2108 AD.

In the low-rent apartment in China A City, in the game cabin, Zhan Xiaobai stared at the virtual game interface of "The Rise of the Three Kingdoms" with his eyes tightly, waiting to enter.

Zhan Xiaobai, 22 years old, was confused in college for 4 years, but he didn't find any knowledge and played games all day long, so he graduated and was the day he lost his job. Now he has not found a decent job in City A, so he has to play online games.

"The public beta countdown for virtual game "Rise of the Three Kingdoms": 10, 9, 81, 0, start."

At the moment of "0", Zhan Xiaobai clicked his finger to enter the game start interface. Xiao Zhao, a beauty in the Three Kingdoms system, came out. Set the account, password, fingerprint, retina, and then the name of the game character he always likes to use - "Xiaobai", confirm.

Haha, the registration was successful! The whole time took only 7 seconds.

Beautiful Xiao Zhao: "Welcome player Xiaobai into "The Rise of the City of the Three Kingdoms", now it is the 180th year of Guanghe of the Eastern Han Dynasty. You have plenty of time to build your city."

A white light flashed, wearing a cloth clothes, carrying a copper knife, Zhan Xiaobai, a level 0 civilian player, appeared in a wilderness, absolutely barren, weeds and wilderness, and wandering beasts, without any artificial traces in all directions—

This is exactly the charm of this virtual game. There are no novice villages, no supply stations, no pharmacies, equipment stores, etc. (there are in big cities, but players will definitely not be able to afford them in the early stages). Everything depends on players starting from scratch and building urban bases. Naturally, it is extremely difficult for players to develop their early power.

There are no small towns in this virtual world, only large and medium-sized cities in the system (such as Chang'an, Luoyang and other dozens of famous cities). All the spare land allows players to build villages and towns by themselves, and even climb a small village to a large scale in the imperial city. There are many virtual games of the Three Kingdoms on the market, but this kind of Three Kingdoms competition game with the theme of construction and operation is absolutely rare.

The Three Kingdoms theme virtual online game developed by China's most famous Shengshi Online Game Company, according to international authoritative market surveys, there will be at least 80 million players in China, with a peak of 200 million. There will be at least 300 million players in Asia and no less than 600 million players in the world. As a semi-professional player, Zhan Xiaobai has long seen its potential, so three months ago he actively got an internal test account and participated in the top-secret internal test of this game (there are only 10,000 internal test numbers in China, and Zhan Xiaobai got one after he was lucky).

Today is the day of public beta. Zhan Xiaobai was excited all day long, preparing a month's grain reserve early in the morning, and entering the game as soon as possible.

The number of players in the system shows that in just 10 seconds of public beta booting, the number of players in China has exceeded one million in one breath and is still rushing upwards in a straight line.

Zhan Xiaobai dared not delay and immediately checked his location through the system map.

The location he is randomly selected by the system, which may be the richest water town in Jiangnan, or the wilderness of the South, the deserted islands of the East Sea, and the Gobi Desert in the Western Regions. The player's character dies and can be randomly assigned to the location again. (After the player dies, you can choose: resurrect in place, resurrect in a random place, or resurrect in a rebirth point. The player has a freely set rebirth point.)

"Xiliang!"

After seeing his location on the map, Zhan Xiaobai was surprised. His location was about 100 kilometers away from Weiwu City, the important city of Xiliang, and about 100 kilometers away from the Qiang sphere of influence. It is close to the Longyou area. It is also considered a relatively dangerous place to survive. The Qiang barbarian forces are very powerful here. There are also NPc tycoons such as Ma Teng, Han Sui, and Dong Zhuo.

According to the experience of internal testing, Xiliang is not only dangerous, but also lacks supplies. It will be a very difficult task to develop a city base here. The biggest specialties here are horses, wool, and fierce soldiers.

Should we develop here? Or commit suicide and go to other places with rich land?

After thinking for a while, Zhan Xiaobai made up his mind and let it be here. Desolation has the benefits of desolation, and there should be fewer players who dare to grab territory here. Moreover, what he most likes is that the most important strategic material here is the war horses.

In just 2 seconds when Zhan Xiaobai was stunned when he was looking at the map, several white flashes of players descending within 10 square kilometers of his surroundings, and these people were randomly browsed to Xiliang. (According to the territory area of ​​25 million square kilometers in Han, even if there are 10 million players at present, 2 square kilometers will be allocated less than 1 player, which is very sparse. It will take several days for the player's population density to rise to a certain level.)

It seems that we have to hurry up and enter the game process, Zhan Xiaobai said to himself secretly.

Now I have two ways to go. One is to kill wild beasts from level 0 to 10 to upgrade. After level 10, you can choose a profession, and then join other powerful players with villages. The other is to find wilderness NPc villagers to do tasks and get various props, including the extremely precious "Small Village Construction Drawings", build your own city and become your lord.

Zhan Xiaobai has participated in the internal test, and his goal is to find the "Small Village Construction Drawings" as soon as possible. Time is life. It is not impossible to build a village at the beginning of the public test, and to dominate the country in the future, or even compete with various princes for hegemony.

Not daring to delay, he immediately ran on the wilderness, searching for a rare number of wilderness NPc. NPc has not been found yet, but the player encountered one.

There was a player with the name "A Fei" on his head. When he saw him running, he also ran away, and shouted: "Brother, can you take me with me?! I am a newcomer and don't know how to play."

Zhan Xiaobai looked back at him when he heard the voice. He was a young boy about 18 or 19 years old. But even though he was young, he was definitely a veteran player who could enter the virtual world at the first time.

Zhan Xiaobai added "A Fei" to his friend list and the team list, and said with a smile: "Okay, I have participated in the internal test and have some experience."

Ah Fei was furious and shouted excitedly: "Thank you, brother! I didn't expect that my brother had participated in the internal test, which was so amazing. I had been with the internal test account for three days and three nights. Brother, what should I do?"

"Okay, now we will spread out and look for NPc. I'll go west and you go north. After finding NPc, take the task, call me immediately, let's do it together."

"Well! Brother, I'll go find it right away."

Ah Fei turned his head and ran in the other direction.

Zhan Xiaobai chuckled and ran towards the west. At the beginning of the public beta, he met a partner with a tacit understanding. It was indeed because the luck came and the city wall could not stop it.

This game requires close cooperation between a large number of players, whether it is doing tasks, killing monsters, or building. Therefore, Zhan Xiaobai never rejects joining forces with other players. Of course, it is best for someone to take the initiative to cooperate with him. Along the way, he successively pulled three more players into the group and formed a 5-person team. This is the upper limit of the team members of level 0 civilian players, so there is no more. The five people went to find the wilderness NPc to take on the mission.

Zhan Xiaobai ran for more than five minutes, but he didn't even see the NPc hair shadow. He was bitten by several wild beasts and ran away. He was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

But he couldn't hurry, so he searched for wilderness NPc all depends on luck. And even if he found wilderness NPc, he might not be able to get the "Small Village Construction Drawings" task. During the internal test three months ago, he spent ten days to find a wilderness NPc and received a reward weapon task. He only got a construction drawing and built a small village. He became one of the few players who had experience in building villages. He came in a hurry without rushing to develop into a town, so the internal test ended.

"Hey, something is wrong!"

Zhan Xiaobai suddenly stopped. He found that the grass under his feet seemed to have traces of artificially cut grass, which was obviously different from the surrounding wilderness. If there is no NPc in the wilderness, there will naturally be no artificial traces. If there is no artificial trace, there must be NPc. This is summarized by his internal test and found important clues for NPc.

But where is NPc? There is a clear wilderness around it, and people cannot be hidden within a few miles.

Zhan Xiaobai was worried, and his feet slipped. With a "thump", he threw him into a dizzy head and eyes. He fell into a pit hidden in disguise.

trap.

Zhan Xiaobai came to his senses and found that he was in a deep trap.

In front of him, there was a "deceased old village chief" with gray hair and injured his legs.

Wow, the rare wilderness NPc. And it is a "death type" and he actually encountered it himself. Zhan Xiaobai is simply incredible. Generally speaking, the more help the players can help NPc, the more rewards they will be.

"The old village chief who died" lay in the trap. Facing Zhan Xiaobai who suddenly fell from the sky, he moaned excitedly: "Help! Hero, as long as I save my life, I will be grateful! Cough~!"

Zhan Xiaobai quickly got up, helped up the "dieged old village chief" and asked, "Old village chief, don't be anxious, just talk slowly!"

The old village chief who died: "I would like to ask the hero to save me from the trap, and then find some herbs to cure the wound. I will thank you very much!" He trembled and took out a drawing.

Zhan Xiaobai was inexplicably excited, and his eyes turned red when he looked at the drawings.

Drawings, drawings!

As the saying goes, Luoyang paper is expensive, but this drawing cannot be bought even if it is hundreds of thousands of yuan. It can only be obtained by the players' luck and opportunity. If you sell this drawing, even if it is sold for one million, someone will probably buy it immediately.

Zhan Xiaobai reached out and wanted to take it and take a closer look at what color it was. The pattern (actually I wanted to grab it immediately). The old village chief immediately retracted his hand and put it in his arms, looking at Zhan Xiaobai pitifully: "Hero, save me!"

Zhan Xiaobai smiled embarrassedly, with no slight redness on his face. Damn, this old man is very smart, and it is probably impossible to make him look white.

However, he looked up at the trap. It was more than five or six meters high, and the walls were straight and steep. Not to mention saving the "old village chief who died", even he was trapped here.

Zhan Xiaobai thought for a while, and called A Fei and the others with his friend communicator, and rushed over immediately to have important things to do.

Although Zhan Xiaobai didn't say anything specific, A Fei still guessed that Zhan Xiaobai must have encountered NPc. He was so excited that his feet were flying. In less than five minutes, he ran to the coordinate address that Zhan Xiaobai told him. He found a trap. A Fei poked his head and shouted into the dark trap: "Brother, are you okay! Hehe, why did you run into the trap and stay in the trap? Could it be that it's very cool below?"

Zhan Xiaobai smiled and scolded: "Damn it, you are the only one who is talking, find a rope and pull me up!"

"Okay!"

A Fei responded and immediately went to find the rope, but he looked around and it was empty. He said helplessly: "Brother, where did the rope come from in this wilderness?"

Zhan Xiaobai rolled his eyes: "Weaving a knotted rope, or finding a vine that is long enough, you can do it yourself."

"Wear a knotted rope? If I had this ability, I would have become rich. Let's find a stronger vine."

Ah Fei muttered, pulling his head down to get the rope.

Zhan Xiaobai was waiting bored in the trap, occasionally talking to the old village chief to cultivate "feelings". By the way, he saw how many good things the old village chief had. The old village chief hid and refused to say it.

Not long after, all the other three team members arrived.

They were not idle during this period. Zhan Xiaobai asked them to weave a large grass basket to carry the old village chief who died, the old village chief, who had no strength to climb out by himself along the rope.

Half an hour later, A Fei came back with a long vine and pulled Zhan Xiaobai up.

Zhan Xiaobai did not immediately pull the old village chief up.

In addition to Zhan Xiaobai and A Fei, the other three are "Qiu Shui", "Sword Ba", and "Spring and Autumn Young Heroes". They are all old players who often spend on forums, so they naturally know the significance of discovering the NPc in the wild mission.

The five people sat around the trap and were very excited. Among the five people, only Qiu Shui was a girl in her twenties. Jianba was a middle-aged man in his thirties. The young man in Chunqiu and Zhan Xiaobai were about the same age, both of whom were over 20 years old. A Fei was the youngest and just became an adult.

Zhan Xiaobai looked at them and smiled and said, "I won't say much extra words. I can tell you an accurate information. NPc in the trap has at least one drawing in his hand, and it is very likely that it is the "Small Village Construction Picture". After NPc comes out, we must protect him with all our might and prevent other players from robbing him until we get the drawing in his hand. I must say some things in advance that there is only one master of the drawing, and our team has only one leader. If you are willing to hang out with me, then you are welcome to stay. The benefits of the village will naturally be indispensable after the establishment of the village. If you don't want to, leave by yourself."

The young man from Chunqiu hurriedly said, "Brother Xiaobai is too worried. You have discovered the drawings, so they should naturally belong to you. We will also benefit from it with you!"

Qiu Shui nodded.

Jianba smiled and said, "I have no objection."

After the five people discussed, they put down the grass basket and hung the dead old village chief out of the trap.

The old village chief who died rebuilt Tian Ri, and immediately burst into gratitude to Zhan Xiaobai: "My benefactor, benefactor! I have no intention of repaying it, so I can only give this drawing of benefactor as a reward!"

Zhan Xiaobai excitedly took the drawings from the dead old village chief. He got the first small village construction drawing in the entire system. He looked at the attributes carefully and was immediately surprised.

"Small Village Construction Drawings": 1. You can use the lowest-level small village to build according to the drawings. The maximum number of villagers is 100, and you will automatically own a village chief administrative hall. After the construction reaches a certain scale, you can upgrade to a central village. 2. Special attributes: recruit NPc villagers, and a 5% chance to recruit abnormal NPc villagers.

According to his experience in internal testing, all construction drawings have only one attribute. This drawing has one special attribute, so I don’t know what’s going on.
Chapter completed!