Ark, I became an NPC in the online game

[[Type-80 Rainy Night Knight] Cleared 20% of the levels, % more to unlock the high-difficulty dungeon]

Xia Yuan was exploring this function that did not exist in his previous life. He had heard of copy crystals, but what was this function?

The entire progress bar is a number, and the progress bar is currently stopped at 80%, which looks like the number of times players have completed the level. What will happen when the progress bar reaches %?

Xia Yuan was also confused. After all, it was his first time as an NPC, and the system didn’t explain it clearly. What did it mean to hand in a high-difficulty copy?

Well, let's put this matter aside for now and continue listening to the three hosts analyzing the latest intelligence.

Yang Yan XF shook his head and said, "The players living in Kazdel unfortunately contracted Ore Disease while out exploring. This can be considered an improvement for the players' current combat, but it may cause problems for their future lives."

"According to statistics from external websites, nearly a year after the server was launched, 5% of players have become infected voluntarily or accidentally."

There are currently more than nine million players, which means that a minimum of about 40,000 players have become infected - most of them are in Kazdel. No one knows whether this is a good or bad thing for the players' future actions and lives, but the players who have become infected are not very sad, and quickly began to study their own Originium skills, except for those players who are not in Kazdel. They were expelled from the village and began to fend for themselves or act in groups on this land.

"Yang Yan, I heard that you also triggered Mr. Pioneer's secret main mission." After discussing the slightly heavy topic, Xiaolang said jokingly.

A series of question marks flashed across the barrage, and Yue Ye laughed exaggeratedly on the side.

Yang YanXF coughed twice, "That's true. Now I'm working with Mr. Pioneer. My companions and I left Kazdel and met Pioneer in Leitania, hoping to become his followers. Our strategy team has not yet come to a conclusion on how to trigger the secret main quest."

This is true. Qiu Muyu and Xiao Xiaoxuegao in the team are both beautiful girls. Magic ZX and Yang YanXF are also handsome. However, the top players of those two gaming guilds look like the emoticons in Baki... It's really confusing for the strategy team.

"We successfully entered the main city. NPCs like to call cities mobile cities, and the lower level of mobile cities is mobile towns. The strategy team conducted basic exploration inside. One of them is Leipzig, the mobile town of Leithania, and the other is Tremont, the mobile city of Columbia... For detailed city introductions and strategies, please pay attention to the dynamic link of Terra Times."

As the climate on Terra turned hotter, players began to enjoy the summer in this alien world. They shared a lot of photos, and the various lives of all kinds of people were the perfect ending for this issue of Terra Times.

Summer is here, it's swimsuit season.

Chapter 95: Saria Advanced Edition

He shared the idea of ​​the Melander Foundation with Saria - Christen was trying her kinetics experiment, Yara was negotiating business with the military, and Xia Yuan found Saria, who was meditating in front of the sandbag in the boxing room.

Saria changed her previous scientist style and only wore sportswear when doing boxing exercises. While she was wiping the sweat off her face, Xia Yuan handed her some water and she thanked him in a low voice.

"The Melander Foundation... is trying to use you to attract the attention of the old-timers in the scientific community."

She frowned, "But it's very dangerous for you, Xia Yuan. Those old antiques have a bad reputation."

"This is just gossip. I heard that a scientist from Lankawu was burned to death by flames when his experiment failed during an experiment at a technology company."

Saria's eyes turned cold, and she stopped wiping the sweat off her face. "Every laboratory is equipped with the most advanced fire-fighting facilities. This shouldn't happen unless he is researching some highly dangerous experiment, or..."

"That scientist is the enemy of those insects."

After hearing this, Saria closed her eyes. When she opened them again, she had regained her composure. She looked at Xia Yuan with calmness and respect in her eyes.

To be honest, among the many scientific researchers at Rhine Life, Xia Yuan is an outlier.

He brought in capital to invest, and while he was a scientist, he also had the flavor of a businessman. He did have the passion of a scientific researcher, and like other researchers, he would stay in his studio for a week without coming out, which was pure. But he also had the smell of money that belonged to a businessman, and he would ask Yara to bargain with the other party for the price of the goods.

Saria is full of respect for Xia Yuan. The current prosperity of Rhine Life is due to his subtle dealings with the military and the Pioneer Association.

Her fists can protect Christen and Rhine Life, but she cannot expand Rhine Life's business overseas... So far, only Xia Yuan has successfully done this.

As Rhine Life expanded, Saria also discovered the changes in Christen... The pure and lovely girl with a girlish heart in college was gone, replaced by a cold beauty with faith in her eyes, who handled her work silently.

Kristen looked at Saria as she spoke, but Saria always felt that Kristen was not looking at her, but at the sky behind her.

If it weren't for Xia Yuan's proposal and his insistence on reasoning, Saria would not have had the opportunity to maintain the same relationship with Kristen as before. During the time they went out to play, the two seemed to have returned to their college life. Although they still talked about scientific research issues, they spent more time enjoying the rare day off.

At this point, Saria owed Xia Yuan a huge favor.

"Xia Yuan, what do you want to do?"

Xia Yuan already had the answer, and he said without hesitation: "What the Melander Foundation is doing is equivalent to pushing me to the ring... But compared to this, I think six months of study time to get a doctorate degree is more valuable, and I will not stay in Tremont in the future, so I will not give those insects any chance."

"You will be safe only if I attract most of the attention of Rhine Life." Xia Yuan said calmly, "With the listing of various small and medium-sized technology companies, this is also a shock to the market. My relationship with the military is good at the moment, so we can maintain peace for a while."

"The world is bustling with people, all for profit; the world is bustling with people, all for profit. The military will not always open a back door to Rhine Life. In the future, Rhine Life will definitely be affected by market flows. How to retain what we have now and absorb more is what we need to learn at Rhine Life."

Saria sighed.

Xia Yuan said calmly, "Sareya, the military's order is not just for drone experiments."

Saria raised her eyes and looked at Xia Yuan, and saw the coldness in the latter's golden eyes. "Human experiments can also be considered as orders from the military."

Saria's body went cold, and she clenched her fists. "Scientists using living people for experiments is a violation of—"

"——This is what the military wants. I don't need to explain who the top military officials are."

This was also a warning to Saria in advance. He could analyze the ambitions of the Colombian government from the intelligence he had obtained from the black market.

Xia Yuan knew clearly what the Colombian president wanted to do: vigorously support science, education and armaments. Compared with other countries, Colombia did have its own advantages...but its only drawback was that it was very close to Yan Country. If they wanted to unify the Terra continent, they had to ask Yan Country for its consent first.

What a weird balance.

Saria remained silent. Seeing this, Xia Yuan said softly, "I am currently doing this to ensure that Rhine Life can continue to survive. Saria, your responsibility is different from mine. I can ensure that Rhine Life keeps running on the road to the future, but this is not your responsibility, right?"

Saria clenched her fists and nodded slowly, "I will clean up any dirt inside Rhine Life."

The two reached a consensus, and the sharpness of their previous conversation completely disappeared.

Xia Yuan smiled, "By the way, Saria, I'm a little curious about your strength."

He looked at Saria's whole body. She had just finished exercising and was only wearing a sports vest. Her muscles were exposed. She did not have exaggerated muscles like the muscle guys. On the contrary, her body was very symmetrical and looked very coordinated. This was related to her Originium skills. She did not need to over-exercise to create dead muscles.

But I do have abdominal muscles.

"Why, are you interested in challenging me?" Saria raised her eyebrows and curled the corners of her mouth slightly.

The opening remarks in the previous life were also like this. At that time, Xia Yuan snorted for the sake of show effect and shouted loudly, "Who are you looking down on? Use all your strength to defeat me! It will be justice if you step over my corpse!"

At that time, Saria knew that Xia Yuan was an undead, so she gave Xia Yuan a minute to summon his mechanical army. Then Saria took the shield and drove the calcification.

Everyone knows the final result. Xia Yuan still feels a little PTSD when he sees Saria smile.

"I found an opponent for you, I wonder if you are interested."

Saria was curious, and since it was the opponent recommended by Xia Yuan, she nodded.

Xia Yuan took out his mobile terminal and dialed the number.

"Hello? Boss, what's up?"

"Kan, come to Rhine Life. I found an opponent for you a few days ago. You can come and give her some pointers."

"it is good."

Jian agreed very quickly, and Xia Yuan still remembered the conversation with Muirses at that time, so he sent a communication to call Muirses over.

Sister Jian came to the designated training room in her military uniform as usual. She pushed the door open and her eyes passed over Xia Yuan and Muirseth who were eating candy and popcorn on the seats nearby, and then stopped on Saria.

Saria's orange eyes froze slightly. At this moment, she returned to the scene when her father had just taught her the whole set when she was young. That whole set was not suitable for a child, and it always rubbed her hands until they were bleeding. But she persisted, and as her father said, she hit the sandbag again and again to expel all the cowardice and other impractical emotions from her body. Other people's emotions are always full of flaws. She only needs to find the most disordered moment to destroy the opponent's defense in one fell swoop.

While Saria never really got into fighting like many boxers do, this technique has ensured that she has made it this far.

Facing the blond, golden-eyed Caprini who walked into the training room, Saria seemed to see the unbeatable sandbag from her childhood.

Jian saw vigor, sharpness and persistence in Saria - she was not a warrior, but more like a warrior, because in her eyes, there was something to protect.

She had experienced many battles of varying sizes in Casimir, and her combat experience was rich enough that she could infer how powerful a person was by looking at his aura. This had become her subconscious reaction.

Jian remained silent. She shook her golden hair behind her, drew the long sword from her waist, and assumed an attacking stance.

She loves fighting.

Saria didn't say anything either. She didn't pick up the shield, but instead assumed a boxing stance. Calcification slowly spread across her arms and fists, and both people in the spectator seats could hear the rustling sound of the calcium.

The cold blade drew a silver arc in the air, and the mace's steps were steady and elegant. It attacked all kinds of blind spots of Saria with the sharpness and pressure of having fought in knight competitions for many years, without holding back. Every swing of the sword was accompanied by majesty and decisiveness.

The long sword of the mace was swung like a whirlwind, and this continuous attack reminded Xia Yuan of the light cavalry in the past. His specialty was also to use the rapier for continuous attacks, using small wounds to make the opponent lose the ability to fight.

Does Jian only know one way to fight? This is not necessarily the case. Xia Yuan still does not know Jian's combat experience, but he is sure that Jian is the pinnacle of a true knight and a natural warrior.

When facing the lightly-armored knight, she overwhelmed him with her strength, but when facing the physically strong Saria, she used the method of using speed to defeat slow.

After just a few encounters, the sword of the mace had brushed past Saria's body several times. Although Saria dodged it every time, tiny sword marks were left on her calcified arms and fists.

Saria quickly bent down to avoid the attack. Her body was as agile as a civet cat. She aimed at the right moment and punched the mace. Her metal fist made a sound of breaking wind. This was Saria's thunderous counterattack!

Xia Yuan and Muir Seth in the audience had their eyes shining. Wonderful! Really wonderful! This was like a live Casimir jockey competition!

Jian sensed the power of the sword and was surprised. He then retreated a few steps with the help of Saria's power.

"What a strong Originium technique." Mace commented, "If you practice for a few more years and use Originium techniques again, it may be difficult for me to defeat you."

In other words, the current Mace is capable of defeating Saria, which is normal. Saria has only graduated from university for a few years, so how many years has Mace been fighting?

"If I didn't have the Originium technique, I would have lost long ago."

Saria shook her head. She did not belittle herself. She glanced at Muir Seth, who was watching the show with a smile on his face in the stands. The latter's face suddenly froze and he coughed repeatedly.

"senior..."

"My code name is Mace."

"Can I still ask Senior Jian for some advice?"

Saria once again assumed a stance, and the calcification on her arms reappeared.

Jian showed an interesting smile, the kind of smile Xia Yuan had only seen in the arena... It was a smile of joy at the sight of prey. It seemed that in her heart, Saria was already good enough to be her opponent.

"coming!"

boom--

......

"Xia Yuan, can you explain to me why Saria's training room has become a ruin?" Yara crossed her arms and paced back and forth in front of her desk. She felt a headache and pinched her eyebrows. "I thought there was an accident in the experiment, or the military broke in."

"The military doesn't dare and won't attack at the moment." Xia Yuan nodded in agreement.

Yara said with a straight face, "Do you think you are funny?"

"I'm telling the truth."

Xia Yuan was extremely calm.

Yara had a headache. She already had three children, Kristen, Saria and Muerseth, so how could there be another one, Xia Yuan? No, Xia Yuan was indeed a child in terms of age. He was the youngest.

When did Yara come up with the idea that Xia Yuan was a reliable adult?

"...No matter what, the cost of the repair will be charged to you."

"Okay." Xia Yuan nodded and said, "Military orders are still profitable. With this repair fee, I can afford to destroy half of Rhine Life's laboratory."

Yara's face darkened. Xia Yuan coughed a few times and stood up to leave Yara's office. Xia Yuan still admired the "mother" role of Rhine Life and didn't want to make her angry. But who knew that Jian and Saria would make such big moves, and in the end the spectator seats could not be spared. It was Muirseth who used water to carry him out of the audience seats, so that the two of them would not be hit in the face by the stone pillar.

After this fight, Saria discovered the problems, or shortcomings, in her fighting methods. After the mace's instruction, she should become stronger than in her previous life... Thinking of this, Xia Yuan's body couldn't help but tremble. Damn it, what are you afraid of? Saria won't punch her companions!

He was really scared of being beaten.

But maybe a certain famous NPC in this life can’t take three punches?

Jian came to Xia Yuan with a refreshed look on her face. She chuckled, "It's been a long time since I had such a good fight. Xia Yuan, you really found a good opponent for me."

"You think so highly of Saria?"

Mace's smile faded slightly. She pondered for a moment and then said, "I can feel that her Originium skills are improving all the time... I may still be able to defeat her now, but in the future, Saria will be able to defeat ten people with her own strength."

"She will be the strongest shield and the sharpest spear. I am still looking forward to what kind of future she will have."

Chapter 96: Summer Invitation from Pioneer Giegie

Jian spoke very highly of Saria, which did not surprise Xia Yuan. Jian's advantage was martial arts, but Saria's advantage was on another level entirely. She possessed powerful Originium skills that made her body calcified and extremely hard.

Now the mace can still be cut by the sword and break through Saria's defense, but as Saria grows, the mace will not be Saria's opponent.

Jian never thought that she was the best in the world. This was not the mentality of a warrior, so she was very happy to see Saria. She said that if she had the chance, she would teach Saria her bare-handed fighting style.