Chapter 83 Killing the Demon (End)

Josiah remained expressionless, quietly watching Lu Cen.

Lu Cen felt uneasy under his gaze, turned her head away to avoid his eyes, and whispered, "I was just saying."

Josiah: "What's the reason?"

Lu Cen: "What?"

Josiah: "The reason you want me dead."

Lu Cen was stunned for a moment, then said, "If that day comes, and you don't die, but I do, what would you choose?"

Josiah said, "Is that even a question?"

Two days later, the captain of the guard did not reappear. As the mission deadline drew closer, Lu Cen became increasingly anxious. Although Josiah was with him, he could not find a suitable opportunity to strike. If he missed his first blow, Josiah might go berserk and kill him as well.

Besides, asking him to kill someone.

He was completely unprepared for this and was so scared that his hands were shaking.

When he woke up from his dream again, he was not in his own bed, but in an unfamiliar snowy field, his body bound by ropes. Lu Cen's vision went white, and it took him a while to understand his situation.

"What are you doing? Are you crazy?"

Lu Cen saw the captain of the guard push him to the edge of the cliff, where he would fall in a few more steps. The captain of the guard whispered, "Don't worry, it's just an act. If you behave, nothing will happen. But if you move around and fall, don't say I didn't warn you."

What do you want to do?

The captain of the guard reached out and touched his face. Earlier in the cave, the golden frog attacked them. In their haste, they entered the cave. Lu Cen thought he didn't know, but in fact, he hadn't slept at all that night.

He and Luther returned one after the other, both with strong scents and flushed faces, looking both obedient and lustful. When they were running away, if you got close to him, you could still smell his scent, which had a strange fragrance.

"I'll give you two days. If you don't dare to make a move, I'll have to do the work of having you lure him out. So you absolutely must obey, understand?"

Lu Cen had no idea he was planning this, and fearing he might accidentally push him off, he glanced at the bottomless cliff, moved a little further in, and said in a trembling voice, "Josiah won't listen to you, let's think of another way..."

"Don't worry, he'll listen."

The captain of the guard pinched his ear, rubbing his earlobe until it turned red. He leaned down and asked him softly, "What did you and Luther do outside that day?"

Lu Cen was dumbfounded, wondering why he had brought this up.

"What, what do you mean?"

Did he sleep with you that day?

Lu Cen didn't react at first, but after understanding, her face turned bright red, "You, you..."

The captain of the guard sighed for some reason, then lifted Lu Cen up. "Did you do the same to Josiah? Let me see..."

Lu Cen was startled and dodged his hand.

Seeing that he was unwilling, the captain of the guards stopped and kissed Lu Cen on the head. "Let's deal with the problem at hand first, and I'll make sure you feel comfortable."

They didn't have to wait long. Josiah came alone, perhaps too confident in his own strength. He didn't take the captain of the guard seriously at all, strolling around as if he were in his own backyard.

The captain of the guard, holding Lu Cen, had a fierce glint in his eyes. He threw an ice blade at Josiah. "I don't need to tell you, do I? If you're quick, he won't suffer. If you're slow, I don't know what I might do."

Lu Cen really couldn't understand the guard captain's thought process. Only an idiot would listen to such a ridiculous request.

Josiah glanced at Lucen, then at the ice blade. He bent down and picked it up, as if suddenly realizing, "So it was given to you by him."

Lu Cen didn't even see his movements clearly before the band leader in the corner was pulled in front of him by tentacles, his knees buckled, and he actually knelt on the ground.

"To betray one's own people."

Just as the band leader was about to speak, Josiah gave him no chance at all. The sharp tip of his tentacle pierced through his chest, and the band leader, with his big eyes wide open, fell unwillingly to the snow.

The captain of the guard's breathing quickened. Was this speed something a human could withstand?

He clung tightly to Lu Cen, and Yan Shanting grasped at him like a last straw. "You're fast, but can you be faster than me?"

"Why don't you give it a try?"

As soon as he finished speaking, two tentacles shot towards the two of them. One of them pierced the guard captain like lightning, causing blood to spill from the corner of his mouth. He pulled Lu Cen back forcefully with his fingers, and the two of them fell straight off the cliff like kites with broken strings.

A sense of weightlessness and the suffocating feeling of impending death enveloped Lu Cen. He screamed as he plummeted downwards, tears streaming down his face in fear. The captain of the guards died mid-air, his fingers gripping Lu Cen's clothes tightly.

Suddenly, a powerful force pulled Lu Cen back by the waist, stopping his descent. A moment later, the two flew in an arc through the air, steadily heading towards the summit of the snow-capped mountain. The wings of the Stergia were no mere decoration.

Josiah held Lucen in his arms, but as soon as he did, Lucen frowned and quickly let go. But it was too late. A hard ice spike pierced his heart with unerring accuracy, and green blood gushed from the wound. Josiah took two steps back and knelt on the snow.

"You are not him."

Lu Cen smiled and exclaimed, "You reacted so quickly! Luckily, I'm not slow, otherwise I would have suffered so much for nothing."

“You are the daughter of the Lord of Galor City.” Josiah said with certainty, because the maid among the players was killed by him on her first day in the dungeon. Counting them up, only this person had the time, the opportunity, and the ability to pretend to be Lu Cen to deceive him.

Chen Ning frowned. "You're a player too?"

Josiah was there when she died, and he witnessed her death. Now he can still identify her, so it's not surprising that she came back to life. Only the player can explain why he isn't surprised.

Chen Ning was quite lucky. In the previous dungeon, she drew a substitute item that gave her three chances to avoid death. At that time, she went to great lengths to reach the top of the snow mountain and accidentally saw the captain of the guards and the band leader plotting something. She decided to play along and transform into Lu Cen's appearance to seek a chance to kill him in one blow.

Josiah is too powerful; she has no chance of winning in a direct confrontation. This plan took her many days to come up with.

They believed they were absolutely certain of success.

Josiah coughed twice, and soon the snow was stained green with blood. He struggled to his feet and walked step by step into the house.

Chen Ning's ability to transform into other people's appearances only lasted for half an hour. After she returned to her original appearance, she saw Josiah push open the door in the side room, where Lu Cen was sleeping soundly on the bed.

Josiah staggered and fell beside the bed.

His strength was draining away, and his hands were covered in green blood. Afraid that the blood would stain his face, he gently touched Lu Cen's face, feeling both reluctant and attached. With all his might, he said, "We...we will meet again."

A demonic figure emerged from under human skin, its grotesque head slamming into Lu Cen's neck, causing Lu Cen's eyelashes to tremble in pain, leaving him half-awake.

As he drifted into a daze, voices kept echoing in his mind.

"Congratulations to player Lu Cen for successfully clearing the level 4 dungeon and killing the demon."

"No items can be taken out of the game, except for special items."

"We are about to exit the game. Please prepare yourselves. 30, 29..."

Lu Cen was awakened by the electronic voice. Feeling the weight on his body, he turned his head and saw green blood all over the ground, a shocking sight. Josiah's body was warm, but he wasn't breathing. Chen Ning walked in just then and cleared up his confusion. "Last night, I pretended to be you and lay in bed. I thought if he came over, I would find an opportunity to kill him. I didn't expect the captain of the guard to have such a brain fart and want to use you to threaten Josiah. I had no choice but to play along. When Josiah saw you fall off the cliff, he was too anxious and I found an opportunity to kill him."

"Weren't you dead?"

"I have the props."

Lu Cen was silent for a moment before asking, "Are all the others dead?"

"They're dead. There are only the two of us left."

Lu Cen placed his hand on Josiah's soft hair. The ice blade on his chest gleamed, and drops of blood slid down the pillar and flowed onto the floor. Lu Cen wondered to himself, "That must hurt a lot."

He took a piece of candy from his inventory, peeled off the coating, and put it into Josiah's mouth. His hand was scratched by Josiah's sharp teeth, and a few drops of red blood gushed out, mingling with the green blood in an indescribably eerie and strange way. He sighed softly, his feelings complicated.

"3, 2, 1, successful escape."

"Congratulations to player Lu Cen on your return. We are currently rating you. Please wait."

"The full score is 100, and your score is 96. Please keep up the good work."

"You have gained 15 days of survival time, for a total of 33 days. Your rest period is 10 days. The next dungeon will open in 10 days."

"The next dungeon is a level 5 designated single-player dungeon called Midnight Horror. Successfully completing it will grant you generous rewards, while failure will deduct 15 days of survival time."

"You will have one chance to draw a special item. Would you like to draw it?"

Lu Cen clicked to draw.

The screen rotates and stops on a round ice cream cone.

"Congratulations, you have won a special item: ice cream."

Special item name: Ice cream.

"Effect: Any living being that sees ice cream will be unconsciously attracted to it, generating a strong appetite, and will not resume its actions until it finishes eating the ice cream."

"Limit: Reset every two hours."

This is a tool that essentially restricts someone's movement.

Lu Cen wondered, if this person had a big mouth and ate the ice cream in one bite, wouldn't he only be able to freeze him for a second?

"assistant."

"Player Lu Cen, 003 is at your service."

What is a designated copy?

"The Level 5 dungeon is a designated dungeon for all players. After clearing it, players become permanent players with more power and more choices."

What is the "Midnight Horror" dungeon?

"Midnight Horror is a level 5 horror dungeon, and no one has cleared it yet. Players are advised to search for dungeon information on the forum in advance and try their best to complete the task."

"What does 'horror instance' mean?"

"There have been paranormal events in the instance, and even ghosts have appeared."