Zuo Lin'an noticed that after he sent his message, Xu Youyou didn't reply for several minutes.
“Has his Dao Heart shattered?”
Of course, it was also possible that he was still digesting the meaning of those words.
Just as he found this slightly amusing, Xu Youyou's messages began to bombard him.
【Xu Youyou: Ah?】
【Xu Youyou: What do you mean?】
【Xu Youyou: What did you just send?】
【Xu Youyou: I don't think I understand.】
【Xu Youyou: Did you say Sin Hunter City?】
【Xu Youyou: How could you...】
Xu Youyou sat frozen in place.
Only now did he truly understand what it felt like to worry about a brother's struggles, yet dread him doing too well.
【Xu Youyou: Are... are you serious?】
Zuo Lin'an also felt a bit embarrassed. His pace indeed seemed to be quite a bit faster.
【Zuo Lin'an: I happened to gather one hundred Contribution points. I couldn't just let them sit there, so I bought a city entry application and came straight over to try it out.】
Xu Youyou checked his own Contribution.
Forty-one points.
One of those points was a reward from the dungeon after he wiped out all the players.
“I still have three unsolvable specters. Once the staff retrieves them, I'll have fifty-six points.”
“I'm still forty-four points away from one hundred.”
“The road ahead is long and arduous!!”
Xu Youyou felt thoroughly frustrated.
【Xu Youyou: Next time! I will absolutely gather one hundred Contribution points next time!】
Zuo Lin'an didn't discourage him.
【Zuo Lin'an: How much are you still missing?】
【Xu Youyou: Still short forty-four points.】
【Zuo Lin'an: Alright, I'll wait for your good news.】
【Xu Youyou: Then tell me how you cleared your dungeon this time. How did you get so much Contribution in one go?】
Zuo Lin'an didn't hide anything and briefly described the entire events of the dungeon.
Xu Youyou was completely dumbfounded as he read through the entire process.
【Xu Youyou: Oh, right!】
【Xu Youyou: Being mistaken for a Specter Master and then cooperating with the players... This is a great idea! Why didn't I think of this before? I'm going to use this method next time too!】
【Zuo Lin'an: Then you need to plan carefully. You're still short by forty-four points, which means you need at least nine unsolvable specters.】
【Xu Youyou: You'll help me, right?】
This was, of course, beyond doubt. In any case, he would have to start rearranging his own specter dungeon during the upcoming downtime.
He would wait for the next world before opening the dungeon again.
【Zuo Lin'an: When your next dungeon starts, you can contact me anytime. I'll give you some suggestions, but I can't guarantee they'll actually work. Don't blame me if you fail.】
【Xu Youyou: No problem!】
【Xu Youyou: By the way, speaking of which, have you formulated your second rule?】
Zuo Lin'an briefly explained the situation regarding auxiliary rules and Domain Rules that he had discussed with Instructor An.
This included the fact that restrictions would automatically generate if a rule was too powerful.
【Zuo Lin'an: That's how it is. Pretty complicated, right?】
【Zuo Lin'an: But I still decided to set up an auxiliary rule. Since I didn't want restrictions to generate automatically, I added two limitations myself.】
One was that it only applied to himself, and the other was that it could only last for ten seconds.
He felt that with these two restrictions, no further automatic restrictions should generate in the future.
Of course, this wasn't a hundred percent guaranteed.
But even if there were, they would likely be within his tolerable range.
【Xu Youyou: ...】
【Xu Youyou: Did you guess that I have restrictions?】
Zuo Lin'an thought to himself, “As expected.”
【Zuo Lin'an: I had a feeling.】
【Xu Youyou: Hehe!】
He was still a bit embarrassed.
【Xu Youyou: It's not that I didn't want to tell you, I just felt that your previously formulated Death Rule had no restrictions, whereas I ended up with two...】
【Zuo Lin'an: Two?】
He had previously guessed one or two, but he hadn't expected there to actually be two.
Ultimately, Xu Youyou told him the details of the two restrictions.
【Xu Youyou: My two restrictions are: first, the target must be within a five-meter radius of me; second, they must be within my line of sight.】
【Zuo Lin'an: Which means...】
【Xu Youyou: Which means both of these conditions must be met for me to make a player trigger the Death Rule.】
【Xu Youyou: Also! The second restriction means the target must be in my line of sight at the very moment the rule is triggered, not just that I've seen them before.】
【Zuo Lin'an: Doesn't that mean if someone blinds you, your rule becomes completely useless?】
【Xu Youyou: Yeah, but those players will never find out about this.】
【Xu Youyou: Besides, I'm a Human-Specter Symbiont. Even if my eyes are gouged out, they'll recover very quickly!】
Zuo Lin'an nodded secretly.
Indeed, Xu Youyou's Death Rule was too powerful, which led to the automatic generation of restrictions when the rule was successfully converted—and there were even two of them.
Furthermore, unless Xu Youyou spoke of them himself, it would be extremely difficult for anyone else to discover these two restrictions.
【Xu Youyou: Are you done on your end?】
Zuo Lin'an did some quick mental math.
He was still short by about ten targets, which would take roughly another two hours.
【Zuo Lin'an: Almost.】
Hm?
While sending the message, Zuo Lin'an's attention suddenly shifted entirely back to Sin Hunter City.
Because at that moment, his living body seemed to have spotted an acquaintance.
This person seemed to be...
Zuo Lin'an stood by the bed, looking at the man sprawled out asleep on it.
“Zhao... Cheng?”
Was that his name?
It seemed correct.
Back when he and Xu Youyou had first entered Sin Hunter City, this man was the boss of the second criminal settlement they encountered.
Only...
How did a former boss end up reduced to this state now?
Oh, right.
Could it be because he and Xu Youyou had slaughtered too many of his lackeys back then?
“Whatever, he has to be killed regardless.”
Zuo Lin'an had no interest in catching up. He began his execution while continuing to chat with Xu Youyou about things related to the dungeons.
Especially regarding the other's next dungeon.
They had to plan it out carefully before it started.
Their chat lasted for nearly two hours.
Zuo Lin'an looked up at the slightly brightening sky outside.
Is it dawn?
At this moment, inside Sin Hunter City.
His living body was smoothly proceeding to capture the very last criminal.
However, a small mishap occurred at this moment.
Perhaps because it was getting light, the target was actually about to wake up just as he approached.
Fortunately, Zuo Lin'an didn't just stand there idly.
Taking advantage of the target's grogginess, he struck first. The tip of his blade pierced both of the man's knees in rapid succession, instantly robbing him of his ability to walk.
“Ah...”
Just as the man let out a miserable shriek of pain, Zuo Lin'an stuffed a pre-prepared rag into his mouth.
“Mph!!”
He didn't give the target any chance to struggle, throwing a heavy punch straight into his head.
With this blow, the man went completely unconscious.
“The last one...”
At the instant of this person's death, the invisible specter aura swirling around Zuo Lin'an slowly condensed into a physical form, then violently surged into his body.
The next moment, a strange sense of satisfaction welled up in his heart.
This was... the conditions for rule conversion had been met!
It was time to leave.
He slowly closed his eyes, and his figure vanished from this blood-splattered, run-down wooden shack.
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