Online Game: I'm in MapleStory

As he got out of the taxi, Wu Ming took a deep breath. A familiar yet refreshing scent filled his nostrils, a distinct earthy fragrance found only in the depths of the forest. He slowly opened his eyes, and the sight that greeted him was breathtaking.

There are no tall buildings, bustling streets or noisy crowds here, but a quiet place surrounded by vines. These vines crisscross and form spectacular natural bridges and passages, connecting the entire village closely.

Wu Ming strolled through the village, feeling the embrace of nature. With every step, he could hear the rustling of leaves beneath his feet, as if telling him ancient stories. The houses in the village, built along vines, were staggered and harmoniously arranged, blending seamlessly into the surroundings. Moss and creepers covered the walls, giving him a sense of tranquility.

Wu Ming discovered that the residents here lived a simple and plain life. Most of them were magicians, and some were fortune-telling witches. After walking around, he also found a small tree house with a sign of Vivian's fortune-telling shop, as well as a dream interpretation shop and so on!

After climbing up and down and walking around according to the instructions of the task, I soon found a tiled house on the right side of the vine. There was a young man with a face similar to Helena!

The young man before him, ethereal and graceful, was dressed in green cloth armor, the same color as the jungle. If one didn't look closely, the young man seemed to blend in with his surroundings. The details on his clothing were exquisite and unique, like a masterpiece of nature.

His ears are the same elf ears as Helena's, pointed, and you can tell at a glance that he is from the elf tribe. The only difference is that he has a pair of butterfly-like wings behind him.

The boy's hair was a shaggy white, as pure as winter snowflakes. This white hair formed a sharp contrast with his green cloth armor, adding to his lively aura.

What amazed Wu Ming the most was the pair of butterfly wings on the boy's back. The wings were colorful, with the main color being a vibrant purple, and there were strange and mysterious patterns on them, making him look even more noble than Helena.

The boy didn't notice Wu Ming's arrival and was still sitting at the door of the tile-roofed house, basking in the sun and taking a nap.

"Who is it! Who disturbed my nap again?"

As if sensing something blocking his sunlight, the young man in front of Wu Ming suddenly opened his eyes and started cursing!

"Hmm? Are you human? An adventurer? What are you doing here?"

Seeing Wu Ming blocking her from the sun, the fairy Weiying asked three confused questions.

Seeing Zhong Weiying's confused face, Wu Ming spoke directly and told him the task!

"Huh? Humph! So what you're really interested in is the Red Snail King, not the author of Aloy's book! I can't tell you directly, but if you want to get information about the Red Snail King, you have to do me a favor."

"of course can!"

Wu Ming looked at the requirements in front of him and felt excited. He knew that this meant that another stage task had been triggered!

Snail Legend 2 (Completed)

[Help the fairy Weiying hunt the snails he needs! (In progress)]

"Not only does the fairy Weing know Aloy, the author of the Snail Legend, but she also knows all about the snail with the rainbow-colored shell, the Red Snail King. She's willing to tell me the Red Snail King's location, but only if I find her some snail shells!"

Mission requirements: Hunt 50 each of green, blue and red snail shells!

When Wu Ming answered "Of course" without hesitation, the task bar immediately showed that he had accepted the task!

After saying hello to the fairy Weiying, he couldn't wait to climb up the huge vine in the center of the magic forest and entered the teleportation array.

Walking out of the teleportation array, what comes into view is the huge vines that cover the sky and are intricately entwined with each other. In some places where the vines are entangled, you can see ladders or short bridges like those in the Magic Forest Village. They must have been built by villagers or previous adventurers to facilitate climbing by later generations!

Although the intricate vines blocked the sunlight, the sunlight penetrated through every gap between the vines. In Wu Ming's eyes, it was not dark or hazy, but had clear visibility and sufficient illumination!

If you look closely, in this giant vine forest, on every horizontal vine that people can walk on, there are two or three green water spirits, and occasionally you can see snails crawling on the vines and eating moss!

"We've come to the right place! If things go as expected, there will probably be low-level monsters in the wild at the entrance of every village!"

Without thinking too much, I started the hunting mode directly. After all, they were low-level monsters, so they were killed instantly. Also because of the level gap, no matter where I hunted to obtain materials, maple leaf coins, equipment and weapons, I could only obtain +1 experience!

After clearing his MP bar, he found a random spot and took out his rich man's chair to recover! After all, 99% of the damage these low-level monsters inflicted on Wu Ming was only -1 HP, with only a few occasions exceeding -5 HP. So for him now, if nothing unexpected happened, this area would be his safe zone!

"Leveling up here is really slow! I have absolutely no experience! Luckily, the drop rate here on Treasure Island is much higher than on Rainbow Island. Equipment, weapons, and red and blue potions are starting to drop!"

After hunting more than a hundred snails and green water spirits, Wu Ming got several weapons with decent attributes and a few bottles of potions!

While taking a break, Wu Ming discovered that the auction system had been updated. Any kind of garbage could be put up there and priced. Even mushroom caps and snail shells were put up there. However, the material-type monster drops were basically tens of thousands of Maple Leaf Coins each. He didn't know if anyone would buy them!

Wu Ming also took a closer look. There were already several thousand pages of items in the auction column, most of which were junk gray-attribute equipment and a large number of snail shells, branches and other drops from monsters that could be hunted at this stage!

He cleaned out his backpack, keeping all the materials needed for the mission except the snail shell, and then put all the equipment, green slime, and green water beads dropped from hunting into the auction system at a low price.

Then he opened his property panel and took a look!

Name: Wu Ming (x2)

Occupation: Adventurer

Level: 19

HP: 580/580

MP: 866/1488

Attack power: 16-38

Mana: 188

Physical defense: 25

Magical Defense: 22

Experience: 201/8655

Attributes (Available attribute points: 0)

Strength 10 (+4)

Agility 10 (+4)

Intelligence 82 (+5)

Luck 12 (+5)

Equipment: wooden short staff, rough robe, maple leaf hat, white plastic shoes, exclusive purple gold maple leaf cloak (sealed), pot cover.

Backpack: 4/32 (two chairs, red and blue pills x30)

Maple Leaf Coin:

Skills, magic double click, magic enhancement (passive), falling leaves, concentration, invisible arrow, blessing of the elves (passive)

With 188 mana, combined with his magic wand and intelligence, Wu Ming estimated that instantly killing a level 15 monster was now a 100% possibility! Compared to other adventurers at this stage, others would need two hits to kill a flower mushroom, but Wu Ming could kill it instantly!

Seeing that they had almost rested, Wu Ming continued to hunt the remaining snails.

"It would be great if I could find a tank warrior to help me hold the front line. That way, I wouldn't be knocked away by the monsters because I'm too slow to fight them!"

On a horizontal vine, there are usually four or five snails and green water spirits at a minimum, but when there are more, you can say that they are a group of people dancing DJ!

Since Wu Ming can kill monsters instantly now, he believes that as long as he shouts a word in the chat channel of the dimensional area, there will definitely be a lot of people willing to take a taxi to the magic forest to form a team with him.

But after thinking about it, Wu Ming gave up the idea. At this stage, he was the only one who could kill instantly, and he didn't like leading a team for the time being. It would just be a few forced collisions. It didn't matter. The hunt was almost over anyway!

Wu Ming is also a patient person. It's not that he doesn't want to share and help others level up, but at this stage, he can only have a good time in the world of MapleStory. If he travels back, he will just be an unemployed vagrant!

Your chance to change your fate lies in the world of MapleStory, so at least at this stage, you can only move forward alone!

"Based on my current defense and the monsters I've killed, I won't need these red and blue potions at all. I have over thirty bottles left. I'll keep five of each and put the rest up for auction!"

Not long after, Wu Ming also completed the task of collecting snail shells. By the way, he emptied the junk equipment and potions in his backpack and put all the ones he didn't need on the auction. After all, he still had to learn skills, and for the time being, he was most in need of Maple Leaf Coins!

After more than an hour, the hunt was finally completed. Wu Ming headed towards the magical forest fairy Weiying, slowly killing the monsters Green Water Spirit and Snail on the roadside while walking towards the village.

When climbing down the vine teleportation array, Wu Ming heard some sounds!

"Don't bring so many Green Water Spirits here! We can only fight them one by one. I don't want to go back to the Magic Forest again. I'm out of breath from climbing there!"

"Damn! You can't fight so many Green Water Spirits, and you pulled so many over at once. Even the way you guys are snatching monsters is not the best!"

"Is there any expert out there who can help me? I'm almost level 14, and I'll get new skills randomly! Can you help me? Green Water Spirit only gives +1 experience right now, but if we team up and kill monsters, we'll get extra experience! I don't need anything, I just want you to level me up! Even money is fine!"

"For the pioneering team, please have a mage above level 14, preferably with double magic, or at least with fireball or magic bullet skills! For the last position, all of you should head to the next teleportation array!"

It wasn't just the people around the wild teleportation array who were asking for a team or cursing at others. When Wu Ming returned to the magical forest, he saw even more people!

Now the villages in Treasure Island have become lively. Along the way, you can see teams fighting monsters and leveling up, as well as exploring new map areas, although their levels are not as high as Wu Ming's!

Wu Ming climbed down from the top vine in the wild. He could be said to be the first high-level player to open up this wild area at this stage. He quickly attracted discussions from people nearby who were leveling up and looking for team-ups!

Because of killing the Pianus cub, Wu Ming began to become a big star in the MapleStory world dimension!

"Damn, that guy up front is a big shot who's leveling up alone! He's already level 19! It seems like apart from those people from the chaebol families who are level 18-19, they're just desperately taking on quests to level up!"

The person who originally wanted to invite Wu Ming to join the team opened Wu Ming's character invitation panel and discovered Wu Ming's level, and exclaimed in surprise!

"Could it be that they discovered a bug? Otherwise, how could they level up so quickly? Could it be because they killed the Pianus cub?"

"This is the beginning of a real world! How could there be a bug? Do you still think this is a game?"

"He was able to reach level 19 all by himself! How is that possible?"

"I envy those who sneak in a final blow like this. I'm jealous!"

Listening to the rumors about himself, Wu Ming didn't care at all!

Suddenly, several people appeared and blocked his way to hand in the task!

"Brother, can we chat for a moment?"

"I don't have anything to talk about with you!"

Wu Ming didn't give them any face at all. After all, he was a lone wolf now. He didn't stop walking and just walked around them and continued forward!

"Brother! I just want to ask you for some upgrade techniques. If you can teach me, I can pay you 500 million for your upgrade techniques!"

"How much? Five hundred million?"

The man behind him who was blocking his way reported a number that made Wu Ming pause!

Was I crazy, or was this world ruined? After traveling to MapleStory, I'd never touched a hundred thousand Blue Star Coins, yet for the past two days, I'd been hearing offers of hundreds of millions! And they were all related to me!

Seeing Wu Ming stop, the man smiled and continued talking!

"I, Zhao, will definitely not refuse to give you a favor!"

After hearing this, Wu Ming understood something.

The identity of this Mr. Zhao is probably not that simple. He might be the eldest son of that listed company group!

Five hundred million is a digital currency that I or other ordinary people will never be able to touch in their lifetime, but in the eyes of these groups or chaebols, it is not even worth pocket money!

"I don't have any methods or techniques to level up. I defeated all the monsters one by one!"

After thinking for a long time, Wu Ming spoke lightly to Young Master Zhao in front of him, then turned and left.

"Brother Zhao, this guy doesn't give you face. He must be a fool! He's not even excited about so much money!"

"I have an idea. Arrange some people to follow him. If he refuses to reveal the shortcut to leveling up, then by following him we will definitely find his method of leveling up!"

Beside him, Young Master Zhao's lackey started talking!

"How many employees of our group are there in this dimension?"

Perhaps he felt that this method was feasible, so he was silent for a moment and then directly asked the lackey secretary next to him!

"I've counted them. There are about thirty people here. Half of them are already at Treasure Island. The remaining half have already reached level ten and are preparing to take the boat to Treasure Island this afternoon!"

That secretary-looking lackey was saying the data that Young Master Zhao wanted to hear!

"Tell them all to gather in the Magic Forest now! All taxi fares will be reimbursed! If they're coming by boat, have them come here immediately, and all will be reimbursed!"

That Young Master Zhao said this proudly.

According to the information details in MapleStory, in the MapleStory world, adventurers before level 30 are protected by the world's will and cannot attack each other!

Now what he was thinking was, either tell me a way to upgrade quickly, or I would get a group of people to surround you, prevent you from upgrading, and waste a few days of your time!