I don't know if it's because the people here grew up eating banlan root or if Dr. Zhang's medical skills have really broken through the sky, Shi Manqian's ankle is obviously swollen like a bun (this is not an exaggeration, Bai Xiaoqiu saw her swallowing saliva at her ankle), but Dr. Zhang's two needles pricked the bruise and immediately subsided at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after applying the plaster, Shi Manqian was already alive.

In the afternoon, Bai Xiaoqiu took Shi Manqian to the tavern in the village to rub a meal, but in the end, he followed a beautiful girl by his side, and the return rate along the way skyrocketed.

Windward Tavern is the best tavern in Yishan Village, the scale and layout are somewhat similar to Tongfu Inn, there are more than a dozen tables downstairs for eating, and there are five or six sets of guest rooms upstairs, the floating population in Yishan Village is very small, so many rooms are enough.

Although it is not a meal, there are already a lot of guests sitting in the hall downstairs, many hunters and pseudo-hunters gather in groups of three or five, eating and drinking wine and boasting, and from time to time there are two shouts urging Xiao Er to drink, which is very like in a martial arts novel.

The so-called pseudo-hunters here refer to those who also hunt monsters for a living, but are unable to hunt large monsters due to lack of strength or have not passed the assessment of the guò hunter organization, these pseudo-hunters cannot enjoy the benefits and subsidies provided by the hunter organization, and their strength status is much worse than that of formal hunters, but it is much stronger than ordinary people. The number of these pseudo-hunters is much more than that of the official hunters, for example, there are hundreds of households in Yishan Village, and there are only twenty or thirty formal hunters, while there are more than a hundred pseudo-hunters, and most of the tasks responsible for encircling the Year Beasts in the last battle against the Year Beasts fell on the heads of these guys.

The hunter's circle is also a river and lake, and these pseudo-hunters are a grain of sand in the vast rivers and lakes.

Seeing Bai Xiaoqiu enter the door, many hunters waved at him familiarly.

"Yo! It's back! Is the task accomplished? ”

"I'm really ashamed, because we are all injured, and the task of collecting the blood of the beast has fallen on the head of you, a rookie. Well, the first hunt must have been hard, right? ”

Although Bai Xiaoqiu is also a pseudo-hunter now, as comrades-in-arms who participated in the Nian Beast crusade together, these guys have all seen Bai Xiaoqiu's knife that slashed the middle-aged beast, and the specific combat power is not easy to judge, but the skill definitely exceeds the threshold of a formal hunter, and these old fritters are very happy to have a good relationship with him.

Bai Xiaoqiu didn't know much about the things in the hunter circle, but he didn't pretend to be cold in the face of everyone's warm greetings, and it took a few minutes to deal with this group of old fritters, Bai Xiaoqiu and Shi Manqian casually found a table and sat down.

"Ah, it's you! I heard that you just completed the mission, so you shouldn't eat and drink in vain with us when you get paid, right? The shopkeeper who looked very much like Li Xiaoyao laughed and teased Bai Xiaoqiu, but after seeing Shi Manqian's appearance clearly, he was stunned for a moment, "Who is this beauty?" ”

As mentioned earlier, the average appearance of women in Yishan Village is very low, as long as they look almost human-shaped, they can be regarded as village flowers, for example, Li Xiaohua has a face that has failed plastic surgery, but Zhao Tiezhu and Zhang Quandan next door are still fighting for her to the death, and even peeing has to be farther than anyone else

Therefore, the appearance of a goddess like Shi Manqian, who can be regarded as a goddess on the earth, is really the same as a fairy in the eyes of the inhabitants of this world, and the little second brother has already seen it straight.

"Oh, she, her name is Shi Manqian, and I picked it up when I was hunting." Bai Xiaoqiu replied lightly.

The little second brother pounced and knelt on the ground: "Hero, please accept me as an apprentice!" I'm going to be a hunter too, and I'm going to pick up a fairy and come back as a wife! ”

"Go, go, little kid playing." Bai Xiaoqiu shook his hand impatiently, "You think this is a scratch ticket, you can rub it casually and you can get five cents" He was still about to talk for a while, but seeing that Shi Manqian's face was already murderous, he quickly changed the topic and said: "What's that, if you have anything delicious today, you will die, uncle is not short of money now!" ~"After completing this task, after removing the price of the Eternal Night Bow, Bai Xiaoqiu still has a surplus of two hundred peach coins, which is indeed enough for him to eat in a hurry, and the purchasing power of peach coins is still very powerful."

However, this meal was enough to eat more than 50 peach coins for him, and he ate directly from the afternoon to more than eight o'clock in the evening. As for whose stomach these more than 50 peach coins went in, Bai Xiaoqiu said, hehe, the stomachs of foodies are really four-dimensional.

Coming out of the tavern, Bai Xiaoqiu and the two went straight to the village chief's house.

When they entered the house, they found the village chief and the hunter waiting for them with a little wine.

"Xiaobai, you're here! Come and sit! The hunter uncle still has a simple face, but there is a bit of fatigue between his eyebrows.

Bai Xiaoqiu went straight to the topic and asked, "Uncle Erniu, are you okay?" Heard bad news found deep in the forest? ”

Erniu nodded: "Well, I found the traces of Linghu." ”

"Huhu?"

"Yes," Erniu then explained, "the Psychic Needle shows that there is a resentment in the forest, large areas of plants have withered, and I have found footprints of big cats on the ground. To sum up, it should be that the tiger didn't run. ”

"Is that a big black tiger with a lot of gray grimaces floating around?" Bai Xiaoqiu suddenly asked.

Erniu was taken aback: "Huh?!" How do you know?! ”

Bai Xiaoqiu pointed at Shi Manqian: "When I rescued her, it was the tiger you said who chased her." ”

Erniu had already learned the origin of Shi Manqian from the mouth of the village chief, and he didn't say any polite words, and asked directly: "You met that tiger?" ”

"Yes," Shi Manqian lowered his head and said with some shame: "I'm sorry, that tiger was lured by me." She explained, "I'm a hunter in the town of Waterside on the other side of the forest, and when I heard that there were tigers around, I asked two of my teammates to take over the task of defeating them. I didn't expect to underestimate the strength of that beast, two teammates were killed, and if it wasn't for Xiaobai, maybe I would have died in the forest. ”

"Jie Mourning Shun Chang" The village chief patted Shi Manqian on the shoulder, "It's normal for the prey to run near other villages, you don't have to blame yourself too much, since it has come to us, the task of solving it will be left to us." ”

Shi Manqian shook his head: "For hunters, life and death are very normal things, and the two who died are just teammates I found temporarily, you don't need to comfort me." Although her expression was gloomy but not too sad, she suddenly continued: "But since being able to become a teammate is also a kind of fate, I will definitely come to avenge their revenge with my own hands, and the task of hunting tigers must be counted as my share!" ”

"But your injury," Bai Xiaoqiu said.

"It's just a sprain, and it'll be fine in a few days. Anyway, it will take a long time to prepare for the crusade against the tiger, and my injuries must have healed by the time I set off. Shi Manqian said very strictly: "That tiger is by no means a simple thing, we must deal with it very carefully, and the preparation must be very sufficient!" ”

"What do you mean by that?" Seeing what Shi Manqian knew, the old village chief asked.

"Yes, yes, what kind of monster is Linghu?" Bai Xiaoqiu listened to it for a long time and didn't understand the origin of Linghu.

"Have you ever heard of the idiom 'for the tiger'?" Shi Manqian asked rhetorically.

Bai Xiaoqiu nodded: "Folklore has it that the person who was bitten to death by the tiger, his ghost helped the tiger hurt people, and he was called a ghost." This idiom comes from "Taiping Guangji", which is a metaphor for helping wicked people do evil, helping bad people do bad things, and so on. Bai Xiaoqiu reacted, "Mo Fei"

That's right, this idiom is about the tiger. The longer this demon beast lives, the more people it kills, the more powerful it becomes, and it is very dangerous. Shi Manqian continued: "The number of tigers is very rare, and generally speaking, their strength can only be regarded as not bad. But this tiger is different, it once slaughtered a village! ”

"What ?!!"

"How could it be ?!!"

Everyone was stunned, and Bai Xiaoqiu opened her mouth wide and asked, "Yishan Village has a population of nearly 1,000, and other villages must be similar, right?" can slaughter a thousand people in one go, and the strength of the tiger is a bit exaggerated, right?!! ”

"The situation in Yishan Village is a bit special, and there are not so many people in other villages." When Shi Manqian said this, he glanced at the old village chief with admiration, and then continued: "The slaughter of Linghu is a very remote village, with a total population of only two or three hundred people, plus more than half of the people have fled after discovering Linghu's whereabouts, and there may be less than 100 people who really died in its hands. ”

"That's also an exaggeration, okay?!!"

"Indeed," the old village chief also asked, "even the smallest village should have about ten official hunters, and it is definitely not something that a tiger can do to kill a hundred people under the siege of so many hunters!" ”

Shi Manqian was also puzzled by this, she frowned and said, "I also wonder about this matter. I already felt it when I was hunting it, and the tiger was very cunning, and after discovering that we were chasing it, it actually set a trap to sneak up on us, and my two teammates died because of it. And according to the survivors of that village, the tiger also sneaked into the village at night at that time, killed many villagers in one go, and turned them into ghosts before fighting the hunters in the village, which was like a tactic arranged! ”

"But in this case, shouldn't there be nearly a hundred ghosts around the tiger? Why did I see it in the forest with only a dozen ghosts around it? Bai Xiaoqiu questioned again.

This time, it was the turn of the old village chief to answer: "We hunters don't eat dry rice, right?" That evil beast can kill nearly a hundred people, and it must have experienced a desperate struggle, and the ghost who controlled zhì must have been killed by the hunters, and it was already very powerful to have a dozen left. He tapped his fingers on the table and muttered to himself, "Very cunning and extremely aggressive, this monster must not be allowed to move around the village, and must be eliminated as much as possible!" ”

The old village chief suddenly looked at Bai Xiaoqiu: "Xiaobai, how about letting Miss Shi, Erniu and you complete this task together?!" ”

"Huh?!"

[Trigger Quest - Defeat the Tiger!]

Difficulty: 5 stars

Rewards: 10 Hunting Points, Level 1 Basic Skill Upgrade Coupon*1, Level 1 Weapon Upgrade Coupon*1]

【Level 1 Weapon Upgrade Coupon:

Effect: A beginner weapon can be upgraded and strengthened immediately after use, without any materials. 】