Except for Su Yu, all the Blue Star players have returned to the dock.
On the pier, Zhong Feng, Yunzhong Mudi and others stood patiently, waiting for Su Yu's return.
Everyone was relieved when they saw the medium-sized fishing boat approaching in the distance and Su Yu standing on the bow.
Su Yu waved to his companions on the dock to indicate that he was fine.
And he didn't make everyone wait any longer.
When the fishing boat was still several meters away from the shore, he jumped directly from the bow of the boat and onto the pier.
"Mr. Ke, is everything going well today?"
"Why are you back so late?"
"You must have caught a lot of fish, right?"
Everyone gathered around Su Yu and kept asking.
Before Su Yu had time to answer, a cold female voice suddenly came from behind the crowd: "Adventurer, I have something to talk to you about."
Hearing this voice, the Blue Star players were stunned and took the initiative to give up their positions.
Standing at the back of the crowd was a woman wearing a white saint's costume, it was Jenny.
Jenny was holding a thick brown hard-cover book in her arms, her face was a little pale, her blue hair was flying randomly in the wind on the pier, and she looked very haggard.
The Blue Star players didn't notice her just now, but now they noticed the arrival of this special NPC.
Su Yu walked up to Jenny and asked softly: "Jenny, do you have anything to do with me?"
"There is something very important." Jenny hugged the big hard-cover book in her arms tighter: "Go to my house and let's talk."
"Okay." Su Yu answered immediately without hesitation.
Then he turned back to look at the Blue Star players: "Zhong Feng, I leave it to you to unload the cargo and deliver the fish to the altar. Keep the red shell coins you received well. We will discuss other matters together at the meeting in the evening.
"
"Okay." Zhong Feng replied.
They are all players who have come out of the "Evolution" game. Looking at Jenny's actions, they know that Su Yu must have triggered the "main plot" of the secret realm.
Looking forward to the good news Su Yu brings back.
…
Su Yu and the others arrived at Jenny's home one after another.
On the way, some other adventurers came to chat with Jenny, trying to get benefits from her.
But Jenny was so preoccupied now that she ignored them and walked straight home.
After arriving home, she asked Su Yu to go inside first, and carefully closed the door behind her, and stood in front of the door and waited for a while, as if she was afraid that someone would eavesdrop.
After confirming that there were no eavesdroppers outside the door, she breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Su Yu: "Adventurer, I came to you this time for something very important."
"Yeah." Su Yu looked serious, waiting for Jenny to continue.
"Did you know?" Jenny said seriously: "The fishing process of the adventurers today was not smooth. They encountered a lot of fire-fin fish. Basically every adventurer will encounter one. And the elemental fish in the lake
They are all corroded by the fire element, and their bodies turn red."
Su Yu touched his chin: "Every adventurer has encountered a firefin fish? There are a lot of them!"
There were very few firefin fish yesterday, but if every adventurer encountered them today, it means there were at least 50 of them.
I didn't expect that the firefin fish have become so prevalent.
"This situation has never happened before in our Riyao Village's history." Jenny said with a sinking face: "Today I went to the mistress's library to look for information about the firefin fish, and finally found this."
Jenny took out the big hard-cover book that she had been holding tightly and handed it to Su Yu.
"What is this?" Su Yu took the heavy book, with Jenny's body temperature still on it.
The cover of the big book is very rough, without any text.
I don’t know if there were no words originally, or if the words on it have weathered and disappeared after a long period of erosion.
"This is the handbook of the first generation mistress of Riyao Village. By the way, the mistress is now the third generation."
"Is the book so thick?"
"Just look at the title page."
"All right."
Su Yu opened the title page of the book and saw two lines of words written on it:
"To my children - if one day you see a large number of firefin fish in the lake, don't even think about it and flee the village quickly!
This is a sign that the village is about to be destroyed, and we cannot stop for a moment!"
Will the village be destroyed?
Su Yu nodded secretly, this sentence just verified his guess.
Jenny sighed: "I told the mistress about this just now, but the mistress did not plan to escape with all the villagers. This is what she said..."
Jenny closed her eyes and imitated the voice of her mistress and said slowly: "You don't have to worry about this, the gods will solve all problems. We only need to pray to the gods devoutly, and all problems will be solved."
She opened her eyes and looked at Su Yu: "Although the mistress said so, I am really worried now! So I want to hear your opinion, adventurer, what do you think should be done?"
Not only did Jenny look very haggard, her voice was also very anxious.
From her tone, Su Yu could tell that she really had no choice, so she came to find him.
Su Yu didn't intend to deceive her, and said seriously: "Jenny, I have actually found the answer to the truth of the matter..."
"Oh? What is it?!" Jenny stood up from her seat and stared at Su Yu.
"Don't worry yet." Su Yu comforted, "I'm not 100% sure about this truth, and more information is needed to confirm it.
Let's do this. You follow me to a place in an hour, and I will tell you everything I know there."
Jenny stared at Su Yu's face and blinked a few times.
Finally she sighed softly: "Okay."
…
…
The reason why Su Yu didn't tell Jenny about his guess was that, as he said, more evidence was needed to verify it.
He would make his guess public to everyone after returning to the base, and then also tell Jenny.
In the next hour, Su Yu carefully studied the entire diary of the first mistress.
After all, this book is a book left over from the time when the village was built, so it is very valuable to study.
The book records the entire process of the villagers of Riyao Village migrating to this place, farming and building villages, and living and working in peace and contentment.
The so-called "gods" are actually the heroic spirits of the ancestors of all residents in the village.
These heroic spirits will last for hundreds of years before gradually dissipating due to the practice of martial arts.
The offerings and sacrifices made by the villagers can make the heroic spirits' divine power become stronger and stronger, and the heroic spirits will also provide some benefits to their descendants.
Influenced by the ancestral heroic spirits, each generation of matron can live up to 300 years and become at least a fourth-level powerhouse.
But the price is that the mistresses of the past generations are unable to conceive and pass on their own blood...
As for the "Fire Fin Fish" issue that Su Yu was most concerned about, the book did not explain it in detail.
The book does not give any explanation on the title page, it just says that this is indeed the case, so that future generations must run away quickly when encountering such an abnormality.
Su Yu took his guess into the whole book to verify it carefully, and at the same time continued to look for clues in the book to put his guess to the test.
…
It took about an hour to study the notes.
During this hour, Jenny wanted to ask Su Yu several times.
But seeing Su Yu's focused look while studying his notes, she didn't urge him and sat beside him, waiting impatiently.
An hour later, the time came to seven o'clock in the evening.
At this time, Zhong Feng and the others must have finished their work and returned to their base.
So Su Yu closed the book, stood up and said, "Come on Jenny, I'll take you to where I live. My companions are also there. I will tell the whole truth when I get there."
"Okay." Jenny couldn't wait any longer, got up and followed Su Yu.
…
10 minutes later, in the living room of the stronghold.
The stronghold was still the same as yesterday, with a lot of food on the table, including white bread and dried meat.
Blue Star players sat in a circle around the table and enjoyed the food on the table together.
The only difference is that there is one more person this time, and it is an NPC.
This NPC had no intention of eating. She didn't even look at the food on the table. Instead, she kept staring at Su Yu.
Su Yu felt a little scared when she saw her, so he made a "please" gesture to her and asked, "Would you like some?"
Jenny couldn't refuse Su Yu's invitation.
She picked up a piece of bread, stuffed it into her mouth and ate it in small bites.
But because she is so preoccupied with her thoughts, the bread has no taste at all recently. It can be said that it tastes like chewing wax.
"Let the meeting begin now!" Su Yu looked at the Blue Star players present.
After scanning around, he focused on Lao Li and Lao Meng: "As a hunting team, let's talk about your results first."
"Okay." Lao Meng said while eating: "This morning we followed the map and hunted and collected herbs in the activity area of the first-order Warcraft.
In the morning, we successfully captured a 200-kilogram first-level monster, which the villagers call the Goglomon.
With this first-level monster and the herbs collected, the shell coins obtained from selling it are enough to cover all the expenses for these two days!
So this afternoon, each of us rented a medium-sized fishing boat to go fishing in the lake, and the whole day went very smoothly."
"As long as it goes well." Su Yu nodded with a smile and looked at Zhong Feng: "Zhong Feng, it's your turn. How was our fishing harvest today?"
Zhong Feng put down the bread in his hand and replied: "A total of 5903 red shell coins were obtained from the sacrifice, which is about the same as planned, only 153 more than planned."
"Well, it's more in line with expectations." Su Yu nodded.
Today, Blue Star players went out with the "fire avoidance stone" and caught a total of 10 firefin fish, which significantly increased the profits of this fishing trip.
However, Su Yu traveled for a long time and caught more than 200 kilograms less fish. This was offset by the profit from catching firefin fish, so it was not much different from the plan.
But at this time, Jenny frowned and said: "'Red Shell Coin'? What is the 'Red Shell Coin' you are talking about?"
"Oh, it's the shell coin that the gods gave us after sacrificing the elemental fish." Su Yu explained: "Because it is red, we call it the red shell coin to distinguish it from the currency in the village."
"Okay." Jenny nodded to show her understanding.
Su Yu continued to tell everyone: "Everyone, I now understand the specific situation.
To be honest with you, after a day of investigation, I now know who the ‘behind-the-scenes BOSS’ we discussed last night is, and I am very sure of it.”
"Oh? What should I say?"
"The BOSS behind the scenes? Who is it?"
"How did you find it?"
Everyone asked questions excitedly.
Some people also turned their attention to Jenny next to Su Yu.
Is it because of this NPC that Mr. Ke found the BOSS behind the scenes?
I didn’t expect that the main plot of the secret realm would be on her.
Jenny, however, looked confused: "'Behind-the-scenes BOSS'? What do you mean by this word?"
After hearing her words, Su Yu's mouth twitched.
However, Su Yu still explained to her: "The BOSS behind the scenes means the mastermind behind the situation that caused Riyao Village to become what it is now."
He turned to look at Ice Black Tea: "Ice Black Tea, the boss you guessed last night was a huge elemental fish king born in the lake, right?"
"Yes." Ice Black Tea replied.
"This possibility has now been overturned." Su Yu said: "During the day today, I found that the water temperature at the bottom of the lake on the westernmost side of the Great Lake was extremely high, basically close to 25 degrees warm water, so I asked the boatman to drive the boat to the Great Lake.
The easternmost side.
When I got there, I discovered that the water at the bottom of the lake on the easternmost side of the lake is also warm!
It can be inferred from this that the water temperature at the bottom of the entire Great Lake should have increased significantly, which is not something that just one elemental fish king can do."
"It makes sense." Iced Black Tea agreed with Su Yu's statement.
In fact, when he was on the dock just now, Iced Black Tea noticed that all the fish caught by the adventurers were soaked in fire elements and glowed red, so he already knew that his guess was untrue.
If the Elemental Fish King can make all the fish in the lake infected by the fire element, then its strength will be at least level five, and it will definitely not be lower than level five anyway.
Facing such a powerful existence, it is a complete joke for the adventurers to work together to kill it, and it is purely a gift.
So the BOSS behind the scenes is unlikely to be the Elemental Fish King, but something else.
Su Yu looked at everyone and said seriously: "If my prediction is correct, the BOSS behind the scenes is not a creature, but... a volcano!
The volcano behind the village should be about to erupt, and it is the 'culprit' that will cause the entire village to be destroyed, a large number of elemental fish to appear in the lake, and the temperature of the lake to rise!"
"volcano?!"
"It's actually a volcano?!"
When Su Yu said this, the players present were shocked.
They don't know the information that "the large number of firefin fish is a sign of the destruction of the village", and according to everyone's usual thinking, they generally regard the boss behind the scenes as an existence that can be defeated.
Unexpectedly, the BOSS behind the scenes turned out to be a natural disaster!
After listening to Su Yu's words, Jenny tensed up at first.
After a while, her body relaxed and slumped down on the chair, her pupils completely losing focus.
Thinking about it carefully, what Su Yu said seems to make sense.
A volcanic eruption will definitely destroy the entire village.
And it is precisely because of the volcanic eruption that strange phenomena occur frequently in the village. For example, fire-attributed fire-finned fish appear in large numbers, the lake water becomes warmer, and the elemental fish in the lake are contaminated by the fire element...
No wonder the first-generation mistress emphasized that they should escape from the village as soon as possible. The volcano is about to erupt, should they stay and wait to die?