The patrol team consisted of six people.

Under normal circumstances, even experienced patrol teams like Yong-ge's wouldn't light the human soul torches during the first half of the night, to save yang-essence, unless they encountered a situation.

But in the second half of the night, most patrol teams would light the human soul torches, exchanging some yang-essence for visibility and security.

After all, the weirder things became, the more active they were late at night.

Of course, it wasn't that they wouldn't appear during the day, just that the odds were relatively lower.

This phenomenon seemed to have been studied. It was said that it was because the strange preferred the environment of late night.

"But didn't Lin Ling say that we don't usually need to light the human soul torches?"

Shiwuliao immediately panicked.

Lighting the human soul torch required burning yang-essence.

Their yang-essence was only just enough to last until the end of the night patrol.

They could only continue to eke out their lives by handing over the task and receiving yang-essence.

But if they burned yang-essence, they wouldn't be able to last until the task was completed.

So, if they had to light the human soul torch, they could only count on Fang Yue or Niu Niu, who had obtained the Bronze Longevity Token in advance.

"With Lin Ling's captain-level strength, he really doesn't need to light the human soul torch under normal circumstances. But we guards with low strength are different. If we don't light the human soul torch, if we encounter something weird, I'm afraid we'll be killed by it before we even see what it looks like, dying silently, inexplicably."

This was what Yong-ge told Fang Yue, and Fang Yue thought it made a lot of sense.

With the current visibility, Fang Yue already felt it was very dangerous, and this was only the first half of the night.

"Must we light it..."

Everyone hesitated.

"Anyway, it's still the first half of the night, how about we skip it?"

"Yeah, we should save yang-essence where we can."

Fang Yue shook his head.

"No! We'll light the torches now."

"This... why?"

Everyone was puzzled.

Fang Yue patiently explained.

"Yong-ge has several years of patrol experience, and he can lead the team in the dark in the first half of the night. We players are all newbies and can't compare at all."

"For example, if it wasn't Yong-ge who came just now, but something weird, the five of you would already be lying down. But if we light the torches, we can discover the situation early, and we can be prepared to escape or fight, instead of only discovering it when it's right in front of us."

Everyone fell silent upon hearing this.

They knew that Fang Yue was right, but they were reluctant to take out their yang-essence psychologically.

Burning yang-essence in the first half of the night, and continuing to burn yang-essence in the second half of the night, they would run out of yang-essence before the end of the night patrol!

And this was also a very real problem.

Fang Yue thought for a while and said, "How about this, the consumption of yang-essence for the human soul torch will be covered by me for the time being. When the night patrol ends and you receive the reward, you can share it with me. There are six of us, and if the human soul fire burns for six hours, divided among us, we'll only spend one hour of yang-essence each."

One hour, said so lightly.

Everyone hadn't even received the reward yet, and they were already feeling the pain of having to share the yang-essence.

Shiwuliao's eyes darted around, "Night bro, the Bronze Longevity Token should be able to allocate yang-essence to others, right? I want to buy an hour of yang-essence from you!"

The others were moved and spoke up one after another.

The price rose from one thousand to ten thousand, making Fang Yue inwardly amazed.

But Fang Yue still refused.

Fang Yue had a lot of yang-essence, but martial arts training also consumed a lot.

And he hadn't found a way to earn a lot of yang-essence yet, so every bit he spent was a bit less. He definitely had to keep such precious resources for himself.

He understood the principle that he could earn more money if his character was strong.

Seeing that Fang Yue was determined, everyone turned to Niu Niu, and the price rose to twenty thousand.

Niu Niu was finally tempted and sold 1 hour of yang-essence.

Fang Yue shook his head, making no comment on this practice.

Seeing that Shiwuliao had bought 1 hour of yang-essence, everyone continued to persuade Niu Niu to sell.

Finally, Niu Niu was moved again, thinking that he could still get a yang-essence reward at the end of the night patrol, so he sold another 4 hours, leaving only 1 hour for himself.

Fang Yue looked at Niu Niu, who had become rich overnight, and his will suddenly became a little unsteady.

But thinking about the bright future, thinking about earning a lot of money after his character became strong, he finally resisted the urge.

"Everyone has yang-essence to replenish, so now everyone will spend 1 hour of yang-essence to light the human soul torch, no objections, right?"

"No."

Burn the human soul to light the torch.

With a puff, the flame lit up in the darkness, illuminating the surroundings.

Looking at the small flame, they felt for the first time that light was such a luxury.

The human soul torch needed the holder to burn yang-essence to light it.

Fang Yue was the first, and when the next hour came, he would hand the torch over to the second person, so that he could hold the torch and burn yang-essence.

Holding the torch, Fang Yue continued to patrol the route.

The people following behind Fang Yue were a little excited.

With light, they were a little bolder.

It was said that the human soul torch also had the function of dispelling the strange, which meant that if something weird entered the village, the probability of everyone being attacked would also be reduced.

The patrol route of Fang Yue's team was in the small area in the north and center of the village, passing by Team Leader Chen's house, which was the relatively safest route among all the night patrol routes.

After all, it was next to Chen's mansion, and Team Leader Chen usually slept in the mansion, so he could provide support as soon as possible if there was a situation.

This route was not chosen by Fang Yue, but by Lin Ling for him.

It could be said that after Fang Yue became a 'cripple', that guy's attitude towards him became much better, simply taking very good care of him.

This made Fang Yue a little hesitant about whether to tell him the 'bad news' that he had fully recovered.

As for Yong-ge's night patrol route, it happened to overlap with Fang Yue's night patrol route on one road.

However, everyone's night patrol efficiency was different. Under normal circumstances, they would only meet two or three times a night.

With Fang Yue taking the lead, seeing Fang Yue's calm appearance, and the large-scale lighting of the human soul torch, everyone's courage gradually grew.

From the initial caution, they gradually turned to occasional chatting.

When the first hour passed, the night patrol route was completed twice, and it was Shiwuliao's turn to hold the human soul torch, everyone had already started chatting, and their mood was completely relaxed.

"What, this night patrol is nothing more than this."

"That's right, I thought I would definitely encounter something weird and be trembling with fear."

"According to the villagers, because Gu Yue Village has Lord Han, the number of times something weird enters the village is usually much less than in other villages. It's not so coincidental that we just happened to run into it."

"Not only that, but it's said that the earth's core of this Gu Yue Village is also larger than that of the neighboring villages. In addition to resisting the [Han Night], it can also dispel low-level weirdness, causing the weirdness to feel disgusted and prevent them from entering the village. Of course, there will be some that slip through the net, so there is a need for the patrol team."

The second half of the sentence was information that Fang Yue already knew, but the first half of the sentence made Fang Yue slightly stunned.

Lord Han?

Lin Ling said that Lord Han went to the neighboring village to find medicine for me, and he shouldn't be in the village now...

It should be fine, he only left a day ago.

Fang Yue was pondering this when he suddenly saw the light and shadow around him change for a moment.

Startled, he looked up and saw that Shiwuliao was sitting on the ground, pointing his finger forward, his face full of horror and fear, opening and closing his mouth but unable to speak.

It was said that some people were unable to make a sound when they were extremely frightened.

Obviously, Shiwuliao belonged to this category.

"What's going on?!"

"The fire is going out, someone quickly pick it up!"

"Did we encounter something weird? Let me do it!"

The last voice was made by Niu Niu.

He strode forward, picked up the torch from the ground, and swept it forward.

With this sweep, everyone saw it clearly.

On the ground, lay a human head.

Yong-ge's head.