Chapter 57 (Part 3)
Don't mind disqualifying him from the game?
Paopao took a few seconds to digest this, then hesitantly said, "Is it really that serious?"
But Anrou's calm eyes told him that there was.
Paopao swallowed his saliva, looking like an employee who was exhausted by work and had a breakdown. He got mad at his boss, and afterwards heard the boss say lightly, "I want to be fired"?
This was the first time in my life that I witnessed the cruelty of capitalists.
He hung his head and kicked a clump of weeds with his toes, without saying a word.
But An Rou didn't give him time to feel sad. She said, "Call them all out."
Two minutes later, in front of the sauerkraut shed, Bao Fu made a cut with his bone knife, and a sauerkraut jar broke in the middle, and dark green poisonous water flowed all over the ground.
There was another corpse, its face swollen and pale from being soaked in the poisonous water, lying on the ground.
This is the last surviving corpse harvested by T21. Its rank is unknown, but I'm guessing it's at least Gold. Its Life Points are exceptionally high for a Gold player, having died 13 times in a row without logging off completely.
In the game, such beings are called Children of Luck. Either the system initially determines their Destiny to be extremely high, or, by chance, completing a certain in-game mission, it triggers a sudden surge in their Destiny, like a flurry of butterflies.
However, no matter how high the destiny value is, after so many deaths, it is just a spent force.
Wang Da, Wang Er, Zhang Da, and Sun Da, the four ghouls lined up in a row. They just glanced at the corpse and then looked away.
Players in the temporary death state have no soul and they have no interest in corpses.
An Rou glanced at her watch. She had been busy all night, and didn't return to town until the early hours of the morning. Before she left, the corpse had died once before.
The resurrection took 12 hours, and it was almost over by now.
Paopao was still a young man at heart, and he quickly digested his recent unpleasantness. He whispered to An Rou, "Boss, Zhang Er is already the best performing of these ghouls... new employees. Even if this player is at the highest level, he's only now being differentiated into a ghoul, so he's definitely not as good as Zhang Er."
"Who said we should divide him?"
An Rou curled her lips into a smile and instructed Wang Da: "Wang Da, go blindfold the corpse and tie it to the pillar."
Throw the handkerchief and rope over casually.
Wang Da's movements were a bit clumsy, but he quickly tied up the body. Paopao looked at the scarf on the corpse's face and roughly understood its purpose: the eyes were covered, so even if the player woke up, they would be unable to see their surroundings and even the light screen would be unable to operate, so there was no need to worry about exposing the farm.
But what exactly does the boss want to do?
Just as I was wondering, An Rou started to speak with a serious look: "Listen carefully, the four of you. In a moment, the most delicious soul of the Destiny One will appear on the corpse. He is different from Paopao. Neither I nor Baofu will stop you from eating him. But——"
An Rou's tone changed and she sneered, "The prerequisite is that you can hold back for three minutes! If anyone can't help but move within three minutes, there will be only one outcome: death, complete disappearance!"
The four ghouls had puzzled expressions on their faces. This time, it wasn't practice, but a genuine feeling.
They couldn't understand An Rou's first words: "There's clearly a corpse before our eyes, so why is there a soul?" And it's the soul of a destined person.
It doesn't matter. The sudden violent gasping of the corpse disrupted their young thoughts.
The scent of the soul quickly spread in the air, rushing into the ghouls' nostrils, penetrating all the way and stirring up the deepest-rooted instincts in their subconscious.
"Three minutes."
The moment the four ghouls forgot An Rou's instructions, An Rou's voice came into their ears.
The posture of about to pounce was frozen in place, exactly the same.
Paopao's heart leaped into his throat, and he huddled behind Anrou. On one hand, he was worried about the four ghouls, their teeth bared and drooling, and on the other, he was worried about the player in front of him not just being resurrected.
If the opponent keeps watching the resurrection time and chooses to go online at the same time of resurrection, he, as a small bronze player, will not be able to defeat the opponent at all.
An Rou obviously thought of this as well. She lowered her eyes and glanced at Bao Fu's frightened face as he emerged from the ground.
A bone knife suddenly rose from behind the pillar of the sauerkraut shed and chopped at an extremely fast speed.
The player's breathing paused, and a muffled groan erupted. His wrist had been precisely severed in half by Baofu, severing his tendons. He couldn't break free and escape until he healed.
It turns out that this move was just an insurance policy that was never used. The player's groan of pain was unconscious, and he was not online.
Anyone would be discouraged and hopeless after dying more than a dozen times in a row.
The smell of blood intensified the scent of souls in the air. The four ghouls twisted and turned frantically, staring intently at the player. Their instinctive desire to devour souls was too strong, but it was unclear which would be stronger against An Rou's threat of death.
An Rou took two steps forward silently and observed the four ghouls from the side.
Each one of them was drooling, their faces becoming more ferocious than the other. Especially Wang Da, whose eyes were bloodshot, as if he was about to shed tears of blood.
An Rou judged that Wang Da should be the first one who couldn't help it.
Paopao couldn't help but turn on the light screen and watch the time in the lower right corner pass by minute by minute.
He had a clue of An Rou's intention. She was using the soul of the player who was most attractive to ghouls to test which new employee had the strongest endurance and could best resist temptation.
From another perspective, the more a ghoul can resist his instincts, the more he will listen to An Rou.
But his guess was quickly overturned.
It was Sun Da who couldn't help himself first and rushed towards the player with a roar.
Seeing his companion snatching food from the tiger's mouth, Wang Er was unwilling to be left behind and rushed forward.
At this time, exactly two minutes had passed.
An Rou raised her eyes from her watch and glanced at the two ghouls jumping into the air.
"Baobao." She spat out.
The bone knife flashed like a ghost, as fast as an illusion. With two consecutive thuds, Sun Da and Wang Er fell to the ground, their bodies separated, and blood spurted out from their broken necks.
Only their bodies died, but their lives did not end. Their bodies began to boil like boiling water, growing rapidly.
Sun Da's broken spine stretched out like a vine, and in a blink of an eye, it wrapped its body tightly. At first glance, others were skin and bones, but it was bones and flesh.
Wang Er's mad transformation began with his head. His short hair continuously grew from his scalp, as if absorbing too much blood. It gradually turned redder and became more and more like muscle fibers, connecting his head to his equally fibrotic body. However, instead of being reattached to his neck, it was forcibly embedded in his chest, its eyes wide open with anger.
The transformation doesn't take too long, but it can't be completed in the blink of an eye either.
An Rou spoke again: "Bao Bao."
The bone knife came out again, so fast that the human eye could only catch its afterimage.
Compared with the two C-level madly transformed ghouls, the suddenly rich bone knife was like a high-level weapon that spanned too many levels. It was invincible and chopped them into countless pieces in an instant.
Two bangs.
The two ghouls exploded into a cloud of gold coins.
Paopao was stunned, his eyes numbly shifting back to the light screen in front of him. Two notifications popped up there.
[Mission Name: Secret Nest Xue Yong'an Farm]
[Mission Location: Eastern Suburbs of Zhongsu Town]
[Ghoul Level: SS (Highest)]
【Number of Ghouls: 3/6】
【Time limit: None】
[Difficulty Rating: SS]
Congratulations on reaching Lv18 (Bronze)
Including Zhang Er, who had also died at Bao Fu's hands not long ago, he had leveled up three times in a row by strangling three ghouls. For a moment, Paopao's mind was a bit confused, not knowing whether to be happy or sad.
An Rou glanced at him indifferently and dealt with the matter at hand first.
Of the five new employees, only Wang Da and Zhang Da were left. An Rou walked up to the two ghosts and lowered her gaze to Zhang Da's feet.
It raised half of its foot, while Wang Da's two feet were firmly on the ground. Because he was pressing too hard, the soles of his shoes sank into the ground.
An Rou looked at Wang Da's eyes again, which were even redder than before. She suddenly realized that the redder his eyes were, the more it showed that Wang Da was trying his best to resist the instinct that was devouring his soul.
In other words, it is the most obedient one.
An Rou pounded its chest and nodded approvingly: "Okay, good employee! Go eat, but don't finish it all, leave a bite."
Wang rushed forward quickly.
An Rou turned and patted Zhang Da's face, narrowing her eyes: "As for you, if it was a second later, you wouldn't be able to bear it, right? Forget it, people with destiny all pay attention to luck, so you're lucky, so just go ahead."
The two ghosts were only seconds apart, but when Zhang Da went over there, just as An Rou said, he could only take one bite.
The soul was devoured, and the player silently exploded into a ball of white. Wang Da licked his lips contentedly, the bloodshot in his eyes quickly fading. Zhang Da glared at it fiercely, but out of fear of An Rou and Su Fu, he dared not do anything.
"You two go back to the house first." An Rou ordered.
The two ghouls obediently departed. Wang Da, seemingly lost in thought, activated his skill and sprinted across the pond, his toes tapping the surface a few times before landing on the other side. Not wanting to be left behind, Zhang Da activated his skill as well, following suit.
They parasitize the player's body and naturally possess the player's skills. However, the way they perform them is different from the player's. There is no light screen and no energy value, it is more like another instinct.
Feeling someone holding his shoulders, Paopao suddenly looked away from them.
"boss……"
An Rou looked at his character attributes on the screen and said with a smile, "Congratulations on your upgrade."
"I just won by luck." Paopao blushed. "Boss, Sun Da and Zhang Er died just like that. Isn't that a pity? Even if they can't be sent to town, they can still be used as guards or bodyguards on the farm."
An Rou glanced at the traces left on the ground by the two ghouls after they transformed into water and chuckled, "What a pity! With their endurance, how can I feel at ease bringing Dad to live on the farm in the future?"
"Taking on the farm life... the boss doesn't want Uncle An to continue selling buns, so why reopen the bun shop?"
An Rou shook her head: "It's not the time yet."
She immediately skipped the topic and said, "Paopao, let me ask you a question. Why did you give up your studies to play the Soul-Calling Song?"
An Rou thought he would say "money", but unexpectedly Paopao answered without hesitation: "To prove myself."
"My parents died early, and my brother raised me. He... Anyway, I want to be his younger brother, not his son.
"He joined a guild when he was in college, so why is he stopping me from playing games? My luck is so bad, it's obvious that God doesn't want me to take the college entrance examination properly, so I won't take it.
"My brother always says that if I don't study, I can't support myself. Isn't that just a lie? How many people start playing games when they turn 18? Why can't I?
"I want to show him that not only can I make money in the game, but I can also become a high-level player and make a lot of money!"
I ran to express myself for a while, but got no response. Then I realized that my boss was looking into the distance with a dazed look.
"boss?"
An Rou came back to her senses and smiled. "Silly boy, you don't know how to appreciate the blessing you have."
"Your parents are..."
"Oh." Paopao curled his lips. "They were both holographic engineers who died suddenly from overwork. There was only a two-month gap between their deaths... That's why I say, what's the point of reading so much? They both have double PhDs, but in the end, they still work for others with their lives."
An Rou understood.
No wonder this kid has good grades but is so resistant to studying. He must have inherited his parents' excellent genes.
But... isn't it too much of a coincidence that both husband and wife died from overwork?
Just as he was thinking, he saw Paopao scratching his head and said embarrassedly: "Boss, my attitude was wrong before, and I didn't think clearly. I have thought about it. If I follow you, I will make money and level up. I support your plan of designing tasks to lure players into the trap! But -
"Boss, Wang Da seems to have good endurance, but the town is full of people. Can it still hold back?"
An Rou asked him, "Do you think I did this just to test their endurance?"
Paopao was confused: "Isn't it?"
"No, no, it's more than that." An Rou was confident. "You may not have noticed, but once a ghoul has devoured a player's soul, the souls of NPCs are no longer very attractive to them. It's like... well, desensitization therapy."
Desensitization therapy?
Paopao was confused, but that didn't stop him from looking at Anrou with admiration.
The boss is so awesome, his IQ is off the charts and he can always find bugs in the game!
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