Chapter 378: Source of Pollution

People in the village don't need to spend money when they come to eat.

After they got the food, they complained about the taste of today's boiled mud snails while eating.

Then Mr. Krabs politely told them to get out if they didn't want to eat.

Of course, they just laughed, apparently treating it as a daily greeting.

But they smiled and laughed, then began to sigh and talk about something that Yi Xing cared about very much.

The two mentioned that someone was sick again.

In the past few days, it has been the third one.

The only thing they seem to have in common is that they all drank water from the same river.

They began to wonder if something upstream had polluted the river water.

It may be necessary to investigate upstream.

However, they were afraid that they would encounter nightmare beasts when they went upstream.

After Yi Xing prepared the meal and brought it out, he asked them for details.

Then, I got this explanation.

The three people who have been sick in the past few days have suffered from vomiting and diarrhea, and are feeling weak and weak all over. They feel like they are suffering from a plague. Even after inducing vomiting and taking herbal medicine, recovery was slow.

Although the pathogenicity of the suspected contaminated river water has long been diluted when it flows here, if it continues like this, it may also make the pond toxic.

They were scared and wanted to go upriver to see what was going on. But in the past few years, a nightmare monster has appeared upstream, which is very scary.

Everyone was afraid of being killed and luring it to the village, so they didn't dare to go that way. So now we are in a dilemma.

They had to investigate the source of the plague.

But he didn't dare to fight against the nightmare beast, feeling that he had no chance of winning.

No one has a clue what to do now.

Maybe we can only send people to distant villages and towns for help and see if we can find some mercenaries. But they have no money, so they may not be able to hire many people, let alone find powerful roles.

Ordinary mercenaries probably wouldn't dare to deal with such a big nightmare beast.

After hearing this, Yi Xing fell into deep thought.

He really wanted to help these kind and lovely villagers. Even if it means letting him use the kitchen for free, I have to do it.

So, he offered to help.

Not only can it help them kill the Nightmare Beast, but it can also help them investigate the source of pollution upstream.

The two villagers were very surprised when they heard this and said this to him quickly.

"Huh? Really? But...but, that monster is really huge! It's as big as this cafeteria!"

"No, you are exaggerating! Half, half as big as a cafeteria!"

"...It's really big no matter what." Yoshiyuki imagined the size of the Nightmare Beast in his mind and nodded: "It doesn't matter, I can handle it."

"Hey?! Miss, are you so strong?!"

"This is great! But...as we said before, we don't have much money..."

"It doesn't matter, I don't need that much." Yoshiyuki asked, "Where is your village chief? I want to negotiate the price with someone who can keep his word."

"I am the village chief."

"ah?!"

Yoshiyuki turned around and saw that Mr. Crab was speaking.

This made him dumbfounded.

Yes, quite reasonable.

The other villagers are crocodiles, turtles, and frogs.

He is the only one who is a crab.

In terms of rarity, he should be the village chief!

After some haggling, Yoshiyuki realized how poor these guys really were.

And they shouldn't be pretending. Because the door was open, Yi Xing had seen several houses, and it was obvious from the furnishings inside that the owners had little money.

All the furniture inside is made by myself.

It can even be said that some houses have almost no such thing as furniture.

The village chief went to the whole village to collect property, but in the end he only collected more than 500 copper coins.

With such a small amount of money, we can probably only hire one or two mercenaries. Yi Xing couldn't laugh or cry when he saw it.

He didn't have the nerve to take them all and only wanted two hundred copper coins.

However, an additional twenty kilograms of dried fish must be given as reward.

It is so salty that you will become immortal after eating it every meal.

This kind of transaction is still very fair. If you don’t have money, you pay with food.

After the rain stopped, Yi Xing set off.

He originally wanted to bring someone along as a witness, but the villagers were too scared and refused to go with him. He only hoped that Yi Xing could kill the Nightmare Beast and find out the cause of the river water pollution.

They said they believed that Yi Xing would definitely do it and would not deceive them. So I didn’t follow him.

Yi Xing was a little touched to be believed in this. But the main reason why he wanted to take people there was because he was afraid that they would cheat.

But these people were so insistent that they didn’t want to go, so there was nothing they could do. He had to set out on his own.

Anyway, even if they want to cheat, Yi Xing is fully confident that he can get the promised reward by force.

After following the reference point they mentioned to find the river, Yoshihiro started walking upstream.

After an unknown amount of time, Yoshiyuki finally climbed a hill and saw the real culprit who had polluted the river.

...And that seems to be the Nightmare Beast itself.

It was a corpse that was highly decomposed and bloated. And the body was emitting gray-black smoke.

Excluding the color change caused by the corpse transformation, it should originally be gray-black like smoke.

It has long body hair and walks on four legs. Its head has a mantis-like mouthparts and a large number of densely packed eyeballs.

Someone actually killed the Nightmare Beast in advance, and no one in the village knew anything about it. This surprised Yi Xing.

Judging from the condition of the body, it had been dead for about a month.

The body tissues have begun to decompose and corpse fluid is flowing. Many organs began to become sticky and melting.

Yoshiyuki could see many huge red maggots squirming next to the corpse of the Nightmare Beast.

Some maggots crawled in and out of its eyes and mouth and nose.

You can vaguely see worms rolling, stirring and crawling in its rotten and bulging belly.

Since the Nightmare Beast died by the river, half of its lower body was soaked in it, so the corpse liquid would flow into the river. In fact, the surrounding grass can be seen discolored and even withered, proving its toxicity.

Yoshiyuki felt that this was what made the river water sick.

Just burning the bodies should solve the problem.

But the problem is...

The cause of death of this nightmare beast concerned him a lot.

Judging from the wounds, the Nightmare Beast was stabbed and cut in many places on its body.

The final fatal wound was a stab in the heart. It, like the other stab wounds, was inflicted by a trident.

Very few people would use this weapon.

Combined with the large scope of the cut and the smoothness of the incision...

It's hard not to remind Yoshiyuki of someone.

That is Sayo Kitajima.

Her weapon is the trident, and among the spells she is good at, there are also tricks like water jets that can cut wounds like that.

...In addition, she definitely has the powerful force to defeat this nightmare beast in a single fight.

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