Chapter 274 [(*^▽^*)]
Xue Rui said, "I don't know if I can hold on until the end."
He was still very worried. Although there were still thirteen, and the current situation in the dungeons was much simpler than what they had encountered before, those were different times.
It's different now. The difficulty of dungeons has decreased, but the quality of players has also decreased. There are many new players in dungeons, and it's unclear how long they will survive.
Lin Leyou patted his shoulder, "Alright, don't worry. Are you going to help them kill monsters if they die quickly? That won't do..."
Although the system doesn't forbid him from killing monsters, there's no reward, so it's all for nothing, and he might even get hurt by evil spirits, which would send him back to the real world...
Xue Rui: "Of course I wouldn't. I killed the one before simply because it annoyed me."
The two quickly ended the conversation and focused on the kitchen. After finishing their meal, they cleaned up the house, and Lin Leyou went to draw the curtains. As he did so, he subconsciously glanced outside.
He then saw several people standing on the path in front of the building, looking up at him. When their eyes met, they both paused for a moment.
Lin Leyou knew them; they were the male players he met on the first day who asked him where the supermarket was. He never expected that they, who looked so stupid, could still be alive today.
He tried to pretend he hadn't seen anything and continued drawing the curtains, but the person below immediately snapped out of it, raised a hand and pointed at him, "Hey! You! Yes, yes, it's you. You just wait, I need to talk to you!"
A hint of hostility flashed in Lin Leyou's eyes.
Xue Rui doesn't get any rewards for killing players or evil spirits, but that doesn't mean he won't get any. Although he's currently an ordinary NPC, he'll definitely get rewards for killing players and NPCs.
He ignored the shouts of the players below, as if he hadn't heard anything, and drew the curtains. Then he turned off the living room light, but the bedroom light remained on.
Xue Rui came out of the bathroom. "Brother Lin, what's wrong? I think I heard something just now."
Lin Leyou shook her head, "It's nothing. It's just those people from the supermarket who asked me questions on the first day. They saw me downstairs when I was drawing the curtains and said they wanted to come up to find me..."
Xue Rui was furious. "Why are there troublemakers again? I'll kill them!"
Lin Leyou said, "Alright, let them come looking. As long as I don't open the door, what can they do? Besides... our appearance isn't suitable for them to see."
He was standing on the fifth-floor balcony with his back to the living room, so the light wasn't shining on his face. Even if the players downstairs saw him, they wouldn't be able to see his face.
Lin Leyou didn't even care that he recognized him just because his figure looked familiar downstairs, and went straight to the bathroom to take a shower.
Besides, even if they did see his face, so what? He'll have an identity card prepared by the system for every dungeon he participates in from now on. If he doesn't have one, he can still use the Skull Mask to cover it up, so players won't be able to see his real face at all.
Except for Xue Rui.
While Lin Leyou was taking a shower, Xue Rui did not return to the bedroom. Instead, he stood alone in front of the door, waiting for the players who might or might not come.
He just went to the balcony and saw that there was no one outside. That means they either left or went upstairs.
Sure enough, after standing at the door for a while, he heard voices outside. He pressed his ear to the door and heard the voices outside. They sounded familiar and should be the three players Lin Leyou had mentioned asking about the supermarket's location.
"So...it's because they couldn't find the supermarket's location, so they came to cause trouble for them?"
Xue Rui stood in front of the door waiting for them to knock. As soon as they knocked, he would slash at them without mercy with his knife, killing them would be better than anything else.
And so, he stood there quietly and waited.
The sound of a shower came from the bathroom behind them; Lin Leyou was taking a bath inside. The bedroom door was ajar, and the little light coming from inside couldn't illuminate the dark living room at all.
Xue Rui stood in front of the door, his dark eyes fixed on it, as if he were silently chanting, "Knock on the door, why aren't you knocking?"
Once you knock on the door, I can open it and kill you all.
After waiting for about two minutes, the talking outside finally stopped. Now it's time to knock on the door, right?
Xue Rui couldn't help but smile.
As it turned out, Xue Rui didn't even get to hear them knock on the door. Instead, the three players left. They had all found the door, but they still left.
Xue Rui found it strange, but he didn't want to get to the bottom of it. He wasn't a player or an NPC in a dungeon anymore. Since they had all left, he decided to go back to his bedroom as well.
The three players who had just left had already reached the bottom of the stairs. The one on the far left finally breathed a sigh of relief, "It's alright, it's finally alright..."
"What's going on? Why are you dragging us away so frantically? Can't you just knock?"
"No, you can't knock!"
"Why? Tell me, or I'll go back and knock on the door again."
The person who said he shouldn't knock on the door didn't stop him. "If you want to go, then go ahead. I stopped you earlier not because I wanted to help you or save you, but because I didn't want to be implicated by you."
After saying that, he didn't continue walking with them. Instead, he walked straight ahead, as if he wanted to leave alone. The other two exchanged a glance and followed him.
"Then tell me, I just find it strange."
"What's there to say? I used a tool to sense danger. If I had actually knocked on the door just now, it would have been fine if the person inside didn't open it, but if they did, we would have been dead for sure."
"What prop?"
"A tool for sensing danger! Just now, when you were about to knock on the door, the level of danger I sensed reached its maximum, which means that opening the door would mean certain death!"
"hiss……"
They all gasped. "That was dangerous! Thank goodness you stopped us."
"I never expected this NPC to be so ruthless? He even killed us just for knocking on the door to ask us something?"
"Perhaps this NPC is the key NPC? Should we talk to him and ask him about the situation?"
"Wait a minute, maybe this NPC doesn't live alone? Weren't there two of them before?"
"Wait, are you really sure it's one of the two we saw earlier? That person was on the balcony, but their back was to the light, and they were on the fifth floor. Are you sure you saw it clearly?"
"Forehead……"
He hesitated for a moment, but finally said, "I'm not entirely sure about this either, but it looks really familiar, very familiar!"
In the end, even he himself wasn't sure. "Maybe...maybe I saw it wrong? Okay, okay, I was wrong, alright? Then I won't go...maybe there's an evil spirit living in this house."
"Isn't one of our missions to kill evil spirits?"
"Then why don't you go? Didn't we say before that our sense of crisis was at its highest level? Does that mean the three of us going would just be delivering vegetables?"
"Shall we find other people to help us kill them?"
"That's great! Let's go, I know where some people might be, let's go find them now..."
"Hey, what's the point of looking? We meet at the square every morning anyway, so why don't we just tell everyone the news first thing tomorrow morning?"
"That's true, there's no rush. But do you guys remember what we saw before?"
"What? Wait, you mean the black mist demon that was chasing those players? You're going to kill that one? It looks ferocious. Can we even handle it?"
"What I mean is, tomorrow someone might bring up the matter of that evil spirit and ask everyone to go and kill it together. As for our situation, although we've used props to confirm the level of danger, we still haven't confirmed whether what's inside is actually an evil spirit."
"Whether it is or not, let's ask the other people in the community."
"tomorrow?"
"Of course it's tomorrow. It's so late today, let's think about how to get through tonight first."
The three players had been heading back to their lodgings, but one of them glanced up casually and made eye contact with Lin Leyou.
After going upstairs, he found himself in dire straits, so he left without knocking and now has to get back to his apartment as quickly as possible.
Otherwise... being outside so late at night makes it easy for evil spirits to target you and kill you.
Of course, nighttime is also the best time for players to hunt evil spirits. Many powerful players will go out in groups at night to deliberately lure evil spirits and then kill them.
In this way, they can still get a lot of points. If they fail to clear the dungeon this time, the system will deduct points. Perhaps because they killed enough evil spirits, they will still have some points left after the deduction.
Points are their life, the life of all players. They don't care if they die early for points. They only know that if they don't have enough points, they might be lucky to survive this dungeon, but the next time it will definitely be a matter of life and death.
Even the dumbest person understands the importance of points. They will frantically earn points for money, but they won't exchange all their points for money. They will exchange a little for a little.
You also need to save enough points to buy items in order to pass the next dungeon, otherwise you will die in the next dungeon.
After returning to their lodgings safely, the three of them looked at the tightly closed door and took a deep breath, finally feeling safe.
This time, however, it was them who were the ones getting the door knocked on.
The three of them had been sitting for a while when there was a knock on the door. Upon hearing the knock, all three of them were so frightened that the hairs on their bodies stood on end!
When Lin Leyou came out, she saw Xue Rui lying on the bed playing on his phone. Of course, he was playing a mobile game; it was the phone that Lin Leyou had bought for him at the supermarket.
This phone is probably being used by a player, so it can't connect to the Infinite World network and can only play some mobile games on the phone.
"Brother Lin?"
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