While I was chanting a curse, the system said I was Xiao Yan?

Chapter 162 Players

These two seem to have a college diploma on their record.

Tianyan smiled knowingly and said, "You attacked me because you wanted to take my five points, didn't you?"

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The propeller-wielding man quickly shook his head and said, "We really didn't mean to attack you! I thought you were a cursed spirit! When you flew down from the sky just now, your wings looked too much like a cursed spirit's, so I attacked!"

The woman nodded repeatedly, her voice tinged with a fawning eagerness: "Yes, yes, yes! Me too! Me too! I've never hurt any ordinary people, only killed cursed spirits! Really! We just want to live, we want to get out of here!"

The two of them stared at Tianyan with pleading eyes, like two kittens whose necks had been grabbed, their eyes clearly saying, "I'm so innocent!" Tianyan smiled at their expressions and looked at the woman: "Six months ago, you were wanted by the police for allegedly committing three burglary and murder cases."

The woman's face turned deathly pale in that instant, her lips trembled, and she couldn't utter a single word.

Tianyan turned his gaze to the man: "Your police records show that you have committed at least seven murders."

The propeller man's pupils contracted sharply.

"However, what's interesting is that there's never been any information mentioning that you're sorcerers! Let's leave that aside for now."

Tianyan waved his hand: "The two of you together have committed more than ten murders. You just said you only killed cursed spirits?"

He shook his head and sighed, looking quite disappointed: "You think you can fool people just because I look young? People's hearts have changed."

"I...I surrender! I'm willing to accept the punishment of the law! Put me in jail!"

Upon seeing this, the propeller man's face drained of color instantly. He immediately knelt on the ground with a thud, raising his hands high as if to say, "I fully cooperate!" He declared, "I truly realize my mistake! I am willing to pay the price for my crimes!"

The woman on the wing nodded vigorously, her voice trembling with tears, "Yes, yes, yes! We also want to be good people! We just didn't have the chance! Now the chance has come!"

Tianyan looked at the two guys in front of him who were shouting for war one second and then crying and promising to repent the next. The smile on his lips only widened: "This is an emergency. We don't have time to escort you back. We'll handle this as a special case, understand?"

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"However, I do have a question for you. Have you seen two young men? One with short blond hair, a calm demeanor, and glasses. The other with short black hair, who looks cheerful and sunny."

The two women paused for a moment, then the woman reacted first: "Are you looking for your companions? They must have been caught in this mess too, right?"

"right."

"We have never seen the blonde and black-haired people you described."

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Tianyan nodded expressionlessly: "You have successfully proven yourselves to be utterly worthless."

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The propeller-wielding man sensed the ill intent in Tian Yan's tone. He abruptly looked up, forcing a smile that was more like a grimace: "No, no, no! Isn't the college supposed to be on the side of justice? How can you ignore the law! Executing someone without authorization is illegal! You can't do this!"

As he spoke, his body reacted. Before his words even finished, his entire body shot out to the left like a spring compressed to its limit, so fast that it left only a blurry afterimage in the air.

He wanted to run, to use moral blackmail to buy even a fraction of a second of time. As long as he could create some distance, he would have a chance to slip into those complicated alleyways!

Tianyan didn't even turn his head; he casually flicked his right hand in that direction.

A black iron-colored bone spike shot out from his fingertip, piercing precisely through the propeller man's calf.

"Pfft!"

A bone spur pierced his shin from the front and exited from the back, pinning his entire leg to the ground. Dark red blood flowed down the veins of the bone spur, quickly spreading into a small puddle on the dry asphalt.

"Aaaaah! My leg!" The propeller man screamed as he lost his balance and crashed heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

He tried to pull the bone spur out with his hand, but as soon as his fingers touched the barbs on the edge of the spur, he was cut in several places and gasped in pain.

The woman on the wing lost all color in her face. Looking at her companion's miserable state and then at Tianyan's still smiling face, she trembled like a leaf.

Tianyan glanced at the propeller man's leg pinned to the ground, then at the wing woman's face contorted with fear. His gaze was calm: "You two are guilty beyond redemption, and you attacked me on your own initiative. Under the rules of this 'Death Migration,' killing you is perfectly legal."

The propeller-wielding man gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead, whether from the pain in his legs or from despair, it was hard to tell: "No...you can't..."

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Before he could finish speaking, Tianyan's hand had already fallen.

Without any unnecessary movements or words, the purple-gold spell power condensed into a line between his fingers, precisely slicing across the necks of the two men. The cut was smooth, with almost no bleeding. Their bodies froze in the same instant, their pupils dilated, and then, like two statues whose supports had been removed, they fell silently into the pile of rubble.

Tianyan shook the blood off his hands. He felt no guilt at all about killing these two guys. They had definitely attacked him on purpose before. Since they were enemies, there was no need to show mercy.

"10 points."

"Participants have earned basic points, and their Elimination Return Player status has been activated."

"Now let's introduce the rules to new players."

Suddenly, a winged, skull-faced insect appeared next to Tianyan. After saying that it had earned points, it began to introduce itself and explain the rules of the Death Migration.

The specific rules were similar to what the two people had said. This thing was similar to a game assistant. After asking a few questions, Tianyan found that it only had basic intelligence. Basically, it could only answer how many points there were and introduce the rules. It didn't even have a function to introduce the ranking.

[Upon entering the Black Corner Region, I experienced its unique customs and culture, and also heard of the existence of the Black List. As the Flame Emperor, how can you be content to lag behind!]

[Side quest triggered: Listed on the leaderboard]

[Task requirement: Successfully advance to the top ten of the Blacklist.]

[Quest Reward: Low-level Earth-rank movement technique: Three Thousand Thunderclaps.]

Tianyan glanced at the notification on the system panel: Blacklist? It was probably the ranking list for the Death and Extinction Recursion. With his current ten points, he probably couldn't even touch the bottom of the list. To complete the mission and get three thousand Thunder Strikes, he needed to get enough points to squeeze into the top ten.

He looked up and glanced at the commercial district shrouded in gray-black smoke in the distance, where the energy fluctuations were most concentrated. Having chosen his direction, Tianyan stopped and, with a light touch of his toes on the ground, shot into the depths of the city like an arrow.

Along the way, Tianyan encountered mostly scattered cursed spirits, some at level three or four, others at level one or two. Tianyan dealt with them casually with bone spikes, and his points were slowly but steadily increasing, but he was still far from his goal.

He walked along a once bustling commercial street. Most of the shop windows on both sides of the street were shattered, and the mannequins in the shop windows were overturned. The roller shutters of several shops had been smashed open from the inside by something, revealing dark interior spaces. Various debris was scattered on the ground: broken glass, overturned bicycles, torn GG flyers, and several pools of blood.

As he walked, Tianyan noticed something was wrong with the ground.

Numerous holes appeared in the asphalt road, most of them about half a meter in diameter, with jagged edges, as if they had been dug out of the ground by something. Loose soil was piled up next to the holes, the moist, dark brown new soil forming a stark contrast with the clean road surface around it.

"It looks like it's been dug by gophers," Tianyan thought to himself, slowing his pace and scanning the holes with his eyes.

Just then, a middle-aged man wearing a plaid shirt stumbled out of an alley on the inner side of the commercial street. His face was full of terror, his clothes were covered in dust, and he kept looking back as he ran, as if he was hiding from some terrible hunter.

"That damn transvestite lunatic! He's killing people indiscriminately in the street! I have to run!" The middle-aged man cursed as he ran toward Tianyan, his steps hurried and frantic.

Just as Tianyan was about to step forward to ask, the middle-aged man passed by a hole about half a meter in diameter when the ground beneath his feet suddenly collapsed without warning. Before he could even cry out, a dark blue hand covered in rough skin shot out from the hole and precisely grabbed his ankle.

"Ah!" The middle-aged man's scream lasted for less than half a second.

The hand yanked downwards sharply, and the person's body, like a rope being pulled taut, vanished instantly into the dark hole. A short, muffled sound, like bones breaking, came from deep within the hole, followed by the sound of chewing, and then, silence.

Tianyan stood still, his gaze fixed on the cave entrance, his brows furrowed slightly.

"A groundhog curse? Or something else..."

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Before he could finish speaking, a very subtle tremor suddenly came from the ground beneath his feet, as if something was moving rapidly deep underground, rushing straight toward the ground beneath his feet.

Tianyan's body reacted the instant the vibration came. His purple-gold wings unfolded from his back, and with a gentle flap, he rose into the air, hovering about two meters above the ground.

The next second, the spot where he had just been standing suddenly exploded!

"boom!

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Gravel, soil, and asphalt fragments flew everywhere. A burly, dark blue figure burst from the ground. Its arms were outstretched, and its ten fingers were claw-like. It grabbed at the spot where Tian Yan had just stood, but missed. It lurched forward two steps before barely managing to steady itself.

It was a strange figure, roughly human-shaped, but its body proportions were completely off. Its torso was short and thick, its limbs were thin and long, and its skin was a moist, dark blue color, covered with bumps and wart-like protrusions of varying sizes.

It looked like a flattened potato, with a huge mouth and a pair of cloudy yellow eyes embedded in the center, staring intently at Tianyan not far away.

Its aura was strange, possessing both the pure magical power fluctuations of a human sorcerer and the chaotic, viscous remnants of malevolent intent of a cursed spirit. These two completely different auras intertwined and collided within its dark blue body, creating a very uncomfortable sense of incongruity.

Tianyan looked at the thing that emerged from the ground: "What are you? A cyborg? Or some kind of new cursed spirit?"

The green potato-shaped humanoid creature didn't answer. It simply tilted its head back, staring at Tianyan with its murky yellow eyes, as if assessing the value of its prey. Then its mouth moved, and a muffled sound, as if its throat was blocked by mud, came out: "For... my brother..."

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"...The sorcerer...die!"

It dropped those words out of the blue, then its short, thick legs pushed off the ground with a thud, and its body shot out like a cannonball, lunging straight toward Tianyan. Its arms opened again, clearly intending to grab Tianyan and drag him into the ground.

Tianyan slightly shifted his body to the side, and the blue creature swept past him, missing its target. Due to inertia, it crashed onto the asphalt road, making a dull thud and kicking up a cloud of dust.

Tianyan landed back on the ground and looked at the blue figure who had gotten up from the ground: "It's okay if you don't answer, I didn't intend to chat with you anyway."

The blue potato-shaped humanoid creature seemed to sense the gap between itself and the human in front of it. Its turbid eyes lingered on Tianyan for less than two seconds before it suddenly raised its head and let out a sharp screech, like metal scraping against glass, towards the sky.

"elder brother!"

The sound echoed through the empty commercial street, sharp and piercing. After shouting, it did not launch a second attack, but turned around directly. Its short and thick body leaped into a diving posture and quickly plunged into the ground, disappearing into a newly opened hole.

Is this a greeting?

Tianyan's vigilance instantly heightened. He was about to spread his wings and take off to gain a better field of vision when he heard a rapid tremor coming from the ground behind him, as if something was digging rapidly.

He whirled around, took a step back with his right foot, adjusted his center of gravity, and from the hole on the left, half of the blue creature's body suddenly shot out, its claws aimed straight for his ankle.

Tianyan dodged to the side, his purple-gold spell power condensing on his soles. He stomped down, striking the outstretched wrist of the cyan creature. With a crack, the claw bent at an unnatural angle, and dark cyan liquid gushed from the break. The creature cried out in pain, letting out a short hiss, and quickly retreated back into the cave.

Immediately afterward, another hole burst open not far to his right, and another dark blue figure darted out. This time, instead of grabbing, it spat out a viscous, pungent, dark green liquid that flew towards his face.

Tian Yan turned his head to avoid it, and the liquid landed on the glass of the shop window behind him, making a "hissing" corrosive sound. The glass surface quickly turned black and cracked with spider web-like patterns.

Then, from the left front and the right rear, the blue creature, like a whack-a-mole, kept emerging from one hole to attack, then retreating to another, fast and cunning, never giving him a chance to fight head-on.