There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game-Chapter 729 - 624: Hold Steady, Don’t Get Reckless!
Chapter 729 -624: Hold Steady, Don’t Get Reckless!
While Xu Shuo was feverishly clearing instances, not only were people busy editing videos, but others also took notice of his behavior.
Under a thick, pitch-black sky.
This was a vast expanse of scorched earth.
The ground was parched and dark, crisscrossed with countless cracks from which the ink-like Dark Matter oozed, growing wildly like ivy after rain, entwining any being that stood on the land.
The darkness in the sky was so concentrated, it swirled like a vortex, resembling a gigantic, boundless black eye.
On the horizon, a twisted, black vertical line reached into the sky, as if it had split open the gate between the sea and the heavens.
...
Countless monsters swarmed out of that gate, and those blocking the front of the Abyss Rift were the innumerable humans glowing in the dark.
This was a shattered world, the battlefield of the Abyss.
Perhaps no one had entered this place voluntarily, but regardless, at this moment, they all fought with everything they had.
After all, if they didn’t fight, they would die.
In the distance, a creature that had crawled out from beneath the ground opened its bloodied mouth wide, charging towards the figure ahead like a rabid hyena, its bizarre form twisting unpredictably.
An unbearable stench of decay hit her, and the monster bared its fangs at the dazed woman!
However, in the next moment, a hand reached out from the side, accurately seizing the fast-moving creature, then abruptly tightened its grip.
“Boom!”
The massive monster, like a puny caterpillar in his hand, was easily crushed, bursting into black juices.
The tall, indifferent man shook the darkness off his hand and turned to the woman who, even with the monster charging towards her, still did not look aside.
Then, with an expressionless face, he said, “Having the leisure to daydream on the battlefield, it seems you feel that you’ve lived too long. At this rate, there’s no need for you to attend the fifth-level evaluation anymore.”
Hong Rao, hearing this, diverted her gaze from the system panel to look at him with a frown, “You didn’t have to save me, and on top of that, you’re being sarcastic.”
“I just think that whatever has distracted you at this time must be related to your new student,” he said nonchalantly, suddenly reaching out again to catch a small monster emerging from the ground and calmly crushing it with his bare hands.
Hong Rao turned off the system notification panel and shot him a sidelong glance, “Always keeping tabs on my student, you must really be bored. If you want a student to play with so badly, go apply to be a class mentor yourself! Get lost!”
After saying this in irritation, Hong Rao pushed him aside and flew off to the side, distancing herself from him immediately.
Her form flickered and wavered; a tentacle from a monster streaked through the air only to shatter an illusory shadow.
Helian Mian glanced at her retreating figure, then withdrew his gaze.
Just then, the Abyss Rift in the sky suddenly began to shake violently, the originally narrow crack being forced open by a vast strength, as a hand as large as ten meters clawed at its edge, seemingly trying to pry it further apart.
Half an arm was already extended out, completely blocking the crack, and if one wanted to come through from the other side, the current width was far from sufficient.
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Upon noticing the disturbance at the crack, players on the battlefield were shocked; lower-level players quickly retreated further away, while high-level players charged directly towards the Rift!
It wasn’t that they were deserters; creatures like the Abyss Demons were simply beyond their capacity to deal with.
What the high-level players aimed to do was to stabilize the unstable Rift before the full body of the Abyss Creature squeezed through.
Hong Rao had originally been heading in that direction, since the “Miracle” guild’s battlefield was located there, and she didn’t feel like dealing with Helian Mian, planning instead to talk to other companions.
But witnessing the current situation, Hong Rao had no choice but to halt and step back, not wishing to disturb the battle over there.
After all, she was just a fourth-level player…
Meanwhile, upon seeing this, Helian Mian, who had been clearing smaller monsters, turned around expressionlessly and made his way over there. As the two passed by each other, Helian Mian looked towards Hong Rao as if intending to say something.
“Eat your own damn creature!”
Hong Rao had preemptively shut him up as soon as he opened his mouth, then she quickly slipped away to find a relatively safe place to stay.
Ever since she found out that Helian Mian had his sights set on her student, she wanted nothing more than to stay away from this guy.
The main reason for her apprehension—Xu Shuo had ruined the script Helian Mian had extracted, and given his grudge-holding nature, he might secretly plan to do something once he learned of the other’s special traits.
For example, kidnap Xu Shuo for dissection and research?
With these messy thoughts, Hong Rao reopened the system panel and browsed through the information tips given by the system.
When a student interprets a script arranged by a mentor, it is recorded on the mentor’s panel and also increases the bond level between mentor and student. The more the student explores the script, the more the bond level increases.
A first-level bond only allows the mentor and student to speak three times within the script; a second-level bond provides unlimited in-script conversation and three chances to send transfer items.
As for a third-level bond, a life lock appears between the mentor and the student, allowing the mentor to share the student’s script vision and provide brief real-time communication and guidance.
A powerful mentor can even use the life lock to preserve the student’s near-death spiritual sense.
Unfortunately, Xu Shuo seldom communicated with Hong Rao within the scripts, even less to enter the scripts arranged by her, and he explored the scripts even less seriously.
So they still had only a first-level bond.
Hong Rao glanced at the progress bar, hmm, just a little more effort and they could level up to a second-level bond.
Of course, Hong Rao wasn’t specifically flipping through the system panel just to check the bond level; she noticed that Xu Shuo had finished all the second level scripts she had arranged for him.
This meant… the kid was about to advance to third level!
Hong Rao quickly opened Xu Shuo’s student panel to check, and indeed, the performance value column was full, and the next script was the assessment script.
But because Xu Shuo had not met the standard in previous assessments, Hong Rao had not been able to prepare a third-level assessment script for him in advance, so she worried that the kid might act recklessly and enter the third-level assessment directly.
Although the two had previously agreed not to act rashly…
But the kid’s promises were to be taken with a grain of salt.
Right now, the Abyss Battlefield under the guild’s command was experiencing abnormal changes, and as a core member of the “Miracle” guild, Hong Rao couldn’t possibly leave because of such private matters.
So all she could do was use her spare moments to keep reminding her student!
Hong Rao: [Did you just finish all the second level scripts? I see your performance value is full, the next script is a third-level assessment, don’t go in on your own.]
Hong Rao: [Although I’ve said these things countless times already, I’m still telling you seriously, your special traits might lead you to a fourth-level assessment!]
Hong Rao: [That’s definitely not something you can handle at this stage, you really, really must not act recklessly!]
Hong Rao: [I’ll be back soon. You’ve done so many scripts today, you might as well rest for a while, regain your energy, and then enter the third-level assessment. There are quite a few opportunities for fortune in the third-level assessment, I’ll arrange a good script for you then.]
Hong Rao: [Stay steady, don’t rush, and let me know when you see this.]
Hong Rao said a lot in bits and pieces, then felt as though she was just reiterating things she had already said many times before; she could only hope that the kid wouldn’t really mess up.
After a long while, the other side replied.
Xu Shuo: [1]
Hong Rao: [What do you mean by 1, say you understand!]
Xu Shuo: [Understood…]
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