Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 431: What Grandma Said?
"Kill them all so no one will notice you sneaking in."

Master Assassin Alice said so.

Leticia felt that there was a huge loophole in her logic. That is, how could she get rid of all these hyenas in a short period of time without attracting the attention of other alien species?

"I can't do it," she whispered, not very confident in her fighting abilities.

Alice sneered: "Just because something is impossible in the real world doesn't mean it's impossible in the game world. You are now a qualified assassin, how can you not know how to fight like an assassin? Open your weapon column and skill column and take a look."

Weapon bar? Skill bar? What is that?
Confused, Leticia realized that she had a dagger, a delicate crossbow, a barrel of crossbow arrows, and several throwing knives hanging on her belt. She swore that she would never carry such things, after all, vampires did not need to use human weapons. They simply appeared out of nowhere, just as weird as this game world.

"Actually, I should have given you a hidden blade." Alice said with some regret, "But I couldn't find it in the system's material library, and it would take too much time to design one myself, so I can only make do with these ordinary equipment."

This is also what she thinks is the only shortcoming of this game.

Leticia didn't understand, so she didn't comment. She looked at the skill column again, which also contained a few strange terms that she didn't understand at all: [Shadow Assassination], [Light Fusion], [Eagle Vision], [Low-Key Posture], [Climbing Skills], and [Leap of Faith].

Among them, [Shadow Assassination], [Light Fusion] and [Eagle Vision] are marked as active skills, while the remaining three are marked as passive skills.

Alice started to mutter to herself. Leticia listened carefully at first, but as she listened, her expression gradually became strange. After Alice finished speaking, she asked doubtfully, "Can it really work? This sounds ridiculous."

As soon as her grandmother was mentioned, Leticia's expression immediately became firm, and she nodded vigorously: "Okay!"

Alice was very relieved, and at the same time, she felt like she had discovered Leticia's weakness. Since she cared so much about her grandmother, could she use this method to threaten her to do something with her in the future, such as playing games with her...

One step, two steps, three steps... She silently counted the pace of the patrol team, and when the target reached the right position, she pulled the trigger of the crossbow without hesitation. With a barely audible sound, the crossbow arrow shot out, but it did not go to the target, but landed on the edge of his warning circle, a non-biased position. The sound of the crossbow arrow inserted into the ground quickly attracted the other party's attention. He stopped, turned around and cast a puzzled look, and walked towards this direction with some hesitation, wanting to check what happened just now, but the other grassland hyenas who were not touched by the warning circle continued to move forward, ignoring it.

Although there were some minor incidents, they were harmless. Leticia hid in the shadow of the dense trees, holding her breath, staring at the hyena team patrolling back and forth on the road without blinking, holding the exquisite crossbow in her hand. The crossbow was engraved with exquisite patterns of Draco and Asra, which looked simple and heavy. The crossbow arrow flashed with cold light and slightly poked out of the messy branches and leaves, aiming at the grassland hyena walking at the back.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"kindness?"

"Sister Alice."

"Oh, don't worry about it. Just do as I say. Do you still want to save your grandma?"

Leticia looked contemptuous: "Alice, this is unbelievable. Get out of my mind now."

"Eh!?"

"You spoke your mind."

"What it means is that you can use these skills to fight. Come, I'll teach you how."

"..."

The first step of Alice's assassination technique: lure the monster first.

The target walked to the edge of the warning circle and soon found the crossbow with half of its end sticking out of the water. Even someone with an IQ as low as that of a hyena could realize that someone had sneaked in, so he opened his eyes and was about to call on his companions to search the area. But if he succeeded, Leticia's painstaking efforts to lure monsters would be useless, so she took the lead and released her skill: [Light Fusion].

Avra's shadow flashed behind the vampire girl. She raised the lantern in her hand and shone it in the direction of the hyena man. Instantly, it released a dazzling white light, which made the opponent's vision go white and his eyes felt severe pain. He dropped his weapon and covered his eyes and wailed, but his voice could not be transmitted from the flashing area and was heard by his companions. [Light Fusion: Release a violent flash at the designated location, blinding and silencing enemies within the range.]

The second step of Alice's assassination technique: throw another dodge.

At the same time, a petite figure appeared from the hidden bushes behind the target, silently, as if it had come out of his shadow, raised its hand high, and swung a dagger at the back of his neck, which was the most vulnerable part. A shadow resembling Alice flashed behind the vampire girl and made the same move. Two daggers hit the back of the neck of the poor prairie hyena at the same time, causing his eyes to roll back and he instantly lost consciousness. He collapsed to the ground and fainted.

[Shadow Assassination: Use on an enemy that is in a controlled state, using the target's shadow to jump and assassinate from behind. If successful, the target will lose its combat capability.]

Alice's assassination technique step three: the final assassination.

In less than ten seconds, the target fell. The whole process was quick and neat, without any unnecessary movements, and did not attract the attention of other aliens lurking in the forest. As for the patrol team that had just passed by, they did not have time to turn back, and lost a companion without noticing.

Leticia retrieved the crossbow arrows that had been used to lure the monster, then dragged the "corpse" of the prairie hyena into the bushes like trash, hid it in a random place, squatted back to her original place, and waited patiently for the patrol to return so that she could carry out the next assassination.

By the way, the reason why "corpse" is in quotation marks is because Leticia did not kill the prairie hyena man, but only knocked him unconscious, making him temporarily unable to fight. When Metien curiously asked her why, she was silent for a while, and then replied: "Because grandma doesn't allow me to kill people."

"Although many people have been looking for me in the past, trying to capture me and gain the power of immortality from me, my grandmother just told me to hide from them or let her handle it. She never allowed me to do it myself, let alone kill anyone."

"She also told me: If you kill someone, there is no going back."

"So, even if they are enemies, I don't want to kill them."

“Metien, do you think I did something wrong?”

Her voice was a little dull.

"No." Metien certainly supported his friend and comforted him, "I think your grandma is right, Leticia, don't worry, just do as she says! Not all problems in this world need to be solved by killing people!"

"That's right!" Xie Mi also echoed: "It would be better if we could just live in peace. Why do we have to kill each other? It's not friendly at all!"

The vampire girl listened to their words of comfort, and a faint smile gradually appeared on her face: "Thank you, Metien, and Shemi."

Only Alice was speechless, feeling inexplicably complicated.

After that, Leticia squatted at the original crime scene, using a crossbow to lure the hyenas hanging at the end of the patrol team one by one, then knocked them out one by one, and threw them into the bushes where the first hyena was hiding, so that they could reunite with their companions. I don't know if it's because of the game settings or their IQ, but even though their companions were decreasing, this patrol team didn't notice anything wrong and continued to guard and search along the original route.

When Leticia knocked out the last hyena and cleared the infiltration route, Alice, who had been holding back her words, finally couldn't help but say, "Um, Leticia."

"kindness?"

"I want to ask you a question."

"what?"

"Does your grandma...know how to turn on survival mode?"

"?"

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)