Chapter 1 This NPC is kind of handsome
The cold wind is biting.

The surface of the land at Star Dragon Outpost was covered with a layer of white frost, and the ground was slightly cracked.

Linde wrapped his fur coat tightly around him and squinted as he stepped into the cold wind.

"grown ups!"

At the entrance to the vegetable garden, soldier Leo's nose was red.

"Yeah," Lind nodded, squatted on the ground and dug up the soil. After checking it out, he said, "It's getting colder. Find some hay and weeds to spread on the ground. If we can't find any trace of the jackals..."

"Yes!"

When Lind first came here, there was not much food in the entire territory. He found a dozen sprouted potatoes, so he cut them and chose a place to plant them.

Now the potatoes have withstood the severe cold. Although it does not mean that Lind can rely on them to survive the cold winter, it can be considered an increase in food rations.

After giving a few more instructions, Linde left the vegetable garden.

Lind continued to inspect his territory. It was a sentry town with five houses, a large open space, and high walls surrounding it. Before the magic ring was broken, this was the border of the kingdom, mainly responsible for defending against foreign bandits and jackals.

After the magic ring was broken, with the collapse of the national power system, this place really became a forgotten place that no one cared about. The only ones who remembered Star Dragon Post were wandering scavengers and jackals and beasts.

He came to the western wall of the outpost.

A big hole appeared in the city wall last night. At this moment, four soldiers were picking up stones and wood to fill the gap.

It was so cold that their hands and feet were frozen, and the soldiers were slow to fill the holes.

"grown ups!"

The four heard the footsteps and turned around to look at Lind who was approaching.

"I asked Old Pete to make some soup. I'll go back later and drink some to warm myself up," he said, standing at the gap and looking out.

The dense forest in the strange memory has disappeared, leaving only endless wasteland. The broken magic ring not only made the powerful flying and hiding ones lose their power, but also made the land lose its vitality.

However, Linde was not worried about major events such as the end of the world and the breaking of the magic ring. Instead, the city wall to the west of Star Dragon Post suddenly collapsed last night, leaving a big hole, which made the people in the post panic.

Without strong walls, there will be no more good dreams.

After Lind walked around, he returned to the cabin, closed the door, and shut out the cold wind.

There was a hanging pot on the campfire, and the ingredients in the pot were tumbling up and down with the boiling soup.

Old Peter immediately served Lind a bowl of hot soup: "Sir, drink some hot soup to drive away the cold."

Lind took off his gloves, took the bowl of soup, held it to warm his hands, then drank the hot soup. After a few sips of the hot soup, his body finally warmed up.

After a while, Leo, who was laying straw on the potato garden, and the four men who were repairing the holes in the city wall also came over. The rest of the people were on guard. There were only ten people in the entire Star Dragon Outpost, including Lind.

But no one dared to relax. The situation now was different from the past. If they were not careful, the monsters wandering outside the sentry post would sneak in, and they would be truly homeless.

"Hurry, Old Pete, soup! Oh! I'm freezing to death!" The man took off his gloves, rubbed his hands vigorously, and then went to the campfire to warm them.

Old Pete quickly served soup to several people and added another bowl for Lind.

Several people held their bowls and slurped the soup.

No one spoke, everyone focused on eating.

Lind was thinking about his future survival plan. Surviving the cold winter was only the first step. He needed to confirm the current situation of the kingdom. If he could get in touch with the family of this body, let alone inheriting the family property, it should be no problem to exchange his face for two bags of wheat. It would be best if he could also exchange it for some charcoal, bacon, or something like that.

The most important thing now is to find the traces of the group of jackals nearby, and it would be best to catch a lone one.

Jackals are good, they are full of treasures. The meat can be eaten, the oil can be used for cooking, or stored to make torches, burning pots and other weapons, and it is also delicious when used simply to make soup.

The skins can be taken to nearby small towns and sold. Especially in this weather, furs are in great demand and it won’t be a problem to exchange them for food.

But he believed that he was so hungry that he wanted to eat the jackals, and they were also staring at him.

"If it doesn't work, we can only take people out to search. We can't wait."

"grown ups!"

The door was suddenly pushed open, and a head wearing a kingdom infantry helmet stuck in, bringing in a gust of cold wind.

The temperature in the room dropped suddenly, and the fire under the hanging pot suddenly stagnated and froze into a ball.

"What's wrong?" Lind stood up.

The others also put down their bowls and nervously grabbed the hilts of the swords at their waists.

"We caught someone who sneaked in... It could be a person, or a scavenger. You have to see for yourself."

Linde frowned. The situation he was most worried about happened. Those guys would target Star Dragon Outpost sooner or later, but it just happened that a big hole collapsed in the city wall last night.

"Go and take a look!" He walked out quickly, and the others didn't care about the hot soup and stood up to follow him.

From a distance, Lind saw the scavenger that the soldiers were talking about. In such cold weather, the other party was only wearing a piece of rags wrapped around his crotch, and was huddled up in a ball due to the cold.

His body is skinny and looks like a pole.

He had dazzling emerald green hair and a very distorted face, with his facial features having their own ideas and growing independently.

“Sir!” The soldier guarding the suspected “scavenger” kept his sword raised high, ensuring that he could chop off the other’s head as soon as possible, and said to Lind: “Just now I found him sneaking in through the wall. I didn’t expect that he could actually speak.”

"If it can talk, it's not a scavenger. We all know that when we pry open the monster's head, there's nothing inside!"

Lind looked at the "scavenger" who was squatting obediently with his head in his hands. This face was even uglier than the scavenger, but there was no doubt that the other party was a living person.

The emerald green hair caught Linde's attention. As far as he knew, only the descendants of some ancient families would have various strange facial features. Perhaps the person in front of him was the descendant of a troll.

"I am the Lord of Star Dragon Outpost, Linde." Linde looked down at the other party and asked, "Who are you?"

His hand was on the hilt of the sword, and he would draw his sword immediately if the opponent made the slightest movement.

As a lord, he must first be responsible for his own life.

Unexpectedly, the other party did not answer, but raised his weird face and looked at Lin De: "Oh my! This NPC is quite handsome."

"Huh?" Linde was stunned. He seemed to have heard something extraordinary.

The other party has already started to introduce himself: "Well, hello, sir, I am a knight guided by God, ready to pass on the fire to save the world. My name is 'Favorite White Silk'. Because it is too cold outside, I sneaked in through the hole on the other side of the city wall. I am really not a scavenger. I just... I was born with a unique appearance. In our area, this is the characteristic of the Sun Knight."

As the other party began to speak, a picture suddenly appeared on a page that Lind had been circling since he crossed over.

【Official website of "Doomsday Ring"】

【Forum Homepage】【Discussion Area】【Announcement】

There is only one official announcement at the moment, which reads: [1.01 places have been allocated for the closed beta version 3000 of "The Ring of Doom", and the beta will start today]

The entire official website was deserted and empty, but Linde was shocked.

(End of this chapter)