22: Epic quest! Mythical treasure chest!

“Demon?”

“Or a mutated one?”

Lin Ye scanned around, but there was nothing.

“Hiss?”

Lin Ye frowned, looked up at the little girl on the city wall, and retorted, “You... you’re not talking about me, are you?!”

“Wow, it can even talk?!”

The little girl on the city wall was terrified.

“Uncle said that demons who can talk are very scary. It’s over, it’s over, Little Doudou is going to die, woo woo woo~”

“Uh?”

Lin Ye suddenly felt a bit awkward.

“Little girl, uh, Little Doudou, right?”

“Do you think there’s a possibility that I’m a good person?”

Doudou’s crying stopped abruptly. She covered her face, secretly peeked, and then cried even louder.

“Woo woo, impossible, you don’t look like a good person~”

“And Uncle also said that there are no good people outside the village anymore, not a single one, and no one can be trusted…”

“Sigh~”

Lin Ye sighed.

“Then where’s your uncle? I’ll just talk to him directly?”

When Little Doudou heard this, she immediately recoiled in fear, then stood up straight again, mustering her courage to say, “Don’t come over, okay? My uncle is very powerful. If you don’t want to die quickly, then run away quickly~”

Lin Ye wasn’t stupid. Until now, no adults had come out of the village to make a sound. How could there be anyone?

The door couldn’t be opened.

But the city wall wasn’t very high.

Lin Ye jumped up with a single sprint.

It was fortunate that it was a fully realistic virtual game, otherwise, there would definitely be an invisible wall blocking him here.

“Ah…?!”

When Little Doudou saw Lin Ye climb onto the city wall, she was so scared she couldn’t speak.

A seven or eight-year-old girl, just over a meter tall, had to stack a few stones under her feet to stick her head out and check the situation.

Lin Ye stepped forward.

He wanted to reach out and touch her head, but his palm passed through as if it were a glitch.

No.

It was similar to the Time Wheel Star Key’s invincibility state.

Spatial magic?

“Don’t be afraid, I’m really not a bad person. Where’s your uncle? I’ll go find him.”

“But… but…” Little Doudou’s eyes were full of suspicion: “But Uncle said there are no good people outside…”

“I’m not from outside.” Lin Ye smiled.

Little Doudou tilted her head, clearly not understanding what he meant.

Lin Ye didn’t want to waste time either, and leaped down from the city wall.

The entire village was built against the mountain, truly very small, with only a few buildings in total. In the center stood a giant stone tablet tens of meters high, with a dim yellow lamp hanging on top, visible from afar.

Compared to this, Newbie Village would probably count as a bustling small town.

Not far away.

The door of a stone house was open, and an old voice came from inside.

“Cough cough, Little Doudou, have the monsters outside been repelled?”

“Woo woo woo~”

Little Doudou rushed over frantically, crying and shouting, “Uncle, run quickly, the demon broke through the stone guard and got in~”

“What?!”

Before the person inside could react, Lin Ye had already walked in, quickly explaining:

“Don’t rush to attack, I am an adventurer from the eternal world.”

“Adventurer?”

“eternal?”

The old man lying on the bed, looking sickly and on the verge of death, barely propped himself up, looking at Lin Ye with a face full of shock.

“Heh, outside… is there still eternal out there?!”

Clearly.

The old man didn’t believe Lin Ye’s words and sneered:

“Demon, if you want to kill me, just do it. There’s no need to act, because no one from that hypocritical eternal world could possibly enter!”

Lin Ye felt that this quest was a bit abnormal, with unclear steps.

Now facing an NPC.

He couldn’t tell if they were friend or foe.

Suddenly.

Lin Ye remembered the stone tablet he had just seen. That shape... it should be the Time Wheel Star Key, right?

He backed out.

He looked closely.

No problem.

Then this was a friendly NPC stronghold.

At the same time.

Little Doudou blocked the doorway, crying and shouting, “Bad guy, don’t hurt my uncle~”

Lin Ye smiled: “I have the Time Wheel Star Key. Who exactly are you people?”

“Pfft~”

The old man in the room suddenly spat out a mouthful: “You… what do you have? The Time Wheel Star Key, you know that is…”

Before he finished speaking.

Lin Ye looked up at the incomplete starry sky, concentrated his mind, and tried to re-condense the key on his chest.

“It won’t work?”

Lin Ye hadn’t tried it before, so he was inevitably a bit nervous now.

But he couldn’t not take out the key either.

“Thump!”

The ground beneath his feet suddenly trembled.

“No way, such a big commotion?”

As Lin Ye was surprised.

He saw a beam of starlight shining down from the sky, falling vertically onto the stone tablet in the center of the village.

“Thump!”

The stone tablet trembled again.

At the same time.

Lin Ye’s chest also vibrated.

The Time Wheel Star Key re-condensed, emitting brilliant starlight.

“See, I wasn’t wrong, was I?” As Lin Ye spoke, the white-haired old man and Little Doudou were already too shocked to speak.

The next second.

The starlight gathered by the stone tablet actually transformed into a beam of aurora, directly blasting towards Lin Ye.

It was too fast.

He couldn’t react.

But the Time Wheel Star Key completely absorbed this light. As the crystal key became even brighter and more dazzling, it also reflected a beam of aurora that struck the stone tablet.

“Bang!”

The lamp hanging on the stone tablet shattered on the spot.

Immediately after.

The top of the stone tablet seemed to condense a brilliant Star Tower.

“Boom!”

Starlight bloomed.

It transformed into a celestial curtain, slowly descending and enveloping the entire village.

“Ding~”

“You have rekindled the Star Tower in the Forgotten Land.”

With the illumination of the starlight.

The entire shattered world seemed to have entered daytime.

The tumultuous Star Tower, which had been surging moments ago, gradually calmed down under the soothing starlight.

“Ding~”

“You have discovered the Star Tower lost in the Time Wheel Star Key.”

“Quest: Forgotten Civilization, First Ring Completed!”

“Completed?”

Lin Ye was startled and quickly turned off all defaults to check the rewards.

“Ding~”

“You have gained ownership of the Forgotten Land!”

“That’s it?”

Lin Ye hadn’t received any rewards since entering. Now that the quest was complete, he only gained ownership of a small village.

“Damn it.”

This was such a high-difficulty quest. If you replaced him with someone else, they probably wouldn’t even get a glance.

Now you’re telling me.

The quest reward is just this broken village?

Lin Ye almost swore.

“What can I do with this village?”

“It’s hard enough to come here once, and each time I have to kill a BOSS to make a key. The key location is also in Newbie Village, making it a completely one-time item…”

“System Announcement!”

“Demon Lord has found the Forgotten Land within the Time Wheel Star Key and erected a Star Tower within Time Wheel Star Key. Newbie Village (ID 9527000), which is adrift in the Time Wheel Star Key, has received guidance from the Star Tower and will be embedded into the eternal world within 24 hours, becoming a permanent part of the eternal world. During this period, Newbie Village will no longer accept new players, and existing players can log off at will but cannot leave.”

“Demon Lord has completed an epic quest, rewarding 10,000 personal fame points! Rewarding Epic Treasure Chest x1!”

“Hiss~”

Lin Ye felt his head spinning.

“Am I still drunk?”

“It’s not that this place links to eternal, but that Newbie Village is embedded into eternal. What kind of operation is this? Does that mean Newbie Village is no longer an independent space?”

“No!”

Lin Ye wasn’t in the mood to pay attention right now.

He should check the rewards first.

Fame would definitely be doubled.

But the treasure chest…

Lin Ye hesitated.

100 epic treasure chests would certainly be very valuable, enough to easily clear tens of millions in debt, with plenty to spare.

But, it wasn’t about money now.

Instead, the opportunity for such epic treasure chests was extremely rare. If he could go a step further, he would reach a height no one in the entire eternal could aspire to.

Two choices.

One was to solve the current problem, money.

Lin Ye had ways to earn that himself.

The other was to solve future problems: could he become stronger?

One must know.

eternal could bring items into reality.

If this function was activated.

Would it be better to bring back an epic-grade equipment, or a higher-grade equipment?

No need to ask.

Lin Ye already had the answer!

“Ding~”

“You have gained 1,000,000 personal fame points.”

“You have gained Mythical Treasure Chest x1.”