Absolute Destiny Game

Although everything was ready, Xiao Jie was not in a hurry to leave. It was late today, so he had to wait until tomorrow morning to set off.

By the way, he bought the necessary supplies before it got dark.

Xiao Jie went to the auction house first and collected the income from selling monkey wine and secret dog food today. Although he had participated in three activities these days, he had killed many monsters and earned many points, but because he had changed all his equipment, his income not only did not increase, but also consumed some.

If it weren't for the cooking major to make a little money, he would have been starving. After calculating the money he had saved these days, he had more than 30 taels. Xiao Jie was now accustomed to the feeling of dozens of taels coming and going. He only left 10 taels of silver for emergency use, and the rest was all purchased for supplies, including food supplies, talismans and potions, and various special props.

For this operation, he was willing to go all out.

Then he took stock of his current equipment and skills.

A set of luxurious equipment mixed with blue, green and purple, with three epic equipment alone, complete sword skills and internal strength, plus a set of peerless sword skills and superb light skills, he can go through mountains of swords and seas of fire.

Of course, the most important thing is the life-saving artifact of the escape light talisman. As long as it is there, no matter how dangerous the place is, it can't stop him.

After the inventory, Xiao Jie was completely relieved. If it still doesn't work, then it really has nothing to do with preparation.

That night, Xiao Jie went to bed early. The next morning, Xiao Jie logged into the game, said goodbye to everyone, and set off alone.

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"Gee! Gee! Gee!" On the vast wasteland, a black-robed knight, a red warhorse, rode away in a dusty manner, and behind him was a terrifying knight covered in black smoke, with a pair of green ghost eyes under his helmet, chasing closely.

Although the Luoyang Plain is full of monsters and monster forces everywhere, it is actually a prosperous place in comparison.

When Xiao Jie went all the way to the northwest, crossed the Black Wind Mountains, and entered the Endless Wasteland, he realized how big the map of this game was and how fierce the monsters were.

The road was extremely desolate, with deep mountains and valleys, and evil forests everywhere.

Monsters above level 20 were everywhere, not only various beasts that had become demons, but also many humans who had been possessed by demons and turned into spirits, and even many mountain spirits, monsters, and demons that could not be named.

Xiao Jie hid as much as he could along the way, and did not provoke these monsters at all.

Fortunately, this map is vast and open, and the red charging warhorse is fast, so as long as you are careful, you don’t have to worry about being blocked.

However, he still ran into bad luck in the afternoon. He accidentally attracted a level 34 ‘wandering ghost general’, which chased Xiao Jie for more than ten minutes and scared him to death.

“Gee! Gee! Gee!” Xiao Jie shouted while looking behind him.

Fortunately, the ghost general was finally shaken off. This thing should be a complete ghost general, and the momentum is completely different from the one killed in the novice village.

Fortunately, my horse is fast. If I was caught up, I would have to confess.

Alas, I have fought hard for this inheritance task. This kind of dangerous map without even a road, ordinary players will not come at all.

"Master, you can just say run."

The red charging warhorse suddenly snorted.

"That won't work. You have to use professional terms when riding a horse. By the way, where are we?" Xiao Jie asked in fear as he looked at the endless wasteland around him.

He was chased by the ghost general and ran wildly in the open place. Now he didn't know where he ran to.

"You ask me, who should I ask? You are the master."

"Don't they say that old horses know the way? You look old, can't you help me recognize the way?" Xiao Jie said jokingly, dispelling the uneasiness in his heart.

This was the second day of his journey. After crossing the Luoyang Plain and the Black Mountain Range, Xiao Jie came to the endless wilderness in the northwest of Fengyinzhou, as the immortal said.

[Three hundred miles north of the Luoyang Plain and another three hundred miles west, there is a strange mountain called Konglao Mountain, which looks like a wild beast lying on the ground, with rugged rocks and pine trees like waves. There is a cave in the mountain. Entering it, you can see a deep valley, with clouds and water coming from the sky, which looks like a waterfall. It is the place where ancient immortals practiced and refined qi...]

Of course, this three hundred miles north and three hundred miles west does not really require six hundred miles to get there. Although the map of this game is huge, it is still incomparable to the real world.

According to the setting, the size of Jiuzhou is about the same as the territory of China. A Luoyang Plain must be at least tens of thousands of square kilometers, but in fact it is good to have one tenth of it.

According to the scale converted by Xiao Jie, and the information provided by the Dragon Flying Knights, Xiao Jie judged that this Konglao Mountain should be located in the Kunwu Mountains in the north. Now that they have been running for so long, they should be almost there.

He opened the map and took a look. It was pitch black, and all the maps were unexplored.

Alas, I can only explore the road slowly.

The road ahead gradually became steeper, and the wasteland was gradually replaced by mountain terrain, making the road even more difficult to walk.

Fortunately, there seemed to be no particularly scary monsters in this desolate mountain range, which made Xiao Jie relieved. It was just that running on the empty map was really boring. Fortunately, there was a beast language technique, so I could chat with my mount to kill time.

There were no strange rocks, pine waves like the sea... There was no such thing.

Not to mention pine waves like the sea, there were not even a few trees.

Hey, there seemed to be pine trees ahead.

Rounding a dangerous peak ahead, a pine forest appeared. It was sparse at first, but soon became dense, stretching as far as the eye could see. Precipitous mountains could be seen deep in the pine forest.

Xiao Jie rushed to the top of a mountain and looked into the distance. The continuous mountains spread for hundreds of miles, each one as dangerous as the other. Among the mountains, there was a strange peak with a strange shape, like a giant beast from the wild. Lying prone in the mountains.

"Found it! It's here!" Xiao Jie was pleasantly surprised. He didn't expect to find it so easily. You must know that the tasks in this game have no coordinate guidance at all. They rely entirely on the understanding of the task text, and the map is so It is huge and it is not difficult to find the exact location.

Before, he only knew about this mountain range in the northwest through his understanding with the intelligence department of the Dragon Soaring Knights.

But I didn't expect to find it all at once.

Is this the so-called thread of immortality?

He looked towards the sea of ​​pine trees at the bottom of the mountain, trying to find an easy way to reach the Kanglao Mountain, but he only saw endless pine forests. It was okay to look at the mountains, but once he entered the forest, there were pine trees in all directions. , you can’t even see much sunlight, so it’s easy to get lost.

So we must first determine the route.

Unexpectedly, after searching for a while, I faintly saw a wisp of green smoke rising from the pine forest.

Hey, that's--Xiao Jie looked closely at the screen and could vaguely see the roofs of some thatched houses in the pine forest. It looked like a small village.

Xiao Jie suddenly became a little happy. What he was most afraid of when running the map was that there were no landmark buildings as anchor points. In that case, it would be easy to run without knowing where he was.

With this village, it will be easier to handle, and you may be able to find the NPC in the village to get information.

It's better to go and ask for information first, and then speed down the hillside.

Not long after running, the surrounding vision gradually darkened.

Xiao Jie was not sure if he was heading in the right direction, so he just ran towards the northwest. Since the terrain was not flat, he had to go around it from time to time. He thought he might go astray, but after running for more than ten minutes, there was a scene in front of him. The pine forest suddenly opened up, revealing a large open space.

In the pine forest, there was a small village.

This village is extremely small, with only a dozen simple wooden houses.

Xiao Jie did not dare to rush over rashly. Most of the villages in this game were occupied by monsters. The closer they got, the more anxious Xiao Jie became.

Fortunately, when I got closer, I found that there was no trace of the monster.

However, this small village is obviously not the kind of novice village with systematic protection, but the kind of dilapidated village that is common in games, just like many villages in this game.

Most of the buildings were dilapidated and collapsed, except for a hut in the center of the village that was still intact. An old man was drying mushrooms and pine nuts at the door, seemingly unaware of the sound of horse hooves.

Xiao Jie looked over the old man's head.

The mysterious old man (head of the hidden village), level 28. HP 1200.

I guess it is indeed a high-level map, even a small village chief has such a high level.

When Xiao Jie saw the old man's name, he immediately cheered up and jumped off his horse from a distance.

"Excuse me, old man, is that mountain in front of you Konglao Mountain?"

The old man turned around suddenly after hearing this and looked at Xiao Jie in surprise.

"You-you-you!"

"What's wrong with me?"

"Where did you come from? Did you run in from outside the forest?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Xiao Jie wondered why this NPC felt so crazy.

"Hahahaha, wuwuwuwu, hahahaha." The old man laughed for a while, and then cried for a while.

Then he laughed again, but the laughter was a bitter smile, which made Xiao Jie confused for a while.

"Kanglao Mountain? Yes, that's right. The mountain in front of you is Kanglao Mountain, and this is the Mysterious Forest. If you want to go to Kanglao Mountain, you must pass through this Mysterious Forest. You must be here for the immortals. Come here for the relic, hehehe, I never thought that after all these decades, someone would still be able to find it here.”

Xiao Jie became slightly excited after hearing this. He had indeed found the right place, but there was something wrong with what the old man said.

"Is my husband the only one in this village?"

"Hahahaha, I'm not the only one. It's been decades, and everyone else has died long ago. I haven't talked to anyone for several years. It's okay, okay, now you are here. I can finally talk to someone."

Xiao Jie was stunned when he heard this, and had a vague feeling that there was something wrong here.

The old man just kept talking to himself.

"It is said that there were immortals living on that mountain in ancient times. In my opinion, it is all nonsense. There are no immortals. Even if there are any, they are monsters."

"Why did my father-in-law say that?"

"There are weird things in the mountains. Little brother, I advise you not to wander in."

Xiao Jie became more and more sure that it was the place the immortal said. At three o'clock in the afternoon, Xiao Jie thought for a while and decided to listen to others' advice and eat enough. If it was too late, something would easily happen.

"I wonder if I can stay at the old man's house for one night. A little money would be disrespectful."

"What's the point of asking for money in this remote country? It would be nice if you can have food and drinks."

Xiao Jie didn't have much else, but he had a lot of supplies. For this operation, he was well prepared, with all kinds of food, drinks, potions and spells, and he spent all his money.

Xiao Jie wanted to ask questions, so he just started giving gifts to improve his favorability.

He first gave ten steamed buns, then two roast chickens, a piece of bacon, and a pot of fine wine.

Xiao Jie checked his favorability while giving gifts, and stopped when his favorability reached 80 and stopped.

He had a feeling that this mysterious old man was definitely a key NPC.

"Oh my, you gave me so many things? How can I be so embarrassed?" He said embarrassedly, but picked up the wine pot and drank it all.

"Hahaha, good wine, good wine, woo woo woo, I finally tasted this long-lost taste again." The old man cried very sadly, as if he had a great grievance.

Xiao Jie looked puzzled, "Old man, do you have anything to say to me?"

"Yes, there are many things to say, but don't worry, we have plenty of time to talk slowly in the future. Oh, it's getting dark, come on, let's go into the house and talk."

Seeing the sky getting dark, Xiao Jie did not log off. Some plots may only be triggered at night.

Moreover, he is not afraid of night ghosts now. He has the ghost eyes of Shura Ghost Face to see ghosts and the Xuanming Sword to kill spirits. Now he doesn't have to be afraid of night ghosts again, and he can also chop them to level up.

He followed the old man into a hut, and secretly felt something was wrong.

This forest is very unusual, there are no monsters.

This is naturally no problem in reality, but in the game, the absence of monsters is abnormal.

And the old man's behavior is even more problematic. Could it be that he has entered the task map from now on?

When designing a game, in order to prevent interference between different tasks, game designers often design the task map very "clean", with only elements related to the task.

But it's still more than ten miles away from the mountain? Is the mission map so huge?

As they were talking, the two had already entered the hut.

The old man took out a pine oil lamp and lit it. Xiao Jie looked at the furnishings in the surrounding houses and felt more and more that something was wrong. Everything was extremely simple. The tables, chairs and benches were all made of logs. There were not even pots and pans to be seen, only wooden bowls and basins.

"Old man, your life seems to be very hard? Why don't you leave?"

"Haha, leave? If I can leave, do you think I won't leave? Once you enter this forest, you can never leave again. You look carefully. When I die in the future, these things will all be yours."

Xiao Jie was shocked, but heard the old man tell an amazing story.