Chapter 10: The Search for the Sheep Thief
Early this morning, Chen Mian conducted deep meditation and prayer early, and his mana value reached "20/20;20/20", and the time for practicing the nine spells this time was not very long, and he studied in groups of three for a day.
Yesterday in the hotel, Chen Mian focused on practicing the flash technique, freezing ray, tired touch and dizziness, which may require a higher casting time in the battle, and the practice efficiency is much better than when Xue Qiang is splashed, and the casting time of the four spells in one day has been reduced to about 3 seconds.
Today, Chen Mian is ready to complete the task of finding sheep thieves, go to the personal transit space and choose to start the mission, this time the fragmented world is an endless grassland.
She was standing outside a small sheepfold, a herdsman aunt wearing a headscarf and tanned skin pointed to the sheep in her pen and introduced her, "Our family has to lose sheep every day for the past few days, but after checking several times, there are no holes in the sheepfold, and the sheep are gone somehow." ”
It was already almost evening when the mission came in, and the evening might be the time for the sheep thieves to visit, so Chen Mian did not have much time to start carefully inspecting the sheepfold.
The sheepfold is a simple grass hut, about ten square meters, surrounded by a wooden fence nailed with thin wooden boards, basically there are no gaps, the fence is about one meter and a half high, the sheep are unlikely to jump out, and there is a wooden buckle on the fence gate, which buckles the door.
Every time the sheep is lost, there is not a trace of blood or struggle in the sheepfold, and the sheep seems to have disappeared out of thin air, which makes the herdsman aunt a little frightened, thinking that it is the handiwork of a ghost or a devil.
After carefully checking several times, Chen Mian didn't find any useful clues, and it was getting late and late, so she had to choose a haystack with a better view to hide.
This haystack is almost three meters high, and outside the grass shed, there are some hay that has been left for a while, and there are a few small bundles of young grass that the herdsmen have just cut down nearby.
Chen Mian cleared a depression on the top of the haystack for her to squat, hid it inside, covered the hay she took out on top of her head, and opened a hole on the side in the direction of the sheepfold for easy observation and reaching out to cast spells, and covered it slightly with a small amount of grass.
Gradually, it was completely dark, and the fragmented world seemed to be technologically undeveloped, and there were no cheap lighting tools like electric lights.
The moon here is a circle larger than that on the blue star, there are no brilliant lights, the moonlight appears brighter, Chen Mian is motionless in the haystack and observes the outside.
In the sheepfold, the sheep huddled in the corner and fell asleep slowly, and if it were not for the night breeze that blew from time to time, the whole world would look like a still oil painting.
Suddenly, Chen Mian heard the sound of rustling, very close, as if it was next to the haystack, and after a while, a thin figure appeared vigilantly from the grass, it was a steppe wolf, although it was not as strong as an adult domestic dog, but the silver fur was oily and slippery, and the movements were agile, and the vigilance was very strong.
One eye was blind, claw marks were faintly visible around it, and the remaining eye was looking around.
I saw it cautiously walk to the tender haystack, hold a handful of grass, take a few steps and put down a little, walk a few steps and put down a little, to the door of the sheepfold, it skillfully pulled with its paws, opened the buckle on the door, pushed the remaining grass into the door, and then ran to the back of the tender haystack and hid.
Chen Mian hid in the haystack and watched the wolf skillfully do it, obviously not the first time she had done this, she was surprised that this wolf was so smart, lured the sheep out and killed it, and then closed the door, there was no trace in the sheepfold.
During this time, the herdsmen are fed hay, and the attraction of young grass is still a lot of attraction to sheep, and sheep may soon be lured out.
Chen Mian wanted to take advantage of the fact that the sheep had not yet come out to deal with the wolf, so as to avoid the sheep from being harmed and reduce the task evaluation.
She thought about it for a while, and a few meters away from the tender grass pile, just where Chen Mian could easily cast the spell, she put a hallucination spell to simulate a low sheep cry.
Hearing the sound, the wolf came out from behind the tender grass pile, sniffed lightly in the place where the sound came from, and took advantage of the opportunity of the wolf facing the haystack, Chen Mian closed his eyes and quickly released a flash of light.
The intense bright light made the wolf lose its direction and wanted to escape, at this time Chen Mian hit it with another dizziness technique, it suddenly seemed to lose its mind, and spun around in place, Chen Mian followed by freezing rays and acid splashes and threw several in a row, and the wolf only whimpered a few times before swallowing.
Chen Mian took a closer look and found that there were actually many traces of old wounds on its body, but they were almost healed. Chen Mian guessed that this wolf might be a loser in the competition for the wolf king, or it was abandoned by the wolves, so it acted alone.
Closing the door of the sheepfold, Chen Mian chose to return to his personal transit space to settle the task.
"Destroy the one-eyed steppe wolf, reward 2 spars, wolf skins;
Complete the quest without damage and reward Ukkel's resentment;
Protect the flock from harm and reward wool vests;
Total Quest Rating: B+, Reward 3 Crystals
This time the mission evaluation is only B+, and the task harvest is a lot less, first of all, the most precious free attribute point reward in the total evaluation is gone, only three spars are rewarded, plus two that eliminate the steppe wolf, the total number is one less than last time.
Comparing the two settlements, Chen Mian figured out some rules to meet the minimum requirements of the task, such as eliminating the wandering female wild boar and eliminating the steppe wolf, and generally only rewarded a small amount of spars and materials.
Completing quests without damage will most likely reward equipment, and completing hidden quests such as killing two baby boars will reward you with a slightly more hedroon.
The overall evaluation is lower than last time, and it may be that there is still some hidden information in the mission that has not been excavated.
This time there are two pieces of equipment, one material, "Wolf Skin: A flat silver wolf skin." ”
"Uker's Grudge (Black Iron Level): Uker is a clever former wolf king, but unfortunately he was attacked and killed by a sinister and cunning mage, and his resentment condensed into an ornament, and his will is +1."
"Wool Vest (Black Iron Grade): A wool vest made by Aunt Mary, which has a good warmth effect and +1 defense."
The wolf skin is very beautiful and very smooth to the touch, and can be used as a blanket.
Ukkel's resentment was a badge, a small silver wolf head with blood-red eyes, and it seemed to be genuinely resentful.
Uker is really the wolf king, Chen Mian couldn't help but suspect that if she hadn't hidden it well, she used the illusion technique to tempt it, and then the flash technique and the stun technique were used well, and the spell was cast quickly, which suddenly made it incapacitated, there might be a vicious fight, and it was smart and cunning, and it would not be as impulsive as the wild boar before.
This badge can add a little will, and bring it to increase the resistance to confusion control spells, such as stun, a little more.
The wool vest was well-made, not very heavy, and Chen Mian wore it just under the robe, and there was a weak defense.
Returning to the original world Blue Star, looking at the time, it was more than three o'clock in the afternoon, much shorter than the last time, Chen Mian continued to practice spells to prepare for the task he planned to do tomorrow.