Scare!

Even if Lin Chen was bold, at this moment, he was still a little frightened.

Instinctively, he swung his long sword, slashed at the corpse, slicing out a few pieces of minced flesh, and quickly took a few steps back, widening the distance between him and the stone trough. Then raise the vigilance to the extreme, and in a slight tension, wait for the mutation of the corpse in the stone trough.

Lin Chen waited patiently for a while, but everything was as usual, and the abnormal scene he imagined did not appear.

Originally, Lin Chen thought that this corpse would crawl out of the stone trough and attack him with his minions.

Since he didn't see the danger, Lin Chen's mood was slowly calming down, but he still maintained a certain vigilance.

Lin Chen cautiously approached the stone trough and looked at the corpse in the stone trough, the corpse still had white eyes, staring at Lin Chen, and rolling its eyes as Lin Chen moved.

This corpse is alive!

Lin Chen saw the corpse open and close its mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but all he made was some incomprehensible "hissing" sounds.

He threw out an insight, and only got the simple information that "this is a strange living corpse, possibly a sacrifice of some evil ritual". He looked at his feet and found that the earth stretched outward with the stone trough as the center was made of blood to form a strange magic array, but it had not yet been completely activated.

When this magic array is completely activated, what terrible things will happen? Summoning an evil knight, or resurrecting the devil?

Don't worry about it for now.

Lin Chen abandoned the idea that it had nothing to do with the mission, and now the secondary goal of the mission has failed, and it is impossible to rescue the seven missing children, and only one main goal can be completed - to find Tom's whereabouts.

He left the trough and turned his attention back to the rock walls around him, to the children who were chained. He didn't know what kind of horror these children had endured in these days, but their eyes were glazed, and they didn't even react much to his arrival.

After Lin Chen counted them, he found that there were only five children here, and the whereabouts of two children were missing.

He frowned, and after a careful search, he discovered the whereabouts of the other "child".

The man was no longer recognizable, he had been stripped of his skin, and his bones seemed to be shattered, and his whole flesh and blood were blurred and collapsed on the ground.

It's kind of disgusting.

Lin Chen ignored this mass of "flesh and blood", and threw insight at those children one by one, he found Elaine, the granddaughter of the mayor's family, and found the little fat man of a certain family, but he didn't find Tom, the main target of the mission.

No way?

Lin Chen looked at the mass of "flesh and blood" again, endured the discomfort, and also threw out the insight technique, but he couldn't get half of the useful information.

If he can't confirm that this "flesh and blood" is Tom, it means that he has not been able to find Tom's whereabouts, and the mission cannot be completed.

Just then, a faint voice came from beside him.

He ...... It's Suomi. ”

Lin Chen recalled the name "Suomi", he had previously obtained information through Captain Carlo, among the missing children was a boy named Suomi, a brave orphan, whose greatest wish was to grow up to be a hero.

Lin Chen turned around and saw Elaine, a little girl with dirty hair and clothes, stained with blood and dust, her face was very pale.

Suddenly remembered that when he first entered this space, he heard a faint sob, which seemed to be made by this little girl.

She still retains her sanity.

"Are you okay?" Lin Chen asked.

"I'm scared, I don't feel like that...... Are you here to save me? The little girl weakly added, "You...... It's not the same as that bad guy. ”

Lin Chen smiled: "Yes, I will be able to save you right away." ”

"Khooth!"

Although Lin Chen didn't have the key, he swung his long sword and quickly cut the chains that restricted the little girl's movements. Although there are still iron rings left on the little girl's wrists and ankles, it is already possible to leave here with the little girl, and there will always be a solution when the rest of the people go back.

Then, Lin Chen pulled out the tube that was originally inserted in the little girl's arm, and rummaged through the backpack, and found a bottle of healing potion that burst out at some point, and the wound that fell on the little girl's arm soon stopped bleeding.

Elaine had just regained her mobility, and when she stepped on the ground, she seemed to feel a little dizzy, leaning forward and about to fall to the ground.

Lin Chen's hands were quick and he hugged the little girl's body, okay, it was a little stinky.

"Thank you."

"Do you know Tom's whereabouts?" After the little girl got used to her body a little, Lin Chen asked her.

"Tom ......"

Hearing Tom's name, Elaine's voice trembled, and a look of fear appeared on her face.

Lin Chen's heart was uneasy, his gaze followed the little girl's outstretched out, and he looked at it with shaking his fingers, and just happened to see the stone trough in the middle.

He soon realized that Tom was still alive, but had become the "living dead".

Lin Chen felt a little guilty in his heart, if he carried out the task in the first time, maybe these children would still be intact.

Now, though, is not the time to regret it.

After he identifies the identity of the "living dead" and learns of Tom's whereabouts, the quest prompt changes.

The quest suggests that he can return to Redwood now and tell Lady Polly the sad news to receive the base reward of the quest, which may have unforeseen consequences, or he can choose not to inform Lady Polly and forfeit the quest's reward entirely.

The content of the mission has also been updated, telling him to leave here as soon as possible, saying that everything here is not for him to handle, and it is best to inform Captain Carlo and the others of everything he sees.

Lin Chen didn't have the heart to stay here for a long time, he was very uncomfortable here, and he was going to save the other children, and then leave here.

As a result, whenever he touched the children, they would tremble with fear and let out a frantic shout. But as soon as he pulled his hands away from the children, they quickly fell silent again, their eyes glazed over.

"The bad guy...... We were given 'holy water' and we started having nightmares. ”

The little girl hugged Lin Chen's arm tightly, and said with a trembling body: "It's just me...... I'm the only one who can wake up from a nightmare. ”

"Don't worry, I'll get you out of here in no time."

Lin Chen touched the little girl's head, calmed her emotions, and then didn't care about the others, and couldn't take care of it, so he took the little girl out of this evil cave alone.

Although he still has a beginner Return to the City Scroll on his body, which can be used to quickly return to Redwood Town, the Return to the City Scroll can only be used against him alone. It was impossible for him to leave the little girl here alone, so he had to be careful to avoid the monsters, or only deal with some lonely monsters, so as not to hurt the little girl.

But I don't know if it's the little girl's good luck or the hidden setting of the mission, the monster basically ignores the little girl next to him, which also saves him a lot of energy.

But even so, it took him half an hour to get back to Redwood with Elaine.