Chapter 44 (3rd update)
Paopao is a bronze player, and only has the basic Wind Step. Even if he activates it with all his strength, his speed is far behind Baofu.
After all, Baofu has limbs that are up to 20 meters long. Compared with its huge body, it looks slender, but in fact it has extremely strong explosive power.
Dust rose in the air, carrying a flat-backed spider as huge as a mountain, running towards the distance.
It's over. The whole town of Zhongsu will suffer.
If the boss can control his sudden wealth, then he'll be in trouble. An SS-rank ghoul descends upon Zhongsu Town, and it's no wonder everyone isn't besieging it.
Paopao was helpless and could only run at full speed.
Suddenly, the scene in the distance suddenly stopped.
As if encountering a great obstacle, Bao Fu roared angrily, flexed his limbs, and leaped high into the air.
But it didn't go any further.
"Could it be the boss?" Paopao murmured.
Zhongsu Town is so remote that top players rarely frequent it. It's said that the new Yinlai Guild leader, Tang Lang, is a master, but he's only at the beginner level and can't possibly stop an SS-level ghoul.
Apart from An Rou, who can remotely control Bao Fu, Paopao can't think of anyone who can stop Bao Fu.
What he didn't know was that at this moment, An Rou had no energy left to control Bao Fu, and she didn't even know that Bao Fu had left the farm.
She collapsed, covering her fair, beautiful face with her hands, tears streaming from between her fingers. Under such pressure, she finally revealed a bit of the youthfulness that a girl of her age should have.
Captain Li and Tang Lang looked at each other. The mayor's wife opened her mouth slightly with a look of surprise.
It was Heng Bobao who reacted first. He held An Rou's shoulders and said in shock, "An Rou, what did you say? Ink removal? The number one expert in the Soul Realm, ink removal?!"
An Rou sniffed and nodded.
Heng Bobao was about to ask more, but Captain Li suddenly interrupted, "Your name is An Rou?"
This was a question that could be answered without thinking. An Rou put down her hand and looked over in confusion, not knowing why he asked this question.
Captain Li said solemnly, "If you want to get out of here alive, answer my question. Is your name An Rou?"
An Rou's shoulders trembled, and then she nodded: "Yes... yes."
"Is your father An Younian?"
"yes."
"Your family opened a bun shop?"
"Yes...in the past."
"Are you a player?"
An Rou was about to shake her head when alarm bells started ringing in her heart.
trap!
She had seen it on TV. It was the simplest questioning technique: after a series of harmless questions, a fatal question would suddenly appear.
She almost subconsciously denied it. But NPCs can't hear sensitive words!
An Rou's neck was stiff, but fortunately, she didn't move any further. She blinked, and the puzzled look on her face became even more intense.
Captain Li did not give up and continued to ask, "You said that the money was given to you by Chu Mo?"
An Rou: "Yes."
"How much did he give you in total?"
"195,000 gold..."
"He completed the mission?"
--here we go again!
An Rou's eyes were blank, as if she didn't hear the question.
Captain Li exchanged glances with Tang Lang again, taking a deep breath. "Then tell me the details of what happened."
The tone softened slightly.
An Rou knew she had passed this stage, for now. This series of quick questions and answers was based on a game premise: NPCs wouldn't lie. If she had revealed even the slightest clue, she would have been immediately identified as a player.
What awaits her then will probably be the same fate as the players in the pickle jar on the farm.
The whole story had already been told once, and Captain Li asked An Rou to repeat it, probably wanting to confirm it one last time.
An Rou calmed down and said, "That night I was on the farm. I couldn't grow anything in the fields and I was so worried that I couldn't sleep. Suddenly in the middle of the night I heard a loud noise outside the city wall.
"At first I thought it was a ghoul trying to break through the wall, but then I heard from others that it was a train accident. But I didn't know at the time. I hid alone in the house, terrified, and just hoped that the Destiny One would come quickly and kill the ghoul.
"Not long after, there was a sudden noise outside the house... a very scary noise. My house is a thatched house, not stable, and the pillars were shaking. I was afraid the house would collapse, so I ran out in a panic, and then I found a very scary person outside..."
An Rou's face turned pale. She paused for a moment before continuing, "It wasn't a human, it was a ghoul. It was huge, taller than the house, flying in the sky with two huge wings. I was petrified. When I came to my senses, I was no longer at the door, but had been... dragged to the open space by Qimo. Because the house collapsed...
"At the time, I didn't know he was the Ink Remover, I only knew he was the Chosen One. I wanted to run away, but I didn't have the strength to even stand up.
"I saw him fly up into the sky, and soon, clumps of something fell to the ground. It was very smelly and quickly disappeared. I've heard that ghouls turn into smelly water after they die.
"I heard a loud noise coming from the sky, like... lots and lots of gold coins were stuffed into a cloth bag, and then the bag suddenly exploded. From the sky... it started raining gold coins, so many gold coins..."
At this point, An Rou's tears stopped and her beautiful almond-shaped eyes sparkled.
"I knew those were the treasures of the ghouls, and they were what the Chosen Ones deserved, so even though many gold coins fell in front of me, I didn't dare touch them. Chu Mo searched the ground for a while, and seemed to pick something out from it, then told me that all the gold coins here were given to me."
An Rou was in a trance, still unable to believe that such a good thing could happen. It took her a while to come back to her senses, and she apologized to the people at the table in panic.
"Before he left, he told me that the farmland was tainted with ghoul poison and that nothing could grow there. He said there was a way to remove the poison from the soil, but it would cost money, and asked if I wanted to try it.
"Of course I do! This farm was passed down from my grandfather. It's been abandoned for so long because we can't grow anything. My father often says he's sorry to my grandfather. So even if it costs money, I still want to build the farm.
"Then I saw Chu Mo raise his hand, and the gold coins on the ground were blown all over the farm by a gust of wind. So many gold coins, and suddenly more than half were gone..."
Including Heng Bobao, the four of them listened carefully, but only two high-level players knew what actually happened that night in T21.
Of course, when they reviewed the incident afterwards, they could only learn what many people had witnessed. The boss of the ghoul wave that night did indeed possess a pair of wildly transformed blood wings.
Most NPCs, especially those without background like An Rou, would not know what a ghoul looks like.
Captain Li gave Tang Lang a look.
Tang Lang pondered and asked, "How did he kill the ghoul?"
An Rou shook her head blankly: "I didn't see clearly. It was too dark at night, and they were flying in the air..."
"Then have you seen Chu Mo's weapon?" Captain Li added.
"It seems to be..." An Rou frowned, "a sword."
The two looked at each other again.
It seems the NPC wasn't lying. That night, the ghoul boss was attacked by two high-level players, Oli and Gar, and suddenly disappeared mid-attack. Everyone assumed it had fled to the Land of No Life, but unexpectedly, it had actually escaped into the wall.
What he didn't expect was that he was tracked down by someone who was waiting for him.
The combat power of the player ranked first on the Destiny Ranking was unquestionable. Even an SS-rank ghoul would be powerless against him.
In addition to being shocked, Captain Li was even more frightened.
Although the Zhongsu branch was slow to react that night, upon learning of the T21 mission, they immediately mobilized all online players to rush outside the wall. Zhongsu Town... was an empty nest.
If Chu Mo hadn't been there, the entire town would have been wiped out by the ghouls, brewing another wave of ghouls.
Are the rewards for high-level tasks important? Undoubtedly, they are very important.
But for a guild leader like him, territory was equally important. If Zhongsu fell, his territory would be gone. If the ghoul tide couldn't be controlled and spread to the entire Sub-8 District, it would be like Orli losing a third of his territory overnight!
As for the rewards, haha, with such a large-scale ghoul tide, not only Gar, but even Long Yan wouldn't stand idly by. They would definitely send out the player army in the name of protecting Lengbing City.
By then, Ouli, who had suffered heavy losses, could only barely drink a sip of soup.
Thinking of this, Captain Li broke out in a cold sweat and calmed himself down: "One last question, Miss An..."
Boom!
An Rou's head fell down, her forehead hit the mahjong table, and then she fell backwards.
Fortunately, Heng Bobao was right behind her and immediately supported her. Heng Bobao screamed, "Blood! So much blood! What did you do to her?!"
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If An Rou knew the person Bao Fu met at this moment, she would probably not be pretending to faint, but was really faint.
It’s not about removing ink, but the one who was more terrifying that night.
With just a wave of his hands, he destroyed the SS-level blood-winged ghoul.
He was dressed in a snow-white robe, his attire more retro than that of ordinary players. He even had long jet-black hair, which was loosely tied behind his back.
A strand of hair hangs down by the side of her eyes, looking soft and flowing, but she remains unmoved in the storm brought about by the roar of sudden wealth.
No matter how the bone knives and blades scratched at it, the invisible wall between the man and the ghost was unbreakable.
"So, in this remote place, there is a little fellow like you."
He stretched out a hand with distinct joints, and his fingertips gently brushed across the huge head of the rich man.
It was as if a spell of stillness was cast on Bao Fu. The roaring stopped and all the bone blades froze.
"Come," he said, "tell me, where is your master?"
Bao Fu's equally stagnant pupils struggled once, and again, before finally breaking free from the invisible shackles and moving rapidly.
Its resistance made him sneer with disdain.
He closed his eyes, catching the lingering sound in the air. Then he opened them again and flicked his finger between Baofu's eyebrows.
"For the sake of your master, I will leave you alone for now."
That finger was like someone holding a small wooden hammer and hitting a towering mountain, but it unleashed a huge force beyond imagination, shattering the bones of Bao Fu's limbs and causing him to fall to the ground.
"Get rich!"
Paopao finally rushed over and looked up at the sky suspiciously.
There's nothing there.
The bone knife fragments turned into water in an instant, without leaving much trace. Paopao didn't notice it for a while, but he only felt that the lower ends of Baofu's limbs were deeply embedded in the ground.
Paopao felt the air in front of him, but there was nothing. He took two more steps forward and was able to move forward and backward freely.
It seems that the boss really ordered Bao Fu not to go there.
Paopao turned around and went back to Baofu. Now, with his height of over 1.8 meters, he was not even as tall as Baofu's head.
He actually saw a sickly look on the face of the rich man, which was distorted by fear.
Paopao was confused for a moment: Is the boss not letting Baofu go because he is out of danger, or is he afraid that Baofu will be exposed?
After hesitating for a while, Bao Fu let out a low roar, which was not as deep as before, but had a prolonged tail sound.
As if praying.
Paopao stamped his feet and said, "Okay, I'll go over and take a look. Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to the boss! - Brother Baofu, remember to hide. Use a false ambush!"
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