This time, this weird village finally looked like a village. Before he walked in, Sherlock heard fierce shouts from a distance, and then as the distance continued to get closer, a woman's cry for help was mixed in.
He recognized it, and listening to the voice, it seemed that he could no longer hold on.
Under his urging, several people also quickened their pace.
A few minutes later, they arrived at the square on the north side of the town. A large group of people surrounded a woman in the middle who seemed to be questioning something.
"Sadel, tell me quickly, where did you hide your daughter? Do you really want to kill everyone in the town?"
"Quickly tell me where that unknown monster is. I want her to be buried with my son."
"Sure enough, Autumn is just like her bitch mother. She should not have been kept in the first place."
"I just said that there is no good thing among outsiders. Her mother should have died as a sacrifice back then. Now the retribution must fall on her daughter."
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"No, Autumn is a good child. It is absolutely impossible for her to do these things..."
The woman at the center of public opinion tried her best to defend herself, but no one believed her.
Some people simply don't believe it. They think they have mastered the absolute truth and want everyone to obey their ideas.
Some people do not want to believe it, even though they may know that this is not the case, but since they already have the most perfect answer and it has nothing to do with them, why bother to delve into right and wrong.
There are also some people who can't believe it. They are afraid that they will become an outlier and that they will suffer the same fate as the person in front of them.
As for Shylock and others, as outsiders, it is almost natural to sympathize with the weak. It has nothing to do with right or wrong, good or evil. What's more, after listening to a few words, a few people already believed the woman's explanation, but this kind of siding with others
, still needs to be investigated carefully.
"Hey, man, what's going on?"
Although this town is remote and has weird customs, there are still players. In addition to their group, Sherlock soon struck up a conversation with a melon-eating player.
The dwarf player looked back, and when he saw the same player, he said in a gossipy tone: "The woman surrounded in the middle is called Sadel, Autumn is her adopted daughter, and Autumn has been surrounded recently.
Many weird things happened. These stupid NPCs thought that Autumn was an evil witch and wanted to roast her alive. My mother would definitely not agree with this kind of thing. So, there is this bloody plot.
."
Well, the plot is just as the dwarf player described it, bloody, and his emotional tendencies can also be judged from his adjectives to the two parties. Combined with the brain circuits of the brain, this plot is already a bit obvious to Sherlock.
.
Not surprisingly, these villagers must play the role of villains, and the correct way to enter this plot is to prevent this atrocity.
But before he could discuss it with his friends, the other players in the crowd had already eagerly stood up and tried to dissuade the villagers who were gradually falling into madness.
"Outsiders, you don't need to say anything about our village." A middle-aged man wearing a chef's robe threatened the players with a kitchen knife in his hand, and the other villagers also booed and surrounded them.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the players tried their best to resist, but a bard in the team quietly retreated, and then played his harmonica.
"careful."
With Sherlock's reminder, Tam immediately sang a shielding sound that enveloped everyone on his side. Others fell to the ground soon after hearing the sound of the harmonica.
Orasberg is just a normal small village. There are no NPCs in it that specifically serve players, such as professional mentors, so the lullaby of a level 20 bard is enough to make everyone fall asleep.
The remaining people were almost all players, including the five of Sherlock and the others, the five of the team that blocked the villagers, and the thirteen individual players who were walking together in twos and threes. A total of twenty-three people were in a stalemate.
The reason for the stalemate is naturally the ownership of Sadele, the key NPC in the plot.
The protagonist of this plot is obviously the missing Autumn. Whether she is really a witch or a warlock who has just awakened her abilities, the cause and effect of this plot is hidden in her body.
And as Autumn's adoptive mother, the person she is closest to and most trusted in this town, Sadele definitely knows some clues.
"Guys, we have been focusing on this task for a week. It was us who stood up just now. We also brought down these villagers. This NPC belongs to us both emotionally and rationally." Another team of five people
The captain, the troubadour who played the lullaby just now, stood up and said, with a hint of warning in his words.
It's just that the players who dare to wander around at this stage don't have a fuel-efficient lamp, so they will naturally not be intimidated by the other party. No one replies, and no one leaves.
There are so many NPCs around here. Killing these people will have triple the PK value, so no one dares to take the lead.
"It's just a small hidden mission. It's not worth paying the first level of experience for it." The bard was already openly threatening, and he didn't know what the other party had to rely on.
The ultimatum has been given, but the people around have no intention of giving in.
The team also knew that this matter could not be resolved, and they immediately held the weapons in their hands a little tighter.
Theoretically, this situation will continue to be a stalemate, but there are always people who can't help it or want to take advantage of it.
A thief who quietly touched behind the NPC instantly broke the stalemate.
When the opponent showed his figure, various single-target long-range skills and spells were already thrown at him.
But this thief dared to do this. He obviously had a backup plan. He crushed a dark black crystal in his hand, and the NPC and the two disappeared from the place without leaving any trace.
"Shadow Wandering! The Shadow Stone should be extinct." Tam was surprised, but explained in a low voice.
Shadow Wandering, as the name suggests, allows you to temporarily jump to the shadow plane. These six spells are not something that a thief can cast. The key lies in another thing, the dark black crystal - the Shadow Stone.
This was an item used by the druids when they performed dark rituals. As that era passed, these shadow stones created by them also disappeared. Its function is to bring people to the shadow plane. When the stone
When the energy inside is exhausted, the user will return to the main material plane again.
"Tai, where is the person? Which team did it?"
"Does anyone know that thief?"
"You damn bitch, what kind of skill is this? I can't see any information from my tracking and reconnaissance skills."
"My mystical eyes saw it, it seems to be related to the shadow!"
