While I was trying to master the insight into the surface world and the source world, in order to make sure I could concentrate and not be distracted by the outside world, Carlson Sr. used his unique ability to pull me up to a trick: he managed to keep me in what the Space Seekers call "offline", that is, my name was gray on my friends' mailing lists during this time. In their opinion, I had left this world during that time and went to another dimensional world. In this state, I can neither receive messages from them nor reach out to them.

Although I didn't feel anything out of the ordinary, according to Carlson Sr., this is a magical effect that requires a very deep understanding of the origin of this world and a very mental operation, in addition to this, he must have a very thorough understanding of life, and then override it, and partially cut off my ** and soul and the essence of this world's existence. I didn't realize until he told me that I was in an unusually mysterious state as I sat in the room at the top of the ruined spire and struggled in agony. According to him, I was "neither a truly living being, nor a dead being; It does not survive in the world in a complete life form, nor does it completely free the soul from the shackles of **; I existed in this world and at the same time disappeared from this world, the gods could not intervene in my life, and the world could not perceive my existence" – during that time I was almost in a state of "complete semi-freedom".

As soon as I stepped out of the fortress gate, this magical "offline state" was automatically lifted. This meant that my name was back on the maillist of my friends who were in the air, and at the same time, the communications board of my adventure notes was immediately filled with messages from them during this time:

"Jeff, I just got a bottle of 'scavenging flower juice', I don't know what it's for, maybe you can use it, go online m me, I'll send it to you......" This is Xian Ge Yayi gave me. Ever since he learned that my alchemy could craft magic crystals from different materials, he sent them to me as soon as he found something strange.

"Brother, is there still 'Aqua Blue Stardust'? The fairy wants to inlay the weapon and urgently needs this magic crystal. "This is from a million cows, and only he will abbreviate the name of the elven druid fairy who descends to the earth with his face on the ground to the word "fairy".

"Dead man, why hasn't you been online for so long? Don't hurry up and roll up, don't think that you can drag the money you owe to the guild without repaying it if you avoid me, you still owe the guild hardware, twelve silver, sixty-eight copper, one obsidian gold, eight gray frost stones, six gray lime ashes, three evening primroses, two handfuls of chicken feathers, and nine slugs' dung...... "uh...... When I received a text message from our esteemed president, Lady Fei Yin, I said I was very stressed

"You slacker Tmd has not shown up for so long, are you planning to be a eunuch? I don't want to drag you out and bounce to death" Hey, who is this guy named "Reader"?

"The credibility of the gold group, quality training, a century-old store, you are satisfied. The lowest price on the whole server, money before goods, package with copies, package brush equipment, if you are interested, please contact Q36oQ:xxxxxxx,:xxxxxx,emaIL:xxxxxx" Can anyone tell me what he is talking about?

"Certificate: 138144xxxx" Where did these inexplicable guys get my contact information?

……

Nine pages full of all kinds of information make me dizzy, don't say reply one by one, just deleting them one by one makes my hands sore. And what's even more devastating is that after I disappeared for a long time, I suddenly "went online" and immediately aroused the social enthusiasm of many friends, many people immediately greeted me from different corners of the world in different tones, different words, and different ways, and the saddest thing is that when I replied to these greetings one by one, they would reply to me enthusiastically one by one, so that for a long time the information in my address book was deleted more and more, So much so that every time I see a newsletter alert with new information, I feel sad and sad that it comes out of it—you know, sometimes your friends are too enthusiastic and it's an awkward torture.

After more than two hours of hard work, I finally deleted this mountain of information to the last page. Just as I was about to empty them completely, the latest message at the bottom of the address book caught my eye.

It was a new message from the half-orc shadow thief Yangtze River Delta, which read: "We are going to the Sionzekral Mountains to capture the mount, Du Lai"

I was immediately attracted to this highly constructive proposal – of course, if you've just spent more than two hours deleting hundreds of messages, you'll find any proposal from anyone very appealing.

Following the map markings, I made the fastest way to the foot of the Onzeklal Mountains, where I found my companions at the Union Riding Training Ground. Along with the Yangtze River Delta, there are also the elven lovers of the String Song Yayi and the Wild Goose Array, the dwarven priest Longbow Shooting the Sun, and our elder Sister Fei Yin.

"Wow, you unorganized and undisciplined guy still knows how to show up" As soon as he saw me, President Fei Yin gritted his teeth and scored, "When you don't need you, you can see you at any time as if you don't go offline at twenty-four, and when you use you, you slip away for more than half a month, and you don't even say hello, so that we can't even find a competent mT in the next dungeon." Do you know how many times the dungeon group of pirates in Harbor Hydel was wiped out last time? Seven times, seven times I haven't hit it, and this loss must be recorded on your head."

Longbow Shooting Sun's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he licked his face and interjected flatteringly: "Hey, President, since he is in charge, then I don't have any responsibility for this matter?" ”

Fei Yin suddenly fell into a state of rage, grabbed the dwarf priest's neck, picked him up, and slammed it against the wall one by one: "You still have the face to say that if you hadn't volunteered to be an mT, would we have been able to destroy so many times?" ”

"Spare my life, I'm doing my duty to lead the monster," the longbow screamed mournfully.

"Yes, you almost lured out the monsters of the entire copy, but even a police dog standing guard at the door couldn't stop it" The Yangtze River Delta also seemed to be deeply affected.

"I've tried my best to hold them back, at least in good spirits. Oh, hey, the good man spares his life...... "I just appeared, it turns out that the dwarf can spit out so long tongue after being choked by the neck."

"It's a fart, you can't drag them out even if you're desperate, it's purely limited ability," Xian Ge Yayi also stood aside and added fuel to the fire.

Seeing that the longbow had been pinched to the point that he couldn't breathe, Fei Yin threw him back to the ground unwillingly. When our dwarven priest stood up again, I don't know if it was a delusion, but I always thought he was a little taller than he had just been - well, maybe just because of his longer neck......

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Finally, after this exploitative and humiliating—well, warm and friendly—reunion with the Elder, we found the riding trainer standing by the stable, and began our journey to capture the mounts outside the door.

In fact, when an adventurer reaches level 50, he is already eligible to receive riding training in the riding training ground at the foot of Mount Onzeklal, and after the training is completed, you can immediately spend 200 gold coins to buy an ordinary war horse from here as your mount, riding it will increase your flat ground mobility by 25% - for those adventurers who need to travel long distances and spend a lot of time on the road, such a mount is undoubtedly a powerful tool for them, shorten the journey, and save time.

However, in fact, not many people choose this ordinary mount to travel. Keep in mind that in the Onzeklal Mountains, there are a large number of wild animals that can be used as mounts, which not only improve your mobility as well, but also have a variety of different mount skills, which are much better than normal mounts in every way. However, these grumpy wild animals tend to be difficult to tame, and generally speaking, the higher your level, the better your chances of taming. Also, each person can only have one mount, so when you catch a new one, be sure to abandon the original one. In this case, the vast majority of people will choose to catch a satisfactory mount by themselves when they are close to level 60, rather than spending a lot of money to buy an ordinary war horse that will be discarded in a short time.

It all sounds simple, but it's not. Keep in mind that only the Taming Reins with magical abilities sold in this Riding Training Ground will be able to successfully capture and tame the wild mounts on the mountain, and each capture will cost one reins - whether you're successful or not. Depending on the amount of magic they contain, the reins are divided into cyan, yellow, and red, and even the cheapest cyan reins will sell for ten gold coins, the yellow reins will be worth thirty gold coins, and the red reins with the most magic and the best tame effect will cost as much as fifty gold coins - in the words of our cynical elders: a silver coin or two can buy a large bundle of broken straw rope, and a simple dye and then attach a magic can't even use a gold coin at the cost price. can actually buy fifty gold coins, and the term "windfall profit" is no longer enough to describe this kind of achievable commercial exploitation, which is a blatant snatching of money from the player's pocket

Complaining and complaining, Fei Yin still bought more than fifty red beast taming reins in one go, and we were all curious about how this indefatigable iron hen could spend so extravagantly this time, but she raised her eyebrows and taught us a mysterious lesson:

"You know a mao, this thing is fifty gold a piece, how many people are willing to buy a few more at a time? It's not all like you, buy three or five at a time and run up the hill in a hurry. But if you do your own calculations, an ordinary mount costs 200 gold, how can the price of catching such a wild mount be lower than that of an ordinary mount? Even if it is calculated at three hundred gold heads, at least six reins are needed. So it's easy for us to guess that there are definitely a lot of idiots on the mountain who don't have enough reins. We all know that the further in, the higher the level of the monster, then in the same way, the higher the level of the mount must be, and most importantly, the further in, the higher the level of the player, and the richer they are. Think for yourselves, this group of rich sheep went deep into the mountains and old forests, and finally found a suitable mount, and as a result, they ran out of reins, do you think they are willing to run up the mountain for fifteen minutes and come back and pay fifty gold to buy reins, or are they willing to spend seventy or eighty gold to buy a reins nearby? ”

After listening to Fei Yin's business experience, this group of guys who saw the money immediately went to the trainer's side with a smile, and one by one they took out the last steel hammer on their bodies and bought a lot of animal taming reins to stock up. As a warrior with lofty ambitions and a resolute character, I am naturally morally averse to this kind of speculative behavior of buying low and selling high, and I naturally will not be as unproductive as this group of obscene guys - so I bought more than 100 in one go, drew a clear line with their informal management, and worked hard towards the road of regular large-scale industrialized management.

Now I'm only level fifty-four, and my friends are about the same as me. Under normal circumstances, at our current level, we would probably only be able to mount a spotted moose or a wild woodland horse in the first valley at the entrance to the Sionzekral Mountains, and at most a giant humpour wolf with the one-time attack skill "Jump Pounce". But after the collective changeover, we were not at all interested in these ordinary riding beasts, because we were more than capable of exploring the mountains more deeply, and looking for better mounts in the more inaccessible corners of the woods. It turns out that the collective action of six people does not make us more efficient at catching the beasts, because each of us wants different beasts to ride, and the environments in which they inhabit are very different, and most importantly, the fact that President Fei Yin has brought us together has actually greatly reduced the sales — well, I mean distribution — channels for peddling the reins. So, we decided to disband on the spot and rejoin when we had captured a mount we were satisfied with – and sold the reins of the hoard, of course.

Fei Yin explored the northwest alone, and the unassertive guy of Xian Ge Yayi naturally accompanied the wild goose array all the way to the northeast, and the longbow shooting the sun and the Yangtze River Delta went east and north, leaving me alone to move to the southwest, step by step to the depths of the dense forest in front of me.

I have to say that the business strategy of the elder is extremely wise, and in less than ten minutes of walking forward, I sold more than 20 golden reins. Most of the people who haunt here are some advanced players who are close to level 60, most of these leveling maniacs are full of eagerness and are not short of money, and finally a satisfied riding beast is reluctant to let go, once the reins are used up, they will inevitably suffer from gains and losses, and they can't wait to rush back all the way back to buy a few reins to save the emergency, and they are afraid that they will never find this mount again, and that feeling is like a beautiful woman and the wife can't talk to him on the side (string song Ya Italian), The food is current and the diet is overeaten and indigestion (Yangtze River Delta), the poor and destitute day before payday to go to the street to sell the price (Fei Yin), squatting in the toilet and drenching in the toilet after a great peach, and then realizing that I didn't even bring a paper (longbow shooting Japanese) is as painful and painful as it is painful. At this time, if you can give him a rein, I am afraid that even if the price shouts a hundred gold coins, I am afraid that someone will pay the bill on impulse.

Of course, as a warrior of high moral integrity and helpfulness, I would never ask for such a large amount of ill-gotten wealth when others were in such distress—so I honestly sold only ninety-nine gold coins.

Although the business of reselling reins is good, it is a pity that I have never been able to find a riding beast that can make my heart - not because they are not fierce and strong enough, in fact, whether it is a broad-backed bear with the dual skills of "tenacity" and "collision", or a fanged tiger that can "leap", or the Northwest Panther who can "climb" and "sprint" are all very good mounts - but for some reason, when I see these beasts, although I will also praise, although I will also admire, I even feel a little envy and jealousy when someone successfully captures one, but whenever I have the opportunity to capture them, I can't even mention the ** I want to possess.

Sometimes it is true that we may not know exactly what we want, but we can clearly understand what we don't want. Yes, those are good, but they don't belong to me.

In this way, I wandered aimlessly through the dense mountain forest, occasionally attracted by the roar of some wild beast, or trying to make a deal, only to depart again in search of a beautiful beast that I had never seen before, whose appearance I did not know, but who I vaguely believed in my heart to be bound to appear. Just when I didn't know how long I was going to walk like this......

......A high-pitched roar suddenly came from ahead, followed by a crisp sound of hooves, which were clearly like a freshly polished sword, hiding a certain proud sharpness, as if ready to raise a cold light in my ears at any moment. I had never imagined that the footsteps of an animal could be so majestic and graceful that I couldn't help but want to treat it as if it were a highly intelligent being.

I slowed down, gently brushed the tree in front of me, followed the terrifying sound of hooves, and walked deeper into the jungle...