His mother is one of them.

She is a princess of the human race. She was supposed to have a smooth life and live a carefree life in glory and wealth. However, after being kidnapped by the demon king, she was forced to give birth to a monster child in front of the tablet representing the ancestors of the human race.

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However, the Demon King tore up the treaty, and on the day the child was born, he launched another war on the grounds that the human race had deliberately confused the demon race's bloodline, and massacred everyone in the human royal city.

The first scene Qi Huai saw when he opened his eyes was that of the demon soldiers holding their butcher knives high, laughing loudly and decapitating the human maid next to his mother. Hot blood mixed with tears of fear and hatred, accompanied by the rampant demon clan.

His laughter spread all over his face and body.

Soon, the immortal kings who guarded other countries arrived, and the demon king was forced to retreat, leaving him and his mother behind.

The human soldiers who came to support rushed into the hall and rescued the mother.

The mother left without looking back.

Someone seemed to be asking Qi Huai's mother if she wanted to take him away with her, but the woman didn't even pause. A cold voice came from far outside the door:

"The royal city has been destroyed. The monsters are brutal. Millions of people and soldiers in the city... none of them survived!"

The sentence "No one will survive" erased his identity.

The name Qi Huai was picked out from the body of a young child on the side of the road who was disemboweled by the monsters when he left the royal city in his original form.

The thread on the wooden sign was so long that it somehow got wrapped around his body, and it became his name from then on.

Together with the memory of that day, it was deeply engraved in his young and ignorant heart.

Memories and reality kept overlapping and separating in front of his eyes. Pictures of his childhood were intertwined with the pain on his body. The fire in Qi Huai's heart became stronger and stronger. His resentment against the world and his dissatisfaction with his fate were all these things he had experienced day and night.

The emotions that were roasting him in the night suddenly surged out at this moment, making Qi Huai's anger reach an unprecedented level.

He wanted to vent, wanted to kill at all costs, and destroy everything he saw in front of him——

"Qi Huai." A calm voice suddenly appeared in his ears. Miraculously, the scene in Qi Huai's mind stopped for a moment.

Lu Miao didn't know when he reached the back of the black beast, and sat down with Su Anqi and Yu Qian struggling to protect him. He pinched the top of Qi Huai's head hard and buried his palms in the hair behind the black cat's ears.

, leaned down and took a photo.

"Remember the orcs I mentioned? They do exist. With the points I have accumulated now, it should be enough for the two of us to travel there. If you are willing, I can take you there to see it."

"——Before that, at least we can't die here."

The surroundings were filled with the roars and roars of monsters, and the fighting gasps of Su Anqi and Yu Qian were heavier than Lu Miao's voice, but strangely, Qi Huai only heard Lu Miao's words.

"..."

In the silence, there seemed to be the sound of breaking glass, and all the real and fake pictures were shattered into millions of pieces before his eyes.

The scarlet color in Qi Huai's eyes suddenly faded away.

"Before that, please get off my neck." Qi Huai turned his head, a little embarrassed: "Don't use your cat-licking methods to deal with me!"

Lu Miao paused, then climbed up from the giant black cat's neck calmly: "I thought you liked it very much, you started purring."

Qi Huai: "…………"

Yu Qian saw Lu Miao returning to his side and asked him nervously: "What's going on? What just happened to Qi Huai?"

"It's just a side effect of the 'Crazy' skill." Lu Miao said, "When people are in a bad state or are under too much mental pressure, they will associate the scene in front of them with their memories, thus creating the illusion of deja vu."

Under normal circumstances, this situation would not have much impact, but looking at Qi Huai's appearance, this memory was obviously very important to him, so much so that he didn't even know the difference between memory and reality just now.

Lu Miao didn't explore other people's past thoughts and stopped here.

"There is no way to go on like this. These ghosts and corpses will drag us down sooner or later. We have to seize the time to break out." He looked at the monsters on the ground that were knocked away by Qi Huai and stood up unsteadily without much injury.

, then asked Xiang Su Anqi: "Where is the landlord's residence?"

Su Anqi pointed in the direction.

Su Anqi couldn't bear the high-intensity and long-term battle, even if it was just to clean up ghosts with low combat effectiveness. She couldn't help but question: "Why do you have to enter the town and go to the landlord's residence? The residents of the entire town have changed

It has become a monster, and the landlord might be among these things..."

"No. I've seen it, and there's no one we need to find here."

Lu Miao said, wiping the sweat from his forehead, his trembling hands could hardly hold the folding fan.

The battle just now had left his body a little unbearable. Although his physical strength and energy were full, the fatigue signal conveyed from inside his body was like a rusty saw, which was constantly pulling.

His nerves.

He took two hard breaths before continuing slowly: "And don't you think it's strange? There are so many corpse monsters who were living a peaceful life as if they were normal people before we approached the town, but as soon as we stepped in

Within the scope of the town, they are all activated."

Su Anqi frowned: "Isn't this normal? We have stepped into their attack range. And you said it yourself, in the last dungeon, those monsters were suddenly activated the moment they were upgraded, and then ran over to attack.

you."

"Ah, do you really believe it?" Lu Miao glanced at Su Anqi pretending to be surprised.

Su Anqi: "..."

Lu Miao smiled, his eyes passing over her and Yu Qian's faces, looking at the ghost hovering above his head.

"You must have felt that the monsters in this dungeon are a little different from other dungeons. They know how to cooperate, know basic tactics, and already have wisdom."

Su Anqi raised her eyebrows: "So?"

"So when they attacked us, it was definitely not because of the mindless setting of the attack range." Lu Miao smiled and suddenly asked a question that seemed to have nothing to do with it: "You said before that someone angered someone five years ago.

The entire dungeon’s monsters, turning them all into bosses?”

Su Anqi became more and more confused: "Yeah. What's wrong?"

"Who is that person? x?"

As soon as Su Anqi said this, Yu Qian on the side spoke first before Su Anqi could answer: "Isn't it right? Haven't we all watched x's clearance video? The dungeon he cleared at that time was an ordinary F-level dungeon, and he didn't do anything sexy.

ah?"

Lu Miao was unmoved: "If I guessed correctly, he should have entered the second dungeon, and before that, he advertised what he wanted to do through the game's forum, attracting many people.

He received less attention from ranking players and even started a bet on whether he could succeed in doing so."

"Of course, these related contents have been deleted by the system." Lu Miao's eyes flashed with unknown meaning, "Because the system does not allow players to engage in such high-risk behaviors, let alone publicity. I guess he

I should have been severely warned by the system during my second live broadcast, but I refused to change my ways despite repeated warnings, so I was kicked out of the game.”

"..."

Su Anqi didn't speak, but her silence had confirmed Lu Miao's guess.

Yu Qian also wants to say that this is impossible. How many players have died in this horror game. In the five years since he joined, he has seen countless screens dim. Human life is more important than anything else in this game.

They all exist cheaply. The system makes no sense and there is no reason to kick the other player out of the game just because he deliberately seeks death.

But Su Anqi's performance made him murmur in his heart, and he opened his mouth in disbelief: "No, isn't it? Is that really the case?"

Su Anqi finally spoke, but shook her head: "I don't know the specific situation. The time I entered the game was too short. I only came in when x left the game. I heard this information from an old player.

But he also heard it from hearsay, so there is no way to verify it."

However, this news was widely circulated among the top 10 players in the rankings. After Su Anqi's ranking rose, she also heard similar rumors, and then she remembered this matter in her mind.

Qi Huai's situation should be similar to hers.

"The system does not allow us to talk about the live broadcast that year. Whether it is a copy of the live broadcast or in the game lobby, any news related to that live broadcast will be silenced, so I did not find any information." Su Anqi had a complex expression.

Looking at Lu Miao, "How did you guess that?"

Lu Miao did not answer this question.

"It's not important how I guessed it. What's important is that there is no favorability data on the monster card." Lu Miao slowly raised his eyes and met the gaze of a ghost, "If there is no favorability, then what?

Will they be angered? So they attack us, not because of so-called resentment or being offended."

Yu Qian was already dizzy: "It's not because of the attack range or the favorability, so why did they attack us?"

"Counterattack." Lu Miao said, "Neutral monsters become hostile monsters, usually because players attack them or pose a threat to something they care about - you still remember the one-on-one battle between Qi Huai and the boss 'Ma Li's Ghost'

At that time? She was trapped in the house, but when the house collapsed, she immediately gave up the fight with Qi Huai and turned around and went back. It was because we hurt what she cared about: her home with her husband and children."

"So, the hatred judgment mode of this dungeon is revenge." Lu Miao said at the end, suddenly changing the topic, "These monsters thought that we threatened something in the town, so they launched an attack on us. Then they protect

What could it be?"

Except for Lu Miao, the other three people were lost in thought.

Finally arriving at the place, Qi Huai took the opportunity of others to clear a clearing and changed back into his human form. Looking at the closed house in front of him, he suddenly realized something: "Landlord?"

Lu Miao snapped his fingers and confirmed his statement.

"I have been thinking before that for seven or eight years, the landlord would send out rental leaflets and send a tenant to the farm every other month for seven or eight years. There were so many missing tenants. Her act of 'supplying'

But it never stopped, why exactly? And...why the police always cancel the missing person notice in the second month."

"Now I know." Lu Miao's eyes fell back on the corpse monster, and his eyes slowly turned cold. "She is here to provide bodies for these ghosts."

As soon as the words fell, the systems of the four people rang one after another.
To be continued...