Chapter 57 - IVY GROVE MANOR (II) (2/2)

As the Innkeeper said, this kind of incident had never happened in this village before.  Having an NPC with a title said that, Luo Yan believed that it was not something unimportant.  He could only assume for it to be true.  Given that he was only given a time limit of three hours to finish this task, there's no way he could check the whole history of this village.  Which meant that the player taking on this task was not supposed to check the history of the village.  Making it unrelated to the whole task.

This incident all started with the arrival of Miss Eliza.  The Innkeeper said that she was the first victim, already making her an important part of this task.  But was she really all just that?  What if with her arrival, she also brought over something?  Something that was taking these girls?  Maybe that something even took hold of the Ivy Grove Manor and now became its 'real' master.

Luo Yan looked at the time, he already spent more than half an hour talking with the NPCs here.  He wasn't planning to continue talking to the other three households.  Because he was sure they would all give the same informations.  So now, the only thing left for him to do was to go to this Ivy Grove Manor and discover the mystery behind it.

The informations he got from the NPCs here could be considered good or not.  At least he could be sure that the Sutton family had nothing to do with the disappearance of these girls.  Because, just like what the Innkeeper said, if this was some kind of ritual, related to the owners of Ivy Grove Manor, then something like this should have repeateadly happened in-between intervals of a certain number of years.  Because that's how a ritual worked.  But it didn't.

So, really, the most suspicious character here was that Miss Eliza.

Luo Yan sighed.  Why did it feel like he was playing a detective game instead of an RPG?  He could only blame the game designers of this VR version for their apparent taste for back stories.

He looked at his Items Tab.  He still had a lot of supporting items such as the purple and yellow potions.  With his Invisibility Cloak and his Shadow Walk, he could search Ivy Grove Manor without anyone seeing him.  He was still quite confident of his skills.  He just had to be quick about it.

So Luo Yan started walking towards the manor in question.  While walking, he couldn't help but wonder how Luo Jin was doing.  He hoped he's doing better than him.

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At this moment, Luo Jin was covered in slime and other things he couldn't care to mention.  He was already at the very edge of his temper.  Just a little bit more and he would lose it.

His task was to shoot 15 targets while going through a gruesome obstacle course with a time limit of an hour.  If he missed more than three targets, then he would fail the task.  He hadn't missed a target yet.  But he knew, with his temper, he's very close to missing one.  And he didn't want that.

He took a deep breathe and calmed herself.  Then he went and crawled under the barbed wire.  While crawling and swimming in the mud, he couldn't help but question his decision of picking this particular class.

Luo Jin only hoped that his second brother was doing much better than him.