【Side quest triggered】

【A small test before the action】

[Description: Tempted by the treasure, you and some people with the same hobby coincidentally came to the mysterious cargraver, wanting to join the treasure hunt organized by him, and he also strengthened his own items for you in advance, but before the real treasure hunt begins, you still need to complete the small test issued by him to prove that you do have this ability, at least not to hold him back.] 】

[Objective: Complete the quest issued by the Engraver]

[Failure Penalty: You will be attacked by the Engraver, and if you die, you will lose ownership of the item that has been engraved]

The masked man had already explained this "little test" clearly enough, and it was not complicated in itself, so Su Ming only habitually glanced at the task panel.

But at this moment, his eyes widened suddenly, and at first glance he suspected that he had seen it wrong.

"Failure penalty?"

It was the first time he had seen this thing.

It is true that the system only said that side quests do not give quest rewards, and never said that there must be no quest penalties...... But it was still a little surprising to him.

He glanced at the masked man quietly, and his heart was a little uneasy.

This guy can even deprive players of ownership of items?

This is a situation he never imagined.

"Death Aftermath...... Is it because this enchantment can interfere with the binding relationship caused by the system's bubbles in some way? ”

Apparently, the other players also noticed the unusualness of this side quest and even looked at each other at the moment.

From everyone's eyes, Su Ming knew that they were also the same as himself, the first time they had seen a mission with a failure punishment.

"What? One by one, I won't have the guts to take it......"

At this time, seeing that no one was extracting the map, the masked man's eyes looking around at the players present instantly turned cold.

Su Ming immediately felt the warning from the system, and at the same time, the rotten smell in his nose suddenly became much stronger.

Obviously, the smell came from the Mask Man.

Seeing this, the other players stopped grinding, and the female player from before took the lead, and each quickly drew a map, but Su Ming became the last person to draw because of the delay in thinking about the problem.

But just as he was about to draw the last card, the masked man suddenly looked at him and said, "You don't need to, just wait here with me." ”

【Side quest completed】

"Huh?"

Hearing the sound from the system, Su Ming was stunned for a moment.

Immediately, he glanced at the task panel, and it was really done.

"Can it still be like this?"

Su Ming was a little dumbfounded, today he opened his eyes again.

Naturally, the other players didn't know that his mission had been completed, and some even threw sympathetic glances at him.

Because this task was triggered by everyone together, and it could be seen from their respective performances just now that there was also a punishment for failure, they took it for granted that Su Ming was stopped by the masked man and would not be able to complete the task.

"How are we going to start this mission?"

At this time, it was still the female player from before who took the initiative to ask questions.

"Throw the card on the ground and it will unfold into a map, just step on it." The masked man replied faintly.

Hearing this, the player on Su Ming's right immediately stood up, as if he couldn't wait to leave here, or couldn't wait to start the task, he directly threw the card on the ground and stepped on it as the mask man said.

Then, in the blink of an eye, Su Ming saw the player shrink and disappear before his eyes.

More precisely, it was sucked directly into something on the ground.

Su Ming glanced sideways, and although the light below the table was dim, he could still see an enlarged card, and the pattern on it seemed to be a forest.

As for the player just now, Su Ming didn't see the other party's figure on the pattern of the card.

At this time, the other four players saw that someone had started the task directly, and they also threw the cards in their hands on the ground and stepped on them, and in a blink of an eye, only Su Ming and the masked man were left.

The masked man relaxed his posture, glanced at Su Ming, and said, "Just sit for a while, it won't wait too long, the relative time flow rate of different worlds is not the same......

Different worlds?

Su Ming immediately thought of the pieces of equipment he had seen in the other party's treasure house, and it was obvious from the description in the notes that they were items from different types of world views.

So this guy is still an NPC with the ability to span different scenes, right? It also appears to have the ability to deprive the player of ownership of an item......

Su Ming glanced at the masked man, feeling that this guy didn't seem to be very simple.

The player's ownership of the item comes from the "bubbles" given by completing the system's tasks, and for now, the characters that can interfere with the corresponding mechanics are only seen in that Celestial Game scene.

At that time, they completed the main quest, but they were directly skipped from the interface of the bubble binding item, and they were almost forcibly kicked out of that scene.

But in the end, the equipment still returned to the floating island with him, and it seemed that the celestial gods had already wrapped it in bubbles when they handed out the rewards......

At that time, Su Ming was shocked that the NPC had also come up with something about the game system design.

At this moment, the masked man can deprive the player of the ownership of items that have been bound by bubbles, which seems to be a bit "exceptional" in terms of ability, just like those gods.

"Is it because this guy's personality is also very high, comparable to the gods of the heavenly realm...... But he is obviously very afraid of the high-ranking existence of gods and demons, and in terms of the sense of oppression that gives me, he is far inferior to the left hand of order......"

Su Ming felt the rotten aura that had always lingered in his nose, and then looked at the [Death Inscription] in his hand that he had drawn but didn't use, and his eyes narrowed.

"Or rather, it's not that he's high, it's the power he wields......"

Immediately, he thought of the rapier he had taken out of the other party's treasure house, [Death Soul Breath].

Looking at the description and notes, it has a lot to do with the River Styx, and the masked man often mutters words like "death", and his body is full of rotten smells.

Su Ming had reason to suspect that this guy was very likely to be related to a god like the "Grim Reaper", although he didn't know if there was such a god in the deep sea game.

"So, the power of the masked man comes from the underworld, from the god of death? But this guy also specifically told me not to use that sword here, as if he was afraid that I would really summon the River Styx and the so-called ferryman......"

At this time, Su Ming's eyebrows raised slightly, he thought that the other party had always had a feeling of being sneaky and unseemly, and a somewhat bizarre guess flashed in his heart.

This guy's power can't be stolen from the underworld, right?