Hu Xinmin and Brother Ruoran also had problems, but they were not as serious as his.
All three of them thought it was a 'side effect' brought by Canaan, otherwise there was no way to explain it.
There were signs of this in the previous tests, so there were all kinds of "legends", but they were not as serious as this time.
It is a bit unreasonable to find information about this on the Internet. Is it just an isolated phenomenon? This cannot explain that all three people were infected.
Thinking about this physical examination again, it makes people suspicious. In order to verify it, Brother Ruoran anonymously posted the changes on Zhang Miao's body online. Unexpectedly, the post disappeared after a few minutes. The backend received a warning and he was banned.
"Don't you still have tasks? Go online first. I'll go out and ask others how they are doing."
Brother Ruoran picked up his coat and said to Zhang Miao.
"I'll go with you!"
Hu Xinmin has no intention of going online anymore.
"I..." Zhang Miao hesitated.
"No matter what, can you give up Canaan?" Brother Ruoran asked.
Zhang Miao shook her head subconsciously.
"Don't scare yourself, maybe it's a good thing?" Hu Xinmin said with a smile.
"Maybe, it's probably a good thing. Maybe you'll become Superman." Brother Ruoran patted him on the shoulder.
"Get out!" Now that the matter has come to this, Zhang Miao can only think of the bright side.
Superman?
Is it possible?
…
Canaan, second level of the Lizardmen underground camp.
Continuing with the previous game process, all the monsters have been cleared away. At the entrance to the third floor, teammates are confronting a group of unknown people.
"What's going on?" he asked in the team channel.
"They want to cut off their heads, Gan!"
Zhang Miao immediately ran to the middle of his teammates and glared at the players on the opposite side.
After working on a mission for three days, I finally got through the last level. If I come to grab it now, there is no way.
One Punch Man has not yet been launched, but the leader on the opposite side is a level 8 elf ranger. He is dressed in exquisite professional attire, and you can tell at a glance that he is not ordinary.
Zhang Miao's teammates came online one after another, and there were more and more people. When the other side saw no chance, they reluctantly retreated to the first level.
"Be careful of their deceit!"
This is a good saying. Pretend to leave and then fight back. Don't wait until you and the monster are inextricably killed before jumping out to cause trouble.
Fortunately, One Punch Man is also online. This rich man and high-level player didn't take it seriously. He went up to the first floor alone and didn't know what to tell those people. Within a few minutes, he hugged the level 8 elf ranger.
When we got down, we were intimate as if we had known each other for a long time.
The elf ranger asked: "Did you sell the sheep's head staff and robes at the auction?"
One Punch Man: "Yeah!"
The elf ranger was very envious: "Damn, I'm so lucky. I'm ranked 12th or 17th."
"Haha... if you want, just go and take pictures!"
"What the hell, I don't need it...forget it, I won't bother you guys to get rich, remember to drop me some good stuff."
One Punch Man patted his chest generously: "Don't worry, buddy, every spit is a nail!"
The elf ranger looked here again, smiled, turned and left.
"It's okay, it's okay, keep going!"
Zhang Miao breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, he really didn't want to conflict with other players. I don't know if it was a psychological effect. He always felt that there was something uncomfortable in his body. He was also worried about his body in real life and was still worried about the physical examination.
...If the mission hadn't been completed and the treasure hadn't been unlocked, he would have wanted to go to the hospital for a checkup first.
Quietly!
Just after driving away a group of people, someone else came down.
One or two scattered ones cannot be driven away no matter how hard they are. One Punch Man said, the more people you drag, the more people you drag. You won’t know how many people will find the treasure, so you have to hurry up.
It takes time to open the entrance, and everyone is stuck online at this time.
When the progress bar on the stone gate at the entrance was finally full, many players were already like hyenas, coming at the smell. One Punch Man was afraid of long nights and dreams, and there were two teammates who were not online and could not wait any longer.
He opened the entrance to the third floor and led the team in carefully.
There are more than a dozen slippery steps, and torches illuminate the corridor full of murals. On both sides of the corridor are stone chambers where various goods are piled.
Cloth and fur are the most common, followed by grain, dried meat and the like. You can tell at a glance that they are stolen goods and mission supplies that need to be returned. These players are not interested in them.
What I am really interested in are equipment, materials, and various useful props, but these are not available in these stone chambers.
Zhang Miao saw that his teammates were like bandits, turning things around in a mess, and he wanted to persuade them. We would have to clean them up in the end, but... forget it, I was really not in the mood.
There are no monsters on the third floor. The murals on both sides of the corridor are pretty good. The system keeps prompting [Occult Knowledge +1]. I don’t know which attribute this mysterious knowledge relates to. Anyway, it’s not dangerous. I have seen every mural.
past.
The corridor is very long, like walking in some ancient tomb, but no matter how long it is, it has an end.
At the end of the corridor is a huge stone chamber. In the center of the stone chamber is an altar, with a coffin placed on the altar.
"Is this a treasure?"
Everyone approached cautiously and passed by a pile of mummies lying on the ground. Only then did they see the blood trough under the mummy. The dried blood stains were very close to the color of the ground. The blood troughs in the winding and rugged area looked like some kind of magic pattern. More than a dozen lines intersected in it.
In a shallow pit under the altar.
A shallow pit filled with crimson liquid Gudong stood out in his cheongsam, and pale skeletons were washed up by the bubbles. Some were human, some were from various demi-human races, some were beasts, and some were monsters...
[Ding, I found the scene where the lizard people tribe worshiped the evil god. 】
[Ding, meet the conditions for starting the plot.]
[Ding, you are in story mode.]
Zhang Miao found that he could not move. A bright moonlight fell out of the sky, and a phantom moon appeared above the coffin. A dressed-up priest walked down from the phantom moon.
"You did a good job!" said the sacrificial NPC, then sneered several times at the coffin beneath him, waved his right hand, and the coffin lid flew up. Amidst a shrill scream, a crimson figure jumped out.
rise.
[Ding, the believer of the evil god is found——[White Walker] Laura Kessel (God of the Blood Moon·Pseudo). 】
Another bright moonlight shone down, and the crimson figure was fixed in the mid-air by the moonlight, and there was a thick black gas smoke on his body.
White Walker?
Players opened their eyes wide. The so-called White Walker looked like a monkey that had shed its skin. The blood-red and pink muscle tissue on its body swelled with large pustules and bubbles in the moonlight. A large number of granulations grew under the fallen pustules and bubbles.
, frantically repairing physical damage.
The blood-red eyes of the White Walkers were full of resentment, pain and madness. The ferocious mouth opened 180 degrees, the wailing changed from sound to silence, and the high-frequency shock wave turned the altar, coffin and everything into powder.
The sacrificial treasure minister said solemnly, "The maggots swarming out of the mud, return to the nothingness where you should be, in the name of the moon god Pandya!"
A full moon also appears in the blood-red eyes of the White Walkers, but this full moon is blood-red, "Moon, moon, power, authority..." The strange thing is that the blood moon only exists in the child's hole, but in the eyes of the player
It is so huge that as soon as the field of vision is blurred, you are in a void where nothing exists, with a blood-red moon hanging above your head.
Zhang Miao's head started to hurt.
The illusion of the blood moon only lasted for a moment, and the player's vision returned to normal. In the bright moonlight, the priest held up the holy symbol of the moon god Pandya to purify the parasitic ghosts. A touch of blood was put into his sleeves, and then he turned around and said gently
looking at all the players.
"...Children, the real strength is the strength of the soul." The priest glanced at Zhang Miao emphatically and disappeared.
"Where's the treasure? Where's the treasure?"
The players didn't care about the meaning behind the plot, and went to find the treasure as soon as they regained freedom of movement. Zhang Miao was still immersed in the look in the eyes of the sacrificial NPC before leaving, and her expression was a little blurry.
"Found it, found it!"
A glowing system treasure box was actually silver, and the teammates were cheering and jumping up and down with joy.
Zhang Miao always felt that that look in his eyes... seemed to be hinting to him, 'A strong mind is truly powerful...' These words, without beginning or end, seemed to be said specifically for him.
The system treasure chest is a kind of 'sandbox gameplay' just launched during this test. When players take their first adventure and explore certain monster camps, resource points and game maps of other camps with 'plot value', they will have
There is a probability of spawning the system treasure chest.
System treasure chests are divided into black iron, bronze, silver, gold, diamond, platinum, etc. Starting from silver, there is a chance to get equipment, materials, formulas, skill books, etc. The higher the level, the higher the probability of getting good things.
The better, silver is already very good, gold and above have never been opened by anyone.
The teammates were all overjoyed. The treasure was worthy of its name. This silver treasure chest was enough to satisfy everyone, not to mention the two blue items that had been revealed earlier.
Only Zhang Miao was out of sorts, but no one cared. They argued about who would open the box and whose face turned pale.
In the end it was One Punch Man who went for it.
At this moment, a thief appeared behind the treasure box. He moved very quickly. He touched the treasure box and found that it had not yet passed the protection time. He did not run away, but continued to touch.
"F*ck!", One Punch Man sent the thief back to the city with one hammer, causing three-digit damage. This is an exaggeration for a paladin with more than 1,400 combat power. However, this thief must be dissatisfied with his condition.
right.
"The one-punch boss is awesome!"
"Kill a level 7 thief instantly? Is that an exaggeration?"
One Punch Man was so proud that he turned back and looked back, "Be careful!
"
"Kill!"
"Grab the treasure chest!"
Dozens of players rushed down from the second floor, slashing their teammates if they caught them, yelling and cursing in the team channel, and everyone was dispersed in the blink of an eye.
One Punch Man was about to go down to help,
A teammate who was being chased by a thief shouted at him: "Open the box quickly!"
"Don't let him drive, it will delay the protection time!
"
These bastards...
In just a short while, several teammates were sent back to the city. One-Punch Man turned around and took a few steps up the steps to touch the treasure chest.
This one touch is broken, -5-7-9-2-6... I don’t know how many skills have hit him. He just ‘instantly killed’ a level 7 thief, Gao Zhan, a local tycoon who is at the top of the combat power rankings.
, and was sent back to the city.
“WCLMB!
", leaving only an incompetent and furious curse!
Zhang Miao's teammates fell down one by one, but he was the only one who was out of shape, sleepwalking, not attacking others, and others didn't bother to pay attention to him.
There was a melee in the hall, and everyone was stunned. The level 8 elf ranger had also returned, and was leading the team to rush into the place only 5 meters away from the treasure chest, withstanding a lot of skill damage.
"ah!
"
A thief in his team [Stealth] rushed to the treasure chest. As soon as he stretched out his hand, he was 'tagged' by the priest. He didn't last even a second and was given a free ticket back to the city.
"Fuck!"
The elf ranger scurried away with his head in his arms.
For a moment, whoever touched the treasure chest would die. Dozens of players were fighting each other, and people above were constantly squeezing down.
When the people who came in saw the silver treasure chest that was as tall as a person, their eyes turned red and they screamed to rush over. The team dispersed midway through the rush, and for some reason they got into fights with people they didn't know.
Although the fight is life-and-death, there is a tacit understanding that - anyone who gets close to the treasure chest will die!
Zhang Miao's teammates all hung up and returned to the city. They were yelling in the team channel. They all wanted to fly back. One Punch Man asked him how he was doing at the scene and whether the treasure box was still there. Zhang Miao was obedient and felt out of tune with the surrounding environment.
, the consciousness seemed to be withdrawn, and it was hazy.
"...Children, the real strength is the strength of the mind."
The words of the NPC priest echoed in my ears, and I walked towards the location of the treasure chest unconsciously.
Therefore, he also got a free ticket back to the city.
At the resurrection point of Punk City, Zhang Miao walked to the temple of the moon god Pandya in confusion.
"...Child, I feel that your soul is fragile in loneliness, in pain in vulnerability, and confused in pain. You must know that the strength of the soul is the real strength!"
"...Go and bathe in the holy light of the moon, you need it."
Zhang Miao didn't even look at what the system prompted. When she walked into the temple, she felt like she was in front of Pandya's statue.
The plot priest NPC appeared next to the altar, did not speak, and only looked at him with gentle and kind eyes.
"The lost lamb!
"
"ah!"
Zhang Miao woke up suddenly and looked around quickly. She didn't know why she suddenly appeared in this place, and quickly looked at the system prompts.
[Status abnormality detected]
[Ding, for your health, please log off and rest as soon as possible]
[Ding, the Moon God Priest is very interested in your status, and you have attracted his attention.]
[Ding, you have accepted the inspiration of the moon god Pandya. 】
[Ding, you triggered the [???] hidden mission. 】
[Ding, within the limited time, you follow your heart and arrive at the temple of the moon god Pandya]
[Ding, you enter plot mode.]
"What are you waiting for, what are you hesitating about?", a voice said in my ear.
"Who, who's talking?"
"All the answers you need are here."
Zhang Miao was shocked and confused, feeling that the situation was a bit strange and did not look like a mission plot.
"Kneel down!"
Zhang Miao knelt down as instructed.
"pray!"
…
The lights in Yanjing were brightly lit late at night. Bei Gaoyang, who had just finished a high-level meeting, came out of a solemn place, got on a special plane, and set off to fly to the magical capital.
The atmosphere in the cabin was obviously tense when he arrived. The archmage who had returned from another world frowned slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.
"What's wrong?", the fallen angel of light asked.
Bei Gaoyang shook his head and turned to look at the night sky outside the hanging window.
Above the clouds, a full moon seemed to flash.
"Haha, mysterious invasion?"
Bei Gaoyang smiled, closed his eyes and fell asleep
This meeting saw a lot of confidential information and made one of his guesses come true.
One of the core narratives of mystery: nothing is absolute, and even if there is, it is just an illusion.
