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Chapter 384 - 353 Returning Home

Chapter 384: Chapter 353 Returning Home

[Task Type: Script Task (Single Player)]

[Task Name: Homecoming]

[Stage One Objective: Wait for teleportation in the darkness 2 hours from now]

[Task Reward: None]

[Failure Penalty: Next task will be converted to a Punishment Task]

It’s here.

Li Cheng’s expression tightened, the news field has a saying: "The fewer the words, the greater the event."

This time, the script task’s name was only "Homecoming," which likely meant trouble.

He quickly instructed the intelligent core a few commands and then strode out of the Toy Factory.

The cylindrical robots busy on the assembly line saw him leaving, quickly chased out, excitedly waving vertical flags to send him off.

Some robots were so excited that their electronic eyes even sprayed out green battery fluid like tears.

Isn’t this a bit exaggerated.

Li Cheng left the killing field with a head full of black lines, returned to the real world, and called Gray Rain who was picking his nose to start preparations.

He allocated the two attribute points from the last level up to strength and agility respectively, now his panel was:

After thorough preparations, Li Cheng turned off the living room lights, drew the curtains, and quietly waited.

Without any warning, without any tremor,

Li Cheng opened his eyes to find himself standing in a coastal forest.

The sky was gloomy, a fine drizzle like silk, looking to the right, through the trees, he could see the vast ocean and smell the salty fishy sea breeze.

Looking forward, he could barely make out a simple tea house built beside a yellow earthen road, and a large crowd gathered under its eaves.

About fifty people, men and women, old and young, dressed either luxuriously or simply, some with swords and bows at their waists or backs.

’Looks like a script task with an ancient background.’

Li Cheng’s eyelid twitched, a sense of unease gradually brewed.

His current level was Lv20, carrying two Epic items and a bunch of Perfect quality gear. His equipment was luxurious enough to rival Lv25 or even Lv30 Transcendents.

If he went all out, even in a modern battlefield, he could cut through armored torrents.

Because of this, this ancient background task was likely problematic....

[Task Briefing is broadcasting]

[In the 42nd year of Ming Yong’an, Holy Monarch ruled the country, selecting worthy individuals and employing them, enforcing clear laws, implementing benevolent governance, and working diligently and accepting good counsel

, eventually achieving a clear river and peaceful sea, prosperous people and nation]

Hey, that’s a bit too exaggerated.

Li Cheng’s eye twitched, task briefings are usually truthful, the use of narrative tricks is very small.

Piling up so many praise words on a feudal emperor, are you the reincarnation of Han Wen, or Li Er with an alternate account?

Ming Dynasty doesn’t have the Yong’an era.

[Tu Family of the Southern Sea, 120 years ago were impoverished fishermen of Huangjiang Prefecture’s Southern Sea, now wealthy and powerful, even their fields are plentiful. Legend has it, Tu Family ancestors encountered a shipwreck while at sea, got swept into the deep sea, visited the Dragon Palace, and met the Dragon King...]

[Among the group, only Tu Family’s ancestor returned alive. After that, he continuously brought pearls, Conch Jade, and ambergris from the sea, using wealth to connect with local gentry and officials, interact with worldly society people, quickly accumulating a huge fortune]

[Today, Madam Tu celebrates her 90th birthday, it’s said she intends to clarify the family property at the banquet and officially divide the family. Usually, people allied with various branches of Tu Family attend the banquet to support their favored branch and create momentum. Of course, there are also those with nefarious intentions, wanting to glimpse the secret of Tu Family’s wealth...]

[You happen to have an invitation to the birthday banquet in your hand]

The moment the task briefing ended, Li Cheng’s hand sank, a palm-sized copper plate appeared out of thin air.

On the front of the copper plate was inscribed the text of the birthday banquet invitation, "Congratulations on reaching old age, sincerely invite you all, October 10th, Red Island, awaiting your presence"

While the reverse side was engraved with various marine life images. Fish, shrimp, crab, shellfish, sea snakes, octopus, turtles, sharks, whales...

All images were lifelike, the lower the creature, the larger its size, except the bottom of the copper plate had a circular blank area occupying one-third of the space.

It had a kind of uncomfortable feeling that strongly bothered those with OCD.

Neither side of the copper plate had any invited person’s information, Li Cheng scanned it with Information Integration Glasses but found nothing unusual, so he took out the Electronic Pet Egg and released Gray Rain.

"Sss, the smell of the sea."

Gray Rain just landed, took a deep breath of the salty fishy sea breeze, and said excitedly, "Who are we going to fight?"

"We’re not fighting anyone, this time we’re attending a banquet."

Li Cheng sighed helplessly, just then, the system prompt sounded,

[Stage Two Objective: Use the invitation and take a boat to Red Island, survive until the end of the birthday banquet]

[Task Time Limit: 48 hours]

[Task Reward 1: Experience Points 1500]

[Task Reward 2: Game Coin 6000]

[Task Reward 3: Random Item*1, Quality depends on completion rating]

[Task Reward 4: Random Skill Scroll*1, Quality depends on completion rating]

[Failure Penalty: Permanently trapped in the script world]

Li Cheng narrowed his eyes, gently pushed his glasses, "This is bad..."

"What’s wrong?"

Li Cheng explained the task briefing to Gray Rain, "[Use the invitation, take a boat to Red Island, survive until the end of the birthday banquet]. This sentence at least reveals four pieces of information.

One, only taking the boat with the invitation is the correct way to proceed.

Using a speedboat to smuggle or forcibly entering without the invitation will result in a miserable fate."

Gray Rain thought for a moment, "Like encountering sea monsters?"

"That’s a possibility. Also, it might simply mean you can’t find the right position of Red Island."

Li Cheng nodded, don’t underestimate those NPCs under the tea house wearing Ming Dynasty clothing, the first rule for players is never to underestimate the natives of the script world.

There are relevant cases on the forum, a group of players reached a medieval task world, confirmed after much investigation that it’s the Middle Ages, thought they were capable, punching the Roman Empire, kicking the Church Pope.

Dominating left and right, then suddenly found a thousand-year-old subway tunnel underground — turns out it’s a post-apocalyptic human civilization rebuilt.

A small country’s princess, who was oppressed, sacrificed her life, summoned a near-earth orbital satellite cannon, blasting the group of players into smithereens, only the action cameras returned to the real world.

In short, never underestimate the natives of the Otherworld, who knows if a muddy-faced villager carrying a hoe might have mastered Star Destroyer, Retraction Cannon, Two-directional Foil Technology.

Li Cheng continued to analyze, "The second point, you have to stay on Red Island during the banquet, can’t leave early.

Third, the banquet cannot be halted or interrupted early.

Fourth, the closer to the end of the banquet, the more dangerous it becomes."

This point is quite strange, since it’s called an island, its area surely won’t be small.

Once Li Cheng activates Insect Form, his defensive power rivals a main battle tank, at worst he can have Gray Rain turn into a ball, hide inside, withstand volcanic eruptions or high-intensity earthquakes.

What kind of danger could threaten Li Cheng?

The two stood in place and deliberated for a while, but couldn’t find an answer. As the rain grew heavier, Li Cheng took out a hot water bottle from the three-dimensional warehouse