【With sword】

Quality: mission item.

Item introduction: None, this item cannot be discarded, damaged, or dropped.

Taking out the sword that suddenly appeared from my backpack, I couldn't help but look back and forth.

But this plain sword has no other clues except a name.

However, since the system gave me such a mission item, it must be useful for a certain mission.

Hearing that the big guy was no longer yelling and cursing outside, I tiptoed my head to take a look at the situation. Indeed, he was no longer in the village. I guess I ran out of patience and ran to upgrade.

That's just right. While you're not here, I'll quickly find the kid just now and ask about it.

…

Five minutes later, I returned to the place with a surprised expression.

The village is as big as the palm of my hand, but I couldn't find any trace of the child just now. Except for some houses that were inaccessible, I visited almost every place I could think of in the village.

"Could it be that the big guy abducted him?"

This helpless soliloquy is of course a joke, but it is true that there is no way to change the situation that cannot be found.

The mission can't be so unreasonable. Since I can't find the child, I should look for other NPCs to see if there are any reliable clues.

Picking up an old lady who had just turned the corner in front of me, I went up to ask her about the sword and the child.

"The sword originally belonged to an exorcist couple in the village, but the couple both died during an exorcism operation, leaving only a child and his grandfather to depend on each other." The old lady only had these few plot clues, and then

Asking more questions will only lead to repetition.

I went around and asked other NPCs, but they all just described the deeds of the couple, and other things were just boring asides.

"It seems like I'm not enough to trigger the mission clues." Thinking like this, my depressed mood improved a lot.

"Hmph"

I was leaning on the waist-high fence and thinking, when I was attracted by a cute pig snort. I turned around and saw a group of first- and second-level white pigs just spawned on the edge of the village. They were enjoying themselves.

Take a walk.

I have no clue about the task, and it is a waste of time to continue to struggle. It is better to come early than to come by chance, and I will take advantage of you!

I jumped out holding the fence, and hit a pig's head nearby. After the upgrade, I could actually deal more than 10 points of damage, but the white pig's attack in turn could only scratch me.

It hurts until 5 o'clock.

After all, there was still some loss. In order to save some of my health, I looked at the fence at hand and tried to take advantage of my cleverness.

Facts have proved that my brain is still good. After another attack, I turned around and jumped back into the fence. After entering the village, the white pig lost its target and could only walk back aimlessly. At this time, I jumped out again.

Repeating the attack just now, the white pig hurriedly turned around, only to turn around in vain.

"Oh, I jumped out again!"

I was having a great time teasing the white pig, and I was so intoxicated with the repeated jumping movements that I couldn't extricate myself.

"Oh! I jumped out again! Hit me, you idiot! Just a little bit~"

"Is it fun?"

"Of course it's fun!"

The sudden conversation made me suddenly realize something.

Did someone ask me a question just now?

I turned around and saw an old NPC man with an unfamiliar face smiling at me from behind while stroking his beard. The blue name on his head also marked his identity.

[Village person in charge]

Oh my God! I couldn’t find you even after searching through iron shoes, it took no effort to get here! I just searched for a long time and couldn’t find you! You actually delivered it yourself!

"Are you the person in charge of the village? It's really easy for me to find you. I've searched all over the village but I haven't seen you yet?"

I was ecstatically joking, but he just smiled kindly and said nothing.

"I'm older and don't like to move around. I often rest at home and sleep. No, not long after I lay down, I heard some noise outside. I thought it was the weasel that had been rampant for a long time and came to the village to steal things again, so I thought of coming out to say hello.

I was rushing around, and then I saw an idiot from somewhere who was so energetic, smiling like a fool."

Well……

You are just a fool, and your whole family is a fool.

"Don't make fun of me. I just happened to see you. I have something I want to ask you." As I said this, I took out my sword and showed it to him.

He took the sword and asked with disbelief in his eyes: "Why is this sword on you?"

Afterwards, I told him everything before and after the mission.

But my honesty was met with helpless sarcasm from the old man, "He and his wife have never had any children, so how could I have any grandchildren? It's okay if you don't want to say it. There is no need to make up such excuses to excuse me."

Damn it, why did I make up lies to lie to you? I don’t want to add anything to anything that’s not beneficial. If the old lady hadn’t mentioned it in the first place, I wouldn’t have even known about it, right?

"Alas~, this sword was given to the couple by an exorcist to subdue demons. It is said to have the power to see through the disguise of demons, but it is completely useless to me..." The old man said to himself, as if remembering something from the past.

Smiling wryly.

"Old man, is there something hidden here?" I asked about other things.

"Well, since you brought it up, let me tell you..."

"Thousands of years ago, a demon with great supernatural powers appeared near here. This demon was good at the art of transformation and liked to feed on the lives of young people. It killed many passers-by. When the imperial city knew about this, it sent a heavenly master to protect the country.

When I came to subdue the demon, the Heavenly Master sealed it for a thousand years."

"But a month ago, the seal was broken by the demon for some reason. When she was revealed again, she posed a great threat to the people in the village. In order to protect the peace of the village, my son and his wife went to slay the demon, but he never thought that he would

No more news."

When the old man said this, his expression was filled with sadness, and he couldn't help but burst into tears. He picked up his sleeve and wiped the corners of his eyes.

"Since then, the demon has also disappeared, but for some reason, the young people in the village have turned gray overnight, and then they have gradually aged and died one after another. The surviving people thought that the demon cursed the village before it died, so they fled with their families.

Go to another country, and in the end, only a few of us reluctant old people are left here to live day by day..."

The story ends here, but apart from listening to the excitement, I didn't get any clues that were helpful for the task. I can't be allowed to look for the source of the curse with my sword, right? It's like looking for a needle in a haystack, what should I do?

He sighed, said nothing more, and walked back to the cabin where he rested, leaving me alone and still without any ideas.

Hey hey, it's useless to think about it, so I'll just upgrade my level.

"Hey, here I come, little pig!"

…

I repeated the plan that had tasted sweetness before, and I kept repeating it. I finally breathed a sigh of relief after I had finished causing harm to all the white pigs and puppies nearby.

The experience level is still a bit low, so one more monster should be enough, and since there are no more monsters nearby, I can only make my decision to fight further away.

"tie!"

I picked a white pig that was relatively far away, and attacked it fiercely to get rid of its hatred. Then I quickly got up and ran back, as happy as a child who had picked up money.

"Hey hey hey! Can't catch up with me? Ah ha ha...ah!"

He only turned around to laugh at the clumsy butchering pig, but he didn't see an old lady suddenly appear in front of him. The two of them bumped into each other and fell to the ground.

The white pig that came behind me was trying its best to hold my waist.

I quickly kicked the angry pig's head away, jumped back into the fence, and quickly apologized to the old NPC lady on the ground.

"It's okay..." The old lady got up and said politely, then hurried away.

I had already met all the NPCs in the village, but this NPC was very unfamiliar to me. I thought she might have clues like the village chief, so I thought of calling her for consultation.

But an instinctive move made me make significant progress.

This old lady doesn't have a blue name on her head like other NPCs, it's just empty.

The old lady moved very quickly, turning around and disappearing. This made me completely forget about the white pig that was pulling over, so I quickly got up and chased after her.

When we reached the corner, there was no one around at all.

The strange identity and unbelievable behavior aroused great suspicion in me. In order to find out what happened, I planned to ask the village chief to find out.

But the old man happened to appear on my left, walking towards me with the sword in his hand.

"Alas..., it's just a waste of sadness if you take it and look at it. Since it has found you by itself, it means that it has a fate with you. It's better to give it to you and use it to ward off demons." The village chief took the

After leaving, he handed the sword back to me and turned around to leave with a sad face.

"By the way," the village chief who was halfway there turned around and added, "Don't be stupid when you use it to slay monsters. No monster will stand there stupidly and let you chop it."

After speaking, he left without looking back, standing in the distance looking thoughtfully at the burning remaining clouds on the horizon.

It seemed like a casual instruction, but my thoughts, which had been blocked for a long time, suddenly became enlightened, and previously seemingly unrelated clues gradually emerged in my mind one by one.

"The weasel that has been rampant for a long time is here to steal again."

"Only one child is left to depend on his grandfather."

"He and his wife have never had any children."

"This sword is said to have the power to see through the disguise of monsters."

"This demon is good at the art of change and likes to feed on the lives of young people."

"Since then, the demons have also disappeared, but for some reason, the young people in the village have turned gray overnight, and then gradually aged and died one after another."

And I have never been able to find the child and the old lady who confused me.

The vague things naturally turned into an obvious truth.
Chapter completed!