I am a cannon fodder, so what's wrong with grabbing an opportunity?

On the second day, Chaomu returned with three tasks as a representative.

The person who received him was still Qin Yao from yesterday. When she saw Chao Mu coming, she stepped forward enthusiastically to introduce him to the tasks.

After the three people left yesterday, I received praise from the person in charge and also received a nice bonus.

As long as he can allow these three people to stay in the City Affairs Office for three months, he can get another reward.

"Friend Zhao, let me tell you, there is a mission here that is very suitable for you. It was just given to me yesterday and has not been announced yet. I reserved this mission specifically for you."

"What mission?" Chao Mu asked following Qin Yao's words.

Qin Yao looked around and confirmed that no one noticed her, then said, "Come with me."

Chao Mu looked at Qin Yao with some vigilance, fearing that she would frame him.

Qin Yao also knew what Zhao Mu was worried about, and explained softly: "Fellow Daoist Zhao, don't be nervous. We will discuss some specific tasks that have not been announced individually."

Pointed to the sign of the negotiation room to Chaomu.

The two men entered the negotiation room, and Qin Yao handed Chao Mu a piece of paper.

Chaomu looked at the paper and saw a monster, but he didn't recognize it, so he waited for Qin Yao to introduce it to him.

"This is a nightmare beast, at the foundation-building stage. It was originally the royal beast of the city guards, used to help expel the demons and nightmares of the cultivators."

"It was lost a month ago and has not been found yet. I would like to ask you to find it."

After listening to this, Chaomu raised his own question: "Why don't the city guards find it themselves?"

Qin Yao said somewhat helplessly, "The city guards did send a lot of people out to look for it, but they found nothing."

"Plus, I am so busy that I cannot spare anyone to lead the team for now."

Having said that, Chaomu finally understood that he was attracted by Sister Qiu's cultivation level in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

"How much is the mission reward?"

"Five top-grade spirit stones." Qin Yao quickly quoted the price.

Chaomu thought about it and felt that the price was acceptable, so he accepted it.

By the way, he also asked Qin Yao for the details of all current tasks, and selected two tasks of purchasing spiritual plants.

"Fellow Daoist Zhao, are you sure you want to take these two Xuan-grade spiritual plants? If you don't complete the tasks, you can't take other tasks."

Qin Yao knew that Zhao Mu had wood spiritual roots, but she felt that he was a little too confident, so she reminded him.

Can a Xuan-grade spiritual plant be found just by looking for it?

"Don't worry." Chaomu is very confident in his abilities.

Seeing that Chao Mu was determined to do so, Qin Yao stopped trying to dissuade him. If she continued to persuade him, she would only ruin her favorability.

He registered quickly, attached the three tasks to three invitation letters, and returned them to Zhao Mu.

Chaomu went back to find Xie Zhiqiu and the others with a mission.

As soon as he entered the yard, he smelled a strong aroma of medicine, and Chaomu knew that his sister was learning alchemy from Sister Qiu again.

He had gotten used to the two of them using the pot to make elixirs.

According to Xie Zhiqiu, "A true master will not be restricted by the tools used to make the elixir."

She even boasted that even the pots would be thrown away by her in the future.

After listening to Sister Qiu's nonsense, my sister has made a bold ambition to eliminate all the tools for alchemy in the future.

At night, the two finally came out.

After eating, we set off at night.

I don’t want to complain about it anymore. Which good person would go out to work in the middle of the night?

Xie Zhiqiu said, "What do you know? I already said it's a nightmare beast, so it only appears at night. What are you looking for in broad daylight?"

"That's right, that's right, brother, you need to learn more." Chao Yun echoed.

Chaomu responded obediently: "Okay, sister, I will definitely learn more."

But I secretly made up my mind that I would not be educated anymore and would study more in the future.

I'm criticized for being uncultured and ignorant every day, and I feel so sad.

According to the information provided by Qin Yao, the three of them arrived at Bi Yan Village, which was the last place where the Nightmare Beast appeared.

The three of them stayed in this place for a while and then left.

After one night, we visited all the places where the nightmare beast had appeared.

When it was dawn, we finally finished visiting all the places.

Xie Zhiqiu looked at the four directions marked on the map, surrounding the inner city, but they were not evenly distributed in the four directions, there were some deviations.

"Rabbit, can you smell the nightmare beast now?" Xie Zhiqiu asked.

The little rabbit shook his head and told Xie Zhiqiu: "Master, the smell of the nightmare beast only appeared in those four places, and it gradually faded. There is no smell of it in other places."

I originally thought that I could use the treasure-hunting rat's nose to predict the path of the nightmare beast and wait for it, but I didn't expect this result.

Xie Zhiqiu was a little puzzled and asked, "Flash?"

After thinking for a while, he said, "But the Nightmare Beast doesn't have the ability to flash."

"The places where the Nightmare Beast appeared were all reported by the villagers. The city guards discovered that it was the Nightmare Beast after investigation. However, they had never seen even the slightest shadow of the Nightmare Beast." Chaomu added.

"Could it be a teleportation formation?" Chao Yun put forward his own idea.

Chaomu: "Can the beasts set up formations?"

"If it is really the case as Ayun said, then someone is deliberately stealing the Nightmare Beast and using it. But what exactly does he want to do?"

As far as Xie Zhiqiu could remember, no one had died anywhere, but everyone in the entire village had fallen into a coma.

People from the neighboring villages visited and reported what was wrong immediately. Fortunately, all the people woke up after treatment.

However, Qin Yao did not tell them the cause of the villagers' coma and how to treat them.

The three of them returned to Biyan Village with doubts.

Xie Zhiqiu found the village chief of Biyan Village, showed him the token from the Urban Affairs Office, and asked about the nightmare beast.

Three or four groups of people have come and gone to ask questions, and the village chief has become a little angry.

He was a little impatient to answer the questions from Xie Zhiqiu and others.

Chaomu was very considerate and took out ten low-grade spirit stones and handed them to the village chief.

The village chief immediately smiled and said, "My lords, if you have any questions, just let me know. I will tell you everything I know."

After Xie Zhiqiu and his companions asked a few questions, they made a request to the village chief, wanting to find a few villagers to understand the situation.

"We will give a low-grade spirit stone to every villager who cooperates."

As a qualified follower, the most important thing for Chaomu is to act as a payment clerk who is not rich but has a lot of power.

When the village chief heard this, he immediately asked his wife to find a few people to cooperate with the immortal in the investigation.

After more than ten minutes, there were more than a dozen people standing in front of Xie Zhiqiu and the other two, including men, women, young and old.

Xie Zhiqiu was watching from the side, Chaomu was responsible for asking questions, and Chaoyun was responsible for recording.

After it was over, everyone received a low-grade spirit stone.

After the crowd dispersed, Xie Zhiqiu gave Chaomu a wink.

Chaomu immediately discussed with the village chief and asked him to make arrangements for staying in the village for one night.

The village chief tightly grasped the spirit stone in his hand, saying that he would definitely make proper arrangements for the immortals.

In the guest room.

"Sister Qiu, this is too strange. They haven't had any dreams since the nightmare beast came."

As a recorder, Chao Yun naturally knew the strangeness of the answer to this question.

"And their words are somewhat different from the information given by Qin Yao." Chao Mu added, "According to them, the collective coma occurred a month ago."

"But Qin Yao told me that the nightmare beast disappeared a month ago."

Xie Zhiqiu said: "The little rabbit told me that the nightmare beast appeared in three other places, at the latest a month and a half ago, but no more than three months."

"This means that the Nightmare Beast started committing crimes from three months ago to one month ago. In two months, it visited four villages."

"The people in the other three places may have stopped dreaming, just like the people in Bi Yan Village." Xie Zhiqiu told the two of them his guess.

And issued a task, "Chaomu, in a while, you and Chaoyun will go to Hongfeng Village to confirm whether this is the case. I will let Xingye accompany you."

"I'm going to Chunlin Village and Lanze Village, and I'll be back here before dark."

The three men split into two groups and went to three places to investigate, and two people followed behind them respectively.