The Villain Saint is my secondary account

Chapter 8 Missing Persons Investigation

Then Ella easily started a winning streak.

In more than 20 consecutive battles, players were beaten and fled for their lives by this tiny wizard wearing a fox mask and swinging her staff. She didn't even use evil magic. She was hard to resist by these ordinary players just by relying on her rich combat experience and the magic and swordsmanship she displayed.

The unlucky players racked their brains to figure out what kind of school this ape-like mage, who was not only flexible and strong but also very powerful, came from. The staff in his hand could be used as a mace to smash people's heads.

However, a small number of stronger players also know that this guy is not only powerful in swinging his staff, but is even more terrifying when he occasionally draws his sword.

It's simply a dump truck among mages.

During this process, Ella met many powerful players who were famous in her previous life, but their levels were just so-so at this time.

After all, only a week had passed, and even the most talented and lucky players had only just developed for a short time.

Without any commotion, Ella's player rank rose straight to the "top" level.

Subsequent heroes and legends still need to accumulate some points to move up. Although the overall ranking depends on relative ranking, there is still a fixed threshold set for these two ranks.

After the 23rd match, Ella thought about it and decided to stop here today.

She yawned slightly and decided to take a nap.

In fact, she had discovered before that Ella's body would not feel very sleepy as long as she didn't attend classes or sleep, and she would not feel overly hungry or thirsty even if she didn't eat or drink. However, as time went on, the tentacles in her body would become more and more restless. Therefore, just in case, she had to continue her human habits.

However, Ella, who was gradually falling asleep, didn't know that her reputation as a fierce wizard was quietly spreading in the forum.

……

The next day, when the sun was high in the sky, it was clear.

The streets were already busy with traffic and people coming and going, and the members of Li Cheng's team, who had been drunk all night, finally gathered in the guild hall.

Li Cheng was yawning and scratching his messy hair, looking at the guild establishment application form in his hand with some worry.

"What are you worried about?" Ye Xiao came forward and found that the table was still blank.

"What should we name our player guild?" Li Cheng asked.

"Just pick any one..."

"I wanted to call it 'Saint Lady Support Association', but my little brother said he would kill me if I chose that name."

"If you dare to use this name, I will chop you into pieces." Ye Xiao knew that he shouldn't have had too high hopes for this guy's taste.

"Humph, if we don't choose this name, someone else will grab it sooner or later."

"Who would want to give such a stupid name!?"

But on the other hand, the establishment of a guild is indeed very important. In addition to being able to receive subsidies as an officially recognized organization by Loren, the system will also enable the use of guild functions.

Recalling the name of their player guild in the previous life, Ye Xiao suggested: "How about calling it 'Seven Stars Association'?"

"Qi Yao Hui?" Li Cheng touched his chin, "Did you get it? It feels stupid. Does this name have any actual meaning?"

You got it by yourself! Ye Xiao wanted to curse.

"It would be better to have the support of the Saint Lady..." Li Cheng said with a frown.

"'Seven Stars Guild' is a good name, let's call it that!" A team member nearby said hurriedly, "I also like the Saint Lady, but after all, the name Seven Stars Guild sounds more like an adventure guild."

The members around him quickly agreed. If the captain was really allowed to make the decision, they would probably die every time they reported their whereabouts when going out on a mission.

"Okay, alright." Li Cheng filled in the name of the guild on the form with disappointment.

[You have become a member of the guild "Qi Yao Hui"]

After the guild was established, Ye Xiao also received prompts from the system in a timely manner.

Their adventure officially began from this moment on.

Ye Xiao couldn't help but sigh, wondering how far their journey would go this time.

……

As it was almost noon, the guild members had a simple meal and then went out of the city to complete their respective tasks.

As the number of players appearing in the Valonde region increases, most of the natives have become accustomed to these outsiders in strange costumes.

The target of the investigation commissioned by the Saint Lady is the poor settlements outside the imperial city.

The predecessors of these settlements were refugees who wandered here from certain areas. Because they did not have royal status and enough money to settle down in the city, they had to stay outside the city.

Over time, a large poor residential area gradually formed around the city walls.

According to the locations on the list provided by Ella, Ye Xiao, Li Cheng and his group walked through the densely packed buildings along the hilly terrain. Most of the buildings along the way were low brick and tile buildings hung with colorful canvases, forming irregular shadows under the autumn sun.

Children in linen clothes were playing barefoot on the streets, women in simple clothes were sitting by the river, washing clothes and humming songs, and most of the young and strong men had gone to work in the city or hunt in the nearby forests. Occasionally, from the windowless house, one could see an old man lying on a brick bed and smoking a long water pipe.

"Prosperity and poverty are separated by a wall." Li Cheng was a little emotional as he walked slowly along the street. He was carrying a pumpkin-shaped helmet on his back. If Ye Xiao hadn't known that the thing served as a helmet, he would have thought that Li Cheng had an extra turtle shell.

Since it was just an investigation mission, only he, Ye Xiao and two guild members came to this settlement this time.

"You actually still feel sad about the passing of time." Ye Xiao smiled, "I didn't see your literary and artistic side reflected in the Chinese language test."

"If I hadn't traveled through time here, I would definitely have ranked first in the entire district in the Chinese language test in the college entrance examination."

"You can talk nonsense all you want. You exaggerate results that cannot be verified."

"Hehe, who knows." Li Cheng walked and stopped in front of a dark-skinned little girl holding a dirty ball. "Little sister, do you know where Mr. Abbott Field's home is?"

The little girl raised her head and stared at Li Cheng blankly, then made a face and said, "Omitted."

"Tsk, this little brat." Li Cheng wasn't angry, just a little depressed.

Ye Xiao patted Li Cheng's shoulder, took out a small cake wrapped in oil paper from his pocket and stuffed it into the girl's hand, "I still have half a piece. If you tell us, I'll give you the other half too."

The little girl took the cake and immediately put it into her pocket, then pointed at the shabby house behind her without saying a word.

"Uh, it's right in front of us." Li Cheng was speechless.

Ye Xiao smiled, took out a small cake from his clothes and handed it to the girl. After the girl took the cake, she ran away with the ball without looking back.

"Have you been prepared for a long time?" Li Cheng exclaimed in amazement as he looked at Ye Xiao's actions.

"A little experience." Ye Xiao didn't explain much and walked forward and knocked on the door of the broken house.

Chapter 9: Pursuit

There was no response from the dilapidated brick house, only silence.

"No one?" Ye Xiao gently pushed the flimsy wooden door, but found that it was locked.

"Captain, look over here." A team member next to him suddenly called out softly.

Li Cheng and Ye Xiao came to the place pointed by the team member and saw a broken window. Through the dusty glass, they could see that the house was in a mess.

Clothes and sundries were piled all over the floor, and the simple wooden cabinets, tables and chairs were all overturned, as if they had been looted.

Ye Xiao and Li Cheng couldn't help but look at each other.

The team members put their hands on the window and looked at Li Cheng.

Li Cheng thought about it for a moment and nodded slightly.

The team members then gently pulled the glass window, and the rusty hinges turned with a harsh sound.

"I'll go in first." Li Cheng took the initiative and then looked at Ye Xiao and the two team members: "Brother Ye and Xiao Deng, you guys wait for me at the front door. Old Hu, you go to the wall and keep watch. If anyone comes, notify us."

"Is this considered trespassing?" Team member Lao Hu finally couldn't help but say.

"Don't you see that this guy's house has been broken into?" Li Cheng held onto the window sill. "We may be the only ones who broke into his house to do something good."

Lao Hu shrugged and said, "Okay, adventurers just like to go into other people's homes and touch things."

There was a strange sound of "clang" and after Li Cheng exclaimed a few times, the front door was slowly opened.

Ye Xiao walked into the door and saw some broken pottery bowls on the ground next to him. He looked at Li Cheng speechlessly.

Li Cheng scratched his head. "No way. It's dark and narrow. It's really hard to notice."

But just as Li Cheng said, the room was unusually dark. Except for a ray of light shining in from the window and casting on the ground, every other place was pitch black.

Ye Xiao walked into the house and took a look, and found that only the window just above the window let light in. The other small windows were sealed with wooden boards, and the walls close to the inside of the house were specially hung with thick curtains.

"What kind of layout is this? Is this guy trying to resist zombies?" Li Cheng couldn't help but complain.

"Maybe." Looking at the rough cloth curtain that almost covered the entire wall, Ye Xiao pinched its edge and pulled it gently.

Behind the curtain was a cracked wall with large patches of paint peeling off, revealing bricks of different colors inside.

The crack was about an arm's length, but very deep. It was pitch black inside and there seemed to be a layer of space, looking like an open mouth.

"I was wondering why the inside of this house feels smaller than the outside, and I wondered if there would be a shared space in the other world." Li Cheng also came over and looked at the crack, "How about I reach my hand in and see what's inside."

"Let me do it. Your arm armor is too thick. It might get stuck." Ye Xiao moved his wrist and put his hand in along the crack.

Half of his arm sank into the crack, and Ye Xiao felt as if his hand was reaching into a bottomless abyss.

Groping around without vision in such a dark environment always makes people feel a little nervous.

After groping for a while, he vaguely felt that his fingertips seemed to touch something soft like an air cushion.

"What's in there?"

"I seem to have touched something... but I don't know what it is..." Ye Xiao looked confused.

"Captain, there seems to be something here too." Team member Xiao Deng suddenly spoke up. Li Cheng looked over and saw a few bricks with the dust on the surface clearly wiped off from under another opened curtain.

Li Cheng walked forward and pressed on the different bricks. "Has anyone moved these bricks?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the brick that was pressed suddenly shrank into the wall. There was a slight strange noise, and the wall where Ye Xiao stretched his hand suddenly trembled.

Ye Xiao quickly pulled his hand out, only to see that the brick wall was slowly moving to one side.

"My goodness, this mechanism is probably more valuable than this broken house." Ye Xiao, whose hand was almost pinched, complained unhappily.

"Haha, it's getting that smell." Li Cheng looked at the eerie and dark space revealed after the wall opened, and walked in first.

At this moment, Ye Xiao suddenly became aware of a flow of magical power around him.

"Something's wrong, come out!" He immediately grabbed Li Cheng's shoulders, but it was too late.

The next second, dazzling golden light suddenly filled everyone's vision, and the powerful shock wave broke through the thick brick wall and blew Ye Xiao away.

Rubble and dust were floating in the enclosed space. Ye Xiao coughed and waved his arms to disperse the smoke and dust. In the dim light, he could only see Li Cheng struggling in the corner, his body seemingly entangled in chains emitting golden light.

"Li Cheng!?" Ye Xiao rushed forward, but heard his good brother shouting: "I'm fine! Stop him!!"

Ye Xiao immediately turned his head and just happened to see a figure wrapped in a black robe breaking through the window and flipping out, making a crisp sound.

"Damn..."

Ye Xiao calmed down and took a clear look at Li Cheng's condition. After confirming that the other party was just entangled by the golden magic but was not in danger, he immediately turned around and jumped out of the window.

As a result, just as he got out of the window, a golden light flashed and a huge figure suddenly flew towards him. Ye Xiao quickly dodged to the side, only to find that it was Lao Hu, the team member in charge of guarding outside.

Lao Hu hit the wall near the window and fell to the ground, but then he staggered to his feet again, holding the windowsill, and muttered while covering the blood on his head: "Damn, that guy is so fierce..."

Being able to curse shouldn't be a big problem, Ye Xiao didn't stop and continued to chase the shadow that turned forward into the alley.

Ye Xiaoke was very familiar with those golden lights just now. They were undoubtedly holy light spells.

Although he was not as familiar with judging spell levels as he was with swordsmanship, Ye Xiao could also tell that the strength of those spells was not low, at least far stronger than his fireball spell.

However, he also realized that the other party did not intend to kill. After all, it was a deliberate move. With that level of magic, if the purpose was really to kill, he would not have simply released the holy light chains and shock waves. A direct shot of the Sword of Judgment would have killed Li Cheng for sure.

The two of them, one chasing and the other fleeing, shuttled back and forth between the chaotic and crowded slums. Even though the black shadow escaped very early, Ye Xiao was obviously more agile. While dodging through a bunch of obstacles, he managed to shorten the distance between the two of them.

The other party obviously also noticed this, and he waved the staff in his hand, and several spheres formed by holy light shot out to the rear one after another.

When the spheres touched the obstacles, they exploded with great impact, continuously blowing away bricks and stones in the narrow streets, and attacking Ye Xiao head-on like dense raindrops.

Thanks to the courses in the temple, Ye Xiao could tell at a glance that this was a revised version of the Holy Light Shock spell. The original version could only release shocks to the surroundings centered on itself to prevent the enemy from approaching.

But being able to change it into a blasting ball and launch it as an attack shows that the opponent's proficiency in the Holy Light spell has reached perfection.

Ye Xiao carried the flying bricks and stones and took out the staff behind him. With a wind-summoning spell, he flew directly to the roof of a low house on the side, avoiding the continuous explosions of holy light.

Chapter 10: Unexpected Enemies

As Ye Xiao ran to the roof, the holy light balls also shot upwards, but the tilted shooting angle caused most of the light balls to explode on the edge of the roof.