"Click!"

The feet of the visitors made a crisp sound when they stepped on the fallen leaves.

Ning Fei opened a gap in the leaves, only revealing his eyes, and quietly looked over.

The visitor was a young woman, dressed plainly, who looked like a knitter. She walked slowly, and her footsteps were rhythmic.

The woman's head was slightly raised and she didn't look at the ground. Ning Fei's eyes suddenly changed, and he saw the woman's eyes, which had no eyeballs, only a cloudy gray-white, like a lizard.

The woman walked forward silently, as if summoned by something.

Ning Fei was still hiding in the tree, he didn't act rashly, just silently watched the woman. He saw the woman approaching the little girl, and the three of them were not surprised by the woman's arrival, and they were still communicating as if no one was around.

The woman went straight through the hole in the tree in such a daze, and there was no more life.

"What's going on?" Ning Fei groaned in his heart.

"Click, click, click."

Just then, there were several more footsteps outside the woods. Ning Fei followed the prestige and saw a few more people in different clothes, their eyes were gray, and they slowly walked towards the tree hole.

They were like moths to a fire, one after the other, swallowed by the hollows of the trees.

There was something strange about the atmosphere, and on a gray night, these people disappeared into the forest for no apparent reason.

The witch, the black-robed man, the little girl, and the three of them were waiting by the side of the tree hole. Someone came by, and they occasionally turned their heads to take a look, as if they were familiar with the situation.

After another hour, there were almost a dozen people in the hollow of the tree. Seeing that no one came, the three of them finally got in.

As soon as they entered, the hole in the tree slowly disappeared on the trunk.

Only then did Ning Fei jump down from the branches, and Mu Qingyan tapped the branches and leaves under his feet, and landed beside Ning Fei with a graceful jump in the air.

"How?" Ning Fei immediately asked, "What did you hear?" ”

Mu Qingyan looked at the direction where the tree hole disappeared and said, "They spend most of their time discussing how the harvest is. However, some information was also revealed during the conversation. ”

"You guessed it right, that kind of match is really harmful to the human body. More precisely, matches suck people's souls and gradually turn them into a walking corpse. And they added another kind of sorcery to the match, and when a person's soul was completely swallowed by the match, the person would come to the tree hole as if he had been summoned. ”

Ning Fei had probably guessed this situation, and he asked again, "What are they letting these soulless people do here?" ”

Mu Qingyan's eyes moved slightly, and she gently spit out a sentence: "Just now they called these people: raw materials." ”

Ning Fei naturally understood what Mu Qingyan meant. At this time, a gust of wind blew, making Ning Fei feel a little chilly.

Witches, black-robed men and little girls, they use witchcraft to make matches from people and sell them to people in the town. After these people have lost their souls by matches, they will come to this tree hole in a daze, and once again become the raw material for making matches.

"That's how they get the treasures of the townspeople." Mu Qingyan said lightly.

Ning Fei nodded slightly, "This should be the secret of Glouston City." ”

At this time, the prompt sound of the task sounded in their heads:

"Current Mission Progress 3/7: Save the inhabitants of Glouston."

Progress is still 3/7, but the description of the mission has changed from exploring secrets to saving the inhabitants.

"Save the residents? Kill those three and the mission should be complete. Mu Qingyan's face was expressionless, but it was obvious that she had already moved to kill.

Ning Fei naturally agreed. The three men didn't know how much blood they had on their hands.

The two came to the towering ancient tree, and the hole in the tree was no longer there.

"It's supposed to be a teleportation array, but we don't know how to open it." Ning Fei observed around the big tree, but did not find the switch that triggered the teleportation array.

He stabbed the white cardinal's sacred sword into the trunk of the tree with ease. Inside the trunk is solid wood, and there is no room to hide.

"How do you go down?" Ning Fei frowned slightly, and suddenly realized that he seemed to have missed an opportunity.

Isn't that one person walking into a tree hole just a demonstration for himself? As long as you imitate the appearance of those people, can't you easily enter the tree hole?

Ning Fei knew that he still had a lot to improve. After all, he hasn't been in this game world for a long time, and his abilities in all aspects are still immature.

At this moment, there was another sound of footsteps in the distance. Ning Fei took advantage of the situation and saw a few more figures walking over in a daze.

"Great, there's still a chance." Ning Fei looked overjoyed, hurriedly used the costume change function of the virtual glasses, changed into an ordinary resident's costume, left the towering tree, and blended into the crowd.

Mu Qingyan did the same, and both of them pretended to be ordinary residents of Glouston City. They roll their eyes as best they can, and then imitate the movements of these people.

The people walked to the big tree and stopped, and Ning Fei and Mu Qingyan also stopped.

What followed was a long wait. The moonlight was shining and the night breeze was blowing gently, but they were motionless.

Ning Fei didn't feel the slightest anxiety in his heart, and sure enough, it didn't take long for a hole in the branch of the big tree to slowly expand.

When he got closer, Ning Fei noticed that this was not a tree hole, but something that looked like a black mirror attached to the trunk of the tree.

The black-robed man came out of the hollow of the tree, yawned a little tiredly, and just glanced at the men.

The men began to move, and they slowly stepped into the hollow of the tree. Ning Fei and Mu Qingyan were mixed in, and when they passed through the tree hole, they felt as if they had passed through an extremely light film.

The black-robed man waited for a while, but no one had come. So he stepped into the tree hole, and then the tree hole slowly disappeared.

They came to a room that looked like a chemical factory. There is a huge steam-style machine in the room, and in the middle of the machine there are several containers containing an unknown liquid of green, purple, and red, which constantly bubbles out and makes a "gurgling" sound.

And all the inhabitants of the city of Gloston, who came to the factory, called "raw materials", were standing in a haphazard manner, without any superfluous movements, like a flock of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

Ning Fei secretly looked inside the factory, and when he saw the witch and the little girl operating the machine, his pupils dilated rapidly.

They grabbed the upper and lower bodies of a person by two machines and lifted them horizontally in the air. Then, with a blank face, the little girl pressed a button on the machine.

I saw that this person was like a towel twisted, and was turned and twisted by two machines in opposite directions. The blood and internal organs that had fallen from the rupture of the body fell into one of the containers below, and then all turned red and the liquid flowed down the pipes of the machine into the containers that were carrying the liquid.

The wringed out man was left with a shriveled stick shell, which was thrown on a platform.

On that platform, there were at least thirty such shells densely packed.

These shells are the raw materials for matchsticks, and the liquid is smelted into matchsticks that bring endless happiness.

Seeing this scene, Ning Fei remembered a match that the little girl had struck in front of him during the day, the flame was beating faintly, it was the soul of a certain resident burning.

The witch was tinkering with the final production of matches at the end of the machine, and a single shell could make dozens of such matches.

"This chick is so pretty, it's finally a little fun, hahaha." At this time, the black-robed man suddenly laughed obscenely. Obviously, he noticed Mu Qingyan who was blending into the crowd. "I'll kill her when I'm done."

The witch's hoarse voice rang out: "If you dare to mix disgusting things into it and affect my business, don't blame me for being unkind to you." ”

The black-robed man's eyes showed a little resentment, but he said respectfully on the surface, "Don't worry, what if it's dirty, it's just a raw material, it's a big deal to find you a few more." ”

He came over unhappily and wanted to hug Mu Qingyan, and then pulled her into the room. But just as he turned around, he saw a pair of cold and murderous eyes.

"Strange, shouldn't the raw glasses be off-white?" This was his last thought before he died, and he hadn't figured it out yet, Mu Qingyan had already cut the throat of the black-robed man with a dagger.

The black-robed man fell to the ground, clutching his throat and cramping to death.

The witch looked at the scene in front of her, she didn't look at the black-robed man squarely, and there was not even the slightest change in her eyes. She just sneered and said hoarsely, "The way you greet you is very impolite, and you will pay for it." ”

Ning Fei understood that the witch had also discovered herself. He took out the white cardinal's holy sword, walked to Mu Qingyan's side, and quietly looked at the witch.