Chapter 46 Year over year
After the advanced task was completed, the remaining insects in Dugu Hong's pocket were just enough to push his reputation in the Black Seedling village to level two. This was just the right level. It was a pity that his total experience points were not enough for level 37.
After some thinking, he got in touch with Niuhuang. Niuhuang had the yellow sharpener which was the one for catching live insects. Dugu Hong himself didn't have any low attacking level weapons. Moreover, without the 4% synchronization rate, it was very hard for his Meteor Sword to cut into insects.
Using the insect attracting incense was one way to get live insects. But the incense was very expensive, which costed about 50 grams of silver.
Seeing Dugu Hong turn back, the old black seedling man called at him, "Hey, are you giving up the advanced reputation task?"
"I don't have any more live insects in my pocket…" Dugu Hong looked back and suddenly realized that this new task didn't require insects!
At this moment, the sky was already twilight. Dugu Hong had spent the whole night catching live insects.
"Hey, young man. You can't be so careless doing things…" The old man touched his own beard and started to murmur. Dugu Hong silently listened and didn't dare to talk back.
After a long while, the old man stopped his talk and turned to the right thing, "Refining poison insects is a human task. But it is also determined by the nature. The nature is full of wonders. A great poison insect is born in the heavenly nature. I heared that there is one such nine-turn gold poison insect in the village. Could you please help me to look for it?"
At the same time, there came two system prompts -
A dialog box, "Are you taking on the next task to look for the nine-turn gold poison insect?"
One voice message: "Your friendship with Jindiqiao reached 60 points."
Dugu Hong was not sure where did the 60 points friendship come from. Maybe it was from the fact that he had completed enough tasks for the old man. Maybe it was because he had listened all the nonsense talking of the old man. While Dugu Hong was thinking about this, the friendship rewards popped up: "Hey young man, I feel very connected to you. In the future, you can come to my home for any help. My home is the tallest building in the village. Remember, you can come to home anytime."
It turned out that Dugu Hong finally was able to find people in the village during the daytime. This friendship reward was, …, pretty useless…
The old man said again: "This nine-turn gold poison insect, I have only heard of it. It seems that Jinwanger is the only person in the village who has seen it. You can ask him for more information about the insect."
"Jinwanger?!" Dugu Hong lost his calmness after hearing this name.
Dugu Hong had become quite familiar with everyone in the village after this night. He was even more familiar with Jinwanger. Because Jinwanger was nerdy person who kept complimenting that life was beautiful.
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"Little brother, I heard that you have seen the nine-turn gold poison insect?" Dugu Hong quatted down and piled up his face with smirks. Jinwanger was a little boy of seven or eight years old.
"Let me tell you secretly. You can't tell others…" Jinwanger looked around and came to speak to the ears of Dugu Hong. "In the south mountain of the moon lake (238758：387185：64873 position code), there was a giant Sanqi flower field. There were so many flowers there, which is amazing!"
It turned out Jinwanger didn't say his old famous compliment of life. This was a good sign. Dugu Hong asked, "Little brother, you mean that the nine-turn gold poison insect is near the Sanqi flower field?"
Jinwanger frowned and looked at Dugu Hong with puzzle, "Did I say so?"
"……"
"So... the nine-turn gold poison insect..."
"Hey, don't talk." The little child put his finger on his own lips, "Let me tell you another secret. There is a ghost in the bottom of the moon late. It's real. It is a beautiful beautiful female ghost, with a gorgeous butterfly next to her…Wow. Here comes the female ghost. Don't catch me please, don't catch me please!"
After several horrifying screams, the little child disappeared like a smog. In fact, there was no ghost at all.
A few minutes later when Dugu Hong finally found him, the little child was whistling as if nothing had happened. There was no trace of fear on his face.
"Little brother, I heard that you have seen the nine-turn gold poison insect?" Dugu Hong was no longer hopeful. Though the little boy was not an idiot, he must be a psycho.
With the same question, this time Dugu Hong got a completely different answer. This time the little boy nodded and said, "Yes."
"Then... Do you know where is it?"
"Yes I know. But…" Dugu Hong was happy at first but he turned sad right away, because the little boy said, "Why should I tell you?"
"So, how will you tell me?"
Was there any follow up task? Dugu Hong was suspicious. But unfortunately, it turned no…
"Well...How will I tell you?" The little boy frowned deeply, "…I can't come up with anything. How about this. Let me think about it and it depends on my mood…"
Dugu Hong's face turned serious. He finally understood why people would avoid confronting him after know he was a pshyco. Mentally crazy was really a pain to deal with…
"Hey, why are you still wasting time. I am already in the black seedling village." At this time, Niuhuang sent a pigeon message.
"Will be right there." Dugu Hong randomly replied. He turned back to take a final look at Jinwanger and decided to give up. God knew when would the little boy be happy again.
It was also possible this was a system inference on his rapid development of his reputation.
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Dugu Hong and Niuhuang had agreed to meet up at the south of the moon lake. This was the old address of the black and white seedling village. After a few decades, the buildings were all broken, with grassed on the roof top.
"How come you come here late?" Niuhuang was impatient. But he had a high spirit. Obviously he had some good treasure to share with Dugu Hong.
Dugu Hong didn't want to tell Niuhuang that he was fooled by a little boy. He used a random excuse, "I don't have your amazing speed."
In fact, Niuhuang's speed was not that amazing. It was just a few days ago when he reached the top level speed, which added 80% extra speed to him.
That was to say that even Niuhuang ran bare feet, there was no way for Dugu Hong to catch up with him…
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