Lin Hu turned to the other person and asked, "Hmm?"
"You look kind, lad. Here, take this." The woman pulled a sheepskin scroll from under her stall with her snake tail and handed it to Lin Hu.
Lin Hu caught it with a puzzled look. Could this be some kind of rouge recipe?
The moment his fingers touched the scroll, he knew he was overthinking things. How could someone possibly give him their best craftsmanship?
[Ding! Quest complete. You have received 1 map and 100 experience points.]
Lin Hu had a guess in his mind. He opened the scroll and took a look. The scroll was a map.
Aren't all the rewards distributed by the system?
Now it's being distributed by NPCs.
Lin Hu was puzzled for a moment, then put the scroll away, intending to look at it later, and said goodbye to the woman before leaving.
Lin Hu flew to the roof of the hipped roof, sat on the ridge, and opened the scroll.
On the map, there is a longship-shaped island with mountains, forests, and a small town.
Lin Hu compared the locations on the rooftop before finally finding his own spot.
He looked again carefully to see if there was a second one of the archways he had seen when he entered. He checked back and forth, and there was indeed no second one.
Are they in the same parallel universe, or in the exact same place?
He opened the light screen, intending to ask Duan Linzhou about the situation around him.
[Lin Hu: Is it convenient to video chat in the surrounding area?]
Fearing something might be going on around the other person, Lin Hu sent a message to inquire first.
In less than three seconds, Duan Linzhou sent the video.
When the video call connected, he stared blankly at Lin Hu's face for a moment.
Looking at the unfamiliar face, if it weren't for the fact that each system could only be opened by its owner, he would have suspected that Lin Hu had been switched.
He guessed that the other party must have used some kind of prop to disguise themselves.
"What's wrong?" Duan Linzhou asked. It was dark around him, and Lin Hu couldn't see his expression.
"I just got a map. Is the terrain and buildings like this on your side?"
Lin Hu forwarded the photos of the map to the other party, then held up the map in his hand and pointed out several landmark buildings that led up from the archway.
Actually, the lighting around Linhu wasn't much better, so Duan Linzhou simply opened the pictures sent by the other party for comparison.
He had seen all the buildings on the map as he walked from the gatehouse.
But he and Lin Hu did not run into each other.
Is that strange?
Remembering what the system said about teleporting players to two locations, he asked Lin Hu, "What are your coordinates?"
Lin Hu only suddenly realized that the two of them could use coordinates to confirm whether they were in the same environment or different places.
He slapped his forehead and quickly opened his profile page to check the coordinates.
“(4368, -5881)”
"The location is different; I am at (-4368, -5881)."
Looking at his coordinates, Duan Linzhou's suspicions deepened.
"Have you received the mission?" Duan Linzhou asked Lin Hu.
"Received it. This map is the reward." Lin Hu raised his hand and waved the scroll in his hand.
"Is there anything else besides this?" Duan Linzhou asked again.
Sensing that the other person knew something, Lin Hu asked, "Do you know something?"
"Hmm." Duan Linzhou didn't hide anything: "When I first entered the ancient town, I found that many players around me had triggered the quest, and the reward was zongzi (rice dumplings)."
How did Duan Linzhou know the reward was a rice dumpling? Naturally, it was because he had enough crystal cores and used them to acquire information.
The reason for asking Lin Hu if there were any other tasks was because of the rewards.
"Brother Duan, I have a bold guess." Lin Hu frowned as he looked at the person on the screen and spoke mysteriously.
"What conjecture?" Duan Linzhou had some ideas after seeing the map Lin Hu sent.
However, since Lin Hu spoke first, he would listen to see if it matched his guess.
Lin Hu pointed to the terrain drawn in the scroll: "What does this island look like?"
Duan Linzhou: "Boat!"
Lin Hu nodded: "It's more like a boat than a ship."
Yes, the island on the map is a long, narrow diamond shape, much like a dragon boat.
"If what I suspect is true, then this island is alive?! And the dragon boat race must have started as soon as we were teleported here."
Lin Hu became increasingly suspicious. Ever since he went to the pastry shop to buy pastries for the woman with rouge, players had been stopping and chatting in front of various shops and stalls, both inside the pastry shop and on the street outside.
So it started from that time?!
"Hmm, that's similar to what I was thinking. As for the rice dumplings as a reward for completing the mission, they might be useful later, so try to collect as many as possible," Duan Linzhou said after a moment's thought.
He's lost track of what's going on now. In his past life, there was never any emphasis on festivals, let alone dragon boat races.
This is why he was completely unaware that Lin Hu's "rebirth" was a ruse.
"Do you know how to trigger the mission?" Lin Hu put away the map and asked Duan Linzhou, who was in a daze.
“I’ve observed that most people who receive these tasks do so by asking locals for directions or by triggering them during conversations while shopping.”
Duan Linzhou wasn't without evidence; he tried it himself and successfully triggered a quest to find a carp.
He was on a mission, searching for carp in a dark alley.
He didn't know why the person who triggered the mission had asked him to come to the alley to find them.
Could this fish be a flying fish?
Lin Hu realized after hearing what the other person said that his mission was triggered after he had a conversation with the woman in rouge.
Now it should be two "dragon boats" racing, and what drives the "dragon boats" forward should be the number of tasks and the degree of completion.
"Duan Linzhou, I've discovered something," Lin Hu said, his heart filled with unease.
"What is it?" Duan Linzhou asked. His camera was shaking slightly because there was no fixed camera and it was caused by walking.
"Aren't we on opposite sides now?" Lin Hu murmured, his voice not loud, but loud enough for Duan Linzhou to hear clearly.
Logically speaking, that's how it should be. After all, two identical "ships" starting from the same point are bound to compete with each other.
"Mm," Duan Linzhou replied, knowing what Lin Hu wanted to express.
"The system only said there are rewards for the competition, not punishments, so don't overthink it." Besides, if there were punishments, with over 40,000 people on each side, it's impossible for everyone to be punished.
If that's the case, wouldn't this be a killing system?
By the time Duan Linzhou and Lin Hu finished speaking, they had already moved to a place with a light source.
Lin Hu was initially worried about something, but then he saw a reassuring smile on the other person's face.
It's amazing, my mind calmed down.
"Okay," Lin Hu replied with a smile.
"Let's find some tasks first, and try to complete as many as possible." Duan Linzhou said to Lin Hu at the end, then, as if he had seen something, he hurriedly said goodbye to Lin Hu and hung up the video call.
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