Walking back all the way, Wu Shaochen thought for a moment and unloaded all the equipment he had on him. He put on a beginner's cloth armor and held a wooden sword as he walked towards the village. He didn't know how much equipment other players had obtained, but he was sure it wasn't as much as his. After all, he had been killing monsters that were higher level than him, and his efficiency was high. It was better to keep a low profile, as being surrounded by onlookers wouldn't be a good thing.
Upon returning to the goat area, Wu Shaochen could already see numerous players grouped together, farming goats. As expected, they were all wearing beginner's cloth armor and wielding beginner's wooden swords. Occasionally, he could spot someone with different equipment, but it was a small percentage. Indeed, the drop rates in this game were quite disappointing. Fortunately, he had unloaded his equipment before coming back; otherwise, he would probably have attracted attention. Wu Shaochen didn't linger and quickly left the goat area.
After he left, a woman with a white face towel frowned as she watched him walk away.
"What's wrong, miss? Is there something wrong with that person?" Uncle Liu asked, glancing in the direction the young lady was looking, but by then, the person had disappeared from sight.
"It's nothing," the woman shook her head. Her sixth sense told her that the person who had just left seemed a bit different, but she couldn't pinpoint exactly what was different. It seemed like she had been tired recently, the woman reassured herself.
Wu Shaochen quickly returned to the village, which was now quite empty. Everyone had gone out to kill monsters.
"Let's see if there are any quests available," Wu Shaochen thought to himself. He headed straight for the white-haired old man standing at the entrance of the village, who should be the village chief.
"Village chief, hello. Is there anything I can help with?" Wu Shaochen asked politely.
"Adventurer, your current strength is too low, so you can't help me. Go to Granny Liu in the north of the village and see if she needs any assistance," the village chief said.
Well, I can't accept the quest because my level is not high enough, Wu Shaochen thought. So he happily skipped over to the north of the village and saw an old lady sitting in a chair, basking in the sun. He quickly walked up to her and said,
"Granny Liu, hello. Is there anything I can help you with?"
"Oh, adventurer, hello. I do have a little problem here. Lately, there has been an infestation of rabbits outside the village, and they've eaten all the radishes I planted. Could you help me by killing these pesky rabbits?" the old lady said.
"Ding! Granny Liu has assigned you a quest. Quest details: Go to the grasslands and kill small white rabbits, then bring back 10 rabbit fur to Granny Liu. Quest rewards: Experience +10, Copper Coins +10. Would you like to accept?"
Hmm, is that it? Can I say I'm not interested? Isn't it better to go kill wolves with this time? I decisively choose to decline. I quickly ran away under Granny Liu's resentful gaze.
Are the quest rewards in this game always so low? Or maybe this is just the lowest level quest. Wu Shaochen wandered around the newbie village for a while and suddenly saw a farmer sitting in front of his house, sighing. That kind of expression clearly indicated a quest. Wu Shaochen quickly walked over and politely asked:
"Hello, sir. Is there anything I can help you with?"
"Adventurer, hello. I have indeed encountered some difficulties lately, and it would be great if you could help me. There are wild boars frequently appearing in the forest lately, and they've been destroying my crops. Could you help me eliminate those wretched boars?" the farmer said.
"Ding! The farmer has assigned you a quest. Quest details: Go to the forest and kill wild boars, then bring back 50 wild boar tusks to the farmer. Quest rewards: Experience +500, Copper Coins +200. Would you like to accept?"
Haha, this is perfect! Seeing over a hundred wild boar tusks in my backpack, Wu Shaochen clicked accept without hesitation. Just as he was about to turn in the quest, he suddenly stopped. Damn it, if I turn this in, won't I level up directly? How am I supposed to farm talents then? He quickly withdrew the prepared wild boar tusks. This rotten old man is really trying to trick me out of my talents.
Oh well, since there's no time limit for the quest, I'll come back to turn it in after I can't farm talents in the newbie village anymore. By then, I'll do all the quests again. Experience doesn't matter, the main thing is to get the copper coin rewards.
After making up his mind, Wu Shaochen turned around and headed towards the pharmacy. There's no need to look for other quests now; farming talents is the most important.
Arriving at the pharmacy, he checked the merchandise and saw that the price for a small red health potion was 20 copper coins. Wu Shaochen's face turned dark. It's so expensive?
He thought that this kind of lowest-level potion would cost at most one or two copper coins, and with his over 200 copper coins, he could easily buy over a hundred bottles. But now, he could only buy 10 bottles.
"So expensive, it's really expensive!" Wu Shaochen muttered with a dark face. In the end, he gritted his teeth and bought 10 bottles, watching as he was left with only 16 copper coins in his bag. Wu Shaochen's heart ached; each of those coins was picked up one by one from the ground.
He ran to the grocery store and sold the extra 81 wild boar tusks. The quest only required 50, and he had 131 in his possession. The extras had to be sold. Each player can only do the same quest once, unless it's a chain quest. He obtained 81 copper coins and returned to the pharmacy to buy 4 more bottles of red health potion before heading out of the village.
As he walked, Wu Shaochen opened the chat channel. Honestly, he had been playing this game for several hours, constantly killing monsters, and hadn't even looked at the chat channel yet. He felt disconnected from both the game and society, and thought it was about time to see what everyone was talking about. Currently, only the regional and private chat channels were open, so he opened the regional channel and saw a lively discussion.
"Looking for a team to kill goats. Preferably level 1 or above, with full strength or all-round point allocation."
"We need two DPS with full strength allocation to kill goats together."
"Can someone take me along to kill goats? I just reached level 1."
"Damn it, I got killed again. Luckily, you don't lose levels before level 10, otherwise, I'd have to go back and kill rabbits again. These goats deal too much damage."
Seeing the chat channel filled with discussions about killing goats, Wu Shaochen touched his nose and muttered to himself, "Goats...? Isn't it just a matter of slashing?" He completely forgot about his initial reaction when he first encountered the goat's attributes.
"I heard a few level 2 experts went to fight level 3 monsters, but they all came back shortly. Are level 3 monsters really that terrifying?"
"They must be terrifying. I even took a look at the attributes of the green snake. Its venom is disgusting. It's impossible to farm without potions, but the ones in the shop are ridiculously expensive. So the experts probably gave up on fighting the green snake."
At this moment, the group of players who had just left the bamboo forest didn't look happy.
"Let's continue farming goats and give up on the green snake. Once we level up and get some equipment, we can go fight level 4 crabs," Junlin said.
"Okay, fighting the green snake isn't worth it. It consumes too many potions," Nanfeng responded.
"Sigh, if it continues like this, the gap between us and that person will only grow," Haoran sighed.
"Our talents are more suited for the later stages. We don't have many advantages in the early stages, so there's no need to compete with him. His talents are probably more effective in the early stages, but it might not be the case in the later stages. So we shouldn't worry too much. With our strength, surpassing him later won't be difficult," Junlin said.
Wu Shaochen quickly returned to the wolf area. With 16 bottles of health potions in his backpack, he felt confident. He spent a few minutes luring out a wolf and went straight into battle.