Although the silent appointment with Ren Jian was at 8 o'clock in the evening, Ji Thrush felt that it was a form of etiquette not to let people wait, so he stood guard at the door of Lian Pavilion 20 minutes earlier.
Liange is just as its name suggests. From a structural point of view, it is indeed very similar to a corridor-style attic in the Han Dynasty, but it is not the antique carved beams and painted buildings and cornices that Ji Thrush previously guessed, but it is connected by intricate floating ties. , many steel balls scattered high and low.
After waiting for a while, Ji Thrush saw the two girlfriends he met in the City of Ashes coming hand in hand.
Zhang Ying and Min Qingqing were naturally very happy to see him, and sincerely invited him in, but Ji Xiaoniao declined because he had to wait for someone.
Although the two girls were disappointed, they didn't force it, and entered the hemispherical entrance of the corridor with apprehensive expressions.
Ten minutes before eight o'clock, Mo Tiangen also came.
Mr. Dagen obviously washed up in his room, and changed into a simple V-neck T-shirt and jeans. He felt at least five years younger. He didn't look like a high school teacher at all, but like someone who had just stepped out of college. There are newcomers to the society at the school gate.
"Oh shit!"
Before Ji Thrush opened his mouth to greet him, Mo Tiangen raised his eyebrows at him first, "Okay, Ji Xiaoniao, you've cleaned up really handsomely!"
"W-Where is there..."
Ji thrush scratched his nose in embarrassment.
He didn't want to admit that he did dress up on purpose.
Before that, he spent half an hour in the room looking in the mirror, taking out the new clothes in the closet and matching them one by one, and finally using his rough straight male vision to choose a suit he thought The most handsome, he also used a styling spray to grab his hair, so that his wool curls, which are always twisted around his head, look softer and more docile.
When he was finally satisfied, he put on his two invitation letters, and went out nervously like a high school student dating his sweetheart for the first time.
"correct!"
Ji Thrush didn't want Mo Tiangen to continue to focus on his attire, so he quickly changed the topic, "Ren Jianmo said he would come too!"
"Oh!"
Dagen teacher joked:
"You really deserve to be his boyfriend, you got in touch so soon!"
Ji Xiaoniao's face flushed red.
It was red from the tip of the nose to the roots of the ears.
He hurriedly covered Teacher Dagen's mouth, and when he opened his mouth, there was a series of denials, "I don't have it, so don't talk nonsense, you are responsible for destroying people's reputation!"
Mo Tiangen: "Huh? Didn't you say that?"
He turned his head away from the thrush's claws:
"After all, you were in that ghost town, but you came out publicly in front of everyone, holding hands and loving each other very much... ummmmmmm!"
When the two of them were huddling together, Ren Jianmo came on time at exactly eight o'clock.
Classmate Xiaoniao hurriedly separated from Mr. Dagen, and subconsciously pulled the little curly hairs on the top of his head that were raised again.
Ren Jianmo wore a black long-sleeved shirt, a pair of off-white slacks, and a pair of white canvas shoes. Her long hair was tied up in a ponytail, and her whole body was dressed in a simple way. It could be seen that he wanted to make himself as inconspicuous as possible.
It's a pity that Ji Thrush feels that Ren Damei's efforts are really meaningless.
When a person's face and figure are outstanding to a certain extent, he will naturally be a luminous body. Even if he wears a sack and makes a deadpan expression, it will make people think that this is a representative of the high-end face on the Paris show.
Ren Jianmo nodded calmly at the two of them.
"go in."
he said.
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Ji Thrush, Ren Jianmo, and Mo Tiangen signed the invitation letter at the entrance of the pavilion, and three minutes later, the three of them were sent directly to the ginkgo room by the floating corridor of the pavilion.
There are already more than ten people gathered in the room.
Ji Xuan took a glance, and besides Zhang Ying and Min Qingqing, he saw Zhao Zhui and a pair of sisters who had met outside the Colosseum before.
Seeing them coming, the pair of beautiful sisters got up and warmly greeted them to sit down, while their eyes lingered involuntarily on Ren Jianmo's unreal handsome side face for a long time.
"Okay, now that everyone is here, we can start."
In the circular conference hall, Zhao Zhui Shi ran to the circular conference table.
In this briefing session, they picked up a total of 18 newcomers from three "worlds".
Among them, the two groups of people who left the Colosseum in the morning and noon on the 3rd had met people from Zhao Zhui's gang when they were in the "world".
In "Peach Blossom Spring", the date is simply a unit used to measure when one will enter or leave the "world".
That's because the time lapse between "Peach Blossom Spring" and each "world" is not equal.
In some "worlds", especially those with higher difficulty, participants may have to stay in it for ten days and a half months to complete the tasks they are given by the plot.
But when they leave the "world" and come back, they will find that the calendar shows only the 16th of this month, that is to say, only one day has passed in the "Peach Blossom Spring".
In the same way, in those F-level "worlds" that are not too difficult, there may be both novices entering for the first time and experienced players who have participated in one or two rounds.
Even if they complete the "world" together, according to the rules, when the experiencers return to the "Peach Blossom Land", it is the 16th of this month, while the rookies will not come out of the Colosseum until the 3rd of the next month.
This kind of strange time-inconstant speed experience is always difficult for newcomers who just entered, and they will inevitably fall into the logical paradox thinking of wormholes, black holes, sky, sky, moon, and so on from time to time. .
But if they can survive two or three "worlds" successfully, they will get used to it, look away, and only think about how many days they have to prepare for the 15th of the next month.
Because there is a time gap between experienced people and novices, as early as half a month ago, Zhao Zhui and others had obtained evaluations from these populations of newcomers who survived the same "world".
It has to be said that Zhao Zhui thinks that the performance of the newcomers is very average, which belongs to the average level of novices, which is similar to the group of girlfriends that Ji Xuan and the others met in the City of Ashes.
But to Zhao Zhui and others, these novices who don't understand anything are like a group of bleating sheep, they can easily let them gather a handful of wool first, as for the others...
The corners of his mouth curled up in a gentle and harmless smile.
—Let’s wait until they survive the next “world”.
"Welcome to our newcomer briefing. Let me introduce first, our guild is called Compass."
Zhao Zhui smiled and said:
"As the name suggests, our gang gathers some performers who want to go home, and everyone works together to work towards this goal."
As soon as he finished speaking, the expressions of most of the eighteen newcomers present changed.
Most of them still haven't been able to accept the fact that they are actually dead, and their mentality still stays in the state where they still feel that they are just ordinary people, and they have an extremely strong desire for the word "go home".
Zhao Zhui's simple opening remarks hit their nail on the head, and it was more effective than any inflammatory words.
Several young girls among the newcomers, even when they heard the word "go home", their eyes turned red involuntarily.
Ji Thrush also sat up straight.
"I know that everyone has just entered the 'Peach Blossom Land', and there must be many questions that need to be guided by those of us who have experience."
Zhao Zhui: "Don't worry, I will answer each one for you."
...
…
After that, Ji Thrush finally knew what a "collection" was.
In fact, this name is another name passed on by the participants, and it is not in the rules of "Peach Blossom Spring", so artificial intelligence such as Xiaobai will not mention it to newcomers who have just entered the world.
Before entering the "world", the participants can exchange their points from the "Peach Blossom Spring" for props that they think will be helpful for customs clearance according to the preview they have seen - such as the gun that Jie Ge brought into the city of ashes .
But Ji Thrush has practiced it himself. The gun he snatched from Jie Ge had disappeared when he woke up from the small dark room in the Colosseum.
Not only the gun, but even the bow bag that Ji Xiaoniao never forgot to bring with him when he ran for his life in the "world", and he couldn't bring it back from the city of ashes.
Now after Zhao Zhui's explanation, he finally understood what was going on.
In fact, all items brought into the "world" by the participants will be defaulted as one-time consumables, which can only be used in the current "world" and cannot be brought to any other space.
But participants sometimes get some key items during the customs clearance process.
If these things are not consumed by the plot, after the participants return to the "Peach Blossom Spring", they will find that the thing has come back with them, and it has become a portable prop, which can follow them into any "Peach Blossom Spring". world".
Such items are called "collections" by the participants.
The collectibles they acquire in the various "worlds" are a very important resource for them.
Although they cannot be directly turned into points, they can become a kind of hard currency circulating among the participants.
For example, if someone obtains a collection that is immune to curses in a "world" with a European medieval background, as long as he announces this information, many participants who are about to face witches, demons, or vampires will fall in love with it. Come, exchange points or collectibles of the same value with him.
As for Zhao Zhui's "compass", one of the conditions for recruiting newcomers into the guild is to distribute the collections they have obtained in the "world" to the guild for unified distribution, so as to achieve the most effective use of various props.
"Of course, the gang won't ask for your things in vain."
Zhao Zhui said with a smile: "We will reward the winner with a point according to the level of the collection."
Ji Thrush faintly felt that something was wrong.
Unlike the game guilds in online games, there are no real guild missions in "Peach Blossom Spring", whether it is "Compass" or other so-called guild organizations, they are all spontaneously organized by the participants.
So, where do these points used to maintain the operation of the gang come from
Ji Thrush can only think of the universal truth that "the wool grows on the sheep".
The public points of the gang must be collected from the members of the organization.
"Wow... Isn't this a shortcut to customs clearance?"
Season thrush muttered in a low voice.
He also remembered the ranking of the participants on the obelisk.
Now it seems that these organizers don't even need to work hard to earn points, they only need to continuously absorb enough newcomers, and then in the name of operating the guild, draw a part of the points from other members and collect them on themselves, so that they can easily create Overlord the obelisk.
"No, they won't do that."
Ren Jianmo's answer came from Ji Thrush's ear.
He looked up with a surprised expression.
His voice just now was obviously very soft, so soft that Ji Thrush thought he was just talking to himself.
But Ren Jianmo heard it, somehow heard it, and understood what he meant.
"Because, the risk of doing so is too great, and it will only kill yourself."
Ren Jianmo lowered his head, his lips almost pressed against his ear, and whispered in a breathy voice:
"'Peach Blossom Spring' will not allow such opportunism."