Chapter 12: First encounter with a monster

Since the destination was not far away, Ning Wushuang and the five of them quickly arrived at the village where the sick old farmer was located according to the tips given by the staff of the Adventurer's Guild.

As soon as he entered the village, Ning Wushuang felt a trace of abnormality.

Just when Ning Wushuang was puzzled, Zou Haoyun behind him suddenly said: "How can there be a very uncomfortable feeling here." ”

Sophia on the side also frowned thoughtfully.

There was no point in guessing, Ning Wushuang no longer paid attention to the abnormal feeling, and continued to lead everyone to the old farmer's house.

After Ning Wushuang greeted the old farmer at the door of his house and showed his intentions, he led everyone into the house, and the old farmer sat up on the bed with his weak body.

Seeing that so many people came this time, the old farmer asked suspiciously: "I remember that the reward seems to be 20 Ciaris coins, right?" Why are there so many adventurers? ”

Ning Wushuang explained: "We are an adventurous team, and we will complete any mission together. ”

So the old farmer no longer dwelled on this problem, and simply explained the situation and the work that needed to be done.

After the old farmer finished instructing, Ning Wucheng said to the old farmer: "Old man, this is the priest of our team, I know that you are sick, and I hope I can check the situation for you." ”

The old farmer replied with a little embarrassment: "This... I'm afraid I won't be able to pay more. ”

Sophia hurriedly waved her hand to the old farmer and said with a smile: "Old man, this does not need to be paid. ”

The old farmer thought that he had been bedridden for many days, and that he had not seen any improvement when he sought a doctor from the village, and that he could not pay more to hire an adventurer to help him take care of the farmland, so he had to recover as soon as possible.

So, the old peasant said gratefully to the crowd, "Then thank you, adventurers." ”

Ning Wushuang and the three "immortals" began to get busy with farm work, and Sophia stayed in the house to check on the old farmer's condition and use the "slow cure" to treat him.

"Wow, Yu Feng, you look good at doing farm work."

"Haha, I used to help when I went back to my hometown, and I have a little experience."

Since it was originally just one person's workload, coupled with Yu Feng, who had the strength and experience, the farm work was quickly completed.

After finishing his work, Zou Haoyun drank the tea that Sophia brought out of the house and said, "Hey, I didn't expect it to be very easy." You see, isn't the mission I chose pretty good? ”

Qian Zilai glanced at him and complained: "If you want to be embarrassed, you will pour water, and let Yu Feng pack all your strength." ”

Yu Feng laughed and said, "It's okay, I also think it's quite easy." ”

The brazen Zou Haoyun flattered: "Hehe, it's better to be Yu Feng." ”

Ning Wushu Sophia asked, "How is the old man?" ”

Sophia happily replied, "Well, it's much better, you should have a good night's rest and you'll be able to recover tomorrow." ”

Ning Wushuang smiled and said, "That's good." ”

But then Sophia frowned, and said with a little worry: "Actually, the old man is not sick. ”

The four looked at Sophia suspiciously.

Sophia scratched her head and continued, "When I treated him, I felt a trace of unclean magic in him, although only a trace. And the old man doesn't use magic at all, apparently, it's infected. ”

The four asked, "Unclean magic?" ”

Sophia explained to the four of them, "Unclean magic is caused by the mutation of normal magic. It usually happens to monsters, but of course, it can happen to Terrans and subhumans. ”

Ning Wushuang frowned and asked, "What happens if the mutant becomes unclean magic?" ”

Sophia's face became even more worried, and she said: "It will be easy to lose reason and become very violent, and at the same time, the magic power in the body will skyrocket and even overflow and affect the surroundings." ”

Ning Wushuang also began to ask worriedly, "It means that there is a mutated monster near the village?" ”

Sophia nodded and said, "Well, I'm afraid so. ”

Zou Haoyun said excitedly: "No wonder I had an unpleasant feeling when I first came here, Sophia did feel a thin abnormal magic around her after she finished speaking. ”

Although Ning Wushuang also felt abnormal, even after Sophia finished speaking, Ning Wushuang still didn't feel that there was abnormal magic around him like Zou Haoyun, and Ning Wushuang had to sigh in his heart that Zou Haoyun's magic power was so strong that it was not at the same level as himself.

At this time, Yu Feng said, "What should I do then?" Go back to the Adventurer's Guild to report the situation and move the rescuers? ”

Qian Zilai shook his head and said: "If there is no pay, who is willing to come, the guild is probably an intermediary, and it is impossible for them to pay out of their own pockets to invite adventurers to help." ”

The crowd fell silent.

After a while, Ning Wushuang looked at Zou Haoyun and asked, "Can you feel which direction that magic is coming from?" ”

Zou Haoyun stood up and said, "I'll try." He closed his eyes.

Soon, Zou Haoyun pointed to the forest behind the village and said, "Over there." ”

Qian Zilai asked curiously: "Guess by luck?" ”

Zou Haoyun smiled and said, "It's not this time, it's that I really feel the unclean magic over there." ”

Yu Feng asked Ning Wushuang: "How many of us are going to solve it?" ”

Ning Wushuang replied, "I'm not that reckless. ”

After a pause, Ning Wushuang continued, "Let's take a look at the situation a little? Even if you need someone to help, you have to know the situation to determine who to find and how many people to help, right? ”

Everyone agreed, and after saying goodbye to the old farmer, they went to the forest behind the village.

After entering the forest, Ning Wuliang Zou Haoyun said: "Haoyun, if you feel that magic power is not far away, say it, let's not get too close." ”

Zou Haoyun immediately expressed his understanding and began to concentrate on feeling the unclean magic power.

The five of them cautiously followed the direction that Zou Haoyun perceived, although it was only around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, but under the cover of dense trees, the forest still looked gloomy.

"Stop."

Zou Haoyun shouted nervously, and everyone stopped.

Ning Wushuang hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, it's very close?" ”

At this time, Zou Haoyun closed his eyes, Ning Wushuang was about to ask again, but Zou Haoyun suddenly opened his eyes and scared Ning Wushuang.

After opening his eyes, he saw Zou Haoyun turn around in a panic and was about to run, shouting to everyone: "Hurry up and run, that thing seems to have found us and is coming to us." ”

After everyone heard it clearly, they immediately turned around and followed Zou Haoyun to prepare to escape, but suddenly, there was a fierce swaying sound of tree branches overhead, and a shadow swept over everyone's heads and stood in front of the five people who were about to escape.

Since Zou Haoyun was the first to run, the figure was closest to Zou Haoyun, so frightened that Zou Haoyun shouted and crawled back behind Yu Feng, and Yu Feng immediately bravely raised his shield in front of everyone.

Everyone looked at the figure in front of them.

"It's a one-eyed ape." Sophia saw it and explained to the crowd.

Ning Wushuang also saw the appearance of this demonic beast clearly. As the name suggests, this one-eyed ape has only one big eye on its forehead, and its body is only slightly larger than the ape in Ning Wushuang's original world, but its forelimbs are much more developed, and its bulging muscles obviously contain amazing strength.

At this time, the one-eyed ape was staring at the five people with big red eyes, and its big open mouth kept making a rapid breathing sound of "hahahaha", and the exposed fangs were even more chilling.

Suddenly, the one-eyed ape kept clapping his hands on his chest and roaring at the crowd. The five of them were ready to fight, and Yu Feng was always ready to rush up to fight.

Just when everyone thought that the one-eyed ape was about to attack, the one-eyed ape quickly climbed up from the big tree next to him, climbed into the thick branches, and disappeared from everyone's field of vision.

Ning Wushuang was puzzled: "Ran away?" ”

As soon as the words fell, a strange cry of "quack" sounded from the tree behind the five people, and the five people hurriedly turned to look behind, only to see that the one-eyed ape did not know when it had gone around to the top of the tree behind the five people and launched an attack on the five people. And the one-eyed ape's attack target is directly aimed at Qian Zilai, who has no magic power.

The one-eyed ape clenched his hands into fists above his head, and with the help of the inertia of falling from the tree and his own strong strength, he was ready to unleash an unstoppable and powerful thrash at Qian Zilai.

Qian Zilai, who had just turned around, saw this situation and immediately prepared to jump away, but the speed of the one-eyed ape was so fast that Qian Zilai already felt desperate.

Just when Qian Zilai was desperate, a figure rushed to his side.

"Yu Feng?!" Qian Zilai saw the figure clearly.

Yu Feng rushed to Qian Zilai's side and pushed Qian Zilai away, and blocked in front of Qian Zilai.

Qian Zilai was pushed and sat on the ground.

β€œduang~”

When the sound sounded, Qian Zilai saw a bright red blood splattered on the ground, and then blood continued to flow down.

Qian Zilai immediately looked up at Yu Feng nervously and shouted, "Yu Feng!" ”

However, Qian Zilai looked up and saw Yu Feng with a sunny smile on his face looking at him and said, "Haha, Zilai didn't fall in pain, right?" ”

Qian Zilai looked at the other three and asked, "What's the situation?" ”

Ning Wushuang pointed to the corpse of the one-eyed ape not far in front of Yu Feng, and also explained to Qian Zilai with a shocked expression: "Yu Feng pushed you away and blocked the attack of the splashing monkey with his shield, and then slashed its throat with a sword. The monkey clutched his throat and tried to run, but he didn't go far before he stopped. ”

It turned out that the blood splash Qian Zilai saw was the one-eyed ape's throat slit, and the subsequent dripping blood was the blood left on Yu Feng's short sword.

Looking at Yu Feng's relaxed look, Zou Haoyun ran to him and looked at Yu Feng like a monster and said, "I'm a turtle, you're too fierce, aren't you?" The monkey thrashed that, how could I see that you didn't move, are you really okay? ”

Yu Feng shook off the blood of the short sword and put it back in the scabbard, patted the shield and said, "Haha, it's okay, this shield is worth buying, and this blow is resisted." ”

Although Yu Feng had made it clear that she was fine, Sophia was still worried and insisted that Yu Feng be examined.

After checking Yu Feng, she found that there was really nothing wrong, Sophia looked at Yu Feng incredulously and said: "The silver-level warriors against the one-eyed ape didn't dare to take it head-on, and the full force of this mutated one-eyed ape didn't cause any damage to Yu Feng's eldest brother?!" ”

Yu Feng smiled and said, "Haha, does Sophia want me to get hurt?" I'd love to enjoy being taken care of by Sophia. ”

Sophia blushed and waved her hand and said, "No, no, no, how could I hope that Brother Yu Feng would be injured." ”

Seeing that everyone was fine, Ning Wushuang opened his mouth and said, "Huh, there is no danger, go back to the Adventurer's Guild to eat." ”

"Oh yes! Walk up. ”

"Ah, wait." Sophia shouted at the four who were about to leave.

Ning Wushuang looked at Sophia suspiciously and asked, "What's the matter, Sophia?" ”

"That." Sophia said as she pointed to the corpse of the one-eyed ape.

Yu Feng also asked suspiciously, "I just confirmed that it is dead, what's wrong?"

Sophia sighed and said, "The corpse of this monster can be exchanged for payment at the 'monster recycling shop' in the city. ”

As soon as they heard that they could exchange money, the eyes of the four widened, and Yu Feng hurriedly went over and carried the ape corpse.

As she left the forest, Sophia continued to explain to the four of them: "Warcraft usually have magic cores in their bodies, and magic cores can be used to make various magic items and props. The more powerful the Demon Beast, the more refined the Demon Core is, and the purer the Demon Core can be exchanged for more rewards. In addition to the magic core, the furs and minions of some monsters are very useful, and they can be used to make equipment, medicines, and so on. ”

After listening to Sophia's explanation, Zou Haoyun complained: "It turns out that Sophia doesn't hate money either, I'm afraid that you hate the smell of copper on your brother." ”

Qian Zilai glared and said, "Who has a copper smell on their body?!" ”

Zou Haoyun looked like a villain and said, "Hehe, did I say you are her brother?" ”

"You!"

Qian Zilai was about to perform an over-the-shoulder fall, but Sophia hurriedly dissuaded her, and explained with an embarrassed smile: "Haha, in fact, I also want to make money and learn some useful magic skills without holding everyone back." ”

Yu Feng laughed after hearing this, patted Zou Haoyun on the shoulder with one hand and said, "Haha, there is still a magician who doesn't know magic skills, how can you be considered a drag?" ”

Zou Haoyun immediately protested and said: "That's it, I haven't learned magic skills yet, captain, don't you prioritize investing in a magic scroll for me?" ”

Ning Wushuang said helplessly: "I want to, I don't have any money in my pocket." I don't know if the magic scroll is expensive or not, go back and sell this magic beast to see how much money it has. ”

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Back inside Wardle, night had fallen, and the city's magical street lights were lit up.

Ning Wucheng said to the others: "It's okay to take the corpse to dinner, so let's sell it first." ”

So, led by Sophia, everyone came to the "Monster Recycling Shop".

"Welcome."

As soon as the five of them entered the door, a female boss greeted them warmly.

When he saw the monster that Yu Feng was carrying, the boss said to Yu Feng in surprise: "Yo, this little guy is a good thing, put it here for me to take a closer look." As he spoke, he pointed to a large platform in the store.

When the boss inspected the ape's corpse, Ning Wushuang observed the situation in the store.

I saw that the store was surrounded by large and small potion jars, and in the transparent jars, you could clearly see the "parts" soaked in various monsters. The whole store gives people the feeling that it is simply a seeping biological research laboratory, and this kind of store is definitely not dared to enter Ning Wushuang alone.

"This corpse is just perfect! There is only one fatal wound in the throat, and if the core and internal organs can be carefully removed, the specimen can be sold for a good price. ”

The female boss showed a weird smile after speaking, and the atmosphere in the store made the five of them shudder.

The landlady touched a small sharp horn on the top of the one-eyed ape's head with her fingers and continued: "Moreover, this is still a mutant one-eyed ape. ”

Sophia couldn't help but ask, "Huh? Why would my sister know? ”

The landlady smiled and explained, "A normal one-eyed ape doesn't have horns. ”

Sophia suddenly realized: "I see. ”

The female boss didn't say much, returned to the counter, took out a piece of paper from the drawer, handed it to Ning Wushuang and the five people, and said, "This is 1,000 Lutes, you think it's acceptable, I'll accept the corpse of this mutated one-eyed ape." ”

Ning Wushuang and the four of them were shocked: "1000?!" ”

Sophia was also shocked and said, "The one-eyed ape that I destroyed with the team before only sold for 300 rutes." ”

The female boss said with a smile: "Of course, the mutated ones are worth a little more." ”

After the transaction was completed, the five walked out of the store happily.

"Look at the mission I chose, is it good luck, you still laugh at me."

"Bullshit, it's obviously my fortune."

Ning Wushuang didn't bother to pay attention to the quarrel between the two, and looked curiously at the 1,000 Lutcoin denomination "banknote". It's not so much a banknote as it is more like a voucher, with a stamp on it that Ning Wushuang doesn't understand.

Sophia beside her noticed Ning Wushuang's doubts and took the initiative to explain: "This is the Lutecoin certificate issued by the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce, with which you can go to each Chamber of Commerce to exchange for the amount of Lutecoin indicated on the certificate." ”

Ning Wushuang smiled and said, "I see. ”

Then he shouted to the four people: "Let's go, have a big dinner tonight!" ”