Chapter 203: Step 203, [The First Step for a Genius]


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    Lu Xun was increasingly pleased with his current appearance.


    The handsome mature man look was always a hit, and he knew he looked pretty damn good.


    “Didn’t expect a high-spec Mr. could be this handsome!” he thought to himself.


    There’s no denying that charisma 10 was powerful; the extraordinary charisma couldn’t be covered up even by illusion techniques. It felt like it had somehow harmonized with Heavenly Dao!


    “This elegant appearance surely gives off an intellectual vibe. If only this world had sses,” he chuckled.


    As for the name of his new identity, he had no ns to name it.


    Mystery and the unknown have a fatal attraction for casual yers—they have no name, no background, appearing out of thin air. That kind of effect is just perfect.


    Because yers are very good at filling in the nks, and human imagination is boundless!


    “Looking at the time, quite a few yers should have finished some rookie tasks.”


    “Hehe, they should have some silver taels and experience points by now.”


    “Let’s go!”


    Lu Xun took out a paper crane and flew towards a nearby beginner’s vige.


    ck Bamboo City, a small city within the territory of the Demon Sect.


    Lu Xun had no n to enter the city, lest he cause any disturbances and trouble.


    The small forest outside the city was a good choice.


    The small forest was the perfect ce for business.


    Some of the newbie tasks in ck Bamboo City required yers to dig some wild vegetables in the forest, which brought quite a few yer characters into view.


    “Humans are truly odd. In real life, walking a few steps feels exhausting. But in games, they’re tireless when ites to foraging, delivering letters, mining…” Lu Xun mused.


    Wanting to catch the attention of all the yers in the small forest, Lu Xun put away the paper crane, perched on a tree, and performed a string of “Qinggong”.


    With a light tap of his toes, he darted back and forth between trees, making a circuit in the air above the forest and heading wherever there were yers.


    His antics halted the casual yers below—they stopped digging vegetables altogether.


    Initially, they found digging wild vegetables quite fun, savoring the game’s realism—the worms in the soil were as lifelike as could be—such detail!


    But having something to contrast it with instantly changed their tune.


    The vegetables in their hands suddenly seemed a lot less appealing.


    “What the hell! I want to fly too!”


    “So cool!”


    “Damn, that’s so suave, isn’t it?”


    Once their internal exmations died down, an identical thought emerged amongst the yers here—”I want to learn!”


    But the mature handsome man, who appeared out of nowhere, moved so quickly. He must’ve just been passing through here; there’s no way they could catch up.


    So, they simply watched the white-robed middle-aged man gracefullynd before them.


    Well, what are they waiting for?


    “Charge!”


    The yers rushed towards the spot where Lu Xunnded.


    Male and female yers started to gather in front of Lu Xun. They immediately started examining Lu Xun’s basic information, all they saw were question marks.


    But amidst these question marks, they managed to deduce something.


    A few casual yers started eximing, “A yellow-named NPC! Finally came across an NPC with a colored name!”


    When Lu Xun revealed himself with his true identity, his name was also disyed as a question mark, but it was a purple question mark.


    Now, by using illusion techniques,bined with the boost from his [Charm] special attribute, he effectively concealed his true identity.


    In his current state, his real strength was the standard. He was a level 14 NPC.


    Without the bonuses of his identity and status, his name was disyed in deep yellow.


    Murong Yan may be over level 20, but she is known as only a deep yellow named NPC.


    As far as the early game goes, an NPC with a yellow name is considered a master. It’s more than enough.


    Too high would actually not work out well.


    “Last time, the yers called me the ‘Purple Pce’, this time I changed to yellow, they surely won’t call me ‘Yellow Pce’, right?” Lu Xun joked to himself.


    Lu Xun nced around at the yers, put his hands behind his back, and adopted the bearing of a master.


    Given his stunning appearance and extraordinary demeanor, he truly looked the part.


    “Why have you all pursued this old man?” Lu Xun asked.


    “Old man? He looks middle-aged. Why does he refer to himself as an old man?” The yers began to specte.


    Doesn’t this imply that his actual age is much older than he appears?


    If he’s not a cultivator, then what is he?


    The yers started to get excited.


    They all began to use words to “probe” Lu Xun, thinking about whether they could trigger some tasks or reap some chances.


    Those with good eloquence have already started bootlicking, making all kinds of flirty remarks and spewing rainbow farts.


    Those with lively creativeness had begun concocting stories, describing their backgrounds as exceedingly tragic, trying to invoke sympathy.


    Of course, these are just a minority. Most are watching, looking to see if these overly enthusiastic yers have any effect. If they do, they’d copy them!


    “Oh, you guys want to learn something from me?” Lu Xun squinted his eyes, speaking with a bted realization.


    He took out a prepared wine jug from his storage ring and pretended to exim, “Howe there’s no wine left?”


    After saying this, he issued a group task to the yers, asking them to get him some wine.


    There are no experience points as rewards, no silver tael as rewards, the sole reward is—the opportunity to learn skills!


    Compared to the previous two things, skills are more attractive to current yers!


    Having just started ying the game, having finally an opportunity to learn skills, there’s no way they could resist such temptation, right?


    The reason Lu Xun gives such a task is just to find an excuse to teach yers skills.


    He understands yers well. Directly teaching them is inelegant.


    The yers, holding the hard-earned money from their newbie tasks, rushed into the city to buy wine for Lu Xun.


    This news gradually spread.


    They are ying games after all, calling friends and posting on forums to catch people’s attention aremonce.


    It’s impossible for all yers present to keep this news secret and not tell others about such an NPC here.


    Gradually, even more yers flocked here to try their luck.


    Lu responded to all, handing out wine-fetching tasks to all. As long as they brought back a jug of whatever wine, they all had a chance to learn skills from him!


    Not to mention the newbie yers in ck Bamboo City, newbie yers from nearby areas were also hurrying over.


    Because the skills Lu Xun offered are simply too all-epassing, so attractive.


    Dozens of skills are on disy with a bit of everything.


    Who could resist?


    Is he an NPC? He’s more like a moving library with his multitude of skills!


    Each skill isbeled with the experience points it costs to learn, all values are standardized by the system. The minimum value can be zero, but the system has a limit for the maximum value.


    So it might be potentially free, but he can never price it outrageously high.


    This doesn’t matter. Most importantly, all these experience points have been credited to Lu Xun’s ount!


    Yes, other NPCs don’t possess the yer’s ability and can’t digest experience points, but Lu Xun can!


    Although learning a low-tier skill only requires a few hundred experience points, once the number of learners piles up, the aggregate value bes quite considerable.


    At this moment, yers are choosing skills like shopping in a mall.


    Since they don’t have much experience points at their disposal right now, they can basically only afford one skill.


    “This Clear Shadow Sword Technique is nice, it’s just that the experience cost is a bit high.”


    “What else is there to choose! Definitely learn this Eagle’s w!”


    “Eagle’s w +1, I also want to learn this!”


    “Exactly! Early game skills are all just transition skills, any of them would do, and this Eagle’s w is unique, I choose it, hehehe!”


    The final result both surprised Lu Xun and seemed reasonable—the best seller is the Eagle’s w …


    Watching as the yers finished learning, they satisfyingly pointed their fingers towards the sky, thenughing to each other, a slight twitch creeping up Lu Xun’s mouth.


    Female yers are different, they cared about whether the skill names sound good. If the name is attractive enough, it can immediately sell better …


    Watching as his experience points kept increasing, Lu Xun was also quite satisfied.


    He didn’t n to stay here for too long. These entry-level skills are only in high demand at the early stage of the game, they basically won’t be of any useter, so he naturally can’t stay here all the time, how big is this market!


    It’s good to move around a bit, both to make a name and to expand the market.


    Always fixating on the same few sheep won’t work, it’ll make one go bald!


    After hanging around the small grove for a while, Lu Xunughed heartily, saying:


    “I enjoy travelling around. I heard the wine in Red Mountain County is not bad, I won’t stay here long. Thanks for your good wine!”


    After saying this, he disappeared from this ce.


    Those who heard the news toote and missed the chance were left sighing and regretting.


    And the words Red Mountain County were clearly important information!


    This NPC’s next stop is Red Mountain County!


    With this thought, a lot of yers had started posting on the forum.