Zuo Lin'an pondered, “Right now, Xuan Jingyuan and his people are still hunting down stray specters all over the campus, and they'll definitely focus on searching for the principal.”
“And as the principal said earlier, once they've finished off most of the specters, they will head to the administrative building to spawn-camp him in his office.”
“In other words, many players are searching for specters across the campus in squads.”
“For us, this is the perfect opportunity to hunt players.”
“I'll hide my living body here. As for you, keep maintaining your perfect fusion state.”
“If we run into a player squad, I'll block them from the front, tanking their talents or specter item effects. You take the opportunity to kill them—slay as many as you can.”
“At least...”
At this point, Zuo Lin'an's expression turned slightly mischievous, and he lowered his voice.
“At least if we kill a few more players, the principal won't lose as much face.”
Xu Youyou also lowered his voice. “Will that really work? Is there really a difference between being farmed by a lot of people versus a few people?”
Zuo Lin'an immediately retorted, “Nonsense! How could there not be a difference? The difference is huge!”
“If he's only farmed by a small group of players, he can make excuses and say they were led by the strongest player. But if he's farmed in turns by nearly two hundred players just for fun, there's no explaining his way out of that! It just means he's purely trash!”
Although Xu Youyou still felt there was no difference, he pretended to have a sudden realization. After all, the principal could see everything happening inside the dungeon, so they had to at least put on a show.
“Right, right. Let's head out now.”
Zuo Lin'an's living body found an empty cabinet in the office and hid inside.
Immediately afterward, the two quickly left the office. Staying far away from Xuan Jingyuan's main force, they searched for stray player squads out hunting for specters.
The two concealed their figures, suppressing all of their specter aura.
This way, unless a player squad had a player equipped with the 【Spirit Vision】 talent, they would have no way of detecting them, allowing the duo to launch sneak attacks.
Xu Youyou stood on the corridor of the fifth floor and pointed toward Building No. 6.
“Look over there, there are six people. I recognize one of them. He was following behind Xuan Jingyuan earlier. He's probably an imperial guard, and his strength... seems to be at the First-Rate martial artist level.”
Zuo Lin'an said, “Let's go meet them.”
However, just as he spoke, they saw one of the six people suddenly raise his head and glance in their direction.
Xu Youyou froze for a moment. “Huh? Could it be 【Spirit Vision】? What a coincidence.”
Zuo Lin'an observed closely and realized something was off. “It's not 【Spirit Vision】. It should be the common talent 【Perception】, which can only roughly sense the direction and distance of a specter. He wasn't looking directly at us just now; his gaze just swept over our general vicinity.”
Xu Youyou finally relaxed. “Shall we go then?”
Zuo Lin'an turned and headed downstairs. In just a matter of seconds, they had already closed in on the six-person squad.
“Youyou, in a moment, we'll ambush the two players at the very back. Once we succeed with one strike, quickly retreat behind me. After I tank their talents and specter items, find an opportunity to kill them.”
Xu Youyou looked down at his sharp, pitch-black fingernails, a sinister grin spreading across his face. “Leave it to me.”
Zuo Lin'an's gaze swept over the players.
He noticed that their expressions were slightly more tense than before. The atmosphere felt a bit strained, and their pace had quickened significantly. Was it because the player with the 【Perception】 talent had sensed a specter nearby?
And looking at the direction they were heading, they were going toward the administrative building. Were they planning to report this?
“Strike!”
Zuo Lin'an took a step forward. In the next instant, he appeared behind one of the two players bringing up the rear of the six-person squad.
He raised his knife and brought it down, killing the person instantly.
As for the other one, his end was far more gruesome. After all, Xu Youyou was much more violent than him.
Having succeeded with his strike, Xu Youyou took a step back as planned, retreating behind Zuo Lin'an.
By this time, the four players in front had also noticed them.
“There are specters! Quick, get behind me!”
The player who spoke suddenly held an incense stick out of thin air—no, actually, it was only a third of an incense stick.
He pinched the broken end with two fingers, and the incense was instantly lit.
Wisps of white smoke drifted out, wrapping around Zuo Lin'an at a speed that seemed slow but was actually incredibly fast.
【The player has used the specter item, Soul-Cursing Incense. Special effect: Repels specters!】
【This player cannot simultaneously kill the person bound to the gold hairpin. The specter item's special effect is ineffective!】
After the dungeon prompt appeared, the remaining third of the incense stick in his hand burned to ashes in an instant. A massive cloud of smoke almost completely enveloped Zuo Lin'an.
Seeing this, the player was about to sigh in relief, only to realize to his horror that the specter in front of him was still standing in place, completely unaffected.
Those crimson slit-pupils pierced through the white smoke, staring at him silently.
“How...”
He opened his mouth to say something, but suddenly heard a succession of blood-curdling screams from behind him.
Someone was being attacked—and it was more than one person!
“Oh no!”
Only now did he realize that they hadn't been attacked by just one specter, but two!
Seeing him instinctively look back because of the screams, Zuo Lin'an seized the opportunity and struck ruthlessly.
With a flash of his blade, the player collapsed, dead.
Xu Youyou had already killed two on his end, leaving only one last player.
It was a female player.
Staring at the bloody scene before her, she trembled violently. She opened her mouth to scream, but found herself completely paralyzed by sheer terror, unable to make a sound.
She wanted to run, but her legs shook so violently that they refused to obey her.
“No!”
“Stay away from me!”
This female player likely had no means left to deal with specters, otherwise she wouldn't have turned and run right in front of them.
Xu Youyou grabbed her effortlessly and killed her on the spot.
After finishing his work, he turned to look at Zuo Lin'an.
“Brother An, didn't I handle that pretty cleanly?”
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