"Hey, we want to, but we can't help it. The monster first appeared five days ago in the evening, and the victim was Raul, the village blacksmith. When the villagers heard Raul's screams, they immediately ran to his house, but when they arrived, they found only a hole in the ground in addition to bloodstains, and Raul was missing. The next morning I asked little Mark, who was the fastest in the village, to go to White Rock to ask for help.

But for the next two days, when no one came, I knew what might be wrong, and every night one of the villagers went missing, so I sent two more young villagers to town, but they haven't returned. Hey, I'm afraid it's a lot of bad luck. ”

"Didn't you go down the cave to save people?" Gale still didn't deal with the village chief of Nit, and asked.

The village chief of Nite was a little embarrassed and said: "Raul has run for the town soldier today, although he was not selected, but he is the strongest in our village, he has an accident, the villagers are very scared, how can they care about saving people." ”

Yang Hao pulled a strong wind, motioned him not to speak, and said, "Village Chief, every time the monster attacks, will it leave a hole in the ground?" Does it only attack humans? Is there a shortage of livestock in the village? ”

"Yes, there is a hole every time, and there is not a single animal in the village, and this monster only attacks people." The chief of the village of Nit said in horror.

"Only attacking people? So has the village chief had any survivors or witnesses so far? ”

"Yes! Mark Jr. had seen him in the most recent attack. ”

"Take us to him!"

"Good!" The chief of the village staggered two steps, and almost did not fall, but Martha helped him. What happened in the past few days has tormented the old village chief.

"Village chief, come into the house and rest, I'll take them." Martha persuaded.

….

"Two warriors, little Mark lives in the pear orchard in the north of the village, and he will be there soon." Saying goodbye to the village chief, Martha took Yang Hao and the others to Little Mark's residence.

When he came to the pear orchard, Yang Hao found that this was a small orchard, and he could see the edge at a glance, but the pear trees were arranged very neatly, which showed the owner's intentions, but the pear orchard at this time was a little dilapidated in the monster turmoil, as if no one took care of it one day.

"Little Mark, are you there, come out quickly, support from White Rock Town is here, they have a question for you." Martha shouted in a crisp voice.

The door opened, and a boy younger than Martha walked out, looking in bad spirits and with heavy dark circles.

When Gale saw Little Mark, he thought: There is something wrong with the old man Nit, and when he encounters such a life-and-death crisis, he actually relies on a child.

"Is there anything you guys are up to?" Little Mark asked weakly.

"I heard you've seen monsters, can you tell me more about them?" Yang Hao went straight to the point.

"I didn't see the whole thing, I saw only one hand."

"A hand?" Yang Hao interrupted.

"Yes, a rotting hand. I was deworming the pear tree with Dahler when suddenly the ground under Dahler's feet collapsed, and a rotting hand grabbed him and dragged him into the hole.

Whining... Dale begged me to save him, but I didn't dare, I ran away and went to call the village adults, and when I came back he was gone! Whining... Dahler is my best friend, woo~"

Speaking of this, little Mark couldn't cry, and Martha hugged him and comforted him.

Yang Hao saw that he couldn't ask anything, so he left the strong wind to protect them, and went to the accident location pointed out by Xiao Mark by himself.

The attack took place less than 100 meters from Little Mark's house, where there was indeed a hole in the ground, but it had long been sealed with rubble by the villagers.

The entrance to the cave is not big, if Yang Hao wants to get in, he can only curl up, and he almost doesn't have to think about fighting.

If you want to deal with the monster, you have to force him out.

Yang Hao: "What kind of monster is it, rotten hands, it should be a monster in human form, but according to the "White Stone Town Monster Illustrated Book" sent by Augustus, there are no similar monsters, which is very strange.

Unless it's not a monster in White Rock Town.

Back at the wooden house, Little Mark's mood had calmed down, and wait, Yang Hao suddenly remembered that something was wrong.

Since it was attacked at the time of deworming, it was impossible for the deworming to be carried out at night, which means that Mark Jr. was attacked during the day.

"Martha, was the last attack during the day?"

"Yes, so now everyone is afraid to go out, for fear that they will be dragged into the hole if they don't pay attention." Martha said calmly.

"Don't you feel weird? Every time it was attacked at night, why was it daytime this time? ”

"The two villagers who went to report the news before also went during the day and didn't come back either." Martha didn't think it was the first time something had happened during the day, so there was nothing strange about it.

"That's right. Well, let's have a night's rest tonight, and then we'll start tomorrow. Yang Hao said suddenly.

"What? You're not going to do it tonight! Martha was clearly unhappy with the result, and the whole village wanted to deal with the monster sooner rather than later, even for a second.

Gale opened his mouth to speak, Yang Hao glared at Gale and held back his words, and prevaricated: "No way, I'm really tired after a day's journey, and now there is too little information, I don't know where the monster is, so I can only check it tomorrow." By the way, arrange a place for us to stay. ”

"Well, well, I hope you can really help us, come with me." Martha couldn't persuade Yang Hao and compromised.

"Don't worry." Yang Hao promised seriously.

…

An idle wooden house, the owner has long since disappeared, and now it is the place where Yang Hao and Dafeng stay.

As soon as Yang Hao entered the house and sat down, before he could drink his saliva, the wind roared urgently: "Brother Hao, you won't forget, we only have one day of mission time, and it will be too late tomorrow." ”

"Sit down first, drink water, if we don't go look for monsters, won't we let monsters come to us?" Yang Hao motioned for Dafeng to sit beside him, and whispered: "Dafeng, speak quietly, there are spies in this village." ”

"What!" The gale lost its voice.

"Be quiet!"

"No, who will be in the same league as the monster, not afraid of being eaten."

"Hehe, that's not for sure." Yang Hao suppressed his voice and said, "What do you think of Mark's kid?" ”

"It's just a weak little kid, he's so timid, he cries when he says he crys, no, Brother Hao, you won't suspect him of being a spy!"

"I'm not suspicious of him now, but I'm sure there's something wrong with him, but there's still a lot I can't figure out."

"Brother Hao, do you have any evidence?" Gale still couldn't believe it.

"Now it's just speculation, you take out the parchment that records the mission, and read it."

According to Yang Hao's words, Dafeng took out the parchment, flipped through it and read it twice, and shone it in the light of the candle.

"Hey, will there be a sandwich on the parchment paper issued by the system, what matters is the content." Yang Hao saw that the wind had a tendency to develop towards spy warfare, and hurriedly interrupted.

"No, Brother Hao, just a few words, there's no problem." The wind is difficult to pass.

"The answer is in the mission description, do you remember what Chief Nit said?"

"The old man said so much, how do I remember."

Yang Hao didn't report his hope and said bluntly: "The village chief said that after the first monster attack, he sent Little Mark to the town to issue a mission, but you can see the sentence in the mission description, 'It has killed a lot of our villagers'." There are two things wrong here, the first is that when Mark Jr. issues the mission, only Raul, the blacksmith, is attacked, and the norm of raids every night is formed after that, why does Mark Jr. write 'a lot of villagers', and the second village chief concludes that the people who were attacked are missing, because no one has seen the corpses, how can Mark Jr. conclude that they are dead, unless he has seen the corpses, or that he killed them. ”

Dafeng was frightened by what Yang Hao said, and thought: A little boy may be a perverted murderer, it's just terrifying.

"That's not right, Brother Hao, if he is really a spy, then why don't you just send a task, even if you don't have an address, there is still a risk of being found, aren't we here." Gale also turned his brain, and immediately found a loophole.

"That's something I didn't figure out, but I suspect it might be a change in the monsters. The first attack took place at night, and most of the attacks were at night, I think this kind of monster originally couldn't haunt during the day, but then there was an unexpected change that even little Mark could haunt during the day, but it still had an effect, so it was more active at night. Yang Hao boldly put forward a conjecture, and continued:

"If that's the case, it can be explained, when little Mark arrived in the town, this change didn't happen, and the day was a vacuum of his power, so he adopted a delaying strategy, issuing a task but deliberately forgetting to write the address, so that even if the villagers found out later, at most they would scold him a few words, and he couldn't do anything about it, because he was a child after all."

"Oh, Brother Hao, I see. This change occurs when Mark Jr. returns to the village, so he kills two villagers who went to deliver the letter. And that Dale, I'm afraid he was also killed by him. Mark Jr. said that Dalle was his best friend, and that Dalle must know him well. They weren't getting rid of insects that day, but Dale discovered Little Mark's anomaly and went to question him, only to be killed by him. ”

"Hehe, smart."

"No, no, Brother Hao is still powerful with you, I am an afterthought. Brother Hao, why didn't you just take him down? ”

"Hmph, you also said that he is a little kid, where did he get the ability to control monsters, there must be a mastermind behind the scenes. And we are all speculating, there is no evidence, the villagers can believe us, you didn't believe it just now. ”

"So what do we do?"

"I told Martha before that tonight's rest is to let little Mark let his guard down, and when it's late at night, you go out through the main entrance, pretend to get up at night, and I follow through the window in the dark to lure the monster out. Hehe, how can he take the bait if he doesn't give him a chance. Yang Hao gestured.

"Okay, this task is exciting!" The gale rubbed its hands.