Chapter 98
"Zhang Da, come back!"
[Zhang Da is back!]
In just a few seconds, An Rou used words and her mind to command her to open her eyes twice, but it was no use.
It plunges headlong into the black hole of disappearance and reappearance.
"I'm going too!"
As soon as Paopao finished speaking, he was hit on the forehead by Anrou.
"Are you looking for death?! Can't you see that's sword energy?!"
The Sword Energy Pillar is a skill released by the Seven Souls Sword. The damage must be extremely high. No matter whether you expand it or run, rushing in will only lead to your death.
I’m afraid I won’t even be able to see Ali.
Paopao was stunned for a moment, then pointed at the black hole and said, "The sword energy has disappeared!"
The sword energy column was like a rapidly expanding silver tornado. When it was about to cover Bao Fu's terrified face, it suddenly disappeared.
On the ground, strands of white muscle fibers sprouted from the shattered edges of Baofu's face, slowly healing. And as it did, the black hole shrank again.
"It should be the end of a skill." Paopao said, "Boss, let me down, I can help!"
"You'll only make things worse!" An Rou frowned.
If Paopao really followed in, he would either be accidentally swallowed up or divided, or he would be hurt by his sudden wealth and Zhang Da's concerns, and be hindered in every way.
Paopao also frowned, a little annoyed: "So are we just going to wait?!"
An Rou exhaled and raised her head: "I'll go in."
She connected with Zhang Da's consciousness.
Everywhere you look, there's scarlet.
Zhang Da stood on the roof of the Yuanxiao shop and looked down.
An Rou could vaguely make out its hand, the flesh melted away, the bones exposed. It must have been injured by the sword energy. If the sword energy hadn't dissipated in time, it would have died.
Fortunately, the bottle of intermediate life potion that he drank before was still taking effect. Muscle fibers had already grown on the white bones of Zhang's palm.
What surprised An Rou was Zhang Da's feet.
Zhang Daneng was standing on the roof, indicating that the Yuanxiao shop was still upright in the belly of the rich man and had not collapsed. In this case, the first thing to be destroyed by the sword energy should be the roof.
But the roof was fine, only a few tiles had slipped off the edge as the house shook.
Could it be that sword energy is ineffective against physical objects?
Judging from the shoes on Zhang Da's feet, this guess should be correct.
Yali, you should be in the Yuanxiao shop under the roof.
Zhang Da's judgment was more straightforward: he smelled the rich aroma of souls beneath the roof. He raised one foot, ready to break through the roof, when An Rou called out to him.
[Look around.] An Rou said.
The picture rose and then rotated around.
There was probably a layer of blood in Zhang Da's eyes, and everything looked bloody. Apart from that, there was nothing, like a pitch-black space.
There were no bloody internal organs and intestines as An Rou had expected.
But it wasn't much different. The Yuanxiao shop was shaking slightly, just like food sliding down the esophagus and into the peristaltic stomach. Just because a person is flat doesn't mean they don't have internal organs.
The unrecognizable darkness around it might be its internal organs.
An Rou was thinking about it when a silver-gray light suddenly shone through the gap between the tiles under Zhang Da's feet.
[Get out of the way!]
Zhang Da dove to the side just in time, his body crashing straight into the dark yet soft void. Sword energy brushed past his body and soared into the sky. He looked up and saw the light of the sky above, like the mouth of a well.
Zhang Da touched his left shoulder.
Another piece of flesh on the shoulder was melted away by the sword energy.
An Rou: [Zhang Da, destroy the house, don't fight him head-on.]
Zhang Da threw out the sickle, which flashed red and fiercely stabbed into the roof. With a swing of his arm, the sickle cut a narrow and long gap in the roof.
[Wait a moment! ]
In the blood-red vision, countless black tentacles surged from all directions, scrambling to rush towards the gap. But the moment they touched the sword energy, they were melted away without a trace left.
It's getting rich quickly!
The rich are fighting back with all their might. These tentacles, capable of devouring souls, are their most deadly weapon.
However, just like the sword energy of the Seven Souls Sword, the void tentacles in Bao Fu's body cannot destroy real objects.
No wonder Ali couldn't get out even though he had used the Seven Souls Sword to open an escape exit. It seemed that he was entangled by the void tentacles that poured in from the gaps in the doors and windows.
In a war of attrition, getting rich quickly doesn't guarantee you will lose.
An Rou breathed a sigh of relief.
However, there is nothing wrong with having Zhang Dalai speed up Ali's death process.
[continue! ]
Zhang Da increased his speed, his sickles crisscrossed, bricks, tiles, beams and wood flew everywhere, and more and more void tentacles swarmed over.
The sword energy shooting out from the room suddenly stopped.
Zhang Da seized the opportunity, split the sickle into four parts, hooked the four corners of the roof, and lifted it up with force.
Half of the roof was blown off.
An Rou finally saw Ali under the roof.
He huddled in a corner, holding the Seven Souls Sword in his right hand and another fan-shaped weapon in his left. Half a meter in front of him were densely packed void tentacles.
It turned out that we were surrounded.
I thought this great high-level player was very capable, but it was all in vain.
An Rou couldn't help but chuckle, then remembered that Yali couldn't hear her, so she turned to Zhang Da and said, "Smile, make a sound."
Zhang Da: "Haha."
When Ali heard the voice, he suddenly looked up.
A-level ghoul?!
The mission details only displayed the rank of the highest-level ghoul in the ghoul's lair. He hadn't expected that there would be A-rank among the other ghouls.
Normally, Ali wouldn't take an A-rank ghoul seriously, but this SSS-rank ghoul boss was incredibly difficult to deal with. It was his first time entering a ghoul's body, and also his first time seeing the Void Tentacles. Caught off guard, he was a bit overwhelmed.
Another A-rank ghoul has arrived...
Ali finally had the idea of retreating, but he was not paying attention and a tentacle took advantage of the opportunity and wrapped around his wrist.
The tentacles are soft and weightless, seemingly without any attack power, but they can penetrate the skin, and the result is... very deadly!
Ali froze, his entire body trembling as he heard a soul-calling song in his head. Unable to resist the other tentacles, he was instantly engulfed, leaving only his head.
A tentacle quickly stabbed towards his forehead.
However, it was stopped by a hair's breadth.
A beam of light suddenly burst out from between Ali's eyebrows. It was not dazzling, but like a soft stream of water, flowing through his body.
All the tentacles disappeared the moment they touched the milky white light layer.
An Rou frowned. She saw a card hovering in front of Yali's forehead. She couldn't see it clearly, but she could make out the color - white.
Paopao said that all auxiliary cards in the game are black, with one exception - the soul card.
Paopao and Anrou both have white soul cards.
There is only one function: to repair the player's damaged soul and save the game qualification.
No wonder Ali was able to hold on for so long. It seems he had prepared a lot of soul cards in the prop column.
However, this special item has no offensive power other than saving lives.
That's all.
[Get started.]
The extended sickle had already pierced a wall. Following An Rou's instructions, the curved blade at the end of the sickle transformed into layers of phantoms, like a chrysanthemum. Each petal suddenly left the center of the flower and shot out in all directions.
Zhang Da's wrist shook.
The entire wall shattered, and dense void tentacles swarmed towards Ali like locusts covering the sky.
Ali had no time and no ability to use the Seven Souls Sword skills.
The soul card lights up, goes out, lights up again, and goes out again.
"What a mess." An Rou smiled coldly.
"What a mess." Zhang Da just thought that his master asked him to imitate his mouth.
Its voice echoed clearly in the void, rigid and full of sarcasm.
Ali glared angrily and discovered in despair that his soul cards were exhausted.
The soul-calling song had been played for who knows how many times, and he couldn't even blink, let alone curse.
The void tentacles once again enveloped his body and sank into it. After a few seconds, the master player finally exploded silently into a ball of light.
it's over.
An Rou felt relieved and was about to ask Zhang Da to leave when she suddenly noticed a strange phenomenon.
Those points of light did not disappear as usual. They scattered like dandelions and landed on the tips of the void tentacles.
Each tentacle was given a point of light, which then contentedly shrank to the surroundings, as if returning to its nest.
There were also many tentacles around Zhang Da. An Rou asked it to get closer to observe and found that these tentacles were contracting and expanding in a consistent rhythm.
Just like breathing.
The light spots at the tips of the tentacles are as thin as sand and dust. In the completely dark environment, they look like fireflies that have been shrunk countless times.
Zhang Da looked around and saw countless tentacles and countless points of light contracting with a wonderful rhythm.
This scene made An Rou feel as if she was in an ancient and quiet cave.
It was mysterious, but it inexplicably made her feel at ease.
Outside the black hole, An Rou looked up at the pale Soul Realm sun with lifeless eyes, and murmured softly: "Bao Bao, pen core?"
Inside the black hole, with her widened vision, she saw the void tentacles surge and then form a huge heart with light spots.
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"No more refills, no more refills!"
Hearing the boss's muttering, Paopao knew that Yali should be dead. He waved his hands happily and said, "Brother Baofu is too big. It's easy to be exposed if he says something like that!"
The night of the farm ghoul wave emerged in his mind, and the terrifying size of the ghouls that rose from the ground and covered the sky.
An Rou laughed out loud, her eyes clear again, and tapped his forehead: "You are the only one who thinks of it carefully. Go and help Zhang Da."
Bao Fu's face, which had been melted by the sword energy, had healed on its own, and only a line of black hole remained - slightly open lips.
A body was vomited out of it.
Paopao was shocked by the wide-open appearance: if it weren't for a layer of muscle tissue, it would almost be a skeleton.
The most terrifying thing was the eyes. The upper and lower eyelids were gone, leaving only a pair of blood-stained eyeballs rolling around.
No wonder the scene An Rou saw was covered with blood.
Paopao fed Zhang Da another bottle of intermediate life potion, and the skull face began to become visibly plumper.
An Rou asked the two to leave their spot, squatted down and touched Bao Fu's big forehead.
"Spit it out, don't get indigestion."
When she walked out of the shallow pit, the construction waste from the Yuanxiao shop appeared out of thin air and piled up into a small hill.
Restoration is fine, but it's a waste of money.
An Rou sighed, but couldn't suppress the smile on her lips.
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Wherever a ranking list appears, it will always give rise to a group of people who do nothing but stare at the list.
As soon as Ali went offline, the game forum was bombarded with a post.
【Ali failed the exam! 】
Seeing this title, An Rouqing couldn't help but look at Paopao.
Paopao understood immediately and said angrily, "I didn't take the exam, I didn't fail!"
An Rou blinked innocently: "I didn't say anything."
The two of them looked through the posts and found that they were all just watching the fun. There was no useful information, nor any unusual information.
It's good news.
An Rou sensed something and looked up. Sure enough, there were two people standing on the roof of the business watching the fun.
It seems that Xie Xin has fulfilled his promise. All clues related to Yong'an Farm in the forum posts have been deleted.
The Ghost King is not only the king of ghouls, but also the god of the Soul-Guiding Song game.
Of course, no one mentioned Yongan. It could be that Yali and the other two hadn't revealed the news yet, or that the Gal Guild had suppressed the information. After all, Jie Xin's powers were limited to the game, and it was impossible for him to go offline and silence Yali and the others.
Ali will definitely report this to the Gal Guild, and Gal will definitely gather his troops and rush over to strangle the SSS-level ghoul.
An Rou curled her lips into a smile and patted Paopao's shoulder: "Let's go."
Paopao was stunned: "Where to? The Land of No Life?"
According to the original plan, they would leave Zhongsu Town and hide here to recuperate for a while. When the storm was over, the farm would be moved to the Land of No Life, away from the four major camps.
Now we have a generator and the farm has abundant supplies, so we can live a self-sufficient life.
But An Rou shook her head.
She gestured towards the roof of the business: "Your brother Chumo has provided us with a hiding place."
"Brother Chumo...?" Paopao shuddered when he saw Chumo's cold aura and quickly looked away. "Boss, what hiding place? Where is it?"
"Ask your brother Chu Mo."
Paopao: “…” Calling him “uncle” is more accurate.
An Rou stopped teasing him and asked him for a few bottles of intermediate life potion. She said, "Okay, go look through that pile of garbage to see if you can find any valuable items. The farm is about to start."
She bent down and poured the potions into Bao Fu's mouth one by one.
"How's it going, Baobao? Are you healed?"
Baofu made a familiar gurgling sound.
The terrified face disappeared, and the farm rose from the ground. It was daytime now, and the rich man could not use his ghost magic to travel at night, so he could only set off with the farm on his back.
Inside the villa, the residents felt the tremors beneath their feet and looked at each other, many of them showing a hint of fear on their faces.
An Younian said to everyone, "Don't worry, Rourou said that they will move the farm to another place today, so don't be afraid."
An Rou was walking towards the villa when Paopao caught up with her from behind.
"Boss, Qina doesn't have anything valuable on her. Apart from the gold coins, the only thing worthwhile is a knife, Huang Wu." Paopao said as he handed over a black card. "Oh, and this one, it should be quite valuable too."
"Here are the gold coins for you, as a bonus."
An Rou took the card. It was an auxiliary card, with the same pattern on both sides, which looked like a circle at first glance.
An Rou thought the pattern looked familiar, but she couldn't place it for a moment. What she was sure of was that she had never seen a support card with this pattern before.
"This is?"
"I haven't seen it either," Paopao said. "Judging from the pattern, it should be a teleportation card. These auxiliary cards are rare and you can't usually buy them in pawn shops."
"Transfer card?"
An Rou remembered, no wonder it felt familiar, she had just been to the teleportation array in Guangyuan Town a few days ago, and the pattern on the card was exactly the same as the pattern of the teleportation array.
"Can it teleport people?"
Paopao nodded: "That should be the case. Now that you mention it, it seems like this card is more valuable than I thought..."
He opened the forum and searched, then nodded in understanding. "They are indeed valuable. A pair of cards costs 100,000 gold. They are consumables, and they become useless after one use."
"A pair?" An Rou grasped the key words. Why didn't they say that one was priced at 50,000 gold?
"This OP said you need two teleportation cards activated at the same time to use them, one for transmitting and the other for receiving... Anyway, once used, both cards become invalid. Tsk, 500,000 worth of stuff is gone after one use. This crappy game is way too kryptonite-fueled."
An Rou carefully examined the teleportation card and slowly shook her head: "No, compared to the game qualifications, 100,000 gold is not expensive. This card may not be Qina's."
Firstly, Qina doesn't seem like someone who has the money to buy such props. Secondly, judging from An Rou's previous conversation with Qina on the train, Qina doesn't have any friends in the game who are trustworthy enough to this extent.
"This card should have been dropped by Ali in the Lantern Festival shop."
An Rou came to a conclusion and couldn't help feeling a little scared.
She looked at Paopao: "Whose brother did you say Yali was?"
"Sventovite, the Super God ranked 9th on the Destiny List..." Paopao was also shocked. "Boss, are you saying that Yali could have teleported that guy here?"
One is a great god, the other is a super god. If two brothers join forces, the outcome may not necessarily be An Rou's complete victory.
An Rou took a deep breath and suppressed her accelerated heartbeat: "Whether it was teleporting to escape or looking for help, it's not certain. However, the reality is that Yali failed to activate the teleportation card, fortunately."
"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay." Paopao patted his chest repeatedly, "Boss, this card..."
An Rou put the teleportation card into the hidden pocket in her sleeve, thought for a moment, then took it out and handed it to Paopao: "Put it in your item bar first. As long as you don't activate it, it will be useless."
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The highest-ranking member of the branch suddenly lost his or her game qualification, and the Jinxiang branch of the Gal Guild has been thrown into chaos.
The minister immediately went offline.
The Gal Guild, modeled after the Chinese nation, built a campus resembling a holographic command center. The campus was a circular structure, with tall and short buildings surrounding a large circular plaza. In the center of the plaza stood a group of towering human sculptures.
Most of the sculptures are pure white, with only three painted gold, which are very dazzling in the sunlight.
Minister Jin Xiang was not in the mood to admire the sculptures at the moment. He trotted past them and entered Building 3.
Like Building 1 where he was, each of the densely packed rooms in Building 3 was equipped with a holographic cabin.
The door to Yali's room was open, and two people stood beside the holographic cabin, silent.
Minister Jin Xiang's nose was red from the cold and he walked in panting.
"Vice President, Witt."
Neither of them looked back.
Minister Jin Xiang froze in his tracks and stared blankly at the holographic cabin.
Ali's face floated on the surface of the holographic sensor, his eyes closed, looking so peaceful that it was nothing like his usual self.
"A-Ali..."
This uncertain call moved Witt to action.
He bent down and picked up Ali horizontally. The sensor sticky liquid slid down his arms, just like Ali's head drooping limply.
Ali... is dead.
If you lose your qualifications in the game, you will also die in reality.
Minister Jin Xiang couldn't believe this fact and murmured, "How is it possible? He didn't become a legend, how could he die..."
The deputy minister held his shoulders and silenced him.
After Witt left the room, he spoke softly, "Sudden death cases are not necessarily all legendary players. You should know this."
Minister Jin Xiang looked at his boss and opened his mouth.
But the guild didn’t even know what mission Ali encountered. How could such a great player, an outstanding talent trained by the country with a lot of money, die in such an unclear way?
He couldn't say that.
The truth is, Yali was a member of the direct headquarters, seconded to the Jinxiang branch because of the T23 train. Yali died during his secondment, so he cannot escape accountability.
The two walked to the corridor in silence and looked towards the square.
Without saying a word, Werther carried his brother to the center of the square and stared quietly at the group of portrait sculptures.
The golden statues were all legendary players, of which only three had appeared since the founding of the Gal Guild. The rest were white statues, representing all the super-god players in Gal's history.
One of them, a white man holding a huge sword pointing to the sky, was himself.
"Witt, one day there will be a golden sculpture of me here, right next to you!" My brother's voice is still ringing in my ears.
Witt dropped his eyes.
But today, not only did he not get the golden sculpture, he also failed to qualify for the white sculpture. All that was left was a pale and gradually cold corpse.
The cold air froze the sensors on the two brothers' bodies into thin ice, and as Witt turned around, the thin ice fell off with a crackling sound.
The vice president met his gaze and hurried downstairs.
"Witt, you should rest for a few days and handle Ali's funeral properly." said the vice president.
Witt's face was expressionless, but his voice was as gentle as ever: "No, Vice President, my brother's sacrifice cannot be in vain. I apply to carry out the mission."
The vice president nodded and said, "Of course, no problem, but we have to wait for the guild to complete its investigation. If we find any clues to the mission, we will immediately..."
"I have a clue."
"…Do you have any clues?!"
Before Witt could answer, a support worker came running down the stairs. She was so flustered that she fell on the icy square, then fell again after getting up.
She wanted to scream, but according to regulations, this matter was confidential and could not be known to anyone outside the authorized group.
The logistics staff ran to the three people and saw Ali in Witt's arms. They were so shocked that they forgot to report.
"Ali?! Ali also..."
The vice president interrupted her: "What's the matter?"
The logistics officer's breathing became disordered and he swallowed hard: "Qina and Heigs have lost their vital signs."
Throughout the park, all players in the Gal Guild addressed each other by their game IDs, not their real names. Only a few departments had the authority to verify their true identities.
For example, logistics, and the army where China and Heigs originally served.
"Qina, Heigs?" The vice president was unfamiliar with the low- and mid-level players. "Which branch are you from?"
"It's my branch..." Minister Jin Xiang, who was speechless after being shocked, finally found his voice. "They are all members of the Jin Xiang branch!"
Loss of vital signs is just a euphemism for "sudden death".
Minister Jin Xiang suddenly remembered something and shouted, "They must have been in trouble with Ali. Qina reported to me a few days ago that she and Heigs were left on Ghost Island by Ali to carry out a mission!"
"Ghost Island? The place where they had the accident was Ghost Island?"
The vice president frowned. Ghost Island was a separate faction. Although they had dealings with Lengbing City, they were limited to trade. If the three people died on Ghost Island, it would be difficult for Gar to investigate.
At this time, Witt's gentle voice interrupted: "It's not Ghost Island, it's Cold Soldier City."
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