Chapter 835 The bustling Chang’an City

Author: Darwin Zoo

[Echo Dungeon] is currently the most popular gameplay among heavy players.

Using the mechanism of black-haired zombies to create [fixed monster spawn points] is certainly not the upgrade method that designers have prepared for players.

In order to provide players with reasonable and rich combat scenes, Lin You provided developers with the idea of ​​"memory echo".

During missions and explorations, players will get props with the suffix "echo" in their names. Using these props, they will be transported into a certain memory of the prop owner, and these memories often contain a large number of battle scenes.

It can provide players with rich combat fun.

Some NPCs can even send players into a specific memory repeatedly - this is considered a fixed dungeon.

Most echo dungeons will have a list recording the 10 teams with the fastest clearance speeds.

As we all know, once there is a ranking list in the game, many people will try their best to put their names on it, the higher up the list, the better, and they are even willing to pay a cost that far exceeds the reward.

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In addition, there is also a PVP-like Echo dungeon, which is also very popular.

After the game was officially released, Youmao Cake quickly found a familiar blacksmith shop and became an apprentice.

——After deleting the file, the bad impression of causing trouble before was gone, and the apprenticeship went very smoothly.

Not only did he learn the forging of the Zimu Sword and the corresponding sword techniques, he also gained the favor of the little girl and a special memory echo——

【Ye Yu·Kuai Sword】(Echo)

Similarly, Hongchen also received a copy of [Ye Yu·Poison Doctor] from his Poison Doctor teacher (Echo)

In the same series, [Ye Yu·Li Er] and [Ye Yu·Shi Quan] were also obtained by players one after another.

When all these echoes are collected, the full version of [Yeyu·Echo] becomes a fixed copy of the panel that can be opened at any time.

This dungeon with the same name as the promotional video allows players to enter the story in the promotional video and experience the siege in the rainy night.

However, this copy is very special. Two player teams will be put in at the same time. One team will help [Rakshasa] besiege Huang Zongjing, and the other team will help [Grandmaster Huang Zongjing] and his wife escape from the Rakshasa siege.

This dungeon has a large number of players fighting and fighting passionately every day.

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However, these two gameplays are just a part of what is currently available in "Chang'an".

Although it is the most popular, it does not have the advantage of crushing the popularity of other gameplays.

The current situation in Chang'an City is very complicated, or to put it in a better way - diverse.

It's not like previous games where players have several centralized focuses. In Chang'an City, players' focus has been completely dispersed and they can do anything.

Players who were addicted to various sub-professions and various crafts during the closed beta period are once again addicted to these delicate tasks, and this group is still expanding rapidly. New people are constantly being attracted by these gadgets, and they start thinking about them every day when they go online.

A small example: The number of [Silversmith] associate professional players has exceeded 4.8 million, and 1.3 million of them spend more than 4 hours a day hammering, carving, and hollowing out a small piece of silver to make a piece of jewelry.

This data can be used by other studios, or even international game companies, to make a separate game.

But in "Chang'an", it is just a small sub-professional branch gameplay.

It is simply incomparable to the secondary professions involved in main quests such as [Forging] and [Farmer].

But for [Farmer], most players just rent a small field after the mission and grow gourds.

This can only be regarded as the most superficial farmer.

Only when you earn enough money to buy a piece of farmland can you be qualified to declare yourself a qualified farmer.

Then, if you have more money to buy, continue to annex land, and acquire more than ten acres or even dozens of acres of land, you can be promoted to a "landlord".

That’s what chasing the wind does.

Then he discovered a problem: if you rent these fields to NPCs for planting, you can only grow the most common low-level crops.

Gourds can only grow the lowest quality ones, and the ones brewed from grains are all ordinary blood-restoring wine, which can only restore 5% of the blood volume. Herbs cannot be sold at a high price, and high-end pharmacies are not even willing to accept them.

In other words, if you want to truly turn a large area of ​​farmland into high-value land, you must cultivate it yourself or find other players to cultivate it.

The question is: Who is willing to farm land for others in the game?

This is not really ancient times. Ordinary people have no land to farm. It is not difficult to buy a field of their own in "Chang'an" - the price of buying a field is much cheaper than buying a house in Chang'an City.

At least in the virtual world, simple fields are not valuable, only the sweaty labor force working on them is valuable.

What if you find a "liver substitute" to help you plow the fields?

It's better to just spend money to buy ready-made materials...the price is more cost-effective and saves time.

Moreover, the number of "liver substitutes" in this area is really very small - helping people fight monsters is completely different from helping people farm the land.

Farming in the virtual world is different from farming on game consoles. It does not mean that seeds will be automatically planted by clicking on the screen.

It really requires loosening the soil, sowing seeds, watering, and removing insects.

It's quite fun to experience it on a small piece of land, but if it's a large area of ​​land, it's really physical work.

Zhui Feng looked at the vast tracts of uncultivated land and felt speechless for a moment.

How can any landowner plow the land himself?

Even though he said so, he still went to the fields to grow gourds for a high-quality gourd.

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In contrast, [Blacksmithing], as a classic, traditional, and powerful sub-class, does not have the trouble of farming.

Most of them were busy in the blacksmith shop.

Not to mention the bosses of the blacksmith guild, these people are all working hard to make money and want to build a blacksmith shop for themselves.

If you want a shop, you have to make money, and if you want to make money, you have to study how to cast armor for horses.

This is a very popular product now. It is easy to get orders and more profitable than swords.

——Because weapons have an upper limit on durability and will "explode" if used too much, so players always carry at least three swords with them, and there is a constant demand for them. However, unless they are weapons above [Excellent Level], they are not worth much.

money.

A small number of more powerful blacksmiths are studying the casting of "silver swords".

This resulted from two unexpected discoveries:

First, Super Tomato triggered the "ghost hunting" mission at Miss Chen Er's house, and then found that the sword in his hand could not kill monsters at all, and setting the sword on fire had no effect, so he went to seek help from the Taoist priests at Dongming Temple.

As a result, the Taoist priest took out three swords and asked him: Do you want this copper coin sword, this silver sword, or this gold sword?

This question confused Super Tomato directly.

If Yunmeng was playing the "River God" joke, he should choose the copper coin sword - this is also in line with his understanding of the traditional ghost-catching culture.

So he decisively chose [Golden Sword].

The Taoist priest nodded and stretched out his hand to him.

"Ah?" Super Tomato was stunned.

"Ah what? Take the money!"

"I still need money..." Super Tomato thought it was a mission prop and planned to come down and play with it, "How much does it cost?"

"Ten taels of gold."

Super Tomato frowned, he couldn't afford it.

And the price is wrong - if the sword is made of pure gold, it must weigh more than 10 taels, but if it is only sold for 10 taels, it means it is not pure and may even be gold-plated.

So he settled for the next best thing and bought a copper coin sword and a silver sword.

Returning to the Chen Mansion, it turns out that these two swords can cut down monsters in the incorporeal state.

The second thing is because of the demon fox.

The players' pursuit of Miss Demon Fox never stopped for a moment.

Not all of these people want to chase the fox demon, have sex with the fox demon lady, or have sex with the illusion created by the fox demon lady.

Some intensive parties are there to hire a powerful supporter, some exploration parties are there to discover the background story, and some casual parties are just for fun...

Anyway, Jiaofangsi has always been very lively, with a large number of players trying their best to strike up conversations, chat, send gifts, and trigger tasks...

And such dog-licking behavior is of course rewarded in the game:

One after another, people received tasks from her and received some rewards with special effects.

[Silver Sword] is one of them. Not only can it be used to fight against incorporeal monsters and chop down all kinds of monsters, it is also more effective than ordinary steel swords!

After that, many blacksmiths began to study the ancient [fire plating] process and began to make silver swords - this thing also has durability and is considered a more advanced consumable.

Moreover, in [Echo Dungeon], various ghosts often appear, and powerful party members have a great demand for silver swords.

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To be continued...