No Life

Using the teleportation card to divert attention and erase all traces of the farm along the way, An Rou didn't believe that the joint team would catch up so quickly.

But Meng Ziyu and his sister were arrested.

They had no mobility skills and were caught so quickly, which meant that the joint group was not far from the farm.

Is it possible?

Unless the joint team has other clues that can be used for tracking - but An Rou thinks it is impossible.

Judging from Jie Xin's behavior these days, he's willingly been Chu Mo's messenger. He's the one who provides the information, but Chu Mo is the one pushing things behind the scenes.

An Rou glanced around and finally fixed her gaze on the gray-blue sky of the Soul Realm. There was no one there.

I don't know if ink removal can hear it.

"What makes you think I'd risk my entire farm just to save a ghoul?" An Rou sneered. "Because of Meng Zisha? I'd risk my life for an NPC? There are nearly two hundred of them on the farm!"

An Rou's tone darkened. "Chu Mo, as the top-ranked player, why are you resorting to such shady and useless tactics? Why don't you just bring the joint team?"

Her gaze finally fell on Jie Xin.

Xie Xin acted innocently, saying, "The farmer can do whatever he wants. I'm just a messenger. I won't interfere."

After he finished speaking, he left, apparently going to the other courtyard to find something to eat.

Zhang Da stood aside, not saying a word the whole time, but his body had already turned in the direction the brother and sister were leaving.

It turned around and looked at An Rou silently.

"You want to save them?" An Rou could already read the subtle changes in his eyes and said calmly, "No."

"Boss." Zhang Da rarely called her and didn't say anything else, but this call was enough to express his persistence.

An Rou was too lazy to talk nonsense with it and said directly: "Bao Bao."

A deep roar of sudden wealth emanated from the farm strata.

Zhang Da suddenly clenched his teeth, and his pupils trembled slightly.

At this moment, Paopao came running over: "Boss, why did it stop again?"

He noticed An Rou's serious expression: "What happened?"

An Rou: "It's okay, let's keep going."

As the farm started to operate, ripples appeared on the surface of the pond in front of them again.

An Rou walked along the boardwalk on the water into the pavilion in the center of the lake.

Qiaojie was sitting in the pavilion mending the soles of shoes. When she heard footsteps, she looked up and quickly stood up to greet him, "Farmer."

An Rou didn't respond, her eyes fell on the sole of the shoe in her hand.

It's not even as long as a palm and is not an adult size.

Qiaojie explained with a smile, "I made them for Shasha and Ziyou. Those two kids' shoes were already worn out. They're orphans, so they must have suffered a lot outside."

"They've already left."

Qiaojie was startled and wanted to ask when it happened, as she had seen him at noon. But Anrou had already turned and walked away.

I felt a familiar irritable mood, which just happened yesterday.

At that time, Paopao and Anrou had a conflict over whether to save the NPC in the trial town.

An Rou couldn't help but think of a place. Only there could she calm down.

"Violent."

She stepped into the dark crevice, and the tentacles of the void surged over, wrapping her up and carrying her into the deepest part of the void.

An Rou frowned immediately.

The soul light spots surrounding them were flashing, and all the tentacles were contracting and expanding at the same frequency, repeating a sentence in unison.

"Save them, Master."

——Exactly the same as yesterday.

An Rou got angry and turned around immediately: "Let me out."

The tentacles did not wrap around.

They surged from both sides in front of An Rou, carrying the faint light of their souls. The dense light points gathered into a white ball, which then split into two.

Two balls of white light gradually condensed into figures half the height of a person, one of which was half a head taller than the other.

There are two children.

It must represent Meng Ziyu and his sister.

Even her sudden wealth began to go against her decision.

An Rou's eyes turned cold, and she took a quick glance before walking around the two white figures.

But she suddenly stopped.

wrong.

If these two figures represented Meng Ziyou's siblings, the taller one should be Meng Ziyou. But... the figure before him was not a boy.

She had a high ponytail and was clearly a slender girl. The other figure had short hair, and although his face couldn't be seen clearly, he gave off a rather sturdy appearance.

Obviously a boy.

This pair of figures are not brother and sister, but sister and brother.

An Rou glanced at the empty light spots around her: "Bao Bao, what do you mean?"

As soon as I asked the question, the two figures began to change.

The elder sister was getting shorter and shorter, while the younger brother was getting taller and taller. Their heights and ages were completely different.

"Master, save them." Bao Fu said again.

An Rou turned around, and the rich humanoid soul appeared.

It stood there woodenly, repeating only this sentence.

"I'm asking you what you mean!"

"Master, save them."

An Rou took a deep breath and connected with the consciousness of getting rich quickly.

Just like what I tried two days ago, nothing was found.

The soul of a person who has become rich overnight and a person who has become rich overnight should theoretically be one and the same, but they are not completely one and the same.

From the beginning to the present, An Rou has been able to give Bao Fu instructions through her mind and language, and Bao Fu has been able to understand and carry them out. An Rou can also understand the meaning of its roars and grunts.

But there was a communication barrier between its soul and her.

It is like a grown-up person who is still learning to speak, with only a simple vocabulary. But it is also like a mature and gentle adult who can capture all the subtle emotions of Anrou.

On the other hand, An Rou could also understand its mood, just like now, anxious and pleading, but unable to explain the reason.

As a crazy ghoul, Bao Fu seemed to be completely unaware of the existence of the soul in his body, let alone explaining it on its behalf.

An Rou was so anxious that she wanted to lose her temper.

The two children dressed in pure white came over and stood in front of her again, motionless.

"Master, save them."

An Rou's frown suddenly relaxed as she came up with an incredible idea.

"You mean, Meng Ziyu and Meng Zisha are not brother and sister, but sister and brother?!"

How is it possible... NPCs won't lie. Meng Zisha keeps calling him "brother", so how could she be Meng Ziyu's sister?

There is no need for Meng Ziyu to lie.

Besides, An Rou had witnessed Meng Zisha’s memory with her own eyes!

However, the rich man replied: "Yes, Master."

All the light points then repeated: "Yes, Master."

Suddenly, An Rou thought of yesterday. She stared at the rich soul and asked, "When you asked me to save them yesterday, were you talking about Meng Ziyu and Meng Zisha, not the others in Trial Town?"

Rich: "Yes, Master."

-

Paopao was called to the dance hall by Zhang Da, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Jie Xin slowly shaking his wine glass.

He frowned slightly and walked to An Rou: "Boss, what's the matter?"

"The siblings were captured by the joint team. Don't worry, just listen to me."

An Rou glanced at Li Xin and said, "Mr. Jie has the location of the joint team, which is not far from us. I have a preliminary rescue plan and would like to hear your opinion."

Paopao didn't even bother to drink the potion, and said in a deep voice: "Boss, you say."

He also glanced at Li Xin with a wary look.

Xie Xin spread his hands: "If you mind, I can avoid it."

"No need." An Rou said, "This is a question posed by Chu Mo, and it has nothing to do with Mr. He Jie. As for Chu Mo, since he has already given the question, he will not interfere in the problem-solving process."

She went over her plan carefully.

"Let Zhang Da go?" Paopao frowned. "Players all know that when encountering people in the Land of the Dead, they must first identify whether they are ghouls. Letting Zhang Da get close to the joint team will easily expose him. Boss, I'll go."

An Rou did not fail to consider it.

She looked into Paopao's eyes and said, "Are you sure? There's Long Yan in the joint team."

"Sure, it's not like he's here... Anyway, Kaishi doesn't know me and I don't know him, so it's fine."

An Rou thought for a while and nodded: "Okay, you go, Meng Ziyou and you will work together inside and outside, and we will provide backup."

-

Kai Du lay on the branch of a dead tree, oblivious to the banging sounds coming from below.

[Disembowelment: All teams report.]

[Witt: 12 o'clock direction, 5 km radius, no findings.]

[Zhencha: 9 o'clock direction, 3 km radius, no findings.]

…

"Tsk." Kaichu was a little annoyed.

Including the team leader, the joint team consisted of 12 people, divided into six groups. Five groups were sent out to conduct carpet searches in all directions, while his group stayed where they were and were responsible for guarding the cage.

The person locked in the cage was Meng Ziyu.

The joint team discovered it was just an accident. After losing their target location and traces, the joint team was forced to adopt a radius search method, wandering around the wasteland like a headless fly.

One of the team members suddenly spotted a ghoul running very fast, ignoring the soul of the Chosen One. He found it strange and chased after it to see what was going on.

The chase lasted three hours. It started as a one-man operation, and ended with a joint team.

Unexpectedly, the ghoul lost track of them but found the two siblings.

Meng Ziyou had been captured by Kairi himself as a test tool, and he knew full well how cunning this ghoul was. The test area was destroyed, and the culprit had fled to the Land of No Life. Meng Ziyou happened to appear there, and even though he claimed it hadn't been involved in the ghoul wave last night, no one believed him.

The most important thing is that Meng Ziyu's level has risen to S. From A level to S level, he must have devoured the soul of a high-level player, and probably more than one.

It must know where Yong'an Farm is.

Witt has a different opinion: "It's possible that Yong'an Farm deliberately sent a ghoul to lure us into discovering it. Meng Ziyou might be another smokescreen to buy time, giving the farm more time to escape."

Disembowel doesn't think so.

Based on his understanding of Meng Ziyou, such a cunning little creature would be unlikely to tolerate being used as a tool. Furthermore, even if it knew, what would it want? To repay a favor?

The little thing values ​​its NPC sister more than its own eyes, so how could it possibly put its sister in danger just to repay a favor?

When Kaichu saw the brother and sister, he immediately took out a cage from the props column and locked Meng Ziyu in. Sure enough, the crying Meng Zisha told everything when she saw her brother was locked up.

Children see the world from a completely different perspective than adults. In her fragmented sobs, not a single word about ghouls was mentioned. All she saw were kind older brothers and sisters, the taciturn Uncle Zhang who looked a lot like her father, and other uncles, aunts, and cousins.

In addition, she revealed the most important clue: the eldest sister's name was "An Rou".

It was indeed An Rou, a special NPC who rose to prominence in Zhongsu Town and became famous.

In addition to this, Zisha's words also greatly completed the mission clues.

The clues that Witt first came up with were:

[Quest Clue: My traveler, what are you looking for? A mysterious paradise whose whereabouts are elusive?]

[Related Task: Night Boat (Relevance 20%)]

The completed clue becomes:

[Quest Clue: My traveler, are you looking for Yong'an Farm, a peaceful and beautiful paradise?]

[Related Task: Night Boat (Relevance 60%)]

A peaceful and beautiful paradise...how ironic.

It was precisely because of this "paradise" that more than 300 players lost their game qualifications overnight, and one even died and one went crazy.

So far, all of President Lu's speculations about Yong'an Farm have been confirmed. Yong'an Farm is indeed a place where humans and ghouls live together, flying at night and moving on the ground during the day.

According to Zisha, "There's a very long row of legs underneath the farm."

Silly child, you still haven't realized that it is a huge and terrifying ghoul.

But it is understandable that she was disemboweled, after all, she was raised by a ghoul.

Aside from the NPCs that existed when the game was first released, the other small NPCs didn't have innate knowledge of ghouls. And Meng Ziyou, in order to conceal his identity, couldn't possibly teach them the relevant common sense.

All in all, capturing the siblings allowed the joint team to make their first major breakthrough in this mission.

Witt said nothing more and started searching the area according to President Lu's instructions.

Because the stupid little NPC completely forgot which direction he came from.

Not to mention her, if the player does not have a light screen map, he will not be able to tell the directions in the land of no life.

Meng Ziyu gritted his teeth and didn't utter a word, just kept banging on the cage: "What did you do to my sister! Let me out!"

The sound is buzzing.

He was so used to the sound of disembowelment that it didn't bother him at all. He glanced under the tree and saw Meng Zisha lying quietly beside the cage, unconscious.

Compared to Meng Ziyu's meaningless noise and ineffective threats, the crying of the child made him feel annoyed.

Fortunately, she was just an NPC, and I could make her shut up with just a pinch.

Inside the airtight cage, Meng Ziyou was already covered in blood. Some of the blood was from resisting capture, but most of it was from crashing against the cage.

Due to lack of oxygen, it felt dizzy and its head was swollen. The ghoul's self-healing ability could heal its wounds, but it couldn't help it resist lack of oxygen.

It was only by a will that it avoided falling into a coma.

Meng Ziyou regretted it immensely. He should have listened to An Rou and transferred his parasite onto a Chosen One. With his current S-class strength, even if he couldn't defeat Kairi, he still had a chance of escaping.

Or maybe, he should take Zisha and stay on the farm honestly.

Or, before leaving, he should not have taken the bone-burying shovel, but replaced it with the Tang sword.

But no matter how much I regret, it is meaningless at this moment.

Kaipi understood it, and it also understood Kaipi. It knew that no matter how hard it struggled, Kaipi would not let it touch Zisha.

But Meng Ziyu had no choice.

Only by constantly hitting the unbreakable cage and the pain of the new wounds can it stay awake.

As long as you stay awake, you will wait for the opportunity.

Bang!

After another collision, it could feel its shoulder blade cracked and the pain became more severe.

Very good, I am now more conscious.

“Sasha!”

Meng Ziyu shouted hoarsely and was about to continue hitting when a voice sounded in his mind.

[It's me. Don't stop, keep going.]

It's her, it's An Rou? !

Meng Ziyu continued to hit.

[Listen carefully to me, but don't stop moving so as not to arouse the suspicion of the joint team.]

For the first time, Meng Ziyu fell in love with the voice in his head.

"Let me out!"

It yelled, and at the same time yelled in its mind: [Good!]

On the dead tree, Kai Du suddenly stood up, and the dead branches could not bear the weight and broke.

The corpse fell steadily to the ground, its eyes always looking in one direction without any deviation.

"Team leader, it's a living dead." Team member Shabi narrowed his eyes, seeing the typical terrified face of the other party, "Not even C-rank yet."

An unranked ghoul?

Unlike the incredibly fast ghoul that had been chasing them previously, this one was just heading straight for them, having obviously smelled the player's soul scent.

Kairi shook his head in boredom: "Go ahead."

The sand pen shot out four times, narrowly missing the ghoul and chopping off its head. After the ghoul's transformation was complete, he attacked again, strangling it with ease.

Kaipi picked up another branch and jumped onto it.

Inside the cage, the question that Meng Ziyu cared about most was finally answered.

[Zisha is just outside the cage. She's fine. She might have fainted.]

Meng Ziyu paused in his collision: [Fainted and said it was okay?!]

An Rou: [One life potion will cure it. If something really happened, she would have disappeared.]

When an NPC dies, no corpse is left.

Meng Ziyu didn't say anything, but continued to hit the cage.

An Rou: [There are only two Chosen Ones outside, one of whom is Kaipi. Kaipi will leave soon, and Paopao will come over. Be prepared to cooperate with his actions.]

Before the ghoul outside was strangled, she barely saw the ID of the one who opened the chest, but she couldn't see the other one's name clearly. But judging by his appearance, he should be a member of Longyan.

An Rou judged that since Longyan had already sent out a top-tier Super God, it was unlikely that they would send another. The level of that Longyan member would not be very high.

As long as the person is led away and the disembowelment is opened, saving the person will be much easier.

Meng Ziyou: [How did you lead that guy away?]

An Rou: [Don't worry about that. From now on, don't hit me too hard. Otherwise, I'm afraid that even if I rescue you, Zisha won't be able to see her brother again.]

Outside the cage, just as Kaichu was about to close his eyes, a light screen popped up.

[Zhencha: Report, we've found traces of a farm! There's a large indentation on the ground. Yong'an Farm has been here!]

Kairi immediately jumped under the tree, looked back at the shaking cage, and waited patiently for more news.

After a while, Witt, who rushed over, also sent a message.

[Witt: The farm did stay here, but not for long, otherwise the indentation wouldn't be so shallow. Does President Lu have any suggestions?]

[Law: Witt's previous speculation has a certain degree of possibility. He discovered the farm's whereabouts while chasing the abnormal ghoul. The possibility of the other party secretly making a move cannot be ruled out. Witt, what do you think?]

Before Witt could reply, Kairi interrupted: "Wait for me to go over and take a look. I'll be right there!"

He looked back at the cage and told Shabi Si: "Watch it carefully."

"yes!"

Kai Li threw out the double-edged knife and quickly disappeared in front.

But in another direction, a figure appeared.

Sha Bi Si immediately became alert, stood in front of the cage and stared at the person coming.

The man was not walking fast at first, but when he saw Shabi Si under the dead tree, he immediately trotted over, his steps seemed unsteady.

"Stop!" Sha Bisi shouted, concentrating his attention.

The ghoul identification function is not activated, the opponent is not a ghoul.

Shabi Si turned to examine the other person. He was clearly a player, with a large, half-dried bloodstain on his clothes. His face was grimy, and he was clutching a broken knife, looking quite disheveled.

It fits the image of a wild traveler who has nowhere else to go and comes to a desolate place to try his luck.

“Brother, brother—” Paopao shouted weakly, and his ID was displayed. “I just want to buy a potion from you!”

There is no guild emblem in front of the ID, he is indeed a stranger.

It seems that I was lucky enough to encounter a high-level ghoul in the land of no life. After a fierce battle, I guess it must be a B-level ghoul, otherwise it would not have made a silver wild guest suffer so miserably.

"I really just want to buy a potion, I don't want to do anything else! I'm out of potions, there's really no other way... Brother, can you help me?"

If Shabi Si were a member of another guild, he would have told him to get out long ago. But Long Yan, as the guild's big brother, was known for his friendliness towards wild players. After all, all wild players were potential candidates for Long Yan's membership.

Before joining the joint group, Sha Bi Si also led a team of his own, in which two brothers were originally from wild families.

He didn't dare to leave the cage too far. He took two steps forward and waved to Paopao to come over.

He ran over and tactfully didn't look around.

Shabi Si took out two bottles of low-level life potion: "Enough for you to heal your wounds."

Paopao took it with profuse gratitude, and after drinking it, he breathed a sigh of relief. With an embarrassed look on his face, he asked, "Do you have any stamina and energy potions? I've used them all up... Don't worry, I won't take them for nothing!"

He slipped on his toes and a small pile of gold coins appeared on the ground.

Seeing this, Sha Bi Si snorted and chuckled, then took out the potion and threw it over.

Low-grade potions were worth very little, and according to Long Yan's style, he would help out in such situations without asking for compensation. However, since the other party offered money, he had no reason to refuse.

The gold coins in the game can be exchanged for real currency.

Sha Bi Si's eyes fell on the gold coin, and he also raised one foot and stepped on it.

A sudden sense of danger arises!

A steel net flashed with cold light and covered his head!

-

Kaipi stepped on the double-edged knife and quickly arrived at the place.

Amidst the vast, black earth, there lay an inconspicuous, shallow pit, about the length of an adult's finger. The pit's edges were jagged, but its size matched the ruins at the foot of Cangling Mountain.

Witt stood in the middle of the shallow pit. The other team members also rushed over and scattered around to search for clues.

Kaishi landed beside him and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Witt shook his head. "We searched the area first, focusing on tracking the farm's footprints. The footprints were short and disappeared quickly. So we returned to check the details."

"Could it be that the ghoul got tired from carrying it on his back and lay down to rest for a while?"

"Maybe."

The two of them didn't know that every word of their conversation was heard by An Rou.

Deep underground, An Rou stood in the void, looking up. The scattered light of her soul was reflected in her lifeless eyes, like two brilliant starry skies.

The Land of No Life was a vast wasteland, not a flat plain. Yong'an Farm lay just a few kilometers away, on the back of a gentle slope. Hidden there were only her and sudden wealth.

If the goal is simply to rescue Meng Ziyu and his sister, the method is actually very simple: the ghost technique of "pseudo-lurking" can travel on any surface, sneak past quietly, and swallow the area where the cage is located in one gulp.

However, in order to rescue people and ensure the safety of the entire farm, we need to take a detour.

The first step is to deliberately leave traces of the farm. Considering that Baofu is a ghoul boss and has territorial restrictions, the farm must be hidden as close as possible.

The second step is to use the "traces" left on the farm to lure away the disembowelment and attract the attention of everyone in the joint team.

This was only temporary, after all, there were no other clues left on the trail. Once the joint team expanded the search area, the farm would soon be exposed.

So there is a third step: once Paopao takes action to rescue people, Anrou and Baofu will appear in front of the joint team, completely locking their attention and moving them away from the farm again.

The fourth and final step was to use the ghost technique of "pseudo-ambush" again to take Paopao and Meng Ziyu away and sneak back to the farm.

An Rou didn't overestimate the Dragon Flame members guarding the cage, but she also didn't dare underestimate them. Paopao, a low-level gold member, and Meng Ziyu, who was parasitic on an NPC and couldn't use any skills, weren't necessarily a match for them.

By the final step, it should be nightfall in the Soul Realm. At that time, Baofu could simply use the ghost technique "Night Walk" to escape.

An Rou's lifeless eyes suddenly narrowed.

[Hold on, we'll be there soon!] She reminded Meng Ziyu with her consciousness, while simultaneously connecting with Bao Fu's consciousness, "Bao Bao, let's go."

The shallow pit was quite large, but everyone present was an expert player, and they used their movement skills to quickly and thoroughly search it.

As expected, nothing was gained.

[Open: Everyone, follow the previously divided teams and expand the search area!]

The team members simultaneously saw the leader's command in the team chat and stopped moving. Before the light screen faded, a dull roar like that of an ancient dragon echoed from below.

On the black ground, the remains of lifeless grass and the dust trembled together.

They were all extremely experienced players, and they immediately reacted: "Ghoul, top-notch!"

The exclamation reached everyone's ears, and another light screen popped into their field of vision.

[Mission Name: You thought it had left? No, it's just dormant]

[Mission Location: No Life Land, Yong'an Farm]

[Ghoul Level: SSS]

【Number of Ghouls: 9/9】

【Time limit: None】

[Difficulty Rating: SSS]

A huge monster rose from the ground in the distance, as if a piece of earth was flying into the air.

It shook off the dust on its body, tilted its head to look over, and let out another shocking roar.