Chapter 2 The Beginning of the Maze

After reading the task, Shen Yi opened the team channel: "Is everyone there?"

"I have entered!"

"I have entered!"

There was a response.

Then he spoke softly: "Three months, the execution time of this mission is not short."

"Compared to the plot itself, it is already considered short." King Kong said, "But the headache is what should we do now?"

King Kong's words spoke out the aspirations of most people.

Adventurers are used to receiving main quests every time they enter the quest world. At that time, they don't need to think about the purpose, they only need to think about how to complete it, as if the generals gave an order and the team members completed the quest. Although the task is arduous, at least there is still a direction to work hard.

Now that the main line is not given in the city, everyone feels a little uncomfortable for a while. They have no direction, so they can't make plans, and they don't even know what to do in the first step after entering the world, just like children who have just stepped into society, facing the complicated society, with a blank face.

But this is also a process they must go through, which is the transition from executors to decision makers. In the future, they will face the powerful Zerg, and their only task is to defeat the enemy.

And how to do this, they need to set their own goals and accomplish them.

From this point of view, when a mission world does not have any main missions, the first thing to do is to set a direction for yourself.

So after thinking about it at this moment, Shen Yi asked: "Where are you now?"

Gently replied: "I am in a rice field."

King Kong replied: "I'm in a wilderness, and I can't see anyone around. Hell, the city is too irresponsible. Just throw us into the wilderness and it's over."

"me too."

"me too."

Others responded one after another, except for the system prompting that it was near Suzhou, they didn't know anything else.

They don't even know which direction Suzhou is in.

Shen Yi said: "It seems that the first thing to do now is to find out where you are.

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"Don't you need a team assembly order?" Hong Lang was puzzled. There is a team assembly order, why bother?

Shen Yi has already said: "The team assembly order can only help us get together, but it can't help us find Suzhou City. The current priority should be to get familiar with the environment first, so this time our first main task is: find a way to get the world. map."

Entering the world of fairy sword this time, the city did not provide a corresponding map, so if there is no accident, there should be a way to obtain the map in the world itself. Otherwise, from Suzhou to southern Xinjiang, there are countless places to go through, and it will take more than half of the time just to find the way.

The Bloody City did not send you here to be lost lambs.

"Wow!" Everyone whistled together, and Hong Lang yelled: "The main task that the boss personally set, I said, what rewards will there be for completing it?"

Shen Yi replied with a smile: "There is no reward for completion, and everyone who has not completed it will be hit with 30 boards, and they will not be allowed to go to bars for a total of 30 days."

"You might as well kill me." Hong Lang shook his head and sighed.

At this moment, there was a sudden ding in everyone's ears:

"Task trigger: Exterminate the bandits in Heifengzhai who are rampant in Suzhou area, mission reward, map."

"This reward is issued by the Suzhou government. Giving up the reward can trigger follow-up tasks."

"..." Everyone was speechless.

"Heifengzhai, it's really meaningless to get such a name." Rourou pouted.

Instead, King Kong snorted: "Follow-up mission... Is this the beginning of the dead end?"

The so-called plot maze is that the city will give countless small tasks based on your behavior and performance along the way, and each task may lead to follow-up tasks. When you accept subsequent tasks, your previous tasks will not have any rewards, but will accumulate and expand like a bonus pool until you complete the last ring, and then give you a one-time reward.

But since it is a plot maze, there must be countless dead ends.

The so-called dead end means that if the follow-up tasks you perform are not related to the main plot, then unfortunately, the rewards for these tasks may be very little, or even nothing.

If you hit a dead end in a row...

Don't forget that in this mission, those who earn less than 27,000 points will be obliterated.

This is the plot maze, with a starting point, an end point, and intricate interspersed plots. You don’t know what you are going to do next. Your behavior is controlled by yourself and the city. There are endless choices.

You may walk into a dead end again and again, and then pull out, turn around and plunge into another dead end.

At this time, strong strength is no longer the guarantee of your success. A clear mind, accurate judgment, and strong intervention ability are the keys to ensure the completion of the task.

The task given by the bloody coat of arms at this moment was obviously the first plot fork that Shen Yi and the others encountered.

On this plot fork, the reward is the map, and abandoning the reward triggers a follow-up quest.

If this is a plot dead end, then it is conceivable that their abandonment of the map will result in a loss of terrain control of the mission world in vain.

But if this is not the case, then it is very likely that a key mission to gain blood points will be missed.

Fortunately, there is not only one path in the plot maze. Missing a key task will not lead to a fatal ending. At best, it will waste some time and lose some points. But if they miss consecutively, they will probably get nothing after three months.

The terrible thing is that there are actually many missions that use maps as bait like this, and some may even use artifacts as bait. Every time you choose to walk into a dead end, the result may be that you miss a key task. If you choose more artifacts, you will miss more tasks. When you want to do more tasks to get back points, it may be too late.

At that time, maybe what you faced was the ending of holding a bunch of artifacts but being obliterated because you didn't earn enough points.

This is the plot maze!

At this moment, Shen Yi and the others are facing such a situation.

For them, how to find Heifengzhai does not need to be considered, the city has given a clear direction mark; how to eliminate Heifengzhai does not need to be considered, even a small Heifengzhai bandit can't solve it, and the Broken Blade team doesn't need it either. mixed up.

The only thing to consider is the choice of maps and follow-up missions.

"I hate this situation." Hong Lang muttered angrily.

Rourou has already said: "I haven't heard that the Suzhou government has any relationship with Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er. There shouldn't be any key points in this mission."

King Kong has already said: "That's hard to say, don't forget that there is a story in Legend of Sword and Fairy that happened in Suzhou."

"Lin Yueru?" Wen Rou asked.

"En." King Kong has already said: "Lin Yueru's father, Lin Tiannan, is the leader of the Jiangnan martial arts alliance. It is impossible for a gangster like this to have no friendship with the government. Who knows what plots will be triggered by the follow-up tasks, and whether he will have trouble with Lin Yueru because of this." relationship, what key points will change.”

"Then there's a lot to talk about here." Zhou Yiyu immediately said: "Scientists have done statistics, and two people living in any place on the earth can intersect through three more people. This is the power of human networks. .”

Even in this era without airplanes and ships, such an interpersonal network that insists on building relationships does not actually need more than five layers of connections.

"Then what do you mean?" King Kong asked Zhou Yiyu.

"I'll listen to the boss." Zhou Yiyu's words changed, and what he just said was equivalent to nothing.

Shen Yi smiled softly: "In this case, Yiyu, you can go to the mission of Heifengzhai, and the others go to Suzhou City, and we will make a decision after we have seen the situation. There are more than one adventurers who have entered this world. So there should be more than one map mission. We always have to choose and give up, and others can go around as much as possible to see if they can receive other map missions."

"clear."

After the discussion, except for Zhou Yiyu who went to Heifengzhai, everyone else was looking for a way to Suzhou City. They didn't know the way, so they walked around at will. Anyway, as long as one person can reach Suzhou City, they can bring the others here with the help of the team assembly order.

Along the way, everyone also discussed how to do this task.

King Kong said: "I think we should find a way to find Li Xiaoyao first. He is the protagonist of the plot, and the temporary tasks triggered by him are critical."

"The question is how do we find it?" Gentle interface: "Li Xiaoyao lives in the Yuhang Inn, but we don't know where the Yuhang Inn is, and it didn't say it in the game. First, we don't know where the target is, and second, we don't know where we are. , how to find it?"

Zhou Yiyu said while heading towards Heifeng Village: "Then wait in Suzhou. Li Xiaoyao's first destination after leaving Yuhang Inn is Suzhou. As long as we wait in Suzhou, we should be able to wait for them."

"The question is, do you know when Li Xiaoyao will come? What does he look like? Will he even come to Suzhou? Don't forget that this is a plot maze mode. The plot only respects the original work at the beginning and end, and the process may happen for a long time. Big change. Maybe Suzhou is not the first stop they set out but the last stop?"

Zhou Yiyu was dumbfounded.

Shen Yi already interfaced: "With Lin Yueru here, Li Xiaoyao wants to take Lin Yueru away, the stop in Suzhou should be inevitable. But no one knows what will happen in the middle. In addition, according to the system prompt, Li Xiaoyao will go to Xianling Island tomorrow , there is one day in it, and Xianling Island is actually the beginning of the plot. The system has left us this day, does it mean that if we can find Li Xiaoyao before the plot officially starts, it will cause major changes in the plot Variety?"

"You mean, the system gave us a day to find Li Xiaoyao before the plot begins? But isn't the starting point of the plot unchanged? Why do we need to intervene?"

"Then we can only find out after finding Li Xiaoyao." Shen Yi stopped and looked up at the sky.

He muttered to himself: "This is a plot maze, but it's also a terrain maze. Fortunately, I still have some way to find the person I want to find."

As he said that, he took out the crystal pendant and entered Li Xiaoyao's name on Elina's thoughts.