Chapter 67: Hidden Quest? (Fifth update)

The evil eye tentacle pierced into the temple, and Zou Feng's consciousness gradually became blurred.

During this period, Black Tide energy constantly seeped into the brain, trying to occupy the sea of consciousness and search for memory information.

But the evil eye's behavior accidentally triggered the taboo of the Challenger System.

The purification system created by Jiuyin started at this time, quickly clearing the Black Tide energy that seeped into Zou Feng's brain.

The purification system is one of the four core sub-systems of the Challenger System, and its importance is not weaker than the datafication system created by the guidance, the space reception system created by Yanming, and the All-Things Extraction System created by Chaowei.

The core role of the purification system is to eliminate all negative states.

For example, if a player dies after suffering from a curse-type ability, this part of the curse power will also be extracted by Chaowei's All-Things Extraction power and sent back to the underground of Dijia Village together with the flesh and blood materials after the player is decomposed for reshaping.

If there is no protection from the purification system, the negative state will still exist after the player is resurrected.

The function of the purification system is to filter negative energy, ensuring that the player completes resurrection after reshaping flesh and blood in the most perfect state.

Secondly, it is to ensure the player's mental health.

Death, despair, fear, and other emotions appear frequently, which will lead to abnormalities in the player's mental state, and excessive mental stimulation will even cause the player to develop mental illness.

For example, the hatred emotion brought by the taunt ability, even if it is out of control, will still leave relevant memories in the memory.

The purification system can perfectly smooth out the player's mental trauma, ensuring that every resurrection is in an excellent mental state.

The evil eye's behavior of occupying the player's sea of consciousness has triggered the taboo of the purification system. After actively starting, it began to clear the Black Tide energy that seeped into Zou Feng's sea of consciousness on a large scale. In a short time, it dispersed the Black Tide energy and formed a purification shield in the sea of consciousness, protecting Zou Feng's sea of consciousness from being infringed by corrosive power.

Time passed bit by bit, and the evil eye, which noticed something wrong, suddenly lost its strength after trying several times, and the Black Tide energy still seeping into Zou Feng's sea of consciousness faded away like a tide.

"No, I can't read his memory. His sea of consciousness is protected by some unknown force and cannot be broken through."

The evil eye's thought rang in the Earth Thought Evil Spirit's mind.

The Earth Thought Evil Spirit, who was waiting for an answer, heard this, frowned, pulled Zou Feng to the front with a wave of its hand, and grabbed his neck, deciding to interrogate him personally.

The ferocious eyes that had been scorched like charcoal stared directly at Zou Feng, and a hoarse voice squeezed out from its throat:

"Next, I will ask you a few questions. Answering truthfully can let you die very easily."

Zou Feng, who had regained his consciousness, heard this, and his expression was still a bit blank.

Under the coercion of the Earth Thought Evil Spirit, not only was there no fear in his heart, but what he thought was why the hidden quest had not been triggered yet; could it be that the way of opening it was wrong.

Or, does it need dialogue to open the hidden quest?

Thinking of this, Zou Feng suddenly had an idea, looked at the Earth Thought Evil Spirit with dissatisfaction, and said:

"Ask if you want to ask, put me down first, ask with a better attitude, I came to play a game, not to be angry."

Earth Thought Evil Spirit: ...

In Zou Feng's eyes, he couldn't see any fear, only deep dissatisfaction.

The Earth Thought Evil Spirit loosened its hand that was restraining his neck at this time, and Zou Feng landed steadily.

After shaking his limbs and twisting his waist to stretch his figure, Zou Feng looked up at the Earth Thought Evil Spirit with dissatisfaction:

"Ask, hurry up... I really want to skip the plot and accept the quest directly. I hate game plots that can't be skipped the most."

"What game plot?" Hearing the muttering in Zou Feng's mouth, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit asked in a deep voice.

"None of your business, hurry up and ask."

Suppressing the thought of slapping the creature in front of him to death, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit asked in a deep voice:

"Tell me about your origins."

Facing the inquiry, Zou Feng fell into deep thought.

How to answer this question would obviously affect the unfolding of the hidden quest. Directly answering that he was a player was not advisable, and might lead to quest failure.

This point had been verified before.

He had seen a post published by a player who got the Heavenly Rune combat skill, which mentioned that the player identity had a layer of taboo that could not be expressed.

The cause was that the player who posted the post found that there were blocked words in the words he said when communicating with the God of Wealth, causing the words he said to be missing a large part in the God of Wealth's ears.

Many players participated in the discussion on this issue on the forum.

It was generally believed that it was a taboo set in the game "Dark Lands," the purpose of which was to let players better substitute into the game identity, and they could not expose the existence of another world, so as not to affect the judgment of intelligent NPCs in the game.

So how to answer this question should obviously start from the game identity.

Thinking of this, Zou Feng gave the answer very honestly:

"We are warriors who believe in Di Zhao, and our purpose is to overthrow the destruction of the Black Tide to this world, until we defeat the Black Tide and let this world return to light."

Zou Feng's middle-school answer made the Earth Thought Evil Spirit and the evil eye hovering above fall into silence.

Looking at Zou Feng, who was sincere, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit couldn't help but ask:

"Do you know what the Black Tide is?"

"Of course I know, the destroyer who invaded this world."

"Then do you know how strong the Black Tide force is?"

"Not clear, maybe very strong, but it's not a big problem. We will be able to defeat it sooner or later."

Zou Feng's answer left the Earth Thought Evil Spirit completely speechless.

In the eyes of the Earth Thought Evil Spirit, these creatures, although mastering some mysterious rule power, were very weak and vulnerable.

Yet at this moment, they were speaking wildly, wanting to overthrow the Black Tide.

It was as if an ant that didn't know its own strength was trying to influence the operation of the planet and change the laws of nature through its own power.

But the problem was, in Zou Feng's eyes, what he saw was not arrogance and conceit, but confidence and pride.

The mysterious confidence truly made the Earth Thought Evil Spirit and the evil eye feel puzzled:

"Do you really think you can defeat the Black Tide just by relying on you?"

"Nonsense, we are Di Zhao warriors. Although we are very weak now, give me a year of growth time, and an evil spirit like you at level 70+ will be split to death by me with one knife. My brother's Black Armor Snake form can swallow a truck in one bite."

Although he didn't understand the remarks behind Zou Feng, he could hear the insult and confidence in Zou Feng's words.

Suppressing the anger in his heart, he continued to ask in a deep voice:

"Where did the rule power you master come from?"

Facing the inquiry, Zou Feng couldn't help reaching out to scratch his head:

"Rule power? You mean xxxx (Source Origin characteristic), right? This ability is bestowed by Di Zhao, it's very easy to use... So what exactly do you have to do, hurry up, okay."

"Why does the flesh and blood energy that constitutes the body disappear after you die."

The Earth Thought Evil Spirit, who had endured to the limit, asked the key question.

But this question left Zou Feng stunned.

In his cognition, players would turn into black mist and dissipate after death, and be reborn in Dijia Village after the resurrection cooldown ended.

So he didn't understand what the Earth Thought Evil Spirit meant by this.

"What flesh and blood energy dissipates, I didn't understand, you explain it in detail."

"You don't want to answer?" The Earth Thought Evil Spirit raised its hand abruptly, grabbed Zou Feng's neck again, brought him to the front, and its palm slowly tightened.

Zou Feng felt difficulty breathing, and his face flushed red:

"Dog thing, let go, your grandfather came to play the game, not to be angry."

The Earth Thought Evil Spirit did not answer, and the black mist released from its body quickly shrouded Zou Feng.

Wherever the black mist passed, Zou Feng felt unbearable stinging pain, and he let out a miserable scream.

Hearing the scream, a smile appeared on the corner of the Earth Thought Evil Spirit's mouth.

At this time, the Challenger System was activated again.

Detecting that Zou Feng was undergoing very dangerous mental and physical torture, the Challenger System automatically adjusted Zou Feng's pain perception from 10% to 0.

The black mist shrouding Zou Feng was still surging, but the scream stopped abruptly.

The Earth Thought Evil Spirit, who felt something wrong, immediately dispersed the black mist, and what he saw was Zou Feng's confused expression.

"Don't you feel pain?"

"It was very painful just now, but it doesn't hurt now."

This answer left the Earth Thought Evil Spirit and the evil eye stunned. The Earth Thought immediately released the black mist on its body, wrapped it around Zou Feng's right arm, and constantly seeped in along the pores.

The stinging pain like needle pricks, after the pain perception was lowered to 0%, Zou Feng not only didn't feel pain, but even wanted to laugh a little.

"How does it feel?"

"No feeling, do you want to use more force?"

The Earth Thought Evil Spirit, who couldn't believe it, chose to continue trying, wanting to obtain information through torture means.

But the result did not change at all.

The black mist he released had physical destruction and mental stinging effects, but it had no effect on the weak mysterious creature in front of him.

After several attempts without success, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit completely lost patience and twisted Zou Feng's neck.

The flesh and blood energy constituting Zou Feng also dissipated into black mist. Even if the evil eye tried its best to capture it, it still couldn't find a trace, as if it had evaporated out of thin air.

"Catch a few more to interrogate, and investigate the specific origins of these mysterious creatures."

The evil eye opened its mouth at this time.

Although these mysterious creatures were very weak, in the eyes of the evil eye, mastering rule power meant they couldn't be ordinary creatures, and there must be secrets on them.

"I don't want to talk to these stupid creatures anymore." The Earth Thought Evil Spirit said impatiently.

"Don't forget, they master rule power. If you can find out their origins, maybe you can also master similar abilities, or even I can inject rule power into your Black Tide to build a powerful legion that masters rule power for you."

The evil eye's words made the Earth Thought Evil Spirit fall into silence, and after a long time, it nodded:

"Good!"

Player Forum:

[Very uncomfortable, the hidden quest was not triggered successfully, don't know which step went wrong.]

Poster: Moving with the Wind.

Content:

Must go to the forum to talk about my encounter just now, it's really annoying... At that time, I was slashing and killing groups of evil spirits with my brothers in the Black Tide, and found that my brothers had already been put in the small black room (1-hour cooldown). I, who was already exhausted, was originally prepared to die, but didn't expect an accident to occur... Guess who I met, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit that beat the God of Wealth.

At this point in the plot, it is obviously a hidden quest that can be triggered.

But the problem is that my answer seems to have a problem, and finally I was killed by the Earth Thought Evil Spirit.

Here is the video recorded at the time (Attached: recorded video)

Comment area:

Night is Coming: Brother, you are really a reckless man. Your identity in the game is a warrior of the Di Zhao camp. How can you cooperate with the answer? If you want to trigger the hidden quest, you must have a bad attitude, show a spirit of being ready to die, and then you will trigger the hidden quest, for example: Courage of Di Zhao Warrior (Hidden Quest).

Is This Beaver: Buddy, you are too tiger-like. You just threw away the hidden quest that was about to be obtained. Brother Night is right. You must substitute into the game identity to answer the question. You must not be cowardly. You lost a lot this time. It wasn't me who triggered the quest, otherwise I would definitely be able to get it.

Leopard Head Zero-Spender: This hidden quest might give 10,000 sacrificial power, or even more. The huge money that was about to be obtained was thrown away like this. Substituting into you, I can't wait to slap myself twice.

The post published by Zou Feng caused heated discussion on the forum, and the popularity continued to rise.

Aiming at the special plot he triggered, forum players turned into experts one after another, giving their own reliable suggestions, and at the same time couldn't help but sigh that this good luck didn't fall on themselves.

2 hours later.

Player "Violent Little Chicken's" live stream room flooded with a large number of players.

The reason is that Violent Little Chicken encountered the plot trigger mentioned in the forum player "Moving with the Wind's" post during the live stream and was sent to the tower platform by the evil spirit.

This also made his live stream room instantly top the popularity list, and a large number of players came to hear the news, all wanting to see the trigger of the hidden plot.

At this time, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit and the evil eye were depressed.

Looking at the mysterious creature sitting on the platform, they saw uncontrollable joy and excitement in its eyes. There was no fear in its eyes, only infinite fanaticism.

The Earth Thought Evil Spirit, who had fought in the Dungeon World and brought fear to countless lives, was encountering such a weird situation for the first time.

"Are you not afraid?"

Violent Little Chicken, who learned that he triggered the hidden plot through the live stream room, trembled, suppressed his excitement, and began to think about how to answer this question.

If the answer is correct, win the jackpot, and the hidden quest reward will definitely be generous.

At this time, the onlookers in the live stream room also gave suggestions one after another:

"Hurry up and scold it, scolding it will definitely trigger the hidden quest. As a Di Zhao warrior facing an evil spirit, the attitude must be bad."

"Go up and output directly. To trigger the quest, you must show your courage. Don't learn from the last idiot who answered the question honestly. He is too stupid."

"Don't listen to the brothers upstairs talking nonsense. I suggest answering this question first, and then slowly unfolding the subsequent dialogue. Suicide charging before the plot unfolds definitely can't trigger the hidden quest. Believe me, brother, I am a five-year veteran player of Sin Lands and have a deep understanding of the games developed by the Moon Eclipse race."

The live stream players gave multiple options. After a brief silence, Violent Little Chicken gritted his teeth and switched to the hawk-headed demon form, decisively charging toward the Earth Thought Evil Spirit:

"We Di Zhao warriors will never compromise with evil spirits."

Crack!

Accompanied by the sound of neck bone fracture, the live stream screen went dark, and a prompt popped up:

[Player died, live stream interrupted.]

"I said that we must first talk to unfold the subsequent plot. As a result, charging at the start, stupid behavior, too stupid."

"Another idiot sent away the huge money that was about to be obtained. I don't understand the significance of launching a suicide charge directly. Eh, it's a pity that it wasn't me who triggered the plot, otherwise I would definitely not miss this opportunity."

"Gave me a laugh, learn from the brother who met the God of Wealth last time. He chatted with the God of Wealth for a long time before being gifted the Heavenly Rune combat skill. So when encountering special events, of course, you must talk first, and then you can trigger subsequent content after the plot unfolds."

Aiming at this failed hidden quest trigger, the onlookers expressed their opinions.

They all thought that Violent Little Chicken's behavior was too reckless. If it were them, they would definitely be able to trigger it, just sighing that they didn't have such good luck.

1 hour later, the "Hidden Quest" appeared again.

The player who triggered the quest decisively opened the live stream, and his live stream room also climbed to the hot list in a short time.

The comment area of the live stream room flooded with a large number of dog-headed military advisors again.

When the player who triggered the quest met the Earth Thought Evil Spirit, he changed a way to deal with it.

Facing the inquiry, he first answered normally to unfold, and when asked about the origin of the ability, he chose to look at the Earth Thought Evil Spirit with a determined attitude under the instigation of the live stream room players and opened his mouth:

"Shameless evil spirit, don't even think about knowing Di Zhao's secret, I'll fight you."

After speaking, he transformed into a monster form and was slapped into black mist and dissipated in tragedy.

After this player died, the players who triggered the hidden plot began to play out of routine, trying to find the trigger conditions of the hidden quest through trial and error.

For example, a player, after triggering the "Hidden Quest," faced the Earth Thought Evil Spirit's interrogation, cried bitterly, and expressed his willingness to be loyal to the Black Tide, saying that he had long looked at the bullshit Di Zhao unpleasantly.

The reason for doing this was a suggestion given by a player in the live stream room.

The suggestion believed that the hidden quest is very likely to require players to join the Black Tide in the form of an undercover agent, thereby triggering the undercover plot line and opening a growth path different from other players.

This idea was liked by many players and became the choice of this "lucky player" to trigger the quest.

The result was no surprise, ending with the player's death.

In the continuous attempts of players, the trigger method of the hidden plot has never been cracked, and the popularity of the topic discussing the trigger method is also constantly rising.

Evil Eye Tower Platform.

After killing the mysterious creature caught again, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit fell into complete silence.

Looking back on the experience of the past two days, it felt like some strange things had been stuffed into its brain.

The performance of the mysterious creatures caught was too jumpy, not even like life of a tribe.

During the period, there were mysterious creatures that launched attacks on it when they disagreed, mysterious creatures that knelt down and begged to join the Black Tide camp, mysterious creatures that kept their mouths shut and said nothing, just looking at it with angry eyes... mysterious creatures that sincerely persuaded it to put down the butcher knife and join the Di Zhao camp... The most outrageous thing was that a mysterious creature was caught to the tower and sat on the ground to communicate with it in sign language, which made it so angry that it slapped it into black mist.

These jumpy mysterious creatures seemed to treat its interrogation as a performance stage.

Each time they responded to its interrogation in different ways, and the process was not repeated.

And it never obtained useful information, getting only some strange information, which was of no help to mastering rule power.

During the period, it even had the idea of giving up.

But every time the evil eye would persuade it, saying that doing so might be able to get the method of mastering rule power, so it had to grit its teeth and persist, enduring the mental torture brought by a series of strange performance arts of mysterious creatures.

Persisting until now, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit has completely lost patience, only feeling the suppressed murderous aura surging violently in its brain.

Standing at the edge of the platform, the Earth Thought Evil Spirit's dark red eyes burst into light, spreading its arms and roaring at the sky.

Immediately, the Black Tide energy in its body turned into a giant wave sweeping in all directions, shaking the tower.

"Earth Thought, control your emotions. As a command-type warrior, you need to stay rational at all times." The evil eye persuaded in a deep voice at this time.

"Go to your mother's rationality, ahhhhh."