The Players and the Protagonist Want to Kill Me – Chapter 668

Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)

Nobody Does Human Things looked at the thoroughly dead middle-aged Knight with some astonishment. This Knight had met an unexpected end in a random manner, being “ganked” by a centipede that grew out of his own left hand.

“Dead is dead then.”

Facing an enemy with such means of suicide, even the strongest interrogation abilities seemed somewhat powerless.

All they could do was to see if they could find any clues on the middle-aged Knight’s body.

With this thought in mind, he crouched down, his eyes filled with strong anticipation and a hint of excitement, and began to rummage through the middle-aged Knight’s leather armor, emitting a strange cackling sound as he did so.

“Nobody Does Human Things, you can loot the corpse, but must you cackle so lewdly? It makes it seem like you want to have your way with it right now…”

Leisurely Moment watched Nobody Does Human Things’ lewd back.

He wondered how the gentle and refined, calm young man of the past had turned into such a derpy figure.

“There are Undead in this game, you know.”

As Nobody Does Human Things cackled, he seriously explained, “The Undead are equivalent to ghosts in our modern understanding. King of Winter said that if you emit a lecherous smile while looting a corpse, it can scare away evil spirits and reduce the probability of the corpse becoming an Undead. This is Pine City, after all. If an Undead approaching Great Knight rank were to appear, it would be very troublesome.”

There was a shred of logic hidden within Nobody Does Human Things’ strange words.

Upon hearing that this was knowledge taught by the King of Winter, the members of the Elite Squad, surrounding the corpse, also let out lewd and perverse laughter.

Just then, a drunkard happened to pass by the alley entrance.

He glanced into the alley with a dazed look.

He saw a group of people squatting amidst the blood and Severed Limbs, surrounding a mangled corpse. With strange smiles on their faces, they turned their heads when they heard the movement. Their scarlet eyes seemed ravenous, as if they wanted to devour him. The Old Beggar’s mind instantly cleared.

He let out a howl.

Without looking back, he fled for his life.

Xi Wei, sitting in his office, was also baffled.

When had he ever taught players such perverse knowledge?

However, it seemed that such perverse knowledge did have a certain similarity to his own methods.

For a time, he couldn’t be sure himself.

After a while.

Only the Knight’s underpants remained of his corpse.

But even these dirty underpants were torn with several holes, as if they were checking to see if any quest items were hidden inside.

[Congratulations on obtaining the set: Rebel’s Leather Armor (Lightly Damaged) (Fine Grade)]

[Congratulations on obtaining: Rebel’s Greatsword (Moderately Damaged) (Master Grade)]

[Congratulations on obtaining: Rebel’s Dagger (Fine Grade), Five-Poison Maiden’s Secret Medicine (Master Grade), Empty Box, Mysterious Letter, A Bag of Coins, Blood-Stained Portrait]

These were all the items that had dropped from the middle-aged Knight.

A few pieces of equipment were quite good for ordinary players, but for an Elite Squad like them, whose lowest-grade equipment was Master Grade, they had no interest in these Fine Grade sets.

Nobody Does Human Things inspected the leather armor and weapons before handing them all over to Leisurely Moment.

“Give these miscellaneous items to Groin to repair, and then we can list them on the Auction to sell. We can probably fetch a thousand yuan or so. We’ll split the money evenly then.”

Leisurely Moment put the leather armor and weapons into his backpack.

Beside him, Nobody Does Human Things had already opened the blood-stained portrait. Ordinary families couldn’t afford magical photos; they had to find painters to sketch scenes they deemed worthy of remembrance on parchment.

The parchment depicted a family of three – two middle-aged people and a little girl. The man was the Knight who had just died. The girl, with her innocent and carefree appearance, held the hands of the two adults as they swung on a swing, her smile as bright as spring flowers.

It was evident that.

This middle-aged Knight had once had a very happy family, but it was unknown what had happened to them now. In any case, the Knight was dead.

Putting away the painting, Nobody Does Human Things then took out the mysterious letter and opened it. The strange smile on his lips gradually faded, and a dangerous glint flashed in his brown eyes.

“Brother Renshi, is something happening?”

Seeing Nobody Does Human Things’ expression, the others knew something good had occurred.

Through the statue, Xi Wei also saw the contents of the letter.

[To Knight Elsie:

Darling Elsie, how have you been lately? We miss you very much. We heard the flowers in Pine City have bloomed again, and we really want to see them. When you receive this letter, we will already be on our way… Please inform Lord Primo of our imminent arrival. We have prepared some interesting things for Lord Primo, and we have also rescued several children who lost their families. I believe these children will become useful talents to the Empire under the Lord’s tutelage.]

This letter had already been opened.

And the paper also showed signs of having been read.

It was obvious that the information had already reached the ears of that Lord Primo.

This letter seemed like a simple missive of well wishes.

However, considering the Knight’s peculiar identity, Nobody Does Human Things singled out a few pieces of information.

They were:

[The flowers in Pine City have bloomed again]

[We are already on our way]

[Prepared some interesting things]

[Rescued several children who lost their relatives]

These few pieces of information all seemed very suspicious.

Although he didn’t understand the specific meaning, Nobody Does Human Things could vaguely sense that a group of people was about to arrive in Pine City.

They were bringing something to hand over to that big shot. As for the children who had lost their relatives, Nobody Does Human Things suspected they were captured Demi-humans.

“These people actually dare to capture Demi-humans on the land of the Wintery Empire. They really don’t know the meaning of death,” Nobody Does Human Things sneered a few times.

He then took out the Five-Poison Maiden’s Secret Medicine.

This was blood stored in a crystal vial. After using an Appraisal technique, Nobody Does Human Things obtained some basic information.

[Five-Poison Maiden’s Secret Medicine]: Blood extracted from a certain Demi-human girl and processed by an alchemist. Directly consuming this secret medicine will temporarily enhance overall strength and grant the ability to breed Blood Centipedes. Taking it in conjunction with an amplification pill can extend the duration of the potion but increases the side effects after consumption.

After reading the information about the secret medicine.

Nobody Does Human Things exclaimed that the case was cracked.

The reason the middle-aged Knight had been eating those things earlier should have been an amplification pill mixed with the blood of the Five-Poison Maiden.

Under normal circumstances, they shouldn’t have been able to defeat such a middle-aged Knight.

Fortunately, he had equipped every member of the Elite Squad with Dwarf gunpowder pistols in advance.

These were precisely effective against this strange ability that could instantly summon a horde of centipedes.

“How is it, Brother Renshi? Did you find anything?”

“I did find something. From now on, we just need to keep an eye on the four city gates of Pine City. If there are any abnormal situations, we’ll communicate in the channel. Of course, we also need to gather some intelligence about the incoming Mercenary Groups and Merchant Caravans,” Nobody Does Human Things said as he stood up, his gaze sharp, speaking word by word:

“The upcoming missions will most likely be triggered within these Mercenary Groups and Merchant Caravans.”

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