Chapter 514 [(*^▽^*)]
At this point, someone suggested, "Wasn't he a player before? Let's try to wake him up first."
"He should be dead by now, right? He doesn't seem to be rational at all; his eyes are dull and lifeless. I guess it's the BOSS's talent."
"Talent, I really want talent too."
"Alright, let's not talk about that anymore. Let's think of a solution quickly... Oh no! He got away!"
Everyone looked out the window, and sure enough, the ghost that had been lingering around the house gradually drifted away and soon disappeared into the darkness.
"Should we go after them?"
"Why are we chasing after them? What if this is just a trap to lure us out in the middle of the night? Don't forget there's a vengeful ghost named Fu Qingqiu in the village. Maybe he's lying in ambush right next door!"
"Our main mission is to escape Haitang Village, so we should think carefully about how to leave."
"I think that since there's a vengeful ghost boss, we definitely have to kill him before we can leave. The side quests are also related to the vengeful ghost, so I don't think we can escape this."
"That's what I think too. What do you guys think? Is it really possible to bypass the BOSS and find a way to leave Haitang Village directly?"
"It seems a bit... Should we go and face the BOSS head-on now?"
"Not now, let's see what this vengeful ghost is capable of first. Turning the people it killed into ghosts is one thing, but I reckon that ghost has already become its underling."
These players were making a lot of noise, but there were also a few quiet people who stayed in their own corners, listening to them talk without offering any opinions.
Especially Zhou Nanyue and Guo Xia. Zhou Nanyue didn't know Guo Xia, but Guo Xia was very familiar with Zhou Nanyue. This person's face was plastered on the wall at the entrance of the Management Bureau. Every time he passed by, he was forced to look at it. How could he not be familiar with him? Unexpectedly, they didn't meet each other in the real world, but they met in the dungeon!
What Guo Xia didn't expect was that Zhou Nanyue was really amazing. She actually managed to make him a character capable of handling A-level dungeon difficulty. This was the latest secret intelligence, and he had to report it when he got back.
After all... if Zhou Nanyue wants to make a capture now, they have to send out some of the more capable people from above, otherwise they will only lose manpower for nothing, and they can't afford to lose even one of their people!
Over the past few months, Zhou Nanyue has been almost insane. He already had little moral or legal sense, and now that he has gone to the chaotic border region, he has become even more arrogant.
Aside from not daring to appear casually in the real world, he is quite bloody and violent in the dungeon. If it weren't for the fact that killing a player in the current dungeon only earns a few hundred points which he doesn't care about and would affect the overall completion of the dungeon, he would have already started planning to kill a few to earn some points.
Of course, he noticed the gazes that occasionally fell on him, but he also knew that his all-black outfit and the large hat that covered most of his face were indeed very eye-catching.
But there was nothing he could do. Many of the players recognized him, and once he was killed, he could claim the bounty. Zhou Nanyue subconsciously touched his face. How interesting... he was actually worth hundreds of thousands of points!
If it weren't for the fact that the bounty was on him, he would have been tempted. And because he was the one with the bounty on his head, he couldn't just borrow other bounty lists, as it would expose his identity and location.
While listening to the other players' discussions, Zhou Nanyue was also thinking. First of all, it should be clear that this is an A-level difficulty dungeon, so the task cannot be very simple.
In other words, finding a shortcut to leave the village is obviously not an option; the only way is to kill the vengeful ghost boss.
That side quest also appears alongside the main quest. After all, the vengeful ghost Fu Qingqiu wants to return to the village to seek revenge. The more villagers they can protect, the more points they will receive.
The problem now is that although players are supposed to enter the instance as villagers, do they actually count as villagers? If they do, then there are 608 villagers; if not, then there are 508. And the highest reward for the side quest is 500,000 points!
But this requires ensuring that the number of villagers who survive is more than five hundred.
If players are not counted as villagers, then to obtain the highest score, the number of villagers who die must not exceed eight, which is obviously very difficult.
Zhou Nanyue stroked his chin. Even if all one hundred players died at his hands, he would only get tens of thousands of points. After all, killing a player would only earn him two or three hundred points.
Although there is a chance of obtaining some items from their backpacks, most of them are probably junk. He doesn't really need them now, so he can only keep them in his backpack as spares.
Fortunately, his backpack was unlimited; otherwise, after killing so many players, he would have filled it with junk items, mostly white and green gear, with blue gear being rare, let alone purple gear.
He couldn't help but think of the gold armor that Xue Qian had shown him before. That was truly top-tier equipment. When would he be able to obtain one or two pieces of gold armor?
Zhou Nanyue suddenly came to his senses. For some reason, he felt like he was being targeted by something dangerous. Could it be that someone had recognized him and was planning to kill him for the bounty?
Zhou Nanyue looked around in surprise, but no one was staring at him. Was he overthinking things? Apart from a few players who were silent in the corner, the rest were gathered together, not knowing what to say.
There are more than twenty players in this house, and the rest of the players are in other houses. They naturally interact with each other sometimes, such as when they meet in the morning.
Suddenly someone spoke up, "Since no one agrees to go out tonight, let's rest first and talk about it again when it gets light. It's already quite late."
It is indeed a bit late now. Xue Rui and the others have hanged the village chief. You should know that the village chief chose to go out close to midnight, and it is almost 1 a.m. now.
After thinking it over, everyone agreed that they really needed rest, otherwise they might not be able to handle what might happen tomorrow. "We also need to think carefully about how to protect the villagers, after all..."
After all, this is closely related to their side quest. In any case, they should at least protect a hundred villagers so that they can get at least 100,000 points.
"Go back and rest. There are only ten beds in this house. Everyone who doesn't live here should go back to their own place."
Zhou Nanyue slowly got up, and Guo Xia followed suit. Besides them, other people also got up and slowly left. It was no coincidence that Zhou Nanyue and Guo Xia lived in the same building.
After they returned to their house, they found a single bed placed at intervals. Guo Xia sat down on the bed at the very back, while Zhou Nanyue's bed was next to his.
The two seemed oblivious to each other, each preoccupied with their own tasks. Guo Xia instinctively tried to tidy up his bed, but then suddenly remembered that this was a dungeon, not the real world, and that ten players shared the house, meaning his every move could be seen by the other players.
Normally it might not have mattered, but with Zhou Nanyue around, he absolutely couldn't reveal his identity. So, he casually unfolded his blanket and threw it on the bed. He then took off his shoes and lay down on the bed, hugging his blanket in a strange but comfortable position, and closed his eyes, intending to go to sleep.
Zhou Nanyue glanced at him subconsciously, then looked away. She had no recollection of this person, didn't know him, and he wasn't hostile towards her. He also didn't often look at her or get close to her to confirm his identity.
However, one should always be wary of others. Zhou Nanyue was still intentionally or unintentionally on guard against the two players on either side of her, for it was better to be safe than sorry.
Lin Leyou and Xue Rui were somewhat surprised to see the players coming out of some houses and then entering others. "These players really know how to play!"
Xue Rui: "They were just getting together to discuss countermeasures."
He had experienced similar things before. Although people often talked nonsense, it had to be said that with more players, completing tasks was indeed much faster.
In particular, you'll encounter some amazing teammates who have excellent mission awareness, are skilled, complete missions quickly, and have good character.
Even Xue Rui craves teammates like that, such as Lin Leyou now.
He was very happy to have such a great teammate as Lin Leyou by his side, especially since this great teammate was also his partner and lover!
Lin Leyou: "Why don't they come out and kill my underlings?"
Xue Rui said, "They already know about the existence of the vengeful ghost Fu Qingqiu, and they also know that the players who didn't return are dead. When they see this ghost, they will think of the vengeful ghost BOSS and believe that it is a trap."
Lin Leyou said, "I guess they should know by now that the house is a safe house. It's okay, they have to leave the house to clear the dungeon anyway."
Xue Rui stared at the house for a long time before saying, "I do think this house can stop ghosts... but it's time-limited."
Lin Leyou raised an eyebrow. "You mean... that makes sense. This instance has no time limit. If a player really has a safe house, and they just stay inside, we can't go in and they don't come out, wouldn't the time limit automatically extend?"
Xue Rui said, "Let's go back to the Evil God Temple."
Lin Leyou sighed, "Let's go, there's nothing else to do in the village right now."
He glanced one last time at the dark figure hanging from the tree at the village entrance, a smirk playing on his lips. He then turned and flew back into the deep mountains with Xue Rui, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Unbeknownst to them, on the roof of a villager's house in the distance, stood a person who kept watching the direction in which the two disappeared. If the two had noticed, they would have realized that this person was Qin Xingyu, whom they had interacted with before.
"They seem quite affectionate..."
His murmured words were swallowed by the darkness, and no one but himself could hear them. Not long after, he came down from the roof and went back inside to rest.
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