Chapter 279: Bodyguard Dispatch
"Ah? If you're not willing, just don't respond. Isn't this screwing over Old Yu?"
"That's what I'm saying. This afternoon I saw Old Yu pass by my building twice with my own eyes."
"So damn shady."
"Sigh, I didn't want to either. At first I really wanted to take in Old Yu. After all, two people could develop together, and Old Yu could wander outside, just like a traveling frog. But some friends sent me private messages, and what they said was too terrifying. After thinking it through carefully, I regretted it."
"Yeah, they all said Old Yu might throw me out of the shelter while I'm asleep..."
"I knew it would be like this. Everyone who's survived this long wouldn't be foolish enough to let others into their shelter."
"Old Yu is too pitiful. He won't have to start the nighttime activity outside, will he?"
Yu Feng: I've already returned, but I need to rest for a while. The information from outside will have to wait until after the nighttime activity. I also need to organize my thoughts.
"Don't say that! What if you die inside?"
"The person above really knows how to talk." "Probably not. This activity should be maze exploration. If you don't seek death, you won't die."
"Hard to say. Old Yu is a big shot now. Big shots' tasks probably aren't about picking up trash."
"That's true. If it's a personal special task, would Old Yu participate?"
Yu Feng: Yes, I've been holding it in all day.
"Holy crap, I'm eating right now."
Yu Feng: I meant I couldn't move freely all day.
"Then where did you go to the toilet?"
Yu Feng: ...
"Sigh, too tragic."
【Nighttime Activity Starting】
【Tonight's Activity: Personal Special Random Event Activity】
【Will you join?】
"Join."
【09：59】
"I still have a personal special random event."
"Ah? Really? Last time I also had a personal special, but this time it's trash collecting."
"Task not completed? Did the big shot drop in rank?"
"Last time I had trash collecting, this time it's personal special."
"Could it be that every Survivor has personal tasks, just at different times?"
"I've had personal special tasks both times."
"This is the difference between a true big shot and a fake one."
"What about Old Yu?"
Yu Feng: I also have a personal special task.
"Impressive."
"Oh, Big Shot Yu."
...
Lin Ye, fully armed, sat on the edge of the bed petting the Goat. The Goat lay docilely across his thighs, all four hooves suspended in the air.
【00：01】
【00：00】
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【Personal Special Random Event drawing in progress...】
【Personal Special Random Event drawn: Bodyguard Dispatch】
【Acquired Special Ability: Scapegoat】
【Scapegoat】
【After using this ability, you can summon a scapegoat. For a period of time, all negative status effects on you will be transferred to it (1/1)】
【Note: The pure life shall bear all blame】
【Identity card detected--Blank, import random identity?】
"Yes."
【Acquired Random Identity: Mercenary】
【Acquired Identity Ability: Bounty Task】
【Bounty Task】
【After completing tasks issued by employers, you can receive a bounty】
【Note: Don't ask me which is more important, the employer or the bounty】
Lin Ye opened his eyes. He was in an empty room of some abandoned building, standing in the center of a complex runic array. Outside the runic array stood a tall woman.
The woman appeared to be in her twenties, with pale purple-tinged white long hair, exquisite features, wearing a thin milk-white dress, with a quite good figure.
She was a fourth-tier spiritual energy user.
This time, Lin Ye's spiritual energy, mental energy, and loot space could all be used normally. None of the equipment on him was missing.
But this time there was no identity introduction.
"You're the bodyguard the system assigned me? Why only second-tier? I clearly performed a high-level ritual."
Xia La asked doubtfully.
"You want me to deal with high-level spiritual energy users? Then I might not be up to it. Can you get a refund?"
Lin Ye was still no match for high-level spiritual energy users.
"No, we probably won't encounter high-level spiritual energy users, but there are quite a few mid-level spiritual energy users here."
Xia La narrowed her eyes looking at Lin Ye. When she first saw a second-tier spiritual energy user, she was indeed somewhat surprised, but the system wouldn't make mistakes, let alone cheat her out of ritual items.
So the other party couldn't possibly be just an ordinary second-tier spiritual energy user.
"That's better then. Is that person peeping outside also your bodyguard?"
Lin Ye asked casually.
"My bodyguards are all dead. Otherwise, I wouldn't have forcibly performed the system ritual. System rituals aren't cheap."
Xia La didn't mind the peeper outside. She actually hoped the other party would spread the information that she had summoned a bodyguard through the system, so enemies would definitely think carefully before making a move.
Lin Ye casually swung the Dragon Fishing Rod. The fishhook pierced through the spiritual energy shield and accurately hooked the peeper's heart.
"You'd better not move, or I'll pull your heart out."
Lin Ye shook the Dragon Fishing Rod, pulling the peeper into the room.
The peeper didn't resist, entering the room following Lin Ye's pull. But when the peeper got close to Lin Ye, he suddenly drew his weapon and charged at Lin Ye.
Lin Ye shook the fishing rod, very cleanly pulling out the peeper's heart.
Losing his heart, the peeper didn't stop but instead accelerated pouncing toward Lin Ye.
Lin Ye glanced at the peeper, and the peeper suddenly bled from all seven orifices, lost strength, and collapsed to the ground.
Just as Lin Ye thought, even without using ability cards, he could control blood, especially when the enemy's body was incomplete.
"...You're way too strong! A fourth-tier spiritual energy user taken down by you just like that?!"
Xia La exclaimed in surprise.
"He was too weak. And I just wanted to ask about the situation here, I didn't actually want to kill him."
Lin Ye controlled the Bloody Ring to extract the other's blood. The Bloody Ring could enhance his blood manipulation ability and also serve as a container for storing blood.
After extracting the blood, Lin Ye didn't waste the corpse either. He tried to irregularize the corpse, but he could barely use this ability. This irregularization wasn't simple Alienation, but rather achieving a certain irregular balance—an extreme form of Alienation.
This was too difficult for Lin Ye. He was a rule-based being, with his cells divided into several major categories, rather than every cell being a different type.
The giant Irregular Being covered in arms that Lin Ye encountered before had reached a certain deeper level of irregular balance. For all rule-based beings, it was an extremely dangerous existence.
"What are you doing?"
Xia La looked curiously at Lin Ye manipulating the corpse.
"Making use of waste."
After failing to irregularize it, Lin Ye began trying to use the Flesh and Blood Rule Fragment to alienate the corpse, changing its structure.
"We'd better not stay here long, or we might get surrounded."
Xia La wanted to first find a safe place to stay, then explain the current situation to Lin Ye.
"We could also stay here and turn this place into a base. I have some understanding of traps, modifications, and spiritual energy compression. If the enemies are just ordinary mid-level spiritual energy users, no matter how many come, they'll all die."
Lin Ye felt this abandoned building was quite suitable.