"Oh my God, there really is a villa in a place where birds don't. Lin Ran said as he walked towards the villa.

Qiu Shuyu hurriedly stopped it: "Didn't you see that it says "Don't enter?" Don't be impulsive, brother." ”

Lin Ran's brain turned quickly, picked up the order and said: "Who said that it was not invited, it was written that we were invited, and we were also entrusted." With that, he walked towards the gate of the villa.

Qiu Shuyu stuck out his tongue towards Lin Ran's back, and Mo Zihan comforted him when he saw this: "Yu'er, leave him alone, this kid is just a tendon, but at least we have found something, it's better than walking the mountain road all the time." ”

After speaking, Mo Zihan also followed Lin Ran's footsteps.

This mountain villa has a unique shape, with a roof made of green steel tiles and four corners upturned at the top.

The entrance to the first floor is an antique reddish-brown, and there is a small artificially cultivated garden outside the villa, where the flowers and plants are neatly trimmed, and the whole villa is surrounded by verdant trees, as if away from the hustle and bustle of the city, it looks peaceful and distant from afar.

Outside the garden, there was also an iron gate, and when the three approached, there was a house number hanging on the gate: Building One Hundred and Sixty-One.

"It's strange, this is all over the mountains and fields for this one house, and one hundred and sixty-one houses are written. Lin Ran pointed to the house number and said.

"It's good to have the right location, why do you care so much, let's go in and talk about it." ”

When Mo Zihan saw the uniquely shaped mountain villa in front of him, he was already fascinated, how could he still think carefully, stretched out his hand and wanted to push open the door, but who knew that this iron gate was like human nature, and before Mo Zihan's hand touched it, the iron door opened by itself.

Mo Zihan was shocked that something was wrong, stopped and turned around to ask the two, "What's the situation? Could it be a haunted house?"

Lin Ran laughed after hearing this: "Xiao Mo, are you still alive decades ago? This is obviously an automatic induction door." ”

After finishing the sentence, Lin Ran also put his big head close to Mo Zihan and asked softly, "You kid won't be scared, right?"

Mo Zihan pushed away the fat-headed and big-eared Lin Ran, thinking that he had already dared to go to the deep mountains and old forests alone to explore when he was still a minor, how could he be frightened by this automatic door.

Thinking about it, he raised his feet and walked into the courtyard. But as soon as he took a step with his left foot, a slender little hand was already on his shoulder, and he didn't have to think about it, and when he looked back, he saw that it was Qiu Shuyu who stopped him.

She walked to the iron door and examined it for a long time, and her two big eyes flickered: "Brother Lin Ran, don't talk nonsense, the sensor door has always been used in public places or indoors at home, this mountain villa is built on this deserted eastern suburb mountain, how can the owner of the house set up a door that opens when he sees someone." ”

"Yu'er is right. Mo Zihan nodded again and again.

"Oh, I said you two are singing and harmonizing, why are you doing? Twisting and twisting, what about two young people falling in love?"

Lin Ran stretched out his hand and gently pushed away the autumn rain and swaggered into the garden.

The two people behind him looked at each other, Mo Zihan just reached out and touched his head and smirked, while Qiu Shuyu blushed and buried his head.

Mo Zihan saw that Lin Ran had walked a few meters away, and he thought to himself that no matter what monsters lived in this villa today, he couldn't lose face in front of the girl, so he hurriedly pulled Qiu Shuyu to chase after him.

It's strange enough that this villa is built in the mountains, but I didn't expect this courtyard to be surprisingly quiet.

Facing the gate of the villa is a ring-shaped artificial garden, the ring is divided into three layers, the outermost layer is green grass, the middle layer is small flowers of different colors, Mo Zihan took a closer look, the innermost layer of the ring is a big peony with white and tender red, this peony is bright in color, jade smile and pearl fragrance. The breeze is blowing, and the fragrance of flowers is in the nose.

"Wow! What a beautiful peony," Qiu Shuyu took three steps and made two steps, stepped into the innermost circle, bent down and smelled the flowers, and the cautious energy outside the gate just now seemed to be thrown out of the clouds.

Mo Zihan and Lin Ran stood at the door of the ground floor of the villa, the door was a brown solid wood double door, revealing a trace of antique atmosphere.

Lin Ran turned his head to look at Mo Zihan, arched his nose towards him, and motioned for him to step forward and open the door, Mo Zihan stood in front of the door and pondered for a long time, but he didn't dare to make a move, he reached out and touched his forehead and said:

"The flowers in this courtyard are so bright, and the grass in the courtyard is also neatly built, how can it be seen that it is a place where literati and scholars live, how can it be related to the 'dragon'?"

"Ouch, I can't tell you that this owner has a small animal at home, and he doesn't dare to deal with it, so he entrusted us to come, Xiao Mo, open the door quickly." ”

"Why don't you open it?"

Qiu Shuyu, who was playing in the courtyard, saw the two of them chattering in front of the door, put down the peony in his hand, trotted to the two and asked, "Why don't you go in?"

"Yu'er, let me ask you, do you think the dragon will repair the house?" Mo Zihan asked at Qiu Shuyu.

Qiu Shuyu shook her head.

"Then you look at the villa, is it a place where people live?"

Qiu Shuyu turned his head to look at the three-story national-style villa beside him, turned around and pouted with wide eyes: "Yes." ”

"Then I'll ask one last question," Mo Zihan stretched out his hand and pointed to the villa:

"Do you think there's a dragon in this house?"

Looking around in the autumn rain, the flowers in the courtyard are in full bloom, the grass is abundant, and then look at this antique house, although it is built in the mountains, but the garden is neatly planned, and the ground can not be said to be spotless, but it can also be seen that it is often cleaned on weekdays.

In such a secluded courtyard, no matter how you look at it, you can't connect with the monster that the three people want to capture.

Qiu Shuyu thought for a long time, and took out a blue phone-shelled mobile phone from his pocket.

"Yo, Yu'er, you love blue so much, even the phone case is blue. What's the matter, you're going to call for help?" Lin Ran snickered on the side.

"No, I thought that since we as rookie explorers don't know the situation, instead of being overwhelmed here, we might as well go to the online page of the 'Hundred Beast Fence' to find out. ”

"Beast Fence?"

Lin Ran's eyes widened:

"Isn't that a place that can only be entered by city administrators and explorers? I heard that it seems to be an extremely well-guarded place in both the virtual world and the real world. How can you use such an ordinary mobile phone to enter its homepage?"

looked at Lin Ran's shocked eyes and listened to what he said. Mo Zihan also didn't know what to do in his heart.

As Shirley said to herself before she came, in addition to those humans with special abilities, there are also many new species that do not know good and evil.

The "Beast Fence" in the mouth of Autumn Shuyu and Lin Ran is a newly established department of urban management after the flood, which is dedicated to holding all kinds of exotic animals caught by explorers outside.

In order not to cause excessive panic among the people and to ensure the normal operation of the various departments in the city, the "Hundred Beast Fence" has been kept closed to the public since its operation, and can only be visited by internal officials and some experienced explorers.

And the seemingly innocent girl in front of the two of them can easily enter its online homepage, which really makes Lin Ran scratch her head.

Qiu Shuyu fiddled with her mobile phone without raising her head, but muttered a sentence in her mouth: "Where my dad can go in, I can go too." ”

As he spoke, Qiu Shuyu looked happy, and put the mobile phone screen in front of Mo Zihan and Lin Ran with a smile: "Look, I found it." ”

The two took a closer look, and there was nothing on the screen of their phones except a dozen lines of text. Before the two of them could see it clearly, Qiu Shuyu had already taken the phone back to him.

"What are you doing? I haven't seen it yet. Lin Ran's eyes widened.

"Hehe, this good thing, of course I should watch it first. After that, Qiu Shuyu held the mobile phone in both hands and ran to the side in a bouncing manner.

"This little woman, like a rabbit, is twenty years old, and she still thinks she is innocent. ”

Lin Ran grimaced at Qiu Shuyu's back and sat on the flower stand by the door.

It was 1:30 p.m., Mo Zihan looked up at the bright sun in the sky, stretched out his tongue and moistened the dry corners of his mouth, only then did he remember that he and these two partners had not eaten a mouthful of food and water since the morning, and after a moment of rest, he realized that his stomach had begun to growl.

Mo Zihan groped around himself for a while, but it was as heavy as four pockets around him, and he didn't have any food, and when he looked back at Lin Ran, who was sitting on the edge of the flower platform, his face was already empty.

"Eh, you've got ...... to eat."

As soon as Mo Zihan wanted to ask Lin Ran for dry food, he heard a brisk footstep behind him.

He turned around and saw that Qiu Shuyu had rushed in front of him with a frightened face, Mo Zihan was a head taller than Qiu Shuyu, the curly-haired little girl, the little girl didn't brake the car in a sprint, and before Mo Zihan could react, Qiu Shuyu had already fallen into Mo Zihan's arms.

Lin Ran, who was sitting on the flower platform on the side, was also shocked by Qiu Shuyu's sudden "throwing embrace" and stood up in shock, and said:

"I just said that you two were in love, but it was a joke, you won't take it seriously, right?"

When Qiu Shuyu heard this, her cheeks flushed, and she hurriedly withdrew from Mo Zihan's arms. Mo Zihan saw that her eyes were blank and her face was frightened, so he comforted her and asked, "Don't be afraid, what's wrong?"

Qiu Shuyu breathed a sigh of relief, looked up at Mo Zihan and said, "Little Brother Mo, let's ...... Let's go, no...... Don't do this commission. ”

Although Mo Zihan has little contact with this girl named Qiu Shuyu, after all, he came from the past, but since the previous rookie selection, Qiu Shuyu has always been the image of a girl next door in Mo Zihan's heart, and he has never seen this girl have such a frightened and scared look now.

"What the hell is going on, you say slowly, don't be afraid, there are us. ”

Mo Zihan patted Qiu Shuyu's shoulder, turned his head to look at Lin Ran on the side, Lin Ran understood, and knew that he was letting himself help calm the mood of the next autumn Shuyu, so he echoed: "That is, with our brothers here, no one can bully you." ”

Qiu Shuyu bit her lips and shook her head, but her tone gradually softened: "We were wrong from the beginning. ”

"What's wrong?"

Qiu Shuyu asked Lin Ran for an order and said, "What level do you think this order is?"

"B-class. Lin Ran said without thinking about it: "ABCDE, this B-level is only ranked second." Is it upside down?"

Qiu Shuyu shook his head and said, "Just now, I checked the library of alien beasts on the 'Hundred Beast Fence' webpage, and I didn't find a species named 'Sleeping Dragon' after a long time. ”

"Then, have we been tricked?" Lin Ran asked in a hurry.

"Not really. Qiu Shuyu continued: "I didn't know what was going on at first, but the library of strange beasts in this 'Hundred Beast Fence' collected thousands of pictures of newborn beasts, and also matched each known beast with detailed information. But just now I searched through the gallery for a long time, but I still couldn't find the map of the alien beast called 'Sleeping Dragon' in our commission, and then I found a description of it in an old data section. ”

Speaking of this, the autumn rain suddenly stopped. Mo Zihan was listening attentively, and when he saw her stop, he hurriedly asked, "How is it described?"

Qiu Shuyu still didn't answer, returned the entrustment in his hand to Lin Ran, and said, "Brother Mo, you promise me first, we won't do this entrustment, and I'll tell you later." ”

Qiu Shuyu bit her lip tightly, her eyes firm.

When Mo Zihan saw her with such a look for the first time, some doubts arose in his heart, he knew that if he didn't agree, Qiu Shuyu would definitely not say anything more.

However, about the story of this "dragon", Mo Zihan was very interested at this time, and after thinking about it for a long time, he agreed.

And Lin Ran on the side had already been replaced by the frightened look and language before the autumn rain. Naturally, he didn't dare to refuse.

I saw a long sigh of relief in the autumn rain:

"The 'Sleeping Dragon' was one of the first exotic beasts to emerge after the Great Flood, and it appeared for a very short period of time, only a few early veteran explorers had met it, but there has been no record of successful capture for more than 30 years, because people know very little about it, so there is not much information that can be given in the data,"

"It's just that this creature knows no good or evil, has a gentle temperament and sometimes a violent temperament, is sexually lethargic, and its ever-changing scales can change the refraction of light, making itself one with its surroundings. As a result, the scale armor of this creature is so valuable that explorers have been flocking to it for years in an attempt to find it, but to no avail. ”

The more detailed Qiu Shuyu's introduction is, the bigger Mo Zihan's mouth grows, and his heartbeat rate gradually increases.

He thought that he could finally get what he said, and that he had the opportunity to see a rare beast that had never appeared in his time, and his heart was surging, but he secretly regretted that he had just agreed to Qiu Shuyu's request.

"Then, how could a beast of this level be in our newcomer's order?" Lin Ran asked.

"Actually, we were already wrong in the first place. Qiu Shuyu looked at the two of them and said, "I just saw in the information that the background of this creature is not simple, so I went to check the knowledge about the explorer's commission. Guess what, how are the difficulty levels of the order divided?"

"Don't ask, just say it. ”

Qiu Shuyu frowned: "I don't know which idiot set this grade classification, but it actually distinguishes the difficulty level of the commission according to the pitch in the vocal music." ”

Mo Zihan suddenly realized that although he was not a musical family, he had deliberately gone to a professional vocal teacher to study in order to pursue Shirley in college.

Because Shirley has always loved to listen to songs, since it is a folk song, Mo Zihan saw Shirley wearing headphones all day long, so he thought that if he could learn to sing two beautiful songs, he would definitely be able to win the heart of the beauty.

In the field of vocal music, each piece has its own score, either a simple score or a stave, in which the tones are divided 1234567 into seven scales, and the English alphabet is arranged in this order: C, D, E, F, G, A, B.

In other words, Mo Zihan and his party, as the first commission accepted on the first day of the rookie explorer, were not ranked second to last according to the traditional English alphabetical ABC as Lin Ran guessed.

What the three of them got today is the highest commission they can accept as explorers at the moment: B-class.

It's no wonder that the reward for completing the commission is so tempting.

Lin Ran didn't understand vocal music, he looked at the two of them blankly, and after Mo Zihan explained them one by one, he was so frightened that he didn't know what to do when he strode into the courtyard not long ago, and retreated back again and again.

While returning it, I didn't forget to blame Mo Zihan:

"Hey, Xiao Mo, you're in a big trouble, you, you, why did you pick up a commission of this level. Qiu Shuyu said just now that this sleeping dragon can hide in any environment, maybe it is staring at us from some corner now. ”

After speaking, Lin Ran was still staring at his pair of bull's eyes and looking around.

Mo Zihan had long been accustomed to Lin Ran's sad and happy character, and ignored Lin Ran's blame.

"Little Brother Mo," Qiu Shuyu walked up to Mo Zihan and pulled the corner of his clothes and said, "Let's go, this is not the place we should come." ”

Mo Zihan saw tears flashing in Qiu Shuyu's eyes, and knew that she was also extremely scared at the moment.

Although I came from the past and didn't know much about the so-called hierarchical division of commissions here, judging from the reactions of Qiu Shuyu and Lin Ran, the words "B-level commission" were still too far away for me.

Suddenly, I remembered the advice of Uncle Bai, the machine steward, to himself: Don't accept the entrustment of the E level or above! Mo Zihan could only give up helplessly, and walked towards the iron gate with the two.

Qiu Shuyu asked as she walked: "Brother Mo, how did you pick up this kind of level of commission?" I just searched on the website of the Explorer's House, and it said that the 'Twilight Tavern' can only post G-level commissions at most, and the A-level and B-level commissions above must be considered according to the strength of the explorer and the explorer, and then they can only be accepted after approval. Therefore, the commission we are holding at the moment, even if we as a newcomer complete it, it will be considered invalid. ”

Mo Zihan said while recalling carefully: "Thinking about it this way, I also feel strange, I was walking around at that time, and I did see the only G-level commission in the tavern, but ......"

As soon as he was halfway through the words, a picture suddenly flashed in Mo Zihan's head: when the security personnel led the three of them to the tavern, they bumped into the woman in white who was called an aunt by Lin Ran at the gate.

At that time, the woman was indeed holding a few pieces of parchment in her hand to write commissions, and it was also this collision that made the security guard forget to introduce the commission level to the three newcomers, perhaps the commission she picked up at the door slipped out of the hands of the woman in white.

Thinking of this, Mo Zihan stopped and informed Qiu Shuyu and Lin Ran of his guesses and ideas.

Qiu Shuyu nodded in agreement: "Aunt Xue is the head of the medical team, after the vice president was killed, she managed some of the following affairs on behalf of the vice president, she went to the tavern that day, it is very likely that she went to collect the commission of the A and B grades, and happened to be knocked off by the security guard, and she let Brother Xiao Mo see it by mistake." ”

Lin Ran nodded again and again, expressing agreement.

"Wait a minute!"

Mo Zihan's heart trembled violently like an electric shock, he is a good person who has the ability to multitask, which is also a skill that he has practiced by traveling alone for a long time.

Since the second time I came to this point in time, I have been very sensitive to words like "death" and "saving people".

Mo Zihan never forgot his real mission here, after being calm for so long, he could finally hear a clue in Qiu Shuyu's mouth, how could he let go of this opportunity, he randomly stretched out his hand to stop Qiu Shuyu's speech, and asked:

"You said killed, who!?"

"I ...... I...... I'm sorry. ”

Qiu Shuyu's face turned white from being frightened by Mo Zihan's roar, and she couldn't shake a word for a long time, she didn't know how Mo Zihan, who was still gentle and calm, suddenly looked startled, and asked herself like a bell.

"Xiao Mo, don't be so loud. ”

Lin Ran thought that Mo Zihan was just angry, and hurriedly came up to comfort:

"Uncle Mo is a hero in everyone's heart, he was killed by the villain, and he was brave and righteous in order to protect us, and all of us respect him very much. Yu'er is unintentional, don't get too excited. ”

"I'm sorry, little Brother Mo. Qiu Shuyu also came to grab Mo Zihan's sleeve and apologized again and again. Tears glistened in his eyes.

Only then did Mo Zihan realize that he had overreacted and said the wrong thing. He couldn't see girls cry the most in his life, and he also valued friendship the most, thinking that he had hidden the truth from these two teammates from the beginning, he felt more and more guilty in his heart, and after thinking about it, he couldn't help but want to tell them the ins and outs of his arrival here.

"If I reveal a secret to you, will you believe me?"

Mo Zihan looked at the two of them and said categorically.