Chapter 135: Triggering the Mission

Finding the people of the Emerald Tears Mercenary Regiment was not a difficult task for Rhodes, and he carefully fell behind, tracking his target through the tracks on the ground. This kind of thing Rod has done a lot, especially like now, lurking alone in the tunnel, carefully groping forward, and can't help but evoke a lot of memories of Rode.

It was not long after Starlight was founded, and Rhodes provoked a powerful player guild at the time, and after sending several high-ranking members of the other party back to the cemetery, Rhodes was naturally wanted by that guild, and finally that guild besieged Rhodes in this tunnel.

However, in the end, they were not able to defeat the previous shame, and the elite group of hundreds of people was completely divided by Rhodes by using the terrain in the tunnel, and then eliminated more than half of the members, and finally had to choose to evacuate in embarrassment. So the old hatred has not disappeared, and new hatred has been added. Of course, the guild was also directly crippled and completely disbanded by Rhodes, who returned to the ground to gather Starlight.

Sneaking through the tunnels like this one again gave Rhodes a bit of the tension he had when he faced those players.

However, as it went deeper and deeper, Rhodes's original "nostalgic" relaxed mood had completely disappeared without a trace. His expression became more and more solemn, and his complexion became more and more ugly.

It wasn't because he was lost, but because ——— he found the direction these guys were taking, and he knew it well.

And for Rod, it is definitely not a good thing to "go back to the old place" in this kind of place.

"These guys......... Do you say .........?"

Walking to the edge of the mine, Rod frowned, crouched down in confusion, and carefully studied the footprints in front of him. Then he looked ahead again——— the light of the torch had become very dim and dim, but Rhodes could still feel the hint of danger lurking in the darkness.

Thinking of this, Rhodes pulled out the bright red blade beside him, and then he held his breath and quietly touched forward in the shadow of the torch's flickering.

Soon, he saw a mercenary standing outside the mine, winding.

This guy Rhodes had seen that he was part of a team led by an idiot during the conflict that broke out at the entrance of the Mercenary Guild. It's just that this guy's luck was really good at that time, otherwise, I'm afraid he wouldn't be alive now.

Dressed in slightly worn leather armor, he leaned against the wall, looking around boredly, looking defenseless.

Now let's test if it's what you think.

Thinking of this, Rhodes took a step forward.

Taking advantage of the shaking of the torch and the shadow covering the entrance of the cave for a moment, he walked out quietly, and then leaned against the edge of the wall, with the help of the shadows and stones there to cover his figure, not only that, if you look closely, you will also find that the cloak on Rod's body is changing with the change of environment at the moment, and from time to time it is transformed into the fusion of shadows and rocks, completely covering Rod's figure.

The cloak that Rhodes had obtained in the Rock of Sighs had finally come in handy again.

The mercenary didn't notice Rhodes, his eyes just swept around, and then he rambled back again. It's no wonder, after all, there are no one else here, even professionally trained warriors, let alone lazy mercenaries.

Now is the time!

Just when the mercenary once again leisurely and lazily withdrew his gaze looking outside, lowered his head and began to wander again, Rhodes, who had been waiting quietly beside him, finally made a move! …,

He lifted his cloak and jumped to his feet, his bright red blade stabbing out and shooting straight into the head.

In the face of this sudden attack, the originally lazy mercenary suddenly raised his head, and then he quickly stepped back, pulled out the dagger in his hand and swung it towards the dragon, instinctively wanting to block Rod's unexpected surprise attack, and at the same time distance himself, giving himself some time so that he could fulfill his duties as a caretaker.

His reaction was indeed quick.

But Rhodes was faster.

The mercenary had just turned his head, and before he could even open his mouth, the bright red blade had already penetrated his head, and then, the mercenary's body fell backwards with the residual strength of the movement, leaning heavily against the wall, and the dagger in his hand also fell, but before it could fall to the ground, it was grabbed by Rhodes's eyes, and then brazenly stuffed into his arms.

The mercenary's corpse slid down the walls of the tunnel, leaning crookedly like a tattered, gasping ball. His eyes were wide open, his face still showing the expression he had had been attacked, and bright red blood was slowly oozing from his eyes, forehead, and nose, and he looked like he was too dead to be able to die again.

Rhodes withdrew his sword, and then, his face suddenly changed slightly, and then he raised the sword with his backhand, and it pierced through the mercenary's body like lightning.

“———！！”

However, unlike the silent death before, this time the penetrated body suddenly began to tremble violently, and at the same time, one obvious bulge could be seen floating everywhere on the mercenary's body, as if dozens of giant snakes were swimming under his skin. Traces seeped from the mercenary's clothes, with a shocking madness. Rhodes gritted his teeth and pinned the corpse to the wall, and it was not until a moment later, when the corpse regained its previous calm, that he sighed softly and drew his sword.

And unlike before, this time, with the withdrawal of the Fresh Red Blade, what flew out was not the red blood that humans should have, but a green, viscous liquid.

Now it's a big problem.

Looking at the blood on his sword, Rhodes frowned.

In fact, a big reason why he didn't let his guard down because of the other party's death just now was that Rhodes didn't receive a system prompt about experience points. This kept him on his toes and averted a tragedy. Although this is a realistic world, Rhodes has already learned through the test that as long as he kills anything in this world, then he will gain experience, whether it is a monster, an alchemical creature or a human.

And when he killed the mercenary before, Rhodes didn't get the hint he deserved, which can only show one problem——— that is, the other party is not dead at all!

But this situation shouldn't have happened, right?

Thinking of this, the expression on Rod's face was already very gloomy, as a "walking library", he could now be sure of one thing——— that is, in this mine, the "little monster" with this characteristic will only appear in a damn mission.

And this is one of the tasks he is most reluctant to do now.

"This is a big problem......

Rod let out a low sigh, and then he stretched out his long sword and cut through the mercenary's clothes, and under the ** muscle cortex, the distinct protrusions were even a little disgusting——— especially when they looked like roaring mouths.

"Ding———!

And at this moment, suddenly a crisp voice sounded from Rod's head, and then, a system prompt quickly appeared in front of Rod. ..., [You perceive the presence of evil, the aura of darkness, they are struggling in the shadows, trying to return to this world——— quest triggers "Whispers of the Devil"]

When he saw this line of system prompts, Rod couldn't help but be stunned.

You must know that this is the first time he has seen a task that really exists in the form of a system prompt since he came to this world.

Originally, Rod thought that there were no system tasks here, because he led the mercenary group to do so many tasks before, but the system never showed prompts like [You received the task] or [You have completed the task], so Rod still felt that there was still a gap between this place and the game——— but what is going on now? He had just sighed that the game was really different from reality, and now the system couldn't wait to jump out and slap his face?

However, Rhodes was not discouraged by this, the quest "Whispers of the Devil" was familiar to him, it was not the kind of quest that could be received from NPCs, but a quest that was accidentally triggered through a series of coincidences. Of course, it's impossible to get paid or equipped from any NPC for completing this kind of task. However, such quests usually give special rewards, such as passive skills, experience, or skill points.

And now it seems that this is the case. After clicking on the quest about "Devil's Whisper", the reward content that appeared in it was no different from what Rhodes remembered, and after completing this quest, you can get 5,000 XP points, as well as an additional 3 skill points, and a ??? special random rewards.

Is this reality or a game?

Rhodes is now a little bit of a complaint.

As a player who has completed this task, of course Rhodes knows how troublesome this task is, in fact, for a moment, he really wants to leave here and retreat to the ground, although this task is accepted, it does not have to be completed, it is a big deal to cancel, anyway, there will be no punishment for canceling the task.

But Rod couldn't do that.

If it was really the practice of Emerald Tears that led to the triggering of the quest "Devil's Whisper", then it would mean that Starlight and the entire Deep Rock City would encounter unprecedented danger.

Especially considering his relationship with Emerald Tears, Rhodes didn't believe that those guys would be so kind and generous as not putting himself and Starlight in the position of the number one target to be destroyed.

The germ of danger must be addressed at the first moment.

By the time "Whispers of the Devil" becomes "Devil's Temptation" or "The Devil's Destruction," it's too late.

Thinking of this, Rod stretched out his right hand.

Soon, a white card swirled and appeared in the palm of his hand.

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