Chapter 78: The Snow Widow
[“E-level promotion mission” requires the submission of 3 silver mission certificates. ]
[Note: If the mission fails, you need to pay a silver mission voucher again to start the trial mission again. ]
[Do you want to start the trial? ]
"Three. Minus the one I just exchanged for the gene compensator, there are still seven. According to the instructions above, I have to pay one more for each failure. So I have at least four chances to make mistakes..."
Colin thought for a moment and decided to start the trial.
Immediately afterwards, a message appeared on the parchment: [Single Player Trial Mission (1/3) - "Train in the Fog"] has been opened, please check through the [Task Bar].
"Single human... open one after each one is done?"
Colin remembered that someone in the "Interactive Hall" said that there were two rounds of promotion trials from level F to level E, one for a single person and one for a team.
Without thinking too much, he opened the [Task Bar], glanced over the items "Expel Invaders" and "World Number -13", and saw the specific content of this trial task.
[Single Player Trial Mission (1/3) - "Train in the Fog"]
[Description: An old train that may appear at various abnormal locations. When it appears, it is always surrounded by disturbing gray fog.]
[Requirements: On October 25, go to the Black Forest subway station in the southern suburbs of the old city, take the train arriving at 23:15 at Exit 1, and get off at the third stop.]
[Tip: Trust your instincts and don’t sit in a seat that doesn’t feel right to you.]
[ Event Reward: “Campfire Points x 250”. ]
[Note: If you miss the boarding time or fail to get off at the designated station as required, you will be deemed to have failed this trial.]
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"Black Forest subway station in the southern suburbs of the old city?"
Colin was stunned. When he saw the familiar name of the Black Forest subway station in the southern suburbs of the old city, he quickly determined that it was referring to a place he knew.
He was not unfamiliar with the place. After all, the orphanage he lived in when he was a child was near the Black Forest Park. He grew up there almost since he was a child and only left when he was admitted to university.
"I didn't expect the mission to be here this time. However, looking at the mission requirements, it seems that I have to go there by myself, unlike before when I just had to lie on the bed?"
This was Colin's first time accepting a local mission, and he was a little curious about the format of the missions here.
Colleagues seem to say that F-level single-player missions are generally not difficult, and the difficult ones are the team missions that come later.
I don’t know if it’s true…
"No matter what, we must make preparations. The time requirement is 11:30 p.m. on October 25th..."
Ke Lin took out his cell phone and took a look. It was three o'clock in the afternoon on October 24th, and there was still about a day left.
The southern suburbs of the old city are actually only about seventy or eighty kilometers away from him.
You can get there quickly by taking a few subways or just taking a car...
"There should be no problem with the time, but the reward for this mission is only 250 campfire points. Isn't it a bit too low?"
Colin pursed his lips. It was not that he looked down on this, but mainly because the points were not as high as a breath of fresh air in his "Advent Project". It felt like a mosquito leg.
According to what my colleagues said, this "trial mission" for one person to complete three rings may only add up to about a thousand, not much.
Even for colleagues at the same level, this seems to be a "high-paying" task.
However, Colin was not after these points, but the level of authority.
He read it several more times to check if he had missed anything or not, so as to avoid failure due to missing some information.
After a while, when Colin was sure that no more information was found, he began to prepare for tomorrow's mission.
First, I ordered the signature pork trotter rice from Tomie BBQ Rice downstairs as usual, then opened the [Interactive Hall] to start looking for equipment recommendations.
Unfortunately, after browsing through it, I didn’t find anything good.
Most of the equipment is dispensable to him. He won’t become too strong with it, but he won’t feel like he’s missing anything without it.
In the end, after a thorough look, Colin only chose two pieces of equipment that he had thought were good.
"Widow Snow Woman" and one copy of "Ritsuryoshu Fragments".
The total consumption is 2400 points.
Unfortunately, I didn’t see any copy of the “Fragments of the Book of Numerology” that I always had on hand for sale this time. I could only give up and wait until I see someone selling it.
"I don't know who provided this thing, but they keep selling it. It seems like there is a lot of supply..."
Colin grumbled in his heart, opened the "storage bag" and looked at the two things he had just obtained.
"The Fragments of the Book of Laws" is a yellowed and incomplete piece of white paper. Its function is to establish a temporary and reasonable rule within a thousand square meters. All friends and enemies must abide by it, otherwise severe punishment will be triggered.
It is not clear what the punishment will be.
The "Widow Snow Woman" is a silver ring with a thumb-sized gemstone inlaid on the ring setting that looks like an eye.
It felt cold in the hand, and inside the thumb-sized gem, it seemed as if there was a pair of eyes staring at me viciously.
Colin looked at it curiously for a moment and put it on the index finger of his left hand.
Immediately afterwards, he felt that the ring had established some kind of connection with himself, and he could summon a guard named "Snow Girl" at any time.
"It can be used once every 24 hours, and the maximum duration is 30 minutes. The specific time for the task is tomorrow night at 11 o'clock. It's only three o'clock now, so you can try it..."
Colin thought for a moment, raised his left hand, and his thoughts moved slightly.
Suddenly, the temperature in the bedroom dropped sharply, and some ice mist floated. A snow-white, hazy yet extremely beautiful figure emerged in the ice mist, making people want to get closer.
At the same time it appeared, another vision appeared in Colin's brain, as if he saw himself sitting on the bed and eating pork trotter rice from another perspective.
Moreover, there was a faint sense of malice coming from the snow-white figure.
It seems to have great malice towards the person who is enslaving it now.
It was just because of the restrictions that she couldn't escape and could only let Colin manipulate her.
After summoning it out, some more detailed information began to appear in Colin's mind.
"It has no physical form and consumes physical strength when used. Its specific effects are: it gives me resistance to freezing, sprays ice, creates large areas of ice fog, provides additional vision, can be controlled by the mind, just like a drone, and can even take me on a two-way flight..."
"It can also possess the enemy. Once it touches you, it's like being soaked in liquid nitrogen..."
"The negative effect is that if the summoning time exceeds thirty minutes, it will gradually get out of control. Once it exceeds the maximum time limit of one hour or longer, the ring restriction will become invalid, and its body will escape from the ring and kill the person controlling it immediately."
