62 Chapter 62 - The Missing Murphy (1/2)

Gu Fei and Xiaoyu left the church and visited Chief Edwin once more.

”Chief Edwin, how was Murphy, the one killed by the Werewolf, as a person?” Gu Fei got straight to the point.

”Murphy was a kind-hearted, virtuous lad. He was loved by the villagers, so many were saddened by his death,” Chief Edwin commiserated.

Gu Fei specifically asked him about Murphy's fighting skills, yet the latter only repeated his previous words.

”Where is Murphy buried?” Gu Fei asked.

”He is buried in a graveyard behind the hill south of the village. It is where all the dead villagers are interred,” Chief Edwin answered.

After inquiring about all this, Gu Fei and Xiaoyu strode out of Chief Edwin's house. They quickly headed to a general store in the village, bought a metal shovel there, and made their way to the graveyard's location.

”What are we doing next?” asked Xiaoyu as she eyed the shovel. Although Xiaoyu was a natural airhead, she was still able to guess what Gu Fei planned to do.

”Dig a grave,” Gu Fei replied honestly.

”Why are we doing that?” Xiaoyu asked.

”Murphy's character seems a little fishy to me,” Gu Fei answered.

”What's fishy about his character?” Xiaoyu curiously asked.

”He seemed to be great at fighting, yet the village chief doesn't know about it,” Gu Fei answered.

”Then, how do you know about it?” Xiaoyu continued inquiring.

”Uhhh… It's just a hunch,” Gu Fei said to her simply, as he did not know how to explain his intuition.

”Oh…” Xiaoyu actually accepted such a vague answer.

Xiaoyu was apparently not afraid to do anything for the sake of questing, as the idea of exhuming a corpse did not even elicit a shred of fear in her. The two arrived at the graveyard by the southern hill. After finding Murphy's engraved name on one of the tombstones, they began digging close to it alternately.

A brown coffin was soon unearthed before their eyes. Gu Fei stuck his shovel into the gap between the lid and the coffin and called Xiaoyu for help.

The Strength-based Xiaoyu reached out for the lid and pulled it up. The cap was easily separated from the casket. Thinking that it had something gruesome inside, Gu Fei immediately covered Xiaoyu's eyes with his hands as he scanned the contents of the coffin.

”I'm not afraid of seeing a corpse!” Xiaoyu peeled off Gu Fei's hands from her eyes and peered into the coffin as well, ”Eh? Why's it empty?”

Gu Fei fell deep in his thoughts.

”Did they get lazy making the game?” Xiaoyu asked.

”I don't think so. If they hadn't bothered with the details, they wouldn't have buried this coffin here in the first place. Since they even designed the coffin, it wouldn't be difficult for them to place a skeleton or corpse inside, right? There must be a reason why it's like this,” Gu Fei analyzed.

”Maybe, Murphy isn't truly dead?” Xiaoyu suggested.

”That...” Gu Fei agreed, ”...Or someone stole the corpse.”

”Why steal it?” Xiaoyu asked.

”I don't know. Maybe, there's a secret inside the corpse,” Gu Fei answered tentatively.

”So what do we do now?” Xiaoyu asked.

”Now we wait,” Gu Fei answered.

”Wait for what?” Xiaoyu questioned.

”If unearthing this coffin is not part of the quest, it will revert back to its original buried state. But if it's actually part of the quest plot, it will return under the ground only after we complete the quest,” Gu Fei explained.

Xiaoyu was dumbfounded after hearing this. Gu Fei laughed, ”When all is said and done, Parallel World's quests were made by the game design team. It's like we're interacting with these quest designers when we're doing a quest or intermingling with any NPCs as part of a quest. So when doing difficult quests like this, it's beneficial for us to try and understand their thought process.”

Xiaoyu displayed a look of distress for some time until she finally blurted out, ”I don't even know what they're thinking about!”

Gu Fei chuckled, ”I don't as well. It's just a hunch.”

The two waited by Murphy's grave for a few minutes, and it did not revert back to its original state. Gu Fei confirmed his guess. Murphy's identity was truly shrouded in mystery.

Meanwhile, Ye Xiaowu was feeling bored, so he decided to activate the monitoring room's tracker for Gu Fei to watch the latter's progress in the chain quest. As for the monitoring team members' accusation about the activity being ”against the rule”, Ye Xiaowu had given them the excuse of Gu Fei being ”the first player to obtain a chain quest, so I need to observe him for a while. I need to check if there's any problem with the chain quest”. Actually, Gu Fei was not the only player to have fortuitously obtained a chain quest. Ye Xiaowu chose to watch Gu Fei purely because he was interested in his gameplay.

However, Gu Fei's quest progress had left him astounded.