Chapter 29 Sorry to bother you!
"Hey, hey...wait!" Qin Guan suddenly shouted, "This body is not Morris!"
"Hey, can you identify people by looking at their skeletons?" I was stunned when I was given the medicine.
"Identification technique, idiot! Can identification technique be used on corpses too!" Qin Guan rolled his eyes at him.
Qin Guan's reminder made the other five people suddenly realize what was going on, and they all threw identification skills at the body in the hole in the wall...
This is what is called "not cherishing something that is easily obtained" - in the two groups of players, Qin Guan and La Hongge are both the unlucky ones whose initial potential values are very low. They worked hard for several days before their potential values reached the threshold of 40 points before they could use the appraisal skill. After finally learning this initial skill, they naturally wanted to show off their skills whenever they had the chance...
On the contrary, other players who can easily obtain this initial skill do not make as good use of identification as they do.
Under the identification technique, a line of words appeared on the head of the skeleton in the hole in the wall: "Yallin's body."
"Yarlin?!" Miaobishenghua looked at Aipincaiyingying in shock.
Only hard work can win Jiang Wei, who was also looking at her in shock.
Their previous guess was wrong? The last townsman to enter the underground passage was not the protagonist of the mission, Morris?
"Wait a minute, Yaerlin was Morris's good friend and the mayor mentioned in the letter. He died here with Morris's letter... Could it be that Morris was already dead before the townspeople called GG and were wiped out?" Miaobishenghua took a breath, "Wait a minute! Could the zombie arm found with the letter when taking the medicine be Morris's arm?!"
The zombie's arm was in the backpack that I carried to give me medicine. Hearing this, he said hurriedly, "I have examined this arm, and it shows that it is an 'ownerless broken arm'."
"I know. Of course, you can't identify the owner of an arm. What I mean is that Morris is likely to have died before Yaerlin, so his family letter fell into Yaerlin's hands!" Miao Bisheng waved his hands and spoke very quickly, "It is also possible that Morris has become some kind of insane psychopath or monster because of that 'laughter', and is the culprit or one of the culprits of the annihilation of the townspeople!"
"What the hell! The protagonist is the murderer?!" Mingfeng Chunchun & Huanling, who had been quietly listening to their orders, were shocked.
"Not necessarily, it's just a possibility. In this case, in addition to finding the remaining letters, we may also need to find Morris's body." At this point, Miaobishenghua paused, "Now we have two choices, one is to go out and meet up with En Buzeng and the others, the other is to continue searching. My personal suggestion is to meet up with them first and then search, what do you think?"
There are many passages in the underground shelter, and judging from the scale of the shelter they found, it doesn't seem like it can be used by all the townspeople. In other words, if they follow the passages out, there may be an underground space that is larger than the shelter they discovered.
Whether it was "Yarlin" who suffocated to death by hiding in the hole in the wall behind the empty box, or the third letter they found, Miaobishenghua had a bad premonition. She felt that if the six of them continued to search deeply in this strange underground space, something might happen...
Qin Guan and Give Me Medicine definitely supported Miao Bi Sheng Hua. Ming Feng Chun Pu and Huan Ling, the two players, were originally called by Brother La Hong to help, so they had no objection. The four of them looked at each other and simultaneously turned their attention to Only Hard Work Can Win.
Players can use identification to check each other's basic information. The LV1 level and 53 potential points of "Only Hard Work Can Win" naturally represent the right to speak among players who value numbers the most.
Jiang Wei glanced at the other deep passages in the shelter, hesitated, and nodded reluctantly: "Okay...it's safer to be conservative and give me the medicine here."
Jiang Wei didn't think there was anything wrong with taking a risk, since the team would be wiped out at most. However, he was also worried that if the triggering task was to give me medicine and die, it would affect the task. After all, the tasks in this game were both weird and hardcore, so he didn't dare to take the risk.
The six people reached a consensus and quickly left the shelter...
On the other side, after running for a while in the dark passage, the Entropy No Increase Team came to a cave with strange rocks, rugged terrain, stalactites and strange mushrooms.
This cave is huge! Very huge! Lord Yang's herb field is like a bucket of water compared to this swimming pool!
What’s even more terrifying is... this huge cave that seems to have no end is filled with spiders of all shapes and sizes!
All the stalactites are wrapped with strange thick silk webs, and spiders of various sizes and shapes are crawling and wriggling wherever the eye can see.
On the ground, there was even a spider-like monster with eight legs as sharp as knives and a body more like a praying mantis shuttling back and forth...
The five people who had just walked out of the passage turned around and ran without saying a word. Tang Jia and La Hongge, who had been talking about how to kill monsters more efficiently along the way, ran especially fast, and the others almost couldn't catch up.
Sorry to bother you!
Twenty minutes later.
The two groups of players will meet at the cabin where they completed the mission within the agreed time.
"Hey, why are there only two of you left? Where are the others?" Miaobishenghua looked at Enbuseng and Lahongge strangely.
"Uh... dead." En Bu Zeng said awkwardly, "We ran to the monster spawning point, and the cave was full of spider monsters... I accidentally fell when I was running away, and Sandwich Gummy (Tang Jia), Yang Ying and Chenmi Xuexi turned back to save me... I ran away, but the three of them are gone."
Tang Jia and Yang Ying are Zheng Qingyue's friends, so they will definitely try to save her. As for the girl who is obsessed with studying, she probably feels that she has been saved once, so she wants to return the favor...
Wonderful writing: "..."
"You found a monster spawning point?!" Qin Guan didn't even sympathize with the three girls who had logged off. He asked in surprise, "Have you found a safe route out of town?"
"The route is quite safe. It's right under the cellar at the northeastern end of the town. Just walk to the end of the road." Brother Lahong said, "But the place where monsters spawn is not safe. There are so many monsters in the cave that there is no place to stand. I guess if we don't pull a large group over, we probably won't be able to survive."
"Let's put the monster spawning point aside for now." Miaobishenghua said quickly, "This monster spawning point is brought by the mission. If we don't complete the mission, you never know when the bad planner will close the passage."
How could she not know the character of the players? If they knew that they could spawn monsters, they might abandon their quests and go crazy!
After these words were spoken, Qin Guan and La Hongge, who had indeed begun to be tempted, calmed down... They were both capable of organizing a large group to kill monsters, and it was very likely that they would drop their missions and go out for fun.
Next, the two sides summarized the information they had searched for each other...
"Morris' wife came here, but she took the wrong path and entered the place leading to the monster's lair, right..." Miaobishenghua's tone was a little heavy. After all, she was a writer and was more emotional. Even the tragedy in the mission plot was unbearable to her.
En Bu Zeng carefully read the two letters found by the Miao Bi Sheng Hua team again and again, and said solemnly: "You have also found something very remarkable... Is there a setting like the evil god in this game?"
"Almost exactly." Miaobishenghua nodded. "Unable to judge distance, laughter that no one else can hear, loss of control, madness, it looks like a Cthulhu mythology. Most importantly, the mayor 'Yarlin' hid himself in a hole in the wall behind an empty box and suffocated himself to death. There are more or less scars on the skeletons of our players, but Yarlin has no wounds at all."
Entropy Bu Zeng understood: "That's right. They were afraid of what happened in the town, so they hid underground. However, there were also things underground that scared Yarlin very much, so he hid and dared not move... As expected of the place chosen by the black magician as the place for the resurrection of the undead race in the game setting, this town has a lot of problems."
After a pause, En Bu Zeng continued, "There is another question. Did Morris's wife go into the tunnel to find her husband's trace, or did she encounter danger on the surface and had to go into the tunnel to escape?"
"Apart from that rat, what other dangers could there be in this town? It can't be those slow zombie NPCs." He complained.
As soon as he said this, everyone present stared at him intently...
"Yeah! Zombies !" Miaobishenghua pinched his thigh bone hard, "How could we forget such an obvious thing!"
"The zombie NPCs in the town are the former townspeople? That's not right. The general mentioned in the letter is clearly named Charlotte, but the zombie general not far from the resurrection point is clearly named Lancelot Edgar." Qin Guan said in confusion.
"Wait, wait!" En Buzeng suddenly thought of something and excitedly raised the letter he found in the hand of Yaerlin's corpse. "The 'Farmer's Son Bildad' mentioned in this letter was the first person to go crazy. The zombie NPC who issued the task of clearing the river was called Bildad!"
When players are doing quests, they rarely care about the name of the NPC who issues the quest.
Especially NPCs with foreign names, except for those that are particularly important, have important plots or identities, or leave a deep impression on players, they are generally not remembered by players - for example, countless beast players will definitely not be able to tell the name of the owner of the Undercity Inn, or the name of the flying NPC.
Even in a holographic game like "Otherworld" with a perfect sense of immersion , the only names that players in the game can name so far are those high-level NPCs who often kill players mercilessly, such as the assassin mentor Hal, the ranger mentor Tattle, the treasure expert Pansy, the weapon master Rex, the knight mentor Jerome...
If the player has to buy a waist bag from the sewing skill instructor NPC, it is estimated that 90% of the players cannot remember the name .
The reason why Entropy Bu Zeng was able to remember the NPC who issued the task of cleaning the river was because she, Tang Jia and Yang Ying had been moving bricks here for a few days...
The players rushed to the river and found the zombie NPC with a green name "Bildad" on his head.
Upon seeing the player, this low-intelligence zombie NPC proactively strikes up a conversation according to the program: "Hi, fellows, would you like to help me do something?"
"Bildad, do you know Maurice?!" Miaobishenghua asked anxiously.
The name Morris seemed to be some kind of switch. Bildad, who was dull and mechanical and only interacted according to the task program, said something new: "Maurice? What a memorable name! I remember him."
"There's hope!" The players were excited.
The brilliant pen continued the negotiation: "What happened to Morris? Where did he go? Do you have any letter from Morris?"
“Yes.” Bildad only responded to the last sentence, slowly stood up and entered the hut behind him…
Players who even broke into the tents of high-level NPCs who killed people at will also tried to sneak into the cabins where zombie NPCs lived and rummage through the drawers.
However, no player wants to do this now - zombie NPCs will not kill players like high-level NPCs, but if players enter their houses, a red warning will pop up immediately saying "Player has violated the ban on undead race players", and then they will be forced to die and return to the resurrection point, and be kicked offline.
In short, these zombie NPCs are protected by the system gods and are even more difficult to deal with than high-level NPCs.
A group of players waited for a long time, and this zombie NPC, whose movements were slower than a centenarian, finally took out a roll of parchment.
The mission requires players to find the fifth letter. The characters on it are arranged relatively neatly, but the font is very bad. The lines of each character are shaking violently, as if the writer could not control his hand at all when he picked up the pen.
Fortunately, Morris seemed to be quite rational when he wrote this letter, and the content of the letter can still be translated by the system:
"Dear Anna:"
"I can't remember how many days I've been away from you, my love."
"If possible, I would like to see you one last time..."
"But I can't see you again."
"Maybe... madness is a kind of relief, while rationality makes people suffer. I hate that I can always wake up and use my rational brain to recall the past over and over again, recall my love for you, and recall how numb my sinful soul is."
"When Charlotte imprisoned those poor people, everyone was secretly glad that the hardest work would be done by those outsiders, and everyone was secretly proud that they were not the poor people who fell into this situation... I was one of them, and I am guilty."
"I gradually realized that those strange laughs were actually cries echoing in the tunnel..."
"When they were alive, we turned a deaf ear to their desperate cries so close to us. We took their suffering as normal. We did not think they were worthy of sympathy. We even ignored the most basic common sense - they are also human beings."
“They are back…”
"I smell the stench of decay in myself. I can no longer hold you in my arms."
"Our filthy souls and rotten bodies are left here forever. This is our final salvation..."
"I don't remember how long I was in a daze this time. I vaguely felt like I was dreaming."
"In my dream, I saw you, my Anna. I dreamed that you came for me. I dreamed that you walked around the town, calling my name."
"I couldn't help but walk towards you, but I scared you. You didn't recognize me in the dream, and you ran away screaming, which made me very heartbroken..."
"Luckily, it was just a dream."
"Love you forever, Maurice."
Wonderful writing: "..."
The girl handed the letter to her teammates with an expressionless face.
All the players who saw the contents of the letter had a look of shock on their faces...
"Planner Dog, please behave like a human being!!"
