Chapter 236: Random Quest Completed

[Host, just wait patiently for dawn. There’s only an hour or two left anyway.]

"Okay."

Lin Yun stopped talking to the system and leaned back in her chair to doze off. Even Qi Zhu and Dong Nian could not resist taking a rest.

Crocodile Lan had said he would not bother them, and he really did not come down. Instead of resting, he stayed by the window in his room, observing the activity outside. He seemed to sense that Miss Shu Nan had changed a lot. The two people she had been with just now should be humans, so Miss Shu Nan was helping Aino save humans. Had Miss Shu Nan fallen for Aino to this extent? Miss Shu Nan used to despise humans, but unexpectedly she was willing to save them for Aino. Fine. Since it was Miss Shu Nan’s choice, he was willing to help her. They were only rescuing a couple of humans. As long as she was happy, he was willing to pave the way for Miss Shu Nan behind the scenes.

Time passed quickly, and the sky outside gradually brightened.

Sang Biao nudged Lin Yun. "Youyou, it’s dawn outside."

Lin Yun opened her eyes, feeling a little sleepy. She got up and rested for a while, then glanced toward the stairwell. The man had not come down after going upstairs. And her racial perfume was almost worn off.

Lin Yun patted Qi Zhu and Dong Nian, who were asleep on the ground. "Wake up. It’s time to go."

Qi Zhu and Dong Nian jolted awake and opened their eyes.

"Huh? It’s dawn."

Dong Nian pinched her arm to wake herself up, then took out the racial perfume she had prepared from her pocket and sprayed it on herself. Qi Zhu yawned and took out his racial perfume as well.

Lin Yun’s special skill was still on cooldown, and after the racial perfume expired, she reverted to her original form as Miss Lu You. Qi Zhu and Dong Nian did not ask any further questions, assuming that she had already used her racial perfume before they woke up.

The monsters outside had long since disappeared. Lin Yun pulled back a corner of the curtain and looked outside. After confirming that it was safe, she said, "All right, you can go out now. After you go out, you can find the official housing office yourselves. I should be going."

Dong Nian was taken aback. "Boss, aren’t you coming with us?"

As soon as she asked, Qi Zhu quickly pulled Dong Nian aside and shook his head at her. Dong Nian blinked, not quite understanding.

"No, I have other things to do. Saving you was just a mission. See you next time."

Lin Yun opened the door and left.

Qi Zhu sighed. "All right, let’s go quickly."

"Oh." Dong Nian scratched her head, realizing what was going on. So it was because of a mission. She had wondered why someone would come to rescue them out of the blue. Sigh.

Lin Yun had no further chance to learn about Qi Zhu and Dong Nian’s subsequent actions, as she had already successfully completed her mission. Next, she could wander around Monster City some more, looking for a place to set up a stall and earn some gold coins to spend.

She had only been strolling for a short while when she encountered giant rats patrolling the streets. It was already bright outside, and many residents of the city had come out to enjoy themselves, as had the street vendors who set up stalls in the morning. Lin Yun rolled her eyes and sat down at a breakfast stall.

"Boss, two meat pies."

"All right, that’s 1 gold coin."

Lin Yun took out a gold coin and put it on the table. She ate a meat pie while listening to the people at the next table chatting. Sang Biao squatted on the table, also gnawing on a meat pie, while the Ghost Vine sneaked a few bites when no one could see.

"What’s gotten into the giant rat tribe today? They’re patrolling all over Monster City so early in the morning."

"Hey! You weren’t in the city last night, were you? You don’t know. Didn’t they capture a lot of humans? And since the elves are the authorities, they bombed a lot of places belonging to the giant rat tribe last night."

"Is that so? Oh dear! What a pity. I went to the Fairy Tale Forest yesterday. I wasn’t in the city!"

"Hey, hey, I haven’t finished yet! The elves didn’t know where the giant rats had imprisoned those humans, so they could only bomb a few places to threaten the giant rats and force them to release the humans. After all, as the official race, the elves can’t really do much else."

"Do you hear what you’re saying? The elves have already blown up the giant rat tribe’s territory, and you say that as the authorities they can’t do anything?"

"Sigh, the elves bombed places that were deserted. They had already asked the giant rats to release the people, but the giant rats wouldn’t agree. There was nothing they could do. Special circumstances call for special measures."

"That seems to be true, doesn’t it?"

"Absolutely."

Lin Yun ate her meat pie slowly. She found it quite delicious and very fragrant, and she wondered how the stall owner made it. She decided to buy two more to take home for Tuan Tuan and the Ghost Vine to try as well.

"But here’s the important part. I heard that last night, it wasn’t only the elves who went to the giant rat tribe. Another group of people went too. The elves blew up some places and left, only intending to warn the giant rats to release their prisoners. But the group that came later was extremely rude! They actually set fire to the giant rat tribe’s clan hall. Isn’t that going too far?"

"???"

"Is that even possible?!" The stall owner could not help joining in. He pulled up a chair and sat down at the next table. He wanted to hear the gossip too.

The customer did not mind. Anyway, given the giant rat tribe’s actions today, the news must have already spread. One more person would make no difference.

"That’s right. And then I heard that after this happened, Miss Shu Nan of the giant rat tribe found out and said that someone was trying to frame the elves. She guessed that those people had known the elves would cause trouble for the giant rat tribe, so they wanted to pin the blame on the elves and make them take the fall. But how can you blame the wrong people for something as serious as burning an ancestral hall? Don’t you agree? If the elders found out, wouldn’t they crawl out of the ground and curse them? After all, every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt its debtor. The giant rat tribe has stopped bothering the elves and is only focused on finding out which bastard burned down their clan hall."

The other customers at the table and the stall owner thought it made perfect sense and nodded in agreement.

"Look, we didn’t catch anyone last night, and the humans who were locked up in the dungeon have also disappeared. The giant rat tribe was furious. No wonder they were patrolling early in the morning. And I also heard that a serious criminal in the giant rat tribe’s prison was rescued too!"

When he said the last few words, the customer lowered his voice very much, as if afraid of being overheard.

"Is that so? No wonder there were so many giant rats patrolling this morning, and even the crocodiles and hyenas were out patrolling too."

The stall owner clicked his tongue twice.