Chapter 579: Sharkskin and Sharkskin Rat
Wang Jian and Ye Feng went in and saw that it was a very shabby hut inside. A bed, a table, and a jar full of strange liquids of unknown origin were all there was to the room.
The only thing that was a little special was the sewer opening in the corner of the house, which seemed to explain why he could live here without going out for a long time.
I saw the face of the old man who was talking to them by the light of the candlestick in the room, and saw that his face was full of furrows, and he looked very old, probably over 55 years old. His cheeks were thin, dark, and he looked a little malnourished.
A pair of gray-blue eyes are deep, but very bright and very spirited and shrewd. I saw them look at them in surprise.
"You ...... You guys are human! Is there really land? Those damn fish-men have been defeated? The old man said hopefully, as if he could return to the world on land.
"Nope. We were just caught here and escaped on our own. Wang Jian replied, looking at this place, and saw that the only thing they could use here was probably this old man, and it was also the key to the continuation of their mission.
"So that's ......" the old man's tone was full of regret, seeing the appearance of their fish-man guards dressed in armor.
But he also came immediately, and said with a smile: "Sit down first, sit down first." It's been a long time since I've had a guest. Tell me about the outside world. Is there really any land out there now? ”
The old man greeted them warmly, and brought out the only food he had that looked like potatoes and dried fish.
Wang Jian and Ye Feng sat down, followed the development of the task, and chatted with him about their respective lives. Let the old man be pleasantly surprised, happy that there is really land outside.
He also knew from his mouth that their current place was called Higra, and the location was located in the former Bandle City, which was a place where the Black Thornfish Terran established a kingdom.
And their specific location is in the underground of this Hygla City, a rare area of the sea with air that can be inhabited by humans.
"Now we're going to find one of our companions, do you have any way for us to find her? She was also captured by the fishmen. Wang Jian explained their intentions.
Now that the mission is called "The Guide", it means that this old man is the key to finding Nami. The first and foremost thing is obviously to get out of this place and into the real Higra.
"Go up? No way! No, no, no. It's all seawater, and because it's the bottom of the sea, the water pressure is so strong that you're going to drown in an instant. Now that your friend has been captured by those damn ugly fishmen, I'm afraid he's too bad now. Compared with this, I advise you to find a way to get back to the surface of the sea and not stay here. The old man advised them and hoped that they would not kill themselves.
"But we have to find a reason for her." Wang Jian also sincerely said that he hoped that he would accept their request.
"......" The old man was silent, as if thinking about this matter.
He suddenly stood up and walked quickly to the iron gate, opened the iron plate of the observation port, and looked out vigilantly, as if he was alerting to whether someone was eavesdropping outside. After making sure that there was nothing wrong outside, he walked back quickly, and said to them mysteriously and in a whisper, "You can do this if you want, but you must prepare one thing - sharkskin armor." Only sharkskin armor can you move flexibly underwater. And there's a section of the road up from here that is completely submerged with predatory fish, and it's necessary to avoid them. I can show you the way, but you have to help me bring back some sharkskins, and I'll make them for you, and then we'll set off again. This sharkskin can be used from the skin of the sharkskin rat that is active here, and you can help me collect 12 of them. Be fast. ”
The old man quickly stated the conditions under which he was willing to help them, and also hinted at the next step in the mission.
Wang Jian saw that the content of the task was updated, and when the current task of "Guide" was not completed, a new branch option appeared, which was "Collect 12 Sharkskins", with no time limit.
glanced at Ye Feng, and saw the other party's affirmative eyes.
"Okay, we'll bring it back to you shortly." Answered the old man in the affirmative and agreed to his conditions.
"Go and get back." The old man urged, as if he was worried that some danger was coming, and he planned to go with them.
"Hmm." Wang Jian responded, and Ye Feng left the old man's residence, and set off according to the new mission guide mark that appeared on the map, this time it should be pointing to the direction of the sharkskin mouse needed for the mission.
Leaving the old man's residence, Ye Feng couldn't help but ask: "But speaking of which, we don't seem to need this shark skin armor, right?" ”
Because they heard that the effect of this shark skin armor is waterproof, and they already have a helmet with a waterproof effect, it is the same whether they actually want this shark skin armor or not.
"But what if the person who came to do this quest didn't have the equipment to avoid water? I guess it was designed in the mission for this purpose. And we just give this old man a water-repellent helmet, and he won't necessarily accept it, he must have sharkskin armor. Wang Jian answered her question.
"Yes." Ye Feng was relieved.
She would ask this, mainly because she felt that it was too troublesome, and she felt that it was clear that he would show them the way directly, but it was really okay to show them the way, so why should she let them help him kill mice.
That's right! Her main dissatisfaction was the fact that she had to kill rats and hide them.
Wang Jian didn't hear the true meaning of her words this time, but continued: "But with the level of monsters here, these 12 difficulties are still a bit big, especially this place is a bit too narrow. ”
Whether he's been playing the game for so long or the first time he's been forced to fight in a bent environment, one can imagine how inflexible combat can become.
"I'm not, I'm sorry for the first time why I'm not a mage or an archer." Ye Feng agreed.
No matter how you look at the current situation, mages and archers are the most comfortable - narrow, straight, and don't care if they bend over or not. With the geography here, both mages and archers are sure to hit the target, and they can hit the target with their eyes completely closed. The only people who are uncomfortable in this environment are their assassin and warrior type melee classes.
"But why haven't you seen a single mouse yet?" Wang Jian suddenly found that they had all moved to the target location of the mission unconsciously, but they still did not see a single sharkskin monster that they needed for the mission.
"You don't want us to dig a rat's nest!" Ye Feng's body was completely hairy now.
She doesn't care in other people's mouths, especially whether Wang Jian, a little bastard, is a female man or a female bandit or other masculine titles, she is still a woman in essence.
Let her kill the mouse and skin it, and now she has to attach a new condition that is to dig out the mouse nest to kill the mouse and skin it, she didn't consider that this was a task related to Wang Jian, she immediately turned around and left, killing and not doing this task.
"It's probably not that exaggerated, and I don't see a rat's nest now." Wang Jian replied to her, the most important thing is to ask her not to talk about things so terrible, which made him feel a little hairy.
It was also at this time that footsteps were heard, but it didn't sound like a four-legged footstep and more like a two-legged one.
The two of them immediately felt at each other, and they both entered the invisible state in their own ways. Soon, I saw a fish-man "Black Thorn Fishman Guard" holding a steel fork walking towards this side without guard, and it seemed that he was doing his daily patrol here.
When Wang Jian saw the fishman, he finally knew where the difficulty of this task was. It turned out that they not only had to find sharkskin rats to collect shark skins, but also had to avoid or directly deal with these patrolling guards, and they must not let them find them and escape alive.
"You let the wind go, I kill." Wang Jian and Ye Feng's team had a private chat on the channel and said the battle plan.
“OK。” Ye Feng knew that this kind of assassination was what assassins were good at, so she didn't mix it up.
Wang Jian immediately took advantage of the posture of bending over now, and moved towards the fish-man with his waist bent. The moment its back was facing him, the left hand of the bare hand was covered, the right arm was bent around the neck, the two legs clamped its two legs and put it down, and then the whole body was forcefully broken, and in an instant the sound of bones shattering was heard, proving that the fishman's entire spine was broken, and he was killed instantly, and it was silent from beginning to end.
"Awesome." Ye Feng gave him a thumbs up, knowing that after he mastered the "assassination" move in the illusion, his past ability had been greatly exerted, and the situation of directly activating the "assassination" to kill the target in an instant without being discovered by the target and being in the position behind the target was even more terrifying than those players who really played assassins.
The only limitation of this move skill is probably only for humanoid targets, and for beast types, even undead skeletons and zombies will not work. Because the principle is to make the target "lose breath" instantly.
"Looks like you really have to move faster." Wang Jian killed the fish-man guard, and when he saw that its corpse had not disappeared, he knew that this was actually a disaster.
If they dodge it, leave it alive. Now it's dead, and no matter how you look at it, someone killed it. With these fish-man AI, they will definitely judge the situation immediately. Spawning is the same as not making a successful kill and letting them escape and report back. The main thing is that they don't necessarily know it's happening.
"It's getting more and more interesting." Ye Feng suddenly became interested, but his interest in this challenging assassination and collection mission increased greatly.
Now they are faced not only with collecting shark skins, but also with whether they can collect shark skins before they are exposed, or whether they can get rid of all the patrols that enter the area, leaving them all dumb and dead.
"Let's go." Wang Jian also saw an activity that looked like a small shark mouse, and knew that this was the sharkskin mouse they were looking for, and reminded Ye Feng to move towards this new species of undersea monster that was twice as big as an ordinary mouse and didn't look as disgusting as a mouse.