Ming Dynasty: Summoning game players at the beginning

Chapter 4 Set a small goal

A player used his hands and feet to climb up a thatched hut. He looked around proudly at the players and people on the ground, as if he was gazing at the beautiful mountains and rivers in the distance.

He immediately yelled, "Watch me take a leap of faith!" and fell headfirst into a pile of chopped hay.

A moment later, covered in hay dust, he proudly reached out to embrace the air, "Aha! After all these years, there's still no pitchfork in the hay chop!"

With the help of their first buddy, and without the sense of crisis of the first dungeon, the first and second phase players have awakened the "soul of the live" one after another.

The players who captured the spoils wore armor on their shoulders, wore conical hats on their heads, tucked leather boots or swords in their arms, and wrapped several outer garments around their necks.

All that was left were the bandits' bodies, their underwear stripped clean off.

The newly arrived second-phase players were even more excited. They curiously observed everything around them and kneaded their bodies and facial features.

Someone lay on the ground, dug his ten fingers into the soil, scooped up a handful of soil, put it to his nose and took a deep breath.

Someone was lying upside down with his limbs on the ground, his head tilted back and his facial features facing upwards, like a human-faced spider crawling on the ground.

Some people stuck out their tongues and tried to touch the tip of their noses, or walked up to the villagers, shook hands with adults they met, and touched the heads of children they saw.

Some people jumped and ran around as if the ground was flowing with magma and burning their feet. Others raised their right hands and slapped their cheeks hard.

"Fuck, 50% of the pain feels so real!"

"This game is so realistic! The light, the dirt, the water in the puddles. My skin is rosy white with pale blue veins. Wow! How much would it cost to achieve these top-tier special effects?"

"Look at those game NPCs. They're much more realistic than the extras in period films. These NPCs are truly intelligent. They even pointed fingers at us. I thought I heard someone say our brains... aren't working well?"

"Is this a simulation of the late Ming Dynasty? Wherever the Jiannu are, I'm going to kill them!"

"Oh, the game officials also gave each of us clothes. I thought we only had a pair of shorts at the beginning. I was going to see if the female players only had one piece of clothing."

"Oh my god, this game's special effects are too real. Could it be some survival game where ten thousand players are trapped and can't quit?"

As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately resonated with the players.

Everyone clicked the exit button, and for a moment most players lay on the ground like robots that had run out of power.

A moment later, the players came back online and excitedly shouted, "This game can be quit!"

As a second-phase player, Huang Zilong saw "Late Ming Dynasty" in an advertisement for a web game.

He wasn't interested at first, but the gaming helmet was like a virus, forcing him into the game.

He originally thought it was some rubbish skin-changing game, but he was shocked when he entered the game.

The sensory system related to the five senses is extremely real, and the world seen by the two eyes is also free of roughness and lag.

The best virtual games on the market cannot catch up to the quality of this game!

He slapped himself as soon as he entered the game. The burning pain told him all the time that this was an amazing game that would transcend the times.

If it weren't for the green "inverted triangle logo" floating above each character's head, he wouldn't have remembered that he was in a game.

Oh no!

Even these game interfaces and logos can be hidden in the system settings, and then enter the real "real mode".

Huang Zilong raised his hand and summoned the system window from the air. He clicked on the settings and cleared the icon. All the game-related details in front of him disappeared.

Vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, every sense is so real, and this is only at 50%.

If the five senses can be improved to 100%, and combined with highly intelligent AI to replace the reactions of passers-by in the game, then it will be no different from time travel!

If a group of modern people could travel back to ancient times, they could simply kill all the invading enemies!
He pinched his thigh hard, but the pain was still so real, so real that he thought he was dreaming.

He came to the end of the Ming Dynasty, a place with absolutely powerful special effects but it was a virtual game. Almost in an instant, a doubt arose in his mind.

If this is an absolutely simulated world with high degrees of freedom, then is its world map as big as the real world?

If yes.

Does that mean that although "Late Ming Dynasty" is a historical game set in the Ming Dynasty, its stage is actually the entire world?
The world in the 17th century?
The transition from Ming to Qing in East Asia, the Thirty Years' War on the European continent, the Age of Exploration, the colonization of the Americas, the eve of the European bourgeois revolution, and the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.

Clockpunk, steampunk, mechapunk...

Let Chinese become the world's common language, and all nations pay tribute?
When Huang Zilong thought about the rich gameplay hidden in this game, he felt like his liver was about to explode.

Just when his grand ambition was about to take the first step, the NPC who had been standing near the player and remained silent spoke.

The NPC, holding a knife and a wooden shield resembling a pot lid, walked straight through the jumping gamers, "Hello, dear players. I am your novice guide, Li Mu..."

Is the game story about to begin? Huang Zilong never misses a game story, but some people are less patient.

"Skip the plot."

After several impatient guys finished speaking, they wanted to continue exploring the village, but found that they could not move their bodies, and even moved closer uncontrollably, "Why the hell can't I move?"

Huang Zilong then realized that the character was not obeying his commands. "It's ok, it's ok, it should be the forced cutscene."

"Brothers, please dress like human beings in the story animation..."

"This is how all beginner guides work, teaching you how to quickly get into the game."

"Maybe there will be rewards after watching the plot..."

"Should we complete the mission to kill the Jiannu?"

Ignoring the players' chatter, Li Mu cleared his throat and raised his voice to speak:

"It was April of the eleventh year of the Chongzhen reign (May 1638 AD), and the rebel army had just been defeated. Many peasant armies were still struggling in various places. The Eastern Tartars outside the Great Wall would also enter the Great Wall to plunder after this autumn, and the situation inside the Great Wall was becoming increasingly devastating.

I hope that you will use your wisdom and talents to create a new country in the era of great conflict between the Ming and Qing dynasties, and bring long-awaited peace to the people of the world.

This is Yangjia Village, located in the southeast corner of the Central Plains, bordering the Huai River to the north and the Dabie Mountains to the south.

Yangjia Village is currently running low on food, and a group of bandits from Black Wind Village are causing trouble. The bandits who previously looted the village were from this village, and now that they've fled back to the village, they're sure to gather their forces and strike back again.

I hope you will be well prepared for the decisive battle, defeat the bandits, and restore peace to Yangjia Village.

The system has made simple markings for you, using "green, yellow, and red" to mark the status of others. Green represents friends who cannot be attacked, yellow represents neutral targets, and the enemy and friend are judged based on the specific situation. Red represents mortal enemies, and there are rewards for killing them.

Please abide by the basic rules of the current era and do not harass ordinary people. If you have any questions, you can ask me during the day. If good suggestions and strategies are adopted, I will also reward them at my discretion.

Li Mu looked around, and all the players' eyes became focused.

"The rewards for players who complete the main quest for the first time will be doubled."

After he finished speaking, Li Mu raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and all the players who had listened to the novice story heard the system prompt sound.

[Complete the novice story, reputation +1, honor +5, merit +1]

Watch the plot rewards!

Huang Zilong followed the system prompts to open the character interface, and indeed found a series of character-related values.

The reputation value is equivalent to the entry threshold. Once it reaches a certain level, you can lead troops and become an official.

Honor value is a personal credit rating. If it is too low, you will fall into "red name status". In the best case, you will be hunted to death by other players, and in the worst case, your account will be directly banned.

Merit points are like game coins. Currently, the price of resurrection coins required based on the current character level is 20 merit points.

It costs 20 points to buy a life, and as a second-stage player who just entered the game, he did not participate in the initial fight, and he only had enough savings to watch the plot.

"It's impossible for such a hardcore game to not have initial resurrection coins, right?"

Huang Zilong searched left and right but couldn't find the resurrection coin.

His heart skipped a beat, and he felt an endless amount of hard-core pain coming towards him.

Suddenly, a cry of surprise came from the side, "Oh my god, I actually have five lives!"

Huang Zilong looked in the direction of the sound and saw a player rolling up the sleeve of his left arm, revealing five black bars as thick as thumbs on his wrist.

The black barcode means the number of resurrections?

Huang Zilong followed suit, stuck the spear he was initially given into the ground, and rolled up his sleeves to take a look.

Sure enough, I saw three black barcodes.

and many more.

Why does he only have three while others have five?

"Can anyone tell me why I only have two lives?"

"Oh my god, I only have one life? What happens if I lose my life in this game?"

"Oh my god, I can't ship anything in this mobile game. The game gives me a random number of resurrections at the start, and I only get one life. Am I born a jerk? I'm unlucky everywhere I go?!"

Huang Zilong looked at the three clearly visible black bars on his wrist, and the three ordinary lives became even more charming.

(End of this chapter)