Chapter 83

Even if he had bet right, there was not much to gain, but if he bet wrong, he would lose everything. Faced with such a gamble, even if their chances of winning were great, that group of NPCs did not have the courage to take the risk. Thus, after sending people to pursue Zhou Tian and being shot down, those NPCs seemed to completely forget about Zhou Tian, and directly stopped all actions against him at that time.

Although Zhou Tian did not know the situation in the beginner city, he could guess their thoughts from the general movements of the NPCs in the beginner city. Seeing that the NPCs did not take any extreme actions, he could not help but breathe a sigh of relief at that moment.

"Fortunately, nothing went wrong, otherwise I would have had to run for my life." Seeing that the NPCs had no intention of continuing to fight him, Zhou Tian also breathed a sigh of relief.

Just as those NPCs thought, Zhou Tian's current actions could neither take over the beginner city in one fell swoop nor were they a matter of life and death for all the monsters. It was impossible to unite the other monsters. Thus, Zhou Tian's current actions were clearly his personal actions, and what he was betting on was that the group of NPC elites did not have the courage to easily launch an attack.

From the current situation, it was clear that Zhou Tian had bet right.

"Since the plan is going so smoothly, the subsequent actions can also be carried out."

For Zhou Tian, his previous actions naturally had a purpose. From the beginning, his target was not the NPCs but the players. There were two reasons for this: one was that Zhou Tian could gain a significant advantage by using his personal abilities to deal with the players. At the same time, given the situation in the beginner area, Zhou Tian really did not dare to push the NPCs to the limit, otherwise, they might ignore everything and team up with the undead monsters to wipe out the monsters in the beginner area.

Zhou Tian's current actions seemed to have offended the NPCs quite a bit, but Zhou Tian believed that all his actions were still within the tolerance of the NPCs. As long as he did not pose a threat to the beginner city, under the current threat of the undead monsters to all living beings in the beginner area, the NPCs would not easily fight to the death with him.

Currently, Zhou Tian did so much just to create a good environment for his subsequent actions.

It was easy to deal with the players, but although killing players brought rich rewards, due to their scattered nature, even if Zhou Tian had no difficulty dealing with them, searching for players to attack would not bring much gain.

Since Zhou Tian was preparing to target the players and needed a lot of contributions, in such a situation, he naturally had to carefully plan his actions.

If the players were hard to find, then gather them and kill them. For the current Zhou Tian, as long as the players' strength did not exceed his limits, gathering them to deal with would naturally be a much easier way to gain contributions.

Where were the most players?

Undoubtedly, although there were many players in any area, due to their scattered nature, they could not be considered numerous. The place with the most concentrated players was naturally the NPC cities.

Just as when playing Legend, when monsters attacked the city or pets rebelled, players died in batches, making the server lag so much that it was unplayable. From this situation, it was clear that when something happened in an NPC city, humans, driven by their curiosity, would gather in large numbers.

Zhou Tian's current method of occupying one side of the NPC city was precisely to create a 'fake' environment.

At this time, the beginner city would not experience a monster attack, but the players were different from the NPCs; they could not distinguish whether the monster attack was real or fake. That is, if Zhou Tian set up an attack formation, even if the NPCs knew he was bluffing, the players would not see through it. When they saw Zhou Tian's actions, they would think he was really preparing to attack the city. Given the nature of the players, it was believed that a large number of players would soon gather.

As long as Zhou Tian did not really attack the city, it was believed that the NPCs would not actively provoke him.

However, unlike the NPCs, the players would not care so much. When the number of players reached a certain level, Zhou Tian was 90% sure that the players would launch an attack on him regardless of the losses. Given the situation of the players, no matter how powerful he appeared, a fierce battle was inevitable.

Players would immediately revive in the NPC city after death and then rush out to rejoin the battle. Given the nature of the players, although they would lose levels when they died, any monster fighting outside the NPC city could not ignore their sustained combat ability.

Even Zhou Tian had already mentally prepared for significant losses before taking action. If it were not the easiest way to gain contributions, Zhou Tian would not have provoked the NPCs and players in such a manner.

After occupying one side of the beginner city, Zhou Tian's plan was quickly put into action.

Although the players could not see all the orc monsters when they were not close to Zhou Tian, there was no doubt that when Zhou Tian brought 90% of the orcs to the battlefield, even if the players only saw a part of the orcs, the number was already quite astonishing in their eyes.

As a result, when the players who went out of the city to Zhou Tian's side saw the orcs, the news of the monster attack quickly spread in the game.

In a short time, not only the ordinary beginner players but also the powerful high-level players gathered in groups to the beginner city.

"It seems I've gone a bit overboard." Seeing a large group of players standing in the city and looking out, Zhou Tian could not help but feel distressed again.

This was not the first time Zhou Tian's plan had gone awry, but the current situation still made him feel uneasy.

The reaction of the players was not unexpected by Zhou Tian. After he set up the formation, the players indeed gathered in the beginner city, thinking it was a monster attack. However, Zhou Tian never expected that the number of players who gathered would be so large.

"Wasn't this a niche game before? How come there are so many players now?" Although Zhou Tian had learned from the players that the game had changed and the number of players had increased, he still thought that a game with tens of thousands of players was already quite good. Before he crossed over, the game he played had fewer than a thousand players in total. Even if the number of players had increased now, it should not exceed a few thousand.

A game with a few thousand players, although players could be seen everywhere, the actual number of players was very small. For example, in the beginner area, although players could be seen everywhere, in reality, it was the same group of players running around. If counted carefully, it would be hard to gather even a hundred players.

When Zhou Tian originally planned this, he knew it would attract many players, but in his mind, he always thought that the number of players who would come would be at most a few hundred. If more, it would not only be a question of whether there were that many players, but even if that many players came, most of them would probably just be spectators.

But now...