Seeing this, He Jingfeng couldn't help but grin atop the platform.
You liked pulling fancy stunts, huh?
Served you right!
Once that batch of players vanished from sight, He Jingfeng coughed and stepped down from the platform. Looking at the gleeful players around him, he said solemnly,
"Ever since the great battle against the Black Mountain Old Demon, although the City of Wrongful Deaths has changed hands, every part of the city has suffered varying degrees of damage. It is in desperate need of reconstruction, and urgently requires manpower..."
Oh?
A hidden quest?
The players' eyes lit up. They eagerly raised their hands, declaring that building the Underworld was their bounden duty!
He Jingfeng was very satisfied with their response. Using his authority as a non-player character, he immediately issued all kinds of construction and scavenging quests to the players before him.
The former mainly involved building the players' beginner village, while the latter involved heading to the outskirts of the ruins to collect weapon fragments and broken bones left behind from that year.
These quests weren't fabricated on purpose!
That was because there really were countless broken weapons and skeletal remains scattered across both the surface and underground portions of the Black Mountain Ruins.
Yan Chixia hadn't considered these things valuable back then, so he had simply left them alone.
But now, broken weapons could become transitional equipment for beginner players after being reforged, while shattered remains could be placed into the Grave Pool of Transformation to provide future players with bodies to walk around in.
Looking at the quests popping up on their system panels, the players were overjoyed. They immediately accepted them and rushed excitedly toward their quest locations.
Meanwhile, in the beginner village, members of the Chat Group such as Li Shimin also made friendly guest