The Monster is Coming

Chapter 61 NPC Favorability

[Purchase bodybuilding skills at a high price in cash, transfer the money offline on the spot after the transaction is completed, no deception. 】

[If anyone has unused bodybuilding skills, don't worry that I don't have the money. If you're willing to sell them, you can name any price.]

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Zhou Xiao's good luck has once again ignited the enthusiasm of the player community to find the God of Wealth.

The posts on the forums by heavy-spending players seeking to purchase body-building combat skills have further ignited the enthusiasm of players.

The price of a set of body-building skills has been hyped up to 400 million cash on the forum, and there is no demand for it. Apart from Zhou Xiao, no other player has obtained it yet.

Although some of the players who bid were just shouting out prices randomly on the forum, body-building skills still have great temptation for ordinary players, meaning that they can become rich overnight by obtaining a set of body-building skills.

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Blood plain.

A team of ten players is engaged in a fierce battle against a group of goat-like monsters called the Wrathhorns.

"Flame, hear my cry and appear."

Accompanied by shouts full of middle school feeling, two balls of inky flames ignited in the hands of a player in the team, and quickly spread around his body. The flesh and blood on his body dissipated under the calcination of the flames, revealing the white bones.

Switching to Bonefire form, the player raises his hand to condense several fireballs and shoots them at the group of angry horns.

"I grant you to turn into kebabs!"

The three angry horns that were hit by the fireball were immediately covered by blazing inky flames and let out mournful cries.

"Eat dirt, can you stop being so immature? It gives me goosebumps. Can you change your lines to something more serious?"

Hearing this, Chi Tu, who had transformed into the form of bone and fire, raised his middle finger towards Sha Xin Mo:
"Pah, aren't you embarrassed by your little snake entanglement?"

"It's the big snake, you're the small snake..."

While hunting monsters, there were constant bickering in the team voice channel, and the atmosphere was joyful.

At this moment, Chi Tu suddenly found a familiar figure in the distance, and he immediately switched to the eagle-headed monster form to look.

With the help of Eagle Eyes, the figure in the distance became clear.

"Brother Li, it's the God of Wealth!"

Hearing the cry of eating dirt, Li Zheng, who was in the form of a giant snake over ten meters long, felt a chill in his heart.

"Pooh!"

He spit out the goat-shaped horn in his mouth to the side, raised his huge head and looked in the direction where the earth eater pointed.

His vertical pupils suddenly contracted, his sight zoomed in, and he saw a familiar figure.

He was about 1.65 meters tall, with light blue hair and an expressionless face like an exquisite doll. At this moment, he was sitting upright on the twisted tree with his eyes closed.

"Hiss, good luck is coming."

As Li Zheng spoke, his body twisted and shrank rapidly, switching to human form, and a black cloth garment automatically appeared on his body.

After working hard in the Dark Cave for several days and completing the purification mission, his contribution ranked first. The reward he received allowed his body forging level to reach level 3, but when facing low-level monsters that could be easily killed, he still habitually liked to fight in the black-armored snake form.

The current black-armored snake form has grown to level 22, with a body length of 11 meters. Its strong physical fitness can easily strangle a large tree.

It has reached the state of being entangled by a real giant snake.

When they discovered the trace of the God of Wealth, Li Zheng and Gan Diqun's brothers were very excited and ran decisively in the direction where Duan Xing was.

Duan Xing, who was not far away, also sensed a figure approaching and opened his pure white eyes to look at Li Zheng and others.

But he did not choose to leave, as he was curious about what these people who called themselves the Wan Clan wanted from him.

When Li Zheng and others approached, he jumped off the tree trunk and landed steadily.

Before he could speak.

"God of Wealth, I finally see you, let's go through the process quickly."

"God of Wealth, I also want some body-building fighting skills. There are ten of us here, one for each of you."

"God of Wealth, do you have a hidden mall function here? Can I buy good things that are not available in the ordinary mall?"

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Broken Star: ...

This series of questions confused Duan Xing.

Seeing Duan Xing standing there in a daze, Li Zheng and other hardcore players suddenly became worried.

The members of the Hardworking Team spoke in the team voice channel:

Family Sharing Godfather: Brother Li, maybe the way you open it is wrong? You can’t ask for it directly, you have to be tactful.

Leopard Head Zero Charge: Stop joking, it's progressing too fast. I was scrolling through the threads the other day and saw that someone had to chat for a long time before they got the body-building combat skills red envelope. We also have to chat slowly and wait for the right time for the God of Wealth to give it to them.

Poor enough to eat dirt: Is there a possibility that the prerequisite for asking the God of Wealth for a red envelope is to have enough personal favorability? The special event of saving the God of Wealth last time changed his favorability towards our player camp from hostility to friendliness, so he didn't take action as soon as they met, but his personal favorability towards us is 0. It will not work to ask for things directly, you have to proceed step by step. Based on my experience of playing games for so many years, giving gifts is the easiest way to increase favorability.

Sha Xindong: Yes, try to improve your impression first instead of asking for things directly. That’s too rude.

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"I don't understand what you are saying. What do you want from me?" Duan Xing asked in a deep voice while looking at Li Zheng and others who were standing there in a daze.

After communicating in the voice channel, Li Zheng and other players in the hardcore group decisively changed their strategies.

They took out canned food of various flavors from their space bags and handed them to Duan Xing with a flattering look on their faces:

"Eat something?"

Seeing that Li Zheng and others actually took out a bunch of things out of thin air, Duan Xing's expression became very interesting.

He realized something.

These guys actually carried space props with them.

How could he not know the value of this thing?

Now he is just a reserve soldier and cannot be equipped with space props.

But even if you are promoted to a formal soldier of the Against Tide Legion, you still need a lot of military merit to equip yourself with space props.

Such a precious thing, yet these guys who call themselves the gaming family each have one.

But when he thought about it carefully, Duan Xing couldn't help but shake his head in his heart.

Space props all have physical carriers. He had killed a large number of family members before. After their death, they would turn into black mist and dissipate without dropping any items. This did not conform to the characteristics of space props.

Could it be that it is because of their peculiar body structure that there is space inside their bodies to store items?
Duan Xing then thought of another possibility.

There is a racial force in the Against Tide Legion called the "Air Clan". Members of this tribe possess a special racial skill. When they reach adulthood, their stomachs will undergo magical changes, forming a space where they can store things.

He felt that the members of the Wan family were likely to possess similar abilities, and by changing their body structure, they could form a small space inside their bodies to store items.

But if you think about it carefully, this explanation still cannot explain why after death one turns into black mist and dissipates but no items are dropped.

Facing the food handed over by Li Zheng and others, Duan Xing did not refuse and took it. He planned to have a good chat with this group of members of the playing family and find out the internal situation of their race and the origin of their special abilities.

Sitting on the ground, Duan Xing violently unscrewed the lid of the can, took a bite of the food and couldn't help frowning.

This food does not contain any energy and is purely used to satisfy hunger. It is worthless. It would be more efficient to directly absorb the energy of heaven and earth to replenish the body's consumption.

But in order to gather intelligence, he still patiently ate in small bites, looking for an opportunity to ask questions.

During this time, Li Zheng and others also sat down in front of Duan Xing, watching him eat, and automatically imagined the text prompts popping up above the head of the God of Wealth:
Favorability +1
Favorability +1
With a good start, all you have to do next is wait for the favorability to reach the required level before you can receive the gift from the God of Wealth.

In the subsequent conversation, Duan Xing asked about the origin of the Wan family.

Although he had already asked Zhou Xiao this question, he still planned to learn more about it.

When asked, Li Zheng's thoughts were completely different from Zhou Xiao's.

Zhou Xiao said whatever he wanted to say without hiding anything, and never thought about the possible impact.

But Li Zheng is different.

As a veteran player, he knows that the NPCs in the game world are actually intelligent AI created by the Eclipse Clan. They are implanted with memories corresponding to the background of the game world when they are born. They are not aware that they are NPCs, but think they are living beings. They are not even aware that the meaning of their existence is to create game content for players.

Therefore, directly explaining that you are a player is essentially breaking the rules of the game and giving the NPC content that they cannot understand.

Li Zheng believes that this behavior is extremely shameful. In serious cases, even the NPC who knows the truth will be taken back by the Eclipse Clan and initialized to prevent the NPC from doubting its own positioning and having thoughts beyond its positioning.

As a player, Li Zheng feels that he has to put himself in the player's background to interact with NPCs.

This is also a way to enhance your sense of immersion in the game.

Therefore, when he introduced the playing family, he used the guide to introduce the background as a reference description.

He said that he was once a member of the Wan family who believed in the Emperor's Omen. After the coming of the Black Tide, the Wan family fell into a deep sleep and only woke up recently. They wanted to rekindle the fire of the Emperor's Omen and take back the territory swallowed by the Black Tide.

During this period, Li Zheng also introduced the land under his feet to Duan Xing.

This means that this is the Emperor's Tomb Mountain Range, where the Emperor's Omen was once buried, and it is also the borderland of the monster world.

But unlike Zhou Xiao, Li Zheng did not mention Dizhong Village.

Because the Novice Village is the player's resurrection point, Li Zheng believes that it is obviously difficult for NPCs to understand.

The communication went smoothly and there was no problem of content being blocked or banned.

After Duan Xing collected this information, his desire to win over the Wan family became stronger and stronger.

But the problem is that the Wan family is a race from ancient times. They still believe in the ancient creator god Di Zhao, have old-fashioned ideas, and seem unwilling to join the Anti-Tide Legion.

After chatting for a long time, Li Zheng found that Duan Xing had not yet proposed the idea of ​​giving a red envelope, and he became impatient.

As a brick-moving player, time is money in his eyes and he cannot continue to waste it like this.

"God of Wealth, we have a saying in the Wan family called reciprocity, which means that after a friend gives you a gift, you should give a gift in return. This is a very polite expression."

Hearing this, Duan Xing was stunned, then looked down at the empty can of food in his hand.

Li Zheng's meaning was very clear. He obviously hoped that he could give some gifts in return.

Thinking of the Wan family's life-saving grace, Duan Xing did not care too much about the value of the food. After a brief thought, he took out a purple crystal from his arm guard and handed it to Li Zheng:

"This is the Purple Soul Crystal, my return gift."

After taking the purple soul crystal and seeing the analysis information showing that it was a level 7 spiritual ore, Li Zheng smiled widely.

After chatting for a long time, I finally got something. It turns out that I still have to improve my impression first before I can start the subsequent red envelope process.

But after taking the crystal, he couldn't help but ask:

"God of Wealth, do you have any body-building skills to give away?"

Hearing this, veins on Duan Xing's forehead throbbed. He realized that the news of the body-building skills given to the Wan family last time had obviously spread among the player community.

The main purpose of their approach this time was to ask for the body-building fighting skills.

"No, I only carry a set of body-building skills." Duan Xing shook his head decisively to express his refusal.

Duan Xing's answer disappointed Li Zheng and others, and the team voice channel also analyzed it:

"Brother Li, maybe our favorability is not high enough, or the God of Wealth's backpack has not yet been refreshed with body-building skills. Let's come back next time."

"What a pity! I finally met the God of Wealth, but I didn't expect that the inventory of body-building skills has been cleared. I can only wait for the next refresh."

"One can of food worth one point of sacrifice power is exchanged for a level 1 ore. That's already a big profit. Brothers, don't be so greedy. It's time to retreat."

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The topic ended here, and Li Zheng and others stood up to say goodbye.

But what Duan Xing didn't know was that it was precisely because of his friendly behavior towards the Wan family that he was harassed continuously afterwards.

Not long after Li Zheng left, he posted a strategy guide on the forum.

[The correct way to open the God of Wealth, the hidden attribute in the game: NPC intimacy. ]

Poster: Gaming brick-moving party.

Contents:

I have learned a lot from the strategies posted by brothers in the forum, and today I finally have some practical strategies to give back to everyone.

Let's get straight to the point. Recently everyone has been looking for the God of Wealth, thinking that they can get gifts by finding him. This idea is actually wrong, because I found that there is a hidden attribute in the game: favorability.

I don't need to explain the three words "favorability". Brothers who have played the game will understand it.

In other games, the favorability of an NPC can be obtained very directly by checking the attribute panel. When a certain level of favorability is reached with the NPC, you can obtain service convenience, or the right to purchase discounted or special goods.

But the friendship level in this game is a hidden attribute. Although it cannot be seen from the attribute panel or other places, it does exist...

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In this guide post published by Li Zheng, he tells how he received a red envelope in return by giving gifts to the God of Wealth.

A level 7 quality spiritual ore.

The popularity of this post in the forum quickly grew, and many players replied to express their gratitude, saying that they had learned the correct way to open the God of Wealth.

Li Zheng's success has solidified players' impression of Duan Xing.

I think the God of Wealth is a special mechanism in the game. If you encounter it, you can make a small fortune. If you are lucky, the body-building skills will be refreshed in the God of Wealth's space backpack, which will make you rich.

This set off a craze of exchanging scrap metal for treasures.

All players want to exchange the cheap goods purchased from the mall for high-value body-building skills or high-quality spiritual ores from the God of Wealth.

At this time, Duan Xing, who was completely unaware of the situation, was still thinking about whether he should conduct an in-depth investigation into the Wan family.

For example, finding their tribe's land, observing secretly and collecting information.

When I have the opportunity to return to my homeland in the future, I will report the intelligence of the Wan family and try to win over the Wan family to join the Against Tide Legion and become one of the racial forces serving the Against Tide Legion.

Little do they know that a wave of "harassment actions" to increase favorability is about to hit.

(End of this chapter)