Chapter 9
Badaozhan picked up a chipped kitchen knife, carefully examined the blade, and then put it under his nose to sniff it.
According to the post, the ghouls here first parasitize NPCs. NPCs have no skills, so the ghouls can only rely on these kinds of tools to commit crimes.
He frowned and put down the kitchen knife: "What's that sound?"
A few steps away, Huatie Luzhen was looking through the mattress. Upon hearing this, he threw down the dirty and damp quilt and looked over.
"There seems to be some movement next door." said Badaozhan.
Only then did Huatielu realize that there was no woman in the room.
"Damn, that guy is causing trouble again! I'll go check it out!"
Using the Swift Wind Step, he reached the door in two steps and walked into the shop. He saw that the back door of the shop was open again, and it was dark outside.
The woman sat by the door, sobbing over a pile of broken coal.
Alarmed by the approaching slippery road, An Rou crawled to avoid it, leaning against the door panel, looking timid.
It's obviously a stress response.
"What did he do to you?" Seeing the overturned bamboo basket and broken coal, Huatielu roughly guessed what had happened and asked anyway.
"Wow, he, he suddenly lost his temper and crushed all my coal cakes..."
"Didn't we ask you to follow us?"
"...I suddenly remembered that Uncle Wang asked us to deliver coal this morning. Woo woo woo."
Huatielu impatiently shook the steel whip in his hand, and the metallic sound scared the woman so much that she trembled all over.
He didn't question her further. As for where Yehua had gone—where else could she have gone? That guy probably saw the NPC's favorability drop to "direct attack" and just bolted.
After wasting half a day without even seeing the mission, Huatielu had long since decided that there weren't any ghouls here. He was thinking of going back to persuade the captain to call it a day, but then he thought, while the captain was away, he could vent his anger on Yehua.
So he walked out the back door.
Before leaving, he wiped the ground with his hand, leaving a small pile of gold coins, and said, "I'm going to find him, don't cry."
After the figure on the slippery road disappeared from her sight, An Rou obediently stopped crying and put the gold coins into the balance.
"Only 300 gold..."
Be it the slippery road or the wild flowers, none of them are as generous as the king, who gives 1,000 gold in one go.
She muttered silently and stepped on the broken coal twice.
Fortunately, Wild Flower's injury didn't cause much bleeding, and a basket of coal cakes was enough to cover it. In addition, the smell of blood dissipated immediately after the door was opened.
An Rou closed the door and looked at the roof.
[Why rush? He will come back!]
At this time, she was not in a good mood about the sudden wealth.
After witnessing that scene, An Rou suddenly remembered something Cui Gaoshan, the farm owner's son, had said: if a player's soul was devoured by a ghoul, they would lose their game eligibility. All their possessions, whether gold coins or items, would be absorbed by the ghoul and converted into quest rewards. Whoever ultimately strangled the ghoul would indirectly inherit the unfortunate player's entire fortune.
Therefore, some unscrupulous wild players will deliberately use other people to feed the ghouls in order to get more rewards.
Unfortunately, An Rou was neither a player nor a wild guest. She had tried, but she couldn't kill Bao Fu. The current situation could be summed up in one sentence: Bao Fu had eaten all the food and robbed her of the money she deserved!
It would be strange if he had a good temper.
The shop had average soundproofing. Through the thin earthen wall, Badaozhan heard the conversation between the two and shook his head.
There are so many conflicts in a small team of three. I don’t know how the leaders of the large execution teams and execution groups manage them, and how many troubles they encounter.
He hadn't taken it seriously when Huatielu hadn't returned. However, after searching the entire room and finding nothing, Badaozhan decided it was time to give up.
The next thing to consider is how to clean up the wild flowers.
Each of the four major factions in the game has its own management system, controlled by local NPCs. For example, in Zhongsu Town, the mayor is the highest-ranking official, with a group of NPC security guards under his command. If the woman in the coal shop gets angry and complains to the police, the mayor has the power to reduce the Destiny of all Destiny members in the area.
It wasn't a big deal if they just walked away, but Zhongsu Town was their guild's territory after all, and they couldn't escape accountability if the headquarters investigated.
He was distracted when he was drawing his sword and knocked it against the wardrobe without paying attention.
He then glanced away and paused.
After searching the wardrobe on Huatie Road, he left the door open. Inside the door, with its chipped paint, was a mess of clothes—no women's clothes!
Even if the coal shop woman was dirty, her dressing style was still somewhat different from her brother's, right?
Badaozhan suddenly turned around and looked at the bed.
One bed… He hadn't even realized there was only one bed in the room! Brothers and sisters weren't husband and wife, and the room wasn't so small it couldn't fit two single beds. How could two people this size sleep in the same bed?!
There is a problem, there is a problem with that woman!
As he drew his sword to cut, his throat tightened, and something cold touched his throat from the back of his neck to his Adam's apple.
A bloody knife tip.
He swung his saber fiercely, the two-meter-long handle dragging the heavy blade, chopping through the old wooden wardrobe and the earthen wall behind the wardrobe as easily as cutting tofu.
The saber was swung behind him, but the person behind him had already avoided it.
A woman's sweet laughter came from the door, as clear and pleasant as a silver bell.
"From the look of you, have you discovered the flaw? Luckily, I thought of it a step ahead of you."
The Tang sword had been pulled out, and some of the blood spurted out from the throat of the sword-wielding sword, while the rest flowed back along the trachea.
He coughed up blood with difficulty, covered his throat and turned around, seeing the shining white teeth in the woman's smile.
Despite receiving such a fatal injury, he did not die. He raised his left hand and a small black bottle appeared in his palm.
Life potion!
An Rou suddenly became alert: "Get rich!"
With a bang, something broke through the upper edge of the wall. In the dust, dense bone knives were waving wildly and rushed towards the sword.
As excited as seeing prey.
He still had enough strength to strike, and the saber suddenly glowed white, its massive blade detaching from the long handle, revealing a thin chain. He grasped the chain and swung the blade in a circular motion.
A sharp metallic collision sound.
All the bone blades under Bao Fu's body were cut off.
Bao Fu seemed to feel the pain and roared angrily. The dust in the air was stirred by the air current, forcing An Rou to squint.
"A mere C-rank ghoul..."
While attacking, Badaozhan distracted himself by drinking a life potion, and surprisingly, his throat was able to speak. He stared at Baofu and sneered, but he didn't panic at all when he saw Baofu's momentum was unabated.
Until death suddenly came.
The bone blade transformed from the mutated sternum was less than a meter long, but its deformed limbs, when fully extended, reached a terrifying three meters. As he drew his sword to slash at the bone blade, he was completely unaware that he was still surrounded by the ghoul's limbs.
Before he finished speaking, all four of Baofu's limbs folded at the same time.
The sound of a sharp knife entering flesh.
The sword was cut into four pieces in an instant, and a contemptuous smile was still hanging on the falling head.
If An Rou hadn't dodged quickly, she would have been covered in blood.
"Try eating it again!"
An Rou was mostly hiding behind the door, speaking in a hurry.
Then there was the sound of coins colliding, which was extremely pleasant to the ear.
An Rou finally realized that she was probably killed by the sword the moment she was dismembered. Even if she became rich overnight and wanted to eat, it would be too late.
She thrust her face into the room.
There was blood all over the ground, it was a horrible sight.
Gold coins also flowed all over the ground, it was breathtaking - exciting.
*
Huatielu used the Swift Wind Step and walked around the filthy alley for a long time, but he couldn't find any wild flowers.
The message sent to the team channel did not receive a reply.
"Where on earth did you go?"
After searching for half an hour, he finally managed to get rid of the anger that he had been holding in his heart.
Hua Tielu had no choice but to give up on beating the guy up and went back to the back door of Xiao Zhang's coal shop. He was so absorbed in the team chat on the screen that he didn't notice the smell of blood emanating from the coal shop window.
Without thinking, he pushed the door open and walked in.
He was greeted by a cold light.
He subconsciously raised his hand to block it, but the cold light penetrated his palm unimpeded and penetrated into the side of his neck.
Hua Tielu was stunned. He used his last bit of strength to break free from the restraints on his palm and stared blankly at the dagger that pierced his palm.
"Seven Souls...Sword..."
He didn't even look at who attacked him and just fell to the ground.
"You are not allowed to eat if you get rich suddenly!" An Rou shouted softly, knowing the future.
The bone knife hanging above Huatielu's head stopped, and in just a moment, the man under the knife was dead.
Speaking of which, Bao Fu is extremely sensitive to the smell of the player's soul, but An Rou, on the contrary, will not be discovered as long as he does not make any sound.
Having witnessed the explosion of gold coins after a sword-drawing attack, the gold coins flowing out of Hua Tielu's body were nothing compared to the explosion of gold coins after a sword-drawing attack. No matter what, it was better than being eaten up by the sudden wealth and having nothing.
An Rou closed the door and didn't rush to pick up the gold coins. Instead, she pulled out the dagger from Hua Tielu's hand.
"It's worthy of being a top-tier weapon. The basic attack power alone has such high damage."
A mini light screen floated above the dagger.
[Name: Seven Souls Sword]
【Category: Weapon·Blue】
[Basic Attack Power: 2000]
[Skill: 1/7 Corpse Dog, requires 0 energy points; 2/7 Thief Swallower, requires 50 energy points...]
There were seven skill levels in total, but An Rou had no energy, so she couldn't use any of them. She had just tried, and even a skill with 0 energy couldn't be activated.
She guessed that only by binding the weapon could the skill be activated, and as an NPC, she was powerless.
An Rou was very lucky. The Seven Souls Sword dropped after he was killed by the sword. Among the gold coins on the ground, this item dropped. It is conceivable that this is also the most valuable item on him.
An Rou looked at Bao Fu happily.
When she first reached an agreement with the ghoul, her purpose was simple: to protect herself. She had no intention of killing the three players.
It was hard to tell if it was just bad luck for her or them, but when An Rou was questioned, she tried to fabricate many false clues to lead them away, but all failed. It was probably because the original ghoul in the coal shop had died long ago.
Until Yehua really discovered the bloodstains hidden under the broken coal.
Killing one is killing, killing a whole nest is also killing. Now that they have been exposed, of course they must be eradicated. We can talk about the rest later.
In short, at the moment, he survived the disaster and made a fortune.
An Rouqing couldn't help but reach out to Bao Fu, trying to high-five him to celebrate: "You eat well and I get rich, happy cooperation!"
Bao Fu's little eyes rolled around, and he really raised his front limbs and stabbed with the bone knife.
Fortunately, An Rou reacted quickly and stopped.
Compared to all the previous events, this was the moment that left her with the most lingering fear.
An Rou patted her chest and glared at it: "You scared me to death, what good would it do you to kill me? Just because you have a full stomach for one day, you think you will never have to go hungry in your life, huh?!"
*
As the night deepened, a dark shadow moved nimbly and lightly through the alleys, gradually moving away from the town.
An Rou sat on Bao Fu's broad, flat body and looked back. The Soul Realm was devoid of stars or moon. The dark sky enveloped the small town's sparse lights, giving it a truly apocalyptic feel.
Baofu ran much faster than the rickshaw, and soon the outline of the thatched house appeared in sight.
"Squat down... squat down. Don't you understand?"
Bao Fu let out a low growl unwillingly, bent his limbs and lowered his body.
An Rou originally thought she could only communicate with it through her consciousness, until she killed Badaozhan, only then did she realize that language was also possible. This made her a little confused about how her "golden finger" actually worked.
Does it mean that as long as the initial connection is successful, it is equivalent to connecting consciousness and then verbal communication will be possible?
An Rou shook her head. Now was not the time to explore. She asked Bao Fu to follow her, and walked around the thatched house and pointed to a piece of wasteland.
"dig."
The bone knife flew, and soon three deep pits were dug.
An Rou threw in the three bodies that Bao Fu had also carried. Ye Wang's body was also hidden on the roof beams, just like Bao Fu's.
An Rou paused as she threw the sword-drawing blow. It wasn't that she thought the four pieces of corpse were too horrifying. After all, no matter how bloody it was, the sword-drawing blow was only a temporary death, no different from half a living person.
She couldn't understand the mechanics of the game. She'd studied it carefully before leaving the coal shop. The wounds on the corpses were smooth, and the bones, muscles, and internal organs were no different from those of a living person.
Where did those gold coins and props come from?
Forget it, I won’t study it anymore. Just bury them here and compact the soil a little. If they revive, they will lack oxygen. If they revive, they will lack oxygen.
The more times you revive, the more gold coins you will get.
It makes me happy just thinking about it.
An Rou kicked the last stone into the pit and clapped her hands: "They are all money-making trees."
"Bury it." She said to Baofu.
Turning around, he looked at the dark outline of a thatched chicken coop not far away.
She never expected that the first batch of seeds planted on her farm would be players.
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