Chapter Fifteen: Rescue of Komatsu Village

  Although I still don't understand why the people of Komatsu Village were poisoned, since the task is already in hand, let's do it first and talk about it later. So he immediately said: "Village head, I'll go right away!"

  The difficulty of A2 is not that great, so I said to the team: "You guys wait here for a moment, I'll go to Tianfeng City to ask the pharmacist, and I'll be right back!"

  The two nodded, and I immediately pinched back to the city. A white light flashed, and I still appeared in Tianfeng City!

  As expected, the current Tianfeng City is much more lively than when I first arrived. Players can be seen everywhere, and I estimate that in another day or two, there will be even more people!

  No time to think about that now, priority is completing the task, directly rush to the pharmacy, the pharmacist should be inside!

  "Brave young warrior, the potions I sell are all made by famous alchemists. Not only is the supply abundant, but the effect is also strong. It's just what you need for killing monsters and going on adventures! Come buy a few bottles!"

  The owner of the pharmacy saw me and started selling medicine without even asking what I was there for!

  "I've come to find the Great Medicine Master!"

  The owner of the pharmacy nodded in agreement: "Oh, so you're here to find the great pharmacist? But our great pharmacist is currently focused on refining medicine! I won't let you in casually. If you have something urgent, I can help you pass a message!"

  "I hastened to say: 'Then I'll trouble you!'"

  "Alas, I almost forgot, how can I leave? There are so many people buying medicine, who will take care of the store if I step away?"

  Your sister, there's no one else in the pharmacy but me!

  Look at the boss's embarrassed expression, I suddenly understood that this guy didn't want to work for nothing and wanted some benefits!

  He then directly bought 100 bottles of magical potion, and the boss's face lit up with a smile, saying: "Please wait, I'll go invite the great pharmacist right away!"

  I'm at a loss for words, the NPCs in this world are too human-like, they actually know that there's no point in working if there's no benefit? Damn it!

  Soon, an old man with a head full of white hair came out from the inner hall. I took a glance at his name tag - Tian Feng City's Great Pharmacist, exactly the person I was looking for!

  "I stepped forward and said: 'Respected great pharmacist, I was entrusted by the village chief of Komatsu Village to come and invite you over. All the villagers in Komatsu Village have been poisoned and are in a life-threatening situation. Please lend your hand to treat them!"

  The great pharmacist was taken aback and said: "Since there is still such a thing, good, I will prepare, you go back to Xiaosong Village first, I will come right away!"

  This old man is quite easy-going, since he said so, he will definitely go, and I don't have to worry, so I went straight to Komatsu Village!

  At this time, many players had already gathered at the gate of Tianfeng City!

  "A 10-level leveling team is missing a milk mom!"

  "Form a team to hunt wild bears! 21 defense swordsmen lead the team, come with a healer, provide potions!"

  "Level 12 High Attack Mage Looking for Team to Brush Wild Bear Squad!"

  ......

  Generally, teams are formed without a priest. This is normal as priests have low attack power and it's not easy to level up to 10 without someone carrying them. If someone carries them to level 10, they won't need to join a random team. At least for now, priests are still in high demand!

  There are still many people who have not yet entered the game, and after seeing how popular priests are, there will definitely be a number of people practicing to become priests. By then, it can alleviate the problem of not having enough priests. Anyway, for now, I think it's quite difficult to form a decent priest team, at least we need to wait another day or two!

  "Hey, brother, I see your armor is V5, and that long sword of yours exudes an aura of royalty. How about it? Are you interested in joining us to hunt wild bears? We'll split the loot equally, just one less warrior!"

  A mage stopped me, I turned around and took a look at him, his level was only 10, the equipment on him seemed to be all level one or two, even his staff was given by the system, forget it, teaming up with him would be worse than killing alone!

  Directly ignoring them, they rushed towards Xiaosong Village, running for a whole half hour. In the game, there's no feeling of fatigue from running, but if this were in real life, I'd probably lose half my life after just one minute!

  When I arrived, I found that the pharmacist had already arrived and was administering an antidote. I was suspicious, could it be that this pharmacist also knew the art of teleportation? Otherwise, how did he get here before me?

  The village head saw me and excitedly said: "Young brave warrior, thank you so much! If it weren't for your appearance, our villagers would probably be dead by now!"

  The system prompted me that my task was completed. It was a difficulty A2 task and the experience gained wasn't high, but it still increased my experience by 2%. However, I was rewarded with five gold coins. Looking at the village chief's clothes, they didn't seem like much, but unexpectedly, he was quite generous, handing out five gold coins just like that!

  But thinking about it, it's only right, a village head can manage over a hundred people, how could he not have money? Even if he really didn't have any, he should still scrape some together!

  I felt a bit embarrassed: "This is what should be done, I couldn't just stand by and do nothing in the face of death!"

  The village chief nodded in satisfaction, and I asked: "By the way, why did the villagers get poisoned?"

  The village head let out a sigh: "Alas, this matter must be told from fifteen years ago!"

  It seems like a long story, what a pity there are no melon seeds, otherwise it would be great to sit down and listen to the story while snacking on some melon seeds!

  "That year, the old village chief, who was my late father, took the villagers to go hunting and injured a fox, but let it get away. I didn't think much of it at the time, but unexpectedly, the fox's descendants remembered! Recently, it suddenly appeared and somehow learned some skills, becoming very fierce. The two strongest young men in the village couldn't beat it, and it took over ten people working together to chase it away! Yesterday, the fox came again to cause trouble, but we chased it away. However, as it ran away, it spoke human words, saying it would kill everyone in our village. This poison is probably its doing!"

  So that's it, the fox is going to come back and take revenge, but this fox seems to have gone a bit too far, actually wanting to kill everyone!

  The village head continued: "When the fox comes, we can't beat it with a dozen people together, but if it secretly attacks and poisons us, that's troublesome. If the fox is not eliminated, Xiaosong Village will be difficult to calm down! Young warrior, I see your strength is extraordinary, do you know if you can help us get rid of this evil spirit?"

  "Ding! Do you accept the mission [Rescue Komatsu Village]?"

  Drink again, there's another task, this time I'll make a lot of money, accept it immediately!

  "Ding! You have accepted the mission [Rescue Little Pine Village]!" (Mission difficulty: B3)

  Mission content: Get rid of the fox threatening the village...

  Seeing the difficulty of this B3 task, I couldn't help but frown. The previous tasks that were completed had difficulties of A1 and A2, but this one is actually B3, it seems like the difficulty will be very high!

  But then again, a fox that can chase away more than ten village names, I and Xiaoyu Liu Yu three people take action should be no problem!

  "Then you just wait for my news, Village Chief!"

  Found Xiaoyu and Liu Yu, but discovered that the two were giving medicine to the poisoned villagers. I asked: "What are you two doing? When did you become so kind?"

  Xiaoyu gave me a glance: "This is the task, isn't it? Just these hundred or so people, each getting a bit of medicine and then the experience is in hand. How simple!"

  I: “......”

  It's really simple. After Xiaoyu and Liu Yu finished and gained experience, I said: "I just received a task with a difficulty of B3. Now I'll share it with you guys, let's go kill together!"

  Sharing tasks, this is the latest setting created by Creation. After a player receives the task, they find it difficult to complete alone and can invite friends to complete it together. After completion, rewards are available for all participants, but of course, each person's reward will be less. It's like killing an instance alone versus killing an instance with three people, obviously, killing an instance alone yields more rewards! Of course, the premise is that one person can kill it!

  "Wow, B3? I've never received a task with such high difficulty before, the highest was only A1!" Xiaoyu said in surprise.

  I asked: "Is it a direct task up to now?"

  Xiao Yu looked at me in surprise: "Really, how did you know? It was just received earlier and is an antidote for the village chief!"

  "Because A1 is the easiest task!"

  Xiao Yu: "...... Ah, no wonder it was so easy to complete!"

  Xiao Yu plays games, never asking about game information, only practicing leveling up and PK. Often, he reaches a high level without even knowing the basic data of the game. Liu Yu and I have long been used to this!

  Three people rushed to the destination quickly according to the prompt, and the task requirement was to kill the fox. With a difficulty of B3, this fox must be a BOSS, and it's estimated to be a Bronze-level BOSS. Thinking about this made me excited! A Bronze-level BOSS will definitely drop Bronze equipment! The sword in Liu Yu's hand is also Bronze equipment, although its attack power is similar to my Black Iron sword, but it has an additional 25-point healing effect, which makes it far more valuable than my Black Iron sword. If we can kill that fox, not only will we get a lot of experience and gold coins, but we might even drop a Bronze longsword or staff, that would be awesome!

  Of course, on the premise of being able to kill that fox!

  After running for about half an hour, I finally found the cave mentioned in the task prompt. To be honest, these village names are too kind-hearted. If it were me, I would directly block the entrance of the cave with wood and set it on fire to see if that fox is dead or not!

  But this method GM will definitely not agree with, malicious arson, that's a prison sentence!

  I took a deep breath and said, "This is B3's task difficulty, the BOSS will definitely be very tough, and the fox itself moves fast. Next, I'll go in front, Xiaoyu goes in the middle, Liu Yu you have low defense and blood, so go at the back. If the BOSS wants to kill you, immediately teleport away!"

  Three people entered in a row, but I was quite puzzled. This cave is still quite big, doesn't a fox living in such a large cave feel a bit wasteful?