“Could that actually not have been a werewolf, just a rather large wolf dog?” Xiao Yu guessed.

"That... can't be, right?" Gu Fei felt that the quest chain was a point of pride for the game company's design; it shouldn't create such a bizarre suspense. A werewolf that isn't a werewolf, just a wolf dog that became an expert? That would be too comical.

"See if it left any other bloodstains," Gu Fei said.

"That's right! We can track it by following the bloodstains!" Xiao Yu said excitedly.

"Uh, it just got a scratch on its paw, it shouldn't be that exaggerated, right?" Gu Fei said.

"Maybe?" Xiao Yu had already resumed her bargain-basement search.

Gu Fei, however, was staring thoughtfully at the few drops of blood on the ground.

The werewolf's strength was beyond Gu Fei's imagination. Its speed was incredibly fast, and its attack power was high. He had tried his best, and only managed to block that one attack just now. If he really had to fight the werewolf, he would have no chance of winning. After all, this kind of gap is something you can't do anything about in a game. Trying to compensate with skill was also impossible. Gu Fei didn't have the chance to fight the werewolf and figure out its attack weaknesses. He was afraid the werewolf could take him out in three moves or two.

But why would such a powerful Boss run away? Just a scratch on its paw, could that make a ferocious werewolf timid? That was too melodramatic. Or was the silver-plated Baptism of the Flame really that effective? The werewolf sensed the silver attribute and immediately got scared out of its wits?

Clearly, the werewolf's escape wasn't its own decision in that situation. It was a plot element that the designers had set up in advance. And Gu Fei had just fulfilled the condition for it to escape.

That condition seemed to be to injure the werewolf.

But what information was such a plot point conveying? Gu Fei couldn't figure it out for a while.

"There aren't any other bloodstains." Xiao Yu, who had crawled around inside and out again, returned, saying with great disappointment.

"Let's go find the village chief, I have something else I want to ask," Gu Fei said.

"Really? Let's go, let's go."

The Nightglow Village under the night was tranquil. The NPCs that were originally distributed throughout the village had disappeared, replaced by the lights on in each house. Players in the game were awake day and night, but the NPCs strictly followed a daily routine, coming out to work during the day and going home to rest at night. For a moment, it was hard to tell who was human and who was machine.

The village chief opened the door to his house, still polite as ever: "Oh, brave warrior, you've come." In the village chief's eyes, Gu Fei was always a brave warrior.

"What did the werewolf that killed Morpheus look like? Did it have something around its neck?" Gu Fei asked.

"Oh, you have to ask Adrian about that. Adrian who lives next to the church, he's the only one who saw it. That night, he heard the commotion coming from the church and went out to investigate. As a result, he saw the werewolf kill Morpheus. Poor man, he was terrified," the village chief said.

"Adrian..." Gu Fei recalled the richest man in Nightglow Village.

"Village chief, where is Morpheus's house?" Gu Fei asked again.

"The third house by the woods, no one has been there since he died," the village chief said.

"Let's go take a look," Gu Fei said to Xiao Yu.

Morpheus's house was actually easy to find. It was the only one that was dark among the many houses with lights on. After Morpheus died, it was an empty house with no one living there.

As they approached the house, Gu Fei gently stopped Xiao Yu behind him, signaling her to be quiet. Then, holding the Baptism of the Flame in front of him, he carefully walked towards the house.

Xiao Yu was so nervous that she didn't dare to breathe loudly, but for some reason, she saw Gu Fei walk to the door, put his ear to the door, listen quietly for a moment, and then push the door open and enter. Xiao Yu nervously looked around before furtively following Gu Fei in.

Gu Fei had already lit the oil lamp in the house and was standing by the bed, looking at a piece of parchment in his hand.

"What is it?" Xiao Yu leaned over.

"Looks like a map," Gu Fei said.

"A treasure map?" Xiao Yu said excitedly.

"Too bad it doesn't have any coordinates marked. It'll be a little troublesome to find!" Gu Fei said.

"Let me see." Xiao Yu took it.

"This is the village's main road, and this looks like the church..." Xiao Yu pointed and drew on it with a pen, muttering to herself.

"I know where it is!" After a moment, Xiao Yu shouted in surprise. Turning her head, she saw Gu Fei standing by the door, cautiously looking outside.

"What are you looking at?" Xiao Yu asked, approaching him.

"Shhh..." Gu Fei signaled her to be quiet. Although the people outside were NPCs, Gu Fei didn't know if "making too much noise" would be a condition to stop their activity.

"Let's go, let's follow them and see," Gu Fei said, pulling Xiao Yu along.

"I found the location of the treasure!" Xiao Yu waved the parchment.

"Yeah, we'll go dig up the treasure later. Let's follow these four guys first," Gu Fei said.

"What are they going to do?" Xiao Yu asked.

"I don't know, but I recognize three of the four of them as the type who have been avoiding me. I've never seen the fourth one before. This group is really strange," Gu Fei said.

"Follow them, follow them!" Xiao Yu said.

The four people walked silently on the main road of Nightglow Village, carrying tools like shovels on their shoulders.

"Oh no, they're not going to dig up the treasure, are they? It wouldn't be ours, would it?" Xiao Yu said.

"Haven't you already figured out where the treasure location is? See if they're going the right way," Gu Fei said.

"Nope," Xiao Yu said.

"Follow them, follow them."

The four people finally arrived at a mountain near the village. Halfway up the mountain, after pushing aside a layer of vegetation covering the hillside, the four people disappeared.

"Look, what's that?" Xiao Yu pointed.

"That's a cave..." Gu Fei said.

"What are they doing here?" Xiao Yu asked.

"How would I know?" Gu Fei said.

"Go take a look?" Xiao Yu suggested.

"Don't rush, let's come back after daybreak! They'll leave when it's light," Gu Fei said.

"How do you know?" Xiao Yu asked.

"They still have to stand guard by the main road of Nightglow Village during the day," Gu Fei said.

Xiao Yu looked at the time: "It's still more than an hour away!"

"Let's go to the place you figured out first," Gu Fei said, "Where is it?"

"The woods behind Morpheus's house."

The two returned the way they came and arrived in the woods behind Morpheus's house. Xiao Yu led the way with the parchment, looking around. Finally, she stopped under a tree. "It's here," Xiao Yu said, pointing.

"I really bought this shovel for the right reason," Gu Fei muttered, taking the shovel out of his pocket and starting to dig.

"Treasure chest! Treasure chest! Treasure chest!" Xiao Yu chanted the magic spell, watching the pit get deeper and deeper. As a result, a treasure chest didn't come out, but a sack did.

"So heavy!" Gu Fei grabbed it with both hands and tugged, but couldn't pull it out of the pit.

"I'll do it." Xiao Yu stepped forward, reached out and gently lifted. The sack emerged from the hole, causing Gu Fei to be depressed for a while.

Opening the sack and glancing inside, the two were stunned.

"Gold?" The two looked at each other.

Xiao Yu took out the small bag of gold given by the quest, took out a piece, and compared it with the ones in the sack.

"They look alike!" Xiao Yu said.

"Adrian?" Gu Fei pondered.

"Let's go return the gold to him! There must be a reward," Xiao Yu said happily.

"Did you trigger a quest?" Gu Fei asked.

"No."

"If there's no quest, where's the reward coming from?" Gu Fei said.

"Then what is this for?"

"I think this is also an important part of my quest chain," Gu Fei said with a headache. "There are more and more things. I'm so tired, let's rest for a while!"

"Where to go?" Xiao Yu asked.

"The village's inn should still be open, let's rest there and wait for daybreak," Gu Fei said.

The two arrived at the village's inn. After all, it was still a game, and shops like this didn't close.

"Order whatever you want to drink. It's my treat," Gu Fei said.

"I suddenly feel so sleepy, I'm going to lie down for a while." Xiao Yu said, falling onto the table.

Gu Fei casually ordered a glass of wine, and while drinking it, he pondered his quest chain.

Two groups of villagers with very different attitudes.

Traces of a fierce fight in front of the church.

Morpheus's powerful but unknown strength.

Morpheus's disappeared corpse.

The werewolf that ran away after a small wound.

The gold that Morpheus had hidden.

And those four villagers who ran to the cave in the middle of the night.

There must be a storyline that can clearly explain all these events. That's the final perfect plot of the "Emblem of Eddie" quest chain. If it was just finding the werewolf and killing it, Gu Fei doubted whether it could explain all these questions. At this time, Gu Fei already had some ideas in his mind. All he had to do was wait for daybreak. As long as he grasped some more key things, the truth would likely come out.

On the other side, Ye Xiaowu, who had been watching Gu Fei's quest like a movie, had already felt too much surprise that Gu Fei had brought him.

Turning around in front of the church, he suddenly ran to dig up Morpheus's grave. Ye Xiaowu still didn't know if he had discovered something or if he had guessed it.

The werewolf that attacked him, he could actually repel it. He was only level 30. A level 30 character should have been slapped to death by that werewolf...

If the current situation continues to develop, Gu Fei's final quest chain completion rate may reach more than 90%.

That's right, completion rate! This is what measures the completion of a quest chain and determines the final reward.

Killing the werewolf? That's just one way to complete this quest chain. If it was Ye Xiaowu, he knew where the werewolf was, he would directly find it and chop it to death. Of course, that would be considered completing the quest, but he would definitely get the lowest completion rate and the worst reward.

Perfectly presenting the whole story of the quest chain is the way to get the highest completion rate.

It's like an open-ended single-player game with multiple endings. All the endings can be considered a successful playthrough. But there must be one that is called the perfect ending.

Because the great boy detective Conan once said: There is only one truth.

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