Virtual World: Close Combat Mage

"Isn't that actually a werewolf, but just a taller wolfdog?" Xiaoyu guessed.

"This... can't be right?" Gu Fei felt that the mission chain was a design that the game company would be proud of, and it would not create such a nondescript suspense. The werewolf is not actually a werewolf, but just a wolfdog that became a spirit? This is too comedic.

"Let's see if it leaves any other blood stains." Gu Fei said.

"That's right! You can catch it by following the blood trail!" Xiaoyu said excitedly.

"Well, it's just a cut on the claw. It's not that exaggerated, right?" Gu Fei said.

"Maybe?" Xiaoyu had already gone to the street stalls to search again.

Gu Fei was looking at the few drops of blood on the ground in trance.

The strength of the werewolf was beyond Gu Fei's imagination. Extremely fast and has high attack speed. Even though I tried my best, I could only block it just a moment ago. If he really had to fight a werewolf, he would have no chance of winning. After all, this gap is inevitable in the game. I want to make up for it with skills, but I have no idea how to do it. Gu Fei had no chance to fight with the werewolf to find out the loopholes in the opponent's attack. I'm afraid the werewolf could solve him with three or two moves.

But why would such a powerful BOSS escape? Can just a cut on the claws make a ferocious werewolf timid? This is too pretentious. Or is this silver-plated baptism of fire really so sharp? The werewolf discovered the silver attribute on it and was immediately scared to death?

Obviously, the werewolf's escape was not its own judgment in this situation. This was a plot prepared by the designer in advance. And Gu Fei just fulfilled the conditions to let it escape.

This condition seems to make the werewolf injured.

But, what message does such a plot convey? Gu Fei couldn't figure it out for a while.

"There are no other blood stains." Xiaoyu, who had crawled inside and outside again, came back and said very disappointedly.

"Let's go find the village chief. I have something to ask again," Gu Fei said.

"Really? Walk quickly, walk quickly."

The Night Light Village is peaceful at night. The NPCs that were originally scattered throughout the village have disappeared, replaced by the lights of various houses. Players play day and night every day in the game, but the NPCs strictly abide by the day and night schedule. They go out for activities during the day and go home to rest at night. For a moment, it was really clear who was a human and who was a machine.

Knocking on the door of the village chief's house, the village chief remained polite: "Oh, warrior, you are here." According to the village chief, Gu Fei has always been a warrior.

"What did the werewolf that killed Murphy look like? Was he wearing something around his neck?" Gu Fei asked.

"Oh, you have to ask Adrian about this. Adrian lives next to the church. He was the only one who saw it. That night, he heard the noise coming from the church, went out to check, and saw a werewolf killing someone. "Murphy. Poor guy, he was frightened," the village chief said.

"Adrian..." Gu Fei recalled the richest man in Luminous Village.

"Village Chief, where is Murphy's home?" Gu Fei asked again.

"That's the third house by the woods. No one has been there for a long time since his death," the village chief said.

"Let's go take a look." Gu Fei said to Xiao Yu.

Murphy's house is actually easy to find. Among the many houses with lights on, it is the only one that is dark. After Murphy's death, it was an empty house with no one in it.

Approaching the house, Gu Fei gently stopped Xiao Yu behind him and motioned for her to keep her voice down. Then he held the Baptism of Fire in front of him and walked cautiously towards the house.

Xiao Yu was so nervous that she didn't dare to let out a sigh of relief, but somehow, she saw Gu Fei walking to the door, putting his ear to the door, listening quietly for a moment, and then pushed the door open and entered. Xiaoyu looked around nervously, then followed Gu Fei and walked in furtively.

Gu Fei had already lit the oil lamp in the room and was standing by the bed looking at a piece of parchment in his hand.

"What is it?" Xiaoyu came over.

"It looks like a map." Gu Fei said.

"Treasure map?" Xiao Yu was excited.

"It's a pity that the coordinates are not marked, so it's a bit troublesome to find them!" Gu Fei said.

"Let me take a look." Xiaoyu took it.

"This is the main road of the village, and this looks like the church..." Xiaoyu pointed at it with a pen and muttered something.

"I know where it is!" After a moment, Xiao Yu shouted in surprise. When she turned around, she saw Gu Fei standing by the door, looking out cautiously.

"What are you looking at?" Xiaoyu came over.

"Shh..." Gu Fei motioned for her to whisper. Although the people outside were NPCs, Gu Fei didn't know if "making too much noise" would be a condition for suspending their activities.

"Let's go take a look with them." Gu Fei pulled Xiao Yu along with him.

"Where is the location where I found the treasure?" Xiaoyu waved the parchment.

"Well, we'll go digging for treasures in a moment. Follow these four guys first," Gu Fei said.

"What are they going to do?" Xiaoyu asked.

"I don't know, but I recognize that three of the four of them are the type who avoid me, and I haven't seen the fourth one before. There is indeed something weird about this group of people." Gu Fei said.

"Follow up!" Xiaoyu said.

The four of them walked silently on the main road of Yeguang Village, holding tools such as shovels on their shoulders.

"Oh, aren't they going to dig for treasure? Isn't it just us?" Xiaoyu said.

"Haven't you already figured out where the treasure is? See if they're on the right track." Gu Fei said.

"No." Xiaoyu said.

"Follow up."

The four eventually came to a mountain near the village. Somewhere halfway up the mountain, after pushing aside a layer of plants covering the hillside, the four people disappeared.

"Look, what is that?" Xiaoyu pointed.

"That's a hole..." Gu Fei said.

"What are they doing here?" Xiaoyu asked.

"How do I know?" Gu Fei said.

"Go take a look?" Xiaoyu suggested.

"Don't worry, come back at dawn! They will leave at dawn." Gu Fei said.

"How do you know?" Xiaoyu asked.

"During the day, they also go to stand guard along the avenue of Yeguang Village." Gu Fei said.

Xiaoyu looked at the time: "It's still more than an hour away!"

"First go to the place you researched." Gu Fei said, "Where is it?"

"The woods behind Morphy's house."

The two returned the same way and came to the woods behind Murphy's house. Xiaoyu led the way with the parchment in hand, looking around, and finally stopped under a tree. "This is it." Xiaoyu pointed.

"You really bought the right shovel." Gu Fei muttered, took out the shovel from his pocket and started digging.

"Treasure box! Treasure box! Treasure box!" Xiao Yu recited the magic spell, watching as the hole dug deeper and deeper. As a result, the treasure chest didn't come out, and another sack came out.

"It's so heavy!" Gu Fei grabbed it with both hands and pulled it, but couldn't pull it out of the pit.

"I'll do it." Xiaoyu stepped forward, stretched out his hand and lifted it gently, and the sack emerged from the hole. This made Gu Fei feel depressed for a while.

After opening the sack and looking inside, both of them were startled.

"Gold?" The two looked at each other.

Xiaoyu took out the small bag of gold given in the mission, took out a piece, and compared it with the one in the sack.

"They look similar!" Xiaoyu said.

"Adrian?" Gu Fei pondered.

"Go and return the gold to him! There must be a reward." Xiaoyu was happy.

"Have you triggered the mission?" Gu Fei asked.

"No."

"Without the mission, where will the rewards come from?" Gu Fei said.

"Then what is this for?"

"I think this is also an important part of my mission chain." Gu Fei had a headache. "There are more and more things. I'm so tired. Let's take a rest!"

"Where to go?" Xiaoyu asked.

"The hotel in the village should still be open. Let's take a rest and wait for dawn." Gu Fei said.

The two of them arrived at the hotel in the village. After all, it was still a game, and there was no such thing as a store closing.

"You can drink whatever you want. I'll treat you." Gu Fei said.

"I suddenly feel so sleepy. Let's lie down for a while." Xiaoyu said and fell down on the table.

Gu Fei casually ordered a glass of wine, and while drinking, he thought about his mission chain.

Two groups of villagers with very different attitudes.

There are traces of a fierce fight in front of the church.

The powerful yet unknown strength of Murphy.

Murphy's body disappeared.

A werewolf who runs away from a slight injury.

Murphy's hidden gold.

There are also the four villagers who ran to the cave in the middle of the night.

There must be a story line that can explain all these events clearly. This is the final and perfect plot of the "Eddie's Emblem" quest chain. If he just found and killed werewolves, Gu Fei doubted whether he could explain all these problems. At this time, Gu Fei already had a certain idea in his mind. All we have to wait for now is dawn. As long as we grasp a few more key things, things will probably fall into place.

On the other side, Ye Xiaowu, who had been watching Gu Fei's mission like a movie, had already experienced too many surprises brought to him by Gu Fei.

After wandering around in front of the church, he suddenly ran to dig Murphy's grave. Ye Xiaowu still doesn't know whether he found something or concealed it.

He was actually able to kill the werewolf that attacked him, but he was only level 30. A level 30 character should be slapped to death by that werewolf...

If the current situation continues, Gu Fei's final mission chain completion rate may reach over 90%.

Not bad, complete! This is the criterion for measuring the completion of a task chain and determining the final reward.

Killing werewolves? This is just a way to complete this task chain. If it were Ye Xiaowu who had gone there, he would have known where the werewolf was and would have directly found it and killed it with a knife. This would certainly count as completing the mission, but he would definitely get the lowest degree of completion and the worst reward.

Perfectly presenting the ins and outs of the entire mission chain plot is the way to achieve the highest degree of completion.

It's like a single-player game with multiple open endings. All endings can be considered as clearance. But one of them must be called the perfect ending.

Because the great young detective Conan once said: There is only one truth.

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