Chapter 717 [(*^▽^*)]
The NPC seemed slightly surprised to see the four of them, as if he hadn't expected it to be like this at all. "Oh, it's nothing. I think you know that the village chief is missing, so I led people to search house to house."
Ghost Lin Leyou nodded, "I understand, so do you want to come in and take a look?"
He waved his hand, "No need, sorry to bother you. I hope you have a nice day. By the way, what I just said was true, I hope you didn't misunderstand."
Ghost Lin Leyou smiled and nodded, "Thank you, we're discussing this right now."
He quickly led all the NPCs behind him away; they came fast and left fast.
They closed the door and returned indoors. Ghost Lin Leyou smirked and chuckled, “This NPC is definitely not simple. He doesn’t seem to be searching house to house; he’s just here for this place.”
Even if human Lin Leyou and human Xue Rui were incredibly stupid, they would know that they had been targeted by NPCs, and it was they who were leading the way for these NPCs.
Thankfully, they really didn't do that with those players, otherwise they would have been wiped out by the NPCs. I don't know how they made that judgment.
The ghost Xue Rui said, "I've been keeping an eye on those two for a while now. They brought so many NPCs with them; they're definitely planning to make a move."
Ghost Lin Leyou still had a smile on his face and seemed to be in a good mood. "It's just that this NPC probably never expected that there really is no village chief in this villa. None of us participated. He's probably quite depressed."
And he was right. After the young NPC led his people away from Villa No. 16, they returned to the vicinity of the square, and his expression was somewhat strange.
"That can't be right, I guessed wrong, it wasn't them."
At this moment, an elderly man stepped forward and said, "I told you it wasn't them. They were in the coffee shop when the incident happened. Although what they said was a bit suspicious, they definitely weren't involved."
"Okay, this time it was my fault. I'll learn from this and won't make the same mistake again."
The old man said, "Alright, forget about this quickly. We need to hurry up and find the village chief, otherwise things will get much worse by tonight!"
The young man said, "I wish I could, but the tunnel below hasn't been cleared yet, and we still don't know which house it belongs to or who the people are."
"Don't worry, while we clear the tunnels here, we'll send people to check all over the village. The people who kidnapped the village chief will definitely not leave the village, so they can only be hiding in other houses, especially those near the edge of the village, where it's safer."
The young man said, "Fine, I'll go get people to pay attention right now."
The entire village has a total of 10,000 people, which is just the right number. Each person is responsible for ten houses, and they are to knock on all the doors and report anything suspicious.
This can be considered casting a wide net. Although it may not be accurate, it can certainly yield a lot of information. All they need to do is filter out the information they need from this pool.
"How many houses are unanswered and whose owners cannot be identified?"
"There are 336 houses where the identity has not been confirmed and no one has responded."
"One hundred and sixty-two houses responded, but no one came to open the door."
"There were 621 houses where people opened their doors, but they angrily drove us away."
The young man immediately felt a headache coming on. There were more than a thousand of them, and they were scattered in every corner of the village. If he went to visit them all, he wouldn't be able to finish even if it got dark. What was he going to do?
The old man said, "In that case, let's wait until it gets dark. They definitely won't kill the village chief. Once he wakes up at night, we'll know where he is, and we might even be able to catch those little mice."
The young NPC was somewhat indignant, "Once we catch him, we'll chop him into pieces and give him to the village chief for his midnight snack!"
"Old Ancestor, why would the village chief need you to chop things into pieces for a midnight snack? Just swallow them whole, it's so much easier, and you won't get blood everywhere."
The young NPC immediately deflated, "Alright, whatever you say."
He didn't go to check the suspicious houses himself, but he sent others to investigate, just in case they found something before nightfall.
He waited in the square, and finally, before dark, the people below cleared the tunnel. The exit of the tunnel was in a house a few hundred meters away from the square.
Just as he had expected, the house was now completely empty.
But once this house was found, everything else became easier. People come and go in this village, and if the people living here wanted to move the village chief away, they would definitely be noticed.
Upon inquiry, he actually found someone who had seen him come out of the house.
The young NPC smiled and said, "You mean, someone was carrying someone in that direction, and there were other people protecting them?"
"Yes, I saw it with my own eyes, but I wasn't on this road at the time. I was on another one. I just glanced at it when I turned the corner, but I didn't look closely. I only know that they were going in this direction, but I don't know exactly where they were going."
The young man smiled and nodded, "It's alright, knowing one direction is enough."
He then looked at the person who had previously reported the suspicious houses to him, "How many suspicious houses are there in this direction again?"
"Hmm... there are twenty-five."
The young man's eyes lit up. "Great! Let's start by looking at the houses on the far side. They know the village chief's strength after he woke up, so they definitely won't be staying in the houses near the inside."
And he actually guessed right. The first house the young male NPC found was where the player was hiding, but they weren't blind.
They had already set up a lot of surveillance equipment outside. When so many NPCs came rushing towards them, how could they just sit and wait to be killed?
Just as they arrived, a few players stayed behind, while the rest led the still-sleeping village chief on a long detour to the other side of the village, where a player's house was located.
To avoid being discovered by the NPCs, they didn't circle around the village. Instead, they went to a more distant place, behind a small hill, and quickly circled around to the other side of the village, hiding in a house there.
At this time, the sun was setting in the west, and it would soon be evening. This meant that, for everyone, the village chief would soon awaken and transform into a snake-man monster.
The players who stayed in the house had a vague feeling that something was wrong.
"Since the village chief has already taken them away, there's no point in us staying here, right? Even if we stall for time, it probably won't last long, especially... I have a feeling these NPCs might attack us."
"What are you worried about? We've prepared all the props. Once we make our move, we can leave immediately without getting caught."
"Really? What if these NPCs have some special abilities or items that they could use to capture us?"
At this moment, a player who had quietly peeked out from the window said, "We'd better decide quickly. They're coming from this direction, it seems like they've discovered something!"
"I don't want to stay and die. I'm leaving now. You can stay if you want."
One player opened the window at the back of the house, climbed out, and escaped as quickly as possible. The remaining players were also quite frightened and didn't last long either, all escaping through the back window.
When the NPCs arrived nearby, they found that the house had its doors and windows tightly closed, the curtains drawn, and they couldn't see inside from the outside. They also knocked on the door but received no answer.
"There seems to be no one here. Should we force our way in?"
"The back window is open, but there's no one inside!"
An NPC noticed that the back window was open. After opening it and lifting the curtains, they could see inside. The house was quite small, and the entire interior could be seen at a glance.
The young male NPC raised an eyebrow in surprise, "Is there really no one here?"
"There really is no one there."
At this moment, the man walked to the back of the house, looked at the open window, and noticed several footprints on the windowsill. It was clear that someone had climbed out of the back window. He took out a scale that shimmered with blue-green light from his pocket and gently flashed it when he brought it close to the window.
He laughed. "Looks like they knew we were coming and moved out in advance. Oh well."
"Aren't you going to look for it anymore?"
He waved his hand, "What are you looking for? Can't you see it's getting dark? The village chief will wake up on his own soon and return to the square. Why do we need to look for him?"
"That's true. The village chief is so powerful. Let's all go to the square and wait. We'll see him soon."
"Go to the square? Aren't we going home? It's getting dark..."
The young male NPC said with a smile, "No need to go home today, everyone go to the square to wait for the village chief to return."
Everyone looked at each other, and finally believed what the NPC said. They all returned to the square. The big pit in the square was still the same, but it had been cleaned up. Even the tunnel had been filled in again, and there was no gap left.
The old man and the young man huddled together, talking about something, and then it got dark.
Just then, the players who had just hidden the village chief quickly left the house and ran to a patch of wasteland outside the village.
The village chief's house wasn't too far from this patch of yellow grass, which made it easy for them to observe the awakened snake-man monster... to see if they could take some scales from it.
At this moment, Lin Leyou and his three companions were also nervously observing the situation on the village chief's side.
One minute after nightfall, the door to the house was opened from the inside by the village chief, who had transformed into a snake-man monster.
He now looks like a monster, but his size is the same as that of an ordinary person. He opens the door just like a normal person, comes out, turns around and closes the door.
As he swam onto the road with his tail, his body began to grow rapidly and uncontrollably. His enormous head then reached over the rooftops and became taller than all the houses in the village.
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