Chapter 101: Realm of Mortals (4)

Chapter 101: Realm of Mortals (4)

T/N: Heres an update: The Character Guide has been added with 9 new characters!

Under Xiao Tong and Mr. Crows gaze, Zheng Yingying wandered in the asylums corridor holding the dagger, but she didnt directly seek out any monster.

Her combat power was still too weak. Even with the aid of [Infinite Forms] and the [Nameless Dagger], she wouldnt become stronger in such a short time, so she chose another method

She could use [Infinite Forms] to disguise herself as an ally of the monster doctors, then use the [Nameless Dagger] to stab them in the back. Although her own strength wasnt noteworthy, her moves were incredibly fast and ruthless, without the slightest hint of hesitation.

The monster doctors were originally players and still retained their memories, but they couldnt stay conscious at all times. This meant that she would be able to win over them in most cases.

This 404Short for Zheng Yingyings player number 26404. Coincidentally, this is also the website status code for Page Not Found, which is often used as a slang when certain things go missing., did she add all her points to Intelligence? Mr. Crow, while undeservingly playing the role of a gossipy spectator, bounced on the top of the bookshelf and talked especially loudly: The [Nameless Dagger] can devour souls. Every time she kills, she can become a little stronger. The more she kills, the stronger she will be. In the later stage, even if she doesnt have any skills, the powers she devours will be enough to hammer other players to death. Heh, she really has the guts to use the [Nameless Dagger], so adorable.

Xiao Tong propped his chin: Isnt the [Nameless Dagger] the weapon that attempted to kill God? Yet Mr. Crow is so delighted about it?

Mr. Crow snorted coldly: The dagger is the dagger, the player is the player. There are only evil players and no evil weapons. Do you think the great and clever Mr. Crow wouldnt understand that?

After a pause, he continued: Not to mention, the [Nameless Dagger] has been cursed. Itll curse the person whom it attacks and curse its owner at the same time. The more souls 404 devours, the more likely shell receive a backlash. What is this called? In your human terms, isnt it like For a greedy snake, even an elephant isnt enough is a Chinese idiom about greed. It could be metaphorically translated as a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant.? Snake and elephant are both innocent creatures, why do you use it as a metaphor?

Xiao Tong: Do you know what this act of yours is called? Its called crow mouth.

Damn humans! Mr. Crow jumped again: You always tease the great Mr. Crow unscrupulously!!! You deserve to be cursed! I curse you all!

Really a crow mouth.

Xiao Tongs lips curled up. Seeing Mr. Crow hopping around, he felt rather pleased. Anyway, he wasnt a player, so the crow mouths curse would have to fall on Jin Cheng and Tang Cuos heads.

He only had to wait and see.

I curse you too! Mr. Crow had been dealing with Xiao Tong for so many years, so how could he not know what Xiao Tong was thinking behind that smirk? Mr. Crow was so angry, so much so that wished he could shit on Xiao Tongs head.

If they werent for them being colleagues as civil servants, Xiao Tong The Warden must be the first on his Blacklist.

If that had been the case, Mr. Crow would definitely have killed him off barely a few minutes into a dungeon.

While the crow jumped around and Zheng Yingying went on with her massacre, Tang Cuo was still dancing disco with the tombstones.

In the past ten minutes, another cell phone tombstone exploded because the battery was exhausted. This time, Tang Cuo deliberately stood far in advance and waited for the soul to rise before absorbing it.

This soul was much darker than the previous one, and its colours were mixed, looking not very clean. After sucking it in, Tang Cuos Intelligence points increased by 3, then he spent a few minutes to calm the turbulence of his spirit ocean.

After two consecutive attempts, he had mastered the routine of this gate. With the two clearance conditions being six hours or six survivors, Tang Cuo naturally wouldnt consider the latter, so only the first one remained.

But looking at the elapsing speed of the battery of different phone models in this Cemetery of Souls, even the tombstone with the highest battery wouldnt last for six hours.

Unless Tang Cuo cleared the game in advance, these tombstones would all explode.

The system stated that only the souls in the three tombs were alive and had to be found by the player, then verified by opening the coffin. If he opened the wrong coffin, he would be punished.

This should be different from the automatic explosion of the coffin. In that case, what would be the punishment?

As a fearless warrior, Tang Cuo certainly wanted to give it a try.

At the same time, on the road of Branching of Life, 28 players including Jin Cheng and Leng Miao had successfully passed the Birth checkpoint, and they now came to a road that heavily branched into many routes like a tree diagram.

This was when they would select their birthplace.

Goddamn, Beijing, Shanghai or Guangdong?!

Theres also Jiang ZheBeijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and Jiang Zhe (an abbr. for two separate provinces Jiangsu and Zhejiang), sometimes acronymed as B-S-G-J, are collectively known as the four richest places in China, out of the countrys 22 provinces, 4 municipalities and 5 autonomous regions. Fun fact: half of the countrys Internet usage and 60% of the countrys 500 richest people come from these 4 places.! Why does Yong Ye City want to divide us like that, do you give free shipping? We dont need express delivery, how about we go directly to somewhere with better scenery to retire?

Every movement and every subtle expression of his was captured by Xiao Tong.

Tang Cuo might be a lazy man, but he wouldnt be lazy at a critical moment, because it only meant wasting more time to make up for the loss afterwards.

The easiest way was to destroy all the tombs with force, or wait for them to blow up due to insufficient battery. But since this was a gate which the system had given him a specific method to pass through, the rewards for clearing it must be way better than through forceful destruction.

He tried to open the coffin on his own volition, and as a result, a very aggressive soul jumped out. He had to fight this soul, and only when he won, the soul would turn into a ball of light and be absorbed by him.

Fighting with a soul was seriously troublesome, because it had no tangible body. Hence, Tang Cuo directly sacrificed the reward he obtained in the dungeon [Before Dawn] the [Horror Doll].

Throwing the doll at the enemy could release a frightening scream that had a 15-meter range, causing a mental shock that lasted for 5 seconds.

The moment the soul was under the impact of the shock, Tang Cuo raised his sword and slashed at once. The Holy Light of Judgment spread out and chopped off the soul in half. After letting out a racking scream, the soul twisted in pain and soon condensed into a ball of light. The only difference was that its colour now was more transparent than before.

Without any hesitation, Tang Cuo attacked again and scattered it apart with three strikes.

Of course, the souls spiritual-energy attack also caused him some damage, but as Xiao Tong had said, Tang Cuos soul strength was remarkably high, thus such damage could be quickly recovered.

The number of points obtained this time was 2. It could be seen that the number of points earned from opening a coffin was similar to that of waiting for it to blow up when the battery went out.

After a little pondering, Tang Cuo made his choice rather than force, he should use his brain.

He re-checked the contents on the cell phone tombstones. Because he had read them once, a preliminary impression of all the tombstones lingered in his mind. This time, Tang Cuo swiftly discovered the hidden connections among these tombstones.

The first was time: 25th June 2019.

Time was the factor that was always discovered the earliest. After seeing a few tombstones, Tang Cuo could immediately learn that they all fell on the same day.

In between 24 hours of the same day, there were all sorts of time points. Since the hours were so close, there must be a relationship between the owners of these tombstones.

For example, for the takeaway staff who didnt have time to deliver food due to the rain, the interface of the ordering application was displaying his current location. He stopped at a place called Xishan Road.

As for the girl who decided to break up because of her boyfriends cheating, the location of the last message was also Xishan Road. After searching through more than a dozen tombstones, Tang Cuo found a piece of information hidden in their dialog boxes.

On Xishan Road, a brutal stabbing incident took place.

Following the incident, one after another, ambulances and police cars arrived, as well as crowds of curious onlookers. With this heavy rain, the intersection was bound to be blocked. Apart from the takeaway staff, who else was stuck at the intersection?

How long did this rain last?

Tang Cuo remembered that there was a cell phone screen that seemed to show the weather forecast of the whole day. He quickly turned around to look for it, but unintentionally caught a glimpse of a live streaming screen, where a cold light was flashing.

He frowned and looked over immediately.

A girl was doing a game live stream. While joking and chatting with the audience, she occasionally stopped to chew on seafood noodles. She was smiling from ear to ear, but behind her, in the shadow that was blocked by the toppled clothes rack, there appeared a tall, blurry figure in black.

Why is there the sound of water?

Is the water leaking in your house?

Someone in the comment area raised his doubts.

Patter, patter Along the corner of the mans shirt, the rain drops slipped to the floor. Having not noticed his presence, the girl said with a smile that she had just moved in, the landlord was very nice and the place was newly renovated. So how could there be a leak?

As her voice fell, the screen went black.

Followed by a scream.

Which became louder and louder.