Ark, I became an NPC in the online game

She quickly lost interest in the musket and came to Xia Yuan with great interest: "Brother Pioneer, are you interested in swords?"

[Lappland (Lv25) is ready to teach you the Guardian Occupation Skill Book. Accept/Decline?]

Xia Yuan nodded, "I am indeed interested in fighting with a sword, but my race is Sakota, and my talent in using weapons like swords is not as high as Rupert's."

"Ahahahaha, the pioneer boy is so handsome, but his words are so lame." Lappland laughed at the compliment, her eyes narrowed into slits. She reached into the bag behind her and took out a yellowed book "Mafia: Introduction to Swords". "I don't need this book now. Since you are interested in swords, I'll give it to you."

Xia Yuan thanked him and took it with a smile. He had already decided to continue with the auxiliary system, but that didn't mean that this guard's professional skill book was useless.

He looked at Celinina who was holding the gun thoughtfully, and Lappland who was clinging to him... If the two of them put on JK uniforms, Xia Yuan would definitely sigh with emotion and say, "Ah, this is youth."

The two kids were arguing on the side, and Xia Yuan started working and planning again. Now that the matter here was settled, he could set out to look for someone deep in the forest.

As we are both from the Sakota clan, the other party shouldn't make things too difficult for me, right?

Lapland and Cellinina did not stay in the studio to disturb Xia Yuan while he was having lunch. Lapland waved at him familiarly and left humming a song.

Cellinina stood in front of the door and waved to Xia Yuan, "Brother Pioneer, see you next time."

"Do you like guns?"

"Eh?"

Celinina's wolf ears moved, she opened her mouth, and then nodded silently: "I think it's very funny."

Xia Yuan walked forward, holding a pistol in his hand, "Since you like pistols, then this pistol is for you."

He half leaned over, gently grasped the stunned Celinina's arm, and handed the gun to her. "The name of this gun is Guardian. I hope it can protect your safety."

"This..." Celinina's red lips moved slightly, and she subconsciously did not want to accept such an expensive gift.

Xia Yuan stood up, and the golden halo and wings dyed the dark basement orange and yellow. "I am a Sakta. The only purpose of the Sakta walking on this land of suffering is to practice their ideals, and my ideal is to make people live with a smile on their faces."

"Cellinina, people living on this land all have desires, hardships, and extravagant hopes. They master power and rely on power to achieve what they want. In the process, people will get hurt and lost. The unknown future is like a beast called fear that gnaws at people's souls." Xia Yuan sighed softly, "Cellinina, I hope this gun can protect your safety."

He made a standard Sakota interpretation, like a priest praying, with a solemn and dignified look.

"Well... I understand, Brother Pioneer." Celinina blinked her eyes and swung her wolf tail left and right. She stepped forward and gave the fake priest a big hug. "Thank you."

After bidding farewell to Celinina, Xia Yuan shook his head. His compassionate behavior just now really made him a little overwhelmed.

His words and actions just now imitated those of his leader, Andorn. It seemed that the lethality was indeed amazing for a lamb of Cellinina's age.

Xia Yuan glanced at the notification bar that had not been jumping since the transaction was completed.

[The relationship between the Saluzzo family and you: (40/100)]

[Lapland's relationship with you: (25/100)]

[Chelinina's relationship with you: (30/100)]

There is a degree of favorability between players, camps, and NPCs. The degree of favorability is judged by data. 0 points is the first impression of players and most camp NPCs, which is the so-called indifference. However, as players gradually start socializing with camps and NPCs, the degree of favorability will rise and fall.

Joining a camp will cause the enemy camp's favorability towards you to plummet.

Now Xia Yuan's relationship with Kazdel is -10, which means hostility, but as long as he joins the Papal Knights or the Lateran Guard, his relationship with Kazdel will drop to -70, which means hatred.

If he kills a lot of Sarkaz on the battlefield, Guan's favorability will reach the lowest -100, and the fight will not end until one of them dies.

As for improving the favorability between the camp and NPC, there are only a few ways. Completing camp tasks can increase the favorability of the camp. When the favorability is high, you can even invite NPC to join the team to do tasks together. In addition to completing the tasks given by the NPC, the only way to improve the favorability of the NPC is to give gifts.

He remembered that the players who stayed in Longmen in his previous life spontaneously formed a Longmen Miss Fan Club. Their daily task was to get equipment and give gifts to the famous NPC beauties in Longmen, including Chen, Shi Huaiya, Xing Xiong, Wen Yue...

Ahem, isn’t there something wrong with the last one?

However, the player's favorability when accepting gifts from an NPC will also reach a limit. Normally, the favorability will not increase any further after giving gifts to 3 or 40. If players want to continue to attack an NPC, they can only complete the NPC's personal tasks. However, their personal tasks are complicated and have many conditions. In his previous life, there was a brother who completed personal tasks for two consecutive months and finally became close friends with an NPC.

Of course, this is just a beautiful passerby NPC. Players who want to conquer the NPCs that appear in the plot have exhausted all means, but still cannot increase their favorability above 50.

The idea that players once proposed to allow them to marry NPCs that appear in the plot has been shelved for the time being.

Xia Yuan stayed at home for the remaining few days, and stayed in the studio forging pistols to gain experience. After a week, he packed his camping backpack and left the hotel.

He did not drive the military pickup truck. After leaving the city, he headed north along the continent. As there were fewer and fewer cars on the road, the forest that was far away in the horizon was finally within reach.

There are still about four months left before the server is launched, and he must be fully prepared before the players arrive.

The entrance to the forest was dark, with the sound of birds chirping from time to time. However, Xia Yuan knew that there were more things in the forest that could take people's lives than he had imagined.

He tightened the two guns at his waist and stepped into the depths of the forest.

This forest has never been attacked by natural disasters, and there has been no reaction from any Originium. If you stay here for a long time, you will not be infected, and Florence will not be so confident to stop by this forest.

Without a map, we can only grope our way step by step. However, it is really difficult to determine the direction in this forest without any conspicuous landmarks.

Along the way, Xia Yuan made marks on the tree trunks beside him to ensure that he would not get lost.

A few wild rabbits were frightened and ran past him, but Xia Yuan did not draw his gun and shoot. He was not prepared to eat these wild animals. This was also to prevent his body from being infected. He was not a player now. Players could count down to rebirth after their HP was deducted due to food poisoning, but he could not afford to delay.

What's more, the dry food in the bag is enough for him to eat for a month.

He wanted to find a Rutland mechanic named Dürrenmatt in this jungle.

Mechanic is a profound secondary profession in production. As a production profession, Mechanic can use parts to manufacture mechanical crops just like Gunsmith. Mechanic can build weapons and protective gear such as mechanical power arms, mechanical armor, small turrets, etc., and the turrets "summoned" by Mechanic are considered part of the "team". The auxiliary system has a real change in the gameplay with the secondary profession of Mechanic.

In the later period of the previous life, many newcomers aimed at the auxiliary profession when they joined the game. After obtaining the mechanic secondary profession, they were severely defeated by the mechanical blueprints and the Longmen coins and experience required for upgrading.

Like the Gunsmith, it is a secondary profession that costs a lot of money.

But the more money you spend, the stronger the player's strength rating will be.

In his previous life, Xia Yuan was also a support player. His initial attitude towards "Ark" was to go online and play the game when he was bored. It was pretty good for him to be a production guy in the main city. However, as the versions evolved, support secondary professions gradually came to the fore, and he successfully transformed from a lazy guy to a hard-working player who went online every day to play the game and play the game equipment.

Smooth development, doing business and running trade were the fundamental reasons why Xia Yuan dared to challenge Saria. At that time, as one of the few players who had reached the five-star level, he resolutely launched a charge towards Saria.

After camping in the forest for a week, he didn't run into anyone, but he did meet a lot of wild animals. He didn't feel lonely. After all, in his previous life, production players would often run to uninhabited and dangerous areas alone when digging materials, just to find a piece of good metal.

One afternoon, Xia Yuan, who was walking forward, suddenly stopped. He crouched down and hid behind a tree trunk. He could faintly hear the loud voices of several people chatting in front of him.

For the first time, Xia Yuan felt that his halo and wings were not suitable for concealment. Fortunately, it was not night, otherwise the faint golden light would be too obvious.

The Sakota profession is indeed not suitable for stealth, but only for shooting.

"Ursus's rude words, what is the value of this broken forest, I don't understand, Captain."

"What are you thinking? Isn't this the best place for a military factory? You idiot, if you throw the infected here, won't our city be safe?"

"But this is a bit far from Ursus, isn't it? Although it is close to the uninhabited area, this is still Syracuse after all."

"The Mafia of Syracuse?" The leader, Captain Ursus, spoke with a strong tone of disdain. "If it was a united Mafia like us, I would still look up to them. But the Twelve Families fighting on their own are a joke. People who don't know would think they are Mafia-style warlords who can easily mobilize several divisions. The last time I went to the mobile city of Syracuse, it was completely different from what I imagined. They are just a group of beasts in clothes pursuing power. They are just some scattered Mafia."

The conversation came to an end, and the appearance of a third party broke the silence.

"Captain, deputy captain, we have discovered the base of those Ursus foul language. What should we do next?"

Captain Ursus snorted, "What do you mean? You want to get away with a conflict with our mercenary group? Wait until I get back and crush them."

The remaining two Ursus players roared like bears.

Xia Yuan remained silent after they left. He vaguely guessed what the scene before his eyes was about. Hongyun's settlement suffered an extinction-dealing blow under the siege of the Ursus mercenary group. Only Hongyun survived, and the seeds of hatred were planted in the young Hongyun's body.

Should we let this plot unfold naturally? Or...

Xia Yuan didn't think for long before he stroked the double eagles hanging around his waist with his right hand.

Damn it, since he has traveled through time as an NPC, the plot is meant to be rewritten. When he encounters so many unfair things in the future, as a player he can still just treat them as plot and laugh it off, but as an NPC, why can't he change?

Only by doing what is within your ability can you have a clear conscience.

When Xia Yuan drew his gun and rushed forward, he suddenly remembered that his last name, Lanshem, was only one letter different from the name of the previous life of the fat protagonist of "The Warrior of Light" in his memory, Ashem.

When Ashem was alive, he traveled all over the world, helping people solve their problems.

Lanshem can do that, too.

Chapter 10: Fate with Me

Following the footsteps of the three members of the Ursus team, flames and smoke rose up in front of Xia Yuan's eyes, followed by the sounds of people's war roars and screams.

The captain of the Ursus Mercenary Group stood alone on the high slope, looking at the slaughterhouse below with a comfortable smile. The team members on both sides of him were eager to try. Seeing this, the captain waved his hand and said, "Go, kill all these savages."

"Captain, do you want to keep the woman?"

"Fuck, you're really not picky about food? You can even eat savages? There are plenty of women in the mobile city. Get lost."

The captain kicked the deputy captain on the butt. The latter laughed foolishly, drew the big sword behind him, and rushed towards the battlefield.

As the two men moved away, the captain relaxed a lot. He took out a cigarette and lighter from his arms, put the cigarette in his mouth, lit it, and puffed out smoke leisurely.

"boom."

Gunshots kill people.

[You have killed the leader of the Ursus mercenary team and gained 2000 experience]

Shooting from behind might not be fair, but it was very effective. The shot to the back of the head caused an instant kill effect, and the Ursus mercenary captain fell to the ground and could not move.

By the way, they were wearing the mercenary group's protective uniforms to defend against sword and crossbow attacks. If this shot hit his lower back, the damage he would suffer would not be great.

Xia Yuan touched the body of the dead captain. He heard screams coming from below, so he stopped squatting on the corpse to pick up the body. It would not be too late to do it again later.

The Ursus mercenaries soon heard the sound of explosions beside their ears. They looked at Sakota, who had come to the center of the camp and was slowly changing bullets, and immediately understood what he had done.

When the mercenaries saw their companions lying on the ground with their lives unknown, they punched their chests and rushed towards Xia Yuan: "Take my sword! The best swordsman in China!"

"Foreigner, stop shitting and hanging bullwhips, do you hear me?"

"I don't! I don't love her!"

Xia Yuan was stunned. What were these Ursus guys talking about? "Oh my God, is this Ursus?"

As Xia Yuan stepped back, Shuangying Yan Gai kept spitting out tongues of fire. The blessing brought to him by his skills and gun fighting allowed him to dodge and shoot flexibly in battle. Rather than fighting, he was more like dancing a dance of death.

The people in the settlement wiped the blood and sweat from their faces with lingering fear. They soon found that the pressure in front of them was gradually reduced. Someone looked at the battlefield in the distance and shouted: "There is a Sakota, he blocked the enemy for us!"

Someone wanted to retreat, and said in a trembling voice: "Let's run while those mercenaries are fighting with Sakota."

“Run, where can we run to?” The leader of the settlement, a wanderer named Luper, shouted, “The Ursus Mercenaries are beasts that will not stop until they see blood! Now we have finally seen a turnaround, and we can only keep our right to live if we fight until our last drop of blood is shed!”

"Go and help the Sakota warrior who helped us! Use the blood of the Ursus mercenaries to pay tribute to our dead people!"

"Oooo!"

The wanderers in the settlement were wielding crude weapons made of wood and stone. The inhumane slaughter by the Ursus mercenaries had aroused their last bit of bloodiness. They burst out with all the strength in their bodies and smashed down hard on the backs of the Ursus mercenaries.

"Suka! You bunch of Ursus are swearing!" The mercenaries soon found themselves attacked from both sides. In front of them was a Sakota who was firing dual guns, and behind them was a wanderer with bloodshot eyes and a vengeful look. This put them in a dilemma at the first moment.

Xia Yuan's pressure suddenly eased. He glanced at the settlement standing in the same camp as him and took out a mercenary badge from his arms.

"Your captain is already dead. If you give up resistance, I can still let you live."

"Impossible!" The vice-captain shouted in disbelief, "The captain is the strongest among us. You, the despicable Sakta, must have ambushed the captain and snatched his badge from his hands!"

"Wrong." Xia Yuan stared at the vice-captain with golden eyes, and there was a fire burning in his eyes. "I gave your captain a chance for a fair duel, and he lost. It's that simple."

"impossible!"

Xia Yuan said calmly: "Do I have to lie to you?"

The deputy captain collapsed. He could not accept that the strongest man in his heart was defeated by a young man with small arms and legs. In grief and anger, he shouted: "Break out!"

The mercenaries who had lost their captain and beacon gathered together and fought desperately to break out of the encirclement of the wanderers. After paying the price of the death of three mercenaries, this mercenary group from Ursus fled in panic. The cursing and crying soon disappeared in the depths of the forest and to the end of the earth.

Xia Yuan put away his weapons.

At this time, the wanderers in the settlement began to cry out in low voices; they had also suffered heavy losses.

The blood all over the ground testifies to the atrocities.

"Thank you for your help." A middle-aged Luper man stood up after pacifying the other wanderers and bowed to Xia Yuan. He deliberately kept a distance from Xia Yuan. "My name is Kus. If it weren't for your help, I'm afraid our settlement would have disappeared from this land today."

"I don't want anything, I just see injustice."

Xia Yuan nodded. He was not pursuing anything, and he really didn't care about the "treasures" in the settlement.

When Kus heard this, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief. After a moment, the guilt and self-blame in his conscience made him lower his head and he couldn't say a word.

"You guys need to move." Xia Yuan said, "The Ursus Mercenary Group suffered a loss this time. Who knows if they will retaliate next time? This camp has been exposed."

Kus felt heartbroken again when he heard this. The originally thriving settlement of more than 300 people was reduced to only more than 130 people after this tragedy. His son was also on the list of casualties. No matter as the leader of the settlement or as a father, he had reason to cry.