This isn't a souls-like game at all.

"You killed the Kingscholar? Are you serious?"

"No, no! I've known you're capable for a long time! But now, you've almost cleared out all the cursed derivatives here, and I'm ready to head north to the eastern border."

"Before we leave, would you like to continue browsing Patch's store?"

At this point, the Patch branch line ends on the southern border.

After reviewing the side quest about Patch in the blink of an eye, Ye Yiyi couldn't help but think.

"In this case, it's not so strange that Patch would appear here."

The place where he is now is in the middle of nowhere, with no village in front and no shop behind.

Since someone came here, it must be for the "warehouse space".

If Patch has already joined the Curse Control Organization, then he naturally came with a mission.

Ye Yiyi's thoughts moved, and his original plan to pretend to be a lost mercenary also changed.

His cheeks moved slightly, the panic expression quietly disappeared, and then a vigilant expression appeared.

"He who comes is stopped!"

He shouted coldly, quietly releasing the cosmic spiritual light and drawing a long sword from his waist.

"Who are you? What do you want to do?"

The mercenaries were slightly startled and subconsciously raised their weapons.

Patch walked at the back, squinting his eyes as he looked Ye Yiyi up and down, and couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth slightly.

The leader, a tall mercenary with thick hair and beard, holding a double-edged battle axe, stopped, showed a friendly look, and stretched out his hand to make a move.

"Friend, please don't misunderstand me. We are colleagues, not enemies."

[What a fierce aura! This mercenary may seem young, but he possesses an extraordinary aura. He doesn't look someone to be trifled with... Why have I never seen such a figure in Bogu City?]

"Not an enemy?"

Ye Yiyi's expression remained alert. He glanced at everyone, lowered the tip of his sword slightly, and whispered:

"Are you also from Bogu City?"

"Yes! Could it be that you are the same?"

The strong man answered and then asked curiously.

"..."

Ye Yiyi did not answer this, but just let out a light breath and put the sword in his hand back into the sheath.

After making this suggestive gesture, he casually said:

"So you guys are here to take on a mission as well?"

"Ah! That's right!"

The strong man said in surprise.

"So, Your Excellency is right. It's truly fate. I thought we were the first to leave, but I didn't expect that Your Excellency would arrive here even earlier than us."

[Did he really accept the mission to search for ancient ruins in Bogu City? But we set out overnight, and the horses are exhausted. How could he be faster than us?]

"That's it."

Ye Yiyi nodded, her eyes still sharp.

"In that case, let's go our separate ways and not interfere with each other. Goodbye!"

He picked up the grilled fish on the ground, said nothing, and walked away.

"This……"

The sturdy man was slightly stunned. He never expected that the other party would leave so directly.

[He's leaving now? That's true. After all, I have a lot of people, but he's all alone. I think he has someone to rely on, but he doesn't want anything to go wrong.]

Seeing Ye Yiyi's figure disappear into the upper forest, the mercenaries beside him put down their weapons and breathed a sigh of relief.

"That person has such a strong aura, like he's facing a ferocious beast head-on..."

A mercenary sighed, and only then realized that he was sweating all over.

"Is he from Bogu City too? But how come we've never heard of such a person?"

Another mercenary asked doubtfully.

"Maybe he came recently."

Another mercenary answered.

"Since he doesn't want to have more contact with me, I guess he doesn't have any malicious intentions."

The burly man said casually, "It just so happens that he left a fire. Let's wash up first, then catch two fish to fill our stomachs, and then we can go explore the ruins."

Then the burly man turned his head and looked at Patch, who remained silent.

"What do you think, Patch?"

Patch withdrew his gaze from the distance, glanced at the strong man with a grin, and said with a half-smile:

"It's better if he doesn't bother me. You only know a person's face but not his heart. Do you want to have another person to share the money with?"

"I didn't plan to bring him along."

The burly man shook his head, then looked warily at the place where Ye Yiyi left, then moved closer to Patch and whispered.

"Hey, brother Patch, please don't trick us... You did find the ruins, right?"

"Of course I found it. If there wasn't danger inside, I wouldn't be able to handle it alone. Why would I call you?"

Patch rolled his eyes and said helplessly:

"You think I'm willing to split the money into five parts?"

"That's true."

The burly man nodded self-righteously and said with a chuckle, "Without us, you won't be able to take the money by yourself. After all, if it were me, I wouldn't be willing to share other people's money for nothing."

“Hehehe~~”

The two looked at each other and each smiled meaningfully.

In the forest not far away, a ball of colorless mist was quietly hidden among the trees and was now drifting away slowly.

"It's exactly what I thought."

Watching the mercenaries walk towards the river, Ye Yiyi couldn't help but shake his head in his heart.

As expected, Patch has joined the Curse Control Organization and is doing his old job.

Even without using cosmic aura to connect with Patchy, he could guess Patchy's thoughts and intentions.

It was just like how he tricked players into helping him find cursed derivatives before, but this time, the victims were replaced by this group of mercenaries.

That guy knows how to protect himself best and would never put himself in danger.

Next, this guy would probably pretend to be injured, leaving the group of mercenaries to explore the ruins alone, and then die suddenly in it.

"But if they die in there, Patch himself won't be able to get what he wants..."

Ye Yiyi couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

After all, reality is not a game, and there won't be a powerful name seeker who suddenly appears and takes advantage of you...

"Wait a minute?"

Ye Yiyi looked down at herself and couldn't help but slap her forehead, her expression indescribable.

Who says there are no suckers?

But... since he has already found the place, why not just tell the Curse Masters and let them come and explore it themselves?

With such doubts, he waited for a while, until the group finished washing and having breakfast, then he turned into a cloud hanging high in the sky, floating high above their heads, watching them wading through the river and walking towards the rock wall.

"Isn't it in the forest..."

Ye Yiyi followed silently and saw them walking along the rugged road over the rocky mountains and through the rocky canyon full of cacti. They soon left the approximate range of the warehouse space marked on the light screen map.

"No? How did they get out?"

Ye Yiyi compared the map markings and looked at the group of people under his feet, feeling deeply puzzled.

"Or are the ancient ruins they're looking for not actually warehouse space?"

Things suddenly happened beyond his expectations. He controlled his temper and watched the other party walk into a canyon surrounded by rock walls on three sides, and then stopped.

"Here we are?"

The burly man looked around with a battle axe in hand, a puzzled look on his face.

"Patch, are you mistaken? There are no ruins here."

"Haha, don't worry."

Patch laughed softly, walked to a rock wall, took out a long golden key from his arms, and inserted it into the void in front of him.

"Om~~"

Pale golden ripples flowed in the void, and then communicated with an existence hidden somewhere in the alien space and time.

"This……"

The remaining mercenaries looked at each other in bewilderment. Soon, the golden ripples disappeared, and a platinum-colored, magnificent gate appeared out of thin air in front of everyone.

"Okay, this is the ruins I was talking about."

Patch put away the keys and turned around with a sinister smile.

"call out!"

A feather arrow suddenly shot through the air and pierced his forehead.

"idiot!"

The axe-wielding man sneered, threw the longbow to his companion, then walked forward, searched Patch's body thoroughly, found the golden key, and then showed a look of surprise and greed.

"Sorry, Patch."

The burly man carefully put away the key, looked down at Patch who died with his eyes open, and shook his head with a sigh.

"I don't really like dividing money and treasure into five parts... Brothers, let's go!"

He stepped over Patch's body and excitedly pushed the platinum door inward.

The sturdy mercenary brothers also shook their heads and laughed, stepped over Patch's corpse, and stepped into the depths of the gate.

As the gate closed, only a bleeding corpse remained in the canyon.

Ye Yiyi was suspended in the air, quietly witnessing the whole process.

His opinion on this is: Hypnosis is indeed effective.

"Idiot, hehe~"

Patch's mocking laughter could be heard faintly, and with a flash of purple light, the rock wall and the corpse in front of him disappeared at the same time, and then turned into a deep cliff.

Patch, who should have died long ago, sat cross-legged on a rock and lowered his arm armor that glowed with purple light.

He walked to the edge of the cliff, looked down at the pools of blood and mud below, and sneered twice in a low voice.

"You can only know a person's face but not his heart. Brothers, who do you think I said that to?"

He shook his head in disappointment, turned away from the cliff, and returned to the forest along the same path he had come. He then scattered rainbow stones along the way and found another ordinary big tree.

Then he took out a golden key and inserted it into an inconspicuous tree hole above it.

"Kakakaka!!"

Under Ye Yiyi's astonished gaze, the bark of the big tree spread outward like a scroll, revealing a strange wooden door.

Then he took out a piece of linen and a small jar filled with bright red liquid, slumped down beside the wooden door, disguised his wounds, and began to moan softly.

"So... it's my turn now?"

Ye Yiyi was suspended in the air, with mixed and inexplicable emotions in her heart.

Yes, this guy cheated me in the same way in the game.