It was late morning, and the sun was shining brightly.
At the main entrance of the 11th Shelter, over two hundred new players were packed together.
After the initial surprise and commotion, most of the new players' attention was now on Anya, who had suddenly emerged from the 11th Shelter.
"Hey, I know this NPC! She's Lily's follower, right?"
"That's right, it's her! The new player guide for the Silent Garden faction!"
"Wow, she's so cute! I wonder what would happen if I pinched her cheek? She'd probably cry for a long time."
"Brother, don't be so reckless! The AI for these NPCs is incredibly advanced. If you go and pinch her cheek for no reason and make her angry, you won't be able to join the faction or accept any quests."
"Indeed. If I remember correctly, Anya seems to have a power armor. Be careful, she might come out in her power armor and shoot you."
Most of these players were entering the game for the first time, but they were not unfamiliar with Beyond the Stars; in fact, they were quite familiar with Lily, Anya, and the Silent Garden.
This was thanks to Excavation Princess's persistent promotion.
From the Star Wanderer Community's "First Beyond the Stars Most Popular Female NPC Contest" onwards, Excavation Princess had created one hot topic after another through her battles with various players, and these battles were almost always centered around Lily. As a result, any player who had followed Beyond the Stars for a while and enjoyed surfing the internet had now basically heard of Lily's name.
However, knowing her name did not mean these players would favor Lily when playing the game.
In the initial rumors, Lily was merely a hidden character whose storyline was not yet brought to the forefront. For players focused on power, story, or quests, there was no reason to specifically travel to the 11th Shelter to find Lily.
But the debate surrounding Excavation Princess's new video before the 1.1 version launch changed everything.
Excavation Princess's single statement, "Lily might not just be related to the main storyline, but actually the protagonist of this version," directly changed the minds of many new players.
"Holy cow, the protagonist of the version?"
"Then we absolutely have to go for it!"
This was the power of promotion!
Even good wine needs a good marketing strategy. If it weren't for Excavation Princess, her capable subordinate, Lily felt that she would most likely still be racking her brains trying to figure out how to continue raising players' favorability.
Now the situation had reversed; players would actively seek her out. She only needed to show a little goodwill to win the favor of many players.
In reality, what Lily had prepared for these new players was not just "a little goodwill," but a convenient gaming experience absolutely unobtainable in other factions at this time.
First, Lily presented the new players with a smart and cute new player guide and quartermaster!
Anya, wearing the small Silent Garden robe that Lily had the Gao Family rush to make, greeted the two hundred-plus new players in front of her with a kind expression.
"Undead from beyond the mist, this is the 11th Shelter in the Goli Desert, the location of the Silent Garden."
"The 11th Shelter is a peace-loving settlement. Here, you can experience a unique exotic atmosphere…"
Anya patiently introduced the 11th Shelter's situation and some important rules to follow.
She proactively added the precautions, fearing that these new Undead would, like the Undead who first arrived at the Abandoned Cooling Plant, run into other people's homes and rummage through their belongings for no reason.
Several minutes later.
She clasped her hands together in front of her chest and said, "I hope you all gain something from this journey. If you have any questions, you can always ask me or your seniors."
Next, Lily presented the new players with the benefits that old players enjoyed in the Silent Garden!
After Sword Qi Soaring to the Sky, Patrick Star, Excavation Princess, Convert to My Lily, and others came online, Lily released a new daily quest on the faction management interface.
"Assistant to the New Player Guide"
The quest content was to assist Anya in answering new players' questions, but the requirements were not low; only old players with a faction reputation exceeding 20 could accept it.
Because the quest was simple, the rewards were not high, only a small amount of experience and faction reputation, but even a mosquito's leg is meat. Anyway, this quest wouldn't take much time to complete.
As soon as the quest was released, it immediately became a hot commodity in the players' eyes.
Convert to My Lily accepted the quest. He set his "Quest Tracker" to visible and deliberately placed it above his head, so other players saw his name as—
"Assistant to the New Player Guide"
"Convert to My Lily"
The surrounding players were almost blinded.
"Good heavens, hasn't this become an exclusive title for high-reputation old players?"
"How noble, truly too noble!"
The fact that old players could get rewards for helping new players was already very pleasing, but they never expected it could be played like this.
With Convert to My Lily's display, both low-reputation old players and new players were now determined to aggressively grind Silent Garden reputation.
Lily's strategy of using exclusive quests for old players to stimulate new players was a great success.
Then, Lily presented the new players with a comprehensive service that was unique among the many novice villages on Origin Star!
In other novice villages, players usually had to run around to different places to buy equipment, food, and items, and they had to search for them themselves, wasting a lot of game time just on travel.
But in the 11th Shelter, there was no such problem.
Lily, in collaboration with Gao Yuan, transformed an abandoned street in the 11th Shelter into a shopping street specifically for players.
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