In Lingyun City, in the West District, the teleportation array, which had been quiet for some time, suddenly emitted a dazzling light in the night.
As the light dissipated, Kaede's figure appeared within it.
However, at this moment, the system's notification sound rang in Kaede's ears.
"Congratulations to the player for leaving the newbie village. Menu functions are fully unlocked, and personal attributes have changed. Please explore on your own."
Kaede silently opened her attributes and found that the attribute column had disappeared, replaced by attribute ratings, and an additional column for combat power rating.
Kaede looked at her two columns, both of which were LV2.
Then Kaede walked out of the teleportation array and looked at the strange environment, feeling a headache.
Meow meow meow? Who am I? Where am I? What should I do now?
It was already late. Ordinary players should have logged off by now, but Kaede didn't have the function to log off.
Then go to a hotel for a day? Sorry, Kaede indicated that she didn't have a single penny. Kaede further indicated that this wasn't her fault; in World of Worlds, killing small monsters didn't give money, and it was even less possible to drop a weapon or something.
If you want money, you can only collect some rare parts and bring them to the city to sell to get money, for example, that leopard skin could be sold.
However, Kaede didn't know these things. In that case, that village chief seemed to have made a profit.
Then Kaede looked at the surrounding environment. Although the people were a bit sparse because it was night, there were still quite a few people walking around.
After watching for a while, Kaede categorized the people into three types: NPCs wearing ordinary clothes, players wearing armor or the like, and female players wearing revealing outfits.
Then, Kaede wandered around aimlessly. Although she wanted to find someone to ask about the game, she decided against it.
"Huh, a face I don't recognize." Suddenly, a man and a woman stopped in front of Kaede. Looking at her, especially her blood-red eyes, the pair felt they would certainly have remembered someone like that, so it must be their first time meeting.
Kaede looked up at them. The man's appearance could only be described as average, or perhaps slightly better than average, and the woman could only be considered pretty.
"Have you seen every player in this city?" Kaede couldn't help but ask after hearing their words.
After Kaede finished speaking, both the man and woman showed bitter smiles. Finally, the man said, "Although it's a bit embarrassing, we have indeed seen most of them."
"What are you doing?" Kaede asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I'm here to recruit people to build a guild," the man said.
"Build a guild?" Kaede asked, a bit puzzled.
"Yeah, it seems you don't know about building guilds." The man was just about to explain the guild-building process to Kaede when she said something that made his jaw drop.
"I don't know anything about this game."
The man paused for a moment before reacting, then said with a bitter smile, "Let me explain the issue with building a guild first."
"Okay."
"Building a guild means establishing a guild, but it's a bit troublesome in this game. You must have one hundred people to complete the guild creation. We, Cloud Moon, were delayed in the novice village for a while, so by the time we arrived here, most guilds had already been established." As he spoke, both the man and woman looked angry. "Even so, one hundred people should be easy to gather; even if we had to pay a few to join and then leave, it wouldn't be a problem. But our rivals ruined everything by constantly threatening our potential recruits, causing us to fail to gather one hundred people even now."
"Oh." Kaede nodded, thought for a moment, and asked, "Does Cloud Moon provide room and board?"
"Huh?" The man and woman were both stunned by Kaede's question. Room and board?
"..." Kaede looked at them, thought for a moment, and continued, "I mean, does it provide room and board inside the game?"
"Oh, that." The man breathed a sigh of relief. "The guild residence can house people, though usually not many choose to stay there. After all, no matter how good it is here, you still have to log off eventually. As for food..."
"I don't have a single cent right now. Do you know how to make money?" Kaede blinked.
"Uh." The man's face turned red as he looked at Kaede, and then he was fiercely pinched by the woman beside him.
"Ouch!"
Then the woman pulled the man behind her, stepped forward, and said, "To make money, you can find a job, or go hunting outside. Meat can be sold to the butcher shop, fur can be sold to the fur shop if it's good, and even some bones can be sold to the pharmacy. Finding a job is actually not easy, since most are already full. That's right, there are many players, and money is a rare commodity."
"Then how are levels calculated in this game?" Kaede was still most concerned about strength; she urgently wanted to know which stage she belonged to.
"Levels? We're not sure either. Anyway, the strongest player is only LV4 right now." The woman frowned and continued, "But that player just got lucky. You know there was a lucky draw at the beginning, right?"
"Yeah." Kaede nodded.
"That player drew an artifact, which is why they reached LV4." As the woman spoke, a hint of envy appeared on her face. "Ordinary players who have reached LV3 are considered experts now; they are very rare. Most are in the LV1 and LV2 stages."
"And it's really hard to level up in this game. For example, to go from LV1 to LV2, you need to farm LV1 monsters, but once you reach a certain threshold, farming them further is useless. At that point, if you want to keep getting stronger, you have to choose to kill LV2 monsters. However, even if you reach the LV1 threshold, the attribute gap with LV2 is still huge, and killing one might not even be enough. The most important thing is that if you die, you lose everything and have to start over. I don't know why the game designers made the attributes so inflated and the gaps so large, especially for a game with a reincarnation system."
The complaining girl didn't know that the person in front of her was someone who had easily slaughtered LV2 monsters with LV1 attributes...
"Oh." Kaede nodded, feeling slightly relieved. According to Li Chen, she was considered strong even among LV2s, and the LV2 Li Chen referred to wasn't a player. In that case, her strength hadn't fallen behind as much as she imagined. Kaede finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"After saying so much, can you join our guild? We're just one person short now. If you want to leave later, we won't stop you." As she spoke, a look of expectation appeared in the woman's eyes.
"Okay, sure." Kaede nodded, deciding to agree. It didn't require her to do anything anyway, and a free place to stay seemed pretty good.
"That's great!" The woman shouted, then glared at the man.
"Alright, alright, I know!" The man also looked excited, and then his body disappeared from the spot as if turning into data...
Kaede's pupils contracted. Seeing this, she understood: she was the only one who couldn't log off. Why?
The man who logged off opened his eyes and shouted, "Zhang San, Li Si, Wang Er Mazi! The last person has been found!"
"You're the one who's Zhang San, Li Si, and Wang Er Mazi! If you've found them, hurry up and notify the Big Sister!"
"Okay."
"Is that so?" Xiao Mengxue wasn't too happy. After all, they had found people a few times before, but they had all been scared off in the end.
However, since there was a possibility, they still had to gather everyone to log on and check.
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