Chapter 8, initial success in deception (Part 2)
The first day of traveling through another world, at noon, the Greek temple-like entrance to the Great Tomb of Nazarick
Under the sleepy warm sunshine, the cat knight Rachel lay lazily in the middle of the lawn, curling up into a fur ball comfortably.
Her other nine cat-men companions, as well as the unfortunate tiger-man warrior Seifer, who had her hair shaved off, were all lying on the lawn, fast asleep. Even the two little goblins who seemed to have infinite energy, after flying back and forth in the sunshine for a while, were now lying on the branches of the trees in the courtyard, each sleeping soundly. As for the slime mage Jismei who was afraid of being exposed to the sun, she had no choice but to curl up in the shadow of the temple and take a nap.
——After twelve hours of incredibly exciting adventures from last night to now, they were all exhausted.
Although the final result was a near miss, the specific process was really unbearable to look back on.
When this group of rookie college players who had experienced earth-shaking changes finally left the dark interior of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, returned to the surface, and saw the blue sky and white clouds again, there seemed to be a feeling in each of their hearts. It feels like a world away.
Then, there is the uncontrollable sleepiness and sleepiness - anyone will be so exhausted after extreme stress.
So, after Wang Qiu and others, who transformed into tabby cats (waiting for meow?), readily accepted the task of standing guard, the rookie players couldn't wait to fall asleep - I have to admit that under the warm sunshine, Falling asleep is really a very pleasant thing.
However, after getting enough sleep, they were woken up one by one by hunger.
"...I'm so hungry! Is there anything I can eat here?"
Caressing her growling belly, Cat Knight Rachel stood up reluctantly, but all she could see in her field of vision were vast grasslands, sparse trees, messy tombstones and tall stone statues. Although there might be something to eat in the Great Tomb of Nazarick, the cat knight Rachel, who had just escaped from the torture field there, really didn't want to return to that nightmare place, at least for a short time.
"...What should we do? If there is a river nearby, maybe we can try to catch fish, but here there is only grassland... Do we really want to be like cats and catch mice to fill our stomachs?" Cat Knight Rachel was irritated. Di pulled out the thin stabbing sword from his waist and poked the soil on the ground one after another.
Although she looks like a cat, she doesn't have the ability to catch mice. Besides, even if she catches mice, she probably won't be able to eat them.
——She is just a Hunanese who likes to eat chili peppers, not a Cantonese who can eat rat meat with wine without changing her expression or heart!
At the same time, her twin sister, the little fairy Flor, also encountered the same problem, so she was shuttled back and forth among the wild flowers on the grassland, using the little fairy's [Gathering] skill on the flower stamens. The problem is that although the little fairy is only fifteen centimeters tall, she is still much larger than bees and butterflies. Such a pitiful amount of pollen and nectar cannot fill her belly.
The other little fairy, the little fairy, was dancing in the snow, searching in vain among the trees for edible wild fruits. Unfortunately, the land had just entered spring, and it was still far away from the time when the fruits would mature. However, the slime mage Jismei is not very picky about food. She just found some relatively tender grass blades and could barely chew them. But looking at this guy's troubled expression, he seemed to be very uncomfortable eating - after all, no one likes to eat grass.
Fortunately, just when the cat knight Rachel was dizzy with hunger, the savior finally came to save their belly.
"...Little kittens! Come to eat! Woof! Master Momonga asked me to bring you food! Woof!"
Accompanied by a strange oral habit, a maid with a gentle tone but a very strange appearance appeared at the entrance to the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
In the Great Tomb of Nazarick, in addition to the six battle maids of the Pleiades, there are also forty-one ordinary maids who provide daily services. They are artificial humans belonging to alchemical life forms. They all look like beauties, but only She is an exception. Her shape is that of a dog-headed person, with a line in the center of her face - similar to a scar, with stitching marks on it. It felt like a face that had been split in two was barely stitched together.
Her name is Pestheny. S. Wang Ke serves as the head maid of the service department of the Great Tomb of Nazarick and is also a high-ranking priest.
(The dog-headed person... feels very much like an ancient Egyptian god. Attachment: The head maid of the combat department is the headless knight Yuri. Alpha.)
Although her dog-like head made all the cats on the lawn a little nervous, the mouth-watering smell that followed it strongly stimulated the noses and stomachs of all the novice players. It made them forget their little resistance to the dog in an instant.
——Right behind this bitch-girl maid, the Iron Golem player Bell, who had just reassembled his arms and legs and painted them in jungle camouflage colors, with a wooden sign saying "Wet paint is dry" on his chest, was carrying a huge The tray came out of the stairs in the center of the temple. When he placed the tray at the entrance of the temple, a variety of delicacies were immediately displayed: dried fish for the cat people, barbecue steaks for the tiger people, honey and milk pudding for the goblins, and slimes. Well...well, there is no need to prepare anything special for slime. Slime can happily eat any of the above-mentioned things.
As a result, the hungry cat knight Rachel, as if controlled by the cat's instinct, immediately pounced on the cat with meowing joy, buried her head in a basin filled with dried fish, and devoured it. It wasn't until she was half full that she seemed to remember something. She quickly turned around and saw that the tabby cat that she had rescued from the Lich King was still squatting at the door of the tomb wall to watch, and took it from the basin. He picked up the largest piece of dried fish and ran over happily.
However, what the enthusiastic cat knight Rachel didn't know was that the controller of this tabby cat had been quietly changed into a soul...
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China in the modern world of the 21st century, Beidaihe, the newly temporarily established "command center for combat against alien worlds"
In the center of a huge conference room filled with various LCD screens and blackboards, there are several hemispherical space chairs. Inside each space chair, a helmet-shaped three-dimensional virtual reality goggle screen is installed. There are also included microphones and stereo headphones, as well as restraints used to sense the movement signals of the player's hands and feet - if only from the appearance, it is quite similar to the electric chair used by Americans to execute death row prisoners.
——This is currently the most advanced civilian version of the virtual reality game cabin, which allows players to enter the virtual game world, enjoy real-life audio-visual effects, and remotely control the hands and feet of game characters, but there is really no way to control the sense of taste and smell. , even the touch of touch other than the hands and feet cannot be imitated. Not to mention a certain organ in the lower body... There is no way, the computer game technology in the 21st century can only reach this level.
At this moment, Wang Qiu had just left one of the space chairs, yawning tiredly while moving his limbs that were sore from sitting for too long. Just as Wang Qiu took off his helmet and left to rest, another National Security Bureau agent who had been waiting for a long time immediately switched to his post and kept the game character online 24 hours a day in case someone was far away in another place. What happened to a tabby cat in the world?
"...Oh, I finally deceived Comrade Lich King... Fortunately, the fifteen trapped people didn't know much..."
Wang Qiu picked up a can of coffee, drank a few sips, and then sighed to Political Commissar Guo and others.
——In fact, as early as when the Lich King Flying Squirrel had just returned from the surface, the tabby cat transformed by Wang Qiu was already quietly lurking in the corner of the arena, and watched the crowd in the Great Tomb of Nazarick fight against each other. The whole process of torture by five players:
Fortunately, none of the fifteen newcomers trapped in the infinite space seemed to have watched the work "Overlord" before. They only heard a few brief descriptions from the seniors after entering the infinite space. , knowing very little about the plot progression.
Therefore, although under the control of the Lich King Momonga's [All Race Charm] mental magic, they all told almost everything they knew, but it was still vague and contradictory, and they did not tell much of the truth.
Otherwise, if these fifteen trapped people were all familiar with "Overlord, King of the Immortal" and knew every detail of the plot, and then under the control of spiritual magic, told Momonga everything truthfully, then things would probably go wrong. It will become quite bad. At least Wang Qiu and the others will probably no longer be able to fool Momonga and his subordinates and guide the progress of this big adventure in another world.
"...By the way, have you sent anyone to investigate the identity and current situation of the fifteen trapped people in the "Overlord" plane?"
After drinking coffee, Wang Qiu then asked, "...They are all teachers and students of the same university in Changsha, Hunan. It shouldn't be difficult to investigate."
"...The central government has strictly ordered the police in Changsha, Hunan to conduct an investigation quickly, and a report is expected within 24 hours." Political Commissar Guo replied.
"...So, how is the situation of the game map? How many places can you see?" Wang Qiu asked again.
"...Except for the arena on the sixth floor of the Great Tomb of Nazarick and a small area such as the entrance temple on the surface, the rest of the map is still dark. Moreover, after you were sent out of the tomb by the Lich King Momonga, Even the arena has returned to darkness now.”
Political Commissar Guo pointed to the large screen hanging in the center of the conference room. The game map on it was almost completely dark. Only the center of the screen, the surface temple of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, and a small piece of surrounding grassland were in " Able to display the bright state of ".
"...This is not surprising. The Great Tomb of Nazarick is a top guild stronghold, and Momonga is a level 100 Lich King, and he still has that kind of cautious character, so there must be a lot of counter-reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance systems built in the stronghold. A magic barrier that prohibits space teleportation."
Wang Qiu nodded and replied, "...we were able to go in before because fifteen newcomers from the infinite space were trapped inside, and they could only enter the arena that temporarily served as a torture chamber. Now that they have been captured Come out, then the big tomb will naturally be closed again. What else will be discovered next? Is there any game cheat? Although the first-level kitten is light and flexible, its combat effectiveness is really tragic!"
"...Well, according to the research and investigation just now, through this server transformed from "The Book of Time Travel", we have obtained a certain degree of GM authority and can tamper with the level data of several game characters, but at most Limited to twenty people only.
If more players want to log in, the characters they create at the beginning will only have the initial attributes of race level one and profession level zero. Next, they must gain experience points by killing monsters and PK, and then they can level up bit by bit. ”
Political Commissar Guo replied, "...In addition, the character attribute tables of the fifteen trapped persons are also under the control of the GM on our end. They can be modified at will, and it will not take up the 20% of the newly created characters." A tampered cheating cheat quota”
"...In this case, let's increase them all to full level!" Wang Qiu suggested, "...Anyway, our place is actually absolutely safe, even if the game characters created in other worlds are killed. No matter how many times we do it, we will only lose a few game accounts. But if these fifteen people die unfortunately, our mission will be a failure, and we must try to improve their self-protection capabilities..."
"...This...it's best to wait. At least make sure that these fifteen people can obey the instructions. You know, the mutual trust relationship we have just established with the owner of the Great Tomb of Nazarick is still very weak." Fragile.”
Political Commissar Guo frowned and vetoed, "... rashly giving these guys powerful power before being able to confirm their reliability is almost the same as throwing bombs and explosives to a naughty kid. If they do it recklessly, If there is any big damage, it will be troublesome!”
"...Actually, it's not that serious. Since we helped them cheat to get a higher level, then naturally we can change it back to the original state at any time, turning them into weaklings again - these guys are also college students after all. You should be able to understand this. ”
Wang Qiu shrugged and curled his lips disapprovingly and said, "...Okay, we can put this issue aside for a while. Since we can create new characters in that world at any time without any restrictions, why not organize an army to go there immediately? We have reliable and obedient comrades here! Although we can’t actually occupy the land in another world, we can at least earn bonus points and complete this time traveling mission as soon as possible!”
"...Things are not that simple, Comrade Xiao Wang. Although this mission is carried out in the form of playing an online game, the other side is a real other world, or at least a highly realistic game world. We need to solve it in advance There are really many difficulties.”
Political Commissar Guo shook his head, "...First of all, it is a matter of diet. Based on our observations just now, we found that if there is no intake of food and water for a period of time, the blood bar of the game character will gradually begin to drop, and the more it The faster you fall at the back, if the time is longer, you may even die of thirst and starvation. . Moreover, the type of food that should be consumed seems to be related to the race setting of the game character. We just let a little cat eat some plant tubers dug out of the soil, but not only did it not restore any HP. value, but entered a state of slight poisoning.”
He took out a tablet, looked at it, and continued to summarize, "...Later, we checked the instructions for the game character settings and found that cat people must eat fish, mice, birds or other seafood regularly, and cannot just eat fish, mice, birds or other seafood. Eat vegetarian food, otherwise you will enter an unhealthy state; the goblins need to be fed with sweets, preferably fruits and honey as the main food, and at least sugar as the main food. As condiments; tigers need to eat a lot of meat every day; slimes are not picky eaters at all and can even eat carrion and insects, but it is very difficult to upgrade, moves very slowly, and is afraid of both sunlight and dryness. The Iron Golem does not need to eat, but it is heavy and bulky, making it difficult to move in the wild, and requires constant maintenance and lubrication.
Therefore, when supplies cannot be guaranteed, it is impossible to organize a large number of players to go to other worlds - we cannot let them kill each other!
Secondly, in addition to ensuring food and supplies, proper sleep is also essential for the game characters we create in other worlds. Otherwise, fatigue will continue to increase, and physical strength and magic power will decrease accordingly. In the most serious cases, It may even lead to sudden death.
Among them, kitten people need fourteen hours of sleep every day to ensure sufficient physical strength. Khajiits can be reduced to about twelve hours, slimes need ten hours of sleep, and goblins only need six hours of sleep. Only the Iron Golem can theoretically stay awake, but in reality it also requires cooling time and regular maintenance, otherwise its durability will gradually decrease, eventually leading to a weakening of its combat effectiveness.
Then, although we can tamper with the character data through the server, we can create twenty fully level 100 gamers. But there is no place to get equipment, potions and props. In addition, we currently don’t know where to get game gold coins..."
"...For game gold coins, there should be a [Coin Exchange Box] item in the Great Tomb of Nazarick. As long as we get the other party's consent, we can collect things in the world over there and throw them in to exchange for money. But the conversion price seems to be very high. What a scam, it takes a truckload of wheat to exchange for one gold coin..."
Wang Qiu scratched his hair, his expression slightly troubled, "...Do you still have supplies and equipment? It seems that for the time being, I can only count on the kindness of the Lich King in the big tomb. I hope this guy is good enough to talk... eh ? They seem to have actually delivered food, it’s really great! ”
——Through the big screen in the command center, everyone saw the scene of the Great Tomb of Nazarick delivering meals to visitors from another world.
"...Not bad, it seems that our Lich King is quite hospitable... But, oh, hehe, little brother Wang Qiu! That little female cat opposite seems to have a good impression of you. Look! I even sent you a love lunch!”
Seeing Rachel, the cat knight on the screen, spreading her legs and grabbing the dried fish in front of Wang Qiu's tabby cat, Ma Tong couldn't help laughing and teasing her. And Wang Qiu's response to her was the usual eye roll...
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In the afternoon, the kittens who had had lunch were once again defeated by the Sandman, and once again snored lazily in the sun.
However, other new world players or explorers who have just come online are still busy working tirelessly.
For example, an iron golem equipped with a magnifying glass and a small shovel, driven by tracks at the bottom, and looking quite similar to a Mars rover, was walking on the grassland outside the Great Tomb of Nazarick, digging up some soil from time to time. For analysis by the two goblin players following behind.
——The two goblins currently using these two goblins are two experienced agricultural experts who have been ordered to evaluate the agricultural value of this land.
"...Although there is no way to carry out more specific composition testing now, based on experience, this is definitely a fertile land blessed by nature! It is simply a natural granary! At least it can be compared with the Ukrainian grasslands or the Polish plains in Europe Compare! ”
One of the goblin experts lamented, "...the terrain is so flat and the difficulty of development is very low. I really don't know why it has not been cultivated."
"... I heard that it is because we are located on the border between the two countries and have frequent wars, resulting in a sparse population." Another expert shrugged, "... In addition, the level of agricultural technology and main crop varieties in this world are also an important factor. It’s impossible to evaluate the variables without seeing them with your own eyes.” “…Then just wait a moment! I heard that tonight, the higher-ups will launch an investigation into possible human settlements nearby…”