Chapter 696 Things in the City
Ji Xiaoyan looked up at the golden wooden plaque hanging on the top of the gate inlaid with gold and vermilion lacquer and carved with the four characters "Miscellaneous Things Are Easy" inscribed with flying phoenixes, and turned his head He looked at Qi Qu and asked, "Is this the headquarters of Zashi Wanyi?" From the outside, it looked quite splendid, and the business seemed to be very good! Of course, compared to the city lord's palace they had just visited, the quality here was still a bit lower.
Qi Qu nodded gently to Ji Xiaoyan and replied: "Yes, Deputy City Lord, this is the headquarters of our Wanqi City Miscellaneous Affairs Wanyi!" After saying that, Qi Qu went directly After passing Ji Xiaoyan and old man Qingmi, he stepped into the gate and casually caught an ordinary NPC inside and whispered a few words. After a while, Ji Xiaoyan saw the ordinary NPC lead a fat, white, middle-aged NPC wearing a dark blue and white silk robe to emerge from nowhere and stand next to Qi Qu.
"Deputy City Lord, this is Steward B." Qi Qu politely and verbosely introduced everything about Steward B to Ji Xiaoyan. Of course, this There was a lot of nonsense in the middle, including how many children Steward B had fought with since he was a child, how much mud he had played with, and so on. Finally, Qi Qu said calmly: "What you want to know , Steward B should be able to help a little bit. If you two have any questions, just ask Steward B." After saying that, Qi Qu smiled lightly at Ji Xiaoyan and old man Qingmi and bowed. He confessed: "The city lord is still waiting to return to my life next time, so I won't accompany you two more, so I'll take my leave now!"
After saying that, Qi Qu left Ji Xiaoyan and old man Qingmi and turned around. People.
After Qi Qu turned around, Steward B, who was responsible for all the chores, immediately waved to Ji Xiaoyan and the others politely and directly said that he would lead them upstairs for a detailed discussion. Only then did the old man Qingmi's thoughts finally come to an end. He wanted to get angry at Qi Qu.
By the time Ji Xiaoyan and Old Man Qingmi followed Manager B to the third floor of Zashi Wanyi Headquarters, the sky in Wanqi City had already darkened, and the whole city was plunged into a black and blue haze. In the fog, many shops in the city lit up red candles in front of their doors. The number of players, pedestrians and NPCs on the street also decreased a lot. After a while, there was even the slightest hint of rain in the sky. drizzle.
Ji Xiaoyan stood in front of the window on the third floor, looking down at the street below, watching the water dripping quietly along the eaves and creating a circle of ripples on the ground, while waiting for Manager B to go to the information room Help her find clues to the Land of the Dead.
"Girl, I see that no one in Wanqi City is a good person! If that manager can really find us clues later, let's get out of here quickly!" Old Man Qingya frowned He frowned and pursed his lips while chewing on the room While looking at the fruits on the table, he said to Ji Xiaoyan: "I don't have any good intentions when I look at that city lord. Did you see the expression on his face when we said we weren't going to visit him and were about to come down the mountain... ..Tsk tsk... At first glance, it seems that I have not succeeded, so I’m unhappy, and I don’t know what his intentions are! The Qi Qu who just showed us the way, and the steward who left us here, saying that the information room is not convenient for outsiders to enter, and insists on letting us wait here... ....I looked at them one by two They all have evil intentions..."
Ji Xiaoyan nodded with deep understanding, leaned against the window and said to old man Qingya: "Probably, but the rain seems to be getting heavier... .Should we wait until the rain stops before leaving? ”
"What are you waiting for? Haven't you heard the term 'Long Nights and Dreams'?" When old man Qingmi heard Ji Xiaoyan's words, he immediately stared and said: "When we find the news, we will go out to find other people immediately, and then leave here." In fact, if you really want to let go, Qing Mi Lao According to what the leader said, he was not willing to look for anyone else at all. In his opinion, apart from Ji Xiaoyan and his team, at most Ye Ying Layer had some value, and the others... ..He just doesn’t care.
"Okay!" Ji Xiaoyan sighed softly after hearing what Old Man Qingmi said, turned back and looked out the window, and continued to sigh: "I don't know where Xiaohei and the others went. They should be Do you know where we are coming from? Why don’t you see anyone? Is it because we are too far away and we won’t be able to get through in a while?”
A beautiful bamboo forest in Wanqi City. .
Silver-thin raindrops enveloped the world like a gauze. A curve of light green water circled the bamboo forest like a jade belt. In the distant night, there was a faint line. Shan Dai stood tall and shadowy. The rain and dew blew on the tall and slender Phoenix-tailed Bamboo in the bamboo forest, and slowly gathered into beads, sliding down along the elegant and unique leaf tails. The crystals were like broken threads, beating on the soil and grass, intermittent, clear and clear. Like a lady tapping a chime. And deep in the bamboo forest, there is a white wall, about two meters high, covered with black tiles, and the top of the wall is built in an undulating wave shape. In the middle, the red painted door of the moon hole is ajar, and there is a faint shadow. The sound of the piano and the sound of music could be heard, and a black plaque hanging on the door was engraved with two big characters of dragons and flying phoenixes, and two big gilded characters of "Bamboo Garden" were written on it.
At this moment, Meow Xiaohei and Thunder Kitten, who are being cared about by Ji Xiaoyan, are squatting at the gate of the bamboo garden, together with Piaopiao Heimu's group of players that they met at the foot of the mountain. , looking at the gate of the Bamboo Garden with a depressed look on his face.
"What do you think, when will players come here?" Piao Piao Heimu moved his numb feet, turned his head to look at the others and asked, and then turned his head to look at Zhu Zhu. From the direction where the sound of the piano came from in the garden, he sighed and said: "I don't know when the NPCs inside will be finished! We have all been squatting here for a long time."
"Wait! Otherwise, what else can we do?" Meow Xiaohei sighed heavily, and then said: "Today is really unlucky. If I had known, if I had known, we would not have talked to that NPC. I won’t do this task anymore.”
“Who could have expected that things would develop like this?” Piaopiao Heimu sighed and started playing with his fingers in frustration.
Meow Xiaohei and the others are really not very lucky.
It was okay to be separated from Ji Xiaoyan and the others. After walking along the mountain road for a while, they were ready to wait for Ji Xiaoyan and the others. Who knows, but not long after they stood there, a group seemed to The armed forces of Wanqi City who patrolled the NPC came, and then they only said one sentence, just to chase them away and let them leave quickly. They couldn't block the road halfway, otherwise they would be punished for having evil intentions. They were driven out of Wanqi City for the crime. So, after everyone discussed it, they went up the mountain road and started to look for NPCs and players to find out about Zanzhi Wanyi's headquarters. They thought that as long as they found a place, they could always meet up with Ji Xiaoyan and the others, right?
However, they had not gone far into the city when they met Piaopiao Heimu and his team, who had been up the mountain for a while and were wandering around the city doing tasks to earn the honor of Wanqi City.
Very enthusiastic Piaopiao Heimu, after seeing Miao Xiaohei and the others, immediately said that they knew the headquarters of Miscellaneous Wanyi and wanted to go there as well, just in time to take Miao Xiaohei and the others for a ride. So the two teams got together directly and headed towards Zashi Wanyi's headquarters. What they didn't expect was that after they wandered around for a while, they suddenly discovered an NPC on the street who obviously had a mission.
Don’t ask them how they knew that NPC had a mission.
No one can explain the player’s intuition!
As a team whose main goal is to complete tasks and want to earn the honor of Wanqi City in exchange for things, the task NPC that suddenly appears in front of them is simply a piece of cake falling from the world. , If you don’t pick it up, you’re just trying to get something from nature, and you’re not hesitating the blessings!
So, Piao Piao Heimu happily left the others behind and ran towards the NPC. Meow Black and Thunder Kitten are not interested in doing tasks. According to Piaopiao Heimu and the others' introduction, the tasks in Wanqi City generally do not have any substantial rewards. Basically, they are all rewards for the honor of Wanqi City. Players have collected a certain amount of Wanqi City. If you have honor, you can go to the NPC to exchange for items. As for Miao Xiaohei and the others, they only followed Ji Xiaoyan to Wanqi City for a short stay. Doing tasks would be a waste of time, not to mention that they would not be able to get the rewards in time.
So, in Piaopiao Heimu, I went to chat with the NPC for a few words, and then ran back in high spirits, saying that I wanted Miao Xiaohei and the others to help them complete the task. When asked, Meow Xiaohei really didn’t agree for a while.
It was only later that Piaopiao Heimu said that the NPC said that her mission must be released to more than eight people, and Piaopiao Heimu and their team still lacked a few people, so they needed Miao Xiaohei. They helped gather the number of people. Piaopiao Heimu said that after accepting the mission, they don’t need Meow Xiaohei and the others to help with the mission. They only need to collect the rewards when there is more time. After that, they talked about it for a long time, Super Thunder It was Da Mao who took the initiative and agreed to this matter.
Then, the two teams approached the NPC and gave them the task.
The missions in Wanqi City are very strange. They are not as good as the missions that Miao Xiaohei and the others have encountered before. After talking to the NPC, a system prompt will appear. The tasks in Wanqicheng only need to be completed by talking to the NPC, following the clues given by the NPC, and going directly to do the work. After completing the work, you can go directly to the NPC to receive the reward.
As for how these NPCs comment on the completion of tasks, players have no idea at all, and they don’t want to guess. As long as they can get the reward, that's it.
After Miao Xiaohei and the others finished talking to the NPC, they originally thought that they could leave directly with the task clues, and then after arriving at Zashi Wanyi's headquarters, the two teams returned to each other. Everyone is doing their own thing on the way home. Who knows, after the conversation was completed and it was confirmed that Miao Xiaohei and Piaopiao Heimu were going to take on the mission, the NPC directly called out several NPCs from nowhere and escorted them to Wanwan. This bamboo garden in Qicheng City is here.
What happened next was much simpler.
According to the NPC who issued the task, the owner of this bamboo garden invited a lot of friends to entertain and celebrate something, and usually there are relatively few NPCs serving in the bamboo garden. If the owner's friends come to discover this situation, they will definitely lose face and value to the owner of the bamboo garden. So this NPC came up with a way to ask players to help, gather the number of people present, and give face to the owner of the bamboo garden.
What Miao Xiaohei and the others need to do is also very simple, that is, while the friend of the owner of the bamboo garden has not left, they should stay at the door of the bamboo garden, guard it carefully, and act like a doorman or waiter to guide him to the door. Just look at the NPCs that come and go.
Of course, this task does not mean that the owner of the Bamboo Garden will hold a party for as long as Miao Xiaohei and the others need to stay in the Bamboo Garden. The NPC who issued the mission said that as long as the next group of eight or more players replaces them or the party in the bamboo garden ends early, then they can complete the mission and get rewards and leave.
However, this sounds like a good idea, but it makes Piaopiao Heimu and Meow Xiaohei extremely depressed.
After they took over the task, they have been at the gate of the Bamboo Garden for a long time. Except for a few NPCs they met when they first came here, they haven't seen even cats or dogs since then. Player? Not to mention, I don't know if the NPC who issued the mission to them felt that it was enough to fool them, so he stopped going out to fool other players.
They are trapped here now anyway.
Run away without tasks and rewards? Don't think about it. The NPC who issued the mission had already anticipated this situation, and as a precaution, he put a state on them when they arrived at Zhuyuan. As long as they step out of the gate of this bamboo garden before the mission is completed, they will not only be weak for twenty-four hours, but also have a wanted crime in Wanqi City.
So, who dares to run?
Meow Xiaohei sighed heavily again, looked at the gap in the bamboo garden gate, and said quietly: "How long will this party last? It won't be open for a few days, right?"
"Xiao Hei, I think you still expect It would be more practical to wait for players to pick up our squad as soon as possible!" Piaopiao Heimu turned her head and looked deep into the bamboo garden again, said something to Meow Xiaohei, and then looked at her teammates and said apologetically! : "It's all my fault, if I hadn't been so active in taking on this As for the mission, maybe now we have collected enough honors to go to the NPC shop to exchange for things.”
“Piaopiao, what are you talking about?” A male player in Piaopiao Blackwood’s team suddenly heard this. He smiled and comforted her and said, "Actually, this task has already been completed." It's pretty good. Except that it's a bit boring to sit here and not be able to walk around. Think about it, we can get a lot of honors without having to run around. This is all with a lantern. What a good thing that can’t be found! ”
"Yes, yes!" Several other players quickly agreed.
Piaopiao Heimu smiled easily, looked at Meow Hei and said: "I just feel a little sorry for Xiao Hei and the others, for wasting a lot of their time..."
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