Mission 3: This time we are going to follow the path of Liao Zhai!

In the third mission, Qin Ruqing was given a magical weapon at the beginning.

A dark red curved knife, slender and beautiful, yet sharp and murderous.

Qin Ruqing took the knife in her hand, was silent for a while, and said to the air: "Well, I don't know how to use a knife..." Before she finished speaking, the curved knife turned into a sword.

Qin Ruqing shook the sword, stopped making a fuss, and nodded.

She was not good at swordsmanship, of course, she would throw away the fancy posture. At her level, it didn't matter what weapon she had in her hand, just like the sword used by the fifth Youlin, it was just a medium for releasing magic.

"It seems that the third mission will be bloody..." Qin Ruqing made this conclusion calmly.

Weapons were distributed at the beginning, so it was hard to say that this mission would be peaceful and easy. But to be honest, Qin Ruqing was not worried, but rather a little excited.

After the first two missions, her physique had been qualitatively strengthened, and now she was no longer a fragile mage. She was just looking for a qualified opponent to test her current level.

Qin Ruqing was in high spirits and ready to show her skills. The dark screen inside the Trial Tower began to change, and Qin Ruqing closed her eyes calmly -

when she came to her senses again, she was in a crowded street. She didn't know if the sanitation on the street was good, but there was a faint smell of foul smell. Qin Ruqing couldn't help but frowning, but she glanced at herself from the corner of her eye. She was wearing gray clothes full of patches.

She reached out her hand belatedly, and found mud in the gaps between her nails

. She touched her head again, and found her hair was like a nest of straw.

She looked around and saw someone squatting at a corner of the street, with a broken bowl with a hole in it at her feet .

Pedestrians passing by her covered their noses, showed a look of disgust, and then quickened their pace to leave.

It is easy to deduce a conclusion from the above situation - she unlocked a new identity in the Cave of Mysterious Rules: a little beggar.

Is this another illusion? Is this a plot twist?

Qin Ruqing remained calm and quietly used her spiritual power, but found nothing. She tried to summon her innate magical power, fire, but it was still empty.

In other words, she is now a mortal who cannot be more ordinary.

Well, start all over again, Qin Ruqing couldn't help but sigh.

This mature sigh attracted a young woman who was passing by with a basket hanging from her arm. In her other hand, she was holding a little girl, who looked about the same size as the beggar Qin Ruqing was now.

The young woman glanced at Qin Ruqing, noticed her clear and calm eyes, paused, and actually walked to Qin Ruqing's side and put two copper coins in the broken bowl at her feet.

The woman didn't say a word to Qin Ruqing. After putting the money down, she took the little girl away. Qin Ruqing took a look at the copper coins in the bowl, raised her head, squinted her eyes, and remembered the direction the woman left. Qin Ruqing

stretched out her hand to pick up the money in the bowl, and the "colleagues" who were watching nearby looked at each other and swarmed up to grab it. They looked to be about ten years old, much stronger than Qin Ruqing's current beggar body.

Seeing that Qin Ruqing was about to be knocked to the ground, the tallest boy who snatched the copper plate suddenly cried out in pain, and Qin Ruqing, who was pressed to the ground, actually grabbed his wrist with one hand.

Qin Ruqing clearly didn't use much strength, but the boy almost knelt down in pain. Looking at Qin Ruqing's cold eyes, the boy suddenly felt creepy, and hurriedly threw the copper money into Qin Ruqing's broken bowl, shouting:

"Give it back to you!"

Qin Ruqing let go of his hand, and the little beggars who were traveling with him stood there for a while, and then ran away in a swarm.

Qin Ruqing calmly picked up the copper money in the bowl and ran to the bun shop next door to buy two buns.

As far as she could remember, she had never used copper coins, because no matter how small the Qin family was, it was one of the three great families in Nanling Village, and they usually used spirit crystals. It was the first time Qin Ruqing used copper coins, and she didn't expect that her purchasing power was so strong that she could buy two buns.

The boss of the bun shop happened to watch the fight among the beggars. While wrapping buns for Qin Ruqing with oil paper, he said, "I didn't expect that your arms, a little beggar, are as thin as firewood sticks, but you have a big one!" That was pinched by someone.

Qin Ruqing took the buns and ate them while standing without saying a word. She couldn't explain to the boss that she had just pinched the boy's acupoints, because that was too inconsistent with her current identity as a little beggar.

The boss of the bun shop looked at the little beggar who was only focused on eating, and shook his head, not understanding why he had the leisure to chat with a beggar.

"Little beggar, go eat over there, it will delay my business if you stay here." The boss' tone was not bad, he was telling the truth.

Qin Ruqing had already finished the buns. She had been fasting for a long time, and eating so fast was purely a subconscious reaction of her body.

Before leaving, Qin Ruqing asked: "Boss, where is the direction that kind-hearted woman just went?"

The boss looked in the direction Qin Ruqing pointed, and said clearly: "Oh, the front is Yuxiang, and the people living there are all wealthy families in our town."

"Yes, I still recognize the person who gave you the copper plate just now. She is the young lady of the Lu family in Yuxiang, a famous philanthropist in this area!"

Qin Ruqing nodded to indicate that she had remembered it, and then returned to her work post, piling up garbage in the corner.

When her colleagues squatting next to her saw her coming back, they all avoided her as if they were frightened.

Qin Ruqing leaned against the corner of the wall and wondered in her heart, Lu family... will it be related to the plot?

About three days passed in the dreamland. During these three days, Qin Ruqing robbed food from other beggars. The strong prey on the weak. They also robbed her at the beginning. Now it was her turn to rob. Qin Ruqing had no psychological worries.

On the third day, the plot took a turn. After becoming a beggar, Qin Ruqing paid more attention to cleaning the dirt. After washing her face, she looked pretty. She was noticed by the boss of the pawnshop and coaxed away from the beggars.

Qin Ruqing naturally went with her.

She thought that according to the script, she might be sold to a brothel...

But the plot was more decent than Qin Ruqing thought. She was not sold to a brothel, but bought by a wealthy family to be a maid.

The pawnbroker stared at her and said with some regret: "This little face will definitely fetch a high price if sold to a brothel, but you are lucky. Not long ago, the Lu family in Yuxiang said they wanted to pick a little girl, and specifically asked for a neat-looking girl around ten years old. The price they offered was not low... After looking around, you are the most suitable, so let's do it this way."

The Lu family...

Qin Ruqing was washed clean and taken to see the young lady of the Lu family. It was the kind woman who gave her the copper plate before.

The woman did not recognize her as the little beggar that day, because her face was now washed clean.

The woman was very satisfied with her appearance and gave Qin Ruqing some advice. It turned out that the Lu family spent a lot of money to buy the little girl from the pawnshop, and they specifically asked her to look neat and tidy, about ten years old, in order to select a playmate of the same age for the woman's daughter.

Qin Ruqing felt a little strange after hearing this. Why did they choose a playmate for their daughter from a pawnshop? Wouldn't it be better to find a little girl from a relative or friend's family? It

was not until Qin Ruqing actually saw the woman's daughter that he understood.

This little girl of the Lu family was born abnormal! She only has four fingers, and her nails are very sharp, so they have to be trimmed once a day. In addition, she has eyes. They look fine under normal light, but at night, their pupils become vertical.

Qin Ruqing: Okay, the style of painting gradually becomes more and more elegant.

The little girl's wet nurse strictly disciplined Qin Ruqing in private: not a single word about the little girl's true situation could be revealed to the outside world, and Qin Ruqing's indenture was in their hands. If Qin Ruqing leaked the news, she would be in trouble!

Qin Ruqing naturally nodded, not daring to say more.

In addition to the strange body of the little girl, her personality was also a little more active, but other aspects were normal. Qin Ruqing felt that this new job was relatively easy.

A few days later, Qin Ruqing met the male owner of the Lu family.

He was tall and handsome, and treated his wife and daughter especially well. He would come back in time to accompany his wife and children after dealing with things outside, and in the evening, he would draw for his wife and daughter under the grape vines in the moonlight.

Qin Ruqing happened to see this scene. She leaned against the pillar with her chest in her hands, without commenting.

It was a dark and windy day, and it happened to be a full moon. There was movement in the main house.

Qin Ruqing suddenly opened her eyes in the corner room, tiptoed to the window, and saw the male owner push open the door of the courtyard and leave.

Qin Ruqing followed him. Although she did not have spiritual energy, she mastered the method of holding her breath. In addition, she was young and timid, so there was no sound when she walked. It was just a person, and there was no problem at all.

Qin Ruqing saw the male owner twisting and turning, and finally jumped onto the roof of a room, and his figure disappeared.

When Qin Ruqing found the direction to spy, what she saw was the male owner showing his demon eyes and stretching out his claws to dig out the dirty heart of a mortal.

Hmm... It's really the route of Liao Zhai. Qin Ruqing clicked her tongue in her heart, and tiptoed back to the Lu family.

In the following days, Qin Ruqing deliberately paid attention to the movements of the male owner and found that he went out to collect the heart dirt once a month.

The demons killing innocent people is certainly not without cost. They will be entangled with karma, which is manifested in the increasingly heavy demonic aura and the increasingly irritable temper of the male and female owners.

This is not a big deal. The problem is that the male owner's hunting of mortal heart dirt seems to have reached a point and a qualitative change has occurred - the male owner's demonic aura began to backfire on the female owner, and the female owner gradually weakened.

Qin Ruqing has always had a good impression of this only kind person in the Lu family, who once gave her two copper coins.

She knew that it was time for her to take action.

A slender sword appeared in Qin Ruqing's hand. It was the one that the Trial Tower gave her when she entered the mission.

When the plot was halfway through, Qin Ruqing knew what she should do.

The sword must drink blood, and she must kill all those who should be killed.

That monster has hunted at least a hundred mortals, and it is self-evident who should be killed.

The night Qin Ruqing went to the main house to hunt, the male and female owners happened to have a fierce quarrel.

Qin Ruqing looked at the sky. It was a full moon night. Today seemed to be the day when the male owner went out hunting.

Qin Ruqing stood on the roof with a sword in her arms like a cat, listening to the movement inside.

The hostess said weakly, "Don't go... Don't go again in the future."

The host was shocked: "You know everything?!"

"So many people died in the town, and you went out every full moon night. I am your bedmate, how could I not notice anything? And, our daughter, Xier, she..." The hostess's voice became lower and lower, "A long time ago, I knew that you were a demon."

The main house was silent for a long time, and the host did not speak.

After a long time, his hoarse voice came: "I have no choice... Otherwise, I can't maintain my human body! Otherwise, how can we give birth to Xier!" The host was emotional.

This time, the hostess was silent. She seemed to have struggled for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking a question that had been hidden in her heart:

"Will Xier become like you in the future..."

The two words "like you" seemed particularly harsh, and the male owner seemed to be poked in the sore spot, laughing: "Like me, what am I like? Xier is my daughter, isn't it normal for her to be like me!"

After laughing, his expression became gloomy: "I have lived in the human world for so long, and I have never felt that humans are superior to us beasts! Humans are hypocritical, insidious, and cunning! If it weren't for you, for Xier, I wouldn't have become this appearance that is neither human nor beast!!"

"Beast, but you are a demon..." The hostess didn't understand.

The male owner didn't seem to want to argue with her about this issue, because he knew that he couldn't understand it.

His tone became gentle again, as if coaxing, "Don't worry, Xier. I will feed her some human blood later. Before long, her beastly abnormalities will gradually disappear. By then, she will be the same as a normal child!"

Qin Ruqing heard this, gently lifted the tile, and put one eye in.

At this time, the hostess was paralyzed on the ground. The host knelt on one knee in front of her, with his hands on her shoulders, his eyes filled with strange excitement, "Let me go... This kind of life will not last long. As long as I find a way to offset the backlash of the rules, I won't have to kill people in the future! Believe me!" Seeing that

the hostess did not respond, the host stood up directly, and the hostess could only weakly grab the corner of his robe.

Qin Ruqing saw that the male owner's patience had run out, so she finally lifted the tiles completely and jumped down.

Suddenly, there was another person in the room. She was agile and held a thin sword in her hand. She looked at them, especially at her husband. Although she was smiling, her eyes were sharper than the sword in her hand.

The hostess trembled and suddenly felt a crisis from the soul. It was not about her, but about...

The hostess suddenly stood in front of the male owner and shouted: "Don't kill him!"

The male owner looked at Qin Ruqing, but he only felt ridiculous: "You are Xier's maid, you dare to kill me?!" Although he said so, he sensed the danger in Qin Ruqing, so his expression was very alert.

Qin Ruqing didn't look at him, but only at the hostess.

Tears rolled down the hostess's cheeks. She trembled and said, "I remember you, the little beggar on the roadside that day. Because your eyes looked like Xi'er, I gave you two copper coins. Although I didn't recognize you at first, I later..."

"For the sake of those two copper coins, sir, don't kill him!"

Qin Ruqing said calmly, "Madam, he deserves to die."

"Not because he is a beast, but because he killed hundreds of innocent mortals."

After saying that, the sword was unsheathed. Under the hostess's horrified eyes, a cold light flashed, and the sword pierced the chest of the male host.

It's not that he didn't want to hide, but he couldn't hide at all. Qin Ruqing's movements were so fast that he couldn't catch them.

The male master's throat made a hoarse sound, and he looked at the sword that pierced his chest in disbelief. If it had only pierced his heart, he could still be saved, but this sword actually pierced his beast core accurately.

Knowing his fate, the male master looked at the female master reluctantly, and finally fell down.

The sword drank the blood of the beast, and Qin Ruqing's mind was reminded that her mission had been completed.

It was not difficult for her to kill a beast that loved his wife and daughter but caused trouble to the people around him, and she didn't feel any burden in her heart.

But she still felt resentful.

Qin Ruqing remembered the hatred in her female benefactor's eyes when she took action.

She also has a daughter with half-beast blood, how can they survive...

But what does this have to do with her, Qin Ruqing - this is just an illusion of the Trial Tower.

Qin Ruqing thought indifferently, and was a little surprised at her indifference. Before she could think about it, it had been spread.