Sorry, I don't play poker on luck

Facing this question, Shi Li was momentarily stunned.

He checked the mission information in his mind.

[Mission 2 stage, become a master and apprentice with Di Shisan]

According to the literal meaning, it seems that it doesn't matter who is the master and who is the apprentice, right?

There is also no indication of what to teach.

Then... a small bug?

"Ahem, it's not impossible to learn."

So he put on a profound expression: "But you have to learn from a teacher."

"Master!"

Except for Thirteen who wanted it or not, they all yelled out.

It seemed that he was really afraid of losing.

[Ding dong! 】

[Phase 2 completed]

[Mission 3 stage, follow Chu Shisan to complete a demon removal]

[Hint: The premise of eliminating the demon is - you have to find the demon first]

Sure enough, he said that this person is very casual.

But these 3 stages of missions... and this nonsense stream mission prompt.

hum!

At this moment, a mobile phone vibrating sound suddenly sounded in Chu Shisan's arms.

Seeing that his face changed slightly, he immediately took out the source of the vibration, a stone the size of a pebble.

Following the frequency of the vibration, the stone shone brightly.

"A demon has appeared."

Except for Shisan's serious face, his demeanor suddenly changed completely.

This is a mission signal from the Demon Elimination Mansion, indicating that a demon has appeared nearby, and he is the nearest demon extermination to this location.

"Drowsy to send needles?"

Shi Li was a little eager to try.

"You go home first, and I will go back as soon as I go."

However, Chu Shisan didn't seem to intend to take him with him.

After speaking, he took out two yellow talismans and stuck them on his legs.

call!

A gust of breeze blew around his feet, making him look very light.

So Chu Shisan jumped directly onto the eaves.

"Don't, I still have a task to do."

He hurriedly stepped on the wall and climbed up, and saw the other party jumping between the roofs, walking farther and farther.

Fortunately, the physique of LV5 players is beyond ordinary people, coupled with the blessing of [Iron Rod], Shili can also do this way of walking.

Although it is not as dexterous and quick as Dishisan, at least it will not be lost in a short period of time.

...

At this moment, a certain barren field outside the city wall is burning.

The flames soared into the sky, illuminating the night sky bright red.

A group of people stood on the edge of a field far away, watching the fire burn.

"Demon Fire, this must be Demon Fire."

A man in shorts with a serious expression on his face.

His occupation is a fire extinguisher.

The duty is to prevent and extinguish fires in the city.

After receiving the fire report just now, he led his team members to rush to put out the fire.

However, a series of usual fire-fighting methods were useless in the face of this fire.

In fact, it is not right to say that it has no effect. The main reason is that they finally wiped out the east and ran to the west.

As a result, before the west side was completely extinguished, the east side was rekindled.

After the west is destroyed, the east is destroyed again, and the west is revived.

After running back and forth several times like this, the fire could not be suppressed.

In addition, the fire is quite strange, it only burns on this barren field and does not spread outside.

All kinds of unnatural situations make people have to think of it—the haunting of monsters.

So he immediately contacted the Demon Elimination Mansion, and wanted to ask Mr. Demon Elimination to come over and help make a judgment.

"Ah Hua! My Ah Hua!!"

"Don't pull me, I want to go in and save my wife!"

At this time, a young man's heart-piercing cry of pain sounded next to him.

Two young firefighters were pressing him to the ground to prevent him from rushing into the fire.

There is a cabin in this barren field, which is the residence of this man.

"What's the situation, there are people inside?"

The captain walked over, looking puzzled.

They rescued the man from the wooden house immediately, but did not see other people inside.

Looking at the wooden house now, it has been burned to ashes long ago, even if there are people, it is impossible to survive.

"Head, I asked just now, and the Ah Hua he mentioned was a portrait of a woman."

One of the young team members had already asked the ins and outs, and replied: "This guy is a little crazy. He actually took the portrait he bought as his wife."

If you are there immediately, you will definitely be amazed. Unexpectedly, in such a backward ancient world, there have been serious two-dimensional enthusiasts.

"Did you find out the reason for the fire?"

"Not yet, the guy hasn't said anything."

"Then pour some water on him, let him wake up and ask again."

As soon as the captain said this, some team members came over carrying buckets.

Whoa!

"Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough!"

The young man coughed and choked on the water.

"Hey, are you feeling better now? Our captain asked why you caught fire."

asked the team member carrying the bucket.

"Ah Hua...my Ah Hua..."

But the young man was still sitting on the ground dejectedly, looking at the fire scene in a daze and muttering.

"Maybe it's because I've smoked too much smoke, which hinders my mind."

The captain waved his hand: "It's not strong enough, give him a few more barrels."

"Don't don't!"

Hearing this, the young man immediately jumped up: "I'm sober!"

He was a little puzzled, isn't the other party a fire extinguisher, why did he use torture to extract a confession.

In fact, what he doesn't know is that this is also the responsibility of the captain.

If this is really a demon fire, then finding out the cause of the fire may be helpful for Mr. Demon Eliminator in his process of eliminating demons.

"Just wake up, your wife is already burned."

"Tell me, how the fire happened."

The captain crossed his arms.

"Did you say that?!"

The young man was a little impatient and wanted to refute a few words.

But seeing all the strong fire extinguishers standing around, and a few people waiting with buckets in their hands, he couldn't help but panic again.

So in detail, he told what he had done and seen.

At the very beginning, the captain suspected that the demon fire was caused by that portrait.

Because this matter intuitively feels like a young man being fascinated by a demon painting.

But after hearing the latter, he changed his mind.

"You mean you were facing the portrait, no, you were facing the wall...drilling wood to make fire, so you set fire to the cabin?"

The captain retreated a few steps indiscriminately, and signaled the other team members to retreat with his eyes.

Why do you feel that the wet guy in front of you is more like a monster?

"Where is the monster?"

At this moment, everyone only heard a clang.

Except thirteen arrived.

"All team members, hurry up and stay away and don't disturb the master's display!"

The captain took the opportunity to dismiss his subordinates, and walked quickly towards Chu Shisan.

And recounted the matter to him in detail.

"Um?"

After listening to Shisan, he also felt something was wrong.

"No, he's not a demon."

As soon as he turned his heart formula, he shook his head and said, "There is indeed a monster in the fire scene."

"All of you stand back and let me go in and have a look at that thing."

After all, he took out the dagger.

He blew towards the dagger.

"call!"

With a flash of the dagger, it really turned into a long sword.

"But master, with such a big fire, you..."

The captain couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"It doesn't matter, my sword can cut off any monster."

As he spoke, he waved across the air, and the fire actually seemed to be blown by the wind to avoid it from both sides.

Perhaps feeling threatened, the fire suddenly shook violently.

Soon, a figure made of flames emerged from above the fire.

[Yah! 】

This Hokage was in the shape of a graceful woman, with a pretty face but fierce and violent.

At this time, the flames of the entire fire scene were being sucked into power by it, slowly solidifying and shrinking.

"Ah, Ah Hua?!"

The young man couldn't help turning pale when he saw Hokage's face clearly.

"See clearly, this is the true face of your wife."

Except Thirteen said coldly.

"No, this is not my wife!"

"My wife is not three-dimensional!"

The young man seemed to refuse to accept the reality and fled with his head in his arms.

At this time, Shi Li who was a little behind finally arrived.

"Is this a demon?"

He looked at this 2-meter-tall humanoid guy whose lower body was made of flames and whose upper body was made of flames.

"Spark demon."

"Its initial state is a seed, and it will hatch into a mature body after absorbing enough yang energy or blood essence."

"The mature body has the mobility that seeds do not have, and can actively hunt and forage."

Except for Thirteen's face is dignified.

"Is it difficult?"

Seeing the disciple's expression, Shi Li stretched out his hand to touch the iron rod at the back.

"No, the main reason is that the seed state of this kind of monster does not have the ability to act autonomously. Generally, it will only appear in the wild, and will not appear in places where people live..."

"Forget it, let's deal with this guy first."

"Didn't I tell you not to come, you retreat to a safe place first, don't be affected."

Having said that, Chu Shisan raised his sword and rushed forward.

[Yah! 】

"The evildoer will die!"

All of a sudden, a man and a demon started a fierce fight.

Shi Li realized that although Chu Shisan was not good at the poker table, he was a different person when he switched to the state of eliminating demons.

A sword danced vigorously, pressing down on the demon fire to strike.

In less than 2 minutes, the demon fire was covered with cuts and bruises, and many damages on the flame's body could not be healed.

After another 2 minutes, Yaohuo was directly chopped into several large pieces by him.

The flaming body fell to the ground, struggling and swaying, as if trying to rekindle.

"Come put out the fire, hurry up!"

Except Thirteen turned his head and said sharply.

"Oh!" xN

The firefighters who were standing in the distance watching the show rushed over with fire extinguishers as if they had just woken up from a dream.

This time, they found that the fire could be extinguished, and it would not rekindle back and forth.

So a moment later, when the last flame was extinguished, a voice rang in Shi Li's ear.

[Ding dong! 】

[3 stages completed]

[Mission 4 stage, follow Chu Shisan to investigate the source of the monster]

[Hint: Chu Shisan noticed that the appearance of this monster seems a bit unusual]

"How many stages does this mission have..."

After thinking about it for a while, he found that he had reached the fourth stage in less than a day.

That time [City of Beasts], not counting the hidden missions, there were only 3 stages in total.

And he found that there seems to be no formula for this task stage.

It seems that it was formulated and released according to the development of things.

Because if I hadn't encountered this fire demon, maybe the fourth stage would be other tasks, not some investigation.

...

In the morning of the next day, people came and went in the market.

This is the largest market in the city, where people sell everything, from agricultural products to daily necessities, which is enough to meet most of the people's daily needs.

From time to time, people in the surrounding villages and counties will bring goods up for sale, so it is a place with a large and mixed flow of people.

What is different today from usual is that there are a few government servants in official uniforms among the crowd.

Every time they passed a booth, they would stop and ask questions.

For a while, it attracted the attention of many street vendors.

The two aunts selling vegetables began to gossip.

"Oh, oh, Aunt Li, what do you think this is? Usually, these officials think our place is messy and dirty, so they don't bother to come here!"

"You don't understand, right? I heard from Second Master Liu next door that there were more than a dozen monsters out of the barren fields near the city last night!"

"A dozen monsters? That's too scary!"

"It's more than scary. I heard that the monster burned a large field and killed several fire extinguishers along the way! Fortunately, a monster exterminator came out and fought them for 300 rounds before finally surrendering."

"Murder and arson are serious crimes. What does that have to do with our market?"

"I heard that monster ran away from us!"

"ah?!"

While the two aunts were talking, a government servant came to a stall.

The stall owner was an old man with gray hair, wearing shabby clothes, and the exposed skin was old and dry.

On his booth, there are pieces of bronze antiques.

These curios are strange in shape, coupled with rust and incompleteness, it is difficult to distinguish their purpose.

"Old man, what are you selling?"

The yamen servant looked twice and asked.

"Ah, ah, ah."

The old man raised his head, pointed at his mouth and shook his hand.

"Are you dumb?"

"Ahh."

The old man nodded again.

"... Then let me ask you, have you seen a young man selling paintings here a few days ago?"

"Wearing a white robe, he is very thin and tall, with no blood on his face."

"By the way, there are also eyeballs that spin like a whirlpool."

The yamen servant uttered the lines that were repeated over and over again today.

Early this morning, before dawn, they received orders from above.

I want to come to the market to search for a person who sells paintings, saying that it is related to the demon case last night.

It's just that they have been asking from stall to door until now, but they still haven't asked anything useful.

Many stall owners said they had seen the young man, but he had stopped coming to the market to set up a stall a few days ago, and he did not know where he came from or where he was going.

"Ah, ah."

The old man signed for a while, then shook his head.

"What do you mean by shaking your head, and what do you mean by gesticulating?"

The yamen servant frowned.

"He said he hadn't seen it."

A melon farmer next to him answered for him.

"Do you understand sign language?"

"Yes, sir, my mother-in-law is also dumb, so she can understand a little."

"Hey, okay, I can't speak, and I can't ask why. What about you, have you met the person I mentioned before?"

"I've seen it before. It seems that I came here a few days ago. I haven't seen it recently."

"Oh? Have you ever talked to him, tell me carefully, don't hide a single word!"

The yamen servant's attention has turned to Gua Nong.

However, the melon farmers knew the same information as other people, and the servants who had nothing to gain could only move to the next stall.

From the corner of his eye, he watched the yamen servant walk away, and the old man secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Thanks to his foresight, he changed his appearance immediately after selling the Spark Bathing Demon.

As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place. I'm afraid that the demon-eliminating mansion will never be able to think of it, so I will continue to come here to set up a stall openly.

At this moment, something suddenly vibrated in his arms.

"Ah ah ah ah ah."

"Do you want to relieve yourself? Okay, let me watch this booth for you, go."

Gua Nong smiled and signaled the old man to rest assured.

So he walked away from the booth and walked to an empty corner.

What he took out from his pocket was a stone with a sound wave symbol painted on it.

This is the sound transmission stone.

Squeeze the sound transmission stone with the palm of your hand, and it stops vibrating.

After a brief silence, voices sounded from inside.

[Intern No. 285, report your situation]

"Report sir."

Unexpectedly, the old man is not dumb, and his voice is quite immature, like a teenager.

"I have been in this dungeon for 143 days. During this period, I strictly followed the regulations and did not go out of the city."

"So far, a total of 51 monsters of various kinds have been distributed through various channels, and they are all lurking."

"However, one was accidentally exposed yesterday, and was killed by the demon extermination."

"The report is over!"

【Well, this result is barely okay】

[Double it again, and you will be able to meet the standard task]

[Intern No. 285, I am very optimistic, I hope you can pass the first stage of the test]

[Remember to hide your identity and don't be discovered by the aborigines here]

When it came to the last two sentences, the tone on the other end softened.

"Thank you sir for your concern, I will be more careful!"

Although he couldn't see him from the other side, No. 285 nodded heavily.

【Okay, here we go】

"Goodbye, sir."

[Right-hearted orthodox! 】

"Right-hearted orthodox!"

After the concluding remarks, the other end hung up the communication.

"Why……"

No. 285 put away the sound transmission stone, and stooped again.

I don't know how long it will be before Dongzang XC needs to change its appearance all day long.

But in order to pass the assessment and officially join the right-wing faction, he is willing to go on like this.

Back on the stall again, a young man just happened to walk up to the stall.

He was dressed in commoner clothes but carried a delicate birdcage, and he was slightly fat.

He looks like the kind of guy who has no family background but is idle.

"Old man, what are you selling?"

Seeing those bronze antiques, the fat man squatted down curiously.

【Guest officer, these are good things for me】

Fatty's ear heard No. 285's answer, but because No. 285's head was slightly lowered, he didn't see that the other party didn't open his mouth at all.

This voice sounded directly in his mind.

"Come, come, come, I like this kind of weird toy the most."

"Tell me in detail."

The fat man showed an interested expression.

"This old man is dumb, how can I tell you, haha."

The melon farmer next to him couldn't stand it anymore.

【look at me】

But No. 285 raised his head, his eyes turned slightly like a whirlpool.

All this, except for the fat man, cannot be seen by others.

【Since you want it, I will introduce it to you】

In Fatty's mind, it was like a magic voice resounding.

...

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