Chapter 99 [(*^▽^*)]
If he doesn't send a message for more than two minutes, it means something has happened, and Lin Leyou can come to find him immediately.
Lin Leyou would check his phone every now and then, confirming Xue Rui's exact location every two minutes, and then he would adjust his patrol route based on that location.
In short, I will never be more than one building away from Xue Rui, so that I can rush over to help him if he encounters evil spirits.
It has to be said that their method is really good; the evil spirits really do target all players, especially at night.
If there are still players wandering around outside at this time, especially if they are alone, then in the eyes of the evil spirits they are just obvious food.
Xue Rui had just come out and hadn't even reached any building when he encountered the evil spirit on the road. He didn't actually see the evil spirit itself, but as he walked, he heard strange noises coming from behind him.
The sound appears every now and then, as if it's following him. He walks a certain distance, and then the thing behind him moves—no, it should be said to jump!
Moreover, the sound didn't seem to be the sound of something falling to the ground, but rather...
He continued walking forward without making a sound, sending his current location to Lin Leyou on his phone, and adding an emergency symbol at the end.
Not long after, another sound came from behind him. This time, he was certain that it was the sound of something falling on a street lamp.
He walked along the route with streetlights, so the things following him hopped and landed on the streetlights.
Xue Rui seemed oblivious to everything. After seeing Lin Leyou's location on his phone, he naturally adjusted his direction slightly and walked towards Lin Leyou.
After Lin Leyou could see Xue Rui's figure in the distance, he did not rush over in a hurry. Instead, he hid in the shadows and observed the things following Xue Rui.
Not long after, he saw a dark shadow land on the street lamp behind Xue Rui. It had long, thin limbs and sharp claws.
It can use all four limbs to grip the streetlight. Its bald head has two eyes that take up half of its face. You can't see its nose or ears, but its mouth can stretch all the way to the back of its ears.
It was staring at Xue Rui, who was walking normally in front of it, with its mouth wide open, revealing fine, sharp teeth, and what was worse, it was drooling constantly.
He even saw a drop of saliva fall from between the demon's teeth and drip onto the ground, but fortunately there was no trace on the ground.
Now that you've seen it, there's no problem.
He calculated the distance from the street lamp to the ground. The street lamp wasn't particularly tall, only about three meters. The demon's feet were at most one and a half meters from the ground.
In this way, as long as I can get close to that streetlight, I can attack the evil spirit.
As Xue Rui slowly walked over, Lin Leyou quietly followed behind. The evil spirit's attention was entirely focused on the seemingly oblivious player, Xue Rui.
Completely unaware of Lin Leyou's quiet appearance behind it, just as the evil spirit was about to leap onto the street lamp in front of it, it suddenly felt itself lose consciousness, and then lost its senses.
Before it lost consciousness and fell, it didn't even see Lin Leyou. It didn't know what was happening to it or what had occurred.
Lin Leyou took out his phone and sent a message to Xue Rui, "It's okay, don't look back, keep walking, just pretend you didn't see what happened behind you."
Xue Rui, who had been holding her breath, finally relaxed. "Okay."
Lin Leyou took out a sharp knife and slashed the evil spirit once, then twice, and it died after two slashes.
"Congratulations to Lin Leyou for slaying an evil spirit. Reward: 30 points."
Lin Leyou casually picked up the card; it was another mechanical card! After clicking to use it, he obtained another round mechanical spider, which he casually tossed into his backpack.
Is the mastermind behind this connected to machinery? How do we investigate? Should we check which residents in this neighborhood are into tinkering with machines?
Lin Leyou took out his phone to confirm Xue Rui's current location and slowly walked along another path to approach him. The two did not appear to be walking too close, so unless one was standing at a high vantage point, no one could detect anything.
Suddenly, Lin Leyou seemed to sense a malicious gaze. When he turned around, he found that there was nothing behind him; there was only a building behind him.
Which building is it? He looked closely and saw it was Building No. 1.
Was that feeling just an illusion?
Lin Leyou is the kind of person who follows his intuition without actual evidence, so he chose to believe his feeling from earlier.
In other words, the person or thing that was staring at you with malicious eyes just now was in Building 1?
Is it an evil spirit?
Are they Lian Yushan and Yao Mo, the players who escaped before?
After all, Qin Jiao and Tang Zhengchu were already dead. He had killed one of them and dumped the other outside the residential area, where he was torn to pieces by the evil spirits in the fog.
There was no clue yet, and Lin Leyou didn't pay much attention to these minor issues.
The night went by pretty quickly, but... it was truly a great harvest!
From midnight until 6 a.m., Xue Rui attracted a total of eight evil spirits, and each of them stared intently at a single player as if they were starving ghosts reincarnated.
He didn't even realize that there was a security guard following behind him.
He earned a total of 240 points and eight mechanical cards, all of which were mechanical spiders!
Lin Leyou finally breathed a sigh of relief in the morning. He sent a message to Xue Rui, "Go back and rest first, we'll continue tonight."
Xue Rui also noticed that after daybreak, the evil spirits seemed to have stopped appearing, at least outside the residential area. Perhaps their numbers had decreased significantly, which is why they stopped appearing.
But he was indeed a bit tired now. After all, he had walked for nearly six hours, even at a leisurely pace. Being stared at menacingly by the evil spirits was a really tiring experience.
I am truly exhausted, especially mentally.
Xue Rui: "Okay, I'll go back now."
Lin Leyou said, "I'll take a nap first. We can talk about it when I get off work at midnight."
Xue Rui: "Okay."
Xue Rui returned to his residence, while Lin Leyou went to have breakfast.
While eating breakfast, Lin Leyou chatted with the captain at the security booth, hoping to extract more information. There should still be some things about the captain that hadn't been uncovered yet.
He does indeed have a very urgent problem right now.
While eating breakfast, he asked, "Captain, how can I find out how many evil spirits are left in the neighborhood?"
The captain slumped over the table, blinking wearily. He was truly exhausted, but he couldn't rest.
"Do you want to know how many evil spirits are left in the neighborhood?"
Lin Leyou: "Well, we've killed quite a few these past two days."
Captain, "You've killed quite a few. How many did you kill?"
Lin Leyou: "Well... last night it was only six hours. I killed a demon guarding my door as soon as I went out, and then I killed eight more while patrolling the neighborhood."
“These evil spirits are really arrogant. I was on patrol, and they seemed to ignore me. They followed a resident and stared at him. They don’t eat people, so I don’t know why they are so persistent.”
Captain, "Eight...no, nine?"
Lin Leyou nodded, "Yes."
The captain suddenly stood up and took out a small mirror, about half the size of his palm, from his drawer. However, the mirror did not reflect anything; it only displayed a number.
Lin Leyou leaned closer to take a look and saw the number 2 displayed in the middle...
The captain blinked incredulously, "Two..."
Lin Leyou: "Really? There are two left?"
Captain: "There's no mistake, this display screen can only be used once."
Lin Leyou blinked. "Only once per instance?" It should mean only once per dungeon refresh, right?
The captain patted him on the shoulder, "You're really amazing! No wonder I chose you as a security guard!"
Lin Leyou: "Captain, if there are only two left, is one of them the strongest one behind the scenes?"
Captain, "That's right, one of the strongest, and another that is also the strongest demon under its command."
Lin Leyou tentatively asked, "Then... does the captain have anything to tell me about these two evil spirits?"
The captain paused for a moment, then said, “To deal with the strongest one, our stun guns can only repel it, not knock it unconscious.”
Lin Leyou blinked; he knew it wasn't that simple. "No matter how many times you try, it still won't work?"
The captain said, "I've encountered this before. I used a stun gun on it three times in a row, and it escaped. As for what would happen if it was used more than three times, I don't know."
Lin Leyou thought to himself that he finally had some extra information. It seemed that to trigger such a dialogue, he would need to reduce the number of evil spirits in the community to a very small extent.
"What else? What kind of evil spirit is this?"
The captain said, "When this evil spirit makes a sound, my head spins for a moment, and in that short time, it gets away."
Lin Leyou, "Where did the captain encounter them? Did he find anything unusual? Or, was there anything that had been sitting in a certain place in this neighborhood moved recently?"
He wouldn't forget his third task, worth 1000 points, which required returning special items to their original positions.
Upon hearing this, the captain seemed to have thought of something. "Now that you mention it, I do remember something. I had completely forgotten about it, since it wasn't anything important."
"Previously, in the center of the small park in the community, there was a model made of steel plates in the green belt. It was about the height of a person, but it seems that it was taken away and thrown away because it was damaged."
Lin Leyou, "Made of steel plates?"
The captain nodded. "Yes, what's wrong?"
Lin Leyou: "It's nothing, I just wanted to ask, since I've never seen it before."
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