57: Chapter 57 Large-scale Construction

Xiao Niao had dealt with games plenty of times. The moment he saw the exclamation mark, he walked over reflexively and looked at the notice board. It really was a quest he could accept:

[Collect Building Materials]

Dreamer Tang Yao is preparing to build a residence in Xiao Huang Village and needs everyone's help to collect Building Materials.

Currently required Materials: Wood, Sand and Stone, Mud, Straw.

Quest available to: All Factions

Current reward remaining: 7000 Wen / 7000 Wen.

[Build House]

Dreamer Tang Yao is planning to build a residence in Xiao Huang Village soon. After collecting the Materials and purchasing the land, she will need everyone's help to construct the house.

Quest available to: All Factions.

Current reward remaining: 3000 Wen / 3000 Wen.

Xiao Niao couldn't help but look at Tang Yao.

From the words "Dreamer" in the quest description, Xiao Niao confirmed her identity as a player.

He just didn't expect that this seemingly fragile young girl had not only brought along a pet but was already starting to build a house; she was truly impressive.

He just didn't know how much information she had about Fantasy Jianghu.

Just as Xiao Niao accepted the quest, he saw many NPCs also walk over and stand in front of the notice board, then all headed out of the village in one direction.

What was this? Could NPCs accept quests too?

Xiao Niao was stunned. It wasn't that he was afraid of NPCs diluting the quest rewards, but this setting was just too strange. How much computing power would such a setting consume for no reason?

Forget it, never mind. Let's do the quest first and help Tang Yao collect Materials for building the house.

Xiao Niao flashed a friendly smile at Tang Yao and followed the NPCs out of the village to do the quest, but he heard the old village chief speaking ill of him behind his back: "Heroine Tang Yao, this newcomer Dreamer might not be quite right in the head. Don't let him delay the construction schedule."

Hearing the old village chief's warning, Tang Yao glanced at Xiao Niao's back. She didn't know how this new player had left such a first impression on the old village chief, but she smiled and said: "It's fine, old village chief. Many hands make light work."

Xiao Niao listened secretly, his face showing embarrassment. He didn't know how the old village chief's AI was designed to be so petty...

Following the NPCs all the way to the woods, Xiao Niao finally realized that these NPCs were all carrying logging axes, while he had searched himself from head to toe, and the only thing that could be called a tool was perhaps a bucket of clean water.

Pouring out the water, the empty wooden bucket became a container that could be used to hold Sand and Stone or mud.

Xiao Niao carried the empty bucket to the riverside, found a river beach covered with stones, and picked out stones of suitable size, tossing them into the bucket one by one—the main point was just to slack off.

Anyway, he didn't care about the quest rewards; he was doing this quest just to leave a good impression on the high-level player Tang Yao.

Most of his attention was focused on checking the game's various function interfaces. After some research, he had a rough understanding of the basic functions of Fantasy Jianghu.

A little boy nearby named Xie Xiaotian, who had clattered half a bucket of stones, suddenly noticed Xiao Niao and pointed at him, shouting loudly: "Everyone, look! He's slacking off!"

The shouting attracted the attention of several nearby NPCs. They watched Xiao Niao's elegant movements of tossing stones into the bucket one by one, their gazes filled with some disdain.

Although these gazes didn't cause any real harm, Xiao Niao felt uncomfortable being watched and had to speed up his hand movements slightly.

After working for a while, he felt his fingers were swollen from the stones, and the bucket was only half full. He couldn't help but sigh at how realistic this game was.

Even in the building games he had played that focused on chopping wood and digging stones, they would at most let the player hold down the mouse for a while; they wouldn't torture people like this.

And Fantasy Jianghu, judging by its name, should be a Wuxia-themed Jianghu world. Why make these side details so realistic?

Just as Xiao Niao was thinking this, he suddenly saw Tang Yao walking over carrying a pig. He quickly scrambled up and handed over the wooden bucket as if asking for credit.

Tang Yao glanced into the bucket and couldn't help but shake her head: "This amount of Materials will get you at most a few dozen copper coins."

"Since it's not worth anything, I'll just give it all to you." Xiao Niao didn't care at all and even gave the wooden bucket to Tang Yao.

Tang Yao looked at it; this bit of Sand and Stone was useless and felt heavy in her backpack. However, the wooden bucket was not bad; it was just right for holding pig feed and putting it in her backpack, so she could take it out to feed Sharp Tooth at any time.

Thinking this, she dumped out the stones, put the empty bucket into her backpack, and took out 500 copper coins for Xiao Niao, "Consider this as payment for your bucket."

Xiao Niao waved his hand, "I don't even know how to play this game right now, so the copper coins are useless to me. It would be great if you could tell me some game knowledge."

Tang Yao thought for a moment; it seemed that a mere 500 copper coins were indeed useless. She simply put them away and nodded to Xiao Niao: "Alright, but you have to tell me first what you did to the old village chief?"

Xiao Niao thought this wasn't a secret and answered directly: "I just kept asking him the same question, wanting to test how intelligent he actually is."

Tang Yao frowned: "Why test them? Wouldn't it be better to just treat them like Immortal Masters?"

Xiao Niao was stunned for a moment: "Treat them like Immortal Masters?"

"Yes." Tang Yao nodded and began to tell Xiao Niao about her gaming experience.

Xiao Niao listened very carefully and occasionally asked questions.

After chatting for a long time like this, he finally had a certain understanding of this game, especially a few important points:

First, the NPCs in this game do not exist for the players; they all have their own lives, they all need to eat, drink, and sleep, and even earn rewards by helping players work, seemingly no different from Immortal Masters.

Second, while this game is sufficiently realistic, it also has matching freedom; there are no class restrictions like Warrior, Mage, or Daoist, no Rank restrictions, and even no trading restrictions.

Third, there are no recharge channels, and the Game Store does not sell numerical stat items or Materials...

Combining these three points of information, Xiao Niao's idea of creating a monopoly platform in his mind seemed to have taken shape.

Seeing that Xiao Niao had fallen into a state of deep thought, Tang Yao left, carrying Sharp Tooth, who was already squealing with hunger.

This little pig was one of a newly born litter of piglets, but it was born with two Little Sharp-Teeth. The Pig Keeper thought it was ominous and wanted to throw it away, but Tang Yao found it quite cute and couldn't bear to, so she simply took it in to raise as a pet.

Returning to the pig farm, Tang Yao hastily heated up some leftover pig feed.

Sharp Tooth was not a picky eater and ate happily.

After waiting for it to finish eating, Tang Yao put the remaining pig feed into the wooden bucket and placed it in her backpack, so that even if they were outside, Sharp Tooth wouldn't go hungry.

After doing all this, Tang Yao calculated her existing fantasy points and couldn't help but be full of anticipation.

By tomorrow, she would have enough money to buy land, and she would have her own house soon!

Little did she know, Chen Mo was watching from the control room, also full of anticipation.

He could see every bit of Tang Yao's income through the System logs.

Currently, the transfer station held nearly a hundred main god points.

But as long as Tang Yao didn't spend them, these main god points didn't belong to him yet, and he could only stare at them helplessly.

Today, finally seeing Tang Yao embarking on construction in the game, Chen Mo couldn't help but mutter:

"Hurry, hurry up and buy the land, my good class beauty. Once you buy the land, I can expand the Main God Space and bring you all a better gaming experience!"