In the world of the game ZERO.
In the dark forest, everything around is dull gray and black, only a tall and strange tree is white all over, which looks very different.
Under the tree, a tall and thin young man in a mage's robe sat casually on the ground.
He lowered his eyes and stared at the direction of his fingers. His hands were slender and white, and his fingertips were flying with unbelievable dexterity. He was weaving a piece of black weed all over the ground in Hessian.
With his movements, the weeds are rapidly taking shape.
After a while, the plain weed turned into a delicate little black snake.
It turned its body up and stretched out its head, and it looked so alive that if you didn't study the details carefully, it seemed like a real living thing.
The young man with downcast eyes just raised his head, and he smiled slightly towards the opposite side, with a feeling like a spring breeze.
"A Sen, here." Xiao Zhi handed the little black snake he had just woven to the person sitting opposite.
A hand with sharp knuckles took the snake handed over by Xiao Zhi, his movements were very light, as if he was caring for some precious gift.
The man called "Asen" has platinum-like silver hair and eyes of the same color. His facial features are deep and handsome, and his skin is somewhat inhumanly pale. At first glance, this person looked a little indifferent, but this indifference was broken up by the careful movements of his hands.
A Sen turned his gaze to Xiao Zhi: "This is the five hundred and ninety-ninth snake you gave me."
Xiao Zhi was a little surprised: "Are there so many?"
Asen said seriously: "Yes, I have kept every one of them well."
Xiao Zhi smiled and said, "Then I'll make up the six hundredth one for you tomorrow."
"Okay." Hearing this, Asen smiled. Although it was only a shallow smile, it made him look a little more lively.
Xiao Zhi glanced at the time and found that it was already late.
"It's time for me to sleep," he said.
Asen looked at him: "Why can't you wake up no matter what happens when you sleep?"
Of course it's because I'm offline, Xiao Zhi thought to himself.
In ZERO, after the player goes offline, the body will stay in place, and it will disappear and return to the resurrection point if it is not online for more than three days.
But Xiao Zhi was not satisfied with this ordinary answer, he looked serious: "I will tell you a secret, in fact, I am the chosen one. When I sleep, my soul is busy saving another world."
Arsen: "..."
He thought about it for a few seconds and came to a conclusion—
Be fooled.
Xiao Zhi smiled and waved to Asen: "Lu Xun once said-'good night'."
"Good night." A Sen also imitated Xiao Zhi's movement and waved.
In the next second, Xiao Zhi closed his eyes and fell down, looking as if he had died on the spot.
But if you look closely, he is still breathing, and his face is still rosy, but Asen knows that no matter what happens during this period, the other party will not wake up from his deep sleep.
Asen asked softly: "Who is Lu Xun..."
Xiao Zhi who was offline naturally wouldn't give him an answer.
The silver-haired young man just sat beside the sleeping man, silently waiting for him to open his eyes again.
The surroundings fell into silence, and the indifference that had been dispelled by the smile spread over him inch by inch.
·
After logging off the assembly line, Xiao Zhi took a shower, then lay comfortably on his big soft bed, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
ZERO is a holographic game that was born out of nowhere. It was developed by Noah Pei, known as the greatest genius in human history. The whole world is completely calculated by the master brain without human manipulation.
The Dazemen sub-continent where the game is located is developing just like the real world. Races and landforms are formed independently, and each NPC is an independent artificial intelligence, which is regarded as a living world.
In this world, players are just one of the races on the mainland. If you are not careful, you will easily suffer a lot in the hands of NPCs, and you will not even have big pants left.
Although the helmet and sensors are required on the device, it seems a bit cumbersome, but the two points of hologram and free world have attracted countless players, fascinated them, and frantically poured into it.
Of course Xiao Zhi is no exception, he has been very enthusiastic about ZERO recently, and it coincides with his vacation, so he is online almost except when sleeping.
When it was the usual time to wake up, Xiao Zhi's biological clock automatically woke him up.
He rolled over on the bed, but felt something hard and cold touch his ass.
Xiao Zhi dazedly stretched out his hand to grab the thing, took a look in front of him, he was a little confused: "Stone?"
Why are there stones on his bed
The drowsiness faded away in an instant, Xiao Zhi looked around, and found himself in a dark forest, which looked a little strange and a little familiar.
Judging from the surrounding plants, this place seems to be Hesse.
Except for Hessen, there is no such plant in reality, not to mention the white tree next to me when I went offline.
But it is a little different from the Hesse he is familiar with. The trees surrounding him are too tall and dense, making the environment look more gloomy. It should be called Hesse PLUS.
Xiao Zhi looked at himself, and found that he was wearing the mage's robe that he wore before it went off the assembly line. It was made by the Xiyue Clan and was very resistant to fire. As a mage whose hobby is throwing fireballs, he adores this robe.
Another black weed on the ground was pulled casually.
The fingers felt the soft and moist touch, and even the slight prickling feeling behind the blades of grass was very clear. This feeling, compared with when operating with sensors, Hesse now is more like a real world.
While thinking, Xiao Zhi smoothly weaved the weeds in his hand.
This is a small movement when he is thinking, and he must be playing with something in his hand.
All the clues are pointing to one thing - he is in the game.
Moreover, Xiao Zhi feels that his thinking is clear now, which means that he is not dreaming after playing too many games.
Xiao Zhi called up the game interface according to the original operating habits, but found that the entire interface was gray, and all functions except skills and backpacks could not be used, of course including offline.
In addition, Xiao Zhi noticed that the style of the interface had changed, and it was a style he was not familiar with.
Combined with the Hesse PLUS that he saw before, Xiao Zhi made a bold guess that the game he is currently in may not be the previous version.
Xiao Zhi thought of saying goodbye to A Sen before going offline.
Although A Sen is an NPC, he is his good friend, and the two often meet under the tree. But now Xiao Zhi was surrounded by no one else except himself.
He looked at the little snake he had just woven in his hand.
In the past, when operating with the sensor, there was always a slight sense of discomfort, but now there is no sluggishness at all. This little snake is much more refined than the previous one.
It's a pity that Asen is not here, so there is no way to give it to him.
Putting the little snake weaved in his hand under the tree, Xiao Zhi decided to leave here first and go to the nearby area to inquire about the news.
He remembered that not far away was a small town where adventurers gathered.
·
The border between Hesse and Chiba.
Uta Town is the closest town to Hessen. Hessen is rich in various rare materials, but it is also a place where wild beasts and undead creatures haunt. The danger is very high, and the death rate of adventurers remains high.
There are wood spirits from Chiba Kingdom, other races and players who come to take risks, and occasionally undead from Hessen.
Relying on his previous understanding of Hessen, Xiao Zhi dodged all kinds of dangerous creatures all the way, and came to the small town without any danger.
Wuta Town is as chaotic as ever, full of vitality. Compared with before, the territory here has become larger, and there are more people coming and going, but the overall feeling is still the same as before.
Xiao Zhi walks through the surrounding stalls, where players and NPCs are mixed, and they are all selling various Hessian adventure specialties.
Suddenly Xiao Zhi's breathing stagnated.
He saw a Gulu fruit that was originally worth 5 gold shells at a stall, but it was actually priced at 50!
Before he had time to feel that the unscrupulous merchants didn't want it, he immediately discovered that the Gulu fruits on the nearby stalls were also numbers like 49 and 51.
Not only that, the price of almost all the things he is familiar with has been at least 10 times higher, and even higher prices are not uncommon.
"Could it be...inflation?!" Xiao Zhi never imagined that even the game couldn't escape the evil inflation. Is it necessary for the world of ZERO to be so real!
I don't know how many years of inflation have accumulated, so that a guy who was originally relatively rich faced the abyss of poverty in an instant.
At this moment, someone in the crowd in front exclaimed.
Following the sound, Xiao Zhi looked over and found that it was a booth specializing in ore appraisal. An old man of the Wood Spirit Tribe wearing an appraiser uniform had just finished appraising a piece of ore.
After the ore passed the identification technique, it has become golden all over, exuding the dazzling light of "I am very expensive" and "Common people, don't come to defile me".
"This is the Yaojin Mine! Didn't it mean it was out of print?!"
"It is said that the elders of the family have collected the ore for many years, and suddenly remembered to identify it."
"If this thing is auctioned, it will be able to go to heaven!"
"I'm so sour..."
"Why doesn't my grandpa have a hoarding habit..."
The person who commissioned the appraisal looked rosy, and was obviously very satisfied with the results of the appraisal.
He bowed to the Wood Spirit Clan appraiser: "Mr. Huo Lun's appraisal skills are amazing."
Mr. Huo Lun said lightly: "No need, the ore that needs to be appraised by a master or above is of top quality."
Hearing this, Xiao Zhi, who was wandering on the edge of poverty, couldn't help but look at the interface of his backpack, and his eyes finally fell on an inconspicuous small grid.
That was one of the things that Asen gave him like a carrot and cabbage before.
The appearance of this stone is unattractive, except for "???" in the item description, there is only one line "Appraisal requirement: Appraisal technique above the master level".
Because A Sen often gave Xiao Zhi strange gifts, sometimes stones, sometimes leaves, and some bones of unknown types, he piled up a lot of these things in his backpack.
And Xiao Zhi is a cub who loves to fight, he has no interest in appraisal techniques, and he was not short of money before, he has never appraised these things.
But it's different now, Xiao Zhi doesn't know how long the current situation will last, money is essential if he wants to survive on this continent.
After imagining the scene where all these things became glittering gold, Xiao Zhi felt his little heart beat a little faster. Could it be... the opportunity to get rich overnight is just around the corner
Xiao Zhi cast his eyes on the calm Mr. Huo Lun, thinking that maybe he could ask him to identify a few ores in the future to solve his current economic crisis.
Suddenly, he felt a strange atmosphere.
The eyes of the people around him have been drifting toward him vaguely. Not one or two, but nearly half of the people nearby. They secretly looked at Xiao Zhi's face, and whispered to the people nearby from time to time, and then they stared more and more.
Something is wrong.
Xiao Zhi immediately restrained his thoughts about getting rich overnight, moved his footsteps slightly, and walked slowly in another direction.
Accompanied by his movements, many of those watching him also moved quietly, and they seemed to want to follow him.
Xiao Zhi didn't understand why these guys followed him, but they were obviously not sent by community organizations. With so many people, if he was really surrounded, it would be difficult to escape.
As a cut cub, how to get out of the siege is definitely a compulsory course.
Xiao Zhi's footsteps deviated, and he flashed into a small alley in an instant, and those who followed him also followed without hesitation.
In the narrow and winding alley, Xiao Zhi's figure was erratic, and when they almost caught up, he always pulled away instantly, only allowing them to catch a little corner of his clothes flying. Just like teasing a cat, it makes the followers more and more anxious.
Finally, there was a dead end ahead.
Everyone rushed over confidently, but found that the front was empty, how could there be Xiao Zhi
"Where are people?"
"Did we go wrong?"
"Impossible, I saw his back running over."
"Look carefully."
"Not here..."
"Neither on my side..."
"Oh, it's broken up, and the chance to make a fortune is gone..."
After the crowd dispersed, Xiao Zhi who was hiding on the roof of another alley was relieved.
He also vaguely heard the conversations of those people, what does "getting rich" refer to? Could it be that a group of human traffickers are going to package him up and sell him? Is it so dangerous to be handsome now
Xiao Zhi withdrew his gaze, turned over and jumped off the roof, and met a face just as he landed.
So handsome, so familiar...
It was a portrait pasted on the wall. Judging by the color of the paper, it seemed that it had been hung for a long time.
The facial features of the young man in the portrait are exquisite and three-dimensional. There is a tear mole under the right eye. There seems to be a smile between the eyebrows and eyes. He looks gentle and amiable. It is not at all obvious that this is a violent person who is keen to send warmth to thousands of households with fireballs. guy.
Isn't this his own face
But the question is, why are there three big characters "wanted warrant" above his head? The bounty is as high as 100 million gold shells
Xiao Zhi, who likes to mention the arrest warrant: "What?"
Although I pk, eat melons, and talk coquettishly, I am a good player.