Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 12 Is this really a game?

While Zhao Qing was speaking, Han Tiaotiao picked a handful of weeds and did something else nearby, not participating in the discussion.

However, when Zhao Qing said that she could "do anything that is possible in reality", a small straw fish suddenly appeared in everyone's field of vision.

It's a bit ugly and very sloppy. The edges of the broken grass leaves are jagged like they were chewed by a dog, and the whole thing looks loose and shabby, but it is indeed a small fish made of grass.

Han Tiaotiao shook the straw-woven fish she was carrying and said, "It seems this game is even freer than we imagined."

Everyone fell silent as they looked at the ugly little fish made of straw.

Is this really just a game?
Even Zhao Qing, who had long recognized that the game had an absurdly high degree of freedom, couldn't help but wonder this question in her heart.

It's important to understand that even the top three game studios representing the pinnacle of virtual reality technology on the market can't achieve this level. Those virtual reality games don't allow for "creation."

Or rather, it cannot be "created" "at will".

Two bundles of grass can be combined to make a rope, a few iron ores can be combined to make an iron ingot, and a broken weapon can be repaired by touching it with a repair tool or material and waiting for the timer to finish.

Even the texture on the rope is incredibly detailed, the cracks on the iron ore are so realistic they could be mistaken for the real thing, and the broken weapons even have textures and models showing different degrees of wear and tear.

However, those are all illogical in reality, or rather, current technology is not yet capable of making people "live" in a virtual world in a realistic way.

But this game is perfect, just like that straw-woven little fish in Han Tiaotiao's hand—ugly yet exquisitely beautiful, something that could never exist in any game model library.

"Let's go."

Wang Ergou was the first to stand up and leave the "feng shui treasure land" where the group had carefully selected to stake out their mission.

The Jade Emperor quickly followed, asking, "Where are we going?"

"Go to Taiping Town to buy rope. I remember Old Han took a lot of copper coins from the Shixia Village ruins, right? That should be enough to buy some rope, right?"

Zhao Qing enthusiastically said, "I'll go buy it. After I learned [Wind Control] after guiding my Qi into my body, I can fly directly there. It'll be faster, and I should be able to make a round trip in half an hour. You guys can do some daily tasks to level up first; that might increase your chances of winning."

"You haven't been to Taiping Town yet, have you?"

"Not yet, but after my senior sister told me about that place, it was automatically marked on my map."

Wang Ergou hesitated. Indeed, sending Zhao Qing would be the most efficient solution. But she was there to help out of friendship, and he felt bad if a girl did all the dirty and hard work and ended up in a dark room.

At this moment, Han Tiaotiao very considerately suggested, "My initial skill is [Swiftness], and I can run quite fast. I can go with you, and I shouldn't be a big hindrance."

“That works! It just so happens that Old Han collected those coins, so you two can go together. Besides the rope, if you have enough money, you can also see if there's anything else you might need to buy. Old Han, I'll pay you back when I've collected enough copper coins.”

Wang Ergou disliked taking advantage of others, and his last sentence was directed at Han Tiaotiao. However, Han Tiaotiao generously replied, "It's too formal to say that, isn't it? You shared this task with us for free!"

"Okay, let's leave it at that for now. You two go ahead, I'll take the Emperor to do some daily quests."

……

Then, the two of them spent an hour watching it.

Wang Ergou and the Jade Emperor had been painstakingly grinding for almost an hour, and even the Jade Emperor, despite suffering a 30% debuff, had reached level 7, when Zhao Qing finally arrived, albeit late. From afar, they could see her gliding and leaping towards them, occasionally hopping and bounding, as she pulled a large handful of rope from her game inventory and tossed it in front of them: "Old Han is still behind, I brought the stuff over first—sigh, my level is too low, my mana is really running out, I run out of mana after flying for a while!"

Then he added, "We also ran into people from the Guangcheng Sect. After hearing that we were investigating the Huang Gong Temple, they gave us several talismans. We were going to tell you about it, but you didn't respond when we called you in the team chat, and you didn't respond in private messages either. What's wrong with you two?"

The Jade Emperor said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Second Senior Sister. I was just helping Er Gou carry a tree, and I didn't have time to check my private messages."

Zhao Qing waved her hand dismissively and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing. I thought something had happened to you again. It's good that you're alright. You submit your tasks, and then we'll get a tree, tie a rope to it, and wait for Lao Han."

Wang Ergou shoved the tree he was carrying into the Jade Emperor's arms, making him fall flat on his backside: "Your Majesty, you go hand it in. That 30% reduction in your benefits is really too much! I'm already level 9 and you're only level 7! My second senior sister and I will stay here and work on the rope!"

The Jade Emperor stood up with a bitter face, resignedly picked up the tree, and said, "Fine."

After several hours of trial and error since the server opened, everyone has discovered that the method for submitting tasks is not fixed.

For daily sect quests that everyone is working hard to complete, you can directly put the collected materials near the camp's designated resource storage area and submit them through the quest interface on the game panel. Alternatively, you can carry trees and stones to the NPC Baili Shuang and talk to her to submit the quest, which is very flexible.

Among these, the most efficient is the tree-chopping task, which players jokingly call "tree-cutting." Basically, one tree can be exchanged for 200 experience points, and at the beginning, chopping down three trees is enough to level up. However, the resources [stones] and [river mud] required for the daily sect tasks are very low in experience points because players do not have suitable containers to bring back too many at once, resulting in a precipitous drop in efficiency.

Therefore, chopping down trees has become the first choice for most players who grind for high levels.

As the man with the lowest NPC favorability in the entire server, the Jade Emperor no longer dared to approach Baili Shuang. He always submitted tasks and accepted daily tasks through the task bar, for fear that the NPC might dislike him and deduct his favorability.

On the other side, Wang Ergou was tidying up the tangled ropes when he asked about the so-called talisman.

"They are two True Fire Thunder Talismans and two Wind-Stabilizing Talismans, which Old Han exchanged for with Bone-Breaking and Muscle-Regenerating Powder."

Zhao Qing replied.

Wang Ergou's heart skipped a beat, and he asked curiously, "Bone-breaking and muscle-regenerating powder? That stuff is very valuable?"

“We asked, and that person from Guangcheng Sect said that the Bone-Breaking and Muscle-Regenerating Powder can be sold for more than ten spirit stones on the market, and even asked us if we would sell it.”

"Did you sell it?"

"Of course he didn't sell it! How would we know if he wasn't lying! But that True Fire Thunder Talisman does sound pretty powerful; it's said to have considerable destructive power, otherwise we wouldn't have traded with him!"

"Guangcheng Sect seems to be a local bigwig in this area, so he probably wouldn't lie... By the way, did he say what his name was?"

"Eucommia ulmoides".

Wang Ergou looked disappointed: "A man!"

Zhao Qing, who had been immersed in a certain type of literature for many years, thought about the adjective and added, "Hmm...a face like a beautiful woman."

"Hiss... Male, male-female?"

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(End of this chapter)