Chapter 49

There was a trap next to Zhuye Zuijiu, and Xia Mo was really unaware of this.

She only knew that the pit he and the female pastor named Xuandie fell into was discovered by her when she was dragging Black Bear around in circles. Unexpectedly, there was another one next to it?

What a pleasant surprise.

Xia Mo smiled lightly, turned around and fed 5 Babu rats to Jing Jing, who was already starving. She looked at the few rats left with a distressed look, and decided to go to the royal city to learn [Cooking] after she was done with today's work.

Otherwise, I have to go to the Babule Mine to stock up on rats every time, which is a waste of time.

After feeding Jingjing, Xia Mo took it back to the battle pet home. After that, he did not leave the Black Bear Forest, but went back through the nearby woods.

Not far from the entrance of the Black Bear Forest Cave, Xia Mo saw the NPC who set the trap. The nickname displayed above the heads of other NPCs was different in color. His was not the normal white, but red.

This means that he is wanted by the royal city.

An NPC who is good at making sophisticated traps is forced to hide in the depths of the Black Bear Forest because of a wanted order. It goes without saying that he must have some quest line.

"You're following me, aren't you afraid I'll kill you?"

The NPC, dressed in coarse cloth, turned and looked at her, his tone and expression containing a warning.

Xia Mo was not afraid. Instead, he bowed graciously, raised his head, and replied calmly, "If I can learn skills from you, I don't mind killing me a few times."

It may sound a bit pretentious to say this, but this is indeed what Xia Mo really thinks.

The NPC in front of her named Edmund should have a high level of attainment in engineering, and she originally wanted to study engineering. If she could become his disciple here, Xia Mo felt that it would be worth dying a few times.

Hearing her answer, Edmund was stunned for a moment, then laughed sarcastically: "You are the first person I have ever met who is not afraid of death."

After saying that, he walked towards a small shed built in the forest without looking back.

He didn't say that Xia Mo couldn't follow him, but Xia Mo understood in her heart that this meant that he temporarily agreed for her to follow, so she followed quietly.

The shed was built very simply, with a few banana leaves, a few branches, and a few vines. Just these simple things made up the structure of the entire shed.

Xia Mo took over and pushed it gently, and found that it was unexpectedly firm.

This also once again confirmed that the man named Edmund in front of him was definitely not an ordinary NPC.

Edmund sat down in the shed, took a sip of water, and began his work.

More than ten minutes passed, and he didn't say a word to Xia Mo who was standing outside the shed.

Xia Mo was not in a hurry and just continued to wait.

Every NPC has his or her own temper. When they were in Buluo Town before, Brett was very impatient with her at first, but she always responded politely. Now that he was just leaving her alone, she was happy to watch quietly.

Time passed minute by minute. Half an hour later, Xia Mo saw that Edmund had finished what he was holding, which was a small landmine.

"I know what's going on in your mind," Edmund finally raised his eyelids. He glanced at her and said coldly, "I swore that I, Edmund, would never accept another disciple in my lifetime. So, I advise you to give up the idea of ​​becoming my disciple."

Being rejected by NPCs was a common occurrence, but Xia Mo was not discouraged at all and kept smiling: "Then I won't become your disciple. I will just follow you and learn from you. If you ever feel annoyed, just tell me and I won't bother you anymore."

After much difficulty, Xia Mo found an engineer NPC with a high title. She didn't want to give up immediately. She had to fight for it at least, just in case there was a chance.

These NPCs have very flexible personalities and dialogue styles. They are not like the characters in the old keyboard online game era. No matter how players talk to them, they will get the same old responses.

However, the NPCs in "Protoss" are not like that. They have their own thinking patterns and dialogue styles. Sometimes, although they will reject the player at the beginning, if the player does not give up and continues the conversation, there is actually a certain chance that other lines of dialogue will be triggered.

Now, after Xia Mo's half-hour of patient observation and the sincere and humble conversation just now, Edmund indeed changed his words slightly.

"It's up to you. Come whenever you want. I won't teach you. Whether you can learn or not depends entirely on your own ability."

As long as you don't refuse, it means there is still a chance! Xia Mo heard the voice and grinned: "Okay, thank you Mr. Edmund!"

Ding, just as the voice fell, a task box suddenly popped up in front of me.

[Special Mission: Edmund's Injustice (Current Progress 0%)]

As expected! She knew Edmund had a special mission!

Xia Mo was delighted and accepted the task.

Edmund didn't speak to her again after that. Xia Mo guessed that he might not be able to trigger any other words for the time being, so she politely said goodbye and left in a hurry.

When passing by the cave, Xia Mo heard wailing sounds coming from one of the traps.

"I should have known I wouldn't have come to rob the Black Bear Monster. Now I've lost both my wife and my troops. How miserable!"

"Okay, snail, stop talking. I've already notified the guild, and they'll be here to rescue us soon."

"So we have to wait a little longer? Ahhhh, this is so annoying! I don't want to stay in this pit for even one more second! Those spikes are so annoying! They keep poking at my health bar!"

"Then why don't you just stop moving? You're twisting around like a worm, who else is the mechanism going to stab if not you?"

The voice suddenly paused here, and a few seconds later Xia Mo heard the warrior named Snail speaking again.

"Hey Sparta, why didn't I hear any movement from Zuijiu and Xuandie? Are they dead?"

The elementalist named Sparta gave a headache-inducing response: "Do you think everyone is as energetic as you? I guess they're just resting~ Oh well, let me take a look. Damn...!"

"…What's wrong, Sparta?"

"Zuijiu and Xuandie are dead."

Silence fell within the trap.

Xia Mo's mouth curled up when he heard this. He avoided the trap and left quietly.

Edmund's mission couldn't be completed in a short time, so she planned to continue killing monsters and leveling up today.

Before leaving the Black Bear Forest, she killed more than 10 black bears. Combined with the considerable experience she had gained from killing the mutated elite black bears before, her experience bar was only 7% away from reaching level 14.

Since the difference in experience points is not that big, I can slightly lower the requirements for monsters and use quantity to compensate for quality. So I turned to [Wild Wolf Valley] and prepared to kill a few groups of wild wolves to gain experience points.

[Wild Wolf Valley] is a level 15 map. Compared to the level 20 [Black Bear Forest], there are far too many players here.

Before he even stepped in, Xia Mo saw players constantly coming in and out, it was very lively.

Many people were stunned when they saw her.

"It's actually Mo Se? Would someone of her level come to a level 15 map to spawn monsters?"

"What's wrong with that? They're all public maps, so why can't people come and use them?"

"Oh, that's not what I meant. I just felt a little weird, like a god was right next to me~"

"Why don't you go up and get an autograph? I saw you were quite the fan before... Hey hey! Why are you running so fast?!"

As Xia Mo stepped into the Wild Wolf Valley, he felt a figure approaching from behind.

She subconsciously turned to the side: "What's wrong?"

A girl dressed as a paladin looked up at her, her bright eyes flickering. "Sister Mo Se, um...excuse me...can I take a picture with you?"

Taking a photo? Xia Mo was stunned for a moment, then, seeing the girl's expectant look, she suddenly understood and smiled lightly: "Okay."

The girl immediately jumped up excitedly, like a little fan who had successfully chased her idol. She shouted happily several times, but finally realized that she had lost her composure in front of her idol, so she lowered her head with a red face and restrained herself a little.

However, even though she was restrained, Xia Mo could still see some excitement from the ahoge hair on her head, but pretending not to notice, she let the other person stand beside her, and then with a click, took a photo of the two of them.

"Wow! I have a photo with the Ink God!!! Crazy, crazy, and stupid, come and see!"

Not far from Xia Mo, a male priest with the ID "Crazy and Dazy" came forward awkwardly: "Sorry, Mo Se, my girlfriend is your fan, I got a little excited just now~"

Xia Mo smiled: "It's okay."

His girlfriend's name is "Kekeaiai", and as her name suggests, she is indeed a very cute girl.

She held a holographic photo in her hand and waved it in front of Fengfeng Daidai. "Haha, look at the group photo. How do I look?"

Feng Feng Dai Dai looked at his girlfriend lovingly: "Beautiful, my little cutie looks good no matter how I take pictures~"

After saying that, he realized that Xia Mo was still there, coughed awkwardly twice, and added: "Master, you took good pictures too~"

Xia Mo: ...Not necessarily, she is just a dog food eater.

Turning around and quickly leaving the affection show scene, she chose a relatively less crowded place and started to hunt groups of wild wolves.

Because her damage was so high, even though Xia Mo had deliberately avoided the crowd, some players still stopped to watch.

"Oh my god, one group attack knocked off half of the wolves' health. How many points of magic attack did they get?"

"I don't know how much, I just know it's a progress I'll never be able to catch up with in my lifetime..."

"Didn't you see her kill the dragon in Dragon Valley before? She single-handedly wiped out an entire guild and completely controlled the Black Domain Kingdom's Team 1. With that kind of ability, I think it wouldn't be surprising if she could kill the entire Wild Wolf Valley by herself."

"Hearing you say that, it's really terrifying!"

"Wait a minute, you said to take out an entire guild. What was the name of that guild?"

"I think it's called Absolute Dynasty. I heard dozens of their members were wiped out, and then a lot of people even quit. It's terrible."

Quit the guild? Xia Mo listened while killing monsters. He never expected that the battle in Tianlong Valley would cause Absolute Dynasty to suffer so much.

The players were gossiping enthusiastically when suddenly, a group of people hurried through their midst. They all lowered their heads and walked very quickly, as if they were afraid that others would see who they were.

The players who were pushed away by them were upset and started shouting at the top of their lungs.

"What are you doing? Don't you have eyes?"

"That's right, why don't you use the wide lane next to us and squeeze us? You must be crazy!"

After being yelled at by everyone, other players who were killing monsters around all looked over.

The player who bumped into someone else clenched his fists, as if to say, "Forget it, don't get into a conflict with others here." However, a player dressed as an assassin beside him quickly grabbed him and shook his head.

The man who clenched his fist suppressed his anger and did not completely stand out from the crowd.

But it was just this small episode that allowed the sharp-eyed people to immediately see their IDs and the guild names next to the IDs.

"Wow, isn't this someone from the Absolute Dynasty? Hahaha, I didn't expect him to be here."

"Hey, I thought the Absolute Dynasty had collapsed, but it turns out there are still people alive? Hahahaha!"

"Wow, you guys are in such a bad situation. It's such a big guild, and now there are only so few people left? Let me count, 1, 2, 3, 4... Oh, there are only 12 left!"

After discovering their identities, the onlookers kept whistling and mocking them.

Lingyun Huangtian stood in the center of the crowd, his face turning green.

"Cui Yan, let me go, I'm going to kill them!" He gritted his teeth, anger about to explode in his eyes.

Vice President Cui Yan Niao Niao frowned: "Oh my God, there are too many people here, we can't do anything."

After a pause, he continued, "Have you forgotten what the three of them did in Liji Hills that day? The story of them killing someone and then guarding the body has spread everywhere in the past few days. In addition, we deliberately targeted Mo Se in Dragon Valley, and now all the players in the server are against us. We must keep a low profile now."

"I know!" Emperor Lingyun's face trembled with anger.

No one knew who had deliberately recorded the video and uploaded it to the forum, causing the entire guild to be criticized. Because of this, they didn't dare to come out to kill monsters for two days.

It was so hard to see the storm calm down, so I brought the members out to practice leveling up again today. But God was blind and let them run into Mo Se here!

Damn this luck! Lingyun Huangtian became more and more angry as he thought about it. He glanced over the crowd of onlookers and fiercely cast a fierce glance at Xia Mo, who was not far away and looked calm and composed. "Isn't she so awesome? Why did she come to Wild Wolf Valley to spawn monsters? Look how proud she is! I think she is doing this on purpose to make us laugh!"

"Forget it, God. There's no point getting angry with her. Let's go."

The smoke from the cooking stove curled up and he sighed, not knowing how to comfort the heavens for a moment.

He had seen Mo Se a long time ago, but the problem was that this Wild Wolf Valley was not owned by their Absolute Dynasty. Mo Se could come and go as she pleased. Even if they disliked her, they could not blame her for coming here to kill monsters.

He sighed again, and seeing that the onlookers were chatting more and more excitedly, with smoke rising from the kitchen, he was worried that the situation might get out of hand, so he quickly pulled Lingyun Huangtian and the others away in a hurry.

"Hahahaha, they tucked their tails and ran away!"

"Serves you right! It's Lingyun Huangtian's fault for not caring about his subordinates. This is retribution."

The players who had been hit earlier were still feeling dissatisfied, but now, seeing everyone mocking Absolute Dynasty, their anger instantly dissipated.

There were no more melons to eat at the scene, and the onlookers dispersed one by one.

However, when a small group of people passed by Xia Mo, they revealed something that Xia Mo didn't know.

"Actually, Absolute Dynasty got beaten up again this morning, but I don't think anyone mentioned it~"

"What's going on? Why haven't I heard about it?"

"Oh, that incident didn't get out of hand. Besides... that PK ended so quickly. I didn't even have time to take a screenshot and send it to you guys before the battle was over."

"So what's going on? Can you please state the premise first?"

"Ah, yes, yes, this morning I was hunting giant stone beasts in the Rittor Canyon, and I ran into the Absolute Dynasty and his men. They didn't come to bully me, but they wanted to monopolize the area with the most monsters in the canyon. So, guess which players are in the area they want to monopolize?"

"Which ones?"

"Cook cabbage in clear water, Taotao!"

"Uh... I don't know..."

He was originally very excited about the introduction, but when he heard several of his companions shaking their heads and saying that they didn't know these two people, the player who introduced them was so angry that he jumped up and down.

"Don't you know Qingshui?! That day, when Mo Se was killing the dragon, she was intercepted by the people from the Black Domain Kingdom. It was that warlock named Qingshui who helped her hold back Team 2! He single-handedly held back the entire Team 2! Just imagine how ordinary people can do this!"

"And that Tao Tao? She and Mo Se took down five or six of Kuang Dao's men in the rubber forest! She's a female hunter. Her attacks are average, but she has good combat awareness. She's no ordinary person."

After hearing his explanation, several people suddenly remembered.

"Oh my god, that warlock Qingshui? I remember him now. He's kind of scary."

"Ahhh Taotao, I know. She's currently ranked ninth on the Hunter Rankings. She does have some skills."

Finally gaining recognition from his companions, the player who introduced them raised his chin and put his hands on his hips. "Right? These two guys are very powerful, yet the people from Absolute Dynasty chose to provoke them. Tsk, didn't you see that Qingshui used three skills and Taotao fired a few arrows to knock them down right there! It was a complete stunner!"

"Pfft, it sounds like the Absolute Dynasty is really miserable, hahaha, but I feel inexplicably refreshed?"

"Yeah, I was also thrilled when I saw this scene this morning! It's a pity I didn't have time to take a screenshot for you guys. Wait for me next time..."

The few people gradually walked away and the sound disappeared into the air.

Where no one noticed, Xia Mo slightly raised the corners of his mouth.

An hour later, the experience points were finally maxed out.

[Congratulations, you have successfully reached level 14! ]

From level 14 to level 15, 37,000 experience points are required.

It's already 6pm, and I definitely won't be able to level up to 37,000 today, so I decided to go back to the Royal City and learn the [Cooking] that Jingjing needs first, and then continue leveling up tomorrow.

After leaving Wild Wolf Valley, Xia Mo rode his little black horse back to the royal city.

When she dismounted at the city gate, she suddenly received a message from a friend.

[Boiling Cabbage in Clear Water: The Absolute Dynasty people won't bother you again. Would you consider rejoining my guild?]