Timeline Player

"It seems this layer of fog isn't so easy to get through." Chi Que pondered, looking at the system's prompt.

However, his spirituality is as high as eight points, almost equivalent to a normal yellow profession, which should give him some advantages.

He slowly walked into the mist, and his vision immediately became blurred. Deep within the mist, several blood-red lights flickered, seemingly guiding travelers from afar towards the territory.

But Chi Que doesn't think so.

"Is there only one correct path?" Chi Que pondered, then looked around. The thick fog obscured his senses, but thanks to his powerful spirituality, he could still distinguish the different lights.

"Hmm..." He pondered for a moment, then took a step and chose to walk in a direction that was clearly not the right one.

With some time before nightfall, he wondered where those wrong paths would lead people.

Look and say.

After walking in the fog for a few minutes, a sound suddenly came from afar, and the red light rapidly expanded!

It was a pair of eyes!

Chi Que instantly drew the pistol from his waist, but it wasn't the swan song; it was just an ordinary pistol, which he fired on the spot!

boom!

A spray of blood erupted, accompanied by a sharp screech.

Chi Que also saw the true appearance of that thing.

It was a monster that was more than a person tall, but its body was covered with fur and it had bat wings growing from its back. There was a large hole on the left half of its wing, which seemed to be the result of the previous shot.

"A bat...man?" He frowned.

A gust of foul wind swept in, followed by sharp claws that came crashing down, gleaming with a chilling light.

Chi Que had no doubt that these sharp claws could easily tear his body apart and turn him into a pile of rotten flesh.

He darted to the right—

Click!

The sharp claws severed the sapling behind him.

The bat-man flapped its wings, trying to turn around, but the pair of wings on its left side drooping down significantly hampered its movements.

boom!

Another shot.

The right wing was also shattered by a bullet.

The bat-man, which had been gliding in mid-air, now stood on the ground in an extremely comical posture. Perhaps due to long-term flight, its legs had atrophied, and it had almost lost its ability to move.

boom!

Chi Que was quite decisive; he aimed for the head and finished it off with a single shot.

"Is this what they call partial destruction?" After confirming the death, Chi Que began to review the encounter.

According to information obtained from the transfer station, the monsters in the dungeon are stronger than the players individually.

However, they often have certain weaknesses, and once they lose their threat, they are like tigers without teeth or claws.

In this situation, the common approach to dealing with them is basically to first destroy obviously dangerous limbs, then reduce their mobility, and finally kill them by attacking their torso.

Of course, the order of the first two steps can be changed depending on the type of monster.

As Chi Que now judged, the threat posed by this monster's actions far outweighed the threat of its attacks.

The bat-man's body twitched once, then remained completely still, a pool of scarlet liquid seeping from beneath it.

"Nothing fell..." Chi Que confirmed this.

Yes, in the game, monsters normally don't drop any items or give experience, so fighting monsters is basically a negative benefit for players, except for a very few classes.

He even discovered that, perhaps due to the commotion caused by his previous battle, numerous pairs of red eyes suddenly appeared from all directions and were rapidly expanding in that direction!

Chi Que cursed under his breath and ran away.

Let's go outside first and talk about it later!

He quickly locked onto the correct path, and the moment he broke through the fog, those scarlet eyes seemed to be in fear of something, and they all stopped moving and retreated back into the depths of the fog.

"You guys aren't allies either, are you..." Chi Que thought to himself as he looked at the familiar scene.

Although he knew perfectly well that, judging from the bat-man's eyes earlier, he must have intended to kill him.

He looked up and saw a huge town ahead, with the corner of a castle faintly visible atop a distant mountain peak.

A red lantern hung at the intersection, and a cunning merchant set up a stall, accompanied by two guards.

The Azure players were gathered there. He walked over and heard the merchant saying something to the Azure players:

"You must have all come from afar, right? Our currency is different from other places; it is not interchangeable. If you want to spend money in the city, you have to exchange it for our local currency."

The players from Azure exchanged glances, then the nobleman pulled a gold coin from his pocket: "This is a gold coin circulating in the Kingdom of White Azalea. It's quite valuable. How much can it be exchanged for?"

"It seems the currency within the instance is interchangeable, and even has value among players? That makes sense, since it's all on the same map." Chi Que noticed his actions; he was already quite adept at it.

However, to the surprise of the Azure group, the merchant showed a disdainful look and shook his finger.

"We don't use this here," he said. "If you want money, you have to exchange it for blood."

As the merchant spoke, he took out a wine glass, which Chi Que estimated to contain about 100 milliliters.

The merchant pointed to the goblet and said, "Fill this goblet with blood, and you can get a blood coin."

The merchant continued, "Furthermore, a simple meal in the city costs three blood coins, and a night's lodging costs ten blood coins. You outsiders are all here for the banquet, aren't you? As long as you have enough blood coins, you can also buy invitations."

Upon hearing this, both the Azure Man and Chi Que immediately perked up their ears, as it concerned the mission objective.

The businessman held up one finger.

"A thousand?" The nobleman frowned. "That's too much..."

You should know that one thousand blood coins is equivalent to one hundred thousand milliliters of blood, which is almost equivalent to the total blood volume of more than twenty people!

There might not even be twenty players coming in!

"Dream on! You're dreaming!" the merchant scoffed. "It's ten thousand blood coins!"

"What? Ten thousand blood coins?" The nobleman's eyes widened instantly, and even Chi Que felt a bit of absurdity.

Then, as if remembering something, the merchant added, "Also, it's forbidden to harm others or take their blood in town. If you're caught, hehe..."

He didn't say what happened next, but just gave a sinister laugh that sent chills down everyone's spine.

The Azure group remained silent.

Chi Que distanced himself from the group, ready to escape back into the mist at any time and join forces with other players.

After all, the rules only say that you can't hurt people in town, but this is outside town!

However, to his surprise, the nobleman merely glanced at him and then produced several bat-man corpses from seemingly nowhere: "This monster's blood can be sold for money, right?"