Chapter 16: This is not just a game

　　 In a blink of an eye, time has reached dusk.
　　In the Forest of Elves, ancient trees of various shapes and forms towering into the clouds, the branches are staggered, and the prosperous branches cover the sky.
　　 The golden sunset shines through the shade between the leaves, like twinkling stars, revealing an unpredictable silence.
　　 A tuned chant slowly sounded, and several tough vines suddenly drilled out of the soil, flew from all directions, and wrapped around a tall and tall ancient tree.
　　 Li Mu put down the staff in his hand, let out a sigh of relief, and said to his back:
　　 "It's fixed!"
　　 "Nice! Winding technique is easy to use!"
　　 "Hey, don't worry about accidentally killing people when the tree falls!"
　　 "Puff... Demacia, your luck is purely bad, you are standing in the wrong place, or you are the one who gets hit every time."
　　 "Go!"
　　 "Hahaha!"
　　Several elves in linen armor clamored and rushed up, holding their wooden knives and starting to chop at the base of the ancient wood...
　　 "It's really weird to say that this feeling... It's obviously that the goddess is the world tree, but our task is to cut the tree..."
　　 "It should be that the goddess is in a bad state, you see, the world tree is withered."
　　 "But the most indispensable thing in this forest is wood, doesn't the goddess care?"
　　 "Hardcore Natural God Religion..."
　　 "It's just a game, don't be too serious."
　　 "Um... I almost forgot this is a game if you don't mention it..."
　　 The players chat while working.
　　 They are Li Mu's teammates.
　　 After handing in the task for the first time, in order to do daily routines more efficiently, Li Mu teamed up with several players to form a team.
　　 Accompanied by bursts of "one, two, three" shouts and chopping sounds, the ancient trees tens of meters high shook slightly, and then became more and more intense...
　　 "Push together! Quick! One! Two! Three...!"
　　 "Broken! Broken!"
　　 Amidst the cheers, the huge ancient tree shook slightly, and finally fell down, startled a group of flying birds...
　　 And a few elves rushed up again, took out their wooden knives and chopped them, and flashed a series of brilliant sword skills. They divided the ancient wood into sections, like serious lumberjacks.
　　 "This tree is enough for a few of us, right?"
　　 several people said while wiping sweat.
　　 "Enough, this tree is so big, I suspect we can't finish it in one trip."
　　 Li Mu said as he and the others carried the divided ancient wood together.
　　 This is his sixth mission. After teaming up with several other players, his efficiency has improved a lot.
　　 Unknowingly, Li Mu had been playing in the game for a whole day.
　　 To be precise, the tree was cut down for a day.
　　 glanced at his character card, the corner of his mouth raised:
　　 "When I finish this mission, I should be able to level 5."
　　 "Fuck! Big guy!"
　　 "Liver Emperor! This is only one day soon, right? It takes only three or four hours to convert to a blue star, so you are now at level 5?"
　　 "As expected of Brother Mu!"
　　 Several players suddenly looked over, with a look of worship.
　　 Li grinned, a smile appeared on his handsome face, and explained:
　　 "Good luck, I found a light-friendly sun cedar after the first mission. Alice directly gave me 300 experience points."
　　 "Oh Ou Huang!"
　　 "Is that the golden tree at the entrance of the camp?"
　　 is surrounded by envy, jealousy and hatred.
"It's great! Why is my luck so bad? Every time I received a task to clean the temple, it was pitiful with little experience. I finally picked up a wood-collecting agent and was killed several times by the felled tree. The experience is completely emptied."
　　 The elves with the four green characters "Demacia" grumbled and said.
　　 "Hahahaha, maybe you are a non-chief! Hahahaha!"
　　 "In a sense, every time you can be killed by a fallen tree, you are a very talented person."
　　 "I take off my clothes as soon as I open the server, and I take the initiative to molested Alice, I will serve you on the whole server."
　　 "I said'De Marcia', how good are you with Alice right now?"
　　 Demacia glanced at the system bar, and both pointed ears drooped down. He touched his exploded head and said weakly:
　　 "Negative... negative one hundred..."
　　 "Hahahahahaha!"
　　 "You really want to laugh at me, hahahaha!"
　　 "No wonder every time you get a garbage mission, hahahaha..."
　　 "No, I think this is purely because of his black face..."
　　 Amidst laughter and joy, a free-form logging team of several players returned to the camp under the World Tree carrying the timber.
　　 The campsite was originally a low bush, but at this moment it has been cleared by the players.
　　 Dozens of players are grouping in twos and threes, and they are building houses with the felled timber and collected stones.
　　 Although more than a dozen wooden houses with different shapes are simple, they have faintly taken shape; and the faster one has even built a double-storey wooden building.
　　 Looking at the decent building, Demacia couldn't help but sigh:
　　 "Talent! The house was built in such a short time!"
　　 "Because there are skills! Not to mention, sometimes magic and sword skills are really useful, and the higher the level, the greater the strength and the more you can do..."
　　 Someone explained.
　　 "Of course, design is also crucial."
As he said, he pointed to the center of the construction site. There stood a tall pink-haired female elf wearing a robe. She was holding a blueprint made of unknown materials and was gesticulating with several other players. Three green Chinese characters of "Cuckoo Bird" are displayed:
"Have you seen? The young lady named'Cuckoo Bird' over there is the real boss. It is said that Jinghua studied civil engineering in reality, and she designed all these houses. It seems that she is about to rely on construction tasks. It’s up to level 5."
　　 Li Mu glanced over there in surprise, and secretly remembered the three words "cuckoo bird". Other players were in an uproar:
　　 "God! This is less than a day!"
　　 "Yes, I heard that she also plans to design a fairy town with several other players who study city planning and gardens... and has obtained permission from the goddess oracle."
　　 "I'll go, talent!"
　　 "Realistic knowledge changes destiny..."
　　 "This is too real, right?"
　　 "I can see it now, the real purpose of this task should be for us to build a town, right?"
　　 "Puff, it's really a revival of the elves! Novice Village needs our closed beta players to build it."
　　 "Is the official so lazy?"
　　 "This is a sense of participation!"
　　 "Actually, I think tree holes are more suitable for elves... and cutting down trees or something, always feels unnatural."
　　 "Maybe there is a deeper meaning?"
　　 "……"
　　 Eve has no deeper meaning. He just wants to save power and absorb a little life force. After all, life is important now, and everything else can be released later.
　　Furthermore, he does not believe in gods, but an ancient who directly controls the power of nature. He does not strictly follow the rules of the priesthood.
　　 Build a novice village...
　　 Listening to the player's discussion, Li Mu was thoughtful.
　　 He carried the wood and came to the center of the camp with his teammates.
　　 A bonfire has risen in the center of the camp. Several elven players surrounded the flames, gnawing at the fruits they didn’t know where they picked, talking and laughing.
　　 and Alice, the saint of nature, is standing aside, busy issuing and clearing tasks with the players.
　　 In order to facilitate her movement, she turned her long golden hair into a high ponytail, with a focused expression. His fair face was stained with a few stains, and the sweat was shining brightly under the shining of the flame, which was very cute.
　　 A group of people came to the girl to settle the task.
　　 Alice raised her head and saw several people, especially Li Muhou among them, her eyes lit up slightly:
　　 "The mission is complete?"
　　 She was deeply impressed by this male elf. Although this man was thin, he had been working hard and found a good sun fir.
　　 Besides, he is very polite, unlike some rude guys...
　　 caught a glimpse of a red-haired exploded head in the team, Alice's smile faded, and she snorted softly, while Demacia slapped her spirits and hid behind Li Mu in a bit of a jealousy.
　　 It seems that naked Ben and molested, the girl remembered him thoroughly.
　　 Li Mu coughed, his voice said respectfully:
　　 "Miss Alice, let's hand in the task."
　　 Alice closed her gaze back, and her eyes lit up when she saw the wood they were carrying:
　　 "High-quality pine wood!"
　　 She nodded to several people:
　　 "Put it in the wood area, your mission is complete."
As soon as 　　's voice fell, several people received the system prompt sound at the same time, and suddenly cheered.
　　 Looking at the 150 experience points received, Li Mu was delighted.
　　 can be upgraded!
　　 thanked Alice, Li Mu left the task office with a few people.
　　 Along the way, a few teammates twittered:
　　 "Brother Mu, amazing! How do I feel that Alice has such a good attitude towards you!"
　　 "Brother Mu, you and Alice really feel how much you have!"
　　 Li Mu hesitated, and said:
　　 "Not much, only 20 o'clock."
　　 Upon hearing this, several players suddenly exploded.
　　 "Fuck! It's already very high! I'm only 2 o'clock!"
　　 "What is 2 points? I am negative, so I have worked hard for a long time."
　　 "Don't say it, the few of us are also negative. We have done many tasks. It stands to reason that we should be able to mention it, but Alice has never laughed at us..."
　　 "I heard that there are a lot of female players who have positive numbers."
　　 "The opinion system is too difficult..."
　　 "Don't sell it miserably, I didn't say anything if I lost one hundred..."
　　 "That was your own work, who made you touch people's hair?"
　　 "Brother Mu, how did you achieve the goodwill between you and Miss Saint? Why did I get 1 point of goodwill after doing a task!"
　　 Li Mu didn't answer immediately, he walked slowly to a wooden stake, patted his and sat down.
　　 The sky has completely dimmed, the pure night sky is extremely deep, and the stars in the sky form a magnificent galaxy, bright and mysterious...
　　 The bonfire is burning~EbookFREE.me~ crackling, the fire flickers.
　　 Many players who were constructing and collecting wood have stopped. They surrounded the flames, eating fruits collected from the forest, talking and laughing.
　　 There were also players in twos and threes, organizing a party around the bonfire, singing and dancing. Some people even made bagpipes out of unknown materials and played music to accompany them.
　　 The whole camp is shrouded in a lively and lively atmosphere, bustling and joyous, like a holiday.
　　 Watching all this, Li Mu's eyes were slightly tranced.
　　 He picked up a purple-cyan berry that he had just picked on the road and put it into his mouth.
　　 With a light bite, the milky white juice overflows, and the sweet fragrance is slightly sour.
　　 The evening breeze in the forest is blowing, blowing the bonfire into the shadows, and the laughter of the players one after another, dreamlike... everything seems to be far away from the pure land of the world.
　　 He sat quietly on the wooden stake and looked at everything in front of him idiotically.
　　 This feeling is very strange. It is different from any virtual online games in the past. Li Mu felt as if he was not playing games, but had participated in an interesting large-scale outdoor camping in reality.
　　 A group of people who don’t know each other, far away from the hustle and bustle and the world, away from the frustration in reality, come here together, common tasks, common joy...
　　 All this is like an unreal dream.
　　 This dream is so illusory and beautiful...
　　 took a deep breath. At this moment, Li Mu felt his heart calmer than ever before, and all his troubles were left behind by him.
　　 After a moment of silence, he explained:
　　 "It should be, a sense of substitution."
　　 "Don't you think that although this is a game, it is also a world?"