Mexico City.
When Xiao Ran woke up from the inn, it was already dawn.
As soon as Xiao Ran woke up, he received a voice request from the alarm clock.
When Xiao Ran was sleeping, the system would automatically display that he was offline, and he would receive a voice request as soon as he woke up, indicating that the other party was staring at the friend list, always noticing when he "goes online".
"Do you want to refresh the book?" As soon as the voice was connected, the alarm clock urged you to stop making noise.
"I won't brush today."
"Ah? Why?" The alarm clock couldn't help being stunned.
"Didn't you check your friend list? I'm already level 40, I don't have breakthrough missions, I don't have experience in fighting monsters." Xiao Ran couldn't laugh or cry.
"Really?" The alarm clock looked suspiciously at the friend list, the level on the left of the character's name, his jaw almost dropped in surprise, "It's really level 40! Didn't you just become level 39 the day before yesterday!"
It took only one day to reach level 40? ! Did this brother upgrade by rocket
It is precisely because it has only been one day that the alarm clock has not considered this problem at all. As soon as it is online, it will watch Brother Xiaoma and wait for him to download the book.
"After I separated from you yesterday, I went to hand in a mission. The mission reward is to increase the online time by six hours, so I got promoted in one go." Xiao Ran said casually, he didn't want to hide the fact that he was online last night, 48% of the experience, except He couldn't think of any reason to explain the exaggerated upgrade speed for the experience bonus of the night route.
"Okay, then I wish you the best of luck." The alarm clock sighed regretfully. If other people had six more hours, he wouldn't believe that he would be able to advance to the next level so quickly, but the other party is Xiao Ma, so naturally he couldn't use the usual People's eyes to see.
Xiao Ran thanked him, and cut off the voice with him.
"Brother Xiao Ma is not coming." The alarm clock said regretfully to the team members.
"Then I won't play the book today. I've been playing dungeons for two days. I'm going to the arena today." Apple Pie is a PK madman. For the sake of it, he wouldn't hold back from wandering around the arena for two days in a row.
"I also want to be the task leader." Liang Xia also raised her little hand and said, Apple has only been in two days, and she has followed the team to download dungeons for three consecutive days.
Alarm clock, don't be so sad: "It's too fast for you guys to change their faces one by one!"
The remaining two players silently raised their hands: "Captain, I don't want to download the dungeon either."
Stop the alarm clock: "Fuck!"
What's the matter with the alarm clock not wanting to download the dungeon after being stabbed like this by his teammates
Brother Ma is so magical!
The squad disbanded on the spot, and as soon as Apple Pie entered the arena, his old friends came to greet him.
Chi Ning is one of the 50 branch presidents of the Shenyao Guild. He has already broken his leg because of an operation video that suddenly became popular on the Internet. The main character of the video is the magic pen player who was killed by Shenyao so long ago that he abandoned his account and never played. The worst part is that the weapons of these two people are very similar in shape, they both look like Song Kang's Yanjia pen series.
Who is Song Kang? How can his works be rotten cabbage all over the street? There are only a few in the entire server, and this player is not even level 40. Now the entire Shenyao seems to have exploded. After the instruction from the top, the sub-committees below are busy investigating whether this player is who.
Chi Ning has been busy until now that he has time to relax in the arena.
The arena in the holographic online game is a public dungeon. Just click on the corresponding icon in the field of vision, and the player will be transported to a map of the arena. After talking to the npc under the arena, you can open the room, set the password, bet, etc. a series of behaviors.
Chi Ning sent a voice message to Apple, "Long time no see, Apple, what have you been up to these two days, busier than me, the guild president."
Apple Pie laughed and said, "How can it be, let's play a dungeon with the team."
Chi Ning was a little surprised: "Don't you hate dungeons the most? You also said that the pve experience is not good at all."
Apple Pie: "There are exceptions to everything. Let me tell you, in the past two days, our captain has formed a super powerful magic pen player, who is not even at level 40. It's awesome. My knowledge of dungeons has been refreshed." Already!"
Chi Ning: "Come on, you... wait! A magic pen that is less than level 40? I remember you were in the Bone Forest yesterday, right? This player... can't be called Xiao Ran?"
Apple Pie was shocked: "How do you know?! You know him too?"
There was no reply from Chi Ning for a long time, but it sounded that the voice on the intercom was gradually getting thicker and rougher.
About five minutes later, Chi Ning sent a video file from the dialog box in the friend list, and he asked a little unsteadily: "Do you think it is this person?"
Apple Pie looked at the video in confusion, and the familiar figure made him immediately yell out: "Brother Ma?!"—
After Xiao Ran washed up briefly, he walked through the streets and alleys of Mocheng, and walked out of the city.
The current upper limit of player level in Shenzhou is 60. Every 20th level, there will be a breakthrough task, also called a professional task. There are three levels in total. Players must complete the difficult problems given by the professional instructor before they can move on to the next stage.
The career center is in a dense forest outside Mexico City. A huge crystal stands in the middle of the dense forest, which is as fresh and green as a fairyland. After years of sun and wind, the surface of the crystal is covered with moss and vines, giving people an ethereal and vicissitudes of life.
The base of the crystal is composed of ten mirror doors, surrounded by such moss and vines, among which the phantom mirror makes the whole mirror door look mysterious and attractive.
Behind this mirror door is the mission dungeon map of the full-level breakthrough mission.
Level 60 players and full-level players are at the same level, but the strength gap between the two is not a star and a half. The watershed that separates the two is the full-level breakthrough mission.
Every level 60 player needs to pass the test behind the door in order to become a real full-level player.
The god-level career instructors representing the eight major professions in China stood in front of the eight mirror doors and waited for the players' inquiries.
There are vines hanging from the branches of the dense forest near the career center, Xiao Ran picked up the vines in front of him, and turned to the other side of the crystal base with ease.
Standing directly behind the crystal base is an old painter with a brush in his hand and gray temples. He stares far into the distance, like a motionless sculpture. He turns his head and smiles slightly until the players approach. Give them a benevolent smile.
Compared with the situation where the other seven mirrors need to queue up to receive tasks, there are obviously a lot fewer people here for the professional mentors of the magic pen.
It didn't take long for Xiao Ran to line up in front of the old painter.
"Long time no see, master." Xiao Ran bowed his head slightly to show respect to him. He got a lot of care from this npc when he broke through the task of level 20. Otherwise, it would be quite difficult to pass the last team dungeon. The teacher and father are very fond of it.
"I used to accompany the floating clouds to return to the late green, but I still accompany the setting sun and the sound of autumn; the world is full of infinite paintings, and I can't paint with sadness," the old painter said in a deep and old voice familiar with the opening remarks, looking at Xiao Ran's muddy and vicissitudes of life. It took a while to gradually recover a little clarity, as if he recognized Xiao Ran, he smiled and said: "So it's you, brave adventurer, long time no see."
"This time I'm going to bother you again." Xiao Ran bowed and said.
"Don't be in a hurry," the old painter waved his hand, "You asked me last time what is the true meaning of the journey of the magic brush, do you have the answer now?"
It was only after the old painter said this that Xiao Ran remembered that there was indeed such a stubble.
A few months ago, when Xiao Ran had just reached level 20, he came to do a breakthrough task and didn't understand anything, so he chatted with the old artist for a while, and finally he didn't know which sentence touched the old artist, and the old artist actually opened him Opening a large back door helped him complete the breakthrough mission.
That's because he thought it was just the npc who sent it because of his feelings. Now that he asked again, Xiao Ran smelled something unusual.
Last time, the old painter once said that regarding the true meaning of the magic brush profession, some people say that there is no painting in the heart; some people say that there is no heart in painting, but more people say that the true meaning lies in the door behind him——
Entrance to the copy of the full-level professional task of the magic pen.
The "more people" of course refer to the 60-level magic pen players in Shenzhou. This sentence sounds more realistic. To pass the full-level professional task of the magic pen, it is natural for the players to find the magic pen The true meaning of the profession.
But the more obvious the answer, the more it needs to be marked with a question mark.
He thought about it for a while, looked at the mirror behind the old painter, and after careful consideration, he said: "There is no painting in the heart, and there is no heart in the painting."
The old painter's smile froze on his lips, and his expression became serious. This sudden change made Xiao Ran feel a little uneasy.
Just when he thought he said something wrong, the old painter sighed quietly, and said to Xiao Ran: "Young man, you are very hesitant. It seems that you just know what it is, but you don't know why..."
This obvious mission failure language made Xiao Ran's heart sink.
Unexpectedly, the old painter changed the subject and said: "I have a clue about the true meaning here. You take this painting to Dunhuang Huangsha City and find a young man named Dongxiu. He needs you when he encounters some troubles." I hope that after experiencing this adventure, you can have a deeper understanding of the phrase 'Into the mind, there is no painting, and in the painting, there is no heart', I wonder if you would like to?"
[Hidden mission "Into the Heart without Painting"—
The painter Hua Wuxin entrusts you to take an anonymous scroll to Dunhuang to help a young man named Dongxiu—
Whether to accept
[Yes or no]]
Hidden missions!
Xiao Ran's heart beat twice quickly.
Hidden missions are like easter eggs that may appear anytime and anywhere in the game. The rewarded items, among other things, must be much better than the usual mainline missions and daily missions. Of course, Xiao Ran chose to accept them.
The ID on the old painter's head changed from "Grandmaster of Magic Brush" to "Painting Master Hua Wuxin". He took out a bound exquisite painting scroll from his arms and handed it to Xiao Ran. After taking it with both hands, Xiao Ran thanked him.
It is a surprise to be able to do a breakthrough mission that anyone can do and receive a hidden mission.
Then comes the real breakthrough task handover.
The level 40 breakthrough task is the same as the level 20 breakthrough task, with a total of 6 rings.
The first 4 links are relatively simple, similar to the level 20 breakthrough task, but the difficulty has become higher. Xiao Ran has already done the process once, so of course it will be handy to get started again.
The only trouble is the 5th and 6th rings.
It took Xiao Ran about three hours to complete the missions of the first 4th ring, and then came to the 5th ring's mission site. After talking with the npc, he successfully entered the dungeon.
There are three levels of breakthrough tasks, and the fifth ring of each level has an inseparable connection with one's own profession.
Last time, based on the four words "talented deer", Xiao Ran was asked to draw the appearance of a talented deer on white paper. It was a test of imagination, and in the end the protoss boss was forcibly forced into a soul painter. The final thrill pass.
But this time... it was even more excessive, he was actually asked to draw six talented deer within two minutes? !
Looking at the countdown timer at the side of his field of vision, Xiao Ran hurriedly picked up the writing brush floating in front of his eyes, his hands trembling slightly, and it was still difficult to write.
Time passed by, and it seemed that there was only one minute left. The tight time did not allow him to think too much. He just briefly recalled the settings he gave when he painted "The Deer of Talent", and hurriedly drew the same He was scribbling on the rice paper floating in front of his eyes, and in the end he didn't even know what he had drawn, so he finished it in less than a minute.
Ruined…
Looking at the six "talented deer" on the paper that he didn't even dare to look directly at, Xiao Ran knew that his task in this part must be repeated, never expecting—
Ding.
[Congratulations on completing the trial of "Talented Deer"]
Meow meow meow? !
Xiao Ran stared dumbfounded at the ink stains on the rice paper peeling off little by little, turning into streaks of ink-colored rays of light and projecting onto the open space in front of him, all the handsome, tall, and high-spirited elk appeared in front of his eyes. Glossy skin, eyes moist like pearls, perfect slender body proportions, impeccable animal facial features, no matter from which angle you look at it...
They all painted a completely different species from him!
History is always surprisingly similar. He still remembers that when the task was about to end last time, he also unlocked the new world gate of "Soul Painter" because he was too late. Can you see a little outline
This time it's completely random and messy, hey!
Xiao Ran suddenly remembered what the old painter said, "There is no heart in painting", for some reason, he shuddered.
Does this sentence mean that paintings with a real soul are often not deliberate and racking their brains to describe them with force, but can be revealed naturally through the subconscious
It really is.
In holographic online games, there will be professional settings such as magic brushes. Of course, it is not to consider the drawing skills of the players. No matter how bad the drawing is, there will be a system to help correct it. The speed of thinking is the most important thing, otherwise the opponent has already hit you with one move, and you are still drawing with your pen here, then you will be beaten and run all over the field.
It doesn't matter how fast and complicated the drawing is, but how fast and complicated the thinking is.
The further the career develops, the more prominent this point will become. In the end, the gap between Magic Pen players will mainly be the gap in imagination and thinking speed!
It's a pity that the high-level players at this stage, except for a few masters, still have a superficial understanding of the magic brush profession, thinking that they have so many lifelike drawings because of their outstanding drawing skills.
Xiao Ran didn't know that he hit the key point of his career by mistake,
How many players fell here in the 5th ring? Many magic pen players tried their best to maintain the basic appearance of the "talented deer", and then went crazy to pass this task with explosive hands. If they knew Xiao Ran's soul-style work I also passed, and I will probably faint from anger.
But no matter what, after successfully completing the 5th ring, there is only the last team copy task left.
As soon as Xiao Ran came out of the dungeon, he happened to receive a voice from One Night Flying Flowers.
"Why didn't you tell me that baby is level 40? You forgot that I said I would take you on a breakthrough mission?" From the tone of Yiye Feihua's speech, Xiao Ran could imagine the expression of the other party's slightly raised eyebrows.
"I forgot all of a sudden, you have time to come here now, I just have to do the last link." Xiao Ran said, the team dungeon is the last link of the breakthrough mission, and it is also the link with the highest probability of spawning people. If there is no master Helping from the sidelines, this time might be really bad.
"Okay, send me the coordinates and wait for me to come."
When Yiye Feihua came over, he had automatically changed into the vest of Grave Head Jumping, otherwise, as a full-level player, he would not be able to participate in the last round of assistance.
In the last stage of the breakthrough mission, if the player really feels that he can't make it through, he can ask the player to help him. If he is popular, he can directly invite five players to help him. It is also possible to form a whole team to participate in the last stage, but The level of the assisting player cannot exceed his own level 2, and the grave head dance is just at level 42, which meets the requirements of this range.
Once the unusually tall Dragon Warrior player appeared, he attracted the attention of many players around him.
The great god's vest was still wearing the rough and uninhibited animal skin. The cold and serious man walked straight towards the boy. His expressionless appearance made people think that the two had some kind of enmity, and the players around When Brother Xiao Ma was sweating, the big man hugged the boy who was not petite, but was very petite compared to him, into his arms.
This straightforward dog food sprinkled the eyes of the people around.
"Okay, let's pay for it." Xiao Ran said shyly.
"If you forget the agreement between us next time, I won't be as simple as hugging you in public." The big man threatened in a hoarse voice. After speaking, he stopped embarrassing his shy lover and touched his slightly hot Cheek, he took his hand and chatted with the old painter Hua Wuxin, and entered the team copy of the last ring.
A white light flashed in front of his eyes, and when he opened his eyes again, the two of them had already arrived in a dark forest.
Xiao Ran looked around, they were now in the hinterland of the forest, the surrounding land was very wet and sticky, some extremely wet soil was still flowing faintly, looking like small quagmires.
This is a swamp forest.
Xiao Ran and the others were standing on one of the few dry lands in this forest, surrounded by four players who were randomly matched to their teammates by the system.
Before Xiao Ran and Xiao Ran had time to greet their new teammates, the system's cold, inorganic voice exploded over the forest—
[Welcome to the team copy swamp forest. In 898 of the Chinese calendar, dignitaries who were used to abusing slaves and taking pleasure in it came up with a new and wonderful way to have fun. They drove the servants who knew martial arts from their mansions into this swampy forest and made a bet When there is only the last team left, they can come out of the forest.]
[Brave adventurers, this time you will play the roles of the five servant teams in the dungeon and enter the forest for adventure. Not only must you be careful of the ferocious beasts and the vicious swamp god in the forest, but you also need to guard against the malice from the same kind. There is no time limit for this task. When the last team is determined, the team will win the team copy.]
[There are five teams in total, with six members in each team. The mode of choosing the captain is adopted. After the explanation is finished, you will have a chance to choose the captain. The IDs of the 30 adventurers can be viewed in the team list on the left side of the field of vision. Each member and each team can communicate through audio. Please be careful of possible betrayers in the team.]
[In addition, the players who died in this dungeon will not be sent out, but will be directly downgraded and placed in any place in the forest for "rebirth". If you want to give up the mission, please return to the birth point of each team and choose to exit Instances will not deduct any experience and equipment.]
[The basic information about this team dungeon has been given, I wish you good luck.]
The dungeons sent by the team dungeon are random every time. Except for the cruel elimination rule of "five deposits and one", the dungeons have very little in common. Some dungeons fail with zero penalty, and some dungeons lose 20% of the experience, like the swamp forest is undoubtedly one of the few dungeons that cost the most to fail. If you die, you will be downgraded. There is no guarantee that you can send it out immediately when you want to quit.
To some extent, this kind of rule will become a killing paradise for some PK maniacs.
Hope they don't have such bad guys in the raid this time.
Just as Xiao Ran was thinking this way, the four teammates around him came forward to say hello one by one.
Except for Dashen and Xiao Ran, the professions of the others in the team are Immortal, Linghu, Wuji Swordsman, and Yanshi.
It just so happens that there are no two healing professions, holy monk and heavenly doctor.
Spirit Fox player Yang Yang wailed on the spot when he saw this class configuration: "Isn't it? This character is too bad! How can a healer survive without a raid?"
The Yanshi player is a soft girl named Mao Maoyin. There are two furry hair ropes hanging on her head. She looks very gentle and cute. She made a suggestion: "Didn't the rules say that each of our teams can talk to each other?" Why don't we find other player teams to form alliances?"
The other three players agreed with both hands, Xiao Ran and Dashen didn't care, in fact, it was enough for the two of them to pass this dungeon, the level 40 team dungeon was just enough, they couldn't beat it, one was the number one master in vain, and the other was not a god level AI.
Xiao Ran and Yiye Feihua stood aside and whispered, letting the four of them busy.
The rest of the team didn't know that these two insignificant players had such a big background, but they actively opened the team list, and when they were about to contact the team, they suddenly received a voice message from one of the teams.
Because it was sent to the team, as long as one person clicks on it, everyone else can hear it.
A rather familiar male voice came into my ears—
"Hello, I am a member of the elite group of the Hell God of War Guild. Our entire team is the elite reserve team of the Hell God of War Guild. All members are equipped with purple clothes and purple weapons. We are bound to win this dungeon, but we don't want to cause damage. Unnecessary casualties, please exit the dungeon immediately at the birth point, and don’t make unnecessary struggles. Of course, if you want to fight head-on, you can also try it. We will give you five minutes to think about it. Please make the right decision as soon as possible. Choose." The haughty and haughty voice of writing the pen reached everyone's ears.
Pencil madness? Isn't it the magic pen player who snatched the same weapon from the master
What a coincidence!
Xiao Ran was wondering how small the world was, but the other members of the team were dissatisfied and aggrieved.
Yang Yang yelled: "Damn! Who does he think he is! Is Hell God of War amazing! Is super guild amazing!"
Other team members: "..."
Yang Yang: "..."
Yang Yang: "... yes, it's a great QAQ."
Although everyone was dissatisfied, in fact, everyone knew that they couldn't afford to provoke such a giant as a super guild. Just this name alone could make ordinary players stay away.
Mao Maoyin said: "They are too bullying, otherwise let's fight them together with the other four teams!"
The fairy player said: "And then? So what if we win? Will we have to face tens of thousands of people after we go out?"
The team suddenly fell into a deathly silence.
Hell God of War and Shenyao are in an alliance. The style of the two guilds is very similar. Although they are super guilds, their reputation among players is not that good.
At this moment, Kuangfeng's voice message came again.
"Half of the five minutes has passed, I hope you can make a decision as soon as possible, and don't waste each other's time, thank you." Said the pen Kuangfeng a little impatiently.
The swordsman player who had been silent all this time suddenly loosened his shoulders, rubbed his head irritably, and said, "Forget it, forget it, I can't hold back anymore, it's my bad luck, goodbye everyone."
As he said that, he walked into a golden teleportation array on the ground, and his whole figure gradually blurred and disappeared.
The fairy player also said: "Then I will take a step first."
As he said that, he also quit the dungeon, not only the two of them, members of the other three teams also quit one after another. There were only half of the players left in the original 30-person swamp forest dungeon.
There was an embarrassment in the team with only four people left.
Mao Maoyin looked at Xiao Ran and Yiye Feihua, good friends who didn't talk much, and asked in a low voice, "Aren't you going to quit?"
"Why did you quit?" Yiye Feihua raised her eyebrows and said, the owner of this vest is really too fierce. Yiye Feihua originally just raised her eyebrows, but in Mao Maoyin's eyes, she looked very unhappy. The vicious vest shrank his neck in fright, and immediately set his sights on Xiao Ran who seemed to be more talkative.
"We are here to do the mission, unless we are really about to lose, why let them?" Xiao Ran shrugged.
The firm attitude of Xiao Ran and Yiye Feihua gave the remaining two people in the team a shot in the arm.
Yang Yang spat and said: "That's what I said! Why, this is too aggrieved, at least we have to try it and find it really doesn't work before giving up, right? I won't quit either!"
Mao Maoyin clenched her fists and said, "Okay, anyway, my team dungeon has already lost here several times, and this time is not bad, but I can't understand their behavior, just hate it! What are you talking about!"
Yang Yang: "That's right! What are you talking about! It's just hate!"
As soon as he finished his words, the pen-and-ink voice sounded again inappropriately, and Yang Yang, who had just finished speaking boldly, shrank back in the direction of Mao Maoyin in fright, and said in a low voice: "Can't he hear what we said? "
Mao Maoyin couldn't help laughing, she clicked on the voice message, and the voice of writing wildly sounded again.
"Among all the teams, you are the only ones who have not quit. Didn't you hear what I said before? I repeat, listen carefully. I am a member of the elite group of the Hell God of War Guild. Our entire team is The elite reserve team of the Hell God of War Guild, all purple outfits and purple weapons, we must win this dungeon, but we don’t want to cause unnecessary casualties. Please exit the dungeon immediately at the birth point, and don’t make unnecessary struggles. Of course, if you If you want to go head-to-head, you can try it, we will give you five minutes to think about it, please make the right choice as soon as possible."
Since the other teams had already withdrawn from the dungeon due to the pressure, when Kuangfeng said this paragraph again, his tone was even crazier, which made Yang Yang and Mao Maoyin feel uncomfortable for a while.
I really want to say something to get back!
Of course they were just thinking about it, they still didn't dare to really confront Kuangfeng, and they couldn't think of how to go back.
At this moment, Yiye Feihua stood up, clicked on the team list, clicked on the microphone, and said in front of everyone in the team:
"Listen well, I'm a member of the elite group of the Juyitang guild, Bengtoudi. Our entire team is the elite reserve team of the Juyitang guild. All members are in purple outfits and purple weapons. We are bound to win this dungeon. But I don’t want to cause unnecessary casualties, please exit the dungeon immediately at the birth point, and don’t make unnecessary struggles. Of course, if you want to go head-to-head, you can also try it. We will give you five minutes to think about it, please hurry up Make the right choice." Compared with the arrogant tone of writing, Yiye Feihua's hoarse uncle's voice does not sound like any ups and downs, but it is...
Spike!
Yang Yang and Mao Maoyin both cried out in their hearts.
This guy is too fucking handsome!