After bidding farewell to Phaeron Smaichel, Yang Tao was ready to return to the great melee, mainly because fighting Khorne's subordinates was simply too exhilarating.
It was completely a hack-and-slash game.
However, Phaeron Smaichel informed him that the chaotic melee between Chaos and the Orks had caused an energy surge in the Warp, and flying there would take two years.
"Two years?! Forget it, I'll just go home and wait for the Emperor to rise."
Two years?
He didn't have that kind of time; if he had two years to sit on a spaceship, he'd rather go to the Backrooms and chat with some Entities.
Bidding farewell to Phaeron Smaichel, Yang Tao stretched out his hand and directly summoned a wooden door, returning to the Overworld.
'Should I go find a Vigilance star to relax?'
Vigilance star was a famous party planet, where you could see humans, orcs, elves, undead, zergs, and even some extremely rare alien races.
In the true sense, life never ends, and battles never stop!
He looked at the remaining unopened wooden doors on the Mist Wall.
'Should I go to the New World and take a look?'
As soon as this thought emerged, Yang Tao walked directly towards the wooden door, arriving at an unopened one, and pushed it open.
A magical forest, where every tree had a distinctive appearance, with straight trunks at least twenty meters high.
At the top, there were spherical canopies, looking as if someone had specifically pruned them.
Outside the jungle, there was a small village; from a distance, some figures could be seen.
"Could it be another adventure-type world?"
Yang Tao walked towards the village, and just then, a pure white rabbit darted out from behind a tree.
He instinctively reached out, grabbed the rabbit by the ear, and with his other hand, he had already pulled out a cobalt dagger and placed it near the large white rabbit's carotid artery.
"My goodness, such a big rabbit, could it be a so-called magical beast?"
The rabbit was about one meter long, truly fat-headed and big-eared, with pure white fur without any Noise.
What made Yang Tao a little strange was that the rabbit was very well-behaved; even when he held it by the ear, it showed no intention of struggling.
He looked at the rabbit, then at the distant village, and Yang Tao muttered to himself, 'Could it be a rabbit raised in the village?'
He wasn't short of a rabbit, so he immediately threw the rabbit to the ground. The large white rabbit calmly ran away, not at all worried about its safety.
As he walked towards the village, his arrival immediately attracted the attention of some Villagers.
They looked him over, and he, too, was observing the Villagers in the village.
"Are you an adventurer?"
Just then, a young man around twenty years old stepped forward, with envy in his eyes, as if an adventurer was some incredible existence.
He had brown hair and wore a light green shirt and jeans…
As a newcomer, Yang Tao didn't understand the situation here, so he could only vaguely say, "I suppose so."
Hearing his answer, the young man opposite him showed an excited expression:
"That's great! Do you need a Guide to introduce this world?"
"Huh?"
Yang Tao looked at the young man in front of him, his brain momentarily overloaded, and he couldn't help but ask, "You know I'm not from this world?"
"Of course! Didn't you say you were an adventurer? adventurers are all from other worlds."
"Are you saying there are many adventurers in this world?"
"I don't know, at least I haven't seen any adventurers besides you."
Yang Tao always felt something was amiss, so he directly asked, "Why do you want to be my Guide?"
"Because I can make money!"
"..."
What a simple and unadorned answer.
If the other party had said something like saving the world or acting out of love, Yang Tao wouldn't have believed a single punctuation mark, but now he completely believed the other party's words.
"What's your name? If possible, you'll be my Guide from now on. It's just that I don't have this world's currency yet, I wonder if money from other worlds will work?"
"Jack, you can call me Jack!"
Jack seemed very excited when Yang Tao agreed, as if he had found a stable job.
"As for the money, I will earn it during your upcoming adventure, you don't have to worry about that, Mr. Yang."
Being suddenly called by name, Yang Tao didn't panic too much, but merely narrowed his eyes and asked with a smile, "How did you know my name?"
"Your name is above your head… That's also one of the marks of an adventurer."
Upon hearing this, Yang Tao looked up and saw his name clearly floating above his head.
'This is unfair!!'
Why am I highlighted with my name, but you are not?
This world was becoming increasingly mysterious, but he also realized that this world should not be a simple adventure world.
Jack saw Yang Tao staring at his name above his head, slightly lost in thought, but he showed no other emotions, merely reminding him:
"Mr. Yang, if you want to start your adventure, you need to make some preparations first, follow me…"
Yang Tao nodded gently at Jack. Regardless, he needed to understand the general situation first.
Following Jack towards the center of the village, the village itself wasn't large, with less than thirty houses in total.
However, the small village was very clean and tidy; there was no clutter on the ground, and even some miscellaneous items were neatly stacked in the corners.
Soon, led by Jack, the two stopped in front of a house: "This is my home, come inside first."
Yang Tao nodded gently.
The two entered the room, and Yang Tao observed the environment inside.
Spotlessly clean, or rather, utterly destitute!
The small room only had a table, a chair, and a pendant lamp hanging from the ceiling. The lamp's material was grayish-white, likely a tin lamp.
Besides that, the room only had one wooden chest.
Jack went over and opened the chest, pulling out an axe, a pickaxe, and a short sword…
He turned and brought these items to him: "These are your starting equipment: a copper short sword, a copper pickaxe, a copper axe…"
Yang Tao looked at the items in Jack's hand, then at Jack, and in an instant, some information popped into his head.
He said, somewhat speechless:
"Don't tell me this is Terra!"
Jack asked, confused, "What's wrong, adventurer? This is indeed Terraria…"
Damn it. Terraria, one of the three major sandbox games.
The other two were Minecraft, which he owned, and Don't Starve.
Terraria is a 2D side-scrolling sandbox game with a rich weapon crafting system.
In the game, players can explore, battle, build, and more. Compared to Minecraft, Terraria focuses on its rich weapon crafting system and exploration elements.
"No wonder there was no exploration value when I came to this world; this world itself is a damn data-driven world…"
He glanced at the values on the 'True Last Sword' in his backpack, and Yang Tao cautiously asked, "Do you know about Calamity?"