Chapter 21: Not a Player, but a Traveling Frog
The undead have returned victoriously.

He also brought back eight women and children.

Looking at the three undead men who were excitedly waiting for the reward, Linde was still a little confused.

Are you a traveling frog?

Then Lind discovered a very serious problem. He did not have a full view of the map and had no way of knowing about important events happening to many players.

Just like this time, he had no idea what the players had done.

If it were a real game NPC, it should be able to sense instantly as long as the task is completed, no matter how many miles apart the player is.

My identity as a non-mainstream NPC cannot be exposed.

"It seems that I can only peek at the official website."

However, on the surface, Lind showed just the right expression, which could be expressed using a fan-shaped chart, which was three points of domineering, three points of relief, and four points of being expected.

"Well done, undead people!"

As for why only three undead people came back, it must be because one of them died.

It’s a small matter. Players’ lives can be resurrected anyway, and they are the least valuable.

Lind looked at the eight panicked and helpless people again.

6 ragged women and 2 children.

They looked malnourished, timid, and thinly dressed in the cold December weather. One of the women had a swollen ankle and walked with great difficulty.

In large camps, women and children are very important population resources, especially women, who are not used to satisfy animal desires, but mainly for reproduction.

Population means power.

But in the small camp with insufficient food, women and children were a burden, and many wanderers pursued a carefree life.

Linde does not have a food crisis for the time being, and he even welcomes more people to join in to strengthen his "Novice Village". NPCs will definitely not be enough in the future, and the soldiers will also have to act as law enforcement forces, as a reflection of their own power and as a backdrop every time they appear.

Soldiers and players must be separated to maintain absolute dignity.

Therefore, it is very important to have new NPCs who can issue quests.

However, the prerequisite for accepting these 8 people and even other NPCs rescued by players in the future is that the identities of these people must be correct.

Never underestimate a woman or a child. They will transform into "rats" and wander around various gathering places, looking for opportunities for the people behind them to catch all the "well-intentioned fools".

Every time he went to Prey Town, Lind heard similar stories.

Therefore, the ending for women and children left alone is often not very good.

If you are kind enough to save it, it may be a "rat" that will bring you unnecessary disaster, but if you kill it with just a flick of your hand, you will not let it go even if you kill the wrong one, saving you trouble and effort.

Kindness? Is that something edible?

Even if the Star Dragon Outpost cannot be breached by ordinary wanderers, and even if they are unwilling to provoke it when they see the tall walls, if they can find a loophole from the inside, I believe no one will miss this fat sheep.

However, Lind sometimes has to show his kindness in front of the players.

A kind-hearted stupid NPC will always be more likely to win the favor of players than a vicious and selfish NPC. What's more, he also needs to replenish the population, and the players do not belong to him after all.

The players shut their mouths and looked at Lind quietly. Of course, maybe they were just waiting for the "plot to develop."

"I am Linde, the Lord of Star Dragon Outpost."

Lind looked at the eight cowering women and children and asked: "Where are you from?"

Among the eight people, the oldest woman knelt down first to Lind, and the others followed suit.

The three players on the side were whispering, asking questions like "Is there any hidden plot?", "Will killing them drop equipment or decorations?", "Throwing them out to attract wanderers, and then killing the wanderers, does it count as a bug to complete the rescue mission?", etc.

It still has to be you.

As a first-class knight, Lind had sharp ears and sharp eyes, and the whispers could be heard word for word without any special means of concealment.

Fortunately, he already knew that the player was like this. If it were someone else, not to mention the lawful and just NPCs, even the chaotic and evil NPCs would be scared. Where did this living devil come from?

"Sir, we were captured in the mountains north of Banshee Lake. Before that, we followed the 'Hyena' Old Mander and wandered around. Later, Old Mander was besieged by those terrible wanderers and left us behind. We had been captured by that group of wanderers for no more than two days when we met your...your soldiers. Your soldiers saved us."

Wandering = thieves, mountain people, rats without bottom line.

"Old Mander?" Lind frowned slightly, not caring about the players beside him who were already filled with indignation. His emotions were not so easily aroused. Although he had not been in this world for a long time, he no longer had the naive idea of ​​choosing to believe others just because of a few words.

He hadn't heard of Old Mander.

It is unlikely to be a fabrication, and it is most likely a minor character.

But in the eyes of ordinary wanderers, he must be a big shot.

"Leo, Reed!" Lind waved, "Take them to find a place to settle down. I remember there are some tents, or we can build simple shelters somewhere else. Don't be too far from the vegetable garden!"

The vegetable garden is located in the center, not next to the city wall, so even if there is a "rat" among the eight people, it can't do anything tricky.

He didn't need to arrange the rest. Leo Reed knew what he meant and would question and investigate them separately. As long as there was any clue, he could catch it at the first time. Even if he couldn't catch it, he could still interrogate some key information.

Only after we are sure that there is really no problem will we truly accept them.

He is really short of people.

It’s not that there are more NPCs than players, but there must be enough.

"Yes!" Leo and Reed nodded.

"My Lord, we can help too!"

Look, the immortal is getting anxious again.

"Don't worry," Lind shook his head. "You need to report to me what happened during this period."

Yes, what exactly happened? I just asked you to investigate the traces of wanderers and scavengers, which is called "open the map". Why did you kill so brutally?

Bringing back a group of people is fine, but where is the food? No food at all?! Don’t tell me it’s because you don’t want to exceed the load limit, or I’ll get a red name!
"Wait for me, I'm coming! I'm coming!" Xuanwu Shield ran over shouting. His resurrection point was still not Star Dragon Outpost. Seeing that he was running out of breath, the distance should not be close.

Xuanwu Shield looked confused: "What's going on? Fuck, I won't miss the plot, right? Is anyone recording the screen?"

Favorite White Silk raised her hand: "It has been recorded."

"My Lord needs to report what happened."

"Isn't it possible to submit tasks in this game with just one click?"

"There's no golden question mark on his head, and no words on his waist. The main point is whether you know the truth or not. You can't be distracted, otherwise you'll easily miss the plot."

"It's so real, who's coming?"

"I'm good at speaking!"

The four of them reported the situation to Linde in a flurry of voices.

The whole process was described by them in a very passionate way.

"We encountered homeless people, 15 or 6 of them!"

"It's 18, 9."

"Moon Blade, if you keep trying to be cute, I'll log off and beat you up!"

"I continued, the justice in our hearts urges us to act!"

"So we gave up hiding and we went after them..."

"Hey, I was using a deflection, and then..."

Linde: "..."

(End of this chapter)