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Another cannibalistic player, Sharon, arrived a little later.

The three factions stared at each other, their eyes filled with a sense of gravity and wariness.

Soon, official organizations from Blackrock City arrived at the scene, which was quickly cordoned off, and a large number of ambulances rushed to the scene.

Feng Siman, Beifeng, and Sheren did not speak. After exchanging glances for a while, they each left their original positions and continued their investigations of their assigned tasks.

Everyone's mindset has changed.

……

Nine p.m.

After passing through the ruins and traveling a distance, Fan Xiao and his two companions finally met Mary.

Because Miss Mary is by the rules only to appear behind people, Vanshaw walked backwards for the last part of the search.

At that moment, Mary was standing right behind him, less than half a meter away.

No matter which way he turned, Mary was always behind him.

Left with no other choice, Fan Xiao had to grow eyes on his back to see Mary's true face.

Chapter 701 Failed to Deceive the Loli

As the voice on the phone indicated, Mary was a young girl.

She looks to be around 12 years old, with beautiful blonde hair, delicate features, and fair skin, resembling a sickly but beautiful girl.

The beautiful girl, wearing a blood-stained dress and holding a foot-long knife, approached Fan Xiao from behind and made a final phone call.

After Fan Xiao answered the phone, a voice came through: "This is Mary. I'm right behind you. Let's play a game."

After the call ended, the eye on the back of Fan Xiao saw Mary's mouth rip up to her ears, creating a huge gash on her face. Her once white teeth became sharp and ferocious, like two rows of steel saws. Her whole body exuded a terrifying, chilling aura, and the surrounding temperature seemed to drop several degrees.

A cute little girl was transformed seamlessly into a terrifying, monstrous creature.

Xia Li and the white kitten carefully observed from a distance, using cover, not missing any details.

Mary's sudden transformation made both of them nervous.

Fan Xiao remained motionless, as if awaiting execution, completely ignoring the sticky malice emanating from Mary.

The next instant, his body was violently sliced ​​into many pieces by a foot-long knife, which scattered on the ground.

In the instant blood spurted out, Mary tore open his flesh, grabbed his heart, yanked it out, and then, in a fit of rage, stuffed it into her mouth and began to chew.

"It's Mary from the story! It's actually a character from the story who came to the real world!"

Seeing this scene, which perfectly matched the character of Mary in the story, Shirley, who was in the distance, immediately confirmed her guess, and her slightly heroic face was filled with seriousness.

After Mary killed the man and swallowed his heart, she immediately disappeared, as if she had never been there.

The only proof is that Fan Xiao was dismembered into eight pieces.

Xia Li adjusted her mindset and whispered to the white kitten beside her, "Let's go over there quickly, it's up to you now."

The white kitten nodded.

The two quickly approached Fan Xiao, who was scattered all over the ground.

Although this instance suppresses the evolution rate of A-level players and weakens their various physical abilities, as long as their brains are not completely destroyed, A-level players can survive for a short period of time even if they are beheaded—this information comes from their instinctive perception and judgment of their current physical condition.

Therefore, neither of them is worried about Fan Xiao's safety for the time being.

In fact, their judgment was somewhat flawed—they were unaware that Vanshaw's true evolution rate was only in the B-level range.

Of course, this doesn't affect anything.

Under the influence of the "Flesh and Blood Progenitor" psychic energy, Fan Xiao still maintains a very clear consciousness. He can regenerate on any fragments of his body, and he can also gather the fragments together to heal and recover.

He didn't do that, but waited for the white kitten to receive treatment.

"Brother Fan Jin, don't worry, I'm here."

The little white cat clenched her fist, as if cheering herself and Fan Xiao on.

The next second, her cat tail split into nine parts and began to sway nimbly.

A semi-white, semi-transparent light gathered between her palms, brimming with vitality.

The light quickly enveloped Fan Xiao, and a miraculous thing happened—Fan Xiao's scattered body automatically reassembled under the guidance of the light and rapidly healed into a complete human body, even regenerating his missing heart.

Fan Xiao felt an extremely rich life energy from the light, and his body and mind felt comfortable.

"Is it an ability related to vitality? And nine tails... Has it evolved into a nine-tailed cat? There's a saying that cats have nine lives, I wonder if there's any connection?" he wondered to himself.

Because the treatment was completed almost in the blink of an eye, he was unable to fully experience the white kitten's power characteristics.

Feeling his body become whole again and regaining his mobility, he had no choice but to give up.

"Brother Fan Jin, are you alright?" Bai Xiaomao asked with concern.

Xia Li also cast a concerned glance at him.

“It’s all over now.” Fan Xiao nodded to the two of them and said to Bai Xiaomao, “Thanks. I didn’t expect that a demi-human player could evolve such amazing healing abilities. Even when suppressed, it still has this effect. It’s almost like a B-grade healing psionic energy.”

"It's not that powerful, it can't compare to the psionic abilities of human players," White Cat said modestly. "I also have to thank Brother Fan Jin for his trust in me."

She was certain that the man in front of her had a way to save himself; after all, he was a powerful figure, and powerful figures rarely lack extraordinary abilities.

However, she did not explicitly state her intention to speak out about this matter.

The other party might be trying to test her abilities, but she doesn't care about such trivial matters, since healing is just one of her genetic traits anyway.

“It’s now confirmed that Mary is the fictional Mary,” Xia Li said. “The crisis in this instance is undoubtedly caused by the collision between the real world and the fictional world. Behind those bizarre deaths, it’s likely that characters from the fiction are causing trouble. Fortunately, Mary is relatively easy to deal with, and there’s nothing too outrageous about her.”

She paused for a moment, then continued, "Knowing this, the direction of the investigation became clear."

"We need to go to the official organization to collect detailed records of all the recent bizarre deaths and determine from the details which characters from various works are causing the disturbance."

"Once we know their identities, we can obtain complete information about them from the works, which will make dealing with them much easier."

"I just don't know if we can find the source of the clash between reality and the artwork from these events..."

“If we’re looking for the source, we can investigate in detail when exactly the first bizarre death occurred,” White Cat suggested. “The events mentioned in the dungeon’s background information may not include the first one. We can only find news and fragmented information online and in the library, and we haven’t been able to determine when the anomaly started.”

After speaking, the two looked at Fan Xiao, waiting for his opinion.

Just then, the phone rang.

Xia Li and Bai Xiaomao were both startled and looked at Fan Xiao's pocket, where the voice was coming from.

If I remember correctly, Fan Xiao should have already thrown away his phone.

Fan Xiao lowered his head, took out his phone, and answered the call.

“I am Mary, and I am currently 5 kilometers behind you. We will meet soon.”

"..."

Fan Xiao was taken aback.

Suddenly, the second and third telephones rang.

Fan Xiao looked at Xia Li and Bai Xiaomao. The two of them stiffened and instinctively took out old-fashioned cell phones that were not originally in their pockets. Looking at the caller ID, their expressions became unusually serious.

Mary... has locked onto all three of them.

Mary's phone call could be contagious?

This isn't in the story's setting!

Xia Lichao asked Fan Xiao, "Have you tried not answering the phone before?"

She came up with some crazy ideas.

“It’s no use,” Fan Xiao reminded him. “Not answering the phone, throwing away or destroying the phone, none of them work. I’ve tried almost every method I can think of, and none of them have worked.”

Xia Li and Bai Xiaomao both fell silent upon hearing this. After exchanging a glance, they simultaneously answered the phone.

Mary's cute, childlike voice came from the phone, delivering a chilling declaration of death.

When the distance was announced, Xia Li and the white kitten were farther away from Mary than Fan Xiao.

Xia Li frowned and said, "This is a bit troublesome. The worst-case scenario is that Mary will split, or rather... self-replicate? Just like meme contamination."

"Pollution... Could the pollution conditions be close contact with someone who has already been contaminated?" White Cat guessed.

She regretted it as soon as she said it and quickly looked at Fan Xiao to explain, "Brother Fan Jin, the kitten didn't mean to blame you, it was just analyzing the problem."

Fan Xiao glanced at her, ignored her explanation, and went straight to business, pointing out two things he had noticed: "When your Mary reports the distance, it's farther than mine. It seems that after being hit once, the distance will be much shorter the second time. This is not a good thing."

"And... the deceptive death couldn't fool Mary. Mary's 'inevitable death' setting is probably fixed. As long as we don't die, she will keep haunting us, and each time she will get closer and closer to us."

He paused, then his tone became more serious: "It's getting closer and closer. If we reach the final stage, after Mary tears our bodies apart, we probably won't even have time to recover before we face the next Mary. At that point, we might just completely mess things up."

"Then...should we try to defeat Mary?" White Kitten suggested.

“Mary is a creature of the rules, she can’t be killed,” Xia Li said. “Now that the ‘death upon sight’ rule has been confirmed, we can’t deceive Mary by faking our death. I suppose we can’t break through the ‘unkillable’ rule at this stage either.”

Unfortunately, the right to use the props has been blocked.

Otherwise, she could simply unleash the "Pale Flame" using the secondary item granted by "Absolute Justice," burning any demon or monster to ashes!

"The story about Mary isn't finished, and the sequel to Mary's story hasn't been written," White Cat sighed softly. "Otherwise, we wouldn't be in such a passive position."

At this point, she suddenly paused, then quickly said, "Right! Should we go ask the author of this work? Since he designed Mary, he should know how to defeat her and her weaknesses, right?"

"No need to look anymore, the author is already dead."

Fan Xiao held up his old phone and waved the screen at the two of them. It displayed an obituary notice, a death notice posted by the platform editor about an author. The deceased author was the one who created Mary, and died in an accident.

"This phone can still access the internet... Wait! The person is already dead?" White Cat exclaimed in surprise.

"Could it be that Mary herself killed him?" Xia Li guessed.

Although the obituary stated that the death was an accident, ... when it comes to this kind of thing, the veracity of various reports becomes questionable.

“We need to consult the official documents to confirm this,” Fan Xiao said with regret. “The author died too soon; otherwise, we could have experimented with some interesting approaches.”

White Kitten: "An interesting plan?"

“For example, try having the author kill Mary off,” Vanshaw replied, “or add a setting that Mary can fake her death. That way, our dilemma will automatically fall apart.”

"...It is indeed quite interesting."

The little white cat thought about this from a deeper perspective and discovered that there were many ways to play with it.

Unfortunately, the person is already dead, and this road is temporarily blocked.

"Is the author using this as a way to indirectly address a character's crisis...?"

Xia Li said thoughtfully, "It sounds feasible, but... it feels a bit too simple. If adding settings can be easily influenced, then this work's invasion of reality and the crisis will be easy to resolve, which doesn't quite match the basic difficulty of an A-level dungeon."

"Perhaps... for the author's new settings to take effect, some additional conditions are needed?" Bai Xiaomao said with a burst of imagination, "For example, it needs to be seen by a large number of readers and be recognized by them? After all, a work that is not recognized is just one person's self-indulgence."

"Hmm...this also needs to be verified."

Xia Li said, "If the verification results show that it is feasible, then our task will undoubtedly be much simpler to complete."

"As long as we protect the authors, give them enough time to create, and give readers enough time to watch their works and gain enough recognition, we can make the new settings a reality and thus weaken the characters that invade reality."

"However... this is a bit troublesome to do. We must work together with other players, otherwise we can't protect so many people on our own."

"Moreover, this must be done in secrecy! We must try our best to avoid the news getting out and being discovered by the characters who have invaded reality."

She felt she had figured out how to play this dungeon.

Although protecting a large number of authors under the threat of numerous characters from various works is extremely difficult, at least we have a direction and a goal. The rest is to find a way and formulate a plan.

There are still nine players alive. If they cooperate deeply and combine their abilities, the success rate is still quite high.

"..."

Fan Xiao did not comment after hearing Xia Li's words.

Or rather, he reserved his opinion.

This dungeon is definitely not that simple!

If it were that simple, he would just write Tina's name backwards!

Xia Li's speculations have some basis, but they have little to do with the three hints in the dungeon, and are most likely not the correct answers.

We currently have too few clues and information, so we can only proceed one step at a time.