"Old Bai, who is just a young man with white hair," didn't actually look old, despite his particularly white hair.

It wasn't dyed; rather, it was naturally white.

In Xu Ran's eyes, the young man was like a lucky king in the game.

After all, he'd been in the game beta for some time now and was the only one to have encountered an intelligent being.

Moreover, he'd found such a great valley to serve as a temporary camp and even attracted so many players.

"Old Bai, three newbies arrived today!"

Mo Tengyun waved at the man with white hair.

"Mm-hmm!"

Old Bai nodded to Xu Ran and the other two to wait a moment, then started gesturing in sign language with a middle-aged man beside him, who looked like a woodcutter and had thick finger joints.

Eventually, he exchanged a few bundles of firewood for some dark substance from the man, who then left with the firewood strapped to his back.

"This person... is an NPC, right? Not having an appraisal skill is really troublesome."

Xiao Ye Wanling exclaimed.

"Yes, that woodcutter is the humanoid NPC Old Bai encountered. Since we can't understand his language, he always says 'Ada Ada,' so we simply call him 'Ada'!"

Wan Donglin said with a smile, "We were able to establish this camp thanks to the axe he lent us at first. Then Old Bai negotiated an exchange, we give him firewood in return for goods, like salt..."

"Eventually, we won't be able to keep doing this. I saw a wild boar that likes to lick a cliff, so there might be a salt mine over there... of course, it's poisonous at first, but if we filter and detox it with our modern knowledge, it'll be as good as Silver."

A player with the ID 'Lingling is a Foodie' grinned.

"Feels more and more like we're getting into a farming lifestyle..."

Xu Ran stroked his chin.

"By the way, since you're familiar with that woodcutter, why not follow him out of the mountains?" Zhang Xuanyi asked.

"Because they can't communicate, and Old Bai wants to play it safe, build up Newbie Valley first... He has a real talent for languages and is currently learning from Ada," Mo Tengyun said, smiling.

"You all are treading on crooked paths. Why so careful in playing a game?"

'Live Wild or Die Trying' started shouting again, "And those little animals don't give any experience. It must be that humanoid monsters do. Let me kill Ada first, level up, then go and take over his whole village. We'll make it our newbie village. What else would we need then?"

Zhang Xuanyi's heart tightened, and she exchanged a glance with Xu Ran, who gave her a calm-down look.

"Then go for it, no one's stopping you!"

Mo Tengyun smiled and said, "Don't mind him; he's all talk... He's been killed three times just stepping out of camp. Once, it seems he was chased by a wild boar and forced to jump off a cliff... Let him attack that village? He'd die ten out of ten times on the way! And when there's no way forward or back, and he can't find his way back, that's when he's really in trouble!"

Zhang Xuanyi suddenly felt like laughing.

She thought of many people like 'Live Wild or Die Trying,' who were giants in words but dwarfs in action, shouting about murder and conquest but who've never killed even a chicken and would feel sick at the sight of gore.

'However, once such people gain power, they could really become dangerous...,' she thought.

Xu Ran, however, thought of another possibility and became very serious.

At that moment, all players suddenly perked up, seeing a flashing marker below their line of sight.

[Ding!]

[Main quest triggered!]

[Main Quest - Establish a camp!]

[Description: Newly arrived in this strange world, you urgently need to build a place for yourselves to live!]

[Completion Reward: Perfect Resurrection x 3! Experience +10!]

...

"A quest!"

Xiao Ye Wanling was almost moved to tears, "After so many days, we finally got a quest. It suddenly feels so familiar!"

"Dog planners aren't very human..." a player with the ID 'Chen Tianxin' bemoaned, "Even the newbie village has to be built by us!"

"Perfect Resurrection? Could that be what avoids the punishment of not being able to play for 24 hours after death? Love it..."

"I finally see a way to earn experience. In my lifetime, I wonder if I'll be able to level up to max... What kind of game world is this? Are we supposed to farm and vie for supremacy, cultivate as immortals, or fight as knights?"

"What are you dawdling for? Get to work! Let's build Newbie Valley quickly. I want to level up; I want to go out and have fun!"

"Scram. It's clearly Evil Valley!"

"Evil Valley sounds too ugly. We're Heavenly God, so this should be called Heavenly God Valley!"

"Mutant Valley works too! Baihua Valley is heresy! Strongly opposed!"

The group of players started their daily lively bickering and silly series.

...

But Old Bai stepped aside and looked silently at the half-finished Newbie Valley.

Wan Donglin and Ke Shanru Meng came over to have a small meeting.

"It's not easy... finally seeing the main quest. It seems this game really has triggered quests," Wan Donglin sighed.

"Is this really just a game?" Old Bai looked at the dusky salt in his hand and suddenly laughed, "Well, let's play it like a game for now... Our recent attempts have been quite effective. And look..."

He accessed his character status and set it to browse mode.

[Game Name: Old Bai, just a young man with white hair]

[Realm: None]

[Experience Points: 1]

[Quit Option]

...

"Experience Points!"

Ke Shanru Meng exclaimed, "You actually earned an experience point?"

The most criticized aspect of this game, besides the death mechanism and vague quests, was the difficulty of obtaining experience points.

Not to mention killing small animals like rabbits, they had even managed to kill a wild boar with traps and didn't gain a single experience point.

And now, Old Bai finally found a way to get experience!

It was quite miserable when you thought about it...

"Earning experience shouldn't be about killing. This point of experience I earned... I got it from Ada..." Old Bai explained.

"You mean... NPC gives tasks?" Wan Donglin's eyes lit up.

"No!"

Old Bai shook his head, "That can't be right; otherwise, I wouldn't be the only one to get experience... Thinking back to when the panel changed, it was when I first saw Ada and startled him... so this is likely some kind of scare value? Without more NPCs to test on, it's just a theory..."

"However, now it seems that gaining experience through completing quests may be the better avenue."

"I feel this game has great potential, it's just a pity that registration has already stopped."

Wan Donglin felt regret.

"It doesn't matter... There seems to be some people who haven't used the last released game equipment yet; you can totally buy them. I checked the official website forum and found most players came from a few small gaming forums. You can try posting there to buy..." Old Bai said, "Don't worry about the price, I think even if it costs tens of thousands or even more to buy a device, it's worth it!"

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