Chapter 133: Slaughter of Mermaids
Chapter 133: Slaughter of Mermaids
"How about that, young man, want to buy some?"
Xiao Jie looked at the prices and found that they were not expensive. The salted fish was 20 cents each and the mysterious dried fish was only 50 cents.
As a food with special effects, it is already very cheap.
Xiao Jie bought five salted fish and four mysterious dried fish, spending 300 coins.
He has a habit when playing games. He likes to buy some of the strange things he comes across, as they might come in handy someday.
I also bought something when I wanted to become an immortal. Just as we finished shopping, we heard a dry voice coming from the hut.
"Grandma--water."
Suddenly, the thatched curtain of the thatched hut was lifted, and a young man with a sick face walked out of the house.
The young man was dressed in coarse cloth and had a pale complexion. He was about fourteen or fifteen years old. As soon as he went out, he asked for water.
"Here it comes." Granny Li hurriedly scooped a large bucket of water from the water tank beside her and handed it over. The young man drank it in one gulp. Only then did a hint of color appear on his face. He turned around and looked at the two of them with a look of surprise.
"Grandma, who are they?"
"Ah, they are returnees, they are here to help us kill the mermaids. This is my grandson Li Bao." Granny Li introduced them but her eyes never left the boy, it was obvious that she cared a lot about this grandson.
Xiao Jie greeted him, "Hello, little brother." He had already made up his mind that he had to get some information from this young man. Currently, there were only two NPCs in this small fishing village, and the key to the encounter with the river god must lie with these two people.
Li Bao was also surprised. "Are you returnees? I've read your stories in books, but I didn't expect to have the chance to see them with my own eyes. I heard that you came back from the outside world. Is that true? You must have been to many places. Can you tell me what's out there?"
The young man's tone was very earnest, but Granny Li's expression changed when she heard it.
"Bao'er, I still want to kill the mermaids, don't keep pestering me with questions. Have you forgotten the gentleman's way in the books your father left you?"
Li Bao nodded helplessly, "Yes, mother-in-law."
Xiao Jie vaguely felt that something seemed to be wrong between the old woman and his grandson, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
After a few polite words, the sound of water suddenly came from the lakeside.
"It's the mermaids, they're here again." Granny Li showed an annoyed look on her face, but immediately changed it to a pitiful one, "Two brave men, I'm in your hands with these monsters, and please don't let them hurt my grandson."
"Auntie, leave this matter to us!" I wanted to become an immortal and responded readily. Xiao Jie called out and the two of them went straight to the lake. They saw two mermaids floating out of the water and climbing towards the shore.
One is level 12 and the other is level 13.
Although the dead mermaid was ugly, the living mermaid looked even uglier. It had blue-black scales all over its body and a fish-like tail in the lower half. It was twisting its body hard on the muddy beach. Its upper body looked like a human, with arms covered with scales and fins. Its facial features were also half human and half fish, and it looked very strange.
He was holding weapons made of coral and shells in his hands.
Xiao Jie kept Ramen Brother's advice in mind. These things are very powerful in water, so it is best not to fight them near the water. It would be bad if you get dragged into the water.
Fortunately, the purpose of these mermaids seemed to be to get ashore, so they climbed out of the water directly, and their speed slowed down significantly after getting ashore, which gave the two a great opportunity to output.
Switch to the bow and arrow, and fire four consecutive shots directly at the mermaid that was twisting its tail fin and struggling to move forward.
A string of arrows! Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
In an instant, the mermaid was filled with arrows.
Full Moon Shooting!
Puff! The arrow pierced through the body of another merman and shot into the lake behind.
The two mermaids screamed but there was nothing they could do. They could only twist their bodies like snakes and move towards the two men.
He continued to shoot arrows, slowly backing away while shooting. Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. In the blink of an eye, the two mermaids were shot like hedgehogs and died one after another.
System prompt: Kill the mermaid pearl seeker and gain 275 experience points.
System prompt: Kill the mermaid pearl seeker and gain 286 experience points.
“Huh, so simple?”
Looking at the two corpses on the ground, I said in surprise.
Xiao Jie thought that it was indeed a bit too simple. This thing was a complete sitting duck and did not have the strength that a level 12 or 13 monster should have.
But experience is not a problem. After thinking for a while, Xiao Jie came to a conclusion.
If a monster performs poorly in all aspects, then it must be very strong in some aspect, just like the plague zombies at the beginning, which looked slow in movement, but once you got close to it, it must have very disgusting skills.
And if a monster is extremely powerful in some way, then it must be very weak in some other way.
This is the balance principle of the game. It is impossible to design a monster without weaknesses.
This is probably the case with this mermaid. The more invincible it is in the water, the more useless it becomes on shore.
This explains it. Under normal circumstances, mermaids would hide in the water and ambush players. These two mermaids had to go ashore for some reason, so they became weaklings.
I went over and touched the body.
Shells × 26.
Hey, why are there so many shells falling?
Another one dropped 19 shells and a fathead fish.
【Fathead fish (ingredients)
Item Description: Fresh bighead carp, just taken out of the water, very fresh. 】
This……
Xiao Jie vaguely felt that this shell was most likely the currency among the mermaids, which was why so many of them dropped at once, just like a bandit dropping copper coins.
If you kill mermaids again in the future, I'm afraid there will be more drops.
Just as I finished picking up the things, another mermaid emerged from the lake.
"Brother Feng, be careful."
"I see." Xiao Jie said as he quickly retreated, and the two began shooting arrows again.
These mermaids didn't know why, but they kept rushing to the shore in groups of three or two, one wave after another.
It was relatively easy to deal with them at the beginning, but as their numbers grew, it became increasingly difficult to kill them.
The two men shot arrows frantically, retreating as they shot. What surprised Xiao Jie was that these mermaids did not chase them, but rushed directly towards the thatched cottage where Grandma Li was.
Rather than saying "rushing", it would be more appropriate to describe it as "crawling".
The two of them stood aside and just did their damage, harvesting enemies like crazy, and their experience points increased rapidly. In the end, they even ran out of arrows.
Xiao Jie simply activated his Gale Sword Technique and started slashing wildly. The mermaid's resilience was not very high, so it was just enough for him to launch a combo.
Wo Yu Cheng Xian also changed to a battle axe and started chopping frantically. This time, these mermaids finally started to fight back. However, their slow movements made their attacks threatless. It was easy for Xiao Jie to dodge and it was easy for Wo Yu Cheng Xian to resist.
The more they killed, the more excited they became. They swung their swords and axes together, the swords cutting into flesh and the axes breaking bones. In less than half an hour, the two of them gained 15% of their experience points, and the river bank was full of mermaid corpses.
Only when the last mermaid fell did the two men relax.
"It feels so good." Xiao Jie couldn't help but shout.
Ever since I entered this game, the monsters I encountered were more difficult than the last one. Except for the killing of soulless zombies, it has been a long time since I felt so satisfied with killing.
If only the monsters in this game were this simple.
I quickly called me, Yu Chengxian, to help me search the corpses, but unfortunately they were all small monsters. Apart from a large number of shells and fish, there were no good things dropped.
"Wow, I touched a pearl." I said excitedly suddenly.
Pearl (material)
Item Description: A crystal clear pearl, a precious material for making jewelry, and sometimes used as a medicinal material. 】
This thing should be worth some money, Xiao Jie thought. It’s so cool to have such high luck that you can get good stuff even when touching small monsters.
He was in trouble because all he touched were fish.
That's fine. At least I can gain some cooking experience by roasting it later.
Looking at his experience bar, Xiao Jie thought that regardless of what rewards this adventure mission could give, the upgrade efficiency alone was quite good.
(End of this chapter)