Edited by Zaki
Chapter 1.13
The BOSS had almost gone crazy. He completely ignored Gu Mozhi who was chasing after him, and turned around then rushed towards Jian Linglong and the others. For the sake of the BOSS’s face, these players could no longer be allowed to continue to play tricks on him.
Gu Mozhi frowned slightly, dissatisfied at being ignored.
Those players could be beaten at first glance. They could neither hold back the BOSS nor cause any effective damage to the BOSS, and were just a drag. Letting the BOSS deal with them head-on will result in him having to rescue them when the time comes. After all, there were only so many players left, and it would be bad if they all died.
Gu Mozhi had no choice but to reach out and tried to pull the zombie back. There was nothing more effective than throwing the opponent far away. As long as the zombie wanted to attack other players, Gu Mozhi could continuously pull him back and pull out his claws.
He couldn’t believe that even though he had almost sifted the corpse into a sieve, he still couldn’t find the ghost bead.
So, with determination to win, he grabbed one of the zombie’s arms and pulled him back. There was a “ripping” sound, and the arm was torn off by him.
Gu Mozhi: “…”
The plan couldn’t keep up with the changes. He made a mistake in his calculation, he didn’t expect the zombie’s body to be so unresistant to damage. Wasn’t it said that zombies had copper skin and iron bones and were invulnerable? Empiricism got me wrong!
Gu Mozhi quickly threw away the arm and pulled the other one.
At this critical moment, he also figured out, what’s the point of ripping off the other party’s arm? It doesn’t matter if he ripped off another one. This BOSS seemed to have only a few attack modes: stretch out his claws to scratch, open his mouth to bite, tear off his hands, and then twist off his head to see how it could behave like a monster.
As soon as he thought of it, Demon Gu ripped off another arm in three or two tries.
Although the zombie that lost an arm had no pain perception, he could feel that he had lost his arm, so he was stunned. He froze for a second, and when he came back to his senses, well, the other arm was already heroically sacrificed.
Returning to his senses, he no longer hesitated and opened his bloody mouth, about to bite this murderous bastard to death. But for some reason, his movements were more than twice as slow as before, and alarm bells went off in his heart, giving him a bad feeling.
The zombie slowly looked at Gu Mozhi, who was standing there with his arms. Gu Mozhi also looked back, with a trace of surprise in his eyes. Then, his brows softened and he smiled slowly: “It seems like the thing is here?”
He shook the arm in his hand, and suddenly a small bead rolled out from the break in the arm, falling to the ground with a crisp and pleasant impact.
“Hoo!!!” The zombie let out an unpleasant roar and threw himself to the ground to snatch back his ghost bead.
Gu Mozhi’s quick eyes and feet stepped on the bead before bending down to pick it up. The zombie, who had lost both arms and his movements had slowed down, was naturally not as agile as him. He could only watch helplessly as the ghost bead that was about to be bitten by his mouth became someone else’s meal; he was still a step too slow.
Fortunately, because it had been stepped on when it fell on the ground, Gu Mozhi didn’t intend to eat the bead immediately. Instead, he was thinking about where to go back and wash the bead before eating it. This gives the BOSS a chance to snatch the bead back, although the probability of success was negligible.
After getting what he wanted, Gu Mozhi walked over leisurely and stepped on the zombie’s back, making it unable to move. Everyone recovered from their shock and took a few steps closer.
They also saw the little bead just now, and they immediately understood why Gu Mozhi wanted to “dig the belly”. It was probably because of this bead. They didn’t know what it was and what benefits one could get after getting it.
“It’s of no benefit to you.” Gu Mozhi explained kindly, “Ordinary people rarely touch evil things like ghost beads.”
It was food for Demons, but not for normal mortals. If a normal mortal comes into contact with it too much, they would be contaminated with ghost energy. If one seeked death and ate it, you’re done for, and you’ll become a half-human, half-ghost in a matter of days.
Gu Mozhi couldn’t explain why he wanted the beads, after all, humans love to talk about how “those who are not of my kind must have different hearts”. If these people knew he was not a human being, he didn’t know how many things could happen. So he could only remind them like this. As for whether to listen or not, it was beyond his control.
Others did not dare to approach because they were worried that the BOSS would suddenly break free and come to attack them, but Jian Linglong no longer had such worries. The BOSS, who has lost both arms, was like a cat with its claws plucked out, unable to make waves. Even if he got angry and tried to hurt her, she could still handle it with her strength.
“Master, have we passed the test?” Jian Linglong asked curiously.
Gu Mozhi opened the system interface and took a look: “Maybe, the system notification hasn’t come yet, please wait. Maybe we need to wait for a certain amount of time to pass this level, or we can choose to fulfill the BOSS’s wish so that he will willingly leave. Right now the second one is impossible to reach, we can only wait and see if the first one works, and without any surprises we’ll be able to pass the level at first light.”
“That’s it.” Jian Linglong thought for a while, “Then I’ll try again and see if I can fulfill its long-cherished wish.”
Gu Mozhi looked at her curiously, what else does this girl want to do? Wasn’t there enough fuss before?
But Jian Linglong ran to the corner and dug out the tobacco that she had not had time to burn. Then she asked Pink-hair to help her remove a lampstand with candles on it, and walked to the BOSS.
She wasn’t afraid of the BOSS’s big blood-red eyes as she squatted next to his head and said in a good-tempered manner: “I think you are a heavy smoker, and I am afraid you won’t be able to smoke in the future. But it doesn’t matter, I went through all the tobacco in your house, and it just so happens that you have an entity now, you should have a sense of smell too, so I’ll just burn it directly for you and let you smell the smoke. After all, I guess it doesn’t seem like there’s a huge difference between smoking and smelling tobacco. If you don’t think this will work, I suggest you open your mouth wide and eat the smoke that burns out, which will be the same as if you were smoking.”
After saying that, she started to light up the tobacco seriously, and put the lit tobacco in front of the BOSS’s mouth and nose to ensure that it could “inhale” the smoke to the maximum extent.
BOSS: “……”
The tobacco shreds burned one after another. Seeing the tobacco becoming less and less, the BOSS finally went crazy. It struggled violently, trying to rush forward and bite this little imp to death.
It’s treasured tobacco! It’s all been burned! What a waste! It smells like your grandma’s leg!
Ahhhhhhh!!!
Why in the world would there be such an obnoxious child?
This Imp, bear king of children, a little devil, was well deserved of her name. The Purgatory gossip honestly hadn’t deceived him.
However, it was impossible for him to struggle out no matter what. How could Gu Mozhi let him bully his little apprentice? Therefore, the zombie under his feet struggled hard for a long time like a dehydrated fish on the beach, but finally collapsed from exhaustion and failed to break free.
His eyes rolled upward hopelessly to look at the roof of the house, wondering if he wanted to look angrily through the roof at the Lord God who was toying with his fate. But after a minute, he crumpled to the ground, finally choosing to compromise.
Couldn’t he break free or run away? He didn’t want this body anymore!
The zombie turned back into a corpse in the next second, and the possessed ghost took the opportunity to bolt. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to stay and snatch the ghost bead back and make the little girl pay the price, but after looking at the situation, he discovered that not only would he fail to achieve this goal by staying, but he would also be suppressed further and die even more miserably.
If he was suppressed in his soul state, he would not even have a chance to escape, so he would not do such a loss-making business. The man who understood the current situation was the King, why couldn’t he run away?
Anyway, now the Lord God has introduced subsidies. Ghosts like him who had been robbed of ghost beads would be regarded for work-related injuries, and they would be given some compensation, allowing them to go directly to a good re-birth. It’s just that the compensation for work-related injuries was obviously not so good compared with the promise of “a good baby” that he had been working for 100 years.
But who was to blame? The Lord God turned out the work contract, and it clearly said, “Work is risky, so be careful when signing a contract.” If he signed a contract by himself, he had to bear the risk. Anyway, if profiteers like the Lord God were willing to pay compensation, then it could be still considered good. If they were not willing to compensate, they would deduct all the compensation from you.
He had no choice but to try to comfort himself: Everything has advantages and disadvantages. Although the re-birth was not as good, their working life had also been reduced. Retiring early and receiving a pension was still worth being happy about.
——That’s weird.
The BOSS disappeared into the mourning hall with a sad face. What else could he say now other than this? You couldn’t keep blaming your own bad luck for meeting a Demon, or blame the Lord God for putting a Demon into the game, right?
Admit it, at least you still have a small life left that hasn’t been completely chewed up and eaten clean.
With the BOSS leaving, the system announcement finally came.
[Congratulations to the player for passing the new player selection level. There are still 9 instances left before leaving the game. Please keep up the good work!
The following is the point settlement…]
There was a progress bar for points settlement and you needed to wait for a while. Gu Mozhi saw a [?] button, he raised his hand and clicked it, and a small window popped up explaining the rules for obtaining and using points.
The rules for obtaining points were very simple. The first was to clear the instance, and the points would be awarded based on the performance; the second was the hidden method, which was not explained in detail. It was listed just to tell players that there was another way to obtain points, but it did not tell you what method it was, which was very unfair to the players.
As for the rules for using points, it was even simpler. There were two types in total. One was to use it to upgrade your physical fitness, such as making yourself run faster, react more quickly, be more resistant to beatings, etc.; the other was to keep it and not use it. You could redeem it, when you leave the game in the future, into the currency of the world they would finally settle in, lest they become destitute and starve to death on the streets as soon as they left the game.
As for the player’s identity after settling in that world, it would be resolved by the Lord God’s friendly help, in short, it wouldn’t let the player become a black household. However, whether the player could become a prince or a commoner depended on how many points they used to bribe the Lord God before leaving (…).
Gu Mozhi discovered a subtle point. The rules said that unless the player took the initiative to ask for a body, the system would arrange for the player to go into a baby. That is to say, under normal circumstances, players would not directly travel with their own bodies, nor would they replace others halfway. Therefore, after giving birth, it stood to reason that he would not starve to death and would be supported by his parents for the rest of his life.
Then why do you need to exchange points for money? It was better to use them all to bribe the Lord God so that you could be reincarnated into a wealthy family.
Obviously, the Lord God thought so too. When Gu Mozhi turned to the next page, he saw an additional reminder in bold and capital letters in brackets. At first glance, you might think that this was the focus of the entire rule——
(WE SINCERELY RECOMMEND THAT YOU USE ALL YOUR ACCUMULATED POINTS TO PURCHASE BIRTH CERTIFICATES IN ADVANCE!)
The so-called birth certificates were the Lord God’s cover for collecting-bribes. Low-level birth certificates were issued free of charge. Medium-level, Intermediate, Upper-level, High-level, etc. all had to be purchased by yourself. The higher the level, the better.
It sounded nice, but wasn’t it essentially just accepting bribes?
Fortunately, he didn’t need to be reincarnated. His body had already been strengthened to its peak, so he didn’t need to strengthen his body. He really didn’t need these points.
The facts had proven that flags couldn’t be set indiscriminately.
As soon as Gu Mozhi finished thinking this, he saw that the points settlement had ended, and the points he had obtained in this round…
[Customs clearance points: 70
Hidden points: 0
Points balance: 70]
He only got so little!
Whether he wanted points or not was one thing, not giving it to him was another.
Gu Mozhi immediately turned to ask the others: “How many points did you get?”
Before everyone could say anything, the young man said in surprise: “I only have 10 points for clearing the level, but I actually have 250 hidden points!”
“…….”