Chapter 513 [(*^▽^*)]
After listening to him finish speaking, Xue Rui exclaimed, "He... is very strong."
When he fought Qin Xingyu just now, he felt like a three-year-old child facing a battle-hardened special forces soldier. The gap was too big. He didn't expect Lin Leyou to have such a physical training teacher. No wonder he was also very powerful.
Lin Leyou nodded, "Of course. Putting aside group fights, if it's a one-on-one battle, he's definitely number one on our side, and no one would dare to oppose him."
Xue Rui, "That strong?"
He had previously thought that Lin Leyou was just a very strong resident, but he did not expect Lin Leyou to say such a thing. If that was the case, then the fight between him and Lin Leyou before was probably just playing around with him.
He felt somewhat defeated, but Lin Leyou patted him on the shoulder and said, "You've temporarily gained his approval. Don't worry, Teacher Qin isn't that kind of person. He's actually..."
Lin Leyou pulled him slowly toward the village entrance, briefly recounting Qin Xingyu's ordeal as she spoke, "He was just too worried about me, after all, that weapon really is... his biggest worry."
Xue Rui, "Since he can be trusted, then my weapon..."
Lin Leyou: "It's okay. He didn't ask, so we don't need to ask."
Xue Rui: "That makes sense."
Lin Leyou pointed to the village entrance, "The village chief has been there for a while now, let's go take a look."
After shaking off Qin Xingyu, the two quickly arrived at the village entrance. Sure enough, the village chief had already failed in his attempt and was now slumped in the middle of the road at the village entrance, looking gloomy and lost in thought.
Lin Leyou didn't care what the village chief was thinking; his death was imminent anyway.
He slowly revealed his figure and walked step by step toward the village chief. Logically, there should have been no sound of his footsteps, but he deliberately made some noise.
The village chief wasn't dead. In the silent night, he could still hear footsteps approaching behind him, and the increasingly cold air slowly drawing near.
His eyes widened and his whole body trembled. He didn't dare to look back until a very familiar voice rang in his ear, "Village Chief, good evening."
The village chief's teeth chattered, but he still managed to utter three words, "Fu...Qing...Qiu..."
Lin Leyou didn't say anything more. It turns out that playing the role of a vengeful ghost BOSS is really fun. He wants to do it a few more times in the future.
This time, he wasn't being malicious. He pulled out a rope from somewhere, put it around the village chief's neck, and hung him on a nearby tree. From a distance, you could clearly see someone hanging there.
After hanging the body up, Lin Leyou took a look at the village chief's death. The hanged ghost looked terrible, and the village chief himself was not good-looking either.
As he was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something: "Hey? Didn't the village chief say there was a jade pendant in a little red box? Why don't I feel anything about it?"
"Could it be that thing was completely useless?" Not far from where Lin Leyou was standing, there was the village chief's figure hanging from a tree, which looked quite terrifying from a distance.
Xue Rui found the jade pendant a few meters away. "Here it is."
Lin Leyou leaned closer to take a look. "It really is this jade pendant. How did it end up here?"
The village chief wasn't slumped over here. He didn't pass by here when he grabbed the village chief by the neck and pulled him toward the tree. It looks like he was thrown out and smashed on the ground, since the edge of the jade pendant was already broken.
Lin Leyou tentatively extended her finger, whose nails had grown back, and gently poked the jade pendant on the ground. "It's nothing."
Xue Rui: "This thing is broken."
Lin Leyou stood up, losing interest in the jade pendant. "Let's go check on the players. They should be out gathering information late at night, so why haven't we seen them yet?"
Lin Leyou's figure slowly faded in color and finally disappeared without a trace.
The two flew all the way to the player's house, only to find it completely dark and silent. Were they all asleep? Could they really be sleeping?
Five players are already dead. Shouldn't they discuss it, go out and search, or wander around the village gathering information?
Xue Rui: "Turn on the lights."
Lin Leyou looked over and saw that one of the houses had its lights on, but the light only appeared for a second before disappearing again.
They stared blankly at the house, then Lin Leyou seemed to realize something and asked, "Do these players know we're here?"
Xue Rui was stunned for a moment. "If they knew we were there, shouldn't they have come out and killed us? After all, all ninety-five players were together at this time."
Lin Leyou: "Did we get too close and get detected by their props?"
Xue Rui frowned slightly. "Could it be that they detected the two of us?"
They are two vengeful ghost bosses! Because there are two, the number of players may have increased from the original fifty to the current one hundred.
A full hundred players! Even if a few died, there are still ninety-five players left. Are they really that cowardly? Lin Leyou felt that this deduction was very unreasonable.
Xue Rui said, "Let's go a little further away and retreat to the mountain to observe again."
Then Xue Rui saw the extracted player's soul that had been following Lin Leyou all along. Of course, the player was already dead, and what remained was just a puppet.
"Could it be this...?"
Lin Leyou was taken aback for a moment, "Ah, there's this too, I almost forgot."
After all, this ghost really had no presence. "Is that really the reason?"
After thinking for a moment, he decided to follow Xue Rui's advice and go far away to hide in a tree near the foot of the mountain. Then he ordered his henchman to approach the player's house.
Sure enough, as the ghost approached the house, a slight commotion came from one of the houses, but the noise quickly disappeared and everything became quiet again.
Lin Leyou was incredulous. "It really is because of him? Could it be because of his player identity that..."
He suddenly realized something: "Could these players think that the players who are killed will become ghosts and come back to hunt down other living players?"
Xue Rui, “…”
It has to be said that he thought so too, and the possibility is quite high, since these players are all hiding inside and not coming out.
Lin Leyou's guess was indeed correct. In fact, several players had already detected Lin Leyou with the ghost when he appeared near the village using items.
This item can detect the approximate status of other players, but it cannot detect the status of the two vengeful ghosts, Lin Leyou and Xue Rui. Therefore, in their view, a player who went into the mountains to find clues during the day returned as a ghost at night.
The other four players were nowhere to be found, and it was unclear what had happened to them.
Under such circumstances, the safest course of action for them would naturally be to hide inside and observe the situation.
"It really was him. He was wandering around the village late at night, not killing other villagers, but only coming to our place. He's probably here to kill players."
"We don't know how strong he is yet, so everyone should stay put."
"Shall I send a puppet out and see?"
"Wait a minute, it seems he can't get close to our house."
Although Lin Leyou ordered him to approach these houses, these were safe houses for players, and there was no way for ghosts to get close. So he lingered around the houses and was unable to get any closer.
Over time, the players inside will naturally realize that ghosts cannot approach their houses, which is certainly a good thing, at least they have a safe place.
"I didn't expect there to be a safe house in a dungeon of this difficulty."
"It's certain that ghosts can't get close, but it's uncertain about the living. Those villagers who didn't die can probably get in too, so we still need to be careful about that."
"Villagers...aren't we on the same side as the villagers? Would they really harm us?"
"That's not necessarily true. Villagers in remote mountain villages who maintain the ignorant and outdated practice of human sacrifice from hundreds of years ago are capable of anything. We must be fully prepared."
"That makes sense, but now is not the time to talk about that. What about the one outside?"
"Let's send out a puppet and see what happens?" The player who had suggested sending out a puppet earlier said the same thing again, and this time no one objected.
After all, this ghost keeps wandering around outside, affecting their nighttime search for clues. Even if they drive it away, it might just come back. If there's a way, they might as well solve the problem once and for all.
"Everyone needs to be careful in the future. Players killed by vengeful ghosts may become ghosts and come back to hunt other players. I remember that besides him, there were four other temporary teammates. I don't believe that he died while the other four are still alive."
"What were they going there for again?"
At that moment, the player who had just mentioned releasing the puppet casually pulled out a very cheap doll puppet from his backpack and released it, which landed less than three meters in front of the ghost.
The ghost completely ignored the puppet, as if it hadn't seen anything at all.
"We're going to the mountains to find the mountain god's temple."
"All the other teams returned safely, only they didn't."
"It seems they found a real mountain god temple and encountered a vengeful ghost, Fu Qingqiu..."
"The name is quite nice. If I could, I would like to help the vengeful ghost kill all the villagers. It's a pity that we are all villagers now."
"Ugh! I feel like we're aiding and abetting evil, but there's nothing we can do. That's how the mission is. If we don't complete it, we fail to pass the level and lose 300,000 points in one go."
Just then, the player controlled his puppet to jump three feet high and kicked the ghost face directly. However, because the ghost was invisible, the puppet could only pass through the ghost's body due to inertia and land behind it.
"Holy crap, you can do that? Why didn't I think of that before? The puppet doesn't have anything that can restrain demons, so it's impossible to touch it. How are we supposed to kill it?"
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