The Truth of Magic

Chapter 382 Murder Without Trace

The moment someone fell down, the expressions of the other civilians, who were envious of the group of professionals joining in the fun, suddenly changed. Their survival instincts made them look in the direction of their family members.

A few quick-witted parents just picked up the child who had just fallen asleep and hugged them.

"ah!"

"Dead."

Immediately, the commotion rolled away like the waves on the surface of the lake, and the civilians, who were belatedly aware of it, also hurriedly got up and looked at these powerful adventurers for help.

Most of the professional adventurers around the deceased had gloomy faces.

They have professional abilities and can see their own character cards, which are extraordinary in themselves.

While dead people aren't common, they don't scare the shit out of them like civilians do.

In the professional ability, the improvement of the three aspects of will, reflection, and toughness are all real.

At this time, the nearby people walked over one by one, dragged out the body of the bard who had fallen into the fire, and extinguished the fire with the help of a mage's "freezing ray".

At the moment when the early morning was about to pass, it was a waste for them to reserve spell slots, and they began to be willing to cast spells.

A trainee pastor lowered his head, made a judgment with unfamiliar medical skills, stood up and shook his head helplessly at the crowd, "Dead."

At this time, Vivienne also approached the past, stretched out her hand to check, and also signaled to Zhao Xu, "It's already a little cold, and I'm afraid the death time will be more than an hour."

The sense of horror of being next to the corpse for a period of time made the civilians exclaim, but it didn't knock down the hearts of the adventurers.

More professionals swarmed over, repeatedly squatting down to check on the dead bard.

Outside this wilderness, all experienced adventurers believed in their own checked judgments, and would not rashly accept the conclusions of other teams.

Therefore, unless the bard is disguised with a fake death spell, he can't deceive him at all.

But after reaching this conclusion, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

They sat around the bonfires for at least a few hours.

The position of the deceased is not close to the center, but it is not remote either.

This is an invisible murder in front of everyone!

At this time, another soldier who had voluntarily worked as a coroner for the church also stood up, called a few people to work together to carry the corpse into the tent, and then began the basic visual wound inspection on the spot.

The rest of the people could only wait outside the tent while watching the surrounding situation vigilantly.

If he died at home, it would be considered a sudden death.

Losing one's life in this barren ruins has something strange in itself.

Vivienne had already pulled out the Holy Avenger from her hand at this time, and the bright cold light of the sword flashed across everyone's faces on the bonfire.

"Poor boy, he finally became an official bard last month, and he was thinking of saving enough money to go home and marry a wife, but he encountered such unlucky things."

Another middle-aged bard who was walking with the deceased was also feeling emotional at this moment.

Hearing this, the other adventurers in the ruins also felt sympathy, and their hearts were like red-burning firewood in a bonfire, constantly crackling and simmering.

"I don't seem to be able to go offline safely." Suddenly a player exclaimed suddenly.

All the players are still careless, as if they are outsiders, they can't help but look back at their character card panel.

"this?"

Zhao Xu also suddenly discovered that the "safely log off" button had disappeared.

Only another button "Force Logout" still exists, as if taunting players who think they can stay out of it.

Safe logout is a way for players to log out after five minutes of leaving the battle, and then wait quietly for a minute without strenuous exercise.

The 5-minute limit is also to prevent players from abusing this method and leaving the battle urgently.

However, players have to go offline, in fact, they can also choose to be forced to go offline.

That's how the body will stay in place in the game, as if the whole person has lost consciousness and turned into a vegetative state.

"It feels like a big battle."

At this moment, a third-level fighter with the highest level in the field stood up, and he kept looking at the people around him, as if guessing something.

At this moment, Zhao Xu was also silent.

He didn't expect that this barren ruins would be so extraordinary. With just a little disturbance, the system judged that they were in a dangerous state where they could not go offline safely.

During the nearly four months of Arthur's opening of the server, many players were unable to use the safe logout function when they were not harmed or even saw monsters.

They were also in the same situation as Zhao Xu and the others.

As several players who knew the inside story answered, other players gradually calmed down.

After all, their big deal is to force them to go offline.

It's just that in this barren ruins, it's no different from handing over the resurrection stone.

For those players who encountered the same situation, more than 50% of them ended up dead.

Because they can't go offline safely without making a sound, which in itself means that the place they are in is extremely dangerous.

"I don't think it's possible to kill people silently." The third-level fighter who just stood up said ten steps and one sword. Just now he briefly introduced the status level, trying to seize the dominance of the current situation.

Even if it's just the player part.

"Why, do you suspect that there is a ghost inside us? Is someone deliberately retaliating?"

Ten steps and one sword laughed confidently, "Whether it's an inner ghost or not, we'll find out after the autopsy."

"If you know it, you know it's useless to say more now, and it's not your turn to make a decision." Another rogue player who was also at level 3 retorted loudly.

As he spoke, he looked at Vivienne.

Obviously, the strongest in the arena is this female knight who is suspected of being a paladin.

Whoever has the sharpest sword will naturally speak louder.

"What's your name?" The warrior raised his brows in ten steps and one sword, a little dissatisfied with the wanderer's repeated interruption of his momentum.

"Blood." The wanderer said indifferently.

Being chaotic and neutral, he was already on the verge of danger, so he just had to fight if he refused to accept it, and he was already playing games, and whoever was lying.

As soon as the rogue finished speaking, the warrior's companion, who took ten steps and one sword, immediately explained to him that the other party was also the best among the rogues in Lucca City.

As for the wanderers with higher rankings, they basically all handed in the resurrection stone.

It's just that the warrior is determined, what can a rogue without sneak attack ability lose the sneak attack damage that affects the balance of victory, what else can he do.

He pulled out the battle ax on his back at the same time, intending to teach the wanderer whose fist was harder.

However, the soldier who first went in for the autopsy came out of the tent. He shook his head with a heavy face, "The body doesn't have any wounds."

"And a simple toxicology analysis was conducted, and it doesn't seem to be poisoned."

In an instant, the suspicion of almost everyone present was ruled out.

They didn't have monks who could launch penetrating attacks, a group of two or three level people, unless they used spells, it was impossible to kill a person silently.

"It's the corpse." Suddenly, an Arthur adventurer from Lucca City couldn't help shouting, "It's the corpse that came back for revenge."

"Don't talk nonsense." The caravan steward Gao De couldn't help but paused his cane. "The news of the corpse has not appeared for at least ten years. Lucca city already thinks that the corpse was killed or left."

"Corpse demon?"

At this time, when the players heard this strange term, they couldn't help but look at the other Arthur adventurers in surprise, curious about this past.

[Adventurer Zhong Xia, you have made a knowledge (place) check, passed the save, and obtained the following information about the "corpse demon". 】

In an instant, all the legends about the "corpse demon" in the barren ruins were revealed, and Zhao Xu immediately began to read them quickly.

"Corpse Demon" is a crazy murderer who single-handedly keeps attacking and killing passers-by and business travelers in the deserted ruins.

His way of killing is extremely unique, that is, to kill silently while everyone is sleeping in the tent or when the fog is thickening.

At the same time, there was no trace of blood left on the body of the deceased, and there was no damage to the internal organs, as if he had died suddenly without a trace.

It was not until the deaths in the barren ruins were too frequent, and the cause of death was exactly the same, that people noticed these deaths.

For a while, no business traveler dared to pass through the safe post road in the entire deserted ruins at that time. Later, after the city of Lucca, which couldn't sit still and its business was shrinking, intervened in the investigation, it became clear that there was a murderer, and named the other party "corpse demon".

It's just that when Lucca City invited powerful mages and priests to assist in arresting the "corpse demon", the other party's criminal record stopped abruptly ten years ago.

So gradually, everyone lost their memory of the mysterious murderer who once frightened the barren ruins, and their memories were once again occupied by other stories that emerged from the ruins.

If there were only a few people like Zhao Xu and the only information they knew was the keyword "corpse demon", then everything could only rely on Zhao Xu's "knowledge and skills."

But the most indispensable thing on this road in the fog is people, and there will be volunteers to stand up and recall history immediately.

Following the dictation of the mercenary who participated in the dart transport when the corpse monsters were rampant in the ruins, everyone gradually heard the history of that year.

The version was not much different from what Zhao Xu got.

"It's a bit mysterious." The warrior who was full of confidence at the beginning finally showed a little unconfident look.

"Are there any signs of laxity or old age in those dead?" Suddenly, Wei Wei'an, who was silently guarding Zhao Xu with his sword, asked.

The mercenary immediately shook his head, "No, just like the poet today. He passed away peacefully as in a dream, without any signs of struggle or pain."

"Have an idea?" Zhao Xu contacted Vivienne's "telepathy" ability as a succubus, and communicated with her.

"This kind of method is very similar to the method of our evil creatures, and it is the kind of evil creatures with some skills." Vivienne laughed at herself without much shyness.

Zhao Xu also agreed that even Vivienne, who was a succubus, did not have such direct means of killing people.

Succubus kill people by transforming themselves, kissing men attracted by lust, and then using the supernatural ability of "absorbing energy" through the process of kissing, directly causing the other party to lose a whole "level 1" of life energy .

Liu Ying's kiss costs money, but Succubus' kiss wastes rank, that's why.

Even though Vivian has become a "pure and kind" succubus paladin, she still maintains this weapon that can educate satyrs.

At the same time, after the succubus kisses, it will also use its own magic-like "suggestion" at will, and ask again if it wants an extra kiss.

Until death.

That's why Vivienne asked if there were any signs of aging, whether it was physical damage or life force absorption.

"Vivian?"

Suddenly Zhao Xu realized something.

As a pure and kind paladin, Vivienne will not change her succubus.

The reason why alien creatures living in the outer plane of the evil camp are called monsters is because even if their camp changes, they are still considered as evil subspecies.

The succubus is the chaotic subspecies, the evil subspecies.

This means that when it comes to faction-related calculations, she will also be counted.

"So, don't you eat everything?" Zhao Xu asked.

Vivienne also nodded slightly bitterly at this moment. This is the thorns that need to be carried forward to move forward with the heart toward the light.

Vivienne is counted as chaotic and evil subspecies, and at the same time, as a paladin, she is also of the "lawful" and "good" camps.

Therefore, attacking the "blasphemous words" outside the evil camp before can hurt the succubus, and attacking the "holy words" outside the good camp can also hurt her, not to mention the other two camps' mantra spells.

In the same way, the protection spells of the four camps, protection against evil, all take effect on her.

Not to mention, Vivienne eats all four of the legendary "Slashing Goodness", "Slashing Evil", "Slashing Order", and "Slashing Chaos".

This is Arthur, who is very particular about the alignment, Wei Wei has been suffering from this aspect since then.

At this moment, the surrounding crowd continued to review the previous "corpse demon" story, and even some civilians who had experienced and heard about the past ten years ago were invited to tell about it.

However, they are also relatively shy, and the content of their memories is also fragmented, so everyone did not gain much.

"Isn't there any first-hand information?" The warrior couldn't help complaining.

"These contents are all sealed up, and the officials of Lucca City may still know about it." The housekeeper said, who didn't believe that the corpse demon had returned, was also disturbed by everyone's discussion at this time.

"It disappeared after the investigation, and as a result, even the initial report of the corpse was not released, so that everyone still doesn't know what the corpse is." said the soldier who performed the autopsy. In front of the bonfire, there is a pipe full of tobacco in his mouth.

"You said, what method can achieve this silent killing effect?" The butler Gothe raised his head and looked at the group of adventurers.

And the civilians standing in the distance didn't dare to sleep at the moment, they all looked at each other, expecting these powerful adventurers to solve the problem.

After hearing the story of the corpse demon, basically no one dared to sleep peacefully at this moment.

Just hearing the steward's inquiry, even the high-spirited player adventurers were confused and did not start rashly.

"Maybe it's an instant death effect."

Suddenly, Zhao Xu looked at the tent where the corpse was parked in the shadows and said, his voice was not loud, but it penetrated the fog and reached everyone's heart.

I will send it out in 4k first, there are two more chapters tonight, I will definitely write them out.