Chapter 5 (2/2)

Upon seeing Liu Ming, the village chief beamed with joy and walked towards Liu Ming. “Are you the adventurer, Floating Cloud!?! Hurry, please come in! Come in, and we can talk.” The village chief then pulled Liu Ming to his home.

After entering, the village chief turned around to look at the door. Once he confirmed that there was no one outside, he closed the door shut.

At this moment, the village chief said, “Brave adventurer, I initially planned to go look for you, but I didn’t expect you to come over on your own accord. Adventurer, since you’ve killed the Berserking Hound King, you must have obtained its heart. Could you take it out and hand it to me? I’d like to try and see if I can figure out the reason for the animals’ berserk behavior from its heart.”

Liu Ming looked for the village chief because he planned to give the Berserking Hound King’s heart to him in order to activate missions. Now that the village chief had taken the initiative to mention that matter, there was no reason for Liu Ming to hesitate.

Liu Ming nodded and retrieved the Berseking Hound King’s heart from his system backpack and handed it to the village chief.

After getting hold of it, the village chief said to Liu Ming, “Adventurer, please wait for me for five minutes. I still have an errand that I need you to run later.”

After he finished speaking, the village chief hurriedly scurried towards the room on the right with the Berserking Hound King’s heart.

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Five minutes passed rather quickly, and the village chief walked out of the room smilingly.

The village chief said, “Adventurer, sorry to make you wait for so long. The mission that I’m going to assign you next concerns the life and death of the entire village. I hope that you can complete it perfectly. Just now, I finally confirmed that the source of the animals’ berserk behavior is inside the East Region’s abandoned mine.”

“Due to the fact that there might be a mastermind in the village, I can’t deploy the village’s police. I have no choice but to ask adventurers like you to enter the mine and look for the mastermind’s trace. Of course, I will give you a reasonable amount of money as long as you find clues as to who the mastermind is.”

As soon as the village chief finished speaking, Liu Ming saw a message—sent by the system—on the screen. “Congratulations, Adventurer, you have activated the hidden quest—The Terror Hidden in the Darkness (Round One): Investigate the East Region’s mine.

Mission description: After repeated verifications done by Village Chief Carlos, we have finally confirmed that the source of the animals’ berserk behavior is the village’s mine in the East Region, which had been abandoned in the early years.

In order to avoid alerting the mastermind, Village Chief Carlos has assigned the mission of finding clues to you.

Hopefully, you—a smart adventurer—can complete the task given to you by Village Chief Carlos outstandingly.

Mission Reward: Depends on the extent of the mission completion.

Additional: You can only activate the second round of the quest if the first mission’s completion rate exceeds 80%.

It turned out to be a chain mission! After reading the information about the mission, Liu Ming was filled with shock.

God Domain’s quest system was rather complicated, but there was one-well known fact. Although the gains from preliminary quests would not be high, the total rewards would far exceed the combined gains of four quests as long as one could make it through the fourth round and beyond.

Having had consecutive, lucky encounters today, Liu Ming immediately felt a little smug, but he soon calmed down.

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After accepting the mission given to him by the village chief, Liu Ming immediately hurried to the abandoned mine east of the village.

The entire abandoned mine was shabby and ruined. The interior was pitch black, and it looked like the perfect setting for terrifying stories.