After entrusting the management, Chu Tian arrived at his neighbor's door.
He knocked, and after a moment, Luo Luo opened the door a crack.
"Senior?"
Chu Tian looked at Luo Luo, who was wearing a pink camisole nightgown, and coughed lightly.
"Ahem… that, you're also playing Tiandao, right? Remember not to leave the新手村 (newbie village). If you're outside, hurry back. Also, no matter what happens, don't log out!"
Chu Tian remembered that a few months after they met, she had told him she was assigned to the killer faction, but she didn't like the gloominess of that side, so she rarely played Tiandao.
She also used the reason that their factions couldn't communicate as an excuse for not telling him her in-game ID, which was why he came to remind her.
"Oh? Why?" Luo Luo opened the door fully and asked curiously.
"Don't worry about it, just get back to the新手村. By the way, what's your ID?"
"Okay, my ID is Yiyi, the Yiyi from one, two, three, Yiyi." Luo Luo answered truthfully.
"Mhm, I'll add you as a friend later."
After saying that, he waved goodbye to her with his back turned and walked towards his room.
But…
"Yiyi?"
Chu Tian turned around instantly. Luo Luo's door had already closed.
How could it be her?
Even when Chu Tian put on his helmet and returned to the game, he still couldn't believe that Luo Luo was Yiyi.
In his previous life, Chu Tian was doing monster-killing quests in the wild when he encountered Yiyi, who was doing the same quests. As a thief, Chu Tian naturally couldn't outcompete an archer, so he developed a killing intent. However, at this moment, Yiyi sent a party request, which Chu Tian naturally accepted.
That's how they met, and many stories happened later.
But why did she lie to him in his previous life?
"System prompt: A natural disaster is imminent. Players are advised to find a safe place to take shelter. Countdown: 1 minute."
"System prompt: The novice experience is about to end. The official expansion pack will begin soon. All player levels will be reset to zero. Countdown: 1 minute."
"System prompt: Novice experience experience multiplier is 15x. The official expansion pack experience multiplier will revert to normal!"
The continuously flashing system prompts woke Chu Tian from his memories.
Ding ding ding ding… The world channel prompt sound kept ringing.
Chu Tian casually turned off the world channel sound effects.
"What's going on?"
"A new expansion pack is being launched just one hour after the server opened?"
"Damn it, I'm already level 4, and they're resetting everything?"
"Are you blind? Didn't the system say this was a novice experience?"
"Haha, it's good that it's reset. I haven't even managed to get out of the新手村 yet."
…
Various curses erupted in the world channel, some cursing, some gloating.
Soon, the countdown ended, and everything returned to darkness.
As the screen slowly恢复, an ear-piercing alarm sounded in Chu Tian's ears.
"Alert, alert, the plane will crash in 1 minute. Please parachute…"
Looking at the players around him, one by one, jumping out of the cabin door, Chu Tian thought: I don't believe you! You tricked me last time.
He heard others say that the plane at this新手出生点 (novice spawn point) always gave the warning of crashing in one minute, but it never actually crashed. Once, a player had put themselves on托管 (auto-pilot) and fallen asleep, and when they woke up, they were still there.
Everyone else ran towards the cabin door at the tail of the plane, but he squeezed his way inside.
Reaching the cockpit, Chu Tian saw the deceased pilot.
He didn't care much about that, as it was just an NPC anyway.
He dragged the pilot out of the seat and began to search the corpse. If the system hadn't disallowed it, he would have even stripped the pilot's underwear.
This was also a legendary quest he had heard about before, where you could take the pilot's equipment and wear it yourself on the novice plane.
The stats were comparable to level 5 equipment, but the main thing wasn't the equipment itself, but the pilot's watch, which was an important item for triggering future legendary quests.
Chu Tian walked to the cabin door and picked up the parachute lying on the ground.
Calculating the plane's flight path, he leaped out.
His target was the real novice safe zone, 森金小镇 (Senjin Town).
Last time, he had panicked and jumped out upon hearing the alarm, and it took him three hours to reach the town after landing.
Although there were no monsters along the main road, the distance was too far, wasting too much time.
All content in Tiandao needed to be activated. The leveling spots and monster spawn areas in the新手村 would only be activated when someone reached 森金小镇.
Looking at the town area below, which was gradually getting larger, Chu Tian glided down and only deployed his parachute when he was about 100 meters from the ground.
Have you ever seen a cheetah parachute? Here it comes!
Transform: Cheetah Form.
Bang… The black panther hit the ground. The passive skill "Grace of the Panther" took effect, reducing fall damage by 80%.
Even so, he only had one-tenth of his health remaining. If another class had deployed their parachute from 100 meters, they would have been directly killed by the fall.
"System Announcement: Player 'I Am Not a Druid' is the first to reach the safe zone '森金小镇'."
"System Announcement: The 1314 novice area bounty quest has been activated. Players can accept quests at the quest hall in '森金小镇' to receive rewards."
Chu Tian's destination was the quest hall. There were no quests given one after another in the Tiandao world like in previous games.
All bounty quests released by NPCs could be claimed from the panel in the quest hall, and there was a daily limit on the number of quests released. If you were late, you'd only get the leftovers.
Then you could only accept those that required collecting materials dropped by specific monsters. Of course, after you finished collecting the materials and returned, the NPC might have already acquired enough, making your effort in vain.
"Ding… System prompt: You have obtained the achievement 'Discoverer of 森金小镇'. As the first player to reach the town, all NPCs within the town have their favorability towards you increased by 200, and Human faction reputation increased by 200."
This was exactly the reward Chu Tian wanted. Favorability was the hardest thing to grind. If the favorability wasn't high enough, even if he knew how to activate a legendary quest, he wouldn't be able to!
Entering the quest hall, Chu Tian accepted all the quests he deemed to be high quality. His quest log was already at its limit of 20 quests.
Everything was ready, time to head out and level up…
He sprinted out of the east gate of the town towards the first quest location, the abandoned power plant.
Here, he could complete four quests at once. Chu Tian had chosen quests that were clustered in an area, making it convenient to complete them all at once.
At the entrance, two level 2 hounds were guarding the gate. He casually threw out an "Inspect" spell.
【Corrupted Hound】
Quality: Normal
Level: 2
Physical Attack: 10
Physical Defense: 2
Magic Defense: 2
Health: 30
Skill: Lacerate (Uses claws to lacerate the enemy, causing bleeding damage of 10% of attack power for 8 seconds.)
Description: Hounds infected by corruption, ferocious and brutal, they will actively attack any living creature that enters their field of vision.
To enter the factory area, these two dogs had to be dealt with.
Chu Tian checked his own stats. After equipping the pilot's gear, his physical defense had reached 12 points. These dogs could not break through his defense, only dealing a mandatory 1 point of damage to his health.
Seeing that the hounds posed no threat to him, Chu Tian leaped towards one of them.
Shred, Shred.
-16, -14!
"Awooo!"
One of the hounds let out a miserable cry and fell to the ground, dead.
"Ding… You have killed 'Bio-Hound', experience gained +4 (including +2 points from divine talent growth)!"
Chu Tian was stunned for a moment. Why was his damage so high?
The other hound pounced in front of him. Chu Tian rolled on the spot, dodging the attack.
Shred.
-16!
Shred.
System prompt: Insufficient energy, cannot use!
Chu Tian saw that his energy value was only 5 points left, and it was recovering at a rate of 10 points per second.
Each use of Shred required 40 energy, so he couldn't use it for now.
Claw strike, Chu Tian used a normal attack on the hound.
-4!
He retreated and dodged, looking for an opportunity to land normal attacks.
Having been a thief in his previous life and hunted for three years, dodging monster attacks was a small matter.
After several more claw strikes on the hound,
"Awooo!"
This dog also fell to the ground, turning into 4 experience points.
He picked up the 2 copper coins and a piece of碎肉 (raw meat) dropped by the two dogs.
Looking at the skill description, Shred dealt 200% physical damage, plus the attribute of his divine talent "Concentration," which increased skill effects by 50%.
Shred became 300% physical damage, no wonder it could instantly kill a level 2 monster in two hits.
The divine talent was showing its power, and Chu Tian began to look forward to how strong he could grow…