Ark, I became an NPC in the online game

"I can do something about it." The Emperor leaned comfortably on the sofa. After Duck Duke left, he no longer looked serious. Rather than an investor and entrepreneur, he looked more like a rapper.

"I will be going to Dayan to hold a concert early next year. Um... the idea of ​​Siren Records. I will settle in Longmen by then."

"Okay... I'll ask my subordinates to deliver the necessary equipment and documents to you, and I'll also give you the recruitment notice."

Letting players join corporate forces but making them stay in the company to work every day is too much like office slaves. It’s okay for players in their student days, after all, they have never experienced the life of office slaves... Let the real office slave players still be office slaves while playing games... What kind of hell game is this?

It is better to let Palu do his own work. Players play games to play Palu, not to become Palu.

Xia Yuan didn't want to go to hell because of this kind of thing, so it was necessary to recruit Terra people as employees.

In addition, he plans to try his best to align the internal standards of the company with those of Rhode Island Pharmaceuticals. Xia Yuan needs to have the same thing as they do. Except for the medical aspects, which may not be as good as Rhode Island Pharmaceuticals, everything else needs to be better and more awesome than Rhode Island Pharmaceuticals. Otherwise, he feels that he will not be able to compete with them.

However, there is still some time before Rhodes Island Pharmaceuticals is established, and he still has a few years to make a name for himself on this land of Terra.

"Compared to your people, you are already a genius."

The emperor shook his wings and said, "Okay, okay, I have an appointment with Duck Duke tomorrow. See you tomorrow."

"Ah."

August is the time for business negotiations. The main people to discuss contracts are Xia Yuan, the Emperor and Ya Jue. During this period, Xia Yuan's side as a businessman is awakened again. He starts to make empty promises and extort money from the newly joined Ya Jue, playing both the good cop and the bad cop role. However, Ya Jue is obviously a veteran in the business world and sees through some things. Xia Yuan understands them without him having to say it explicitly.

He couldn't help but doubt the other person's age... Similarly, he began to doubt the emperor's age.

In Xia Yuan's previous life, he didn't learn any information about the emperor's age from the forum, and he didn't even know the emperor's identity other than that he was Penguin Logistics and a rapper... Now it seems that he should be an immortal.

Immortal species are not rare on the land of Terra. Some strong or special races can live for hundreds of years, such as the Shakota and the Sarkaz. In addition, Vaifan can also live for a long time.

If the Emperor and Duck Duke were immortals, then it wouldn't be so surprising that they could see through him. Xia Yuan told himself that his current "acting skills" were not good enough to deceive everyone, and he was still not qualified in front of some immortals.

Maybe I should adopt Kal'tsit's method and strategy, which is to keep an icy and cold face for ten thousand years, so that other people won't notice anything.

At the end of August, the initial development of Tomorrow was established.

Xia Yuan himself holds 50% of the shares, Dadi holds 13%, Ya Jue holds 12%, and the remaining 20% ​​will be used for future financing and reserved for future investors. The last % will be sold on the market.

As a result, all the savings in Xia Yuan's small piggy bank disappeared and were confiscated.

However, the old must go before the new can come. The next step is to register in Yan Country. He has to do this in person, and he will have to fill out a lot of information. He will temporarily put it off until next year.

After finishing all the company affairs, Xia Yuan began to pack his luggage. Like the previous trip, Xia Yuan did not plan to bring the children with him. After all, Ursus was not a place for vacation.

"Jian...I'll leave the house to you while I'm away." After Xia Yuan and Jian moved the last few boxes of goods into the back seat of the car, Xia Yuan said to Jian.

Jian hummed, and she took a step forward and straightened Xia Yuan's collar. The blonde beauty had a faint smile on her face, and her golden eyes met Xia Yuan's for a moment, "That's natural."

"Boss, you must be careful on this trip to Ursus."

"I'm very afraid of death." Xia Yuan smiled. He came to the side of the car, half squatted down and said goodbye to Senomi and other girls.

Kanelian came to the side of the mace, looked at her, smiled and said, "Don't worry, leave the boss's safety to me."

Jian nodded. During his time in Tremont, all Kanelian did was fight. His strength had indeed increased a lot. If there was no emergency on this trip to Ursus, Kanelian should be able to protect his boss... But considering his boss's physique that would cause problems wherever he went, Jian was still a little worried.

"We are off... If the expectations are correct, we should be able to meet at the end of the year, in Rutland."

Before leaving, Xia Yuan smiled at Muirseth who came to see him off.

"That can't be true, how could I not be on the road?" Muirseth said with his hands on his hips. As he said this, another water-colored Muirseth sat on the back seat and waved at him.

"Row."

Xia Yuan sat in the driver's seat, said goodbye to the people who were seeing him off, stepped on the accelerator, and drove out of the city.

During his previous travels, he had entered a town in Ursus, but that was just a temporary rest for one night. He had never really entered a mobile city and experienced the life of the Ursus people up close.

Players living in Ursus may be the ones with the lowest per capita happiness index. There are no entertainment facilities in the small villages, and some villages near the north have snow all year round... Although there are many snow shoveling tasks, it will be boring if you do too much.

It's not just the players, the same is true for civilians. The civilians of Ursus continuously provide manpower and resources for the expansion of the empire, but at the same time they are exploited and bullied by the privileged class and have a relatively low status.

But there are people who are even worse off than the civilians, and that is the infected people in Ursus... While the infected people in Colombia can live in the infected community, the infected people in Ursus live a life worse than death. The people are severely discriminated against by the public, and the Ursus government supports the discrimination of the people and sets up pickets to hunt down the infected. The infected are often caught and sent to the northwest mines for labor. The Ursus army even has the right to kill the infected.

This also includes players. Some players who have become infected are forced to do manual labor. The lucky ones escape from the mines, while the unlucky ones who can't escape simply give up. Anyway, you can't kill me, what can you do if I don't do it? Well, his method obviously worked. Such players were detained and treated as garbage by the patrol team.

Most of them escaped. After all, players didn't need to sleep in the Ark, and they were just restoring their spirits. Eating some food could purify the debuffs that reduced their attributes. It was not surprising to see a bunch of players escaping together on a dark and windy night.

There are more and more such infected players.

Have you ever seen the Integration Movement in its heyday?

There was a sentence in the previous life that made Xia Yuan feel excited when he heard it.

After Tallulah founded the Reunion Movement, a large number of players who had become infected in Ursus resolutely joined the Reunion Movement, seeking benefits and income for themselves, and also wanting to rely on the power of the players to change the fucked-up land of Terra.

In this regard, Xia Yuan had only one thing to say: let this fire burn as vigorously as possible.

The lives of infected NPCs can wither at any time and anywhere, and the roars they make before death can move anyone.

This is the real meaning, turning my broken body into a raging fire.

Chapter 134 Ursus, Your Fate God is Here

Passing through the snow with the help of a pass, Xia Yuan showed his identity as a messenger from Sakota, and also showed the merchant certification he had previously obtained from the Chamber of Commerce and the Earl's Palace.

To be honest, the cargo on his car made the patrolling guards suspicious. How could a courier deliver arms? What kind of angel of death was this?

However, after Xia Yuan handed over a stack of Cherven, the common currency of Ursus, they immediately started to treat Xia Yuan like brothers, and kept shouting "Ula", and even invited Xia Yuan to drink and eat bread with them.

Xia Yuan and Kanelian experienced the simple life of the Ursus guards, which included standing guard on the border in military coats, going out hunting from time to time to satisfy their appetites, and more often sitting by the campfire to keep warm and chatting.

Of course, they also have a job, which is to regularly check whether there are infected people in the villages around the border. Once found, they will be ruthlessly driven out.

As for not checking Xia Yuan... they were not fools. How could a messenger who could work in Lateran be infected? As for his companions, they just glanced at Cherven to give face and did not make things too difficult for Kanelian.

After driving for dozens of kilometers towards Ursus, we finally saw the first place where smoke was rising.

Carnellian was wearing winter clothes. Although it was summer, she did not dare to continue showing her smooth and slightly fleshy long legs. She wore warm pants and a traditional Leitanian women's windbreaker on her upper body, with a fur shawl and a pair of fleece gloves. She was not afraid of any low temperature environment. This was the Leitanian style that Carnellian bought in Tremont before leaving.

Xia Yuan did the same, except that he did not buy new clothes. Instead, he used his connections in the black market to mend his coat, thus adding a cold-resistance buff.

"Wow, so this is what the village in Ursus looks like."

Kanelian sighed in the passenger seat. Xia Yuan looked over and saw that by the standards of a novice town, there were too few residents here, or in other words, it was not very lively. Normally, players could be seen outside the novice town, but when he glanced over, he saw only a dozen players patrolling the door and doing cleaning tasks.

"The scale is much smaller than in other countries, perhaps because of the cold weather." Xia Yuan glanced at the thermometer hanging outside. "Although it is summer, there is still some snow. It may be because we are a little close to the north. If we enter Ursus from Longmen, the weather should be warmer."

Kanelian put his hands behind his head, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Boss, there are obviously fewer adventurers here than in other towns. It is very likely that the sales target will not be met."

"Who said my targets are only the adventurers in town?"

Xia Yuan said this, got out of the car, and walked towards the patrolling players.

The level of players in this town is relatively low. Due to its proximity to the border, there are not many supplies here. The only way for all Ursus players to survive is to head towards the center of Ursus without becoming infected. If they are lucky, they will encounter a small town or settlement. If they are unlucky and lose their way in the wilderness, what may be waiting for them is the hunger debuff that will take away their health bit by bit.

There are many Russian players here, and there are also many players from the Chinese region. The two sides are currently getting along relatively harmoniously.

"Hey... Are my eyes blurry? Why are there still people coming to this town in this kind of weather?"

"Is it snow blindness? No...that pickup truck looks familiar."

"Sokka! That's our angel!"

Several Russian players in the team reacted and ran forward with unclear Russian swear words on their mouths.

As they got closer to Xia Yuan, a few Russian players slid and hugged Xia Yuan's thighs.

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"Angel, please sell us some equipment! We want to leave here!"

Thanks to the NPC's built-in language translation function, Xia Yuan was able to figure out what they were saying, but it still sounded like a faint translation accent.

Xia Yuan took a look at these Russian players and sighed in his heart. These Ursus bear players were having a miserable life. Not to mention the equipment and gold coins they earned, their daily supply was a problem. In such a desolate village, they didn't have a restaurant like in Dayan Village. Having some bread to eat was already good enough.

Xia Yuan obviously overestimated the living conditions of Ursus players. He was not a member of the Ursus race in his previous life. Now it seems really miserable. Living in such a sparsely populated land is just like playing Fallout.

He immediately showed his purchase column - he had secretly visited a number of forums before and found out the current equipment levels of the Ursus Bear players. The equipment for sale at this time included high-end goods, and of course there were also weapons and equipment suitable for ordinary players.

When selling, he also tried to talk to players in Maozi and Huaxia, and learned that there were many players in this town, about 10,000 at most. However, it was a disaster for this town because there was not enough food. In the next few years, some of their high-level players went to the heart of Ursus, and some...

"My angel, a guy I know got injured while hunting and became infected. He was driven out by the patrolling bad guys in black. If you can, please help him!"

Xia Yuan pursed her lips when she heard that.

Those players who became infected by accident were driven onto the snowfield, and they formed teams to struggle for survival without any assistance. They had no chance to obtain resources, and no possibility of approaching the village. All supplies had to be either found by themselves or stolen from the village. To be honest, they were the real wasteland players.

Some infected players felt aggrieved at first, but later found the fun in it, and they thought it was a joy to behold. Some players hid their anger towards Ursus in their hearts, thinking that as long as they reached a high level one day, they would find ways to retaliate.

"Don't worry, I will save your friends. Where did those infected adventurers go?"

"Going further north... Thank you, my angel."

The Russian player knelt down and kowtowed to him several times, which made Xia Yuan feel numb.

There were only a few hundred players here. After buying some equipment, Xia Yuan prepared to get in the car and leave. As he was sorting out the empty space in the trunk, Kanelian looked around the village, came back to him, and shook his head slightly, "The residents here are all elderly people."

"This is normal... In a few years, this land might become deserted." Xia Yuan gazed at the lights in the distance that were lit early because it was dark, and sighed.

Soon, a new player who had not posted much on the forum posted that he had just seen Trailblazer, had a face-to-face conversation with him, and bought his equipment. At first, everyone thought that it was some old player who had opened a new account to fish, but unexpectedly, the new player then posted photos of Trailblazer that he had taken, of Trailblazer and Carnellian standing together, and of the equipment he had purchased.

The forum exploded immediately.

The Ursus plate also exploded!

After the game Ark had experienced about three years of Terra time, the forum had only the Kazdel faction section that was originally set up because of the war - now no one is hanging out in the Theresis and Theresia sections... The forum launched the so-called national faction template. There are no restrictions on joining this section, and within this section, you can get first-hand information about what is happening in the country. In addition, there are posts about face-to-face trading of equipment, forming teams, and which tasks are more suitable. It can be regarded as a resource area developed by the players themselves.

Someone in the Ursus section quickly posted the post that the new player had just sent, which immediately caused some players who had nothing to do in the forum to scream in surprise.

"Oh my god, this is really my destiny! After more than three years of Terra, he finally remembered to set foot on this land of Ursus. He made me cry!"

"It's true that Ursus players are lagging behind players from other countries. Now, the pioneers are here to save us."

"But what about the infected players? We have no supplies and no weapons after these black-clad guys drove us out. We are doomed."

"Indeed... Most of the time, the pioneers go to the villages, and we as infected people will never encounter them... Oh, this is bullshit, I really want to burn the city of Ursus to ashes."

"Come on, brother. If you burn to ashes, what will we who are not infected do? Eat poop?"

While the players were chatting on the forum, Xia Yuan had already driven dozens of kilometers to the nearest town. This place was indeed much more lively than the village, and there were about five digits of players. Xia Yuan did good business with them and once again showed off his face in front of the players.

"Adventurers, do you have time to do me a favor?"

The players who had not left after the shopping process came over with shining eyes when they heard this. Doesn’t this opening mean that there are pioneer tasks to be completed?

Xia Yuan edited a task and sent it to them.

[You have triggered the E-level mission [Collect Supplies], accept/give up? ]

[Mission details: There is a pioneer standing in front of you. He has commissioned you to collect some warm clothes and food for him. You are very curious and want to know why he wants these things, but you know that he will only answer questions after obtaining these supplies.]

[Task requirements: Collect food for pioneers (0/15)/Collect warm clothes for pioneers (0/3)]

[Reward: 1000 Cherven]

[Reward: 3000 experience points]

The players' eyes suddenly lit up, and they went to the supply store where they had bought supplies before, like flowers scattered from heaven, and began to buy the supplies needed for the mission. It can only be said that they are worthy of being pioneers, as they give a lot. A single errand task gives 3,000 experience points.

In less than ten minutes, the players returned to Xia Yuan, and everyone was holding a packaging bag in their hands. They smiled and handed the supplies to Kanelian, who was in charge of counting, and then received the task settlement.

"Mr. Pioneer, why do you want to buy these supplies?"

The curious player asked after submitting the task.

"For the infected." Xia Yuan said softly, shaking his head. "It was only after I came to Ursus that I realized how miserable the people living on this land are. The infected were also human beings before they were infected. They should not be treated like this, as if their lives were not lives."

He stopped there... because if he continued, he might be invited to have tea, or if he said a few more words, the group of players in front of him might be persuaded by him to burn the city in front of them to ashes.

"They have no channels to get supplies, and I can give them supplies."

"They have no power, and I can give them power."

"They have no dignity, and I can reach out my hand to them and pull them up."

At this time, Kanelian's inventory of supplies was almost complete. Seeing this, Xia Yuan smiled and nodded to the players who were somewhat excited after listening to his words, "We will meet again if we are lucky."

By the time Xia Yuan left, the players had come to their senses and they looked at each other.

"The Pioneer... He is indeed the Pioneer in my heart. If the Pioneer establishes his own power one day, I will definitely become a member of his power and be proud of it."

"me too."

Unlike when we came, when we left the town, the back seat was already filled with food and clothes.

"Boss, are you going to give all these supplies to those infected people?"