"My name is Ying Ge."
Gu Nan subconsciously checked his Evil God Temple when he heard this sentence, but there was still no event completion notice.
'Why is it like this?'
This question only lingered for a moment before his experience as a top player allowed him to quickly find two possibilities.
Either the little girl in front of him was lying, or she was indeed called Ying Ge, but wasn't the Ying Ge he was looking for.
He once again turned his attention to the girl named Ying Ge. Gu Nan knew that she was definitely a very important character as soon as he saw her face.
Her face was almost identical to someone else's. No, to be exact, it was half a person. It was the left side of Zuo Zuo's face.
This little girl who called herself Ying Ge looked exactly like Zuo Zuo if the female left side of his face was restored whole.
'Why did Zi Yi bring me here to find someone who obviously has a connection to Zuo Zuo?'
'And what goal does that woman named Red have?'
These two thoughts echoed in Gu Nan's head and were then tossed aside—he wasn't interested in NPCs' conspiracies. He only cared about his own mission.
"It's still ahead…" Duanmu Yin's voice rang in Gu Nan's ear, shocking him.
He looked up. Unexpectedly, there was an entirely silver coffin behind the little girl.
The thoughts that hadn't dispersed yet returned instantly. Just because Gu Nan was too lazy to think too deeply about NPCs' matters didn't mean that he couldn't truly see through certain things.
'This Ying Ge isn't the one Zi Yi is looking for. Zi Yi should be looking for this coffin! As for the little girl called Ying Ge… Is it the woman named Red?'
Gu Nan began to realize that he seemed to have been drawn into two missions at once, one from Zi Yi and the other from Red.
The two missions had different goals, but they overlapped at one spot—that is, the Duanmu family's ancestral tomb.
Gu Nan didn't ponder this further and quickly walked up to the silver coffin with Duanmu Nianlan slung over his shoulder, lifting the coffin's lid with a wave of his hand.
A corpse was lying inside. The insides of coffins naturally contained corpses.
It was a corpse of an indescribably handsome man who looked to be in his mid-thirties. He was at the age where women of all ages would be smitten by his good looks.
No one knew how many years he'd been buried for, but not only did his appearance remain the same, even his skin showed no signs of decay.
But this handsome-looking uncle's image was only ruined by one thing—a crescent-shaped blade was stabbed into his heart.
Gu Nan had done missions for so many years. It was impossible for him to lack the ability to make such a simple connection. This curved blade was clearly the item he was looking for!
He raised his hand to pull out the curved blade, but two shouts of alarm came from behind him at the same time.
"You can't!"
"Please don't!"
The first came from Duanmu Sen, and the second actually came from the shadow servant Duanmu Yin.
Gu Nan's hand stopped just as he gripped the blade's handle, but he didn't pull it out immediately. He turned around and asked, "Why?"
Both of them seemed to give simultaneous sighs of relief, and Duanmu Yin said quickly, "In my memory… Something very bad will happen if that crescent blade is pulled out…"
Everything about shadow servants was fixed. They would neither recall more memories nor forget the ones they retained.
Duanmu Yin couldn't remember Zi Yi's goal anymore, but she still remembered that the curved blade shouldn't be pulled out.
On the other hand, Duanmu Sen was still human, and his memories would fluctuate. In the end, this was still his Duanmu family's ancestral tomb, so seeing this scene finally allowed him to recall something.
"You must not pull it out. Once we lose its suppression, the Blood Ancestor will immediately revive!" Duanmu Sen said with a grave expression.
"Blood Ancestor?" Gu Nan glanced at that handsome uncle, then transferred his consciousness to the Evil God Temple.
Still no notification.
He was almost certain that the crescent blade in front of him was "Ying Ge," because there were two ancient characters on the body of the blade, which were still vaguely recognizable.
But the Evil God Temple still hadn't judged his mission to be complete yet, so there was only one possibility.
In the game, the criteria by which the system determined mission completion might not be completely described in the mission's instructions.
For example, two missions could both have the same goal of "finding XX," but one mission might only require the player to see the target, while the other might require the player to obtain it.
The condition for mission completion was clearly more stringent this time. Even though Gu Nan had already grasped the target, that still didn't count as clearing the mission.
Gu Nan fell silent, seemingly hesitating. As a shadow servant, Duanmu Yin didn't feel much, but Duanmu Sen became anxious.
"The Blood Ancestor is a great demon from ten thousand years ago. It's said to be as immortal as the stars themselves. It's most certainly a Star Ruler level existence. If—"
Before he could finish, Gu Nan had already pulled out the crescent blade with a whoosh, causing Classmate Duanmu Sen's face to pale.
Gu Nan couldn't help shaking his head slightly.
On one side, there was the heinous demon who would plunge the world into chaos, while on the other side, there was his mission… Did he even need to think about it? What did world chaos have to do with Gu Nan?
When Gu Nan held the crescent blade in his hand, as he thought, the Evil God Temple finally shook slightly.
｢Evil Event Complete: Find Ying Ge. Total Evil Value obtained: 300｣
Gu Nan's eyes almost popped out after seeing this short line of words.
300 Evil Value!
Even if he was already at Tier 4 and had a level bonus; even if the event reward was related to the difficulty level; even if… No matter how many "even if"s, this was too frigging much!
No matter how he looked at it, "finding Ying Ge" wasn't a very difficult event.
Even without the hint from Red, Gu Nan still would've arrived at the Duanmu family's residence sooner or later—Floral Jasper Star was only so big, and the event was triggered here.
Plus, the strength of the Duanmu family itself was nothing much. If Gu Nan didn't want to save himself some trouble and some time, he had plenty of better methods to accomplish the mission.
Neither sneaking in quietly nor beating the Duanmu family's father and daughter to death were hard.
So then, what in the world was the meaning of such an excessive reward?
It was impossible for the Evil God Temple to make a mistake; Gu Nan knew this very well. Therefore, based on his experience, this unusual reward often signified another possibility.
This was an advance reward. There would be some additional difficult content after the mission was completed.
The uncle in the coffin began to move—first his fingers, then his arms, and finally his whole body.
He sat up slowly, then opened his eyes and calmly scanned his surroundings.
"Blood Ancestor!" Duanmu Sen couldn't help exclaiming. He had already accumulated energy to attack. The Shinto golden body condensed behind him, ready to strike.
However, Gu Nan didn't rush to attack. Instead, he asked, "Who are you?"
"I'm Zi Dian." The handsome uncle shot Gu Nan a friendly smile. "Little brother, were you the one who saved me? Thank you very much."
Duanmu Sen stared blankly. This person's deadly earnest appearance really didn't seem like an act.
Gu Nan nodded, then turned to look at the little girl called Ying Ge on the other side and asked expressionlessly, "So then, you are?"
"Thank you very much as well." Ying Ge revealed a charming smile. She had changed her outfit at some point and was now wearing a blood-red cloak with a cape behind her. Even her hair became blood-red.
"I am Ying Ge—Blood Ancestor Ying Ge."