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However, he seems quite interested in me now...?
He even said that a three-part face is handsome... This man's tastes are really strange.
Or, try?
As she spoke, the Blood Demon Girl tried to split her face apart again. But just as she managed to open a small corner of her mouth, showing the slightest sign of what was to come, Li Ji suddenly slapped her across the face.
"Didn't I tell you? You need to have some self-awareness as a prisoner. I'm letting you think, not transform you."
This immediately shut down the Blood Demon Girl's brain, which was racing wildly.
Crystalline tears streamed down her flushed face in an instant.
Li Ji: "?"
He first looked at the Blood Demon Girl's face, then at his own hands.
I wondered if this "standard" strength could produce such an effect?
The other party is a Sarkaz!
"Could it be that I just delivered a powerful blow and triggered the canned green vegetables?"
This seems to be the only reason Li Ji can think of right now.
……
"Waaaaah, I just want to get revenge, please let me go."
The Blood Demon Girl choked back tears, her voice trembling with emotion, completely lacking the imposing aura she had displayed in the dungeon.
Looking at the Blood Demon Girl's appearance, Li Ji suddenly had a flash of inspiration and immediately squatted down to wipe away her tears.
"Alright, since you're so eager for revenge, tell us who your enemy is. We're just about to go to the theater troupe to steal some valuables. If you can lead us to your enemy, we'll take care of him while we're at it. How about that?"
"Really...really?"
"Of course, the premise is that you have to lead the way for us. It's all foggy here, and we really can't find the way."
Li Ji nodded and promised, "As long as you can lead us to that person, we'll help you take care of him. But you'll have to think about the reward on the way; we don't work for free."
"……All right."
The Blood Demon Girl remained silent for a while, then finally nodded, seemingly resigned, and agreed to Li Ji's request.
The moment she agreed, the clock displayed a message written in blood that Li Ji had never seen before:
[Bring the pure-blooded Blood Demon Girl to your party—after clearing the third level of the Remnants of the Homeland and obtaining the collectible 'Substitute Actor,' the next unexpected encounter will definitely be the 'Follower Gathering.']
"As expected, to trigger different events, it has to be in line with the plot... For example, with the scapegoat scarf, it's only when the other party doesn't want to go, but I insist on going to get it, that the gift of Originium Ingots is triggered."
Li Ji stroked his chin, confirming his conjecture about the unexpected encounter.
"It seems that you need to take her along to seek revenge in order to trigger additional events."
Now that this condition has been triggered, we'll have to see if there will be any other rewards later.
But for now, the biggest surprise is still...
"Castle Runner, let's see where you run this time. I'm going to tear your hood off the ground and slap you in the face!"
Chapter Twenty-Four: Consecutive Attacks!
Sunset Courtyard 20:21.
"I have this feeling... we're going in the dark about intelligence every step of the way. What exactly is this intelligence I'm talking about?"
Raven looked at Li Ji and the Blood Demon Girl beside him, and said with some sweat on his face.
After taking the Blood Demon Girl with them, they went through several more battles. Although they passed them all easily without any surprises, Raven felt extremely exhausted.
For some reason, Raven felt that Li Ji seemed to be treating this place simply as a game...
He could make hasty and casual decisions about anything that seemed to involve life or death.
He insisted on touching any strange stone statues he saw, and he would go over to listen to the prisoners carving themselves and muttering to themselves on the walls of the cell...
This directly led to them creating many cracks that were completely unnecessary.
Fortunately, after the fight, they were given some somewhat useful collectibles.
One is [Dance of the Dead]: Redeployment time for all operators -10%.
One is [Broken Group Photo]: All enemy units' defense is reduced by 12%.
"Are you really planning to take her with you the whole way?"
“Well, this is our first time here and we don’t know anyone here, but we have a ‘local’ guide.”
After receiving the previous warning, Li Ji did not choose to use millet to restrain the Blood Demon Girl's movements. Instead, he completely let her go and allowed her to move around freely around millet.
Logically speaking, the prompts given by the 'system' should be accurate, but just in case, Li Ji still didn't let Shu lower his guard.
Even so, she was still somewhat indignant as she argued with the Blood Demon Girl:
"No, are you sure the local guide will take us to a hall filled with stone statues that come back to life on the spot, or to a dungeon filled with strange prisoners?"
Raven had no problem with Li Ji, but the Blood Demon girl leading the way seemed suspicious no matter how you looked at her. Why would someone deliberately lead someone to such a dangerous place?
Although Li Ji was more likely to get into the fight because he insisted on "courting death," even if Li Ji was 99% wrong, didn't she also make 1% mistake?
"Although I'm not very familiar with this place, I can still take you to the Hall of Desire. As for what we'll encounter along the way, I really don't know."
The Blood Demon Girl looked at the raven and spoke slowly.
"The Hall of Thirst?"
Raven felt like he had never heard of this name before, since the information vaguely mentioned that the farthest place that Gaul could reach was the Blood Moon Corridor on the fifth floor.
Could this be the sixth floor?
But she remembered that, according to the clues she had found along the way in the intelligence report... the fifth level of the Blood Moon Corridor should be the last level, so how could there be a sixth level?
Raven felt increasingly confused. Even with the help of the powerful artifact, the Silent Squad, they were struggling to pass the fifth level, but there was another level after that!
Just as the raven was still having a headache, a figure suddenly emerged from the mist.
He wore a brown trench coat, and beneath his oversized Fedora hat was a face made of metal and mechanical parts.
He raised his hand and gently placed it on his shoulder, then bowed slightly and said, "It's nice to see other people here, my friends."
[Iron Man?]
[Hey handsome, is this even possible in another world?]
[Blood and flesh ache, mechanical ascension!]
"robot?"
The raven, as wary as a kitten, quickly grabbed Li Ji and shouted to the people around them, "Watch out!"
“My dear lady, there’s no need to be nervous. I’m just a private investigator, hired by the Melland Historical Society to investigate a mysterious organization called the Crimson Troupe.”
The Tin Man stopped in his tracks and introduced himself in a friendly manner, saying, "I'm just trapped here by the fog and have lost my way."
He sized up Li Ji and his group, and when he saw the Blood Demon Girl next to Shu, a glint seemed to flash in his mechanical eyes.
"You rescued the Blood Demon from the dungeon?"
The tin man asked Li Ji in a strange tone, "A pureblood Blood Demon from the Blood Demon King's Court... it's quite rare to see someone following behind another."
When Li Ji first saw the tin man, he wanted to greet him and see if there were any special treatments for acquaintances.
But seeing that the other person didn't recognize him at all, he eventually gave up on the idea.
Perhaps not everyone can be like Kannot, like that kid who just gave him the scapegoat scarf, who has given it to him countless times in the story, just like a mechanical NPC.
I suppose the people of Xi must be like that too.
"This part of the plot seems to be about sharing information?"
Li Ji recalled the plot of Tin Man's node in his mind and shared some of the information he knew with Tin Man.
The Tin Man nodded slightly after hearing the information.
"I see. If I didn't have other important matters to attend to, I would love to join your team and travel with you."
The Tin Man said with a hint of regret, "But since you want to find an announcer, you might need this."
He pulled a tattered doll from the wind and handed it to Li Ji. The doll had some loose threads and even some tattered cotton showing through.
"This is something I discovered after seeing a painting...it might be useful to you."
【The worn-out doll given by the Tin Man】: Allows for different endings in the exploration.
"Increase?"
Looking at the description of the tattered doll, Li Ji felt something was off. "It's not about going in different directions, but about adding different things?"
He was initially puzzled by the "Dance of the Death Row Inmates" in his hand, as it was the first unexpected encounter that would unlock the playwright's ending.
Normally, after receiving the scapegoat scarf, the plot would shift to the storyline of the theater troupe's mouthpiece, and the playwright's unexpected encounter would likely not happen again.
Since both bosses are from the Hall of Desire, they will occupy each other's node slots.
But now not only have playwrights and theater troupe mouthpieces appeared at the same time... even Phantom and Locket have appeared together?