Chapter 48 Night Fishing

Jinsheng came back very quickly.

In less than two hours, he returned to the shore with a full catch of fish.

Although the dog riding in the rare helicopter did attract a lot of attention, he accepted it well. After all, it was his dog and there was no shame in it.

Although other players envied this safe way of fly fishing, considering that it was difficult to replicate, no one was unwilling to jump out.

In addition to a bag full of delicious fish that are alive and kicking.

He also fished out the special item mentioned in the mission in the water in the middle of the reservoir.

Considering that the branch quest might be accompanied by dangers and countdowns, Jin Sheng only brought back three things and planned to continue with the rest after he was done.

He untied the net bag and placed the wet special items on the open space next to the campfire.

A tattered music box with weeds growing on it, an old dog bowl with cartoon dog biscuits printed on it, and a badly scratched football.

"My luck seems to be pretty good." Jin Sheng scratched his hair with a relaxed tone.

"These all look like normal side quests. I just saw someone fish out a hanging rope in the lake. I guess he took the quest on the boat out of curiosity, triggering a special side quest. He was almost hanged by a side quest ghost."

Xu Zhiyan raised his eyebrows and looked at the three special items on the ground.

As long as you touch it, a system prompt will pop up.

[Ding! Special item found! ]

[Do you want to accept the side quest? ]

He breathed a sigh of relief and felt that Jin Sheng was indeed lucky.

Mission 4, The Thing in the Lake, was originally intended to be a transitional mission to open the main storyline of the final chapter. The real difficulty should be the hunger state in Mission 3.

Therefore, it would be great if we could get through this task smoothly.

No matter how you look at it, these three things should have the lowest difficulty coefficient.

The three began to distribute special items.

As someone with animal characteristics, Jinsheng naturally got the dog food bowl.

Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but sigh when he saw the translucent dog soul that appeared in front of Jin Sheng after he accepted the task and communicated with it smoothly.

"What kind of luck does it take to get a side quest item that matches my abilities so well..."

He didn't understand, but he was envious to death.

After Jiang Huai Que heard this, he also said with a slightly envious tone: "Because Jin Sheng has animal characteristics."

"Characteristics?" Xu Zhiyan was confused.

He had seen this word many times, but he didn't take it seriously. His own characteristics column had always been empty, and he thought it was of no use.

Seeing that Xu Zhiyan really looked like a newbie who didn't understand, he glanced at his bandaged leg, resisted the urge to say something sarcastic, propped himself up, leaned against his backpack, and began to explain.

“Every player has a trait bar, but not everyone can have traits.”

It turns out that when the copy is settled, some players with obvious characteristics and outstanding performance have a chance to stimulate their own attributes and successfully open the feature column.

"Ordinary players are like independent players. They use whatever weapons are available in the dungeon and whatever is given to them. If they don't have any, they go buy them. If they can't buy them, forget it."

“But once players have the characteristics, it is equivalent to having a clear direction for development and upgrading.”

After turning on the feature, not only will the player's panel be improved to a certain extent and gain new skills, but the advantage will become more obvious when entering the dungeon to complete tasks later.

For example, Jin Sheng, after possessing the animal-related traits, in addition to being able to control the dog-type creatures in the dungeon, will also be affected by the traits when doing tasks or getting rewards, making it easier for him to obtain animal-related side quests and related attribute reward items.

"Forget about catching the dog food bowl. I wouldn't be surprised if he fished a zombie dog out of the water to be his little brother." Jiang Huaique shook his head, indicating that this was not something he could envy.

When Xu Zhiyan heard the detailed analysis of the features for the first time, his eyes lit up.

Once players activate a feature, they will begin to have a bias in the rewards they receive, making it easier for them to specialize in a certain direction and make targeted improvements.

He looked down at his right hand and began to imagine what his characteristics would be.

Jiang Huaique saw what Xu Zhiyan was thinking at a glance, and after thinking about it, he said, "If you say that, you will probably activate the bandit trait."

"?"

Xu Zhiyan had a confused expression, and began to wonder if he had lost his mind yesterday to spend 50,000 points to buy such a fully automatic irritating machine.

The comments on the forum were just the opposite, as people were completely amused by Jiang Huaique.

【Xiao Jiang is right! 】

[Hahahahaha I think so too]

【Hahahaha, look at Xiao Baiwan’s expression, it’s so funny! 】

[Little Millionaire and Bandit are a better match! ]

[Ah, I really want to know what kind of features Xiao Baiwan can unlock. ]

[Hey, hey, hey, you guys are really confident. Traits are something that can only be triggered by chance. Not only do they need to be triggered in the right scene, but they also need to perfectly match the player's personality. Frankly, I can't think of any traits that Xiao Baiwan's personality can unlock.]

[Yes, except for a few rare characteristics, I feel that most of the big guys with characteristics have nothing to do with Xiao Baiwan]

[There is nothing related to him in the rare characteristics. 】

Since he was free anyway, Xu Zhiyan simply went over and chatted with Jiang Huaique about some things related to characteristics.

There are many different features that have been recorded as being enabled by players.

Not only does it have elemental attributes and ordinary physical speed characteristics, but it also has some thermal weapons and firearms-related characteristics, and even aspects such as vision perception have related special characteristics.

Xu Zhiyan pondered it for a while, and began to look forward to whether he could get some points bonus features.

On the other hand, Jin Sheng’s side quest is nearing completion.

I have to say that this is indeed a branch quest that perfectly fits the characteristics of the animal system. He can communicate with the spirit dog himself. After discovering that the other party's wish is to play frisbee throwing again, he quickly started playing with the other party using the plastic plates brought by the camp.

Xiaoyi and the medium-sized spirit dog chased the Frisbee in the air, and both dogs were very happy.

Half an hour later, the spirit dog finally stopped and sat upright in front of Jinsheng. After barking a few times, it disappeared into the air.

Seeing Jin Sheng's lost expression, Xu Zhiyan asked, "Is it over? What did the dog say in the end?"

"It's over." Jin Sheng nodded and called up the panel.

[Mission 4: Things in the Lake]

[Progress: 25%]

[Reward: Main Line (Part 2) Clues]

One quarter of the progress is completed.

He stroked Xiaoyi's dog head and explained the content of the side quest to his teammates.

This dog had a very good relationship with its owner during its lifetime. Later, it died after eating something given by its owner's roommate. But it was just a dog and didn't understand why its owner couldn't see or pay attention to it, so it jumped up and down in the house every day.

Later, the bowl that contained the poisonous food was taken to the Amber Mountain Reservoir by the owner's roommate and thrown into it. The water there trapped the cat, making it impossible for its soul to leave the bottom of the water.

"It said thank you for playing Frisbee with it, but it still missed its owner, so it was going to find its owner."

Jinsheng sighed as he finished speaking, then picked up Xiaoyi and rubbed him.

Xu Zhiyan's expression became strange.

"The water trapped the soul so it couldn't leave?"

This information was different from what he had previously obtained from the old guide and the other three fishermen.

People who are burdened with sin come here and throw the things of resentment into the water in order to soothe their souls and stop them from bothering them.

So in fact, the reason why the soul is no longer entangled is not that the resentment disappears, but that the resentment is sealed?

Damn, he seemed to have thrown the evil spirit of love debt into the water...

If the other party had not been purified successfully, would he not have been hiding under the water and watching him?

As soon as this thought came to mind, Xu Zhiyan felt unwell.

But there was no special situation now, he just thought about it, after all, the mission had to continue.

After looking at the football and the music box, and then glancing at Jiang Huaique's legs, Xu Zhiyan decisively threw the music box to the other party, otherwise what if a child came out and wanted to play football with a disabled person.

Knowing that he was not in good health, Jiang Huaique did not hesitate.

He took the music box and triggered his own side quest.

"What is it? Is it difficult?" Jin Sheng was a little curious.

"Not difficult." Jiang Huaique replied with a sigh of relief and took out a set of special hand tool boxes from the system backpack.

"The task is to repair this music box within thirty minutes."

He spoke with confidence, as if it really was a small task.

Jin Sheng watched the other person's hands flying up and down. He only knocked and tightened a few screws, then took the music box apart and repaired it with great concentration. He couldn't help but shook his head and commented: "If you only look at this picture, who would have thought that he has low quality, likes to curse and has a bad temper."

This evaluation was successfully exchanged for a big roll of the eyes from Jiang Huai Que.

In just twenty minutes, the music box was repaired.

Not only can it rotate and make sounds, but even the dirt such as water plants on the outside can be removed and wiped clean.

Although not as beautiful as a new one, it is much better than when it was first salvaged.

Hold the box in your palm.

When the thirty minutes were up, Jiang Huaique heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the successful completion message pop up on his panel.

A shadowy figure appeared in front of him, and it looked like a little girl.

The girl took the music box from him, thanked him happily, and then jumped away.

Jiang Huai Que also successfully checked the background of the branch line.

"It's similar to Jinsheng's. After being killed by her stepfather, this little girl kept pestering her family and wanted justice. In the end, she was thrown into the lake. The background says [Now she has left the bottom of the lake and is going back to look for her family.]"

Xu Zhiyan nodded.

With two teammates completing the task ahead of schedule, he already had a general idea of what was going to happen next.

In other words, what they fished out of the lake were the things of resentment. As long as they fulfilled the small wishes of the things of resentment, they could let these evil spirits with resentment leave the Amber Mountain Reservoir and complete their revenge on their own.

Guessing that he was probably a vengeful spirit who loved playing football, Xu Zhiyan did not accept the task rashly. Instead, he did some warm-up exercises and stretched his body in case of emergency.

The other two teammates also agreed.

"You're probably some kind of soccer player. Maybe it's some kind of athlete's revenge or something. If they really want to play a game with you, you really need to warm up first."

A few minutes later, Xu Zhiyan finished warming up.

He lifted the scratched football with full confidence, only to find that the ball was so heavy, as if it was filled with water.

[Do you want to accept the side quest? ]

He nodded casually.

The next second, the task details popped up.

The expression on Xu Zhiyan's face changed from relaxed to confused, and then to full of question marks.

[Congratulations to the player for triggering the special branch! ]

[Special Quest: Lost Body]

[Note: The head in your hand longs for a body. Now please help it fulfill its wish! ]

[Special Reward: Title 'Corpse Collector']

[Tip: When a player obtains the heads of two different corpses from the same body of water, he or she can obtain this title.]

[Corpse Retriever: Players with this title will be more likely to salvage corpses in any waters.]

As soon as Xu Zhiyan finished reading the mission details, he felt a black screen in front of his eyes and almost fainted on the spot. This title also made his blood pressure rise.

Before he could do anything else, the football in his hand slowly cracked.

A human head was revealed inside, as if the paint on the wall was peeling off. The owner of this head looked to be a young boy, probably in his teens.

"Brother, I really want a body."

"Will you give me your body?"

The boy stared at the person in front of him and spoke cruel lines in an innocent tone.

Seeing that the other party did not answer, it seemed to be giving up and added: "You can also help me fish out my body from the lake."

Not only Xu Zhiyan was dumbfounded.

Jiang Huai Que standing by was also dumbfounded.

Only Jin Sheng had a normal expression, and even explained to his new teammates: "Don't panic, Brother Xu is very good, fishing for a corpse is just a basic operation."

Jiang Huaique was greatly shocked after hearing this, and his expression calmed down a little.

He secretly vowed to control his temper and talk less to Xu Zhiyan in the future.

Xu Zhiyan had no time to pay attention to his teammates. He threw the head on the ground, found a rag to wipe his hands, lowered his head and replied dejectedly: "I would also like to salvage it for you, but you see, I don't have a boat here."

The tone was too sincere, as if it really was because there was no boat.

He secretly took out the golden lynx in his hand, waiting for the opponent to suddenly attack so that he could smash the head.

Unexpectedly, the boy's head did not jump up, but said, "I have a boat."

As the boy spoke, several gurgling sounds appeared on the water.

“Crash——”

Then, a half-rotten, waterlogged boat flipped up from the bottom of the water.

"If you just hang me on the bow of the boat, no other water ghosts will come to push your boat..." said the boy's head with a very eager expression.

Xu Zhiyan just felt his temples throbbing.

It seems that the water has to go down.