First Player

No. 2 "Lord Su Lin"

Su Ming'an left Ming in the cab, walked up the corridor, and faced the corpses in the corridor.

These are the bodies of the special crew members who worked together to plan this conspiracy. During Su Mingan's journey, they also tried to ambush him, but he killed them all.

He found a lot of syringes and scalpels from their room. It seemed that this plan had been planned for a long time.

Of course, there must be players among these crew members, but Su Mingan would kill them directly no matter who they were to prevent his identity from leaking out.

He turned around, and the dim lantern was put aside. A girl with long red hair was squatting on the ground. Rose petals were dotted on her hair, glowing with a layer of pale gold under the light.

She is handling these corpses and recovering incriminating evidence from them.

Su Mingan glanced at her, then stepped directly across the sea of ​​blood and walked outside.

"Hey, Rin, where are you going?" Naraku called from behind.

"Go back to bed, I'm sleepy." Su Mingan didn't look back.

"Wait a minute, Rin, you have to report this matter to the Grand Duke..." Naraku immediately followed him: "This is a great achievement! You have uncovered this conspiracy, and the Grand Duke will definitely promise you a lot. Rewards, you can use these rewards to revitalize your family..."

Su Mingan glanced at her.

Naraku's body was also covered in blood. The eldest lady who was supposed to die tonight managed to survive. She didn't know that she had escaped death once, but now she seems to be full of energy.

"Report it to the Grand Duke, are you looking for death?" He laughed: "Let me ask you, Naraku, before the Ater set sail, have you ever seen such a potion in the empire that can fake a corpse?"

Naraku, who was originally in high spirits, was stunned when faced with his question.

Her words swirled around in her mouth, and then she suddenly realized something. Even the original excitement of revealing the conspiracy faded away.

"...No." She said.

"Then before the Yate set sail, did you hear anything about the presence of the Soul Clan?"

"...No." Naraku replied.

She remembered that when the Yate set off, the soul tribe in the Yate Empire was almost on the verge of extinction. These soul tribes were driven away like underground rats and had to travel across the ocean.

That's why she felt so strange when there were traces of the Soul Clan on board the Art, where identity checks were strict.

"That's right." Su Mingan looked at her: "Such a big conspiracy, so many special crew members united to overthrow the rule of the nobles, to take over this pearl of the sea... These people, they are united and ready. They used a potion that had never appeared before, and there was no flaw in the implementation of the plan... They hid it from the nobles, hid it from the soul hunters, and hid it from all the passengers... If I hadn't come here tonight, I wouldn't have even People will find out that this is just a man-made conspiracy.”

When he said this, he looked towards the deep and dark corridor.

"Naraku - do you think such a large-scale operation was just organized by the crew on their own initiative?"

"..."

Naraku stopped talking.

Even if she really doesn't like to use her brain, she can still understand the meaning of Su Ming'an's words.

"how do you want to do it?"

She was silent for a moment and then suddenly said.

"Rin, to be able to make such disrespectful speculation, you probably don't have any loyalty to the empire in your heart." She said, her expression unchanged: "So, what do you want to do? Is to let it go and treat it as such? Nothing happened tonight, or did you do something more extreme than those great nobles, such as being one step ahead and subverting the Yate ship faster than them?"

"..." Su Mingan didn't speak, just looked at her.

Naraku suddenly felt a little flustered.

The Rin in front of her... was so strange that she was extremely frightened.

He always looked at her with a purposeful gaze, like looking at a symbol or a commodity. When she said different words, his gaze would change accordingly, as if he was measuring. Wearing nothing.

She is naturally sensitive to people's gaze, and the same is true for Rin. The Rin in front of her who suddenly showed super fighting ability... was now so unfamiliar that it frightened her.

She felt that time seemed to have passed for a long time, and it seemed that it only stayed for a moment. When the young man's eyes moved away from her body, she heard his sudden voice:

"...You go back."

He said:

"You act like nothing happened tonight."

"What about you?" Naraku couldn't help but ask.

"Starting from tomorrow, the lifeboats will be lowered one after another. With your status, it should be no problem to get on one and you can survive." Su Mingan said and turned around.

"Hey you……"

Naraku's anxious voice came from behind.

Su Mingan ignored it.

He waded through the blood river on the ground, walked out of the dark corridor, and walked up the stairs to the upper level with blood all over him.

The rain outside the window pattered on the glass, and black clouds pressed against the sky. The windows were like black holes, embedded in the ship walls covered with beige wallpaper.

Suddenly, a dazzling and tragic fire shot out from the clouds, thunder exploded, and the blazing white light illuminated Su Mingan's face. He looked sideways and saw a slender bolt of lightning slashing down from the clouds like a sword.

……The rain is getting heavier.

He glanced at the wall clock and saw that the time was approaching four in the morning.

This was the time when the passengers on board the Ater were fast asleep.

The space vibrated in his left hand, ready to attack, while his right hand held up a bright silver sword.

When he turned the corner and was about to step onto the stairs to the sixth floor, he saw a middle-aged soul hunter in black uniform standing there.

Puller, the soul hunter responsible for protecting the Duke, also raised his head at this time and met his eyes.

"The sixth floor is the duke's residence, and no one else is allowed to enter... huh?"

Puller glanced at the young man who was moving at night and suddenly smelled the blood on his body.

His eyes immediately turned cold. No matter who the opponent was, if he dared to carry the sword and walk up to the sixth floor, he had the obligation to subdue the opponent.

...We cannot let such a dangerous person get close to the Grand Duke.

He stretched out his hand and took the lead. As a bloody light lit up on his wrist, a powerful red light suddenly blew over like a wind.

"Wow——"

There was a sound like a sea wave, and a menacing red light wave blew across Su Mingan's body, and he heard the system prompt.

[Shrouded by (soul-based bursting light wave), judgment is in progress...]

[Judgment successful, constitution \u003e 40 points, strength \u003e 30 points, completely immune to explosion effects. 】

…

A red light wave flashed past, like an illusory light flashing on him, and then there was no movement.

Su Ming'an stopped staying and immediately stepped forward, slashing at the soul hunter blocking the stairs.

Judging from the judgment just now, the strength of the soul hunter is quite strong.

The total judgment points exceed 70, and the judgment is still dispersed. The judgment level is quite high. The strength of the soul hunter may be the pinnacle of the small map of Yate. The boss-like existence should be similar to the original flax.

The next moment, Su Mingan realized that his judgment was correct.

Gundam was blocked by the middle-aged man in front of him. Although the opponent was holding up a defensive shield and it was not a sword-to-sword clash, being able to withstand this blow already showed that the opponent was not weak.

However, the opponent's strength value was obviously not as high as his, the defensive movements were somewhat broken, and the corners of the defensive shield began to crack.

Su Mingan directly increased his strength and pressed down with the long sword.

There was a crisp sound of "crack".

Like broken pieces of blue glass, the defensive shield burst open in an instant. Su Mingan's sword slashed into the opponent's shoulder, and blood shot up like an arrow.

【HP-567! 】

【HP-150! (Real damage!)]

The bright red numbers jumped out instantly, and Su Mingan saw that the other party's left hand had already raised a pistol inlaid with vermilion gems.

…

[The battle situation is detected and the boss battle mode is entered. 】

[Current boss (Pule), combat power: 1600]

[Winning rate comparison: 86%]

…

1600 combat power.

If a player wants to violently seize this ship, he must first defeat three 1 hunters. This is almost an impossible task.

...except myself.

He stared at the pistol pointed completely at him, saw Puller in front of him tightening his shoulders so that his sword was stuck and unable to pull it out, and looked at the opponent's bearded face with a victorious smile...

"Bang!"

The bullet came out of the barrel, and a stream of blood-red light flashed past, hitting his forehead like it was breaking through the air.

The annihilation flashed on Arman's sword. He pulled out the sword without any hindrance. When the opponent retreated, the blade in his hand was released in an instant, and it was nailed to the opponent's neck with incomparable precision.

——A blood-red halo is appearing there, which is the combat prompt of the weakness insight skill.

"Bang!"

[HP-121 Insight Breaking Move Bonus! )]

【HP-200! (Real damage!)]

Puller fell heavily against the wall and was nailed directly to the wall with a sword. The entire cabin shook suddenly.

With a "ding" sound, the bullet fell to the ground, as if it was suddenly suppressed by the air.

Su Mingan activated Future Heart's suppression skill in time to prevent himself from being shot in the head.

In the face of such firearm attacks, the energy suppression effect is extremely effective. He can now barely control the control range of a little energy suppression, so that he will not fall with the ceiling of the stairs next to him.

He took a breath, stepped forward to draw his sword, and heard the system prompt.

[*You killed Puller (Art No. A-level soul hunter), Exp+3000! 】

[You obtain the Hunter Medal·A level*1]

[Hunter Medal·A Level: Holding this medal can exchange soul points to the soul camp. The soul points can be exchanged for equipment and props at key NPCs in the soul camp. 】

…

A golden medal appeared on his hand, with a blood-red gem in the middle and golden wheat ears wrapping it on both sides. It looked exaggerated.

He put the medal away in his backpack and approached Puller's body.

He has realized that the soul hunter is indeed not weak. It was only because his combat power had reached the level of 1 high health and low health, and he was pierced through the throat by a sword that the battle was so short.

He didn't know where the other two soul hunters had gone, or whether they were equipped with firearms to fight, but he knew that one of them was the old man who had been with Saya before.

He also met the old man once when he was chasing the four death-seeking players in the last game. The old man should be the hunter responsible for night patrols.

The remaining person should be responsible for protecting another noble noble, but I don't know who he is protecting.

He searched Puller's body and even picked up the opponent's gun and tried it, but found that it could not be used. The system also displays "broken firearms".

He stuffed the gun into his backpack, walked past Puller's body, and looked at the golden door to the side.

This sixth floor does not have many rooms like other floors. There is only one door in the entire corridor.

It seems that the accommodation conditions of the Grand Duke are quite good, and the entire sixth floor belongs to him.

The battle he had just fought with Puller was very short, and the winner was determined almost in one face-to-face. There was no big movement, and the Duke inside should not have been awakened yet.

He stepped forward, not violently breaking through the door, but directly entering through spatial displacement.

There was a flash of white light and he saw darkness.

The floor was covered with soft carpets, and the room seemed huge, like a living room.

He walked along the wall without making any footsteps. After walking for a while, he saw light leaking from the gap in the door next to him.

...This should be the room where the Grand Duke sleeps.

Look at this light... Is someone still asleep? Doing business in the middle of the night or something like that?

He came here now mainly because he wanted to see the attitude of the Grand Duke. He was almost certain that the series of events on the Ater were planned by the Grand Duke, who had the highest status. There is no way the lower-level crew members could work together to obtain such a potion, nor could they kill people at will under the nose of such a powerful soul hunter.

The purpose of killing Puller was to leave the Grand Duke with no way to retreat. Faced with absolute suppression by force, the Grand Duke could only rely on him if he wanted to survive.

He didn't hesitate. There was just a wooden door in front of him. After Minie took action, he easily opened the door.

"Creak -" there was a sound, and the lights in the room flickered.

Passing by the tall metal shelves and the vinyl gramophone playing soft music, he saw a large bed in the center of the room, with gauze curtains draped down and a bulge wrapped in a quilt inside.

He stepped forward directly and lifted the quilt.

There were no piercing screams or pleas for mercy.

Su Mingan's hands froze in the air.

He was stunned when he looked at the legendary Grand Duke with the highest status on the Ater who was hiding under the quilt.

With tears in his eyes, the blond boy, who was estimated to be no more than fifteen years old, was huddled on the bed. The young man was wearing pure white pajamas, with a hunched figure and a pair of blue eyes looking at him.

"Duke?" Su Mingan couldn't help but ask.

Was the Duke so young?

He had some preconceived notions. He thought the Duke was an uncle in his forties or fifties.

The little boy raised his head and looked at him strangely.

"What's wrong?" The young boy tilted his head, his eyes a little confused: "Su Lin... Sir."

Su Mingan stopped moving.

He looked at the Grand Duke of the Empire who looked in awe in front of him, and when he heard the other person's name, he suddenly felt that he... seemed to have discovered something extraordinary.

"Master Su Lin." The young boy stretched out his hand and grabbed the corner of his clothes:

"I have already arranged all the things you asked me to do. If you... come here late at night, do you need me to do anything else?"