Lao Baqi is a well-known fisherman in Nitang Village. As one of the new immigrants to the newly developed villages in the Green Field area, at the age of nearly forty, he has actually saved some "family property". It has to be said that he is also popular among the lower class people.
It can be regarded as a small miracle...
Although the poor life in the Green Field area is hard, Lao Baji is happy with it~
The former Nitang Village was adjacent to a river that meandered from a large lake to the west. With his craftsmanship and the fact that the taxes on the newly developed land were not heavy, Lao Baqi surprisingly lived a pretty good life here. He was even a lot older.
(In current society, the average life expectancy of the lower class civilians is only in their early forties), there are actually two women in the village who are flirting with him...
Once upon a time, Lao Baji also thought about whether he should simply lose his face and ask for a wife...
Although having children and other things may be overwhelming, it is good to have an extra girl to warm the bed at night~
I probably have enough time in my life to keep a seed, but why not find a companion to spend the rest of my life with?
However, no one expected that just when Lao Baji was hesitating and thinking about choosing someone to talk to someone one day, a devastating disaster would suddenly come!!
On that day, Lao Baji was also lucky. He took the excess dried fish at home to sell in the village in the south, so he was not attacked by the army of undead monsters.
By the time Lao Baji got the news, the local guards patrolling outside had already issued an emergency message to evacuate!
The shocked Lao Bajia could only think about his new home, the two women who were flirting with him in the village, and the happy tomorrow that was clearly right in front of him...
How much he wanted to go back and see it with his own eyes, even if... even if everything in the past was really shattered like a dream, he still wanted to go back and see it...
Lao Baji felt that he had never experienced any good luck in his life, and he had never lived a comfortable life for a few days in his hometown. Apart from learning the skill of fishing with his hands, everything else was hazy~
Even if you have a new home in a new place, it will turn into ruins in an instant, and there may even be monsters that only appear in nightmares wandering around...
In the end, Lao Bajiu evacuated in an emergency along with the villagers from the southern village. Although the people were walking like a machine, Lao Bajiu only had confusion and fear in his eyes. He didn't know where his fate would go this time...
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I heard that in addition to my own Nitang Village, Lvmiao Village in the south, and two other villages in the north and northeast that were attacked by monsters... not many humans and animals could move out...
I heard that the master in Kalawa City couldn't defeat those monsters, so he had to take everyone to continue to escape south...
I heard that troops from other places came to save lives. They are going to the north to take back everyone's lost home... Will they go to Nitang Village... Lao Baji wants to follow and go to Nitang Village again, even if
Take a look from a distance...
I heard that... two villages in the north were taken back, but... Nitang Village and Lvmiao Village, where Lao Baji stayed, are still in the hands of monsters...
why?
Lao Baji didn't understand and didn't dare to ask anyone... He just couldn't figure it out. Since the old men could take back the other two villages, why couldn't they take back Nitang Village?
That was his home, and there were two women who would wink at him and love to smile at him... What if the old men took Nitang Village back? He wanted to go back and have a look... He wanted to find those two
Mother-in-law...
During the days when he was transferred to the vicinity of Karava Castle, Lao Baji was as confused as a walking zombie. Every day he received a meal of "relief food" distributed by the soldiers that was as thin as water and ate half a piece of moldy and maggot-infested food.
Brown bread, but was driven by the soldiers to do endless work every day...
Of course, Lao Baji is not the only one who is like this, but because this guy is like a dull guy, he usually doesn't even let out a fart when he is beaten or scolded, and he doesn't resist and make noise, so some soldiers who know him are
The strong man who loved to catch him turned the old man who had finally grown stronger into the straw-like appearance he had earlier...
However, on this day, a news suddenly came from the castle, saying that a master was asking if anyone knew the terrain around the northwestmost village.
The northwestmost point?
Isn’t that the Nitang Village of the past?
Some people say that the monsters that attacked Nitang Village suddenly emerged from the river next to the village. It was like a deadly monster growing in the river. They didn't give the villagers time to react, and they attacked them.
The whole village was burned to the ground...
All kinds of rumors are scary and exaggerated, as if the people telling them have seen it with their own eyes!
But when the questions from the superiors came down, those guys who used to spray foam and spread gossip all shut up, as if everyone had never heard of any village in the northwest.
Just when the soldiers thought they were about to return without success, suddenly an old voice, as hoarse as the friction of dead branches, shouted at the throat: "I~~~I am...I am! From Nitang Village!! I am
Know!!!"
This may be the most difficult and exciting sentence that Lao Baji has ever said in his life.
He didn't understand what kind of power supported him at that moment to rush out of the crowd and fall down in front of the messenger who looked disgusted, but he still persisted in shouting out the follow-up words.
People around thought that Lao Baji was crazy, and he actually dared to collide with the soldier masters who came out of the castle... You must know that in the past, few of the soldier masters were easy to talk to.
The obedient untouchables also exerted enough strength on themselves, and sometimes even hit people until they vomited blood...
Didn't Lao Baji clearly seek death when he rushed out at this time?
As a result, several people in the crowd who knew Lao Bajia subconsciously shrank their necks, and when the people around them didn't notice them, they quietly retreated further, as if they were standing close to Lao Bajia.
Maybe he was implicated.
However, the messengers didn't care about this. Since someone stood up, it was easy for them to go back and return to life. They immediately carried the old man who looked like a human skeleton and returned to the castle...
When Liu Yifei saw Lao Baqi being brought to him, he was not sure for a moment whether this guy was captured by his NPC for revenge - don't doubt the subjective initiative of even the lowest level NPC!
In the campaign mode, you can treat every NPC here as a real person. Those with brains and ideas can fool innocent and kind-hearted players into dying. It is entirely possible to catch a random passerby and have a fight.
, not surprising at all~
But from Liu Yifei's perspective, the NPC who looks like an old farmer in front of him is indeed a bit strange - not to mention anything else, this guy actually has shoes on his feet!
Although they are the shabbiest and shabbiest straw sandals, and one even has toes exposed, they are still considered a "small item" among the lowest peasants - for a considerable number of poor people, they cannot even cover themselves with clothes.
In some particularly poor families, it is not uncommon for children and adults to just run around. Where can they wear shoes?
If the people at the bottom could all live a decent life with dignity, would the upper-class nobles still regard them as "like pigs"...
If you can wear shoes, you are still considered a "rich peasant"...
"They said, do you know the situation around the northwest village?"
"Yes...yes, sir...I am from Nitang Village...I am...a fisherman...I often run along...up and down the Nitang River...I am quite familiar with that area..."
[He is actually a fisherman?? What a coincidence...]
Liu Yifei felt happy and pretended to be calm and asked: "In that case, tell me about the situation around the village~ Remember to be careful and don't talk nonsense! If I find out that you are lying..."
Liu Yifei originally wanted to play a bully, crushing two stone balls or something to enhance his persuasiveness, but there weren't really any handy things around him, so in the end he could only endure the second half of the sentence and signaled that the other party could start.
Introduced~
Following Lao Baji's words, the clerk next to him was working on a temporary map based on the simple geography found in the castle - this is the detailed reflection of the current chaotic ruling class and backward administrative management!
Obviously, the land of green fields can be considered a "familiar land", but except for some geographical records that were simply collected orally described by local people from various places, I couldn't even find a map!
Let alone a military-grade map that can be used as a guide for military operations, there is not even the most common general terrain map!!
After all, "map drawing" is a relatively high-end "scholar" skill. Ordinary people can't even read a few Chinese characters. How many people can learn the skill of drawing maps?
And whether they want to learn this skill, or those who have learned the skill, almost all of them are concentrated in the royal capital and the subordinates of the great nobles of various fiefdoms. Anyone who is full and has nothing to do will go to "remote areas" like the Green Field area.
"Come to hang out?
The Karava Castle here has not even built a "teleportation array" connecting to the mainland. In all senses, it is a "wilderness" among the people in the mainland. There are not many places that really regard this place as a "village".
Kingdom territory...
As the top local military officer, Morrisgues is not a man of great talent and strategy. He only thinks about how to live a stable life every day, so how can he find cartographers to survey the terrain of various places?
Now Liu Yifei has no choice but to prepare some "land map" to deal with emergencies, which is why this situation happened...
But when Lao Baji said that he was a "fisherman" from Nitang Village, Liu Yifei thought of something else: "By the way, I haven't asked yet, what's your name?"
"Sir, my... my name is Lao Baji..."
Laobaji...well, it's also a name~
After all, at the bottom level, "name" is just a convenient thing to call and identify people. How can it be so particular? Calling someone an "onomatopoeia" or something like that is not a big deal~
Strictly speaking, to the ears of middle- and upper-class NPCs with status, the various weird online and game names chosen by players that do not meet NPC specifications are no different from names like "Laobaji".
Although players may not feel it for a while, in the middle and later stages when everyone starts to come into contact with the powerful class, these small details will become obstacles for players, and this is why Liu Yifei wants to rebuild new characters among his members as a whole.
The reason for changing to a more serious name...
"Lao Baji, let me ask you~ When you were fishing in... that muddy river, did you ever catch some mutilated dead fish? Especially the kind of fish whose belly part seemed to have been bitten off by some animal...
Or maybe the whole fish head was bitten off directly?”
After Liu Yifei asked, Lao Baji was stunned at first, and then as if he suddenly thought of something, he stared wide-eyed and said: "Ah! There are some! At that time... At that time, I would catch some dead fish...
At first... I was surprised. I didn't know there were any big guys in the river that could eat such big fish. Later... I saw more of them, so I just... ignored them. Those dead ones were hard to sell, so I had to keep them.
He ate it himself, and some...some were given to other people in the village..."
Speaking of this, Lao Baji subconsciously thought of the "neighbors" in the village whom he had just known for a few years...ah...and the two women...every time they took the fish he handed over, they would rush
He smiled...winked at him...
Liu Yifei ignored Lao Baji's wandering thoughts, turned around and whispered something to a soldier, and then the soldier left~
When the soldier came back after a while, he actually held a large river fish in his hand and handed it directly to Liu Yifei's hand.
Liu Yifei didn't mind the fishy smell. He held it with one hand and used the other hand like a steel knife. He easily pinched the minced meat from the belly of the fish along with the fish scales, and forcibly made a terrible wound on the fish...
This person is so powerful that he can do many things with ease~
When Liu Yifei can easily "pin" off ordinary iron swords, or twist ordinary iron armor and other twisted twists into scrap iron and iron balls, then he will basically be able to train his "strength" to a high-level level.
times, that is the true benchmark for a strong person...
However, his "finger strength" was enough to scare the old man across from him. Seeing that the strong and tall man had finished handling the fish in just three or five strokes, and even asked him to go over to identify it, Lao Baji was immediately shocked.
He shouted: "Ah! Yes! There are such dead fish!!"
After handing the dead fish to Lao Baji, he waved to the soldiers to take him down for a meal and gave him some reward money, Liu Yifei looked at the land map that the secretary had urgently made, thinking about what Lao Baji had just said...
The Green Field area is the northern barrier of the kingdom, adjacent to the Tularion Forest. It is true that it is "across the forest" from Diya, but the "neighbor" of the Green Field area is by no means only the undead in the north!
To the west of the Green Field area is the Great Swamp of Taitalia...
And with the experience of his previous life, Liu Yifei also knew that there should be a large marsh lake called "Ania" at the junction of the Green Field area and Taitalia!
In the future, when Diya actually launches the main attack on Erathia, she will also stop by to trouble the lizard people around the Enia Great Marsh Lake~
Liu Yifei was just casually mentioning it today, but unexpectedly, he got some clues about the lizard people from Lao Baji!
Since as a tributary of the Great Marsh Lake, some fish carcasses left over from the lizard people's meals can be found in the Nitang River, I guess the nearest lizard people settlement should not be too far from Nitang Village...