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Originally, he disagreed with letting Fan Xiao risk staying in a family that didn't perform rituals, to test the crisis and secrets of the dungeon.

However, judging from Fan Xiao's previous behavior of daring to bypass the Special Affairs Bureau and go to Wa City alone to "keep the appointment," this guy is obviously a very restless person with a high degree of autonomy, and he will not passively accept other people's plans and arrangements.

Even if he voices his objections, the other party will likely only pay lip service to them.

Since that's the case, he was too lazy to waste his breath trying to persuade the other party, so he simply decided to stay overnight together and protect the other party closely.

Moreover... deliberately getting close to the dangerous side and using risky methods to gather information about the dungeon in advance, unravel the mystery, and leave this hellish place faster, which aligns with his purpose.

This risk is worth taking.

"Don't worry, I have a measure."

After replying to Li Xian, Fan Xiao said to the others, "It's getting late, let's part ways for now. Good luck to you all."

Today is the first day, the easiest day to survive. As long as you gather intelligence and determine which way the danger is tilting, and don't do anything reckless, you should be fine.

Therefore, Fan Xiao was not very worried about the safety of his teammates.

Especially Lu Baizhi's side, it's probably the safest.

He should be more worried about his own situation now.

Because he's about to go and tempt fate.

……

After parting ways with their teammates, Fan Xiao and Li Xian walked side by side to Xiao Chi's father and daughter's house.

On the way, Fan Xiao asked Li Xian, "When those monsters attacked us earlier, three of them disappeared after emitting a green light upon contact with you. Did you kill them, or did you capture and keep them?"

“Everyone has their own secrets,” Li Xian said. “It is polite to stop your curiosity about others before it reaches a certain limit.”

"I'll trade you my secret."

Fan Xiao laughed and said, "I now have a very close relationship with the Holy Maiden of the Heavenly Righteousness Church in Division 001. The Heavenly Righteousness Church's candidate for Pope that she represents has become the final victor, and it is basically impossible for anything to go wrong. The position of Pope is already in their pocket."

"Before this, I could get a batch of fantasy materials through her connections. Now she is at the height of her power, wielding immense influence... Well, that's not an exaggeration. In short, now I can leverage this connection to access even more sectors of interest."

"Are you trying to show me how important you are?" Li Xian didn't budge: "You're talking about official business, but you're asking about my personal affairs. We're not on the same wavelength."

"We're not on the same wavelength, but you're from the Special Affairs Bureau, so separating the two is very difficult. Can you manage to separate them?"

Fan Xiao's expression remained unchanged as he said, "Besides, I'm not inquiring about your abilities purely out of curiosity. What I want to ask is related to achieving the conditions for clearing the level."

He paused, then posed his question: "Can your psionic powers capture those incorporeal monsters from before? Capture, not kill."

Upon hearing this, Li Xian frowned, as if he had thought of and understood something.

After a slight hesitation, he replied, "It won't work. I'm just converting the monsters that come into contact with me into data and storing it, which is equivalent to killing them. Although this process is reversible, releasing the stored data to regenerate creatures will create a different kind of 'information creature,' which is fundamentally different from the original."

Conditions for clearing Chapter 349

"Your psychic abilities are quite strong," Fan Xiao said in surprise. "Creating life?"

"It's just a simple AI intelligent life form, and it can't be created at will. It has to conform to the rules of physics, which is equivalent to creating mechanical life."

Li Xian replied: "The premise of creation is to master and understand the relevant knowledge, so I pursued two doctoral degrees for this purpose."

"Wow...it seems only a top student can skillfully use psionic energy." Fan Xiao then asked, "Those space skateboards from before, were they created using psionic energy?"

“I guess so,” Li Xian nodded. “Once I understand the knowledge, design the framework, and run the physics engine, my psionic energy can skip the manufacturing process and directly convert data into reality.”

"I see... It's incredibly versatile, has a wide range of applications, and even has attack attributes targeting spirits..."

Fan Xiao asked curiously, "Your psionic level must be quite high, right?"

"good."

Li Xian gave a vague reply.

Seeing this, Fan Xiao did not press the matter further.

To be honest, the fact that the other party was able to reveal so much information was somewhat beyond his expectations.

Li Xian doesn't want to continue the conversation, so stopping here is a matter of courtesy.

If we ask any further, we might find ourselves in an awkward situation.

"His ability to manipulate data... Come to think of it, his intelligence gathering skills seem exceptional. His psionic abilities are related to data... Could it be that he can hack into any electronic device out of thin air?"

Fan Xiao recalled some of the abilities Li Xian had displayed before entering the dungeon, and a guess suddenly popped into his mind.

When this guy first met Zhao Yu, who was sent by the "Black Snake" organization, he immediately recognized Zhao Yu's identity and the family power behind him, and knew that the "Black Snake" was an organization created by players from other regions... This is obviously very abnormal.

He didn't believe that the Special Affairs Bureau could have uncovered such a wealth of intelligence so quickly. If he hadn't informed Du Ruo and the others, the Special Affairs Bureau wouldn't even have known that someone was plotting against him behind his back.

Of course, he didn't doubt the Special Affairs Bureau's competence.

Under the operation of national-level power, many secrets are no longer secrets.

But getting an answer always takes time and a process.

Judging from the surprised reactions of Du Ruo and Mercury, they clearly did not know Zhao Yu's identity.

In other words, Li Xian obtained this intelligence all by himself.

If Li Xian's psychic abilities allow him to hack into any electronic device out of thin air and read its data, then it's not surprising that he can obtain so much information.

Everything that exists leaves a trace.

Zhao Yu used a prop when contacting the leader of the "Black Snake" organization, but that doesn't mean he used props when contacting others.

The tools used for communication are not so common.

As long as Zhao Yu leaves traces on the internet or electronic devices when communicating with others, no matter how well he conceals them, or even if he has a special force protecting this information, he cannot escape Li Xian's psionic intrusion.

"If nothing unexpected happens, that should be the case."

Although it's just speculation, Fan Xiao thinks the possibility is quite high.

As he suspected, Li Xian's psychic powers could indeed do that.

Cyber ​​ghosts—that's Li Xian's psychic power.

Within a 1000-meter range, the Class B psionic "cyber ghost" can disregard the rules of reality, allowing Li Xian's consciousness to hack into any electronic device out of thin air.

As long as the distance is not blocked by spatial abilities, such as placing the phone in the player's storage space, "Network Ghost" can take effect, and it takes effect out of thin air, without relying on any physical connection.

Even devices not connected to the internet cannot escape this psionic intrusion.

In terms of intelligence gathering, "cyber ghosts" undoubtedly possess an overwhelming advantage in a technological society.

Of course, his abilities are not limited to being a "hacker".

Creating mechanical life from data, converting living and non-living things into data for storage, absorbing this data to amplify one's own power, analyzing enemy data to formulate tactics, and digitizing oneself into electronic devices... "Cyber ​​Ghost" can interfere with many things. Although there are many limitations to its use, its versatility is undoubtedly very comprehensive, even among B-grade psionic abilities.

"Let's leave it at that if it's not a dungeon quest."

Li Xian looked at Fan Xiao and said, "What's your purpose in inquiring about my abilities?"

He had a vague idea of ​​Fan Xiao's intentions, but he wasn't sure and needed to confirm it.

Fan Xiao sighed softly, "It's a pity you can't directly capture those 'deceitful monsters,' otherwise we could try to see if we could sacrifice them to families who keep portraits of the deceased at home."

"So that's what they wanted after all..."

Li Xian instinctively glanced in the direction where the monster had just been.

They had already gone quite far, and at this distance, they naturally couldn't see anything, so the group of monsters didn't follow them closely.

Perhaps it was Lu Baizhi's domain damage that caused them to suffer, leaving them temporarily unable to chase after the player.

Or... once a certain distance is created, these monsters will abandon their current target.

We need to verify which one it is.

Li Xian didn't dwell on that point for the moment, and got down to business, saying, "After you asked me that question, I also thought about the sacrifice."

“We previously speculated that the victims in Wa City became ghosts in the instance, and that the instance created their families to act as townspeople. Now, a ‘deceiving monster’ has appeared… These three identities can basically fit into our speculation and are consistent with the logic behind them, so our speculation is likely correct.”

"The victim, the victim's family, the perpetrator... The victim's family is currently holding a memorial service for the victim at home. If we can capture the perpetrator and make a sacrifice in front of the victim's portrait, we might be able to directly fulfill the conditions for the first dungeon quest."

There are three dungeon quests.

Complete a sacrificial ceremony;

Surviving for seven days;

To help a deceased person achieve true reincarnation.

The phrase "completing a sacrificial ceremony" certainly refers to more than just lighting incense.

They've already offered incense, but haven't received any game completion tips, so there must be some key conditions they haven't met.

There are many ways to commemorate the dead, such as burning paper money, burning things that the deceased liked or wanted in life... In general, it is to fulfill the "wishes" of the deceased based on their preferences in life.

The dead in this instance are those who were scammed in Wa City.

If you were to ask them what their wish was... it would definitely be revenge, to kill all the swindlers, no doubt about it!

Offering sacrifices to the perpetrators before their portraits...or rather, their memorial tablets, to fulfill their most fervent wish, does indeed fit the concept of "sacrifice."

It's not difficult to guess this.

Initially, Li Xian believed that the "ordinary people who were scammers" who were caught up in the dungeon were the perpetrators. After seeing the portrait of the deceased in the first family he visited, he had the idea of ​​capturing ordinary people and killing them as a sacrifice to the ghosts, in order to see if he could complete the dungeon mission.

Anyway, those ordinary fraudsters have taken many lives directly or indirectly, so killing them is no big deal. In an extreme environment like a dungeon, there's no need to be merciful or moral when facing a group of villains.

Ultimately, he didn't do it because he thought of something—the phenomenon of these "ordinary people scammers" being dragged into the instance was itself an act of revenge by the victims... or rather, by the ghosts.

As expected, even if these guys are incredibly lucky and manage to survive to the last day, they will be torn apart by the army of vengeful ghosts that return on the day of the spirit sacrifice.

They are doomed!

They will surely die at the hands of the monsters.

Under these circumstances, it seems a bit... unnecessary for players to capture these ordinary people and drag them to the memorial tablets of the dead as sacrifices.

Killing the people the ghosts were already planning to kill in advance seems like "stealing kills."

In a sense, this could even be considered as hindering someone's revenge.

And the idea that you can pass the game by simply capturing an ordinary person and sacrificing them... seems far too simplistic.

Sacrificing ordinary people is unlikely to have much effect.

It might even have the opposite effect.

It was precisely because he had taken this into account that he did not act rashly.

Now that the "liar" has appeared, his doubts have been resolved.

What these players really want to catch isn't ordinary people, but "liars".

Since the victims of Wa City have become the ghosts here, it's understandable that the perpetrators would join in as a cameo role in one of the dangerous scenarios.

The relationship between these two parties is one of opposition.

Furthermore, since they are both dungeon creatures, there may be limitations on how the two sides can attack each other, and they may not be able to attack each other at all.

In this situation, if the victim wants to take revenge and kill the perpetrator, they can only rely on the player, who is an "outsider".

The player captures the "deceitful ghost" and drags him to be sacrificed, which is estimated to complete the real sacrifice and completely appease the victim's anger.

If you offer sacrifices to each family one by one, you might eventually gain the favor of all the ghosts and monsters and obtain the most comprehensive safety.

With that, we can confidently proceed with the remaining two dungeon quests.

Of course, this is the ideal situation.

The town of Sacrifice Spirits is quite large, and it's practically impossible to offer sacrifices to each household individually. Players also cannot guarantee that the number of "deceitful ghosts" will correspond to the number of spirit tablets in the town.

In short, this is an impossible task!

Therefore, the first task condition given by the instance has an added restriction—completing a sacrificial ritual.

The key word is "once".

"It's easier to talk to smart people."

Fan Xiao laughed and said, "Those 'deceitful ghosts' are like bargaining chips for us to gain security, but they are not easy to catch because they are all spirits."

"If your psionic energy can't capture them, we'll have to find another way."

"Of course, this matter is not urgent. The family of Xiaochi and his daughter that we are going to now does not have a memorial tablet for the deceased, so we cannot offer sacrifices there. We will have to wait until tomorrow."