When Norton fell, the three modified giant zombies also instantly lost their ability to move and stood still in place.
Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi left the fighting state at the same time.
Bai Xiaowen collected a group of summoned creatures, carefully bypassed the area covered by the frost poison, and ran in tandem with Li Shuyi.
Passing over coffin-shaped sealed boxes along the way, the two came to the exit stairs of the cellar. Large chunks of mud and rocks fell down, but Bai Xiaowen and the others safely escaped from the underground research institute and returned to the surface.
After rushing out of the cellar, both of them could feel the ground rumbling and shaking, like a precursor to an earthquake.
The underground research institute excavated by Norton covers a vast area, hollowing out almost the entire street. The collapse of the underground research institute is no different from a small-scale earthquake. Now, cracks have appeared on the street ground.
, other residents screamed and ran out.
With a loud bang, the underground research institute completely collapsed, and smoke and dust were everywhere. Most of the street collapsed, and the ground sank five or six meters! On the ground, giant cracks spread, and everything was devastated.
Under the collapsed houses, there were waves of screams and calls for help, which must have suppressed many residents of Hodge Town who had not had time to escape.
"Oh my God..." Li Shuyi exclaimed, "What should we do now?"
Bai Xiaowen glanced at Li Shuyi. He could understand what Li Shuyi was thinking. She probably wanted to evacuate and rescue these innocent residents, but he was worried that Bai Xiaowen had other plans, so he cast an inquiring look.
Bai Xiaowen nodded slightly: "Save it... Look at how many living people there are under the collapsed houses. Every one can be saved."
Li Shuyi agreed, but felt a little strange, and said with a smile: "You don't seem to be such a caring person."
Bai Xiaowen smiled faintly: "Move quickly... Soon we will come into contact with the Sheriff of Hodge Town."
Li Shuyi had an epiphany, curled her lips at Bai Xiaowen, then trotted to the "Akaia's Cauldron" shop, opened a collapsed wall, and pulled out a Hodge Town resident.
Bai Xiaowen resurrected creatures such as the Skeleton Sword, Shield, and Hand, and also devoted himself to saving people.
After the underground research institute collapsed, Bai Xiaowen got the tip.
"A-level elite side mission: The Secret of Voodoo is completed. Completion rating: s."
"Based on your completion evaluation, you received a psychic point reward: 10,000 points."
"Your reputation in the Voodoo Cult has been greatly reduced. Your current reputation level is: Hostile."
"Your reputation in the Holy See of Light has increased. Your current reputation level is: Friendly."
"Your team gained 400 experience points."
Team experience increases the level of the elite team. Bai Xiaowen doesn't care much about this, because the bulk of the A-level elite mission is combat experience (awakener upgrade). After completing this challenge mission, Bai Xiaowen's combat experience gauge climbed to 5
Level 68%, while Li Shuyi's upgrade is faster, already at level 5, 81%.
You know, Bai Xiaowen stayed in the treasure space of Lake of the Dead for several days in order to practice his combat skills and specialties. He gained a few more days of combat experience than Li Shuyi, but now he is overtaken by Li Shuyi. Compared with elite professions,
Hero-level professions upgrade faster.
There was a burst of dense footsteps, and then a loud voice came:
"The first team and the second team work in teams of two to rescue the victims. The others will evacuate with me and move the injured to open areas..."
Bai Xiaowen took a glance and saw a group of neatly dressed and fully armed soldiers in the direction of the street. Under the orders of a strong and strong man, they quickly dispersed and started the rescue work in an orderly manner.
Come to think of it, this big man is the Sheriff of Hodge Town, Yahan.
Bai Xiaowen's skeleton sword and shield hand was a summoned creature of the undead species and was very conspicuous in the field. Yahan, who was commanding, quickly noticed it.
"Undead creature?" Yahan quickly came to Bai Xiaowen and looked him up and down, "Are you... the master of these monsters? An undead summoner? It's strange, I seem to have seen you before..."
"Mr. Sheriff, let's talk about gossip later. Now I just want to save people!" Bai Xiaowen ignored Yahan and turned to call Li Shuyi, "Charlotte, help me lift this pillar..."
Spiritual world rules prompt information:
"Hodge Town Sheriff Alexei Yahan's favorability towards you has increased. The current favorability level is: Neutral."
This feeling of fighting against strong men in the spirit world and increasing your favorability is quite satisfying.
Yahan was not angry. Instead, he quickly stepped forward, held the pillar with one hand, gently and deftly carried it on his shoulders, and then motioned to Bai Xiaowen to drag out the injured person who was under the pillar.
Bai Xiaowen's eyes twitched a little when he saw it. The buildings in Hodge Town are mainly made of earth and stone. The weight of this stone pillar is probably three or four tons. Yahan can hold it up and carry it with one hand so easily. One can imagine his strength.
However, Bai Xiaowen didn't have any strange expression. After rescuing the wounded man, he immediately threw himself into the ruins of the next house and was very busy. However, he still secretly gave Sheriff Yahan an insight.
[Skill 1: Brute Force: Passive skill, when Yahan uses two-handed weapons, the damage caused will be increased by 20%. For targets whose strength is lower than 60% of himself, additional real damage will be caused, and there is a certain chance of adding a disability effect.
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[Skill 2: Unyielding: Every time he is affected by negative status and control skills, Yahan's strength value will be increased by an additional 10%, which will last until the end of the combat state. This effect can be stacked up to 3 times. 】
[Skill 3: Battle Roar: Yahan lets out an inspiring roar, which increases the attack power of all friendly forces within 100 meters by 10 points for 30 seconds. 】
【Skill 4:???】
[Skill 5: Firm Will lv3: Yahan’s health will be increased by an additional 500 points, and the duration of abnormal status and control effects will be reduced by 50%.]
"The Black Tide Plane...what is it about? A vigilante is so fierce!"
Bai Xiaowen muttered secretly.
This police officer named Yahan is completely inferior to being the police officer of a town. First of all, there are the surrounding attributes of explosion, and then there are legion skills such as "Battle Roar", plus violent output such as "Brute Force"
With his skills, he is definitely a fierce general on the battlefield.
What also surprised Bai Xiaowen was Yahan's general skills.
As a senior leader, it is normal to have toughness skills that increase extra health and reduce control effects. However, the level of Yahan's skill is actually lv3! What is the concept of this? The treasure space of Lake of the Dead, the total of the Snakeman Tribe
The skill level of leader Eliki and "Snake Leader" is only lv2.
Bai Xiaowen now understands how the prefix "speculation" on the ticket and the 50% reduction in the difficulty of the main mission are reflected.
This Sheriff Yahan is definitely a person with a story and is not easy to deceive. If Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi appeared as strangers and contacted Yahan, they might not be able to win the trust of this Sheriff, but they would be regarded as suspicious persons.
indefinite.
It is much easier now. The two of them and Yahan are "neighbors" on the same street. Yahan has some impressions of the two people, so the difficulty of gaining Yahan's trust has been reduced a lot. After gaining Yahan's trust, the missing person
The work of cracking the case is simple.
Bai Xiaowen only needs to solve the puzzle. When he needs to fight, he can just close the door and release the Sheriff! Then his opponent will hit GG.
In this collapse incident, more than 70 people were injured in the end, and three people died, including Mr. Akaia, the owner of "Akaia's Cauldron".
"You two come with me and tell me what's going on." Yahan called Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi aside, "I remembered, you are brothers and sisters who live on Windmill Street, right? Why are you here? My
My intuition tells me that this incident should be related to you."
Li Shuyi glanced at Bai Xiaowen secretly. The job of dealing with powerful people in the spiritual world, referred to as the job of cheating, was best left to Bai Xiaowen.
"We came all the way here to track down a recent missing persons case."
Bai Xiaowen's voice was a little low, and there was a trace of regret that was difficult to conceal on his handsome face.
"Missing person case? Have you found the murderer?" Yahan said in surprise.
Bai Xiaowen nodded: "Yes, the man behind the disappearance is a voodoo alchemist. He has a secret evil laboratory underground in the commercial street... I saw with my own eyes that he used the corpses of the dead to piece together...
He transformed a giant corpse and conducted brutal experiments. My sister and I fought fiercely with him and tried our best to kill him. But we didn't expect that before he died, he actually activated the mechanism that caused the underground laboratory to collapse...
…”
Bai Xiaowen sighed, looking regretful.
Yahan frowned with his razor-sharp brows, turned around and shouted to the soldiers on patrol: "Clean up the ruins of the street! There is an evil underground laboratory here, dig it out!"
A group of elite and ordinary soldiers responded loudly and continued to work without any complaints. It can be seen that Yahan's management of the patrol team is still very effective. In a big way, he has the ability to run the army.
Bai Xiaowen knew full well that Yahan still had some doubts about him, so he ordered the excavation. But it didn't matter. When the laboratory was dug out, Yahan would definitely believe him.
A more clever way of lying is to tell one lie among nine truths.
In Bai Xiaowen's statement, the voodoo alchemists, evil laboratories, modified giant corpses, etc. are all true. Only one sentence is false, and that is the "motive", or starting point. Bai Xiaowen knows very well that voodoo
The alchemist Norton has nothing to do with the missing persons case. His motive for finding Norton was the mission of "The Secret of Voodoo Cult".
However, in Yahan's eyes, as long as the information about voodoo and the transformation of giant corpses is true, then he will naturally trust Bai Xiaowen's motives. This is the advantage of nine truths and one falsehood.
There is a better way to lie than nine sentences of truth and one sentence of falsehood, which is to tell the whole truth, but hide the most critical one or two sentences, causing the other party to misunderstand and go astray... But here, it is not necessary.
High-end lying.
Not long after, soldiers from the patrol came over one after another to report that they had dug out damaged alchemy vessels, boxes containing corpses, etc.
Yahan looked at Bai Xiaowen and his eyes became much friendlier.
He nodded and said: "Since you are for the safety of Hodge Town and you have also destroyed the evil laboratory of Voodoo, I can not hold you responsible for this incident. However, if you encounter this kind of thing in the future, you
You need to inform me in advance. You two brothers and sisters are also residents of Hodge Town and belong to my protection. It would be too reckless to rashly find the villains of the Voodoo Sect. I don't want to see the list of missing persons.
Adding new names."
Bai Xiaowen sincerely apologized: "No, in the future, whenever our brothers and sisters discover dangerous factors that affect the safety of Hodge Town, we will report it as soon as possible."
Yahan asked again: "I am a little surprised by your two skills. You two have always been apprentices in a bread mill, right? You actually have this level of strength."
Bai Xiaowen lied about how he met a wandering adventurer. He saw that the two brothers and sister were talented, and then gave him some guidance. Then the two brothers and sisters always followed the teacher's teachings, did not show their strength easily, and lived an ordinary life.
In this town, it wasn't until the case of missing persons occurred that people were panicked, and the two brothers and sisters decided to stand up and investigate the truth...
Under normal circumstances, Yahan would probably not believe the lie Bai Xiaowen made up. However, the two brothers and sisters of Bai Xiaowen themselves are residents of Hodge Town and live on the same street as him, so they have a basic level of trust. In addition, they have just discovered
The evil lab of Voodoo that emerged also confirmed that Bai Xiaowen was not lying. Therefore, Yahan accepted Bai Xiaowen's rhetoric and did not delve into it further.
When it came to the missing persons case, Yahan breathed a sigh of relief: "Let's go, I want to see with my own eyes the bodies in those sealed boxes. If Voodoo is the mastermind behind the missing persons case, then I will tell the mayor and Hodge
The people of the town have finally been given an explanation." He shook his head, looking a little sad.
Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi followed Yahan. Li Shuyi asked through the team channel: "It's strange. From Yahan's perspective, the missing person case was solved. He should be happy. Why does he look a little depressed?"
"It is certainly a good thing that the case is solved, but the missing people have turned into corpses. There are so many dead, so it is reasonable for him to be in a bad mood. In addition, this case was not solved by him. As a police officer... No, as a
Sheriff, Mr. Yahan must be very disappointed."
Bai Xiaowen paused, and then said with a smile: "However, the two of us know the truth. Voodoo Norton has nothing to do with the missing persons case. So there is no need for Mr. Yahan to be lost. The mastermind behind the scenes has not been found.