"Looking for the right people to help us?" Ai Yu frowned, the hint given by this system is too obvious, right? It can't be called implicit, it should be explicit. In the six days they have been on the mission, they have not come into contact with many people, but the families of the missing children, Mayor James, Assistant Mayor Linda, and Jack, the old carpenter, among them, the parents of the missing children must not be trusted, and it is impossible to help them. The reason is simple, if they really want to find their children and restore peace to the town, then it is impossible to hide it, and they should have told it all when they visited for the first time. Even if I had doubts about their identities at first, and I didn't believe in their abilities, it was not a good thing not to tell the truth or even bury them with other lies.

As for Mayor James and Assistant Mayor, Linda, it is impossible to help them, after all, Mayor James, as the initial NPC who first entered the mission, only explained a very small part of the character's background story, and this information is like a drop of water falling into the sea in the truth of the story. They didn't mention the origins, legends, or rules of the town, and they didn't do anything beneficial to them, except for forcibly pushing forward the progress of the mission and reporting the remaining time of the mission from time to time to remind them. Besides, if Mayor Mare and Linda are the ones who can help them with their mission, they still need to say "I hope you can save them", and they shouldn't just say "I'm going to rescue the children with you". When James said this, it was clear that he was ready to stay out of the situation.

"Old carpenter Jack." Jiang Xian spoke at this time, in fact, this answer was very clear to everyone, but Jiang Xian was the first to speak.

"Remember the special reward we got earlier [Jack's Help]? At that time, the system specially reminded you to pay attention to the use of the task requirements when it meets the requirements, this reward is the special task 1-1 after the completion of the appearance, according to my experience of playing various games before, generally this reward is related to the task that appears later, and even the key to the later task. So it's time for us to use this special reward, after all, we don't have much time, and we may not have a chance after not using it at this time. Jun Yao said, Lin Mo nodded, "Then let's go in the direction of the old carpenter Jack's house, shall we?" But...... It's not quite appropriate for all of us to go together. ”

"To be honest, I'm more interested in the main quest 2 we received earlier, do you remember?" Yin Weiyu interrupted everyone's train of thought at this time, and she reached out and clicked on the system task page, wanting to confirm. After all, that quest had been around for a long time, and after that quest appeared, they had triggered a special series of quests, so she couldn't remember exactly what it was. But when she looked at the task page, she was stunned.

[Main Quest: Find the missing children in Eternal Sleep Town and unravel the truth of the strange events]

[Main quest 2 - Arthur's visit: Find what Arthur is interested in, and go to East 2-1 to inform him that he will give you what you want (locked)]

Yin Weiyu's stunned movements couldn't help but make everyone curious, after all, she said half of her words but didn't continue, it was really appetizing, after waiting for two or three minutes, Yin Weiyu still didn't mean to speak, so Jun Yao pulled her hand, "Weiyu? ”

"Mission locked?" Yin Weiyu came back to her senses at this time, and pointed to the three words "locked" on the task page with an incredible expression, but others couldn't see her system page, so in the eyes of others, Weiyu was pointing to the air and talking.

"What mission is locked?" Xu Qingran heard Yin Weiyu's words clearly, but he didn't quite understand what it meant. What does task locking mean? Aren't they currently on a mission? How can there be locked tasks, and if there is, what are they still working here forit?

Jiang Xian reacted very quickly and clicked on her system mission page, and then she also showed a surprised expression, "When is the main quest 2 locked?" Will it be locked? The system didn't prompt us, huh? What's going on......"

Only then did everyone click on the system task page to check, and they all saw the same result.

Ai Yu shook his head, feeling incredible, "Light dye, it seems that we have never encountered such a situation, right?" "After all, Ai Yu and Xu Qingran are the most experienced people in this team, although they are the third mission, but in fact, there are far more than three tasks that they have actually completed, and there are five or six times if you add the novice tasks. Therefore, the two should have met more situations than others, and they will know a little more, after all, experience is to be accumulated.

Xu Qingran frowned, "I really haven't encountered such a situation, although there may be more than one main quest, but they are all related to each other but have a certain degree of independence." We have also encountered the situation of task locking, there are two reasons for general task locking, the first is that the conditions of the mission cannot be achieved due to the Dream Traveler's own wrong choice, and the second is that two conflicting tasks, one of the tasks is completed, then the opposite task is naturally locked. ”

"But in either case, the system will give a hint, and I have never seen a situation where the system task is locked and not prompted."

Jun Yao felt as if she had captured a clue to explain this, but the inspiration flashed, and she couldn't remember where it was, so she reached out and rubbed her temples, wanting to soothe her tense nerves.

"Could it be that this main quest 2 was originally used to induce us to make contact with Arthur? After all, Arthur is the final boss, and if it weren't for the fact that we opened the hidden side quest to see the truth of the incident from another perspective, then we would have followed the instructions of the main quest 2 to carry out the quest, and perhaps we would have obtained a deceptive 'fake' truth. Jiang Xian opened her mouth as if she had thought of something, "After all, if you only follow up the main quest, the quest process will be relatively safe, but what you can get will be very limited, and the exposure of death conditions will be the least." The difficulty of this mission is actually medium to high, so the death conditions set by the system for us must be a lot, and it is relatively not so easy to detect. Lead us directly to the boss, but we don't know it, and the ending is predictable. ”

Lin Mo nodded, "What you said makes sense. ”

Xu Qingran didn't want to dwell on these anymore, he remembered that Lin Mo said at the beginning that he didn't need to go to so many people to ask Jack for help, but he was interrupted by Yin Weiyu, and now he is ready to pick up the topic again, "To visit Jack, Jiang Xian, Jun Yao and Lin Mo will go with me." Ai Yu, you go back to the hotel to prepare first, rummage in the hotel to see if there are any props that can be used, I accidentally found a consumable prop [White Phosphorus Candle] in the inn yesterday, since there are consumable props such as candles in the hotel, there should be others, but it is not easy to be found. Chen Yang and Zhao Xiao don't have anything, which is not conducive to your survival. ”

"After all, tonight is the night of our decisive battle, and no one knows what will happen, so maybe we will have time to take care of ourselves, let alone spare our energy to protect you. It's all come to an end, and you don't want to fall short, do you? ”

Chen Yang and Zhao Xiao nodded heavily, obviously responding to Xu Qingran's question.

Ai Yu frowned, as if she was not very satisfied with such a grouping as light dyeing, but she didn't open her mouth to refute, but just replied sullenly, "Okay, I'll take them to find it well." ”

Having said this, Ai Yu turned around and wanted to walk in the direction of the hotel, Yin Weiyu hurriedly gave Chen Yang and Zhao Xiao a look to let them follow, and the four of them quickly moved away from them.

"Let's go too." Xu Qingran took the lead and walked in the direction of Jack's house.

Jack's house is next to Arthur's house, when Jun Yao passed by Arthur's house, she deliberately paid more attention to the room on the second floor that was lit with red light, she clearly remembered that the fourth room on the second floor of the building on the right side was lit with a strange red light, but when she looked over today, she didn't see the familiar red light.

What's going on? The red light is gone?

"Bang-" The sound of a huge heavy object falling on the ground attracted Jun Yao's attention, and he saw that in the garden of another house not far away, a man wearing a white shirt, a brown vest, and plaid trousers of the same color was hurriedly cleaning up the broken flower pots and scattered dirt on the grass.

Seeing this, Jiang Xian ran over quickly, she stood outside the fence and smiled at the people inside, "Do you need my help?" ”

Jack looked up happily when he heard the voice and smiled happily, but after seeing Jiang Xian's face clearly, for some reason the smile was a little more restrained, but Jack still kept smiling and nodded, "Then trouble you." ”

Jun Yao felt that Jack's performance was a little abnormal, as if he was expecting another person to appear, or that he had mistaken Jiang Xian for the person he was expecting just a moment.

"It's okay, it's not troublesome." Jiang Xian entered the garden from the side path, she took out a handkerchief from her bag, squatted down and began to pick up the porcelain pieces scattered on the ground.

Jack also squatted down, he didn't touch the porcelain piece with interest, after all, the broken porcelain piece is very sharp, and a careful piece will scratch people's hands, he is naturally not a fool, Jiang Xian volunteered to help him deal with this porcelain, and he will not cause trouble. His gaze fell on the silk cloth that Jiang Xian was holding in his hand, and for some reason the smile froze at the corner of his mouth.

Xu Qingran and the three of them also entered the garden, and the three of them found suitable tools in the garden, used a broom to gather the scattered soil together, and then used plastic gloves to put the soil into the empty flower pot, Jack was pulled aside by them to stand, and after a while, the four of them cleaned up the garden.

Jack smiled, "Thank you for your help...... Alas, people are getting old, and this hand is not very sharp, and the flower pot will also fall, and it will be made like that, thanks to you......"

"We also came to you for something, and we happened to see this scene, so we came to help."

Jack glanced at Jiang Xian a few more times, and then his eyes fell on Xu Qingran behind her, "You haven't left yet?" ”

"You also know our identity, we are here to investigate the affairs of the town, this matter has not been resolved, how can we leave?" Xu Qingran replied.

We can't leave if we want to. Jun Yao complained silently in her heart.

"Then you didn't run around the town looking for clues, why did you remember to come to me?" Jack continued.

Didn't you knowingly ask? Of course, we found clues.

Jun Yao continued to think silently in her heart, but complaining and complaining, such words still can't be said directly, after all, they are now going to hug Jack's thighs in front of them, what if he talks too much and angers him, what if he doesn't help?

Thinking of this, Jun Yao answered, "We have found the person behind the scenes, and this matter can be solved soon, it's just ...... But I am afraid that it will not be possible to do it with our strength, so we thought of you. ”

During the conversation, the four of them had followed Jack's steps to the room, Jack invited them to sit down, and did not prepare tea and snacks to entertain them like the previous NPCs, he just pulled out the stool in front of him, and then sat down.

"Oh? Thinking of me? I'm an old man, and I can't help you. As you can see, I can't even hold the flower pot steadily, and it's impossible to help you catch the person behind the scenes. Jack smiled wryly.

Jiang Xian shook her head, "You can't say that, you are very important to us and can help us a lot." ”

Jack paused, looking very surprised by Jiang Xian's words.

"Don't you wonder who we're talking about behind the scenes?" Jiang Xian asked rhetorically.

Jack turned his head at this point, his eyes just in time to see Arthur's house, and he let out a long sigh, "Did you follow that guy last night?" ”

Jack turned his head to look at them again, "Actually, I knew the murderer behind this series of events before you did. ”

Lin Mo frowned, she felt that Jack's aura was extremely strange at this moment, she had felt two completely opposite powers in Jack before, but they were harmoniously fused, which made Lin Mo feel strange and made her very puzzled. As Jack said this, the balance in his body showed signs of getting out of hand, as if he was drifting in the direction of the gods.

Jack, who the hell is it?

"It's just that my strength alone is completely unable to compete with him, and if I act rashly, it will undoubtedly be an egg hitting a stone. Your presence gives me hope, so I look forward to you finding out the truth and ...... Come with me to end it all. ”