[Get Side Quest: Scarlet Circle]

【Difficulty: Hard】

[Quest content: Find the remnants of the five circles]

[Mission Progress: 1/5]

[Reward: 30 points, activate the hidden plot]

[Notes: These circles appear to have been drawn in some kind of blood, and their significance is unknown, at which point they are divided into five pieces and scattered throughout the castle.] 】

"Your uncle, come back." This was the first thought in Jiang Ling's heart.

Unexpectedly, the main quest is not clear, but it actually triggers another side quest, and it is another quest that needs to be searched around.

But it doesn't hurt, after all, finding the whereabouts of the disciples of the Nanyan Martial Sect requires walking around, and the two tasks can be done together.

Jiang Ling lifted the lantern again, and there was some blood on the lantern, but fortunately it was not poured on the wick, Jiang Ling shook his hand and shook off the blood on it, and he looked down again, and saw that there was also a lot of blood on the bone bottle.

"It's troublesome, and I don't know if this blood is toxic." Jiang Ling didn't pick up the bone bottle, but picked up the lantern and looked at the blood-colored circle on the wall.

When he first came in, Jiang Ling saw this mutilated magic circle, but the magic circle at that time was dim, and at this time, this magic circle was drenched with some blood from the blood corpse, and this magic circle actually began to emit a faint blood-colored light, which looked very weird.

The pattern on this circle is also not seen to be regular, the outer outline is quite clear, but the lines inside are like a child's random graffiti.

Jiang Ling stared at it for a long time, barely remembering the appearance of this magic circle, and then saw that this magic circle had no change except for a slight glow of blood.

"The quest reward has the words 'Activate the Hidden Plot' in it, and it shows that if you can find all the remnants and make up a complete circle, something unexpected will happen. It's just that it's not certain whether it's a good thing or a bad thing is happening at this time. Jiang Ling covered his mouth and muttered to himself: "Although it is included in the task reward, I can't easily believe the setting of this ghost game." Alas, I still do what I can to do the side quests, and even when it's time to finish them, I'm going to have to be prepared. ”

Jiang Ling thought about it, and then he glanced at the corpse that had become white bones on the ground, and then thought: "The previous four disciples of the Nanyan Martial Sect were all completely dead, only a skeleton remained, only this guy turned into a bloody corpse, and I think it should have something to do with this magic array." ”

Jiang Ling pondered for a while, and then prepared to leave this bloody and pungent place, he looked down at the bone bottle at his feet, still thinking about how to wipe the blood stains on this thing.

But this bowed his head, Jiang Ling was suddenly surprised.

"?" Jiang Ling took a step back, then leaned down and took a closer look.

The skull, which had just been drenched in blood, was as clean as ever, and there was not a trace of blood on it!

Jiang Ling naturally didn't feel that he was wrong, he knew that in the few minutes that Jiang Ling observed the magic circle, what had happened to this bone bottle.

He turned his head to look at the lantern again, and although he shook it repeatedly, there was still some blood sticking to the lamp, which meant that it did not volatilize or fall off naturally.

"What's the situation?" Jiang Ling looked at it again and found that the bone bottle seemed to be a little red, but it was not obvious.

Instead of rushing to pick up the bone bottle, he decided to do an experiment, rubbing a lantern against the bone bottle, staining some more blood on the bone bottle, and then staring at it.

Sure enough, within a moment's effort, the blood actually soaked into the bones, so to speak, this bone bottle absorbed the blood!

"There's a problem." Jiang Ling was confused for a while, frowned and muttered, "I don't want to come to a side quest again." ”

But there was no system prompt sound, Jiang Ling hesitated for a long time, but still reached out and picked up the bone bottle.

After all, although the usefulness of this thing is unknown, it is the only thing near the spawn point, and according to the usual routine of the general game, the items near the spawn point are always indispensable in the future plot.

Jiang Ling weighed the skull in his hand, and he didn't feel any changes, and from the system attributes, it was the same as before, the only difference was that the color was slightly white and red.

Jiang Ling paused for a moment, giving up the idea of throwing this thing into a pool of blood and rolling it. Because from the situation just now, it can be inferred that this bone bottle is very likely to undergo some kind of change after sucking enough blood, and maybe it can trigger the main quest.

But Jiang Ling was still instigated, and said to himself: "No, this thing says 'will make you unlucky', it doesn't look like a good thing, what if you suck enough blood and trigger some fucking plot that can't be held?" Let's take a little more spin and find some clues to decide whether or not to suck its blood. ”

Jiang Ling once again held the lantern in one hand and the bone bottle in the other, and walked out of the house, he turned around and walked out of this small corridor, back to the large corridor.

Further on his way were the stairs and steps that led to the upper and lower floors, which were symmetrical to the other side.

Jiang Ling tilted his head and thought about it, and slightly constructed the road he had walked in his mind, although he was a bit of a road idiot, but after all, there were still relatively few places he had walked at present.

Jiang Ling bit his lower lip and pondered: "I feel like I'm on the second or third floor now, but I've only turned half of this floor, but no matter how far or backward I am, I can only choose to go upstairs or downstairs, so how can I get to the other side of this floor?" Do I need to go upstairs first? What a sore design style. ”

Jiang Ling stood at the top of the stairs for a while, and before he could decide whether to go upstairs or downstairs, suddenly a voice came, it seemed that someone had whispered something, followed by the sound of running.

Jiang Ling's nerves suddenly tensed, and he strengthened his hearing with his mental power and listened with his ears pricked up.

The voice was not far from him, but certainly not close, for he did not hear what the man was saying, and from the direction from which the voice came, it must have been downstairs.

The next moment, there was another rush of running, and then silence returned.

"It seems like someone was being taken by another player, or... Something else in the fort is chasing after you. Jiang Ling looked at the steps downstairs, if he was faster at this time, he would have had a chance to witness what was happening downstairs.

But after a short period of thought, Jiang Ling decided to go upstairs.

"Lewd development, don't wave." Jiang Ling comforted himself, feeling that it was better to avoid the accident area below.

Because he wants to complete the side quests as much as possible, try to avoid contact with players before that, on the one hand, to preserve his physical strength, and on the other hand, to wait for other players to fight each other.

It's like a game of survival in the wilderness, where a hundred people are airdropped to an island to fight each other, and the one who survives to the end may not be the most fierce marksmanship and the hardest technique, or a certain Voldemort who survives all the way.

Although there can be three winners of this game, the main quest is not yet clear, and the timing is not right to form an alliance, and there is a high possibility of facing a battle after the encounter.

Therefore, Jiang Ling was very reluctant to run into other players.

"Let me be quiet for 20 minutes." Jiang Ling stepped up the stairs.

In fact, he would have liked to explore the other side of the current level, but the interior of the castle is designed to divide the same floor into left and right halves with a staircase, and you have to go upstairs or downstairs to get to the other side.

Jiang Ling walked upstairs at this time and came to this floor.

This floor also has a three-meter-wide arc corridor, Jiang Ling looked at the walls on both sides, and felt that the design of this castle was really a little incomprehensible, at present, these two floors are corridors with rooms, but this corridor also encloses the center of the castle, and the most central area of the castle is wrapped by the wall, so that Jiang Ling has an urge to punch open the wall and take a look.

But of course he didn't do it so recklessly, after coming to this layer, Jiang Ling was more careful, he didn't meet other players in that layer just now, so theoretically speaking, the possibility of encountering this layer is very high.

Jiang Ling carried the lamp, listened to the movements around him with his ears pricked up, and walked cautiously along the wall of the corridor.

Walking only a few steps away, a small corridor appeared in front of him, Jiang Ling took a look, and saw that the corridor inside was slightly wider than the branch corridor downstairs, and there were rooms on the left and right sides.

The door on both sides closest to the intersection of the corridor, that is, where Jiang Ling is located, and the left side of the corridor, which is the one that Jiang Ling can easily see in his current sight, is closed.

And in the room on Jiang Ling's side, the door was open.

Jiang Ling put away the lantern behind him and listened to the movement over there with bated breath, but he didn't hear a sound for a long time.

Jiang Ling repeated his old tricks, released a spiritual power miscellaneous mouse, and climbed into the open door.

At present, in Jiang Ling's realm, the animal autonomy ability built by this kind of spiritual power is very poor, mainly controlled by his mind, and after leaving his line of sight, he can basically only run around.

"It seems that it is necessary to strengthen the study of animal spirit art in the future, the strategic significance is quite great." Jiang Ling waited for a few more moments, until the miscellaneous mouse staggered out of the room, seemingly unharmed.

Jiang Ling waved away the rat whose spiritual power had dimmed and walked towards the room.

Even so, Jiang Ling was still careful, slowly approached the door, and then looked inside.

There was no one in this room with the door open.

"A false alarm." Jiang Ling sighed secretly, and then comforted himself: "There is nothing wrong with being careful. ”

Jiang Ling took a step closer and saw that this should be a musical instrument room, with a badly damaged half-human-high harp in it, as well as a few broken flutes, and a metal object like a horn that was also rusty.

Jiang Ling took another step forward and had already entered this room.

But the next moment, he nerves tensed and turned around suddenly.

The door behind him, which was originally closed, was suddenly rushed open at this moment, and a sturdy figure instantly swept through the corridor and pounced in front of Jiang Ling's eyes!!

"it!" Jiang Ling was extremely frightened, he didn't have time to hesitate at this critical moment, the battle instinct was activated instantly, he suddenly mobilized his spiritual power, summoned two vines to break through the ground from under his feet, and stabbed at the rushing figure like a spear, and then the sword in his hand was also suddenly sent.

The burly figure stretched out two palms the size of a pu fan, and pinched the stabbing rattan spear on the left and right, but at this time, his middle door opened, and Jiang Ling's sword stabbed him into the chest.

The man didn't care, Huo Ran shook his head, and actually hit Jiang Ling's head with his own head.

Boom!

A dull and powerful crash shook the otherwise silent corridor.