Devil's Playground

The only one who really seemed to be okay was Joe, who was bending over to pick up the harp to check the progress of the task.

"Jack, you'd better change your weapons quickly! Those broken knives of yours can only kill people, and they have to be ordinary people. Today it's all about taro to make your broken knives still usable I used it last time, and when I encounter a mechanical game field, even if the taro is still there, those broken knives of yours will be completely turned into scrap iron!" Lily couldn't help complaining.

"Don't talk about Joe, you're not the same!" Before Joe could respond, Conch spoke first, "In the record of the battle just now, your output is not as high as mine!"

"I don't have enough survival points, and I can't even learn new spells! He is Grandet, and he is reluctant to spend survival points on weapons! It's not the same thing at all!" Lily raised her head and shouted.

"The result is not the same!" Conch raised her chin even higher.

"Stop arguing." Joe interjected expressionlessly, "After leaving this game field, I will consider changing weapons, but even if I want to change now, I have nothing to change."

"Where did all your survival points go?" Lily frowned and muttered again.

Conch immediately retorted, "I want you to take care of it!"

"After you've had enough rest, go to the next house." Finally, Joe got annoyed, turned around and walked out the door.

Yang Jin felt that Lily's question might have stepped on some of Joe and Conch's sore feet, but it was someone else's business, and he didn't have to worry about it.

There was still some time before the next hour, and there were no new monsters on the street. The five people soon arrived at the door of the fourth house.

This time, their luck was pretty good, and the little boss wasn't particularly tough, so they were all killed in a short while.

Joe didn't give them any more time to rest, and after finding the fourth instrument, he hurried on to the next house.

As soon as they entered the gate of the fifth house, all five of them were taken aback.

The house was very quiet, there were no surprise attacks from elite monsters, and there were no traces of small bosses or musical instruments.

"Take a look?" Lin Yu spoke first.

Joe directly took out the flashlight and waved it around the room, and the five people were taken aback.

There were three corpses lying on the floor. Their skins were all black and purple. They were obviously elite-level humanoid monsters.

"Who killed it?" Conch blurted out.

Qiao squatted down, skillfully inspected the abnormalities of the three corpses, and quickly said, "The heart was pierced by a stick-shaped blunt instrument, and there were burn marks on the wound."

"Stabbed to death with a red-hot stick?" Lily covered her mouth and blinked her eyes in feigned surprise.

"Attacking dark creatures with sacred spells will cause such a burning effect." Lin Yu raised his finger and pointed to the farthest corpse, "They seem to be killed one by one in the process of chasing something, we might as well follow Go and have a look, maybe you will be pleasantly surprised.”

Conch glanced at Joe, saw him get up and walk towards the third body as Lin Yu said, and immediately followed up quickly.

As soon as they got to the third body, the five found a fourth body lying on the stairs, a fifth body on the floor of the second floor, and a sixth body at the door of a room on the second floor. .

Pushing open the door, the seventh corpse appeared before their eyes.

Lin Yu took out a torch and lit it, so that the whole room was illuminated by the fire, and the clue came into view - a piece of clothes was caught on the door of the closet.

Lin Yu immediately gestured to the others, telling them to take back the flashlights and pistols that did not belong to the Middle Ages into the storage.

Yang Jin felt that even if there was someone hiding in the closet, it must be an NPC, and he shouldn't have noticed whether the things in their hands belonged to the time and space of this game field, but the pistol Lin Yu gave him was only for emboldening him , Those humanoid monsters are easily attracted by the sound of gunshots. Killing monsters with a pistol is likely to attract more monsters, which will do more harm than good, so I didn't say anything, and obediently put away the pistol, but I couldn't help but slander : The clothes they wear don't belong to the Middle Ages, why don't they take them off and change them?

Joe also hesitated for a moment before taking back the flashlight, but then he walked quickly to the closet and opened the door.

Immediately a thin stick protruded from it, but Joe seized it and snatched it into his hand.

Sure enough, there was a man hiding in the cupboard, wearing messy and tattered leather armor, and the clothes inside seemed to have been polluted by something, so dirty that it was difficult to distinguish the original color, but according to the style of the clothes and the residue on the hem, With the special logo, Yang Jin and others still recognized that this dress was the same as the jersey on the miscellaneous card.

At this moment, the man's "weapon" was taken away, but his face was full of surprises, and he blurted out, "Are you human?!"

"What an obvious thing!" Conch rolled her eyes.

"Are you a Templar?" Joe asked blankly, playing with the stick in his hand.It was a baton, and like the previous musical instruments, it was like jade, with a moonlight luster.

"Yes, I am Zhaka, the captain of the ninth squad of the Knights Templar, and you are..." The man crawled out of the cupboard.

It was only then that Yang Jin and the others noticed that his face was horribly green as if he had been poisoned, which was very abnormal.Seeing that his exposed neck and hands were also the same color, several people couldn't help but think of the name of this playground: Dirty Land.

"We are hired to look for you here." Joe calmly made up as if he hadn't seen Xhaka's abnormal state.

"Who did you find?" Zhaka didn't seem to know that he was "polluted" and was transforming into a monster. He hurriedly asked after hearing Joe's words, but he noticed that there were only six people in the room as soon as the words came out. , the expression on his face immediately changed from surprise to sadness.

"Unfortunately, so far, we have only found you." Joe replied, "However, we haven't searched the entire town yet. If you can still fight, why not continue searching with us."

"I—" Zhaka hesitated to speak, and looked at the baton in Joe's hand, "My long sword can't hurt these monsters. killed them."

Zhaka did not have other weapons on him, and the wounds suffered by the elite humanoid monsters also matched the shape and size of the baton.

Joe didn't return the baton to Xhaka, but turned to Lin Yu, "You try."

Lin Yu caught the baton, was taken aback for a moment, and realized that Joe asked him to use the baton as a magic wand, and immediately cast a purification technique on Zhaka, trying to reduce the pollution he suffered.

"You can actually use... the Holy Art?" Zhaka's face showed a painful expression, but his tone was both surprised and happy.

"The holy power I can drive is limited, so I can't help you much." Lin Yu found that the purification technique did not make Zhaka's complexion any better, and Zhaka's reaction did not seem to be unaware that he was polluted, so he put his hand Reaching into his clothes, he took out the flute he got before under the cover of his clothes, and handed it to Zhaka, "Please lend me the baton temporarily, this one should be more suitable for you."

Yang Jin didn't understand why Lin Yu had to make such an exchange, but seeing that both Lin Yu and Qiao were serious as if they were acting, he didn't want to spoil the atmosphere by asking too many questions.

Zhaka did not refuse such an exchange, took the flute, and said with a gloomy expression: "This flute is kept by Eli... Has Eli also become a monster?"

"We did encounter a monster at the place where we found the flute, but we are not sure that it is the Eli you mentioned." Lin Yu answered eloquently, "This flute was hidden in an empty wine barrel. What Eli did, then obviously, he tried his best to protect the sacred object, but he himself failed to escape the desecration of the devil."

"We shouldn't have entered this town!" Zhaka told the story tremblingly with tears in his eyes.

Similar to Lin Yu's guess, Zaka and the others escorted the musicians and instruments of the temple choir to a certain parish to spread the holy power, passing through a small town here.Although they noticed the abnormality here as soon as they entered the town, it was already late at that time, and they had strong force to rely on, so they didn't turn around and leave, and found an empty house to live in.However, as soon as it got dark, the vision suddenly appeared, and a group of zombie-like monsters appeared without warning, besieging them in the house.

Since the number of monsters was not too large, killing them was not too laborious. After expelling them easily, the Knights did not rush to evacuate the town, and stayed there disapprovingly, continuing to rest.

What they didn't expect was that the monsters would appear again soon, more numerous and stronger.They finally wiped out the second batch of monsters one by one, and new monsters emerged... As the battle continued, their own damage began to appear and even intensified. thoughts here.

At this moment, they found that their companions were getting weaker and weaker as if they were sick, while those monsters were getting stronger and stronger.What made them even more terrified was that their dead companions climbed back up again, and several people who were scratched by the monsters quickly lost their minds and turned into zombies that could only kill the living just like those monsters.

Before the third batch of monsters had been eliminated, the fourth batch of monsters quietly appeared.At this time, the musicians who were not capable of fighting were all dead, and Zaka's companions were too weak to hold their own weapons, and were killed or scratched by monsters one after another.

Zhaka made a decisive decision, gave up his injured companion, and distributed the more important musical instruments to the seven most powerful people in the team, trying to break them up and escape separately.

But there are more and more difficult monsters in the town than Zhaka imagined, and the weapons have lost their effectiveness against those monsters, and they are useless at all.Seeing that it was impossible to escape, Zhaka hid in the nearest house and tried to stay in the house until dawn.But he fled into the house but didn't have time to close the door, and several monsters chased him in.

Because swords are useless, in desperation, Zhaka used the baton in his hand as a thin sword, and stabbed at the monster closest to him. Unexpectedly, this thing was the monster's nemesis, and it pierced through the monster's heart at once. It kills completely.

Unfortunately, after killing all the monsters chasing him, Zhaka also fell into a coma due to exhaustion, and when he opened his eyes again, he heard a sound coming from downstairs.Zhaka thought another monster was chasing him in, so he hid in the closet to prepare for a sneak attack.

After listening to Zhaka's description, Yang Jin couldn't help secretly slandering: It's really a perfunctory plot!

Yang Jin didn't want to listen to this NPC's story at all, and the others didn't seem interested either.But in this world, there are options such as "skip" and "ignore" to save them time. Before they are sure how this NPC will affect the tasks of the game field, they can only listen to him patiently over.

"The branch plot has appeared. The conditions for receiving the tasks related to the branch plot are: 1. Retrieve all the instruments in the choir. 2. Ensure that the Zacca Knight survives before finding all the instruments."

As soon as Zhaka finished his last sentence, the voice of No. 13 servant came from Yang Jin's ears, and all five people heard No. 13's prompt.Conch looked unhappy, as if he didn't like this task very much.Lin Yu also frowned, lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking, or looking at.