As Tom and Jem walked down the streets of Crooks City, they felt very curious.

In contrast to the commercial atmosphere of Lancaster, Crooks can be seen everywhere in the city of Crookes, with huge chimneys rising into the sky and billowing black smoke, and the city is dotted with round metal feed pipes, giving it a heavy industrial city feel.

Even the air seemed to carry a faint smell of charcoal fire.

The old dog, Kappais, snorted with his tail cocked, seemingly dissatisfied with the city's air quality.

After the pet function was opened in the system, Pikes became Jem's pet, and even if he died in battle, he could be resurrected by paying in-game currency and experience points.

However, players nowadays don't like to accept pets.

After all, because Sivi was relatively short on cash, he integrated the player's pets, mounts, followers, and enchanter's slots from the beginning.

Not to mention the Lance Knight, who must have a mount, even the number of creatures that the average player can recruit is quite limited.

And pets like Kappis are weak in combat, because they can't believe in the god of the game, and they can't be upgraded through normal channels, and generally no players will recruit.

- With this position, isn't the tool frogman who can go into the water to attract monsters in the pimple tidal flat? The spicy rabbit head that can be transferred to learn to backstab in the West Continent...... Ahem, isn't the long-eared people fragrant? It's really not good, and the various mounts that Jungle Walker players have tamed are not bad......

Although they know this truth, after all, Tang Rui and Jem have been traveling with Kappis for a long time, and Kappis has also come out of the shadow of losing his master in the adventure, and has begun to like these two new little masters, it is too cruel to abandon them or something, and if he is not recruited as a pet, Kappis is easy to die in battle, so he can only do this.

Of course, Tang Rui and Jem didn't feel wasted, and not only that, but they also planned to strengthen Kappais.

There are actually many ways to strengthen it, and among them, giving it a monster bloodline is the easiest, and the system also provides this kind of service (only for changing the type of monster that the player has killed), but it needs to complete a difficult chain of tasks automatically assigned by the system and pay a large amount of game currency.

And instead of feeling embarrassed, Tang Rui and Jem began to do this task with great enthusiasm - for them, after the Twin Cities Cup, it was a period of confusion when they couldn't think of where to venture next, and after the mission, they could even save the time to think about the future.

"This is the destination of this mission, right?" Jem opened the system page and muttered as he compared the task information on it.

After following the slightly rough mission logo on the minimap and asking for directions, the two finally found their dilapidated bungalow in the middle of an alley.

Tang Rui looked a little tired, he covered his stomach and said with a bitter face: "I hope to entertain us with something delicious, I am hungry, and I don't see any restaurants on the road......"

"Even if there is a restaurant, we won't be able to eat, after all, the Ryan exchanged at Mr. Mane's has been spent, and now we only have game currency." Jem replied, and then knocked the door, "Is anyone there?" ”

He knocked for a long time, and the dilapidated wooden door opened a crack, revealing a half-mottled old man's face, with a vigilant look on his face: "Who are you?" ”

"We are the messenger of Lancaster City, and we have brought you a letter from Mr. Collinf Atherton." Jem pulled out the parchment envelope, which had been kept quite well, and the bright red wax seal on it was very complete.

The old man gave them a suspicious look at the letter, then looked at the private postmark on the letter before finally opening the door.

Just as Tang Rui and Jem were about to go in, the other party reached out to stop them.

"Wait a minute, each of you will pull out a hair and show me."

"Pulling out your hair? Are your customs so strange here? ”

Jem was a little puzzled.

"Customs...... Hum. The old man sneered: "Crooks doesn't have this custom, this is to verify whether you are swamp people!" ”

"Swamp people? That slimy humanoid monster? Tang Rui asked inexplicably.

"That's a mire, and the swamp people are the kind of shapeshifting monsters that can replicate a person's appearance and memories, right?"

But Jem, who will flip through the monster science posts on the forum when he has nothing to do, knows more about this.

"Can you even copy memories?" Tang Rui was shocked.

"Don't worry, our memories are blessed by the gods, and even if those guys become like us, they can't keep their memories." Jem said.

After all, players know too much, if any random person can see their memories, then Xiwei has already been discovered by other gods and dissected into a living god tablet, so as long as the player's memory is read by an external force, it will immediately alarm Xiwei himself, and will directly carry out divine punishment countermeasures with his permission.

In addition to avoiding memory reading, this mechanic also creates strong resistance to abilities such as mind control.

Jem naturally couldn't know the specific reason, but continued to explain: "In addition, it is said that after the body tissue of the swamp people leaves the body, it will return to its original mud appearance due to the loss of vitality. This is probably about pulling out the hair and proving that we have no problem. ”

After understanding the reason, Tang Rui and Jem did not continue to object, but each pulled out one of their own hair and showed it to the old man for verification.

The old man dared to let the two of them in only after he was sure that there was nothing wrong with their hair.

"What did you just say, about the swamp people in this city?" Jem asked curiously, "Is it a monster from the wild that has mixed in?" Doesn't the church in the city do it? ”

"I don't know exactly what happened, but it is true that swamp people have infiltrated the city, and we have found water sources contaminated by swamp people in several places, and we have also found the bodies of victims who have been replaced by swamp people." After the two of them entered the house, the old man immediately closed the door and locked it heavily, only then did he show a reassuring expression: "I haven't been able to find a single clue for several days, and the city guards have been discredited." The church is also unreliable, so it can only be careful ......"

Jem grimaced, and secretly judged if this would be the next part of the mission.

"Give me the letter."

Old man Jin Ge sat down by the fire and took the envelope from Jem: "Just let me see that old fellow, and say something to me, a wasted man with old arms and legs." ”