to match the levels, and a lot of experience can be obtained through the tasks. After that, it slows down obviously, which is not as high as the level of monsters in the Moon Hidden Village Hunting Area It's also related. After level 15, affected by the weight, the experience gained from low-level prey becomes less, and it becomes more difficult to upgrade after level 20... No, I'm so bored that I can only fish here all day long. If things go on like this, I will soon become a full-time fishing NPC..." Duo Rui smiled self-deprecatingly.
"Is that so..." Xu Mo fell into thought for a while.
"Okay, don't dawdle! Hurry up to learn fishing, complete the missions, quickly upgrade to level 20, and then let's go into the Forest of Sleep and complete those two damn missions together!" Dori patted Xu Mo's Shoulders, loud encouragement.
"Do you really need to be level 20?" Zero's beautiful face appeared in Xu Mo's mind, "I met a person, he said that as long as I reach level 10, he can take me into the Forest of Sleep."
"Are you kidding me? Level 10 is the level that can reveal the host's wanted mission, but I think it's hard to enter that weird forest to complete the mission seriously-I'm a person who has entered and escaped at level 18!"
"So, have you never met a system character named Zero? Isn't he the one who keeps reminding me and acts like a game commentator?" Xu Mo once thought that Zero was really one of the plot characters arranged by the system One, so beautiful, so patient—[Isn't it? ]
"Isn't the game commentator called Teresa? When I first came in, the girl in the red dress appeared once, and I haven't seen any commentator since." Just kidding.
This made Xu Mo feel strange—[Isn't Zero a system character? ... Is he an advanced player? …]—It is useless to think about this problem. In the end, Xu Mo thought that at least he needs to go to the Sleeping Forest to complete the task of Kleiya. Here, both Dori and Zero have the willingness to cooperate to achieve it, so they gave up Temporarily entangled, I suggested: "I really met a person who said that he could take me into the Forest of Sleep at level 10... Well, I will clear the tasks in hand first, get to level 10 as soon as possible, and then call me The person you mentioned, let's try entering the Forest of Sleep together. How about it?"
For Dori, who has been waiting for her companions here, this is of course a good suggestion. She immediately gestured an ok gesture, then stretched her waist, and sat back to the river to continue fishing.