Chapter 117 Mermaid Cruise
Before I got close, I heard the sound of fists hitting flesh coming from the shed.
Xu Zhiyan glanced at Jiang Huaique, who was topless and eager to try, and for some reason he also felt a little excited.
It would be nice if this copy wasn’t a Popeye limited edition!
Near the shed, a strange smell mixed with the smell of blood gathered in the air, making people wrinkle their noses.
The temporary workers formed a circle and watched the fight inside. From time to time, someone would discuss a few words, and the situation became more and more tense and heated.
Xu Zhiyan brought Jiang Huaique and secretly came to the workers who were watching, but before he could squeeze in, he was stopped by his teammates.
"Why are you going in there like a chicken?" Jiang Huaique's voice was filled with obvious disdain.
After saying this, without waiting for Xu Zhiyan to refute, he pushed aside the strong men who were surrounding him and came to the edge of the crude fighting arena.
Xu Zhiyan really wanted to curse, but he saw that although Jiang Huaique was not as strong as these muscular NPCs, he also had broad shoulders and a narrow waist, and his powerful muscles had smooth and beautiful lines, and his momentum was no less impressive.
He looked down at his arm, which was still thin after the blood vessel implant, and was unable to refute.
Forget it, it’s always good to have an extra identity bracelet. Who knows if there will be a time when you’ll need a new identity after you get on board.
While he was thinking, the battle on the field was over.
The workers in this shed found Jiang Huaique unfamiliar, but no one asked much questions. Their task was to choose the only winner from the crowd.
Soon, Jiang Huaiqie stood in the center of the field.
His opponent was a man over two meters tall, with a sturdy build and a small braid.
The two didn't waste any time talking.
The man with braids attacked first...
The battle is about to begin.
In just two minutes, the onlookers went from whispering in the beginning to occasionally exclaiming in shock.
"Who is this? He is very strong!"
"Too flexible, I can't hit him at all..."
"He's much stronger than he looks."
“So strong…”
Xu Zhiyan listened to the screams and stood outside the flesh wall formed by his fellow workers, scratching his ears and cheeks anxiously.
He squeezed for a long time to get to the front row to see the fighting situation, but failed to squeeze in. He jumped a few times in the back row and just barely saw the top of the pigtailed man's head.
"Fuck, what kind of thing is this? Are you not even allowed to watch?"
He stood still, cursing, and in order to maintain his image, he stopped jumping around like a monkey for a few shots.
Fortunately, Jiang Huaique didn't make him wait too long.
About twenty minutes later, when Xu Zhiyan began to hesitate whether to take out Xiaocuigu's head and let the skeleton help him broadcast the live broadcast, Jiang Huaique finally defeated all the dissatisfied workers.
When the crowd dispersed, Xu Zhiyan saw his teammate who had obviously been hit twice.
He quipped, crossing his arms.
"Didn't you just say that you were very powerful? Fighting them one by one is too slow. We need to attack them all at once."
Why are there fewer people coming here to fight, but more people getting hurt?
After listening to this, Jiang Huaique reached out to wipe the blood that had just splashed on his face, frowned, and looked at Xu Zhiyan with a puzzled look.
"Have you always been so unlucky since you were a child?" he asked.
"Ah? Bad luck?"
Xu Zhiyan was stunned, as if he didn't understand why his teammates said that.
Jiang Huaique put the newly acquired bracelet into his pocket, glanced at the strong men who began to pack up in silence and prepare to go out to work, and explained.
"The monsters in your shed are at their strongest. They are at least ten times stronger than the one in my shed just now."
Although the strong men in the shed where he was looked similar, in fact, once they fought, they could find obvious differences.
"I seem to have forgotten that we didn't fight. I'll share the NP information with you." Jiang Huaique called up the panel and chose to share information.
[NPC: Worker]
[Note: For strong ordinary people, players need to defeat competing workers to obtain the only qualification to board the ship. ]
[Monster: Worker]
[Level: Medium]
Threat: High
[Note: The monsters on the docks are covered in human skin and have great strength. However, they do not know that they are already monsters, and still continue to live in human habits, looking no different from human workers.]
Xu Zhiyan stared at the panel shared by Jiang Huaique, not knowing what to do.
What the hell? In other people's sheds, the workers are all ordinary NPCs, but in his shed, the workers are all giant monsters?
Damn it, he said how could the pre-task be so difficult? Any old man could break the steel plate. It turned out that his co-workers were not human beings!
He tried to hold back the swear words, but finally they came out.
"Stupid game!"
The audience probably didn't expect things to take such a sudden turn and that the main system would be so inhumane.
【Hahahahaha the main system treats you differently! 】
【Xiao Baiwan just jumped and looked inside, and I almost died of laughter.】
[I made it into a GIF [Let me feel good.gif]]
【Hahahaha, the upstairs person is snatching bamboo shoots, hahahaha! 】
[@Main System, did Xiao Baiwan dig up your ancestors' graves in his previous life? This is fucking hilarious! ]
[Does the system also have ancestral graves? Did Xiao Baiwan delete the system's database in his previous life and then run away? Haha]
[I was wondering why the NPCs in the pre-quests are all so perverted. If any coal burner can punch through the iron door, these guys are not afraid that they can break a hole in the bottom of the boat! ]
[Hahaha, I went to other live broadcast rooms and saw that other people’s pre-quest NPCs were not so scary.]
The audience jumped back and forth between several live broadcast rooms and found that indeed the people encountered by other players in the pre-missions were humans, but the one encountered by Xu Zhiyan was a monster.
In the live broadcast, when the time came, all the workers left the shed.
Watching Jiang Huaique skillfully take out the new weapon wrapped in shadow, the barrage of comments started to discuss noisily again.
[Luckily there is Jiang Huai Que! I never knew he was such a good fighter! ]
[He seems to be stronger than before? I remember that he was not so good at fighting before. ]
[Reliable! This guy! And his chest muscles are so big! Damn, you can't even see them when he's wearing clothes, tsk tsk.]
[The above view has a unique angle...]
[Xiao Baiwan has a good eye for finding teammates. He and the dog master both seem to have potential and will have great development in the future.]
[Jiang Huai Que got an S-level item from a blind box machine a few days ago, and it was the kind with skills. I wonder if that skill has physical enhancement? Ahhhh, so exciting! ]
[Fuck! I heard about that, too!]
[Fuck, can I really win that blind box? Heartbeat +1]
【+2……】
It was probably because one could draw a rare item with 100,000 points, which was really enviable, and the topic gradually became off-topic.
However, Xu Zhiyan didn’t know how effective this wave of advertising was.
He was still immersed in the attack targeted by the main system. Even when Jiang Huaique took out new weapons and activated skills, he was unable to recover.
[Skill name: Shadow of Death]
[Consumption: Mental Power (5 points)]
[Skill details: Death follows you like a shadow. The slain creatures will turn into eyes, exploring the shadows and bringing you clues.]
[Note: Only one Shadow of Death can be stored at a time.]
A finger-long shadow dripped from the blade of the black sickle and merged into the ground like a drop of water.
While waiting for feedback, Jiang Huaique looked at his teammates who were cursing at the main system, and couldn't help but feel a little amused.
He has always been grateful to Xu Zhiyan.
Even though he didn't say it, being saved in the Night Fisherman dungeon was already unexpected.
I thought that by helping this cunning and weak teammate for a few years, I might be able to repay his kindness.
But who would have thought that before he could repay the life-saving grace, the Shadow of Death was delivered to him at a low price.
Although Xu Zhiyan had previously said casually that he was needed to advertise and would not lose money.
But he was not an idiot, so how could he not notice the good intentions behind it... He was obviously a cunning businessman who refused to suffer any loss, but he was so generous when giving him props.
The more favors you owe to others, the more you owe them.
Maybe I will be a teammate of this profiteer for the rest of my life.
After a while, the shadow of death that had lurked in the darkness appeared, like a black drop of water, and exploded in Jiang Huai's palm.
"It's safe here, you can stay here until dawn." He turned and said to Xu Zhiyan.
The nights in the dungeon are always difficult to endure, as many monsters only move at night.
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyan was stunned.
"You, you wasted five points of mental power and a Shadow of Death just to help me check if this shed is safe?"
Damn, what a loser teammate!
Xu Zhiyan was speechless and choked up. He simply stopped caring about what his teammates were thinking and dragged out a bag full of rabbits from the corner of the shed.
"I'll go and do my work first. If you're free, go check on Jin Sheng. What if he also encountered a monster NPC?" He didn't believe that he was the only one so unlucky in this copy.
Jiang Huaique saw that he was about to leave, so he did not stop him and said calmly: "No, he is much luckier than you."
"...There's no need to remind me of this kind of thing." Xu Zhiyan replied through gritted teeth.
A few minutes later, the two went their separate ways.
Xu Zhiyan came to the kitchen he had explored before.
At the messy dock, this place is more like a big tent than a kitchen. It is bigger than the three sheds combined. Food ingredients are piled up on the ground at random, and it doesn't look very clean at first glance.
Before entering the kitchen, Xu Zhiyan bent down.
He hunched over, slowed down his pace, tried to reduce his presence as much as possible, and attempted to listen to more small talk.
The people here should know more than the workers.
Several apprentices wearing Tibetan aprons were boiling water.
"I also want to go to the Leviathan."
"Are there really mermaids in the world? Are they delicious?"
"Eat, eat! Why is eating the only thing on your mind? Wasn't the mermaid performance good?"
"Cruise parties are really something to look forward to..."
The apprentices are relatively young, and they are all yearning for new things.
They chatted for a while, and then the apprentice who looked a little older, who was standing aside peeling potatoes, spoke.
"Alas, speaking of this, it is true that people are more likely to die than others."
He seemed to know more than anyone else, and everyone fell silent and looked at him.
"You guys are late and don't know. Two years ago, one of our apprentices was lucky enough to be selected to board the ship before it sailed, but he never came back."
There was a hint of sourness in his envious tone.
After hearing this, the other apprentices also showed eager eyes.
"The Leviathan's annual carnival party seems to have strict requirements on the number of people on board. I wish I could get on board!"
"Forget it, you don't know anything, I'd rather choose you than me!"
"You guys talk as if you're lucky. I heard that the Leviathan is hiring coal burners this time. Why don't you go and burn coal..."
Xu Zhiyan listened and began to murmur in his heart.
The apprentice who boarded the ship two years ago never came back.
Although the apprentices in the kitchen were very envious and wished they could replace the man who boarded the ship two years ago.
But he knew that for ordinary people, this cruise would be a one-way trip.
By chance, an apprentice discovered him at this time.
A sack of rabbits was successfully exchanged for a set of relatively clean old clothes and ninety-five yuan.
Before leaving, Xu Zhiyan held his clothes and approached a few apprentices who were chatting. He said with a longing look on his face, "You actually know about the Leviathan. You are so amazing. You will definitely be great chefs in the future! I don't know how many rich people will board the ship."
Don't hit someone who smiles at you.
He first praised the apprentices and then asked about the rich man.
If the NPC and the player board the ship at the same time, there is a high probability that the Ghost Slice is a wealthy guest.
Xu Zhiyan touched the ring on his middle finger.
Sincerely hope his new dog is rich enough.
Several apprentices wanted to ridicule him, but they felt a little embarrassed after being praised like this.
They are good at bragging, but it would be really difficult for them to explain the reason.
Several young men looked into Xu Zhiyan's eyes, hesitated for a long time, and finally gave out something that seemed to be hidden information.
"If you follow the street away from the dock, you will see a second-hand store. The store owner knows more. You can ask him. Also, these rabbits are enough for us to eat for a long time. We don't need rabbits anymore."
Xu Zhiyan raised his eyebrows, didn't say anything more, nodded, left the kitchen, and returned to the shed with the old clothes.
I don't know if it's because he has given the information, but he doesn't want the rabbit anymore? It seems he has to find a way to make money somewhere else.
The reason for changing into a decent set of clothes is to avoid being mistaken for a thief when going to the store to buy something.
The sea breeze is warm in the afternoon.
Xu Zhiyan changed into old clothes, put ninety-five yuan in his pocket, and stood at the huge pier close to the land.
Looking at the row of shops across the road, he did not walk over rashly.
There are shops, hotels, bars, restaurants...all kinds of lively buildings across the street, but they are inexplicably out of place with the pier.
Games are usually limited in scope.
Sometimes the range is given very clearly, like a nightmare community, but more often, the main system does not clearly list this range.
For example, the prerequisite tasks of a blind school.
If the player leaves the house he lives in before dawn, he will be chased by more monsters and must stay inside.
At this moment, he was standing on this side of the road, looking at a few meters away, and his intuition was frantically preventing him from going over.
The blood vessels in my body, which had been slightly tingling, began to wriggle.
Xu Zhiyan raised his hand, feeling the blood vessels on the back of his hand twisting uneasily, and decisively chose to give up crossing the road.
It’s just like raiding a dungeon for supplies.
Don't take anything that makes him feel uncomfortable, so that he can live longer.
It seems that there is no hope of trying to trick rich young men and women by waiting in the hotel opposite.
But since the NPC said so, does that mean I can go to the second-hand store?
He hesitated for a moment, stood up and walked along the road for a distance, and sure enough, a second-hand shop appeared.
Xu Zhiyan quickened his pace and walked in.
"jingle--"
The wind chimes on the door rang, followed by the boss's words.
"Don't touch if you don't buy. No returns or exchanges if sold."
Xu Zhiyan listened to the boss's hoarse voice and looked up at this second-hand shop.
The shop occupies a small area, but it is filled with things, including a wide variety of things, from musical instruments to clothes, to old newspapers and daily necessities.
The boss was an old lady who was sitting behind the counter knitting a sweater.
Glancing at something that was moving extremely fast into the holes of these second-hand items, Xu Zhiyan lowered his eyes and honestly did not touch the things around him.
He went up to the counter and started chatting with the boss.
"Hello, I'm a businessman who plans to take a boat trip, but I encountered a thief before and my belongings were taken away. I only have a little money left. I want to ask if you have ever met anyone selling boat tickets here?"
There is no need to rush about the outfit, it is only a matter of time.
He invented a new identity for himself and tried to get some information from his boss.
Being able to open a store here means that the boss knows much more than the dock workers.
The old lady who was knitting a sweater paused, put down the wool in her hand, raised her head, pushed her glasses, and looked at the young man standing in front of the counter.
She originally thought that the other party was a liar who talked nonsense. After all, there were no businessmen in this place on a normal day. Except for some strange guests when a cruise ship departed occasionally, most of the people on weekdays were laborers with little money.
But when he glanced at Xu Zhiyan, he became unsure again.
The young man in front of me had smooth black hair, fair skin and a thin figure. When he looked over, his eyes were smiling, which was unexpectedly charming.
Although he was wearing some shabby and cheap clothes, it did not detract from his temperament at all.
"Tickets?"
The boss muttered, frowning, and explained the matter at the dock.
"This is a cargo dock. Usually, there are cargo ships here, and there are no tickets. Oh, and this is the Leviathan. This is a large cruise ship, but the number of people boarding the Leviathan is fixed every year."
Speaking of the cruise ship, she lowered her head and continued knitting without stopping.
"If you mean the Leviathan ticket, then I did receive one, but it was two years ago."
Xu Zhiyan remained silent.
The boat ticket from two years ago?
It was hard for him not to think of the news he had just heard in the kitchen.
The number of people who can board the Leviathan is fixed. If there is one less person on board, someone will be needed to fill that position, and that unfortunate apprentice should be one of them.
"This journey is very important to me. Can you show me the ticket?"
Xu Zhiyan said sincerely: "Maybe I didn't lose this ticket, but if it can help me, then the owner of this ticket should be happy too."
The boss hesitated for a moment, put down the ball of yarn again, and took out the ticket from under the counter.
"The owner of this ticket probably doesn't want to board the ship."
After saying that, she handed the old boat ticket to Xu Zhiyan.
It can be seen that the ticket is quite old. It is mottled and the boarding date and the names of the passengers are not very clear, but the identities are written very clearly.
[Boarding time: ▇▇9▇09]
[Name: ▇▇Si]
[Occupation: Tutor]
[Cabin number: ▇▇▇▇1]
【▇▇: White▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇……】
The moment Xu Zhiyan got the ticket, a new task popped up on the system.
Before seeing the mission, he was delighted at first, thinking that maybe his luck was about to change. How could he get a new identity and a ship ticket so easily this time?
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the branch quest - Ticket to the Dead]
[Note: This is a second-hand store that can only be found by players who are on the verge of breaking the rules. You have received the ticket of the dead and are about to be cursed.]
[Task Tips: Taking things from the dead will be punished, please kill the dead ghosts as soon as possible. / After the dead ghosts disappear, the old tickets will also disappear. ]
[Progress: 0%]
[Task Reward: None]
After reading the contents of the panel, Xu Zhiyan felt a little unwell.
He couldn't believe that the main system could be so stupid?
What kind of resentful branch is this?
You will be cursed if it is triggered, but there is no reward?
The audience watching the live broadcast probably didn't expect that Xu Zhiyan's luck could be so bad, and they couldn't help but worry for him.
[I don’t know if Xiao Baiwan can see the comments. I hope he can find a temple to worship after he leaves the dungeon.]
[What kind of luck is this? I'm impressed! ]
[Since this is a main system issue, I suggest you not go to a physical temple, but find an electronic wooden fish online to knock on.]
[I have a link! [Electronic wooden fish link wishes you to accumulate cyber merits...]]
[Damn, I was a little worried, but why did the style of the painting above gradually drift away? ! I laughed so hard that all my merits were gone! ]
【Merit-1】
[Hey, hey, stop playing, look, the curse has appeared! ]
Xu Zhiyan stood in front of the counter of a second-hand store.
The boss in front of him was still saying something, but the words were already intermittent and gradually became unclear in his ears.
"Before boarding the ship... I learned... that I would commit suicide... I didn't want to... board the ship... to teach... Master Bai..."
"Mermaid...Leviathan...carnival..."
The temperature around him slowly dropped as the boss spoke almost in a delirium.
Xu Zhiyan felt the sound of ticking and footsteps coming from behind him, and the salty, fishy smell and moisture poured into the current space. The lights in the entire second-hand store flickered, and the color of the lights changed from the initial warm yellow to a cold white.
Suddenly, everything seemed to stop.
The boss's sporadic words stopped and his knitting fingers stopped moving.
The owner of the ticket appeared at the door of the store, ready to punish anyone who had peeped at his property.
Xu Zhiyan had his back to the door, cold sweat pouring down his face.
He secretly lowered his head to glance at the resentment meter he took out from the system backpack, and his eyes went dark and he almost fainted.
The resentment of the undead behind him is indeed quite strong.
His resentment meter is directly filled to the maximum, which means that the undead will also be very strong.
It’s a pity. He does have a few items in his inventory that are suitable for dealing with the undead, but unfortunately the mental threshold required is too high, so he can’t use them!
And to take a step back, if the undead are destroyed, this ticket will be useless.
The undead seemed unable to speak and could only make a 'cracking' sound.
The wet black long hair touched Xu Zhiyan's shoulder, and a fishy smell emanated from the long hair.
Xu Zhiyan didn't move.
His mind was spinning rapidly.
"Ms. Undead... Ahem, it could also be Sir, I think we could talk about it. Things are not yet irreversible."
However, this undead spirit seemed not to understand human language. It just kept lowering the temperature around it, and the hair wrapped around it became tighter and tighter.
The bone-deep coldness made Xu Zhiyan shiver.
Something needs to be done...
We can't kill him directly, he needs a boat ticket.
Just when the undead was about to stick to Xu Zhiyan's back, the thin young man suddenly turned around, holding a white skull in his hand.
"Little Gristle, communicate with it!"
They are all undead, and they all speak in a 'click' way, so they should be able to communicate!
The little brittle bone that was suddenly taken out of the summoning item, now only a skull, was facing an undead creature covered with hair, and his lower jaw was almost dislocated from fright.
It wanted to blink and squeeze out a few tears, but it had no eyelids.
But thinking of the expedited training of the brothers and sisters in the safe house, Xiao Cuigu still plucked up the courage and spoke.
“Ka-ka-ka…”
I’m sorry, I’m sorry…
Although I don’t know what happened, it’s definitely right to apologize first!
After saying this, Xu Zhiyan discovered that the undead opposite him had indeed stopped, and even the hair on his shoulders relaxed a little.
He breathed a sigh of relief and his breathing became much smoother.
Very good! The plan works!
Although he didn't know what Xiaokuigu and the undead said, he decided that when he returned to the safe house, he would ask Qu Ji to buy some egg shells to supplement Xiaokuigu's calcium!
Now that he finally had time to think about other things, Xu Zhiyan thought about what his boss had just said, and couldn't help feeling a little restless.
Young Master Bai...his surname is Bai.
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