Warden Xiao Tongs stick was called [Ruleless].
Xiao Tong had been a warden in Yong Ye City for so many years, and this black extendable stick was his symbol. It was always either hung on his waist or held in his hands, never separated from him.
The applicable length of the stick was based on his height and arms length. Xiao Tong was 1.9 ters tall, so his stick was naturally longer. Its whole body was made of a special material similar to Yong Ye Citys black steel, its full length divided into three sections. When not in use, it was only as long as a fan, but when swung out, it could reach up to 26 inches. Its attack range was wide, carrying intense damage and even electric shocks.
Of course, [Ruleless] had far more uses than just sending electric shocks. One of its most important effects was its ntal suppression.
Coercion.
This was a vocabulary that was discussed often during all walks of life. Such a thing was invisible and intangible, but here, it beca a technique that [Ruleless] could automatically exert, and its effect was indiscriminate. Everyone received a different extent of suppression. The weaker the player was, the harder he would be suppressed, even to the point of kneeling down to surrender.
In the hands of Xiao Tong, [Ruleless] was the supre staff of Zone G. At this mont, in the hands of a monster, its effect had been massively reduced, but it still shouldnt be underestimated.
After all, this was the third-ranked equipnt on the White List, one of the three lists of Yong Ye City.
Dont be nervous, The Warden himself wont attack. Jin Cheng was well versed in the routines of Yong Ye Citys dungeons. There was no way Xiao Tong could act as the dungeon boss himself. Mr. Crow walked through the back door to bring his weapon in here.
As Jin Cheng spoke, he reassembled the two scimitars into a chanical bow with a crisp click, raised his hand to draw a tal arrow from the air, stretched the bowstring, then said: Against [Ruleless], avoid close combat at all costs.
The mont his voice fell, Swoosh , the long arrow left the string, officially starting the battle.
The extent of [Ruleless]s coercion was also dependent on the distance. The closer one was to it, the stronger the suppression would be released on him, so obviously, long-range attacks were the best course of action. Everyone didnt dare to doubt Jin Chengs instructions. Hearing his words, they backed out from the monster holding [Ruleless]. Those who were more cautious simply jumped far away and singled out other monsters.
Jin Cheng couldnt be bothered by that and continued firing arrows at the monster. As though flying a kite, he sent it away from the group.
For a rare ti, Leng Miao actually cooperated with him. His Air Cage blocked the monsters path from other people, minimising the influence of [Ruleless]s coercion.
Of course, it wasnt that he suddenly found Jin Cheng less annoying in his eyes, rather, it was because he himself also abhorred the feeling of being suppressed.
This ti, Mr. Crow might be unhappy, but he couldnt directly attack the players. If he cheated again, he would be sanctioned by the system. So he could only jump atop the road sign angrily while shouting that he would go to Tang Cuo to tell him that Jin Cheng was fooling around outside.
Jin Cheng put away his bow, sharply turned around and took his ti to respond to Mr. Crow: Go. If he does eat vinegar, please let know.
Today, Mr. Crow was also pissed off by Jin Cheng.
On the other side, Tang Cuo finally recovered from the impact on his soul. He found that if the shock was too strong, his HP would also drop, and the rate at which it dropped would even increase by a certain percentage.
He had only four healing potions left. There was a need to use them sparingly.
At this point, there were still 87 intact tombstones in the cetery. Tang Cuo emphatically checked those whose battery was too low. He had gotten very familiar with all the contents.
The important thing was linking the clues.
The sounds of notifications continuously ca from each cell phone. It could be seen that so clues hadnt yet surfaced, so Tang Cuo needed to wait.
What happened after the man in rain boots escaped from Xishan Road?
At this ti, a status hidden among all this chaotic information grabbed Tang Cuos attention A guy in XX province rushed to see his online girlfriend thousands of miles away, only to discover that she was a man!
Clicking on the link, Tang Cuo found an emotional story written in WeChats essay style. It took 800 words to describe the tangled emotions and pains of the guy in XX province, but actually, the whole thing seed really fake.
In the article, there was also the guys photo. His eyes were mosaicked, but his face was still clear. However, Tang Cuo had never seen this face before and felt rather unfamiliar.
Imdiately afterwards, the two incidents on Xishan Road rippled all over the Internet. One was the murder case where a girl was stabbed, and the other was the case of the dismbered corpse. The two cases instantly pulled widespread attention. The sounds of ding dong ding dong ca incessantly, warping the air into a very tense atmosphere.
Tang Cuo shuttled between the tombstones and saw no fewer than three versions of the story. So were close to the facts, so confused the two incidents, while there erged a large number of observers that were at the scene who added even more spice to the story, almost building it into an urban myth.
Especially on WeChat, under word of mouth, the story beca awfully convoluted.
Soone reposted screenshots of soone elses Wechat Monts to Weibo, and as the news spread on the second social network, it grew even more confusing. It didnt take long for the owner of those WeChat Monts to be found out.
None of the photos and personal information she posted on her Monts was spared. Everything was completely exposed to the public.
But Tang Cuo sensed a slight sense of disharmony from this. The girl seed to be in her twenties, wore makeup and had a celebrity-lookalike face. She loved taking selfies and showing off her high-end belongings. On her Monts, she often displayed a sense of superiority, which made her one of the most vulnerable targets for online attacks.
She was very thin and petite-sized, her hair laced with big curls. In a recent selfie, her hair was dyed brown.
The sense of disharmony ca from the girl herself.
In the murder case on Xishan Road, Tang Cuo didnt see the face of the victim, so he couldnt find her cell phone tombstone. But he did vaguely see her lying in a pool of blood through the gaps among the crowd from other videos.
She was much taller than the owner of those WeChat Monts, and she had long black hair. Because of the heavy rain and the low video quality, Tang Cuo couldnt pick up more details, but his intuition told him that they were two different people.
In order to make further confirmation, he searched through the previous videos again, and the result wasnt surprising.
It was normal for information to be erroneous while they were being spread out. Regardless of who the innocent girl that was criticised by the netizens was, Tang Cuo now wanted to know the victims identity even more.
He found the cell phone tombstone of the murderers, but never found the victims. This was illogical.
Could it be one of those tombstones that had exploded?
Tang Cuo tirelessly searched for it again. After another 15 minutes, he still didnt find it, but discovered sothing else. This ca from soones WeChat group chat
Listener of The Wind: I exposed her WeChat account. Let her experience the feeling of being greeted by others, hehe.
Greedy Little Fox: Thats not very nice
Poems From Afar: It was an unintentional mistake last ti, she didnt an to mock you. This matter has nothing to do with her. You exposed soones WeChat like this, isnt it cursing her to be disturbed till death?
Listener of The Wind: Then you go and replace her?
Listener of The Wind: That stinky bitch is not clean at a first glance, who knows if shes doing anything revolting behind everyones back? If theres no incident today, therell be tomorrow. I just make her a little more aware of a crisis in advance, it isnt like I directly harm her. Besides, its those online YXHA Chinese internet slang that stands for [ying xiao hao], which refers to accounts on social networks that specifically distribute viral news in order to garner massive amount of traffic from Internet users, usually for advertising purposes. In simplest terms, theyre like click-baiting tabloids. who love click-baiting people that spread the news, whats that got to do with ?
Listener of The Wind: Are you good friends with her? If you have the guts, file a complaint.
Listener of The Wind: Hee hee.
Listener of The Wind: Youve also slandered her behind her back, dont think I dont know. Dont pretend that youre nobler.
Pao Qi: Okay, dont talk about it anymore. I believe that none of us has any malicious intent. Were all friends, arent we?
Tang Cuo frowned a little.
Pao Qi was friends with these people, and the girl who was exposed also knew them, so there was a high chance that these people all had been to Xishan Road. Plastic sisters [su liao jie i hua], lit. translated as plastic sisters, refers to girls who engage in a hypocritical sisterhood. On the facade, they act like theyre besties, but behind, they slander and backstab each other. like them could always magically maintain their friendship on the facade, go out and play together, and thereafter, each of them would post their own Monts, shield each other yet also stab each other in the back at the sa ti.
There was no need to ask why Tang Cuo knew so much. When he was a detective, he took up a small case which required him to pretend to be an involved subject and chatted on WeChat for a month in order to carry on his investigation.
He was proficient with words such as hee hee, uhm, dont want lah, love you, etc., and he even had to shuttle through seven different WeChat groups. These were all truthfully recorded in his Survival Assessnt Report.
Honestly, hed rather be bitten by a dog every day.
As his thoughts returned to the incident at hand, the culprits that released this behind-the-scenes information and their motives had been obtained, and it seed that it had nothing to do with the incident on Xishan Road itself. But the stories presented in the whole Cetery of Souls werent so much like dominos that could cause a chain reaction, rather, they were like a spider web.
Every seemingly inconspicuous and unrelated story was a node on this web, and no one knew whether this node would be connected to other threads.
Perhaps this spider web should be called the Internet.
Thinking of this, Tang Cuo decisively overturned his previous judgent on the criteria to determine a souls life and death. Everyone was a node on this web. To choose certain fragnts presented in this whole story to deem whether a soul was alive or not didnt seem good enough.
Take for example Pao Qi who had appeared several tis. Her personality was hypocritical, her selfies were hypocritical, and between her flowery words, there lingered a sense of selfishness and indifference to other peoples lives. But relying on these alone to judge whether she had beco an empty shell without a soul wasnt enough.
Moreover, Tang Cuo had always remained fundantally skeptical about the information displayed on the cell phone tombstones. To have outrageous doubts yet reasonable assumptions simultaneously was a necessary quality of a detective.
If the criteria for judging life and death wasnt as mysterious as Tang Cuo thought previously, the problem would beco simpler. There were 99 tombstones in the Cetery of Souls, representing 99 people related to the Xishan Road incident. But unless a teorite fell down or an oil truck exploded, how could such a large number of people die at the sa ti in a modern society?
The dungeon asked to find three souls that were still alive, which ant that 96 of them were dead.
What if he looked at it the other way around?
Tang Cuo rembered what he heard when he first entered Yong Ye City Welco back to Yong Ye City.
He was very concerned at that ti. Why on earth did they say back to Yong Ye City, and what did the word back an?
Such an intricate guess had to be validated. The most direct way was to find the tombstones of the two murdered girls and open the coffin to verify them. But by now, the girl who was stabbed on Xishan Road remained unidentified, while the tombstone of the ga live strear hadnt been found.
Tang Cuo saw her live streaming interface on soone elses cell phone screen, not her own.
So far, Tang Cuo had checked all tombstones more than once, but still hadnt located both the girls. The harder they were to find, the more likely that he was going in the right direction.
The Trial Ga of Life was just a prologue, and coming back to Yong Ye City ant they were truly alive, so Death was the beginning of Life.
But the mission required three living souls, which ant there was a third victim. It was impossible for a dog to own a cell phone, so Tang Cuo would take it out of the equation for now.
The most urgent thing was to find the third victim, then use the thod of elimination to determine their respective tombstones. As Tang Cuo finalised his thoughts, his eyes beca even more resolute.
Xiao Tong watched his changes closely and guessed that he mightve understood the way to clear this gate. He smiled and shifted his gaze away slightly. If Tang Cuo was able to bring him such a great surprise, Zheng Yingying would need to be examined further.
At this juncture, Zheng Yingying was facing a tough choice.
Prior to this, Zheng Yingying had relied on [Infinite Forms] to successfully get into the monster doctors team, snatched a few bottles of dicine and secretly gave them to ng Yufei. The monster doctors here could speak human words and follow certain behavioural routines, but their intelligence remained rather low. When they discovered that the dicine was missing, they would only go crazy and start looking for it, but wouldnt attack their allies.
Zheng Yingying always pretended to be the weakest and least conscious monster among them. Whatever they did, she followed, which dangerously helped her blend in without being noticed.
ng Yufei cooperated very well with her. Although it wasnt the sort of mutual understanding between comrades, at least he didnt try to do anything detrintal. But just when Zheng Yingying planned to continue doing this, sothing happened.
In front of her, Ward 304s door was suddenly knocked open, then a figure staggered out of it and obviously smashed very hard against the ground, but the young man in his early twenties still laughed.
He curled up on the ground in pain, trying to get up but couldnt, because all his strength seed to have been used to let out that laughter.
Hahahahaha As though his laughing nerve had been triggered, the man was giggling non-stop, the expression on his face seemingly fixed by a clamp. The corners of his mouth both curled up and all his facial muscles were raised to maintain that laughing face.
But he was in such despair, for that laughter was drenched in crack-down and helplessness, as if he was crying with a smile. As such, his expression looked particularly distorted.
Hahahaha, kill, kill hahahaha Seeing the monster doctors approaching, his eyes exuded not even a hint of fear. Instead, he leaned over, stretched out his hand to them and pleaded humbly: Kill , hahahaha, kill, hahahaha
The monster doctors made hoho sounds as they surrounded him with curiosity. Zheng Yingying also followed, but she was camouflaged behind [Infinite Forms], so the player couldnt recognise her.
But no matter how much the man begged, the monster doctors didnt move a finger. Perhaps The instructions they received were to simply inject the patients with sedatives and subdue anyone who resisted. This situation was obviously not on their list.
Since they didnt do anything, the man broke down more and more. He was laughing so hard that tears burst from his eyes, making him look all funny yet desperate.
Zheng Yingying could kill him, but she was very curious. If he wanted to die, why didnt he commit suicide?
Yong Ye City had lifted its suicide ban since long ago.
Suddenly, the mans hand that was waving randomly grabbed Zheng Yingyings ankle. He cast a pleading gaze on the most human-looking monster and repeated those words again.
This familiar scene reminded Zheng Yingying of Jiang He and herself. Back then, she grabbed Jiang He by the ankle to make him save her and keep her alive, but now, this man was begging to die.
Ding The wall clock in the asylum signalled that an hour had passed.
The monster doctors made their rounds to the wards every hour, which ant that a new round was coming and it was ti for the patients to take dicine. The monster doctors surrounding the man imdiately beca exhilarated, then they dragged the man back to the ward, pressed him on the bed, then all turned back to look at Zheng Yingying.
The dicine was in Zheng Yingyings hand.
The leading monster pulled out the patients diagnosis and read the verdict like Zheng Yingyings: Autistic, withdrawn and socially evasive. Recomnd to be injected with laughing genes and strictly forbid to stay alone.
As the voice fell, Zheng Yingying, who entered the ward last, discovered that this was a ward with more than one patient. Most of the wards in this asylum housed only a single person, while such multi-bed wards were rare.
There were a total of three beds here. Lying next to the door was the laughing man, lying next to the window was another man who looked younger, his body covered in electrical wires, while lying in the middle was a woman with a raised abdon, as though she was pregnant.
Were there pregnant won in this dungeon?
Upon such a sight, even Zheng Yingying couldnt help but beco a little hesitant, but in order not to expose herself, she imdiately snapped out of it and ca close to the man with the syringe and dicine.
How should I do it?
Do you want to die? She asked suddenly.
The other monster doctors all looked up at her and blinked their murky eyes, as if they didnt understand why this ally was asking for sothing outside the instructions.
Yes! The man finally uttered a single syllable, abruptly holding back his laughter.
Zheng Yingying nodded, but still pushed the needle towards him. The man was shocked when he saw this, his laughter burst again, but his tone changed. He was both frightened and angered, with tons of question marks lacing his laughter, then he began to resist.
Theres only one way to live, but there are thousands of ways to die. Zheng Yingying tilted her head, raised the syringe and smiled: You want to die, dont you?
Ill fulfil your wish.
No! No!!! The man struggled hard. He wanted to die because he couldnt stand these laughing genes, so how could he bear a second shot?
But the cold needle had already reached his hand. He was completely wretched, then a trace of madness was born out of despair. It was the insanity that was reached after a person remained trapped in desperation, perpetually unable to break free.
He gritted his teeth, to the point that blood started oozing out from his gum. He bounced off the bed and slamd into the monster closest to him. The monster accidentally bumped into Zheng Yingyings arm, so Zheng Yingyings needle made an exaggerated 180-degree turn and plunged into the arm of the monster next to her.
Oops, slip of the hand. She lanted and forcefully pushed the dicine into the monster.
Everything happened in a flash.
The syringe was too big, and before all the dicine could be pushed in, Zheng Yingying abandoned the needle and slumped down, rolled forward, then got under the next hospital bed with a rather clumsy and struggling posture.
Utterly stupefied by her move, the monster doctors failed to react for two seconds. Only then did they rush in desperately to catch her, but they couldnt grasp the corner of her clothes. The bottom of the bed was so narrow that they were unable to get in with their huge bodies.
They began to howl, and the monster pierced by the needle had already started laughing uncontrollably. An eerie-looking monster was forced to keep laughing and making such a horrifying laughter. This gripping scene was sothing that no players in this ward would ever forget.
The ward went entirely amok.
The monster doctors gave up on the laughing patient because they wanted to catch Zheng Yingying. The man sat up with a little astonishnt. Although he couldnt stop laughing, after such a long ti, the effect of the dicine had diminished.
He clenched his teeth and finally summoned a weapon, then he jumped at the monsters back.
Ah! he yelled and slashed towards the monsters back. Although his aim was accurate, the enemy struck back and sent him flying in the opposite direction. With a loud bang, he hit the hospital bed in the middle, knocking down the woman who was lying on the bed.
The woman was in a coma, so she hadnt been moving, but at this mont, she woke up hugging her stomach. Blood was heavily trickling out from under her body, and the severe pain almost made her faint again.
When she turned her head, the monster was waving its claws at her, its breath soaked in a bloody stench.
Ill fight you till death! She seriously was going mad. She flicked her hand indiscriminately, sending out a fla attack. At such a close distance, it hit the monster right in the middle of its face.
This also caused Zheng Yingying, who had just crawled out of the hospital bed behind her, to almost have her eyebrows burnt.
Fortunately, her head was bald, otherwise her hair would definitely not escape the fire.
The monster actually wanted to catch Zheng Yingying, but it would never have expected that the woman suddenly rolled off the bed and got in the middle. Upon seeing this, Zheng Yingying took advantage of the mont the woman went berserk to grab her dagger and stab it over the womans shoulders. She didnt care about accuracy, insistently smashing it against the monster.
The fla attack coupled with the curse of the [Naless Dagger] made the monster struggle for a second, then it stepped back while letting out a loud scream.
At that mont, the young man on the last hospital bed jumped up and landed onto the monster like a wild tiger taking down its prey, and with an electrocuting device in one hand, he firmly pressed it against the enemys forehead
You dare to electrocute . You dare to look down on this gaming geek. Ill electrocute you to death!
If Tang Cuo or Jin Cheng were here, they would definitely recognise that this person was the sa Qian Wei that they t in the dungeons [On A Snowy Night, He Returns] and [Conquering Demon City].
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