Under the indifferent and malicious eyes of all the villagers, the gray-bearded old man in the middle of the platform walked towards Lixin and the others step by step with a cane.
In his hand, the twisted stick kept hitting the ground, making a "da... da" sound. The sound was very uncomfortable to hear.
As I got closer, I could see that the stick was crookedly engraved with leaf-like patterns with rough brushstrokes that looked like children's random graffiti.
Standing a few meters away from the crowd, the old man had a gloomy expression on his face full of ravines. He stood leaning on crutches and said coldly, "Who are you? What do you want to do when you come in?"
[Red Leaf Village Chief: Mulder Hanks]
His throat seemed to be injured, and the voice he spit out was hoarse and hoarse. It sounded like a snake spitting out letters in human ears, with a sticky feeling like a slug.
This village chief named Mulder Hanks is the old boss of this suburban copy of "The Mystery of Hongye Village".
The atmosphere in this dark red bird's nest-like building is really easy to feel a chill from the bottom of my heart, and even the bright sun shining on these dark red buildings in the morning and the eyes sitting densely in them make people chill. The villagers in the village seemed to have been stripped of the heat and turned into a cold color.
As soon as the old man finished speaking, everyone in the team subconsciously looked at the slender figure at the front of the team.
"Hello, are you the village head here?" Li Xin took a step forward, looked at him with a light expression, pointed behind him and said bluntly, "Our friend Dennis wants you to return her daughter, Miss Anne."
The old man's gloomy eyes followed Li Xin's direction to look behind her, and met Dennis who was supported by Zhe Ye.
Dennis shrank visibly, but still managed to yell at him, "Yes! The girl you took away, the girl with the red dress and blonde hair—that's my daughter! You, you give me back my Annie! "
The old man stared at him for a while, his dry lips grinned into a dark opening, and he let out a low, hoarse, contemptuous and mocking smile: "Girl? Stupid boy, you've come to the wrong place. We never have outsiders here."
Seeing that the old man refused to admit it, Dennis couldn't help but be in a hurry. He threw his hand away and rushed to pull the old man, shouting: "You are lying! You are lying! I saw it, it was just now - Annie was just below! Where did you hide her?!"
The old man opened his hand with a cane displeased, and Dennis was directly knocked to the ground.
When the old man saw this, a pair of turbid old eyes flashed with naked malice, and he moved his wrist under the cloth robe, and the next stick actually went straight to the head of Dennis on the ground—
"Crack."
The twisted shape of the stick was firmly held by Li Xin's raised hand, blocking its severe castration, and with a slight push, the stick was pushed back into the old man's hands.
The moment her fingers touched the crutch, Li Xin only felt that the touch was very strange, smooth, tight and elastic, and it felt like she had touched the skin of a person or something.
"Hmph..." The old man snorted coldly when he saw that the stick could not be beaten down, and turned his head to leave.
"Where's my Annie, stop—" Dennis, who was lying on the ground, struggled.
Hearing the shout, the old man turned around, a peculiar smile appeared on his slack face, he shook his head and said, "You mean it? That's not a girl, that's a sacrifice."
"What?! Sacrifice? What are you trying to do—" Dennis was shocked, with a look of despair on the verge of fainting, and shouted hoarsely, "You can't do this! I'll tell the Council of State—Annie is a staff member. You kill her, I will let them send troops!"
"It's useless." The sarcastic expression on the old man's face became even better, and he spit out a long sentence from his hoarse throat: "The twelfth foggy morning at the end of October and February appeared in the red The girl in the red dress in the woods is an offering to God Uta."
"This is the rule of Hongye Village, and it has never been changed in the past. What, boy, don't you believe it?"
As the old man uttered every word, the expression on Dennis' face froze a bit, and in the end, he suddenly lowered his head, covered his face, sat on the ground and cried bitterly.
Seeing this, Mulder Hanks grinned.
It was the first time that the folded leaves did not return to the dungeon. Everyone started from the conversation between the two NPCs, and from beginning to end, they looked at each other in a state of relative confusion.
The eyes they exchanged secretly were filled with something like:
… is this a plot
Fight or not
How to fight
... who are you hitting
These dungeon NPCs are too real, and the expression staring at him is a bit scary...
what are they talking about...
"Cough." Qishan Shancao cleared his throat, and cast a questioning look at Li Xin amid Dennis's heart-piercing cries.
Li Xin glanced at him and turned on the team's voice channel: "Registered at the Hanyuan Government Affairs Office - it means that the "customs and customs of various places" column on the important desk of the Government Affairs Office, in which there are detailed registrations of the customs and habits of the nearby villages in the local area that have been verified to be true ."
"The General Law of Miracle Continent stipulates that the government shall not interfere with the registered local customs."
"Oh, in other words, the daughter of this NPC Dennis was taken as a 'sacrifice' by this group of people, but because this group of people has registered, it is a tradition, so it is a legal act, and the city can't control it, even calling the police. Here, what does that mean?" Huwei looked up and looked around, surprised: "What kind of unreasonable broken setting is this."
Li Xin knew the origin of this rule. She had learned about it when she was reading various historical books in the library of the main city of Moros in her last life to find the opportunity for the task.
It was born at the end of the split period of the Empire when the history was set by miracles. It was signed by the founder of the Church, Ms. Lerice Legos, and the Lords of the four major cities at that time, and it has lasted for thousands of years.
According to historical records, in the period of the Miracle Continent Empire, compared to the current model of collective professors in schools and unified management of departments, people at that time lived a little more "magic" life.
They are divided into large and small tribes, believe in different totems, animals or gods, and gain the power of survival from the objects they believe in. Every tribe naturally has many rituals, prayers and other customs.
When the empire collapsed, these tribes were also fighting each other in chaos, and the war was pervading from up to four continents and down to these large and small tribes.
Ms. Lyris Legos, who is committed to stopping the war, naturally will not ignore these tribes when she tries to persuade the four continents.
The condition she gave was that any tribe, big or small, willing to sign a peace treaty would be granted the right to keep their traditions and their customs permanently protected by law.
What does the tribe need most? Propagation, inheritance. Lilith, who saw this clearly, naturally gained support, and most of the tribes came to the city one after another to sign the treaty.
Since then, Miracle Continent has truly opened the era of peace.
Hongye Village is undoubtedly a village evolved from such a tribe. Therefore, as long as their sacrifices are proved to be in line with tradition, they are recognized by the Common Law of the Miracle Continent.
It is precisely because every Miracle Citizen NPC understands the extraordinary sacredness of this treaty that it can never be changed or violated, that Dennis is so desperate.
"My poor Annie, woo woo..." Dennis cried heartily, hugging his knees and hammering, "Red dress—it's all that damn red dress!"
This male NPC in his 40s and 50s seemed to have become a lot older and vicissitudes of life overnight, and his eyes were blushing and gloomy. The red dress her lover gave her, and she asked me with a smile if I was pretty... woo."
"What should we do? Are we going to take that girl back?" Qishan Shancao whispered on the team channel.
"The problem is that she doesn't know where she's been taken now... Can you catch this old man and exchange it with them?" Hongye Heather's pair of eyeballs turned around on the gray-bearded old man Mulder.
Li Xin took a step forward and said in a clear and determined voice to the old man who was staring at him: "That girl, we must take it away today."
"Oh?" The old man squinted his eyes, and the hand holding the crutch moved slightly.
Dennis stopped crying too, looking at her with hopeful eyes, the way the drowning man looks at the only driftwood.
"It's not our intention to disturb your sacrificial activities." Li Xin said, "But Your Excellency, the girl in the red dress doesn't have to be a certain one, doesn't it? How about I come for her?"
The old man's original gloomy expression paused, his eyes wandered over Li Xin several times, and he laughed "hey": "Well, it's not impossible."
His gray eyes rolled, greed flashed across his face, and he countered: "Two. In exchange for two, I will agree."
"Okay. I'll come too." Foxtail, who was one step behind, simply stepped forward.
Seeing this, the old man tapped his cane and said "hehe" with a smile: "Yes, this round counts."
This is the easiest way for players to pass the normal difficulty of this dungeon through countless explorations and research - to exchange Annie with a few female players.
In this way, the old boss can skip directly and completely, and the mobs don't need to be hit.
Afterwards, the female player in exchange will be sent into the underground tunnel that had been cracked before, and the others will wait for the second boss, the shrine maiden, that is, the previous red-leaf cloak woman to come out, and take Annie who was brought out by her. .
The female player who enters the bottom of the platform will be taken to the altar and killed by the third boss as a sacrifice.
During the sacrifice, the old boss, village chief Mulder Hanks and the priestess Naji Lild will go to and stay under the platform to sacrifice.
The remaining players only need to kill the remorseful mobs villagers, then they can take Annie and Dennis out of the Red Leaf Village and clear the simple dungeon.
This method can be regarded as a cheating shortcut to bypass the boss. Miracle has always encouraged players to use all kinds of ideas, and all customs clearance methods are approved. It's just that the reward for pushing the boss is gone.
This is also a temporary decision made by Li Xin after learning about the general combat strength of these members of the gang at the village gate - it is really impossible for this team to really push even any big team boss.
This shortcut method of customs clearance is jokingly called "sacrifice flow", because the female players who are exchanged are usually directly equivalent to kneeling and booking.
A few players face three bosses, and there is no possibility of victory.