Chapter 48
The trap was not made by Xia Mo. She had not yet studied engineering and could not have made such a large mechanism. It would have been even more impossible for other players to do so.
The Black Bear Forest map is at level 20. Ordinary players don't dare to come in, and even if they do, they can't set up this kind of trap. Players must at least reach the junior engineer level to be able to set up such a complex mechanism.
After comprehensive judgment, Xia Mo felt that this trap was most likely made by an NPC and was specifically used to catch black bears.
It’s a pity that the bear was not caught, but a man was caught.
Zhuye Zuijiu stood in the trap without daring to move, for fear that if he moved, he would be pricked by the sharp thorns in the trap again.
Now he couldn't climb up anymore. The others were either lying dead or being harassed by the divine beasts. No one could snatch the black bear from her.
The plan completely failed, and Zhuye Zuijiu felt deeply annoyed.
Damn it! If I had known, I wouldn't have come to rob this monster! Now, instead of getting any benefits, I ended up losing all four of them!
Above the trap, Xia Mo sneered and glanced at the people below.
This is just a small trap, but you are so anxious. Why didn't you think of how difficult her situation was when you used those despicable means to slander her?
Forget it. Why bother talking to a sinister and vicious villain like him about putting himself in other people's shoes? If he understood, would he have done such disgusting things?
Xia Mo raised his weapon and pointed the Star Staff at the person under the trap.
Zhuye raised his chin drunkenly and looked at her in horror: "...What are you going to do?!"
What are you doing?
"Of course I'll kill you." Xia Mo laughed again.
This time, her smile was even more chilling than before.
Zhuye Zuijiu just looked up at her, at her face which was as delicate as a doll, but without any of the doll's innocence, and only revealed endless coldness and chillness. He couldn't help but tremble all over.
"...Okay, whatever you want!"
Knowing that he couldn't escape, Zhuye Zuijiu simply gave up struggling. He forced himself to suppress the fear on his face, and then showed a righteous expression of being ready to die, as if he wanted to use this silent way to protest against the person in front of him who had committed such a cruel act.
However, to his surprise, the opponent not only did not continue to attack, but suddenly withdrew and disappeared from the side.
Seeing the female devil disappear, Zhuye Zuijiu's tense nerves relaxed suddenly. He didn't care about the sharp thorns around him and swayed weakly.
Great... She finally let him go...
Listening to the fight between Zhuyezui and the black bear, Zhuyezui was thankful for the other party's soft-heartedness, and began to think about how to climb up.
He raised his head and looked around. Suddenly, he saw a branch protruding from above, and a plan came to his mind!
Got it! Throw a rope up there. While she's tangled up with the black bear and can't be distracted, he can crawl out without anyone noticing!
Feeling overjoyed, Zhuye Zuijiu quickly took out the rope from his backpack. He tried throwing it up several times, and finally he managed to throw it over.
He tied a knot at the bottom of the rope and pulled it with his hands. Hmm, no problem, so he grabbed it with his hands and legs and began to climb up little by little like an old snail.
The mutant elite black bear had very little blood left, so Xia Mo bombarded it several times in turn and finally knocked the black bear down by stepping on its tail for three hours.
A large amount of shiny things exploded, making the two corpses on the ground jealous.
"Oh my god, I saw the armor used by the warriors! Ahhhh, I'm so angry, we almost succeeded just now!" The dead warrior "Take the snail for a walk" wailed loudly in the private chat channel.
The elementalist who listened to his wailing was helpless: "She reacted too quickly..."
Her attack is also very strong. Coupled with that battle pet that doesn't look very good but is as powerful as its master in attack, this kind of absolute crushing power means that even if there are four more of them, they are no match for her. And they almost succeeded?
Don’t you see how many seconds it only took her to knock down four of them?
The elementalist didn't say the last sentence, but swallowed it silently, so as not to cause secondary mental damage to himself and the warriors by saying it out loud.
The two of them just lay on the ground, watching the good stuff that the black bear dropped go into Xia Mo's backpack one by one.
For Xia Mo, this trip was a great harvest.
This black bear was of elite level, higher than the stone beast she had encountered in the Rittor Canyon. In addition, due to its own mutation, the loot it dropped after death was even richer than that of the stone beast.
In addition to the regular red, blue, and purple medicines and professional equipment, Xia Mo also picked up an extremely rare invisibility potion and a dark blue stone.
[Invisibility Potion: Drink when not in combat to enter invisible state (lasts 10 minutes)]
A rare potion that may not even be available in the Royal City Business. Whoever picks it up will make a fortune.
The reason why it is rare is due to the high complexity of the invisibility potion production process and the extremely high failure rate. Even for senior pharmacists, the maximum output per week is only 3 bottles.
Back then, Xia Mo was the pharmacist who could make three bottles a week. After finishing, she would usually keep one bottle for herself and sell the remaining two bottles at a high price in a business.
Recalling this incident, Xia Mo curled the corners of her mouth in self-mockery. Fortunately, she didn't tell Xu Xiaobei and the others that she had learned how to make the invisibility potion. Otherwise, with Xu Xiaobei's temper, he would definitely pester her and ask her to give the potion to his people.
Xu Xiaobei comes from a wealthy family and never thinks about things from other people's perspectives. In her eyes, her family is not short of money, which means that everyone on the planet is not short of money.
If Xia Mo really gave these invisibility potions that could be sold at a high price to Xu Xiaobei for free, Xia Mo felt that he would lose at least 2,000 star coins in net income every week.
Pulling his thoughts back from his memories, Xia Mo put the potion back and clicked on the strange stone next to him.
The stone is dark green in color and has a strange appearance. When you hold it in your hand, it feels neither soft nor hard, like a block of half-solidified oil.
Having never seen this kind of stone before, Xia Mo clicked on the details page out of curiosity.
He looked slightly stunned.
This is not a stone, it is the gallbladder of a black bear.
It’s just that because the black bear mutated, its bear bile also mutated.
Normally, bear bile is a good thing for pharmacists to make medicine, but at this moment, after mutation, the bear bile displayed in the material details page has mutated into an enchanting material!
[A mutant bear gall: Installed on a weapon, it can poison the victim every time a skill is released (applicable to any profession)]
The moment Xia Mo finished reading the skill details, he became nervous.
Poisoning is usually a move that only the assassin, hunter and warlock professions have. Once the poison is released, the victim will continue to lose blood. If other poison skills are superimposed at this time, the victim's blood will be lost even more.
Once in the arena PK, Xia Mo was poisoned twice by an assassin. At that time, she was only in her 30s and had only learned one of the priest's detoxification skills.
The first time she was poisoned, she used her detoxification skills, but the second time she was poisoned, she was dumbfounded and could only watch her blood drop. In the end, the battle ended in failure.
From this we can see how important poisoning is in a battle, especially in PVP.
To be honest, Xia Mo never thought that he would be able to learn poisoning in this life. After all, star officials do not have this skill. There are some non-professional skills, but there are not many of them. Whether you can get them depends entirely on luck, so in this regard, Xia Mo is more casual.
Unexpectedly, this time she stumbled upon something that had the same effect as the poisoning skill.
Xia Mo was overjoyed and put the mutated bear bile into his backpack.
Turning around, I saw Zhuye Zuijiu holding a rope and slowly climbing out of the trap.
Xia Mo didn't want him to get out alive. She deliberately didn't take action just now, just to make him happy for a few minutes, make him mistakenly think that he saw hope, and then destroy his idea.
He raised his hand and was about to hit him back, when suddenly, an NPC in old clothes ran out angrily from the bushes next to the cave.
"Who broke my trap? You damn outsiders, I'll give you a good beating!"
As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves, revealing his arms that were thicker than the player's calves.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Xia Mo quickly stopped and drank the medicine, while running and calling Jingjing back from the female pastor.
The man and the beast ran away very quickly. In the blink of an eye, only two corpses, a female priest, and Zhuye Zuijiu, who was holding onto a rope and staring at the NPC, were left at the scene.
"No, no, uncle... let me explain!" Zhuye's drunken eyes widened as he quickly tried to excuse himself, "I'm the victim! I was deliberately tricked here by a female official. I didn't see the trap under my feet and accidentally fell into it!"
The NPC uncle stood beside the trap, his face furrowed fiercely. "Hmph, victim, you outsiders are really good at making excuses! It seems to me that you are just trying to use my trap to steal the black bear I have my eye on!"
As he spoke, he turned sideways and pointed angrily at the dead mutant elite black bear not far away. His angry expression clearly accused them of being the ones who planned to kill the black bear!
Zhuye Zuijiu felt a black screen before his eyes, and felt a sense of injustice that could not be washed away even if he jumped into the Yellow River!
God swear by our conscience, it was obviously them who were beaten, and it was also them who didn’t get the spoils. They didn’t gain any benefits, so why are they the ones who have to take the blame in the end!
Zhuye Zuijiu was in tears and wanted to explain again, but the NPC was already immersed in the anger of losing Black Bear. Before Zhuye Zuijiu could open his mouth, the NPC punched him hard in the abdomen!
"ah!"
Zhuye was drunk and in pain, so he had no strength to hold the rope. His hands and legs loosened uncontrollably, and he fell to the bottom of the trap with a bang.
-100! -100! -100! ...
A series of bright red numbers popped up, making Zhuyezuijiu so frightened.
He covered his slightly aching stomach and just stood up, and the next second, he saw the mechanism in the trap move!
The originally motionless spikes suddenly began to stretch and contract after the NPC pressed some button.
There was a sudden stab in the back, -100!
The front thigh was hit again, -100!
Next is the arm, -100...
Back of the head, -100...
Even an iron man can't stand his health dropping by one hundred at a time!
Zhuye Zuijiu was almost on the verge of collapse. He just stood in the middle of the trap, neither moving nor standing still, watching his blood continue to drop.
"Xuan Die, quickly restore my health!"
Because she didn't dare to move, Zhuye Zuijiu couldn't give herself medicine, so she had to shout and ask Xuandie, the only surviving female priest, to heal her.
But just as he finished shouting, he heard Xuandie screaming in the voice chat, and then, above his field of vision, a person was thrown in fiercely!
For fear of being hit, Zhuye Zuijiu was so scared that he quickly moved to the side. This time, he was stabbed and lost hundreds of blood. Zhuye Zuijiu felt very painful.
He withdrew his gaze from the health bar, and after seeing who was thrown down, his eyes suddenly widened: "Xuan Die, why is it you!"
With only a wisp of skin left, Xuan Die looked at her own leader miserably, tears streaming down her face. "I can't beat that NPC when I'm drunk. His attack is too high!"
One move took away more than 2,500 of her health. The opponent was at least 10 levels higher than her. What was the point of playing this? She could only be beaten by the opponent.
Xuandie cried as she spoke, and sat on the ground wiping her tears.
Her arm kept moving, and she almost bumped into the sharp thorns beside her. Zhuye Zuijiu was so frightened that he quickly tried to persuade her: "Xuandie, don't move for now. This trap is full of sharp thorns. If you get pricked a few more times, you'll be dead."
Plop.
As soon as he finished speaking, Xuandie, who was crying the previous second, fell to the ground with a limp body.
Zhuyezuijiu:...Fuck, even the nanny is dead, what's the point of him treating her?
While I was so angry that I was speechless, the voices of the Lying Corpse Duo came from the voice chat.
"Drunk, drunk, that NPC is gone! Sparta and I are here to rescue you!"
After hearing that the NPC had left, Zhuye Zuijiu finally breathed a sigh of relief and said unhappily, "Then hurry up and come here!"
"Hey! Okay!"
Rustle, the sound of footsteps approaching quickly came from outside the trap.
Zhuyezuijiu thought he could get out this time, but who knew, 2 seconds later.
“Ah! Help!”
"Damn, I got fooled!"
The voices of Sparta and Snail sounded simultaneously overhead.
Zhuye Zuijiu's eyebrows jumped violently: "What happened to you two?!" Could it be that they were beaten by the NPC who sent them back home?
There was silence for two seconds, and then Sparta's helpless response was heard: "...Drunk. Now we have to call the guild to rescue us."
"The snail and I... stepped into the trap next to you two..."
What? !
Zhuyezui's breathing stopped for a moment and he almost fell down.
"There's a trap next to us?!" He widened his eyes in disbelief.
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