Chapter 23 Bone Ash

Gu Fei drank a small glass of wine by himself, and seeing Xiao Yu sleeping soundly, he also felt a bit tired. Eating and drinking in the game was just a sensory stimulation, with no effect on the real body. Only sleeping could actually alleviate physical fatigue a little. Of course, the effect was far from as good as sleeping in a bed. So, if you were sleepy and didn't log off, choosing to sleep in the game was definitely an unwise decision.

Looking around, the inn was empty. Nightglow Village was not far from Moonlit City, and there were no popular leveling areas around, so there wasn't even a player stopping for a rest. Gu Fei and Xiao Yu had also wandered around here several times, and all they saw were NPCs.

It wasn't good to sleep like this, and it wasn't good not to sleep, so Gu Fei had nothing to do. He got up and practiced his knife skills in the inn for a while, took out his staff and practiced his staff techniques, and finally did a set of punches and kicks. The sky finally began to turn white.

"Get up, get up!" Gu Fei nudged Xiao Yu.

"Is it dawn?" Xiao Yu asked sleepily.

"It is." Gu Fei said.

"Let me lie down for five more minutes..." Xiao Yu fell back down.

"The quest," Gu Fei said.

"Let's go, let's go, time waits for no one." Xiao Yu instantly became awake, standing up straight. "Get your spirits up!" she said to Gu Fei.

The two left the inn and went straight to the hillside they had tracked to the night before. Since they had recorded the coordinates, although the surrounding environment was the same, it was easy to find. Seeing that no one was around, Gu Fei stepped forward and pushed aside the disguise made of a large pile of branches, leaves, and flowers that covered the entrance of the cave.

The cave wasn't big, and it wasn't as complicated as the Wulong Cave. It only took a few steps to reach the deepest part, a cave the size of a room. Gu Fei picked up a few pieces of gravel on the ground and looked at them, then touched the wall.

This small cave was actually a gold mine. The richest man, Adrian, gave Xiao Yu some, and some was found in the woods behind Mofei's house. It all seemed to come from this place.

Did this mine, and the sack of gold ore that Mofei had hidden, have anything to do with Adrian?

Gu Fei didn't forget that the gold mine quest between Xiao Yu and Adrian had nothing to do with his quest chain. In other words, because Xiao Yu happened to be with him, and Xiao Yu happened to have such a quest, Gu Fei knew that Adrian had this batch of gold ore in his hands. If this accidental event was removed, Gu Fei would never have thought of Adrian when he saw the gold mine.

"What's this?" While Gu Fei was pondering, Xiao Yu found an earthenware pot in the corner of the cave.

When Gu Fei walked over, Xiao Yu had already opened the earthenware pot and grabbed a handful of grayish-white powder from it, holding it in front of Gu Fei.

Gu Fei's expression changed: "This is bone ash."

"Bone ash?" Xiao Yu was stunned.

"A dead person. Burned, it becomes bone ash." As Gu Fei spoke, he was wary of Xiao Yu, who might start screaming and throw the jar away.

But Xiao Yu was completely unmoved, and even asked, "Whose is this?"

"This village only seems to have one dead person," Gu Fei said.

"Mofei?" Xiao Yu said.

Gu Fei nodded: "Someone dug up Mofei's body and burned it into bone ash."

"Why would they do that?" Xiao Yu asked.

"It seems... Mofei was a werewolf," Gu Fei said.

"Ah? So Mofei wasn't killed, but committed suicide!" Xiao Yu said.

Gu Fei smiled and shook his head: "Mofei was a werewolf, which can explain many questions. He was a werewolf, so of course he could fight another werewolf to a standstill. Moreover, he had to hide his true identity, so no one in the village knew he was so capable. In addition, he was already buried, but was dug out and cremated."

"What does that mean?"

"Legend has it that the corpse of a werewolf will turn into a vampire zombie after death. Someone cremated his body to prevent this from happening," Gu Fei said.

"Who could that be?" Xiao Yu asked.

"His kind. Only his kind would know his true identity, and would worry that his corpse would turn into a vampire zombie after death," Gu Fei said.

"Is it the werewolf who killed him?" Xiao Yu asked.

"Maybe. But the appearance of bone ash in this place indicates one thing," Gu Fei said.

"What?"

"Anyone who comes to this mine to dig for gold is a werewolf. I suspect that the guys who were avoiding me, they're all werewolves," Gu Fei said.

"Ha! See, I told you so!" Xiao Yu said.

Gu Fei smiled wryly: "You're so smart."

Xiao Yu was proud: "I told you, I'm a quest expert."

"Amazing, amazing!"

"So, what do we do next?" Xiao Yu asked.

"This group of werewolves lives with humans and doesn't seem to have harmed them. It seems that their goal is the gold mine here. This mine isn't big, and working together, it can only accommodate four people. I guess four people come to mine every night. But... this guy Mofei had bad intentions, he hid a bag of gold. He was discovered by others and eventually killed. I think that's probably how it went," Gu Fei said.

"Werewolves are greedy too..." Xiao Yu said.

"With so many werewolves, I don't think the quest is for me to kill them all, right? There must be other solutions," Gu Fei said.

"What do we do?" Xiao Yu said.

"Let's find the guy who attacked us yesterday first," Gu Fei said.

"Do you know who he is?"

Gu Fei smiled: "His right hand was injured by my knife, and my silver-plated knife has the ability to prevent regeneration. A werewolf's wound won't heal so quickly. I think this is the clue the system provided to find the werewolf."

"The person with the injured right hand is the werewolf!" Xiao Yu said.

"That's right."

"Then let's go!"

The two left the mine, covered the entrance again, and returned to the village.

The NPCs in the village were all in their respective places. Gu Fei hesitated at this time, wondering if directly going up and grabbing the other party's right hand to look at it would immediately cause a fight. After thinking about it, he decided to take a peek. Fortunately, the NPCs in the game all had the habit of gesticulating when they spoke. Xiao Yu went up to talk to people, and Gu Fei took the opportunity to observe from the side.

As a result, after looking all the way down, none of those who avoided Gu Fei, the werewolves, had injuries on their right hands.

"How could this be?" Gu Fei was dumbfounded.

"Are there any people we missed?" Xiao Yu asked.

Gu Fei had already asked the village chief about the number of people in the village. Counting them now, there was not one missing. Everyone in the village was sunbathing outside!

"Let's look at everyone again!" Xiao Yu said.

"That's the only way," Gu Fei reluctantly accepted this stupid method.

Gu Fei could talk to this group of people himself, but after another round, there was still no one.

"Why isn't there anyone?" Xiao Yu said.

"Now, there's only one person we haven't looked at..." Gu Fei said.

"Who?"

"Adrian," Gu Fei said. All the villagers in the village were active around this main road, but Adrian was the only one squatting in his big house next to the church, never leaving.

"That's right!" Xiao Yu nodded. "He also has gold. Anyone with gold must be a werewolf."

"That's not necessarily true. He's the richest man in the village. Maybe he bought the gold from the werewolves. Let's go find him first!"

The two came to Adrian's house. Xiao Yu was familiar with the way, and went up to knock on the door, but there was no response for a long time.

Do NPCs not stay home sometimes? Gu Fei was depressed.

"Maybe he's in the cellar in the backyard," Xiao Yu said.

The two came to the backyard and saw a lock on the cellar. Adrian obviously couldn't be inside.

When the two turned back to the front door, they unexpectedly saw Adrian returning from outside. Gu Fei quickly called out to him.

"Oh, esteemed warrior." As expected, the richest man had unique qualities, and his attitude towards Gu Fei was the kindest and most amiable in the whole village.

"I heard you saw the werewolf who killed Mofei," Gu Fei said.

A look of horror immediately appeared on Adrian's face: "That was a terrible night," he said, then described the terrifying appearance of the werewolf.

"Mofei was already dead at that time, right?" Gu Fei asked.

"Yes, poor man," Adrian said.

"Did you see how he was killed by the werewolf?" Gu Fei asked.

"No, when I arrived, he was already dead. The werewolf left quickly too," Adrian said.

Gu Fei thanked him, and Adrian happily accepted, making way for the two to leave.

"He didn't seem to have any injuries on his right hand either?" Xiao Yu said.

"No," Gu Fei nodded. He was depressed that this method didn't work. But just now, after talking to Adrian, Gu Fei had new questions.

Mofei must have revealed his true form to fight. So when he died, he should have been a werewolf. Why did Adrian and the villagers who arrived later see a human corpse? No one can change the form of a werewolf at will. Only the werewolf himself can do this.

That is to say, at the last moment, Mofei used his last bit of strength to transform back into human form, knowing that he was no match for the enemy. He would rather die than let the villagers know he was a werewolf. What was he thinking? Was he wholeheartedly good, abandoning darkness and embracing the light? A werewolf with a human heart? So he wasn't a werewolf anymore, but a werehuman?

"Depressed!" Gu Fei roared to the sky. This quest chain was giving him a headache. Just when he thought he had made a discovery, he found something was wrong again.

Looking up, he saw an NPC in front of him, the guy who had secretly gone to mine last night. Damn it, what's the point of messing around with a bunch of system-set robots? Isn't the quest about activating the right conditions through repeated attempts? The worst that could happen was death, so what? With this thought in mind, Gu Fei strode forward, pointed at the guy, and said, "Hey, you there!"

The NPC immediately avoided Gu Fei.

"I saw you go to mine for gold," Gu Fei said bluntly.

The NPC's expression changed obviously. He suddenly turned around and ran away.

"Don't run!" Gu Fei shouted as he happily chased after him. See, activating new plots can be that simple sometimes.

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It's even later, and the key is that this chapter was rewritten three times...