"South of Zizhou City, ten miles of Taoyuan, five bandits committed murder, twenty silver as a reward, in order to seek righteousness!"

Xu Shangcheng looked at the short task notice in his hand, and complained in his heart.

In this ten-mile peach orchard outside the city, he knew that after completing another wild boar mission yesterday, Xu Shangcheng's second task was to go to the ten-mile peach orchard to deliver a letter.

Yesterday, he wandered around the peach orchard for a long time, and he didn't hear from the local NPCs that there were any bandits.

As a result, as soon as it was launched today, among the entrustments of the residents of the main city that the Hidden Yuan Realm could accept, the number one was this Taoyuan bandit mission.

Fortunately, Xu Shangcheng went online early, otherwise this task would definitely be taken over by others, according to what Xu Shangcheng knows now, it is estimated that there will be hundreds of players in the Cave Realm in the game now.

Xu Shangcheng didn't dare to guarantee that in this Zizhou City, there were no players from the Cave Ming Realm to compete with him, and now Xu Shangcheng had to grab some high-reward tasks every day, otherwise he wouldn't be able to make up enough to worship a sect's "worship fee".

"It's only the third day, is it so much to play a game, it's a big explosion of technology, and everyone is still so tired."

Xu Shangcheng silently complained in his heart, although he was not a lazy person, thousands of years of cultivation had immersed him in a lot of mood, but after he was born, he would always be affected by the personality and memory of the original host.

Today's Xu Shangcheng, the mental nature cultivated in the Taiyuan world has gradually decreased, and he can survive the boring cultivation time, but now seeing that he has almost fallen out of the first echelon, Xu Shangcheng is still a little anxious.

Xu Shangcheng prepared some dry food, carried a long sword, and walked towards the ten-mile peach orchard.

This ten-mile peach orchard, located a few miles outside the city of Zizhou, across the south of a big river across the bank, is the core valley of the ten-mile peach orchard, among which there is a Zhoujiazhuang, hundreds of villagers in the village, generations to this peach orchard for a living.

In recent years, a new trade route has been opened from the south of Zizhou City, mainly transporting fine sake and other specialties brewed in southern Sichuan.

Generally, if the caravan from the south is too late and the gate of Zizhou City is closed, then they will choose to rest in Zhoujiazhuang and enter the city early tomorrow morning.

Therefore, in recent years, Zhoujiazhuang has collected these tea and accommodation fees, and has also accumulated a lot of wealth, so that the houses in the village have been renovated a lot.

However, some people make money, naturally there will be people with hot eyes, Zhoujiazhuang is near Zizhou City, is already a veritable rich village, although there is no clear person who wants to rob Zhoujiazhuang's business, but to tell the truth, there are really a lot of "green forest heroes" on the nearby hills.

In the Zizhou Prefecture, a lot of manpower has been sent to assist in the defense of Zhoujiazhuang, and Zhoujiazhuang itself has also organized a guard composed of young and middle-aged people, but it is really cunning to stand up to the green forests in the mountains, which makes Zhoujiazhuang a little tired of dealing with these thieves.

The year before last, Zhou Yuansi, the owner of Zhoujiazhuang, paid a lot of money and invited the head of Sanmingdong, a famous Jianghu faction in the territory of Zizhou Prefecture, to bring a group of people to sweep the bandit nest on the surrounding hills.

They thought that there would be no more trouble, but they never thought that there was another group of thieves wandering around recently, and many villagers had already been injured.

Xu Shangcheng came yesterday to deliver a letter to a fruit farmer in Zhuangzhong, whose eldest son was on duty at a academy in the city, and it was difficult for him to return home, so he entrusted someone else to deliver the letter.

Xu Shangcheng came here yesterday and saw that the residents here did not feel that everyone was in danger, but today he suddenly received a relevant task, and the word "urgent" was also marked, which made Xu Shangcheng really puzzled.

When he came to the village, Xu Shangcheng saw that the person who issued the task was the owner Zhou Yuansi, who looked mediocre, but he was well-dressed, like an old rich landlord, and there was no trace of the breath of a farmer, which was completely different from the Zhoujiazhuang fruit farmers that Xu Shangcheng saw yesterday.

"Shaoxia Gaoyi, the commission I released this morning, I never thought that it would not be noon, and Shaoxia would go to Zhuangzhong, thank you Zhou!"

As soon as Xu Shangcheng first met, Zhou Yuansi showed a grateful look.

Xu Shangcheng hurriedly invited him and Zhou Yuansi to exchange politeness, after all, it was also a refurbishment that had been carried out for thousands of years in the Xiuzhen world similar to Chinese culture, and Xu Shangcheng said that he was not worthy of these "ancients".

After several conversations, Xu Shangcheng finally knew why Zhoujiazhuang didn't care about these thieves before, but he had to issue an urgent commission early this morning.

It turned out that more than a month ago, near Zhoujiazhuang, where there were no people in the green forest, some villagers were injured by a group of unknown thieves when they went out.

Subsequently, such robberies occurred in the vicinity of Zhoujiazhuang one after another, although there were arresters from the state government in the city who came to reconnoitre, but the thieves were cunning and could not catch them.

In the day after tomorrow, the villagers in Zhoujiazhuang met these five bandits known as the five rats of Nanhe, and they threw down their money and ran away, and there were no more injuries.

Therefore, the villagers of Zhoujiazhuang are also slowly getting used to the existence of the five rats, all of them have made too much money in recent years, and they need to break the wealth and avoid disasters, not to mention that the five rats are not harmful, Zhou Yuansi also moved, or find the five rats, have a good conversation, if you include a few people in the guards in the village, you can also improve the strength of the village.

After all, in fact, in the worldview of "The Legend of Tianxia", young adults who have generally only learned some peasant styles or unpopular routines are not even considered to be in the Hidden Yuan Realm.

Like Xu Shangcheng, who holds a medium-grade long sword, has a little true qi in his body, and also practices medium-grade martial arts and body skills, he is already the top in the Hidden Yuan Realm.

Moreover, Xu Shangcheng is still walking in the rivers and lakes under his real name for the time being, and the previously broadcast "Sitting on the Heavenly Sword", in addition to being well-known among players, will also take Xu Shangcheng as the center, and move backwards according to time, until he becomes famous among all the people in the rivers and lakes.

At present, in the eyes of the NPCs in Zizhou City and the surrounding rivers and lakes, Xu Shangcheng can be regarded as the No. 1 young person.

Therefore, even though Xu Shangcheng is still the first realm in the martial arts, Zhou Yuansi still treats him with courtesy, and he is willing to believe that Xu Shangcheng is quite powerful.

At the same time, Zhou Yuan's thoughts want to absorb the five rats of Nanhe, and it is precisely because of the young people in Zhuangzhong, who have a talent for martial arts, as early as a few years ago, followed the head of Sanmingdong, and those who are not high, and now their strength has not entered the Hidden Yuan Realm, which is really not enough.

However, just when Zhoujiazhuang and the five rats of Nanhe were safe, yesterday night, a bloody case broke out in Zhuangzhong.

A woman screamed from a farmer's house, and then a fire broke out, causing the village to bark all night.

Immediately, hundreds of villagers were mobilized and rushed to extinguish the fire and save people.

By the time the fire was brought under control, the original family of five, two elderly people, a couple, and a 10-year-old child had all died.

There was an old man in the village, and after a night of autopsy, it was found that several people were not killed or caught in fire, but another sword and sharp weapon were fatal.

Later, there were villagers secretly shouting, when fighting the fire, there had been seen five rats, mixed in the crowd, afraid that it was not, that is, these five thieves, the appetite was too big, and some of the property on weekdays could not be satisfied, so they had to come to the village to do bad things.

After a thorough analysis, Zhoujiazhuang felt that this statement was not unreasonable, after all, the family that died, but a rare good man in the village, did not even have an enemy on weekdays, how could he be wiped out because of his affairs.

Xu Shangcheng listened for a long time, and basically knew the general situation, and then went to the fire farmer with Zhou Yuansi to check the specific situation, in fact, it was to see if there was any missing news.

During this period, Xu Shangcheng also met the leader of the current Zhoujiazhuang Guard, last night they were the main force to extinguish the fire and save people, and the one who had dealt with the five rats the most before was also a member of the guard.

This strong man named Zhou Wannian, in the early spring, also showed his strong arms, looking quite powerful, and when he saw Xu Shangcheng for the first time, there was still a little contempt in his eyes.

But after Zhou Yuansi's introduction, Zhou Wannian knew that Xu Shangcheng was a martial arts rookie who had recently become famous in the city and could comprehend the heavenly swordsmanship, and his attitude changed greatly in an instant, and he couldn't wait to make friends with Xu Shangcheng on the spot.

In Zhou Yuansi's helpless eyes and whispers, Xu Shangcheng also understood, it turned out that a few years ago, when Sanmyeongdong came to the village to clear out the green forest bandits, Zhou Wannian wanted to learn art very much, but because of his qualifications and age, several children who were much weaker than him were all taken in, and he was turned away, which made him quite regretful.

After that, as long as he saw a person who was quite accomplished in martial arts, Zhou Wannian was willing to make friends with him, in fact, he wanted to learn one or two tricks.

Seeing this, Xu Shangcheng no longer looked at Zhou Wannian with strange eyes, he was actually afraid that according to the current social atmosphere of the world, if the game company set up some strange habits for some NPCs in "The Legend of Tianxia", it would still be a little unfriendly to him.

After a false alarm, Xu Shangcheng, Zhou Yuansi and Zhou Wannian came to the place of the incident, and Xu Shangcheng was surprised to find that this place was not far from the farmhouse where he came to deliver the letter yesterday.

Xu Shangcheng came here again, but his mood was different, just because he saw the scene in front of him, which was really a bit miserable.

The courtyard of a four-room house has been burned to ruins, and you can still see some of the warm decorations of the past, but in the scorched black, it is always so miserable.

"It's a good thing it's a game world, otherwise it's a shame that this kind of thing happened."

Xu Shangcheng came to the ruins and thought silently in his heart.

Looking at the ruins that had long been devoid of a trace of temperature, and the villagers who said yesterday that they had seen the figure of the five rats, Xu Shangcheng had actually made a slight decision, but there was still one thing he hadn't figured out.

Because what the villager said, it was the five rats running back and forth among the villagers, but it stands to reason that after these people committed the crime, not everyone would have such a good psychological quality, and the villagers who could pretend to help as if nothing had happened, wandered around in the village.

Even if they want to mix, they should run around casually and escape from the village early.

However, the villagers who witnessed the traces of several people, after careful questioning by Xu Shangcheng, said that until the fire was extinguished, they also saw a few people carrying water and walking around under false affection.

Xu Shangcheng understands the hatred of the villagers of Zhoujiazhuang for the five rats, but at the moment, this matter is a little strange.

"It seems that we have to find the five rats first, and then ......"

Xu Shangcheng's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said secretly in his heart.