Demon Gatekeeper [Unlimited]

A small ball of soft white light lit up in Yu Yuan's palm, illuminating the surrounding darkness, and Yu Yuan's handsome side face: "I'm fine, it's not that our place is on fire."

"Yeah." Dugu heaved a sigh of relief, he was not afraid of the dark, his panic was only because he was afraid of accidents to the male god.When I came back to my senses, I felt that if I really cared about it, I would be chaotic. The male god can beat me ten times by myself, and if I have an accident, he will not have an accident.

Dugu looked curiously at the ball of light in Yu Yuan's hand, this was the first time he saw Yu Yuan using a skill: "Is this your skill?"

"Well, but it's not very useful, it can only be used as a temporary flashlight." Yu Yuan controlled the light cluster in his hand and floated towards Dugu.

If Guanshi Qian heard this sentence, he might cry on the spot.

Like a living being, the light group circled around Dugu nimbly, and rubbed against his palm again.Where you touch the light cluster, you want to be exposed to the warm winter sun.

"No." Dugu stretched out his hand to poke the ball of light: "This ball of light makes people feel very bright, very warm, and full of hope. After upgrading this skill, it will definitely be very powerful."

The two of them got dressed, packed their things and walked out of the yard. One side of the sky was the deep night sky, but the other side was reflected red by the fire.

Dugu's complexion changed: "No, that's the location of the ruined temple."

The two hurried to the direction of the ruined temple, which was already in a mess.The players who woke up from their sleep jumped out of the ruined temple covered in flames, rolled on the ground, or fled in all directions.

The lion shouted loudly, asking everyone to fetch water together and not to disperse, but with little success.

There are quite a few NPCs gathered around, but they all stand far away and don't mean to help, but seem to be waiting for something.

"Ah, who are you? What are you going to do to Tutu? Uuuuuuuuuuuuu-"

Dugu suddenly heard Tutu's cry for help from the direction of the well.He pulled Yu Yuan: "Go and see."

The two chased after the NPC following Tutu's cry, but the sound stopped halfway through the chase.

"Tutu is probably in danger." Dugu's face showed a bit of anxiety. Although death is inevitable in the game, it doesn't feel good to see a player who has an accident in front of his eyes but is helpless.

"I have a solution." Yu Yuan took a run-up, turned over the wall, and jumped onto the eaves made of gray tiles along the wall. He stretched out a hand: "Brother, come up."

"En." Dugu stretched out his hand and jumped up, grabbed Yu Yuan's hand, and then he was carried up to the roof by Yu Yuan like a chicken.

Yu Yuan walked in front with light steps, he really had the style of flying over walls in martial arts novels.Dugu followed him clumsily, holding Yu Yuan's belt with one hand to prevent his feet from slipping and accidentally rolling down from the roof.

The houses on the South Street of Wuyou Town are densely built, and the roofs are connected to each other. The two walked on the roofs, and they could easily see the situation in the courtyards of each house.

After walking for a while, Dugu finally saw Tutu in a small courtyard.At this moment, she has been gagged. A young and strong man is holding the rabbit by the feet and dragging the rabbit into the house like an animal.There are two young people beside him helping.

Three people can fight.Dugu and Yu Yuan looked at each other and jumped off the eaves.

The three NPCs were taken aback by Dugu and Yu Yuan who suddenly barged in, but because of their clothes, they regarded them as town residents: "What are you doing, are you trying to rob people? Do you understand the rules? We are the ones to catch them first." Arrived."

"Understand the rules of a P, is it reasonable for you to arrest someone?" Dugu glanced at Tutu lying on the ground, she looked a little miserable, her eyes were swollen from crying, and a big lump of broken bits was stuffed in her mouth. Cloth, with hands tied behind their backs.Originally, when he escaped from the fire, his clothes were torn and his face was covered with ashes. Now he was dragged on the ground and covered in dust.

"Are you also foreigners?" The three young men heard Dugu's words, their eyes showed a bit of greed, their smiles were weird and excited, and they grabbed the things in their hands and rushed towards Dugu and Yu Yuan.

In their view, Dugu and Yu Yuan are just two pretty fair faces. It's no use being tall, so thin, they can fall down when the wind blows, and they will win three against two.

"It's your uncle." Dugu practiced fighting with Yu Yuan for a month, and his level of fighting has improved a lot compared to a month ago. The two of them went up together and knocked down three NPCs to the ground in a few strokes. Dugu knocked down half of them, so Yuan knocked down two and a half.

"Are you okay?" Dugu stretched out his hand to pull Tutu up, and found that the little girl's eyes were red from crying.

Tutu hugged Dugu: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's already safe." Dugu patted the other party's head lightly, and gently pushed the other party away: "What happened just now, why did they arrest you?"

Tutu sobbed and said: "Tutu doesn't know either. Tutu was asleep and suddenly caught fire. I came out to fetch water to put out the fire, but the three of them came out from nowhere and covered my chest." The mouth dragged me here, woo woo, why is Tutu so miserable today, being boarded, burned, and kidnapped, woo woo, the heavens must be jealous of the cuteness of the rabbit."

Dugu's scalp was numb from Tutu's crying, and he comforted him with kind words, but the other party cried even harder.

A hand landed on the back of Tutu's neck, the crying stopped abruptly, and the world became quiet.

Yu Yuan withdrew his hand as if nothing had happened, and looked at Dugu innocently: "She's too noisy."

"...Hmm." Although Yu Yuan's behavior was very ungentlemanly, Dugu still wanted to say, well done.

After Yu Yuan knocked Tutu out, he tied up the three NPCs and handed them over to Dugu, and looked around in the yard by himself.

Dugu put Tutu on the stone pier in the yard, and turned to interrogate the NPC on the ground: "You are residents of Wuyou Town, why are you arresting her?"

"It's none of your business, you'd better take care of yourself. You're all going to die sooner or later anyway. Instead of starving to death, it's better for us to exchange some food." Dare to do something to him. .

"Exchange people for food? How?" Dugu recalled the clues he had talked about during the day, so the NPC was indeed hunting players on purpose.Players can conjure Qiongzhiyu in some way?

When the NPC found out that he had slipped his tongue, there was a trace of panic in his eyes, he twisted his head, as if I won't tell you, what can you do with me.

"Brother, come in and have a look, here..." Yu Yuan poked his head out from the room, hesitating to speak.

"What's wrong?" Dugu walked towards Yu Yuan and followed him into the house.

This is a firewood room, full of firewood and sundries, the room is very dark, Yu Yuan finds a candle and lights it, the candle's faint light burns in the room.

Taking advantage of the dim light, Dugu suddenly noticed that there were two pillars by the wall, each of which seemed to have a bunch of things hanging on them, casting vague shadows under the weak candlelight.Dugu picked up the candle and approached it, and first saw a large black stain on the ground. He squatted down and took a closer look, and found that the stain was not pure black, but a large red-black, dried blood.

Going closer, Dugu finally saw the black shadows on the pillars clearly, they were two dead people, their hands were tied to the pillars, hanging upwards, their postures twisted.Their skin and flesh collapsed into their bodies, as if their bones had been removed. If their limbs were not supported by pillars, they might have collapsed into a ball like rotten flesh.The facial features lost the support of the skull and were distorted out of human shape. A pair of protruding eyeballs stared directly at Dugu's face.

"Ahhh!" Dugu staggered back in fright, almost throwing the candle in his hand.

"Brother, be careful." Yu Yuan grabbed Dugu's waist from behind and pulled him into his arms.

Dugu has seen many dead people in the last game, and he usually prides himself on his courage, but the impact on him just now was too strong, Dugu was stunned for half a minute before he came back to his senses, his teeth were a little bit Trembling.He swallowed weakly, and asked Yu Yuan: "Is that the player who disappeared before?"

"I'm afraid so." Seeing Dugu regaining his composure, Yu Yuan unceremoniously let go of the hand on his waist. Although it was interesting to see his brother blushing shyly, Dugu was so frightened today that he let go of him. Yu Yuan was a little reluctant to bully him.

"Lend me the knife." Dugu had a vague guess in his heart.

Yu Yuan took out the dagger: "Let me do it."

The blade made a cut on the arm of one of the corpses, and Yu Yuan used the back of the knife to open up the sunken flesh, revealing a slender, branch-shaped, shiny white jade.

"This is Qiongzhi jade. The Qionglin is covered with frost and snow, and it is mistaken for Qiongzhi jade with broken branches of osmanthus in the Moon Palace?" Dugu recalled hearing the poem read by the mayor, and felt extremely ironic: "It is clearly white bone jade, which is almost the same. .”

Dugu thought of something again, took out a jade box from his bosom and threw it on the ground forcefully.When he thought that these "jade stones" he carried were actually human bones, he felt horrible and disgusting.

Dugu walked out of the firewood house and saw the three NPCs at the door, his eyes turned cold.Knowing that their NPC might attack the player is one thing, but seeing the tragic death of the player with his own eyes is another. Now he can't deal with the three in front of him calmly.

"Tell me, how did the people inside become like this?" Dugu knelt down in front of the NPC, pierced the player's little finger with the dagger in his hand, and gave you three seconds. If you don't answer, I will start here and put your Pick out the bones one by one.

"You can't, my third uncle's cousin is in the town guard, if you dare to touch me, they won't let you go." The NPC said sternly.

"Really?" Dugu cut the NPC's little finger with a dagger, and pried the first phalanx outward with the tip of the knife.

"Ahhhhh, I said, I said." The NPC was so painful that his face turned pale, and he quickly replied: "After eating Qiongzhi grass, the bones will shrink and deform within a day, and finally turn into jade. It can be completely jade." When it melts, the person dies. At this time, take out the bones and it will be Qiongzhiyu."

[Main task 1 to unlock the secret of Qiongzhiyu (completed)]

[Activate the main task 2, and crack the truth of the strange things in the town. 】

Dugu heard the mission prompt and confirmed that the NPC was telling the truth.It was similar to what he guessed, but he didn't expect that eating the grass could directly turn human bones into white jade. Recalling the tragic situation of the players he saw before, this Qiongzhi grass is really more terrifying than the poison that seals the throat with blood.Mr. Da had ordered the kitchen to cook something like this.It seems that the devil has indeed known the secret of Qiongzhi grass for a long time.

"It's all bones, so the jade mining field...is a cemetery?" Dugu reacted quickly, where else could the bones be buried?

"That's right, it was the cemetery in the past." The NPC simply broke the jar and said: "As long as the Qiongzhi grass is planted, the bones in the cemetery will gradually turn into white jade. We locals can't do it, so we hire you guys." When outsiders go to dig, the bones of the family will belong to them. Now it’s not so troublesome, when people are about to die, they can be fed a bowl of soup made from Qiongzhi grass, and the bones can be taken out and exchanged for money.”

Dugu Sanguan was about to be shattered: "You dug up the bones of your ancestors and sold them for money?"

"Hey, the dead are dead, the bones are nothing, the living is the most important. When I die in the future, the bones can give my son food and drink for the rest of his life, and I am willing." The NPC said nonchalantly: "You don't know us. In the past, the town was so poor that we couldn’t afford to eat, and many people starved to death every year. Thanks to the emergence of this Qiongzhi grass, everyone gradually became rich.”

"It's fine if you sell your own bones, why kill us foreigners?"

The NPC was a little guilty when asked, and his eyes dodged: "Isn't it because I have almost bought all the jade in the past? There is nothing I can do. The taste of hunger is too uncomfortable. I don't want to try it in my life. To put it bluntly, the town puts you jade pickers People bought it from other places, and they didn't intend to let you leave alive. The jade in the town has been picked to seven or eighty-eight, and the mayor said that he would exchange jade for food that day, in fact, he was encouraging us to hunt and kill the jade pickers , only you don’t know.”

Dugu understood now, he said why this town has such a strange attitude towards the jade pickers.Let's say it's xenophobic, as long as you change into clean clothes and don't look like a jade picker anymore, the NPC's attitude will be much more polite.The emotional family didn't treat the jade picker as a human being from the beginning.

"Okay, now that we've made the question clear, let's go back quickly. The three of them shouldn't be the only ones attacking. I'm afraid the other players are also in danger. As for them, let's leave here to fend for ourselves." They are all tool people in the game, so there is no need to get angry with them.

"Yeah." Yu Yuan pulled Tutu up and carried it on his shoulder like a sack.

Dugu looked at Yu Yuan hesitantly, but finally said nothing.Although the anti-sack is not very gentlemanly, but if Yu Yuan really wants to hug the princess, he probably won't be that happy, so why bother to make himself unhappy against his will.The two quickly returned to the ruined temple. Yu Yuan threw the fainted Tutu into the arms of the lion, and said in a dissatisfied tone: "People who are optimistic about you, don't keep causing trouble for me and my brother."

The lion supported the fainted Tutu, and instead of asking about Tutu's situation, he looked at Dugu and Yu Yuan with complicated expressions and asked, "Are you the ones who just cleared the main story line?"

"No, we two demons, how could we complete the player's task." Yu Yuan yelled at the lion rudely.

Dugu looked on the sidelines and wanted to laugh.Think about how much younger Yu Yuan is than him, when he doesn't speak, he looks like a banished fairy, but when he opens his mouth, he still hides a bit of milk, he can act like a baby, clingy, and has a childish temper.His boyish heart is about to sublimate into an old father.

"Hey, if you did the main quest, it proves my suspicion is wrong, and I apologize." Lion said happily.

"Qiongzhi jade is transformed from human bones. After the NPC captures players, they will feed them Qiongzhi grass. When they die, the bones will turn into jade." Dugu didn't hold back anymore, and simply told the lion: "Jade pickers In the beginning, they were the hunting targets of NPCs. I’m afraid that the fire today was deliberately lit by someone. You are right to gather people. If you disperse at this time, it is easy to be caught by NPCs.”

Nian Xiuzhu was also one of those who were woken up in the middle of the night. Fortunately, he had a sense of crisis. He had long thought of the possibility of a fire in the ruined temple. He poured the water stored in the bamboo tube on his clothes and rushed out quickly. .

When approaching the door, a section of the beam fell down, followed by a cry of pain.

Nian Xiuzhu looked back, and saw that the doctor had been hit by a falling beam on his leg and couldn't get up.

Nian Xiuzhu raised his hand, and a small piece of bamboo shoot emerged from the ground, just enough to push up the beam of the house.Nian Xiuzhu held the doctor's arms and dragged him out of the ruined temple from behind.

"Thank you." The doctor looked at Nian Xiuzhu gratefully: "Thank you for saving me, I will treat your injuries for free in the future."

"Ugh!" Nian Xiuzhu was caught off guard by the doctor's pretty face, turned his head and vomited.

"What's the matter with you, are you okay?" The doctor was beside him with concern.

Nian Xiuzhu lowered his head in pain: "Stay away from me, I feel sick when I see your face."

"?" The doctor couldn't figure it out. In the real world, she is a star-studded beauty. No matter how embarrassing she is in the game, she will try her best to maintain a decent attire. The injured leg in the ruined temple just now is not her face, so she won't be too ugly. For people's sake.

Nian Xiuzhu explained: "You understand allergies, right? I'm allergic to pretty women, and I feel like vomiting when I see them."

For the sake of your saying that I am good-looking, let me believe you.The doctor limped a little farther, found a hidden corner, and healed his leg.

There was a rustling sound in the grass, as if something had jumped over it, and the doctor was startled: "Who's there!"

"Hahaha, burn you to death, burn you to death!" A hunched little man came out of the grass, his body was covered with grass, sawdust and mud, and he was holding a torch in his hand, looking in the direction of the fire, The smile twisted.

"You set the fire?" The doctor stepped forward, trying to stop him.

But the little man quickly ran out of the grass, and turned around to shout at the doctor like a demonstrator: "Burn you to death, burn to death!"

The doctor had a leg injury and couldn't catch up with him, so he yelled at the other players: "He set the fire, catch him!"

Pao Ding was nearby, upon hearing this, he flew over like a gust of wind, and grabbed the little man down.

But in the next second, Pao Ding's legs gave way and he fell to the ground.And the little man laughed and ran away.

Dugu and Yu Yuan heard the sound and chased after him, only seeing Pao Ding who had fainted on the ground.

The doctor limped after him, and when he saw Dugu and Yu Yuan, he froze for a moment, showing a bit of guard: "Why are you two here?"

Dugu: "Come to help arrest people, but it seems to be a step too late. You saw the murderer who set the fire, what did he look like?"

The doctor pursed his lips and refused to speak.

Nian Xiuzhu finally finished vomiting, and ran over, with his head half down: "Don't doubt them, didn't you hear the beep? They have completed all the main missions, so they can't be demons."

"How do you know it was done by them?" The doctor asked unconvinced.

"Because I have a brain." Nian Xiuzhu sneered at her: "Is this hard to guess? People who just came out of the ruined temple are busy escaping and fighting the fire. At this time, it is definitely not the people in the ruined temple who have the energy to complete the task. .And Passerby A was on the devil's side before, and he is most likely to collect clues that we don't know."

"It is indeed completed. Qiongzhi jade is a human bone. If you eat Qiongzhi grass, human bones will become Qiongzhi jade." Dugu repeated what he said to the lion.

"That's right." Nian Xiuzhu nodded, and Dugu's conclusion matched the clues he found before.

Although the doctor was annoyed, he also wanted to understand the truth.Temporarily suppress the anger.

After dispelling the suspicion, Dugu turned the topic back to the arsonist and asked the doctor, "What did you see the arsonist look like just now?"

The doctor recalled: "You are not very old, but you are stooped, you are thin and small, like a little old man, your body is dirty, and you talk like crazy."

Listening to the description, Dugu thought of an acquaintance: "Crazy?"