Prevent regeneration?
Gu Fei pondered the effect of this new attribute. Werewolves were a common element in myths and legends, and the game's design probably wouldn't stray too far from that realm. He had never heard of werewolves having the ability to resurrect, so preventing regeneration probably wasn't to counter that ability. Eliminating that possibility, it probably meant that werewolves had a strong ability to heal wounds; in online gaming terms, it was HP regeneration.
In online games, you often see bosses with HP regeneration abilities. "The amount of HP you chop off in a second isn't even as much as it regenerates," is the highest praise for such bosses. Gu Fei estimated that the prevent regeneration ability in his hands was probably this kind of ability.
Saying goodbye to the village chief, Gu Fei turned back to find Xiao Yu. The door to the richest man's room was wide open. Gu Fei glanced inside but didn't see anyone. He sent a text message to Xiao Yu and quickly went around to the backyard of the large house. There was a cellar in the yard, and Xiao Yu said she was loading gold ore in the cellar.
Could it be that there was a mine in his backyard? Gu Fei went around to the backyard and saw Xiao Yu standing next to a cellar. He quickly went up to her.
"You bought a weapon so quickly?" Xiao Yu asked.
"I just happened to run into a player selling equipment." Gu Fei made up a story. As he spoke, he took out the Baptism of Fire and handed it over, "This knife is good, it also has magic attack! It's good for me, my strength is so weak." This was something Gu Fei had already thought about. After all, if he was going to fight alongside Xiao Yu, he would have to draw his knife sooner or later, so it was better to say it now. Xiao Yu would naturally think that he had just bought this knife here and wouldn't suspect anything else. With Xiao Yu's straightforwardness, Gu Fei believed that this lie was foolproof. It was just that he felt a little guilty about using his cunning against such a simple girl.
Xiao Yu took the knife and looked at it, and as expected, she didn't have any doubts: "Not bad, how much?"
"50 gold coins," Gu Fei said.
"That's so expensive!" Xiao Yu exclaimed.
"There's no way around it, I'm in a hurry to complete the quest! I bought it quickly since it was here. It would waste a lot of time to go to Yeguang City, and it would be depressing if this quest had a time limit," Gu Fei said.
Xiao Yu nodded. What Gu Fei said struck a chord with her. In any case, the quest was the most important thing! Then she handed the Baptism of Fire back, "We'll go find the village chief later."
"I already found him. The knife was originally called Baptism of Fire. The village chief silver-plated it and it became the Holy Baptism of Fire that it is now, and the prevent regeneration below was also produced after silver-plating," Gu Fei said.
"Prevent regeneration, what does that mean?" Xiao Yu said.
"Probably to prevent monsters from regenerating HP!" Gu Fei said.
"Oh, I have to write it down quickly." Xiao Yu immediately took out her small notebook again and began to write stroke by stroke. Gu Fei didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I'm just guessing."
So Xiao Yu added a parenthesis after "Prevent regeneration: prevent monsters from regenerating HP" - guessed.
"What are you standing here for?" Gu Fei asked.
"Waiting for that person to get the gold." Xiao Yu pointed to a cellar next to her.
Gu Fei stretched his neck and took a look, but he couldn't see anything in the darkness. Could it be that this person's mine was actually in his backyard? Gu Fei was muttering to himself when he heard a cough from below the cellar. A person holding a small bag in his hand climbed up the wooden ladder.
This person was undoubtedly an NPC. After coming out of the cellar, Gu Fei took a look and saw a pointy-mouthed, monkey-cheeked face, like a common merchant in the game. Obviously, he was Mr. Adrian, the richest man in Yeguang Village, as mentioned by the NPCs.
Adrian climbed out of the cellar and threw the small bag to Xiao Yu. Gu Fei leaned over and took a look. There were several uncut gold nuggets in the bag, some large and some small, yellow and inconspicuous.
"Is your quest completed?" Gu Fei asked.
"It will be completed when I take this back to Cloudrise City," Xiao Yu said.
"What's the reward?" Gu Fei asked.
"I don't know yet," Xiao Yu said.
Xiao Yu's quest was really not difficult at all, but the journey was long and the time consumption was quite large. If the reward wasn't generous, it would be outrageous.
"Okay, my quest is over, now I'll help you." Xiao Yu put the small bag in her pocket, patted it, and said.
Gu Fei nodded and looked around, saying with some regret: "But who is this werewolf? There's no clue at all!"
"Ask! Doing quests is about constantly talking to NPCs until they can't say anything new, and then looking for clues in what they say," Xiao Yu taught Gu Fei.
This task was quite difficult. Yeguang Village may not look big, but there were a lot of NPCs. Gu Fei asked more than twenty people from the east end of the village to the west end, not including those who ignored him. The result was always the same answer: "The village chief knows more."
The helpless duo came to the village chief's house once again. As a result, the village chief introduced the habits of werewolves to them again, nothing more than the night of the full moon and the like.
There were indeed day and night in the game. Each cycle was six hours, with four hours of daylight and two hours of darkness. The darkness certainly wouldn't be so realistic that you couldn't see your fingers. The light that was enough for players to see the monsters clearly and identify the direction was said to come from the moonlight, but Gu Fei had never paid attention to whether the moon had a shape change.
Xiao Yu couldn't answer this question either. Gu Fei looked at the time. They had just started crossing the Wulong Mountains when it was almost daytime, and now more than three hours had passed. In less than an hour, it would be night. Perhaps the system would specially issue a full moon for his quest.
"We should go back to the church and search the surrounding stone crevices and grass. Maybe we'll find something that proves the werewolf's identity," Xiao Yu said.
Gu Fei thought it made sense. Although from a common sense point of view, if there was such a thing, it should have been found by the people in the village long ago, but this quest was designed for players to complete, and the clues should of course be left for players to find.
Back at the blood-stained stone slab in front of the church, Xiao Yu immediately lay on the ground and began to search carefully. Gu Fei didn't know whether to laugh or cry. If this was really a quest design, then the so-called clues should only be found by him, the person who received the quest. What would Xiao Yu find by lying on the ground?
But seeing her enthusiastic look, Gu Fei couldn't bear to spoil her fun, so he kept silent and searched around himself.
After turning around, he didn't find anything. Gu Fei stood in front of the broken door of the church, dazed. Xiao Yu refused to give up and went to search in more remote corners.
Gu Fei looked at the area he had just searched, the grass that had been turned over by the two of them, and the stones that had been moved. In such a short time, the system had restored them to their original appearance.
This was the rule in the game. Anything that players touched or moved, unless under specific circumstances, would be refreshed or restored by the system after a certain period of time. And if an NPC made the move, it would be considered refreshed content and would not be restored.
At this time, Gu Fei, from the position he was standing, looked at the restored panorama in the yard and suddenly froze.
He didn't know if this was the system's design, if it was a clue deliberately left, he only knew that he saw some traces from it - traces of a fight.
Cracked stone slabs, trampled grass, broken bushes... These traces could never be formed naturally. This was definitely damage caused in a fight.
Gu Fei walked down the steps and looked at these traces one by one. Some action scenes even flashed in his mind from time to time.
These fighting traces were absolutely real, Gu Fei concluded. He didn't believe that this scene could be created by programming or drawing alone. The scene in front of him must have been created by first creating the scene, then simulating a group of opponents fighting on it, and then saving the traces of their battle, so that it would be so real.
But, if he regarded this as a clue to the quest, wouldn't it be too exaggerated? Gu Fei didn't believe that ordinary people could see anything from this. Even the game designers probably couldn't restore the scene of the battle from this.
Gu Fei couldn't either, but at least, from some fragments that he could guess, he could judge that this battle was very intense and the frequency was very fast. In this regard, Gu Fei quickly had new questions. Judging from the traces left behind, the two opponents seemed to have been entangled for a period of time before one of them finally fell. In that case, this dead Mofei had some skills. However, Gu Fei remembered that when the village chief talked about this matter here before, he specifically introduced Mofei, saying that he was a kind and upright good young man, and didn't mention that he was a warrior or anything like that.
Gu Fei suddenly thought of the official website's boasting and introduction of the quest chain. It claimed that each generated quest chain represented the hard work and sweat of the game staff, complete plot and story, events that really happened around you...
From the content here, in Gu Fei's quest chain, the event of Mofei being killed by the werewolf, although it wouldn't be witnessed by Gu Fei, the player who received the quest, the system would still simulate the occurrence of this event, and then let all the events develop according to the plot arrangement, until Eddie was captured by the bandits. These had all really happened in the game environment.
Mofei's identity became a real doubt. The ridiculous thing was that Gu Fei's suspicion at this time was focused on whether this Mofei really existed. If the programmer was just trying to improve the plot and threw two guys here to fight at the entrance of the church and spill some blood, then for Gu Fei, who could see the clues, it would be a truly misleading event.
But in any case, Gu Fei decided to continue to investigate this clue. Then he called out to Xiao Yu, who was still digging in the corner.
"What did you find?" Xiao Yu heard that Gu Fei's voice was different.
"I found something, let's go find the village chief again," Gu Fei said.
"What for?"
"Ask him what kind of person this Mofei was," Gu Fei said.
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