Chapter 41
Limited time mission?
Shu Mo didn't have time to feel confused, because the next second, a red countdown appeared at the edge of her vision.
【Countdown: 00:29:59】
Accompanied by the ticking sound in the background, which makes people feel a sense of urgency.
Shu Mo: “???”
Why does it look like a bomb is about to explode?
What level of emergency could threaten the little black dragon?
She couldn't figure it out.
Without time to think, Shu Mo quickly used a summoning skill to call the mimic beast that was wandering around somewhere in the hot spring.
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On the snowfield.
Mo Bai's gaze moved to the left.
On the left stood a team of high-level players, led by a burly man holding a dagger and holding a thin young man in his arms. The sharp tip of the knife was pressed against the young man's neck, leaving a noticeable wound.
The reminder of the continuous blood loss made the young man look pale, "Don't do it, everything is easy to talk about! I can give you all the points."
Mo Bai looked to the right again.
"Let us go, and we can give you the points of the rest of us!" There were several other people kneeling in the snow on the right, probably the young man's companions, and one of them, a young girl, pleaded.
"Shut up." A man grabbed her hair and pushed her down hard. The young girl screamed. "As long as we kill you, the equipment and materials will be ours. Why should we leave trouble? Then you can go to the town and say whatever you want. Do we still want to survive?"
"It's all your fault that a few ordinary players dared to enter this area. I don't know whether it's ignorance or stupidity." Another person sneered, "Today I will teach you a lesson out of kindness. The high-level areas are sparsely populated. Sometimes you won't encounter other teams for several days in a row. In such a place, the threats are not just monsters."
The young man's heart became increasingly cold.
They set out from Guangming Town the day before yesterday. There are four people in the team, and the average level is less than level 45. After ten years of gaming, this is a very common level among players. The young man who was the organizer also knew that it would be difficult for them to reach the hot spring hotel at their destination smoothly with their strength. But just like many people love to explore haunted houses in the wilderness before the end of the world, young people are somewhat skeptical and always think that they will be the special protagonist in the story.
This is how the young man comforted himself at the time: Just be careful and stay away from monsters if you encounter them.
Once they arrive, a variety of delicious food and hot springs are waiting for them!
How much more food can you buy if you save the money from hiring a guard team? Thinking of this, the young man set off with his companions without hesitation.
And they did successfully walk to a place about an hour away from the hot spring. With victory just around the corner, who could have imagined that they would be ambushed by other player teams?
As for the assassin in the lead, the young man had seen them setting up a stall to sell materials at the market. They looked like an ordinary and serious group of players, but from their tone, it seemed that this was not the first time they had killed people and seized goods.
Thinking that the materials they were selling might have been looted from dead people, the young man's calves began to tremble and a feeling of despair surged in his heart.
With nowhere else to go, he turned his gaze to the black-haired boy standing not far away, "You, can you save us? All our points will be given to you..."
The young man also didn't understand why there would be a passerby watching the fun at such a critical moment.
And he looked so calm.
He looked uninterested.
If the knife wasn't at his neck, the young man really wanted to complain: Do you want me to hand you a handful of melon seeds so I can eat while watching?
The teenagers who were watching suddenly appeared after the team stopped them.
When he appeared, he was followed by a large group of snow-white fur balls floating in the air. He looked like a shepherd (ball?), and there was something indescribably strange about him.
He was originally planning to walk by without looking around, but suddenly stopped when he heard the young man mention the words "Nuannuan Hot Spring".
After stopping, it didn't do anything. It just stood there with its arms folded, watching indifferently. From time to time, its head tilted slightly in one direction, and the snow-white fur ball turned a corner.
The knowledgeable people in the team frowned when they saw this, "White Fluffy? To be able to subdue such a large group, he must be a pretty powerful summoner."
When playing pvp, the thing players fear most is summoning.
A powerful summoner is an army all by himself.
"What are you afraid of?" The assassin looked at Mo Bai sinisterly and smiled coldly, "He is so young, how high can his level be? And there is only one person who dares to stop and watch the fun. I'm afraid he is not very smart. I will take him down after killing these idiots."
The young man closed his eyes in despair.
This time it's really over...
On the other side, the little black dragon passing by was still hesitating.
Apart from matters involving Shu Mo, Mo Bai didn’t really care about disputes between ordinary players… but he overheard when he passed by that the group of people who were kidnapped seemed to be preparing to go to Nuannuan Hot Spring for consumption.
Mo Bai's ears moved at that moment.
If a guest of the hot spring was attacked, he as an employee could not just ignore it.
Especially since he is no longer an ordinary employee but a foreman, he must set a role model for other employees.
——Yes, Mo Bai got promoted.
Just yesterday, after Shu Mo welcomed the new employees, he took the opportunity to promote Mo Bai, an old employee who had been working diligently and conscientiously for the past few days, and raised his salary at the same time - now his daily salary is 80 points a day.
Mo Bai looked calm on the surface, but in fact he still wore his foreman badge even when he went out for a walk.
The shiny white fluffy thing grabbed a strand of his hair that stuck out from the brim of his hat and gave him some sneaky advice.
“Chirp!”
Mo Bai frowned: "It's not a good idea to kill him directly, right?"
Bai Rongrong: "Chirp!"
Mo Bai fell into deep thought: "What you said makes sense. They have tasted the sweetness once, and they might ambush guests coming to the hot springs in the future. It is better to kill them all now to prevent future troubles..."
Bai Rongrong deeply agrees that this young man is teachable. "Ji."
“Chirp, chirp…”
Mo Bai: "Take advantage of their inattention and transform into a dragon to attack them, killing them all with one claw? I would never do such a thing...but that would be cooler?"
Mo Bai: “…”
The little black dragon paused suspiciously for two seconds, "That's not impossible."
When Shu Mo arrived, what he heard was this terrifying conversation between his own monsters.
She stared at the harmless white fluff and was shocked.
You little fur ball, you look like a person with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but you are so insidious!
Shu Mo couldn't help but stare twice more in shock, until she saw the gang of criminals finally seem to notice the rapid approach of the mimic beasts in her peripheral vision and turned their heads around. Only then did she lower her voice and give quick orders.
"Talented skill, [Deterrence]."
The beastman under him suddenly opened his eyes wide while running at high speed, and his deep blue eyes looked straight at the stunned group of people. The murderous intent in his eyes almost turned into substance and pounced towards them.
The assassin's dagger fell to the ground with a clang as it trembled violently. The young man felt the restraint on his neck loosen and he fell uncontrollably to the ground. However, like the rest of the people present, he was unable to move due to fear.
He saw a huge snow-white beast that was as tall as a man. It appeared in his sight silently at some point. It has the appearance of an Arctic fox, with a streamlined body that combines speed and explosive power, and a young girl on its back.
The snowflakes splashed by running were equally quiet, all over the sky and the ground, falling on the girl's lively eyebrows.
Puff——
The mimic beast leaped in front of the young man like lightning and tore the assassin player's defensive equipment into pieces with one claw.
The valuable equipment was like fragile glass under this grab. It flashed quickly several times and then turned into countless powders.
The assassin finally reacted, but it was too late.
He met a wide-open mouth, and the snow-white canine teeth flashed a sinister cold light.
The young man closed his eyes subconsciously. He heard a rustling sound, which then stopped abruptly along with the scream.
The anthropomorphic beast took a bite and realized that something was wrong. The coldness in its eyes instantly turned into fear. It jumped away quickly and uttered several anthropomorphic "Pooh" sounds in disgust.
Mimic: “!”
It's not clean anymore!
Shu Mo was almost knocked over by its movements. He quickly grabbed the long white fur on the mimic's back. He turned around and saw a puddle of water on the ground. He was silent for two seconds, "...I'll go back and rinse your mouth for you."
This is another disadvantage of having a high IQ (?). If it were a low-level monster, it probably wouldn't even realize that these filthy things are dirty.
Mo Bai, who was watching from the sidelines, empathized with the situation and showed an expression of dismay: "Ah."
Bai Rongrong: “Chirp.”
So disgusting.
Beast Mimic: “…”
It’s okay if it’s a fire dragon, but do these stupid fur balls think they can laugh at it just because they have a powerful big brother?
The Mimic glared at White Fluffy angrily.
The equipment and backpack items that dropped when the assassin died were scattered all over the ground, with various attributes shining with different brilliance, but among the several bystanders, no one dared to step forward to pick them up.
Especially the other players in the team, they were so scared that they were about to cry.
Shu Mo glanced at the ordinary players who were still kneeling in the snow in a disheveled state. Especially the girl who had just begged for mercy for the young man, her face still had traces of dried tears, her eyes and nose were red from crying, and she looked no more than eighteen or nineteen years old, her face gloomy.
Under natural disasters, humans should have united to fight against monsters, but there are such black sheep.
Shu Mo patted the mimic beast and asked it to put him down, then said softly, "Go ahead, don't leave any one alive."
The Mimic was smart enough to know that she was referring to the group of kidnappers. It jumped into the crowd with screams, but this time it had learned its lesson and no longer attacked with its teeth. Instead, it relied on its sharp front claws to deal with the situation.
In just a few breaths, four or five people fell down with hatred.
The remaining two or three people, in desperation, placed their hopes of fighting to the death on Shu Mo, who was standing alone outside the crowd.
"Kill her!"
"As long as the summoner dies, the summoned beast will also die!"
The other assassin pulled out a dagger, kicked the ground and suddenly jumped towards Shu Mo. Two different colors of light flow around his body, which are the instant [Agility Up] and [Strength Up] spell buffs that the mage player has given him.
Agility corresponds to attack speed, and strength corresponds to physical attack. Although the effect of instant spells is far inferior to skills that require reading, with the enhancement of the two buffs, combined with the assassin's instantaneous assassination skills, he is confident that he can smash the opponent's defense with one blow.
A summoner without defensive gear couldn't make any waves at all. All they had to do next was to hold her hostage and use her to threaten the summoner next to her who was obviously acquainted with her, and then they could control the situation in one fell swoop.
Maybe we can take them both down together.
The summoned beast is so powerful, this female summoner must be very rich. If he kills her and picks up the items dropped by the captain, he will be able to reach the top in one step!
The assassin player planned everything in an instant, excitement flashed in his eyes, and his eyes became greedy when he looked at Shu Mo.
Seeing that the tip of the knife was only one meter away from piercing Shu Mo's chest, he shouted, "Die!"
The young female summoner stared at him motionlessly, and because of her posture, her eyes revealed a kind of condescending indifference.
The next second, a huge snow-white shield suddenly appeared between the two of them. The assassin player launched an attack with full attack power, but was able to withstand it.
The dagger seemed to have pierced into a ball of cotton... No, it was cotton. When he got closer, he could even see the fine hair on it...
A gentle breeze blew in front of him, and the next moment, the young man who had been watching from the sidelines as an outsider from beginning to end appeared in front of him at some point. His eyes, as black as ink, were covered with a layer of shadow, and suddenly a few flame-like lights lit up.
Teleport?
The assassin was horrified.
The assassin profession is faster than other professions, and with the buff on his body and the additional assassination skill, the speed at which he bursts out is too fast for ordinary people to react. This young man was able to block in front of her from a distance in the blink of an eye... Is this still the speed of human movement? !
And where did that shield come from?
Is it the summoned beast Bai Rongrong that was following the boy just now? So, it was probably Bai Rongrong who teleported him here.
The assassin was certain in his heart, and seeing that the young man was unarmed, he sneered. Who knew that the next second, he saw the young man grab his wrist with lightning speed and broke it easily -
Click!
"She won't die, and neither will her summoned beast..."
"It's you who deserves the damnation."
For two seconds, the pair of jet-black eyes turned into vertical pupils as bright as gold. The boy's low voice echoed in his ears, tinged with a thin layer of anger.
This was the first time he had a change of mood since then.
The fragile wrist bone broke with a teeth-grinding sound, and the assassin's expression suddenly twisted.
He finally realized something incredible -
It turned out that the young men who were watching just now were just like the group of white fluffy creatures, summoned beasts of the young woman in front of them.
Until his death, the assassin never figured it out.
Why...can monsters transform into human forms?
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【Countdown: 00:12:32】
The countdown page stopped when there were twelve minutes left, and then disappeared in a flash.
A golden special effect appeared in front of Shu Mo.
[Completed: Limited-time mission "Accidents on the Road"!] 】
[Task requirements: Solve the trouble (completed)]
[Reward: Lucky draw opportunity*2]
Shu Mo stared at the unclear subject of the task requirement, "solve the trouble", and for a moment she was a little unsure whether the ones in trouble were her monsters who were happily out for an outing, or the group of robbers who were planning to rob his guests in front of the foreman, Xiao Heilong.
As for the two card-drawing opportunities, Shu Mo plans to keep them this time to see if he can accumulate ten consecutive draws.
She had completed three more achievements by entertaining guests these days, and with these two draws, she had accumulated another five draws. At the moment, it doesn’t seem particularly difficult to save enough to guarantee a minimum amount.
Shu Mo collected the fallen items on the ground and sold those that he didn't need.
The number of points in the player's account suddenly increased by one.
But she seldom used this account. In order to prevent herself from forgetting, Shu Mo directly opened the mall, picked out a few pieces of equipment and put them into the shopping cart.
She doesn't care about weapons or agility. Whether it's accessories or equipment, all priorities are to increase physical defense and spell defense. This way of stacking defense is something that no other player would dare to think of. After all, there are so many attributes in the game, not only physical defense and magical defense are important.
Ranged mages and priests need to increase spell attacks and mana, while knights have to balance attack and agility. Even other summoners dare not fully trust the summoned beasts and always have to keep some means to escape or counterattack.
No one is like Shu Mo, who takes such an unconventional approach and arms himself like a turtle.
After all…if you’re really that afraid of death, why not just not leave town? Why spend so much money?
If they knew that Shu Mo had a barrier that was much safer than the town, and that he bought equipment purely because he had endless points, they would probably be even more angry.
After buying the equipment, there were still some points left, mostly from selling monster materials recently. Shu Mo directly exchanged it for common medicines and monster recovery items: the cheap ones were *99 each, and she also bought a few of the expensive ones. She was not satisfied until her backpack was full.
Anyway, these points are like money dropped from the sky, so it would be a waste not to spend them.
After doing all this, Shu Mo finally had time to look at the team of people who were rescued.
There were four people in total, two men and two women. The young man in the lead looked slightly older than her, and no one knew why he was so reckless.
The four of them huddled together trembling, and the young man's neck was still bleeding - this game seemed to be for all ages, all the bloody scenes were replaced with other colors, and there was no death CG. In short, Shu Mo knew that it was blood, which was enough.
The blood flowed downwards. Perhaps the assassin captain's dagger had some special barbs that caused the blood loss to continue for a while.
Anyway, it will heal in a while, so Shu Mo didn't care too much. "Why are you ordinary players in the high-level training area?"
The young man was shaking like a sieve, but he still answered honestly, "We saw the promotional notice for the hot spring hotel and wanted to come here to take a look, but we didn't have money to hire a guard team..."
The market price for hiring a high-level player is about 80 points a day. To ensure safety, the four of them must hire a team of ten people.
That means t is 800 points.
This is just the one-way fare.
It costs 400 points for one person to travel round trip, which is really too expensive for them. No wonder they choose such a risky way.
but……
Shu Mo sighed, "First of all, you should have seen it from the promotional posters before you came. The cheapest double room in the hot spring is 200 yuan a night. Now that the opening discount period is over, double rooms and single rooms are only allowed to be used by couples or individuals with children under 1.2 meters tall."
Correspondingly, the extra bed system has now changed from paid to free.
"Do you have enough savings to live in a hotel? It is also risky for ordinary players to choose camping."
The crying girl next to her nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, "We have the money!"
She didn't dare to say that in addition to the money for the hotel and hot springs, they also saved money for oden, meat buns, candied haws, and various dishes in the restaurant...
Ordinary players don’t have the need to buy equipment. Living at home with their parents like them, they can actually save some money.
I didn't call a guard because I just couldn't bear to do it.
The girl now realized her own stupidity and dared not say anything more.
Shu Mo nodded and said slowly, "Secondly, if you could stay in the town for a few more days, you would have seen another notice on the bulletin board today, which said that the round-trip bus to Nuannuan Hot Spring will officially start operating from tomorrow. The one-way ticket is 30 points per ticket, and it only takes one hour to reach the hot spring."
Shu Mo gave the notice to the white fluffy kids yesterday and asked them to post it early this morning.
It was also because of the notice and the high energy consumption that Mo Bai took the time to take them out for a walk (and to eat).
The reason why the bus fare is not set as free is because people are afraid that some people will come and take a seat just to join in the fun or buy a candied haws.
The foursome: “!!!”
The young man was stunned, as if he had heard a fairy tale. "30 points per ticket? One hour one way?"
Youth No. 2 was a little suspicious: "When did this game have transportation? Are you kidding us?"
"What's the benefit of lying to us? Don't forget that you were just saved by her." A girl who was close to him poked him hard with her elbow, and then said in a daze, "It only takes an hour to get there, so why did we walk so hard for so long and almost lost our lives?"
The last girl frowned, but she felt something was wrong, and asked carefully: "Well, if the notice was posted today, how did you know?"
It's only noon now, but it's still half a day's journey from here to Guangming Town!
The mimetic beast happened to return to Shu Mo at this time, sat down with a majestic look.
Shu Mo patted its head, turned around, and shrugged, "Because I am the owner of the hot spring."
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