NOVPUBChapter 69: Chapter 72: Selective Task_1
Chapter 69 -72: Selective Task_1
Lin Xun was overjoyed. Wasn’t this the key item needed to enter the cemetery?
Unexpectedly, he would only trigger the iron box plot if he spent a certain amount at the merchant’s shop.
Upon further thought, it seemed he had completed his tasks in the wrong order.
The correct game process should have been to talk to the clown, rush to the market to trigger the slave master and merchant drama, trade, and then look for the iron box key in the moat.
But it didn’t matter as long as he could complete the game process.
After acquiring the key item to enter the cemetery, the game text continued to display.
[You’ve received the ‘Aura Amulet’ and took the opportunity to propose to take it to the clown in the dungeons.]
[The ‘Blind Merchant’ was greatly alarmed and refused your request time and time again.]
[Would you like to threaten it or give up on this?]
Lin Xun furrowed his brows, surprised by the merchant’s rejection.
From the text, there might be some grudge between the merchant and the clown?
If he had taken the merchant to the ancient theater instead of the trading house, he probably wouldn’t have triggered the subsequent plot involving a trade.
This might be a choice mission!
Either take the merchant to see the clown, thus foregoing the trade and not getting the ‘Aura Amulet’, which would result in being stuck at the cemetery entrance, but get a precious item that summons the three-headed lion.
Or trade with the merchant, get the key to enter the cemetery, and continue the clearance process. But you would have to give up on obtaining the precious summoning item.
Unwilling to give up, Lin Xun pressed ‘yes’, choosing to threaten the merchant and verify his conjecture.
[You’ve held a sharp limb against the ‘Blind Merchant’s’ neck, forcing him to go to the underground palace.]
[The ‘Blind Merchant’ didn’t budge, exuding iron-like bones.]
“Well, I didn’t expect him to be so stubborn.”
It makes sense. In order to force the merchant to hand over the goods, the dancer must have tortured him severely and locked him in a cell without getting the goods from him.
The merchant didn’t want to see the clown. The game text continued.
[Do you want to kill the merchant?]
Since the merchant is currently considered an important NPC, Lin Xun cautiously didn’t select any option and left the trading house instead.
He directly headed for the ancient theater dungeon, planning to talk to the clown first to see if he could trigger a new text.
[You’ve gone through the huge iron doors at the end of the stairs and have arrived at the ‘Dungeon of the Ancient Theater.’]
[Your eyes lit up, the dungeon is very spacious and well-lit. On both sides of the dungeon are more than a dozen dilapidated living rooms, with many huge iron cages placed in the center.]
[In the deepest part of the dungeon, the ‘Degenerated Circus Clown’ was sound asleep in an iron cage.]
[You slowly walked up to the last iron cage, just as you were about to take out the ‘Stinky Feces Stone’ to wake up the clown…]
[You’ve heard a terrifying, eerie huge roar from behind you. When you turned around, the ‘Degenerated Three-Headed Lion’ fiercely sprang at you…]
“Damn it! I forgot that the lion wakes up at night and attacks people.”
Just as Lin Xun thought he was about to enter a state of gaming addiction prevention…
[A loud whistle sound came from the iron cage, the ‘Degenerated Three-Headed Lion’ knocked you down with its huge forepaw, opened its bloody mouth, let out a deafening roar, and its stinky saliva dripped onto your face.]
[The Three-Headed Lion didn’t just bite off your head in one bite, but instead walked up to the iron cage under the sound of the whistle and obediently lay down its body.]
[The ‘Degenerated Clown, who had opened his eyes at some point, pulled out a saliva-covered finger from his mouth, wiped it on his clothes, and asked you if you had found the ‘Blind Merchant’.]
[You explained the situation to the clown. It was very pleased to hear that you found the merchant and unsurprised when it learned that the merchant didn’t want to come to the dungeons.]
[The clown told you it’s best to bring the ‘Blind Merchant’ alive or else the whistle will become a consumption type special item once its seal is removed.]
Things didn’t turn out as badly as Lin Xun expected, but they weren’t much better either.
If a dead man is brought in for inspection, then the ‘Bronze Whistle’ would become a one-time summoning item.
Ordinary players who get this far in the quest would be dumbfounded.
But who told Lin Xun to have a unique talent?
Upon reaching this point of the quest, Lin Xun decided to resort to the last method: kill the merchant, possess him, then go see the clown.
He headed back to the trading house…
The game text had changed when he met the merchant again.
[Do you want to buy anything from the merchant?]
Lin Xun skillfully opened the panel, ready to press ‘Profane Sunlight’, and send him to heaven with a laser cannon blast.
But suddenly, he remembered something, stopped his hand in its tracks, and opened the Shell tab.
The display clearly showed 5/5, Yellow Bishop, Law Knight, Blacksmith, Engineer, Dancer, a total of five Shells, all complete and intact.
After killing the merchant and possessing his Shell to see the clown, he would inevitably have to discard one Shell.
But every Shell currently in the Shell column has its own unique characteristics.
The Yellow Bishop is his main shell and is apart from the Engineer, his strongest fighter and absolutely cannot be discarded.
The Law Knight has a real name. After using the Yellow Bishop in the real world for a PvP battle and losing, he can possess the Law Knight, essentially reviving with full health, an extra life.
When he killed Taros, he possessed the Law Knight’s shell, his injuries completely healed, and all those broken bones were retained on the Engineer’s shell.
The Blacksmith is a logistical Shell. Although it cannot enhance epic equipment, who knows, there might be a chance in the future to enhance and upgrade forging skills and make a successful comeback.
The dancer’s invisibility skill is highly useful. It hasn’t been long since he obtained the Shell, but the invisibility skill has proven to be critical time and time again.
As for the Engineer, not mentioning the ability to manifest Shells and become a third life, it is a powerful trump card kept up his sleeve.
He is reluctant to throw away any of these Shells.
Lin Xun’s plan was successful…but hindered.
His current situation is similar to being faced with a girlfriend ready for action, but he finds he is impotent, greatly fatigued, unable to launch a Bloody Charge.
All he wants to do is send a text message to his female boss: “Lack of Divinity item, waiting online, urgent, urgent, urgent.” 𝚗ov𝚙𝚞𝚋.c𝚘m
“I just don’t know how long Team Leader Li will be going to Yunjing.”
Currently trapped in a dead-end in the game, even though he can go on to the cemetery and continue with the game process, Lin Xun did not give up.
“He can’t throw away a Shell, but he needs to bring the merchant to see the clown.”
The game process should have been a multiple-choice question. He unintentionally chose the merchant, resulting in not being able to complete all the clown’s tasks.
“Is there a way to possess a new body without discarding any Shells?”
After some thought, Lin Xun found that impractical.
Just when he wanted to give up, a light bulb went off in his head.
He remembered when he first entered the game, he executed a particular operation.
At that time, he only had two Shells. After dying while possessing the White Moon Knight, he then possessed the nun.
By then, his Shell status should have been 2/2.
Afterwards, he frequently used skills to heal the knight, causing the nun to faint, and only then did he possess the priest.
By this time, the status of the Shell column should have been for the priest to replace the nun.
However, the fainted nun’s Shell never disappeared, she stayed in the White Moon Cathedral until the church was razed to the ground.
Lin Xun quickly located the previous game text and found the original game text after flipping through for quite some time.
After meticulously examining each word and sentence, it was exactly as he thought, not a word was wrong.
Lin Xun squinted his eyes and put down his phone.
He opened up the Apostle forum and searched the keyword ‘faint’.
