Roland had stayed in Red Mountain Town for more than a month, but he had never triggered a quest. He didn't expect that Betta would create a quest as soon as he arrived.
However, it was quite understandable. Roland didn't know Language Proficiency yet, and quests required communication. It wasn't like the previous games where the NPCs had a golden exclamation mark above their heads to inform you that there was a quest.
How could a person who couldn't even communicate trigger a quest?
Therefore … he had to learn Language Proficiency as soon as possible.
"Okay, let's form a team and share the quest with me."
Both of them had been playing games since they were kids. Very soon, they found the team interface in the system menu. Then, Betta shared the quest with them.
"Search for an old man's missing child."
The title of the quest was green, with a suffix of "Excellent" behind it.
As if noticing Roland's confusion, Betta explained, "I've accepted white quests before, but they didn't give much EXP, and the reward was just an ordinary iron longsword."
As he spoke, Betta took out a rusty longsword from his Backpack and waved it. "This is it."
"Were your clothes and weapons given to you by the quest?" Roland asked curiously.
Betta nodded and asked back, "Is the magic robe you're wearing not from the quest, Brother Roland?"
Roland shook his head. "No, it was just a gift from an old man."
Betta clapped his hands and said excitedly, "It seems that there's intimacy in this game."
Although Betta had just graduated from high school, it was obvious that he was smart enough to think of something that others couldn't.
Roland thought for a moment and said, "Although what you said does seem to be true, I have to tell you that you can't regard the NPCs in this game as the NPCs in the sandbox games we played before. They're very intelligent."
Betta nodded and said casually, "I know. The AI created by Penguin Corporation is almost like a real person."
"They give me the feeling that they're real people," said Roland, frowning.
"Hahaha." Betta smiled. "Brother Roland, you're overthinking. This game is controlled by artificial intelligence. They're just data."
Roland sighed. "When I was in college, I studied intelligent programming and application, or to put it more simply, I wanted to make AI, although I failed later. As far as I know, if you want to build such a huge world and make every NPC look like a real person, the amount of storage required is quite shocking. I don't think anyone can do it. "
"But this game has appeared." Betta was obviously a results-oriented person. He shrugged and said, "So … a genius made a breakthrough."
Roland smiled bitterly. "That's the only way."
"Okay, Brother Roland, can we go now?" Betta looked at him expectantly.
At this moment, the two of them were standing in front of Roland's small thatched cottage, which was halfway up the mountain. Roland pointed at the foot of the mountain. Because of the fair today, there were three times more people in Red Mountain Town than usual.
Both sides of the street were crowded with hawkers, and the pedestrians on the street were densely packed.
The bustling noise came from below. The clanging sound was a little like the unique sound of the tide.
"Don't you want to enjoy the festivities?" Roland asked curiously. "I don't think you've experienced such a simple fair before. After all, your generation grew up in an environment of e-commerce."
Betta shrugged. "I'm not interested at all. I just want to level up quickly and visit the big cities. Then, I'll challenge more interesting quests and see more monsters and scenery."
So, this young man was more adventurous than the people and things around him?
Roland stood up. "Okay, let's go."
The two of them walked down the mountain and left Red Mountain Town. According to the clues provided in the mission, before the boy went missing, he said that he was going to travel the world as a mercenary. Then, he set off to the west with a sword in his hand.
"The west?"
Roland vaguely remembered that a few days ago, when he was chatting with Falken, they mentioned that a nest of ogres was hiding in the woods dozens of kilometers to the west and would capture the passersby now. However, because the ogres were good at fighting, and because this place was remote and did not have any powerful mercenaries, nobody went to attack them.
Thinking about that, Roland mumbled, "That kid can't be stupid enough to attack the ogres, can he? How could he be so stupid? "
Betta replied, "It's just a game setting. There's no need to be so reasonable. It's just a way for us to level up anyway. "
Roland felt that something was wrong.
Following the notification of the quest system, Roland and Betta walked for a day and finally found the nest of ogres in the evening.
Decorated by the human bone totems, the place looked gloomy and gloomy.
The green-skinned Ogres sat around the bonfire in groups of twos and threes. Stone pots were placed on the fire, and human limbs seemed to be cooking.
There were about thirteen ogres, and every one of them was between level one and level two. No wonder the passersby were no match for them.
They were all professionals, and there weren't many of them.
Crouching on the hillside, Roland asked, "Do you want to make a suitable battle plan?"
"That's unnecessary. I've killed a lot of such ogres. Brother Roland, just cover my back. "Betta stood up and charged down the hill.
As a matter of fact, Betta wasn't wrong. He killed the ogres as if they were vegetables.
Betta's movements were rather fast and powerful. What was even more surprising was that he could still find time to use magic during the battle.
He charged into the nest of ogres like a tiger in a pen of sheep. He killed half of the ogres in no more than three minutes, and the other half were killed by Roland's Inferior Fireball or Hand of Magic.
The ground was covered in mosaics.
Betta wiped the mosaics off his face and found a highlighted target with the help of the system. It was a dry head that was hanging on a weird human bone totem.
"Found the mission target." Betta laughed and took the head off the totem.
"Don't you find it disgusting?" Roland frowned and asked.
Betta tossed the head in his hand unconcernedly and said, "It's just a bunch of data. It's fine as long as you get over it."
"All right, Brother Roland, let's go back and submit the quest."
Roland looked at the human bone totems around him. They were all human corpses that had been eaten. There were still some cooked in the pots. He thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you submit the quest? I want to bury these corpses first."
Betta looked at him in surprise. "Brother Roland, these are just data. You're too immersed in your role."
Roland paused and said, "Just consider it as me being willful."
Betta sighed and said, "Fine, hurry up."
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