"Ahem, long wait. Hello two adventurers, I am the head of this village, Zab Dilan. ”

The village chief, a kind-faced old man who looked to be in his sixties and did not seem to be in good health, coughed from time to time, and slowly came out of the back room with the help of a young girl.

The girl helped the old village chief and asked him to sit on a chair, and then poured water for the two of them. And after the guard saw the village chief, he went back to his post.

"Hello village chief, we are adventurers from Conteseno. In the morning, we received your commission to come over to inquire about some information, and asked the village chief to tell us everything we knew. Ophelia thanked the girl and said to the village chief.

"Oh good. It all started three months ago. ”

"One night three months ago, the goblins attacked the village and took some of the livestock and food, but because the night guards spotted it in time, we quickly organized a counterattack and repelled the goblins. Although some people were injured, fortunately no one died. ”

"In the following time, we strengthened our vigilance, prepared for it, and successfully defended against several invasions. At the same time, a commission was issued to the union. Soon adventurers came to our aid, a team of seven. They learned a little about it and went to the forest. ”

"However, the adventurer entered the forest and did not return, we thought it was a failure, but for the rest of the time, the goblins did not come out of the forest again. Ahem..."

"That group of adventurers didn't return to the village?" Lu Kaifeng asked.

"Yes." The village chief coughed, and the girl helped him calm down, and then continued: "Half a month has passed, and the adventurers have not appeared, and neither have the goblins. We returned to Contesino as the adventurers had completed their commission, and the village settled down. ”

"But it wasn't until the adventurers came to the village again that we knew that the commission had not been completed, and that the group of adventurers had not returned to Conteseno to deliver the commission."

"And the second group of adventurers also entered the forest after learning about the situation, but like the first team, they did not return."

Then came several more teams of adventurers, two of them together, and all of them were Bronze-level adventurers. One of the teams said they would return to the village if they didn't find anything out of the ordinary, but to no avail. Then the guild came in and the investigator came and he asked some questions and went back to the city, which was a few days ago. ”

"And then you're here today. Adventurers, didn't any of those adventurers go back? Even the bronze one? ”

"Yes, no." Ophelia shook her head.

"Really... May God bless them. The old man sighed.

"Village Chief, do you know the number of goblins? Are there any special types? For example, it is very large, or the color is different from anything else, etc.? Lu Kaifeng thought for a moment and asked.

"I've heard the men of the Self-Defense Forces say that it's about 20 of them. As for whether there are any more special-looking, they didn't say, so it is estimated that there are none. The old village chief thought about it for a moment, shook his head, and said.

"More than twenty..."

In their goblin habits, they will only target targets that are weaker than them, so they won't let the village go easily.

And the goblin is one of the weakest Warcraft in almost all novels and games, and it is the same in this world. And here, even an adult goblin, an untrained adult can deal with one by one, so the only trouble is their number and the speed of reproduction.

And for adventurers with a little experience, even if it is a black iron level adventurer, two or three people can solve a dozen or so goblins. And more than twenty goblins, five-star Black Iron Mission, should not be a problem for the seven-person team that came over for the first time, although they are all only Black Iron level adventurers.

And after the seven-person adventurer team entered the forest, the goblins did not appear again. This means that they should have finished exterminating the goblins, and it stands to reason that they should have returned to the village, or to Conteseno, but they didn't.

Then it must be that there is an anomaly in the forest, and something has left them all inside. And the situation of the latter teams also confirms this, with the strength of those teams, unless there is a mutant goblin in the goblin tribe, they will not be able to complete the task.

And it is even more impossible for an adventurer not to deliver a task after completing it, unless there are special circumstances, and none of these special circumstances are good.

So it could only be that something was wrong in the forest. Although this is the last branch of the Anglis Mountains, the monsters inside will not be very powerful, but there will always be exceptions.

"Did you find anything out of the ordinary?" Ophelia asked.

"For example, are there any weird sounds or something?" Lu Kaifeng added.

"Is it abnormal? Let me think. Zabu recalled, shook his head, and said, "No." ”

"That's it..."Lu Kaifeng nodded, "I understand, thank you for your cooperation." ”

"It's okay, thanks to you, the village has been able to settle down. If you need anything, please feel free to tell us if the adventurer can afford us. ”

"If there is, it will." After saying this, Lu Kaifeng got up, "Then, excuse me." ”

...

In the village, a woman who was washing clothes smiled at the sight of the two men. The children who were playing also stopped when they saw them and looked at them curiously.

"Don't you have to ask anything?" Ophelia smiled in response to the kindness of the villagers as she asked for help.

"No, the village chief probably doesn't know anything." Lu Kaifeng shook his head.

Of course, it is not excluded that the village chief is deceiving them, and the seemingly harmless old village chief turns out to be a hidden evil wizard, which is also common in the game. However, after Lu Kaifeng sensed it with his sword soul, he didn't find anything abnormal.

At least he didn't find anything bizarre.

Next, the two of them found a few people in the village who had fought with goblins, and asked about some details at that time, such as the number, size, xenomorphs, weapons and equipment, etc., as well as recent anomalies.

After not getting any valuable information, Lu Kaifeng decided to go directly to the forest to have a look, after all, there was nothing of value here. All that's left is to explore the forest.