Lin Chen threw out the insight technique and immediately got the information of the shoes-

Elaine's Rose Track (Quest Item)

Description: This is a birthday present that Elaine received on her 14th birthday, and it was lost here for unknown reasons.

Although Lin Chen had never heard of Elaine's name before, combined with the mission of "Missing Child", he thought of the information he had obtained through Captain Carlo before, and someone had found tokens related to children in Devil's Ridge.

Lin Chen quickly made a judgment that Elaine was most likely one of the seven missing children.

Finding Elaine's shoes here doesn't mean that the children are hiding around here, but at least it can be confirmed that the children passed by here.

That's a good start.

Thinking of this, Lin Chen felt that he was full of energy.

He put Elaine's shoes in his backpack, and then glanced at the bronze equipment he had just picked up, and realized that it was a set of armor equipment-

Wolf Armor (Quality: Bronze)

Physical Defense: 45

Magical Defense: 45

Additional: Constitution +4

Equipment level: 12

Description: The front of the armor is carved with a hideous image of a wolf, which seems to be the totem of a savage tribe.

This set of Evil Wolf Armor has 45 points of defense, and the attributes are okay, but Lin Chen already has the Brave Armor on his body, so he can't use it.

It can only be cheap to sweep thousands of troops.

Lin Chen sent the illustrated book of the Evil Wolf Armor to the Sweeping Thousand Army, and soon received a reply from the other party, indicating that he really needed such a piece of equipment.

Lin Chen told Sweeping Thousand Army that his mission had just made some progress, and he would not be able to hand over the equipment to him until he returned to Redwood Town later. Sweeping Qianjun didn't mind, saying that he was not in a hurry to get the equipment, anyway, he was only level 11 now, and there was still some time before he could be promoted to level 12.

Lin Chen closed the chat window with the sweeping Qianjun, and packed all the other props and materials that had just exploded from the ghost wolf into his backpack, whether they were useful or not, anyway, his current backpack location was still very empty. After that, he took a general look at the backpack, but he didn't find any particularly valuable prop materials, so he ignored them.

Taking advantage of the fact that the monsters in the vicinity had not yet re-brushed up, he carefully observed the surrounding environment and carefully watched for any new clues.

Soon after, he made a new discovery.

It was a badge, shining in the moonlight.

Lin Chen used his insight technique to quickly obtain information related to this badge, which represented a noble family in Redwood Town. This reminded Lin Chen that among the missing children, there was a little fat man who had the bloodline of that family, and this badge may be a token that the little fat man lost in his struggle.

Lin Chen opened the task panel, and then quickly cut out the map from the task, and found that the system had automatically marked the location of the badge and shoes for him. Not only that, but even the information they got from Captain Carlo, the location of the children's tokens that were first discovered, was also marked.

The location where the clues were first found was quite far from here, almost the entrance to Devil's Ridge, and it was no wonder that Captain Carlo and the others did not find the follow-up clues.

The three locations did not form a straight line, and through the system's measurement tools, Lin Chen drew the line between each two points, forming an obtuse triangle. He thought about it, removed the longest line, turned it into a chamfer, and then used the system's measuring tools to transform the straight line into a curve.

Lin Chen carefully studied the map and adjusted the angle of the curve, and traced a section of the road on the map.

This should not be a coincidence, he felt.

Lin Chen followed this section of the road, and walked a little lightly behind.

He never encountered a pack of ghost wolves again, except for the Splinder, a squirrel-type monster that discharged. In the latter part of the journey, there are not many monsters brushed out, threes, threes, twos, and the level is not very high, which has not caused too many obstacles to Lin Chen.

Soon, Lin Chen proved his guess that the missing children were taken along this road.

Because he found other clues on this road, he saw a handkerchief, the words "save me" written on the handkerchief with blood stains, and also saw a twisted small dagger, as well as blood stains spilled on the side, Lin Chen guessed that there were children who tried to resist.

Lin Chen walked to the end of the road, there was already a cliff in front of him, Lin Chen didn't believe that the missing children were taken by people and flew down from the cliff. Because all the clues must be invalidated, and this task is only B-level difficulty after all, if you find so many clues and you can't find the child, Lin Chen estimates that even if you don't have to fight monsters, the difficulty of this task should be increased by at least one level.

He re-examined the map, and it seemed that there was a trail near here that led to the heights of Devil's Ridge.

That trail was very hidden, and if it weren't for a map to compare it to, Lin Chen almost couldn't find it.

Lin Chen followed this path and continued to walk to a high place, but as he walked, there was no road in front of him, and it was a mountain wall rising from the ground.

Need a detour?

Lin Chen suddenly noticed that in front of him was a rock that was half a man high. His instincts told him that the rock wasn't supposed to be here, and most importantly, that it was also stained with blood on the edge of the rock.

He fumbled his way and followed the crack between the rock and the mountain wall, and found that there was a cavity behind the rock.

Lin Chen pushed the rock away hard, and sure enough, a hole appeared, the hole was not small, and it could probably accommodate two adults to get into it at the same time.

This should be the place.

Lin Chen took a deep breath, replaced the gradually brighter and faint weapon with new phosphor, and then drilled into this cave.

"Ding!"

"System Prompt: Explore a new location [Cave of Evil]."

He didn't get any more information about the cave, but he couldn't do that much at the moment, he wouldn't really die in the game anyway, and he wouldn't be afraid of any danger. Of course, there is a certain amount of tension after all.

As Lin Chen went deeper, the cave gradually opened up, but it also became darker, and he regretted that he didn't make a torch first, or buy a lighting crystal, after all, the lighting range of phosphor was too small to take care of all the corners.

After walking for a while, Lin Chen stopped, and he seemed to hear some faint movements.

He identified a direction and continued on his way, and at the end, a stone door appeared on the rock face. Lin Chen didn't have the strength to push the stone gate, but he found a switch around here, but when he turned the switch, the stone gate also rumbled open.

There was a sudden burst of brightness, so that Lin Chen had to cover his eyes and instinctively dodge, but the attack he was guarding against did not come.

After getting used to the brightness of the magic radiance, Lin Chen carefully walked in, and inside was an open space.

Lin Chen heard a faint sob, and noticed that several children were chained on the side, and their limbs were locked, making them unable to move.

When Lin Chen got closer, he found that each of them had a small pipe, which was inserted into their arms, causing their blood to drip out slowly and rhythmically along the pipe, gathering in the most central stone trough.

Inside the stone trough, there was a very disgusting and awkward corpse, or rather a patchwork corpse.

Suddenly, the corpse's eyes opened in a miserable white.