Game of the World Tree
chapter-53

The players in the pre-OBT formed three unions.

One was created by Li Mu and Demacia. It was called "The Heart of Nature". More than 180 players were in this union.

Li Mu was the chairman of "The Heart of Nature". With Li Mu making nothing compulsory for the members, the union was considered pretty lax.

The second union was created by Cuckoo Bird and Little Salty Meow. It was called "The Lovely Committee". The chairwoman was Little Salty Meow. Nearly half of the members were female players. There were more than fifty members. It was a union that specialized in leisure and life.

They were the main force that constructed the elf town.

The last one was called "The First Army" created by Fried Tomatoes. There were more than forty members. Their aim was to train through battles. They also loved adventures in the wilds. All of them were extremely determined players.

Although Eve did not like Fried Tomatoes, he improved a lot after being warned the last time.

Additionally, this guy was very hard-working. He respected the NPCs and almost all of his party members he led were extremely determined, who repaid Eve considerably.

So Eve was kind enough to forgive him and wait to see his development in the future.

Moreover, although Li Mu was an able person, Eve thought that he was too lazy sometimes. Thus, Eve decided to give him a rival to arouse his potential.

Apart from them, some players didn't join any union. Among these players, the most famous one was the master of the entire server--Box Meal.

This reserved strong man drew the companionship from a few players and formed an adventuring party that wandered in the wilds every day. His experience points soared drastically. Many players considered him to be a mogul.

Even Li Mu found him amazing.

Nevertheless, compared to killing monsters, Li Mu was more anxious about when he would find something of value in the ruins.

He looked at the time on the screen of the system, pondered for a while, and said to Demacia,

"We will search for another hour. If we still find nothing, we will go back for the time being."

"Go back? Great!"

Demacia immediately smiled happily.

"Ha ha, I heard that there is a bonfire party tonight in Florence. We can go to the party if we go back early!"

After the first day in the game, the players of The Kingdom of Elves formed the habit of holding bonfire parties regularly.

The forest of elves was so beautiful that people felt that they were camping far away from the secular world while holding evening parties in this virgin forest.

The players ate fruit, barbecued meat while the saint little sister was not on the alert, laughed together, chatted and farted together… They were happy.

A bonfire party?

Li Mu's eyes lit up.

If he got it right, this evening party was to celebrate the rebuilt temple in Florence.

The previous temple was too badly damaged. In the past two days, Cuckoo Bird was engaged in repairing the temple with her construction team. It was said that this was also one of the tasks given by the goddess.

With it being almost repaired, people now could worship the statue of the goddess there.

Thinking of this, he nodded

"Eh, we will go back an hour later. And we will ask Alice along the way to see whether we can obtain any information about Florence from her."

Saying so, Li Mu pushed away a piece of rubble and continued to explore.

"Alice!"

Demacia's eyes lit up and he suddenly looked mysterious.

He went near Li Mu's ear, chuckled and said,

"Brother Mu, we have played the game for a long time. Have you discovered the punishment mechanism of the game?"

On hearing Demacia, Li Mu raised his eyebrows and said,

"This game is highly realistic. If you behave according to the principles in reality, you won't be punished in general."

Saying so, he glanced at Demacia in surprise.

"Did you make trouble again?"

"No no…"

Demacia smiled awkwardly and then said,

"After the red-name alert, I was curious about the punishment mechanism and had a try on a few players privately."

"A try?"

"Yes. Just the red-name mechanism! We had a try. The mechanism seems to judge whether one should get a red name based on the player's "malice" and the degree of the harm he has done to another player. The player can use his contribution points to cancel his red-name state. And there should be different degrees of punishment. We concluded that the punishment of killing a person might be very severe. The killer's account might even be banned…"

Demacia said.

"Like this… So severe?"

Li Mu recounted his memory and found it incredible.

He remembered that two days ago he read that Demacia had become a red-name player in a system message. But soon afterwards another system message read that he had repented. It turned out to be like this…

This guy had too much time to kill.

Li Mu found it annoying yet amusing.

However, if Li Mu behaved as before, he would have been looking for bugs everywhere like Demacia.

Now, as the game developed, Li Mu liked the game increasingly more. Gradually, he forgot things like looking for bugs.

"We found out more information!"

Demacia became serious.

"We had a try on the NPCs and found that we can't attack the NPCs!"

On hearing Demacia, Li My glared at him.

"Isn't it normal? If you can attack the NPCs, the game will be in a complete mess."

"No, I mean that if we wanted to attack the NPCs, we would lose control of our bodies in an instant. We couldn't regain control until we gave up the idea. But at present, our experiments are limited to little sister and the big guy…"

Demacia shook his head and said.

Li Mu, "…"

"You… tried to attack Alice and Berserker?"

His lips twitched.

Demacia scratched his head.

"I just wanted to have a try. And I discovered that I couldn't attack them."

Li Mu, "…"

"You should feel lucky that you couldn't attack them. Otherwise, I think they would beat you until you revert back to level one."

He glanced at Demacia, feeling speechless.

"Huh… Their impression of me will not improve anyhow… so I just had a try… I still have several Perfect Resurrection…,"

Demacia said awkwardly.

Li Mu, "…"

In fact, Eve had set the rule that the players could not attack the NPCs.

His original plan was to prevent the players from attacking the NPCs with the same red-name mechanism. But after thinking about it, He felt that it was not secure. So He directly forbade the players to attack the NPCs.

More precisely, the players could not attack His believers.

Whenever a player had the thought of attacking the believers of nature, they would lose control of their body.

The reason why Eve was able to make this mechanism was because there were channels connecting the players and the believers in the space of His godhead. Eve could modify and set the program of the system to end the player's control of their body when they turned hostile to a believer.

As for other intellectual creatures, there was no way to prevent the player's harm to them.

If there were other original inhabitants that admired Eve but were not believers of nature, Eve could only discipline the players with a severe punishment from the system.

As for why Eve didn't prevent the players from attacking each other… Eve had His reason.

The relationship between the players was not as simple as that between the players and the NPCs. To maintain peace among the players by force might not be a good method sometimes.

It was because the players who had conflicts had many ways to cause the downfall of each other while not using any force, meaning that the punishment mechanism wouldn't be activated.

Eve preferred the red-name system than to maintain peace by force. If a player was too troublesome, Eve would just directly ban his account. This way, Eve would also remove the cause of future troubles.

Eve felt that He was fishing the criminals and enforcing the law.

As for those who were willing to repent, Eve would give them a chance to repent and just impose a fine.

Eh, Eve thought that He was very kind.

…

On hearing Demacia's experiments, Li Mu patted him on the shoulder helplessly.

"Demacia."

"Huh?"

Demacia's eyes shone as he looked at Li Mu.

"Brother Mu, what's the matter?"

Li Mu glanced at him and said softly,

"Do you have very few friends?"

Demacia was shocked.

"How do you know?!"

Li Mu, "…"

He did not answer, but he shook his head helplessly, sighed and continued to move forward.

Demacia touched his nose awkwardly and followed Li Mu step by step.

However, as soon as he took two steps, he stumbled and almost fell down.

"Damn, what's this?"

He cursed, shone his torch at the thing that stumbled on, and saw a broken slate with strange characters written on it.

"What's this?"

He picked up the slate curiously.