"Ding dong!"
[Acquire an S-level temporary mission: follow Xie Lude and achieve the best ending of "everyone is happy" (point rewards will be given based on the completion of the mission)]
[Task description: Lele’s grandmother Garder disappeared in the evening. The light knight Sherlude seems to know the hidden information. Please follow him to witness the ending. 】
[Start side mission·Dayline]
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The night is dark.
The rows of bungalow buildings slept quietly in the dark night. The blond knight walked through the silent night and walked to a small boat docked by the river.
On the small boat, an oil lamp hung outside the cabin. The surroundings seemed very quiet. An old lady wearing a fisherman's hat was sitting in the cabin.
Xie Lude got on the boat silently, followed closely by Su Mingan. He looked inside and met the old lady's somewhat cloudy gaze.
"...Young man?" The old lady was stunned, as if she didn't expect to see him at this moment.
Su Mingan took out the photo from her backpack and stuffed it into her hand.
"I regret it." He said, "You should deliver this thing yourself during the day tomorrow."
The old lady had a photo forced into her hand. She was stunned for a moment, then took his hand and forced the photo to him.
Su Mingan stood up directly, avoiding her, and walked to the front of the ship.
Boats floated in the river, and slight sounds of fighting sounded on both sides of the river.
In the darkness of night, the moonlight is reflected on the lake, and the boats break through the moonlight, like cutting through the milky white lotus.
Sherrod was rowing quietly, his sword lying on the edge of the boat, and the moonlight was gilded with a soft silver edge.
"Xie Lude." Su Mingan's voice came from behind: "Explain why a commoner from Garder goes out at night, and why do you deliberately avoid me?"
Xie Lude remained silent.
The sound of water flowed loudly. He shook the oar in his hand and looked straight ahead.
"Don't answer? Then let me tell you." Su Mingan sat down next to him: "...You have to send her away secretly at night and let her leave Praia."
Xie Lude was slightly stunned.
He subconsciously looked at Su Ming'an.
"You originally wanted to take Garde away secretly this afternoon, but you didn't expect that I had been chatting with her and you couldn't find the chance." Su Mingan said: "So, you thought of a way, you invited me to Barbecue restaurant, create opportunities for her to board the ship. Then persuade me to go back to sleep at night so that you can successfully board the ship.
——It’s just that you didn’t expect one thing. You may have acted as a back-up, but you didn't expect that her granddaughter Lele would be so anxious. She would rather come to my house, an outsider's home, and ask me to save her. You know that this matter can no longer be hidden from me, so you decided to take me with you, wanting me to be an 'accomplice' to prevent me from going directly to the soul hunter to inquire and expose your plan. "
Facing his words, Xie Lude showed a wry smile.
"You can't hide it from the captain," he said softly.
He sat slightly to the left, avoiding Su Ming'an's sight.
The moonlight shines on the quiet river, and the water surface seems to be connected to the sky.
"Crash-"
The boat is sailing on the river, as if it is flowing in a long silver river.
In the silent night, Sherlude, who was covered with moonlight, spoke softly:
"...Captain." He said, "Are you willing to be my accomplice?"
"Before this, I was guessing why you wanted to send Garder away." Su Mingan: "Because Garder is the child of the soul clan and humans - the soul hunter can't tolerate her anymore, right?"
He has already thought of the reason why there is no soul clan smell on Thirteenth Street, but there is a soul clan presence.
...Because Garder is just like him.
They are all the children of the soul race and humans who only have the smell of humans on their bodies.
Therefore, she belongs to the soul clan, but does not have the scent of the soul clan, and the detection stone will not detect her.
Sherrod was silent for a moment.
"No." He finally said.
"...No?" Su Mingan didn't expect that he guessed wrong.
"arrive."
At this time, the boat suddenly stopped.
Su Mingan looked up and saw a river mouth in front of him.
The surrounding streets were deserted, and it seemed to be an abandoned port.
Sherrod jumped off the boat and helped the old lady get off the boat.
"Grandma Garder." Sherlude said to her: "Going along this street, there is a merchant ship that is planning to set off tomorrow morning. The destination of the merchant ship is the Heitel Empire, which is a small and wealthy country. You will live well in the past with the old-loving-young ethos.”
He said, putting a boat ticket into her hand.
The old lady held the ferry ticket tightly in her hand.
"Sherrod...thank you." She said softly.
"You saved me. If it weren't for you, I would have froze to death that winter. I deserve a reward." Sherlock said in a deep voice: "Get on the boat and leave here. Since the Soul Hunters have decided to release the second After this cleaning mission... I won’t let you go, and leaving is the only way out.”
The old lady held out her hand.
Following her slow movements, Sherlude leaned forward gently.
Her calloused, thin-skinned hands gently stroked Sherrod's golden hair with extremely gentle movements.
The moonlight shone on her hands and blended with the brilliant blond hair. Her hands gently touched her hair, and then moved to his forehead, seeming to stir up the mottled moonlight.
This is Praia’s blessing.
"Sherrod, good young man." She rubbed her lips: "...You are the most competent Knight of Light I have ever seen."
She took back her hand, and the soft moonlight swayed in her eyes.
"Sincerely bless you." Sherrod kissed the back of her hand: "I wish you a safe journey."
After saying goodbye, the old lady turned around.
When she turned around, she glanced at Su Ming'an with a very complicated look, tracing his face carefully, as if she was missing something.
Then, she said nothing. He just clutched the boat ticket and the family photo, and walked tremblingly into the darkness of the street with the light luggage brought from the cabin.
Sherrod watched her walk into the street, watched her get on the merchant ship, and then turned back.
He turned back, got on the boat, and the boat began to row.
During the journey, Xie Lude said that due to the confidentiality agreement of Yunshang Church, he could not tell why Garder ran away, and he only asked Su Ming'an for forgiveness.
Xie Lude's trip was to take the initiative to go to Yunshang Church and accept punishment.
He let Garder go, so he had to be punished.
Su Mingan originally thought that Mu Xie Lude would be punished because he was caught doing something bad last week, but to his surprise, it was this man who took the initiative to be punished.
"Captain, let me take you back first." Sherrod said.
"I'll go with you." Su Mingan responded.
He remembered that a fire broke out in the church that night, and he had to find out what was going on.
He cannot miss any accident in the copy, and he must reduce the probability of mistakes to the lowest point.
In the movement of the water, the boat slowly arrived at the Church on the Cloud.
The church on the cloud at night is completely different from the one during the day.
...It is an extremely beautiful and splendid church.
As if there is a bright star river connected with the sky, the entire church is bathed in holy light, and even the marble square in front is glowing with a layer of crystal white light.
Xie Lude took the initiative to enter. He said that outsiders could not enter Yunshang Church at night and asked Su Ming'an to wait at the door.
It just so happened that Su Mingan didn't want to wander around in the church to avoid encountering the pope who was asking for help.
He waited at the door of a building similar to a side hall, waiting for the fire to light up at night.
He leaned against the wall and suddenly felt his eyelids twitching.
The rich night light can easily make people want to sleep.
He steeled himself and started watching the barrage.
The barrage is still like chatting with the world, and the latest topics seem to be Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
[Today is December 22, 2021, and after tonight it will be the 23rd. 】
[Yeah, I just realized that it’s almost Christmas... Brothers, I didn’t expect that I would spend Christmas here this year. It’s a magical reality. 】
[This is a festive day, it must snow in the world of the Lord God! Snow is a good sign!]
[In the past few days, people have been setting up Christmas trees and lanterns one after another. I see there are some Christmas activities on the road. It’s still the same business discount routine as always. 】
[...Poor those guys in the dungeon, it seems they can only spend the holidays in fighting. 】
[Haha, so there are disadvantages in copying the dungeon. It can’t even pass Christmas Eve. It’s pitiful...]
[I don’t know if the organizer will have any activities. I heard that ordinary games have welfare activities on special festivals like this. 】
【……】
The barrage was lively and festive, and the cold night in Praia seemed to have nothing to do with them.
Su Mingan rubbed his eyes, yawned, and sat for a while with his eyes squinted.
Leaning against the wall, he opened and closed the items in his backpack one by one, counting what he had gained so far, forcing himself not to fall asleep in this way.
About half an hour passed like this when he suddenly saw a bright light.
...No, that's not just light.
He looked up and saw a bright red color. This gorgeous color danced extremely wildly, seeming to dye the dark sky red.
That's fire.
He stood up suddenly and looked behind the building.
The flames seemed to come from the back of the church. The white moonlight seemed to be obscured by the flames, and the sky was as bright as day.
……coming.
Su Mingan immediately rushed in that direction, rushed into the garden corridor behind the church, and saw the bright red fire that shot straight into the sky in the glazed dome building behind.
The strange thing is that, although it is a conspicuous building in the church, there are no knights or guards around it.
Although Xie Lude said that there were only a few knights guarding the church at night, the sight of no one was too strange.
The garden was extremely quiet, with the only sound of Su Mingan stepping on the lawn.
He ran to the burning building and pushed open the heavy door.
"rumble--"
The carved doors moved to the sides.
Su Mingan saw the burning flames in the hall.
But it wasn't because of any accident that the fire started.
...because it is a fire that ignites from a human body.
At least a hundred foreign tourists wearing different clothes and with fair skin stood in this hall, their bodies burning with gorgeous flames.
Their faces were completely scorched, their flesh and blood rolled and blackened, their bones slowly emerged, and their bodies began to blur in the fire... But the scary thing is that they were silent from beginning to end, as if they couldn't feel the burning of the flames. Pain is average.
The fire on their bodies gathered into a larger fire, and this flame gathered into a torrent of flames rising into the sky. The flames rose straight up, penetrated the dome of the church, and soared high into the sky, seeming to be connected to the sky.
And in the direction they were looking at, in the center of the church, a young man in a blood-red bishop's uniform stood there quietly.
The flames swirled around him, like covering him with a layer of gorgeous gauze. He stood on the highest jade steps and looked down at the burning crowd below, his emerald eyes full of smiles.
In the bright light, he was at the core of the light, as if a god was falling from the sky, reaching out to the believers in the flames.
Behind him, sitting or standing, were four people in different attires. They were dozing off, seemingly unfazed by the sight.
...What Su Mingan saw was this strange scene.
"Hey." Seeing the door open, the girl with twin tails carrying a big gun raised her eyelids: "Why is someone here? Burris, haven't you transferred everyone here?"
"Someone is coming! Someone is coming!" The parrot screamed sharply.
A few people were a little nervous, but Peixue quickly raised the ice crystal staff in his hand: "Kill the people who come. At this time, there are probably players running around, just kill them. Burris is burning these people. The NPCs are gathering their strength, and we cannot interrupt his ritual."
"Wait a minute, I think this player looks familiar..." Alex, the bald man, rubbed his sleepy eyes.
He looked at the player with black hair and golden eyes who walked into the church, rubbed his eyes, then rubbed his eyes again...
He seemed to think that this appearance had been described in the channel chat...
In front, Burris stood on the white jade steps, slowly walking down the steps with a smile.
The red robe trailed behind him. He held the golden scepter in his hand and smiled gracefully surrounded by light.
"What a coincidence..." he whispered, "I actually met you here...the first player."
When he said this, the players who were stumbling around on the ground instantly straightened up.
They shouldered their weapons and swept them away with laziness, as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
"No way..." The lollipop in the twin-tailed girl's mouth fell to the ground, and she raised the big gun in her hand: "... Damn it, it happened at such a critical time..."
Alex put on the steel gloves, Pei Xue raised the ice crystal staff, Pearl... Pearl was motionless, she was talking quietly to the parrot on her shoulder.
Amid vigilant eyes, Su Mingan slowly approached.
"Don't come any closer," Burris said.
Su Mingan kept walking.
"Don't get close - Player 1." Burris said loudly: "I don't want to be your enemy for the time being. When we wait for the feast on the sea, we will compete again. I have heard your response to my story, so, I And for today’s meeting, I have prepared a new story about my hometown for you——”
Only a short distance away from the group of burning people, Su Mingan stopped:
"Are we familiar?"
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