Chapter 166: Heart Knot
Mission: In a school, there are suspected evil spirits at work, and many students are inexplicably injured.
Bounty: $10,000.
Difficulty: Two stars.
This task is quite simple, but the money is not much, 10,000 dollars is not enough to do anything, since I have come to the United States, a place where every inch of land is valuable, then I have to find a way to make a little more money, and then also buy a villa with a swimming pool, and live the life of a rich man, I still don't want to do such a small task, it is troublesome to delay time.
I continued to look at a task.
Mission: Olympus Cemetery has had frequent thefts of corpses in recent days, suspected of being ghouls.
Prize money: $35,000.
Difficulty: Three stars.
The reward for this quest is quite generous, but I've heard of the legend that the ghoul is a dark creature that specializes in eating corpses, and it doesn't seem to be easy to deal with, so you can choose it first, and then look at other quests.
Mission: There have been many strange incidents in Tranquility Town recently, many people have been killed and many are missing, and the police have intervened in the investigation to no avail.
Prize money: $80,000.
Difficulty: Four stars.
This is the only four-star quest on the front wall, and the reward is also very attractive, that is 80,000 US dollars, which is converted into more than 600,000 yuan for Grandpa Mao, which is enough to improve the lives of Elena and me.
"Sam, I'd like to take the Tranquility Town mission." I said to Sam.
"Are you sure?" Sam asked with a solemn expression.
"I'm pretty sure." I smiled and nodded.
"Do you know what the three red crosses below mean?" Sam muttered.
"I think there were three people who took over this task and then failed, right?" I guess that's what it means, how can such a good task be put here and no one does it? This is also too strange, and the only explanation is that the task is difficult, or dangerous. As a result, others are afraid to take on this task.
"That's right, this mission was released two weeks ago, and three witchers have taken on it, but they all failed in the end, and besides, they are all missing." Sam said solemnly.
"Missing?" I was slightly stunned.
"Yes, there is no one alive or dead." Sam's expression was very serious.
"Do you still want to take on this task?" Sam asked in a deep voice.
"Pick it up." I gritted my teeth and replied, rich and dangerous, just do a big ticket, make money to buy a house, it is too inappropriate to rent a house like this.
"Okay, but I want to warn you, this mission is really very dangerous, you must be careful, Tranquility Town is more than three hundred kilometers away from Los Angeles, you better arrange your time." Sam kindly reminded. Because it is only at night that demon hunters incarnate as hunters, and during the day, most of them have their own work and life, just like ordinary people. Sam meant that I had everything arranged before I went.
"Thanks for the reminder, I see, how long is the mission period?" I asked.
"There is no protection period for missions above four stars, and there may be witchers who also take on this mission." Sam said.
"So that proves that I did the job?" I asked, frowning.
"There's no way around it, you can only negotiate it yourself, or divide the prize equally, or you let them give up on their own initiative." Sam said calmly.
I understood what Sam meant, and let them give up on their own initiative, and it seems that I still have to get out as soon as possible to complete this person's mission before the other witchers come to get a piece of the pie.
I don't know if two days is enough time to complete this task, so I can only call Francis and ask him to help me take two days off.
Elena and I left the midnight bar, and I thought that the two bastards, Tony and John, would follow each other out, but they had already left the bar.
After returning to the apartment, I began to prepare things for Jingning Town, this time I also specially prepared a few bags of salt for backup, in case I met evil spirits, I can use salt to deal with them, as for what the principle is, I don't understand, why are the old and beautiful evil spirits afraid of salt? Pure salt purifies evil spirits and allows them to ascend to heaven. The sand and salt mixed with the soil can make the evil spirits go to hell, I really don't know what the principle is, after all, this is a foreign country, and it basically doesn't work to deal with evil spirits and dark creatures with the same set of things in China.
It's nearly eleven o'clock after everything is packed, and we have to go to bed quickly, and we have to take the earliest train to Tranquility tomorrow morning.
But I found Elena sitting alone on the couch in a daze, and it seemed that she was still thinking about the incident that happened that night.
"Give." I pulled a bottle of beer out of the fridge and handed it to her, and she smiled and took it.
"I don't know what to say, but don't worry, I'm not going to sell you or force you to do something you don't like." I, Chen Sheng, said.
"Thank you." Elena whispered.
"Then what else do you have to worry about?" I felt like there was something else going on in Elena's mind.
"Because tonight's incident reminds me of my sister." Elena said with a slight redden.
"Do you still have a sister? Didn't you say you're the last Silver Moon Werewolf? I asked curiously.
"She's dead." Elena whispered.
"I'm sorry." I whispered that I didn't know anything about Elena's past, and it seemed that she must have a tragic past.
"Nothing." Elena threw up her head and poured a bottle of beer into her mouth, and I snatched it up.
"How can you drink beer like this, how did your sister die?" I think Elena must need someone to talk to, and these things have probably become knots in her heart, and if she doesn't untie them, she will live in grief forever.
"My sister's name is Catherine, and she is an idiot, she fell in love with a witcher and ended up being a monster hunter for that man, she thought that man loved him, but when that man sold her to the black market after learning that she was a werewolf of the silver moon, and made a lot of money, she disappeared."
"From then on, my sister became a cow-like animal, and every few days most of her blood was drained to make magic potions, and not only that, but she was forced to entertain some guests, and finally she committed suicide and cut off her head with a Western knife." Elena curled up on the sofa with her legs in her arms and said calmly.
I never thought that Elena's sister would have such an experience, this may be the sadness of dark creatures, not all dark creatures are evil, there are also good beings among them, such as elves, they will help travelers lost in the forest, for example, fur seal people, they will help drowning people, and in example, hill stone monsters, they are just some big guys who like to eat leaves, but they will all be labeled as evil creatures of darkness, do they deserve to die?
Looking at Elena, from the time I knew her to the present, what is the difference between her and ordinary people? She would help the grandmother crossing the street, she would give her beloved lollipop to the child whose parents were lost on the side of the road, she would queue up at the supermarket for a coupon, and in my opinion, she was just an ordinary person who could not be in the ordinary world.
But who would have thought that such an ordinary price on the black market would be millions of dollars? While a million dollars was tempting, I never thought of selling her because she was just a girl in need of love in my eyes.
"Don't be sad, I'm sorry for what happened to your sister, but those who are alive should look forward, and I promise you that the tragedy that happened to your sister will never happen to you again." I turned my head to look at Elena and said solemnly.
"Huhuhu." The only answer I had was the faint breathing of Elena, who fell asleep, curled up on the armrests of the couch and fell asleep.
The moonlight shone on her angelic face, her golden curls covered half of her cheeks, and her eyes were filled with tears, she might not have a dream tonight, but in the days to come, dreams will always be with her.