Absolute Destiny Game
Chapter 765 - 22 Game Elements_2

Chapter 765: Chapter 22 Game Elements_2

Unnamed Taoist Scripture will be left for Chen Tianwen. If he really can Cheng Xian, then he can be considered a fellow practitioner.

It’s definitely unrealistic to expect Dragon Soaring to slay a dragon just for him, but if he joins Dragon Soaring for world events and fights against the New Empire Army together, slaying a dragon and getting a Dragon Ball along the way shouldn’t be a big problem.

After chatting with Chen Tianwen for a while and finalizing the action details, Xiao Jie left.

Flying all the way home, Xiao Jie flapped his wings and swooped into the window, shaking himself and transforming back into human form.

Hearing the noise, Gu Feiyu turned to look at Xiao Jie, wanting to speak but quickly turning back to his screen as the game was at a critical moment.

"Jie, you’re back, your transformation skill is so cool, it’s practically 72 Transformations! What else can you turn into?"

"I can also turn into a wolf, a Jiao Long, for now just these three. What’s this—oh, fishing?"

Xiao Jie was a bit surprised. He didn’t expect Gu Feiyu to start with fishing. On the screen, Gu Feiyu was sitting by a small river, focused on fishing.

"Yeah, I just found some tricks."

"Didn’t you go to ask for incense?"

"I tried, but it was useless. I guess you could get incense back then because of Han’s death. The village chief saw you and Han leave the village together, then Han died, and you came back determined to suppress demons, so you persuaded him.

I couldn’t convince him alone; it had no persuasive power at all."

While speaking, the water’s float suddenly sank, and Gu Feiyu began to reel in. This fishing was quite realistic. Players had to pull and release the rod with the mouse buttons, watching the fish struggle in the water, gradually growing weaker with the tension and release of the rod.

Gu Feiyu was indeed skilled. He quickly reeled the fish in, swinging the rod hard to catch it.

[System Prompt: Successful fishing, you obtained Rainbow Carp (rare fish), fishing experience +10.]

"Whoa, pretty impressive, you’ve already managed to catch rare fish. I recall this is worth about one or two hundred Wen."

"This isn’t for selling." Gu Feiyu put away his fishing gear and headed straight toward the north of the village, where a thatched hut stood. Outside the hut squatted a man, sighing constantly.

"Brother Zhang, I caught the Rainbow Carp you wanted. Quickly, stew it for your mother."

Hearing this, the man was overjoyed, "Ah, it’s really a Rainbow Carp. Thank you so much. I keep my word; you can take the big rooster from my house."

"I won’t be polite then."

Gu Feiyu barged into the chicken coop, wielding a wooden stick to attack the rooster. The rooster was quite fierce, flapping its wings to counterattack, but it was just poultry, after all. After a few hits, it collapsed, and he picked it up and put it into his backpack before heading straight to the eastern end of the village.

Xiao Jie watched with interest. Gu Feiyu clearly had a purpose. Could it be that he had discovered some hidden gameplay?

Under the big willow tree at the eastern end of the village lay a beggar.

"Old man, I brought you the chicken you wanted." Gu Feiyu tossed the dead chicken in front of the old beggar.

"Oh, you really brought it. You didn’t steal it, did you? Although I’m poor, I have integrity. I won’t eat stolen goods."

"Haha, cut the crap. Do you want to eat chicken or not?" Gu Feiyu was quite engrossed, speaking as if talking to a real person.

With Brother Zhang, he was polite, but with the old beggar, he spoke as if he were an old friend, unrestrainedly.

The old beggar seemed to enjoy this treatment.

"Okay, okay, no more nonsense. Let’s roast the chicken quickly. My beggar chicken recipe is a secret. Today you are in for a treat, just wait and see."

He then started roasting the chicken.

Of course, in the game, it wasn’t as complicated as in reality. The old beggar simply placed the chicken on a bonfire, and with a puff, the feathered dead chicken turned into a golden, oil-dripping, fragrant roast chicken.

[System Prompt: Learned cooking recipe [Beggar Chicken].

"Are you going for a chef route?" Xiao Jie asked.

"Of course not. The beggar chicken recipe was just a bonus. My real goal is to gather intelligence."

He took out a flask of wine and handed it to the beggar.

The old beggar eating meat and drinking wine felt very satisfied.

"Are you looking to learn martial arts from the old beggar?"

This kind of plot was common in martial arts games.

"Not exactly, mainly to gather intelligence." Gu Feiyu opened the microphone and began to coax info out of the old beggar.

"I know everything about this village..." The old beggar said while munching on the roast chicken, starting to prattle on.

Gu Feiyu listened and kept jotting down notes in a small notebook.

Xiao Jie glanced at it; there were already several pages filled with various information.

Quite impressive for a university student, putting so much effort into a game, almost like studying for an exam.

Xiao Jie mused. Although they as professional players also did all sorts of game data research, they were never this meticulous.

"That Scholar Li in the village, let me tell you, isn’t really a scholar. The imperial examinations have been stopped for thousands of years. Where are there any scholars? That guy just considers himself a learned man, always looking for someone to teach his Saint’s Dao, in a world full of demons and evil spirits. Surviving is the real deal. Who’s going to learn that stuff."

Oh, got it! Gu Feiyu’s eyes lit up and he emphasized a line in his notebook.

Scholar Li—Hidden Character—Suitable for Apprentice—Special Skills.

After asking a few more questions, Gu Feiyu got up and headed to the meat shop in the village to buy bacon.

"You’re buying bacon to become an apprentice?"

"That’s right."

"You want to learn skills from the scholar?" Xiao Jie was puzzled. What could a scholar teach? The Four Books and Five Classics? That stuff is nowhere as useful as chopping wood or hunting.

"Why a scholar?"

"Because of the game’s core gameplay. Every game has a core gameplay. For example, the core gameplay of Demon Beast is instances, specifically team instances. All the content in the game, whether story missions or professional skills, or leveling up through monster hunting, is to prepare players for the final team instance.

This game’s core gameplay should be adventures.

All spells, treasures, and equipment skills can be obtained through adventures. By gaining enough advantages from adventures, whatever you play becomes easier.

Without adventures, it’s hard to achieve much.

In those legendary stories, who is most likely to trigger adventures—a scholar!"

"Of course, it’s not absolute. According to my research, triggering adventures requires meeting a certain number of prerequisites, or [game elements]. Each adventure should have several prerequisites that must all be met, or at least a certain number must be met to trigger the adventure.

For example, you, Jie, getting incense probably met the elements of ’brother’s death, righteousness, local’ among others.

Becoming a scholar, or a learned person, is likely a highly general prerequisite. So I need to get the scholar identity first.

In the early game, I need to accumulate as many of these elements as possible. The more elements I have, the higher the probability of triggering adventures."

Xiao Jie was slightly stunned. He had to admit that Gu Feiyu’s line of thought was unique. It seemed nonsensical at first glance, but on further thought, it kind of made sense.

He couldn’t be sure if what Gu Feiyu said was true. When he triggered adventures before, he wasn’t a scholar after all.

But it did seem that there were usually special conditions met.

"Okay, you keep at it. If you have any questions, come to me. I need to get online."

"Sure thing, Jie,"

Xiao Jie turned to log in to the game. He had agreed with others to officially start group activities tomorrow. Today was free activity time.

Having nothing particularly urgent to do, he logged in, opened his backpack, and pondered if he was short on supplies, suddenly struck with a thought.

Wait, where did this letter come from? It must have come along with the package from the post station earlier.

He looked at the contents of the letter. This was a—Demon Refiner profession quest!