Chapter 5 The Contingency Before the Spring
Although they only looked at each other briefly, Su Chen felt a little more wary in his heart.
"Has this person targeted me, or has he recognized me?"
"Oh, the soldiers are coming to cover up the water and the earth is just like chickens and dogs." As a former great god, Su Chen still felt a little arrogant in his heart. After all, as the number one person in the Soul Realm, weren't there many situations where he was targeted?
"Okay! Well, although I'm 5 minutes late, let's get started quickly!" A slender man wearing shiny metal armor and holding a long sword was a one-handed swordsman.
Seeing that this player didn't even take a running start, he jumped up and jumped onto the steps of the fountain.
"Well, with such skills, he should be a closed beta player!" Su Chen concluded after staring at the player.
Don't doubt Su Chen's vision. After all, he is an experienced veteran and has seen too many newcomers. He can move with ease. Wearing such equipment, his strength and agility should be very high. He can do it in this short period of time.
Yue Li did such a trick, hehe, to put it bluntly, he himself was embarrassed, let alone the newcomer.
Looking at the one-handed swordsman who turned around, the players all started to make small comments, because this guy had a pretty face.
"Uh-huh..." Su Chen's remaining favorable impression of him suddenly turned negative. The more he looked at him, the more unhappy he became.
What bothers me the most is people who are handsomer than me. Humph, if it weren't for information, I wouldn't be bothered to work with you on the strategy. Su Chen has always stayed away from people who are handsomer than him, because they can easily be used as foils, which is very embarrassing.
"Today, I'm so grateful that everyone responded to my call to gather here! Although some people know me, I still want to introduce myself again. My name is Dilbert, and my profession is a magnanimous [Knight]!"
"Hmph! I don't want to know you, what the hell is a knight? Does Sao have a profession?" Su Chen complained crazily below.
Yes, SAO does not have a class system in the system. Each player has multiple skill slots and can freely choose various skills to practice. The role Su Chen plays in Soul Realm is the swordsman type.
As a profession, I naturally chose the one-handed sword and became a happy orphan swordsman. I also tried other weapons, but they were all weird and not very smooth, so I didn’t care about them.
What I just talked about is the combat system. As for those players who are unwilling to fight, they choose the skills of the production system. Most of these skills are of the production, collection, and forging types. These players are called [Blacksmith], [Alchemist], and [Chef].
Wait, I'm just kidding myself about heroes, knights, etc.
However, it is the player's freedom to choose his professional name or how he calls himself. But having said that, this player named Dilbert is indeed wearing equipment that looks like a knight.
"Huh, what's a knight without a horse!" Su Chen muttered, nitpicking.
"Then, I don't need to explain the reason for calling everyone here..."
Dilbert didn't stay too long. He raised his hand and pointed to the giant tower at the end of the street, the first level of the maze, and continued to talk.
"...Today, our team found the way to the tower, which means that in a day or two we will reach the...boss room on the first floor!"
Although Su Chen was unhappy, he really had nothing to say, he did a great job.
"Although it took a month...but we must inform everyone about this. Defeat the boss, reach the second floor, and convey the news to the initial city that this death game has some hope of being broken.
Players. This is the obligation of us players who stand at the top! What I said is right, everyone!"
Applause and cheers resounded throughout the audience.
Su Chen looked at Dilbert, and a hint of admiration arose spontaneously. Although the words were polite, they undoubtedly gave everyone present a glimmer of hope. He gave him some hope for the players, and this player should also be given some hope.
The knight applauded warmly.
"Wait, Mr. Knight!"
An inappropriate voice sounded among the applause.
The cheers gradually dissipated, and the crowd in front opened to the left and right, and a slightly shorter man appeared in front of everyone, carrying a one-handed sword and having brown hair like a cactus.
"Hey, it's him!" Su Chen squinted his eyes. He remembered this person, the guy who just stared at him with a strange look.
Regarding this little episode, Su Chen said that someone would give me a break first.
"If you don't resolve that matter first, who will have time to play this kind of buddy game with you?"
Dilbert, whose speech was interrupted, did not panic at all and still looked calm.
"I welcome your opinions, but can you state your name before speaking?"
"snort!"
The player with the cactus head said to Dilbert: "My name is Kibaou!"
This name sounds like a brave swordsman, with his eyes radiating sharp light, staring at all the players present.
"I suspect we have some nasty guys among us!" Kibaou said in his unique voice.
"Huh? Doubt? You mean?"
Knight Dilbert, who was standing on the steps of the fountain, asked thoughtfully.
"Ah, isn't this obvious? More than two thousand people died. It was because those guys monopolized everything that more than two thousand people died in one month!"
Su Chen understood what King Ya said, and everyone present also understood it, so the whole place became quiet.
"Those guys you're talking about are...the original closed beta players, right?"
Diavel confirmed with a serious expression.
"Hmph, isn't this obvious?" Kibaou glanced at the knight behind him and continued.
"Those bastards disappeared from the starting city from the very beginning of the game, leaving tens of thousands of newcomers behind. However, they took the best tasks and experienced hunting grounds by themselves, became powerful, and finally became powerful again.
They are missing, huh, there must be a few of them here, they are bastards who have hidden their identities and are trying to get some benefits. According to me, if those guys don't come out to apologize and hand over the props and money, there is no way I can take them.
They treat them as teammates who are entrusted with their lives!”
For a while, some players similar to Kibaou yelled and cursed, and some players remained silent. Su Chen observed them with a thoughtful expression on his face.
"It seems that some beta testers did come to the venue. Well, the first guy I met seems to be a beta tester too. I wonder how he is doing recently? Didn't he come here today?" Su Chen sighed.
After that day, they also made an appointment to meet again, but they were delayed due to their own trivial matters. In the end, they did not meet again, but their names were always bright in the added contact list. They would contact each other occasionally.
Just like Kibaou said, it is true that some closed beta players did something a little unreasonable, but we can't generalize. That guy Clewell thought of his friends immediately and didn't even have the slightest idea of retaining information.
Occasionally, he would chat with Su Chen about some interesting anecdotes about Aincrad, trivial information during the closed beta period, etc. Therefore, Su Chen did not feel that Kibaou’s theory was correct, and always felt that he had brought his own
There is some personal feeling in it.
Moreover, there are quite a few beta testers who have died in front of them. The group of beta testers who came back to snatch the Wild Boar King that day died because they relied too much on their own knowledge during the beta test. Moreover, a few days ago, in
On the edge of Mirror Lake on the south side of the grassland, an unknown closed beta player relied on the information he obtained during the closed beta period and prepared to retrieve a certain treasure there. As a result, the monster guarding the treasure was not even seen and was captured.
The water arrow it fired killed him instantly.
Su Chen also specially went to buy some information from Argo. To be precise, he asked her to tell him the number of closed beta players and the existing number. In fact, he had already guessed that the proportion of closed beta players dying was greater than that of new players.
Asking why, it’s because newcomers don’t seek death easily.
"Can I speak?"
A very distinctive baritone voice brought Su Chen back from his thoughts.
Tall, burly, with chocolate-colored skin, the huge two-handed battle ax hanging behind his back does not affect his mobility at all. The most important thing is that he is bald. Su Chen will have some affection for bald players, maybe he is a monk.
Will's influence.
The muscular man who walked over from the fountain nodded slightly to several players, and then looked directly at Kibaou, who was very different in height.
"puff!"
Su Chen couldn't hold back, but fortunately, his voice was very low and did not cause unnecessary misunderstandings. The main reason was that compared with Kibaou, this guy was like a giant and a dwarf. Especially standing in a pile, it made people inexplicably think.
laugh.
"My name is Agil Kibaoh-kun. According to what you said, a large number of newbie deaths are due to the original beta testers' failure to save lives, so you want them to take responsibility, apologize and compensate, right?
"
"Yes...yes."
Faced with this sudden and inexplicable aura, Kibaou couldn't help but take a step back, almost falling into the spring water, but he quickly adjusted his posture, stared at the ax warrior named Agil with his sharp little eyes, and shouted
.
"It's because they didn't save them that two thousand people died! And most of the two thousand people who died were top players in other MMO games! Those hateful closed beta players, if they combine intelligence, props, and money
If we share it, there will be ten times the number of people here now... No, maybe it has already broken through two or even three floors, right?"
"Kabou-kun, that's what you want to say. Money and props don't matter, it's mainly about information."
Agil responded to Kibaou again. From the large pocket on the waist of the leather armor that was almost broken by the muscles, he took out a simple book prop made of parchment. On the cover, there was a drawing
It has round ears and three beards on the left and right (mark of the rat).
"You should also have this strategy book. And you can get it for free from the prop shop."
"What!"
A sudden roar interrupted everyone present. Yes, this sound was made by Su Chen.
"Damn Argo, give me back 500 yuan!" Su Chen shouted without tears.
Everyone present instantly understood that this guy was probably tricked by Argo. It seemed that he had offended someone.
Seeing those sympathetic looks, Su Chen just clenched his fists and said, Argo, wait for me.
in a house
"Ah Zhi...hey, who is talking about me!"
Chapter completed!