9 The devil in the urn
The shrill meow of the cat quickly faded away with a frightened chirping of mice.
In a dark cavern dotted with shimmering light, another dark gray rat crawled out of a low hole in the rock.
Then, as if it had already decided on its course, it sped without hesitation to the depths of the cavern, a gray coffin perched on a marble step.
The distance between the rock dwarf hole and the coffin is not long, and in a few breaths, the mouse has reached the target.
Then he deftly climbed up the stone coffin, which was entwined with withered vines, and slipped into it through the coffin's half-open lid.
Without the illumination of the glowing mushrooms from the outside, the scene became darker in an instant, but there were some illuminated jewels here, so it was still possible to see the general situation inside the coffin.
A pile of silver coins stained with black viscous, a few rotting books, a rusty iron sword, a withered corpse......
After looking around, the gray-haired mouse ran to a clay pot entwined with chains in the innermost part of the coffin, and then supported his chest and hind feet, and his forelimbs fell on the clay pot, and the jar disappeared suddenly.
The rat then began to circle around the coffin as if it had accomplished its basic goal.
So in just a few seconds, the scattered burial goods in the coffin all disappeared like clay pots.
Even the withered corpse did not escape the poison in the end.
The coffin became empty, and the rat then crawled out of it with a deft leap down the side of the coffin.
However, at this moment, a terrible cat cry suddenly sounded from not far away!
It was a strange cat with a sticky wet face, with dark fur and a crowded and wrinkled face on its head, like a normal face being forcibly pinched together, looking ugly and hideous.
And the contrast is obvious, during the screaming and frying at this time, the eyes that should have been small are as round as copper bells!
It wasn't just barking either, it didn't hesitate to pounce on the rat when it spotted it.
However, the rat seemed to have expected this, and without even looking at the thing, he quickly turned around the coffin, and ran in the direction from which he came.
It's not easy, because the cat is a lot faster than it.
And there was a strange force in the cat's meow, which made the rat's tail involuntarily wrap around its hind limbs, as if wishing to trip it.
The rat didn't trip, but it slowed down.
But just as the cat was about to catch the mouse, a rotting parchment suddenly appeared out of thin air from behind the mouse's buttocks, and with the inertia of running, it wrapped itself in the face of the strange cat chasing after it!
The strange cat grabs the book and tears it to pieces, but the mouse escapes and scurries into the low hole from which he came.
And before going in, he threw a behemoth outside to "block the door"-
The corpse inside the coffin.
The corpse was abandoned outside the gap, and although it fell in pieces, it also suspended the pursuit of the strange cat.
Then the rats that scurried into the low hole threw many objects to hinder the opponent's speed, until the low hole became shorter and shorter, and the cat could not go any further.
The miserable cat meow is full of irritability and madness, but it can only be impotent and furious to let the mouse disappear from sight.
The rat itself ignored the howling of ghosts and wolves behind him, and after running quickly for a while, he finally stopped in a low, dark passageway.
Then, a piece of information floated out of its head—
"Knock knock, is anyone there?"
It didn't take long for a reply to emerge from the void and merge into the mouse's body—
It's a year old: "You're not naïve." ”
"Che, who pulled me for Children's Day last month?"
“…… Well, have you met a happy event? You seem happy? ”
"Yes, this baby has completed the task, hehehehe."
The rat staggered along the low passage as it replied, as if it couldn't walk.
"The cat was played around by me, and howled angrily, but it couldn't even touch me, and finally had to go back and wipe away tears. Alas, it's good to let it see how fast the old driver is, so as not to be arrogant and beaten up in the future, and his mother won't recognize it. ”
"So you got the jar?"
"Of course, I also made a lot of money by the way."
"And then?"
"What, then?"
"The task is complete, how do you submit it?"
These words made the mouse pause.
"Uh, maybe wait for that mysterious NPC to come to me? But it doesn't matter, anyway, the things are already in hand, and I'm afraid I won't be able to submit them. ”
In response, it resumed walking, scurrying toward a temporary settlement.
"I'm more concerned about the task rewards, you said money, equipment, or anything I can't use now, and I don't have much backpack grids, so if it's some temporarily useless, it's too much space......"
"Maybe it's a skill?"
"Let's hope so. But compared to skills, I actually want to have a district-wide announcement or something, the first in the whole server, that's what it's called a cow. ”
"What's the use?"
"To be in the limelight, a qualified veteran driver should not be unknown, and having super high driving skills is to throw all drivers behind their butts. You know, 2020 is no longer fashionable to be low-key. ”
"But now there are only a thousand players......"
"That being said, there are more than a thousand people who follow this game, you know that ......"
……
……
During the small talk, the rat was not slow to walk, but after a while its steps stopped again.
"I'm done!"
"What reward?"
"The reward is a special mall opening qualification called Wafred's Treasure......"
"Special Mall?"
"Yes, and I also said that I have the lowest level of exchange privileges now, and now I can exchange for gold, food, some basic weapons, and ...... And my favorite draw, haha! ”
After it said this, a white light suddenly lit up all over its body, and then three bright hints floated out of its head in succession—
Experience +15000
……
Level up to 8
……
Level increased to 9
……
"This fairy is level nine, hahahahahaha!"
"What's the situation?"
"Lottery, I used the initial exchange points to draw the lottery, and the result instantly rose by more than 10,000 experience, hahaha!"
"Luck so good?"
"Please call me Emperor Ou!"
“……”
"Wait and see, I'm definitely the first player to reach level ten!"
"Come on!"
"Mmmm, then I'll save you after you can become a human at level 10, don't worry."
"No, I'm almost crawling out."
"Huh? Is it progressing so fast? ”
"I practiced all night last night, of course I have to gain something."
"Staying up late will grow dark circles under your eyes, even if you want to take revenge, you don't have to fight so hard, right?"
"What revenge?"
"Get revenge on the guy who on your head."
"I don't want revenge, I don't bother to pay attention to that kind of boring person."
"Then why are you staying up late?"
"Of course, while that angel has been busy lately, he has no time to pay attention to me, so he ran away."
"Busy? What are you busy with? ”
"I don't know, I didn't see a shadow anyway...... Or maybe it stinks like me? ”
"Stinky?"
"Yes, you don't think that uncle can be kind enough to wash my hair, do you? He was ......"
……
Bernie didn't know that his subject was now choreographing himself.
After finishing his business, after unpossessing the parrot, he solved the matter of the fairy who had obtained the jar.
So now he was in the Black Mist World cabin, pondering the black clay pot with chains on the table.
Opening the Marketplace is as simple as writing the relevant words on the corresponding page of the Black Book to allow players to see the items on the Marketplace shelf.
At the same time, you can also make some more detailed rules, such as which grid the player can see and which one cannot see.
So Bernie made an exchange level by the way, so as not to let the rewards be seen by the players all at once and lose their freshness.
However, there is only one player currently docked, and there is no need to think carefully about this aspect at present, so his main mind is now all on the black jar in front of him-
Before the Church completely became the dominant force in the continent of Lea, the human world had some special customs.
For example, the jar in front of you is a kind of funerary object that was very popular among the ancient human nobles.
It's a funerary object, but it actually has another name, and that is the Sealed Demon Urn.
So, there's actually a demon sealed in there.
I just don't know what grade of demon it is......
Thinking about it, Bernie raised his hand and tapped the slightly rusty chains on the surface of the clay pot.
So under the influence of some kind of power that pervaded the cabin, the black chains that had been integrated broke with a snap.
The clay pot itself trembled as a result, as if the presence in the jar sensed the loosening of the seal.
And when Bernie raised his hand to slowly untie the broken chain from the surface of the jar, a faint whisper of trivial words was quietly born from the jar.
The sound was faint at first, inaudible, but as the chains detached, the subtle sound became clearer.
"That's right, that's ......"
The voice inside the jar was low and majestic, "Untie the chains, get rid of that damn cork, and you'll have power, supreme power......"
"Supreme? How dare you say it? ”
Bernie muttered secretly, but without hesitation, he pulled the cork off the top of the pot.
A palm-sized black figure climbed out of it, accompanied by a burst of excited laughter.
"Very good, kid! You're doing a great job! Let me reward you, you're going to love the feeling of being eaten, yes, you'll-"
Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly froze, stared at Bernie in front of him for a moment, and then screamed in horror, then turned and jumped off the can, and ran out of the cabin.
It's a pity that this guy didn't run a few steps before his body suddenly began to solidify, and finally turned into a palm-sized humanoid statue and fell to the ground with a bang.
Bernie ignored the statue, his gaze was on the clay pot that had lost its seal.
Inside the jar was a thin layer of gray liquid, dull in color, but shimmering with a metallic sheen, like mercury.
However, of course, this is not mercury, but a special liquid formed by the entanglement of the sealed demon and the power that sealed it in the long seal.
This liquid is rarely studied, and is generally not taken seriously, and if Bernie hadn't been a time-traveler and wanted to study a thing or two about all supernatural powers, he wouldn't have known what this thing could do-
It only takes a certain amount of processing to turn it into an excellent medium that carries spiritual power.
Bernie's lenses are machined from this liquid, so it is natural that they can be repaired as well.
He picked up an empty bottle, poured the liquid from the jar, and then took the cracked lenses from the wooden box and put them inside.
A subtle sound could be heard like a reptilian limb touching glass, the sound of liquid repairing a crack in the lens.
It took some time, but it didn't need to be watched, so Bernie looked at the small wooden carving that had fallen to the door of the cabin.
The Black Mist World was only owned by him after he was reincarnated, so in fact, there were no other demons here except for those primitive monsters outside the wooden house.
And because of Bernie's transplantation of that talent in himself, he actually has a complete set of anatomical skills......
Unfortunately, before he could take action about it, a faint tapping sound suddenly came from the depths of his heart.
It was the sound of someone knocking on the door in real life.