Chapter 24: Change
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Like most businessmen, the client of the task has a philistine face, and his attitude is also unreasonable, looking at people through his nostrils. He gave the three people who came to visit him in person a key to open the family cemetery, and repeatedly asked that his mother's body not be destroyed.
According to Paine, this task has been hanging in the union for several days, because there have been many undead haunts recently, and capable adventurers have gone to steal business from the temple, and no one has taken such a simple team mission with little oil and water. In addition, the underground is dark and the graveyard is narrow, so players who have just turned from a novice to a veteran do not want to take on this kind of quest that could be infected with corpse poison if they don't have a priest in the team.
The merchant's family cemetery was not built separately, but was separated from the public cemetery by a wall, and the three of them worked together to open the heavy iron door. Along with the closed air, there was also the unique death aura of the undead, Link was the first to walk in with a long sword in his hand, Yuan Ye in the center, and Pa En in the back.
Like other graves, the corpses parked in the cemetery are carved out of the narrow spaces on both sides of the passage to serve as coffin beds, but unlike the corpses in the public cemetery, the dead bodies here have a common feature, all dry bones and black.
"Do you smell a strange smell? Yuan Ye sniffed, there was indeed a smell, like some kind of spice, what it was he couldn't say for a while.
"It's holy water. ā
Link never said much, and it was Paine who walked last to answer Yuan Ye.
"Holy water?"
"You can understand it as a preservative, and when applied, it can effectively prevent the necromancer's evil spells, and it will not be corpsed. ā
"Zombie mutiny is a Chinese term. ā
The two of them, who were originally looking at each other at each other, talked about each other endlessly, until Link motioned for them to be silent.
Not long after the merchant's mother was buried, the body was not completely decomposed, and the tongue stretched out was like a hanged ghost, so Yuan Ye did not dare to look directly, and the necklace as a task prop was hung on the old woman's neck, made of gold, inlaid with a yellow gem the size of a thumb.
"I'll go. Paine said that he was highly agile and could escape even if there was any mutation.
Link nodded, he knew there was something wrong with the corpse, but he had no evidence and couldn't reveal his identity, so he could only tell him to be careful.
Paine held his breath and walked slowly to the corpse, pausing for a few seconds before reaching for the necklace. Touched, the corpse remained lying down, because the commission stated that the corpse must not be destroyed, Paine bent down against the strong smell of corpses.
After a long minute for all three, the clasp was finally unfastened, and as soon as Paine took the necklace away from the body, a wizened hand grabbed the necklace along with his palm.
Transformed into elbows and armpits, not only Paine, who boasted of being able to get out of the way, was stunned, but even Link's brain paused for a few seconds.
"Babble~" Yuan Yewei shouted, "The corpse has changed!"
Link didn't care about the rule that corpses were not allowed to be destroyed at the moment, and slashed at the old woman's arm with a sword, but the undead turned over as if thinking, dragging Paine inside, and Link's attack was empty.
The old woman's thin fingers were like a pair of iron tongs, and Paine could not help but panic no matter how hard he tugged.
Link raised his sword again, the old woman opened her mouth, and a scream piercing the eardrum rang out in the tomb, and the sound went straight to the brain, shaking Paine and Yuan Ye's hands and feet. Link's longsword didn't diminish in the slightest, slashing the old woman's shoulder with precision, removing the entire arm.
Paine, who was freed, hurriedly broke the dry bones that were stuck in his wrist.
Unable to perform the purification in front of the two of them, Link pushed them out, and the dead body with one arm lost came out of the coffin bed and chased after them with a shrill howl.
As soon as the three of them ran out of the tomb, they bumped into a group of people, their white robes embroidered with a round of golden rings, and they were priests of the Dawn Sect. They sang prayers of praise to the gods and went into the family cemetery of the merchants.
"Hey~ There's ...... in it"
Before Yuan Ye could finish speaking, Paine reached out to cover him, and then an even more piercing scream came from the tomb.
"It's dirty, you actually touched me with the hand that touched the corpse, ahh
"Now that we've got it, let's get out of here. Although Dawn is a god of order, Link doesn't want the priests to recognize him, and urges him to leave quickly.
After walking a few steps, he sensed that someone was watching him in the dark, and Link jerked back to see a rickety old man standing in the public cemetery next door.
Noticing Link's movements, Paine turned back as well. He had stepped here and recognized the old man as the grave keeper of the public cemetery.
I'm afraid it's not an ordinary grave keeper......
Because his five senses were stronger than those of ordinary people, Link could see the old man's eyes hidden under the dirty head, like blades, and for a moment, he thought of Hawke, but the cobweb leader disguised as the tavern owner was more restrained. The old man with such eyes is by no means an ordinary person, why is he willing to be a grave keeper in the cemetery?
Farther and farther away from the cemetery, Link could still feel the old man's gaze.
Back in Ayden, when Paine handed the necklace to Edward, the merchant, he grimaceously reprimanded them for their actions, which led to the Temple of Dawn and the purification of his mother's body.
Looking at the merchant waving his arms angrily, Lin grabbed Paine, who was trying to defend himself, shook his head at him, and then said to the merchant, "We don't need to be paid, as long as you sign the union's power of attorney to prove that we have completed the commission." ā
Edward gave him a suspicious look and nodded arrogantly in agreement.
After leaving the merchant's house, Paine asked Link why he didn't fight for it, which was fifty silver coins, which was already a high reward for players who had just turned from a novice to a veteran.
"This commission was problematic from the start. ā
Paine was stunned, "How do you know?"
"It's a coincidence that the priest of the Temple of Dawn has arrived. If they knew from the beginning that the merchant's mother had become an undead, why didn't they go sooner or later, after we went in? Without a key, it would be very difficult for the heavy iron gate to be forcibly destroyed. The merchant must have been informed in advance that he could not disobey the order of the temple, and he did not dare to take the necklace in person, so he made a commission in the adventurer's guild and let the mercenaries do it for him, so that he could retrieve the necklace without disobeying the temple, and finally he could use the destruction of the commission agreement without giving a penny. Link's explanation made Paine and Yuan Ye suddenly realize.
"This NPC is so stingy, and 5o silver is reluctant to give it. Yuan Ye's nose was crooked, and he ran to the cemetery in vain to face the terrifying undead, but he didn't get a penny.
Paine didn't speak, but his gloomy face was clearly no better.
"Okay, it's just an ordinary team task that makes novices over-adapt to veterans, don't be so careful. Money is a small thing, at least we get experience after completing the task. Link thinks more than just not having a shortage of money at hand, but in his opinion, people's safety is the most important thing.
Despite the unpleasantness caused by the merchants, Paine was quite satisfied with this cooperation, and he had long wanted to experience the fun of team-up adventures. Conscious ability still needs to be improved, ready to go to the NPC mentor training, will not do any more tasks in the short term, and agreed with Link that he will go to the Golden Rose Tavern to find them and leave.
What is rare is that Yuan Ye finally realized that he was a burden, and also said that he would go to a mentor for training. It's a good thing that lazy people are willing to be angry, and Link, who is used to being alone, is worried that he doesn't have time to practice alone.
Estimating that it was almost time for morning exercises, the two of them went back to the tavern together and asked Jafar to guard their bodies.
Back to reality, the time was exactly eight o'clock in the morning, and there was a text message from Su Wu in the early hours of yesterday morning on his mobile phone, asking how it was going recently. Estimating that he had already gotten up at this time, Link dialed Su Wu's number and briefly mentioned the conversation he had with Gonzalez after he left.
Knowing that the two of them also had a fight, Su Wujian yƬ Link took the dual cultivation route of magic + martial arts, and disguised himself as a warrior and ranger in the early stage, and then showed his genuine talent when he grew strong enough in the middle and late stages.
Link thinks it makes sense, he has studied the skill list, most of the things that can be learned in the early days are mainly support, and the attack skills are all single skills with average power, and it is appropriate to take the double cultivation route. In the case of no progress in the main quest, he can still find time to engage in professionalism, and he doesn't know what kind of changes will happen to the inheritance after absorbing the second fate demon, the interface of the computer only shows talent, no inheritance.
Returning from a lap in the morning, Link continued the puzzle that he hadn't finished yesterday.
Hearing that playing puzzles can exercise one's patience and observation, he deliberately spent money to buy a few puzzles with intricate patterns and put them at home. Don't look at Link's withdrawn personality, in fact, he is an impatient, he does things in a hurry, he usually does it when he thinks of it, playing puzzles and painting allows him to calm down and think, and the tricks of the merchants in the current fantasy world can also be regarded as the result of these days of training.
Although the skills in the illusion can't bring back reality, Link does feel that his physical fitness has improved a lot compared to before he came into contact with the illusion, and he reported to a martial arts class coach and praised him for his good reaction, but unfortunately he is too old, if he is from elementary school, he will definitely be a good seedling.
The biggest change is his relationship with his family, his father is now Lin Li often talks to Lin Ke on the phone, and he personally comes to the door to ask what happened. Of course, Link will not tell him the unbelievable experience, but only that he has reconciled with his sister, for such a situation, as a father, Lin Hai is naturally happy to see, he goes home more and more often, and has gone back from holidays to weekends, although his stepmother still always gives a look, but he has gotten rid of the childish age, and he only laughs at the embarrassment of his stepmother.
Link did not resist such a change, and with the experience in the illusion, he began to re-examine his past, which can be described as eating and waiting for death, without a goal, mediocre.
One day, if he can get rid of the illusion, he wants to travel all over the world, to experience the magnificence of nature, to appreciate the customs of various places, and to feel the beauty of life.