You Huan followed the sound and walked towards where the townspeople gathered.
Currently, he has increased his body length to about three meters through upgrades. It still does not look very intimidating, but it is very useful in hiding.
Considering the strange situation in Chengzhou and the suspected existence of a main-sized monster, he sneaked all the way, walking in the shadows of the buildings, and found the townspeople who were quarreling.
"Hey Wang Lao Er, did you steal our chicken?"
On one side, the whole family joined the fight. The most ferocious middle-aged woman stood in front, pointing at the man on the other side and cursing.
The man she pointed at was tall, thin and hunched, with large red spots all over his dark skin, as if he had some skin disease.
Facing the question, he just lazily curled his fingers, scratched the red spots on his skin, and muttered: "No... that's your chicken that ran away from the hole in the wall..."
"You still don't admit it?! My son saw you grab a chicken from the wall of my house and run away!" The middle-aged woman pulled the little boy who was hiding behind his father and cursed as if she was about to jump up.
"You shameless person, you wander around town all day long. Today you stole our chickens, and tomorrow you stole money from Old Chen's house. Do you think you are still a human being? Everyone, come and judge for yourself!"
"That's right, Wang Laoer, you are already an adult, stop doing such stupid things."
"Now that there's something wrong with the river water, life is hard for everyone."
The surrounding villagers immediately echoed the words.
"…"
Amidst more and more accusations directed at him, Wang Laoer just stood there in silence, scratching his skin with increasing force.
"Itchy, itchy..." he murmured occasionally.
The nails scratched the red spots with increasing force and speed.
"Tear——"
Suddenly, he seemed to exert force suddenly, blood oozed from his skin, and his nails dug into the flesh.
With a sticky sound of blood and flesh sticking together, a whole piece of bloody skin was peeled off from his right cheek!
As if it was not enough, he continued to scratch the skin along the edge of the wound. After only a few scratches, his entire face was like the loose and crispy outer shell of a fresh meat mooncake, which fell off with a slight touch.
The bright red muscles under his skin squirmed, and he suddenly yelled, "Yes! I stole it, it was all stolen by me! I ate it all, what do you want to do to me?!"
"...Wow!" The middle-aged woman's son was so frightened that he burst into tears.
Hearing the annoying cry of the child, Wang Laoer suddenly rushed over, snatched the woman's son from her hands, peeled off the child's body with his fingers, stuffed it into his mouth and ate it all in one gulp.
The woman was startled by Wang Laoer. She looked up and saw half of her child's arm still dangling from Wang Laoer's mouth. She got angry and strode forward, shoved Wang Laoer hard, and shouted sharply:
"Wang Lao Er, what do you mean? I only have one son in my family. How can you eat him like this?"
Wang Lao Er snorted: "Don't you have another daughter?"
"You rotten face!" The middle-aged woman raised her eyes and stuck out her tongue. "I'm going to fight you!"
"Ah!" Wang Laoer was hit hard by her again, and his arm just turned up and hit his face. His skinless face seemed to be glued to his arm with glue and could not be separated.
The woman stretched out her leather-like arms and hit Wang Laoer hard. Wang Laoer's waist was immediately bent to the side by the blow.
Part of the chest and buttocks touched each other in the bend and also stuck together.
The skin fell off his body with a "rustling" sound, and he suddenly became angry. He rushed forward and bit the woman's coarse cloth clothes, shouting fiercely.
The clothes seemed like a piece of tough leather was torn off, and light-colored blood slowly seeped out from the torn wound.
The woman screamed, "What are you still standing there for? Come and help!"
The townspeople who had been watching the battle with great interest suddenly woke up from their dreams and came forward one after another. The woman's taciturn husband also joined the battle.
In the blink of an eye, everything was in chaos. Only a child from an unknown family was standing alone outside the crowd, and his wailing voice pierced the sky.
You Huan stood on the roof of the cowshed, a little stunned.
In his eyes, these townspeople were almost complete monsters, and they no longer had any human appearance.
But they still retain human language function and a certain degree of thinking function, but this kind of thinking has obviously undergone some not-so-good changes.
Perhaps in their own perception, they were just engaging in an ordinary dispute and quarrel among the townspeople.
But in his opinion, just after such a short quarrel, the degree of change of these people has deepened.
The bloated woman had her facial features all standing upright and her clothes had all turned into part of her body.
Wang Laoer's skin had fallen off all over his body, his body was stuck together like a ball, and his teeth were particularly sharp.
The little girl who was standing next to the adults and crying loudly, her mouth seemed to expand infinitely upwards and downwards, like a black hole occupying her entire face.
They all seem to have certain characteristics as normal people, and have transformed into different monsters.
If the entire Chengzhou is in this state, how can he save this place...
As he was thinking, a screen suddenly popped up in front of him.
[General Mission: Rescue Yangzhen. [■■: Random Power Card*1, ■■■■■]]
Oh... there is a mission... wait.
Suddenly, his entire brain seemed to turn into a mess. He could feel that he remembered something, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not remember what he was thinking about.
There's a vague, empty feeling stuck in my heart, which makes me feel uncomfortable.
Mission... Mission...
panel...
He suddenly recalled that in the previous world, ordinary tasks appeared very late.
A flash of inspiration came to me, and the fog in my mind was dispelled.
He said something was wrong... The panel was too quiet!
Apart from checking Qinglong's monster card and using the upgrade function, he never thought of checking the taskbar, as if he had forgotten the task of collecting monster cards in each world.
Completing all collection tasks is a necessary condition for leaving this world with the monster cards.
So far, he has never experienced a situation where a collection mission was delayed or he died as a monster in the world of the heavens.
He was also not sure what would happen if he failed to complete the collection task for a long time and something unexpected happened in this world?
When he realized everything, the panel seemed to have been wiped off a thick layer of dust, and dense historical messages appeared on the message board that was originally empty.
[Note: This world has unknown impacts worldwide, and the panel function may be affected. ]
[Affected by the function card, the monster card has been temporarily locked. ]
[Note: You have entered the core area of this world, the panel may or may not be affected. ]
[Awareness detected, the monster card has been unlocked. ]
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[Monster Card [Fairy Beast (Blue Dragon)] enters activated state. ]
[Collection Mission 1 has been opened.]
[Collection Mission 1■■■■■■■■■■■■]
[Collection Mission 1 has been opened.]
[Normal mission■■■■■■■■■■]
[Collection Mission 1 has been opened.]
[Collection Mission 1: Revitalize the land of at least one state and make it a fertile land. [Reward: Monster Element·■■]]
The last thing that appeared was the ordinary task of saving the town that just popped up.
Looking at the poor signal prompt on the panel, You Huan felt that he had been betrayed by this world.
It's not so much that he forgot about the mission, but rather that the concept of "mission" was directly erased from his cognition.
He wouldn't think there was anything unusual.
This is a tampering at the level of thinking, just like the townspeople in front of us who ate children because they were annoyed, peeled off their skin because of an itch, and turned into monsters without feeling anything was wrong.
The most terrifying thing is that he did not realize that he was also affected and almost made a huge mistake unknowingly.
Fortunately, the panel was able to function well and pop up a task, which made him realize that something was wrong.
As his own realm improves, various aspects of the panel become smarter and more powerful.
If he were himself at a certain stage in the past, he might have been trapped in this world forever.
When he realized something was wrong, his beard trembled and he sneezed violently, as if Qinglong's instinct had issued a warning.
Maybe there's something else wrong...
But he couldn't be paranoid right now.
Although some of the text in the normal mission is distorted, it's basically about saving the town.
However, he did not show up to pull apart the fighting townspeople. Instead, he retreated quietly and sneaked into each house in the town to check.
As expected, there is a river in front of the town, and the townspeople usually use the river water directly for daily use.
He saw that the water in the townspeople's cups, wooden basins, and even in the iron pot where fish was stewing was dark red like pig blood, partially clumped and sticky, exactly the same as the water in the river he saw when he looked down at the entire Chengzhou from high above.
It would be strange if this kind of water didn't mutate if you use it every day.
If he wants to save this town and even the entire Chengzhou, he must have access to purified, pure water sources.
He patted his neck and a green vine emerged.
He used his mind to ask You Qingqing whether it could purify the river water.
You Qingqing immediately bounced left and right happily, and uttered a simple and childish thought: [Eat! Eat! Eat!]
It means it's okay.
But when he placed its vines into a pot of polluted water, he was silenced.
Purification is possible, but purifying a pot of water in half a minute is still too slow.
You know, Chengzhou has a dense network of rivers, with countless amounts of water, but all of it is polluted.
If efficiency is to be improved, You Qingqing's vines must expand on a large scale, which will not only make them conspicuous but also make them vulnerable to attack.
You Qingqing's purification function is more suitable for purifying "prey".
Then... he can only rely on himself.
For large-scale purification, if the purity requirement is not high, he does have a method that would be more suitable...
After a moment, the townspeople, who were already severely distorted and even several of them were stuck together in a melee, looked up and found that—
It started to rain in the town. (End of this chapter)