Ark, I became an NPC in the online game

Grandma rubbed Snow Pheasant's head and said, "Since you have decided to go to Columbia, don't take me with you. I am doing fine here."

"But I want to take care of my grandmother."

When Snow Pheasant said this, small pearls started falling for some reason. She hurriedly wiped them off with her hands, but unexpectedly, more and more small pearls fell.

The grandmother was helpless when she saw the girl like this, she just gently stroked the snow pheasant's hair.

"...grandmother."

Xuezhi suddenly had an idea, "Grandma, I am not yet an adult. You are my guardian. Without you, I can't even get on the train to Columbia."

"...You kid." Grandma smiled and sighed, "Okay, I'll pack my things these days and take everything I need with me."

Snow Pheasant hugged her grandmother. The fireworks outside the window were so bright that she felt warm and bright.

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Chapter 65: Oak Forest

After the New Year, Xia Yuan waved goodbye to several acquaintances he met in Longmen. Before leaving, he gave them some gifts.

He gave Jiu a brand new crossbow, which he made specially for him. It had traces of machining on it, which could increase the range of the crossbow. The crossbow was black, white and red in color, which matched Jiu's usual clothes very well.

This gift was obviously thoughtful.

After the last training session, Jiu sat next to Xia Yuan and drank some water. "Nice to meet you, Pioneer. I hope we can meet again in the future."

"I hope I won't be hurt again the next time I see you." Xia Yuan smiled, "The work in the Guard Bureau is too tiring, make sure you take a rest."

"Thanks for your advice, I will..."

Jiu turned his head and looked away for a moment, then looked at Xia Yuan again, "Thank you for your gift."

"As a friend, I have nothing to give you... I can only wish you a safe journey."

"I wish you good health, too."

Xia Yuan said softly, "Don't get stuck in a dead end. Although Longmen is already a paradise among many mobile cities, the problems between the infected and ordinary people cannot be mediated at present. As a member of the Guard Bureau, Jiu, you have to take good care of yourself."

"I will. When you come back, I might have become the leader of the inspection team."

Jiu smiled and raised his fist to Xia Yuan, "Thank you for these days."

"Nice to meet you, see you later."

This is the scene when two people say goodbye. It is not a farewell of life and death, but more like like-minded friends wishing each other a smooth future.

The gift for Snow Pheasant was a brand new set of tools, which Xia Yuan specially bought at Dagu Plaza. Snow Pheasant was naturally shy and refused to accept it, but in the end, the grandmother came forward to thank Xia Yuan and accepted the gift.

According to the custom of Dayan, a drop of kindness should be repaid with a spring. Xuezhi kept this firmly in mind. She sent Xia Yuan downstairs on behalf of her grandmother and gave him a hug of gratitude.

After the two matters were resolved, Xia Yuan stepped on the engine and carried the two people back to the Novice Town where they came from. Because Xia Yuan had stayed there last time, it attracted many players and the size of the Novice Town had expanded a lot. The players were obviously looking forward to the pioneers coming again. They had already prepared experience and Longmen coins, waiting to spend them in Xia Yuan's store!

Xia Yuan didn't have much stock, and he didn't spend much time hammering iron these days. He had to replenish his supplies after going to Victoria. After a crazy rush by players, the stock was completely sold out, and the career books in the bookstore were also bought crazily by players, earning one million Longmen coins and more than 100,000 experience points in one wave.

He was not planning to go to Dongguo. He didn't have time to take the long way around. What's more, most of the players in Dongguo were moving closer to the border of Yanguo. There were not many players actually staying in Dongguo. It was impossible for him to make another trip for them.

After resting for a night in the town, Xia Yuan waved goodbye to the reluctant players and embarked on a new journey.

His destination on this trip was Victoria.

Passing by the border of Kazdel, through Syracuse, and around Leitania, you will reach Victoria.

Victoria is a monarchy with an ancient ruling tradition. The country is ruled by the Drake and Aslan clans, emphasizing hegemony and expansion, aiming to establish a world system centered on Victoria and create a new era for Victoria.

In ancient times, Victoria was ruled by the Drak race, who valued military power. Until the arrival of the Aslan race, after a brutal battle, the Aslans gained the right to rule Victoria. This history is still recorded in the oral accounts of wandering singers and poets.

The ancient treaty between Draco and Aslan recognized Aslan's opportunity to claim himself as king, and in the countless years that followed, Victoria was long controlled by three forces including these two.

The two rare races of Draco and Aslan are not selectable by players, which is normal. After all, if groups of Draco and Aslan suddenly appeared... Victoria would probably be in civil strife tomorrow.

This is just like when players can only choose the normal species when choosing the Sarkaz race... Imagine the hordes of Wendigos, Banshees and Blood Demons... Oh my god, this directly becomes "Make Kazdel great again".

The early pioneers of Victoria left the land and migrated westward, which led to the present-day Columbia.

As a neighbor of many countries, Victoria has naturally received a lot of cultural shocks. Here there are Casimir's knight competitions, Yan's calligraphy and paintings, etc., which are rich and diverse.

The women of the Victorian upper class are truly precious. Xia Yuan completed several series of tasks during the Victorian period. The documents obtained fully introduced the rich moral education of Victorian upper class women, who were also accustomed to shuttling between various parties and manors.

After searching on the forum to find out which novice town the players were in in Victoria, Xia Yuan stepped on the accelerator. Victoria has two different levels of administrative divisions, namely mobile cities and counties.

There is no need to introduce the mobile city, and the county level is a city smaller than the mobile city. There is no mobile core inside, which means that the city cannot move. However, there is not much news about natural disasters in Victoria, so people don’t have to worry about being hanged or crushed to death by the Originium disaster tomorrow.

Xia Yuan's destination was not a mobile city, and his supplies were insufficient. If he continued to travel to the mobile city that was moving regularly, he would have to go hungry for the next few days. So for food reasons, he stopped in a county-level city to replenish his supplies.

The city's gate was guarded by Victoria's mounted police, who let Xia Yuan into the city very respectfully after he showed his pass.

The full name of this county-level city is Oak Grove County, named after the large oak forests surrounding the city. Most of the people here do carpentry work. Many branches of large furniture companies are opened here. Factories and production facilities are also set up in the city, with a strong industrial atmosphere.

But the scenery here is really nice, and you can smell the elegant scent of oak. People living here are more leisurely, and the fast-paced life does not belong to them.

There is a factory here, which means that Xia Yuan can replenish supplies here. Xia Yuan suddenly felt that he could stay here for a while. After hammering iron for a while, he could go to the Novice Town. It would also be nice to take a look at the Mobile City Cat. Anyway, he still has plenty of time.

Across the entire map, it was already the end of February. Xia Yuan stopped the car at the door of the hotel and booked two rooms. Muirseth did not need a personal room since she would not control her water clones when she slept at night anyway.

After settling in, Jian and Senomi took a short rest. Senomi had been working as a pickup truck for nearly two months, and her little butt was a little numb. Now she was sleeping on the soft bed with a faint smile on her face.

Xia Yuan went to enjoy the bed and left the hotel after nightfall.

The only place in a city where you can hear the news is in bars, and not in "uptown" bars, but in bars that most ordinary people can afford to go to.

The bar culture in Victoria is very popular. Everyone is used to coming here to have a drink, chat and gossip after get off work. It is a rare pastime in the day.

The main members of Oak Forest County are all Filins. When he stepped into the bar full of Filins, the room was quiet for a moment, but it soon became lively again.

The interior of the place reminded Xia Yuan of the Hog's Head Inn described in the Harry Potter novels. Everyone was dressed in dirty clothes, and the floor was sticky, looking like it hadn't been cleaned for a long time.

"It's a stranger, and he doesn't look like an adult yet." The bar owner said something similar to Bald Martin. He raised his eyes and said, "A Sakota, what are you doing here?"

"I am a messenger, and I am of age."

Xia Yuan said, "I need to convey the message in Victoria. Since I just arrived in Victoria, I should naturally collect intelligence."

"Do all messengers have this habit?"

"No, I'm the only one who has it."

The bar owner pushed the cheap beer in front of Xia Yuan. The alcohol content of this beer was not high, but it was cheap, so ordinary people could drink it to their heart's content just to get drunk.

Xia Yuan took a sip and said, "The area around where I live right now is as beautiful as a royal garden. It took me 20 minutes to walk here. It's no different from the downtown slums I saw in Longmen. This kind of thing shouldn't exist in Victoria or Oak Forest County."

"why?"

The bar owner sneered, then put away his smile after a while. He looked at Xia Yuan's expression carefully and confirmed that he was not mocking or ridiculing him just now. Besides, the messenger did not look like a villain who would laugh at others.

He sighed and said, "Because we are from Tara."

The relationship between Tara and Victoria is a struggle between Ireland and Britain in real life.

Victoria rose to prominence and started foreign wars. Its neighbor Tara suffered repeated attacks from Victoria and had no choice but to become a part of Victoria.

After the Tara people became part of Victoria, Victoria did not treat them as her own people. Instead, she bullied Tara in every way. The Tara people only had a better title, but their treatment was almost the lowest of the lowest.

Victoria banned the inheritance and development of the Tara national language in order to cut off the cultural roots of Tara; banned Tara nobles from private gatherings and mass gatherings in order to prevent the formation of local forces; retained the original aristocratic class, using Tower to rule Tower, and cut off the connection between the classes.

The once proud Tara people have become inferior people, and the people have long been numb.

Tara, who was drunk in the bar, must have become numb.

"Mr. Messenger, I suggest you leave after you finish your drink. The curfew of the Tara people is approaching, and the Victoria police officers are all unreasonable people." He said softly, "Don't come here too often in the future. It's not safe here."

Xia Yuan paid double the price for the wine. After handing the Victoria gold coin to the bar owner, he was stunned for a moment, "Mr. Messenger."

"Take it. Intelligence also has a fee."

"Can--"

Before he finished speaking, a lot of shouting and yelling came from the street, which made him look serious. He knocked on the table quickly and said, "It's time to go home, everyone."

The people of Tara grumbled a few times in dissatisfaction, stood up and staggered towards the door. Many of them had indignant expressions and flushed faces, obviously drunk.

"It's curfew time now. What are you still doing here? What are you looking at? Go home now!"

"I've said it time and again, are you scumbags deaf? You are not allowed to gather on the streets at night!"

"Did you hear me? If you violate the rules we set again and gather during curfew, jail time and prison food will await you!"

Several Victoria mounted police shouted and shouted, holding rifles.

"This is our home, we are not the ones who should leave!" Someone in the crowd pouted.

The police officer's expression became stern. "Who was that scum who just spoke? Get out here!"

As the situation became conflict-ridden, the people of Tara were united in their hatred for the enemy and waited fiercely for the police, hoping to kill them with their eyes, but unfortunately they had no weapons.

"You, come up here and tell me, who is the scum who just said this?"

The mounted policeman sneered and randomly pointed at a woman who looked uneasy. The remaining mounted policemen stepped forward silently, and the oppressive force from them made the woman take a few steps back and fall to the ground.

A mounted policeman snorted disdainfully and kicked towards her. The woman barely managed to block it with her arm, but the mounted policeman's strength was so great that the woman's arm immediately swelled up. She tried hard not to cry.

"Don't bully mom!"

A girl with short black hair stood in front of the woman and stretched out her arms to block the mounted police's path.

Judging from her age, she was about twelve or thirteen, rather thin and looked a little malnourished, but her pair of golden eyes were staring at the mounted policeman unyieldingly.

"No, come back quickly!" The woman behind her panicked and pulled the girl's body, trying to protect her behind her, but the girl broke free from the woman and still stood stubbornly in front of her.

"Where did you come from, you bastard scum?"

The policeman felt that his dignity was challenged and his tone suddenly became stern. He hated the girl's gaze and wanted to use his spear to blind these eyes that were filled with hatred.

Just as he raised his spear, his action was interrupted by a calm voice.

"——It's curfew time now, and you should go home and rest. Venting your violence here won't make you feel good for long. You just lack someone to establish your authority over."

A Sakota came up to the mounted police and stood in front of the black-haired girl. He smiled and said, "Can you recommend me some famous bars in Oak Forest County? The drinks here are too bland."

The black-haired film girl raised her head, and in her golden eyes she could only see the tall figure of Sakota and the golden light above his head.

Chapter 66: The Tara People

"...Mr. Messenger, we do not want to have a conflict with you." The cavalry snorted. He always hated the Tara people, but he dared not neglect a Sakota from Lateran who was delivering news. What if the person who needed the news was his superior? If he casually mentioned it in front of him, wouldn't he lose his job?

"That's good. It's getting late."

Xia Yuan nodded and smiled calmly. The mounted police member was a little frightened by the smile. After hastily saying a few names of famous bars, he quickly took a few steps back and returned to the mounted police team's line.

At this time, most of the Tara people had left, and the mounted police had also left. Only the innocent woman who had just been kicked was sobbing quietly.

Xia Yuan turned around, smiled at the black-haired girl who was looking at him, then knelt down on one knee, and softly asked to take a look at the woman's injuries.

The woman's arm was deeply bruised and swollen. Xia Yuan got up and went to the bar to get a few bags of ice and applied it to the woman. "Go home. Don't move the wound. It will heal after a few days of rest. Try not to move your arm these days."

"Okay, thank you sir." The woman wiped her tears and nodded quickly to express her gratitude.

The black-haired girl said seriously: "Thank you for helping mom, what's your name, big brother?"