【Below, let me introduce the specific details of this unique special talent.】
【Initial Talent: Our Initiative (Unique Special)】
【1. Within a specified range, unless our side actively attacks others, others cannot attack members of our side. Duration: 24 hours.】
【2. Our team size is capped at three people. For each additional team member, the talent's duration is shortened by 3 hours.】
【This talent can only be used once per dungeon.】
【The cooldown in the real world is 10 days, but that has nothing to do with us, so it can be ignored.】
【O(∩_∩)O】
【Everyone can understand this, right?】
【Twenty-four hours!】
【An entire day!】
【This is a whole day of time!】
【As a dungeon boss, as a specter, I had to watch helplessly while three players in the dungeon went crazy triggering the Death Rules, unable to make a move against them!】
【I'm really... so miserable!!】
【And the player who possesses this talent is also a ruthless character herself.】
【Photo.jpg】
Zuo Lin'an tapped to open the photo.
On it was a girl wearing a distinct ethnic outfit, looking to be about twenty years old.
The clothes appeared to be hand-woven, adorned with many intricate patterns. Looking closely, one could see they depicted various plants, flowers, and insects.
There were also some totem-like designs mixed in.
She was standing on the rooftop of a residential building. The evening breeze blew through her jet-black hair, revealing a fair and smooth face.
This girl was beautiful.
But it was a sinister, eerie kind of beauty.
She felt a bit like...
Xu Youyou pondered for a moment.
“This female player looks a bit familiar. Not her face, but her vibe.”
He looked at Zuo Lin'an.
“Don't you think she looks a lot like those people from the Ghost Gu sect who appeared in my dungeon before? Could they be from the same place?”
Zuo Lin'an nodded. He had also thought of those people just now.
“They are indeed very similar.”
【This player is named Su Wanzhou.】
【By the way, don't be fooled by her appearance. She looks young, but her actual age is close to fifty. She's an old auntie.】
【Also, she is very smart and extremely ruthless. She has many bizarre insects in her possession, all crawling out of her own body.】
【These insects can pass the dungeon's validation and be brought inside by players!】
【In other words, for players of this type, these strange insects are indispensable—or perhaps they would die if they didn't bring them along.】
【Therefore, I suspect these insects are a part of her body or even her life.】
【Moreover, she seems to know that players shouldn't be killed in the dungeon. So after her talent's effect ended, she never killed anyone when she made a move. Instead, she tortured the other players until they wished they were dead.】
【She didn't even spare my NPCs!】
【Originally, I planned to kill her once the talent's effect ended, but her two teammates had talents that could repel specters and sent me packing in an instant!】
【In the end... she led the two of them to clear my dungeon. Everything was restored, but I still had to pay my hired NPCs an extra sum for mental distress!】
【Who else?】
【Who else could possibly be more miserable than me?】
【Oh right! I want to post a bounty.】
【If anyone can trade her to me alive, I'll pay 30 Contribution points! If you don't want to trade her to me, keeping her alive as a puppet in your dungeon, or even killing her, will net you 15 Contribution points!】
【I'm really breaking the bank here. I hope everyone works hard to claim this bounty from me.】
There were many replies below, but Zuo Lin'an didn't read them.
Xu Youyou rubbed his chin.
“Brother An, this Su Wanzhou seems like a real handful.”
“A unique special talent, Our Initiative?”
“As long as she and her teammates don't attack others, we can't touch her at all within twenty-four hours, no matter how many times she triggers the Death Rules.”
At this point, he looked at Zuo Lin'an.
“Brother An, this is a new world now.”
“And there are no emergencies like in the previous world. Generally speaking, players with unique special talents will be assigned to at least a Two-Star difficulty dungeon.”
Zuo Lin'an naturally knew this.
Furthermore, the assimilation of the Paranormal World had only just begun.
Therefore, Three-Star difficulty Daily Dungeons wouldn't appear for the time being.
This meant there was a certain chance that this female player named Su Wanzhou would be assigned to his dungeon in the future.
Zuo Lin'an thought about it.
“It's fine. I can't kill her and her two teammates, but I can kill the other players first.”
“When the time comes, I'll change the main quest to a survival quest and pair it with the path of survival quest. As long as they don't actively investigate the storyline in the dungeon, I can keep stalling for time.”
“Once we drag it out past twenty-four hours, we can naturally make our move to kill them.”
Xu Youyou suddenly thought of something, and his eyes lit up!
“Also, very few players probably realize right now that the path of survival quest is connected to the storyline.”
“In other words... as long as no one warns them, they will likely just search for the path of survival within the dungeon's boundaries instead of exploring the plot.”
By the time the survival time runs out, even if they realize they need to follow the storyline, it will already be too late.
Zuo Lin'an nodded.
“In that case, I will hide the fact that the younger brother is missing and won't proactively tell the players.”
“Even if the players ask, I'll pretend nothing happened.”
Xu Youyou agreed.
“We can put away the group photos and pretend the younger brother doesn't exist at all. Oh, by the way, can those group photos be destroyed?”
Zuo Lin'an shook his head.
“The younger brother's existence cannot be erased. Enough evidence must be left behind to prove he existed. If we destroy the photos, and Feng Xingyun and I don't say anything...”
“Then, as long as we act well enough, the players won't be able to learn of the younger brother's existence through normal means. This approach most likely won't work.”
“So, the photos can be hidden, but not destroyed.”
“As for the rest... for instance, Feng Xingyun and I secretly searching for the younger brother to confirm whether he's alive or dead, and the previous plot points—none of that needs to be modified.”
“The core of the plot remains that the older brother and the steward want to kill the younger brother, while the younger brother committed suicide because he didn't want to be a burden to his brother.”
Xu Youyou thought that sounded pretty good.
Right then, three figures appeared in the distance.
Feng Xingyun was flying through the air, followed by two figures, one old and one young.
They were currently sitting atop two paper cranes that were larger than a human.
The paper cranes looked as if they had been folded from A4 paper and then enlarged, with incomprehensible runes drawn on them.
Xu Youyou stood up and looked in their direction.
“Flying paper cranes?”
“And people can actually ride them?”
“Is this the method of the purple-robed old Heavenly Master?”
“That's so cool. I want to ride a paper crane too.”
Zuo Lin'an said, “If you want to ride one, go ask them yourself in a bit.”
Xu Youyou was full of enthusiasm.
“Will do.”
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