Guidance

"As you can see, according to the Village Chief, this person definitely has a story, but it will obviously require a chain of tasks to uncover it."

"However, to some extent, this character seems quite strange, because according to common sense, a master who lives in seclusion should not want others to recognize him, but this one doesn't mind showing off his martial arts skills, which is a bit counterintuitive."

"Based on my years of experience writing online Webnovel novels, the fact that such a powerful figure is placed here means he must be waiting for someone, or it could be setting the stage for a later plot point. Of course, there's also the possibility that someone accidentally triggered some special condition during the last closed Closed Beta."

After leaving the Village Chief's house, Liao Yunhuai chatted idly with the viewers in the Live Broadcast Room, drawing on his years of experience reading Webnovel, while also pondering the expert's strategy.

However, a comment in the Live Broadcast Room quickly caught his attention:

[Maybe they're just time travelers trying to fleece people?]

[Grass!]

[6]

[Wwwwwwww]

Not only Liao Yunhuai, but many viewers were also struck by this remark.

Although I find this thing quite absurd, if even a fully simulated virtual reality game has appeared, then having a time traveler doesn't seem so outrageous after all.

In recent years, there have been many Fourth Natural Disaster in the gaming genre where characters are reborn into Game World before its launch and then grow by exploiting players. There are even stories that disguise a real otherworld as a game to recruit people. If you think about it, it does seem to make some sense.

However, Liao Yunhuai quickly shook his head and said:

"It's probably not a game design novel about a fake world. The protagonist in those novels usually lacks resources in the early stages and has limited resources to recruit. But Jianghu had a thousand accounts in its first Closed Beta, and ten thousand in the second, and they were even spread across fifty Beginner Village. In the first Closed Beta, no one had even heard of such an NPC... Well, of course, we can't rule out the possibility that the game company is deliberately using this plot device..."

Hearing Liao Yunhuai say this, the audience who initially thought time travel was too surreal began to believe it. Real time travel was absurd, but if it was just a prank by the game company, then everything made sense.

This is similar to the difference between truly breaking the fourth wall and breaking the fourth wall through a persona.

However, at this point in time, Liao Yunhuai suddenly had a strategy for winning over this big shot.

If we consider him a "game character designed to exploit players," then can we use the behavioral logic of protagonists in online game novels to deduce a strategy for winning over this game character?

Hmm, revealing their identity as a streamer and using that to increase their own fame?

"No, this won't work. If it were a real person playing an NPC, that would be fine, but if it's just a persona, they probably wouldn't understand what a live stream is, or rather, if they could understand it, it would be too terrifying."

Liao Yunhuai was pondering how to defeat the Hidden NPC, while many other players had already begun to take action.

"Senior, do you have anything here for sale?"

Looking at the "innocent" players in front of him, Feng Xue chuckled inwardly. In this short time, he had confirmed that these players did not have any so-called task panels or Storage Space. As for whether other game auxiliary panels existed, he was not sure, but at least they did not have functions such as body data digitization.

However, since the player came to him to shop, he played up the persona he had created for himself and said in a rather annoyed tone:

"Buy? What can you afford?"

"Ah, this... I do have some savings." The player awkwardly pulled out a handful of copper coins from his pocket. He was also a player in the first Closed Beta. He had originally saved these coins to learn martial arts in town, but the person who had learned "Tiger Subduing Fist" in town couldn't even withstand a single finger from this master, so he immediately gave up on his plan to go to the martial arts school.

In martial arts games, what you learn in a martial arts school can hardly be called martial arts.

Feng Xue was perfectly aware of the player's thoughts. He glanced disdainfully at the handful of copper coins, then flicked his wrist, sending ten Big Coin flying in a neat arc from the player's hand to Feng Xue's. Before the player could speak, he casually grabbed a Wooden Sword from the corner and tossed it to him, saying:

"Take it and play with it."

"Uh..." Looking at the Wooden Sword in his hand, the player was speechless. Although this senior's previous move was quite amazing, what kind of nonsense was it to give him a Wooden Sword?

Although ten coins is only the price of a bowl of tofu pudding in real life, it still feels like they're teasing a child.

Also, if I need a weapon, wouldn't it be better to go to the Blacksmith Shop?

However, learning from the previous fool's mistake, this player didn't persist. Since it was proven that the other party had something to sell, it meant that he didn't have enough money!

With this thought in mind, the young man grabbed his Wooden Sword and ran out of the village, but...

Men, you know, can easily spend an entire afternoon playing with a wooden stick. Now that he had a Wooden Sword, the player casually started swinging it around, and then...

"Boom!"

"Grass!"

"What happened?"

The Big Locust Tree Village only has about a hundred households, so the commotion immediately attracted the attention of the entire village. The player, along with the villagers, rushed to the direction from which the loud noise came. There, they saw a bewildered player standing there, while opposite him, a Mulberry Tree that was about ten years old lay on the ground, and several villagers were pointing and talking at him.

Compared to the villagers who surrounded the player to prevent his escape, the player was more concerned about the fallen Mulberry Tree. Seeing the smooth, mirror-like cut on the Mulberry Tree at about half a person's height, the player's eyes instantly burned with desire as he looked at the Wooden Sword.

"Damn, could it be the legendary divine weapon disguised as Wooden Sword?"

Where did you get this?

"I'll pay the money for you, how about I take the sword?"

Hearing the commotion around him, the sword-wielding player immediately realized what was happening. Upon hearing the words "help pay back the money," his eyes widened, and he exclaimed:

"Dream on! How much? I'll pay!"

After saying this, the player handed all his belongings to the owner of the Mulberry Tree (Note ①), then picked up the sword and left the village.

Curious players immediately followed, eager to see the use of this Divine Weapon, while clever players quickly realized the sword's origin and ran towards Feng Xue's Thatched Shed.

The sounds from the village naturally didn't escape Feng Xue's notice, who had a keen sense of the entire village. He merely shook his head slightly at the player's tree-chopping activity before continuing to whittle the wood, knowing full well that his village was about to become...

"Senior, I'd like a weapon. How much would you consider?"

Okay, it looks like it won't take long; it's already started.

In ancient times, there was a custom of planting Mulberry Tree and catalpa trees in front of one's house, which is known as "Mulberry and Catalpa Home". This was not only for aesthetic purposes, but also for practical purposes.

Mulberry Tree produce leaves that can be used to raise silkworms, and mulberries that can be used to make wine and are also edible. Catalpa trees can produce medicinal herbs and are also excellent timber, making them ideal for both furniture and coffins.

Planting these two types of trees is equivalent to increasing income (silkworms, wine) and reducing expenses (coffins, furniture) for the family. Therefore, the trees in front of the house can be considered the property of the homeowner, and damage to them will definitely require compensation.