Lost Temple Chapter 3

The previous experiments were really effective. It was a lot easier to hit the rabbits again after learning that the rabbit’s weak points were in the ears. In addition the new handed short bow doesn’t know how much stronger than the system’s given whiteboard equipment, he can now basically kill a rabbit with a shot.

With a knife it’s more effective when it comes to collect the rabbit’s skin, soon everything on the grocery store owner’s task list were collected except for the spikes. Although it is slower to upgrade for dual professions player, because the rabbit experience is not enough. Black Mark finished filling the backpack and began to walk a little outside the Xinshoucun.

The wild wolf is really not as easy as the rabbit (that’s inevitable =。= ). And this type of monster has already taken the initiative to attack. Now that Black Mark has to concentrate on his own goals, he must be careful not to be attacked by other monsters hidden in the gra.s.s. Although he had risen several levels, his blood did not break through 100 point. A wolf or two could send him back to his resurrection. Fortunately, his agility made up for his lack of blood. Whenever he was being attacked by a wolf, seeing the word "Miss" drifted over his head felt so cool. (means that he can avoid the wolf’s attack and the ‘Miss’ word will appear).

(“could send him back to his resurrection: killed him and his character will reincarnate”)

Black Mark used a dagger to knock down the last tooth from the body of the wolf, satisfied looking at the collection of material confessed by the grocery store owner then a sentence “Completion degree: Has Completed” is displayed, after the meticulous task Black Mark rushed to collect the remaining task rewards.

People will always in great joy when he is full of rewards, the wild wolf in the gra.s.s can’t help defending himself. It opens it’s mouth and pounces. The usual good fortune did not play a role when Black Mark felt pained. He watched his own bloodstains and saw it flow. Too much time to think, he quickly use the speed advantage to open the distance with the wolf. The right hand quickly draws a feather arrow from the quiver and shoots the wolf at the front. Fortunately, this short bow is also powerful, two arrows will shot the wolf to the ground. Black Mark didn't go to collect the loot. He immediately pulled out the minstrel's harp instead. A light yellow lightly emerged from the string and flocked to the injured part of his left arm. The wound healed in a blink of an eye under the effect of light.

With the lessons he just learned, Black Mark couldn’t dare to carelessly approach the wolf’s corpse on the ground. He tossed the collected materials into the backpack and turned to the grocery store owner in the district to deliver the task.

At this moment in the game is almost evening, the surrounding scenery has been covered with a faint red layer, as Black Mark admiring the scenery in front of him, his attention is suddenly attracted by a slowly moving unidentified object. Experience tells him that there must be something weird about it. Either it’s special NPC or hidden task.

When he look closer, it’s like a b.l.o.o.d.y guy falls to the ground. “What’s happened?” Although it has visual protection and will not appear in the game with broken face, but it is too b.l.o.o.d.y and cruel, the blood smells simulated by high-fidelity simulations and the terrible wounds on that person still frowned upon.

“I’m… Responsible… I was asked to take one… Letter to the Great Temple Elder… Halfway… I’m afraid… I’m not alright… The letter was taken for me… Please…” The NPC was obviously in a state of dying, strongly hold on to finish his words before he fainted.

This is an errand quest that will be common in the general game. Usually he was sure to pick up the letter and directly go to the Great Temple Elder to hand over the task, but now, look at the guy in the comatose state on the ground. Black Mark hesitate. This game is too real, the NPC's pale face and blood oozing from his wounds make him couldn’t turn around and leave. Even though knowing that he was the mission NPC, it was still very uncomfortable to see him dying.

Forget it, it is a psychology balance, he take out the system’s blood-supply potion from the pocket, then put the guy’s head up and pour the potion into his mouth. That pale face slightly better, a part of the wounds on the body healed, but the person was still unconscious. “Of course, the good guys always doing it.” Black Mark licking his lips took out the other bottle of blood-supply potion in his pocket and poured him down again.

“Hey… did you save me?” The potion gave an effect, the one who was comatose and seriously injured finally woke up.
“Yeah.” It seems that unlike the rigid settings in other games, there are many different ways to accomplish the tasks in Lost Temple.
“Hey, buddy, you’re awesome. You were the first player to save me since you started open the game!” The NPC, who was still lying on the ground and dying, now suddenly jumped up from the ground and patted Black Mark’s shoulders with a heavy slap. Where did the man who was just dying?
“…” Black Mark hung a black line on his head -_-”’, so noisy NPC, if i knew it, it would be good to just throw him in the desert just now.
“Oh, buddy, you saved me, opened the story of the hidden character, and went to the temple with me to hand over the task.” The NPC patted Black Mark’s shoulders again, then turned to sing and sway. Walk in the direction of the temple.
Obviously the NPC actually sings rock music. Although the tune is a bit absurd, he is still knowing the song because he’s the band’s loyal fans. : “You… Really are an NPC?” Even if technology is advanced, it’s unlikely to create such an intelligent NPC.
“Eh? You found it?” The NPC who led the way suddenly twisted his head and scratched his head: “In fact, many NPCs in this game were played by members of the development team. Firstly, we can personally experience the game we created, and secondly, it is also convenient to determine the future development of the game, but you can not disclose it. If we are discovered by the player, our bonus will be deducted…”
Sure enough, he wasn't an ordinary NPC. Black Mark looked helplessly at him and squeezed him down. He felt some headaches: "Since you want to play as NPC, you have to act like it a little… have you ever seen an NPC singing Beatles’ song?”
“The first time someone saved me, that player took the letter and left…. Ah! You like the Beatles too. Hehe, don’t think i’ll find a good friend. Which alb.u.m do you like????” Seeing a good friend who has the same thing, that ‘NPC’ immediately forgot everything in front of his eyes, pulling Black Mark’s hand to chat.
“….” The guy in front of him was really speechless. Black Mark frowned and he couldn’t help but smirk and scamper all the way. “Go to the temple, shouldn’t you take me to find the elders?”
“Ah? Go to the temple? Oops!” The guy who had just jumped on his back was suddenly weak and hung on himself in the next second. He said with a very small voice: “The Elder of the Temple is played by my boss, but don’t let him know that you knew I play as an NPC, or else the bonus will be finished this month. Please, ah~~~~~"

This guy. . . . Really heavy ah … … Black Mark helplessly dragging the “dead” NPC step by step into the Great Temple. The entrance to the temple is a stone statue of two h.e.l.l dogs, Kelperouss. The eyes of the stone statues are glowing. The elders stood in the temple in black robes with red curses. He saw the NPC was dragged in like him dragging a dead dog. He bent his mouth slightly invisible:  “Welcome to the Great Temple of this Clan, Black Mark.”

Seeing that man is the real man who’s playing talked in such a serious tone, Black Mark felt a bit funny, but he could not show it. He had to face his solemn face and said: “When i met this dying scout in the desert and saved him, he said he would send an important letter to the Great Temple and i join him.”
“Oh?” The great elders taking the heart seal and reading it, then he frowned and sighed. “We have been breaking with the G.o.ds clan since ancient times. We haven’t known how many years have pa.s.sed since we came to this dark place. But those arrogant G.o.ds do not tolerate our existence, constantly attack us in various ways, trying to wipe out our clan completely, but how can we easily submit? Son, thank you for saving my scout, thank you for sending this letter in my hands, but are you willing to pa.s.s the message to another Elder like this scout pa.s.sing message to this Elder?”
The system prompts: “Do you accept the new mission 'Strong Counterattack?’"
It seems to be a long errands task, but hidden tasks will generally give some good rewards, Black Mark naturally chose “yes” without hesitation.
“Well, please send this letter to the Elder Icarus beside the blood pool.” The elder’s thin hands delivered the letter and suddenly blinked again and whispered, “did that rascal  perform good act?”
Eh? After a while, Black Mark understood what he meant. Black Mark smiled and said: “It’s not bad. I just don’t want him to sing the Beatles song next time.”
The elder also smiled at him, and said to the NPC who was kneeling on the ground: “Get up, you have been exposed.” The guy got up from the ground and patted the soil. The laugh lines at the corner of his lips had not yet opened and he has to lose his face by the elder’s next sentence. “Since you have been discovered, you have lost your bonus this month.”
"No…… boss ……"
"It won’t do"
“Don’t… please spare me this time…”
“No way….”
“It was the first time someone has saved me, i’m so excited…”
“There is no room for change…”

Turning away from the temple, listening to the two “NPC” conversations behind him, Black Mark smile. This game is really interesting…

“Because of the needs of the ritual ceremony, please help me collect ten golden bellflowers, three black agates, three green agates, and a bottle of sunset water…”

It seems that not all NPCs are played by real people. This rigid guy in front of him, no matter how he was asked over and over again, he will only report the name of a long list of articles like a dish name. Black Mark is asked to look for it and find it. Even a little clues are not provided.

Negotiating with the idiot NPC for a long time still had no results. At last he only had to turn around and leave, if it’s not impossible to attack an NPC Black Mark would reward this old man an arrow shot.

In the end where to find those junk things! With the wind blowing the sand to the face, a man wanders in the desert. Fortunately, there are monsters that won’t take the initiative to attack. There is no need to worry about the danger of being enc.u.mbered, but still in the desert there are monsters with big eyes and small eyes, whoever would be crashed.

“s.h.i.+t!! It’s a task but they don’t give a hint, isn’t it a joke?” An angry b.u.t.t sat on a rock, murmured and cursed the d.a.m.n task, venting his anger with pulling up the gra.s.s that growing on the side of the stone’s crevice.

After the sound of "Ding", the system prompts: "Congratulations on the player Black Mark, get a task item of a Bellflower. Get 1 skilled point of acquisition skills"

？？？ Can you find the task item with your hand? It didn't need a long time to turn around in the desert? Should I say that I am very lucky or stupid?

Pull it! Pull it! no matter what i see, grab it first and pull it again, all the emotions when he ran around the desert are all throwing to the Bellflowers, and soon the six bellflowers are pulled out in a short while.

Ng? What is this? The seventh gra.s.s pulled out in his hand did not appear to be a task item. He took a closer look at the gra.s.s, and it was different from what he had previously pulled. The flat leaves were a bit like daffodils, however, on the slender leaves, you can see the b.l.o.o.d.y-red veins faintly, using your fingers to break it and sniffing the sap at the fracture is a faint fragrance.

"Ding" the system prompts: "Congratulations on player Black Mark score 1 point of proficiency in the identification technique."

Looking back at the gra.s.s in his hand, it really showed “Anshen flower, a primary herb.”

Oh? Different from the weeds i used to pick up, this thing turned out to be a herbal medicine. With the mentality of experimenting, he put the odd gra.s.s and the newly-picked golden bellflower into an empty bottle of blood-potion medicine and shook it. A white light flashed, the gra.s.s disappeared, and some light red liquid was generated in the bottle.

The “Ding” system prompts: “Get the primary blood medicine, congratulations to the player Black Mark for understanding the alchemy.”

…. This is it will become? ? ? ? After picking up the bottle for a long time, Black Mark hesitated for a moment, he decided to cut out the game and check it out on the official website. After all, it was not in the data that he had previously collected and there is no such an easy-to-understand skills that have been mentioned.

Black Mark searched for a circle on the official website, because the game has just been open beta, in addition the other things outside the information provided by the official are pitifull, after looking for a long time finally found a post about life skills, point to go  see, Black Mark couldn’t believe what he see.

Why is it like that? Because according to the official saying, this kind of understanding-of-life skills is more difficult than fighting skills, and it is usually done by doing some deviant tasks or finding hidden NPCs.

Sure enough, there is a problem… It seems that this kind of situation in the field that turns around and realise the three life skills are absolutely abnormal.

Won’t this thing be a system BUG? Hesitated for a while and decided to get back to the game and asked GM directly. Although Lost Temple is a game that is completely dominated by the system’s chief mind, in order to deal with some situations, developers have set up GM in the game. Pull out the system menu to call GM. Soon a sweet voice rang in the ear: “h.e.l.lo, Black Mark, online GM1480 for your service, what questions do you have?”

He talked about the situation briefly to the GM then he silent for a while, GM replied: “Thank you for your attention to the system, but your situation is not system bug, but because of you’re very lucky… …What another questions do you have?”

“…nothing, thank you.” Black Mark who has never believed in luck must also admit that he is the lover of the G.o.ddess of luck…

This is still related to the Lucky point? It seems that it’s good to replace the Appearance point of beautifications to the Lucky point…. Knowing that there is no suspicion of using the system bug, the hanging heart falls back to the belly, and Black Mark begins to feel confident in searching for everything in the desert. All kinds of things, start from the small plants to the big trees and stones. Soon afterwards, the stones and gra.s.s required by the mission are taken care of. Only a bottle of sunset water does not know where to go. Looking for water in the desert? Those NPCs are really imaginative. He might as well call them himself to beg for it. At least he now knows how to imagine ‘a fish likes to climb a tree’.

Because the game just beta test and not knowing whether or not the condition is limited, the Demon players are pitifully indifferent. Black Mark who has been wandering for nearly a day here has not found another player. Where to find the sunset water? Now he is caught in an aimless circle. At last, he has no choice but to switch to the official website again to find information.

It seems that he was the first person to trigger the hidden task. After searching for a long time on the official website, he finally found an anonymous official explanation post. Originally those herbs and stones were limited sold by the shop’s NPC, so what is the hint of the last item sunset water? “Follow the direction of the setting sun and find out where the life originally begin. You will have unexpected results…”.

What a c.r.a.p tips! The tips given by the officials are so vague, like the lyric poem written by the acquirement cues… shutting down the official website, Black Mark ma.s.sage his forehead with disappointment, but complaining will only return complaining, he still doesn't want to give up on this task. After all, he spent so much time to find the first few things, in the end, it's okay to find some relevant clues. At this time, whether or not to give up will be a failure?

The direction of the sun setting. . . . Should it be the ‘West’? Looking at the small map and taking a horizontal view, regardless of the terrain location, he walk directly to the direction of the west. Walk and walk until his straight back in pain, his limbs are weak, and seeing that his satiety has dropped to a dangerous value, while biting his teeth he was taking out black bread from his backpack, he took two shots and took a rest for a while and then went on again. Don't you think this was like the story of Tang Seng? No, Tang Seng is accompanied by the three others. He was now alone and moreover it’s harder than Tang Seng. He dragged the two legs that were quickly fell off. Black Mark continued to trek while comforting himself.

(Tang Seng is the priest in Journey To The West story, in every country has different name according to their translation)

At the last……. This……. Isn’t this the novice little temple? How can i go to this place if i went to the west? Is it misunderstood? The sunset water, sunset water… water … water … …. . Repeatedly recite the character items, Black Mark traces suddenly there is a flash of light flas.h.i.+ng, rushed into the novice temple, came to the blood pool, took out a vial to fill a bottle of water, and then see, sure enough, that small bottle Show: “The task item sunset water.”

My XXOO… Although he got the sunset water, but currently he did not have the joy of accomplis.h.i.+ng the mission. He only wanted to give greetings to the elders Icarus who gave him this task of Sunset water. What is this sunset water? It is clearly that he fill in the water from the blood pool behind him to get an OK, pretending to be demon he wandered in the desert for a whole day! ! !

He handed over the things to the elder Icarus, the NPC looked at the things in the bag and nodded, then speaking: “Thank you for your contribution to the Demon clan, and may the Lucifer protect you. bless you.”

“??” This… is it? He thought that there will be generous mission rewards, did not expect that he only got a sentence? Black Mark who is self-sufficient and self-sustaining, has a desire to wield a knife at the moment. Unfortunately, this is a system NPC even if you tell him he does not understand, he wants to hit him and beat him…

NPC? The light in the brain flashed and he turned to the Great Temple and roar "Great Elder, f.u.c.k your d.a.m.n mission…" The voice of rage echoed in the empty hall, and the elder, who were standing in the middle, were shocked. “What’s the matter with your task? How many experience values and rewards should you have?” Black Mark traces and shakes his neck back and forth to vent his anger to the unlucky Great Elder.
*cough cough* “.. don’t be agitated,” said the Elder, who was caught in the collar and had trouble breathing. But it was easy for him to break his body free and he immediately said: “The last reward is in here. Don’t be agitated…”
"What reward?" he played for this entire task for a whole day. Black Mark that still look miserable still hold him. In his hand, the short bow patrol is held tightly.
*cough* "There are three kinds of rewards," The Great Elder’s collar robe get loosen, so he quickly said that, although the proportion of pain in the game is only 30% of the reality, if the other party really shoots an arrow, they still can’t stand it… “The first is an item, which rewards a fine grade of light one, the second is money, rewards a certain amount of money, and the third is an experience level, which converts the task income into experience level.”
“I want the experience level.” After listening to him, Black Mark said without thinking. Dual-professions are difficult to level up, additional experience level can help a bit more; Secondly, he has now learned the three life skills of collecting, appraising and refining. It is absolutely not a problem to make money in the future; Third, if he stayed in Xinshoucun to see the Great Elder face, he was afraid that he would not be able to bear a nail.
“Good.” Seeing the other party showing fierce eyes, the Great Elder quickly replied and waved his hand, then he saw a spiral of golden light flas.h.i.+ng over Black Mark’s body. The system prompts: “Congratulations to the player Black Mark rising to the level ten.”
Level ten? It seems that this task is really good, and the rewards experience level has made him rise to the tenth level at a time.
“That… Do you want me to send you to the next village?”
“?? Okay, thank you.” Did not expect to complete the task there will be additional benefits, depressed face is finally eased down, the Great Elder nodded slightly, Black Mark step into the transmission matrix.

my note: this chapter is so long and i need weeks to translate it. I'm not major in neither chinese nor english so please bear with my poor translation. i'm only using google translation for all of the chapter story above. feel free to correct me if i had any mistake for the translation or you can tell me if you wanted to join in to translate. thank you. ?