A few minutes later, the six were taken to the so-called Devil's Pepper Field.
When I took a look, oh, it turned out to be chili peppers!
But this pepper looks different from ordinary peppers. It is small and a little wrinkled, with red and green parts. The red ones are ripe, and Lin Fuxia and his colleagues' job is to pick the red ones.
The NPC manager led them to the edge of the field, not even going inside. He seemed wary of this devilish pepper field. He said, "Your task is to each fill a basket and deliver it to our manor's warehouse."
After saying that, he quickly slipped away.
As if there is something terrible here.
The six people looked at each other with serious expressions. The NPC's behavior clearly told them that there was danger in the field.
"There won't be any monsters hiding here, right?"
"Or will these ghost peppers transform into something horrible?"
The six people carried their own baskets and held their own weapons, and entered the field carefully.
Nothing unusual happened.
The Monkey King from Mount Emei wanted to touch the chili pepper on the branch: "This thing looks quite normal."
Lin Fuxia stopped him and said, "Be careful, don't touch it directly."
Others agree.
They want to get fabric to wrap around their fingers.
However, they found it very embarrassing that because of the previous trip to the Sea of Ecstasy, they had cut the fabric of their clothes again and again in order to avoid touching the filth with their hands as much as possible. As a result, everyone was now wearing sleeveless clothes, and trousers were cut into three-quarter and five-quarter pants. Lin Fuxia even took off the gauze on his hat.
Although everyone has things in their backpacks, no one has cloth or a set of clothes to change into, and now in the dungeon, there is no supply at all.
Monkey looked at the poor cloth on his body and said, "Forget it, just touch it directly, it shouldn't be a big deal."
He first touched a red pepper with his dagger, and found nothing unusual. Then he reached out and picked the pepper off: "It's nothing, just a normal pepper."
Seeing this, the others also felt relieved and prepared to pick peppers.
But suddenly, Monkey Brother's face changed drastically. He dropped the pepper and hugged his hand: "Ah! It hurts! Ah, it's so spicy that it's killing me!"
Everyone saw his hands turning red at an exaggerated speed, as red as if they were cooked.
Even a scarlet -1 appeared on Monkey Brother's head, indicating that he was injured and losing blood!
People were shocked. Chuanhe touched his hand and asked, "What happened? Poisoned?"
Then soon Chuanhe also felt similar pain.
It was very spicy and painful, just like pouring chili water on the wound.
"Oh no! This pepper is too spicy! Get out first!"
But at this moment, a gust of wind blew, and the half-human-high pepper trees shook, and an extremely pungent spicy smell filled the air.
Everyone just felt that their entire face was burning, and then from the nose, lips to the entire respiratory tract, they felt burning.
They quickly retreated, but they were still choking and coughing, and almost everyone had a -1 floating above their heads.
"Holy crap! This is more powerful than any monster!"
"I can't take it anymore! It's so spicy that my mouth is watering. Water! I want to drink water!"
"It's over. My stomach hurts. I just took two breaths. I didn't eat the chili!"
There was water in Chuanhe's backpack, so he quickly took it out. Lin Fuxia thought about it and also took out his honey.
Most of the honey she got was left in Baishan Village for use in the pharmaceutical workshop, but she also brought out a bucket. After all, this could replenish physical strength and a small amount of blood. Now she had no practical way to replenish physical strength and blood, so naturally she had to carry some of this with her.
She said: "Sweetness and capsaicin will interfere with each other, so drink some honey water."
There was no time to mix honey water, so everyone just scooped a piece of honey and put it in their mouths, then gulped down the water.
Monkey Brother felt that his hands felt much more comfortable after touching the honey, so he smeared the honey on his hands and said: "Boss, I will compensate you with this honey later. You name a price."
Why would Lin Fuxia ask him for this money? He said, "Is it useful? If it is, apply more."
It turns out that it is really useful.
Monkey's hands no longer burned like they were being cooked, and the others felt a little better. Furthermore, after going through the Sea of Ecstasy, everyone had been busy for so long that their stamina had dropped significantly. But after eating a lump of honey, they actually gained a few points of stamina and a bit of health, which stopped the continuous blood loss.
"Your honey is really good!" I said hurriedly after taking a knife from him. "Do you sell this honey? I want to buy it from you."
"That's all I have. I won't sell it for now. You can dig up more and eat it."
Monkey Brother was not polite. He lost a lot of health points and scooped another spoonful into his mouth, almost choking himself to death. He quickly drank a few more gulps of water: "Oh, why didn't my health recover this time?"
Lin Fuxia said: "You have to eat a lot to restore some blood. This honey's blood-replenishing function is not very strong."
"But it's very good at filling my stomach. I'm full in no time." I said after the stars fell asleep.
Chuanhe said: "Let's discuss how to pick this devil pepper. It's so spicy that we can't stand the wind. It's not easy to pick."
Lin Fuxia said: "First, you must wrap something around your hands and not touch them directly."
Everyone agreed and added some suggestions.
Pick the ones on the outside first, and if there is wind, quickly leave the field.
Moreover, I can’t carry the basket on my back. If I carry such terrible devil peppers on my back, I’m afraid I will die too soon.
So everyone had to continue pulling the cloth off their bodies to wrap up their fingers, but more of their arms and legs were exposed.
So I wet the mud with water and made a lump of thin mud, and smeared the mud on the exposed skin, even on my face. Just now, a gust of wind blew, and the feeling of my face getting hot and burning and I couldn't open my eyes was really horrible.
Finally, he covered his face, and if there wasn't enough cloth, he plugged his nostrils, then he carefully began picking peppers from the outskirts of the devil pepper field.
On a pepper tree, there are more green ones and fewer red ones, but the green ones are also very spicy, and even the pepper leaves are very spicy, so you have to be extra careful.
No one had scissors. Lin Fuxia and Monkey Brother were assassins and brought their own daggers. The others also had small knives. They didn't dare to twist the peppers hard to pick them raw, so they used daggers and small knives to cut off the stems.
Whenever they sensed the wind, everyone would run out of the fields and hide far away.
I waited until the wind died down for a while before I dared to go over again.
But even with such caution, everyone still kept choking and coughing due to the spiciness, and their skin became red, swollen and hot.
These devil peppers are small in size, so it is not easy to fill a basket with them. This process takes a long time.
By the time everyone had filled their baskets, they felt like they had crawled out of a frying pan. From head to toe, inside and out, there was no place on their body that wasn't hot and spicy. Their skin hurt badly when touched, their eyelids were so swollen they could hardly open, and their blood volume had dropped by more or less twenty or thirty points.
"Damn, this devil pepper... I'm sure no NPC would be willing to pick it, so we players can only be cheated."
Monkey Brother spoke incoherently, and his mouth was so spicy that it became like a sausage mouth.
At this moment, another group of players came from not far away. They were obviously here to pick devil peppers. They seemed to have just entered the dungeon, and this was their first stop. Not only was it full, but everyone was also neatly dressed.
They seemed oblivious to the people around them, staring at the pepper fields with curiosity. Someone even picked a devil pepper and not only looked at it, but also got close to smell it, and even broke it open: "Wow, this pepper is pretty spicy."
The six people here looked at that man as if he were a warrior.
The next moment, the man suddenly screamed: "Ah, it's so spicy! It hurts! Ah, ah ah ah!"
The sound was extremely shrill, and he rolled over on the ground. When he broke open the devil pepper, the juice probably touched or splashed on it, so red and swollen spots began to appear on his hands and face. They were particularly obvious and quickly festered.
The skin in other parts of his body also quickly became red and swollen, like a cooked crab. His nose, which had smelled the chili pepper, became even more swollen and started bleeding.
"-1" and "-1" kept appearing above my head.
"Help! Help me! Help me!"
This horrifying reaction frightened his companions and stunned Lin Fuxia and the other six.
Among his companions, there was a mage who had learned the blood-recovery technique and kept replenishing his blood. However, the speed of blood replenishment could not keep up with the speed of blood loss. Perhaps it was too painful, so the man shouted, "No more blood recovery! No more blood recovery!"
Then the people on both sides could only watch the man wailing as his health dropped to -1-1 and he died. When he died, his whole body was red, swollen, and had gained weight.
Everyone present was shocked and speechless.
Who would have thought that playing a game could lead to such a horrific death? That person just now was completely tortured.
One of the nine people over there trembled and kept backing away: "Well, I don't want to play this dungeon anymore. I'm logging off first."
Another person said he was a friend of the dead player and hurriedly logged off to see him.
Suddenly there were only seven people left, and their faces looked very solemn.
Lin Fuxia and the other six looked at each other, then looked at the six full baskets of bright red devil peppers, and they couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts.
This thing is so scary, it deserves to be called devil pepper.
They think this stop should not be called Mole Manor, but should be called Killer Devil Pepper.
Monkey Brother thought of something and quickly thanked Lin Fuxia: "Thank you, Boss. If you hadn't reminded me, I would have been like that guy, maybe smelling and pinching it or something."
Lin Fuxia shook his head: "Let's go and hand in the task quickly."
Six people, either carrying or holding baskets, hurried to the warehouse.
The NPC manager was so excited when he saw the six baskets full of peppers that he almost jumped up. He looked at the six people and didn't mind their stench (mainly because the stench was completely masked by the spicy smell). "Oh, you aliens are really brave and invincible. You've helped us a lot. Those nasty creatures in the Monster Forest have come out again. The venom made from these crushed devil peppers is their nemesis!"
“Thank you so much!”
really!
This devil pepper is not for eating, but for use as venom!
[Team Tip] Congratulations on completing Mole Manor. Each person will be rewarded with a bottle of Devil Pepper Juice.
Everyone was stunned, and then hurried to look at their backpacks.
Sure enough, there was a bottle of red liquid in the backpack. The bottle was about the size of a bottle of medicated oil, transparent, and I don’t know if it was made of glass. It had a wooden stopper. The liquid inside was red, and you could vaguely see the chopped flesh of the devil pepper suspended in it.
Obviously it was handled very roughly.
But everyone was still very happy.
This can be used as venom. If applied on a dagger, a sword, or something like that, the lethality will be greatly increased.
The most important thing is that this not only causes intense pain, but also causes continuous blood loss.
It’s really a killer weapon!
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The third update of V~
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