As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 763 Despicable Foreigner
Late at night on the 18th, Xiao Wu borrowed the most conservative clothes from her sisters to participate in the vampire selection.

The profession of prostitute is generally perceived as someone who wears revealing clothes, stands on dirty streets, hides in the shadows under the gaze of the night, and extends a helping hand to those who need redemption.

Xiao Wu felt that the more she wore, the more contrasting it created, which would increase her chances of qualifying.

As it turned out, she was wrong.

The mansion, located on the edge of the city, had been abandoned for a long time, but it was brightly lit tonight.

Steam from under the manhole cover spread to the road surface. A drunkard lay on a dirty puddle. Xiao Wu stepped over him, lifted her coarse linen skirt, turned into a small alley, and arrived at the back of the mansion. After entering through a small door full of vines, a waiter dressed in a butler's uniform greeted her.

She was the fiftieth, and there were only fifty prostitutes.

The waiter asked her why she arrived last.

Her answer was, "Women who arrive late are the most charming; that's how it's portrayed in idol dramas."

If the waiter had kicked Xiaowu out right now, or if he had pretended to have an upset stomach and skipped work, he might have been able to avoid a nightmare, but unfortunately he didn't.

As the mansion's corridors deepened, they grew increasingly dark.

Xiao Wu smelled blood.

After opening a door, she saw that the forty-nine prostitutes who had arrived earlier were placed in barrels of wine, with faucets attached to their bodies. With a simple turn, they could release blood from their bodies.

The so-called nobles all drink blood in their rooms; they are all vampires, vampires hidden in society.

The waiter pushed Xiaowu inside and closed the door.

Immediately afterwards, the waiter lit a cigarette at the door, and the smoke, illuminated by the kerosene lamp, seemed like a rising soul touching the ceiling.

He laughed in the dimly lit corridor, his vampire teeth exposed to the bloody air.

"Ah...what a lovely smell."

"Cain Hearst, Cain Hearst..."

"The old nobles grew tired of the blood they raised, and could only hide in the dark of night in abandoned haunted buildings to suck the blood of dirty young girls, just like adulterous men who, after tasting the blood, would go back to continue their shameful existence in that painted world."

The waiter suddenly paused.

Why did he have to tell everyone about this...?

He didn't realize that the door behind him had already been opened, and a pair of eyes that had killed hundreds of people were behind him. Then he felt the sound of breathing, the scent of a woman, and fingers digging into his shoulder.

"Since you've already said it yourself, then let me ask you again, how do I get to Cainhurst?"

Xiao Wu's cheek was almost pressed against the waiter's nape. The waiter felt a chill run down his spine and had almost never felt such tension before.

"You are... a hunter?"

"I have indeed hunted Elder Dragons, but I am not the hunter you described. Now, answer my question."

The waiter remained silent, turning his head timidly. Xiao Wu's beautiful face was covered in blood that did not belong to her.

In the room behind the door, where nobles drank blood and toyed with young girls, only the corpses of the nobles and their bodyguards remained. They died cleanly and efficiently, their major arteries severed. The murder weapon was a playing card on the table, and blood was sprayed on the ceiling, walls, and floor.

"Answer me, or should I think of another way for you?"

Xiao Wu urged her again.

To everyone's surprise, the waiter laughed.

“You are exactly the person we need most. Our queen has been searching for an excellent reincarnation, but unfortunately you are a prostitute.”

Why not prostitutes?

"She must be a virgin."

"Yes, that's me, so tell me how to get to Cainhurst."

The waiter pretended to believe, his eyes meeting Xiao Wu's. The ancient god blood within him surged, and the abyss seemed to be watching Xiao Wu's life, intending to use the power of a curse to break her.

Then the waiter broke down.

The time came on June 1888, 1.

When Xiao Wu got to this point, Lenny summarized the cause and effect of the whole incident.

“In recent years, there have been many reports about wealthy businessmen gathering to leech off others, but these reports have been suppressed by the higher-ups and left unresolved. This is because those who die are all ‘people who live in the sewers.’ The church system on the mainland is too complicated, and the Healing Church has done some things behind the scenes, making it impossible for us law enforcement officers to locate those law-breaking vampires in a timely manner…”

Lenny changed the subject and looked at Xiao Wu.

“But… that waiter should have the blood of an ancient god in his veins. He is the most orthodox vampire in Cainhurst. How did you survive his gaze?”

Cainhurst has always had connections with the Old Gods; they are not ordinary vampires, but branches of the Old Gods, which is why they are so dangerous.

“He looked at my life, and then he broke down.”

Xiao Wu's answer would be incomprehensible to most people, but Li Nuo understood it.

Sister Hei had done similar dirty work before, so she felt a sense of sympathy for Xiao Wu, and the tone she used to speak to Xiao Wu was completely different from the tone she used to speak to Li Nuo.

What have you experienced in your life?

"I've been poop for four thousand years."

The courtroom was eerily quiet.

The lie detector still stared blankly at everyone, as if to say, "She's not lying."

Blackie instructed the fishman outside to come in and replace the lie detector with a new one.

“Ms. Muto Sora, say it again…”

"Hmm, I've been poop for four thousand years."

The lie detector did not register.

After going through more than ten lie detectors and using up all their stock, Blackie, Lennie, and Piek were finally convinced that the two men in front of them were absolutely abnormal.

"You've been shit for four thousand years..."

"Yes."

Xiao Wu is extremely beautiful, and when she's serious, she's so beautiful it seems unreal, just like now.

"Yes, yes, yes, I've been poop for four thousand years."

Such a beautiful woman is emphasizing that she is a piece of shit from four thousand years ago; this world is truly a pile of dog shit.

"Think about it, what did the ancient gods go through?"

Xiao Wu shrugged and looked at Li Nuo.

"Isn't it just harming others? What 'gazing into the abyss'? Has He ever gazed into excrement? Was my four thousand years of being excrement for nothing? Am I a normal person? Is He gazing at me?"

When Xiao Wu got excited, she took her head off.

"I can conjure up new heads, let's see who has more eyes, why should I be afraid of Him? I've been shit before, has He ever been?"

Look.

This is the confidence of "above-standard" players.

Then Xiaowu continued her story.

Later, the waiter broke down, and Xiaowu took the train ticket to Cainhurst from him.

The waiter said that if she was willing, he could lead the way for Xiaowu or act as her contact, because it would be extremely dangerous for ordinary people to enter Cain Hearst's place.

That waiter was no ordinary person. He saw in Xiao Wu the possibility of defeating the vampires and rising to power. He was willing to become Xiao Wu's kin and submit to her.

"Then I tore that waiter to pieces."

"why?"

Blackie's face turned dark. They dreamed of capturing him alive, and the waiter was clearly useful, so why kill him?

Xiao Wu looked at the ceiling with her almond-shaped eyes looking particularly innocent.

"I'm used to it... because it's easy to double-cross someone... and killing the hostage is relatively safe, it's become muscle memory. They kill it too fast... there's no time to save them."

Upon hearing this, the three indigenous people tacitly gave up thinking.

Li Nuo tapped Xiao Wu's shoulder.

"So what's the reward for tearing that guy apart?"

“I have the blood gems you need.” “Alright, now it’s my turn to talk.”

Then Xiao Wu should contact Li Nuo and ask him to meet in that city.

No matter how far the story unfolds, in the end, Li Nuo and Xiao Wu will be captured and taken to Bayer Kinworth Prison in Cold Rift Valley in January 1888.

Li Nuo felt that it would be good to meet up with Xiao Wu sooner rather than later.

But before that, he had some things to do.

"Miss Lenny, how did you get your hands on the capsule that seals the ancient god?"

Li Nuo gestured.

"You understand, it's the kind of shady way to get it."

Given that Lino really could ruin the ancient gods, Lennie, at Black Sister's prompting, chose to reveal the illegal method.

In a certain city, there is a black market where you can enter a mysterious association using a coded language. Then, by exchanging money and valuable items, you can obtain artifacts that can circumvent the seals of the ancient gods.

If one could establish a deeper connection, one could also obtain the capsule that seals the ancient god, but it is too difficult to do so.

So Li Nuo took the train to that city and took down that mysterious association.

"what!!!!!"

Lenny frantically slams his head against the wall.

Blackie stared at the news she had just found on her desktop computer screen, completely bewildered.

Only Piek gave Linuo a thumbs up.

Lenny strode over and grabbed Lino's shoulder.

“Mr. Li Nuo…you can’t do this! That association is involved in a lot of vested interests…”

"None of my business."

Li Nuo brushed her hand away.

"Don't forget, I'm a good person. How can I just stand by and watch them break the law!"

He became increasingly engrossed in role-playing.

On November 20, 1887, he raided the black market, pointed a gun at the head of the mysterious association, and gave him all three sealed capsules. Since there was nothing else of use, he also shot the association head dead.

This was definitely big news for the Sumeru continent, but it was just a minor incident for Li Nuo and his group.

1887 11 Month 21 Day.

Li Nuo and Cha Bai took a steam carriage to the city where Xiao Wu lived.

The advanced technology in this world is quite interesting. The carriages are driverless vehicles, with mechanical copper-skinned iron horses that navigate automatically. They sing as they run, cultivating one's mind, and the steam they emit smells like strawberries.

Inside the bumpy carriage, the horses pulling the carriage chatted with Cha Bai, while Li Nuo sat on the sofa reading the newspaper.

A lot happened on the continent of Sumeru yesterday, most of which were the work of players.

In a small country in the southern part of the continent of Sumeru, a civil war broke out. The lord was hung from a street lamp and burned at the stake by a witch. The rebels were called "Awakening the Witches' Song" and were a player group from "The Corridor of the Sky".

The headmaster of the Undead Asylum in the North was dismembered and stuffed into a balloon, which is still floating in the sky. The Undead Asylum is the headquarters of "The End," a place even more dangerous than the Old Gods.

The largest mercenary group in the central region has a new leader. The man in the photo is a burly fellow who is also a player from "Eternal Corridor".

Then came an overseas news item.

The headquarters of the Bulma Trading Company, located in Ashina Country, will present the "First Peace Ambassador Award" early next year.

Li Nuo was completely dumbfounded.

"Isn't Ashina Kingdom the game Sekiro...?"

"what is this?"

Cha Bai leaned closer and pointed to a vertical frame in the middle of the newspaper fold-out page, below which was a portrait of a person's back.

"The Pummel Labyrinth Tournament is about to begin... Lord Fenrir hopes that capable individuals will participate enthusiastically, and the rewards will be generous."

Li Nuo took a closer look.

"I don't know, and I'm not interested at the moment."

He always felt that the portrait of the city lord looked unsettling.

Just then, a pigeon wearing glasses flew by and dropped a piece of paper onto Li Nuo's desk that could project light onto the PPT screen.

Two messages were printed on the slip of paper.

Li Nuo read it out in summary.

"Soren told us not to target the Bulma Merchant Guild; they're his prey. We should focus on dealing with the Old Gods."

"He has compiled a list of the most dangerous players' names and locations."

Li Nuo burned the note.

They were a group of players with mechanic-based abilities, including a group of [Identity Holders], a [Explorer], a [Rescuer], a [Focusor], and finally, a [Lost One].

The "Lost One" is a very special "identity"—not powerful, but disgusting.

His ability can be summed up in four words: invisible to the world.

Li Nuo opened the communication channel and contacted Nanami privately.

He told Nanami the names of those dangerous people.

Li Nuo believes he is a good person, so he must warn his friend Nanami to be careful of dangerous people.

In the courtroom in 1888.

Blackie saw through his true thoughts at a glance.

"You want that person named Nanami to assassinate those people, right?"

"How could that be? I was just thinking of my friend, and Nanami would never do assassination."

Li Nuo is right.

Nanami never assassinates; she only kills openly.

In short, after giving instructions to Nanami about the assassination, all that was left was to get on the road.

Midnight, November 22, 1887.

Li Nuo and Cha Bai arrived at their destination.

The meeting place with Xiaowu was the train station in this city.

There were hardly any people at the station at this moment; the empty, open-air platform was so quiet that you could hear footsteps.

Xiao Wu sat alone on the bench. When she saw Li Nuo and Cha Bai appear, she took out the train ticket she had obtained by tearing up the ticket from her pocket, held it between her fingers, and shook it in the direction of the two of them.

"Go to Cainhurst now?"

"Okay, let's go now."

After receiving Li Nuo's affirmative reply, Xiao Wu, following the clues on the train ticket, cut her finger with a knife and dripped blood onto it.

The next second, a bell rang in the distance, and the surroundings entered another space. Ordinary people could not detect it because the scene did not change, but the three of them could smell blood or feel that there were “non-human” creatures in the vicinity of the platform.

The sound of footsteps came from beside the three of them.

In the darkness, a man dressed in a black coat and wearing a raven mask materialized.

He was holding a black briefcase, and drops of blood, sweet and metallic, were seeping out from the cracks in the case.

The raven mask laughed at Li Nuo and the others, looked them up and down, and then said a line that left everyone scratching their heads.

"So you're from out of town. Are you ready to receive blood therapy?"

Li Nuo suddenly rushed over and grabbed the guy's crow mask.

"beat him!"

(End of this chapter)