Clue

"System: Accepted the quest "Bard's Entrustment"."

"Quest: Bard's Entrustment"

"Content: Help Bard to eliminate mutated villager's bodies"

"Quest difficulty: S"

"Mission reward: Gratitude from Bard and the villagers"

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Chen Bing was in a good mood when he successfully received the quest, but when he saw the quest reward, he was shocked.

Hey, this reward is unreliable no matter how you look at it!

"Gratitude from Bard and the villagers." It feels the same as Huaxia's "I'll treat you to dinner some other day"– if one becomes serious, one will lose!

"Mr. Bard, this mission's reward…."

Feeling a bit shocked, Chen Bing could only brazenly ask Bard to find out what this so-called gratitude was.

"Brave adventurer, do not worry. Although the villagers are very poor, they will sincerely thank you!" Old Bard said with a serious face, assuring Chen Bing.

Sincere gratitude… 

Looking at the sky, why did Chen Bing feel more upset after receiving Bard's guarantee?

"We have to start at once, or when it gets dark, the mutated corpses will have an unpredictable change!"

Chen Bing wanted to discuss the issue of reward further, but Bard couldn't wait.

Damn it! It has already passed four o'clock in the afternoon, and we still need to make some preparations to kill the mutated bodies of the villagers. There is really no time for further negotiation. Chen Bing felt that no matter what he said, he couldn't squeeze out anything good from him.

Now he could only pray that the villagers would have consciences and wouldn't really just thank him verbally.

Having made some preparations, Chen Bing and Bard set out.

The two men soon came to the depths of the fruit forest, not far from the poisonous fog.

"This dry well is connected to another well in the fruit forest inside the poisonous fog. It was originally used for irrigation, but it's been abandoned, and my old friend didn't know about it."

Old Bard threw the rope into the dry well and went down by the rope into the well.

There was a narrow passage at the bottom of the well that one could climb across. If one didn't come down to see it, one wouldn't be able to find it on the wellhead.

This was one of the reasons why Chen Bing had asked Old Bard for help. Without Old Bard, it would be a problem for him to get through the poisonous fog again.

About ten minutes later, Chen Bing and Old Bard went into the poisonous fog, deeper than where Chen Bing had found the mutated trees.

"Please take care of things here, Mr. Bard. I'll find the mutated bodies of the villagers."

"Good!"

Chen Bing spoke to Bard, Bard nodded, and Chen Bing left quickly.

Bard would not be able to finish his part for a while; Chen Bing was not in a hurry to find the mutated bodies of the villagers but came to the iron cage where the bodies of the villagers had originally been locked up.

On the way here, Chen Bing got some information from Bard.

There was no information he could get from the torn cage, but Chen Bing came here for a cabin near the cage.

Bard's old friend used to live there.

The door of the cabin was open, and there was a layer of dust at the door. No one had been here for some time.

There is no sign of a struggle, but it's obvious that someone came and did a search, and Bard's old friend was killed. But why did his body appear at sea with the remnants of Bo En's diary? The only reason he was killed is because of Bo En's diary.

Is it because of something else, rather than Bo En's diary? The murderer's goal was Bard's old friend because he had discovered a secret that he shouldn't have?

Chen Bing's eyes twinkled, as he was thinking while rummaging through the cabin, looking for clues.

As he moved a table, a piece of torn paper floated down, and Chen Bing bent down to pick it up.

"Solo, I will come to you to discuss something soon."

There was only one sentence on the tattered paper, and Chen Bing recognized the name.

"Solo, is that the name of Bard's old friend?"

There was no doubt that the paper was left behind by Solo, whose death was most likely related to the man on the note, but Chen Bing rummaged through the cabin again and could not find any other clues.

"It's late now, time to find those mutated bodies."

After another circle outside the cabin, Chen Bing still found nothing. Chen Bing looked at his watch and assumed that Old Bard would be ready. He began to run to the place of the mutated trees.

The mutated bodies of several villagers were still hovering near the mutated trees, where there was still the smell of the mutated trees. Therefore they were reluctant to leave. After Chen Bing went there, he easily found them.

"Tut-tut, the more I see it, the more it looks like the zombie movie I watched."

Chen Bing watched from afar from the dark and observed carefully.

At the same time, he summoned the Warrior Slime to bask in the sun.

The Shadow of Slime was quickly formed, and Chen Bing let the dark Shadow of Slime jump over to several mutated corpses.

He felt that he was not a match for these mutated corpses, but he had to test their attributes.

Seeing the Shadow of Slime jumping past them, the Warrior Slime moved and wanted to follow him.

He was the eldest brother of the Shadow of Slime...how could he let the Shadow of Slime fight alone!?

But the Warrior Slime was grabbed back by Chen Bing after one jump.

The Warrior Slime had no choice but to walk around Chen Bing anxiously.

The Shadow of Slime jumped between several mutated corpses and was besieged by them. His life soon bottomed out, but Chen Bing put away the Warrior Slime before the shadow of slime was killed.

The Warrior Slime returned to the pet column, so the Shadow of Slime would be forced to disappear and return to the shadow state naturally.

"Their attacks are very strong. Even with my defense, I'll lose more than 100 HP, and the average player may be killed directly. But what is even more frightening is their ability of defense and resilience. By frontal attack, slimes can not even kill one, not to mention three or four bodies."

Chen Bing made a few glances and came to a conclusion.

No matter how many players below level 10 joined in this fight, they would not be able to kill these mutated corpses, let alone a one-on-one fight.

Knowing well that he could not defeat them, Chen Bing would not go and risk his life.

But he still didn't just leave.

After waiting in the dark for a while, Chen Bing saw a puff of smoke over Old Bard's position.

"Coming!"

Chen Bing felt refreshed.

He quickly took a few pieces of wood out of his backpack, and these pieces were chopped by Old Bard with a mutated iron plank.

Chen Bing piled up a pile of wood and leaves on the ground. He lit a fire, and the wood burned up, emitting a stream of smoke.

The smoke drifted away, and when several mutated corpses wandering in the distance smelled the smoke, they came running like wild animals one by one.

When Chen Bing lit the wood, he went far away and continued to light the fire with the wood of the mutated trees in the distance.

At the first fire, several mutated corpses scrambled frantically for the burning wood and swallowed it in one gulp regardless of its scorching temperature.

When they finished fighting for the wood, the smoke from the second fire drifted past, and several mutated bodies rushed to the second pile.

In this way, several mutated bodies were led by Chen Bing all the way to the dry well where he came in.

When Old Bard saw Chen Bing appear, he loosened his grip and threw the torch into the dry well.