First Player

Chapter 436: four hundred and thirty three

   Chapter 436 Chapter 433 · "Please choose your hero."

   When being wrapped by the teleportation light, Su Mingan noticed something was wrong... This time the teleportation seemed to flow in a different direction.

   Before he could feel it carefully, he felt that his eyes were dark.

   He saw a pure pitch-black space, and there was no real feeling of landing under his feet, he was floating in the void.

   In the upper right corner, the live broadcast that should have been opened is now closed.

   He stood quietly in the void, without speaking, without any violent expression changes on his face, just waiting.

   After about ten seconds, a pink light appeared in front of him.

  Long ears, white fluff, a giant body, and noodle-like limbs, the white fluffy figure moved slightly, revealing a pair of **** eyes. The boss rabbit with a blood-red scale on his chest appeared in front of him.

   "Are you going to have a candlelight dinner here?" Su Mingan looked around, but it was still pitch black, where he couldn't see clearly: "The lights are not even on."

   Boss Rabbit opened his blood-red eyes and gave him a "gentle" smile.

   Such a gentle smile, which appeared on the face of the boss rabbit, looked very unusual.

"The eighth world, the world of peak competition." It said, the sound had a mechanical fitting texture, and the tone was not as yin and yang as usual, but appeared mechanical and cold: "—The ruler, in this world, you shoulder extra task."

  Su Ming'an's expression did not change.

   He had already guessed that at the beginning of the game, calling himself into a space alone, there must be other things to say.

  …is the result a task for those in power?

   Previously, the quests from those in power were all received directly through the system prompts, but this time, the Boss Rabbit actually needed to award them to him personally.

"In this world - you need to designate your own clone to replace an NPC in the eighth world. After replacing the npc, your clone needs to temporarily act as an npc, walk around the venues of this world, and observe the whole world structure.”

  Su Mingan listened, a little surprised.

  —In this world, he would have both [NPC] and [Player] identities at the same time.

  The main body participates in the competitive game as a player, and the clone wanders around the field as an NPC to observe.

   He remembered that in the past, the mission of the ruler was to protect a certain NPC, or to reach a certain place - to guide him along the most difficult plot line and complete the most hidden plot clues.

   And now, his role as a ruler seems to be a step up.

  …He was given the task of "Observing the Copy". Similar to a programmer who fixes bugs.

   Walk around the venue, observe the dungeons, and dig up secrets to see if there are "bugs" in the world.

   "I'm... upgraded to a GM (game manager)?" Su Mingan said.

   "It doesn't count." Boss Rabbit continued: "Master, your clone can only roam the arena as an NPC, responsible for observation and recording, not to modify the rules of the game, and not to interfere in the game."

   "Are you an outsider?" Su Ming'an narrowed his eyes: "Question, after I become an NPC, can I still be my help in battle?"

   He has realized that if his clone runs to be an NPC observing the world, how can he summon the clone to help him fight?

   And… given the specificity of this mission.

   This clone skill looks even more suspicious.

   After all, with its bug level, it doesn’t look like something that can be fished out in a red-level skill pool.

   Exactly... He became the ruler because he acquired the clone skill. Or, the clone skill is just an accident, is it really a good thing he caught with his E-level luck?

   "The clone can't help you fight." Boss Rabbit said: "Since your clone is temporarily unavailable in the eighth world, for the sake of fairness, the game will supply you with additional benefits."

   "What benefits?"

   "Confidentiality."

"It's not good." Su Ming'an said in a helpless tone: "As a person in power, I would be suppressed like this. My most critical professional core skills were banned because I became an NPC, but the benefits as compensation were not told to me. ...It's an unfair start for me. It makes me a little sad..."

   His emotions came as he said it, and his tone was full of indignation at this "unfairness".

   "No, our game." Boss Rabbit interrupted him directly: "Absolutely fair."

  …It’s a familiar answer.

  Su Ming'an restrained his emotions.

"For you, this compensation is equal to the cost of temporarily losing your clone skills. As long as you live, you will definitely experience it." Boss Rabbit added: "You don't completely lose your clone skills, you will still have the ability to clone your clones. Control, after the clone has completely completed the inspection of the venue, you will regain absolute control of the skill."

   "Is that so..." Su Mingan nodded, and suddenly raised his hand like a studious pupil: "Question. To what extent can I control the NPC clone?"

   "As long as you are within the scope allowed by the world inspection mission, you can test as much as you want." Boss Rabbit said.

  Su Mingan understood.

   In other words, it is equivalent to his clone taking an additional task of "playing as an npc to inspect the venue", as long as it is within the range allowed by the system, he can still control the clone.

  ...In this way, for him, the clone cannot be used as a direct combat power to participate in the competition between players, nor can it be used as his resurrection double. But he gained an NPC who can wander around the venue and collect clues.

   He seems to...has jumped out of the level of pure "player" and moved closer to the design of the copy itself. While it's just "Wandering" and "Observing" dungeons for now...but after that? What about after the next level? "Powerful", as the highest-level identity, is not limited to the favor of NPCs, it has already been vaguely involved in the copy aspect.

   Boss Rabbit stretched out his big white hand. A giant blue screen lights up.

   On the screen, transparent characters are outlined, and names are marked below the characters.

  【Day Chess】, 【Day Calendar】, 【Kelsey】, 【Broken】, 【Meiya Tu】, 【Liu Changqing】, 【Ghost Old Special】, 【Guang Li】, 【Rococo】, 【Qin Huanya】…

   There are thousands of densely packed names, which appear on this blue screen. These characters have different shapes, men and women, young and old.

   And the clothes on them are even more "mixed Chinese and Western", including armor, robes, commoners, sacrificial robes, cheongsam...Su Mingan even saw someone wearing Hanfu, Lolita, bikinis...

   Character images are arranged in a dazzling array, just like "Please choose your hero".

"These are the npcs in the eighth world." Boss Rabbit said: "You can choose a replacement for your clone in it. After the replacement is successful, your clone is best to inspect without causing suspicion from other NPCs. Venue - because once the clone is killed by any unit before completing 100% of the inspection progress, it means that the mission of the person in power has failed."

   "So it is." Su Mingan nodded.

   He immediately began to screen these NPCs of various shapes and choose suitable replacements.

   Frankly speaking, you can tell what type of world it is by looking at the NPCs in the whole world. But judging from the appearance and clothing of these people, Su Ming'an was completely unable to make a definite judgment.

  ...These people, dressed in a "hodgepodge of cultures", not only mix Chinese and Western, but also combine ancient and modern, except that they can judge that this is not a future technology world, they can't see the specific type of this world at all.

   These characters were not introduced either, they only had names, and he could only judge each other's identity from the clothes.

  Su Mingan thought for a moment.

   First of all, if you want to choose a replacement NPC, you must not choose the one that looks like a big boss of the camp. There are many subordinates around the boss, and it is easy to see that something is wrong with the clone.

   Second, you can't choose the kind that are particularly weak.

  Third, you should choose those who seem to have simple interpersonal relationships, and there should be no familiar seven aunts and eight aunts around.

   Fourth, you can't choose someone who looks like a bully. The clone should try to avoid fighting with the top players.

  Su Ming'an's thinking is very clear, but looking at the row of NPCs with only names, he is a little bit troubled.

Through the previous copies, he has understood that it is not advisable to judge a person by appearance, and it is a very stupid behavior to judge a person's identity from appearance - after all, in the seventh world at the beginning, who would have thought of a viscount who seemed to have a mediocre start , will be the **** of the final boss Yunshangcheng?

   It is a very blind act to simply judge the identity from the image of the person.

   He raised his eyelids and glanced at Boss Rabbit.

  The rabbit's pair of eyes flashed mechanically under the pink light. At this time, it did not have the spirituality of the past, just like a rabbit-shaped robot.

  …Like a machine possessed and manipulated by a behind the scenes.

   "You still have two minutes to choose." Boss Rabbit said: "Now, all players are in the distribution of their initial identities, and in two minutes, everyone will be teleported uniformly."

  Su Ming'an looked at this panel again, still thinking - just looking at the appearance of the character, it is impossible to choose at all, which is almost equivalent to blind selection.

   But after thinking for a moment, he had a new idea. From a game mechanics perspective...he might have a better option.

   "Boss Rabbit... No, the organizer." Su Mingan raised his head: "Can I know the information about this dungeon in advance?"

   "No, you still have one minute and forty-five seconds to choose." Boss Rabbit said.

  …Can’t get any information in advance?

  Su Ming'an has already learned that, according to the copy of Baicheng in the second world and the copy of Terry Town in the fourth world, a purely 'competitive' world will need a 'guide' to introduce the rules of the whole world.

   In the White City dungeon, the boss Rabbit came to introduce the rules to each player team personally.

   In the dungeon of Terry Town, the key person 'Mayor' introduced the rules.

...and according to the clues that Noel told him, the eighth world is obviously a multi-dungeon game, and it is necessary to collect things like 'Silver Stars'... Obviously, the rules of this world should be similar to the dungeons of breaking through. It requires the player to go through mini-levels to determine the final 'sole' winner.

Based on what Boss Rabbit said just now, 'in two minutes, everyone will be teleported uniformly', he can guess - in a multi-dungeon competitive world like the Eighth World, the dungeon needs a first, unified' rules introducer ' to allow players to identify the rules for collecting 'Silver Stars'.

   This 'rule introducer' may be an NPC in the original dungeon world, but in this way, this NPC that introduces such an overly gamified mechanism will inevitably be a bit ooc.

   Therefore, he believes that it is more likely that the copy of the eighth world will replicate the situation of the copy of Baicheng.

  …that is, let the boss rabbit introduce the rules at the beginning.

   Then, as the first introduction to the rules of the White City, Boss Rabbit…

   - Does it count as a substitutable "npc"?

  Su Mingan found that he seemed to have found an optimal choice.

   (end of this chapter)