005 The most vulnerable thing is the life of others
-- The most vulnerable thing is the lives of others
Lord Death felt that this job was a toil. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info No salary, not to mention, and a lot of errands. It's okay now, there is only this one floor, and he can walk through the entire map with his eyes closed, but it is really hard for him to imagine how troublesome it will be if it opens to the thirty, fifty, or even ninety-ninth floors in the future.
Every time someone died, his notes would consciously run out to show him the way, and he also gave information such as maps and how to get there. It was really hard at first, and it took him half a day just to harvest his soul. And those people died uncomfortably, looking for places to commit suicide everywhere, making Lord Death complain for a long time.
Fortunately, he doesn't need to level up, and he doesn't need to fight monsters to earn gold. Because he doesn't repair equipment or go hungry, he only needs to earn enough money to stay in a hotel every day - in fact, it's okay not to earn, but he can't stand going without showers for a long time.
As a result, there is a strange rumor among the players, saying that a high-level player with a scythe can always be seen in various parts of the map, and where he appears, people often die. After listening to it too much, the players gave him the title of the Grim Reaper. No way, no one still knows where the extremely cool-looking scythe in the Grim Reaper's hand came from, and they don't know what kind of weapon it belongs to.
And it is said that the Grim Reaper is also very nosy, and most of the time you can ask him for help when you see him. Aside from not being able to help you kill monsters or equip you, he'll help you with a lot of things - including repairing equipment.
Yes, Lord Death also learned the life skill of forging equipment from NPCs. And more than that, he also learned cooking skills. Lord Death believes in the credo that if you eat well, you can live well. And because his notes are infinitely large, his inventory contains an infinite number of various potions.
Overall, Lord Death enjoyed this life very much, and even met several so-called "high-level souls" during this time, successfully completing his side quests. But he couldn't quite see where the height was, maybe it was the color of his soul after death?
Players enjoy it even more, completely treating Lord Death as some kind of mascot, and as long as they see it, good things will happen. Over time, no one regarded this extremely emotional Grim Reaper as a player, but as a special NPC. After all, they can't see the Grim Reaper's ID (name), but correspondingly, there is no unit indicator to indicate whether it is a friendly or hostile NPC, and they have not heard that he has ever issued a mission.
Everything about Lord Death is a mystery, and players only know that it is possible to encounter Lord Death in any corner of the map, including in the labyrinth. But until now, there is one thing that all players don't understand: the Grim Reaper never saves people.
Counting today, Lord Death has just spent the twenty-fifth day of coming here, which is nearly a month. Every day new people die, but no new people come in. The number of players has also been visibly reduced. And to Lord Death, he knew this best. Because he must send all his souls to hell with his own hands.
His notes seemed to have an automatic recording function, and he could find out how many souls had been harvested if he wanted to—another new feature.
In the past 20 days, a total of 1,767 people have died, which is exactly 2,000 if rounded. But even if you don't round it up, there will be 2,000 people in a few days, of which most of them commit suicide, and the remaining half are killed by monsters or accidentally. All the players were in a state of confusion. They see no hope of escape. Because even the most front-line players have not found the boss room so far.
It's been almost a month, but I haven't conquered the first layer yet. Breaking through a hundred floors may seem like an impossible task. And as long as they can't break through the hundred layers in two years, everyone will GG. Because the body in reality supports them to live for a maximum of two years.
The Grim Reaper, who had found the boss's room and seen the boss with his own eyes, was a rather tall kobold - though as obscene as his younger brother. However, Lord Death did not provide map information to this group of players. It's not that I don't want to, but I can't.
He tried it the next day, and once a player was besieged by a group of monsters in front of him, and that player also asked him for help. But when he tried to kill all the monsters with his scythe, he found that he couldn't move.
The player died as a matter of course, and Lord Death took his soul. That night, his beautiful boss told him why. That's when he understood what their duties meant.
"Death always comes after it's over, and we don't have the power to change anything. Don't try to save anyone who is dying, because we don't have that power. That is the inherent destiny of living beings, and we are not qualified to break it. ”
Lord Death thought for a moment before replying, "So we can only watch them die?" ”
"Yes." And his boss answered the question with great certainty.
"yes, that's a shame."
Lord Death smiled, not careless. He just thinks that saving people is the fastest way to get a good guy, but even if he doesn't, it's nothing. So death can't kill people, nor can it save people. Fortunately, he is not the kind of good person, and it is not the first time he has done this kind of thing when he sees death and does not save him, and he is very skilled. As long as he doesn't die, anything is negotiable. He is the kind of person who chooses to live his own dead world.
His boss told him that there would only be three outcomes of fate, and that it was permissible as long as it was not changed, namely living, dying, and dying faster. And if he gives the map of the boss room to that group of players in advance, it will change the course of the entire fate. According to the above conclusions, Lord Death can't fight the boss either.
In general, Lord Death can't do big things, but he can do small things. And as players gradually come to terms with the facts, fewer people commit suicide, and Lord Death has more time to help this group of players. His main quest is to make this group of players successfully conquer the entire game. In fact, he himself felt that this task was quite difficult, so he could only do his best.
He never wondered what the point of such a thankless job was. However, his beautiful boss said that it was meaningful, and it was not his pot anyway. It stands to reason that this kind of task that can be released can be completed.
I don't know if it's because his good guy card has been collected too much, or if his beautiful boss finally found out and decided not to let Lord Death do free coolies. Saying that as long as he can complete this main quest, he will be given a small reward.
He believed it, and worked hard for it. But even if he didn't have this small reward, he would go back and do it, because the person he is most grateful to now is his beautiful boss. If it weren't for his beautiful boss, he would have died a long time ago, and he could still be so alive.
The only thing that made Lord Death feel a little sorry was that after the square parted that day, he never met the beautiful girl with long maroon hair that he met on the first day. Probably the prettiest girl he's ever seen in this game.