Scourge Messenger

Chapter 34 Event 'Mansu Woodland'

Regional Event 'Wandering Woodland'

Event Location: (142, 857)

Event Time: March 15th to March 24th (Participation period: March 15th to March 21st)

"Event Details: Players who enter the mist-shrouded woodland during the event period will be teleported to the limited-time dungeon 'Mansu Woodland'."

Recommended activity level: Level 1~Level 99

"Event Rewards: All players who clear the limited-time dungeon will receive 1 Treasure Hunt Token."

Treasure hunting token?

Yan Qing was a little confused. When he clicked it, he remembered something.

"Treasure Hunt Token: A trading token issued by the Treasure Pavilion. After the holder's products have been appraised by the Treasure Pavilion, they can pay a 30% handling fee to list them for sale. Accumulating 10 Treasure Hunt Tokens will upgrade them to Treasure Hiding Tokens."

This is the third of the top ten Pegasus designs in the game, which is known to all the young people who don’t play The Messenger - the design that is recommended by players hundreds of times on the forum every day.

Setting up stalls or conducting private transactions is not allowed in "The Messenger". Players can only give items unconditionally to each other, and any transactions involving Lingyu can only be conducted in the Jubao Pavilion.

Although bartering is allowed, this lowest-level trading method obviously cannot meet the trading needs of this most popular MMORPG nowadays. Players are forced to trade in the Treasure Pavilion, and if they want to trade in the Treasure Pavilion, they must have a treasure hunting token.

Another name for the Treasure Hunt Token is "What must-have props are there in the messenger?", which means that only what must be sold will be listed with the Treasure Hunt Token, because the handling fee for the Treasure Hunt Token is as high as 30%.

Trading with treasure hunting tokens is no different from paying money to the official.

If you want to trade in the Treasure Pavilion, you have to spend at least 15% of the transaction fee to get a treasure token to barely make a profit.

But the more crucial issue is that a transaction is like a love relationship. It can be done by two people or by many people, but it cannot be completed by one person.

As the only player in this world, who can Yan Qing trade with?
On the contrary, the limited-time copy 'Mansu Woodland' is worth a visit.

Yan Qing didn't know the specifics of Mansu Woodland, but judging by the recommended level, it was a recreational dungeon open to all players. While personal strength might be helpful in the dungeon, it was no longer the decisive factor.

I opened the map and looked at the coordinates. It seemed to be not far from Jiangnan Novice Village.

I'll open a new account and try it, but which account should I use?
After a brief thought, Yan Qing decided to open a female account.

Although a pretty female character would definitely cause trouble, Yan Qing was not afraid of trouble. The tin straight sword in the warehouse was not to be trifled with. Although a pretty female character was not too strong or too short, and therefore did not have any bonus to health and agility, Yan Qing did not care about that little bit of health and agility. Although...

No matter what, Yan Qing doesn’t want to see men’s butts anymore!

It is said that male players are divided into two factions, and each denies the other as gay. One side's argument is "You must be gay if you play a female character and pretend to be a woman", and the other side's argument is "You are too gay if you play a male character and look at men's butts all day long."

Yan Qing was different. He thought anyone who cared about such things was gay. Male characters needed to be playable, and female characters even more so; that was the only way to be considered whole. The face-shaping was nothing special; Yan Qing had created a look that was somewhere between Tifa and Mai Shiranui, according to normal preferences. As for stat builds, Yan Qing planned to take a risk this time and go for a 334 build—3 HP, 3 Dexterity, and 4 Insight. This way, the sub-character would not only have some combat power, but also possess a certain level of potential.

Talent inheritance is also very important. After all, as long as you purchase the corresponding talent, you can get an extra 100% experience bonus. In addition, the martial arts genius 'gains an extra 100% experience when training skills'. Even a small account with 0 comprehension can gain 300% experience in training and 200% experience in battle, which can quickly pass the weakest levels 1 to 10.

But after all, it was a small account used for exploration, so Yan Qing only chose the basic pace talents and basic swordsmanship talents. As for the name, it was naturally the same as the old rules, the tenth small account starting from Jiangnan, "Jiang Shi".

"Jiangnan Newbie Village", start the game!
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...

The wind is sticky here.

The rain here tangled into threads.

The first thing he saw upon arrival was a drizzle of rain in the Jiangnan water village. The drizzle formed lines, dripping onto the banana leaves. Even through the screen, Yan Qing could feel the dampness and cool breeze blowing towards him.

Fortunately, I wasn’t the one going out. I hate rain the most, Yan Qing thought.

Unlike Nevernight and Chang'an, the novice village in Jiangnan seemed to be run as a market. 'Jiang Shi' appeared in the alley between two houses, and puddles of sewage extended from the alley to the street outside.

As Jiang Shi emerged from the alley, a gust of wind seemed to sweep by, and the sound of rain suddenly intensified. The wide, muddy road was covered with hoofprints and wheel tracks from animals. Men in straw raincoats and straw hats carried loads through the streets. Vegetable farmers set up stalls along the street, covering their wet vegetables with sackcloth. Next to them stood a butcher, his knives clacking incessantly. Across from them stood a dozen cages, each filled with either chickens or ducks. Farther away, fishmongers even laid their fish on lotus leaves for sale, their half-dead eyes gleaming with an eerie light...

The smell of rain, chicken droppings, fish, and blood—even without being there, Yan Qing could still smell the intoxicating aroma of a farmers' market. Compared to the markets in Chang'an, this place was undoubtedly too dirty, messy, and noisy, but the vitality thriving from the soil was far more authentic than Chang'an's prosperity.

After all, it would be a miracle if a main city protection area like Chang'an was not prosperous.

But the place in front of us is outside the main city, and the main customers of the market are civilians in the surrounding area. This shows that not only is there a large flow of people in this area, but the family productivity of the surrounding civilians is also high, and the exploitation is not very serious, so that ordinary people actually have spare money to exchange goods.

More importantly, this neighborhood is safe.

In a place like Qi, where demonic knights roamed the land and murdered people everywhere, who would want to leave unless they had to make a living? The merchants who opened shops generally had connections. Woodcutters, vegetable farmers, and embroiderers, the supply chain, would only sell to the merchants for safety, and ordinary people had no choice but to go to the merchants to buy anything. As a result, each city had only a few shops, but they monopolized all business, exploiting both sellers and buyers equally.

The Zhou Kingdom was not much better. The villages and families outside the main city built manors and bunkers for self-protection, and they could exchange materials internally, making it like a country within a country, and there were no markets.

It didn't seem dangerous, but Yan Qing still had Jiang Shi equipped with a sliver blade and guided her out of the alley. Opening the map, he saw the event location was to the east. Without asking anyone, Yan Qing simply headed east along the main road.

The rain quickly soaked the clothes. Although Jiang Shi was wearing a coarse linen shirt with no design language, when it clung to Jiang Shi's body and outlined her graceful curves, it instantly became the most beautiful piece of clothing on the entire street.

In the game, players would just think, "That's it." Players who already have a unique aesthetic are no longer satisfied with handsome men and beautiful women, but prefer to create some ancient gods or even warriors of light to play through the plot. But in this world...

Anyway, Yan Qing was prepared to deal with the swarm of admirers, and the slivered iron straight sword was equipped for this purpose. Life's twists and turns were inevitable, but for the sake of a pleasant gaming experience, this price was worth it.

(End of this chapter)