Chapter 9 Mission
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"System prompt: Player 'Ryal Orland' triggers the system mission 'Lost Girl'. Do you accept it? [Yes/No]"
...What are you doing!!!
The sudden sound made Zhu Lin twitch his mouth unconsciously. He couldn't figure out the situation for the time being and decided to take a look at the situation first. At that moment, he spoke to Safili, who called him quietly.
"Is there anything else?"
Safili, who had made up her mind, was not vague and spoke very alone.
"Well, I accidentally got separated from my companions. I had to find them immediately for some special reasons. So, I hope I can get your help. I... am willing to pay enough to ask for your help!"
After the girl finished speaking, Zhu Lin quickly found the system options in his mind. As expected, the originally dim and unselectable "task" option has now become a "selectable" state. After clicking it, there is only one task information inside.
Mission "The Lost Girl"
Mission description: Encountering the lost girl Safili Ferom who was separated from her companions, please help her find her lost companion.
Mission Reward: Free Talent Point X1.
The task itself is simple and straightforward, but the reward of the task is that Zhu Lin's heartbeats unconsciously, which is actually a point of freedom and talent!
You should know that until now, Zhu Lin didn't know how to obtain talent points stably. He bought it once when he passed the special dungeon before, but this was only once after all, and there was no way to be 100% sure that he would be able to obtain the free talent points after passing the special dungeon.
Under such a premise, every talent point becomes very precious. If possible, of course, you must strive for the talent point you see.
Of course, after a moment of blood surge, Zhu Lin quickly calmed down and began to analyze the difficulty of the task. First of all, the main goal of this task was to help the girl named Safili in front of him find her lost companion. With the power of a magician, although this kind of thing would be a bit troublesome, there was no danger.
If the task I found this time was to fight a HR4 monster alone, Zhu Lin would definitely turn his head and leave without saying a word. This is purely a behavior of seeking death. No matter how good the reward is, he will definitely not take it.
But in the current situation, it is only a waste of time to complete this task. You can get a little free talent at the cost of paying a little time. This transaction is quite cost-effective no matter how you look at it.
So, Zhu Lin, who had been pondering for a moment, decisively raised his hand and clicked on the option [Yes].
"So, let's talk about what kind of reward you can get..."
Of course, the reward given by the task is enough to satisfy Zhu Lin, but the benefits are naturally not absent. Besides, Zhu Lin and Safeili are not close. If he directly does not have any benefits, he will help enthusiastically, which will easily arouse the other party's suspicion...
...Although Zhu Lin cares a lot whether the girl who doesn't look very good at her head can think of this
Safili was just asking questions with the idea of "a dead horse as a living horse", but she didn't expect that she would actually get a response. After stuttering a little, she quickly raised her hand and slapped her chest.
"Well, as long as you can take me to find my lost companion, I am willing to... pay you five gold coins as a reward!"
Five gold coins. You should know that in this continent where basic currency is settled in silver coins, gold coins are very high currencies. In remote mountain villages like Mololuo Village, the basic currency circulating is copper that is one level lower than silver coins. Many villagers are afraid that they have never seen a real gold coins once in their lifetime.
As soon as Safili spoke, she was rewarded with five gold coins. This generous move was also an unexpected explanation. Her identity was probably not very simple.
Of course, no matter what Safili's identity is, it has nothing to do with Zhu Lin. He only knows that he bought a big fish this time. Not only can he get a little free talent, but he can also get an extra income of five gold coins. You know, although magicians are a very noble profession and make money very fast, they spend money at the same speed. Zhu Lin traveled through two months and didn't even buy a copper coin. The original owner of his body is also a poor person, and there is only three gold coins in his pocket in total (although for ordinary people, this is already a huge sum of money, and Zhu Lin also has a Balorf Abyss coin. Selling that thing is enough for him to spend until he dies, although he will definitely not sell it).
So, Zhu Lin took on this extra business very happily.
After receiving a positive answer, Safili also looked happy. With the help of a magician, she would not have to sway in the forest like a headless fly alone.
After being excited, Safili also remembered that she had not shown herself yet (although Zhu Lin had already known her name through the system task), and immediately spoke.
"That, my name is Safili, well, Safili Ferom."
As a basic politeness, Zhu Lin also responded immediately, but he still struggled with it when he should pronounce the name, and in the end, he made a decisive choice.
"Ryel...Ryel Orland, this is my name."
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"Miss Ferom, are you really sure your companions are still in this forest?"
After about an hour of trekking, Zhu Lin, who had no gains at all, couldn't help but ask questions to the girl around him. After all, no one stipulated that the girl's companions would stay in this forest waiting for her to find her. Maybe they had left the forest early in the morning and planned to wait for the girl to meet in the nearest city.
In response to this, Safili immediately shook her head seriously.
"How is it possible, my guard...ahem, it's impossible for my companions to leave me alone. They must be still in the forest, absolutely!"
Seeing the girl's swearing look, the slip of the tongue just now, Zhu Lin also secretly reached out and touched his chin. He probably had guessed the identity of the girl. At the same time, he suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.
"Since this is the case, then use some unconventional means..."
The magician can search in a large area with the interweaving magic power, and this kind of search can select search conditions. Of course, Zhu Lin used to lock the search target on the "biology", but now he had a little bit of a good premonition in his heart, so he decisively changed his search method.
One-third of the magic power was condensed and released in one breath. In an instant, a magic power torrent in the dense forest could not be identified by the naked eye, but the amazingly magnificent torrent spread out in all directions with Zhu Lin as the center. This process lasted about two or three seconds. After the magic power fluctuation was completely annihilated, Zhu Lin's face, who finally noticed the target, couldn't help but become subtle.
"I think I probably found your companion..."
"Really? Thank you so much!"
Looking at the girl beside her, Zhu Lin didn't know how to tell her what she noticed. Sure enough, let the girl see it with her own eyes. Thinking of this, Zhu Lin raised his hand and made a "follow up" gesture, and then walked straight towards the depths of the dense forest. Of course, Safeili didn't think about anything and just followed quickly.
"If my guess is not wrong, then these are your companions..."
After saying that, Zhu Lin raised his hand and pointed to three male corpses in the same style under the shade of the trees not far away.
These three corpses should have died. Sometimes, there was a penetrating wound deep into the internal organs on their chests. Obviously, this was a fatal injury. The sticky blood gushed out from the wound on their chests and solidified into a large dark red pattern under them. From a distance, you could smell the violent stench of the rotten corpses.
"!"
Seeing this scene, Safili exclaimed on the spot, not caring that the body had begun to rot and smelly, so she rushed up directly. Zhu Lin did not stop her, but just pulled out her taskbar helplessly.
Sure enough, after the mission "lost girl", the original prompt of "task acceptance" has become "task failure"!
The specific content was brought up, and the top tipped that the task could not be completed because the target person died. However, for some reason, although the task failed, it did not disappear. Although Zhu Lin was confused about this, it was his first time to take on the task. After all, he had never encountered the same situation and could not analyze what was going on.
"Why did it become like this? Could it be... a monster?"
Safili seemed to have confirmed that the three corpses were her lost companions, but she obviously could not accept that the originally alive companions suddenly turned into foul-stenched corpses. After the initial panic, she also began to guess the cause of death of these people. Of course, the monsters that were rampant in the forest immediately became the first suspect.
"No, it shouldn't be a monster..."
While speaking, Zhu Lin walked to the three corpses, as if he felt that the smell around him was too overwhelming. He frowned and activated a one-star magic, which caused a breeze to blow away the stench around him.
"...There are usually only two reasons for monsters to attack humans. One is that humans actively attack monsters, or step into monsters' nests, and attack them in order to counterattack or protect themselves. As for the second reason, it is to hunt humans as food. However, I have investigated nearby. There is no nest of monsters, so the first situation can be basically ruled out, as for the second situation."
Safili is not a fool, and she immediately figured it out after saying this.
"...Well, if you were hunting for food, you wouldn't have left such a complete body. Damn, what's going on?!"
Despite what he said, the answer is actually coming out. It is not a monster that commits an offense, and there is no humanoid race life nearby that is hostile to humans. So the final possibility is to be killed by humans.
Moreover, judging from the wounds of the corpse, it should be caused by a sharp weapon that penetrates directly, which is very similar to the human weapon.
Judging from the fact that the blood had basically solidified and the corpse had begun to smell, the three of them had been dead for some time. Zhu Lin, who was making this judgment, suddenly looked at him with a tiny detail.
(Wait, if you have died sometimes, why can you still leave such complete corpses?! There is no shortage of corrupted monsters in the forest. If they find monsters or human corpses, they should have been eaten up early in the morning, no... These people have definitely not been dead for a long time!)
Zhu Lin, who found that the situation was different, did not dare to neglect it. Although this matter had nothing to do with him, he decided to take a look at the situation first.
"Sorry Miss Ferom, I'm going to be rude to your companions. I'm going to check their bodies..."
When Safili heard Zhu Lin say this, her first reaction was to refuse, but when she calmed down and thought of Zhu Lin's identity and heard his serious tone, she still silently let go and nodded.
Of course, Zhu Lin would not be polite to her. He was not interested in hitting people directly, but with magic in hand, of course there was no need to be so troublesome. He controlled Feng Zhi's tentacle to roll up the corpse, and then penetrated into the corpse with the power of flowing magic. Soon, Zhu Lin discovered something strange.
"This is..."
Zhu Lin, who noticed something strange, waved his right hand directly, and a wind tentacle immediately passed through the wound on the chest of the rolled corpse, tearing the wound that had already been condensed with coagulated blood again. Seeing this scene, Safeili's face changed again, but she still said nothing, but watched Zhu Lin take action and control the wind tentacle to remove a black fragment about the size of a thumb cover from the wound.
"Oh, Mr. Orland...what is this?"
...You ask me, who will I ask?
Although Zhu Lin wanted to answer this way, considering that this was too contrary to the wizard's knowledgeable image, he just coughed calmly, and then made a judgment based on the pitiful magic knowledge and on-site situation in his mind.
"This should be a fragment of a cursed weapon. It seems that it is true that humans killed these three people. Monsters do not use cursed weapons!"
Chapter completed!