Chapter 27 Townspeople These townspeople planned to secretly flee Gross Town because they saw that the Night Chaser Church had been gathering in large numbers recently and their control over the town had , if they wanted to escape, they would easily be reported by their own people and then captured by the Night Chaser Church. But now, many townspeople who had assisted the evildoers have been arrested and had their eyes gouged out, and the church no longer cares about the townspeople. This is indeed a good opportunity. Unfortunately, plans cannot keep up with changes, and on the night when they finally gathered enough manpower and found the right time to escape, the monsters that were originally only allowed to stay in the mines emerged directly into the town. Although Nie Hong arrived in time, unfortunately there were already deaths at the scene. Several unrecognizable corpses were lying around, and the things they had wanted to take away were also scattered all over the ground. The frightened townspeople recovered after being comforted by Nie Hong, who then took them to hide in an empty house nearby for a short rest. After Anti went out to kill several times and dispelled the cursed bodies that were attracted by the sound, he came back. "It really feels like I'm collecting NPCs." Anti said as he watched Nie Hong successfully handle relationships with the townspeople again. Nie Hong wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Didn't you tell me not to treat this as a game?" "Didn't I tell you that how you do things is your own business? Not to mention that I might prefer to treat this as a game. Of course, I should be considered an experience party." Anti tilted his head. You are the kind of ruthless monster-killing machine! Nie Hong kept this sentence deep in her heart.
That being said, Anti's way of doing things is much more stylish than mine. At least Anti can treat everyone with a stable attitude. When Nie Hong came to the mixed dream world early in the morning, he was very unscrupulous because he had never encountered any dangerous situations. He would never kill people for fun, but he would not mind killing those who dared to attack him. Even though he would feel uncomfortable at first because of the way people died, the environment in the dream world was really not that good. It would be okay if the aura was a little stronger, but Nie Hong was a silly boy who looked easy to bully. The ostentatious attire and earrings and the like are also used to make oneself look less intimidating, but the effect is limited, and the dream world does not fall for this. The mentor who brought them to the dream world to apprentice would tell them gently after helping them solve various problems: "It's okay. You'll get used to being picked on a lot. This is how the relationship between the Dream Realm and Blue Star is these days. If you don't pick on them, they'll just pick on you. It's okay for everyone to be a little freer here." It may not sound very responsible, but it is the epitome of Blue Star’s current general attitude towards the mixed dream world. Nie Hong wouldn't be hit to the point where anything would come out of him because of Anti's hammer, but at least he would now be more cautious and respectful towards the things in the dream world. "There are suddenly a lot more cursed bodies outside. It's going to be a sleepless night." Anti described the situation outside. "Come to think of it, I also seem to have a bad feeling about it." Nie Hong agreed. "That feeling is probably the feeling of being cursed at any time. Safin said that believers are indeed very sensitive to such things. However, the curse of Gross Town will not have much impact unless you die here or have your eyes gouged out." Nie Hong was ashamed: "That's what I said, but I still don't feel safe." "What sense of security do we need in a place like this?" Anti asked back, and Nie Hong was speechless. At this time, a man who looked the tallest among the townspeople poked his head out and asked, "Excuse me, what are you two doing in this town? If there is anything we can do to help, we will try our best to help." An Ti and Nie Hong looked at it, somewhat surprised. "What reward do you want?" Anti asked bluntly. "...We want to escape." The man glanced at the townspeople in the house. Among this group of people, there are mostly women and young children, and there is also an old man huddled in a corner. Most of them are skinny and look frail. Their condition left Nie Hong no doubt that these people could collapse at any time and never recover.
"In your condition, many of you will probably die on the mountain road. You are lucky that you were not scared to death by me just now." Anti said bluntly. You also know that you are actually very scary to ordinary people, right? Nie Hong suppressed the urge to complain, and quickly changed the subject to the townspeople: "We are here to find a...silver pendant, which may be in the hands of those cultists. Sorry, although the description is a bit vague, if anyone has any information, please help!" To be honest, he didn't have any hope. As I said before, it was too difficult to find a pendant in a town. "The silver pendants on the hands of those cultists, right..." Suddenly, the old man in the corner spoke weakly. Nie Hong and An Ti turned their heads to look at the same time. "Old man, do you know?!" Nie Hong was a little excited. If there really was a clue, it would be a big surprise. "I've seen that pendant, but it should... no longer be in the hands of the religious man. The religious man who held the silver pendant gave it to Eric as a reward." The old man's voice was intermittent, becoming weaker and weaker as he spoke, and it was difficult to hear clearly unless you got close. "Who is Eric?" Nie Hong asked. "He's the foreman in town, the one who originally liaised with the Hawthorne family who built the town of Gross." A woman said softly while holding her child. "But after the cult came, he immediately established close contact with the cult and revealed the news about the Hawthorne family, which brought disaster to the Hawthorne family. In a sense, the town was also given to those religious people by Eric." The man who spoke early in the morning also spoke up. There were indignant murmurs among the townspeople, and it was clear that they had no good impression of this man at all. "He wasn't a good guy from the beginning. He embezzled our money, withheld our wages, and had absolute control over the mines..." "I don't even want to drink with him..." Everyone immediately found an outlet for their emotions, and their voices suddenly became much louder. Anti took out a hammer and knocked over a cabinet nearby to make them quiet down. Then he came to the old man in the corner and said, "Are you sure? A cultist with a silver pendant gave it to Eric?" "Eric is good at talking and has good relationships with some religious people, so he often gets some rewards..." said the old man. "Where is that Eric?" Anti continued to ask. The old man raised his head slightly with a hazy look in his eyes, thinking hard: "He is now living in the mansion left by the Hawthorne family... Poor Hawthorne, if their eldest son who is away studying comes back, he will definitely find it difficult to accept the situation in the town." Anti didn't care about anything else. He stood up, turned around and looked at the other townspeople and said, "Let's go to that mansion first. If we find something successfully, we will come back to send you out of town and down the mountain. Before that, don't walk around casually or make any unnecessary noise. We will not be responsible if anyone dies." The townspeople nodded quickly to show that they understood. After saying that, An Ti and Nie Hong helped reinforce all possible entrances to the house and then left. After Nie Hong came out and saw the situation outside, she realized that what An Ti said was too easy. The corpses of cursed bodies were scattered all over the place outside, and the streets of the town seemed to have turned into a morgue for cursed bodies. Some cursed bodies died by having their bodies cut into pieces, but most were smashed into a pulp. "It seems that the cult has really reached a critical point, or they have succeeded. The curse in the mine has spread." Nie Hong said worriedly, "With the development of the situation like this, I am a little worried about Mr. Safin." Anti still didn't reply and continued on his way. Nie Hong sighed, but still had no choice but to follow. (End of this chapter)