Chapter 3: Chapter 3: Enter the Attic
"Hey Jason, what's going on here? You're peeping..." Someone saw Jason pouting at the window of the City of Solitude's basement room and deliberately yelled in a raised voice.
The neighborhood is full of acquaintances, and Jason is sort of a well-known figure here - a police officer under the second-ranking officer of the police department...
"Hahahahahahaha... Ahhhh, hahahahahaha." The first time Jason introduced himself to others in this way, a group of dangling hooligans around him almost laughed their asses off in place.
"Pfff, you guys really don't know anything!" Jason clapped back.
Although Jason clamored to let it go, everyone in the slum, including Jason himself, knew very well that the police, were indeed a joke in the slum.
Jason ignored the people yelling around him and walked straight to his airship.
He tracked two people who looked very suspicious to here, watched them enter the City of Solitude. The two were chased and hunted in the Avalon intercity, nearly hit Jason, who was sneaking into the edge of the rich area. Jason tracked the two all the way and watched them enter the City of Solitude.
It was difficult to see the situation inside from the narrow window, vaguely could be heard the voice of a male and a female inside talking about receiving the bounty. For the male, only his voice was heard but not his person seen, while the girl could be seen sitting near the window, taking out the VR device and logging in Attic in haste. Jason glanced at the device in the girl's hands, it was worth a lot of money, and he was immediately more certain that these two with unknown origins definitely had something fishy.
There are countless people coming and going every day in the slum, people of all kinds, those who have killed someone and escaped from prison, those who have smuggled themselves in from cities outside of Avalon, those who sell drugs, and those mysterious who are employed in the rich area. These people all have the same characteristics, although it is impossible to recognize the face of every person who comes and goes, Jason can recognize their eyes - cold and alert, revealing numbness and ruthlessness. To live well in the slum, one must always have this look of being ready to fight for their own interests on the face at all times, otherwise they will not live long.
It was not clear what these two people were from, but looking at the girl's appearance, it did not look like any bad guys who killed and robbed. Listening to their voices, both of them were not too old, the girl's skin was fair, outside the top short sleeves revealed the arm, like a section of lotus root just dug out of the pond.
Bounty, Jason thought back and recalled that he also participated in a task recently, which was also to collect the bounty today, it could be possible that they were taking the same task. However, there are millions of players in the Attic, and lots of bounty tasks are issued every day.
Jason's airship was transformed by an abandoned car. He had spent some time, sneaking away quite a few things from the police station, a screw today, some fuel tomorrow, and eventually transforming the airship now. Jason was very precious about his little airship, so his heart almost stopped when he was almost hit head-on by Merry at the intercity.
Jason returned to the airship with the attitude of giving it a try. He pulled out the device from the back seat and logged into Attic on the spot.
As soon as he opened the game interface, a prompt immediately popped up: The bounty of the last task will be settled in five minutes, please go to the place where the task ended to collect the bounty immediately, before it is too late.
The setting of many places in the game Attic is similar to the real world, for example, the place where Jason often does his tasks and sifts out treasures out of worthless things is a city very similar to Avalon, the Hundred-Blade City. It was given this name because of its numerous high-rise buildings rising from the ground, which, when viewed from afar, look like sharp swords sticking straight out of the ground. But after all, it is a game, and in the words of Attic during promotion and release, it has "infinite possibilities". For example, the wall surrounding Hundred-Blade City looks the same as the Great Wall of China, if not more magnificent. On top of the wall is the racing track, where rich people often pay to race the cars, or, race between people and cars, yes, to have people racing with cars. In a way, in Attic, as long as you have money and ideas, you can achieve infinite possibilities.
The world inside Attic is sunny everywhere, unlike the gloom and doom of the real world, which is also a very attractive point for people who live in Avalon without seeing the sun all year round.
Jason logged into the game and stretched, then clicked on the Equip Slot and summoned his favorite car - Somersault Cloud, a real, cloud! Jason ignored the strange looks from other players around him and drove to the bounty collection area.
The square is now crowded with people, partly to receive the bounty of the task, idle people who are rubbernecking also accounted for part.
This is really similar to the real world, whenever there is a square, on a good day, it must be crowded with people who have nothing to do.
Merry arrived a little early, there were people selling small equipment at the booths in the square, all of which were not very useful gadgets.
There was a crowd of people milling around watching something, packed with people layer by layer, there were even people flying several planes and...pterosaurs overhead. Merry summoned her ride, a cool motorcycle, and clicked the button, it immediately transformed into a small plane. A few people in the crowd were attracted by Merry's ride and turned around with interest, but were soon drawn back by the cheers and shouts from the crowd.
Merry was on top of the circle formed by the crowd, and it turned out to be two people in a martial arts contest, or rather, two things? Two species? Anyway, it was two units that could not be seen as belonging to any ethnic group with real-world perceptions, fighting each other, drawing cheers from the onlookers.
Merry watched for a while and found it so boring, watching the time of bounty payment soon arrived, she drove to the grass aside to land.
When the landing, there was an old man with white hair wearing the Chinese tunic suit, leaning on crutches and passing in front of Merry, with a small blue bird resting on his shoulder and looking around at the people. Seeing him squinting his eyes, with a small pair of glasses hanging on his vicissitudes yet amiable face, and unhurriedly passing by the cheering crowd, there was an indescribable comic - The image of the players in Attic is designed by the players themselves when they register their game accounts. Generally, people are as weird as they can be, as vicious as they can be, or be handsome and beautiful, like the two piles of monsters that just beat each other up in the crowd. Rarely does anyone make themselves look like such... an ordinary little old man, but only God knows what the player look like behind, maybe it is fierce and vicious, or maybe it is truly a little old man wearing glasses and the Chinese tunic suit.
The pop-up window reminded her that the bounty was about to be issued, and Merry put away her ride and rushed to the scene.
It's not uncommon for bounties to be paid out late like this, usually, the equipment and task bonuses are distributed on the spot by the task issuer to the players who participated in the task. The last task was not difficult, and the bounty was extremely generous, therefore, even though the bounty release date was delayed by four or five days and many people were puzzled, no one complained.
When Merry arrived at the scene, there were already a lot of people gathered around. Merry vaguely remembered a few of the players who participated in the task with her last time were among the crowd, but the strange thing was that each of them was followed by another player who did not participate in the task. It was easy to see that the players who came to collect the bounty had come together with someone. For example, the little white bear whom Merry remembered very clearly, came with a kitty cat, both dressed very formal, like attending a dinner party. If she hadn't seen how ruthless this little white bear was the last time he killed someone, looking at him at this moment, she would have thought that he was a mere cute little white bear of some sort.
So official? Is there a need to bring a family member to collect the bounty? Merry thought, while going to the crowd to find someone to inquire about what was going on.
"Didn't you get the notice? The task issuer sent out a notice earlier today saying to bring a partner to the ball, which can double the bounty!" Someone explained to Merry.
Merry hurriedly pulled up the interface of the notice, and there was indeed a notice, Merry took a glance and found that it roughly said that if one brought a partner to today's ball, the bounty would be doubled, and if one passed the test set by the task issuer at the ball, a high reward would be given.
Merry slapped her head, it was over, regardless of losing the opportunity to earn double rewards, even her bounty of finishing the task could not be collected. Just now, busy with escaping with Dao, she did not have time to read the notice, it was really a big loss. Now it was too late to go back and come with Dao.
Other players were already entering, seeing the thousands of dollars of bounty that she earned risking life and death on her own about to vanish, Merry was extremely anxious.
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