As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 422: The Priest at the Crossroads

Three big things happened in "Endless Corridor" in the past six months.

The first thing is that there was a strange guy who killed a world-class BOSS in a certain world before he reached level 60. Although some people said it was a scam by a fraud group, some people still believed it.

The second thing was that a large guild called "Endless Corridor" was destroyed by another large guild called "Wrath of Bahamut". The guild leader Lillian got a bunch of unactivated world war cards in that death match.

The third thing was, in the Player Championship, [Critical One] Kroyd was killed, and "Wrath of Bahamut" was inexplicably defeated. It was said that it was a scam by a certain fraud group, but... anyway... not many people believed it this time.

The above three things don't seem to have much to do with this script...

In fact, it is secretly connected to the fate of many people.

After Lillian realized that she couldn't get the [Rescuer], she secretly made up her mind and spread the signs everywhere.

The president was originally looking for [identity holders] for the "world war", and now that Li Nuo has messed up his most useful [rescuer], he has finally given up on himself...

Who knew the sign would end up in Li Nuo's hands...

In addition, another sign fell into the hands of Amanda and Safa.

The cards for the world war are randomly determined. If the player performs well in that scenario, he will be selected. Coincidentally, in a certain scenario, the tragedy of a small person comes...

"Endless Corridor".

"Jack's Clothing Agency".

A team with some fame. Their captain, Saburo Fukushima, wields the double swords of a girl as a man, leaving many people with a psychological trauma comparable to nuclear pollution.

In a certain script, they also got a sign... In that script, they fought the most beautiful battle of their lives.

Then this group of guys were selected to participate in the Five Corridor World War.

"Hahaha, we are just candidates. We can't really participate."

Saburo Fukushima comforted his companions in this way.

then……

Amanda suggested to Shafa not to participate in the world war because she had seen the abilities of Li Nuo and the others. Coincidentally, Shafa had an alliance with Soran and had heard about the brutality of the "Blood Residue" (bastards). In order to protect her team, Shafa decided to withdraw from the competition on a whim.

Then, "Jack Clothing Agency" was selected.

The life trajectory of a small person is unknowingly pinched and kneaded by those in high positions, which is also a part of fate.

"Hahaha, we are pretty impressive, at least in the Endless Corridor."

Saburo Fukushima comforted his teammates in this way.

Players who are okay in "Endless Corridor" are shit to "Sora" and "End".

Rick finally understood the meaning of this sentence. He once encountered an invader from the "Empty Corridor". The invader was kind-hearted and did not kill him. He just left the above words and left.

He limped out of the alley and staggered around the street, hoping to find the police or even the gangsters.

Rick is an elf who is good at magic and has outstanding perception. He is very aware that there are people around him who are stronger than him.

"Where are the people...ah..."

Saburo Fukushima died, and everyone died and dispersed.

They encountered a group of players from the "Sky Corridor" and were beaten beyond recognition by them. They were powerless to fight back, as if they were a group of first-grade students who walked into a school for the mentally retarded with an average age of fourteen.

"..."

Rick was holding a white flag in his hand. According to the system regulations, raising the white flag meant surrender, as long as the other party was willing to accept your surrender...

Snapped……

There were footsteps behind me.

My heart skipped a beat.

"found it."

Still caught up.

Although there was only one person, he had brown slicked back hair and was wearing a brown casual suit.

The player of "Sky Corridor" is named Gamak.

Gamak looked at the back of his prey and picked up his phone calmly.

"I found it, I killed it, is that okay with you?"

"Okay, okay, I'll give you some of the reward when the time comes."

"Eh? Capture him alive? Never mind. He's quite capable. I'm a cautious person and don't want to get caught."

Rick felt mixed emotions as he just listened to others' unscrupulous and nonchalant teasing...it was as if life had become a price in the vegetable market.

Gamack hung up the phone, his smile immediately disappeared, and he tapped the ground with his fingertips.

Gravity magic!

Within a five-meter radius, gravity doubles.

Rick was injured and had to stop.

Rick said, "Hey... man..."

"You don't have to make a deal with me." Gamack interrupted Rick and said, "I don't like it. I just want to kill you."

"No..." Rick shook his head and said with a smile: "I mean, man, it's not bad to cripple someone before you die."

After that, a black ball appeared between Rick's fingers. It was also a kind of gravity magic, the kind that could crush the opponent into a meat patty.

Gamarak raised his eyebrows with a look of contempt.

His eyes have a passive skill:
【Gambling Eyes】

[Effect: Left eye loss rate, right eye modified loss rate, can consume half of the magic power to modify the probability of winning or losing]

This ability can be used to modify the win-loss ratio as long as the situation is not almost certain to end in death. After the modification, some unexpected events usually occur, turning the disadvantage into an advantage.
Therefore, in a 50-50 game, Gammarquez usually wins.

When facing Rick, the failure probability reported by his left eye is: 12%.

A sure win.

This answer made Gamarak unhappy and confused.

"too weak……"

The second strongest guy in their team is committed to causing trouble for the "Endless Corridor" just to prove that he is better than the guy named Brum.

Gamack thinks that if you want to prove that you are stronger, just fight Brum directly, there is no need to take the detour.

What's more, the ability displayed by the "Endless Corridor"... is simply a disaster.

"With your level, the team you're joining shouldn't be much stronger in theory..."

The two teams competing in the same corridor were judged to be of similar strength, with some exceptions, but it had been half a year since Brum was defeated...

Half a year is enough for upgrading strength and widening the gap.

Rick sighed.

"Let's... go somewhere else..."

There are passers-by here, and Rick doesn't want to die and drag down innocent people.

Gamak didn't care, he had a way to block out the noise around him.

Jingle bell bell~
The bicycle came into Gamak's sight.

"Hey……?"

Gamak frowned, his heartbeat paused, and his body suddenly trembled involuntarily.

【Gambling Eye】gives judgment.

Win rate: 0.

Reset.

Win rate: 1%.

The bicycle stopped by the roadside, the rider got off clumsily, and the woman on the bicycle showed off her graceful curves behind the street light. The two of them were like a couple who had just finished watching a movie, moving slowly and leisurely.

Gamak took a deep breath, fear spread to his cerebral gyri, and his instinct told him to run.

He believed in his instincts and the judgment of the [Eye of Gambling], and silently activated the escape magic [Return to City] that everyone in their team had, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Rick still didn't understand what was going on.

From the time he said "change place" to the time Gamak disappeared, less than three seconds passed.

Rick thought that Gamak was going to play some tricks on him, so he took a deep breath, gasped, and opened a [Substitute]. But the [Substitute] went back as soon as it came out... He was so scared...

Then, he heard a voice behind him...

Cha Bai: "I told him to use [Magic Suppression] and he was scared away."

Li Nuo: "I'm locking the car!"

Cha Bai: "Smell it and see if there is any scent left. Let's find them and kill them all."

Li Nuo: "No need. There's no reward for killing one or two. Save them for the next mission point. Maybe you can get unexpected benefits."

Cha Bai: "Then why don't you find their lair and then kidnap them first?"

Li Nuo: "...Please spare me. I don't want to fight a group battle with the Sky Corridor while being attacked from all sides."

Li Nuo locked his bicycle and came over from behind.

Rick had his back to them, eyes wide open, not daring to breathe. There could only be one reason why he ran back: there was one or more extremely powerful things nearby.

He had just run two steps when his shoulders were grabbed and pressed to the ground.

"Don't run, fellow villager."

Li Nuo pressed his face from the side.

When Rick saw that it was someone from his own corridor, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"If you run again, I'll kill you."

Li Nuo suddenly changed the subject, shocking Rick so much that he nodded frantically.

"How many are still alive?"

"Including me, that makes four."

"male?"

"Um……"

Rick's first thought was, is this guy going to recruit female team members?

Li Nuo thought, since they are all men... they can be given to Soran to train...

"Tell me what happened."

Cha Bai placed the bicycle in a position where it would not affect pedestrians. Although there were no pedestrians at the moment, she had good manners... and then came over.

During this time, Rick gave a clear account of what happened.

Their team was a group of newspaper reporters. They received a mission before they had even started working. Mafia fights broke out in several corners of the block, and it was actually those groups of players who were responsible.

So Rick and his friends found an area closest to them.

——Alien Research Office.

"It is said that it is a cult base that no one cares about... and it is in the city center, so even if something happens, we won't be alone."

Li Nuo admitted what Rick said.

Chabai felt sorry for Rick and the others, as they couldn't get along with anyone else, but had to get along with us.

As expected, it is as expected.

A group of players from "Sky Corridor" came over as if they had a dog's nose, and the first thing they asked was "Do you know the person who defeated Brup?"

Rick's team leader, Mr. Saburo Fukushima, of course shook his head.

Then the other person said, "I don't know you, then go to hell."

Li Nuo was shocked...

"And then you were beaten by a group of guys from the Sky Corridor from morning to night..."

Rick nodded.

Cha Bai touched his forehead and felt it was so magical... How could there be such a cowardly team...

She tapped Li Nuo's shoulder: "But he said Brupu..."

Li Nuo: "Don't worry about this for now."

[Weapon Box] The one-hour interrogation time is up.

Li Nuo placed the large black coffin horizontally on the ground, sat on it, and opened a small window on the lid.

Mikram's face reappeared in the night sky, his eyes empty, as if he had been played with steel wool by a group of eighty-year-old grandmothers for 49 days.

"Meeting."

Cha Bai pulled out his left hand, and used his floating hand as a projector to contact Maljie, holding up a light screen in his palm. Maljie had just finished discussing the cooperation order with the brothel owner, and was sitting on the sofa in the upstairs room, holding a medicinal wine in his hand.

The woman who was crippled by his ○○ gunshot was lying on the bed in the room.

Under the streetlight.

The edge of the crossroads.

Li Nuo knocked on the weapon box, and Mikram, who was lying inside, told him everything he knew.

Pesca, the leader of the "Church of the Undead", claims that he is cursed. His body will age, but his life span will remain endless, and the final result will be a zombie.

Although he made a low-quality "Wine of Immortality" that could restore the vitality of flesh and blood, Pesca was extremely greedy. So, decades ago, this old guy summoned the devil again, but this time he summoned the monsters from the world of "Castlevania" in a careless manner.

Later they didn't know what agreement they reached, but the final answer was that they needed to sacrifice a strong person from another world.

Li Nuo knew very well that the powerful person from another world referred to the players.

"How many powerful people from other worlds are needed?"

Mikram said like a robot:
"At least a hundred, the more the better... We've killed enough, but it's not enough. The priest said they (players) will keep showing up. Don't let these guys ruin the ceremony."

The system's sound and panel appear together:
[Obtain key information: ritual to destroy the Church of the Undead]

[Get key information: players are prey]

Li Nuo's pupils rolled. At least over a hundred players died in this scenario.

It's not necessarily all done by the cleaners.

He thought of the mafia he encountered at the beginning. The bullets in their guns were specially developed to scratch Cha Bai's skin with blood marks. By analogy, the firepower of this group of evil cults gathered together was extremely terrifying. It also showed that in this script, the strength of the indigenous people was extremely high, and the script difficulty was also quite high...

"And then what, after the sacrifice?"

"Summon a demon...Summon a demon..."

Mikram was stuck, which meant he didn't know what would happen next. Li Nuo and Cha Bai looked at each other and understood each other... The cleaners were only responsible for doing the dirty work, and the priests above them should be the ones who planned everything.

"Tell me your plan."

"Tomorrow morning, at the station, we will go to Greenburgh. On the way, we will complete the ceremony in the car."

On the other side of the light curtain, Maljie listened with a deep gaze, and stars appeared in front of her eyes because of the girl's comic style.

"Hey, those guys..."

He asked Li Nuo to think carefully about the place "Greenburg".

Li Nuo nodded.

The guys in the office who evolved from mechanical life forms said that when they sneaked into the territory of the Church of the Undead to steal things, they heard that the cultists were planning to board the train to "Greenburg" on a large scale.

"When to set off?"

"Tomorrow morning..."

[Get key information: Take the morning train from Mule City to Greenburgh]

[Three key pieces of information have been obtained. The mission can be updated. After the update, all members of your team will be protected and players will no longer be able to find your location, but you will no longer be able to approach other players. Do you want to update now? ]

[Tip: After the update, the specific content of the work task (missionary) will be random]

"no."

What this message means is... if you find it troublesome or don't want to get involved in any more danger, let the system decide your personal work tasks as soon as possible. If you want to explore something deeper, just wait.

Be it Li Nuo or Maljie, neither of them wants to hand over their fate to the system. Even if they are raped, they have to resist before accepting it.

"Okay, last question."

Li Nuo stared at Mikram in the weapon box.

"How can you kill Pesca?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Mikram's face suddenly began to twist.

Cha Bai said coldly: "I am cursed and cannot say things that I shouldn't say."

Li Nuo touched his chin and asked, "Why do we have to choose the train to Greenburgh tomorrow morning as the ceremony site?"

“Ah…” Mikram suddenly began to moan: “Ah…!”

Cha Bai warned: "He is going to self-destruct."

Li Nuo pulled out his pistol and quickly installed a silencer. He immediately reached out and pressed down on Mikram's splitting face, activating the [Seal of Arden] to control his soul.

He thrust the muzzle of the gun into Mikram's eyes, which were shrinking in pain.

Pull the trigger like crazy!

Warm blood splattered, staining Li Nuo's face red.

A stream of golden light flew out from Mikram's body and gathered into the shape of a key.

Cha Bai reached out and held it.

[Obtained the "Undead Hell Switch Key"]

[After boarding the train, you will be given a usage prompt. Players who want to continue the world war must have it... a mission item, which cannot be taken out of the scenario]

[The second step of the mission, finding the correct way to board the train, has been completed]

Cha Bai: "Give..."

Li Nuo suddenly covered her mouth.

[Task Reward: 20000 experience points, each player gets a random weapon card*1]

"call……"

Li Nuo took his hand away, letting Cha Bai's mouth regain freedom.

Cha Bai frowned in confusion: "Why are you covering my mouth..."

Li Nuo said: "We have no shortage of channels to gain experience points. Don't use (Focus) to attract hatred. We have other things to do."

Cha Bai: "Anything else?"

Li Nuo said "hmm" and looked at the reward panel.

The requirement for this task is to defeat the Cleaner so that you can obtain the "secret key" to unlock the next task, which is the [Undead Hell Switch Key].

As for other rewards, Li Nuo was not in a hurry to look at them. There were more important things at the moment, which were also the answers he got after interrogating Mikram.

"Peská can be killed."

……

National borders.

Inside the prison, the door of the interrogation room opened.

Grof walked into the room, took off his hat, and looked directly at the old man who had been waiting in the room.

"You're getting old again, Mr. Pesca."

Pesca, the old cult leader, looked at Grof with an expressionless face as if his facial muscles were frozen.

"I hope you are well..."

"Yeah, the last time we met was twenty years ago, right?"

Grove sat down opposite him.

Pesca looked up at the ceiling fan, and his memories came back to the past.

"The last time we met... you put me in this cell... hahahaha... how are you doing now?"

"Now?"

"I heard you became the new mayor of Mule City."

"Even in prison, you are well-informed."

Grove's voice was calm, but he was scheming.

Pesca shook his head.

"This is just a method used by religious leaders to control their followers. It's a very basic method."

"Mr. Pesca, I need your help with something."

After Grove finished speaking, the room fell silent.

The fan sound is amplified...

Pesca asked:
"A request from an enemy?"

Grove said:
"A commission from an old friend."

"Please say."

"I want you, the followers disguised as the Mafia, to withdraw from Malu City."

“I never cared what they were going to do.”

"If you don't agree, I can only take tough measures." Grove said in a threatening tone: "This is an exchange. I have connections that can help you leave the prison as soon as possible..."

"Are you threatening me?" Pesca interrupted the other party and said, "If you disagree, what are you going to do? Kill me? Use me for experiments? Torture? Haha, hahahahahaha..."

His laugh was like the bubbling sound of a slit throat, dry and irritable.

Grof didn't find it funny: "People who seek eternal life, don't they fear death?"

Pesca's mouth curled up slightly:
"No one can kill me."

……

After Li Nuo said "Pesca can be killed"... silence fell for about ten seconds.

In the black clinic where Maljie was, the woman lying on the bed suddenly shouted: "I know the location of the leader's body."

"What do you mean?" Marger asked.

"I am a messenger, also known as a hymn singer. I am a vampire and I am responsible for contacting the leader to remotely control the believers. This also includes the work of announcing the leader's great deeds."

The woman was tied to the bed, her body wrapped in bandages, her curvy figure in full view.

"The leader is not immortal. He has a real body somewhere else, and only we, the Singing Officers, can find it."

Marger was silent for a few seconds.

"Old Wei."

Mr. Victor took out the polygraph needle.

"I'm telling the truth!" the woman shouted, "The leader can communicate with us at any time, but you guys have beaten me to a pulp! I've temporarily lost the ability to communicate!"

Malger: “…”

He considered again whether to let Li Nuo come over. When it came to attacking women, he was not as ruthless as Li Nuo.

"Really... I'm really telling the truth."

The woman screamed at the top of her lungs.

"The leader's true body is sealed somewhere. I can sense its approximate location. You see, when I say that these things are not affected by the curse and exploded to death, it means that I have been temporarily cut off from the connection. Before my body is fully repaired, the curse in my body will not be triggered."

The so-called "blessing" of the Church of the Undead is actually an imitation of the wine of immortality. The believers who have made great contributions just drink purer wine.

That kind of imitation contains a cursed potion made of alchemy, and it will explode if you say something you shouldn't.

Just like what happened to Mikram just now.

"As long as you keep destroying and cutting me, I won't be able to repair myself!"

"How could Pesca let his position be exposed so easily? The seal position must be very dangerous." Maljie tilted his head and finally asked what he wanted to ask: "What do you want?"

The woman's eyes were full of affection: "Can I be your woman?"

Achievement: Malja Harem +1
[Side quest has been triggered: Kill Pesca]

[Task Difficulty: lv99]

[Mission details: Pesca has placed a blessing point that hides signs of life in a certain area of ​​the country. His true body is also there, but the journey is very dangerous.]

[Quest Reward: 200000 Experience Points, 1 Gold Card, "High-Dimensional Demon Summoning Alchemy", Philosopher's Stone Fragment]

[Tip: This mission conflicts with the player's world war mission]

Li Nuo received a task reminder.

He stood up and looked at Rick, who had remained silent.

"How many people in your team are still alive?"

"Four."

The priest patted Rick's shoulder gently at the crossroads, and just like the devil at the crossroads, he smiled at the person in front of him.

"Go and kill Pesca."

(End of this chapter)