Chapter 258 - : The Astonished Novice
Chapter 258: The Astonished Novice
“Argh! A ghost!”
It wasn’t just happening on this side of the square.
On the west side, many new players cried out in surprise as well.
A humanoid over 3m tall and covered in thick black hair appeared out of nowhere and grabbed a settler by the neck and lifted the person up with its hairy arms. Its inky-black nails that were as long as daggers suddenly stuck out and buried in the settler’s head.
It then growled at the new players, baring its fangs in its huge bloody mouth that took up half of its face.
In the south, a giant jade-colored scorpion pierced a settler’s heart with its tail, while an enormous furry bear stood on its hind legs in the north, knocking away a settler.
There was even a gigantic golden eagle with sharp claws in the sky, and it snapped a person off the ground.
The monsters had appeared out of the blue, but the settlement soldiers only stood there with their weapons.
“Help!”
Some of the new players that were closer to the scene immediately backed away while some others even burst into tears.
“Well… Master, do you think we’re a bit over the top? What if we traumatize these newbies…”
In the Temple of Providence, An Quan asked in a low voice.
That was right. Be it the black serpent, the giant humanoid, the yellow jade scorpion, or the settlers killed by the monsters, they were all visions created by the Mirage Dragon Pearl in Ji Ye’s hand.
And Ji Ye had done it mainly for two reasons.
For one, he noticed that the third batch of the new players was observably too relaxed.
Because they had arrived at a place that had won the Ten-Species Competition and was temporarily free of any alien threats.
Moreover, they were lucky enough to arrive at the Twin Dragon Mount, the strongest human settlement of Earth so far.
Therefore, all they had left was joy and excitement.
Ever since they arrived, they had been talking about nothing but heroes, resources, and skills. Some of them even tried to plot against Ji Ye.
Despite the hubbub of voices, with the True Seer, it wasn’t difficult for Ji Ye to distinguish one voice from another.
As for which member of the settlement had posted anonymously in the forum that the master of the Twin Dragon Mount wasn’t into women, Ji Ye didn’t have time to figure that out yet, but it wasn’t very difficult for him to stress out the over-relaxed newbies a bit.
He had prepared this “demon attack” in advance and had even rehearsed it.
Otherwise, the soldiers and heroes of the settlement wouldn’t have remained so indifferent.
However, Ji Ye’s original plan wasn’t to let them appear so abruptly. He thought he should remind the new players first to prepare them for what was coming.
But he changed his mind.
The mist over the sea was thinning down.
It was obvious that the next mission was in the offing.
Maybe tonight or tomorrow, the mist would be thin enough.
Then, the Twin Dragon Mount could see that not far from the island they were on, there was another alien settlement that had also won the Ten-Species Competition mission.
After that, a fight would be inevitable.
The Twin Dragon Mount was powerful enough to stay undaunted when facing alien settlements of any level.
But what if the Land of Inheritance wanted to “balance things out” in the next stage and had the Twin Dragon Mount face two or three alien settlements all at once?
Although the possibility wasn’t very high, it still wouldn’t hurt to give these players a sense of how dangerous the Land of Inheritance could be in advance. Having their lives threatened would help them to grow faster.
At least judging from the speed of progress of the second batch of players like Li Qing and Qin Yueyu, Ji Ye knew that he had done the right thing to send the newbies fighting with monsters on the first day they arrived.
Since there was no monster left in the settlement, and the sea was a restricted area, the new players couldn’t be trained there.
But he had to let the newbies witness how savage the monsters could be.
As to whether the newbies could be traumatized…
“No, of course not! I’m sure it won’t happen!
“I’ve calculated carefully. It’ll scare them just about enough. The event will make their hearts race, increase their adrenal secretions, and brand it in their memories. But I’m sure it won’t cause any serious problem…”
A long-haired male player in his thirties and wearing a suit that didn’t quite fit him said in a hurry, “I’m sure you know that the censorship of our country forbids too much blood and violence, so I’m actually quite good at measuring how far we can go…”
There was sweat at the tip of his nose.
The slightly strange-looking man was a beta tester like Wu Qiao and had arrived only after Ji Ye and the others entered the City of Humans.
But, unlike Wu Qiao, he didn’t pass the beta test.
Therefore, he didn’t obtain any talent skills.
Of course, even in his case, being chosen for the first batch still proved how capable he was in his own profession.
As a matter of fact, the man, who was called Zhang Yige, worked in showbiz like Xu Xue.
While Xu Xue was an actress, he was a famous young director of Chidragon.
According to the man himself, he had directed several films with the box office of 10 figures. Not only were his films well-received in Chidragon and the eastern world, but they had also done well in the western market as well.
After the third world war, the Confederate government was established, enabling cultural communication between different countries. Be it the wuxia and fantasy stories of Chidragon, the superhero and sci-fi films of Ameagle, or anime of Jaipan, they all had a considerable impact globally and were popular among their fans.
But to cater to the preference of various cultural groups, one had to have some real ability.
After they returned to the Twin Dragon Mount, Su Nongying discovered Zhang Yige’s ability through her upgraded Registration Book.
After that, Ji Ye let him plan the event today for the arrival of the newbies, which was also a test for Zhang Yige himself.
If he succeeded, he would be rewarded.
Of course, when Zhang Yige said that there wouldn’t be any serious problems, he meant that things would be alright if things were carried out as planned, but obviously, Ji Ye didn’t do that.
If something really went wrong, no one would blame Ji Ye, but Zhang Yige, who had also started from scratch here, would become the new players’ target.
Zhang Yige dreaded the idea, but there was nothing he could do.
“Calm down, everybody!”
Ji Ye spoke at that moment.
“What you’re seeing isn’t real. It’s only a record of some of the monsters the Twin Dragon Mount has dealt with before, and the dead people aren’t real either. But I suggest you all watch it carefully. Otherwise, if you run into them one day, you may actually become the prey of these monsters!”
There was Dragon Aura in his voice, which swept across the yard, and the impact immediately calmed the crowd down.
“Well… that’s right!”
“Yes, I’ve seen this Black Serpent before. It was the one that had been killed by the Crossgod in the live stream.”
The local new players of Yang City finally returned to themselves.
“What? Crossgod and the Black Serpent?”
Some of the players from other cities weren’t very familiar with the event.
But they soon found out about it from those around them.
Pew… Pew… Pew… Pew…
The next moment, just like in the live stream, the Black Serpent was killed by four bronze arrows with accurate aim.
However, the Black Serpent fought back before it died, and poisonous blood poured down. Although the players knew that it was an illusion, they still cringed.
“You b*stard! How dare you harm my fellow settlers?!”
After that, the image changed, showing the arrival of Lu Zhishen, the first hero of the Twin Dragon Mount. He throttled the Black Serpent with his big hands before fighting the giant Mandrill and Yellow Jade Pipa with his saber and staff.
“A carrier of unparalleled might, a heart of an executioner… A liar to the patriarch, a heretic to Padmapani. A bearer of cold steel and bloodied cane…”
Meanwhile, Lu Zhishen’s personal information also emerged, and his own poem resonated in the air.
Ji Ye had created the effect using the resonance of the Dragon Aura so that the vision created by the Mirage Dragon Pearl could have sounds, making it more realistic.
“It’s Lu Zhishen, the Flowery Monk!”
“That’s amazing. He killed that terrible Black Serpent with one hand!”
“That was such a bold statement, and the poem was so powerful too. Being a liar to the patriarch and a heretic to Padmapani and all that…”
“I was so terrified, but when Lu Zhishen spoke, I wasn’t afraid anymore.”
Nearly a thousand new players recovered from their fear and felt grateful for the monk.
That was the second reason why Ji Ye arranged this event. He got the idea from the images of historical events shown when he fused the Book of Civilization before.
Through showing these “documentaries”, Ji Ye was able to introduce various heroes of the Twin Dragon Mount to all the new players.
And Lu Zhishen wasn’t the only one who had been introduced to the newbies.
Wu Song, who was considered a fiend that had arrived from the sky and walked on the earth, destroyed the Sky-cutting Tiger Wings with three punches before entering the foggy valley and killed the only leader of the Sludge Monsters with a single strike of his saber.
When Gongsun Sheng, the Dragon in the Clouds, arrived, he chanted incantations, summoning a large amount of thunder and lightning, which then destroyed the settlement core of the Forest Monsters. Yang Zhi, the Blue Faced Beast, had the giant black warrior behind him. Electric arcs flickered on the blade of his saber, sending panic around the Extraordinary Metal Men.
There was also the final battle with the Eagle Man, when Lu Junyi guarded the Temple of Providence all by himself, accompanied by nothing but his stick. He went on killing an army of able-bodied Eagle Men. Ruan Xiaoer led a team of Dragon Tooth soldiers and almost fought to his death to stop the Eagle Men from salvaging their own settlement core.
The images were chosen and designed by Zhang Yige and created by Ji Ye through his memory. They were then presented to the new players.
The new players looked intimidated at first, but by the end, their eyes were filled with gratitude, reverence, and expectation!
“That was brilliant!”
“I’ve always thought that members of Liangshan in the Water Margin shouldn’t be considered heroes because they couldn’t represent the Human race on Earth, but I was wrong. Every hero in the Land of Inheritance can represent the Earth civilization. They were the ones who had defeated the alien races!”
“I really was in tears when Ruan Xiaoer fell into his own pool of blood. Although he isn’t a Perfect hero, he can be as amazing as one!”
“Although I’m terrified of death, if I really have to fight an alien, I’ll take one down with me when I die.”
Since the Story of the Twin Dragon Mount was also to introduce other members of the settlement, the heroes weren’t the only ones shown in the vision.
“Awoo!”
Li Qing had his neck bitten by the Steelback Blue Wolf, but despite the lethal attack, he ripped a section of the wolf’s skin off, which became an offering.
Elder Meng spent his entire days teaching the settlers some cultural knowledge so that they could help with the development of the settlement.
To build the Frost Metal Cannon, Elder Jiao, who was over 80, hardly slept for a week on end. Su Nongying had the habit of working in the Temple of Providence until deep into the night.
Of course, Ji Ye appeared the most frequently.
He killed the Black Serpent with four arrows in the Frigid Water up on the mountain; he killed the head of the Sludge Monsters in the Red Pip Cave; he hacked three Extraordinary Mirage Monsters to death in the Sludge Monster territory; he single-handedly killed the Extraordinary Rank-5 Forest Monster King; he defeated the 30-meter revived Mirage Dragon in the sea…
And there was also the metal octopus with six tentacles, the Eagle Man leader, the captain of the Yuan Shadow Assassin, the leader of the Water Demons, the North King, the emperor…
After the fusion in the Battlefield of Providence, the Mirage Dragon Pearl had a recording function.
It was able to record many scenes and vividly restored the victorious scene of the Battlefield of Providence, which was only achieved by the heroes and players of the Twin Dragon Mount after surviving all the assassination attempts made by the Yuan army and facing the downpour of arrows in the battlefield. They had led other soldiers in battles until their blood painted the ground red and their weapons shattered. That was how the victory was achieved.
“So, this is what has happened!”
“I feel so ashamed, for believing those people in the forum. They said that the Twin Dragon Mount had only reached Extraordinary Rank-9 because they robbed other settlements.”
“After my one-month period is over, I’m going offline immediately to clear things up. I’m going to create 100, no, 10,000 posts to apologize.”
“Count me in. I won’t just apologize, but I’ll let my dad make a film. I’ll make everyone understand how much difficulty our Twin Dragon Mount has to go through to become what they are now.”
“Yes, our Twin Dragon Mount!”
The new players fell silent for a brief moment after they watched everything.
Many then looked excited. In the end, they chanted loudly in unison, calling out “our Twin Dragon Mount”.
Even when some of them still had their own ideas, they could only stand there with their faces pale.
They realized that they would be daydreaming if they wanted to instigate the newbies to ask for more power from the veterans.