Fire Monster

Chapter 23 Good intentions
"Ah! Help!"

Hearing the shrill screams, Yang Mao helplessly rang the bronze bell. If the team could not lose any members, it would mean that they would lose the bounty mission in the Demon Village.

As the sound of the bronze bell spread, the inky night sky suddenly receded like a tide, and a light lit up from above the head. It was a unique imperial oil lamp, not very big, but very exquisite. The light it emitted could cover an area of ​​several hundred feet, like a small sun.

"Follow the Imperial Seal Oil Lamp. You have one cup of tea to rest. Also, except for the magic pills obtained from killing evil demons, no other items in the Demon Village may be taken out."

A majestic voice came from a distance. It was a teacher from the Wuke Department, and he was obviously very angry.

Yang Mao and ten other students from the military department were as embarrassed as to face people, just like eggplants hit by frost.

They have always been conceited and have always considered themselves to be the top martial arts students of this year. This time they formed a team of ten, and always thought they could kill a lot of people. As a result, they ran around the town like mad dogs during the day, only killing a few low-level demons. Their biggest gain was picking up a bunch of psychic weapon parts.

After much trouble and racking their brains, they finally assembled a psychic spear, but the difficulty became completely different after nightfall. The ten of them tried their best and only held on for a moment before they had to surrender.

Shame!
shame!

Moreover, the bounty offered by the Demon Village was totally unreasonable, and they never intended to let them complete it from the beginning.

The more I thought about it, the angrier I got.

The ten people silently accumulated anger and followed the Imperial Seal Oil Lamp out. They wanted an explanation, but when they stepped out of the bloody line of the Demon Village, they were shocked to find that the place was completely silent, but there were quite a lot of people, at least thousands of them.

So these are all eliminated?

No, when Yang Mao and his companions saw a white-haired old man standing on the central platform, they immediately fell silent, and their original anger disappeared, because that was the director of the Taoist academy who was in charge of the martial arts department.

"Losing is not terrible, what is terrible is not knowing where you lost."

"Today, you will stay in the Taoist temple and see where you lost."

The white-haired old man spoke calmly. His voice was not very majestic and not very loud, but it exploded like thunder in everyone's mind.

By the time everyone reacted, the white-haired old man had already left, leaving only a dozen martial arts teachers with smiling faces. But after they fiddled with it for a while, nine huge windows suddenly appeared above their heads, reflecting the situation in the Demon Village.

Most of the screen was pitch black, with only a tiny glimmer of light in the center.

"Is that the Imperial Seal Cottage?"

Yang Mao was stunned, and almost all the martial arts students were stunned. They had not expected this, it was simply impossible for them to expect that there was actually a sealed hut hidden in the Demon Village?
"It's bad. We should search more carefully instead of rushing to find that fourth-level evil demon."

"That's right. We thought we could make it quick, but we didn't expect that this time the Demon Village bounty was testing our search ability and attentiveness."

For a moment, many martial arts students were beating their chests and stamping their feet in regret. Who could have thought of this?

They really deserved to lose!

The more cunning martial arts students observed carefully, trying to remember the location of the Imperial Seal House hidden in the Demon Village so that they could use it next time.

As a result, the more I looked at them, the more I frowned, as if something was wrong.

These nine imperial seal huts are all located in different locations.

The shapes of the houses are all different; one even has no roof.

Is the location of the Imperial Seal Hut random?
"Wait, isn't that Shu Mian?"

Suddenly, one of Yang Mao's companions whispered in surprise that Shu Mian was also a martial arts student in the same class as them, but he had always been the worst and belonged to the lowest class.

He never thought that his luck would be so good that he found a small imperial hut.

At this time, Yang Mao blinked and rubbed his eyes hard, and finally made out a person from the blurry and dim picture.

But how is it possible? He was about to ask Liu Erya for help to identify it when he heard someone wailing not far away.
“Fuck, it’s Zhao Guanshan, a liberal arts student. I know where we lost. This Imperial Seal Hut needs a liberal arts student to decorate it. There is no Imperial Seal Hut in the Demon Village, but we need a liberal arts student in the team. Ahhh! Why am I so stupid? I’m so stupid. I’m so fucking stupid!”

It was Song Lique. He also recognized Zhao Guanshan, and his mind was very flexible. He immediately thought of the most crucial point.

For a moment, he regretted it so much that his intestines turned green.

Fortunately, he was not alone. Almost all the martial arts students present regretted their actions extremely and felt that they had been wronged after quickly finding out what had happened.

Although some of them angrily refuted and thought that this was unreliable, more martial arts students had to admit one thing in the face of painful facts: those weak liberal arts students were sometimes still useful.

However, seeing most of the martial arts students wailing in pain and full of regret, the martial arts teachers nodded in satisfaction. The effect was quite good.

The bounty offered by the Demon Village this time is not to boost the status of liberal arts, but to make martial arts students realize that they cannot rely on brute force in many cases. Now, seven years have passed since the last large-scale attack by the evil demons, and the evil demons may launch a full-scale attack at any time next.

Perhaps personal strength cannot be improved quickly in a short period of time, but the change of consciousness can give these martial arts students who are about to graduate more chances to survive.

The Taoist temple has put a lot of effort into this.

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Zhao Guanshan, Shu Mian and others would never have imagined that they were being broadcast live.

However, with the protection of the Sealed Hut, the night was truly peaceful. Even though there were ghosts howling and wolves howling outside, the evil forces that infiltrated were quickly dealt with by Shu Mian and his men.

On the contrary, Zhao Guanshan had a good night's sleep.

When the energy storage spirit stone used to maintain the protection of the Imperial Seal Hut was completely exhausted at the last moment, the protective light of the entire Imperial Seal Hut quickly dimmed.

It was quiet outside. A ray of sunlight appeared and the evil demon that had been howling all night quickly fled, as if nothing had happened.

Shu Mian and others cheered as if they had won a great victory. It was too easy, just like the legendary good warriors without great achievements!

Zhao Guanshan also laughed at this time.

"Shu Mian, you continue to lead the team today. Be careful and don't miss any houses in the town. Don't be greedy and pay attention to safety. I think the level of the evil demons' attacks will increase today. In addition, I'm afraid it will be very difficult tonight, so I want to discuss something with you."

"Brother Zhao, if you have anything to say, just tell us. We will listen to you."

Han Erzi said loudly, and Zhao Zhuo, Chen Su and others immediately responded. Even Shu Mian nodded repeatedly, completely convinced.

"Are you really listening to my instructions? Then let me tell you what I think."

Although morale can be used and he is now the leader of this team, the nature of this matter is still different.

"If you can't find the spirit-supplying formation today, that's fine. We can ring the bell and evacuate before dusk. But if you can find it, I want you to use it on the Imperial Seal Hut and upgrade it to a Level 2 Imperial Seal Hut."

"Because this is the safest and most reliable method."

"In this way, we don't need to confront the fourth-level evil demon head-on, and we can successfully spend two nights. This is the reward of two big coins per person. After getting it, we can choose to ring the bell to retreat and quit while we are ahead, or we can choose to meet the fourth-level evil demon on the third day. How do you think?"

After hearing what Zhao Guanshan said, Shu Mian and others fell silent for a moment. They were very surprised and seemed to find it hard to accept.

Seeing this, Zhao Guanshan was not surprised. This was normal.

Yesterday the dispute was about who would be the leader, but today the dispute is about which route to take. Most people may not care about the former, but the latter is something they have to experience firsthand, and no one will take it lightly.

It's like the village electing a village chief, we can all watch and have fun, but if you want me not to grow crops this year and instead grow other crops, then we have to talk it out.

That's why Zhao Guanshan used the word "discuss".

(End of this chapter)