I don’t know if it was because everyone here grew up eating isatis root or if Dr. Zhang’s medical skills have really broken through the sky. Shi Manqian’s ankles were obviously swollen like buns (this is not an exaggeration. Bai Xiaoqiu saw her swallowing her ankles with her own eyes), but after Dr. Zhang’s two injections, the bruises immediately subsided at a speed visible to the naked eye. After applying the plaster, Shi Manqian could already jump around.

In the afternoon, Bai Xiaoqiu took Shi Manqian to a tavern in the village to have a meal... After all, he was following a beautiful girl, and his return rate surged along the way.

Yingfeng Tavern is the best-known tavern in Yishan Village. Its scale and layout are somewhat similar to Tongfu Inn. There are more than a dozen tables placed downstairs for dining, and there are five or six rooms upstairs. Yishan Village has very few migrant population, so many rooms are enough.

Although it was not a meal time, there were already many guests sitting in the hall downstairs. Many hunters and pseudo-hunters gathered together in groups, eating, drinking, and bragging. From time to time, two shouts urging the waiter to drink, which was very like a martial arts novel.

The so-called pseudo-hunters here refer to those hunting monsters who also make a living by hunting monsters, but because of their lack of strength, they cannot hunt large monsters or fail the assessment of hunters. These pseudo-hunters cannot enjoy the benefits and subsidies provided by the hunters organization, and their strength and status are much worse than formal hunters, but they are much stronger than ordinary people. The number of these pseudo-hunters is much higher than that of formal hunters. For example, there are hundreds of families in Yishan Village, and only only twenty or thirty formal hunters, while there are more than a hundred pseudo-hunters. Most of the tasks of encircling the Nian beasts in the last battle against Nian beasts fell on these guys.

The hunter's circle is also a world of war, and these pseudo-hunters are the grains of sand in the vast world of war.

When many hunters saw Bai Xiaoqiu entering the door, they waved at him with familiarity.

"Yo! I'm back! Is the mission completed smoothly?"

"I'm really ashamed, because we were all injured, the task of collecting beast blood actually fell on you, a rookie. How about it, the first hunt must be very hard, right?"

Although Bai Xiaoqiu is also a pseudo-hunter now, as a comrade-in-arms who participated in the New Year Beast Battle, these guys saw Bai Xiaoqiu's sword cutting the middle-aged beast. The specific combat power is not easy to judge, but the skills definitely exceed the threshold of a formal hunter. These old fryers are very happy to have a good relationship with him.

Bai Xiaoqiu was not very clear about what was happening in the hunter circle, but he did not pretend to be cold in the face of the warm greetings of everyone. He spent a few minutes dealing with the old fried dough sticks. Bai Xiaoqiu and Shi Manqian casually found a table and sat down.

"Ah, it's Xiaobai, you! I heard that you have just completed the task and you shouldn't be eating and drinking here for free after getting paid, right?" The waiter who looked very much like Li Xiaoyao teased Bai Xiaoqiu with a smile, but after seeing Shi Manqian's appearance, he was stunned, "What is this beauty?"

As mentioned earlier, the average appearance of women in Yishan Village is very low. As long as they are almost in shape, they can be considered as village flower. For example, Li Xiaohua has a face that failed plastic surgery, but Zhao Tiezhu and Zhang Quandan next door still fight for her to the death. Even peeing has to compare who can pee further...

So, in the eyes of Shi Manqian, who is considered a goddess on earth, is really like a fairy descending to earth in the eyes of the residents of this world... The second brother has already looked straight at it.

"Oh, her name is Shi Manqian, I picked it up when I was hunting." Bai Xiaoqiu replied lightly.

The little brother knelt on the ground with a thump, "Hero, please accept me as his disciple!! I also want to be a hunter, and I also want to pick up a fairy to come back as my wife!"

"Go and go, little brat play." Bai Xiaoqiu shook his hand impatiently, "Do you think this is a scratch, you can rub it for 50 cents by rubbing it..." He was still ready to show off for a while, but when Shi Manqian's face was already murderous, he quickly changed the topic and said, "That, what do you have to eat today, just go to death. The old man is not short of money now!" After completing this task, Bai Xiaoqiu still has a surplus of 200 peach coins, which is indeed enough for him to eat with a hustle and white face. The purchasing power of peach coins is still very powerful.

However, this meal ate more than 50 peach coins, from the afternoon to around 8 o'clock in the evening. As for whom the more than 50 peach coins were in... Bai Xiaoqiu said hehe, the foodies' stomachs are indeed from the four dimensions.

After leaving the tavern, Bai Xiaoqiu and his wife went straight to the village chief's house.

When I entered the door, I found the village chief and the hunter uncle waiting for them while drinking wine.

"Xiaobai, you are here! Come and sit here!" The hunter uncle was still honest, but there was a bit of fatigue between his eyebrows.

Bai Xiaoqiu asked straight to the point and said, "Uncle Erniu, are you okay? I heard that I have found bad news deep in the forest?"

Erniu nodded: "Well, I found the traces of the tiger."

"Am I a tiger?"

"Yes..." Erniu continued to explain: "The spirit-exploring needle shows that there is resentment in the forest, and large areas of plants withered. I also found footprints of large cats on the ground. In summary, it should be that the tiger has not run away."

"Is that a tiger a big black tiger with many gray faces floating around?" Bai Xiaoqiu suddenly asked.

Erniu was shocked: "Hey?! How did you know?!"

Bai Xiaoqiu pointed at Shi Manqian: "When I saved her, the one who chased her was the one you mentioned."

Erniu had already learned about Shi Manqian's origin from the village chief. Without saying any polite words, he asked directly: "Have you met that tiger?"

"Yes..." Shi Manqian lowered his head and said with shame: "I'm sorry, that tiger was led by me." She explained: "I am a hunter from the water town on the other side of the forest. I heard that the tiger's tracks appeared around me, so I found two teammates to take on the task of attacking tigers. Unexpectedly, I underestimated the strength of the beast, and the two teammates were killed. If I hadn't met Xiaobai, I might have died in the forest."

"Sincere and follow the changes..." The village chief patted Shi Manqian's shoulder, "It is normal for prey to run to the vicinity of other villages, and you don't have to blame yourself too much. Since it has come to us, we will leave it to us for the task of solving it."

Shi Manqian shook her head: "For hunters, separation from life and death is a normal thing. The two dead are just teammates I have temporarily found. You don't need to comfort me." Although her expression was dim but not too sad, she suddenly continued to say: "But since you can become a teammate, it is also a fate. I will definitely avenge their hatred with you. The task of hunting a tiger must be counted as me!"

"But your injury..." Bai Xiaoqiu said.

"It's just a sprain, it will be cured in a few days. Anyway, it will take a long time to attack the tiger. My injury must have been healed when I set off." Shi Manqian said very seriously: "That tiger is definitely not a simple thing. We must deal with it very carefully, and the preparations must be very sufficient!"

"How do you say this?" Seeing that Shi Manqian knew what he looked like, the old village chief asked.

"Yes, yes, what kind of monster is Aihu?" Bai Xiaoqiu couldn't understand the origin of Aihu after listening for a long time.

Have you heard of the idiom "Be accomplice for a tiger"?" Shi Manqian asked back.

Bai Xiaoqiu nodded: "In folk legend, the person who was bitten to death by a tiger, his ghost helped the tiger hurt people, and was called a ghost. This idiom comes from "Taiping Guangji", which is a metaphor for helping evil people do evil, helping bad people do bad things, etc. "Bai Xiaoqiu reacted, "Could it be..."

"Yes, this idiom is about the tiger. The longer this monster lives, the more people it kills, the more it is, the more dangerous it is." Shi Manqian continued: "The number of tigers is very rare, and generally speaking, their strength can only be considered pretty good. But this tiger is different... It once slaughtered a village!"

"What?!!"

"How is that possible?!!"

Everyone was shocked. Bai Xiaoqiu opened his mouth and asked, "Yishan Village has a population of nearly 1,000, so the other villages must be the same, right? If you can slaughter a thousand people in one go, then the strength of the tiger is a bit too exaggerated, right?!"

"The situation in Yishan Village is a bit special. There will be no so many people in other villages." When Shi Manqian said this, he glanced at the old village chief with admiration, and then continued: "The slaughtered a very remote village with a total population of only two or three hundred people. In addition, after discovering the whereabouts of the slaughter, more than half of the people escaped. There may be less than a hundred people who died in its hands."

"That's very exaggerated, okay?!!"

"Indeed," the old village chief asked, "Even the smallest village, there should be about ten formal hunters. Under the siege of so many hunters, they can kill a hundred people... This is definitely not something Aihu can do!"

Shi Manqian was also confused about this. She frowned and said, "I was puzzled about this matter. When I was hunting it, I already felt that the tiger was very cunning. I found that after we tracked it, we actually set up a trap and attacked us. My two teammates died because of this. And according to the survivors in the village, the tiger sneaked into the village while the night was dark, killed many villagers in one breath, and then fought with the hunters in the village after turning them into ghosts... It was like setting up tactics!"

"But in this way, there shouldn't be nearly a hundred ghosts around the tiger? Why did I see it in the forest, there were only a dozen ghosts around it?" Bai Xiaoqiu asked again.

This time it was the old village chief who answered: "We hunters are not good at eating, okay? That evil beast can kill nearly a hundred people, probably has experienced a desperate battle. The controlled affair must have been killed by the hunters. It is already very powerful if there are more than a dozen left." He tapped the table with his fingers and murmured himself: "It's very cunning and extremely aggressive... This kind of monster must not let it move around the village, it must be removed as soon as possible!"

The old village chief suddenly looked at Bai Xiaoqiu: "Xiaobai, how about letting Miss Shi and Erniu complete this task together?!"

"Ah?!"

[Trigger mission - to attack the tiger!

Mission difficulty: 5 stars

Mission reward: 10 hunting points, Level 1 basic skills upgrade coupon*1, Level 1 weapon upgrade coupon*1]

【Level 1 weapon upgrade coupon:

Effect: After use, you can upgrade and strengthen a novice weapon immediately without any materials.]
Chapter completed!