First Player

Chapter 2 · "Don't quibble, you are the Soul Clan!"

Su Mingan opened his eyes.

In front of him was the dead end of the corridor.

Under the dim light from above, he saw the ventilation opening above.

He chose to retreat.

In this world copy, he must race against time. Not only do you have to find the perfect route to pass the level, you also have to ensure that you are the fastest, otherwise the opportunity will be taken away by others... Among the 10,000 people in the dungeon, only one person can complete the level perfectly. This is the difficulty of this giant dungeon.

Therefore, he couldn't let go of the opportunity.

Not just do it well, but do it as quickly as possible…

He stood there and saw the vent above.

He switched to light mode, and before Naraku behind him noticed him, he jumped onto the vent and climbed all the way inside. The moist breeze blew past his face, and when he saw the next light, he smelled the smell of blood.

As expected.

He did not rashly probe into the light, but used his annihilation to drill a small hole underneath and looked inside.

...He saw a sea of ​​blood.

The room below is not a guest room, but a studio-like room. Those players were lying on the ground, already turning into four corpses.

Apart from this, there was no one else around, and the door was closed. It was like a special corpse storage room.

What Su Mingan is very concerned about is that these players do not have the same two wounds on the necks of the woman who was attacked, and their faces do not have the soul-sucking paleness. They just died like ordinary people who were attacked. The fatal spot was injured by a blunt force blow, and he died cleanly.

…It’s not like they were attacked and killed by the soul clan.

Instead...it looked like he was beaten to death by someone.

But last week, when people discovered these four corpses, they clearly looked like they had died at the hands of the Soul Clan...

Su Mingan thought for a moment.

"……I see."

He already roughly understood the whole process of the matter.

Seeing that there was no one below, he summoned Ming's clone and asked him to jump down and observe.

"Click."

While Ming was observing, the door was suddenly pushed open.

A man dressed as a crew member caught Ming's gaze. The next moment he saw Ming, the crew member's eyes immediately became fierce.

Without saying a word or even asking, the crew member drew his weapon and swung it at Ming.

...Ming Ke still has the same appearance as Su Ming'an. There should be no player who doesn't know him by now.

If the crew dared to attack him after seeing his appearance, he was probably an NPC.

Perhaps this crew member regarded Ming as the cannon fodder player team in the previous wave, and he was very confident when he rushed towards them.

"Bang" sound.

The stick in the crew member's hand was knocked away by Ming Yijian.

The next moment, the sword blade penetrated the crewman's neck, and he didn't even have a chance to call for help.

[You killed Orr (senior crewman of the Ater), Exp+800! 】

…

Blood spurted out like a fountain, dyeing the room red.

Su Mingan didn't know how strong this crew member was, but judging from his experience, he shouldn't be a cannon fodder. No wonder the player team was wiped out here within ten minutes.

Now it is difficult for him to judge the strength of NPCs. He can only judge their level by looking at the experience points dropped by NPCs.

"Ding dong!"

[You have been promoted to a (Level 3-5) player. 】

…

The system prompted him to move up a level.

Since reaching the third level, the upgrade has become slower and slower. Killing some low-level NPCs has also begun to significantly reduce experience. If you kill NPCs that deviate from the route, you will not even gain experience.

The current prompt seems to be telling him that killing these crew members...is the right route?

Su Mingan thought for a moment and walked out along the path where the crew opened the door just now.

Walking out of the blood-filled room, he saw a wooden ladder extending downwards, and there was some hot breath coming from below, like the power room of a giant ship.

Ming jumped down and ran into a group of crew members gathered in the power room, seemingly discussing.

There were at least a dozen crew members gathered here. They seemed to be conspiring, and the candles on the table were still lit.

When the crew saw Ming, they were nervous for a moment, then quickly picked up their weapons and rushed forward.

"somebody is coming!"

"Whoever it is, kill him! This matter must not be leaked-"

The leader shouted, the stick in his hand not slowing down at all.

What greeted him was the sword wind like a bright moon arc.

"Puff puff!"

The blade of the sword shone dimly under the candlelight, and corpses fell to the ground with a thud.

Blood spread all over the ground and seeped down the ship's planks.

[You killed Naike (senior crewman of the Ater), Exp+800! 】

[You killed Henry (special crew member of the Arter), Exp+1000! 】

【……】

Su Ming'an followed closely and stretched out his hand towards the crew members who rushed towards the door in a hurry——

"boom--!"

The air glass cracked like shatters, along with the torn bodies of the crew members.

After a loud noise, the entire power room fell silent. The thick smell of blood filled the air, and the floor was stained red with blood.

Su Mingan glanced at the dead crew members and found a wooden box next to them.

Inside the wooden box were placed some green medicine and a small scalpel. The blade had a strange shape, like a long, slightly thick, rhombus-shaped needle.

"..." Looking at this long needle with a special shape, Su Mingan understood.

"I see."

He already understood the entire process of the so-called "Attack of the Soul Clan".

He was about to tell his inference and complete the main task when he suddenly heard rapid footsteps coming from behind.

…That’s where he came from.

He thought of Miss Naraku. Now it seemed that Naraku was killed after entering here and losing to these crew members.

He asked Ming to hide in the cabinet next to him. After a while, Naraku's red hair was the first to come over.

She still looked very wary, holding a black cloth bag in her hand, but when she saw a room of corpses and Su Mingan looking at her, the wariness in her eyes turned into shock.

"Huh? Rin?" She was stunned: "Why are you here...you killed them?"

"Miss Naraku, you are really brave." Su Ming'an said.

He was telling the truth. If he hadn't come earlier tonight, Naraku would definitely die at the hands of these people.

"What do you mean?" Naraku jumped down, his long flame-like hair flying in the wind behind him.

As she fell, the bag in her hand fell off, revealing a blood-red spear.

She landed on the ground, her body was light, and with a flip of her wrist, she pointed the gun directly at him, and her voice became a little cold:

"Rin, I didn't expect that I would bump into you here."

She said, pointing the cold tip of the spear at him:

"You appear in the middle of the night, kill the crew, and act sneakily... If I guess correctly, you are the culprit of the chaos on the Art - the Soul Clan!"

Su Mingan: "..."

Su Mingan: "Is this the conclusion you came to?"

"——Why, you have nothing to say, stop quibbling!" Naraku shouted loudly, seeming to be very proud: "If I hadn't had an idea tonight and wanted to go out and catch the abominable murderer, I wouldn't have I discovered your atrocities! Su Lin, although I know that you like me very much, you like me so much that you even play hard to get, and you have waited many times on my only path..."

When she said this, she seemed to sigh in embarrassment: "But... the racial difference means that we cannot love each other. Su Lin, please realize that human souls have different paths. I will kill you here tonight, This is the fate of love between us - if there is another life, I would be willing to give you a chance to marry me..."

Su Mingan: "..."

Su Mingan: "Naruo."

"——Don't say anything to make me soft-hearted. I will never let you go no matter what! I have been practicing spear training for ten years in the training ground. Even the teacher praised me for my talent. It will be easy to capture you. ——”

"Read less romance stories." Su Mingan interrupted her: "...be more thoughtful."

Naraku's eyebrows were raised: "You, what do you, a soul clan, say-"

"I'm not a soul clan." Su Mingan said.

"Stop quibbling. If it weren't for the Soul Clan, how could you, a guy who couldn't even use a gun, sneak around in the middle of the night and kill so many crew members by yourself!" Naraku frowned: "Just now, I said I saw the corpses of four civilians. It must have been your fault! Rin, I didn’t expect that you would be discovered by me after hiding on the Yate for so long..."

"...Have you ever observed the death scenes of those four civilians?"

"What else, isn't it just a blow that kills you with one blow..." When Naraku said this, he was stunned: "Huh?"

Su Mingan moved away and asked her to take a closer look at the corpses of the crew members lying on the ground: "Have you ever seen a soul clan kill someone in the middle of the night but not suck the soul?"

"That's that!" Naraku said forcefully: "That must be because you are afraid of being discovered and want to move your position..."

Su Mingan ignored her.

He squatted down and dragged the body of a crew member in front of him. Then, he took out the syringe containing green liquid found in the wooden box and injected the liquid into the body of the crew member.

Then, he saw that the bodies of the crew members shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and died like old tree bark.

...Gradually it turned into a deathly look with a pale complexion, as if the soul had been sucked.

Under Naraku's surprised gaze, he took out the diamond-shaped scalpel on the side and made two incisions on the neck of the corpse.

After doing all this, he stood up and looked at Naraku.

"Have you come to any other conclusions now?" he asked.

"..." Naraku fell silent.

She knelt down and observed the corpse carefully, and finally came to an extremely ridiculous idea.

"This corpse..." she said softly: "It is exactly the same as the death appearance of a person who was attacked by the soul clan."

"Any corpse that has been treated with these two instruments will look like it was attacked by the soul clan and died." Su Ming'an turned the scalpel in his hand: "If I hadn't come here tonight, the four corpses upstairs, including those of Ran Ran If you rush over, you may become a 'case' in which you are attacked and killed by the Soul Clan."

"..." Naraku's eyes were filled with disbelief.

"What on earth do you mean?" Her mind couldn't turn around for a moment.

Su Mingan looked at the wooden box next to him.

Dozens of such sets of tools were neatly arranged in the wooden box. Looking at the number, these crew members would kill at least dozens of passengers.

"These crew members... took the initiative and killed the victims who were probing at night, pretending that they were attacked and died by the Soul Clan. Then, rumors spread that the terrifying Soul Clan appeared on the Ater. Su Mingan said slowly: "But in fact, the Yate, on which the empire has high hopes, is regarded as the pearl of the sea... there is no so-called soul clan on it.

This is just an artificial panic, a panic created for the sake of panic. "

"Ding dong!"

When he came to this conclusion, the system prompt also sounded at the same time.

[The inference that "the panic on the Yate was a man-made panic" is correct! 】

[Inference progress: 50%]

…

"Why did the crew do this?" Naraku simply couldn't figure it out.

She could not imagine that something so outrageous would happen on the Ater, which was regarded as the hope of the empire.

...The crew took the lead in killing the passengers, and then caused the panic of "there are souls on the Ater"?

"You don't doubt me anymore?" Su Mingan said.

Naraku glanced at him.

"Hmph... Although I am eager to find the attacker, I am still willing to reluctantly believe you." She snorted softly: "With your family's strength, how could you possibly get such a strange potion? I am still more willing to believe it. There is a bigger conspiracy inside."

Su Mingan smiled.

Fortunately, Miss Naraku no longer doubted him.

Otherwise, if she never believed him and kept dragging him to meet some soul hunter, he would kill her.

He has little sympathy for NPCs who cannot reason.

"You have become a lot smarter after staying with me for several days." Naraku said, "Although I don't know when you practiced your skills, it is not difficult to subdue these crew members, so I reluctantly believe you. Bar."

...isn’t it difficult?

Su Mingan said nothing.

He remembered that in the last week, Miss Naraku died at the hands of this group of crew members who she thought were "not difficult to deal with."

"So, why did the crew do this?" Naraku asked.

"What benefits can the crew get after creating panic?" Su Mingan said: "If you think about it from this direction..."

Naraku pondered for a moment: "Once the soul tribe appears on the Yate, the first one sent out will definitely be the soul tribe hunter."

"But those who killed these innocent people are not the so-called soul tribe at all. There is no soul tribe on the Art." Su Mingan said: "Then, after people learned that the soul tribe hunters can't catch the soul tribe at all." After this news, they will become even more panicked and desperate - the number of victims increases every moment, and the voyage that has been deliberately slowed down still has two full days... Even in order to expand the panic, these crew members will actively set traps, Attack the soul hunters and remove the last defensive barrier of the nobles."

When he said this, he looked at Naraku:

"Under such circumstances...the number of survivors is decreasing day by day, and the soul hunters are dying...then what will those nobles who cherish their lives do?"

"...On the Yate, there are dozens of lifeboats, enough to save the entire middle- and upper-class passengers and escape. This is prepared to prevent the ship from sinking." Naraku's voice was a little slow: "After this happened, The nobles will definitely choose to put down the lifeboat, take the hunter away, and abandon the Ater, which has become a liability..."

"Then, without the upper ruler, the Yate will become the property of these crew members." Su Mingan shook his hand and threw away the syringe in his hand:

"...This is the whole process of their conspiracy."

…

[The inference that "the attackers in the Soul Clan incident were mid- to high-level crew members" is correct! 】

[Inference progress: 100%]

[Main mission·Searching for the truth (1/3) mission completed! 】