Free Web NovelMiao Feichi held his Crescent Moon Twin Blades in a reverse grip, arms spread slightly apart. His shadow stretched across the wall like a praying mantis raising its forelegs before a strike. Staring at the patient on the hospital bed, he let out a cold sneer and slashed without hesitation at the player lying on the outer bed.
The razor-sharp blades cut through the white mist in smooth, deadly arcs. In the blink of an eye, they were already at the bridge of the sleeping Bai Liu’s nose.
Mu Ke nearly screamed. He wanted to throw himself forward no matter the cost and stop Miao Feichi.
Bai Liu’s panel rating was only F, and his health was already critically low. Against a weapon like Miao Feichi’s, even a glancing hit would be fatal.
And Bai Liu had nothing capable of resisting it. Miao Feichi’s weapon possessed S-rank potential.
Mu Ke’s eyes reddened. For the first time, he hated his own uselessness with overwhelming intensity.
Why am I not Mu Shicheng?!
Mu Shicheng could stop this!
All I can do is watch!!
At last, Bai Liu slowly opened his eyes from the hospital bed. Above him, the descending blades reflected a sharp glimmer through the darkness, converging into a single lethal point. At the same moment, the long-awaited system notification finally rang out in his mind.
[System Notification: Player Bai Liu has used player Mu Shicheng’s “Soul Paper” to access the target’s system panel... Access complete. Player Bai Liu may now manipulate player Mu Shicheng’s system panel.]
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[System Notification: Player Bai Liu has activated player Mu Shicheng’s personal skill (Monkey Thief).]
[System Notification: Player Bai Liu is equipping five (Thief’s Black Fingers) items to strengthen the personal skill. Equipping...]
[(Thief’s Black Fingers) equipped successfully. (Monkey Thief) enhancement complete. Skill upgraded from A-rank to A+ rank. Potential increased to S-. Theft success rate against S-rank players increased to 50%. Attack parry success rate against A+ and lower attack skills increased to 100%.]
The hand resting beside Bai Liu’s bed rapidly transformed into a charred monkey claw with twisted, bark-like veins running across its surface. He flexed his fingers once, quickly adjusting to the alien sensation, then looked up.
The blade tips had already pierced through the mist and stopped less than five centimeters from his forehead.
Without the slightest panic, Bai Liu shifted sideways and casually caught the descending blades between his fingers.
“Fuck—this patient blocked my blades?!” Miao Feichi reacted instantly. His eyes narrowed sharply. “That’s not Bai Liu! Bai Liu doesn’t have an A+ skill strong enough to stop my attack. This is another patient—that monster patient!”
He abruptly turned toward the inner bed.
“The one inside is Bai Liu!”
The corners of Bai Liu’s lips curved faintly upward.
Miao Feichi swept both blades sideways in one fluid motion. Cold silver light flashed past Bai Liu’s cheek. Even after realizing this wasn’t Bai Liu, Miao Feichi had no intention of sparing the patient’s life.
Bai Liu’s monkey claws moved with astonishing speed, parrying the blades head-on. Metal screeched against claw with a grating sound sharp enough to hurt the teeth, sparks scattering through the dim ward.
If the room had been even slightly brighter—if the heavy mist hadn’t obscured everything—Miao Feichi would have immediately recognized the black monkey claw identical to Mu Shicheng’s infamous thieving hand.
But the ward was too dark. Miao Feichi had to squint just to make out his target. And after being enhanced by the (Thief’s Black Fingers), Mu Shicheng’s monkey claw resembled nothing more than the shriveled hand of a diseased patient.
As a result, Miao Feichi never realized Bai Liu was using Mu Shicheng’s skill against him directly. Instead, Bai Liu’s deception pulled him even deeper into confusion.
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After failing twice in a row, Miao Feichi’s expression darkened completely.
“Something’s wrong. This monster’s level is insanely high if it can stop me twice. At minimum, it’s A+.”
The moment he finished speaking, Miao Feichi moved again.
Using the wall as leverage, he twisted mid-step and lunged straight toward the patient on the inner bed without hesitation.
His logic was brutally simple.
“If the one outside isn’t it, then the one inside is. If I can’t kill the one outside, I’ll kill Bai Liu on the inside first!”
The monster patient on the inner bed might not survive Miao Feichi’s attack. If it died immediately, Bai Liu’s entire plan would collapse.
Mu Ke’s heartbeat thundered in his ears as his eyes darted toward the towering bookshelf behind Miao Feichi.
Just as Miao Feichi rushed toward the inner bed, the bookshelf suddenly toppled backward with a deafening crash.
Mu Ke had hooked the base of the shelf with his foot and yanked hard, sending it crashing directly toward both the motionless patient on the bed and Miao Feichi himself.
Hidden in the shadowed corner of the ward, Mu Ke screamed in panic:
“The patient inside attacked me!”
The instant the bookshelf struck, Bai Liu slid across the floor with lightning speed and switched places with the patient on the inner bed.
His eyes were icy and utterly emotionless.
He kicked the patient away with precise force, sending it sprawling onto the outer bed.
The creature finally awakened.
Its elongated limbs unfolded like those of a grotesque Slender Man. Thick mucus dripped from rows of jagged teeth as it opened its mouth wide. A swollen tongue covered in bulbous protrusions slowly slid across its lips. It emitted a shrill, high-frequency hiss, while the stench of rotting vegetation spread through the ward.
At the same moment, the Monster Book interface appeared on everyone’s system panel.
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[System Notification: Congratulations to players Mu Ke / Miao Feichi / Miao Gaojiang for triggering the Monster Book.]
[《Love Welfare Home Monster Book》 Update — Plant Patient (2/3)]
[Monster Name: Plant Patient]
[Characteristics: Movement speed 1500–2000. Requires large amounts of water for growth. Prefers humid environments.]
[Weakness: ??? (To be discovered)]
[Attack Method: Sucking □ □ (A-rank attack skill). Once a player’s skin is bitten, blood will be drained continuously. Toxic mist contamination causes all players within the same room to lose health over time and gradually transform into Plant Patients themselves (A-rank skill).]
“Fuck, so the one outside really was the patient?!” Even Miao Feichi was beginning to lose track in the darkness.
But he quickly realized something even worse.
He couldn’t kill the patient inside, either.
“What the hell is going on?! Why can’t I kill either of these damn patients?!”
His face grew uglier by the second.
Meanwhile, Miao Gaojiang remained locked in a standoff with the awakened monster. Without looking away, he answered grimly:
“Most likely Bai Liu has already undergone maximum mutation from exposure to this patient. His mental value probably dropped into frenzy, causing his abilities to spike enough to block you. At this point, he’s no different from the monster in this ward.”
He paused briefly before continuing in a solemn tone.
“With his severe health loss, combined with prolonged exposure to a mental-pollution monster...”
“I suspect Bai Liu is already dead. Or more accurately, he’s become a monster.”
“That means we’re facing two A+ rank monsters. We won’t finish this fight in fifteen minutes.”
“Feichi, there are only a few minutes left. If both are high-level monsters, we can only kill one. Which one?”
Miao Gaojiang narrowed his eyes.
“I originally thought the one on the outer bed was Bai Liu. But the two of them have mixed together completely. Their movements and exchanges are too fast now. I can’t tell which one is the real Bai Liu anymore.”
“Can you tell when you attack?”
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Miao Feichi’s face remained dark and unreadable.
In the dim ward, twin blades and monkey claws clashed repeatedly, sparks bursting with every collision. The relentless metallic ringing echoed nonstop through the room.
Miao Feichi intentionally suppressed the noise to avoid alerting the nurses, but the rapid exchanges still created an incessant stream of sharp clanging sounds.
When he narrowly dodged another black claw lunging for his throat, Miao Feichi finally snapped.
He abandoned restraint completely.
Both blades swept outward in a dazzling silver arc, the strike so fierce it looked capable of cutting Bai Liu cleanly in half.
At that moment, Mu Ke shoved the hospital bed forward from the floor.
Just before the blades sliced through Bai Liu’s chest, the bed slammed into Miao Feichi’s knees and disrupted the attack.
Bai Liu’s breathing turned ragged, but he forcibly suppressed the urge to gasp for air.
The blades skimmed past him, severing several strands of hair that drifted silently onto the damp floor.
“Fuck! Mu Ke, what the hell are you doing?!” Miao Feichi finally lost control of his temper. He whipped around and glared at Mu Ke crouching beside the bed.
After wasting stamina on a high-damage skill, he was furious enough to explode.
Mu Ke looked up while clutching a book and stammered nervously:
“I-I was looking for something to read! The bookshelf collapsed, and the books scattered under the bed...”
A violent surge of frustration lodged itself in Miao Feichi’s chest.
“Then go read somewhere else!”
He kicked Mu Ke hard in the chest.
Mu Ke’s face instantly turned purple. His lungs compressed painfully, and his vision blurred. Reflexively, he squeezed his eyes shut, convinced he was about to be sent flying into the wall.
Instead, a hand caught him lightly from behind and dragged him beneath the bed.
The touch was so faint it was almost imperceptible.
Mu Ke opened his eyes in a daze.
The hand supporting him was a shriveled monkey claw.
Bai Liu’s hand.
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Mu Ke clenched his teeth beneath the bed and silently counted down in his head.
Eight minutes left.
Bai Liu still had to hold off these two S-panel players for another eight full minutes.
And all Mu Ke could do was watch helplessly.
“Feichi.” Miao Gaojiang’s voice turned grim.
Half of his upper body had already transformed through skill activation. His skin had taken on the grotesque greenish-purple hue of a corpse, while two massive tusk-like fangs protruded from his mouth, making him resemble some monstrous undead creature in the darkness.
Dodging another bite from the patient, Miao Gaojiang spoke through clenched teeth:
“Half the time is already gone. We only have enough time to kill one monster.”
“You’re the front-line attacker. Can you tell which one is Bai Liu?”
“Fuck!” Miao Feichi cursed unwillingly. “If even you can’t tell, how the hell am I supposed to?! Who could distinguish these two bastards?! They look like they came out of the same damn mold!”
As he shouted, Miao Feichi unleashed another sweeping strike.
This was one of his strongest offensive skills.
This time, without Mu Ke interfering, the blades finally connected.
Two of Bai Liu’s fingers were sliced clean off.
The severed fingers belonged to the enhanced (Thief’s Black Fingers) equipped by Bai Liu.
[System Notification: Player Bai Liu has lost two (Thief’s Black Fingers) items. (Monkey Thief) enhancement reduced to three-fifths effectiveness.]
“Oh?” Miao Feichi paused, his mood immediately improving.
“Looks like we don’t need to choose anymore.”
“The monster on my side can’t hold out much longer. I should finish it within five minutes.”
“If you finish first, come help me,” Miao Gaojiang replied, visibly relaxing. “Once the two of us work together, mine won’t last long either.”
Beneath the bed, Mu Ke clenched his fists so tightly his nails dug into his palms.
His lips trembled pale white. His chest still throbbed from Miao Feichi’s kick.
Inside his mind, he repeated the same desperate chant over and over—
Five minutes left.
Hurry.
Hurry.
Hurry...
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Let these five minutes pass faster...!
Miao Feichi’s twin blades moved like the forelegs of a praying mantis.
Weapons born from personal skills always suited their owners far better than dungeon drop items ever could. In Miao Feichi’s hands, the Crescent Moon Twin Blades felt like extensions of his own body, flowing with terrifying precision and lethal elegance.
After the brief chaos caused by the cramped darkness and repeated interruptions, Miao Feichi quickly regained his rhythm.
He launched into a relentless assault against the retreating Bai Liu.
Horizontal slashes.
Diagonal cuts.
Upward thrusts.
Inside the ward, only the faint whistle of blades slicing through the air remained, sharp and rhythmic like the beat of a deadly metronome.
A truly fast blade made no sound when it cut.
Only the severed pieces hitting the floor did.
From beneath the bed, Mu Ke watched black fingers fall one after another onto the tiles before him.
He bit his lip so hard he nearly drew blood from his palm.
Three minutes left.
[System Notification: Player Bai Liu has lost one (Thief’s Black Fingers) item. (Monkey Thief) enhancement reduced to two-fifths.]
[System Notification: Player Bai Liu has lost one (Thief’s Black Fingers) item. (Monkey Thief) enhancement reduced to one-fifth.]
[System Notification: Player Bai Liu has lost one (Thief’s Black Fingers) item. All enhancement items lost. (Monkey Thief) has lost all strengthening effects, downgraded from A+ rank to A rank. Parry success rate against A+ skills reduced to 50%.]
Miao Feichi slashed upward.
Bai Liu twisted diagonally to evade and raised the monkey claw to block.
Miao Feichi sneered.
Mid-swing, his wrist abruptly rotated. The upward slash instantly transformed into a horizontal cut capable of dealing critical damage.
Bai Liu had already been cornered by the barrage of attacks.
There was nowhere left to dodge.
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The icy gleam of the twin blades swept toward Bai Liu’s throat.
Victory already seemed certain.
Even as he attacked, Miao Feichi casually turned his head toward Miao Gaojiang and grinned.
“I’m about to finish—”
Before he could complete the sentence, the hospital bed behind him suddenly slammed into his waist with explosive force.
Caught completely off guard, Miao Feichi staggered forward.
The fatal slash missed by a hair, scraping past Bai Liu’s face before crashing into the wall.
The curved silver blades reflected Bai Liu’s pale, blood-streaked face.
Behind the bed, Mu Ke stood bent over and gasping for breath, gripping the rails tightly with both hands.
His eyes lingered on Bai Liu with lingering terror.
He had almost watched Bai Liu die right in front of him.
One minute left.
Bai Liu suddenly smiled.
Miao Feichi finally exploded.
After having his attacks ruined again and again by Mu Ke, he spotted Mu Ke hiding beside the bed and completely lost his temper.
“Are you fucking insane?!”
He kicked the hospital bed aside, reached down, and dragged Mu Ke out from underneath.
A vicious slap sent Mu Ke flying across the floor.
“Every damn time I’m about to kill that thing, you jump out and fuck it up! You fucking—”
Miao Feichi’s eyes filled with murderous intent as he raised his blades.
He looked furious enough to kill Mu Ke on the spot.
Mu Ke wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and shrank into the corner in terror, backing away frantically.
Clutched tightly in his hands was a book.
“I-I’m sorry! I’m sorry!!” he stammered in panic. “I was just looking for a book under the bed! I found something important! The system said I found the Life-Saving Remedy!”
Miao Feichi froze.
“You found it already?”
His eyes narrowed suspiciously, irritation still etched across his face.
“You better have actually found the Life-Saving Remedy. Otherwise I’ll fucking—”
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“Feichi, stop.”
Miao Gaojiang finally withdrew from combat.
His zombie-transformed fist smashed the attacking Plant Patient aside as he retreated toward Miao Feichi.
Without turning around, he ordered coldly:
“Don’t hit him yet. Check what kind of Life-Saving Remedy he found first.”
The curse lingering on Miao Feichi’s tongue was forcibly swallowed back down.
Clicking his tongue irritably, he lowered the twin blades and stepped forward to drag Mu Ke up.
But Mu Ke appeared utterly traumatized by the beating.
He covered his head with both hands, kicking backward in panic as he scrambled away.
Unknowingly, he edged closer and closer toward Bai Liu in the corner.
Seeing this idiot about to run directly into the monster, Miao Feichi instinctively raised a blade to stop him.
But the moment the blade moved, Mu Ke seemed to become even more terrified.
He screamed and desperately crawled toward Bai Liu instead.
Miao Feichi nearly blacked out from rage.
He had never carried such an unbelievably stupid newbie player before.
Did this idiot have shit for brains?!
Actually throwing himself at a monster?!
Unable to endure it anymore, Miao Feichi roared:
“Idiot! That’s a monster! Get over here!”
Pretending to tremble in fear, Mu Ke lowered his head and silently grabbed Bai Liu’s wrist.
He swallowed hard and shut his eyes tightly.
Stay conscious.
No matter how much my mental value drops—
Mu Ke, you have to stay conscious!
You have to hold onto Bai Liu’s hand—
And never let go!!
Bai Liu leaned slightly closer.
Looking down at Mu Ke’s trembling hand wrapped around his wrist, he quietly asked:
“Are you holding on tight?”
Mu Ke swallowed and gave a tiny nod.
[System Notification: Player Bai Liu is activating player Mu Shicheng’s personal skill — (Thief’s Stealth). Due to player Bai Liu’s critically low stamina, the skill duration is limited to one minute and full-speed mode cannot be activated. Final calculation complete: Movement Speed +4900. Confirm activation?]
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[System Notification: Player Bai Liu has confirmed activation. Movement Speed +4900. Stamina rapidly decreasing...]
Miao Feichi watched as the monster crouched low.
Then, in a blur too fast for the eye to follow, it grabbed Mu Ke and shot across the slick floor.
The two figures darted between the ICU beds like fish gliding through water.
The nearly identical monsters became slippery shadows weaving through the darkness.
Miao Feichi missed several times in a row.
Meanwhile, Mu Ke whimpered and cried out desperately for help, but with Bai Liu moving at extreme speed and visibility already near zero, Miao Feichi couldn’t distinguish Bai Liu from Mu Ke at all.
Mu Ke’s nonstop crying made Miao Feichi’s head feel ready to split apart.
“Shut the fuck up!!”
Driven mad by irritation, he instinctively hurled his twin blades.
“Miao Feichi!” Miao Gaojiang barked sharply, interrupting him. “Mu Ke is mixed in there too! He has the Life-Saving Remedy! Don’t attack blindly—look before you strike!”
“Look my ass!” Miao Feichi snarled furiously. “They all look exactly the fucking same! And they’re moving so fast that even with this idiot screaming, I can’t tell who’s who!”
Miao Gaojiang remained calm.
“Mu Ke’s mutation is much lighter. He’s shorter than the monster and doesn’t have spots on his body. Watch carefully. You can still tell them apart.”
The moment he finished speaking, two dark figures suddenly burst out from beneath the bed beside him.
Miao Gaojiang was in the middle of suppressing the Plant Patient when a Slender Man-like silhouette suddenly lunged directly into his field of vision.
Instinctively, Miao Gaojiang withdrew the punch he had been about to land.
One of the rushing figures might be Mu Ke.
To avoid accidentally killing him, Miao Gaojiang forcibly halted his attack and reflexively stepped backward.
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Holding Mu Ke by the wrist, Bai Liu stood directly in front of the real Plant Patient.
Blood stained half his face.
Yet his expression remained terrifyingly calm.
Cold.
Steady.
Like a gambler who had already pushed every chip onto the table and knew he would ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ win.
The sight made Miao Gaojiang freeze for a split second.
A powerful sense of dread rose in his chest.
Bai Liu grabbed Mu Ke by the collar and shoved him toward the genuine Plant Patient monster.
The creature caught the scent of blood immediately.
It sniffed twice, then opened its mucus-dripping mouth without hesitation and lunged toward Bai Liu’s side.
Both of them smelled like players.
Both carried fresh blood.
And the Plant Patient was desperately starved.
Its elongated fingers spread wide as it reached for Bai Liu—the weaker-looking prey—to drain him dry.
Bai Liu didn’t even turn around.
Without hesitation, he shoved Mu Ke directly into the monster’s grasp.
The Plant Patient opened its jaws wide and seized Mu Ke’s trembling shoulders with its sticky, shriveled fingers, searching eagerly for a place to bite.
Mu Ke drew in a shaky breath.
Trembling violently, he turned his head aside.
He even lifted his hair away himself, exposing the pale greenish skin of his neck for the monster to bite more easily.
The creature let out a grotesquely satisfied hiss.
Then it sank its sharp teeth deep into Mu Ke’s neck and began gulping down blood greedily.
Mu Ke convulsed from the agony of having his blood drained.
The last traces of color vanished from his face.
A broken sob escaped his throat as he arched backward against the monster clutching him.
Yet at the same time, he screamed shrilly:
“The monster caught me!! It’s sucking my blood!! My mental value is dropping like crazy!”
[System Notification: Player Mu Ke has received damage. Mental value reduced to 67. Health reduced to 31 (current identity-line maximum health: 50). Player Mu Ke, please escape the Plant Patient’s attack range immediately! Otherwise, both health and mental value will continue decreasing!]
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Mu Ke’s limbs began rapidly withering.
His eyes hollowed inward.
The focus in his pupils gradually disappeared, while his breathing slowed into a stagnant rasp.
Like a rapidly growing plant, his body unnaturally elongated in mere seconds.
Miao Gaojiang’s expression turned extremely grim.
Bai Liu had interrupted his attempt to kill the monster.
But worse than that—
“Mu Ke mutated too.”
His voice darkened.
“Now all three of them look alike.”
“It’s become even harder to tell which one is Bai Liu, which one is the monster, and which one is Mu Ke.”
Dragging both Mu Ke and the genuine Plant Patient behind him, Bai Liu sprinted wildly through the ward.
Under Bai Liu’s terrifying movement speed, the three “monsters” became streaking shadows constantly shifting positions throughout the dark room.
One second here.
The next second somewhere else entirely.
Combined with Mu Ke’s mutation, all three figures now shared similar heights, builds, and spotted skin.
At this point, it was completely impossible to distinguish one from another.
Even though Miao Feichi and his father both had high attribute panels, facing three A+ high-speed monsters moving like conjoined twins—while also having to avoid injuring Mu Ke—made it impossible for them to attack freely.
For Miao Feichi, this was an unbearable kind of trouble.
His temper soon spiraled completely out of control.
“Fuck, were the monsters here raised on Mu Shicheng’s milk or something?!” Miao Feichi cursed viciously. “How the hell are they this fast?!”
After a few more failed strikes, a blood-red glint flashed through his eyes.
He licked his teeth and made up his mind to end this quickly.
“If we can’t tell them apart, then forget about Mu Ke. Kill them all together. We don’t need that idiot following us around anyway. We’ll figure out the Life-Saving Remedy later.”
His gaze turned vicious.
“Kill Bai Liu first.”
“There’s only one minute left, Feichi.” Miao Gaojiang frowned. “We can’t kill all three in time...”
Miao Feichi licked the blood that had splattered onto his lips when he struck Bai Liu earlier.
“We can.”
His voice was low and bloodthirsty.
“I’m using my S-rank skill. A few dozen seconds will be enough.”
“Using an S-rank skill in a place like this is a waste of stamina...”
Miao Gaojiang stopped mid-sentence.
Miao Feichi stood in the ward, staring motionlessly ahead. His frustration had clearly boiled over. If he didn’t kill these three monsters right now, there would be nowhere for that rage to go. freewebnovel.cσ๓
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After a pause, Miao Gaojiang finally let out a helpless sigh.
“...Fine. It’s only a Level 2 game. Do whatever you want.”
“If you want to use it, use it.”
[System Notification: Player Miao Feichi is activating personal S-rank skill (Wraith Twin Blades). Based on player Miao Feichi’s current stamina, the skill may be maintained for one minute. After one minute, stamina will be exhausted and cannot be restored with stamina recovery agents. Recovery to normal stamina levels will require one day. Player Miao Feichi, confirm activation?]
[System Notification: Player Miao Feichi has confirmed activation. The twin blades are now possessed by the wraiths of those he has killed. Attack +8001. Player Miao Feichi’s stamina is rapidly decreasing...]
Expressionless, Miao Feichi tapped the ground lightly with his twin blades.
Cracks instantly spread across the floor from that casual touch.
A strange white mist slowly seeped from the blades, carrying an overpowering stench of blood.
Gradually, the mist stretched into long, warped shapes resembling human faces. Like ghosts suspended in midair, their trailing ends remained coiled around the blades. Their lips opened and closed soundlessly, hissing without sound.
The wraiths clung unwillingly to the murderer who had used them as sacrifices for his blades.
Their resentment and murderous aura were overwhelming.
Yet aside from making the twin blades brighter and sharper, they were useless.
Or perhaps they did serve one purpose.
They could help the killer who had murdered them create even more wraiths to keep them company.
Miao Feichi struck.
The wraiths screamed.
White ghosts surged violently from the blades like a whirlpool, dragging the damp mist of the ward with them as they howled toward the three monster-like patients across from him.
The dazzling twin blades followed close behind.
In nearly a single second, Miao Feichi pierced through the white mist.
He drove one blade into the wall to brace himself, stepped onto the wall, and swept the other blade straight past Bai Liu’s nose.
The force behind this strike was terrifying.
It was on an entirely different level from Miao Feichi’s previous, almost playful attacks.
Bai Liu could feel the wind from the blade heating the mist around him.
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The earlier strikes had merely been fast.
This one was brutally powerful.
Miao Feichi’s attack seemed determined to sever Bai Liu’s neck cleanly and take his head.
Bai Liu’s gaze darkened.
Relying on his high speed, he evaded the strike by a hair. Even so, the blade wind cut a bloody line across his face.
Less than a second after the blade passed him, Miao Feichi’s eyes turned cold.
He pulled the blade back.
The crescent blade curved in reverse, its tip aimed directly at the back of Bai Liu’s neck.
Bai Liu had no time to turn his head and dodge. He could only transform his hand into a monkey claw and grab for the blade at his neck.
But this blade was clearly nothing like before.
Bai Liu failed to catch the tip.
The curved blade pierced straight through his palm and stabbed into the back of his neck.
Blood spilled from the corner of Bai Liu’s mouth.
[System Notification: Player Bai Liu’s use of skill (Thief’s Monkey Claw) has suffered a 50% judgment reduction. 50% of damage has been parried.]
[System Notification: Player Bai Liu’s item (Siren’s Scale) has parried 49.7% of damage. The item has sustained slight cracking (damage level: 50%). Player Bai Liu, please repair it promptly.]
[System Warning: Player Bai Liu’s health has dropped to 7! Mental value has dropped to 27!]
Logically, even if Miao Feichi’s strike had been blocked by 99.7%, the remaining 0.3% damage should still have been more than enough to kill a trash player like Bai Liu, whose attributes were scraping the bottom.
But after the twin blades pierced into the back of Bai Liu’s neck, the tip only sank a shallow millimeter before being stopped.
At some unknown point, the coin wrapped in fish scales had shifted to his back, perfectly blocking the hook of Miao Feichi’s curved blade.
Bai Liu glanced quickly at Mu Ke, who was on the verge of losing consciousness from blood loss.
Mu Ke choked and coughed. His pupils contracted sharply when he saw the blade piercing Bai Liu’s neck.
After calculating Mu Ke’s mental value and health, Bai Liu calmly released his hand.
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Mu Ke struggled to open his eyes a little wider.
Then his hand slowly, weakly slipped away.
Driven forward by the momentum of Miao Feichi’s strike, Bai Liu was lifted face-to-face by the hooked blade.
Just as Miao Feichi prepared to deliver the killing blow, Bai Liu suddenly lowered his voice and said pitifully:
“I’m... cough, cough... Mu Ke.”
Miao Feichi froze.
The curved blade that had been about to pierce deeper stopped at once.
Cursing under his breath about nearly hitting the wrong person, Miao Feichi kicked the bleeding Bai Liu away and immediately withdrew his twin blades, turning toward the remaining two monsters.
Bai Liu crashed into the corner.
Leaning against the wall, his condition visibly worsened.
Yet he remained calm as he watched Miao Feichi raise his blades and attack the unconscious Mu Ke.
Hidden in the darkness, Bai Liu pulled out a Soul Paper Money and quickly pressed it against his panel.
[System Notification: Player Bai Liu is using player Mu Ke’s Soul Paper Money to intervene in the target’s system panel. Intervention complete. Player Bai Liu may now use player Mu Ke’s system panel.]
Mu Ke swayed as he tried to dodge, but failed to avoid the attack completely.
Miao Feichi’s twin blades grazed him, and he collapsed directly onto the floor.
[System Warning: Player Mu Ke’s health has dropped to 6!! Mental value has dropped to 26!!]
Miao Feichi seemed to sense that something was off.
He did not immediately deliver the finishing blow.
Instead, he struck Mu Ke with the back of his blade.
Mu Ke was knocked down and curled into a ball.
Miao Feichi stepped on Mu Ke’s neck and narrowed his eyes, staring down at his face.
“...This reaction. No ability to fight back at all. Completely different from the monster and Bai Liu I fought earlier.”
“I think you’re Mu Ke.”
As he spoke, Miao Feichi slapped Mu Ke’s face twice with the flat of his twin blades.
His dangerous gaze shifted back and forth between Bai Liu and Mu Ke.
“Hey. Are you still conscious?”
“If you are, answer me.”
“Who are you?”
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Mu Ke suddenly opened his mouth and bit down hard on Miao Feichi’s ankle.
His eyes were bloodshot as he imitated the monster that had sucked his blood, desperately trying to draw blood from Miao Feichi. His teeth dug into Miao Feichi’s skin as he made broken, whimpering swallowing sounds.
He was imitating a monster.
Mu Ke didn’t want to expose Bai Liu, who was pretending to be him.
So he followed Bai Liu’s instructions and played the role of a monster.
Bai Liu had told him that whatever the monsters in the ward acted like, Mu Ke had to act the same.
Only then would Bai Liu be able to escape danger safely.
Mu Ke clung to Miao Feichi’s ankle like a rabid dog, but he was far too weak.
Like a hysterical puppy, he couldn’t even break through Miao Feichi’s S-rank defense.
Miao Feichi clicked his tongue and cursed again.
“You must be the monster my old man nearly finished off.”
With that, he raised his twin blades to harvest Mu Ke’s life.
Mu Ke didn’t even try to dodge.
Blood poured from his mouth, and only one thought remained in his mind—
Follow Bai Liu’s plan.
Bite this person.
Do not let him leave.
Bai Liu’s health was already too low.
He couldn’t let Miao Feichi go after Bai Liu.
If he did, Bai Liu would definitely die.
That thought had been carved over and over into his mind by sheer terror as he watched Bai Liu lie in a pool of blood.
Mu Ke’s hands locked around Miao Feichi’s leg in a death grip.
His eyes were vacant, his jaw clenched tightly, still biting even though he couldn’t break the skin.
He seemed completely unaware of the Wraith Twin Blades swinging down toward his head.
Bai Liu calmly checked the time.
Ten seconds left.
That was about right.
[System Notification: Does player Bai Liu wish to use item (Siren’s Amulet) to increase player Mu Ke’s resistance attribute?]
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Bai Liu’s gaze was cold.
[No. Use (Siren’s Amulet) on the Plant Patient.]
[System Notification: Calculating... Because the Plant Patient has sucked 35% of player Mu Ke’s blood, it has acquired player Mu Ke’s attributes. Player Mu Ke’s items may now be used directly on it. Player Bai Liu, do you confirm using the defense-increasing item on the monster Plant Patient rather than on the critically injured player Mu Ke?]
Miao Feichi’s twin blades, possessed by countless wraiths, descended toward Mu Ke’s limp, empty-eyed head.
Bai Liu lifted his eyelids and gave the scene a faint glance.
Then he lowered his eyes again, indifferent.
[Confirm.]
[Do not use it on Mu Ke.]
