Chapter 57: Someone Was Following Them! |
【Swiftstep Shoes (Rare)】
【Agility: 30, Strength +10】
【Description: Wearing them would greatly increase your movement speed.】
“Damn, there was actually a piece of Rare-quality combat equipment too.” Jiang Chen’s voice rose several pitches.
A pleasant surprise, a pure pleasant surprise. Jiang Chen had never expected this guy to actually have something this good on him.
“So Lord God really killed all of them....”
And Lord God was even happily looting their corpses and scavenging the spoils.
With the experience from last time, Vivian felt like she had already grown used to Lord God controlling her body to desecrate corpses.
No, according to Lord God, it was called looting corpses.
Watching Lord God seize other people’s property for himself,
and even comment on it critically,
Vivian had already entered a blank, empty state.
In short, the current situation was that she had successfully become a wanted criminal.
She had killed the Enforcement Bureau Director’s brother-in-law, and that brother-in-law had also been an Enforcement Officer.
Vivian knew her life was basically over at this point.
She could already imagine the scene of herself being captured afterward.
Yay!
Her life was over!
Aaaah! Why did things turn out like this?!
I’m tired. Just destroy everything....
Vivian had already reached the point of not caring anymore.
Meanwhile, Lilith, who had just arrived, stared at her as though she had seen a ghost.
“Vi... Vivian, you really killed all of them...”
Watching Vivian casually claim all the belongings on those corpses as her own, Lilith subconsciously swallowed hard.
“Vivian, you’re in huge trouble now!”
Lilith’s voice trembled slightly.
“Vivian, what are you planning to do next?”
However, just as Lilith was about to say more, she suddenly noticed something.
Vivian stood up and slowly walked toward her step by step.
“Hm?” Lilith looked confused.
Then Vivian stuffed several gold coins into her hand.
Lilith had seen it earlier. Vivian had looted them from the other bodies.
“For me?”
As she spoke, Lilith suddenly realized something.
Vivian wanted to drag her down with her!
Looking at the gold coins in her hand, then at Vivian staring at her, Lilith nervously swallowed.
“What happens if I refuse?”
Lilith was on the verge of tears.
“I’ll die, right... I definitely will, right...”
But....
Vivian... if you’re going to drag me down with you, couldn’t you at least give me a little more?!
Lilith felt like crying without tears.
Meanwhile, on Jiang Chen’s side—
【Lilith Fear Value +1, Favorability -1】
“Bang!” Jiang Chen slammed the cup down heavily.
His brows furrowed tightly, unable to understand what he had just seen.
“What the hell is wrong with this game?!”
In the end, Jiang Chen couldn’t help cursing.
He genuinely couldn’t understand it. Earlier, he had fought side by side with an NPC. Although, like NPCs in other games, this NPC had mostly just served as background decoration.
After the battle ended, while looting the spoils, Jiang Chen thought to himself: since this game supposedly recreated reality one hundred percent,
then shouldn’t the loot also be shared with the NPCs? That would make sense.
As the saying went, people who had carried guns together, split stolen goods together, visited brothels together...
Heh. But after doing that, he was dumbfounded.
Sharing loot should obviously increase favorability, so how exactly did this game calculate things?!
“Damn it, does the game designer not have a single friend in his entire life?”
“The hell is this? Fear Value +1, Favorability -1? You’re a complete idiot!”
Still, considering he had just obtained a piece of combat equipment, Jiang Chen decided not to argue about it.
Of course, he also had no plans to wear the equipment.
First of all, its main attributes were more suitable for his close-combat scythe form, and Candy Bear’s melee damage would also increase after transforming.
Overall, the improvement was not that significant.
It would be better to save it to hide his combat power.
After putting on the Spatial Ring, his gaze shifted toward Lilith.
“Where’s the church where you asked for Holy Water before?”
Hearing that, Lilith found it a little strange.
But before she could answer, Vivian’s voice rang out.
“Take me there!”
Lilith: ???
“No, why are you going there at a time like this? To confess your sins?”
Lilith genuinely couldn’t keep up with Vivian’s train of thought.
“No, it’s to hide for a while.” Vivian’s reply was concise.
“Hide for a while?” Lilith became even more confused.
“Someone has their eyes on us. We need to find a safe place to hide first.”
Hearing that, Lilith’s expression changed immediately, and she quickly grabbed Vivian and hurried away.
....
“This is getting troublesome.”
As he followed Lilith toward the church, Jiang Chen couldn’t help furrowing his brows.
His gaze repeatedly shifted toward the rear.
A red-named character was maintaining a certain distance while continuously following them.
【Old Butler Aaron, Four-Ring, Human Form.】
During the daytime boss raid, Jiang Chen had already used up most of his skills.
And just now, he had even used his new skill, Candy Bear.
If he really fought the monster behind him now, then he could only use his melee form.
Although, with his own skills, Jiang Chen was still very confident.
However, just from the name alone, Jiang Chen already knew without even thinking that there was definitely a second phase.
So Jiang Chen decided to play it safe.
After all, dying in this game meant directly losing qualification for the closed beta.
If Jiang Chen died to another player, he could still accept it. PVP had wins and losses; that was normal.
But if he died to a random wild monster because he got too reckless, that was something Jiang Chen absolutely could not accept.
Thus, Jiang Chen decided to lie low for now and wait until midnight for his skills to refresh.
.....
Under Lilith’s guidance, they soon arrived at the church.
Along the way, the monster behind them never launched an attack, which also made Jiang Chen sigh in relief.
“This is the place, Saint Radiance Cathedral.” Lilith pointed toward the church not far away.
“This is where I bought the Holy Water during the day.”
Following the direction Lilith pointed, what entered their sight was a church with silver-gray stone walls carved with dark golden thorn reliefs. The ground was paved with some unknown deep-purple, nearly black stone.
The stained-glass windows on both sides did not depict the usual kinds of images.
“Father Matthew should still be inside. As long as he’s here, the person following us probably won’t dare to make a move.”
As she spoke, Lilith pulled Vivian along and pushed open the Church’s doors.
Long wooden benches were lined up on both sides, leaving a walkway in the middle.
At the end of the walkway stood a high stone staircase, above which a massive wooden cross was erected.
Scattered across the benches were people who had come to pray.
Standing beneath the cross, the rather young-looking priest closed the book in his hand and looked toward the two girls who had entered.
“So it’s Miss Lilith.”
As he spoke, Matthew walked toward the two of them, but after only a few steps, he suddenly stopped.
“It seems the two young ladies have encountered some trouble.”