"Madam, leave this kind of thing to us!"

"Madam, be careful not to hurt your hand!"

As the two maids cried out in alarm, Madam Chen's fingers had already touched the shards of glass.

With a slight exertion, she grasped the fragment.

But the shard was terrifyingly sharp, easily piercing her fingers and separating them from her palm, the fingertip falling to the ground.

Madam Chen was instantly stunned, staring blankly at her fingerless palm oozing blood, then she screamed.

"Madam, madam, your hand!"

"Ahhhhh!"

Amidst the screams, shards of glass soared into the necks of the three people.

The three people's clear eyes immediately turned as if a drop of ink had been dripped in, instantly dyeing them a pitch-black color, and everything fell silent.

Madam Chen calmly picked up the fingertip from the ground, chewed it a few times in her mouth, and spat it out again.

She frowned, seemingly saying it tasted bad.

After a pause, she revealed a strange smile again, looking toward the room next door, where Fang Yue had been staying.

Tear!

The door suddenly shattered into pieces, falling to the ground.

Seeing the room was empty, Madam Chen frowned, her gaze shifting forward.

Wherever Madam Chen's gaze fell, knife marks appeared on the ground, and the wooden doors were all chopped into several pieces, with the lanterns hanging from the roof falling down.

The entire corridor looked as if it had been hacked with random knives, a chaotic mess.

"What's that sound? What..."

Two servants came running from a distance. One of them, halfway there, suddenly had his upper body fall to the ground, the body separating, and blood staining the corridor red.

"A ghost, a ghost!"

The other person was completely stunned, scrambling backward in a panic.

One of the maids beside Madam Chen silently rushed out, instantly appearing in front of that person, placing a hand on the person's head, and with a gentle lift, the person's body was like a clay figure glued together, the head being separated, and the corpse fell silently.

More people heard the commotion and came running from a distance.

...

Under the large banyan tree in the center of Gu Yue Village.

The five people gathered together, anxiously watching the setting sun.

When they saw a figure slowly walking from afar, they all showed joy and surrounded him.

"Ye-ge, why are you so late! It's almost you time (5-7 PM)! Niu Niu said that the patrol team won't open this task after dark."

Fang Yue also wanted to be fast, but his body wouldn't allow it.

Of course, on the surface, Fang Yue certainly wouldn't say that.

"Don't rush, haste makes waste."

Shi Wu Liao had no mood to listen to Fang Yue's lectures. As soon as the transfer was made, he took out the 50 coins that had been painstakingly transferred from the five people.

"Ye-ge, this is the silver we earned from NPCs by doing quests during the day. It's not much, just 50 coins, don't mind."

Fang Yue had never seen the in-game currency before.

Taking the 50 coins they gave him, Fang Yue examined them for a while and found that they were just ordinary bronze coins, nothing special.

He weighed them slightly, and they were actually a bit heavy.

No, it's just that my body is too weak...

Putting away the money, the transfer arrived in his account.

"Dear user, 5000 yuan has been credited to your virtual account 5203!"

5000 yuan, earned so easily!

Fang Yue revealed a look of joy.

"Let's go, let's go get the quest."

"Okay!"

The others responded happily as well. With Fang Yue, a professional gamer, they suddenly had a pillar of support and their emotions stabilized a lot.

Arriving at the guard post of the guard team, unexpectedly there was someone he knew sitting inside.

"Captain Lin? What are you doing here?"

Lin Ling was even more surprised than Fang Yue.

"I was going to ask you that. What are you doing here at the guard team?"

Shi Wu Liao and Niu Niu and the others saw that Fang Yue knew the captain, and they were originally very happy thinking that they could get extra benefits or something.

But seeing Lin Ling's attitude, it seemed like the two had a bad relationship, so they quickly shut their mouths and didn't speak.

Fang Yue then said, "Uh... taking on the night patrol task."

"What?"

Lin Ling raised his voice.

"Lord Han went to the neighboring village to find medicine for you, but you're so reckless that you want to take on the night patrol task?"

What?

Lord Han went to seek medicine for me?

Fang Yue was stunned, feeling somewhat moved in his heart.

Lord Han was really good to him, even though he had become a cripple, he still didn't give up.

But upon closer thought, Fang Yue felt that something was a little off. Lord Han was being abnormally good to him, a stranger.

But even if Fang Yue tried to think about why Lord Han was so good to him, he couldn't come up with a reason.

Could it be that he really sees me as a successor to his legacy?

A pie falling from the sky?

"Let me make it clear, I don't mind you going to your death. If you want to patrol at night, I support and don't object, but I've advised you, going is the same as courting death."

Lin Ling shouted a few times, doing the surface work, then smilingly did the procedures for Fang Yue.

"System prompt: Congratulations, player, for accepting the daily quest *Gu Yue Village Night Patrol*."

"Quest name: Gu Yue Village Night Patrol."

"Level: Village-level, Middle-grade."

"Time: you time (5-7 PM) - mao time (5-7 AM)."

"Number of people: 6 people."

"Quest reward: Unknown."

That's what the system says, but it doesn't mean that the quest reward is really unknown.

Fang Yue asked, "Captain Lin, what are the benefits after completing the night patrol?"

"Benefits? Of course, it's lifespan."

As he spoke, Lin Ling threw a bronze token to Fang Yue and Niu Niu.

"This is called the Bronze Longevity Token, which contains 6 hours of lifespan. It's the same as the guard team helping you contract out the lifespan consumption of the night patrol. When the night patrol is completed, we will deposit another 6 hours of lifespan into the Bronze Longevity Token as a reward for your night patrol. If you discover a ghost and assist in killing it, you will be rewarded with additional lifespan."

Fang Yue and Niu Niu looked at each other, both revealing joy.

Although 6 hours was a bit short, that was because they hadn't encountered any ghosts. If they worked harder, they could definitely earn more.

The four people next to them, Shi Wu Liao and the others, instantly had red eyes, staring blankly at Lin Ling, waiting for him to issue the tokens, but Lin Ling completely ignored them.

Instead, he threw Fang Yue an unlit torch and a yellow talisman.

The talisman was very ordinary in style, and it was gone after drawing three dots in the middle with some kind of paint.

"Ghost Detection Talisman, you can only get one per month, so use it sparingly. Human Soul Torch, you can burn the human soul to light it. You don't need it outside the village, but if you encounter a ghost, burning the human soul and lighting the Human Soul Torch can increase your chances of survival."

After explaining the function of these two things, Lin Ling ignored them.

This time, Shi Wu Liao became anxious.

"Um, Captain Lin, what about our equipment?"

"You?" Lin Ling raised his eyelids, looking disdainful.

"Non-guard team members can only take on quests led by guard team members. You are not allowed to use patrol team equipment during the quest. After the quest is completed, come to me to receive the reward."

Although Lin Ling's attitude was bad, Shi Wu Liao's eyes lit up when he heard that there was a reward.

"Is the reward lifespan?"

"There will be a reward of 3 hours of lifespan, but you have to be able to come back alive."

Lin Ling curled his lips, obviously not optimistic about them.