[Tick, system prompt, congratulations to the host, infinite death system starts......]

Ron was stunned for a moment, he really didn't expect that he had just landed from the sky, and immediately received such a system prompt, what is this, was he targeted immediately after he landed?

[Quest Background: You came to a remote town and wanted to rest here, but soon, you found that something was wrong with this town......]

【Objective: Survival】

【Reward: Random】

[Mission Time Limit: 72 hours]

This time, the system prompt is very brief, and there are very few clues for Ron, who the enemy is, what the strength is, and even what the reward is.

It's more like some kind of puzzle game, leaving Ron himself in the town to find clues and solve the final mystery.

It's just that for Ron, who has experienced 99% of the plot in the game, this so-called puzzle game really doesn't arouse much interest.

……

It's on the other side.

The borders of the Kingdom of Granville.

Agnes was holding Lucia in her arms, Cecilia was holding Selma in her arms, plus a white-haired saintess Agnes, seeing that Carol in front of her was all looking at each other, her face was particularly weird.

Although he had received Ron's message magic before and knew about Carol's existence, it was difficult to explain it in detail in the message after all, and now he saw the elf in front of him who was wearing an emerald green dress, although his chest was a little barren, but his skin was white, beautiful, slender waist and long legs, and they were all a little helpless in their hearts.

Originally, Ron, after being away for a while, would not know where to bring back some women.

Now it's even more excessive, obviously there are already three women staring at her, but just a sleep, there is an extra female elf in the room.

Now that this has come to this, what can we do? Do you want to scold Ron?

But Ron wasn't there, so he couldn't find anyone.

Do you want to get rid of Carol?

Although these girls have different personalities, they have one thing in common, that is, everything is centered on Ron. Even if he didn't feel very comfortable in his heart, if getting rid of Carol would make Ron uncomfortable, he wouldn't do it anyway.

What's more, after such a long time, I have gradually become accustomed to this kind of thing, at least I am not as resistant as I was at the beginning.

After everything was cleaned up, the group left the hotel and began to go to the Spann Sect, they all knew that Ron also had a careful arrangement in the Spann Sect, and this trip was not going to change the sky.

……

The sky is mixed with the sky.

It was obviously the rising sun, but the sun didn't seem to shine on this small city, and the whole city was submerged in an atmosphere of dirty and ashes everywhere, obviously there was nothing in the air, but at a glance, it seemed that there were countless ashes in the air, and even breathing became a little depressing.

Obviously, not far behind is the Elven Forest.

Further afield, there are lush mountains.

But those verdant cities didn't seem to affect the city at all, and the hue of the town was incompatible with the surroundings, and there was hardly any verdant color in the whole town, and some were just dirty and dark yellow.

As far as the eye can see, most of the surrounding buildings are low and dilapidated, and many houses are also dilapidated, and the walls are full of yellow, black, and brown stains, clumps and patches, like the traces of some sticky things sticking to them and drying up, and even more, the walls simply collapsed directly, revealing the beds and wardrobes in the room that had long been decayed.

If it weren't for the occasional walk through the streets of the town, Ron would have thought it was a dead city.

Even if it was a few figures, it was a tattered linen shirt, they were dirty all over their bodies, they didn't even have shoes, they were directly barefoot, and their legs that could not be covered by rags were full of black sludge.

Their faces were dull and their eyes were numb.

Ron could clearly feel the heartbeat and breathing of these people, and knew that they were living people, but in Ron's eyes, these people were like a bunch of walking corpses.

It was only when they occasionally looked at Ron that their gaze suddenly flashed with a palpitating light, and there was an indescribable emotion in that gaze, including greed, madness, and schadenfreude.

Their throats were even squirming, as if Ron was no longer a living person in their eyes, but a delicious mass of flesh and blood.

That weird atmosphere made Ron can't help but be a little depressed.

He had to sigh his bad luck, he was still boasting about Haikou before, he had experienced ninety-nine percent of the plot and maps in the game, and Carol, the hidden heroine, was just an exception.

But even Carol, although Ron didn't go through this hidden mission himself, he had heard about it.

But the town in front of him, in Ron's mind, was completely unimpressed.

Perhaps, this town, and the secrets in this town, is the hundredth of what Ron has never set foot in.

Although he didn't explore, and he didn't have any memories of this town in his mind, Ron could feel that this town was very dangerous, and no one could guarantee what would happen if he continued to stay here, of course, with the Seraphim Fallen Angel Niaf here, Ron was not worried about his safety, he just didn't want to waste too much time in this small town.

The Spell Sect and the Orc Territory all had a lot to do with Ron, and he didn't have that much time to waste in this small city.

Ron is not the kind of Great Virgin, he doesn't have the noble sentiment of saving the world, and the inhabitants of this small town seem to have been tortured, but what does that have to do with him?

Although it's a pity to abandon the tasks arranged by the system like this, the requirements of the system are just to survive, so if you leave this side far away, it should be considered survival, right?

That's what Ron thinks and does.

After making a decision in his heart, Ron barely hesitated, and his body slowly flew into the air.

It's just that as soon as Ron's body flew into the air, less than twenty meters away, he felt some kind of obstacle appear above his head, like an invisible barrier, blocking Ron.

Forbid?

You don't want to leave, do you?

In the vicinity of some special maps, there will be some restrictions on access which is a very normal setting in the game, and Ron was not surprised, he just clenched his fists, and under the blessing of the half-dragon, he smashed his fist at the prohibition in front of him.

Burst.

That fist, as if it was smashed directly on the semi-fluid, was soft and unfocused, and the feeling was probably more unbearable than a fist smashed on cotton.

Looming, Ron could even feel the ripples in the space in front of him, and the power that Ron smashed out was unloaded in silence.

Throwing his arm casually, Ron was a little amused, he didn't want to waste time in this small town, but it seems that this small town doesn't want to let him leave, so in this case, let's play with him a little.

Ron pursed his lips as he descended from the sky.

There were a few ragged men on the ground who saw Ron's actions, and they just looked at them with their heads held high, and they didn't react at all, except for the banter in their eyes.

Ron didn't try to ask anything from the people, he just looked around and found a house with a collapsed wall, and drilled into it through a hole.

The tone of the town was already dark, and the interior of the house was even more gloomy and damp, and the room was even filled with a strong, decaying atmosphere, and an inexplicable, disgusting smell.

The room was small, and judging by the tattered clothes in the closet, it was once supposed to be inhabited by the husband and wife, but now they are nowhere to be found.

Ron's eyes were on the bed, the bed was made of irregular wooden boards, I don't know how many years it had been used, the wooden boards looked a little rotten, and the wooden boards were just very haphazardly covered with some thatch, and there were a few pieces of tattered linen on the thatch, which was considered a mattress...... Of course, it could also be a quilt.

Strangely, in the middle of the bed, a hole was dug.

Underneath the cave is a wooden basin, which also has some dark brown marks.

At first, Ron thought that there might be a paralyzed man lying here, and that this hole, this wooden basin, should have been used to hold the filth of the sick.

But soon, Ron dismissed his speculation.

There was nothing filthy in the tub, as for the dark brown marks...... Ron's heart moved, it was blood.

That's right, it's blood.

It is the traces of the dried blood, and with the oppressive tone of the small town, it looks even more gloomy.

There was also a rice bowl in the room, and Ron walked over and lifted the tattered lid of the rice bowl......

Buzz.

A black mass instantly pounced on Ron's front door, and his body subconsciously took a few steps back, dodging those things.

It was a fly, a green-headed fly that was almost wrapped in a clump, and after the flies had dispersed, Ron looked down and saw that there was not a grain of rice in the rice bowl, but a starved rat lying there, the body of which had been hollowed out, visible to the naked eye, and some white bugs were slowly wriggling inside its corpse.

Judging by the level of rat decay, the dilapidated house must have been uninhabited for some time.

As a professional player, Ron is very experienced in dealing with the situation in front of him, and he has two first things to do, the first is to explore his surroundings and look for any suspicious clues, especially notes and the like, some staccato words that may be the key to solving the puzzle.

But it is clear that the owner of this room is not the kind of scholar who will keep a diary.

The second is not to let go of any NPC and talk to everyone you meet. Especially the beggars on the streets, the crazy women, the mysterious old men full of riddles......

Ron was currently following the first action, and after failing to make any useful gains in this room, Ron left the room and went straight to the next door.

He searched room after room, and almost every room was the same, and almost all of these rooms were uninhabited, and the time was not a day or two.

The most bizarre thing is that eighty percent of the beds in the room have a hole in the middle.

And, while searching the rooms, Ron was also keeping an eye out for movement outside, the streets were as sparsely populated as ever, except that he found another very special place, the occasional person walking by the street...... It's all men.

That's right, it's all men, not a single woman.

It's like...... There are no women living in this small city.

But this was obviously impossible, and in the closets of some rooms, Ron clearly saw the clothes that some women were wearing.

This proves that there were indeed women living in this small city, but now, those women do not know where they went, maybe they were all killed, or they may have all been kidnapped somewhere.

It wasn't until Ron pushed open the seventh door that something different was discovered.

The room was obviously a little bigger than the previous ones, and it was much cleaner, and it was clear that the original owner of this room should have lived a relatively good life, with a little more furniture, and even a desk.

On the desk, there was a notebook that was also in tatters.

In the upper left corner of the desk, there is even an inkwell, a quill pen poked inside the inkwell, but the bottle has dried up, and there is not even half a drop of ink in it.

There were no holes in the slightly wider bed.

The windows were covered with cobwebs, but alas, the spiders were starving, and the remaining layer of skin hung on the tattered cobwebs, and a gust of wind blew, and the cobwebs immediately jumped up and down, and even the rotten wooden windows made a creaking sound.

Nima!

Ron's body trembled slightly, and he cursed in his heart.

I have to say that this small town renders that oppressive atmosphere very well, and there are not many ...... here No, it can even be said that there is no bloody and terrifying picture at all, but the decadent, decaying, gloomy, and oppressive atmosphere is very strong.

Even if nothing happens, just walking in this area, the chest will be subconsciously pressed against a heavy stone, and the spirit will be tense in silence.

This kind of silent and subtle terror may be even more terrifying.

In the case of extreme mental tension and high concentration, the slightest movement may cause a great reaction.

Ron's eyes glanced outside, the sky was still in a state of rising sun, since Ron entered this small city, he found that although this small city can walk freely, except for the prohibition and blockade that cannot leave, coupled with the oppressive atmosphere, there is not much difference from the outside world.

But now Ron has discovered another anomaly, where time seems to be frozen and not affected by the outside world.

It had been at least an hour since he had entered the town, but the sky had not changed in the slightest, nor brighter, nor darker.

Ron took this to heart, and in a puzzle game like this, any clue could be the key to solving the puzzle, and rarely, he had a sense of excitement about a challenge.

After a brief pause, Ron finally walked to the desk, looked at the only possible clue in the journal, and gently opened the title page of the journal with his right index finger.

The diary is thin.

The handwriting inside is also a little immature, as if it has just learned to write.

"Daddy and Mom had a fight, Daddy was very distressed, he broke a lot of things, I was scared, I hid in the corner and didn't dare to speak, but Mom seemed to be very happy, it seemed to be a very honorable thing to be chosen by the Holy Father, I heard them say so."

Holy Father!

As soon as he saw the first page of the journal, Ron noticed a key word, Holy Father.

He thought about it in his head.

It seems that the popes of some churches will also be given the title of Holy Father, but it is clear that the Holy Fathers in this small city should not be those popes, and those popes could never live in such a dilapidated city.

"There are more and more black beasts, they are around the outside of the village, they keep letting out a terrible howl, everyone in the village is trembling, I am also scared, I can see the eyes of those monsters, their eyes are glowing green, like wolves."

The Black Beast has spread here, too.

"But thankfully, we have the Holy Father!"

"The Great Holy Father, with his own strength, has arranged a barrier to stop the black beast, and the entire small city is guarded within the barrier, as long as the Holy Father is there, we will be safe."

The barrier should be the outer layer of prohibition.

"However, we can't leave the small town, but it doesn't matter, the Holy Father said that the outside world has been taken over by black beasts, and even if we go out from here, we will only be reduced to food for black beasts."

"The town is safe, and as long as we stay in the town all the time, we won't be harmed."

"Today there are many people in the house, they are the messengers of the Holy Father, they have brought rice and wheat to the house, they have brought beautiful clothes to the mother, and some old mothers have dressed up their mother very beautifully, and then they will take their mother away."

"Daddy suddenly took a kitchen knife and killed an old woman, but soon Daddy was caught, and they said that Daddy had been polluted by the filth released by the black beast and had become a madman, and only fire could clean Daddy's body of filth."

"I watched the flames drown Daddy, Daddy's voice sounded painful, I wanted to take Daddy out, but they wouldn't let me go......"

"I saw their eyes, and they were shining in them, the kind of eyes that I had seen before, in the body of the black beast...... They're drooling. ”

"I'm so scared...... Daddy was screaming, he seemed to see me, he was yelling at me desperately, telling me to get out of here, as far away as possible, and never to come back. ”

He said...... They're all crazy! ”

"I don't know who's crazy, daddy, mom, or whatever? I want to get out of here, but it's all black beasts outside, what am I going to do? ”

"The flame was extinguished...... Daddy's body turned into charcoal in the shape of a human, they howled and rushed up, saliva splashed everywhere, they didn't care about the scorched black marks on Daddy's body, desperately tore at Daddy's body, the black marks were bright red flesh and blood, they were like those black beasts outside, desperately stuffing those things into their mouths. ”

Today it was 10 in 10.

(End of chapter)