Chapter Thirty-Four: The Doctor's Friend
"Chubby, let's go! I'll take you on a special mission!" Zhang Yang said to Han Chubby as soon as they exited the instance.
"What's the reward?"
"The effect of using bandages is increased by 100%!"
"Cut, not interesting!" Han Baozi said hastily, "Brother is a hunter, there's treasure ahead, no need for bandages! Yangzi, the beauty is looking for brother to chat again, you go yourself, Brother won't accompany you!"
"Get out!" Zhang Yang made a disdainful gesture.
Since Han Paozi didn't go, Zhang Yang had no choice but to set out alone. After leaving the deputy's office, he left the valley and continued walking east, passing through several forests, until he finally arrived at a small village.
Directly found the village head, took a "missing livestock" task, and came out of the village to a huge lake. Because the level of monsters here are all above 15, while the general level of players is still around 10, they are either fighting in the underground cave or fighting against 11-12 level wild boars on Wild Boar Mountain, so there is no other player here.
Under a very secluded big tree, Zhang Yang found an old man wearing white medical attire and with white eyebrows and whiskers, topped with the title "Great Doctor Deke".
"Old man, what brings you here?" Zhang Yang initiated a conversation with the NPC.
"Adventurer, I am the physician of White Jade City! I'm currently researching a formula for an antidote and need a large quantity of snake gall. Can you help me collect some?" Doctor De asked Zhang Yang.
"Ding! Grandmaster Doctor De has assigned you a task: Collect snake gallbladders. Will you accept?"
Needless to say, of course I accepted!
"Adventurer, those snakes are all venomous and full of danger, you must be careful!" Dekute warned.
Zhang Yang clearly remembered that this NPC would eventually give out a follow-up quest, with the final reward being a title: "Friend of the Healer", which increased the healing effect of bandages by 100% when using First Aid!
First Aid is a secondary skill that any player can learn from a First Aid trainer at level 20, and it does not conflict with professions. First Aid allows you to create various bandages, which restore different amounts of health, providing another means of healing for non-healing classes besides potions.
To receive this follow-up task, two conditions must be met simultaneously: First, you have not learned first aid in the main city! Second, you must constantly complete the "Collect Snake Gallbladder" pre-task. According to the previous player who completed the task, he submitted this repeatable task 99 times!
Once this follow-up task is completed, the detective will return to the main city in a day, and only theoretically all players have the possibility of getting this reward.
Of course, Zhang Yang didn't come here just for the reward! This lake will randomly spawn a Silver Treasure Chest, and inside the chest there is an extremely low chance of getting the formula for "Primary Dark Resistance Potion", this is his main goal!
Collect Snake Gallbladder (Mission Difficulty: C-Rank)
Task Description: Doctor Dechter wants you to collect 20 snake gallbladders, in order to make an antidote. Those creatures should be present at the Quietwater Lake.
Completion: Collecting Snake Gall 0/20
The Missing Livestock (Mission Difficulty: C-Rank)
Task Description: Those strange snakes in the quiet lake are so hateful, they have already eaten many livestock in the village, go and kill them!
Completion: Kill Golden Python 0/40
Two tasks can be done together!
"Take this, it should help you!" Doctor handed Zhang Yang a bottle of medicine.
"Ding! You have obtained underwater breathing potion!"
Underwater Breathing Potion (Consumable)
Allows you to breathe underwater for one hour.
Required level: 10
Shaking a medicine bottle, an additional buff effect appeared on his head, allowing him to breathe underwater.
"Ah!"
He leaped into the air and plunged into the lake.
A dark golden light flashed past Zhang Yang's left side, "-14", a damage number floated up from Zhang Yang's head.
Zhang Yang dove into the water and instantly gained a view of the entire lake.
He only saw a snake about the thickness of an arm and two meters long, its body covered with golden threads, opening its huge mouth and biting towards him.
If on land, Zhang Yang had a 100% chance of dodging this attack, but the speed of movement in the water was too slow, and it couldn't compare to the agility of snakes!
"Ding! You have been affected by the Gold Snake Venom (Level 1) effect. Every 3 seconds, you will lose 10 points of life for a duration of 15 seconds!"
Zhang Yang's face turned dark, and his avatar also showed a negative effect.
Golden Thread Snake (Common)
Level: 15
Health: 750
Zhang Yang's armor was high, and the damage from close combat was relatively small, but the snake venom was a spell-type damage, and it was troublesome to stack up!
With a swift slash of his sword, Zhang Yang hastily launched an attack, trying to kill the monster as quickly as possible.
His original output was already high, and today he got four new bronze equipment, his health points have reached 950, attack power is 115-123, absolutely stunning!
San Sui Xia killed the venomous snake, Zhang Yang stretched out his hand and touched it. Luckily, the snake's gallbladder came out, along with two of the venomous snake's teeth, which were white objects that could be sold for money.
There are golden poisonous pythons everywhere in the lake, Zhang Yang doesn't know where the treasure chest will appear, so he can only circle around a big circle and then a small circle, turning over the entire lake bottom.
An hour later, he had collected 23 snake gallbladders, while the "missing livestock" had long been completed, and the poisonous pythons that died in his hands were over 100!
Because the underwater breathing effect had disappeared, Zhang Yang could only go back and find Deke, handing over the task.
"Brave adventurer, the people of White Jade City will never forget your contributions!" Detective De praised Zhang Yang without hesitation, and didn't even bother to take out some divine equipment or something to give him as a gift. "Adventurer, are you still willing to continue helping me?"
Can't you? Zhang Yang sighed and accepted the task of "collecting snake gall" once again.
He returned to where he had just emerged from the water and jumped back into the lake, killing snakes for their gallbladders while searching for treasure chests.
Just like that, Zhang Yang had forgotten how many times he had gone to collect snake gall and taken underwater breathing medicine. Just when he was about to spit blood from killing, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw a silver-white box placed on top of a rock at the bottom of the lake!
Finally found it! This broken lake is really big, after swimming for half a day, I've only explored two-thirds of the place.
However, on the edge of the treasure chest, there are still four poisonous pythons guarding it, but they are all ordinary-level monsters. To say nothing of the leader monster, even elites can't be counted among them.
Zhang Yang charged at one of the venomous snakes and rushed over with a swish.
“－105！”
Another three poisonous pythons immediately stretched their bodies and swam over, opening their bloody mouths to bite Zhang Yang.
"Awesome!"
“－84！”
“－84！”
"Minus 84!" Grid's counterattack was wounded.
"Shield Bash - 183!"
“－224！”
“－215！”
“－231！”
“－222！”
“－20！”
Swept across with four high-damage numbers at the same time, triggering the necklace's Shadow Fury.
Two seconds later, four poisonous pythons struck at Zhang Yang again.
"Ding! You have been affected by the Gold Snake Venom (Level 1) effect. Every 3 seconds, you will lose 10 points of life for a duration of 15 seconds!"
"Ding! You are affected by Goldsnake Venom (Level 2), losing 20 HP every 3 seconds for 15 seconds!"
"Ding! You have been affected by the Gold Snake Venom (3 layers) effect. Every 3 seconds, you will lose 30 points of life for 15 seconds!"
"Ding! You are affected by Goldsnake Venom (4 stacks), losing 40 HP every 3 seconds for 15 seconds!"
This snake venom is really troublesome!
Zhang Yang aimed at a poisonous snake and chopped it fiercely, killing one quickly, then continued to chop the second one.
Four snakes were killed, and Zhang Yang's body was also hung with five layers of golden snake venom. After the effect of the snake venom disappeared, his life value dropped to 358 points, losing more than half of his blood volume!
DOT's strange injury won't heal! Zhang Yang sighed as he went to open the treasure chest.
——DoT, continuous damage effects, such as snake venom and Bangde's water fire curse.
*Creak*, the treasure chest opens.
Zhang Yang stretched out his hand and touched it.
【Fisherman's Lung】: Special item, no need to equip, allows you to breathe underwater, a must-have for home travel and assassination!
It's okay, although it took up a backpack space, at least I don't have to go find Dekter every hour anymore.
Treasure Map Fragment (II) (Silverware)
Use: Combine three Treasure Map Fragments into a complete Treasure Map.
It's actually a piece of treasure map!
Zhang Yang's eyes lit up. In "Miracle", there are countless treasure points, and only by obtaining a complete treasure map can you dig them up. Treasure maps of different levels naturally correspond to treasure points of different levels!
What a pity! There is only one piece of the map left, and two more are still missing!
Once more!
Pattern: Pansy waistband (leather pattern paper)
Use: Teach you how to make a silk waistband.
Requires: Apprentice Leatherworking.
"Ding! You have obtained 50 silver coins!"
The treasure chest gradually became transparent and finally disappeared.
"Is that it?" Zhang Yang sighed and opened up a tanning diagram instead of the alchemy formula he needed!
Let's keep killing monsters!
Zhang Yang started his non-stop monster-killing spree, with the fishman's lungs he didn't need to come out of the water. He just kept chopping away until all 40 slots in his backpack were full before surfacing once and handing over the snake gallbladder.
One day ended, and when Zhang Yang went offline at 12 o'clock in the evening, he had handed over a total of 14 snake gallbladders, which was far from the 99 times that player had said! However, his level did rise by one level, but he still didn't make it onto the level ranking list. Who knows if those crazy people on the list have ever gone offline to sleep?
Fortunately, he didn't get the formula for primary dark resistance medicine either. His motivation was still strong, otherwise, he really couldn't stand this temper and repeatedly drive those stinky snakes!
The white silver treasure chest can only be brushed once every three days, and tomorrow he can only chop monsters boringly.
