Chapter 840: Chapter 519: Investment and Warning
In the blink of an eye, there were only two days left until the end of the Land of the Dead Soul instance.
During these last days, Wang Zhifan had long maxed out his player experience in the instance, and had collected various instance rewards to the point of not wanting any more, leaving him with only cultivation and leisure activities.
In his boredom, he even went to have conversations with a few highly intelligent fierce ghosts.
When the talk went smoothly, he would add some decorations to others’ ghostly homes; when it didn’t, he’d simply slash them into oblivion with a single blow. This surely dragged the reputation of the underworld envoy in the Land of the Dead Soul to a new low.
Finally, in these last few days, the plan he had orchestrated single-handedly was about to be executed.
At the entrance of the Land of the Dead Soul, exactly eighteen experts were invited by the young man in foreign dress to join in the attack against the fierce ghost designated by Wang Zhifan, who was a guardian of the Land of the Dead Soul.
Moreover, Wang Zhifan specifically leaked this information to the player community, using the method of directing and acting with a doppelganger, allowing players to overhear the doppelgangers’ secret discussions of the plan by coincidence, attracting attention and gathering everyone together on this day.
By now, it was already afternoon, and eighty miles away from the entrance of the Land of the Dead Soul, in front of a huge temple shrouded in black aura, dozens of people stood still, discussing how to subdue the fierce ghost within the temple.
"How dare a vicious ghost use my Buddhist temple as a den of demons? I can’t tolerate this any longer! Today, I shall definitely rid the world of this demon!"
The first to speak was a bald, fat man with a large gold chain around his neck.
He appeared to be around forty years old, and instead of wearing monk robes, he was dressed like a nouveau riche, complete with a gold watch on his wrist and two gold rings on his fingers, looking in no way related to poverty, yet claiming to be a poor monk.
"Since even a fat guy like you says so, why don’t you go in first and scout? We will be outside watching your back!"
Upon hearing the bold words of the fat man, whose appearance had nothing to do with a monk except for his hairstyle, a nondescript but sharp-eyed old man next to him urged him, hoping the fat man would venture in alone.
However, the fat man didn’t fall for it and shook his chubby face, replying:
"Uncle, how can such a good deed as exorcising demons for the greater good be mine alone? Everyone must unite heart and soul and advance hand in hand to live up to the patron’s expectations!"
The patron he was talking about was precisely the young man in foreign dress revived by Wang Zhifan, who had also come in person for this plan. He not only brought with him the four who came last time but also spent a lot to recruit numerous experts, truly investing heavily.
Wang Zhifan was quite satisfied with this native young man’s work ethic. Although he couldn’t be sure if the people the young man found were strong enough, at least he took it seriously and didn’t waste his revival.
When these NPC experts gathered at the target location, the players Wang Zhifan was in charge of guiding had also mostly arrived, hidden near the temple where the guardian resided.
It’s said that under a heavy reward, there must be brave men. For players, enough significant interests also hold a fatal attraction.
These players were attracted by the news that the native group was attacking powerful ghosts, hoping for a chance to take advantage and profit, with each one wishing to be the ultimate beneficiary.
"So many NPCs have come? This is the first time I’ve seen so many in this ghost place!"
"There must be something good in that house! We must keep a close watch!"
Discussing at the moment were two black players; they used special tools to hide underground, with only their eyes wearing sunglasses exposed to observe outside, acting rather cautiously.
Unlike them, a group of three white players was much more ostentatious. They did not hide their tracks at all and swaggered about near the guardian’s temple, even proactively engaging with the NPC group, expressing a desire to join them in the ghost-hunting operation.
Besides these five players, the only one still alive was the lone sapling of the Xia Country group, the female Assassin player who killed her own leader.
This woman was very bold; she almost followed the NPC group to the guardian’s location invisibly, eavesdropping on their conversations throughout, thereby gaining more related information.
"It sounds like a rich guy invited them to deal with this ghost, but still no reason mentioned for eliminating the ghost...
There’s something off. It’s possible that this rich guy colluded with the ghost, specifically bringing live food for the ghost..."
After her analysis, the female player decided to maintain a sufficient distance and observe covertly, to see what kind of conclusion this ghost-elimination action would reach.
Everyone’s reactions fell into the view of Wang Zhifan, who was also invisibly monitoring nearby.
His perception was extremely sharp and covered a wide area, so even the invisible female Assassin player was immediately detected by him; no one could escape his scrutiny.
"These NPCs all have supernatural energies, and the tools they’re carrying are interesting. Not one of them is an ordinary person, and a few even have considerable strength, so it seems that young man indeed exerted considerable effort in hiring people...
The remaining players on whom I had influence have all gathered in this area, but these people feel somewhat average to me? Their strength may not necessarily match up to the NPCs...
However, compared to the guardian of this place, their overall strength still seems a cut below. It seems as I feared, that this strategy to kill ghosts with borrowed hands is very likely to fail due to insufficient combat power."
After observing and then judging, Wang Zhifan gave a pessimistic prediction.
He had fought with the guardian before, and his powerful perception allowed him to roughly gauge the fierce ghost’s level inside the temple, which seemed on par with the female ghost he had taken down before. He understood how much strength was needed to adequately eliminate the opponent.
