Chapter 835: Bustling Chang'an City
[Echo Dungeon] is currently the most popular game for serious players.
Using the mechanism of black-haired zombies to engage in [fixed monster spawning points] is of course not the way the designers prepare for players to upgrade.
In order to provide players with reasonable and rich battle scenes, Lin You provided developers with the idea of "memory echo".
During quests and explorations, players will get props with the suffix "Echo" in their names. When using these props, they will be transported into a certain memory of the prop owner, and these memories often have a lot of fighting scenes. It can provide players with rich fighting fun.
Some NPCs can even repeatedly send the player into a certain memory—this is considered a fixed copy.
Most of the echo dungeons will have a list, recording the 10 teams with the fastest clearance.
As we all know, once there is a leaderboard in the game, many people will try their best to put their names on it, the higher the higher the better, and they are even willing to pay far more than the reward for it.
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In addition, there is also a PVP-type echo copy, which is also very popular.
After the game was officially released, Youcat Cake soon found a familiar blacksmith to become an apprentice.
——After deleting the file, the bad impression of doing things before was gone, and the apprenticeship went very smoothly.
Not only did he learn the forging of the mother-child sword and the corresponding sword skills, he also gained the little girl's favor and a special memory echo——
[Night Rain·Quick Sword] (Echo)
In the same way, Hong Chen also got a [Ye Yu·Poison Doctor] from his poison doctor teacher (echo)
The same series of [Ye Yu · Li Er] and [Ye Yu · Shi Quan] were also obtained by players one after another.
When all these echoes are collected, the full version of [Night Rain·Echo] becomes a fixed copy of the panel that can be opened at any time.
This dungeon with the same name as the promotional film allows players to enter the story in the promotional film and personally experience the siege in that rainy night.
But this dungeon is very special, two player teams will be put in at the same time, one team will help [Luo Sha] siege Huang Zongjing, and the other team will help [Grandmaster Huang Zongjing] and his wife escape from the siege of Luo Sha.
Every day in this dungeon, a large number of players fight each other and fight passionately.
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However, these two ways of playing are just a corner of "Changan" now.
Although the popularity is the highest, it does not have the advantage of crushing the popularity of other gameplays.
The current situation in Chang'an City is very complicated, or to put it in a better way - diverse.
It's not like the previous games, where players have several focused points of attention. In Chang'an City, players' focus has been completely scattered, and they can do anything.
Players who were obsessed with various sub-professions and various handcrafts during the closed test period were addicted to these delicate tasks again, and this group is still expanding rapidly. Newcomers are constantly attracted by these gadgets, and they start to ponder these every day when they go online.
A small example: [Silversmith] The number of sub-professional players has exceeded 4.8 million, and 1.3 million of them spend more than 4 hours a day beating, carving and hollowing out a small lump of silver to make a piece of jewelry.
With this data, other studios, or even international game companies, can make a separate game.
But in "Chang'an", it is just a small sub-professional branch gameplay.
It is simply incomparable with the sub-jobs involved in main quests such as [Forging] and [Farmer].
But [Farmer], most players just rent a small field after the mission, and just grow gourds.
This can only be regarded as the most shallow farmer.
Earn money to buy a piece of farmland before you can claim to be a qualified farmer.
Then, if you have more money to buy, buy, buy, and continuously annex land, you can be promoted to a "landlord" if you take over a dozen or even dozens of acres of land.
Chasing the Wind does just that.
Then he discovered a problem: If you rent these fields to NPCs to grow them, they can only grow the most common low-level crops.
Gourds can only grow the lowest quality, and the food brewed is all ordinary blood recovery wine, which can only restore 5% of the blood volume, and the herbs can't be sold at a high price, and high-end pharmacies are not even willing to accept them.
In other words, if you want to turn large tracts of farmland into high-value land, you must cultivate it yourself, or find other players to cultivate it.
The question is: who the hell is willing to farm for others in the game?
This is not really ancient times. Ordinary people have no land to grow. It is not difficult to buy a piece of land of your own in "Chang'an" - the price of buying a field is much cheaper than buying a house in Chang'an City.
At least in the virtual world, the mere fields are not valuable, but the labor that plows and sweats them.
What if you find a "liver substitute" and let someone help you plow the fields?
It's better to just spend money to buy ready-made materials...the price is more cost-effective, and it saves time.
Moreover, the number of "replacement livers" in this area is really very small-helping people fight monsters is completely different from helping people farm land.
Farming in the virtual world is different from farming on a game console. It does not mean that the seeds will be planted automatically by clicking the screen.
It is really necessary to loosen the soil, sow seeds, water, and remove insects.
It is still fun to experience a small piece of land, but it is really manual labor to switch to a large tract of land.
Looking at the large tracts of uncultivated land, Zhuifeng felt speechless for a moment.
How can a landlord personally plow the land?
Even though he said so, for a high-quality gourd, he went to the field to grow gourds by himself.
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In contrast, [Forging], as a classic, traditional, and powerful sub-job, does not have the trouble of farming.
Most of them are busy in the blacksmith shop.
Leaving aside the bosses of the blacksmith guild, these people are working hard to make money and want to set up a blacksmith shop for themselves.
If you want a shop, you have to make money, and if you want to make money, you have to study how to make armor for horses.
This is a very popular product now, it is easy to get orders, and it is more profitable than swords
——Because there is an upper limit on the durability of weapons, they will "explode" if they are used too much, so players always carry at least three swords with them, and the demand is endless, but unless it is a weapon above the [excellent level], it is not worth much. money.
A small number of more powerful blacksmiths are studying the casting of "Silver Sword".
This stems from two unexpected discoveries:
One is that Super Tomato triggered the "Ghost Hunting" task at Miss Chen Er's house, and then found that the sword in his hand couldn't cut the monster at all, and lighting the sword had no effect, so he went to the Taoist priest of Dongming Temple for help.
In the end, the Taoist took out three swords and asked him: Do you want this copper coin sword, or this silver sword, or this golden sword?
This question confused Super Tomato directly.
If Yunmeng was playing with the "River God" meme, he should have chosen the Copper Coin Sword—this is also in line with his understanding of the traditional ghost-catching culture.
So he decisively chose [Golden Sword].
The Taoist nodded and held out his hand to him.
"Huh?" Super Tomato was stunned.
"What? Take the money!"
"I still need money..." Super Tomato thought it was a mission item, and planned to come down to play. "How much?"
"10 taels of gold."
Super Tomato frowned, he couldn't afford it.
And the price is wrong - if the sword is pure gold, it must weigh more than 10 taels, but it only sells for 10 taels, which means it is not pure, and it may even be gold-plated.
So he settled for the next best thing and bought the copper coin sword and the silver sword.
Back at Chen's Mansion, sure enough, these two swords could hit the incorporeal monster.
The second thing is because of the demon fox.
The players' pursuit of Miss Yaohu has never stopped for a moment.
These people are not all trying to catch up with the fox demon, do naughty things with the fox demon sister, or do naughty things with the illusion created by the fox demon sister.
Some strength parties are for hiring a powerful support, some exploration parties are for digging background stories, and some casual parties are simply for fun...
Anyway, Jiaofang Division has always been very lively, a large number of players tried their best to strike up a conversation, chat, give gifts, trigger missions...
And this kind of dog-licking behavior is of course rewarded in the game:
One after another, people received tasks from her, and also received some rewards with special effects.
[Silver Sword] is one of them, not only can be used to fight against incorporeal monsters, but it is also more effective than ordinary steel swords in chopping up all kinds of monsters!
After that, many blacksmiths began to study the ancient [Fire Plating] process, and began to make silver swords - this thing also has durability, and it is considered a more advanced consumable.
Moreover, in [Echo Dungeon], all kinds of ghosts often appear in disorder, and the strength party has a great demand for the silver sword.
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Under dungeons and sub-professions, the hottest game is undoubtedly [Horse Racing].
Although this stuff is not very popular on the Internet, it is very popular in the actual game.
Many players have no idea of upgrading weapons and protective gear at all, and all their money is invested in horse breeding and horse racing.
Some local tyrants even raised more than a dozen horses by themselves, so they had to rent a stable for the horses.
The racecourse is a bit like a paradise in a metropolis. It is a natural public area. Once you enter here, all weapons will be automatically put into the armament box—even if you don’t have an armament box, Yunmeng will temporarily open it for you. One, put the weapon in it.
Of course, that doesn't mean the racetrack is completely peaceful.
The poor performance of the riders caused too many people to lose money, and they may be rushed in by the audience and educated with their fists!
This cannot be blamed on players not having gambling items, because many times NPC spectators even rush ahead of players.
And the players were surrounded by crowds, infected by the fanatical atmosphere, and lost money, it was hard not to be aroused...
Of course, in mirror images where British, German, and Russian players are the majority, NPCs rarely get ahead of them.
Sometimes even before the results of the game came out, the British, German and Russian players who were cheering on the stands started to fight with their fists...
The horse racing on the field and the fighting outside the field are as lively as the Chinese New Year.
Thank you [Yue Jiangyin] for rewarding 200 points.