Chapter 169 - 122: The New Escort Task
4 points of demon power consumed. Nether Wolf Scripture promoted to beginner.
8 points of demon power consumed, Nether Wolf Scripture promoted to minor achievement.
16 points of demon power consumed, Nether Wolf Scripture promoted to great accomplishment.
Remaining usable demon power: 27 points!
“Let’s leave it at that for now.”
Checking the time, it was already past 2 AM.
Su Nan chose to log out of the game.
Today is the seventeenth day of the public beta test.
It is also the second day after the survival missions ended.
According to the game’s previous announcements, once tomorrow passes, the second public test will begin.
During this time, the second batch of game bracelets will be randomly distributed.
Last time, game bracelets appeared roughly around 5 AM.
This time, countless people around the world are pulling all-nighters waiting for the bracelets to be distributed.
Early morning.
Su Nan woke up from his sleep and habitually opened the forum.
To his surprise, he found that all the latest posts on the forum were about the second public test of the game.
“I’m so excited, I actually got a bracelet in this public test.”
“What’s so exciting about that? Last time, eight out of nine people lost their qualifications to play the game permanently. Enter the game at this time, it’s a complete waste of qualifications.”
“Don’t be sour just because you can’t have grapes. Can the situation last time be compared to now?”
“The survival missions have ended, and the remaining players have all collectively improved. Now, all the major guilds have already established a foothold in the game. As long as you join them, completing novice tasks is easy!”
“Buying bracelets at a high price! Serious inquiries only!”
“So the bracelets have been distributed so quickly?”
Seeing these posts, Su Nan realized that there was only a little over a day left until the second public test.
Last time the bracelets were distributed on the last day, while this time they were distributed a day earlier.
However, just like last time, all bracelets appeared silently.
Some people even witnessed the process of the bracelets appearing and even recorded it with their cameras.
You can see that the bracelets appeared out of thin air. They started off with an ethereal state, but in just the time it takes for a breath, the bracelets materialized and became solid. It was quite magical.
Su Nan watched for a moment and then stopped paying attention. Instead, he searched for “Heavenly Dome Divine Prohibition” using keywords.
He wanted to find the player who had received the main quest “Heavenly Dome Crisis” at that time.
Luckily, the player’s post was not deleted, and Su Nan quickly found the post.
Now, due to the second public test, many people think that the so-called all-region task may be related to the Heavenly Dome Divine Prohibition, resulting in this post getting more than 10 million views.
Su Nan saw that the player’s username was “Mouse and Rice.”
Obviously, this was just a nickname, not their name in the game.
“This is difficult. If I knew their game name, I could try to find them in the game. But a username is useless.”
Su Nan didn’t give up and went under the post to check the replies, hoping for some useful information.
To his surprise, he did find some information related to that player.
That player, because of the “Heavenly Dome Crisis” quest, not only joined the Nine Heavens Guild but also became a key target for cultivation by the Nine Heavens Guild.
Now, there are more than ten players helping that player complete the quest every day.
“The Nine Heavens Guild is not in Tianyun County, so it’s a bit difficult.”
The Nine Heavens Guild is one of the current major guilds, and its president is the now fifth-ranked Li Longfei.
If Su Nan was willing, he could find a way to go to the location of the Nine Heavens Guild, but that would inevitably waste a lot of time.
“Forget it, if I can get this quest, I’ll get it. If not, I’ll just pick some other quests.” Su Nan did not feel too disappointed.
He had three Main Quest Replication Cards. Even if he found that player, he couldn’t just focus on one quest, he needed to look for other quests as well.
Just as he was about to exit the forum,
At that moment, he saw that there was an unread message on the forum’s message list.
“Big Brother, where are you?”
The message was from Li Hao.
Su Nan thought for a moment and didn’t answer directly, but instead asked, “Where are you?”
Since he gave a few keys of the Kun Tian Prison to Li Hao last time, Su Nan never saw Li Hao again.
The demon beasts on the first floor of the Kun Tian Prison were later cleaned up by Zhou Cheng’s God-Sealing Guild members.
Now, the Kun Tian prison was already taken away by Dianxing Sect, and he didn’t know if Li Hao managed to leave the Kun Tian Prison back then or not.
It seemed that Li Hao had been waiting for Su Nan’s reply. As soon as Su Nan sent his message, Li Hao immediately replied.
“Big Brother, I am now at Silver Frost County.”
Silver Frost County?
Su Nan hadn’t heard of Silver Frost County, but he was sure that it was definitely far away from the Sky Wolf Valley, since Sky Wolf Valley was in Tianyun County.
Even if Silver Frost County was right next to Tianyun County, it wouldn’t be a place ordinary people could reach.
Su Nan was curious and asked, “How did you get to Silver Frost County?”
“It’s a long story…”
Li Hao sent a series of messages explaining what happened.
After Su Nan read it, he finally understood the course of events and couldn’t help but marvel at Li Hao’s luck.
As it turned out, that day, after he gave the keys to Li Hao, Li Hao opened one of the prison cells and found a martial artist imprisoned inside.
After learning that Li Hao was an outsider, the martial artist gave Li Hao something called a Teleportation Stone and told him to use it after leaving the Kun Tian Prison.
At the same time, the martial artist gave him a quest to go to a place called the Black Sand Desert to find a person and deliver a message to them.
Later, during the Dianxing Sect’s attack on the Sky Wolf Valley, Li Hao took advantage of the unguarded Kun Tian Prison and left. He then used the Teleportation Stone, and when he appeared again, he was already at Silver Frost County.
Now, Li Hao had inquired that the so-called Black Sand Desert was precisely located in Silver Frost County.
“Since your quest is over there, you should finish the quest there first.” Su Nan said.
Li Hao said, “Alright, Big Brother, I’ll come to find you once my quest is finished.”
After ending the conversation with Li Hao, Su Nan couldn’t help but think of the martial artist named Han Fu he met back in the Kun Tian Prison.
“I wonder how Han Fu is doing now.”
Before this, he encountered not only Zhou Lingyin in Kun Tian Prison but also another martial artist named Han Fu.
Han Fu also gave him a task, asking him to pass his storage ring to Liu Qing’er of Yuxu Sect.
However, the Yuxu Sect was not in Tianyun County, so it was impossible for him to complete this task in a short time.
Two days ago, Security Chief Fatty Li approved Su Nan’s one-month vacation, and today was his last day on duty.
“Brother Nan, why didn’t you come yesterday?”
Upon arriving at the hotel, Wang Chong immediately approached Su Nan and asked.
“I wasn’t feeling well yesterday and took a day off,” Su Nan casually made an excuse.
To meet the deadline for the survival tasks yesterday, he spent most of the day in the game, traveling.
“Really?”
Wang Chong looked suspicious and changed the topic jokingly, “Didn’t you go on a date with some girl?”
“I would love to, but unfortunately, no one wants to date me!” Su Nan replied with a smile.
Hearing that, Wang Chong got excited, “Brother Nan, if you want to find someone to date, you should have told me earlier. I told you before that I have a cousin…”
Before Wang Chong could finish speaking, Su Nan interrupted, “Stop right there, don’t bring up your cousin again.”
Then, he changed the topic and asked, “I heard that the survival task in the Demon World game ended yesterday. How did you rank?”
Unsatisfied, Wang Nan complained, “Don’t even mention it. Just before the task ended, I finally managed to integrate the second Demon Sutra, ranking at 4,200.”
Su Nan nodded, “Not bad, considering that you started the game later than others, achieving such results is already very good.”
“But it’s nothing compared to Miss Bai!
Wang Chong shook his head and said, “Miss Bai is now ranked as a Great God at number ten.”
“Even the dozen other beauties, with the help of Miss Bai, have ranked above me. As the most handsome guy in the Dream Guild, I ended up in last place. It’s so frustrating!”
While talking about it, he suddenly sighed, “That Wang Nan who ranked first is terrifying. I wonder what rewards he got for his ranking. Last night, his first Spirit Grade Demon Technique reached Great Perfection, leaving the rest of the players far behind!”
No wonder those people in black and the officials are looking for him frantically. It seems this Wang Nan really has some secret.”
At the mention of this, Su Nan’s curiosity piqued, “Is this Wang Nan really so mysterious? Even the officials couldn’t find him?”
Wang Chong conspiratorially said, “I heard from Miss Bai that officials and those fake Wang Nan people in black who pretended to be him are searching like mad. They’ve practically turned Donglin City upside-down.”
“I also heard that they found a way to distinguish martial artists from ordinary people. There are now people secretly patrolling all exits out of Donglin City, and a large-scale search will soon be carried out here!”
A method to distinguish martial artists from ordinary people?
Upon hearing that, Su Nan’s heart sank.
They’re forcing his hand!
“By the way, Brother Nan, did you get a game bracelet in this public test?” Wang Chong asked casually.
“No!” Su Nan shook his head.
“What a pity!” Wang Chong sighed.
“Don’t worry, there were only 10 million people tested this time, and there will be more people next time. Maybe it will be my turn then,” Su Nan smiled.
“I hope so.”
As it was his last day on duty, Su Nan finished work early.
He returned home at 5:30 PM.
He planned to pack up everything in advance and be ready to leave at any time.
However, when he saw the gigantic game warehouse, he was conflicted once again.
The game warehouse was too big to carry.
But without the game warehouse, he couldn’t even log in to the game.
“Maybe I can exchange my in-game storage ring for real life.”
Suddenly, Su Nan thought of a solution and his eyes lit up.
The previous announcement clearly stated that the second public test would open up the feature to exchange in-game items for real ones.
As long as he could exchange the storage ring for real life, all problems would be solved.
“It seems I won’t be able to leave tomorrow,” Su Nan shook his head.
Today was only the second day, and the second public test would not be held until tomorrow.
“Well, I’ll wait one more day. There shouldn’t be any problems within a day,” he concluded.
Log in to the game.
As Su Nan looked at the tasks of the three characters, he frowned again.
For the three characters’ daily tasks, besides Lang Thirteen’s player hunting task, he had no other tasks to do.
“More than 6 hours left till the game refreshes, what kind of tasks will it refresh if I use the Daily Task Refresh Card now?”
Having an idea, he took out a Daily Task Refresh Card.
[Do you want to use the Daily Task Refresh Card to refresh today’s Daily Tasks?]
“Yes!”
[You have used the Task Refresh Card, and your Daily Task 1 has been refreshed.]
At the moment, Su Nan was using Zhang Yang’s character, and the refresh was Zhang Yang’s daily task.
[Daily Task 1: Hunt down and kill a mortal-level demon]
[Daily Task 2: Hunt a Spirit-level Monster]
[Daily Task 3: Escort Ji Changfeng to Tianyun County]
“Escort Ji Changfeng?”
Ignoring the first two tasks, Su Nan was instantly drawn to the third task, his eyes showing surprise.
Originally, the task was “Follow the Demon Hunting Bureau and escort the Green Gold Stone to Tianyun County.”
Now it had changed to escort Ji Changfeng to Tianyun County.
This change in the task was obviously not just because the Green Gold Stone had been stolen. More importantly, Ji Changfeng had been seriously injured and his strength had greatly decreased. He now needed others to escort him to Tianyun County.
“Could it be that Ji Changfeng, despite being heavily injured, wants to go to Tianyun County to ask for reinforcements against the Black Cloud Pig Demon?”
Su Nan thought of a possibility.
This was highly likely. Since Ji Changfeng couldn’t take on the Black Cloud Pig Demon on his own and wanted to reclaim the Green Gold Stone, he would naturally have to ask for reinforcements.
“Perhaps I could take this opportunity to familiarize myself with the Demon Hunting Bureau again,” Su Nan thought.
When he told Ji Changfeng about the Black Cloud Pig Demon’s location before, Ji Changfeng had said that he would ask the County Magistrate to reward him once they arrived in Tianyun County.
Although Ji Changfeng had failed, if he could escort him to Tianyun County, he could still earn considerable favor.
In this way, he might have the chance to get in touch with the higher-ups of Tianyun County..