"I don't care about success or failure. Since you have spoken, I will definitely help."
"Don't be too pessimistic. Generally speaking, all members of a team will have the same task. The difference in tasks is only a small probability. And after completing the task, you can choose between retaining skill proficiency and opening random treasure boxes. If you are lucky enough to open good items, just treat it as an ordinary dungeon." Floating smiled and said.
"When to go, it's almost dawn now. I'm still in the wild killing monsters, back and forth, plus traveling and eating real food, there may not be enough time in the morning."
"Is it okay after noon?"
"No problem."
"That's good. I'll talk to them and meet you at 12:30 in Xuefeng City if they are OK."
"Big sister, you are really a good person!" Xiao Hua said with tears in his eyes. He was afraid of running all day long and when would he be able to get a mount at level 30?
"Get out of here! I'm definitely not older than you!" Piaoling couldn't help but get angry after being called big sister twice in a row.
"Impossible! I'm only twenty!" Xiao Hua is shameless.
"You are twenty, and I am eighteen!" Piaoling sneered with ridicule.
"Hehe, I won't talk to you anymore. So this task is not a fixed one?" Xiaohua smiled and discussed with Piaoling about the mission. Since they were going to help out, at least they should know the process of the mission.
"Yes, when you arrive at the task NPC, the NPC will teleport us to a dungeon and we'll get a related task. It can be confirmed that the same dungeon has the same tasks. There are most of the methods for passing through on the forum. As long as your luck is not too bad, after lowering the difficulty by forming half low-level players, there's a very high chance to complete the task successfully. Hmm, these two people said it was no problem in the afternoon, remember to come back to Snow City before noon, don't be late. I'm going to go to the forum to familiarize myself with the task."
Floating leaves gave a few instructions and then logged out to check the task in the forum. Xiao Hua continued to bombard monsters, accompanied Zhou Xiaorou for morning running at 7 o'clock, returned to the game after leveling up again, and went back to Snow City early. In these days, because he has always been using magic bombs to level up, there are only a handful of small life recovery potions on his body as reserves. Now that he needs to do tasks, it is necessary to replenish some medicines just in case.
After lunch, Xiao Hua didn't wait long in town before Piaoling logged on and returned to the vicinity of Snow City.
"This person named 'Icebound' is very petty. I'm afraid that if he sees me when I enter the city, so I won't go in. You come out from the north gate and walk left for 300 meters. I will wait there." Floating sent a private message.
Xiao Hua heard this and got out of the carriage through the north gate, then walked past it in stealth.
Floating alone, it seems very boring to stand in a corner. Xiao Hua saw this and suddenly had an idea of teasing her. He continued to maintain his stealth state, took out a black cloth to cover his face, silently sneaked over, reached behind Flotting, and gently touched her back!
Piaoling was indeed shocked. He instantly moved to more than one meter away and turned around, seeing an unidentified masked guy. Without thinking twice, he threw a freezing arrow at him!
This ice arrow technique is one of the most important single attack skills for water element wizards. It does not need to be chanted, and it can release instantly with tracking ability. After hitting enemies, in addition to causing high damage, there is a 20% chance that they will enter a state of slow motion for five seconds. It's very useful in PK!
Xiao Hua, 23rd level, with a total of only 76 magic defense points after adding equipment. Piaoling is a physique mage who has no attack power at all, but he is still a forty-level character. With weapon and skill effect bonuses, even without critical hits, Ice Arrow can still reduce Xiao Hua's HP by more than two hundred in one go, which is about one-third of his total blood volume!
"Stop it, stop it! It's me!" Xiao Hua quickly surrendered and pulled down his mask to shout. Sister's chest, he was too fragile as a thief with such a small body!
"I'm dizzy. What are you doing? If I were a wizard of wisdom, you would be in trouble!" Floating saw Xiao Hua and put down his magic staff, then complained.
"I was just playing with you because I saw that you were bored."
"No more next time!" Floating warned. Originally, she was standing alone when suddenly someone reached out from behind and put his hand on her shoulder. If it wasn't in a game, she would have thought that she saw ghosts!
"No problem, there will be no next time!" Seeing that Xiaohua smiled and agreed. No more is not a problem, but it can have another one!
Floating called out his mount, and the two of them got on the fiery horse. Floating patted its head to make it run towards north-west.
"You have reached master level in stealth?" After walking for a long time, Piaoling's emotions settled down and asked with some disbelief.
She is very careful. When she was waiting for Xiao Hua, she kept her real eye open. Her skill of real eye has reached master level. If someone sneaks in to attack from within a radius of ten meters around her, without being a grandmaster at stealth, he will definitely be seen by her!
"Haha, are you surprised?" Xiao Hua said with a little pride when he saw that Piaoling was shocked.
"You wouldn't have been practicing skills for a year and only started upgrading now." Thinking of Xiao Hua's level, Piaoling immediately thought of this possibility.
"You are too smart!" Xiaohua praised, from knowing each other to now, Piaoling's outstanding command ability and subtle observation ability as well as agile thinking have left a deep impression on Xiaohua. However, Xiaohua didn't finish his words yet: "Unfortunately, he is ugly!"
Being praised, Pingling was also very happy. But just a few seconds later, he was almost choked to death by Xiao Hua's last sentence. However, thinking of what happened two days ago, Pingling decided to endure it!
"You can really hold back from upgrading while only practicing skills." After calming down, Piaoling gave Xiao Hua a small compliment. After the internal test was over, someone on the forum proposed to practice skills first and then upgrade, and analyzed it in various aspects that this method is very feasible. Some people believed it and did so, but unfortunately few could stick with it.
"You can do undercover work for a year, why can't I practice skills for a year." Xiao Hua doesn't think he is good at it. Instead, he is surprised that Piaoling can stay in the company of people she dislikes for a whole year.
"Haha." Floating thought so too. Most people would probably give up just by thinking about it.
"But you don't have to be too proud. Among those I know, it won't take long for several people's real eyes and eagle eyes to reach the master level. You should still be careful not to sink in a gutter." After praising him, Zhaoning didn't forget to hit Xiao Hua down.
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"No way, how long is a long time?" Xiao Hua heard it and really couldn't be happy. Compared with stealth, it was easier to master Real Eye and Eagle. Now that someone has reached the level of Grandmaster is quite normal.
"It will be one month at most, and two months at least." Floating thought for a while.
Uh, that means to tell him to upgrade quickly. Otherwise his master's stealth will be useless in front of other masters' true eyes and eagle eyes.
"By the way, when I mentioned you to two other people who had tasks before, I said that you were hired by me through a friend and cost 1000 gold coins. Be careful not to make any mistakes if they ask about it later." After walking for a while, Piaoling remembered this matter and almost forgot it because of her quarrel with Xiao Hua.
"Afraid of being frozen and causing trouble for the union?" Xiaohua raised his eyebrows, thinking only of this possibility.
"Careful sailing is better than a thousand years of ship, and the icebound union is at least the largest guild in Snow City. I have been an elder before, so I am very clear about this. As for your profession, if someone knows that you know me and accompany me to complete tasks, it will be easy for the Icebound Union to link you with the masked man on that night. Although it's just a game, they can't do anything to you even if they knew."
"He, I just want to kill you a few times for revenge. But you have to be careful of them from time to time. It's very tiring to play games." Floating leaves said helplessly.
Xiao Hua naturally understood this principle, but he was not used to being beaten without fighting back. It seems that he needs to quickly upgrade his level and then get a few powerful free skills and two powerful weapons in order to change the current very passive situation. Now he has more than 20 million on hand, so money will not be an issue if these things are bought. The problem is that it's difficult to find suitable free skills for him to use, let alone good weapons! These items are completely out of stock.
As they gradually left Snow City, the northwest of Snow City was still a snowy forest. The two sat on the fiery horse and walked for about an hour before arriving at a small wooden house in the forest.
There are two piles of wood in front of the log cabin, covered with a thick layer of snow. An old man wearing a gray fur coat is standing under the eaves. He looks like he's the NPC who sends you to the dungeon.
There were four people standing around the old man. The color of the fiery horse was very conspicuous in a light white jungle, and several people saw Piaoling and Xiaohua sitting on it from afar.
One of them, a male player who looked quite high level, came up to Xiang Ling and said with a smile, "Xiang Ling Miss, I was afraid you wouldn't come."
Floating eyes looked at another low-level player behind him, and asked in surprise, "How did you change people? I remember that before you brought them two?"
"Haha, since we heard that Miss Piaoling came here as a hired person, we also spent money to hire two people who are not familiar with us. This way, if our friends want to retrain in the future, they can keep their skills at the highest level." Two high-level players, one physical warrior and one physical priest, the warrior seemed to have anticipated Miss Piaoling's question and answered calmly without any panic.
"Oh, that's fine. Who is the captain? Let's form a team with us two and enter the dungeon as soon as possible since we have more time. The task may take longer." Floating nodded and said.
The warriors successively added Peiling and Xiaohua to their team. Peiling carefully looked at the information of each member in the team, found that the two new players were level 21-22 players, whose names she didn't know either, so all her doubts disappeared.
"Is there any other question? If not, I will talk to NPCs and enter the dungeon." The warrior looked at Piaoling and another priest.
Piaoling nodded. The task would be known when entering the dungeon, and it was meaningless to discuss now. Besides a few tasks with time limit, most of the randomly assigned tasks had no time limit. Entering the dungeon for discussion on how to clear the dungeon is also fine.
"Wait, won't they two also be of the physique system?" Floating suddenly remembered something and said with a change in his face.
"Piaoling, you are overthinking. They both are archers. Have you ever seen an archer of the physique system?" The warrior said with a smile and tears in his eyes.
Floating thought so, and there was no problem. The warrior went over to talk with the old man.
Soon, it seemed that the warrior had finished his conversation. Xiao Hua only felt a change in scenery and suddenly appeared in an unfamiliar environment he'd never seen before!
Six people appeared in a campsite with only several small huts. There was a fire burning, but around it were towering trees that reached high up to the sky. Each tree had a trunk diameter of more than one meter and was over fifty meters tall. Through the dense branches above their heads, they could see some golden sunlight shining through the top leaves falling on each tree. The time inside the copy must be daytime, but if there wasn't any light from the fire, everyone would probably not be able to see clearly what's around them!
"Silent Forest!" Floating looked around, her face changed greatly. Then she lowered her head and glared at the four people across from her with eyes like ice.
Xiao Hua was completely unfamiliar with this random task, but as soon as he appeared in this camp, he felt a different atmosphere! And then seeing the drifting and gloomy faces there, what didn't they understand?
PIAOLING WAS TRICKED!
"Piaoling sister has done a lot of homework. She can recognize this copy, which is not easy for ordinary people." The warrior said with a smile. When the matter was exposed, there was no trace of embarrassment or guilt on his face.
"What benefits did you get from 'Icebound World'? Are you willing to fail the mission just for me?" Floating asked coldly. If she hadn't appeared at the task site this morning, these two people would have already started doing tasks. Joining Icebound Union was definitely not worth it! Now they suddenly turned against her and framed her. It's probably because they secretly contacted Icebound World during the day and got some benefit in return. They set up such a trap so that I could fail my mission!
"Haha, I don't need you to worry about it." This person obviously was poked in a sore spot by Piaoling. He showed an unnatural smile and said dryly.
"So, it seems that the other two used disguise cards. I've never seen a physical archer." Floating looked at the other two low-level archers and said disdainfully.
(Disguise card: This card can temporarily change a character's surface profession, name, body type, appearance and voice. The effect lasts for one hour. A player can only use it once within seven days.)