Ark, I became an NPC in the online game

"Hehehe, sir, the price for this one is... 200,000 Longmen coins."

Xia Yuan slightly moved aside, and the shop owner looked out of the corner of his eye and saw a staff member wearing the uniform of the Chamber of Commerce standing at the street entrance. He immediately broke out in a cold sweat, for he had not expected that the Sakota standing next to him was actually a guest of the Chamber of Commerce.

"Ahem, my throat was not working properly just now. Master, you can buy this little Senomi for 60,000 Longmen coins."

Xia Yuan could only sigh at the fact that the slaves were not as expensive as a low-quality pistol on the black market. However, the shopkeeper was completely afraid of the Chamber of Commerce, which was why he gave him a much lower price. The lowest price of a slave of average appearance was 70,000 Longmen coins.

Although this Senomi was still a slave, her lively, healthy and pretty beauty could not be concealed. She was a beauty at a young age.

Xia Yuan immediately decided to leave.

"...Master."

Senomi stared at Xia Yuan blankly, her body still trembling, but she slowly got up from the ground.

"Let's go."

Xia Yuan glanced at her, then took a step forward.

Looking at the back emitting a faint golden light, Senomi didn't know why she wanted to cry, but she still held back her tears. What would the future be like? Would she be beaten? Would she be scolded? She clenched her fists slightly and hurriedly followed Xia Yuan. If the front was hell, she would definitely follow, because she didn't want to stay in this purgatory on earth any longer.

The staff drove the two back to Xia Yuan's apartment. When the door was closed, Senomi's body trembled again, her eyes were full of tears... and she began to take off her clothes.

"Stop." Xia Yuan coughed.

My goodness, if he were a player, the NPC harassment warning would have popped up by now.

"But, isn't the master going to do that kind of thing?" Senomi sobbed in fear.

"I didn't buy you for those things." Xia Yuan said calmly, "I was in need of a maid to do odd jobs by my side, so I bought you."

Senomi patted her chest with her little hands, but she still looked like she was afraid of being beaten. Well, she was still a child, and everything on her face was revealed. She must have had many painful memories in the slave market.

"Go take a shower first, I'll have someone take you clothes shopping."

Xia Yuan waved his hand and asked Senomi to go to the bathroom to wash up quickly. The latter was afraid that if he walked too slowly, Xia Yuan would be angry, so he moved very quickly.

This frightened look made Xia Yuan want to laugh, but he couldn't.

He made a phone call to Jian.

"Hey, boss, what's up?"

"You are used to calling me boss now." Xia Yuan smiled. "I bought a maid from the 'market' who has a miserable life. She will be with us in the future. She doesn't have any replacement clothes. Do you have time to take her to buy clothes?"

Jian didn't hesitate. She said "oh" and really didn't think too much about it. "I'll be there in a minute."

With such a caring bodyguard subordinate, Xia Yuan feels completely at ease.

Not long after, Jian pushed open the door wearing a mask and a beret. Now in Casimir, she was under surveillance all the time. In order not to be recognized, she had to wear a mask and a hat that could conceal her from the public. She also did not want to cause trouble to her comrade-in-arms and employer.

The mace came very quickly, and Senomi washed quickly too. She changed into a tattered linen coat and stood timidly at the door of the bathroom, as if she was being punished.

She found that there was a big sister with long golden hair, beautiful face and imposing aura in the room. She immediately lowered her head in fear, not daring to look into Jian's golden eyes.

"That's her?"

"Well, that's her, how is it?"

Xia Yuan asked.

Mace looked her up and down. "She has tight muscles and is good at sports. At her age, it is very suitable for her to relax and practice basic movements. She is indeed talented."

"How about you teach her some martial arts?" Xia Yuan smiled.

Jian nodded straightforwardly. This was how she was when dealing with people. She never hesitated when making decisions. As a warrior and a senior, guiding a junior was a piece of cake for her.

Of course, she also has the gentle and steady charm of an older sister.

She extended her hand to the trembling Senomi, "Hello, nice to meet you, my name is Jian."

Chapter 44: Hehehe, there must be a fight

Jian took the lovely Senomi away. With such an older sister to take care of her, nothing would happen to Senomi if she followed her.

Xia Yuan plans to create a training program for Senomi. The maid he mentioned is not a joke, but he really wants to train Senomi into an all-round woman.

In his current conception, the mace is the first choice for the force faction. As a natural warrior, it seems good to be a coach while being a bodyguard. Such a mace is not suitable for handling clerical work or social activities, which is also the direction he wants to train Senomi.

He remembered that in his previous life, this operator named Senomi, codenamed Li, was a grassroots member of the Rhodes Island Pharmaceutical Company. He was very good at combat skills and was also known as a fourth-level knight in Casimir.

In this life, Senomi has the training of mace in combat, and Xia Yuan in civilian affairs. Well... he is already looking forward to Senomi becoming an all-round secretary in the future.

Putting Senomi's training plan aside, Xia Yuan was also ready to leave Casimir. Before leaving, he naturally had to take the three players he brought into the city with him. The most popular post on the forum these days was Magic ZX's live "travel" post. With the intervention of the live broadcaster, the players also yearned for the main city that they would be able to enter in the future. Compared with the novice town, it was really a world of difference.

He felt envious and jealous of the three people who triggered Xia Yuan's secret mission.

The same is true for the members of Team Liquid. Their captain, Lao Si Lai Si, has reached level 15. Relying on hard work and piling up resources and equipment during this period of time, he finally pushed the novice guard to level 10. The other level 5 is the novice knight of the secondary profession. With this level and the equipment bought from Xia Yuan, Lao Si Lai Si is quite confident. He is already far ahead of ordinary players. There should be no problem for him to participate in the knight competition, right?

A group of Team Liquid participated in the North District auditions a few months ago, and were severely beaten by their opponents in the first round. This was one of the few human battles that Team Liquid had. They found that even though their attributes were equal, those NPCs had a better time than them in terms of martial arts!

There are no sword skills like in Sword Art Online in "Ark". There is no system that can adjust the direction and trajectory of sword skills for players in advance. They can only rely on their own bodies to swing weapons to fight. In other words, they still require some athletic ability.

The monsters that Lao Silais had killed before were all animals or Originium Bug Claws. He suffered a great loss in his first battle against humans. The enemies were not like the NPCs in the game who only had fixed attack intervals. They had a sense of pain, could get angry, and would roll on the ground continuously to avoid the player's attacks.

This is not an NPC at all, it's simply a player!

Team Liquid was eliminated in the first round. They had a deep feeling about the reality of this world, and soon their coach arranged sports courses for them and required them to participate, in order to better control their bodies to fight in another world.

When the members of Team Liquid saw that the Trail Blazers, who had settled in the town of Casimir Barichara, took Qiu Muyu away, they felt a little jealous. When they saw the "travel Vlog" made by Magic ZX, their back teeth were almost broken with envy. When they saw that the Trail Blazers gave Egg Knife and Egg Tart an advanced weapon, their eyes turned bloodshot.

Team Liquid's mentality was a little broken, and Lao Da was almost defeated.

When playing Ark, players also discovered the problem that Team Liquid noticed when fighting against humans. No matter how good a person's attributes are, if he doesn't know how to swing a sword, his role on the battlefield is just a blood pack and is completely useless.

However, players who choose melee professions such as guards, special forces, and pioneers already like this. After noticing this function, they are immediately delighted. Does this mean that in PVP, even if the attributes are not as good as the opponent, they can still use the bonus brought by combat skills to defeat the opponent?

Several posts on the forum about action trajectories and sword-swinging methods immediately became popular. If everyone originally thought that combat was just a turn-based stabbing, or that the parameters and trajectories were set by the system, then combat now opened a whole new door for players.

Although it is still impossible to compete against each other if the attributes are too different, but if the difference is not much, players can achieve the "cross-level challenge" in novels.

This discovery received unanimous praise from players. The game Ark is so realistic. Great, great!

Xia Yuan looked at the forum thoughtfully. It was around this time in his previous life that he discovered this so-called combat skill function. That is, after this incident, players would consciously try to get close to NPCs and ask them to accept them as apprentices. This phenomenon was particularly prevalent in Yan Country because there were martial arts schools everywhere.

His own combat skills are not very high, and he has never thought about changing in this direction. He is just a small auxiliary with little damage, so he doesn't need to worry about these things.

"Hmm! Ha——" Muirseth reappeared from the water bottle. She yawned and lay on the sofa with her legs crossed. "Did anything interesting happen while I was away these few days?"

"Hmm? Xia Yuan, why are you still hammering away? Is hammering iron so fun?"

Xia Yuan hummed, watching his experience increase, watching the raw materials turn into modern technology under his hammering, isn’t it interesting and fun?

No man can resist hammering iron.

"How's the work going?" Xia Yuan asked, straightening up. "Yala called me yesterday and told me that the Colombian military is also interested in the Pathfinder and hopes that I can reach an order deal with them... Of course, they have special requirements."

"It's a military order? It sounds a bit troublesome... Xia Yuan, what do you think?" Muirseth straightened up.

Xia Yuan was not surprised that the Colombian military had set their sights on aircraft, but he knew that anything technologically contaminated by the military would have bad results. He could already foresee that the pathfinder he had made would be distributed by the military to other craftsmen who would then work backwards from his blueprints and create their own pathfinders.

No, maybe it has already started. After all, who said that the Pioneer Association has no military presence?

So Columbia is just going through the motions to save face and make everyone feel more comfortable and better looking. It's a good thing that Xia Yuan can cooperate, which is beneficial to the military, to Xia Yuan, and to Rhine Life.

As for Xia Yuan's refusal, they can also study it on their own, and their attitude towards Rhine Life will change. After all, they are one of the shareholders of Rhine Life.

"Of course I agreed. We don't have any conflicts with the Colombian military at the moment." Xia Yuan said, "Their requirements are not high. They require reconnaissance, night vision, and thermal imaging modules. It seems to be for reconnaissance at the moment."

"Yeah."

Muirseth was thoughtful, but her mood soon changed. "Xia Yuan, will you continue to stay in Cavalleriaki? Or go to a new city——"

Before she could finish her words, the door of the apartment was pushed open.

Jian was still wearing the highly protective employee uniform that Xia Yuan had given her, while Senomi was wearing children's clothes. She looked like a child star who had come from a film set, with her pink hair hanging limply on her shoulders. However, she was still a little afraid. After entering the door, she maintained an ostrich-like posture, her body still trembling slightly.

Jian sighed, and Jinmou was a little surprised when she saw Muerseth. She coughed lightly and said, "Xia Yuan, I have bought the clothes, and I also bought five spare sets."

Senomi whispered, "I...I don't deserve...I don't deserve to wear such beautiful clothes."

Muirseth was petrified.

Xia Yuan nodded. After not hearing any movement from Muirseth for a long time, he poked the water man beside him again.

"You, you, you! Xia Yuan, you actually married the Black Knight and gave birth to a child while I was away?!"

Muirseth looked at Xia Yuan with tears in his eyes. His body floated up and he punched Xia Yuan's shoulders with his little fists made of water.

Mace chuckled. This lady seemed to find this scene very interesting. However, there was something deep in her golden eyes. The person who asked her for an autograph that day... was actually made of water? Was it an Originium technique? The waves of the Biliu Knight were no match for this sophisticated Originium technique.

Senomi saw Muerseth floating up and was trembling with fear.

Xia Yuan hurried to explain.

The apartment fell into a state of extreme chaos in an instant.

......

"That is to say, Black Knight, ah, Miss Mace had to leave Casimir because of the persecution of the Commercial Federation..."

Muirseth finally calmed down, and she looked at the Black Knight, now with a hint of sympathy in her eyes.

Jian said indifferently: "They have disliked me for a long time, this time is just a fuse. It just so happens that the boss bought my life, and from now on I will act as the boss's bodyguard subordinate."

Xia Yuan looked at Muirseth and raised his eyebrows slightly. Muirseth remembered that he once said that he wanted the Black Knight and Saria to fight, and immediately glared back at him angrily. With her around, such a terrible thing that could destroy the entire earth could not happen!

The girl looked at Senomi, who was standing beside the sofa with her hands clutching the corners of her clothes, looking uneasy. She had just been pulled to sit on the sofa by the mace, but she jumped up immediately not long after. As a slave, she knew that she could not sit on this expensive leather sofa because she was dirty.

There was a trace of sympathy on Muirseth's face. The kind elf lady had never been exposed to the dark side here. She didn't understand why someone would buy and sell slaves.

In fact, there are still some traces of slavery in Colombia, but it is not as rampant as here in Casimir.

"What will happen to Xiao Mi after that?"

Even though they had just met for the first time, Muirseth gave Senomi a cute nickname.

"We will let her grow up." Xia Yuan said, "Now I am the owner of Senomi. Since I rescued her from there, I will naturally be responsible for her."

"That's good."

Muirseth breathed a sigh of relief. She floated in front of Senomi and greeted her with a smile, "Hello~"

Xia Yuan withdrew his gaze. Muirseth had kindness and innocence in his heart, and was able to quickly establish a good relationship with children. He looked at the mace, and the two of them stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.

"We are going to Kazdel next. I'll leave Senomi and I's safety in your hands."

"A Shakota is going to the territory of the Sarkaz... I understand. With me here, no one can hurt you."

This is the confidence that the mace brings to Xia Yuan.

As for Muerseth's identity, it was no secret. Jian did not choose to ask. Instead, it was Muerseth who introduced himself to Jian and let Jian know the existence of the Rhine Life Company.

Thus passed our last night in Cavalleriacchi.

The next day, Xia Yuan met the three players at the hotel. Their most common practice in Cavalleriaki recently was to go to the NPC and ask, "What's bothering you? Is there anything I can help you with?"

They completed some triggered tasks, but most of them were just errands. For example, they were not at a high enough level to participate in the knight competition activities, but they went to watch every game and immediately became loyal fans of the Black Knights.

They were disappointed when they learned that the Black Knight had left Cavaleliaki. They had not had the chance to ask for his autograph.

"Mr. Pioneer, where are we going next?"

The magic ZX followed Xia Yuan closely - it was the iron rule of the players that there was meat to be had by following high-level NPCs, and the Egg Knife and Egg Tart had already proved this.

"Go back to Barichara Town, and then go to Kazdel." Xia Yuan led them to the underground garage. There were materials piled on the back seat of his pickup truck, but the volume was not large, which allowed Xia Yuan to leave the third row of seats empty for the players to sit. Otherwise, it would not be possible for Mace to hold Senomi in the passenger seat, right? This was dangerous driving, and his family might cry.

Magic ZX thought, "Kazdel is currently engaged in a civil war."

“Mr. Pioneer will be fine.” Qiu Muyu said, “Although demons and angels are enemies, Pioneer doesn’t seem to have any hatred towards Kazdel. And with Pioneer’s character, he probably won’t participate in the massacre.”

Dan Dao and Dan Tart nodded in agreement with Qiu Muyu's point of view. The pioneer's noble character was well known to the players who were close to him. He might shoot at the Sarkaz mercenaries who drew their swords against him, but he would never hurt any Sarkaz civilians.

"Boss, are these the three of them? The ones heading to Kazdel with us?"

The three of them stared at the same time at the sound of the queen's voice. What did they see? The black knight in a handsome military uniform, a tie and a weapon behind him, she actually appeared in front of them alive, and actually called the pioneer boss?

Hmm? What is the relationship between these two people? When did it become a boss and subordinate relationship?

Magic ZX's eyes were glowing. For him, if his favorite male NPC was the Trailblazer, then his favorite female NPC after watching the Knight Competition was the Black Knight.