Chapter 042 Goodbye Iraqis
Learning lightness skill has this advantage, and flying over the eaves and walls avoids a lot of trouble. I am a red man now, and wherever I go, there will be red on my body. Generally speaking, red people are either traitors or thieves, and most of them are heinous people. There are still a few people who have no intention of becoming red people like me. In order to reduce trouble, after I left the inn, I picked up places where there were few people. I feel a little humbled when I think about myself. I used to wander around the city for a day, but almost no one paid attention to it. Now I have become a celebrity and immediately become a target of public criticism. As the old saying goes, people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. It is really inconvenient to become a red man.
The task I took in Zhoucheng was to slay 1000 red people, and it seems that the task will be completed in the foreseeable future. At present, the only red man I have ever seen is myself. Where can I find so many red men to kill? Killing a red man can get a ten-point reputation, and completing a basic task can also get a ten-point reputation. My popularity is -180 now, and I have a long way to go to make red disappear from my head. If you want to stay away from trouble, you have to avoid the crowd. From then on, I can only go back to the city at night.
I chose a remote road to get out of town. My current level is really too low. If I want to save my life, I must practice my life value above 2000 and my physical strength a little longer. Xiaolong’s Longyan is still very unstable, and I can’t afford to lose at all. Although practicing in the wild is much slower, it is relatively safe, so I chose the wild.
One hundred kilometers west of Nanzhou City, there is a deep mountain with many unknown monsters. I’m going to go there to train far away from the world. I made up my mind in my heart that I would never return to the city until I reached level 40.
It took me a whole day to reach the foot of the deep mountain, although I can fly lightly. This place is really inaccessible. I didn’t even see an npc along the way. The mountains are nameless, stretching for thousands of miles, until Hei Hu. I plunged into it without hesitation. I caught the little dragon out of my bag. When this guy saw it was a mountain, he was so excited that he flew into the sky and scared away many birds and animals.
Since then, I have stayed in the mountains with Xiaolong, and I have never picked anything. It took me three months to practice, and I only reached level 40 and level 36 of Xiaolong. My current state is:
Strength: 55
Intelligence: 20
Personality: 20
Hit rate: 45
Speed: 79
Lucky: 2
Attack power: 20
Lethality: 55~75
Health: 2180
Magic value: 0
Physical strength value: 400
Physical armor class: 65
Magic armor class: 20
Skills: intermediate sword, double the waving speed.
Special skills: intermediate level, full attack, basic lethality of 85, energy consumption of 30;
Intermediate armor manufacturing, which can make platinum equipment and have intermediate item identification;
Intermediate level of lightness skill;
Intermediate level of relieving fatigue;
Monster identification intermediate.
Although all my special skills can be upgraded to the master level, I can only be at the intermediate level because I haven’t found a mentor to upgrade to the master level. Xiaolong is better than me. Now he can fly freely in the sky, but he can’t fly with people on his back. He is still in the growth stage. The state of Xiaolong is: attack power 80; Lethality 102 ~ 120; Physical defense 100; Magic defense 50; Life value of 2500; Physical strength 500; Special skills: Long Yan, all attacks, need to be full of inflammation, basic lethality 500.
I looked at the state of the little dragon and sighed at the bottom of my heart. Is the dragon really worse than human beings? At least I have a broken sword. This guy is so powerful with only four African claws. It’s really too contemptuous of us humans. However, I’m still a little relieved. What about dragons? They are not only human pets, but also my pets, hehe!
I stayed in the mountains for three months, and my body is still glowing with red light. I am still a red man, but my red man is now in a high rank. If there was no broken sword, I wouldn’t have reached level 40 so quickly. Although Xiaolong followed me, his level would never catch up with mine. My flying skill has not reached the master level at present, but adding skill points still has a certain effect. I think I am only a little bit away from the realm of walking through the snow without trace. Xiaolong stayed in the mountains for several months. It has been a long time since he got into his luggage. Now he got into it reluctantly.
It only took me half a day to go back to Nanzhou. The npc in the inn is still very trustworthy. My horse was taken care of by them for three months, and they never used their brains to sell it or take it for themselves. Nanzhoucheng is more prosperous now than it was three months ago. Players are everywhere, and all kinds of occupations are sound. My appearance did not cause any sensational effect. It seems that people are no longer strangers to the red man in recent months.
After paying for the horse, I covered my face with a monk’s robe and walked towards the task management center in Nanzhou City. I remember when I left the novice village, the ghost king told me that I would go back to look for him at level 40, so I wanted to go to the task hall to see if there were any task rewards to return to the novice village.
It is still very abrupt for a red man like me to appear alone in the mission hall. Because red people have to worry about being hunted down, if they want to take on the task, they basically have to bring a lot of friends to protect the frame. Some people saw that I was only coming alone, and their eyes flashed with greed. Because of the city rules, they had to resist the impulse to kill me. The hall is crowded, and I don’t care what others think of me. After all, my ranking is the first in the game now. Who dares to touch me? Before I went online for the last time to train in the deep mountains, I went to the forum to look at the game list, and this time there were several more artifacts in the artifact list. What excites me the most is that my name ranks first in the ranking list, and the second place is just like Xiaolong, which is 36. Hey, hey, I’m the highest-ranking red man in the game now. Anyone who wants to use my brain must weigh his own weight first.
In an inconspicuous corner, I found a task that requires a level of 40, and the task reward is to return to the novice village. Most people don’t care about this task, because no one has reached level 40 yet, and because most people never want to go back after coming out of the novice village. I am a man of heavy commitment. Since I promised to go back to see the Ghost King after Level 40, I naturally have to find a way back to the novice village.
The name of this task is very funny, called: level 40 boring task. Task requirements: find five kinds of articles in life, and then go to the shopkeeper of Menghui Restaurant. Task reward: return to the novice village. If it weren’t for what the Ghost King said before I left, the possibility of me taking this task would be very small, because this task is really boring, and normal people disdain to do this task with some benefits. To tell you the truth, I came to the task hall just to try my luck. I didn’t have much hope, but I didn’t expect there was such a task.
I was about to walk out of the hall when a familiar figure came in from the outside. I couldn’t help shouting, "Lin Mu!" "
Chapter 043 Boring task
"Xiao Hou! It’s really you! " Lin Mu cried out in surprise when he saw that there was red light on me.
Lin Mu left such a deep impression on me that I couldn’t help crying out when I saw her again. "Miss Lin, are you all right?"
"I’m fine. Now I’ve got a hall master in the meeting. It’s you. Why have you been a red man for so long?"
"A few months ago, after the first world war, I stayed in the mountains to train, and I didn’t come out to do the task, so I was still full of red light."
"Well, let me have a look. Hero Xiao, level 40, life 2180, defense 65. Ah! Are you the first on the ranking list? " I listened to her question strangely and thought to myself, "Is my name fake? The name of the ranking list is so big that she can’t see it, can she? " In fact, Lin Mu really can’t see it. Just like the last time I saw Hei Hu, I can only guess from his rank that he is a figure on the rank list. The specific name is really invisible, and only "?"is displayed. Number. This is also the official to protect the players and deliberately blocked the names of the players. Otherwise, if some unscrupulous people gather to slay the first place, it is no joke. Mainly the 1% experience is still coveted by many people. I nodded at her and acknowledged it.
"I knew you were great. Xiao Hou, I was worried about you when you didn’t join this association. Now it seems that I am worried about it. However, as a red man, you really have to be careful. Although others don’t know that you are the top of the ranking list, you can know your ranking if you have a heart. "
"eh? What the hell is exploration? Is that what you used when you looked at me just now? "
"Yes, exploration is actually the same as monster identification, but the object of exploration is people, while monster identification can identify all the people and monsters in the game. I didn’t finish the task in the novice village, so I didn’t learn monster identification, but I learned exploration. "
I’m a little surprised that Lin Mu said so. After all, the priest’s monster identification can be promoted to the master level, but it’s a pity that he can’t learn it. She appeared in Nanzhou, so I asked, "Miss Lin, you didn’t come to Nanzhou alone, did you?"
"Well, I brought all the elites in the hall. They are resting in the inn now. I’ll come to the task hall first to see what group tasks can be done. Xiao Hou, I know you are lucky. Please do me a favor, will you? " Lin Mu’s tone of voice has changed a lot since before. She seems to be a little polite to me. I don’t know what happened to her these days.
"If you have anything to say, as long as I can do it, I won’t refuse."
Lin Mu took out the hatching nest I made for her golden eagle egg last time from her bag and handed it to my hand. She sighed faintly and said, "Xiao Hou, maybe I really shouldn’t leave you. Since I was separated from you, this egg has never shown any signs of hatching. I think it may be that I am inseparable from Golden Eagle. Now I want to give it to you, please help me to hatch it. If you don’t want to raise it then, you’d better send it back to the Dead Cliff, after all, that’s its home. "
"I can do it. I just took a task, and I can go back to the novice village after I finish it. At that time, I will go to the Broken Soul Cliff again and put it back. Miss Lin, I shouldn’t stay here long. Goodbye. " I turned and left, and Lin Mu’s sigh came from behind: "Xiao Hou, my friend channel is always open for you. Remember to page me if you need anything." I just paused and left the mission hall without looking back.
The five flavors of goods are nothing more than sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty. I wonder if there are any condiments in the game. If there are, it will be much easier to do this task. I think there should be, otherwise the food in the restaurant wouldn’t be so delicious. It seems that those things are not sold in the grocery store. Where can I find them? Out of the mission hall, looking at the vast sea of people, I felt a sense of helplessness spreading all over my body.
I really can’t think of a good way, so I have to ask from door to door. In this way, it must be publicity. At my present level, I’m not afraid of someone coming after me, just afraid of trouble. My face is really cold enough, so I found many things that my family didn’t get a taste. In desperation, crustily skin of head in south could crazy looking for. This task is really a boring task!
Every time I go to an npc’s house, people will be scared by my cold face, and the request for condiments will naturally be ruined. Now only those who hope to do business can have those things to sell, because business people only look at whether you have money or not, and nothing else matters. I gave up the idea of searching in the homes of ordinary people, and instead used lightness skill to sweep the roofs of all the streets and lanes in search of vendors selling groceries.
Everything comes to him who waits. I didn’t find five items until I searched all the Nanzhou. Wang Po, who sells sour in the square in the city, bought a sour radish there; I found a square businessman in a small corner of East Street and bought a bunch of candied haws from him. Bought a coptis root in the market of South Street; I found a very spicy rice pepper in a small vegetable garden in the west of the city. Look around and see no one. Hey, hey, when I mentioned the lightness skill, when the figure passed by, I caught a rice pepper in my hand. The most difficult thing to find is the salty taste. Fortunately, when I was cornered in the north of the city, I actually saw a woman carrying a bag of things to throw into the garbage dump. When she asked, she said that it was a bag of salted fish sold from the south. Because it was left for a long time, it began to maggot, so I had to throw it away. I don’t care whether the maggots are maggots or not. I endured the stench and picked one that weighed three or two times. I got rid of the maggots, tore up a piece of cloth, wrapped it up and threw it into my luggage.
I found all five things, so I quickly went to Dream Back to the restaurant. When I put all five things in front of the shopkeeper, the old guy’s brow wrinkled, especially when he smelled the stench of salted fish. If I hadn’t held him, he would have slipped away. The old shopkeeper looked at these five things and said with a bitter face, "You are so boring! You can find this kind of thing. It seems that the old man has to get something. Boy, you wait here. " The shopkeeper took five things and went to the kitchen.
I waited in the lobby for a long time before the shopkeeper brought out a dish and a pot of wine. That dish was made of five things I gave him earlier. You definitely have no appetite at all when you look at five things alone, but it’s different after being served by the shopkeeper. At this time, I smell a strange fragrance and my mouth is about to flow out. After the shopkeeper put away the food and wine, he said to me with a smile, "Boy, you are really good. You can make delicious dishes from such humble things. Do you know how this dish is made?"
I shook my head, only to hear him continue: "First, wash the salted fish with clear water, then cook it with clear water for half an hour, then put the whole Rhizoma Coptidis in and cook it together for two minutes to remove the fishy smell. During this period, wash and fry the rice pepper, shred the sour radish and bake it in the pot. After this, the Rhizoma Coptidis takes it out and discards it. Put the dried sour radish and fried rice pepper in the salted fish pot and simmer it with fish soup." The old lady gave this dish a name, which is called "Five Flavors". Boy, you have a delicious meal. Come and have a drink with the old lady. " When the old man finished, he took the bowl and filled it with wine.
I listened to one leng one leng, recalling the old guy’s cooking process, I have to admire that this dish must have a very special taste after such a treatment. I’m not at all polite. After I finish the wine in the bowl in one breath, I grab the food with my hands and eat it. The taste was slightly sweet in acid, bitter but not astringent, and then there was a pungent smell, which covered up all the discomfort, and a wonderful feeling came from the tongue, making the whole body feel comfortable for a while. I gave the old man a thumbs-up in delight.
The old guy didn’t have a few bites of food, so he had to drink. When he saw me extending my thumb to him, he grinned: "Boy, in order to thank you for bringing this new recipe to our restaurant, I’ll take you to a place you want to go. Come here." Then the old guy got up and started walking towards the inner room. I thought this place must have something to do with this task, so I followed it.
Chapter 044 The Secret of Breaking the Sword
Dream back to the backyard of the restaurant, should be manned private residence. There is a transmission array in the yard, not a portal. The old shopkeeper pointed to the transmission array and said, "This transmission array is a two-way transmission array back to the novice village. You can go back and forth from here in the future. Ha ha, smelly boy, if you find any good ingredients in the future, remember to bring them to me, and I’ll make them into good dishes, and then we’ll drink. "
"Hey hey, sure! Sure! I’m pressed for time, so I won’t tell you much. See you later! " I took a fancy to the old guy, and I didn’t speak so presumptuously anymore. With a fist at him, I dodged into the transmission array.