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Chapter 78 Word Game (Please subscribe)

[Li Nuo: lv16]

[Strength: 30+3 (+6)]

[Response: 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 most.

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.

[Have 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 can experience the feeling of being kicked in the balls..."

Li Nuo stood up while holding on to the wall, holding a meat saw and preparing to cut off Vivian's head so that he could make a [Vampire Banshee's Decoction] later.

But when he walked to Vivian's body, he suddenly froze.

"What the hell is this..."

"I go……"

Vivian's body is covered with dense eyeballs...

And they are all alive.

Li Nuo had a bad intuition: "Could this old woman have sucked the blood of the ancient god?"

……

Marger was waiting in the farm yard. When he saw Li Nuo coming out, he greeted him and asked, "Won?"

"If you lose, you won't be able to get out." The 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 17 experience points to upgrade to level 6000. 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 goods.

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 has not yet been completed, and Li Nuo estimates that something will 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 reading time, and you'd better not get too close to read it. I suspect that Vivian has a physical problem." Just a few seconds after Li Nuo finished speaking, he heard Mal Jay's "Ugh——".

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.

"Hello, buddy."

Li Nuo patted Darok's face, and 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 are 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 their "charm" ability 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."

Darrok described the vampire as 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 whole story, 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.

Using his witcher's vision, he noticed an unusual, shimmering red footprint: "What kind of NPC would wear soles with a 'plus' pattern in 1850?"

"That's the player." Marger took out the hand-cranked flashlight, illuminated it and said, "The Blood Butcher is a player. He comes from Coville and claims to be a vampire. And being recognized by Vivian means that he is indeed a player." A vampire?"

"This can only be the explanation. I guess I saw Weika's key triggering the same 'legacy' mission as you." Li Nuo observed the footprints. 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 finally 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 killed Vivian. Is it time to settle the promised reward?"

Mirror Master took out several portraits from his arms: "According to the agreement, except for the two of you, there are portraits of 10 travelers from other worlds who have survived until now."

"But you want me to mark everyone's position. This is difficult to do. People can move." Mirror Master said with a smile: "But I will make up for it in another way, such as... when you each other As you get closer, you will feel a sense of urgency and start paying 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 Master Mirror and said, "In the tavern on the outskirts of Novigrad, you told me that the purpose of looking for me was to let you know I'll do something for you in return for taking me out of the dream, and you said that happened in Novigrad."

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 no choice but to say: "Vivian, a vampire who has lived for hundreds of years, can't distinguish the quality of blood. As a result, the body is affected after drinking it, and dense eyeballs appear in the body... Isn't this abnormal?"

He walked to the railing on the side of the road, leaned up and continued: "Unless something is affecting her that is many levels higher than her, there are only two answers, you, or the Ancient God, but the radiation range of the Ancient God seems to be You haven't arrived in Novigrad yet, but you have appeared in a dream, and you are very angry at the 'old gods' who have invaded this world. Your emotions will make you curious and want to explore, so you used Vivian to do something. Field experiments and the like, I don’t know the specifics, but you must have established a contract with her, but she broke the contract, so the purpose of you looking for me in the first place was to let me be the middleman to help you collect debts, just like you once asked me to Geralt does the same thing.”

"Demon hunters are the best debt collection masters, 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 they turned back to normal eyes again, he smiled: "You surprised me."

"It's not a good start 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...actually I didn't help you either."

"But your unexpectedness can get extra benefits." Mirror Master took out a red gem. 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: Cannot be used by uncivilized people]

[Brief description: After my mother left me this gem, she jumped into the sea]

Marger: "Is this...?"

"Blood gem, this kind of panel generally requires identification, but there is another way. I used it when playing games." Li Nuo put the blood gem on the ground and stepped on it 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 put it into his pocket, snapped his fingers: "Let's go and find the butcher."

At this moment, Marger suddenly stopped and took out the same player portrait from his pocket...

"It seems that Mirror Master...has handed over the results of the agreement with you to all other players."

"As expected." Li Nuo didn't care.

As 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 one."

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 looking for a job."

Cha Bai lifted up his hood and revealed a face that surprised even the Queen of the Night: "I'm pressed for time... so I have to ask some things clearly now, so that I won't take you too long."

"Okay, let's talk."

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 happened to the vampires in Kevir."

(End of this chapter)