230 Days

Game calendar January 184.

The world's players flocked to Luoyi Imperial City, trying to seize as much profit as possible the moment before the troubled times came. While seeking opportunities for advancement in Luoyang, they controlled the power of the village from afar and tried hard to expand their strength.

Among these players, the village chief, legion commander, and gang leader are mainly known for their huge power. Many of them do not have personal force or powerful skills. The only thing they have is command authority over villages, troops, and gangs.

However, since ancient times, heroes have emerged, and there are more and more uncountable player heroes who are still dormant in the grass, waiting for a stunning rise - this opportunity is the Yellow Turban Revolt.

The storm was about to come and the wind filled the building. As the moment the outbreak approached, countless players calmed down and responded to the changes without moving. They held their breath and were waiting for the upcoming major changes.

In mid-January, a large-scale natural disaster suddenly came, causing the forces of the villages in the game to start to stir up in advance.

"On January 17, 184, the entire China Region system announcement: A large-scale locust plague occurred in Liangzhou and Bingzhou, with a disaster level of 1v3. Each village was affected to varying degrees, with large-scale grain yields and no grain harvests."

As the announcement came, the locust plague immediately came, and the level 0 locusts that were calculated overwhelmingly overwhelmed by tens of billions of levels of 0 swept across all players and NPC villages, eating all the food that could be seen in the ground grain fields. All the food planted in all the villages in January was gone - this is not a small matter. The food in most villages was very nervous. NPCs often had a meal but didn't have the next meal, and were eager to see the bumper harvest next month. When the locust arrived, it immediately hit all villages heavily.

The villages of the three states were suddenly in chaos, and they rushed to buy all the food they could find from the player market. For a time, the price of food soared, and all the items that could be eaten were rising sharply. However, few villages in the market were willing to sell food, and the food was materials that could not be bought even if they had money. Not to mention the food in the system city, players could not buy food from the system city, and only a small amount of npc black market merchants could get food from special channels.

The villages in these three states are facing disaster, and the gamers in their rich prefectures and counties are inevitably gloating, ridiculing, and rumoring.

"Haha, Liangzhou, the desolate villages in Bingzhou are about to be finished. There is not much food in that place, and a locust plague can destroy them all!"

"Look at our Jingzhou villages, the grain stored in the granary is enough for all farmers to eat for three months. Even if there is a natural disaster, it will be a pediatric department."

"It's only three months? Our village has stockpiled up for five months, but unfortunately it can't be transported to Liangzhou, otherwise you will be able to make a fortune in one go. The price of one stone of grain in Liangzhou is almost rising to 3,000 copper coins."

Unfortunately, they had not had time to be happy for two days, and a larger disaster spread throughout the game.

"On January 19, 184, the entire China region announced: floods broke out in Sili, Jingzhou, and Yangzhou provinces, rat disasters, large-scale landslides, disaster levels lv6. Farmland and buildings in various villages were affected to varying degrees, countless houses collapsed, NPC casualties, large-scale grain production, granaries suffered from rat disasters, and inventory was greatly reduced."

In an instant, heavy rain began to pour down, and the Yangtze River flooded rapidly at a visible speed. Rat disasters in various villages were flooded, and rocks roared and shaking.

Countless 0-1-level mice emerged from the ground and attacked the player's granary one by one.

The players in Yangzhou, Jingzhou, were shocked and mobilized all their power to start slaughtering these mice. Unfortunately, the number of mice was dozens of times more than the number of players, and they instantly covered the granary in the village. After the players wiped out most of the mice, they were shocked to find that the food stored in the granary in their village had been almost bitten to the sky by the extremely rampant mice, leaving only a little.

The village chiefs who shook the grain of their own granary were full of food and were almost thrust into the wall. The food that took several months to store was gone overnight and was filled with joy.

Disasters broke out one after another,

"On January 20, 184, the whole China system announcement: Jizhou, Youzhou, Yuzhou, Gunzhou, Qingzhou, the sky and the earth are dry, the ground is surging and fire-breathing, severe drought, the grain fields are dry, the grain is dead, and the grain is not harvested."

"On January 24, 184, the whole China system announcement: Yizhou, Jiaozhou, large-scale earthquakes, rat disasters, disaster rating 1v7. Grain fields and houses in each village were affected to varying degrees, buildings collapsed, village wall defenses decreased significantly, large-scale grain production was reduced, and granaries were damaged to varying degrees."

However, these disasters are not only targeting the player's villages, but also severely hit the city of the system.

The city wall collapsed, and its defense was greatly reduced. When encountering the fire of heaven, countless houses were burned. The river flooded and rat disasters were rampant. The food was exhausted. The NPC prefects in various places reported urgent documents flying to the imperial city like snowflakes.

In just over ten days, the entire land was hit hard. For a moment, players in the world were shocked and changed color, and NPC was shocked. The court was in chaos, and NPC ministers wrote letters to request disaster relief. Unfortunately, the ten regular attendants deceived their superiors and concealed the disaster. NPC Lingdi was still having fun in the West Garden, and there was no idea that someone would overthrow his throne.

The end of January was filled with disaster and chaos.

Fortunately, the court's investigation of filial and honesty continued as usual. In early February, a formal assessment was held. This assessment was called "students' examination of family rules and civil servants' lecture notes". The examination paper was presented by the court's chief examiner, requiring players and NPC filial and honesty to answer various government issues. These questions were all imitated in real history to give questions to the assessment of filial and honesty. The difficulty was extraordinary.

This kind of assessment is a little easier for NPC filial piety and honest people. As long as you have a few real skills and knowledge, you can respond freely.

But it is difficult for the big players to play. Even if they have the ability, they will not be able to know much about these ancient scriptures and notes. They may even get the title wrong, let alone answer questions.

This requires the players and the Eight Immortals to cross the sea and show their magical powers.

Ordinary means are related to NPC filial piety and honesty, so that NPC can secretly convey standard answers. The cost is great and the reward is great.

A difficult method directly bribes the NPC examiner and request for compatibility. Of course, this requires an extremely high "compliance" fee.

A simple method can directly peek at other people's answers and plagiarize. Although it is a bit shameless, fortunately, it does not require much cost. The disadvantage is that the chance of success of plagiarism is very low.

Or other means, anyway, players can just answer the questions.

The exam begins.

In the palace, in the examination hall, hundreds of players and NPC Xiaolian sat upright on the ground, answering the test questions on the test paper on the table with the pen and ink. The NPC examiners and invigilators inspected the hall, occasionally watching the answers of players and NPC Xiaolian, or nodding in approval, or shook their heads in disappointment.

The players looked around from time to time, and when they found that the invigilator was not by their side, they immediately seized the time to use their magical powers and took over the standard answers from the friends of NPC filial piety and honest people.

Zhan Xiaobai sat upright and moved his pen like a flying pen. Those test questions seemed to be no problem to him. He answered questions faster than those of NPC filial piety and honest people, and wrote the "standard" answers without thinking.

Wuwei NPC Xiaolian Jia An was sitting behind Zhan Xiaobai. Seeing that many other players were scratching their heads and looking around, they saw Zhan Xiaobai's pens whizzing quickly, and asked strangely: "Brother Xiaobai, why do you write so quickly? Do you understand all these?"

Zhan Xiaobai's brush dipped ink on the desk table and continued to write on the test questions.

He didn't look back, but just replied, "It's okay, the difficulty is average!"

Jia An looked at all the test questions and shook his head, "Even if you are a brother, it's probably difficult to answer these questions. Brother Xiaobai is very powerful."

A player village chief next to him was worried about how to start writing. After listening to Zhan Xiaobai's words, he immediately showed an exaggerated expression and exclaimed: "I admire you! Xiaobai is really a god! Even such a horror-level question can be answered!"

Zhan Xiaobai just smiled. What awesome? He is not a history research, so how could he understand these questions on the test questions? The reason why he could write the standard answer without thinking about it is that he had known the answer for a long time and was familiar with it.

Speaking of which, this is also a coincidence.

Shortly after he arrived in Luoyang, he visited Ma Yuanyi, the commander of the Yellow Turban Grand Que in Luoyang, and received the task of "Heart is in the Yellow Turban Body is in the Han Dynasty" to assist the Yellow Turban camp in overthrow of the court.

Ma Yuanyi was conspiring to discuss the rebellion with Feng Xi, one of the ten eunuchs in the palace and others. Zhan Xiaobai happened to meet him and met Feng Xi, who was in the palace, and asked Feng Xi to do a little favor.

As one of the ten eunuchs, Feng Xi wanted to get a test paper and answers for filial piety and integrity. It was from this Feng Xi that he got the standard answers written by the imperial scholars.

Zhan Xiaobai did not disclose this to others.

He finished the three-hour test questions in an hour, put down his pen and stood up and left.

He was not the first to leave, but he was definitely the one who surprised everyone the most.

The players in the entire hall were shocked and looked in admiration. They all knew that Zhan Xiaobai, as the village chief of the world's number one village, was determined to win the official position of the court, and it was definitely impossible to hand over the blank paper. Since it was not handover, he must have written all the answers.

"Awesome! Where did Xiaobai get the answer? I haven't seen him take the answer from any npc Xiaolian!"

"I don't know, I'm afraid that NPC Xiaolian is not as fast as he can. We're just halfway through it."

The npc invigilator hurried to Zhan Xiaobai's case, took the test paper, and showed it slightly. He immediately showed an expression of praise and joy, and quickly walked to the hall and handed the test paper to the examiner.

The examiner looked carefully and saw that his handwriting was neat and well organized, citing classics, generously uttered words, concise and sharp, grand and vigorous, and answered the test questions quite thoroughly. When he looked at the signature on the test paper, Wuwei County: Xiaobai couldn't help but praise: "Okay, what a Wuwei Xiaobai! This son is extraordinary."

Many players in the hall were surprised and sighed, "Where did the answer from Xiaobai Boss come from? If I had known it, I would have asked him for an answer." Unfortunately, the players and the NPC filial piety and honest people quickly accelerated.

Zhan Xiaobai heard the chief examiner's praise and knew that the matter was done, so he left the examination hall and walked out of the palace.

When he was leaving the palace, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old npc eunuch with a handsome face ran over and said obediently: "Sir Xiaobai, how are you doing the exam?! Eunuch Feng asked the young man to ask. If you don't do well in the exam, he will help you with some tricks and let the examiner help you get through the exam."

This little father-in-law is not someone else, but a little eunuch whom Feng Xi calls him. The goal of the constellation Feng Xi is too big and he will definitely not be able to meet Zhan Xiaobai directly, so he sent the eunuch beside him to convey the message.

Zhan Xiaobai looked around and saw that no one else smiled and took out ten coins of copper coins and stuffed them to the eunuch, saying, "My father-in-law, today's exam is thanks to Mr. Feng's answers in advance, otherwise he would be a fool. I'll take this little money to spend whatever he wants!"

The little eunuch blushed, pushed the copper plate, and said, "No, the little one dare not take the adult money. This is what my father-in-law ordered. Since the little one has passed the test, the little one is going to go back and report his life soon." Then he ran away.

Zhan Xiaobai quickly called him, "Wait a minute, what do you call my little father-in-law?"

"The little name is Bailier Jade."

The little eunuch of npc ran away and disappeared.
Chapter completed!