After a short break yesterday, Chen Mian once again threw herself into the intense task, and she planned to complete the refresh task as soon as possible like last month.

After doing it, rest for a day or two, and spend the rest of the month calmly cultivating, exercising, and studying patterns, so that the whole block of time arrangement will be more efficient.

After Chen Mian checked his equipment as usual, he took Xiao Hei into the mission transit space.

"Gulf of Ness Monster (Ordinary Grade): Mirage Village is located in the Bay of Ness in the southeast of the blue sea, and the whole village makes a living from fishing, and is named after the special marine pearl mirage.

Offshore fishing is abundant, and villagers usually fish only near the Gulf of Ness, rarely going deep into the blue sea, and the safety is very high.

But in the past month, part of the wreckage of the fishing boat that had gone out to sea was carried back by the sea breeze, and the only survivor floated back to shore holding on to a piece of driftwood.

According to him, there is a terrifying water monster that inhabits the Bay of Ness and attacks all ships that enter the Bay of Ness. People are so panicked that no one dares to go out to sea to fish for a week.

The water monster was a predatory and aggressive adult plesiosaur.

Please help Mirage solve the threat. ”

Chen Mian finished reading the mission introduction, and as she expected, the mission location was in the water, and the water-repellent pearls prepared before could come in handy.

After choosing to start the mission, she appears on a sandy beach.

It is a bay surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side, the blue water is like a pure sapphire, purer than the sea of blue stars, and a small village is located at the foot of the mountain in the distance.

Such a peaceful picture has a faint hint of disharmony in Chen Mian's eyes, it is too quiet, the village is obviously not far away, but there is no one outside, not even the playful children are not playing outside. There was no one else on the beach but Chen Mian.

Chen Mian knew that this village should be the Mirage Village mentioned in the mission brief, "Is it because of the threat of water monsters that he doesn't even dare to approach the beach?" ”

She walked into the village, looking for more information about the survivor.

It wasn't until he walked outside the village that Chen Mian felt a little fresh popularity, a middle-aged man who came down from the mountain with a bundle of firewood on his back, a young woman who was sorting out fishing nets in the yard, an old man sitting on the threshold smoking a cigarette, and a child who chased after me.

"Is this the Mirage Village?" Chen Mian took the initiative to ask a family closest to the entrance of the village, there was an old woman in this family who was cleaning the yard, and found that outsiders had entered the village, and looked at Chen Mian curiously, just in line with Chen Mian's sight.

"Yes", perhaps Chen Mian's initiative to ask narrowed the distance, and the old woman asked Chen Mian through the low fence, "Are you also here to buy pearl mirages?" ”

Before Chen Mian could answer, the old woman sighed, "I'm afraid that the pearl mirage in our village will be extinct in the future, you are unlucky, fresh pearl mirage is estimated to be unavailable, you can only see who still has dried pearl mirage......

It turns out that this pearl mirage is a specialty of the pearl mirage village, the fish scales are pearlescent, very beautiful, and sweet and sour, the taste is very good, there is no fishy smell.

Mirages are hard to catch, and only in the last month of the year, schools of fish pass by the bay of Ness, where they spawn and take with them the small fish that were born last year, and the mirage is the village's largest source of income, and a single mirage can be sold for a silver coin.

At this time of year, a merchant would come to the village to buy the mirage caught by the villagers, so it would be strange for the villagers to see outsiders entering the village, and the old woman would mistake her for the mirage.

Chen Mian also heard some rumors about the Gulf of Ness Monster from the old woman, and the survivor, Owen, actually didn't see what the monster looked like.

Owen was stunned by the shattered deck, and only grabbed the piece of wood that had smashed at him with a latent sense of survival, and by the time he woke up, he had already floated not far from the shore.

Owen is the youngest son of the village chief, and after asking the old woman about the location of the village chief's house, Chen Mian walked towards the village.

The village chief's house was the only house in the village with a low stone wall outside the courtyard, and Chen Mian was easy to find in the center of the village.

A chubby, kind-eyed, round-faced old man was half-leaning against a stone table in the courtyard, holding his head with one hand and pouring himself wine with the other.

His fleshy cheeks and plump nose were slightly red, but his eyes were clear, and he pondered something with a thick and indissoluble melancholy, obviously not drunk.

"Are you the village chief?" Chen Mian interrupted the old man in a daze.

"Ahem...... You are? The village chief was startled by the sudden appearance and choked on the wine he had fed into his mouth.

"I'm a mage who traveled here, and I happened to hear about the rumors of the Gulf of Ness Monster, and I was very interested, so I came to inquire and heard that your son is the only survivor?" , Chen Mian said the reason that he had thought of a long time ago.

As soon as the village chief heard about the mage, he stood up suddenly, "Mage? Is it really a legendary mage? He looked at Chen Mian carefully.

After a while, he sat down in disappointment and muttered, "You are so young, how can you be a mage who has not walked on the continent for hundreds of years?" ”

The village chief's statement caught Chen Mian's attention, and she casually used a magic trick to conjure up a small flame, "Does this explain my identity?" ”

Seeing the sudden flames, the village chief's pupils constricted, and his breathing became short, "Yes, yes, you want to ...... the monster in Ness Bay"

The village chief was a little embarrassed to say what he thought, he couldn't imagine anyone risking their lives to fight monsters for no reason.

Although he really hoped that someone could help deal with the monster that was related to the survival of Mirage Village, he didn't want someone to die in vain.

This is also the reason why after a month without the return of fishing boats, he prevented the villagers from going to sea here, his son Owen is an honest child, the Gulf of Ness Monster must exist, and the villagers rushed to sea only to die.

"Don't worry, I'll do my best to kill it, but I need to ask you something, and maybe I need some help from you", the village chief's hesitation made Chen Mian understand that this was indeed a village chief who was as kind as he looked, and Chen Mian decisively stated his purpose.

The village chief heard that Chen Mian really wanted to deal with the water monster, and was a little worried about Chen Mian's safety, in his opinion, Chen Mian was not as old as her youngest son, even if it was a powerful mage, it was still very dangerous to deal with a monster in the sea that could tear a fishing boat apart with one tail.

After Chen Mian repeatedly said that she could protect herself and that she had to kill the water monster for some reason, he repeatedly promised to help her in every possible way.

Even if he is facing a crisis, he still considers the safety of others and does not want others to risk his rescue, which makes Chen Mian admire him very much.

The village chief invited her to stay at his house, and his son Owen went to the town of Delin to buy food, and it was estimated that he would return in the evening.

Considering that she did have something to ask the village chief and his son, it was already afternoon, and it happened that the Stardust set would increase defense by 10% in places with stars at night.

Today the weather is sunny and cloudless, there will definitely be stars, Chen Mian agreed to wait for Owen to come back at the village chief's house, but planned to go to the sea at night to have a look.