NOVEL WEB Chapter 90 - 90: Brothers Have Worked Hard [Seeking First Subscription] First Update
Chapter 90: Chapter 90: Brothers Have Worked Hard [Seeking First Subscription] First Update
“Awesome!” Yi Zheng chuckled with delight, his only regret being the battle ended too quickly, which hindered his collection of Resentment Value.
However, the system granted him so much that he couldn’t really complain, so he crawled out from the bushes.
He saw beams of golden light falling onto the Vermilion Bird City. The city walls and gates, which had been destroyed by the Catastrophe Level beast, were instantly restored, yet they bore some marks of battle, giving the once pristine walls a sense of age and somberness.
Then, one figure after another appeared at the head of the bridge. They were NPC guards, clearing the equipment scattered on the bridgehead.
Just then, one of the guards waved his arm and shouted a greeting to someone in the distance, “Brother, hard at work, eh?”
At that moment, Yi Zheng saw a green-skinned monster emerge from the city gate, its walk so wobbly and zigzagging, as if it were drunk.
It was staggering as if it had been swaggering through a brothel all night long…
Limbs weak, eyes lifeless, but Yi Zheng recognized the face all too well—it was the King of Goblins!
As he staggered along, the King of Goblins replied, “Thanks, brother. I feel like I’m about to drop dead, I’ll head back for a nap. Those players are too damn good at hiding, held up all the lads at work, sorry about that.”
“No worries at all, your timing is perfect. My wife’s having a baby, I can use this chance to go keep her company.”
“Ha ha, that’s right. We had a couple more drinks watching you guys fight! All that money went straight into that fatso bar owner’s pocket, ha ha ha…”
The crowd roared with laughter.
If players saw that supposedly hostile human NPC and Wild Monster NPC could have such a harmonious conversation, who knows what they would think.
In any case, Yi Zheng was bewildered. To tell the truth, he played his fair share of games back in the day but never considered what NPCs might do once players logged off.
It wasn’t that he had never thought about it at all, but he naturally assumed that enemy NPCs within the game were just that, programmed by the system, by God, to be adversaries, and that even without the presence of players, they would still be hostile to each other.
At the same time, he inherently believed that NPCs wouldn’t actively communicate with each other, that they were just like wooden poles.
Even though the All Heavens Game World offered an extremely high degree of freedom, even though this game world was once an actual world, he still felt that human NPCs and monster NPCs just wouldn’t get along.
But, he would have never dreamt that the supposed enemy human and Wild Monster factions could be like this!
Think of those human players, it seems their hostility towards Wild Monsters was also because the human NPCs were stirring things up behind the scenes, right? They’d go on about how vicious the monsters were, how they killed their wives, stole their donkeys, and so on…
And then the players would be riled up, hoodwinked into being the cannon fodder.
If they knew the truth was like this, their worldview would probably collapse, wouldn’t it?
At that moment, a guard noticed Yi Zheng and laughed, “Rabbit, you’re something else. Didn’t see much action from you in the fight, but you’re top-notch when it comes to seeking people out, huh!”
Yi Zheng instantly gave an embarrassed smile, “Uh… well, yeah, not bad, I guess.”
Hearing the word “Rabbit,” the King of Goblins immediately stopped in his tracks, his eyes forcefully gleaming. He identified Yi Zheng, then turned tail and fled!
Seeing this, Yi Zheng quickly picked up a Stone and whooshed it right at him.
Smack!
Ouch!
The King of Goblins hit the ground on cue.
Then Yi Zheng, lifting the hem of his long robe, sprinted to the King of Goblins’ side, grabbed his ankle, and began dragging him towards the edge of the forest.
The guards were stunned, “Uh… you two, what’s this?”
The King of Goblins shouted, “Help! He’s going to kill someone!”
Yi Zheng just laughed, “Don’t listen to his nonsense. Didn’t you see us running amok in the city just now? I’m just talking to him about something… some… private matters!”
While speaking, Yi Zheng had already dragged the King of Goblins into the forest.
Under a large tree, a burly Goblin was tightly bound to a sturdy tree.
Bang!
A radish, like a dart, whizzed past the King of Goblins’ face and embedded into the tree.
Ten meters away, a Rabbit wearing an oversized robe weighed a carrot in its hand, pacing back and forth, muttering to itself, “Oh, I missed the shot.”
“Rabbit, let’s talk this over… can we not resort to violence?” begged the King of Goblins, looking pitifully at the Rabbit before him.
Yi Zheng, tilting his head, said, “Talk it over? You seemed to enjoy hitting me a lot before. Now you don’t want me to get my turn, that won’t do! Where in the world would you find such a good deal?”
Yi Zheng feigned another carrot throw. Having played with carrots for so long, Yi Zheng found out that not only can they explode when thrown, but they can also be made to explode through thought control. In fact, when he threw the carrot, thinking it would explode, that’s why it did.
And when eating them, naturally believing the carrots wouldn’t explode, they did not.
This was key, he had misunderstood before.
So now, using the carrot as a Flying Dagger, he was not the least bit worried about it exploding and killing the King of Goblins.
“We can negotiate anything, can’t we? Just tell me, what do you want? I’ll cooperate, isn’t that enough? If that’s still not good, I’ll give you the Goblin Forest, all yours, how about that?” the King of Goblins called out.
Yi Zheng shook his head, “What do I need your forest for? Besides, if I wanted it, would it depend on you giving it to me? You can’t beat me anyway.”
The King of Goblins immediately replied, “Then what do you want? I’ll give you anything, is that okay?”
Yi Zheng snapped his fingers, “You have Equipment on you, don’t you? The kind given by the system.”
The King of Goblins was taken aback, “Equipment? What do you want that stuff for? It’s useless to us.”
Yi Zheng gave him a disdainful look, “I think it looks nice. Can’t I have it for my personal collection? Stop blabbering and bring it out! Especially the Equipment you get when you turn into the Goblin Demon, hand it over quick.”
The system had tipped off Yi Zheng that killing the Goblin Demon would definitely drop a Divine Artifact! Yi Zheng was curious about the Attributes of the divine artifact…
Knowing both yourself and your enemy ensures victory in countless battles. Understanding the enemy’s most powerful divine artifact Attributes would make it easier to defeat players in the future and avoid accidents.
The King of Goblins said with a bitter smile, “Big brother, the system only puts the Divine Artifact on me when I’m the Goblin Demon. Right now, I’m just the King of Goblins, where would I get divine artifacts from?”
Slap!
A carrot stuck into the tree right beside the left cheek of the King of Goblins.
Yi Zheng said, “Who are you trying to fool? I’d believe the system would take it back, but you’re not just any ordinary boss. You’re specifically left here by the system as the trial boss for all the players of the great Southern city.
I’ve checked, this city is too large, I reckon it could easily house a few million people, and with the additional transient population, nearly ten million as well.”
And judging by the current Levels of the players, even if they can barely beat you, they wouldn’t be able to trigger your Catastrophe transformation, would they?
Your location is crucial, guarding the city gates, the system probably wants you to block hundreds of thousands, if not millions of players after your transformation, to let them feel the pressure the game brings.”