Chapter 97
There was a hotel in Guangyuan Town. In the middle of the night, even the hotel staff didn't know that all the rooms were empty.
Figures fell from the windows, scattered into the dense streets, shuttled through the shadows, walked out of the town from all directions, and converged somewhere a few miles outside the town.
The stiff joints of the limbs swayed in the darkness, and dozens of huge mouths opened ferociously, roaring silently.
A ragged woman appeared, running barefoot in the field. She looked disheveled and staggered, but she was running very fast.
She ran to the front of the ghoul tide, like a stone floating on the dark lake, leaving a fan-shaped ripple behind her.
In the wilderness, the silent and terrifying scene moved northward, gradually approaching the rugged and desolate mountains.
Finally, as they approached Yuyang Ridge, a deeper and darker black line descended from the sky and stopped in front of the woman.
The woman stopped instantly, and the ghouls behind her were attracted by the strong fragrance of soul and rushed over one after another.
As the woman raised her head slightly, they were like waves hitting the rocks, squeezing together layer by layer, unable to advance any further.
Chu Mo's calm gaze swept across the group of ghouls and fell on the woman a few meters in front of him.
"An Rou?"
His voice was as hoarse as ever, like a patient who had not had any water for a long time and had just woken up from a coma.
Hidden by the disguise card, An Rou's face was covered by her messy long hair.
She lowered her head, a faint smile spreading across the corners of her lips: "Long time no see, Mr. Chumo--."
"You should know that attracting the ghouls to the farm will only allow Ali to immediately dig out the details of the mission..."
Chu Mo's words suddenly paused, and when he noticed An Rou's strange smile, he frowned, "Did you do that on purpose?"
"If we don't do this, how will An Rou be able to see Mr. Mo?"
An Rou chuckled. "Yali has been hanging around the farm for so long. Since he's so persistent about wanting a mission, I'll give him one. Is that wrong?"
These words made Chu Mo immediately open the light screen and take a look. The clue had not disappeared.
Before he took his eyes off the screen, he heard An Rou's laughter again, which was crisp and a little charming.
Chu Mo looked at her quietly with disgust in his eyes.
An Rou didn't care: "It seems that I was right. Yali and the others have clues, and the clues were given by Mr. Mo. To be honest, I am a little disappointed with Mr. Mo."
There was a hint of provocation in his tone.
Too clever may be half the brain, or in other words, what can restrain a smart person is not a smart method, but what the smart person sees as a stupid move.
In Chu Mo's opinion, An Rou was naturally a smart person, so when she ran back to the farm with a group of newly differentiated ghouls, it was too stupid to be something An Rou would do.
Chu Mo could only think that she had other plans, but he didn't expect that An Rou's purpose was simpler than he thought.
She didn't want these ghouls to deal with Ali at all, but just wanted to take the opportunity to force him out and confirm her guess in her heart - to get rid of Mo, and hope that Ali and Baofu would face off head-on.
This conjecture was simple, yet not simple, because it naturally gave An Rou a bolder guess.
"Mr. Mo... can't you open the Ghost Ruins?"
An Rou's frank words made Chu Mo's aura surge, and the deathly aura that had been lingering around him for years disappeared without a trace.
An Rou ignored him and said, "That Mr. Jie Xin is the Ghost King?"
Chu Mo's murderous intent surged out, his short black hair turned white in an instant, and strands of lightning patterns flashed with silver light.
An Rou was fearless and said with a smile, "It seems that Mr. Mo wants to have a fight with Bao Bao."
The invisible murderous intent suddenly disappeared.
A ripple of water appeared beside Chu Mo, and a white figure slowly emerged.
Xie Xin looked at Chu Mo with a smile: "It seems that she is also smarter than you thought."
Chu Mo didn't look away, his eyes were always glued to An Rou's face: "What do you want."
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After watching for the first half of the night, China finally couldn't keep watch anymore and woke up Heigs to watch for the second half.
Haigs was a little dissatisfied: "Where's the captain? Don't three people take turns?"
"Ali patrols the farm day and night without a single rest." China kicked him off the bed.
Heigs reluctantly went to the roof of the hotel and looked around with his eyes wide open.
Under the dark night, the farm was as quiet as ever.
In the first two days, Heigs would have been uneasy because of the silence here, afraid to sleep. But after he couldn't hold on any longer last night and awoke to find himself fine, his fear faded.
Even if there was an SSS-level ghoul hiding here, it probably wouldn't look down on his soul.
It is common knowledge that the higher the player's level, the more attractive the soul scent is to ghouls.
Heigs closed his eyes unconsciously.
Boredom is more hypnotic than fatigue.
He began to doze off intermittently. After an unknown amount of time, his head suddenly jerked forward and he fell from the eaves.
Heges woke up instantly, used his mobility skill and landed awkwardly. Looking up, he saw pale sunlight illuminating the sky in the distance.
Daybreak arrives, and the vigil is over.
He yawned, walked into the hotel, and unexpectedly saw Leng Hanli at the door of the room.
Hager suddenly perked up: "Mrs. Leng, good morning!"
Leng Hanli's eyes are just like her surname, always smiling with a hint of coldness. Today is even worse, the smile is gone, leaving only coldness.
She squeezed the handle of the dining cart: "Delivery."
"Great! I'm so hungry now I could eat a whole cow."
Heigs opened the door and was about to pull the dining cart in, but unexpectedly Leng Hanli had already come in pushing the dining cart.
She never entered his room.
Heigs couldn't help but be stunned, watching her open the lid of the dining cart, put two breakfasts on the table, and take out a bottle of red wine and two high-heeled glasses from under the dining cart.
"Mrs. Leng?"
Leng Hanli sat down at the table, her waist straight, her tight cheongsam barely able to contain her voluptuous figure. Her legs were folded, and the slit hem of the cheongsam revealed her fair skin.
Hegs' throat slid involuntarily.
Leng Hanli's behavior was full of suggestive meaning.
She poured herself a glass of red wine, took a sip, and tilted her head to look over.
The wine made her lips moist and plump.
"Come here." Leng Hanli opened her red lips slightly.
Heigs was stunned and walked over involuntarily. Just as he was about to get another wine glass, he heard the beauty in front of him say two more words.
"Kneel down."
"Kneel, kneel down? Madam Leng..."
"Kneel down."
Even when looking up from below, Leng Hanli's indifferent eyes exuded the dominance of a superior.
Heigs swallowed, excitement rising from his lower abdomen, and goose bumps appeared all over his body.
He knelt down obediently.
He knelt on the ground, and before he looked up, he felt the cold red wine flowing down his hair and face, dripping, leaving an ambiguous wine stain on the ground.
"Lick it clean."
Leng Hanli continued to speak shockingly, without a trace of emotion in her orders.
It just happened to stir up Heigs's biggest emotion.
He crawled on the ground like a dog, licking the wine on the ground.
He licked it very carefully, and when he was about to lick all the wine on the ground, he felt it was not enough, so he sprinkled some gold coins, making a drop of wine replicate into a pool.
Leng Hanli remained unmoved and watched quietly.
Heigs finally had enough of this session, raised his head, and his burning eyes seemed to be begging for his master's reward.
An obedient puppy deserves a reward.
Leng Hanli gently pinched his chin with her red-nailed hand.
Heigs waited excitedly for his master's next instruction.
He waited for the mysterious and empty singing, which resounded in his mind.
The indescribable smile was frozen in time.
Ten minutes later, the door opened, and a burly man, naked, pushed open the door of the next room.
Qina was awakened by the sound of the door opening. She jumped out of bed and was stunned when she saw the person who came in.
"Hagrid, you..."
Before she could finish, Heigs dropped to his knees with a thud and crawled towards her on his hands and knees.
Enthusiastic Hagrid, obedient Hagrid, her best playmate Hagrid.
Qina had slept for half the night and regained some of her energy. Seeing this, she couldn't help but feel a little tempted. But she always remembered the important matter.
"Hagrid, wait until we get out of here..."
Heges' tongue fell on her iron boots, licking off the dust inch by inch.
China paused.
Even Hagrid had never done such a thing.
Is it the pressure of this strange farm that makes him need a more intense emotional release?
Qina couldn't help but think, and in her vision, Heigs had raised his head, closed his eyes, and used his tongue to pursue her hand.
He sucked on the string glove a few times, bit his fingertips, and pulled her glove off.
"Oh, Hagrid..."
Qina suddenly felt a little guilty. She also realized that since becoming captain, she had unconsciously begun to neglect Heigs.
It turns out that Hagrid is so attached to her.
For the first time in her life, Qina felt a little tender and wanted to touch Heigs's face. When her fingertips were about to touch, Heigs spat out the string glove and bit her finger.
Use all your strength.
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Ali stood in front of the generator room again.
After three days of searching, he still felt that this place was the most suspicious. Not only the generator room, but also the neglected two-story building next to it.
Ali suddenly discovered that, except for the air vents under the eaves, this building was exactly the same as the computer room.
The exterior wall color, window style, and even the wood grain on the door are exactly the same.
And for some reason, this building had been overlooked during the search.
Ali walked over and suddenly heard the sound of a door opening behind him.
"Mr. Yali." An Rou came out from the back door of the villa and said with a smile, "Mr. Yali, have you stayed up all night again? You must have worked hard, sir."
Ali looked at her and his favorability returned to 60%. It seemed that his polite efforts were effective.
He tried to speak gently: "Farmer, what is the purpose of this house?"
An Rou followed his gaze and glanced at it: "It's the warehouse, which is filled with some of my father's belongings that he was reluctant to throw away."
"Does anyone usually come and go?"
“Not many people come and go.”
"Can I go in and check it out?" Yali said, "Besides the generator room, this is the only place left to check."
An Rou hesitated and said, "Father values those belongings very much... But okay, if Mr. Yali can agree to one condition of mine."
On Yongnian Street, near the farm gate, there's a small shop. A few days ago, it didn't have a sign, but now it has a plaque.
"Yongnian Lantern Festival Shop?" Ali read the words on the plaque and frowned slightly. "What is Lantern Festival?"
An Rou showed a hint of surprise: "Mr. Yali, you don't know Yuanxiao? Then I really have to taste today's food."
This small shop has no wooden door. There is only a door curtain made of beige coarse cloth in the door frame. On the door curtain is a big word "Xiao" written on it, and a bowl is painted next to it.
It’s a small, simple drawing, but the brushstrokes are strong enough that you can clearly see that the bowl is filled with water, with three glutinous rice balls sticking out of the water.
"Yuanxiao is glutinous rice balls? Those sweet little balls?" Ali asked. After all, he had played Soul Calling Song for several years and had eaten them in the game.
An Rou shook her head: "It's not sweet, it's meat filling."
"Meat filling?" Ali frowned, finding it hard to imagine the taste.
However, he was somewhat interested and lifted the curtain and walked in.
The shop only had two rows of seats against the wall. In the dim light, Ali could make out the backs of Heges and China.
Ali wanted to walk over, but the store was small and the tables were small, and the two team members were big and strong, so it was obviously crowded for three people to share a table.
He sat down in the middle.
"Mr. Ali, please sit down. I'll go get the food."
China and Heigs sat at the back, facing a small door and window-like stall. Behind the door was the kitchen, and inside, a pair of hands placed a bowl on the stall, but their faces were invisible.
Just as An Rou reached the stall, Heigs suddenly stood up: "The bowl is hot, I'll get it for the captain."
Ali nodded to himself. Heigs was clearly seizing the opportunity to improve the farmer's favorability. Compared to Qina, he might be lower in rank, but he was much more obedient.
The bowl was full of soup, and Heigs lowered his head and walked carefully.
The sound of the bottom of the bowl hitting the table was suddenly drowned out by the loud noise of tables and chairs being overturned.
At the innermost part, China suddenly stood up with her back to the crowd. Her tall stature made the space in the small shop seem very cramped.
In the dim light, Ali saw a drop of water dripping from her hand. His eyes subconsciously followed the drop, and just as it was about to hit the ground, Heigs's low growl drew his attention back.
"China! What are you doing?!"
Before she could finish her words, Qina suddenly turned around and rushed forward, with a heavy knife appearing halfway and slashing at Ali.
"...Ghoul!" Heigs screamed.
His weapon was also a heavy sword, and he immediately took it out to block Qina's sword. The two swords collided, sparks flying everywhere.
An Rou screamed and ran into the kitchen.
Even Ali was stunned by the sudden change.
He saw Qina's hand clearly. Two fingers were broken, and what was dripping was not water, but dark red blood.
A light screen pops up.
It appeared, the task details finally appeared!
Ali's heart skipped a beat, and he instantly swung out the Silver Wind Mace, which passed under the two heavy swords and pierced Qina's throat.
The Silver Wind Mace was pulled by some force, turned around and returned, pierced Qina's forehead again, and flew towards Ali.
Before Ali could catch the Silver Wind Mace, a dangerous intuition swept over him.
Heigs dropped his knife and turned around, pressing down on him across the table!
Those hands with fingers spread out wide were not wearing string gloves!
Ali immediately activated active defense, and a layer of green light shield emanated from his body, blocking Heges's hand by a hair's breadth.
However, he didn't get a moment's respite.
An extremely heavy roar came from underground, causing the ground to tremble for a moment, and then darkness spread over the sky, enveloping the entire shop!
Outside the store, a black hole appeared on the ground in the center of the Yuanxiao store.
An Rou dragged a figure and stood at the edge of the black hole, gasping for breath.
Heigs didn't succeed, but eventually he used his ghost magic to take over the entire store.
This is the largest swallowing range that Baofu can currently achieve. The entire black hole is its gaping mouth, and the outer edge of the black hole is a huge, twisted, terrified face.
Its huge body is still hidden underground.
Paopao ran over from the hair salon across the street and jumped up on the spot when he saw this: "Boss, did it work?!"
An Rou exhaled: "It was very thrilling."
As expected of a high-level master, Ali's reaction speed and methods are very advanced. If all the arrangements had not been detonated in an instant, it would not have been so smooth.
"Quickly feed Zhang Da a bottle of life potion, an intermediate one."
Only then did Paopao notice "Heges" at An Rou's feet. His chest was pierced by the Silver Wind Mace and he was bleeding profusely.
He hurriedly took out the intermediate potion and fed it to the bird, then pulled out the Silver Wind Mace.
Blood rushed to his face.
Paopao didn't bother to wipe it off and patted the other person's face: "Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang, wake up quickly, hold on!"
Fortunately, Zhang Da is A. level. If his level is lower, he would have been killed by the Silver Wind Mace in one blow and started to change madly.
Paopao tore off its clothes and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the penetrating wound on its chest visibly healing. He then hurried back to the hair salon and dragged Zhang Da's original body back.
Zhang Da did not devour Heges's soul, but simply parasitized it and left his host body.
According to the game settings, when Heigs is parasitized, he completely loses control of his body and cannot even complete the simplest offline operations.
He could only watch as the ghoul disguised himself as himself, first splitting up China, and then setting an ambush to attack Ali.
During this process, his helpless soul could only do one thing: pray.
Pray that Qina will report to headquarters and request assistance immediately after she loses her qualifications, and pray that the ghoul in her body won't take advantage of her and eat her. On that premise, pray that the ghoul will leave her body within an hour.
If a person is parasitized for more than one hour, his soul will disappear and he will be disqualified from the game.
Fortunately, at present, the latter two prayers have come true.
The ghoul left his body just in time.
Hegs opened his eyes immediately, but the fate that awaited him was no different from Qina's. He couldn't make any move to escape, and the soul-calling song sounded in his mind again.
This time, the singing didn't last long.
Under Zhang Da's cold touch, his body exploded into a ball of light and slowly dissipated. His soul just happened to relieve Zhang Da's weakened state after the split.
"Lao Zhang, you're okay now. Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere else?" Paopao checked it up and down.
"No." Zhang Da gently pushed his hand away and walked to An Rou.
Paopao also came over and looked at the black hole in front of him. It was extremely dark inside, and the pale sunlight could not dispel the darkness at all. It was bottomless.
For a moment, it was hard to tell whether it was a "pit" in the physical sense, or a space created by the "Elephant Swallowing" magic to get rich quickly.
Paopao scratched his head: "So it's so easy for the boss to kill Ali..."
It seemed that he was as anxious as a eunuch before.
An Rou narrowed her eyes to observe the situation in the black hole. Upon hearing this, she shook her head and said, "Dealing with Ali is not difficult. The key to this game does not lie with Ali."
"Ah?" Paopao was puzzled. "Boss, are you talking about removing the ink?"
An Rou tilted her head to look at him and hummed.
The plan to use the ghoul tide to lure Chumo out last night was implemented after Paopao went offline. Paopao knew nothing about the plan and the operation, and therefore was unaware of the conversation between her and Chumo.
Letting the player Paopao know that Jie Xin is the Ghost King... An Rou is not sure whether it is a good thing.
In short, in order to enter the Ghost Ruins, Chu Mo hoped to become rich and confront Ali head-on, and An Rou agreed.
In turn, Chu Mo also agreed to An Rou's request: Yali is facing not only the sudden wealth of the SSS level, but also her and the entire farm.
There has to be someone to help Baofu with his plans. If Ali wants to become a legend, he has to get past her first.
Chu Mo agreed to observe the entire process without taking any action until the ghost ruins appeared. This way, An Rou no longer had to worry about the hidden dangers that had been bothering her.
Just focus on dealing with Ali.
Looking back, An Rou felt that she had lost out in this deal. Perhaps Chu Mo had never intended to help Ali from the beginning. After all, he had never shown up since Ali arrived at the farm.
But on second thought, it’s not a loss.
With me around, Baofu's chances of winning against a high-level player like Yali are much greater. It would be better to let Baofu devour the high-level player's soul and continue to strengthen his strength.
If one day he becomes rich and breaks through the SSS level limit, enough to rival Chu Mo and Jie Xin, the farm will no longer be controlled by others.
You can run rampant throughout the entire soul world.
What An Rou didn't expect was that there was an extra bonus in this transaction - the Ghost King Jie Xin took the initiative to provide help without An Rou making any request.
A crucial help.
"Boss, have you... found a way to remove the ink?" Paopao was already wondering why An Rou suddenly took action, so he guessed after hearing this.
An Rou smiled and said, "That coward who hides his head and tail, why would I bother looking for him? I don't have the patience to waste time with Ali, so I'll kill him if I want to."
"oh……"
Paopao scratched his head again and was about to say something when Anrou's expression suddenly changed.
“Back off!”
The three of them retreated quickly. An Rou only had goose feather boots, so her speed was a little slower than Paopao and Zhang Da.
A gray-white column of air shot up from the black hole into the sky, cutting off a few strands of An Rou's flying hair.
“Sword Qi!”
Paopao exclaimed, and rushed forward at the same time as Zhang Da, pulling An Rou up and quickly retreating.
Ali is not dead, he is not dead? !
Paopao remembered: "Seven Souls Sword, he has the Seven Souls Sword!"
An Rou's pupils were dilated: "Bao Bao, eat him quickly!"
The black hole began to shrink, and a shallow pit half a meter deep appeared where it disappeared.
As the creature roared like a rumbling belly, the black hole shrank smaller and smaller, and its huge, terrified face no longer distorted. However, its eyeballs trembled rapidly in its huge eye sockets, and the situation was clearly not as smooth as it seemed.
The black hole disappeared and turned into a tightly closed mouth. All the sword energy seemed to be held back in its body.
The calm lasted for a moment.
The silver-gray sword energy shot up into the sky again, directly tearing Bao Fu's lips, and the range of the air column continued to expand, tearing Bao Fu's facial features inch by inch.
Its entire face seemed to be melting.
"This might be the Seven Souls Sword's most powerful skill, Hidden Arrow!" Paopao said anxiously, "Ali, go all out!"
The second-top-level Blue Sword of Seven Souls finally displayed its due power in the hands of the high-level great god Ali.
Enough to strangle an SSS-level ghoul.
No wonder he was slow to report to the Ouli headquarters, because he had the Seven Souls Sword in his hand and was determined to get it!
An Rou's mind raced as she suddenly realized that she had missed a detail in her plan, a fatal detail.
The Yuanxiao shop swallowed by the sudden wealth is a complete house!
Just like the public toilet converted into a staff dormitory, the rich man had vomited out the same way he had moved back from the flour mill. His stomach couldn't digest the house, and the house gave Ali a place to hide from the ghouls.
Damn it!
An Rou clenched her teeth unconsciously.
The bone blades of the rich man were tough enough to cut anything, but they were all outside his body and could not be used against Ali.
The current situation is no different from a butcher holding a knife and diving into the belly of an animal to be slaughtered. Although it may seem to be at a disadvantage, it actually has all the advantages.
"Boss, what should we do?!" Paopao paused, "How about I go in!"
An Rou was also stunned and understood what Paopao meant.
But Paopao is not even gold. What's the difference between jumping into the belly of sudden wealth and committing suicide?
"Stop messing around!" An Rou resolutely rejected Paopao's plan and stared at the increasingly thick sword energy column. "We can only face it head-on."
Spit out Ali and let Baofu and other employees attack Ali together. The chances of winning may not be small.
An Rou relaxed her nerves and cleared her sight: "Bao Bao..."
Just as he said two words, Paopao beside him called out, "Lao Zhang!"
An Rou's heart sank, she cut off the connection with her consciousness and looked carefully.
Zhang Da ran straight towards the sword energy column.
The sickle in its hand dragged on the ground, sending sparks flying.
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