"I knew that old bastard wouldn't be honest!" Shao Siyuan sighed.
"Late stage rabies?" Xiao Jin adjusted the distance between himself and the courtyard, slowly moving closer.
"But her teeth marks...that's not right." Shao Siyuan pulled up the scan image from earlier and focused on the bite mark on the woman's arm that had been there for quite some time.
After repeated observation, Shao Siyuan discovered that the bite marks were clearly in the shape of human teeth, but each tooth was unusually sharp.
The long sword hanging at Xiao Jin's waist gleamed blood-red in the sunlight: "The village chief is playing word games with us."
"Dog bone" doesn't refer to a real dog, but rather to a woman who resembles a human being with rabies.
Her face was grim: "The village chief wants us to kill them!"
Shao Siyuan's eyebrows were furrowed together.
"Let's go, let's meet up with the others first and see if they've found anything."
Xiao Jin got up and left in front of Widow Li's door. After wandering around the village, he found the others not far from the door.
However, everyone's expressions were not good.
"Looks like you've all figured it out." Shao Siyuan casually leaned against a large tree.
"Yeah, Feng Hao and I went to the west side of the village and met a fool with horns. When I looked at him, I realized that was a cow's horn!" Sui Ying said, pouting.
Xiao Jin looked at Yun Ye.
“Same.” He nodded. “I saw a little girl with a cleft lip and a short tail, just like a rabbit.”
Feng Hao plopped down on the ground: "That bastard village chief really didn't have any good intentions. Does he want us to skin that little girl alive?"
"Impossible, this is too cruel!" Sui Ying said with a look of unbearable pain.
Although these players aren't exactly good people, isn't this way of obtaining materials a bit excessive?
After a while, Xiao Jin said, "Write down all the places. As for whether or not you want to go, that's up to you."
“That’s right, and I think that even if we don’t move, the other players are probably on their way to these three places.” Shao Siyuan stated very calmly.
"Aaaaaah!!!"
Suddenly, a heart-wrenching scream came from afar.
Xiao Jin looked up and saw black smoke rising from the north of the village. Shao Siyuan was right; someone had already started making a move.
"Let's go take a look," Xiao Jin decided immediately.
Regardless of whether or not bones or skin should be removed, it's better to take this opportunity to observe the other players. Xiao Jin felt that something was amiss, and she didn't think taking action was a good idea.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!" The figures of the group disappeared from the spot in an instant.
A few minutes later, they arrived at the source of the screams—Widow Li's house.
It turned out that shortly after Xiao Jin and his companion left, other players who had heard the news quietly infiltrated the area. They didn't have many other thoughts; they just wanted to complete the mission as quickly as possible.
Startled by the noise, Widow Li suddenly snapped her chains and lunged at them on all fours. Her fingernails grew into claws, digging deep furrows in the mud.
"Holy crap, how can it be so fierce?" One of the female players was quite surprised and quickly dodged to the side.
Widow Li, having missed her target, had bloodshot eyes and drool at the corners of her mouth, and let out a series of roars.
Although her movements seemed somewhat clumsy, each swing of her claws was accompanied by a chilling whistling sound as it cut through the air.
Another male player, weapon in hand, stood in front of him, muscles taut, ready to meet Widow Li's attack. The female player, meanwhile, nimbly moved around the perimeter, trying to find an opportunity to retaliate.
The two worked together, and whenever Widow Li made a mistake, the female player would quickly step forward and leave bloody marks on her body with her weapon.
However, the battle proved far more difficult than they had anticipated. Widow Li's speed and strength gradually increased with each attack, as if the beast within her had awakened.
Suddenly, during a fierce exchange, the male player was accidentally pulled hard by Widow Li, and with a "crack" sound, his right arm was torn off!
"Ugh, you bastard!"
The intense pain caused the male player to scream, and his weapon fell from his hand.
He staggered backward, his face turning deathly pale. The female player, seeing this, exclaimed in astonishment, "How could this be?"
Taking advantage of the male player's momentary lapse in attention due to injury, Widow Li pounced on him.
The female player quickly rolled to the side, dodging the fatal blow, but she knew this couldn't go on. She had to come up with a solution as soon as possible, or she and Widow Li would soon be worn down.
Unexpectedly, at that moment, Widow Li suddenly stopped moving and stared intently at a certain point in the void.
The female player's eyebrows twitched, and she followed her gaze. Soon she saw an old woman in a red coat standing in the shadow of the courtyard wall—it was the old woman who had brought breakfast to the players that morning.
Xiao Jin and the others arrived at this time.
The group of people crouched on the walls and trees, carefully observing the scene inside the courtyard.
"Hehe...the ingredients have to be fresh..." The old woman's mouth suddenly tore open, revealing a tongue covered in mucus: "The village chief told me to tell you, if someone has been dead for more than a minute...their bones are useless..."
It was unclear whether she was referring to Widow Li or the player; at least Xiao Jin didn't notice anything amiss in the old woman's expression.
"So we're going to... take it alive?" Sui Ying turned to look at Xiao Jin after hearing this.
The group remained silent, and the air around them seemed to freeze.
As night fell, the moonlight, like a thin veil, gently covered every corner of the village, draping this sleeping land in a mysterious silver glow.
As night fell, a series of hurried and chaotic footsteps broke the surrounding silence.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Zixuan and a group of players with different expressions walked over from a distance, and the group surrounded Widow Li's house without prior arrangement.
"Well, this is going to be interesting." Feng Hao sneered.
"Go!" Without the slightest hesitation, Wang Zixuan and her group, weapons in hand, slowly walked to Widow Li's side as soon as they arrived.
Seeing the players eyeing her menacingly, Widow Li roared and pounced forward instantly, only to be blasted away by a beam of light and tumble heavily to the ground.
In the end, Xiao Jin did not make a move. Listening to the 'plop, plop' sounds around her, she chose to leave and returned to the village chief's house empty-handed.
After some discussion and deliberation, Sui Ying and the other three reached the same conclusion as Xiao Jin—they would never participate in this killing.
However, not everyone made the same choice.
Unlike Xiao Jin and her group of five, the remaining players, including Wang Zixuan, all shed their human constraints at that moment and chose to be driven by the survival game.
Inside the courtyard, bloodshed and violence raged like a storm.
But by this time, Xiao Jin and the others had already left, and no matter how tragic the scene was, it was no longer their concern!
When the village chief saw Xiao Jin and his four companions empty-handed at his home, the village chief did not say anything.
They were simply told to return to the guesthouse, and the task of making lanterns would be handled by the other players.
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