"Woof?!" Mo Tan repeated subconsciously, then gave the Fangtooth Dog-Girl in front of him a puzzled look, shrugging his shoulders. "Something you need?"
The girl's beautiful eyes curved into a pair of crescents, and she nodded happily. "Woof!"
This girl is impossible to communicate with!!
Mo Tan couldn't possibly learn from that young lady before and figure out what she wanted to express by having this girl 'woof' back and forth in various ways, although it did feel quite cute...
"Is there anything I can help you with?" Mo Tan gently removed the other's hand from his arm, then tentatively asked, "Try your best to express what you mean, see if I can understand... It would be even better if you could say something I can understand."
This girl's nails are a bit sharp...
"Woof~" The little girl shook the pair of furry gray beast ears on her head, happily cried out, then stretched out her small hand to Mo Tan, palm spread open. "Umm~ Woof! Road... not woof... know."
Mo Tan looked down, and there was a string of numbers in the girl's palm, the content being 17502. After a little recollection, combined with those stuttering words, he had a rough idea in his mind.
E-level mission number 17502, if he remembered correctly, the content should be helping Ms. Molly, who lives in the southern district of Anka Market, to clean up her garden. Although he had memorized all the numerous E-level missions of the branch with instant memory before, Mo Tan obviously didn't forget as quickly as ordinary people...
After all, under normal circumstances, the duration of our conventional instant memory should be equivalent to the length of an English dictation during morning reading.
"You don't know the way?" Mo Tan nodded to the little girl, signaling that she could put her hand back, then asked with a smile, "Then how did you know I knew the way?"
The Dog-Girl tilted her head, stuck out her little tongue and licked the back of her hand covered with a thin layer of fluff, and said vaguely, "Woof map~ Look long time, you woof!"
If Mo Tan didn't misunderstand, what she wanted to express should be 'you looked at the map for a long time'...
Suddenly, he felt so tired.
As far as Mo Tan knew, the common language should have been popularized throughout the continent now. Although all races have their own unique languages, the 'common language' that popped up at some unknown time has long become the circulating language of the entire Innocent Continent, whether it was what he heard from Captain Ned when he was Hei Fan, or what McGough said when he chatted with him before.
But there are always exceptions...
The Dog-Girl in front of him actually looked quite decent. Her beautiful face was slightly cold and alluring, her shoulder-length silver-gray hair was neat and refreshing, she was wearing a set of brown soft leather armor, short leather pants with armor plates attached to both sides, and a pair of high-top hunting boots that perfectly fit her slender leg lines. A section of white thighs was exposed at the knee of the boots. Without opening her mouth, she really had the demeanor of a master, no wonder Mo Tan had that ridiculous misunderstanding before...
As a result, as soon as this girl opened her mouth, well~ not only could she not speak clearly, but even those few 'woof' sounds had a bit of a dialect flavor.
He supported his forehead...
"So you plan to ask me to lead the way for you?" Mo Tan smiled at her, "Because I looked at the map for a while?"
The Dog-Girl, whose language system seemed to have some obstacles, gesticulated for a while, and finally squeezed out a sentence: "Fee... fee... woof you~ person~ good woof!"
"Alright, being a good person is always better than being a good guy." Mo Tan shrugged, turned around and led the way, "Come with me, is it okay if I take you to the place in the northern district where you're doing your mission?"
The little girl hopped and skipped behind him, nodding vigorously. "Woof! Come back, can, smell woof!"
Her ears were turned back behind her head at some point, and her tail was wagging quickly~
Mo Tan supported his forehead speechlessly, buried his head and led the way...
Whether it was in the Adventurers' Guild or McGough's notes, there were maps of Anka Market, and Mo Tan had completely overlapped the content he had memorized before with the surrounding environment just now, so it was quite easy to lead the way for others at this moment.
Mo Tan has always been very sensitive to maps, which has nothing to do with IQ. The main reason is that his sense of direction is really too bad... too bad...
No matter what time, what place, or what personality he was in, Mo Tan was always in a state of not being able to find north. Whether it was in the orphanage back then, around his own home now, or the elementary school he attended before, he had been constantly, incessantly, and tirelessly getting lost.
It wasn't until junior high school that Mo Tan finally couldn't stand it anymore, so he began to deliberately train his ability to memorize maps. After achieving certain results, he began to construct a top-down view in his mind, and at the same time tried to locate himself on the plane. Now, although his sense of direction is still zero, Mo Tan, who has successfully memorized the entire world map (how crazy is that), basically doesn't get lost anymore.
For Mo Tan, who always maintains a top-down view of his surroundings in his mind, knowing left, right, forward, and backward is enough. What does it matter if he can't find north...
Relying on the map in McGough's notes to find the Adventurers' Guild, and then updating the details of the recent years through the latest map of the guild, he can now be said to know the surrounding environment like the back of his hand.
Leading the way for a lost dog... I mean, Dog-Girl, is not an easy task~
"What's your name?" While looking at the dazzling array of shops and stalls on both sides of the road with interest, Mo Tan casually asked the Dog-Girl behind him, "Or how can I call you?"
The girl had been wagging her tail happily all the way. Hearing this, she thought for a while, and then, rare for her, didn't subconsciously 'woof' out, but whispered, "Ya... Ya..."
"Ya?" Mo Tan confirmed, "Nothing else?"
The girl shook her head vigorously, her ears turning back behind her head. "Ya~ Ya~"
Mo Tan scratched his hair. "Yaya?"
"Woof!" The Dog-Girl named Yaya nodded happily.
Mo Tan: "..."
I'm so tired...
If you were to look down from a high altitude, Anka Market would look like a horizontally placed... large rhombus, made up of four rhombuses, located in the lower part of the northwest continent.
Due to its local characteristics, its four regions, east, west, north, and south, have a large number of shops and stalls, opened by all kinds of people, and the types of goods are even more diverse, from goblin rocket belts to fake jewelry used by dragons to coax children, from portable elemental pile drivers used by orc shamans to insert totems to mint-flavored snacks liked by feline beastmen, everything is available~
However, the largest commercial areas are still the western and eastern districts. The former is a large market, and it is said that as long as you are rich enough, you can find anything you want there, while the latter is home to the most iconic building in Anka Market - the Golden Raspberry Auction House, which is also the administrative district of Anka Market.
The northern district where Mo Tan was located before is a comprehensive area mainly composed of the Adventurers' Guild, Mercenary Association, Magic Guild, Thieves' Guild, etc., and also has a large number of hotels and catering service industries.
The smallest southern district is a residential area, home to many locals from Anka Market, as well as reclusive, wealthy researchers, scholars, and resident merchants who rarely venture out.
Mo Tan himself also has a mission in the southern district, which is said to be weeding for a couple surnamed Gulo, and the location is not far from where Yaya is going.
"That what..." Mo Tan looked helplessly at Yaya, who had been lying outside a certain shop window for two minutes, and patted her on the shoulder, "Aren't you in a hurry, so why don't you finish your business first and then come back to look at the chew sticks, how about it?"
The Dog-Girl subconsciously turned her face to show her teeth at him, then her face turned red, she lowered her head and nodded, her little face rubbed against the back of Mo Tan's hand a little embarrassedly, and 'woofed' in a flattering manner.
Fifteen minutes later
Mo Tan stopped in front of a crooked-looking wooden house, turned back to Yaya and nodded, pointing ahead and saying, "This is Ms. Molly's house. Your task should be to clean her garden, right? You've arrived."
"Woof! Thank~you, woof!" Yaya clapped her hands happily, her tail almost a blur behind her. She ran around Mo Tan twice excitedly, then nuzzled his face and dashed off to knock on the door.
Mo Tan paused slightly, then shook his head with a smile, and walked towards another street not far behind him. The Gulo Couple, whose weeds he was going to help with, lived nearby, less than two hundred meters from his current location.
"Hmm... 11 Fragrance Avenue, this should be it." Mo Tan looked at the huge yard in front of him, which covered at least half an acre, and couldn't help but roll his eyes. With dissatisfaction towards the rich in his heart, he pushed open the garden gate and walked in, muttering, "I wonder if there are many weeds inside, it might be more than I imagined..."
He didn't finish speaking, but raised his head under an intuition similar to a sixth sense, and then...
"Holy crap!!!!!"
Five seconds later
The two-story house in the yard was suddenly pushed open from the inside, and a thin old man rushed out with a cane, shouting as he walked, "Who's cursing in front of my house! I want to see... Huh? No one?"
[You have been disconnected unexpectedly. Do you want to reconnect?]
"Yeah, reconnect..."
[Reconnection starting...] [Connection successful, loading character information] [Welcome to the Continent of No Crime, Chaotic Neutral Tan Mo, good evening.]
He glanced at the small mound of earth at his feet, the soil of which was obviously newly turned, and snorted softly, "Womanly compassion... but since the prompt tells me the task is complete, that means the little cleric named A is now safe."
That's right, the moment he went offline just now, he had received a system prompt:
[Side quest 'Save the Warm Sun Squad' completed, current available experience points are 200.]
Dead people don't need saving. When he arrived that night, the Warm Sun Squad's greatsword warrior, Lada Dona, was already dead. Beside him in a pool of blood lay the cleric, Ai. Fanye, with a large hole in her abdomen, while Dave. Sager, the strongest member of the squad according to Cole, was nowhere to be found.
Combining this with the only task Mo Tan had received before -
[Go to Pato City and destroy 'hero' Dave]
, the situation was very clear.
Mo Tan used up the only three bottles of basic life potions and a scroll of Divine Grace (all scavenged from Medi's house) to save the dying novice cleric.
After understanding the situation, he immediately gave the girl, who had just experienced betrayal and the death of her companions, a series of simple deceptions, and finally asked her to return to Pato City as soon as possible to hide herself, preparing to leave immediately to find those two Crimson Ridge Beasts to trouble.
As a result, he inexplicably exited the game in the process. Logically speaking, there was still a lot of time left, but after leaving the game pod, he found that it was already seven in the morning...
"Something's wrong." Mo Tan casually sat down next to the simple mound burying the greatsword warrior Lada, leaned back indifferently, and pondered with his chin in his hand, "This is the second time since playing this game that I've lost about two hours of real-world time each time. It's too far-fetched to say I accidentally fell asleep in the game pod, and I always hear the 'You have exited the game' prompt when I wake up... Could it be because I have multiple characters at the same time that it's causing a bug... But if that's the case, what's the principle that triggers the bug... Hmm?"
He didn't continue thinking, but noticed the message bar suddenly flashing in the corner of his vision.
"Heh~" Mo Tan smiled insidiously, "It seems you really miss me... So you want to win this 'game'..."
He only had one friend on this character, so since he received a message outside the system, its source was self-evident.
"Are you there are you there?"
"Are you there are you there?"
"You're not offline, are you?"
"Hey! Are you online but just not planning to talk to me?!"
"There haven't been any activities recently, what else could a homebody like you be doing besides gaming at this hour? Why!?"
"Say something!"
"I'm so bored~"
"What level are you now? I did a few quests today, I'm already level 5."
"Hey hey hey hey hey!!!!!!"
All the messages were from Shuangye, yeah, the last one was just sent.
Mo Tan stretched lazily against the grave mound, and casually summarized Shuangye's series of harassment: "Annoying."
Speaking of which, he should be the least qualified to say that about others, right?
"At dusk, I sadly lean against a wild grave~" Leaning against the grave with a smile, Mo Tan casually made up two lines of doggerel: "The lingering sound of a resentful woman is as faint as smoke."
"Don't compare with the mundane people who pass the hours~" While saying that, he also sent it to Shuangye in a cheap way: "I only think of that woman's madness."
A few seconds later, he received a reply from Shuangye: "What does that mean?"
Mo Tan rolled his eyes and replied very considerately, "I'm leaning against a fresh grave thinking about annoying things, I don't have time to deal with you, and you can't control what I'm doing at night, I'm more concerned about how frantic you are right now..."
After saying that, he ignored the countless messages that Shuangye instantly burst out, neither blocking nor replying, just swaying as he stood up, turned around and stomped the soil on the small grave mound a little firmer, then quickly left the place, merging into the afterglow of the setting sun...
Chapter 21: End
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