Chapter Twenty-Five: The Black Iron Dwarf

The Mithril vein of the Eastern Continent is located in a corner of the southwest of the continent map, this map is not too big, but it is definitely not small, but there are more than fifty level monsters wandering around this map, so that the current players are basically afraid of this map. Not only that, but because this map is full of smoking volcanoes, the air is also very hot, and if the player is not fully prepared, he will come to this map with a "hot wound" of fire damage that continues to lose blood.

It's easy to die here before you can find a supply point.

The environment here is so harsh, and there are many high-level bad demons roaming, which is enough to discourage many players from visiting Yaxing here.

Ye Ci sat for a while, but still didn't find a way to open this vein. In the end, I had to go back to the nearby supply point to have a look. A map like this in a remote part of a city is basically a map with only one supply point. Also, the location of the supply point does not have to be in the middle of the map, its location may be anywhere on the map, depending on your luck when running the map. If you're lucky, you'll find a supply point quickly, and if you're unlucky, you may have to open the entire map to find a supply point.

As a reborn person, Ye Ci naturally does not have the hard work of other players when they run the map, since she entered this map called the Bad Demon Habitat, she went straight to the supply point, opened the teleportation point, and then went to wander around the Mithril vein.

It's a pity that Ye Ci, who has been wandering around for several days, really didn't find any effective way to discover or excavate the Mithril vein, and in desperation, she had to give up the opportunistic method and return to the supply point to see if she could find any clues from the NPCs there.

Returning to the supply point, Ye Ci first talked to each NPC, but when it was disappointing, none of the NPCs mentioned that there was a Mithril vein in this place, but a lot of tasks were accepted. Although she was anxious in her heart, Ye Ci thought that the Shengshi Guild could find the Mithril vein definitely not falling from the sky, there must be some way, but she didn't know this method, she needed to go through it again now, as long as she didn't miss any clues, I believe she could find it.

Since he never gave up if he couldn't find the Mithril vein, Ye Ci didn't care how many tasks he had now. Her current level has reached level ten, and it is a top-level suit, it is not difficult to do the task of level fifty-five here, even if it is a difficult task for a team of three, it is not a problem in Ye Ci's opinion.

High-level tasks are generally quick and can be solved in a fraction of the time. Such a convention is most vividly reflected here in Ye Ci. Then dozens of tasks, if it were a player of about level fifty-five to do, it would take about a day or two, and Ye Ci only took 3 hours to complete them all.

Take the task, do the task, then hand in the task, and then pick up the task. This is the most common way to level up in the game. Although Ye Ci can't get any experience by doing tasks because of the full level now, he still gets a lot of money, prestige, and various task rewards. Even if you don't get anything from these NPCs in the end, Ye Ci can still earn a considerable income by selling all the equipment rewarded by these tasks.

"Oh, elf, my friend, I appreciate everything you have done for me, because my legs feel so much better because of the herbs you picked." The tasks that the NPCs in this hidden camp can deliver are basically completed, except for a female dwarf named Jasmine, whose mission has not been completed.

Speaking of which, the tasks given to Ye Ci by this Jasmine from the beginning were very simple, either to pick some stones, or to dig up some herbs, or to kill a few bad demons. However, her rewards are much richer than those of other NPCs. This situation didn't attract Ye Ci's attention at first, but within a few rounds of quests delivered, Ye Ci discovered the unique existence of this NPC.

The task is so simple, but the rewards are so rich, this is definitely not a bug caused by the neglect of the plan, there must be something important behind this. This keen sense of touch may not have players who have just started to contact the game, but for Ye Ci, who has been reborn for a lifetime, if she doesn't have it, then she will be a waste of the loophole in her life.

In view of the fact that fate has a very large hidden task system, Ye Ci is very careful when doing Jasmine's tasks, and never chooses to skip the dialogue with her, but carefully reads it word by word before making a careful choice and answer, she must not let a hidden task go in front of her eyes in vain.

"Really? It's my greatest pleasure to be able to help you. Ye Ci was full of smiles, she spoke in a very gentle and humble tone, and even bowed slightly to Jasmine.

Jasmine's race is dwarf, but she is not a dwarf in the ordinary sense of the word. Unlike the player's dwarven race, they belong to another dwarven race, the Black Iron Dwarves. It has been recorded in the history books of the continent that the race of dwarves is divided into three types according to skin color, one is the white dwarf, that is, the dwarf in the general sense, the race of the player. The other is the Black Iron Dwarves, who have dark skin, and there is a type of dwarf called the Red Fire Dwarves, whose complexion is red, as if it were a burning fire.

These three wildlings were originally under the leadership of the dwarf king Mokmodo, but after the death of Mokmodo, all three races wanted to recommend the warriors of their own race to succeed the dwarf king, so a large-scale weapon fight broke out, and finally, as the most powerful race after humans, the dwarves, were divided into three.

Because the white dwarves have the best relationship with humans, they received the greatest help from humans in this melee, so they carved up the best territory in the dwarf race, and they established a long-term and close comradeship relationship with humans, and began to multiply on the four continents. The Black Iron Dwarves are more withdrawn by nature, and the number of races is the smallest, in the Great War is the first race to lose, but their patriarch is very far-sighted, after signing an armistice agreement with the white dwarves, far away from the territory of the white dwarves, to explore more far-reaching places on various continents. The Red Fire Dwarves, who were the last to lose, were not as lucky as the Black Iron Dwarves, as all their territories were occupied by the White Dwarves and driven out of the four continents by the White Dwarves.

This is also the main reason why players have not met the Red Fire Dwarf on their continent until now, but with the opening of the expansion, the Red Fire Dwarf will soon break into everyone's sight and set off a ** for the player's exploration career, of course, that is in the future, and the important thing now is how Ye Ci finds the Mithril vein.

Dwarves are not in the nature of fighting, and although they are never afraid of fighting, and it can be said that each of them is brave and good at fighting, their interest has never been here. The dwarves' interests are somewhat similar to those of dragons, and they both like shiny things, such as gems, such as precious minerals. Therefore, every dwarf, both male and female, is very stout and strong, because every dwarf is a natural miner. In the days when they weren't fighting, the dwarves lived underground, where they mined all sorts of ores and gems they liked. This habit is something that dwarves grow in their bones, and it doesn't happen any differently depending on the race of the dwarves.

Therefore, on the mainland, no matter what the mine is, if there is a distribution of NPCs, if you observe carefully, there will definitely be dwarves.

Probably for this reason, therefore, the elves who have always loved nature are the most disdainful of dwarves, they think that dwarves are covered with a kind of copper smell that makes elves sick, and similarly, dwarves don't like elves very much, a race that is tall and proud and can only sing and dance, but these two races are close comrades-in-arms with humans, so, in this relationship, they are still more patient with each other.

It is precisely for this reason that Ye Ci is particularly careful when facing Jasmine, speaking neither humbly nor arrogantly, and trying not to touch the contradictions between the two races, so that he can gain the trust of this female black iron dwarf to the greatest extent.

"Oh, you're the kindest elf I've ever seen" Jasmine looked at Ye Ci and nodded with satisfaction, then pursed the corners of her lips, looked at the sleeping elf NPC not far from the camp and said disdainfully: "And other elves are so annoying It seems that elves also have good people." ”

Regarding this kind of battle between NPCs, of course Ye Ci will not participate in this kind of move, if she has to follow this kind of thing to participate, then soon she will not know how to die. So, she just stood aside, smiled gently, and listened to Jasmine's words without expressing any opinion.

Jasmine was talking to herself for a while, and suddenly there was a gurgling sound in her stomach, and she actually showed a rare embarrassed expression.

"If you're injured, you really need to eat something delicious so that your wound can heal quickly." Ye Ci did not laugh at Jasmine for this, and was very kind and considerate to give her advice.

"Oh, the good elf is right." Jasmine listened to Ye Ci's words and smiled shyly: "I'm really hungry, but I really don't want to eat dwarf bread, oh my God, you don't know how disgusting it is to eat that dwarf bread every day." I've heard that the food made by the elves is delicious, and I've always wanted to try it, but I've never had the opportunity, so I wonder if you can fulfill my wish? ”

"Of course, I'm here to help."

This is an open-ended task. Because the NPC does not name what food to eat, but only says in general terms the food to be made by ** spirit, this is too broad. You know, in the game of Destiny, like the recipe of life skills, each race will have its own unique formula, which is outside of the popular formula. There are many players who can't learn the recipes of other races because they don't have enough prestige among other races, so they only learn the popular formula, and Ye Ci is no exception. Although she is a reborn player, and although she also knows how important it is to achieve high reputation among the various races, she has no time to increase the reputation of the other races now, and she has no extra time and experience to improve the reputation of the other races.

It seems that the matter of improving the prestige of other races can only be done slowly in the future.

Fortunately, the dishes ordered by Jasmine are the dishes of the elf race, as a hunter, as an elf hunter, cooking is a necessary life skill, and the dishes of her own race are naturally all learned. Now that the most fundamental conditions have been met, it remains a matter of choice.

I don't know who has ever said that life is to suffer the results of your choices in different choices.

And now one of the problems that Ye Ci is facing is choice. For players who are new to open quests, they probably won't understand that such quests are actually the most difficult, because there is only one chance to choose, and this chance will definitely be what the outcome of the follow-up quest will be. If you choose the wrong one, it may be the end of the mission, and if you choose the right one, you may be able to open a huge hidden mission. And as a reborn Ye Ci, how could he not know the importance of such an open task.

After ten years of training in the last life, she has experienced tens of thousands of open tasks, and the choices she made are basically correct, so she is also very confident in this choice.

On how to complete the open choice task more likely, this question has also been discussed a lot in the forum of the previous life, of course, most of everyone is lucky, but some players of the test school have put forward a point of view, if you want to complete the open choice task as efficiently as possible, then there is only one way, that is, to go to the national library in the mainland to read books. Of course, when this point was raised, it was basically ridiculed by all players.

You must know that there are not just a few books in the National Library, but thousands of them, countless books, and it is absolutely impossible for you to read them all without a year or two.

At the beginning, Ye Ci also thought so. At that time, she was also all about luck with the open-ended choice mission, and her fate was so-so anyway, until she was hunted down...... In desperation, she took refuge in the National Library in the Absolute Security Zone. In the first day or two there, Ye Ci lived like a year, and when she wanted to go out, the enemies outside were waiting to kill her, and if she didn't go out, there was nothing in the national library except books. After suffering like this for a day or two, she saw that she really couldn't get out, so she simply settled down to read the book, and this reading book was really read, and she soaked in it for a few months, so that the enemies who surrounded her simply gave up, and she was still obsessed with those books.

Although Ye Ci later came out of the National Library, he still went to the National Library to sit every day after playing, after all, reading books is a very happy thing. And at the beginning, Ye Ci, who only regarded reading as an interest, regarded reading books as a kind of BUG, and the time to face it was actually an open choice task. Or rather, a series of open-choice tasks.

It was a classic quest after the fourth expansion had been in operation for four years. There are a total of ten rings in this quest from the first to the last ring, and each of them is an open-choice mission. If you are forced to restart more than 10 times, the player will not be able to restart the mission. However, after the completion of the last part of this task, there will be a very special reward, and it is precisely for that reward that billions of players throughout the game try to do this task, and no more than a hundred players end up completing this task.

And Ye Ci is one of the hundred players who have completed it. Not only that, but she's also the only player who hasn't chosen any of the wrong links. The rewards are naturally very rich, but it is not luck that can make Ye Ci do this, but the books that he has read in the National Library for a long time.

In this mission, Ye Ci discovered the power of the books in the National Library, so powerful that it can be called the BUG of the whole game. It records all the problems of the entire continent, from the geography of heaven and earth to the history of people, and even to the genealogy of each race, and how various skills are developed, how they are finally shaped, and so on. In short, as long as the player can encounter all the problems, read all of them in the National Library. It's a pity that such a huge bug has never been discovered by players.

I wonder if players are too focused on playing games and less about books? In the face of such a huge sea of books, few people can persevere. In short, in the following games, Ye Ci will soak in the National Library as long as he has time, and he will keep reading.

Probably because of this, she has become a rare jack of all trades on the entire continent.

It's really a bit ashamed to say that Ye Ci, who was so keen on reading in his previous life, didn't even step through the door of the National Library after he was reborn. Now all the knowledge she knows is completely eating the old book, so Ye Ci secretly made up her mind that when everything is over and she is a little more leisurely, she must visit the National Library often.

Faced with this choice now, Ye Ci was not flustered at all. When she knew that it was Jasmine who made the request to ** the spiritual cuisine, she was already in her chest. Of course, it is not possible for the National Library to tell the player the correct answer to the open choice, but the player can reason based on some of the details recorded in the National Library.

For example, the dwarves are a race of people who are very fond of food and wine. For example, dwarves are not naturally good at hunting, but they are very fond of meat, and the rarer the meat, the happier they are. For example, the food that dwarves hate the most is dwarven bread, because the only food that dwarves are good at cooking, they have eaten for hundreds of years, and they have long been disgusted. For example, among the four continents, the dwarves actually like the town of Bran in the southern continent the most, not because of the beautiful scenery and simple people, but because the Bran wheat there can make the most delicious Bran dark beer......

And so on and so forth.

Putting together these nuanced descriptions of the various races, it is easy for the player to deduce the most appropriate and correct answer for the open-ended choice.

According to Ye Ci's memory of all the habits of the dwarves, coupled with Jasmine's requirements, Ye Ci quickly found the most suitable dish in the elf recipe - Western wine stewed dragon meat.

Of course, dragon meat here refers to the more precious dinosaur meat, not the kind of dragon that flies in the sky=. =

The ingredients for this dish are abundant, such as Western Ireland 50-year-old wines, ceratosaurus thighs of higher quality than 40, cumin of Champions City, and secret spices of the elves...... Anything like that, it's not something easy to prepare anyway.

And Ye Ci had to fly back to Champion City in order to prepare this dish and rush to various maps. She even contacted Yang Yu Hongchen, who was pushing a copy on the Southern Continent, and asked him to quickly get herself a few bottles of good Bran dark beer......

In short, after spending a full three hours, Ye Ci finally delivered this so-called perfect western wine stewed dragon meat, plus five bottles of Bran dark beer, to Jasmine's eyes.

Although it was through the lid, Jasmine had already begun to sniff non-stop, "It's too fragrant, it's too fragrant."

"Hurry up and eat, this is a specialty of our elves." Ye Ci placed the plate in front of Jasmine, then lifted the lid, and suddenly the rich fragrance filled the air. Jasmine closed her eyes and sniffed vigorously, not even a little bit of aroma, from the flush and intoxicated look that appeared on her face, Ye Ci thought, she basically got 50% right in this choice, and the remaining 50% depends on Jasmine's performance after eating this dish.

Dwarves are really a very fast race, even if the delicacies of the world are placed in front of them, they will definitely not taste them like humans or undead or elves, they will only stuff them into their stomachs with speed. For the dwarves to savor food or wine is a pure waste of time, and wasting time is wasting their chance to earn gems, which they would never do. So, soon, Jasmine settled the large plate of western wine stewed dragon meat in front of her, and poured five bottles of Bran dark beer into her stomach by the way.

It's just a whirlwind and fast.

Such a speed made Ye Ci, who was sitting on the side, a little moved. You know, it took her three hours to make it, and this NPC actually took less than five minutes to solve it all, in comparison, Ye Ci felt that the food she had worked so hard to make was ruined.

"Great, great" Jasmine, although she couldn't stand up because of her leg injury, she still waved her hands happily, and it could be seen that she was really excited. Then, the follow-up that Ye Ci was waiting for finally arrived: "How can I enjoy such delicious food for myself, I have a good friend named Dudu, who is now exploring the mine in the west, can you bring him a copy of this dish to taste?" ”

"Of course there is no problem." Ye Ci immediately stood up and accepted the task. Fortunately, she likes to leave room for doing things, and just now when she was cooking Western wine stewed dragon meat, she made a total of five servings, if it weren't for the fact that she would waste another three hours now?

Ye Ci's mood was very excited, judging from Jasmine's satisfied expression, her choice this time was to choose the best answer. Although, no matter what kind of elf recipe Ye Ci makes for Jasmine to eat, Jasmine will give a reward, but if you choose the best answer, you can get the biggest reward, which is also the charm of the open-ended choice task.

And after this choice, Jasmine didn't give Ye Ci any reward, but just asked her to find another NPC, which is very abnormal for an NPC that has been giving players rich rewards, and this anomaly shows a problem, that is, the player has found the most critical point to continue the next part of this mission. If the player doesn't find this key point, I'm afraid that all they will get is a bunch of money or better mission equipment.

Compared to those things, Ye Ci was naturally more interested in the follow-up mission, she said goodbye to Jasmine and ran towards the mine to the west. There are several different pits in the map of the Bad Demon Habitat, and for Ye Ci, she has been running around here for the past few days, but she knows every piece of land here clearly. She clearly remembered that there weren't any NPCs in the western mines.

And now Jasmine has asked herself to go there to find Dudu, which means that there is an NPC that has spawned after making her corresponding choices.

Soon, Ye Ci arrived at the western mine, and sure enough, he saw a dark-skinned black iron dwarf sweating at some ore in the huge pit that had been abandoned. Ye Ci walked into him and greeted him in a friendly manner: "Hello, dear dwarf. ”

This black iron dwarf called Dudu looked back, and saw a tall elf standing beside him, and suddenly a disgusted expression appeared on his face: "Go away from the nasty elf, I am not a hypocritical white dwarf, so I won't be kind to you, hurry up and get out of my way, otherwise don't be polite with my hoe."

It seems that although Ye Ci has gained Jasmine's favor, it does not mean that Dudu also has good intentions towards her. So Ye Ci had no choice but to take out the western red wine stewed dragon meat from his pocket, "My friend, don't be angry, I'm Jasmine's friend, and I was entrusted by her to bring you today's lunch." ”

"What? Are you Jasmine's friend? It's strange how Jasmine could make an elf friend. Although Dudu has a hard mouth, he is no longer so angry and stubborn when he smells the aroma of dragon meat stewed in western red wine. He began to sit down and sip on the wine while tasting the food.

The alcohol quickly anesthetized Dudu's nerves, and when Dudu finished eating this meal, his attitude towards Ye Ci had completely changed, not only calling Ye Ci brothers, but also drunkenly opening the conversation: "I can tell you, elf, in fact, I don't want to come to this ghost place to explore, you see, I've walked through such a pit, where is there any treasure?"

"Baby?"

"Didn't Jasmine tell you? We ran away from our race to this place where birds don't poop to explore because of the treasure ore. That guy from Jasmine didn't know what kind of fake news he got from the patriarch, so he dragged me here to say that there was a treasure ore here, but we've been here for a month, what kind of treasure ore, I rarely even see the ore Tell me, have I been deceived? Dudu complained a little through alcohol.

Ye Ci was silent. The Black Iron Dwarves are the three dwarves who love to mine the most, they are not as fond of dealing with humans as the white dwarves, nor are they as aggressive as the Red Fire Dwarves, they put more of their experience on the ore, so they have their mining figures on all continents. Now that Doodoo said that Jasmine and he had come here to find the treasure ore, Ye Ci could confirm that what they were looking for was Mithril

In other words, this dodge in front of her is likely to be the key NPC for her to open the Mithril vein

As soon as he thought of this, Ye Ci began to suppress his excitement. She took two deep breaths to stabilize her emotions, and then she said quietly, "Maybe this legend is true." ”

"Bullshit" Dudu finally burst into foul language, which made Ye Ci a little surprised, you must know that in the game, players will be blocked by the system, but she really hasn't heard of NPC foul language, this Dudu is really special. "Do you think we're the first people to come here in search of that precious ore? No, there were many people who had already come here before us to look for it, but in the end, none of them returned to the tribe. It's so dangerous, it's full of bad demons, I really can't stay for a day."

"So what can I do for you?" Now this NPC called Dudu is full of resistance to the matter of finding Mithril Mine, although Ye Ci is a little anxious, but he doesn't dare to persuade casually, so he can only follow his meaning, and then find a way in Manman.

"Oh, good elf, my good elf, you are the best elf I have ever seen. Since you and Jasmine are good friends, can you help me go back and talk to Jasmine, don't embarrass me, I don't want to send my life to this place where birds don't. Doot looked pitiful.

It's an errand mission, and while it's an errand mission, it's really the only way to continue. Ye Ci began to walk between the two NPCs and pass messages to them.

I don't know how many times I ran, Jasmine finally sighed: "My friend, it seems that Dudu really doesn't want to find that treasure, I wonder if you can help me find some clues about Fa Dudu?" You must know that the patriarch is my grandfather, he will never deceive me, I believe that there must be treasures hidden here."

"No problem, please leave it to me" Ye Ci almost screamed. Although she had wasted more than eight hours on the two Black Iron Dwarves, did she finally see the clue of the dawn to find the Mithril Mine? This is simply equivalent to telling Ye Ci directly, as long as you find a clue, it is equivalent to opening the mysterious Mithril mine

Riding the fourth, Ye Ci's dark figure ran around the inferior demon habitat like a ghost. Bad Demon Habitat, as the name suggests, the most monster here is the Bad Devil.

Inferior demons are the lowest level of monsters, but don't look down on them just because they are the lowest. Although they don't have a lot of blood, they are all long-range attacks, and they are good at using magic flames and magic bursts, and two inferior demons together can easily solve a level fifty-five high-blood warrior or knight, which is really not to be underestimated.

Although Ye Ci had already reached the tenth level, it was expected that they would still have to be extra careful. However, both sides are long-range attacks, as long as they don't encounter encirclement and interception, Ye Ci can still easily solve these little bad demons. Ye Ci wandered around the Mithril vein, expecting to find some clues, but it was a pity that what was waiting for her was the silent black mountain stone, and there was nothing else.

It seems that I am thinking wrong?

Since you can't find any clues near the Mithril vein, let's take a look a little further. Ye Ci distanced herself and began to search farther away in the Mithril vein, and it didn't take long for her to discover a very important clue.

In the middle of several rocks, she saw a dying black iron dwarf, his face was all around, and his beard had turned white, and it could be seen that this black iron dwarf was very old. He lay there and muttered, "So thirsty, so thirsty......"

Ye Ci immediately took out the cool spring water from his package and brought it to the lips of the black iron dwarf. He seemed to feel the damp breath, and immediately took the kettle in his hand, and began to gulp down the water, and in a short time, such a large pot of spring water was all drunk by the black iron dwarf.

"Are you any better?" Ye Ci looked at him and asked a little eagerly, you know, this guy didn't find it at all when he was inspecting this map, it can be seen that he was also refreshed with this task, but looking at his current state is really not good, Ye Cida has a feeling that he will soon return home and return to the west.

"Oh, it's an elf who saved me, and that's a ridiculous ending." The Black Iron Dwarf blinked, his voice filled with thick exhaustion.

"I'm a friend of Jasmine, the Black Iron Dwarf, who came here in search of a precious ore, but had no direction, and I was commissioned by her to search for clues. You can trust me."

"Jasmine? Is it the little granddaughter of the patriarch who doesn't skip words.

Ye Ci thought about it, and at that time, Jasmine did say that she was the granddaughter of the Black Iron Dwarf Patriarch, so she nodded: "It's her." ”

"How long have I been gone, Jasmine has grown up, Jasmine can already find treasures" The black iron dwarf let out a long breath: "Being able to get Jasmine's trust means that you are a good elf, elf, I do know the clues of the ore, I have even drawn a map, but ......"

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