24 Tragic Ending (1/2)

The night in the wilderness was quiet.

The environment was horrible, dry bones and totems everywhere. The stench of rotten bodies was also disgusting.

Yet, Roland did not feel very scared.

He found several shovels in the trolls' lair. The tools must've belonged to farmers who had been caught and eaten by the trolls.

Roland dug a deep pit with a shovel and carefully transferred the bones into the pit with Hand of Magic, burying them altogether.

He filled the pit and set up a cross with two sticks before the tomb.

”I don't know your names, but since you are all victims, it shouldn't be a problem for you to rest in the same place.”

Roland heaved a long sigh, feeling heavy.

He couldn't treat the NPCs in this game as data. After spending a month here, he realized that the NPCs were barely different from real people.

Yet, he was certain that he was in a game.

It was a rather contradictory feeling.

At this moment, it was already late at night. Burying the deceased took him a lot of time. He began his journey back to Red Mountain Town.

Thinking about the long distance, Roland couldn't help but mumble, ”I wish I were capable of teleportation… I'll definitely have to grasp space-time spells in the future. They'll be useful in both battles and travel.”

Roland had decided what skills he should specialize in because of the long journey.

As for Betta, he returned to Red Mountain Town by morning.

The fair had already ended. He found the old couple next to the lake.

With the red morning sun reflected in the lake, the old couple were gazing at the horizon next to their wooden house.

Betta approached them and said casually, ”I have found what you asked for. Your grandson is dead.”

”My grandson is not dead!” The weary old woman jumped to her feet and yelled, ”What a mean man! You're saying that our grandson is dead? I'll beat you…”

This must be part of the plot set by the system… Betta thought and gave the dry skull to the old woman.

The old woman was frozen, but her stunned eyes glittered.

She accepted the dry skull and hugged it tightly and gently.

”It's good that you're back.” A bright rainbow seemed to be flashing in the old woman's eyes. She raised the skull before her husband's eyes and said, ”Look, our grandson is back!”

The old man smiled happily, too.

He scratched his grandson's withered hair and said, ”I won't punish you for running away. Let's have breakfast…”

The two of them entered the house with the skull.

Betta felt weird watching all this.

Yet, he could not tell what exactly the weird part was.

The NPCs in this game were vivid, but their reaction was too strange. Normally, shouldn't grandparents cry when they see their grandson's skull?

With such a thought, Betta backed off and guarded the house.

He should be searching for other quests now, but a voice in his heart told him to stop and see what would happen to the old couple.

Delighted laughter burst from the house, entirely different from the gloom of before.

Something must be wrong with the game data.

Betta mumbled again and tried to leave, but his legs simply wouldn't budge, as if they had been nailed to the ground.