Chapter 8: The Strange Mummy [I]
It's a quest message, and it's relatively long!
γβ¦β¦ You heard the news about the magic key, and you felt very puzzled, this may be the main reason why the gnolls attacked the town of Field, the scarlet wizard predicted the arrival of the blood moon, the town of Field may be in the center of the storm, as the heir of the Farrell family, you have the obligation and responsibility to protect the townspeople, blood and glory together! γ
[Objective: Escort the residents of Field Town from the center of the storm]
[Mission duration: 15 days]
[Reward: 500 General XP]
, seeing this message, Luo Lin's face changed slightly, this message is not ordinary information, but a soul binding task.
The so-called soul binding task is a task that can never be canceled unless it is deleted and restarted.
What is this? Escorting the residents of Field Town away?
Outside, it's an army of tens of thousands!
Rollin instantly felt the urge to go crazy!
The gnoll and the army of the living dead are brave and good at fighting, not to mention, they are densely packed, they are not afraid of death, they are not afraid of pain, they are not afraid of retreating, such an army is ...... It's scary to think about.
What's more, there are more than 4,000 people in the town of Field, most of whom are old and weak, women and children...... Once intercepted, the consequences are unimaginable!
At first, he did think about escaping from the small town of Field, but it was only himself at the time, if there was one more person...... Add Everlane at most.
This place is a three-hundred-person copy in the afterlife, and he has not yet thought of being refined into a great lich, so escaping was the original plan, but now this task is ......
Although the mission does not specify the punishment conditions for failure, Rollin knows that once the mission fails, the punishment is definitely not low.
The tasks in the Sauron Continent will be rewarded according to the degree of completion, such as fifty percent, one hundred percent, or one hundred and fifteen percent, etc., the higher the degree of completion, the more generous the reward, if it reaches more than 100%, there may be special rewards, on the contrary, if it is not completed, the punishment is absolutely very severe, and now he has no way to delete the file and start again.
Luo Lin took a deep breath, quickly calmed down, and thought about it seriously! It stands to reason that the system should not allow people to complete a task that will fail 100% of the time, and there should be other reasons for this task.
Sure enough, soon, another message popped up at the back of the mission: "You are puzzled about the inheritance of the Farrell family, and you want to find out the reason inside, the maid Avrilan may know, you might as well ask her!" β
A legendary Great Lich of later generations?
What is a hint that doesn't count as a hint?
Rollin frowned!
He hadn't seen the magic key before, but he had seen some information.
To be precise, this thing may sound like a key, but in fact it may look like a stone, a piece of clothing, a pig, a cow, or a person.
However, no matter how it changes, there is no doubt that the magic key contains surging elemental power, and once the seal is broken, it can gain strong power.
This is a famous legendary item, one of the most famous treasures of Sauron, which Rollin has never heard of and has never seen in the small town of Field.
He didn't bother to continue thinking about it, and when he saw the flames spreading from the next room, he hurried back and pulled Avriland out.
At this time, the little maid was still hiding in the cabinet and shivering, and when she saw him come in, she quickly climbed out.
"Young Master Rollin!"
"Are you alright?" Rollin asked.
"It's okay!" Avrilan lowered her head embarrassedly, and her beauty was a little red.
"Well, go and ask Captain Bugas to bring someone over, the room is already burning, you need to put out the fire quickly!" Rollin said quickly, turning back and walking forward.
"Huh?" Avrilan was stunned for a moment, and saw a puff of smoke coming out of the window, so she was taken aback: "It's on fire, it's on fire, it......'s on fire," she said, and hurriedly ran out to call someone.
The inhabitants of the town also saw that there was a fire inside, and soon a dozen people rushed over, grabbed buckets and quickly extinguished the fire, and when Captain Bugas saw several people lying in the blood, he was taken aback and looked up at Rollin.
"What's going on? Master Rollin! He asked hurriedly.
Rollin quickly explained: "Find a place to bury them, by the way, Bugas, have you gathered the personnel?" β
"Huh?" Bugas was stunned.
"All strong men need to join the militia, no exceptions!" Rollin stared at him with a frown.
Bugas smiled awkwardly, and hurriedly snorted: "This won't work at all, Master Rollin, if everyone joins the militia, then there will be no one to take care of the others, not to mention that people still need to cultivate the farmland, just a few gnolls, let's find them!" β
He didn't take Luo Lin's words to heart at all, thinking to himself, Young Master Luo Lin was too timid, and he was frightened by a few gnolls, you know, when Lord Derry was still there, he ordered to encircle and suppress the gnolls.
Luo Lin frowned and looked at him, and was about to say something, but after thinking about it, he didn't say anything, and said calmly: "Then let's carry these bodies out first, right...... Don't bury them yet, put them in the open space outside the town, and you keep an eye on me!" β
"Huh?" Bugas was stunned, not knowing what he wanted to do.
"You're keeping an eye on me!" Rollin stared at him and admonished.
"Oh? All right! Seeing that he looked serious, Bugas nodded hurriedly, staring at a few corpses anyway.
As he spoke, more than a dozen people hurriedly extinguished the fire in the hall, and at this time, the entire hall was already in a mess and muddy.
After everyone left, Avrilan walked in and looked at the parchment that had been burned to ashes, and said with a sad face: "This is the property left by Master Delhi to Master Rollin!" It's all burned, it's all burned, Young Master Shengpei is really hateful! β
She could see that she was very distressed, and complained a few words in a row, cleaning the dirty room.
Luo Lin glanced inside, in the entire castle, only this hall was relatively wide, not only full of parchment books but also all kinds of tables, just now Sheng Pei and the others were all gathered in this room, and the rest of the places were not moving.
"Avrillan, have you heard of the magic key?" Rollin thought for a moment and looked up and asked.
"The magic key? What's that? Young Master Rollin? Avrilan looked back in confusion.
She doesn't seem to know?
"Inside the castle there is what Saint-Pei wants, I don't know what it is, do you know where it is?" Rollin continued.
"What does Master Shengpei want?" Avrilan frowned, dragged her chin and took a step forward: "But I don't know what Young Master Shengpei is looking for?" β
"It could be a stone, or it could be a piece of clothing, or a book, or a painting!" Rollin said.
"Hehe, there are so many things that Young Master Shengpei is looking for, I guess he wants to move this castle away, right?" Avrilla smiled sarcastically, a puzzled expression.
It seems that she really doesn't know!
Luo Lin frowned, pondered for a while, suddenly remembered something, and suddenly turned his head to stare at AvrilΓ‘n: "By the way, before Lord Delhi left, did he tell you that there was any special place in the castle that I hadn't been to?" β
"Huh this?" Averilla was stunned for a moment, blinking her blue eyes and staring at him curiously.
"Perhaps, there is something in the castle that I don't know!" Rollin added.
Avrilan looked up at him for a while, her expression was a little difficult, she pursed her lips and thought slightly: "Well, there is one!" There is indeed a place that Young Master Luo Lin doesn't know yet! After speaking, she raised her head and looked at him seriously: "But the master of that place once specially told him to wait until Young Master Luo Lin became an adult to show Young Master Luo Lin!" β
"What is it?" Rollin jerked his head up and stared at her.
Avrilan frowned and hesitated for a while, not knowing whether to say it or not, and said intermittently: "That place...... It's scary, huh...... Very scary, and ...... And Master Derry said, don't let you know yet...... Target! β
At the end, seeing that Young Master Luo Lin was staring straight at herself, without saying anything, she couldn't help but feel a trace of panic in her heart, her voice became smaller and smaller, and her cheeks felt as if they were about to burn, so she quickly raised her voice and added: "However, if Young Master Luo Lin wants to know, Avrilan can take Young Master there!" β
"That's not bad, let's go!" Rollin said immediately.
"Okay!" Seeing that he turned his head away from staring at him, Avrilan finally quietly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
The place Avriland was talking about was not in the hall, but in a room next door to the hall.
In this room, there are many portraits, it seems that no one has been in for a long time, and there is a lot of dust all over it.
When Avrilan pushed open the door and walked in, she seemed to remember something and felt a little scared, and Rollin noticed that the rooms were a little colder than the others.
"Here...... Here it is! Avriland grabled for a moment, walked over to a portrait and shook it, and the wall on the right side of the room suddenly turned, revealing a passage leading to the low.
Suddenly, an icy whirlwind came out of the passage, which seemed to make people's blood freeze all at once, very cold!
"Luo ...... Young Master Luo Lin, ...... down here" Avrilan looked at it, as if she was a little scared, and her delicate body trembled.
"You wait up there, I'll go down and see for myself!" Rollin said.
"That'...... Then Master Luo Lin be careful, the contents are ...... Well, what's inside...... Probably alive! Avrilan bit her lip with a puzzled expression.
"Alive?" Rollin turned around.
"Hmm!" Avrilan nodded, a little frightened: "Or...... I'll go down with Young Master Luo Lin, otherwise...... I'll be worried! β
"As long as you're not scared, whatever!" Luo Linyi was bold, but he didn't take it to heart, lit the torch and walked into the passage.
However, as soon as he took a step inside, he frowned, and smelled a strong smell of blood on the tip of his nose, and on the walls of the passage, there were even strange portraits.
One is a big-headed baby, about three or four months old, with particularly large eyeballs. Covered in bloodshots, it makes people feel very scary, while the other is a thin old man, and the old man is crawling with all kinds of bugs, lifelike and creepy.
"This portrait ......"
Luo Lin frowned, although he had always been bold, and he had been exposed to many strange and terrifying things in the Sauron Continent, but now he was still not very comfortable, and Avrilan was even more unbearable, and he almost didn't dare to look up at the portrait.
"Don't look at it, don't look at it, or it will crawl out!" Avrilan quickly tugged at the corner of his coat.