Chapter 381: Killing Without a Trace

At the moment when someone fell, the other civilians who were originally envious of the group of professionals here joined in the fun changed their faces in an instant, and the instinct to survive made them immediately look in the direction of their families.

A few parents with quick eyes just picked up the child who had just fallen asleep and hugged it.

"Ahh

"Dead man."

Immediately, the commotion rolled away like the waves of a lake, and the civilians, who had come to their senses, hurriedly got up and looked at them for help.

Most of the professional adventurers around the deceased had gloomy faces.

They have professional abilities and can see their own character cards, which is extraordinary in itself.

Dead people aren't common, but they don't scare as much as civilians.

The improvement of the three exemptions of will, reflexes, and tenacity in professional abilities is real.

At this moment, several people in the vicinity walked over in turn, dragged the body of the bard who had fallen into the fire out, and extinguished the fire with the help of a mage's "freezing ray".

In the early hours of the morning, it was a waste for them to keep spell slots, and they began to be willing to cast spells.

A probationary priest lowered his head, judged with unfamiliar medical skills, stood up and shook his head helplessly at the crowd, "Dead." ”

And Vivian was also close to the past at this time, leaned out and checked, and also signaled to Zhao Xu, "It's already a little cold, I'm afraid that the time of death will be more than an hour." ”

This terrifying feeling of being next to the corpse for a while made the civilians exclaim, but it did not knock down the adventurers' hearts.

More professionals flocked to him, crouching down repeatedly to examine the dead bard.

Outside of this wilderness, all experienced adventurers trust their own checked judgments, and will not rashly accept the conclusions of other teams.

So the bard couldn't be deceived unless he was disguised with a fake death spell.

It's just that after coming to this conclusion, everyone looked at each other.

They sat around the campfire for at least a few hours.

The location of the deceased is not central, but it is also by no means remote.

This is killing people invisibly in front of everyone!

At this time, another soldier who had volunteered as a coroner for the church also stepped forward, called several people to carry the body into the tent, and then began the basic visual wound examination on the spot.

The rest of the people could only wait outside the tent, while watching the situation around them vigilantly.

If you die at home, it can still be considered a sudden death.

The loss of life in this desolate ruin is itself a kind of weirdness.

Vivien had already pulled out the Holy Avenger in her hand at this time, and the cold light of the sword body flashed across everyone's faces on the bonfire.

"Poor boy, he finally became an official bard last month, and he thought that he had saved enough money to go home and marry his daughter-in-law, but he actually encountered such an unfortunate thing."

Another middle-aged bard who walked with the deceased was also emotional.

Hearing this, the other adventurers in this ruin were also concerned, and their hearts were like red-hot firewood in a bonfire, constantly crackling.

"I can't seem to go offline safely." Suddenly, one of the players exclaimed.

All the players, who are still grinning, as if they are outsiders, can't help but look back at their character card panels.

"This?"

Zhao Xu also suddenly found that the button of "safe offline" disappeared.

Only another button, "Force Offline", remains, as if sneering at players who think they can stay out of the way.

Safely offline is a way for players to go offline after five minutes of normal disengagement from the battle, and then wait silently in place for a minute without strenuous exercise.

This is also to prevent players from abusing this method and urgently leaving the battle.

However, players have to go offline, in fact, they can also choose to force offline.

In this way, the child will stay in place, as if the whole person has lost consciousness and become a vegetative state.

"It feels like a big battle."

At this moment, one of the highest-ranking level 3 warriors in the field stood up, and he kept looking at the people around him, as if he was guessing something.

At this moment, Zhao Xu was also silent in his heart.

He didn't expect that this barren ruin land was so extraordinary, just a little disturbance, the system judged that they were in a dangerous state that they could not go offline safely.

In the almost four-month service opening process of Arthur, there are also many players who are unable to use the safe offline function without being harmed or even seeing monsters.

They are also facing the same situation as Zhao Xu and others.

As a few players who knew the inside story answered, the other players slowly calmed down.

After all, they are a big deal to force offline.

It's just that in this barren ruin, this is no different from handing over the resurrection stone.

More than 50% of players who have encountered the same situation have ended up dying.

Because they can go offline without being able to go offline, which in itself means that the place they are in, it is extremely dangerous.

"I don't think it's possible to kill people silently." The level 3 warrior who had just stood up said in ten steps and a sword, and just now he briefly introduced the status level, trying to seize the dominance of the current situation.

Even if it's just the player's part.

"Why, do you suspect that there is an inner demon in us? Is there someone who is deliberately retaliating? ”

Ten steps and a sword laughed confidently, "Whether it's an inner ghost or not, we'll know after the autopsy." ”

"If you know, you know it's useless to talk about it now, and it's not your turn to make decisions." Another Level 3 Wanderer player retorted.

As he spoke, he looked at Vivien.

Obviously, the strongest person in the field was this female knight who was suspected of being a paladin.

Whoever has the sharper sword will naturally speak louder.

"What's your name?" The warrior raised his eyebrows slightly in ten steps and a sword, a little dissatisfied with the wanderer's repeated interruption of his momentum.

"Blood." The wanderer said nothing.

Chaotic and neutral, he was already on the verge of danger, just a fight if he didn't accept it, he played the game, and who else was false.

As soon as the wanderer's words fell, the warrior's companion with ten steps and one sword immediately explained to him, and the other party was also the best among the wanderers in Lucca City.

As for the wanderers who are higher in the ranks, they have basically handed over the resurrection stones.

It's just that the warrior is determined, the wanderer who has no sneak attack ability, loses the sneak attack damage that affects the balance of victory, what can he do.

He pulled out the tomahawk on his back at the same time, intending to educate the wanderer on whose fists were harder.

However, at this time, the soldier who had first entered the autopsy also came out of the tent, and he shook his head with a heavy face, "The body did not have any wounds. ”

"And a simple toxicological analysis was conducted, and it didn't look like poisoning or anything."

In an instant, the suspicion of almost everyone present was ruled out.

There were no warrior monks present who were able to unleash an infiltration-force attack, a group of people of two or three levels, it was impossible to kill a person quietly unless they used spells.

"It's a corpse." Suddenly, an Arthur adventurer from Lucca City couldn't help but shout, "It's the corpse demon who has come back for revenge." ”

"Don't talk nonsense." The caravan steward Gao De couldn't help but pause his cane, "The rumors of the corpse demon have not appeared for at least ten years. Lukka City already thinks that the corpse demon has been killed or left. ”

"Corpses?"

At this time, when the players heard this unfamiliar term, they couldn't help but look at the other Arthur adventurers in surprise, curious about this past.

[Adventurer Midsummer, you go through the knowledge (place) test, pass the exemption, and get the information about the "corpse demon" as follows. 】

In an instant, all the legends about the "corpse demon" in the barren ruins were revealed at once.

The "Corpse Demon" is a crazy murderer who single-handedly attacks and kills passers-by and caravans in the desolate ruins.

His method of killing is extremely unique, that is, when everyone is asleep in the tent or when the fog thickens, he kills silently.

At the same time, there was no trace of blood left on the deceased's body, and there was no damage to the internal organs, as if the deceased had died suddenly without a trace.

It wasn't until the dead in the Wastelands were too frequent, and the cause of death was the same, that everyone noticed this strange place.

For a while, no business traveler dared to pass the safety post road in the entire barren ruins at that time, and later after Lucca City intervened in the investigation, it became clear that there was a murderer and named the other party "Corpse Demon".

It's just that when Lucca City invited powerful mages and priests to help capture the "corpse demon", the other party's criminal record has been abruptly stuck ten years ago.

So slowly, everyone's impression of this mysterious murderer who once shocked the desolate ruins is gone, and the memory is occupied again by other stories that have emerged from the ruins.

If Zhao Xu and a few others only know the keyword "corpse demon", then everything can only rely on Zhao Xu's "knowledge and skills".

But now on this foggy road, there is no shortage of people, and some immediately volunteer to stand up and recall history.

With the oral narration of this mercenary who participated in the corpse demon ruined the land of the time, everyone also slowly heard the history of that year.

The version is not much different from what Zhao Xu gets.

"It's kind of mysterious." At the beginning, the warrior who was full of confidence at the beginning took ten steps and one sword, and finally showed a slightly unconfident look.

"Did those who died show signs of weakness or decay?" Suddenly, Vivian, who was silently guarding Zhao Xu with a sword, spoke.

The mercenary immediately shook his head, "No, just like the poet today. It was like dying peacefully in a dream, with no struggling or painful look at all. ”

"Got an idea?" Zhao Xu came into contact with Vivian's "telepathy" ability as a succubus and communicated with her.

"This method is very similar to the means of our evil creatures, or the kind of evil creatures with some skills." Vivien laughed at herself, and she didn't mean much shyness.

Zhao Xu also agreed, even Vivian, who was a succubus, did not have such a direct means of killing.

When succubi kill people, they rely on their transformation, like a lustful man who is attracted to kisses, and then use the supernatural ability of "absorbing energy" through the process of kissing, directly causing the other party to lose the entire "level 1" life energy.

The kiss of the wandering warbler costs money, and the kiss of the succubus is wasted by the level, which is the truth.

Even though Vivien has become a "pure and kind" succubus holy warrior, she still maintains this weapon that can educate perverts.

At the same time, after the succubus kisses, it will also use the "suggestion technique" that he uses at will, and ask again if he wants an extra kiss.

Till death rests.

That's why Vivian asks if there are any signs of aging, to see if there is physical damage and vitality absorption.

"Vivien?"

Suddenly, Zhao Xu realized something.

Vivien, as a pure and kind paladin, will not change this aspect of her succubus.

Therefore, the reason why succubi, an otherworldly creature that lives in a plane outside the evil camp, is that even if their camp changes, they are still considered evil subspecies.

Succubus, on the other hand, are the chaotic subspecies, the evil subspecies.

This means that when it comes to faction calculations, she will also be counted.

"So, aren't you eating everything?" Zhao Xu asked.

Vivien also nodded a little bitterly at the moment, this is the thorn that the heart needs to carry forward for the light.

Vivien counts as a chaotic, evil subspecies, and as a paladin, she's in the "orderly" and "good" camps.

Therefore, attacking the "blasphemous words" outside the evil camp before can hurt the succubus, and attacking the "holy words" outside the good camp can also hurt her.

In the same way, the protection spells of the four major camps of protection against evil all take effect on her.

Not to mention, the legendary "Breaking the Good Chop", "Breaking the Evil Chop", "Breaking the Order Chop", and "Breaking the Chaos", Vivian eats all four chops.

This is Arthur, who is very particular about the camp, and Weiwei has suffered a loss in this regard since then.

At this moment, the surrounding crowd kept recalling the stories of the "corpse demons" in the past, and even some civilians who had experienced and heard about the past ten years ago were invited to tell them.

However, they themselves are also relatively shy, and the content of their memories is also fragmented, so everyone has not gained much.

"Don't you have first-hand information?" The warrior couldn't help but complain with ten steps and a sword.

"These contents are sealed, and the officials of Lucca City may still know about it." The housekeeper said that he didn't believe that he was the corpse demon who had returned, but at this time, he was also confused by everyone's discussion.

"He disappeared after the investigation, and as a result, even the initial report of the corpse demon was not released, so everyone still doesn't know what the corpse demon is." The soldier who conducted the autopsy said as he crouched in front of the campfire with a tobacco-stuffed pipe in his mouth.

"What do you say, how can you achieve this silent killing effect?" The butler Gao De raised his head and looked at the group of adventurers.

And the civilians standing in the distance didn't dare to sleep at the moment, and they all looked at this side, expecting these powerful adventurers to solve the problem.

After hearing the story of the corpse demon, basically no one dared to sleep peacefully at this moment.

Just hearing the butler's inquiry, even the high-spirited player adventurers were confused, and they didn't start rashly.

"Maybe it's an instant death effect."

Suddenly, Zhao Xu's voice looked at the tent where the corpse was parked in the shadows and said, his voice was not loud, but it penetrated this fog and entered everyone's hearts.