Vice-captain Carter led the team back to the village on the vast Nehemiah Plain. They finally arrived at their resting place.
The scene in front of them made Roddy, who was still dizzy from the alcohol, shudder.
"Norland Village."
Roddy stared at the wooden sign at the entrance of the village. He sat on his horse in a daze, forgetting to dismount for a moment.
"Roddy?"
Vice-captain Carter led his horse to the stable and turned his head around to ask. The latter gulped with difficulty. He dismounted his horse stiffly and followed Carter with a limp.
Like all the villages on the border of the Kingdom of Karen, Norland Village was not large. There were only three or four dirty streets in total. As a typical feudal dynasty's territory, Norland Village had a manor, which belonged to Lord Kirk. Around the manor, there were farmhouses and fields. The population was less than 200. There was a blacksmith shop and a simple square. The largest building was the windmill by the river. The farmers had returned to the village. The huge fan was no longer spinning under the setting sun. The atmosphere here was peaceful. Dogs barked and chickens crowed occasionally. The farmers who had finished their farm work were talking about various topics. Everything looked like a normal village.
Norland Village was not surrounded by walls or any protective facilities. There were no stationed troops either. However, because of its special location on the border, the highest lord, Duke Lucifron, made an exception and set up two scouts here. The original lord of the manor, Kirk, came here only once a year. Therefore, the leader of the village was the butler sent by the lord to watch over the manor. However, because the scouts belonged to Duke's army, the butler had no authority over Roddy's team.
It was already late. Vice-captain Carter dismissed the team. He carried a sack of Orc heads and walked to the room of the commander of the two teams — Second Lieutenant Sodin. Roddy, on the other hand, followed a few of his "comrades" to the tent at the village entrance, where the soldiers ate together.
His steps were a little unsteady. It was unclear whether it was because of the wound or the strong liquor. Roddy rubbed his eyes several times, but he still felt like he was in a dream — because he gradually realized an important problem that he had neglected before …
Everything that his body was feeling seemed a little too real.
The villagers in his field of vision were dressed in simple clothes. There were herdsmen driving their flocks of sheep on the dirt road that traversed through the village. Children playing in the mud on the ground playfully ran past. Jingle bells were clanging in the blacksmith's shop. Smoke was rising from the chimneys of the farmhouses in the setting sun. Everything made him feel that the game did not have such realistic details.
Roddy walked all the way into the simple and crude "canteen". He sat on a wooden bench and listened to his "comrades" who were supposed to be NPCs talking about the battle that happened today. He looked at everything in front of him with a complicated gaze, and his heart was filled with uncontrollable panic.
What … exactly is going on?
There were many questions in his heart. What he wanted to know the most was … why did he seem to have entered a place that seemed to exist in reality?
Where's the game server? Where's the menu? What about the option to quit the game?
For a modern person who was still wondering if he should eat at McDonald's tonight, it was unrealistic for his mind to not be in a mess when he suddenly entered such a world.
"Quit the game …"
He tried the voice commands of "Earthbreaker" in a low voice. As a holographic simulation online game, Roddy would rather believe that this was a bug in the game. However, as the command to quit the game failed, his heart sank bit by bit.
"This won't work."
"Not even forcefully logging off …?"
"Are you kidding me …?"
The scouts who were eating at the side looked at Roddy muttering in a language that they could not understand. Their gazes were a little strange, but Roddy obviously had no time to care about them. He still lowered his head and muttered something like a mage chanting an incantation …
None of the commands worked. Roddy pursed his lips and thought for a long time. In the end, he decided to make one last attempt. He no longer spoke in Mandarin, but in Bulinga.
"Character Attributes Panel."
"F * ck!"
The scout who was drinking his soup spat out the soup on the table because of his exclamation. Roddy hurriedly apologized to the scout and sat back down. His eyes were filled with excitement and amazement as he looked forward.
He looked at the clear attribute panel and immediately determined that "Earthbreaker" had a reload bug. He was filled with joy as he prepared to call out the "Quit Game" option. However, the anticipation on his face froze in the next instant.
Still nothing?!
A chill gradually spread from the bottom of his heart. Roddy immediately tried all sorts of methods. He listed almost all the menus that he could summon, including the mission panel, the equipment panel, the character attribute panel, and so on. However, he could not find the "main menu" to quit the game!
The uncertain thought in his heart surfaced once again. Could it be … that he was not in the game world but in the real world?
After taking a few deep breaths, Roddy suddenly thought of a way to confirm whether he was in the game or not. Although all the food in "Earthbreaker" could be eaten, it would never stimulate the taste buds. Just like how drinking alcohol would never cause one to get drunk, food would never have any taste. This was because the holographic simulation technology could not meet this requirement and the game company had never done any research in this area …
He lowered his head and looked at the black, unfermented bread in front of him. He swallowed hard and broke off a piece of it.
Looking at the crumbs of the bread on the table, Roddy's heart sank to the bottom. The game did not have such a realistic physical effect. However, he still stuffed the bread into his mouth and chewed slowly.
Sour, bitter, and dry. The taste of the black bread was ten thousand times worse than the toast that Roddy bought in the supermarket. However, the terrible taste of the bread was insignificant compared to the fact that it had proven …
At that moment, he finally realized that he might not be able to return to his original life.
This was the real world. He had actually transmigrated to the same real world as "Earthbreaker"?!
He forced himself to chew the bread nervously. Roddy was stunned for a few minutes before he tried to adapt to the reality in front of him.
It was rare for a technological geek to be emotional. Roddy was not like a woman who was at a loss for a few days. He thought for a while and decided to look at his attributes again.
Then … he sighed heavily.
His interface, which was filled with titles and various values, was now as empty as a street that had been swept clean. All that was left was the name of the basic profession [Army Soldier], and the 'Level 1' behind it looked like the Goddess of Fate was giving him a middle finger, causing his lips to tremble for no reason.
Below was a row of attributes:
Strength: 13 (+ 3)
Agility: 8 (+ 1)
Spirit: 6 (+ 1)
Vitality: 9 (+ 3)
Intelligence: 5 (+ 1)
The attributes in brackets were the growth points brought by the basic profession of [Army Soldier]. The [Army Soldier] was also the first choice for human physical professions. Hence, Roddy was no stranger to this profession. In the game, attributes could not be assigned by oneself. Every time one leveled up, it would automatically increase or decrease according to the characteristics of the profession. Hence, he did not care about this. As long as he leveled up, everything would be fine.
Just as these thoughts appeared in his mind, he could not help but feel a little amused. He could actually level up in the real world?
Thinking of this, he could not help but look at the experience bar. Instantly, his expression became very interesting. The 159 experience points that he had gained from killing the Orcs were clearly displayed there.
Roddy laughed helplessly. He temporarily accepted this ridiculous world. Then, he began to think about his battle today. Thinking about it, he had actually gained quite a lot of experience points. After all, the current Norland Village was probably no different from the "Novice Village" Norland Village in the future. At that time, who would dare to cause trouble for the Orcs when they were only level 1? At most, they would kill some wolves in the wild, run errands between the villages to deliver a message, and catch a few rabbits. Yesterday, he had encountered the Orc scouting team, but they were all level 2 to 4. For beginner players, this kind of enemy was a headache. Because they were in groups, and occasionally had the help of Mount Wolves, meeting them usually boded ill rather than well.
Roddy looked at it. To level up to the second level required 300 experience points. At the moment, he was still short of 141 experience points. Speaking of which, he was already more than halfway there. He then called out the character's equipment bar. Head, neck, shoulders, chest, arms, wrist guards, belt, legs, feet, special accessories, rings, left and right hand weapons. A total of 14 equipment bars appeared in front of him at a glance.
Of course, they were basically empty.
Including the two ring bars, there were a total of 14 slots. This was enough to show the importance of "equipment" to players. In the later stages of the game, there would often be situations where the attributes of a set of equipment were more than ten times the attributes of the character itself. And the "professional players" in the game were all powerful players who had a full set of exquisite equipment.
Roddy believed that his skills were not inferior to anyone. If he had not switched to PVP later than others, he would have already been at the top of the first echelon. But now, looking at the equipment bar, he could not help but sigh. A set of broken white equipment with no attributes to speak of, and a short sword that could not be any weaker made him no different from an NPC. Only the accessory on his neck indicated that it was "equipped".
Roddy did not take a closer look at it. He only thought that it was some ordinary necklace because there was no equipment attached to it.
Thinking of the Orc Horn Bow that he had collected yesterday, Roddy's mood improved a little. He called out the attribute bar and looked at his HP. His heart was strangely tight, but he shook his head. He knew that there were no "health potions" or herbs to speed up his HP recovery in this kind of place.
Turning off the options, Roddy turned his eyes back to the front. He could not help but think about his current situation.
This is Norland Village … Norland Village …
His brows furrowed even tighter. He recalled his memories of the game. Wasn't Norland Village completely destroyed by the Orcs? Before Roddy traveled to this place, it had already become a supply station for the Orcs. How could there be humans there?!
It was not just Norland Village. In Roddy's life in the game "Earthbreaker", the Orcs who had infiltrated from the northwest had almost conquered the entire western part of the Kingdom of Karen. This had something to do with the incompetence and spineless royal family of the Lucifron Family. As the headquarters of the Lucifron Family, Hollier City had long become the bridgehead for the Orcs to invade the Kingdom of Karen.
The unknown environment made Roddy more and more irritated. He tried to calm his rapid breathing, got up and walked to the basin beside the shed to wash his face. But when he reached out his hand and touched the water, he was completely stunned.
The reflection of the water reflected a strange face. Roddy swore that he would never forget what he looked like. But at this moment, he really understood what was wrong.
He seemed to have become another person. He came to this strange game world, and he happened to be at a strange time!
Not far away, a few scouts who used to be disdainful of Rody were now in awe of him after today's events. They saw him staring at the basin in a daze. They did not even dare to mock him. However, the scouts gradually noticed the strange atmosphere.
Because Roddy had been staring at the basin for five minutes.
"Roddy?"
"Hmm?"
Roddy, who was awakened, suddenly raised his head. His confused eyes gradually found focus again. He looked at the scout who asked the question and asked without any rhyme or reason, "What day is today?"
This sentence pattern was very strange. The scout who was about to answer the question was stunned. He wanted to ask if the scout was stupid, but when he thought of Roddy's behavior today, he answered cautiously, "April 10th."
"What year is it?"
Rody's question made the other soldiers in the hut turn around. The atmosphere was depressing because of the death of a few scouts. However, Rody's question made some of them feel funny. The captain of the scouts, Ruger, scolded, "Did you fall off your horse and become stupid today, you little bastard? Don't you know which year it is? "
His disdainful tone showed that he did not take Rody seriously at all. The surviving scouts of the second squadron, however, had a much better attitude. They gulped and answered honestly, "This year is Eiron's Year 588."
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