Ark, I became an NPC in the online game

As long as the angels left Lateran, they were doing something that benefited others, devoted themselves, and led the environment to an orderly cause. In this process, their own gains and losses were not very important. Lateran was just a secret identity guarantee, and its interests were never mentioned.

These innocent and sunny Sakotas, Xia Yuan sighed softly. Now that he is one of them, how many of his own ideals does he have left in his heart?

What is his ideal?

The Fourth Scourge stirred up the world, but their arrival did not cause much disturbance to the society and order. As an NPC, what could he do? Lead Lateran to fight a thousand-year holy war? He was not crazy.

Xia Yuan let out a breath and handed over the completed answer.

Then he went home and waited for notification.

......

Three days later, Xia Yuan received a letter from the notary office.

He officially became a courier of the Lateran Notary Office. Attached to the letter was a token of the Lateran Notary Office and his work badge. As long as he had a computer and the work badge, he could connect to the notary office's server anywhere in Terra to check new tasks.

During this period of time, he had almost finished cleaning up.

He glanced at his outfit today. The black and gray jacket and trousers were the most suitable colors for walking on the land of Terra. He also had black gloves, combat boots, a compass, a watch, and a heavy military travel bag filled with supplies.

The sky above the holy city of Lateran was still as blue as ever, and like the Sakotas living in the city, they did not know what sorrow and suffering were.

Xia Yuan strolled through the city and came to the city gate, where the sunlight was surprisingly bright.

The mobile city will stop and open its gates at fixed time points. For Lateran, the holy city has not moved due to natural disasters for a long time. Is this perhaps because the people of Lateran are too devout in their faith?

At the city gate, stood Mostima who came to see him off.

Xia Yuan got on the pickup truck that he bought for 400,000 Longmen coins. It was said that it could travel freely in all kinds of weather and even through natural disasters. It was an advertisement, and those who understood would understand.

He put on goggles to cover his bright golden eyes, waved to Mastema, and said, "Let's go."

"We'll get in touch when we have a chance."

"it is good."

The conversations with her were always so plain and simple. Xia Yuan put all his thoughts behind him, started the engine, and the pickup truck turned into a puff of dust and disappeared from Mostima's sight.

The Lateran guards guarding the city gate looked at each other and said dully, "What a young boy."

"It's remarkable that he set foot on earth as a messenger at such a young age."

Mastema heard the two people's praise, she looked into the distance again, and the figure had disappeared.

Xia Yuan hums "All the way to the north, I'm all the way to the north, leaving the season with you~

He really went all the way north. Syracuse was located to the north of Lateran. With the help of the map, he could travel in a straight line through the uninhabited land.

Another benefit of joining the messenger is that he can join the messenger network in the area where the signal is received. The messenger network allows Xia Yuan to learn from the disaster messenger the location where the disaster is about to occur, so that he can drive a pickup truck in advance to avoid the disaster. It has to be said that the profession of messenger is really very convenient.

National borders have become blurred in this era of rampant natural disasters. One day, a sandstorm may blow away the national defense facilities. Currently, the national borders of major countries are only vaguely divided, and there is a buffer zone between national borders, which is the so-called unsupervised area.

For messengers, these uninhabited areas are the most dangerous.

But players like the no-man's land the most. They can fight and do some sneaky things here without being wanted by the authorities. This place has gradually become a gathering place for some players who like to laugh weirdly.

The sun was setting in the west. Xia Yuan, who had spent several days and nights in the wilderness, finally saw some human habitation in the distance. Some camps appeared on the horizon. The camps were surrounded by spiked fences made of wood and stone. Smoke rose from the camps. Xia Yuan realized that these were tents when he got closer.

Obviously, these are homeless people living in an uninhabited area.

There was no cover on the desert plain, and the sentry soon spotted a pickup truck approaching the camp and quickly blew the whistle.

Xia Yuan parked the pickup truck outside the camp. He had no intention of entering the camp. He just sprinkled insect repellent powder around him. Just as he was trying to make a fire, several young men walked out of the camp.

"who are you?"

A young man with braided hair walking in front asked loudly. He had long ears on the sides of his head. He was a Pello. He was wearing old cloth clothes that had faded from washing.

After looking at the halo and wings above Xia Yuan's head, his originally malicious eyes were suddenly startled and cold sweat broke out on his back. He originally thought that a fat sheep had come, but he didn't expect it to be Sakota.

These nomads feel envy and admiration for Sakota.

Envy them for being born with everything, and admire the noble deeds of the angels walking on the earth.

Of course, they are also afraid of the Sakota, because according to legend, the Sakota has an emotional connection. As long as one Sakota is killed, groups of Sakota will come to seek revenge.

Respect is not the best way to communicate. Sometimes, fear is the only way.

So his attitude changed immediately.

Xia Yuan noticed the change in the other person's expression and nodded, "I am a messenger. I will set up camp here tonight and will not go in to disturb you."

Several people looked at each other. They were relieved that the other party could do this. The leader Pero said, "In that case, I will get the fire source for the messenger."

The other two left, and Pero came back and lit a bonfire for Xia Yuan, who nodded in thanks.

"Is there anything you want to buy?"

Xia Yuan asked. He knew what the wandering tribes that could live in the no-man's land for a long time usually did. This time, they didn't do anything to him just because of his identity. If he was an ordinary merchant, he would probably be slaughtered. In the long run, naturally no one was willing to do business with them, and their only food was the animals in the no-man's land. If they wanted to get food, guns were the best choice.

Of course, Xia Yuan would not deny that guns were the best choice when it came to robbery.

Such tribes will have piles of Longmen coins with nowhere to spend them, and what they really want are items.

Pero's eyes widened. God knows when was the last time someone came to do business with them. His tone was a little more respectful than before. "Mr. Messenger, you..."

"I have some extra pistols here. If you want any, the price is negotiable."

Xia Yuan opened the back seat of the pickup truck and took out a few gray-quality pistols. "Hunting is usually very hard, but it should be easier with these."

Pero's eyes widened. He paused, whispered to Xia Yuan that he would go and ask the village chief to come, and then ran back to the village.

After waiting for five minutes, he appeared with a middle-aged man. The village chief glanced at the pistols placed on the ground, hiding the greed and amazement in his eyes very well.

"The Black Hawk pistol is in short supply. I'll calculate your market price to be 56,000 Longmen coins, but I only want 54,000 Longmen coins."

After removing the magazine, Xia Yuan handed the gun to the middle-aged man, who checked the texture of the gun... It was very new, and nothing like the low-quality guns in their tribe. At that time, they had paid a lot of Longmen coins to buy them from unscrupulous black market merchants, at 20,000 yuan a gun.

This is Sakota's exclusive item. Although the messenger in front of him looks young, he is certainly extraordinary to be able to afford such a fortune. The middle-aged man was shaking with excitement. The difference between the decent gun and the inferior one was too big.

From this perspective, the price given by Sakota is truly that of a saint on earth.

But being excited is one thing, and bargaining is another. The middle-aged man directly slashed the Dragon Slaying Sword: "Fifty thousand for one Longmen coin."

Xia Yuan said calmly, "Fifty-three thousand and fifty-one Black Hawk."

The middle-aged man frowned: "Hiss...too expensive, fifty-two thousand, I want two."

Xia Yuan shrugged. There wasn't much money to be made from a settlement in an uninhabited area like this. This was probably their limit. "Fifty-three thousand and two per gun. If you buy these five guns, I can give you a wholesale price of fifty-three thousand per gun."

The middle-aged man did not hesitate. He nodded and extended his hand: "Deal."

Chapter 6: Syracuse Spear God

We rested by the campfire for a night. Today, there was no wind or sand and the weather was exceptionally peaceful.

It was also the first time that Xia Yuan enjoyed a complete sunrise in an uninhabited area. The silent night sky was gradually filled with a light orange-pink color. Watching the sun slowly rising from the other side of the earth's horizon, the emotion in his heart was indescribable.

This may be the beautiful scenery that players who love traveling want to see.

Such scenery is hard to see in real life.

After politely declining the dry food sent by the young men in the camp, Xia Yuan packed up, put out the fire, and returned to the pickup truck to start the engine.

The gun was indeed easy to sell. The material cost was only a little less than 10,000 Longmen coins, but the selling price tripled.

The area he was about to arrive at was Syracuse, where gangs were prevalent. It seemed that this place was modeled after the Italian Mafia. Each area in the city was planned, and most people walking in the Syracuse area had a family behind them.

Syracuse is a medium-sized country with twenty-two mobile cities. Each city is governed by several families. It can be said that the power relations are complicated and the relationship tree can make any player who wants to find out more about it dizzy.

As for Lady Sicily, the player had the honor of meeting her. According to the description, she was just an ordinary woman of Lv?

But it was this woman who used force to subdue the twelve families in the background story and created the Grey Hall. She brought guns and peace from Lateran. Although there is no description of the family's strength sixty years ago, nor the history of Lady Sicily's rise to power, it was a violent group that spanned twenty-two mobile cities. How could she defeat them and create a new situation in Syracuse?

Can the Reunion Movement do it? No. Can Rhodes Island Pharmaceuticals do it? No. Even the Kazdel Military Committee would probably have a hard time doing it—otherwise they would have been able to occupy a mountain and establish a territorial power and unite the Sarkaz.

This is closely related to the power she controls, and she also received assistance from an old man from Sakta.

Not to mention the background story for now, players only really come into contact with Lady Sicily in the later part of the story, so naturally they don’t know much about this period of history, and Xia Yuan is not clear about it either.

He did not come to Syracuse to dictate Syracuse's way of survival, nor did he want to join in on Lady Sicily's actions. Now it was more important to develop his own strength.

After driving the pickup truck in the uninhabited area for more than ten days, he finally saw a patch of green on the horizon.

He had already approached one of the twenty-two mobile cities of Syracuse. On the outskirts of the mobile city was a thriving forest green. This green made Xia Yuan, who had eaten a lot of dust, breathe a sigh of relief. Green was like a resting harbor. Sometimes, green was like a ferocious beast that chose its prey. The settlements lurking in the forest forced him to be alert.

The people in the settlements are more martial than the wanderers in the no-man's land. The wanderers are like hyenas, bullying the weak and fearing the strong depending on the situation, while the people in the settlements are like smiling tigers, smiling at passing travelers and showing their fangs to invading enemies.

When doing business with them, you don't have to worry about being robbed by your cheaters. After all, settlements have reputation values ​​set. Players can query the reputation of settlements through the panel. Settlements with high reputation values ​​can also attract players to join.

Tribes with low reputation are not allowed to enter the mobile city and may even be captured by soldiers.

After entering the forest, this military pickup truck worth more than 400,000 yuan is of little use. There are no roads here, only small paths that only people can pass.

The reason for coming to Syracuse is simple. The first internal test will begin soon. It is expected that hundreds of thousands of people will be online. Some of them will choose Rupert as their race. Their birthplace is in the small rural villages around Syracuse. He plans to contact the players and help them with the gaming experience while making some money.

Secondly, and most importantly, he knew that somewhere in this forest there was something he wanted, something very important to him, a quest to change his secondary profession.

One of the auxiliary branches, mechanic.

In the previous life, only a small number of players wandering in the forest triggered this quest. After a period of time, the NPC with the mechanic sub-profession died soon. After that, one of the ways for players to obtain the mechanic profession again is to go to Rhodes Island and contact Operator Red Cloud. Only by improving the other party's favorability can they receive the quest.

This is just the simplest method. The difficult method is to enter Victoria's military factory, where you will meet an executive NPC. To take on this secondary profession, the player's position in the military factory must be higher than that of the executive, which means that you have to complete a long set of loyalty point tasks.

However, it was really difficult for Xia Yuan to find someone in this vast forest.

It seems that the safest way now is to first enter this mobile city parked next to the forest, stay here for a while, and then go to the forest to look for people every day.

He drove a pickup truck onto the main road. Within ten days, he saw people again. Transport vehicles and private cars gradually appeared, and they formed a long line in front of the city gate.

The people guarding the city gate were family members wearing suits and trousers, all of them were of the Rupert race. They held heavy crossbows in their hands and looked like they were not easy to mess with.

But when they saw Xia Yuan's Sakota race and then introduced themselves as messengers, they put away the impatience on their faces, showed a trace of visible respect, and invited Xia Yuan into the city.

In this age without communication devices and mobile phones, messengers are the mouthpieces between cities. In ancient times, there was a rule that messengers should not be killed when two armies were fighting. Messengers walking alone in the desolate and uninhabited areas encounter not only loneliness, but also natural disasters that may occur at any time.

So this profession should be respected.

"Mr. Messenger, the Saluzzo family welcomes you." A mafia member handed Xia Yuan a coin. Xia Yuan took a look and saw a family crest on the coin. The system's inspection results also proved this. [The Saluzzo family's token, you can use this token to visit the Saluzzo family as a guest]

"If there is a need in the Syracuse region, we can help the Messenger."

The mafia members were neither humble nor arrogant, showing their family's generosity and giving the messenger in front of them full respect.

The transport team behind Xia Yuan was dissatisfied. The young driver rolled down the window and shouted in dissatisfaction: "Hey, what are you dawdling for? Colombian swear words, the efficiency of entering the city is so slow, and I am still waiting to go into the city to eat."

Upon hearing this, the two Saluzzo family members looked at each other and nodded to Xia Yuan, who stepped on the engine and left, then picked up the baseball bat that was lying beside him.

The driver was violently dragged off the driver's seat, punched and kicked in the face, and fell to the ground in pain. He was still shouting: "Is there any law left, you Colombian swear--"

The mafia member grinned, "Is this your first time doing business? In this city, in Syracuse, our Saluzzo family is the law."

The drivers behind were gloating, and some of them even lit up a cigarette. This scene brought them a lot of fun after driving in the wilderness for dozens of days. After all, who doesn't want to join in the fun?

The driver's screams did not reach Xia Yuan's ears. The military pickup truck, like other foreign transport trucks, was out of place in this mobile city full of Italian style. There were family spies on every street here. When Lady Sicily had not yet taken power, the family's power was greater than anything else.

Xia Yuan knew that there were many more eyes around him, but he didn't care. He drove to the hotel and stopped, carrying his bag and booking a room for five months. When he handed a handful of Longmen coins to the boss, the latter readily said that he could prepare three meals for Xia Yuan, and he nodded in acceptance.

This will be his temporary residence. The boss has prepared a room on the highest floor for him, which also comes with a loft. He can see the entire mobile city through the window.

After doing all this, he equipped himself with his best pistol, the Double Eagle Swallow Modified, and wandered around the streets.

This is for scouting and exploration.

By the way, players do not have maps. Even the areas they have explored will not be depicted on the map provided by the system. Players whose secondary profession is scribe will need to draw the map on paper.

Just relying on memory, Xia Yuan was still able to recognize several iconic places.

In the darkness, footsteps approached.

I don't know when it started to drizzle, and the raindrops flowed down my gray hair and fell on my waterproof coat.

The Sakota people cannot wear hats because of the halo. If they force themselves to wear them, they will feel strongly dizzy, so Xia Yuan does not like rainy days and sandstorms.

Five dark shadows appeared in the rain, their faces covered and wearing black windbreakers that could not be identified as belonging to any family.

The villains died because they talked too much. As villains at the moment, they didn't say much nonsense and approached with knives and baseball bats in their hands.