Around dusk,
Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao returned to the Adventurer's Guild.
"Little brother, I heard you can exchange Arcane Yuan Coins at a 1:2 ratio here?"
Just as Ye Feng was about to enter the Adventurer's Guild, a middle-aged man with a handlebar mustache, a sinister face, and a pointed mouth and monkey cheeks rushed up to him at the entrance.
"That's right. Do you want to exchange?"
Ye Feng frowned slightly.
Although the middle-aged man gave him an uncomfortable feeling, he didn't turn away the opportunity to get complete survival coins.
"Indeed."
The middle-aged man nodded, "I am Wang Hou. Little brother, this is 100 Arcane Yuan Coins, taken from a Bronze Treasure Chest. Take a look."
As he spoke, Wang Hou handed over a round metal object with the number 100 on it.
"Oh?"
Ye Feng was a little surprised. He took the round metal object and examined it.
"It is indeed complete. Here you go."
After checking, Ye Feng put it away and reached into his backpack, taking out the only survival coin with a 200 denomination from his spatial warehouse and handing it to the other party.
"You're too kind."
Seeing the 200 Arcane Yuan Coins Ye Feng handed over, Wang Hou's eyes lit up, and a look of obvious surprise appeared on his face.
Seeing that the other party didn't say anything about further exchanges, Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao walked directly into the Adventurer's Guild.
After Wang Hou put away the 200 Arcane Yuan Coins, he looked at Ye Feng's retreating back with a strange gaze, a cold smirk on his lips, and then quickly left.
...
In the hall of the Adventurer's Guild,
"Here!"
Ye Feng placed the wooden box, about 0.5 cubic meters in size, which was slung around his waist, onto the counter. "I've completed the quest. Give me the 200 Spatial Rift Fragments!"
"Damn, that guy actually found the daughter of that big shot in a vast forest in just over a day?"
"Is that true? I'll investigate too. There are no clues at all. I don't even know where the carriage is!"
"I found it, but there are almost no useful clues left at the scene!"
"He just said he completed the quest. The quest was to bring back the daughter of that big shot. How did he bring back a wooden box?"
"Is that big shot's daughter inside that wooden box?"
"That wooden box isn't big either. It would be tight to fit a child!"
...
Upon hearing this, the adventurers in the hall of the Adventurer's Guild all got up and walked towards Ye Feng, discussing amongst themselves in a flurry of chatter.
Under their puzzled gazes, Old Man Liu smiled at Ye Feng and opened the wooden box, taking out a rag doll.
"What the heck, that guy didn't find the person and brought back an identical doll to cheat for a reward?"
"Damn! Why didn't I think of that method?"
"Are you an idiot? If you try to fool the Adventurer's Guild, do you still want to hang out here in the future?"
...
Seeing the doll that looked exactly like the oil painting on the quest notice, everyone started discussing again, clearly believing that Ye Feng had not completed the quest.
Amidst everyone's doubts, Ye Feng spoke, "The quest content is 'Whoever can bring back Xiao Tao will be given 200 Spatial Rift Fragments. Xiao Tao's appearance is on that oil painting paper~'"
"These are the exact words from the quest notice, right!"
As he spoke, Ye Feng pointed to the quest notice posted on the wall. "The notice first talks about the disappearance of a big shot's daughter, which actually has nothing to do with the quest itself."
"It's just that at the end, there's a sentence: 'My Xiao Tao is lost, whoever can bring back Xiao Tao....' This led everyone to believe that Xiao Tao was the big shot's daughter..."
"In fact, Xiao Tao is just a doll, right?"
Ye Feng said slowly.
"Clap clap clap!"
At this moment, someone started clapping. It was Lei Jian from the Adventurer's Guild. "Young man, you're amazing. You thought of such a detailed and brain-busting thing!"
"If I had randomly taken on such a quest, even if I found the doll, I probably wouldn't have thought of it this way."
As he spoke, Lei Jian gently placed the barbell he was carrying on the ground, but it still made a dull thud.
"The weight of this giant barbell..."
Ye Feng narrowed his eyes slightly, lost in thought.
"Mr. Ye, you are correct. Bringing back 'Xiao Tao' was indeed the quest objective."
At this moment, Old Man Liu, who had been observing Ye Feng, finally spoke.
After speaking, he took out a rectangular box from the cabinet behind him and opened it. "Count it. Exactly 200 Spatial Rift Fragments!"
Because the Spatial Rift Fragments in the box were neatly arranged in rows and columns, Ye Feng glanced at them and accepted them.
"Wait a moment!"
Just as Ye Feng turned to leave, a female voice suddenly called out to him. It was Lin, who was sitting by the window.
"Is something wrong?"
Ye Feng frowned, a little confused.
Lin did not answer immediately. Instead, she walked up to Ye Feng and lowered her voice, saying, "You'd better call your guards, or you'll be in mortal danger!"
As she spoke, Lin glanced towards the entrance of the Adventurer's Guild, at the spot where the man with the handlebar mustache had been, hinting at something.
"Guards? What guards?"
Ye Feng was bewildered. What was the other party talking about?
"You... As an outstanding descendant of a large human survivor base, you... you don't have guards when you go out?"
Lin was equally astonished.
She had previously inferred Ye Feng's identity through observation, believing that Ye Feng was likely from a large human survivor base, and was even a core heir, who was out for training.
But now it seemed not to be the case?
"Outstanding descendant of a large human survivor base? Guards? What nonsense is this?"
Ye Feng muttered and walked towards the staircase, with Xiao Xiao quickly following.
Only Lin and others, who were stunned, and a group of adventurers, some sighing in disappointment, some marveling at Ye Feng's strength, and some curious about Ye Feng's identity, were left behind...
...
After an afternoon of exploration and combat, Ye Feng was starving.
As soon as he returned to his room, Ye Feng quickly took out a large pile of food and started eating with Xiao Xiao.
Ye Feng ate quickly. In less than 15 minutes, three chicken legs, three coconut floss buns, three Swiss rolls, and a cup of hot milk were consumed.
"Xiao Xiao, you eat slowly. I'm going to sleep first."
Exhausted, Ye Feng decided to take a nap first.
"Knock knock knock!"
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
"Who is it?"
Ye Feng was a little annoyed.
"Mr. Ye, it's me!"
The voice of Old Man Liu, the president of the Adventurer's Guild, came from outside the door.
"Hmm? What is it?"
Ye Feng opened the door and asked directly.
"Mr. Ye, you must have also noticed that the 200 Spatial Rift Fragments are unusual..."
"To be honest, that quest was a test!"
"I posted the quest to find an excellent and reliable partner to carry out a mission together!"
Seeing that Ye Feng seemed impatient, Old Man Liu got straight to the point.
"A test?"
Ye Feng frowned. "No wonder the scene of the carriage accident felt strange, and there were no horseshoe prints nearby..."
"Did you carry that carriage and throw it down the hillside?"
Finally, Ye Feng looked at Lei Jian, who was behind Old Man Liu.
Judging by the 300-pound barbell he used for training, he had great strength and could indeed do such a thing...
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