Chapter 105 [(*^▽^*)]
Xue Rui: "Why would an evil spirit come looking for a security guard?"
Lin Leyou said, "She was indeed very suspicious. Not only did she appear in front of me and let me get close to her, but even after I realized something was wrong and I was already in an attack stance, she still approached me without attacking or even making any defensive moves. In the end... I killed her very easily."
Xue Rui's eyes widened slightly. "This...it's actually like this?"
He combined everything he knew and felt that an answer was about to emerge, but it was just a little bit off, just a little bit off!
Seeing his anxiety, Lin Leyou asked, "What's wrong? This statue isn't very tall, and the evil spirit over there doesn't seem to have noticed us. Whatever it is, let's talk about it after we kill this evil spirit."
Xue Rui shifted his gaze to the evil spirit. Right now, the most important thing was indeed to kill the evil spirit BOSS, but he couldn't feel at ease, his heart was hanging in the air and he couldn't put it down.
Lin Leyou slowly approached the statue. Xue Rui observed it carefully and found that the evil spirit wrapped around the sculpture seemed not to notice anything.
It kept stroking the statue with a perversely blissful expression, completely unaware of Lin Leyou's approach, or rather, letting him do as he pleased, as if all its attention was drawn to the sculpture the moment he touched it.
It's strange, really strange. If that's the case, then isn't this evil boss a little too easy to kill?
That's not right either!
Xue Rui thought about the whole process. If it was just a matter of letting the players kill it, then the difficulty would indeed be abnormal. First, you would have to keep searching for clues in the neighborhood, then confirm its identity, then find its location or the time period when it would appear, then lure it out, and finally kill it.
It looks simple now only because of the addition of the NPC Lin Leyou.
And his identity just happens to be a security guard, since whether it's the loss of the sculpture, moving it back from outside the fog at the gate, or repairing the sculpture, all of these require the involvement of NPCs related to the security guard profession.
Xue Rui asked himself in his heart, if he had not met Lin Leyou, then this evil ghost BOSS would have been an insurmountable difficulty for him.
Putting aside this evil boss, Lin Leyou killed all the other evil spirits in the dungeon; his job was simply to lure them out.
etc!
Xue Rui then realized something strange. He had been out at night before, and although he had encountered evil spirits, it was never as frequent as after he started working with Lin Leyou.
I'll only encounter it once or twice a night at most.
But on the night he collaborated with Lin Leyou, in about six hours, they encountered eight! Lin Leyou even managed to kill eight of them!
Not a single one escaped.
Even if the difficulty of killing the evil spirits remains unchanged, the difficulty of finding them has decreased dramatically!
It's like... it's like the evil spirits in the entire instance are throwing their lives away. No, it's not just throwing their lives away; they're still very powerful when chasing players at other times.
Their suicide behavior seemed to be solely for Lin Leyou's benefit, as if they knew that Lin Leyou could make them die faster without arousing suspicion, so they came one after another to die.
The evil spirits aren't brainless. Xue Rui has been walking around the neighborhood for so long, and one evil spirit after another has been killed behind him. Did the evil spirits behind him really not know that?
These evil spirits are targeting Lin Leyou, not Xue Rui!
They deliberately used him to deliver themselves to Lin Leyou, seeking death!
Although the reason is still unknown, according to Lin Leyou, the evil ghost BOSS in front of them should be the last one.
If it comes into contact with this beloved statue that it made during its lifetime, it will stick to it and lose all its fighting power.
In this way, the so-called powerful evil boss will become extremely vulnerable.
So who told Lin Leyou about the statue? It was the security captain.
After Xue Rui realized what was happening, she went straight over and grabbed his wrist to stop him from attacking the evil spirit in front of her with the stun gun.
Lin Leyou asked, somewhat puzzled, "What's wrong? Is there some other problem?"
Xue Rui shook his head, but then nodded. "There is indeed a problem. Anyway, this evil spirit is unlikely to leave the statue. Shall we go aside and talk about it?"
Seeing his serious and solemn expression, Lin Leyou refrained from attacking the evil spirit for the time being, but the two of them did not go far.
If the evil boss escapes, they can rush over and kill it immediately.
Lin Leyou said, "Go ahead and tell me."
Xue Rui organized his thoughts, "I think the whole thing is suspicious from beginning to end."
Lin Leyou also had this feeling; there was always a sense of unease lingering in his heart, but he couldn't find the source, so he could only kill the evil spirits first.
Xue Rui, "Brother Lin, aren't you going to object?"
Lin Leyou hesitated and said, "You finish speaking first, then I'll think about it."
Xue Rui: "Okay. Let me start with my own story. At the beginning... I mean, when I first came to this neighborhood, I didn't stay at home on the first night. I just walked around the neighborhood. I only encountered evil spirits twice that night and was chased, but I was lucky and I escaped both times."
Lin Leyou immediately thought of the night he followed Xue Rui to kill evil spirits. In six hours, he killed a total of eight evil spirits. Almost as soon as one died, the next one would come.
He was very happy at the time, having killed so many evil spirits and gained so many points, even though the props were all mechanical spiders.
But now that Xue Rui has said that, he has realized it too.
Xue Rui, "Don't you feel like these evil spirits aren't actually after me?"
Lin Leyou stroked his chin. "Could it be that they're after me? Coming here specifically to die?"
Xue Rui remained silent for a while; his attitude was clearly not a rebuttal, but an admission.
Lin Leyou instinctively wanted to say it was impossible, but after thinking about it carefully, it didn't seem impossible...
Realizing this, he suddenly felt that this explanation might make sense. If that were the case, then why would the evil spirits go to their deaths?
Why specifically look for him? Can't we use any other security guards?
ah!
Thinking about this, Lin Leyou really realized this point: the other security guards were really no good! Only he could kill the evil spirit; the security guards could only stun it, not kill it.
It's not that they don't want to, but that they lack the weapons to kill the evil spirits.
He possessed a weapon, though it was only a cursed dagger, but this weapon was truly capable of killing evil spirits.
etc.
Last night, one evil spirit after another appeared, seemingly taking a break at intervals, as if giving themselves some buffer time.
What time?
After using the cursed dagger, it takes time to regain one's lost sanity.
When he killed the more powerful evil spirits before, he did have time control when using the sharp knife, so the thing hidden behind him discovered it, right?
The thing in the shadows may not know that its actions are a way to regain its sanity, or perhaps it feels that there are some limitations to using a sharp knife.
So the timing of those evil spirits appearing last night was perfect; they weren't willing to waste a single moment, plus the bugs controlling Qin Jiao that he encountered behind Building 1 earlier.
They've completely dropped the pretense, as if the person behind them couldn't wait any longer, which is why they're so eager to come to their door.
Lin Leyou racked his brains for a long time before coming to his senses, "Anything else?"
Xue Rui said, "Those evil spirits that followed me last night clearly had the opportunity to attack me directly when they first arrived, but they just kept following me without making a move."
Lin Leyou then directly killed these evil spirits, so the evil spirits were deliberately stalling for time?
So that he would have enough time to take action?
Xue Rui said, "The evil spirit on the statue earlier can be explained. Although it has deprived him of all his fighting ability, it is really difficult to find the statue back."
"The most suspicious one is still the player you encountered behind Building 1 who was controlled by an evil spirit and is already dead. You said he was controlled by insects, but..."
Lin Leyou nodded, "You're right. I do have a lot of doubts about the insect-shaped evil spirit that controls her. After all, such an obvious tendency is obvious to anyone who isn't stupid."
Xue Rui was silent for a moment before saying, "Brother Lin, have you noticed..."
Lin Leyou, "What?"
Xue Rui hesitated for a moment before saying, "Have you noticed... that many security guards have had accidents, but you've remained unharmed?"
Lin Leyou accepted this point well; he was very careful about his safety, whether at work or at home.
What does this mean?
Isn't it because I'm cautious?
Xue Rui: "Brother Lin said before that you haven't been a security guard in this community for very long, right?"
Lin Leyou: "Yes."
Xue Rui: "So that means that all the security guards who have worked in this community for a long time have been injured, but you have remained perfectly healthy."
"I feel like there's a purpose behind this too."
Lin Leyou already had someone he suspected. "What's their purpose?"
Xue Rui, "It's about keeping the security guards who can kill evil spirits."
Lin Leyou, "What you said makes some sense. So now the question is back to the beginning: why... why do this? Who benefits from all the evil spirits dying?"
It's good for players and people like him!
Surely it can't be beneficial to the evil boss, right? If this boss truly doesn't want power or freedom, why would he want to seize the entire...?
wrong!
Lin Leyou then remembered something extremely important!
My third task hasn't been completed yet!
In other words, the repaired statue they moved in from outside the gate was not a special item for controlling the evil spirit BOSS at all!
In other words, the evil spirit that Liu Rongping transformed into was not the BOSS at all!
Xue Rui noticed Lin Leyou's suddenly pale face. "Wh...what's wrong?"
Lin Leyou, "I've been scammed... I've been scammed..."
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