◎Either the East District or the South District, choose one of the two!◎
More than 60 pieces of equipment put up for sale by Yamato Mitsuyo were removed in an instant. Some players who had not yet had the chance to buy them regretted it, but more of them were madly cursing the seller named "Yamato Mitsuyo".
There are several blacksmiths in the Royal City, and Bruce is not the only one, but he is the best blacksmith in the Royal City. His death is still hard for some players to accept.
Because of his exceptional craftsmanship, Bruce always charges players higher fees than several other blacksmith NPCs, so only players with more money will find Bruce and give him equipment with better attributes to repair.
After all, if they repair it themselves or hand it over to other blacksmiths with inferior skills, the failure rate of their equipment repair will increase greatly. Rather than taking the risk of repair failure, it is better to spend a little more money and hand it over to Bruce, who is less troublesome.
Therefore, Bruce's warehouse is filled with some of the finest equipment in the world! Some have special effects, others have incredible attributes; it's safe to say that none of them are ordinary.
These equipments, which are definitely not ordinary goods, actually appeared in the trading center at the same time and were sold by a man named Yamato Mitsuyo!
Those who recognized the original owners of the equipment in the picture were all very excited!
"So the one who killed Bruce wasn't actually Natsuhi Rika, but this Yamato Mitsuyo?!"
Unless the NPC opens their warehouse, normal players have no way of directly accessing it. And with Bruce's explosive temper, it's a good thing he didn't chase the players away. Expecting him to be so kind as to open his warehouse? Absolutely impossible!
Then there is only one possibility left - killing the NPC.
Just like a thief breaking into a house and killing someone in real life, the owner's possessions are naturally left to the thief to steal. The same thing happened with Bruce's warehouse. Yamato and Mitsuyo killed Bruce, leading to him taking all the players' equipment that Bruce had stored in the backyard.
"I'm so pissed! The bracelet I worked so hard to get is in his hands!"
"I asked you all before, saying Bruce is dead. What should we do with the equipment we handed over to him? But none of you responded to me. So, this guy stole it."
"So that post below is a deliberate attempt to slander Xia Ri Li Hua? This person is so awesome, he's playing us around like crazy here, right?"
"Can we collectively file a complaint with the authorities? As long as this cancer isn't eradicated, we won't have peace for the rest of our lives!"
"You're right, they killed important NPCs, framed innocent players, and stole my equipment. I'm going to file a complaint right now!"
"No need to complain. This VIP customer is here to tell you personally that I've called to complain. The customer service lady said they'll investigate and give me the results within three days. Just wait, I still trust the official."
"Alright! I'll check this guy's background right now and make sure he's in big trouble!"
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Different from the heated arguments on the forum, Xia Li, who had already arrived at the Locke Lumberyard on the lava beast Xiaoguai, was in a particularly good mood. She had been feeling a little depressed when she first lay down in the warehouse, but now, because of the uproar on the forum, she felt much happier.
All this is thanks to Pipixia and his guild.
In the attachment package of the task order, Xia Li saw the detailed investigation process and results of Pipixia.
With Pipixia's careful consideration and unambiguous attitude, he successfully located the time of the screenshot through the game screenshot in the original post - around 12 o'clock in the morning.
"Dear employer, you may be confused. How could this picture, which is bright and sunny, be taken in the middle of the night? Don't worry, let me explain."
"Based on official background research, I've confirmed that the weather in the Royal City was mostly cloudy for three days before and after Bruce's death. Only at night did the clouds disperse, revealing the moonlight. The bright light in the screenshot is clearly not typical of the Royal City's recent weather."
"There are two possibilities: one is that the picture was taken a long time ago, and the other is that the picture was taken at night, but was later processed to adjust the light to daytime tones."
"Regarding the first hypothesis, I disagree. I personally believe that Bruce's murder was impulsive. No one knew when Xia Rihua would come to Bruce to repair her equipment. Therefore, the murderer only planned to frame her after seeing her interact with Bruce."
"The first guess is ruled out, so the only option left is the second one."
"I downloaded the image and adjusted the color tone to a dark night color. Then I compared it with the official video footage of the Royal City. I found that the adjusted light intensity, projection angle, and projection length all matched the footage."
"I checked and compared the time, and finally locked the screenshot time to 12 o'clock in the morning, because at that time the moonlight was at its peak. If it was adjusted to daytime, it could easily be mistaken for sunlight."
It must be said that Xia Li really admired Pipixia's rigorous attitude. The task list was filled with a lot of logical reasoning and evidence, and he successfully narrowed the time frame and accelerated his collection progress.
Afterwards, by visiting the NPCs around Bruce and the players who passed by Bruce's house at 12 o'clock in the morning, he quickly obtained a unified account and directly locked on Murphy, Che An and Yamato Mitsuyo based on their appearance characteristics.
Everything made sense, but Xia Li remembered something and asked, "What's the meaning of the word 'pear' under the banyan tree?"
She remembered the Demon Hunter telling her that there were no words under the banyan tree at first, and it wasn't until she woke up the next day that she discovered an extra word. And it was this word "pear" that successfully led many players to believe that she was the murderer!
Pipixia replied to her in the task list: "It seems that these three murderers are not very smart. In order to prove Xia Rilihua's murder, they climbed over the wall and came back halfway through taking the photo. They deliberately wrote this word on the ground and then photoshopped it into the picture."
So that's how it is. The people that the Demon Hunter mentioned had entered Bruce's yard on the way turned out to be Murphy's three idiots.
It's really unnecessary and superfluous.
Xia Li chuckled, very satisfied with Mantis shrimp's performance. At the same time, the grudge she had against Mantis shrimp was completely erased.
She opened the mercenary group system, confirmed that the mission was completed, and the 150 gold mission reward was immediately transferred to Pipixia's account.
"We're rich!" Pipixia was so excited that tears streamed down his face. Oh, heaven and earth, all the hard work he'd done these past few days with his brothers was worth it. Finally, he'd fulfilled his employer's trust and successfully closed the order! With 150 gold in hand, they finally had enough money to buy better equipment!
Pipixia hugged his brothers one by one, ready to celebrate later, when suddenly, the friend icon began to flash.
Someone actually took the initiative to look for him?
Pipixia exclaimed, even though he was very handsome, manly and charismatic, it was unlikely that a little girl would fall in love with him so soon, right?
So I opened the friend list with a little excitement.
[Summer Pear Blossom: Mission accomplished! Keep up the good work!]
Mantis shrimp:?
Wait! His employer is the Pear God?!
At the same time, Xia Li, who had sent a message to Pipixia, exited the chat box contentedly, hoping that her words did not scare the other party.
Xia Li thought of countless ways to punish Yamato Mitsuyo and the others, but after thinking about it, she found that the most effective way was to treat them in their own way.
Isn't she a person who likes to post hate messages? Fine, she can follow suit and post a counterattack.
She had checked in Bruce's yard that day and found that all the boxes originally used to store players' equipment had been emptied, including the Night Skeleton Armor she had given to Bruce.
Murphy and his two companions stole so much equipment that they definitely couldn't use it all. It's impossible for the remaining equipment to just be placed in the backpack and take up space.
Equipment is like gold coins; the longer it is kept, the more it depreciates. Xia Li guessed that the three of them would sooner or later take the extra equipment to the trading center to sell it.
As she expected, just a few days later, Yamato Mitsuyo could no longer suppress her desire to exchange money and threw dozens of pieces of equipment into the trading center.
Even more fortuitously, not long after she logged in, she received a message from Cheng Tianxia, who was setting up a stall at the trading center. He asked her why the Skeleton Night Armor had been put up for sale. Xia Li briefly explained the situation, and Cheng Tianxia was furious. He immediately took screenshots of the entire batch of equipment uploaded at the same time and sent them to her, as she had requested.
So she posted anonymously.
Xia Li chuckled, some people deserve to reap what they sow.
[Area Map: Locke Lumberyard]
When she was ambushed by a demon hunter in the royal city before, she picked up a berry from him. Berries are only produced in this area, which means that the demon hunter has most likely been here.
Considering that the Demon Hunter was once raised by a Skeleton Mage, Xia Li guessed that there might be information about the Skeleton Mage or even the Magic Ring hidden here.
The logging site map is not big. Since no one has lived there for a long time, the place where the wood was originally piled has long been overgrown with knee-high weeds, and red berries are hanging in the weeds.
While Xia Li was cleaning up the small monster cheetah cubs here, she was observing around the logging site.
Half an hour later, she had cleared out all the level 20 cheetah cubs, and the experience points she gained allowed her to level up by half a level. She also picked up a lot of leopard skins for refining tough equipment. She planned to give the leopard skins to Chengtianxia someday to save that guy from robbing her all day long, and even skipping meals to save money for refining equipment.
After finishing all this, Xia Li looked at the level column which said 26, and it was only 4 levels away from 30.
After reaching level 30, it is a new world. The guild battle mode will be opened, the home system will be online, and at the same time, more ruined city maps will be updated synchronously. The player's gameplay will become more and more diverse. I believe she will be even busier at that time.
As a person who has been reborn, she must seize every opportunity to change her destiny, and the home system that is about to be launched is another great opportunity to change her and even change a city.
Unfortunately, activating the home system requires a large amount of gold coins and high reputation. She has her own way to obtain the latter. She just needs to accept more tasks from the NPCs in the royal city. She remembers the names and coordinates of some important NPCs. Completing each task can earn her 5 to 20 reputation points. It won't take long for her to accumulate 100 reputation points.
But the former - gold coins, this is hard to say.
Right now, she only had 2,200 gold in her account, which put her far behind the other wealthy players, but still a lot richer than the poorest ones at the bottom. It was a bit of a middle ground, more than enough for a few casual purchases, but not enough for serious business.
In particular, she wanted to open her home in the east or south district of the royal city, which was about to be expanded. The price would be double that of opening it in the west or north district!
In her previous life, she didn’t have enough money, so she ended up settling her home in the cheapest North District. But after moving there, she discovered that there really was a reason for the low land price!
The weather is bad, the vegetation is sparse, the resources are insufficient, and there is a lack of business... It really has nothing. Compared with the wealthy East District and South District, it is simply shabby and ugly.
Later, she wanted to move again, but the system told her that she needed to pay an additional 800 gold in household registration transfer fees.
This was a huge sum of money for her, who was so poor at the time. How could she bear to spend it? In the end, she had no choice but to give up and reluctantly live in the North District.
After being reborn in this life, Xia Li said she would never live in the North District again. She would choose between the East District or the South District!
No matter how expensive the activation fee is, she will earn the 2,500 gold required by the system at all costs!
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