Chapter 136 Sandworm Nest
While the casual players in Innadri were working hard to make money to solve Westram's financial problems, in the Exile Town deep in the Tarantan Wasteland, a team of players led by Qin Guan was fighting in the wilderness.
"Vanilla, are you sure you're going in the right direction? Is there really a mining area here?"
The engineering guy who could only go online after 7pm gave me some medicine. I looked around for a long time with my hands on my back, but saw nothing but a desolate rocky beach.
"This direction is definitely correct. The mission text of Xi Shisan says it's southeast from the town. Go straight for ten kilometers and you'll see it." Qin Guan also looked around and said confidently, "The description of that place is 'surrounded by hills, with forests in the east, rivers in the south, and a rocky beach in the northwest.' We've found the rocky beach, so we're not far from our destination."
The game has not yet opened a map function, and players can only rely on themselves to find their way wherever they want to go; fortunately, the game does not include area maps with particularly complex scenes, and as long as there are clear direction guides, most tasks can be found smoothly - if there is no map and an Undercity is created, players will definitely rebel.
It was 7:30 in the evening in reality, but it was still broad daylight in the game. He looked at the direction of the sun while giving me the medicine, and nodded, "Okay, let's go for another walk."
The veteran players who had completed two expedition missions were quite familiar with the situation in Tarantan. They did not form a long snake formation that could easily lead to an ambush by monsters. Instead, they moved forward in a group. As they moved forward, they also skillfully used identification magic on any place where monsters might be hiding... they were very experienced.
Of course, it is this sophistication that slows down the speed of large-scale group actions of players.
"There's a monster over there!" A player walking on the periphery suddenly pointed excitedly at the bushes not far away and shouted, "There's a level 3 monster squatting over there!"
The players on both sides immediately threw their identifications towards the bushes:
"Sharp-toothed Gray Snake"
"LV3"
"A low-level monster that is rare in the desert Gobi. It is good at stealth and is extremely poisonous."
“Possible drops: Toxic Crystal (rare), Intermediate Magic Crystal (excellent).”
“Guaranteed drops: Highly Toxic Snake Fang (Excellent), Gray Snake Skin (Ordinary), Highly Toxic Venom Sac (Excellent).”
Without waiting for the leader Qin Guan to call out, the group of natural disasters who were excited when they saw the monsters cheered and ran away...
The sharp-toothed gray snake, which is extremely poisonous, good at stealth and has a natural protective color, is a nightmare for travelers. But to the undead, it is a piece of cake... Lurking will fail miserably before the identification spell, and the poison is even more boring to the undead than piercing damage.
The players on the combat side attacked in groups and killed the giant snake as thick as a bucket. The players on the life side took out knives, collection bags and other tools and surrounded it. They skillfully cut out the poisonous crystals, removed the snake's fangs, peeled the snake's skin, cut off the snake's gallbladder and venom sac, and other materials that could be scanned for information using identification techniques. They then dug a hole on the spot and buried the smelly snake meat...all done.
Xi Shisan had to log off due to some matters. The two friends she called, Qiyuexue and Bayuegua, carried her body and followed the group of players. Once again, they witnessed how the veteran players played hunting with great skill. The two novice female players opened their mouths wide again...
"That 's amazing." Qiyuexue exclaimed, "Just looking at the descriptions on the forum and the video pictures doesn't make much sense. Only when you see it with your own eyes do you realize how amazing the veteran players are, right, sister?"
July Snow's elder sister, August Melon, nodded repeatedly: "It's completely different from us pushing MC and Black Wing."
One of the main output players, Giving Me Medicine, almost raised his nose to the sky when he heard the two girls sighing sincerely. He pretended to be indifferent and said, "It's just so-so. The monsters in the wild look high-level and large, but they are actually easier to kill than the monsters in the spider den. Most of them are alone and don't have minions. You won't attract dozens of them by killing one."
"Yeah, when newbies first started playing, they thought the monsters in this game were too fierce. It was all because of the unreasonable design of the spider's nest." Qin Guan didn't pretend to be cool this time, and said honestly, "Don't say that it's easy for a newbie team to be wiped out. Even a team of veteran players will be wiped out if they are not careful."
An old player girl laughed nearby: "You can see that when we old players fight monsters, we all wear these bandages to put our weapons on our hands. They are all experiences gained from dying in the spider nest. If we die, at least we won't drop our weapons."
Qiyuexue immediately approached the veteran player girl and said, "Sister, where did you get this bandage? I didn't see it for sale in the NPC store."
"If you can't buy it, you have to find a civilian NPC to exchange it with. You know the Undead Canteen, right? It's in the middle of Life Lane. Take a few copper coins and exchange them for half a pound of rock sugar from the tool man in the Undead Canteen. Then you can find a civilian NPC to exchange for this kind of bandage - damn it!"
This veteran player girl was generously sharing her experience when something strange happened - a gray-white thing as thick as a thermos bottle suddenly rushed out of the sand, and the top hit the girl's waist hard, knocking her flying and rolling several meters away.
"Fuck?!" Qin Guan, who was standing nearby, widened his eyes.
Give me some medicine to react faster, and immediately slash at the unknown creature that was attacking people with the weapon in his hand.
"Which bastard attacked me?!" The girl, who was covered in dirt and dust, suddenly jumped up, furious.
"I didn't see it clearly, so I shrank back." Qin Guan said, covering his chest.
"It popped out of the ground at a very fast speed... I can't identify it. It seems to be out of range." The one who was holding the empty box frowned and stared at the ground nearby.
Other players gathered around and asked, "What happened? What knocked Fanfan away?"
The ID of the female player who was knocked away was "Don't Talk to Me". Because her ID was difficult to abbreviate and inconvenient to call out, everyone who knew her called her Fanfan.
Fanfan is a Zaun girl who appears calm on the outside but is actually irritable on the inside. She was furious at the attack for no reason. She looked around with gritted teeth, suddenly squatted down, roughly pulled out a long thorn branch growing close to the ground from the rocks, and poked it hard into the sand pit where the unknown creature emerged.
The players present watched helplessly as the several-meter-long brambles were pushed to the ground by her...
"What a deep pit!" Fanfan himself was shocked.
"What on earth is that?" The man who gave me the medicine had a horrified look on his face. He wasn't afraid of hideous monsters, but he couldn't stand weird things . "What's going on underground?"
July Snow and August Melon, the sisters who couldn't , slowly retreated hand in hand.
"Hey, behind you two--" an old player suddenly pointed behind the two sisters and shouted.
July Snow was stunned for a moment and didn't react, but August Melon reacted and turned his head suddenly.
Before Bayuegua could see the situation behind her clearly, she felt some sudden force hit her from behind, and she was knocked flying like Fanfan before. She fell to the ground with a scream, and rolled over, and only stopped when she hit the crowd.
This time there were more "witnesses", and many players used the identification spell in time:
"Sandworm"
"LV1"
"A low-level monster commonly seen in deserts and Gobi."
"Possible drops: Pure Magic Residue (Excellent), Low-level Magic Residue (Ordinary)."
"Guaranteed drop: Whole portion of sandworm meat (common)"
The players who scanned the monster's information were confused: "Level 1 monster? This thing is only level 1?"
"Aren't there only high-level monsters in the wild? Why are there level one monsters so far away from the Novice Village?"
Qin Guan made a "hmm" sound, looked around at the endless desert, and randomly cast an identification spell at a certain place below the surface.
I don't know if he was lucky or not, but he just casually scanned the ground and actually identified the information of four sandworms...
Qin Guan was stunned, and quickly shouted: "Those who have CD for identification skills, quickly scan the ground below!"
Players instinctively follow instructions.
A wave of skills was thrown, and all the players were shocked:
"The underground is full of sandworms?!"
"Fuck, I found a sandworm nest 20 meters deep. So disgusting!"
"vomit--!"
"Go, go, I'm getting goosebumps!"
This Gobi Desert is much larger than the players imagined. They ran almost three kilometers before getting out of the Gobi Desert and entering a hilly area.
All the players breathed a sigh of relief when they found an abandoned mining area consisting of a few simple earthen houses surrounded by hills.
When the players saw the familiar zombie NPC standing in front of the mud house, they felt that these ugly zombies had become cute.
"Finally I found a place." Qin Guan sighed, then turned to ask Qiyuexue who was carrying the corpse, "Xiaoxue, did Xi Shisan say when she can go up?"
"She said she was going to have a meal with her childhood friend and would be online in two hours at most." Qiyuexue looked down at the Earth time displayed on the system, "It should be soon."
"Then let's interact with the NPC here first to see what the plot is." Qin Guan nodded, and then walked towards the zombie NPC standing at the outermost position.
You don't need to identify this zombie NPC to see the green text above its head: Stephen Burney, definitely a friendly camp.
Qin Guan entered a certain range, and before he could speak, Stephen Bernie turned his neck stiffly, and glared at Qin Guan with an ugly face with dark blue skin that looked like the Red Skull in Marvel movies.
"Ah... are they compatriots?" Stephen, expressionless, said in a fake excited tone, "Are they compatriots from the pioneer group? How is the Exile Town now ?"
Without waiting for Qin Guan to respond, the NPC started to feel miserable again: "What nonsense am I talking about... You have also become undead, and Exile Town has fallen, right?"
"Yes." Qin Guan had no choice but to nod.
"Woss bravely went back to report the news, but it seems he failed... Have you seen Voss, fellow countrymen? Is he also cursed like us?" Stephen said sadly.
"Well... he did fail. He failed to bring back the news. We don't even know what happened to you." Qin Guan tried hard to fit into the role. "Where is Merry Bowen? Is she with you?"
If the keywords match, the zombie NPC can continue to interact: "Merry Bowen was separated from us. She ran into the desert alone when she lost control. Please help us find her, compatriots."
Then the zombie NPC raised his arm and pointed at the Gobi Desert where everyone came from.
Players: “…”
