CH 15.2

Bai Lixin sat on the bed in the corner and silently counted the heads.

There were now a total of 41 people, plus Xia Chi, who had turned into a Blood, making it 42.

There wasn’t a single female player participating in the copy this time, and all those who appeared were male.

The system said that the card he drew would automatically activate when he entered the game, and from Xia Chi’s situation, it seemed to be the case.

But the True Ancestor he would summon with the [True Ancestor Advent] seemed absent from work. It had been an hour since he had entered the game, but he had not seen his figure.

The first generation of Bloods, the arrogance was quite large.

“Everyone calm down. Although the monsters are very strong this time, there was a live stream of this copy two days ago.” A very gentle voice rang out from the crowd, followed by a tall and thin man standing up.

Bai Lixin glanced at the man. His features were soft and the corners of his mouth curled into a polite smile. He had a standard face of etiquette, a smile that was one part not too much and one part not too little.

“I am a member of the Sand Sea Guild. You can call me Wen Ziqing. Although we are unlucky to have drawn this copy, there is a fortunate part.”

“The lucky part is that this copy was broadcast two days ago. Did any of you watch the live stream?”

“Well, I’ve seen it,” he slowly raised his hand above his head, “I watched the second half of the game and I saw the players die. All fifty of them, and no one got through.”

Bai Lixin recalled the live stream that he had casually opened and scanned two days ago.

At that time, the copy was called [Blood Clan]. They entered 50 people, and almost all of them died in the initial stages. The few who survived to the end also died.

The atmosphere became even more tense with the news that all the players had died.

Wen Ziqing, “Don’t panic, everyone. Since we are here, we will be safe. Since we have entered this copy, the only way out is to complete the quest. This is a new copy, and those players two days ago were the first to enter it.”

“Unlike the previous players, we have at least mastered some of the rules of this copy.”

“First of all, as long as we don’t do the things that the head of the guards specifically highlighted earlier, they won’t kill us. We will be called to the hall from time to time during these days to… donate blood. As long as we don’t make a lot of noise while doing so, we will be a bit stunned and disoriented, but it won’t be life-threatening.”

“It took half the players from the last copy to die to understand this.”

“Then came the investigation. I don’t know if you noticed just now, but there are no restrictions on us going outside their requirements. We are allowed to leave the room to investigate Lady Rose’s killer, but it’s best not to let the Bloods run into us.”

“They won’t kill us, but they won’t be able to resist taking a couple of bites when they see food coming to them on its own. If they take too much, we will become anemic due to blood loss, and in serious cases, we may even die.”

The players’ faces turned pale.

One of the players raised his hand, “I have a question. The Bloods are also known as vampires. They should have the opposite work schedule to us, right? Can’t we investigate during the day and rest at night? Isn’t it safer that way?”

Wen Ziqing, “Yes, but these Bloods aren’t afraid of the sun. They rest during the day simply because they don’t like sunlight. And we can’t let our guard down during the day. There will be patrol guards. “

Having finally found some ideas and direction, the players slowly lost their earlier panic.

Player 1, “Thanks to you, I’m much more at ease now. Since you’ve seen the live stream, those players should have smoothed out a lot of clues last time even if they didn’t find the killer, right? Do you still remember the clues they managed to get?”

Wen Ziqing, “Those players lost half of their numbers on the first day because of the feeding, and then they were so scared that they didn’t dare go out during the day and night. It was only on the third day that they started to investigate hard.”

“At that point, they went east and west and ended up finding only a few key people before time was up. Although they found a few suspects, there is a chance that they were wrong, and I don’t want to mislead you. “

Wen Ziqing seemed to remember something, “Right, one more thing, don’t mess with that Mr. Mo. He’s a *pervert. He is so perverted that he can use walking on the wrong foot as a reason to punish you.”

“My advice is that we should split up and work in small groups. The Bloods are likely to appear as more than one, and if a lone player runs into them, they will be sucked to death or die from excessive blood loss.”

“Anyone who doesn’t want to take part in the action can also stay in the room, but the points we get are distributed according to performance ratings.”

A few timid players temporarily withdrew from the action and were in a wait-and-see mode.

A few others wanted to go alone, and Bai Lixin was among this group of solitary players.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to fit in with the group, but he still had a [True Ancestor Descent] prop on him that hadn’t activated. It would be a bit overwhelming if he and his teammates were walking along and the True Ancestor suddenly appeared.

There were a total of 30 people involved in the operation.

After a few minutes, the 30 people were divided into 5 subgroups of 6 people each.

Bai Lixin left while the rest were grouping up.

His first stop was to see Lady Rose.

They entered the copy at night, and now it was dark outside. The wall lamps in the corridor waved a dim light, illuminating the long, quiet corridor.

The footsteps of the guards on the floor were abruptly loud in the silent darkness of the night.

Bai Lixin groped his way to Lady Rose’s room according to the system’s prompt while carefully avoiding the Bloods.

The door to the room was unoccupied and unlocked, so Bai Lixin walked straight in.

On the rose-covered bed lay a beautiful woman in a long red dress.

Doll-like blonde curls lay obediently on her shoulders, and the woman’s hands were folded in front of her chest, her face looking peaceful.

If he hadn’t known she was dead, Bai Lixin would have thought she was just asleep.

The woman’s bare skin was as white as porcelain and without any wounds. Her body was clean and there wasn’t even a trace of sludge on her fingers.

Not only was Lady Rose’s bed covered in red roses, but the curtains were also patterned with red roses, the carpet was a rose color, the teacups were in the shape of roses, and even the engraving carved on the coffin standing by the wall was rose-patterned.

Just when Bai Lixin intended to search Lady Rose’s room more closely, the sound of voices speaking came from the corridor outside the door.

“This subordinate greets Mr. Mo!”

That was Xia Chi’s voice!

So the other person there was Mr. Mo?!

Bai Lixin’s eyes began to flutter at the thought of that shifty, perverted count.

Leave now? It was already too late.

Jump out of the window? The window was sealed.

Hide under the bed? The bottom of the bed was solid.

Bai Lixin searched the room and saw the coffin standing against the wall.

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A minute later, Mr. Mo opened Lady Rose’s room.

The frost on Mr. Mo’s face melted away at the sight of the roses that covered the room. He walked over to the bed and became all sad again when he saw Lady Rose’s body.

Mr. Mo took off his boots and lay down among the roses, tenderly taking Lady Rose into his arms.

While in the coffin, Bai Lixin heard a system beep.

[Ding! Congratulations to the player, [True Ancestor Advent] has been activated successfully.]

Bai Lixin was greatly shocked, “?!”

A summoning now? While he was hiding in this cramped coffin, and there was a perverted count outside?