"Lord Earl, there is an adventurer who wants to talk to you. Standing outside the study door of the villa, the tribune said respectfully.

Pan Long could hear that in addition to the natural awe of his subordinates for his superiors, there was also a kind of respect from the heart—that was the feeling that a person would only have when facing someone he truly respected.

"Adventurer?" "Adventurer?" said a somewhat surprised voice in the study, "this is the first time I've met an adventurer who wants to talk to me instead of going to talk to wine or girls. ”

With that, the door to the study was opened, and a young man dressed in aristocratic civilian clothes walked out.

This young man was about twenty-three or four, handsome in appearance and in a straight figure. With black hair, a high nose and deep eyes, and fair skin, it is a typical Romanesque appearance. He looked a little tired, which showed that he was usually very tired.

Beside him, followed by an old man with an ugly appearance and sinister eyes. The old man was dressed politely in a tuxedo, and he looked like a butler. But the evil temperament revealed on his body makes people wonder if he is a robber pretending to be a butler.

Both of these people, Pan Long has an impression.

The young man's name is Hamlet—the same name as the famous "live or die, it's a question" tangled prince. But he is not a tangled person, on the contrary, he is determined, decisive, and resolute, which really has a taste of killing and decisiveness.

In the game, the prospective earl who was deceived by the old ancestor of the pit goods and wanted to take it away relied on his firm will and fierce and effective means to destroy all kinds of evil arrangements left by the scumbag ancestor one by one, and finally the ancestor was beheaded by the adventurers (players) The demonized body was killed by the adventurers (players), and he died in despair, and he announced to everyone with a smile in the sunlight after the dark clouds dispersed, "It's dawn".

It was the only time in the entire game that he smiled.

As for the housekeeper, there is nothing to say, just a two-five boy.

He was the henchman of that scum ancestor, and with the help of the scum ancestor, he obtained his immortal body. For nearly a hundred years, he has been helping his scumbag ancestors pit their blood descendants, in order to find a suitable body that can be taken away.

In the plot, he tosses the moth again and again, opening one labyrinth after another, and is nicknamed "Quest Administrator" by players.

It's a pity that no matter how much he tosses, it won't help after all. When the adventurers, under the command of Hamlet, broke through one labyrinth after another, destroying the evil arrangements of the scumbag ancestor, the first Count of Hamlet, he could only desperately go to his master to plead guilty, and fled into the final labyrinth "Flesh and Blood Chaos".

When the player enters the labyrinth, they will be able to find the old butler if they are willing to spend time looking for it. It's just that the old butler at that time has become a fat human-faced worm, I just don't know if he was punished for his incompetence? Or was he assimilated by the labyrinth?

In addition, this tribune Jackson and Pan Long also have an impression.

Although this person has a bad mouth and speaks more annoyingly, his character is actually not bad, and he has been trying to protect the residents of the town.

Later, at the beginning of the first large-scale dungeon, "Blood Banquet", he fought a horde of vampires with six soldiers in order to help the adventurers defend the back road, and died heroically.

Later, the game officially released a patch, and if players played quickly in the maze at the beginning of the dungeon and could return as soon as possible, they would have time to save him and the two soldiers covered in bruises. But they are all infected with blood poison and need to find a special antidote to get them back to health.

After that patch came out, Pan Long also went to play again. Sixteen players teamed up (this game is a Battle.net mode, and the maximum team size is sixteen), mowing the grass and sweeping the maze, and when they returned, the battle had barely begun.

Naturally, the vampires were also mowed by them, and as a result, the Jackson Tribune was unharmed, and even the follow-up plot did not happen again.

Pan Long approached Jackson before, saying that he wanted to see the Earl and had something to report. Jackson was reluctant at first, but he didn't change his mind until he showed extraordinary force.

At this moment, he stressed this point to Count Hamlet.

"Unbelievable master?" Count Hamlet looked at Pan Long, who had changed into a suit of adventurer's usual leather armor, with some surprise, "Forgive me for my clumsiness, I really didn't see that you are ...... skill"

Pan Long smiled, looked left and right, picked up a branch on the ground, walked to a stone, waved the branch as a knife, and split the stone in half with one sword.

The Jackson Tribune, who had seen such a performance once, nodded his head repeatedly, and Count Hamlet's eyes widened, and he ran quickly to the broken stone, and ran his hand around the crack, as if suspecting that it was not force, but some special magic trick.

"If you don't believe me, find a stone and a branch yourself. "It's nothing to me, and it's okay to perform a few more times." ”

As a result, Count Hamlet actually found stones and twigs and asked him to perform them again.

When Pan Long cut the stone with a branch again, the young "pit master" earl was immediately elated.

It has been almost half a year since he came to this nameless town, and in the past six months, he has worked hard, found many adventurers, and built a lot of supporting facilities, but there has been little progress in exploring the various mazes.

Those weird labyrinths were too dangerous, and most of the adventurers he could find were mediocre ordinary people. For safety, these people can only advance a short distance in the maze each time, and they have to hurry back. So far, they haven't been able to find much valuable information that would allow the Count to figure out what's going on here.

The Count was not in a hurry, he had already asked a few of his friends for help and some real experts. Not only do those experts have a wealth of adventure experience, but more importantly, they have dealings with large organizations such as the Church of Light and can help build important facilities such as cathedrals.

As long as these facilities are completed, even if the town has a real foundation, the efficiency of adventures can be improved, and the safety of adventurers can be guaranteed.

If nothing else, at least the few adventurers who went crazy because of the stress of exploring the maze were saved!

Of course, his plan is fine - in the game, players take on the role of elite adventurers who follow the experts to the town. It was precisely because of their arrival that the shadow that shrouded the town was dispersed, and even the old earl, who was behind the scenes, finally suffered the consequences and died of madness.

But after all, the experts had not yet arrived, and the Earl was in a hurry every day.

At this moment, there is an extremely powerful adventurer, how can the Earl not be overjoyed?

He immediately invited Pan Long to have lunch with him, and said that no matter what happened, he could talk about it during dinner.

Pan Long accepted his invitation, and at lunch, he expressed his interest in slaying demons and eliminating evil. If there are adventurers in the town who can lead the way, they are willing to go to find some trouble with evil people or ghosts.

So the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves, and everyone was very satisfied.

After the meal, the Count gave Pan Long a warrant and asked the tribune to take him to meet the adventurers, and help him find a few more reliable adventurers to accompany him to explore the ruins under the town.

Listening to the Earl's order, Jackson, whose face had just turned red from drinking, suddenly turned bitter and complained: "My lord, where are there any reliable people among those adventurers! There are thieves, fugitives, religious fanatics, gamblers who are in debt, and fools who look at adventures and look stupid...... It's impossible to find a few reliable ones among these people!"

"It's okay to be relatively reliable. The Count smiled and said, "As long as we don't hold back." ”

With a bitter face, the tribun led Pan Long to a tavern, where torches burned brightly on the walls of the tavern. A dozen or so men and women, who knew at first glance that their mental state was somewhat problematic, were drinking and chatting here, and many of them sang absurd and obscene slang songs, and the scene was quite cheerful.

The arrival of the tribun and Pan Long did not disturb them, although a few people looked back, but they all seemed to be unconcerned.

The tribune didn't mean to talk to them in detail, but after a moment of careful observation, he shook his head and sighed.

"Let's go. He said, "The more reliable ones are not there." I guess they're probably inside the chapel. ”

So they went back to the chapel in the middle of the town.

As a religious building, the chapel was supposed to have a priest presiding over prayers. But the somewhat dilapidated chapel apparently had no regular clergy, just two elderly men walking with a limp sweeping the floor and tidying up.

The whole chapel is, to put it bluntly, a hall with rows of benches and a stone cross in the middle. The cross emits a soft white light that envelops the entire hall.

As soon as he stepped into the range of the white light, Pan Long felt a lot calmer - this effect was even more powerful than the crosses in the Earl's Villa, and it was indeed a religious building.

On the benches sat five or six men, some dressed as adventurers, others dressed in linen robes. At this moment, they are clasping their hands into fists in front of their chests, praying silently. Probably in this way, let your mind be quiet and peaceful.

Jackson first saluted the cross, and then said, "I need a few guides to lead the way for this powerful Mr. Dragon to exterminate the rat-keepers in the underground ruins." ”

The praying crowd turned their heads, and more than one cast reproachful glances, presumably complaining that he had ruined the tranquility.

A woman wearing a linen robe, with a scar on her face, and a little ugly looking, stood up and said, "The terrain of the underground ruins is very complicated, and those people are familiar with the terrain and use the secret path to sneak around. Coupled with the fact that they can use rats as eyes and ears, our actions are almost transparent in front of them...... With all due respect, I am not optimistic about this operation. ”

"Yes, if you want me to say that you should save up some more wood and oil, and set fire to it little by little. A bald man with burns on his face and hands — not sure elsewhere because he was covered by his clothes — also said, "There's no need to follow the enemy's pace, you're killing yourself." ”

These two men were obviously quite prestigious, and as soon as they spoke, everyone nodded in agreement.

Victor Jackson also seemed to be more convinced of them, sighed when he heard this, and said, "I know you have suffered a lot there, but please believe that this time the situation is different!"

He stepped aside so that everyone could clearly see Pan Long following him, "Mr. Long is the most powerful warrior I've ever seen in my life, and he can even cut through solid stones with just one branch. With his participation, at least the head-on battle is absolutely victorious. ”

Several adventurers looked at each other, and then it was the somewhat ugly woman who said, "Although I want to believe you, but ...... There is such a thing as cutting a stone with a twig...... Sounds a bit ridiculous. ”

Pan Long smiled: "It seems that I have to perform again." ”

A few minutes later, next to a collapsed old house, he used a broken latch as a long knife to split a half-collapsed wall.

"Really...... Incredible!"

"How is this done?"

"Oh God!"

The adventurers' eyes widened and they exclaimed.

Then, they all expressed their willingness to be Pan Long's guide and take him to the trouble of those who raised rats.

"Those bastards have caused us too much trouble in the last month or so, and it's time to put an end to all this!" said Eric, a bald man with burns, excitedly, "I can't wait to get them back, tie them up in the middle of the town and burn them to death! The people of this town have been tortured by them for too long and need some entertainment!"

"Burning at the stake has long been abolished. The ugly nun Khadra shook her head, "We must hang them before we can light a fire." Direct arson is not doctrinal. ”

(At least they agreed on the idea of letting the townspeople see the big barbecued pork.) ）

Pan Long sighed in his heart, although he could understand the resentment of these people towards those evil people, but seeing their emotions so intense, he couldn't help but be a little worried.

These people...... Is it really reliable?

Jackson saw his concern and whispered, "They're already the most reliable people I can find...... At least they don't have bad things like stealing, risk-taking, alcoholism, etc., and they don't worship inexplicable things. ”

"Rest assured, when you're venturing in the dark, a group of teammates who simply like to set fires or hate evil won't cause you any extra trouble. ”

Pan Long nodded, trying to make his smile appear sincere and cheerful.

This is already the most reliable, so how bad will the group of unreliable ones in the tavern be?

Count Hamlet commanded such a group of people, and it is remarkable that they have not been wiped out by the evil forces!