To say that in this era, apart from the high technology that people yearn for, the most enviable thing is the flexible working and study time. Work when there is work, and rest when there is no work.
So this beautiful Monday morning is not about grabbing a piece of bread to catch the bus, but a group of people continuing their leisurely outing.
In fact, they set off early in the morning at dawn, in order to find a shelter from the wind and sand at 8 o'clock.
"The system is full and blows sandstorms twice a day." Tongban curled his lips.
"This is to let you know the importance of protecting the environment. It's better than not timing."
"That's true." He didn't want to be buried in the sand all of a sudden.
"When we get to the desert, there will be plenty of soil holes, just drill in casually, haha." Yue Xia patted the copper plate that was still a little dissatisfied.
Talking like this, the sand under their feet began to harden gradually, and they were slowly stepping into the same desolate loess terrain.
"The prompt has changed." Since the first mission prompt was changed, besides looking at the map to lead the way, I am a poor man, and there is one more task - pay attention to the prompt bar. Therefore, when you can't see the sand at all behind you, and there are all small high and low hills in front of you, the reminder finally lived up to expectations and changed again.
[In a cave not far to the west]
"From far to not far, it seems that victory is in sight."
"Don't be too happy, it doesn't have to be finished when it arrives." Sister Ju poured cold water quietly, she didn't expect that she would have a crow's mouth once.
After calculating the time, everyone found a big hole in the earth that looked solid, and planned to rectify and rest here.
"Let's wait for the offline to have breakfast, solve personal problems, and gather before 10 o'clock; the boss is still responsible for protecting the lucky cat, um... that's it."
Everyone went offline one after another, Bai Xiaoyu took out the carrot and prepared to continue his little white rabbit's big business of eating carrots, but a hand suddenly stretched out in front of him and held down his carrot.
"It's not nutritious to eat carrots all the time. Change to this." The evil emperor finally couldn't bear it when he saw carrots for the third time and stretched out his hand of justice. With the other hand, he took out yesterday's scorpion dishes from the interspatial bag. (The poor see that the boss likes to eat and make a few more spares)
"No, it's all the same..."
"Hey, put away the carrots." Bai Xiaoyu just wanted to say a numerical value, it doesn't matter whether it is nutritious or not, but was immediately interrupted mercilessly by the evil emperor. Although the tone seemed to be coaxing the child, Bai Xiaoyu seemed to feel an invisible momentum.
"Oh." Bai Xiaoyu finally decided to compromise.
"Is it tasty?"
"kindness."
"Ga?!" The warm dining atmosphere was interrupted by a discordant voice.
Xie Huang and Bai Xiaoyu raised their heads and found a desert toucan standing at the entrance of the cave. At the moment, it was blown messy by the sandstorm outside, while tilting its head to look at Bai Xiaoyu—the scorpion cooking in his hand.
Xie Huang quickly picked up the sword and protected Bai Xiaoyu behind him, wondering that this kind of monster should not be spawned here, they had already left the Toucan area.
"Quack quack quack quack..." The desert toucan didn't attack, it just fluttered its wings and screamed non-stop.
[Desert Toucan Guard Chief: Brave humans, you taught those nasty scorpions a lesson, and the Toucan family thank you for your help. ] Such a dialog box appeared in front of Bai Xiaoyu and Xie Huang, probably converting the toucan's language into words.
"Ding, congratulations to the player Lucky Cat and Evil Emperor for completing the task [Escorting the brave desert toucan eggs back to their hometown] lesson the hateful scorpion, gain experience 30,000, crystal coins +5."
Accompanied by the system notification sound, an upgrade aura continuously appeared on Bai Xiaoyu's body. For the evil emperor, the 30,000 experience may be a slight jump in the experience percentage, but for the low-level Bai Xiaoyu, it was an upgrade one level after another. , from the original Lv.33 to Lv.36 at once.
Xiehuang and Bai Xiaoyu looked at each other, this way they could also complete the side missions, not to mention - where did the side missions come out? !
"Quack quack..."
[Desert Toucan Guard Chief: Brave humans, you have been recognized by the Toucan clan, the elder hopes to meet you.]"Ding, player Lucky Cat and Evil Emperor accept the mission: [Escort the brave desert toucan eggs back to their hometown] to meet the elders?"
"Choose to accept." Although I don't know how the side quest came out, but it must be related to the main quest and the benefits look good, the evil emperor chose to accept it without thinking too much.
Seeing that both of them agreed, the toucan at the entrance of the cave swayed away against the sandstorm after two more quacks.
"What should we do now?" Bai Xiaoyu looked at the half-eaten scorpion dishes, and then at the Xiehuang. He obviously hadn't fully digested the sudden situation.
"Continue to eat." Anyway, there is no time limit, and there is no need to leave with that toucan. Besides, this sandstorm seems to be more severe than the sandstorm in the desert, so it is a wise choice not to go out.
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"What?! You finished a side mission after eating a meal?!" Everyone online was still wondering why there was a system prompt to share a side mission, and they were even more surprised after listening to Bai Xiaoyu's explanation.
"Oh, I don't have such good luck. I stumbled and fell out of the S-level mission, and I had a meal to complete the side mission." Tongban squatted in the corner and drew a circle.
"Oh, it's a pity that we are offline, and the reward for this task has not been obtained."
"It shouldn't affect the main task. Well, the personnel are all here, let's go." Sister Ju patted the copper plate in depression, and added some status to everyone.
"The reminder has changed." After walking out of the cave for 5 minutes, I am a poor person and remind everyone to read the mission reminder.
[in the cave near the west]
"It seems that we are getting closer to the goal." Even if I am poor and don't remind, everyone can feel it, because groups of desert toucans begin to appear in groups of three or five within sight.
"These should be guards, do they need to be killed?" Yuexia set up the bow and arrow, and turned to ask the evil emperor's opinion.
"No, you shouldn't take the initiative to attack if you approve it." Even the chief guard didn't take the initiative to attack, and these guards should not be hostile to them.
Facts have proved that Xiehuang's speculation is correct. When these toucan guards noticed the group of players, they first showed a fierce look, flapped their wings and rushed over, stopped suddenly 20 meters away from them, then turned around and continued to stroll.
Bai Xiaoyu and his party advanced unimpeded, and the Toucan guards consciously gave way, which made them more determined that victory was just ahead.
Stopping in front of a huge cave, the door was blocked by a group of toucans. A toucan standing at the front took a few steps forward and called out to a group of people.
[Desert Toucan Guard Chief: Brave humans, we have been waiting for your arrival, please come in.] "Ding, the team has obtained the qualification to enter the toucan cave."
"I'm guessing that if the boss and Zhaocai hadn't completed a side mission by mistake, the chief guard would probably ask us to go back and teach the hateful scorpion a lesson to gain their approval." I was a poor man rubbing his chin, leisurely analyzed. Don't look at his usual sloppy appearance, he is still very serious when collecting and analyzing information.
"Thank goodness for not going the extra mile. But can't you force your way through the hole if you don't finish?" Copperplate posed a question.
"Ice, look at the attributes." The evil emperor suddenly thought of something.
"Monster attributes." This is a mage's unique skill similar to identification. According to the proficiency, it can help the mage understand the basic information such as level, blood volume, experience value, etc. (sometimes incomplete), but the reconnaissance The specific situation of monsters higher than their own level is not given.
'Ding, desert toucan guard, Lv.80, HP: 20000, experience: ??. '
'Ding, the desert toucan guard chief, Lv.90 (elite), HP: ??, experience: ??. '
Two monster attributes were taken in a row, and two prompts popped up in the system bar of the team members. Except for Bai Xiaoyu, who didn't know much about the monsters in the desert area, everyone was more or less shocked.
"Oh my God, isn't the desert toucan only 35-45? If you're a level 90 elite, it's equivalent to a normal level 100 monster." Tongban is lucky that he didn't force himself into it. He might not be able to break through the defense of a level 90 elite. .
"It seems that we were careless. They look exactly like the toucans in the desert. I didn't expect the level to be more than doubled. No wonder the request for this hidden S-level mission is so vague, which shows that this mission is difficult or easy. If you are too lazy to run Go back to the desert and help them teach the scorpions a lesson, maybe we are the ones who will be taught a lesson." I am a poor man analyzed.
"But I've never heard of a toucan above level 80." It's time for the curious baby to ask questions.
"This journey has overturned a lot of original information. First, there are cacti that pretend to be passers-by, and then there are small desert poisonous scorpions that can bury in the sand and attack. It is also normal for toucans above level 80 to appear."
"In short, let's check the situation first." Xie Huang concluded his speech in a timely manner. A group of toucans in front of him had already moved out of the way for a while, and if they didn't go in, there might be changes.
Anyway, no matter how much we discuss it, we can't discuss any results. Exploring all unknown and novel things is itself a feature of Wonderland Online.
The inside of the cave is not difficult to walk, a road leads straight to the end, and there are two toucans sitting in the deepest part, presumably they are the elders of the toucans.
"Ding, the team has completed the task of learning scriptures from the west: [Escort the brave desert toucan egg back to its hometown] to meet the elders, gain experience 50,000, crystal coins +20."
"Tsk tsk, as expected of S-level, a branch task can reward crystal coins." You must know that most of the task rewards are calculated in gold coins, and only the 100-level task rewards similar to the previous full server announcement will be used. Crystal coins are used as units.
"Quack quack... quack quack..."
[Desert Toucan Elder: Brave humans, we have been waiting for you for a long time. Since our king passed away 2 years ago, the Desert Toucan clan has begun to decline...] The elder rambled on for 10 minutes. The history of the Toucan clan, everyone understands that the Toucan clan has a BOSS, but their king passed away 2 years ago, and the game has only been in history for more than 1 year, so the players don't know. And without the king, the strength of the ethnic group also dropped a lot, and gradually the desert scorpion clan seized their original territory, and they were forced to come to this place where the sandstorm was more severe. The weak people could not withstand the harsh environment here. Therefore, the low-level desert toucans are still wandering in the toucans area recognized by the original players, and they will be stabbed to death by desert poisonous scorpions from time to time.
"No wonder I always felt that there were fewer desert toucans. I thought it was because the system didn't want players to get mounts so easily, so they spawned less."
"But it's very strange. I've never seen a desert scorpion in the Toucan area."
"Probably the system didn't put players into the conflict between these two groups. Think about it, the smallest desert poisonous scorpions are all level 60, and those who go to catch toucans are all players before the second turn. If desert poisonous scorpions appear Scorpion, no one should try to grab the mount."
"That's true."
[Desert Toucan Elder: ... Now our new king has returned, but we don't have enough strength to regain our territory. Human beings, I have an unfeeling request. Please help us eliminate the desert scorpion king. The desert toucans will never forget your kindness. ] "Ding, do you accept the task of the team Xitianjingjing: [Escort the brave desert toucan egg back to the hometown] to take back the hometown?"
"Nonsense, I've done this step, of course I will take it."
"Desert poisonous scorpion king, if I remember correctly, it is the boss of Lv.90, and there are about 30 small poisonous scorpions of Lv.60 around me." I am a poor man who knows the situation of monsters, especially the boss .
"This BOSS existed before, so there shouldn't be any strange phenomena anymore." They already felt out of control over the situation that subverted their previous experience.
"If you want to say it's strange, it's the location of the Desert Scorpion King. I remember it was deep in the desert before, at least a few days away from the Toucan area. Now the coordinates on the mission prompt are in the vicinity of the Toucan area. North, at the junction of the Ant Zone and the Boulder Zone."
"I didn't expect this escort mission to be quite complicated, but it still follows the general chain mission process, and finally fights an elite or BOSS. It is probably almost over."
"Let's go." After discussing, everyone turned around and prepared to walk out of the cave. Frozen Qianli looked at the two elders in front of him who were no different from the toucans outside, thought for a while, and took a picture of a monster attribute.
"Ding, Elder Desert Toucan, Lv.?? (elite), HP:??, Experience:??."
Everyone staggered, oh my god, monsters who are higher than level 97, and they are still elites, who can beat them!