Chapter 78 Word Game (please subscribe)
[Li Nuo: lv16]
[Strength: 30+3 (+6)]
[Reaction: 42+7+19]
[Spiritual Power: 30 (+3.8)]
[Physique: 29+ 5 (+5.8)]
[Insight: 35+3+30]
[Medical: 1]
The first plus sign is the bonus effect of the bound equipment.
The second plus sign content is the attribute value gain brought by [the person with residual blood].
The plus sign in the parentheses is the attribute value gain given by [Night Demon's Decoction].
The above are Li Nuo’s current panel values.
Just like that, Li Nuo slowly took a step back.
Vivian suddenly burst into flames!
She pounced towards Li Nuo. Normally, Li Nuo could only dodge at best.
But now that the insight value exceeded 60, he seemed to see the blind spot of Vivian's movement in an instant. He quickly took a step back to dodge the attack and drew a gun from his waist.
The gun was borrowed from one of his and Marger's bodyguards.
The gun is filled with [mercury bullets] obtained in the dream.
When Vivian disappeared again and was attacked from above, Li Nuo, as if he had foreseen it in advance, raised his gun and pulled the trigger at the claws swung by her.
Bang!
Vivian's shoulder was broken by the rotating [mercury bullet]!
Immediately a bright red flower exploded!
Vivian's body froze, and the damage to her shoulder affected her body because [Gun Counterattack] was triggered!
Because the damage caused also triggers the blood recovery feature of [Bat Demon Decoction], [Remaining Blood One] is turned off.
Li Nuo raised the saw knife, and the folding blade rubbed sparks in the dark room, transforming into a long knife full of broken sharp teeth. The blade instantly slid into Vivian's chest, with a [visceral critical strike] The force caused his wound to suddenly burst open!
With a heart falling to the ground.
Vivian fell weakly.
[Having obtained the Gwent card of "Vampire Banshee"]
Li Nuo immediately turned off [Inner Potential].
The symptoms of muscle weakness that lasted for 0.5 seconds ended quickly.
At the same time, he took out [High-grade White Honey] and took a sip to relieve all the decoction. Finally, he leaned against the wall, took out the blood potion of "Endless Corridor" and plunged it into his thigh.
After his blood volume returned to normal, he let out a sigh of relief.
"Every time my fighting style ends... I feel like I'm being kicked in the balls..."
Li Nuo stood up holding on to the wall, holding a meat saw and preparing to cut off Vivian's head. After that, make a [Vampire Banshee’s Decoction].
But when he walked to Vivian's body, he suddenly froze.
"What the hell is this..."
"I'm going..."
Vivian's body was covered with dense eyeballs...
and they were all alive.
Li Nuo had a bad intuition: "Could this old woman have sucked the blood of the ancient god?"
...
Marjie was waiting in the farm yard. When he saw Li Nuo coming out, he greeted him and asked: " Win?"
"If you lose, you won't be able to get out." The first moment Li Nuo stepped out of the wooden house, he got a prompt from the system.
[Completed side mission: blood]
[Task reward: 3000 experience points, bone marrow ashes*2, avatar drawings of all players in Novigrad City]
Li Nuo opened the panel.
[Barrow Ash] Two have been obtained and are lying in the personal panel.
It takes 6,000 experience points to upgrade to level 17. According to this upgrade speed, under normal circumstances, a script will only be upgraded by two levels.
Players above level 20 have completed at least 6 scenario missions.
The faster a player can reach this level, the more it means they are experienced, have backup plans, and are good at killing people and stealing money.
Thinking of this, Li Nuo suddenly realized that he felt sorry for the Novigrad players for not treating them as human beings...
As for the "avatar drawings of all players", the settlement had not yet been completed, and Li Nuo estimated that something would happen.
Marger walked to the door of the house and took a look: "Vampire? I remember that the high-level vampires in "The Witcher" cannot be killed." "The
setting of "The Witcher" has its own moments of reading, and you are the most Don't get too close to take a look, I suspect there is something wrong with Vivian's health." A few seconds after Li Nuo finished speaking, he heard Marjie's "vomit...".
A few minutes later, Li Nuo set the house on fire to prevent naughty children from passing by, and asked several bodyguards to stay at a distance to watch over the scene.
He needs Vivian's body as evidence.
He and Marjie moved Darroch to the carriage, and took advantage of the moonlight and no one to leave the place, and set off towards the city center.
"Hey, brother."
Li Nuo patted Darok's face. He clearly felt that his grandson was pretending to be dead.
So the following conversation took place.
"Old Ma, is there any more shit?"
"There is a lot."
"Feed him."
Darok just opened his eyes.
Next, skip all the interrogation process.
Under Darroch's description, a story about the Blood Butcher, keys, female vampires, serial murders, blood and curses unfolded before Li Nuo and Marger.
...
Vampire banshees rarely appear in caves and caves, places where most monsters often hang out. Instead, they wander among deserted abandoned villages and ruins.
They are very conscious of their own safety, preferring to nest in places where they will not be attacked, avoid crowds, and only leave their roost at night.
But this is the past.
In the original novel, at the end of the story, most of the monsters brought by the confluence of the heaven and earth were dead and hidden, and almost all the monsters that could be found were killed by the demon hunters.
After the death of the witcher Vesemir, the era of witchers will never return.
With the widespread use of thermal weapons, monsters have gradually lost their habitat.
So were the days of the vampire succubus.
They are more cautious than before.
Some vampire banshees will find a man to get along with as their lover. Their views on mate selection are often very targeted - they can give them a sense of security or provide them with a blood supply.
Once they find someone who can "fascinate" them, the vampire banshee will use the ability of "charm" to control the other person's mind and do things for themselves.
Darroch was chosen as "husband" by Vivian because he was a "forensic doctor" and could obtain blood from dead people or hospitals at any time.
It was about two weeks ago.
After Vivian drank the fresh blood obtained from the hospital, she suddenly vomited out an eyeball that night.
After that, Vivian's body experienced strange changes.
Sometimes she would open a few eyes on her back.
Sometimes squirming balls appear in the lower abdomen.
It was as if she was being parasitized by her eyeballs.
It was an ancient curse that slowly eroded her health.
A week ago, a vampire claiming to be from Coville found Vivian.
The guy covered his face and always looked very cautious.
He offers Vivian a deal.
"I will help you find fresh, most delicious blood for you to restore your body, and you will teach me how to become a qualified vampire."
Darok described that the vampire was a man.
Although he and Vivian are both vampires, they are more indifferent to life. After that, the Blood Butcher's serial killings broke out.
The butcher, who would give Darroch large quantities of fresh, elite blood, came to the morgue where Darroch worked just yesterday.
The butcher saw a key placed next to Vika's body and suddenly asked Darok for the key.
Darok didn't know the reason, but it didn't matter.
...
After knowing the context of the whole matter, Li Nuo and the others went to the area where the "butcher" usually hangs out.
The pocket watch showed that it was already 3 o'clock in the night.
In the middle of a dirt road not far from the morgue, this is the place where Darroch and the Butcher last met.
Here, Li Nuo found what he was looking for.
He noticed an unusual, shimmering red footprint with his witcher's vision: "What kind of NPC would wear soles with a 'plus' pattern in 1850?" "That's the player
. "Marger took out a hand-cranked flashlight, shined it with light and said, "The Blood Butcher is a player. He comes from Keville and claims to be a vampire. And the fact that he is recognized by Vivian, does that mean he is indeed a vampire?" "Also
. The only explanation is that I saw Weika's key triggering the same 'legacy' mission as you." Li Nuo observed the footprints, and the red footprints that only he could see extended towards the central area of the city.
He raised his head, and Marger was gone, as were the scattered pedestrians on the road.
And a familiar figure appeared not far away.
Mirror Master.
Li Nuo: "You're here."
Mirror Master didn't care about Li Nuo's tone. He came over and said, "How long are you going to play this detective game?"
Li Nuo said, "This is not a joke, I will kill you." "Hey Vivian, is it time to settle the promised reward?"
Mirror Master took out a few portraits from his arms: "As agreed, except for the two of you, there are portraits of the 10 travelers from other worlds who have survived until now."
" But you want me to mark everyone's position, which is very difficult to do because people can move." Mirror Master said with a smile: "But I will make up for it in another way, such as... when you are close to each other Sometimes, you will feel a sense of urgency and start to pay attention to your surroundings."
"Okay." Li Nuo put the portrait into the lining of his windbreaker.
Mirror Master turned around and waved his hand: "I will not interfere in what happens next. Don't let me down, Mr. Demon Hunter." "Mr.
Ronald, wait a minute, is there something missing?" Li Nuo suddenly stopped. Mirror Master, he said: "In the tavern on the outskirts of Novigrad, you told me that the purpose of finding me was to ask me to do something for you in return for taking me out of the dream. You said that it happened in Novigrad."
The Mirror Master turned his head.
Li Nuo said: "Vivian, is it her?"
"Oh~ tell me."
"You can obviously read my memory."
"But I want to hear it."
Li Nuo had to say: "Vivian , a vampire who has lived for hundreds of years can't distinguish the good from the bad blood. As a result, the body is affected after drinking it, and dense eyeballs appear in the body... Isn't this normal?" He walked to the railing on the roadside and leaned against it
. He went up and continued: "Unless something that is many levels higher than her is affecting her, there are only two answers, you, or the ancient god. However, the radiation range of the ancient god does not seem to have reached Novigrad, and you It once appeared in a dream, and you were very angry at the 'ancient gods' who invaded this world. Your emotions made you curious and eager to explore. You used Vivian to do an experiment or something like that. Specifically, I It’s not clear, but you must have established a contract with her, but she broke it, so your purpose in finding me in the first place was to let me be the middleman to help you collect debts, just like what you once asked Geralt to do.
” Demon hunters are the best masters of debt collection, right?" Li Nuo finally asked.
Mirror Master was silent for a few seconds, and then his eyes turned black in a blink of an eye. When he turned back to normal eyes again, he smiled: "You surprised me." "It's not a good idea to surprise you.
"
"When I first met Vivian, she was a vampire succubus on the verge of death. I agreed to her request and found her a man who could provide her with blood and life forever." Mirror Master Shrugging his shoulders: "This kind of contract is very simple and very common, and my request is that at a specific time, Vivian will come as a 'doll' and enter the dreamland to help me explore." "But she broke the contract
. Li Nuo said.
"Yes." Master Mirror nodded: "So I integrated the curse in the dream into the blood she wanted to drink. This is the price for breaking the contract, and what I asked you to do is no longer important." "
So Speaking of which... I didn't actually help you."
"But you can get extra benefits by being unexpected." Mirror Master took out a red gem, and when Li Nuo took it, Mirror Master had disappeared.
"You've been in a daze." Marger's voice woke him up.
Li Nuo shook his head, touched the pocket of his windbreaker, and found the player's portrait and a red gem.
[Uncivilized Blood Gem]
[Quality: Ordinary]
[Effect: Uncivilized cannot be used]
[Brief Description: After my mother left this gem for me, she jumped into the sea]
Marger: "This is...?"
" Blood gems, this kind of panel generally requires identification, but there is another way, I used it when playing games." Li Nuo put the blood gems on the ground and stepped on them hard.
The gem cracked open, revealing a gem filled with spiral spikes trapped inside.
[Deep Blood Gem]
[Quality: Excellent]
[Effect: Give weapons with holes the "poison" attribute]
[Brief description: Why do you want to crush it! Mom! ]
He picked up the gem and pulled it into his pocket, and snapped his fingers: "Let's go and find the butcher."
At this moment, Marjie suddenly stopped, and he took out the same player portrait from his pocket...
"It seems that Master Mirror...has handed over the results of the agreement with you to all other players." "
As expected." Li Nuo didn't care.
Like said before.
Mirror Master is a person who likes to have fun playing word games.
Li Nuo's agreement with him was: "Kill Vivian and mark the portraits of all the alien travelers in Novigrad and the areas where they are located." And he paused before saying: " Then give me a copy."
The lag in the center of the prophecy is a deliberate loophole left for Mirror Master's word play.
It can be understood as these two sentences, the first is personal needs, and the second is requests.
Li Nuo's sentence "Give me a share" can also be expressed as "Give you a share" using a literal loophole.
He didn’t say, “Just give me one.”
In this way, Mirror Master will publish player information to all players.
Then, some players who want to survive and those who want to cause trouble will inevitably run into each other.
Then the question they have to face is... what will the authorities do.
Li Nuo's purpose of playing the detective game was originally decided after meeting Sheriff Rebecca in the morgue.
Under the premise that the other party has remembered him, completing the [Blood Butcher] case and the "Night Stalker" case can gain trust and official power in advance.
What he has to do next is to capture the butcher dressed as a player first.
What makes him even more curious now is that the opponent is a player from Keville and is a vampire.
Li Nuo remembered that Mirror Master reminded him that Kevir is dangerous to players... This danger may come from vampires.
...
at the same time.
Coville.
Rainy night.
In the middle of the noisy neighborhood, there is an inconspicuous building, which is a well-known brothel hidden in the city.
The person who runs this brothel is a vampire known as the "Queen of the Night."
Room on the third floor.
The Queen of the Night smoked her pipe and stared at the girl who had entered the room.
"Women are not welcome here, unless you are here to find a job."
Chabai lifted his hood and revealed a face that surprised even the Queen of Night: "I am pressed for time...so I must ask some things clearly now without any delay. You've been taking too long."
"Okay, tell me."
She said: "I heard that you are one of the few vampires who are at peace with humans...so I want to know from you...what's going on with the vampires in Keville."
(End of chapter)