◎The Ghost of the Old Elf and the Flamingo◎
"Have you heard the story of the elves?" NPC Golov looked at Xia Li and asked slowly.
Xia Li wanted to say that of course she knew. Although it was impossible for her to remember every detail clearly after her rebirth, she still remembered some important information, including some clearance techniques for large and difficult dungeons and private dungeons, the gameplay of some ruined city maps, etc., and naturally also the 7-day limited-time mission in front of her.
But she couldn't tell Golov that she knew it in front of him, otherwise she would anger the NPC and suffer the consequences. So she shook her head obediently, indicating that she had never heard of it.
Seeing this, Golov sighed deeply, his expression rather sad. "As expected, you youngsters have almost forgotten that the Shia continent once had so many races living in harmony and joy. It was truly a beautiful and fascinating history."
Xia Li nodded as she listened, pretending to be like, "Wow, I never knew the Shia continent was so lively."
Of course, Golov didn't notice her deliberate attempt; he just saw her interest and continued, "There once was a lush forest on the Shia continent. Within the forest lived beautiful elves. They lived by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, spreading pollen and seeds across the land. Year after year, under the elves' care, the forest grew more and more lush and extensive."
"Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. Due to a tremor on the ground, the surface cracked and magma spread from the underground, engulfing the vast forest in flames. In just a few days, the prosperous forest was reduced to ash. The elves lost the spiritual energy they relied on for survival and were forced to migrate."
"But how could migration be so easy? Back then, the ground was swirling with magma, the earth was constantly cracking, and slopes were constantly collapsing. It was easy to fall into the cracks if you weren't careful. Younger elves were agile and could react quickly before danger approached and avoid the cracks, but older elves couldn't react so quickly. During the migration, old elves kept accidentally stepping into the cracks. Their families were very anxious and tried to pull them out, but new magma rushed out, instantly melting the old elves' families."
"To avoid burdening their families and the entire tribe, the elder elves, realizing the cruel reality of the situation, chose to leave the tribe, allowing the younger generation to take the lead. I won't go into the details of how brutal this process was, but in short, it was a major event that abandoned the elders in order to ensure the survival of the entire tribe."
Although this was not the first time she heard this story, Xia Li still felt a shock from the bottom of her heart when she heard Golov telling the history again.
Not everyone can think of the larger group in times of crisis, and not everyone can give up personal interests or even their lives for the collective good. However, the old elves a hundred years ago did it tacitly.
Golov continued to talk a lot, and Xia Li continued to listen and nod, but she could not listen to what he said after that. She had done this limited-time task in her previous life. After Golov finished talking about the general background of the elves' migration, he talked about a lot of geological changes in the forest and so on. It was very boring, and I guarantee that no one would want to listen to it a second time.
However, conversations with NPCs couldn't be fast-forwarded or perfunctory, or else the NPC would be upset and their favorability rating would drop. Xia Li had experienced firsthand how inconvenient it was to have a favorability rating of 0 in the game, so even though she was feeling sleepy, she desperately pulled herself together and pretended to listen attentively.
Twenty minutes later, Golov's small class finally came to an end. He looked at Xia Li, who was staring intently, and asked meaningfully, "We mentioned earlier that the old elves voluntarily chose to leave their tribe and stay in the sunken forest. Do you know where that forest was hundreds of years ago?"
Without even thinking, Xia Li blurted out, "Endless Abyss, huh?"
Golov stroked his beard with satisfaction and nodded. "Yes, you are right. The forest that was once filled with lush trees is now the Endless Abyss."
After a pause, he finally spoke about this mission: "The Queen's gift should have spread throughout the continent, but the soldiers and captains have been busy lately and are unable to travel elsewhere to deliver this good news. The Queen hopes you can bring this good news to the Endless Abyss on her behalf. I believe the old elf's remaining spirit on the continent will be delighted to see it."
[Section: Tell the elf souls in the Endless Abyss the good news of the celebration (quantity * 8)]
As soon as Xia Li saw the extra task in the white task box, she immediately became alert. She thanked Golov and turned around to run out of the city.
The Endless Abyss is the lair of the lava beast Xiaoguai. After receiving the order to return home, Xiaoguai happily rushed towards the destination, passing through the woods and the barren swamps. Finally, after feeling the heat wave on her face, Xia Li knew that she had arrived.
This was the first time Xiaoguai came back after following her, so Xia Li did not put it back into the system and let it run wild in the endless abyss for the time being.
The mission requires her to talk to the ghosts of eight old elves. It sounds very simple, but in fact, anyone who has done this mission knows how tricky it is, because the ghosts of old elves are not so easy to find.
Recalling the various complaints made by players in the world in the previous life, Xia Li could imagine that this drama would definitely be inevitable in this life.
Since she was one of the first to arrive, she took the limited-time mission as soon as it was released, so there weren't many players in the Endless Abyss at the moment. At a glance, there were only scattered individual players and three or four small teams. The small teams probably came here to team up and kill monsters. Xia Li decided not to disturb them and ran around them.
However, not everyone in this world understands the principle of non-interference. Some people just like to stir up trouble, as if they would feel empty inside if they don't do something. Now, a team of five people has their eyes on Xia Li.
"Brother Dao, look quickly, that person is Xia Lihua!" A male wizard pointed at Xia Li with his staff.
The warrior called Dao Ge immediately stopped, narrowed his eyes fiercely, and stared in the direction his companion pointed: "Is that her?"
The male mage Dugu Lang nodded immediately: "Yes, I saw her face when she ran past just now. It is exactly the same as the one we saw on the first floor that day. He Tang is right, she didn't pinch her face."
Haha, Brother Dao spat on the ground, then grinned and said to the people around him: "Let's go over and say hello."
Ever since she threw him and dislocated his shoulder in Slum No. 36, he vowed to teach this woman a lesson. Unfortunately, this alchemist was elusive in the game, doing everything silently and leaving no trace at all, resulting in him failing to find any trace of her despite searching for her several times.
Later, she finally heard in the world that she was captured by soldiers. She thought she could finally take revenge, but it turned out to be a false alarm. Not only did the queen not punish her, but she sent her out of the palace safely.
With a knife in hand, the more he thought about it, the more suffocated he felt. The other party caused his brother He Tang (ID Qingqing Xiaochi) to be caught by patrolmen and imprisoned for several days in the game, and also made him lose face in public in reality. He had held this hatred for so long, and now God opened his eyes and finally let them run into each other here.
Moreover, there was only one person on the other side, without even a companion around him, while they had a total of five people on this trip, and all of them were damage dealers. When he thought of this, he felt his blood gradually boiling, and his eyes quickly became bloodshot with hatred.
The monsters in the Endless Abyss are not of high level and are only suitable for players below level 20 to swipe. Moreover, due to the slow refresh speed, it is not easy for players to encounter monsters frequently in this map.
But, even at a low frequency, Xia Li was still unlucky enough to hit a wave.
After going around a small rocky hill, he accidentally ran into the flamingo's attack field of view.
Ten flamingos attacked Xia Li at a very fast speed, flapping their wings. Flames spurted out of their mouths, raising the already hot air several degrees. Xia Li quickly dodged to the side and moved like a snake, avoiding the flamingo's attack very easily.
However, flamingos have a very bad temper, so the official attack range set for them is larger than that of ordinary wild monsters. Players must run at least 30 meters to get rid of them.
Thinking about just taking out the ten flamingos right there, Xia Li paused, turned around, clenched her fists, and prepared to use her group attack skill, Poison Bee. Now at level 27, she had no problem dealing with level 20 flamingos.
However, just as she raised her hand, her sixth sense told her that danger was approaching from behind. Xia Li immediately withdrew her hand, took a step to the side and turned around, then saw five unfamiliar players standing in front of her.
The leader's ID is "Yidaozaishou". Judging from his attire, he is a warrior. Behind him are four accomplices. One can tell their professions from their equipment.
1 warrior, 2 mages, 2 shooters, a team configuration that focuses heavily on output, but their equipment and weapons are very ordinary. It seems that they are a group of players with low levels and combat power, otherwise they would not avoid maps with many monsters and instead run to this weird place to spawn monsters.
Guessing that the other party might have accidentally missed, Xia Li narrowed her eyes and warned the warrior who had just used the Charge skill on her: "Next time, aim your skill at the monster."
At that time, the flamingo was running towards her with a grunt. After Xia Li finished speaking, she gave in and was ready to give the flamingo to the other party.
However, the warrior named Yidaozaishu suddenly grinned, swung his sword, and once again locked his charge skill on her!
She could explain one attack as a mistake, but two attacks were a different matter. Xia Li looked at the other party coldly, wondering why this group of people had attacked her again.
But no matter what the reason, passively taking a beating has never been her style.
The warrior's charge is specifically aimed at a single target. After locking on, he can sprint for 1 second and then cause a heavy blow to the target. Xia Li certainly knew this. After feeling the locking pattern falling on her head, her feet instantly accelerated and she flashed to a place 2 meters away before the opponent could sprint up.
"Brother Dao, she's so fast!"
Xia Li noticed the speaker's ID - Dugulang, one of the two mages.
Yidao was slightly stunned, obviously not expecting an alchemist to have such high agility. With a roll of his eyes, he immediately said, "She's agile, so her defense must not be high. Dugulang, Paomian, beat her to death. Juanjuan, you two just need to shoot ordinary arrows!"
Xia Li listened to Yidao Zaishu's serious analysis and secretly found it funny. It is said that one is not afraid of god-like opponents, but is afraid of pig-like teammates. He didn't even understand the opponent he was going to PK with, but he said that she was going for high sensitivity. If this was said to the world, many people would definitely laugh at her.
She is fast, but what she relies on is not the attribute bonuses in the equipment, but the experience gained through countless hard work and sweat. For example, when is the side dodge rate the highest, and how to move to create the maximum distance in the shortest time. These cannot be understood by relying on equipment. Only after experiencing countless battles and dying countless times in battles can she slowly figure out these skills that the official will never reveal but that really exist.
However, it is obvious that these players don’t understand at all, and they even simply think that using kills and skills to pile up is enough.
Colorful skills surrounded from all sides, which seemed scary at first glance, but in fact, a quick look revealed that these moves were very ordinary. One mage used the normal attack skill Ice Condensation, one used Ice Spikes with a freezing debuff, and the two shooters didn't even use the Streaming Rockets, but directly used Basic Attack.
It's just a trifle, not even worthy of her attention.
Seeing the skill attack coming, Xia Li quickly turned around and ran back.
With the knife in hand, he immediately smiled. It turned out that the sixth-ranked alchemist in the world was just like this. His survival depended entirely on hiding. So the smile on his lips deepened, and a radiance could not help but appear on his face: "Catch up and fight!"
After saying that, he took a step forward and threw the charge out again.
The locking pattern was suddenly aimed at Xia Li who was running away. Xia Li chuckled in her heart, and just turned her body slightly, sliding sideways and sliding into the flock of flamingos very agilely.
Oh no, she's sprinted into the flock of birds! With a knife in hand, his pupils shrank sharply, and he hurried to stop, but his charge had already been thrown out, and the lock was on her head. He couldn't stop the sprint for a second. With a knife in hand, he felt the scenery on both sides whizzing back. Before his brain could react, he found himself sprinting into the flamingos.
The ten flamingos twisted their necks and glared at the ignorant human who dared to intrude into their group alone.
"Brother Dao, be careful!" Dugu Lang roared not far away, swinging his staff one skill after another.
However, just as he finished shouting, a flamingo flapped its wings irritably, and a beam of flame shot out of its mouth. Dugu Wolf screamed, and his health bar dropped by half.
"Don't be afraid, everyone. There are only 10 monsters and there are 5 of us. We will have no problem fighting them while drinking medicine!" He counted the number of flamingos with a knife in his hand, and raised his weapon while giving loud orders, slashing at the birds and attracting their hatred.
After throwing out the taunt twice, he attracted the aggro of eight flamingos. With a knife in hand, he breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly comforted everyone in the team: "The aggro is all on me, you guys can fight with all your might!"
I thought I'd hear Dugu Lang and the others celebrating, but the next second, someone on the team shouted in despair, "Brother Dao, another wave of Flamingos is coming our way!!!"
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