Roland has been in Red Earth Town for more than a month and has never triggered a mission. He never expected that little guy Beta would set up a mission as soon as he came.
But it's normal to think about it. Roland doesn't know the language yet. Things like tasks require communication. Unlike previous games, the NPC has a golden exclamation point on its head to tell you that there is a task here.
How can a person who has difficulty communicating even trigger a mission
So... it is imperative to learn the magic of language proficiency as soon as possible.
"Okay, form a team and share the tasks with me."
Both have been playing games since childhood. The two quickly found the team interface in the system interface, and then Beta shared the task.
'Looking for the old man's missing child. '
The title of the task is green and has an excellent suffix after it.
Seemingly seeing Roland's doubts, Beta explained on the side: "I have taken on white tasks before, but the experience points were not much, and the item rewards were very ordinary, just an ordinary iron long sword."
Having said this, Beta took out a somewhat rusty long sword from his backpack, waved it twice, and whirred: "This is it."
"Are the clothes and weapons on you given by the mission?" Roland asked curiously.
Beta nodded, and then asked: "Isn't Brother Luolan wearing a magic robe?"
Roland shook his head: "No, this was just given to me by an old man."
Beta clapped his hands suddenly and said excitedly: "It seems that this game also has a term for intimacy."
Although the young boy Beta had just graduated from high school, it was obvious that his mind was quite active and he quickly thought of some 'points' that others could not see.
Roland thought for a while and said: "Although what you said seems to be true, I still have to tell you that the NPCs in this game cannot be regarded as the NPCs in the sandbox games we have played before. They are quite intelligent. high."
Beta nodded slightly and said in an indifferent tone: "I know that the AI created by Penguin is almost close to a real person."
"They gave me a real feeling." Roland said with a frown.
"Hahaha." Beta laughed: "Brother Luolan, you are too worried. This game is controlled by intelligent AI, and they are just data."
Roland sighed: "When I was in college, I studied intelligent programming and application. To put it more simply, I did AI. Although I failed later. As far as I know, if we want to build such a huge world, and The amount of storage required to make each NPC simulate a real person is quite staggering, and I don’t think anyone can do it.”
"But this game appeared." Beta was obviously a consequentialist. He shrugged and said, "So... some genius made a breakthrough."
Roland smiled bitterly: "That's all I can think of."
"Okay, Brother Luolan, can we set off?" Beta looked at him expectantly.
At this time, the two of them were standing in front of Roland's small thatched house, halfway up the mountain. Roland pointed to the foot of the mountain. Because it was a market today, there were two or three times more people in Hongtu Town than usual.
The streets were crowded with vendors on both sides, and pedestrians on the streets were even more densely packed, standing and walking.
The lively noise came from below, and the sound was a bit like the unique sound of the tide.
"Don't you want to enjoy such a festive celebration?" Roland asked a little strangely: "You must have rarely experienced such simple market activities. After all, your generation grew up in an e-commerce environment. "
Beta shrugged: "I'm not interested at all. Now I just want to level up quickly, go to big cities, and then challenge more interesting tasks and see many monsters and scenery."
Does it turn out that this boy is more adventurous than the people and things around him
Roland stood up: "Okay, let's go."
The two went down the mountain, walked across the bustling bridge in the middle of the lake, and left Hongtu Town. According to the clues provided in the mission intelligence, before the child disappeared, he said that he wanted to become a mercenary and break into the adult world, and then carried a handful of Sword, and set off to the west.
"To the west."
Roland vaguely remembered that a few days ago, when he and Falcon were chatting, they said that there was a nest of ogres hiding in the woods dozens of kilometers away to the west, and they would capture passers-by from time to time. But because these ogres are very good at fighting, and the place is remote and there are no powerful mercenaries, no one went to attack them.
Thinking of this, Roland murmured: "That kid wouldn't be so stupid as to want to conquer the ogre. Is there such a stupid person?"
Beta then said: "It's just a game setting, there's no need to be so particular about rationality. Anyway, it's just a way for us to upgrade."
Roland always felt that something was wrong.
Following the prompts from the mission system, Roland and Beta walked for a day, and finally found the nest of ogres in the evening.
Decorated with many human bone totems, this place looks gloomy.
Green-skinned ogres in twos and threes were sitting around the fire. There are stone pots placed on the fire, which seem to be cooking human body parts.
There are about thirteen of them, each with a level between Lv1 and Lv2. No wonder ordinary pedestrians are no match for them.
They are all professionals, and there are not many of them.
The two of them were lying on the mountainside, and Roland asked, "Do you want to formulate a suitable battle plan?"
"No need, I have killed many ogres like this. Brother Luolan can just help me catch them." Beta stood up and charged directly down the hillside.
In fact, Beta was right. He killed these ogres like chopping vegetables.
Beta's movements are quite fast and his strength is not small. What's even more surprising is that he can still find time to use magic during the battle.
He rushed into the ogres' den like a tiger entering a sheepfold. He killed nearly half of the ogres in less than three minutes, while the other half died under Roland's small fireball spell, or were killed by his magic spell. Beat him to death with his hands.
Mosaics all over the floor.
Beta wiped off the mosaic on his face, and with the help of the system, he found a highlighted target, a shriveled head hanging on a strange human bone totem.
"The mission target has been found." Beta laughed and took off the head from the totem.
"Don't you feel disgusted?" Roland frowned and asked.
Beta tossed the head in his hand nonchalantly and said, "It's just a bunch of data, just look at it."
"Okay, Brother Luolan, let's go back and hand in the mission."
Roland looked at the human bone totems around him. These were human bones that had been eaten, and some were still boiling in several stone pots. He thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you go and hand in the task? I want to take these bones first." Buried.”
Beta looked at him in surprise: "Brother Luolan, these are just statistics. You are too involved in the drama."
Roland paused and said, "Just think of me as willful."
Beta sighed and said, "Okay, hurry up."
After saying that, he left alone.