Lin Chen opened the task panel and re-checked the details of the task "Missing Child".

The secondary goal of the mission, which was to rescue Tom and seven other children, now shows that the secondary objective has failed, meaning that at least one of the seven missing children has been killed.

Lin Chen was also helpless, in the end, he had lost too much time because of various things.

In Eternity, even some missions that don't have a time limit can have some accidents or changes that don't always wait for the player to complete.

Even if the player completes the goal of the task, there is a possibility that the NPC who receives the task will be killed by other NPCs or even the player, resulting in the inability to obtain the task reward and treat it as an invalid task.

Therefore, when the player receives the task, it is best to complete the task as soon as possible.

Of course, there are always a few cases where accidents can happen, and most of the time, as long as there is no time limit, the player can delay the completion of the task for two or three days, or even a few months, without any problems. It's just that at that time, the reward of the task will be very shabby, and the meaning of taking the task will have long been lost.

Although the secondary goal of the "Missing Child" mission has failed, it can continue as long as the primary goal has not failed. As long as Lin Chen can successfully find Tom's whereabouts, he can complete the task of "Missing Child" and get the basic task reward.

Thinking of this, Lin Chen raised his motivation a little.

Tom, where the hell are they?

Lin Chen tried to ask Qiao Luo, and there was all the information about the children before and after their disappearance, and Qiao Luo recommended Lin Chen to find Captain Carlo.

Under Qiao Luo's guidance, Lin Chen quickly found Captain Carlo's office, and after walking in, he found that Captain Carlo was not the only one inside.

However, Captain Carlo is dark-skinned and tall, and he is very eye-catching and recognizable in the crowd.

Lin Chen walked up to Captain Carlo, first greeted politely, and briefly explained his intention, indicating that he wanted to know information about the child's disappearance.

Captain Carlo raised his head, and after seeing Lin Chen's appearance, he saw him frowning and showing a look of distrust.

It seems that Captain Carlo still seems to have the urge to chase people.

Lin Chen hurriedly showed his title of brave, which made Captain Carlo's attitude soften.

"I'm sorry, young brave." Captain Carlo apologized and then explained: "In the past few days, we have been exhausted in searching for the missing child, and we have received clues several times, but when we arrived at the location, we found nothing, which caused us to be too irritable. Just because of your youth, I mistakenly thought that you were here to make trouble, and almost showed disrespect to you. ”

"It's okay, I can understand your situation, and the pressure hanging over your head. The longer it drags on, the less hope the children have of survival. ”

Lin Chen continued: "I'm not sure if I can really help, but I will do my best to find the whereabouts of the children, whether they are alive or dead. ”

"Thank you so much, I'll tell you all the information you want to get."

On Captain Carlo's face, a slight smile appeared, and it quickly turned back to bitterness.

In the end, in Captain Carlo's heart, there is no hope that the children will be able to recover this matter.

According to the information provided by Captain Carlo, the children were all missing on the night seven days ago. On the day of their disappearance, the other five children had no contact with the mayor's granddaughter, who happened to be playing with the fat man of a baron's family. These children have different identities and statuses, and the only thing they have in common is that they all received a strange candy the day before they disappeared.

After Captain Carlo's investigation, they caught the suspect - Huang Mao next door to the tailor's house, and when they put Huang Mao in prison, Huang Mao immediately revealed that it was a mysterious man with a white mask, and he clearly remembered that there was no face depicted on the mask of the mysterious man, but only a cracked mouth.

The other party used a gold coin as a reward and asked Huang Mao to send these candies to the children, and Huang Mao agreed for the gold coin. Huang Mao thinks that this matter has nothing to do with him, because there are more than ten candies he has given out, one for each child, but in the end only seven of the children are missing, which is definitely a coincidence.

After some torture, it was proved that Huang Mao was not lying, but even if he found the help of the town's archmage, he couldn't find the mysterious person Huang Mao said, as if it didn't exist.

As for the clue they got today, that is, someone picked up a token related to the children in Devil's Ridge.

After receiving the news, Captain Carlo immediately excitedly led people to search in Devil's Ridge, but the final result was still nothing.

Lin Chen decided to go to Devil's Ridge to take a look, Captain Carlo and they couldn't find out the results, it didn't mean that Lin Chen couldn't get the results either, anyway, he didn't have any more clues now.

Lin Chen said goodbye to Captain Carlo, and then left Redwood Town.

Outside Redwood Town, the big-eared monsters he had seen during the day were gone, and all they had been brushed out were monsters with strange faces, petite bodies, pointed and drooping ears, four arms, and two pairs of thin wings.

Lin Chen threw out the insight technique, only to learn that this was the "Night Demon" that he had said before sweeping the thousand armies.

The level of the Night Demon is level 12, and the experience given is okay, and if the player teams up, the danger will not be very high. It's close to Redwood Town, making it a great place for players who have just left the Novice Village and are taking up a combat class to level up.

Now there are not many players who brush the night demon, and Lin Chen failed to find the figure of sweeping the thousand armies, so he didn't care.

While rejecting the invitation of strange players to form a team, he traveled alone in the direction of Devil's Ridge.

Slowly, the other players disappeared around him.

There are no more Night Demons here, but there are monsters called Ghost Wolves, which move fast and act like ghosts in the night, making them a difficult challenge for the average player.

However, for Lin Chen, although there is trouble, it is also cost-effective to change experience. It's just that Lin Chen has to complete the task first now, and he doesn't have time to brush up for the time being.

About half an hour later, Lin Chen finally arrived at Devil's Ridge.

Devil's Ridge is called Devil's Ridge because here, a terrible devil from purgatory once appeared.

Eventually, the Devil was killed by the priests from the Temple, but before he died, the Devil cursed the mountain, and since then, at night, strange laughter can be heard in the Devil's Ridge, tearing the souls of travelers.