The Villain Saint is my secondary account

When the system starts the big crossover, the players are randomly dropped into various corners of the world. Therefore, the first batch of players who want to form a guild will take about four days to gather in different cities, because that is when the player system will be updated and upgraded, and the player communication function will be released.

But that is a matter for the future. Now, except for a few lucky ones who directly traveled to human gathering places, most players are still struggling to survive in the wilderness. This is why Ye Xiao and Ella have not yet seen any players who came to this world together.

When Ye Xiao was thinking about whether to just leave, he suddenly sensed that Ella had made some discoveries.

In the Imperial City Temple, a naked silver-haired girl soaking in the holy spring stared at the blue light screen of the system that popped up in front of her, seeming to be thinking about something.

【Believer Management System】

[Current number of believers: 2]

【Dependents: 1】

She used her mind to expand the list of believers and found two familiar names:

[Ye Xiao - God's Favored Messenger (Family)]

[Mylar Hyde-Low-level Believer]

Hyde...how did that noble old man become my believer?

Ella clicked on Myrral Hyde's name with her mind, and somehow, she was able to sense the old man's soul.

This was a vague and subtle perception. Ella felt that as long as she thought about it, she could transmit some information through this illusory link.

She closed her eyes slightly and tried.

At the same time, Hyde, who was in Liangqiu Village a hundred miles away, suddenly started and looked at the village chief beside him.

"Mr. Village Chief... did you... did you hear any sound?"

"Ah?" The village chief looked confused, "What's that sound?"

"I... I don't know..." A trace of cold sweat broke out on the wrinkled face of the old man Hyde, "It's like someone is... whispering."

"Hmm?" The village chief looked around. Apart from a cloaked wizard leaning against a tree trunk with his eyes closed, there was no one nearby. "Mr. Hyde, are you too nervous? Why don't you go to my place and rest for a while?"

"That's fine...that's fine..." Hyde nodded tremblingly, and suddenly he shuddered, "It's...it's happening again!"

He felt his brain getting a little dizzy, and his hands and feet began to tremble. The voice that came from nowhere made him feel an inexplicable fear.

Looking at the believer's panel, old Hyde's mental strength had dropped to almost one third. Ella hurriedly stopped transmitting the information. She was afraid that if she continued, the poor old man would go crazy.

I didn't expect that transmitting a sound would require so much mental energy, and the most important thing is that it consumes other people's mental energy.

This made her feel a little guilty. To be honest, although Hyde didn't treat Ye Xiao very well, he didn't do anything bad. The horse of an innocent old man was killed and he was shot. It should be said that he was a little pitiful. She also tortured him again.

Ye Xiao also sighed. Well, if others really didn't want to give him the pendant, there was nothing he could do. He couldn't afford to rob an old man of his things. He did have a bottom line. He would just consider this trip as saving someone and doing good deeds.

Just as Ye Xiao was about to turn around and leave, the old man Hyde, who was supported by the village chief, suddenly said, "Wait a minute, young man."

"Huh?" Ye Xiao looked back in confusion.

"I don't know why... you suddenly seem a little friendly..." The old noble frowned and said, "Alas... since you saved my life, I have something to give you, but you have to do me a favor."

Chapter 16 Cleaning Mission

Hyde frowned slightly, first said a few words to the village chief, then limped and pulled Ye Xiao to the side of an empty bush, and took out an oval silver pendant from his arms, "The only valuable thing I have is this pendant, and I probably won't be able to use it in the future. As long as you are willing to help me..."

God will not let down those who work hard! Here it comes, the letter delivery mission is finally here!

"...Help me drag the horse out of the basement and burn it. I really can't stand it any longer. How long will that thing stay in my house?" The old man said angrily, "The young men in the village don't dare to help, so I can only ask you for help. If this continues, my house will stink."

"Okay... huh? Why is it Tuona? No, old man, you really don't have anything you need me to deliver? I'm a traveler, I can help you deliver letters or something..."

"Letter, what letter?"

Ye Xiao fell silent.

[Trigger Task: Clean up the basement]

[Mission Briefing: The basement of Hyde's house is occupied by the corpses of diseased horses that emit a foul odor. He hopes you can help him clean it up.]

[Task Reward: Hyde's Pendant, Universal Points*1500]

If possible, Ye Xiao didn't want to get involved with the plague-related things in Liangqiu Village. The more he knew about the evil god, the easier it would be to get involved. But now it seemed that if he wanted to get this key pendant, he had to get involved.

...It's okay, at least the mission rewards are the same, and the mission itself doesn't seem to be difficult, just a little disgusting.

"...It's not impossible for me to help you, but you have to tell me what happened in your family?" Ye Xiao found a rock to sit down and rest. He had to continue to recover the mental power consumed by the "Healing Holy Light". Although he could also take a bottle of medicine, the situation was not so urgent now, so he saved a little bit, and the more he could save, the better.

He is the kind of person who may not be willing to use consumables even after completing the game.

Now that he has been involved and the old man is willing to communicate with him, he feels it is necessary to understand the background of the incident. There might be useful information. More importantly, this old man seems to have many secrets.

"Why did you hide in that wine barrel? And the dead horse? And who wanted to kill you?" Ye Xiao whispered. "After you came out, you kept silent about what happened in there. What are you hiding?"

Hyde hesitated, then put away the pendant with a complicated look, "This is none of your business, you just need to drag the body..."

"Of course it's my business. God knows if the corpse has the disease or not." Ye Xiao waved his hand. "It's just because of your broken pendant. What if I get infected while dragging that thing?"

However, Ye Xiao was not actually that worried about the infection, because when the old man ate the tentacles, the white hair on his face also disappeared. This made him understand that at least the magic from Ella had the ability to fight against the "epidemic."

"Tsk, you won't be infected." The old man frowned. He instinctively didn't want to talk about those things, but after hearing that voice just now, facing Ye Xiao, he couldn't help but become frank for some reason, "...You are not from the village, you won't be infected with the disease."

"What do you mean?"

"I... I don't know if I can trust you, but for some reason, I subconsciously feel that I can tell you things." The old man stroked his chin, "This feels very strange. Tsk, to be honest, I used to be a noble of the Aslan Empire."

After escaping from the house, the old man borrowed clothes from local villagers to replace his bloodstained noble robe. This forced him to take out the pendant again and point to the family emblem on it to prove his identity. "When I was young, I did research at the Aslan Royal Academy and have some attainments in alchemical science. Therefore, when a strange epidemic began to spread in the village, I saw that the priests of the temple who came were useless and the doctors in the village were helpless, so I took some blood from the patients and did research."

"Due to the lack of high-precision alchemical instruments, detailed analysis and testing cannot be done, but I found that this blood still retains a certain degree of activity after leaving the patient's body."

"It's as if... this blood itself is alive."

Ye Xiao suddenly thought of the internal organs that were still beating in the horse's stomach. At that time, the feeling that the horse gave him was that although the horse itself was dead, its internal organs seemed to be still alive separately.

"This activity is very strange. When it is mixed with the blood of long-term residents in the village, it still shows this activity. But once the blood of the patient is mixed with the blood of travelers who do not live here all the time, this activity will disappear after a period of time." Elder Hyde continued, "The reason why I say residents is because this is not limited to local villagers, but people who have lived here for a long time will have such symptoms... As I just said, I am a foreigner from Aslan, not a local, but I have lived in the village for nearly five years, so I found that if the patient's blood is mixed with my blood, it can still remain active."

Perhaps this is why the epidemic only broke out in this village, while the imperial city just a few hours away was not affected?

Ye Xiao thought that even the Holy Temple might have known that the epidemic was limited in scope. Because based on his understanding of the Holy City, faced with an epidemic of unknown cause but contagious and incurable, the Holy Temple would at least join forces with the Imperial City to block nearby traffic.

Since nothing has been done, it means that neither the Imperial City nor the Holy Temple are worried about the epidemic at all.

"But I don't understand, if it's just this discovery, it shouldn't lead to a fatal disaster?"

"I don't understand that either," Hyde shook his head. "I don't understand why anyone would want to kill me."

"I was actually preparing to pack my bags and leave this place this morning," the old man continued to recall, "Even many locals in the village have left. This strange epidemic has made people panic."

"While packing, I heard a noise in my alchemy room on the second floor. I thought my window was not closed tightly, so I went up to check. Unexpectedly, when I opened the door, a musket was pointed at my head."

"The other person was holding the blood sample from the alchemy table and wearing a black cloak, which was quite similar to the one you were wearing, but he was much shorter. So when we were in the basement, I mistakenly thought you were here to kill me as well." Hyde looked at Ye Xiao and said, "I was so scared at the time that I didn't dare to move. When I thought I was going to die, a creature I couldn't even describe suddenly rushed in from the window."

"I don't know if you have seen patients with particularly severe diseases in the woods outside the village. They have animal hair growing all over their bodies and are screaming like ghosts, running around everywhere. They are really scary," the old man shuddered when he said this. "Recently, many villagers have disappeared after becoming seriously ill. I guess they have turned into those things and are wandering around outside. That's why no one in the village dares to go out at night now."

"That creature looked similar, but was much larger, walking on all fours. It felt like an animal that had been infected with a plague. As soon as it rushed in, it let out a strange roar and pounced on the man in black."

"Pounce on the man in black..." Ye Xiao keenly sensed something, "Is the creature you mentioned coming to find the man in black?"

"Maybe. Anyway, they didn't pay much attention to me. The man in black was also very skilled. They were fighting, and I took the opportunity to run downstairs." Hyde said with a bitter face, "As a result, I ran to the first floor and opened the door, and found that there was also a creature like that outside the door. It was holding my horse and looking at me. Damn it, my precious horse. Alas, I had no choice but to hide in the basement again."

"After that, I kept squatting in the wine barrel, not daring to show up. I don't know how long it was until I heard you appear in the basement." After saying that, the old man sighed.

"You know what happened next. Okay, I've told you everything I can tell you. Can you help me burn the horse now?"

"Well, you're in a pretty miserable situation too." Ye Xiao nodded and looked behind the old man. "But now I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear?"

"What?" The old man looked puzzled. "What are you talking about? What's the good news?"

"The good news is that we don't have to haul that horse."

"Uh, why? What's the bad news?" Old man Hyde saw Ye Xiao's gaze behind him, so he turned his head back.

Then he saw a huge shadow rising from the courtyard in the distance, overturning the surrounding trees and soil, and the small red brick building collapsed into a pile of ruins.

Chapter 17: Sword Slash

"The bad news is, it looks like your horse is going to drag you down."

“My house!!!”

The old man's wails were deafening. Ye Xiao scratched his ears and comforted him, "It's okay. You were going to move out anyway. This will save you some time moving things."

[Mission "Cleaning the Basement" failed]

This can also be considered my failure...

[Trigger mission: Clear unknown monsters]

[Mission Brief: An unknown monster created by the corpse of a diseased horse destroyed Hyde's house and threatened the villagers of Liangqiu Village. You can choose to defeat him to gain the favor of Hyde and the villagers.]

[Task Reward: Hyde's Pendant, Gold Coins*15, General Points*5000]

Okay, the pendant reward is still there, it just takes a bit of effort to get it.

The monster looked exactly like the horse corpse in the basement. Its body had somehow swelled to nearly the size of a small house. Its twisted limbs kicked up a cloud of dust as they stepped on the rubble. A huge tumor wrapped in bone joints hung from its abdomen. Several coelomectic holes opened and closed on the surface of the tumor like a mouth, making a continuous and piercing sound.

"Run! Run!" The village chief waved his hand and called on the nearby villagers to flee in all directions, but they saw the "mouth" on the tumor puffing out blood-red mist that instantly covered the nearby villagers.

Amid horrific screams, white hair grew all over the villagers in the blood mist, and their limbs seemed to be pulled out of their bodies by invisible pliers.

At this time, Wengerman, wearing a tricorn hat, also jumped out of the ruins covered in dust and dirt, and shot at the huge monster with a musket while running. The three villagers who had mutated in the blood mist were attracted by the movement, and they roared and pounced on it together.

"Damn it!"

Only then did Wengerman notice the villagers. He raised his gun with his left hand and shot the Fallen in the front with a shot. Then he dodged the corpse that fell due to inertia. He took out a short-handled axe in his right hand and chopped it diagonally on the neck of the second Fallen who was following closely behind.

However, the Fallen One, whose vitality had become extremely strong due to the mutation, did not die immediately even after being chopped almost from neck to waist. He howled and inserted his sharp fingers into Wengerman's right arm.

Wengerman was in pain and failed to pull out the axe. Just as the third Fallen One was about to pounce on him, a blazing fireball streaked across the battlefield and accurately interrupted the attack in mid-air.

Ye Xiao, who was not far away, spat out the blue medicine bottle he had just held in his mouth, waved his staff and used the second fireball to kill the Fallen who had just been knocked to the ground and was screaming.

"Did you wake up this horse?" Ye Xiao walked up to Wengerman and said.

"How is that possible, Mad? As soon as I entered the basement, this thing swelled up like a balloon and almost squeezed me to death."

Wengerman stepped on the corpse and pulled out the axe, causing a splash of blood on his arm. "Hiss, I won't be infected too, will I?"

"You can find a few more species to infect," Ye Xiao thought of Hyde who was cured by him using the "Healing Holy Light", "Maybe they can neutralize each other."

If it weren't for the fact that Ella's "Healing Holy Light" consumed too much magic power, and the potion also had tolerance and toxicity, the effect would become worse and worse if it was consumed over time, Ye Xiao would still like to try to save the villagers who were transformed by the blood mist.

However, now all they can do is ask the surrounding villagers to stay away from the blood mist so as not to be affected by the blood mist. Fortunately, many villagers in Liangqiu Village have died due to the epidemic, and the place where old man Hyde lives is remote. Apart from the militia that has been evacuated, there are not many villagers nearby.

But as for Wengerman, according to old man Hyde, he is not a permanent resident and has a high probability of not being infected, so Ye Xiao is simply talking trash.

"That makes sense. I'll go back and try it later."

Brother, you really believe it, Ye Xiao was speechless.

"what!!!"

The tumor on the horse monster's abdomen began to make charming dolphin sounds again. Its front hooves were raised high, and then it glared suddenly, and its fat body rushed towards the two of them like a cannonball.

Such a reckless collision naturally did not hit the two of them, but unfortunately the villagers' houses behind them were smashed into ruins.

The horse monster seemed extremely angry after missing the attack. Although the eyes on the horse's head still had a blank and dead look, its restless hooves were waving and trampling the surrounding bushes into pieces.

Wengerman rolled over and stood up, flicking his rifle to eject the roulette-shaped magazine on the gun body. With his right hand, he took the bullet from his waist bag and pressed the chamber closed in one go. In less than half a second, he raised the gun and fired again.

Several tongues of fire pierced into the forehead of the attacking horse monster, splashing a few streaks of blood but still unable to stop the opponent's charge.

"This thing may be stupid, but it's indestructible." Wengerman shouted as he rolled to avoid the impact. "It will be bad if it rushes to the villagers!"

"Let me do it." Ye Xiao took out a bottle of stamina-enhancing medicine and swallowed it. Some white gas came out of his body to dissipate heat. There was no other way. With the current physical attribute value, he had to strengthen his stamina first to use powerful sword skills to avoid exhaustion.

"Can you do it?" Wengerman asked in confusion, looking at Ye Xiao's strange posture of holding the staff horizontally in his left hand and placing his right hand on his waist.

"Just watch." Ye Xiao snorted.

After saying that, he raised his hand and shot a fireball at the horse monster that rushed to the other side.

The flames from the explosion burned a small dimple on the huge horse's head.

"You can't do this." Wengerman stepped aside.

"Don't scream, don't scream."

Ye Xiao held his breath and stared at the angry horse monster after being provoked by the fireball.

The horse howled, raised its front hooves, and attacked again like a cannonball with its angry head.