Reincarnation NPC, but Arknights

Reincarnation NPC, but Arknights

Author: Luo Tianyi Catching Ghosts

Introduction:

Veteran gamer Bai Ye was kicked back to the eve of the open beta of the fully immersive online game "Arknights Online".

From then on, there was an NPC native carrying a game panel on the Terra continent.

"A natural disaster?" "No one understands the Fourth Calamity better than me!"

Rhodes Island Field Manager, the fourth Calamity Messenger, and one of the top ten most popular NPCs among players, Bai Ye said so.

Volume 1 Hello World

Chapter 1 Arknights Online

Two moons hung in the night sky, their light dimmed by the artificial neon lights.

Bai Ye sat on the railing, quietly watching the artificial lake in front of her.

The vast lake reflects the city that never sleeps on the opposite shore, its surface rippling in the wind.

Everything felt so real. After experiencing it once, you'll realize that the so-called 100% realism of the past was actually quite lacking.

Ultimately, it's just a game; it's not as real as reality.

However, now, games no longer seem to be just simple games...

It took Bai Ye quite a while to accept the fact that she had transmigrated into the game.

Arknights Online, a next-generation fully immersive online game built with cutting-edge technology, caused a huge sensation upon its release. With its excellent game performance and wonderful world view, it has attracted many players and has been jokingly called "the first fully immersive game for young people".

Before the game "Day and Night," it had been running for six years and still maintained a high level of popularity, with various merchandise and collaborations with brands emerging one after another. It also gave rise to many professional players and game streamers.

There are also officially organized professional leagues – the Kazimierz Four Cities Joint Player Arena and the Kazimierz Summer Player Arena League.

Bai Ye was a player from the start of the game, and he possesses exceptional talent and considerable skill, excelling in both PVP and PVE. However, because he prefers a free and independent lifestyle, he has not signed with any club or guild.

At 20, I was a solo player.

Recording videos and live streaming, he became a moderately famous content creator through his gaming channel, Baiye. He usually streams himself playing games, editing guides or entertainment videos, and when he's in a good mood (meaning when he doesn't have any money to eat), he'll help out his clients. He can make a living without any problem.

Before transmigrating, Bai Ye was grinding monsters in the Demon Battlefield outside the Great Yan Northern Pass. Although the evil spirits and demons there were powerful, they gave a lot of experience, and he could also earn battle merits and Yan Kingdom reputation, which was suitable for a lone wolf like Bai Ye.

However, the Northern Frontier is considered a high-level map. Getting close to demons will continuously lower your sanity, which newbies simply cannot withstand.

Bai Ye was already preparing to log off. Unexpectedly, before he could even enter the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion with the token in his hand, he suddenly fainted in reality, triggering the game pod's emergency mechanism and disconnecting him from the server.

When I woke up, I found myself here.

"There's definitely something wrong with this game..."

Bai Ye could naturally sense that the so-called game world before him was not generated by data, but a real material world; his current body was also made of flesh and blood, and was by no means a fictional creation of "01".

"What exactly is this Oceancat? Is it an alien pharaoh who can damedane?"

Bai Ye couldn't help but complain about the company that published the game.

However, Bai Ye is a rather easygoing person. Since he can't figure it out now, he might as well stop thinking about it. For now, it's best to figure out his own situation.

"System panel... Huh?"

As Bai Ye instinctively reached for the menu, he suddenly realized he was being silly—he had transmigrated into a game world, so how could there possibly be a player panel?

But he was dumbfounded the next moment.

The glowing game panel screen actually appeared in front of Bai Ye.

Looking at the virtual screen floating in front of him, Bai Ye couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

He was surprised to be able to bring up the game panel, which made him feel much more relaxed, since this was something that Bai Ye, as a veteran player, was very familiar with.

Since the open beta, this virtual screen has silently accompanied players through one game version after another; and now, when Bai Ye truly enters this game world alone, the familiar screen has become the only link between the present and the past.

"It really brings back memories."

The system panel in front of us is quite "old". After all, the system panel will be updated and adjusted with each version.

The current panel is still in beta; neither the UI nor the functionality is yet fully developed.

The earliest version Bai Ye encountered was version 1.0. He had never even seen the beta version, as he didn't get a public beta qualification. However, it was likely that it wouldn't be too different from version 1.0.

It's just a change of name but not substance.

……

Name: Bai Ye

Template: NPC (Normal)

Race: ██ (WARNING: This entry is corrupted)

Level: 1

Reason: 15/15

Physical fitness: 10 (related to physical strength, endurance, and immunity)

Strength: 10 (related to muscle strength and power)

Agility: 10 (related to hand-eye coordination, dexterity, reaction and balance)

Spirit: 10 (Related to mental strength, willpower, Originium Arts, sensitivity, and intuition)

Charisma: 96 (fixed attribute)

Inventory: 0/10

talent:

[Accelerated Thinking]: Accelerates thinking ability, judgment, reflexes, and brain information processing speed for a certain period of time.

Overall evaluation:

Aside from good looks and talent, nothing else is worth mentioning.

……

This assessment is somewhat accurate.

Bai Ye shook his head silently.

The personal status panel is pitifully short, and the attributes are also very low, just like the feeling of helping the boss level up a newbie account before transmigrating.

Besides having an extremely high charm value.

It's just a tiny bit worse than what you, dear readers, have read.

"As expected of me, if I had shown my face and done a live stream before I transmigrated, I could have made a fortune."

Being strong is a temporary thing; Bai Ye is a veteran player, so becoming stronger is easy for him. But being cool is something for a lifetime.

Bai Ye clenched his fist. Although he had returned to the starting point, he felt great and did not feel weak at all.

Because this power is real, once you've experienced this feeling, even the highest attributes you had before the transmigration will seem like a mirage or a dream.

However, what surprised Bai Ye the most was that he started with a talent.

Regardless of which race's appearance they adopt, players will start with the same blank slate of stats and attributes; starting with innate talents is absolutely impossible.

Bai Ye attributed his current situation to the NPC template.

Although I've never encountered this before, I can tell from thinking about it that this thing is definitely not the same as the player panel.

At least, the player panel will not have a race attribute, because players will only choose one race from several race options when creating their character, and will not actually become a certain race to gain attribute bonuses.

"If I had a Wendigo or Draco racial template, wouldn't I be able to take off immediately?"

After muttering to himself for a while, Bai Ye closed the game menu and jumped down from the railing.

They come, the security.

As a member of the Cat Den Orphanage... no, the Cat Den Orphanage, Bai Ye had no lingering attachments to her past life.

Since we're already here, we might as well immerse ourselves in this familiar yet unfamiliar world.

Survive, grow stronger, and explore the secrets of the world.

Looking at the artificial lake in front of him, Bai Ye set his future life goals.

Great, it's on fire!

With a goal in mind, Bai Ye felt his blood boiling.

"Goo-"

He can only be handsome for three seconds.

hungry.

Bai Ye sighed.

All he wants now is to go to the dock across the street and get some fries.

Chapter Two: Dragon Gate

Bai Ye walked down the street.

Although Terra is considered a habitable planet, its various regions are frequently ravaged by devastating natural disasters.

In order to avoid natural disasters, the world's technological advancements have taken a strange turn.

Among them, the most dazzling cutting-edge technology is the "mobile city," a crystallization of civilization.

The immense power of materials science, the obscure and difficult-to-understand Originium Arts, the miraculous engineering, and the unimaginably efficient Originium power system have created this giant mobile platform that can roam the earth.

The platform carries the weight of an entire city.

When a natural disaster is imminent and the city needs to relocate to avoid it, the locks will be released, breaking the city into individual blocks with independent power systems, and then the blocks will move toward their destination.

Many players are incredibly shocked when they first encounter such a scene.

As it turns out, when technology develops in a skewed direction to a certain extent, it can have an impact beyond imagination.

In the past life of White Night, there was always a group of players who chased after various mobile cities, photographing and recording their every migration. These people called themselves "City Hunters," and they were passionate about collecting mobile cities of all kinds.

After all, these behemoths are a microcosm of the civilization on this planet.

Bai Ye is currently in a mobile city.

Gantry.

This is a mobile city belonging to the Great Yan Kingdom, and one of its important economic centers. Its currency, the Lungmen Coin, circulates throughout the world. Following the economic crisis, economic recession and political infighting made trade extremely difficult. The circulation of the Lungmen Coin made commercial revival possible.

Bai Ye was naturally no stranger to this place, or rather, he was quite familiar with it.

Many world quests in the game are set in Lungmen, where Bai Ye spent a long time in the past.

He had been to the upper city, the lower city, the lower structure area, the port, and even the suburbs. Bai Ye himself had forgotten how many missions he had taken on, how many enemies and monsters he had cleared, and in the end, he even maxed out the reputation of the Great Yan Affiliated - Lungmen.

A true liver god.

He can draw maps of some places even with his eyes closed.

He even went to many top-secret areas due to mission requirements, and those maps and defense drawings could fetch a high price in other countries—provided he was alive to collect the money.

There wasn't much to see in Longmen; Bai Ye had already seen it all in the game, so after choosing a direction, he started traveling.

It was late spring in Longmen, and the weather was starting to get warmer, but Bai Ye was wearing an incongruous coat, which even he found too hot.

Before setting off, Bai Ye checked his entire body. Apart from this coat, he had no other personal belongings, not even a single item to prove his identity.

We must obtain a legal identity as soon as possible, as Lungmen's legal identity is recognized in countries around the world.

Bai Ye is now essentially a disaster victim who has illegally crossed into Lungmen. He has no identification and is an undocumented immigrant. If he gets caught by the Lungmen Guard Bureau, it will cause him a lot of trouble.

Bai Ye didn't want to be dragged in for questioning. He could come up with a plausible explanation to get his ID card, but that would be troublesome and a waste of time.

For players, time is the least valuable thing, but also the most precious thing.

Sometimes, players can stay in one place and leave their character idle for an entire day in order to complete a task; other times, players frantically press buttons just to skip a short game cutscene.