Missing

After lunch, everyone immediately set out for Zhuyuan Village.

On the way, Zhang Ping asked curiously, "Zhu Zhu, you didn't seem surprised at all that we came to hunt the Mourning Crone Bird. Has someone come here before?"

"Yeah. Our village has always had this legend: whenever the Mourning Crone Bird appears, warriors will come to kill it. I heard my grandfather once encountered warriors hunting the Mourning Crone Bird too," Zhu Zhu replied with a nod.

Something about that felt wrong to Zhang Ping. Why did warriors always appear whenever the Mourning Crone Bird showed up?

Could they have it backward?

For example, perhaps the Mourning Crone Bird only appeared because warriors came to hunt it!

The more Zhang Ping thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. Could some mysterious force have released the Mourning Crone Bird just to test them?

"Mr. Situ, are the missions in every special scenario the same?" Zhang Ping asked after thinking it over.

Situ Shibai answered, "Yes. Every scenario has a fixed mission. When I came here back then, I was also assigned to hunt the Mourning Crone Bird, but Zhuyuan Village didn't exist yet."

"Wait, then what's going on with Zhuyuan Village?" Zhang Ping asked in surprise.

Situ Shibai thought for a moment, then guessed, "Perhaps after I left, some people entered the rainforest and... simply settled down here and multiplied."

"Then the people in Zhuyuan Village should have Awakened among them too, right?" Zhang Ping asked skeptically.

Situ Shibai did not answer, because he did not know the answer either.

A few minutes later, everyone arrived at Zhuyuan Village.

The houses of Zhuyuan Village were all built in the trees. After generations of expansion, they had become a sprawling mass of interconnected buildings, like wood ear mushrooms growing from the