Chapter 918

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

"Ah! Help! Help!"

Shen Yao turned her head and saw Bai Xue, who had been in the chicken pen, being chased and bitten by several brightly colored large roosters.

It wasn't an ordinary chase; bloody gashes had appeared on Bai Xue's body, and because blood was gushing out, she ran with a limp, while those few large roosters pursued even more ferociously, and even drew the surrounding other chickens into chasing Bai Xue.

The words "help" were shouted by Bai Xue first; her brother Bai Sheng was right next to her in the duck pen, anxious to come help Bai Xue, but unexpectedly one of the two ducks he had originally caught stretched its neck and tore at Bai Sheng's arm, and in the end Bai Sheng was left with only one duck in his hands, and even that one had a risk of escaping.

Shen Yao raised her hand to signal Bai Xue to run outside, while she did her best to drag the rope and pull the white pig out; perhaps the surrounding sounds had aroused the wariness of the pigs in the pig pen, and the pigs that had originally not cared about Shen Yao's catching, more or less rose from the ground they were lying on and walked step by step toward where Shen Yao currently was.

The pig pen's area was very large, with several dozen clean-bodied white pigs raised inside, each well-proportioned and plump; when Shen Yao entered she only caught at the pig pen entrance, and once the rope binding was done she immediately walked outside, the whole process flowing like clouds and water — even Bai Xue's cries for help did not delay Shen Yao's movements, perfectly defusing the risk of being blocked by the pigs and unable to exit the pig pen.

By the time the pig pen door was shut again, Shen Yao let go of the fork in her hand, raised her hand and wiped the sweat drops beading on her forehead.

Bai Sheng followed close behind, running out of the duck pen; the duck he held in his arms had also turned from frenzied to docile, only Bai Sheng's arms showed wounds of varying degrees, bloody just like Bai Xue's.

Bai Xue was the last to run out; she hadn't caught anything and ended up covered in wounds, and the chicken pen behind her showed the craziest behavior — the whole flock was in a state of excitement, especially those few large roosters that had tasted flesh and blood, their feathers standing on end, their beaks grown longer, thicker, and sharper, each peck leaving a bloody hole.

"Brother, Sister Shen"

Bai Xue's aggrieved tears flowed down; unlike Shen Yao's Hua Guo people, the tear drops they cried were white, and even carried a fragrance.

Shen Yao:... The world is vast, nothing is strange

Bai Sheng handed the duck in his arms to Bai Xue, then borrowed the fork from Shen Yao's hand, on the premise of promising to help Shen Yao carry the pig, had Shen Yao cooperate to catch another duck.

As for why not chickens and pigs? One species was too large in size to bring back, the other was obviously abnormal and they dared not touch it.

"Fine, give me the rope," Shen Yao took the rope Bai Sheng hadn't finished using, then tied a slipknot on it.

Using wrist strength she flung the rope forward, similar to a ring-toss game at a market, until a duck entered the rope's range.

"Quick, move," once Shen Yao finished speaking, Bai Sheng jumped into the duck pen and used the fork in his hand to pin the duck's position, and before the other white ducks could swarm him, swiftly clamped the roped duck under his arm and carried it away.

By the time this duck was brought out of the duck pen, several new wounds had appeared on Bai Sheng's body.

"Hiss, this duck, its beak cuts like a knife and it really hurts."

Bai Sheng muttered a sentence, then used the remaining half of the rope to tie the duck securely and handed it to Bai Xue.

"There are still five hours until the instance ends, we must hurry back," Shen Yao glanced at the countdown; time was tighter than imagined.

Bai Sheng gave an "mm," had Bai Xue hold the two ducks and follow behind him and Shen Yao; then the white pig, legs in the air, was easily lifted, and the three quickened their pace returning to the slaughter room.

Front to back it took about forty minutes total; Shen Yao's time in the pig pen was also fifteen minutes, plus Bai Sheng's two entries into the duck pen, and the travel time — a trace of nervousness arose in Shen Yao's heart.

When in the ancient plane, Shen Yao was a pig butcher's daughter; although she was already married when she crossed over, the steps of slaughtering pigs remained in her memory.

Bai Sheng and Bai Xue were the true exemplars of "ten fingers untouched by spring water" — not to mention killing chickens and ducks, even in the Yue Lian Federation they rarely saw such conventionally raised livestock.

"I'll go first, you watch," Shen Yao picked up the pig-slaughtering knife nearby, taking advantage of the rope not yet being untied, and with one stroke plunged it into the white pig's neck to bleed it.

Because the whole process was extremely smooth, in the Bai siblings' eyes, slaughtering had no difficulty at all, and they gained confidence in their own upcoming duck slaughter.

Pity that as outsiders they didn't understand the situation; in reality Shen Yao encountered a mental attack while slaughtering.

The pig being slaughtered originally turned into a person, and even an old acquaintance of Shen Yao's!

Shen Yao:...

This kind of low-end attack is still too childish; plus Shen Yao's spirit is outstanding, the bit of danger the instance bestowed fundamentally wouldn't affect her, so Shen Yao's hand rose and knife fell, and she quickly finished slaughtering this white pig, meeting the instance's stipulated requirement.

Instance: Dai Lun's Slaughterhouse

Time: 4:40:25

Clear Requirement: Independently slaughter three slaughterhouse livestock 【1/3】, obtain Dai Lun's evaluation 【Technique skilled and free, truly a born pig butcher】

Dai Lun hid in the dark watching them; it seems this evaluation is real-time scoring.

Shen Yao left the work station, signaling Bai Xue and Bai Sheng to come over.

Briefly telling the siblings the situation she encountered during slaughter, Shen Yao left a "watch your safety," then picked up rope and fork and went out the door to continue capturing other slaughterhouse livestock.

It appears from the start, the three-person group allocation was Dai Lun's deliberate misleading verbal arrangement, because independent slaughter cannot be helped, and while cooperation in the capture phase is necessary it also leaves trouble.

Just like Bai Xue failing to catch a chicken and having to rely on Bai Sheng's second trip, the delayed time would also affect Shen Yao; these could actually all be optimized.

If Shen Yao acted alone, by the time she returned she would probably be staggered with the Bai siblings, then both sides could save slaughter waiting time, to better complete the instance mission.

"Host, are we catching pigs again this time?"

"No, since Dai Lun is hiding in the dark observing, that means our every move is in his view, at least the slaughter room is like this," killing a pig would get a pig butcher evaluation, then what about killing a sheep? Killing a cow? Killing those wild livestock?

Shen Yao wanted to try, to obtain as many different evaluations from Dai Lun as possible, to see if these could influence the instance clearance rating.

While speaking, Shen Yao arrived at the sheep pen; the flock inside was leisurely eating grass, looking from afar like clusters of large white clouds.

Opening the sheep pen and entering, Shen Yao's gaze locked onto a ewe with medium-sized horns; the rope in her hand seemed to have gained autonomous consciousness, smoothly looping around the ewe's neck.

"Maa maa maa"

Panicked bleating rang out; simultaneously, more and more white sheep came to Shen Yao's side, surrounding her in a tight circle.

Shen Yao remained unmoved, wholeheartedly binding the white sheep before her; the sheep's hooves were tied by her into dead knots, and even the sheep's mouth was bound tight by her.

Nimbly weaving through this herd that was surrounding and blocking her, while also avoiding sheep hooves and sheep mouths, Shen Yao carried the unruly white sheep on her shoulder; the short distance of less than ten meters was walked by her with exceptional difficulty.

Hu

Finally able to leave the sheep pen; with the pen door shut, no matter how frenzied the flock inside was it was to no avail; perhaps realizing they couldn't save their companion, the flock slowly dispersed, only those pairs of eyes — Shen Yao decided after slaughtering this white sheep, she would switch to another kind of slaughterhouse livestock.

"Host, I feel like that flock of sheep was glaring at you," the words barely fell before the system continued pointing at the pig pen next to the sheep pen, "That flock of pigs is also glaring at you."

Tsk

What's with this slaughterhouse's livestock? The emotions revealed in those gazes are more acted than some people; could it be the livestock here are also people?

"Hard to say, didn't you see every livestock pen someone entered had more or less problems appear," Shen Yao walked along the central avenue toward the slaughter room, "Might be that when pushed to the extreme, these livestock are the instance clearance obstacles."

But thinking about it, it's quite normal — their clearance standard is independently slaughtering the slaughterhouse livestock, and these livestock also can't know they're going to die and not struggle.

What's more, she experienced an illusion during the slaughter; right now her words sound relaxed but her heart can't relax — Shen Yao always feels this instance isn't simple. If she can't complete the slaughter livestock targets some time in advance, there will definitely be frame-ups waiting for them later.

Her footsteps unconsciously quickened; Shen Yao had no mood to observe the surroundings at all, but she still paid attention to the Bai Sheng siblings alone — the two of them looked to have even more injuries now, and were currently catching chickens in the wild chicken pen.

The siblings were busy until dripping with sweat; Shen Yao glanced from afar and then withdrew her gaze.

Before entering, Shen Yao ran into the Special Investigation Bureau people — the three had relaxed expressions, talking and laughing; it looked like this mission wasn't difficult for them at all.

"This time returning, who knows — we might get a C+ or above rating, at least we can obtain a B-grade item; our squad will also have basic self-preservation capability."

"Shh, don't say it — what if it's still a C-grade item? We'll have to enter an instance again next time."

"..."

Instance rating is linked to rewards; normally speaking, whatever rating you get, you'll receive an item of the corresponding rating — only a minority are exceptions. For example, if the rating reaches C+ close to B but isn't B, the instance will still give a B-grade item — this is encouragement given to players.

Shen Yao knows that given all of Hua Guo's situation, the highest items are only A-grade; as for higher S-grade or even S+ grade, those are legends — at least currently no one has seen them.

Carrying the white sheep on her shoulder back to the slaughter room, Shen Yao didn't waste words either — her operation was even more neat than when killing the pig before. Even though this time not only did the white sheep turn into a relative, she could also feel the same injury pain on her body, but Shen Yao gritted her teeth and endured, slaughtering this white sheep cleanly.

Instance: Dai Lun's Slaughterhouse

Time: 04:00:05

Clearance Requirement: Independently slaughter three slaughterhouse livestock 【2/3】, obtain Dai Lun's evaluation 【Technique skilled and free, truly a natural-born pig butcher; willpower resilient, really very suited to slaughterhouse work】

After reading the clearance requirements, Shen Yao thought to herself that this Dai Lun person is quite interesting — the instance's test is also ingeniously designed. There are still four hours left; she must seize the time, strive to get a better score before the mission ends.

The slaughterhouse certainly has assessment standards — who knows, she might even earn extra instance currency; you have to know instances and instances are connected.

Who knows if there'll be a chance to come to the slaughterhouse again — even if not here, next door is the flower room. According to Hua Guo Official's current research on instances, there's a saying that when the player count on the entire planet reaches a certain degree, their connection with instances will become more intimate — very likely they'll access more information about instances.

Of course, this only counts as one kind of saying — there aren't no people from other worlds inside instances either; both sides have conducted simple communication before, yet to this day no more intimate relationship has appeared — visible that the creatures who created instances exist in a higher dimension, while they, these planets including humans, are all observed objects — this is just a relatively long experiment.

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Killing the pig used quite a lot of time; killing the sheep used a comparatively normal amount of time; killing the cow used the most time — a full hour only just managed to finish it.

Shen Yao raised her hand and wiped the bloodstains splashed around, looking satisfied at the instance content.

Instance: Dai Lun's Slaughterhouse

Time: 03:00:00

Clearance Condition: Independently slaughter three slaughterhouse livestock 【3/3】, obtain Dai Lun's evaluation 【Technique skilled and free, truly a natural-born pig butcher; willpower resilient, really very suited to slaughterhouse work; capability outstanding, you will receive a work certificate from Dai Lun's Slaughterhouse】

Clearance condition achieved — now opening side quest 【freely selectable】: Please continue independently slaughtering slaughterhouse livestock; each one completed will receive corresponding payment 【Boss Dai Lun is very satisfied with you, please don't disappoint the other party's trust — this will be a mutually worthwhile hiring for both sides】

Side quest — then the clearance condition that appeared at the beginning is the main quest.

Completing the side quest will definitely get a high score, and might even obtain extra rewards.

Three hours still left — Shen Yao feels that with some effort she can at least slaughter two large livestock.

System puzzled: "Why not choose small livestock?" In the same time, maybe could slaughter a few more.

"Since this place set up this many livestock, it certainly has its logic," large livestock and small livestock don't only differ in size — there's also a price difference.

Since doing it, do the best — remember the Special Investigation Bureau people also chose medium-large livestock to start on; at worst, half-grown wild boars.

Only those with insufficient strength or who really haven't done this kind of work would stare at small livestock.

Shen Yao took rope and fork and went out the door — just happened to run into the Bai Sheng siblings returning. At this moment, the two siblings didn't have a single uninjured spot on their whole bodies.

Fortunately the two of them were comparatively lucky — in the end they still carried back two wild rabbits.

As for why they didn't go catch chickens or ducks — the danger level of chickens and ducks had already risen to a degree they couldn't withstand, while the wild rabbit pen had no visitors — the two of them just happened to pick up the bargain, fighting through injuries to carry two rabbits out of the wild rabbit pen.

The three met, mutually nodding in greeting — the Bai Sheng siblings didn't ask Shen Yao for help, and Shen Yao also had no intention of asking more — maintaining this neither-hot-nor-cold attitude, the two sides separated at the slaughter room doorway.

"Brother"

"Shh"

Bai Sheng raised his hand, gesturing a posture — "Go inside, process these two wild rabbits properly; from now on we'll just stay in the slaughter room and not go out."

The danger outside far exceeds the siblings' premonition — they don't dare gamble; their former bold words have long since gone unemployed — now they only seek to survive until the instance ends.

Not everyone can adapt to the instance's intensity, and not everyone can walk to the peak.