Chapter 976 These Days, NPCs Have Begun to Compete with Players for Tasks (1/2)

While Fang Chang and Miss Dolly were being affectionate, Gui Gui, who was sitting on the other side of the tavern lobby, had already covered her mouth and nose, and made an exaggerated expression to complain to Feng Qing, who was sitting opposite.

"Oh no... I smell a sour smell of death potion!"

Feng Qing, who was calmly drinking coffee, tilted his head and looked at Gui Gui with an exaggerated expression in confusion.

"How can a death potion smell like that?"

"It's that kind of death potion, that kind... Oh, forget it," Gui Gui gestured for a long time with a red face, and was too embarrassed to say it. Finally, she sighed and held her chin with both hands, "By the way, wouldn't it be strange to fall in love with an NPC? Especially if you have a family in real life, is this considered cheating?"

"Emmmm..." Feng Qing thought for a while, shook her head and said, "I don't know about that kind of thing."

She had no interest in love in either reality or in the game, but this kind of thing should be considered a personal matter, right?

However, Gui Gui was still struggling, and even cared so much that she bit her fingers unconsciously.

"...Damn it, I can't stand it when I think that the lovely Miss Dolly is sitting opposite an uncle who has five or six children in real life. Damn Fang Chang, please explode."

So it's because of Dolly...

Feng Qing made a helpless expression and put down the coffee cup in his hands and said.

"I think if you care so much about what others are like in real life, you might as well ask them in person... It's very rude to make up stories about strangers' private lives behind their backs."

"Wow...I was wrong."

Seemingly realizing that her behavior had no sense of boundaries, Gui Gui raised her hands in surrender.

Looking at her aggrieved girlfriend, Feng Qing smiled and said.

"I don't mean to blame you, it's more like comforting. There are many cute NPCs, why not discover them yourself... and I think the couple doesn't really like living in the spotlight, it's all because of the Burning Legion friends who made a fuss on the forum that they attracted so much attention."

"That's true," Guigui, with his arms stretched out, sighed in despair, his expression was like a broken heart, but he soon became energetic again, "By the way, Ganju is already in junior high school."

That was the girl Feng Qing rescued from the orphanage run by the black gang in the slums outside the old Boulder City.

That incident was also the fuse for the Alliance to purge gang members outside Boulder City, and then those children who were raised like goods moved into normal welfare homes.

The Alliance has a complete social support mechanism to take care of these orphans, including raising them until they are 18 years old, including bearing the expenses during compulsory education, etc., so they don't have to pay out of their own pockets to raise her.

But they still visit her occasionally, take her to make cotton candy and buy her beautiful new dresses...just like their own daughter.

When talking about Citrus, Feng Qing couldn't help but reveal a nostalgic smile on her face.

"Last time I saw her, she was preparing for further studies. She will probably take the exam in the middle of the year."

Gui Gui, who was holding her chin, also sighed.

"Is she going to junior high school... Time flies so fast."

The players' bodies didn't change much.

Of course, maybe it's because they die often, and everything is refreshed after resurrection.

I heard that there are also hardcore players who have never died once after leaving the Novice Village. As they age, their bodies will still change.

Looking at the sentimental girlfriend, Feng Qing thought for a while and said.

"Although that's what I said, in fact, it's only been two or three years since we met her."

Gui Gui scratched his head.

"Well, it seems so."

It always feels like these two or three years are longer than twenty or thirty years.

Maybe this is the feeling of fulfillment.

Putting the coffee cup and used tableware back on the plate, Feng Qing looked at Gui Gui sitting opposite and said.

"I've rested well, continue to do the task?"

Gui Gui stood up.

"Oh, right! Mission, mission... I almost forgot about the mission. We have to find that little rat from the Enlightenment Society." Feng Qing, who opened the VM interface, reminded. "There are also packages to be delivered to the City Hall and the mutant rat nests to be cleared in the sewers." "Huh, huh, huh?! Did I accept the mission to the sewers?" Feng Qing tilted his head at the horrified Gui Gui. "I accepted it... But the reward is quite high, 1,000 silver coins, and the mission process is also very short, so bear with it." Just as Gui Gui, who was about to cry but had no tears, was pushed out of the tavern by Feng Qing, a pair of enemies were arguing in another street not far from the talent market. One of them was Ye Shi from the Burning Corps, and the other was Jiang Xuezhou, a C-level researcher at the academy. The two were originally active in the southern quarantine area of ​​the Weilant Province, but now the focus of the quarantine area has shifted from prevention and control to the development of vaccines and antidotes, and the two people with different professional backgrounds can't really help. In addition, a major incident happened some time ago. The academy lost a research ship and the entire beacon team in Yavent City, so Jiang Xuezhou was sent to Yavent City.

As for Ye Shi, he was dragged here by force, and he was also worried that this guy would encounter some danger if he acted alone.

As for the missing beacon team, the academy's top management no longer had hope that they were still alive, but the lost research ship must be found.

There are too many things floating in outer space that may be out of control.

Once someone who shouldn't touch those things gets there first, the consequences will be disastrous.

Knowing the importance of this mission, Jiang Xuezhou earnestly searched for the whereabouts of the missing scientific research ship as soon as he arrived in Yavent City. However, the two of them had been searching for almost two weeks, but there was no clue at all.

The longer time passes, the lower the chance that the missing members will survive, and the slimmer the hope that the research ship will be recovered.

Jiang Xuezhou was also a little anxious, and couldn't help but vent his anger on Ye Shi, who had an open look on his face.

"Don't you have that sixth sense? Can't you use your sixth sense to find that guy?"

Ye Shi, who was shot for no apparent reason, rolled his eyes and retorted unceremoniously.

"That's not how the sixth sense works. Do you think I can do magic?"

It was possible that the guy was aiming at him from a distance.

Searching for enemies in the void from an unknown distance is already cheating, right?

Jiang Xuezhou's lips dropped.

"Hey, it's really useless."

Upon hearing this, Ye Shi was immediately unhappy.

"Why am I useless? You were still a little D-level when Kai Rui was in the audience! By the way, aren't you from the academy? You don't have the kind of technology that can lock the target we are looking for in the crowd. ?"

Jiang Xuezhou blushed and glared at him.

"What's wrong Kerry, I don't understand... What stupid things are you talking about? Why don't you organize your words first and then express them."

"Kerry, it means MVP...forget it, let alone the bravery of a good man, I have no brother now, alas."

Looking at the confused Jiang Xuezhou, Ye Shi looked at the sky and sighed, then paused and continued.

"But let me tell you... your college is one of the three major forces after all. Since it has been determined that the Enlightenment Society has taken away your research ship, why not just send the Alpha Task Force there? Even if you send Yawen After searching all over the city and finding that little mouse, the Enlightenment Association will not obediently exchange hostages with you, right?"

It's not like the Alliance has never captured prisoners of the Enlightenment Society. Even the Thorn Corps in Pioneer City can capture one or two every now and then.

But it's of no use.

What they can do is to let those misguided shelter residents undergo labor reform, see the results of the alliance's work, and then persuade those guys to turn around.

As for finding the headquarters of the Enlightenment Society or obtaining information through these prisoners.

The Vault Dwellers who were lulled into the Enlightenment didn't even know it themselves.

There is no need to think about exchanging hostages. Those sneaky guys have no concept of compatriots in their hearts.

Jiang Xuezhou's eyes were a little complicated when he heard that Ye Shi was hacking his organization again.

Normally she would have retorted and even raised her eyebrows to argue with him, but this time she was really confused.

"I don't know...but I think the higher-ups must have their concerns, and finding the only clues is the only thing we can do."

Ye Shi glanced at this guy and then turned his attention to the street ahead.

"I believe it's no secret that the academy has 10,000 evil minds in the wasteland... I'm just worried that you are not among their concerns."

So what about C level.

As long as one of the seeds survives, it is considered a victory, and the rest are nutrients in the soil.

I'm afraid it's not just C-level researchers that the academy doesn't care about. He even feels that they don't even care about A-level or even the only S-level.

They are the real Leviathan.

Different from the kind of organization that family members use as a guise to deceive, they are an organization that is truly united by faith, an organization that is born for knowledge and completely serves knowledge.

Everything is expendable except the sole purpose.

Including the CTO himself.

Even the conclusion dr.

A C-level researcher is too insignificant in front of that civilization-oriented narrative.

Ye Shi's original intention was to persuade her not to work so hard, as it was not worth risking her own life, but he didn't expect that the latter suddenly became silent.

He looked to the side in confusion and saw that the expression on Xuezhou's face was coy for some reason.

Just when he was about to ask "What's wrong with you?", a voice as subtle as a mosquito's moan came.

"...were you worried about me just now?"

Worry?

"That's not—"

"Hey, Ye Shi, we're on a date."

An inappropriate voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting what Ye Shi was about to say.

What the hell?

Ye Shi quickly turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see Big Eyes and the construction site man winking and smiling at him.

"The relationship is so good."

"That's right. People's feelings are so pure. It's not like you only enter the body and not the family."

"Go, go, go, fuck me!"

The smiling big eyes a second ago suddenly turned their faces, but they unconsciously acted as Ye Shi's mouthpiece and said what the latter wanted to say.

Seeing the big-eyed brother chasing the construction worker with fists and torturing him, Ye Shi took back the poisonous tongue that rushed to his mouth.

Jiang Xuezhou, who was standing nearby, looked at the two people running away in confusion, and then tilted his head to look at Ye Shi.

"What are they talking about."

Ye Shi was about to explain, but he didn't know how to speak. His face suddenly turned red uncontrollably, and he said in a confused way.

"That bitch is trying to trick me."

“Oh hum…”

It was completely wrong. Jiang Xuezhou had a smirk on his face. He covered his lips with his left hand and gently poked his arm with his right hand.

"It seems that your popularity in the alliance is not very good. Why don't you come to the academy with me? I'll give you a ticket to the Ark."

Ye Shi rolled his eyes.

"don't want."

Jiang Xuezhou raised his eyebrows and said with a grin.

"Why! Am I not treating you well?"

"That's not the case...wait a minute, why do I have to go with you if you treat me well! I'm doing well in the alliance, okay?" Ye Shi was shaking his head, and suddenly replied in the middle of the sentence. After a while, I was led into a strange circle of logic.

Jiang Xuezhou gritted his teeth and glared at him, but in the end he just snorted and said nothing more.

"...a ungrateful guy."

During the second half of the journey, the two exchanged words without saying a word.

Ye Shi didn't know what medicine this guy took wrongly, and suddenly he became sulky.

By the way, why is this guy so insistent on letting him join the academy?

Isn’t it good to be like this now?

This is too loyal!

At this time, the VM that Ye Shi was wearing on his arm suddenly vibrated. He raised it and opened the screen to take a look, only to see a line of text messages floating in the center of the screen.

[Edge: There are new clues about the disciples of the Enlightenment Society. The security booth on Street 17 received reports from the public that there were suspicious people coming and going in the alley between house number 203 and 202. They did not look like locals or They are our people. If you are interested, why not go over and take a look. If it is a misunderstanding, let the people sleep peacefully. 】

Ye Shi's eyes lit up and he immediately replied.

【Ha ha! Thanks brother! 】

Within a few seconds, another message popped up.

[Edge paddling: You’re welcome! If you catch a big fish, remember to share a bite with us! (baring teeth)]

Ye Shi: [Gan! Am I a solitary eater? Wait! I'll come back as soon as I go. 】

Glancing at Ye Shi, who was typing words on the screen, Jiang Xuezhou couldn't help but tilt his head over there, wanting to see what he was doing.

And just when she did this, Ye Shi suddenly grabbed her wrist.

"What are you doing?!" Jiang Xuezhou was shocked and froze on the spot as if he was stupid.

But Ye Shi didn't wait for her, he clicked on the navigation function of the VM map and pulled her away.

"Don't ask so many questions, just follow me!"

"???"

Jiang Xuezhou was pulled forward with a confused look on his face, and the two of them passed through two streets and came to an inconspicuous alley.

It looks like an old city. Many houses are empty. The residents have either moved away or died in the war. Only a few old men and women live here.

Jiang Xuezhou blushed and took away his arm, glaring at Ye Shi who finally stopped and asked.

"What did you bring me here for?"

A proud smile appeared on Ye Shi's face and he turned his gaze to the alley ahead.

"Didn't you say that I acted badly? I will prove that I didn't act badly."

Jiang Xuezhou: "...?"

Looking at Jiang Xuezhou who looked confused, Ye Shi patiently told her the clues he had.

to be honest.

This kind of job of finding a needle in a haystack has to be left to the "beggars" brothers of the Death Corps.

These guys are running around everywhere, especially the big-eyed guys who like to communicate in depth with local NPCs. It is not easy to find any clues.

As soon as he arrived in Yavent City, he said hello to Brother Edge, who immediately told him as soon as he had any clues.

Jiang Xuezhou stared at him blankly for a long time, then suddenly lowered his head and whispered "Thank you" in a low voice.

Unexpectedly, Ye Shi's first reaction was not to be happy, but to look at her alertly.

"...Why are you so grateful all of a sudden?"

Jiang Xuezhou hesitated for a while, but finally confessed.

"...I shouldn't feel that you haven't contributed."

Ye Shiyi looked at her speechlessly.

"Good guy, that's how you see me."

Do you have to use a magnifying glass to look for bugs in the cracks of the wall before you exert your strength?

Gan!

This guy is starting to look more and more like his nosy old mother.

Jiang Xuezhou blushed and turned his head away, snorting softly with his nose.

"Who makes you always act like it has nothing to do with you?"

"I do think your senior management is quite speechless. They don't want to get involved in your troubles, but they don't have anything to do with you..." Ye Shi looked at Jiang, whose face was red from the roots of his ears to the back of his neck, dumbfounded. Xuezhou sighed and scratched the back of his head randomly, "Wait for me here for a while, I'll go in and take a look."

Seeing Ye Shi walking straight into the alley, Jiang Xuezhou, who came back to his senses, quickly chased after him.

"Ah, I'm here to help too!"

Ye Shi rolled his eyes.

"Just stop making trouble!"

Jiang Xuezhou glared back fiercely.

"I want it! Bah, when have I ever caused trouble? And this is my mission!"

"Yes, yes, your mission."

Ye Shi sighed, and his originally indifferent mood became a little more serious.

These days, NPCs have begun to compete with players for tasks.

This game is too real!