Chapter 94: Start of the task chain

Lin Chi still remembers that when he first established the "Hellfire Team" four years ago, he had planned to invite a professional player who knew online.
The guy is very frivolous, although he usually talks about the girl, but the game technology is still very reliable. And like himself, it was also the first pioneer to install a brain-computer interface.
In the brain imaging game of that era, it was not as "gentle and considerate" as the current game. Even though most games weakened the pain, but the forced disconnection to protect the player's sudden death system, there was no research and development at that time. come out.
Then, one evening, when Lin Chi found another team member and was planning to invite the guy, the other party took the initiative to send him a voice conversation.
"sorry……"
The male voice sounded very weak, gasping for a long breath, mixed with sniffing and vague sobbing.
At the beginning, Lin Chi thought that the other party was joking, and snorted, "You don't have to be so moved." But then the other party's remarks made the smile on his face disappear.
"I will not play this game anymore."
"Why?" Lin Chi asked immediately.
"Ah..." The other party kept sucking in the air, which sounded like a patience: "Be careful of a called 'Blood Blade', who is a madman, a murderer. I was hung on a stake by him. , tortured for more than an hour..."
"You are so thick, you die in an hour?"
"No, the tortured me first, then he used my healing to fill my blood back and continue to torture me..." The other party sounded like it was going crazy.
"Wait, you won't quit the game?" Lin Qiao frowned.
"The madman didn't know what to do. I couldn't concentrate on opening the game menu." The voice of the other party is still very weak: "In short, if you meet this person in any game, don't hesitate to quit. I offline first……"
Since then, this powerful player who was famous at the time has completely disappeared from the game circle.
Although he never played with the blood blade, after that incident, Lin Chi also heard a lot of brutal legends about the "blood blade":
This madman who kills people in the game is known for his cruel means. The players and npcs who died under his hands, not to mention leaving the whole body, can be left with a complete bone.
In order to curb this mad madman, the official even introduced new regulations prohibiting players from killing other players and npcs in the game.
Subsequently, all brain imaging games have added a sudden death system and a ruling program to protect the player's consciousness.
When the "ruling procedure" is in operation, it will automatically determine whether there is a killing behavior in the battle in the game. Once the abuse has been detected for more than two minutes, the abused player is immediately kicked out of the game and the abuser's account is frozen.
Since the program was forcibly added to all brain imaging games, the notorious "Blood Blade" has finally disappeared.
However, just as everyone began to forget the name, he appeared in the test suit of War Heaven. And it's also a coincidence that it happened to be in the second game of your own!
Thinking of this, Lin Chi’s original languid face has a different look.
Realizing that he is likely to face a real strong person, he has always been unimpressed by the abuse of food, and he has been seriously serious.
Although I don't know if the murderer is here or on the other side of the river, Lin Chi knows that if there is no accident, he will face the guy sooner or later!
"Come on, the is here." Shen Wenchong's old voice interrupted Lin Chi's thoughts.
The two slowly walked into the ruined but crowded market, floating in the air with strange tastes that were difficult to describe in words, and the vendors with different looks sat behind the simple wooden tables that had begun to decay on the roadside. I sipped the name of the product I was going to sell:
"Miaojiang scorpion poison box, as long as thirty gold coins!"
"Old-fashioned Feng Shui engine, two hundred gold coins to take home!"
"Qinhuangling automatic terracotta commemorative dolls, don't miss passing by!"
A variety of snoring sounds echoed in the ear, watching the grotesque goods sold by these dirty businessmen, Lin Chizheng was going to turn around here, and he heard Shen Wenchong reminded:
"It's all a lie, don't waste time."
"I know." Lin Chi smiled.
Although the price of goods in the Mid-town weapons store is very expensive, there is at least a guarantee that the goods are sold. And the sale of such ghosts is basically fake and shoddy products, otherwise the price may not be so low.
"These guys are terrible." Lin Chi looked at the stalls not far away, a little boy who was selling "Tangmen poison needles".
"There is no way, whoever makes them reborn is not the right time. It has become the inferior who can't turn over in a lifetime." Shen Wenchong snorted.
"I don't think so..."
Lin Chi said and looked around, watching this dirty and chaotic market.
- These poor people are forced by their livelihoods to sell all kinds of messy goods. If you don't starve to death, no one will come to this ghost place.
As for the customers who are buying goods in the market, they are also much stronger than the merchants. They are all yellow and thin, and they are not well-nourished. Looking at their gambling-like fanaticism, they should be thinking about buying the "treasures" of dust in this ghost place, and then selling them to collectors to make a fortune.
"Where is the artist you said?" Lin asked.
"It's that person." Shen Wenchong raised his right arm and pointed at a wooden table in front of it.
Sitting behind the wooden table, is a tall and thin man, the shape can be directly summed up with the word ,, except the skin seems to have only bones left.
The guy was wearing a set of ragged gray robes, exposed heads and arms, and it looked like a mummy with a bandage. It was a miracle to live under this type of body...
"Are you sure he can draw?" Lin Chi asked.
"He said that he was expelled from Shangcheng District. It used to be like a court painter." Shen Wenchong disdainfully grinned: "Maybe it is a lonely aristocrat who can't eat the things of the city?"
Lin Chizheng was going to vomit, and I saw the head of the "骷髅", suddenly showing the real scarlet 骷髅 - icon, and only a few npc texts.
Court painter -? ? ? , hero level npc, can be recruited (need to complete the task).
"Wait a minute..." Lin Chi squinted.
- Shen Wenchong, who is a special npc, brought himself a heroic npc. In this way, it seems that it triggered a task chain similar to the "dark tower"?
With this in mind, Lin Chi walked quickly to the painter and stared at the other's eye socket, politely bowed:
"Hello, what is this store selling?"
Hearing the words, the painter looked up and looked at him, opening his mouth and making him hoarse, and could directly use it as the voice of the horror game:
"Selling a picture, painting anything."
The artist's table is not placed with the inferior "treasures" of the bells and whistles, just a piece of white paper, a brush, and the ink bottle and red seal next to it.
- Even if it falls to this point, still insists on the artist's beliefs...
Thinking of this, Lin Chi is also straight to the point: "So, I need a complete anatomy."
"100,000 gold coins." The other party did not hesitate to open the price.

Can you be cheaper?
Lin Chi smiled.
"100,000." The other party has no intention of giving in.
Seeing the artist's resolute appearance, Shen Wenchong sighed with a pretense: "The old man said that he is not reliable, you have to come over..."
But now, Lin Chi did not have time to pay attention to the old man, just staring at the artist's face, intending to find a "breakthrough."
Obviously, I did not trigger the task of recruiting this npc. So, what conditions must be met to trigger the task?
If this guy is really a painter who has fallen from the Shangcheng District, then...
"Do you want to go back to the city?" Lin Chi asked tentatively.
The voice did not fall, only in the eye socket where the artist fell down, as if the gloomy "ghost fire" was lit up.
At the same time, a line of task tips popped up.
Visit by the artist:
The painter who was expelled from the Upper Town, and his wish, is not ready. I hope you can take him back to Shangcheng District.
Mission reward: Unknown.