Blacksmith Lee stood in place, caught in deep memories.

For a long time, a deep sigh echoed through the room.

"I don't know how much you know about the events of the year, but what I want to tell you is that everything is fake."

After thinking about it, Blacksmith Li said such a sentence to Lin Shuai.

"Uh..." Lin Shuai hesitated, he only knew about the events of the year for a moment, and he really didn't know how to answer this word.

"What the hell happened back then?" Lin Shuai couldn't help but ask this question, he knew limited clues, and it could be said that he was completely confused.

Blacksmith Li glanced at Lin Shuai, "Hmph." A hint of ridicule hung on the corners of his mouth, which was so incongruous with his honest face.

"What's going on?" He muttered the question repeatedly.

"Probably, it's a story of a witch who is not tolerated by the world, and is calculated by everyone."

Lin Shuai could hear that Blacksmith Li's tone contained deep sadness.

Witch? Is that Els? Isn't she a priest?

What about being calculated by everyone?

A series of questions hit Lin Shuai's mind, and the room fell into calm for a while.

"Els......" Lin Shuai was about to ask.

Blacksmith Li suddenly waved his hand, "Don't ask, that's not something you need to know, what you need to do now is to find Elsie, and then, you will be qualified to know everything." ”

"Elsie is still alive?" Lin Shuai keenly grasped the key.

"It's not dead yet, but it's almost like death." Blacksmith Li recovered his emotions and said lightly.

As he spoke, he took out a jade pendant from the unknown place in his arms, and the edge of the jade pendant was irregular, like a fragment of something.

"With this jade pendant, you can choose to meet the village chief once." Hand it to Lin Shuai.

Lin Shuai was stunned, he didn't expect to get the props that could communicate with the village chief so quickly, and thought that he would have to do a lot of tasks.

Without waiting for Lin Shuai to take the jade pendant, Blacksmith Li continued.

"There are six pieces of this thing, and they are on six people in our village. You can go to the village chief once for each piece, and I suggest you go after collecting all six pieces. Of course, the decision is yours. ”

Lin Shuai suddenly said that collecting six pieces and going together must be different from taking a piece to trigger the plot alone.

After taking the jade pendant, the system prompt sounded in my mind at the right time.

"Ding Dong, congratulations to the player for triggering the unique hidden mission, the witch's test."

Sure enough, this clue has to develop to a certain point before the quest can be triggered, and the hints on Els's Ring, as well as the hints given by Pastor Merlin and the pharmacy owner, are just a foreshadowing of this quest.

After telling Lin Shuai all this, Blacksmith Li didn't say much, looking at it like that, even if Lin Shuai asked again, there would be no result.

While looking at the mission introduction, he walked out of the blacksmith shop.

【Witch's Trial: Hidden Quest (Unique)】

[Quest content: Find the village chief to understand the events of the year]

[Mission Limit: Level 10]

[Mission Description: A dusty past that has been sealed for many years, under the opportunity of an adventurer, reopened a new chapter. 】

【Reward: Unknown】

[Quest Punishment: Permanently lose the favor of all villagers in Novice Village 42.] 】

……

The reward is unknown, but the punishment is so severe.

Although, players will never come back after leaving the Novice Village, and they will not have anything to do with these NPCs, this penalty may seem dispensable after level 10.

But Lin Shuai had an intuition that if this task could not be completed, it would be a huge loss to himself.

……

Out of the door, the players squatting outside the door saw Lin Shuai come out, and immediately surrounded him.

"Big brother, how did you learn the art of mining?" "Dude, what quest did you trigger? Can you tell? ”……

And so on, are some very offensive remarks that make people uncomfortable to listen to.

There were still some people who didn't speak, but they also stood in the group of people, surrounding Lin Shuai together.

Everyone knows that when playing games, the most taboo thing is to ask people how to do the task and how to trigger it, which is equivalent to the same problem as privacy.

These guys in front of him can ask without hesitation, and those reporters who secretly photograph others and make up news and rumors are simply a virtue, which is disgusting.

It is also the reason for the tendency of the power of the multitude.

Otherwise, if there are only one or two people, except for the kind of people who have no brains and are arrogant, they will choose to politely ask Lin Shuai for advice, just like when Zhan Wuya asked Lin Shuai to explode equipment.

When an idea occupies the minds of most people, even if the idea is wrong, it will be acted upon by everyone.

For example, it's like the current Virgin watch.

In the past, the watch of the Virgin Mary was to give one's own things to others, but now the watch of the Virgin is to persuade others to give things to others.

In a sense, the small group of people in front of us already represents the embodiment of the inferiority of human beings from the roots.

……

Glancing at these people lightly, Lin Shuai didn't have any anger.

It's useless to be angry, these people are determined to surround you and not let you go, if you insist on leaving, although they can't stop it, but you can imagine.

In less than 30 minutes, I am afraid that my own affairs will be written into various versions and circulated on the forum.

I guess that in any version, I won't have a good image.

Instead of going through that effort, it is better to make up a little lie and let them work on their own, so that they will not be remembered by this group of Madonna.

This is the benefit of Lin Shuai's high emotional intelligence.

If you choose to fight with them, they will not get any benefits, but when you see the comments on the forum, you can't help but spray them.

After a long time, I didn't say anything about the anger, and the leveling or anything was delayed, so why bother.

Even if you don't pay attention to it, you will always think about it in your heart, and it is unnecessary.

……

Lin Shuai forced a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Slightly mysteriously said.

"My friendship with the blacksmith is 40."

The people around him suddenly realized.

All the problems were explained in one sentence, some people hurriedly ran to continue collecting iron ore, and some people did not forget to thank Lin Shuai, not to say sincerely, and the attitude still made Lin Shuai comfortable.

At the same time, Lin Shuai found that Blacksmith Li's favor for him suddenly increased by 5 points.

If you think about it carefully, you can understand that even if the favorability level increases, these people will not gain anything.

But in this way, everyone's motivation to collect iron ore has increased, and even the demand here with Blacksmith Li has been compensated, and it is reasonable for Blacksmith Li's favorability to increase in himself.

A small contradiction that may cause war was resolved so easily, and Lin Shuai also ended up killing two birds with one stone.

So, whatever you do, you have to calm down and think about it.

It doesn't matter if you can bear the consequences or not, the key is whether it is worth it or not?

For a trivial matter, the weather has not been smooth for several days, and it can't be done.

Also, when you meet this kind of person, remember to pay attention to him a little longer, because maybe one day he will be struck by lightning, and it will affect you.

……

【Mysterious Jade Pendant Fragment】

[Unknown.] 】

[Item description: Holding this jade pendant can meet the village chief of Novice Village No. 42 once.] Quest items cannot be dropped or damaged. 】

……

As Lin Shuai guessed, it was a fragment of a complete jade pendant.

I was not in a hurry to see the village chief, and my intuition told me that it was better to collect all six pieces.

This time I went to the pharmacy.

Without saying a word, the owner of the pharmacy sent himself a task and taught him a temporary primary medicine collection technique.

Within 24 hours, it is required to go to the Lost Forest to collect 20 Level 1 Blood Qi Grasses.

The success rate of herb mining is higher than that of mining.

Each skill cast on a herb has a 30% success rate.

However, unlike mining failures, there is no loss.

Each time the herb fails, 40% of the herb's integrity is lost.

After two consecutive failed collections, the herb was discarded and could no longer be collected.

If it is successful at the first time, the quality of the herb will increase.

Lin Shuai's shot was naturally relaxed and pleasant.

Basically, you can do it once and occasionally miss twice, which doesn't hurt.

The skill with a 30% success rate in his hands can at least exert the effect of an 80% success rate, and the luck value can be seen how terrifying it is.

Because the herbs were a little troublesome to find, this task took Lin Shuai 30 minutes, and it was completed.

……

At this time, it was already four o'clock in the morning, and Lin Shuai in the game only felt that he had just played for a while.

The reason why I noticed the time is because the Miracle Continent reminds the player every five hours that it's time to play, don't forget to work and go to school or something.

There is no limit to the amount of time a player can play in the game every day.

However, even if playing a game is a dream, dreaming for more than 20 hours in a row can cause damage to the brain.

In particular, it may be that to some extent, players will not be able to distinguish between the game and reality, and do some irreparable mistakes.

Therefore, in the game agreement, it is clearly written that if you exceed the game time for 10 hours a day, it will not fall within the scope of Skynet's liability protection.

Basically, apart from professional gamers, there will be no one who has enough time to play for that long.

Professional gamers will also be strict with themselves in their usual work and rest time, and it is rare for people to take their lives to play games.

Most virtual headsets will also regularly detect the player's brain waves, and if they are found to be unstable or mentally abnormal, they will force the player to quit the game and rest for five hours.

……

After returning to the pharmacy and handing in the task, Lin Shuai got another jade pendant and learned the corresponding primary medicine collection technique.

The pharmacy owner didn't say anything, the task had been triggered, and all he did was collect the task items, so naturally there would be no more prompts.

【Primary Herb Collection】

[Cost: 10 mana]

[Cooldown: 10 seconds]

[Skill Description: Cast on normal-level herbs, there is a 30% success rate to obtain level 1 herbs.] 】

[Mastery: 68/100]

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