Chapter 8 Heim Village
On the screen, the two-headed Viola held up a pixel light ball, and the light spots scattered outward. The expression was somewhat similar to the comics.
At the edge of the screen, Li Chengqi opened a circle of character cards of the female knights in advance. He saw that the part representing the health bar was slowly growing.
The magic added to Viola's skill bar is called 'Holy Light', which is the lowest level of group healing magic. The description also says that this skill can cause a certain amount of damage to evil creatures.
Although Li Chenxi can directly reach into the screen to interfere with the two-headed villain in the game, treatment is obviously not just about reaching in, and the cost-effectiveness of granting divine magic is very high.
At first, Li Chengqi just accidentally put his finger in and shook it, and the initial faith value of 500 became single digits, and the magic of granting sacred light only consumed 10.
This price/performance ratio is quite good.
Through these two days of observation and research, Li Chengqi confirmed that belief is the most important resource in this game, and it grows very slowly.
He speculated that it may have something to do with the number of believers, their piety and whether they pray regularly.
Adding Holy Light to Viola's skill bar is partly out of the idea of doing an experiment, and partly because Viola wants to use this trick to recruit more believers. After all, Holy Light looks awesome. The price is very high, and it also has a healing effect.
They all say that belief in utilitarianism is not advisable, but in fact it is of no benefit at all. Why should I believe you?
For example, when doing business, you may worship the God of Wealth or Lord Guan, or you may go fishing to worship the Dragon King. These are all purposeful.
Putting down the headset, Li Chengqi stretched.
The flow of time in the game is the same as in reality, but there is a time difference of about four hours. It was 5:30 pm in the game, but it was already 9:30 pm in real time.
He checked the store's doors and windows one last time, closed his notebook and headed upstairs.
Yesterday, I was too concerned about this game and couldn't sleep well at all. Today, Li Chengqi planned to take a shower and go to bed early.
Obviously he didn't notice that the religious painting style he accidentally created became more and more strange...
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Time flew by, and three days passed in the blink of an eye.
At eight o'clock in the morning, Li Chengqi opened the rolling shutter door of the store, stood at the door and moved his body while watching the increasingly lively street.
"Good morning, Brother Li."
"Morning, be careful while riding, grab some bread and then go to the cram school."
"No, no, I'm going to be late!"
The kid from the hardware store next door got on his bicycle and disappeared around the corner of the street.
At this time, a small truck stopped at the door, and the person in the car waved to Li Chengqi: "Xiao Li, you are too late to open the door today."
"I accidentally fell asleep."
Li Chengqi took two steps closer and asked:
"Brother Zhang is taking his sister-in-law out?"
"It just so happens that the kids are on summer vacation, and I'm thinking of taking my wife and kids to the beach for a few days."
"You are such a cool family."
"You should start a family as soon as possible."
Brother Zhang waved his hand:
"Stop talking, I'm leaving."
"Drive carefully." "Okay, see you later."
Brother Zhang's family owns a small restaurant not far next door. The price is cheap and the quantity is abundant. Li Chengqi mainly lives on their food.
Brother Zhang and his family went out to play, and Li Chengqi didn't trust other takeaways, so he probably had to eat instant noodles every day.
Watching the minivan disappear around the corner, Li Chengqi turned around, sat down behind the cashier, and opened his laptop.
Nothing happened in the game during these three days, and it was very bland.
Viola, who has attracted much attention, holds meetings every day, goes out to talk to the residents of Leon Fortress, and holds meetings again. And every time she prays, Viola always says that she hopes the Demon King God will guide her on the way forward.
To be honest, how could Li Chengqi know how to give guidance?
The only thing he wanted Viola to do before was to send scouts to look around. She had already sent them out, and there was really no need to talk to her again.
Because the process of these three days was so repetitive, Li Chengqi was tired of it.
As the screen lit up, a luxurious pixel-style bedroom appeared on the screen, with red-haired Viola lying on the bed, sleeping in a very bad posture.
There is also a string of 'zzzz' floating next to the head, which is really a very classic form of expression.
Due to the four-hour time difference, it was already eight o'clock in the morning here in reality, but it was still four o'clock in the morning in the game, and most people were still dreaming.
Li Chengqi glanced at Viola's poor sleeping posture with the quilt kicked on the floor and a pillow in her arms, and then clicked the button on the edge of the screen to exit the current area.
At first, Li Chengqi thought that the protagonist of this game was Viola. After all, the opening plot told the causes and consequences from her perspective.
But after playing for a few days, Li Chengqi discovered that this game is actually closer to a sandbox without a protagonist. If pressed, the protagonist is the demon king played by the player.
There are more than 10,000 people in Leon Fortress alone. It's no problem for Li Chengqi to see anyone's daily life. There is no need to always pay attention to one person.
It happened that Li Chengqi was tired of always paying attention to Viola, so Li Chengqi zoomed the screen to the size of the map and began to check the new areas explored by the scouts.
As expected, Leon Fortress is located in a mountainous area, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side. It is true that there is a great plain in the north. However, only five small villages have been found so far, and not even a town-sized gathering place has been found yet.
Since the mounted scouts could only walk on flat land and roads, the fog of war and the explored areas on the map looked like dog gnaws, which made Li Chengqi, who was a bit obsessive-compulsive, very unhappy and wanted to blacken everything with his own hands. The fog of war was lifted.
The camera zooms in and out in the wilderness, and occasionally you can find some animals in the wilderness, such as goats on the rock walls and wild wolves in the jungle.
Theoretically speaking, you can even see bugs lying on the leaves if you put it at its maximum size, but the bugs are really too small. In the pixel-style game screen, they are only one or two pixels, so it is difficult to notice them.
After casually looking around to see if there was anything noteworthy in the newly explored wilderness, Li Chengqi moved the mouse again and clicked on Heim Village, which is closest to Leon Fortress.
There is Viola in the Leon Fortress. She should be able to promote the Demon King God and help attract more believers, but there is no one outside the Leon Fortress to help.
Li Chengqi wanted to see if Heim Village could be included in the scope of intervention.
But I don’t have an idea of what to do specifically yet. I turned my eyes away from Viola this time because I planned to come to Heim Village to investigate.
At this time, the sky in the game had just turned pale, but when Li Chengqi moved the camera to Heim Village, there was already someone standing at the door of a small house not far from the village entrance.
At first glance, it looks like a family of three, but if you take a closer look, you will find that there should be three people, grandfather and grandson, an old man, an old lady, and a child.
The old man was carrying a hoe, the old lady was beside him as if giving instructions, and the child was holding a basket and handing it over. A large yellow dog circled around the child.
Since the characters are all two-headed Q-version pixel style, in Li Chengqi's opinion, the basket may be bigger than a child.
This scene looks like a farmer going out to work in the fields in the morning. Li Chengqi’s hometown is also in the countryside. When he was a child, he saw his grandparents picking vegetables before dawn.
Having said that, I still feel a little nostalgic.
(End of chapter)