"Are you sure it's the one wearing the cloak?"
The voice on the other end belonged to Zhao Hanyan's older brother — Zhao Mingyuan.
Zhao Hanyan gave a confirming "Hmm": "That cloak hasn't been taken off, and there's a video about him on the forum. You can check it out. By the way, yesterday's explosion at the top of Tiger Mountain seems related to him too!"
Zhao Mingyuan said calmly, "I know. Apparently, the officials have also gotten involved. That's somewhat surprising."
Zhao Hanyan wasn't interested in that; she just asked, "Brother, I don't accept it. How come those two siblings are so lucky? In less than two days, the Ning Family Siblings will surpass me in level! What should I do?"
That was just her personality.
Her competitor was the Ning Family Siblings — especially Ning Qingyue!
The two had been competing since childhood.
Competing in studies, grades, who was the better kid.
As they grew up, they competed in looks, family background, talents!
In looks and background, she was in no way inferior to Ning Qingyue, and even had a stronger family background than the Ning family.
Only in talents was she slightly behind.
Now, everyone's mind was on this new game, and the family seemed to take it seriously.
This further fired up her competitive spirit!
No matter what, she couldn't lose to Ning Qingyue!
On the other hand, Zhao Mingyuan pondered for a moment, then sent a voice message:
"Just like I taught you before on recruiting NPCs, humans have desires and emotions. NPCs in this game are highly intelligent, almost like real people. So they have weaknesses. You just need to find their weak points, offer them benefits, and they'll willingly work for you."
Zhao Hanyan nodded vaguely in understanding.
Indeed.
Rather than trying to find an NPC stronger than the Ning Family Siblings' NPC, it was better to take that NPC away from them!
That would be more satisfying!
Actually, Zhao Hanyan had thought of this before.
Now, with her brother's advice, she was even more sure it would work!
At Novice Village, Ye Qiu first found the village chief Uncle Xu.
"Task completed."
Ye Qiu handed over 20 tiger whips to him directly.
Uncle Xu was surprised: "You're Level 11?!"
Ye Qiu grinned: "Lucky. Killed a boss and leveled up several times."
Uncle Xu regained composure and carefully looked Ye Qiu over a few times.
Then, he stood up and told the lined-up players:
"That's it for today. Everyone come back tomorrow."
After speaking, he grabbed Ye Qiu's arm and headed inside.
The other players wailed and cursed but were helpless.
Some were so used to it, they pulled out simple wooden stools and sat down on the spot.
Inside the village, Uncle Xu gave Ye Qiu the task reward:
[Ding! Congratulations, you completed the village chief's task and received: 20 Gold Coins, 20 Fame Points, 20 skill attribute points, 4 fixed attribute points, 1 free attribute point.]
The reward...
was actually decent!
In his previous life, Ye Qiu rarely took tasks.
Now, he got rewards from completing a task.
Though no High-Tier gear or powerful skills, he was quite satisfied!
Especially the 1 free attribute point—invaluable!
Attribute points came in types.
Common ones were free attribute points, usable on all attributes — including the four basics, skills, luck, etc.
Then fixed attribute points, which could only be used on the four basic attributes: Strength, Constitution, Spirit, and Agility.
Finally, skill attribute points, which were only for skill attributes — adding points to skills.
"Child, you are the first undead among the three thousand Novice Villages on the East Continent to exceed Level 10," Uncle Xu said softly.
Ye Qiu listened seriously.
Being reborn twice, he understood many secrets:
Why NPCs in Novice Village were all Level 10, Why Uncle Xu's prestige was so high, Why there were monsters outside the village above Level 10 and even Level 20, but none dared approach the Novice Village!
In reality, all Novice Villages except #0001 were just shadows!
They split the power of NPCs like Uncle Xu, making NPCs appear capped at Level 10.
But when the shadow villages vanish and merge, that's when the NPCs' real power and strength will emerge!
"Hundreds of years ago, there were alien demons trying to break through the Novice Village's Heavenly Protection Array, attacking it again and again."
Uncle Xu said softly.
"However, the array was set by ancient supreme gods. The stronger the demon, the more malicious, the more impossible to break the array."
"But these demons were clever. Over hundreds of years, they found a way."
"That was..."
"To let newborn demons parasitize a secret realm outside the array, absorbing its aura daily, trying to get close to the array!"
"Now, the newborn demons have hatched and opened the secret realm inside and outside the array!"
"If they open the passage between the inner realm and Novice Village, countless alien demons will descend!"
"Then... Novice Village will be destroyed! Every life in it will be exterminated!"
Uncle Xu's expression remained solemn throughout.
Ye Qiu felt a trace of desolation from him.
He recalled from his previous life:
When the game arrived in reality, Novice Village initially existed, fully merged, and became a Unique Novice Village!
Only then did all players realize Novice Village's uniqueness!
NPCs like Uncle Xu jumped from Level 10 to Level 100!
Especially Uncle Xu himself, sword in one hand, wine gourd in the other, standing above the heavens, swinging the final sword for all living beings!
Sword Qi tore the sky, ancient gods entered battle!
At that moment, Novice Village was wiped out!
Demons invaded from inside, with external attacks as well, and the Heavenly Protection Array couldn't stop them!
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