At This Moment, Diao Chan Diao Was Riding Here

"Epic Level Item or Skill inheritance?"

After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi suddenly asked the Tian Huo in front of him this question.

"Is this all the stuff your Master left you?"

"... How did you know?"

Upon hearing Bai Zhi's words, Tian Huo's body visibly stiffened.

"It's simple. You'd rather kill yourself than let the other person succeed."

Bai Zhi shrugged slightly.

"When Player dies, Item in their Inventory will be reclaimed by the system, except for items that were previously taken out. So if you die, the things your Master left you won't fall into someone else's hands. That way, the other party will lose both their belongings and their master, leaving them helpless."

"... I just made a joke, and you managed to deduce so much from it?"

After hearing Bai Zhi's explanation, Tian Huo's lips twitched involuntarily.

"Shouldn't you think I'm crazy, just like that Newbie next to you?"

"Oh, because I'm a genius."

Bai Zhi calmly spoke.

"Geniuses are always able to think of things that others can't. You don't need to be too surprised."

"... You should leave quickly. If possible, take my Little Brother with you, and take as many other survivors as you can. No matter how many people believe it in the end, at least I want to reveal the truth."

After a moment of silence, Tian Huo waved his hand.

"Even if those two Patrol Envoy are shameless enough to come here and eliminate all traces of the problem, I won't just surrender so easily. At the very least, I'll make sure they're smeared with blood. If they want to catch fish, they'd better be prepared to fight to the death."

"Wait a minute... Oh, right, I have two pieces of news, one good and one bad."

Suddenly, Bai Zhi reached out and touched something in the Void in front of him, then began to speak.

"The bad news is that the Safe Refuge opened three minutes ago, but it wasn't in this area. We might have to wait another six hours."

"And the good news?"

Tian Huo frowned slightly.

"The System Prompt that two new Player have arrived in this wilderness. One of Player is riding here on horseback and seems to know the area very well."

Bai Zhi spread his hands.

"If nothing unexpected happens, my previous prediction has come true. The other party is quite strong. Riding a horse, they move in and out of thousands of Flayed Living Corpse as if they were nothing. They should be able to reach the city in about half an hour."

"It was him...?"

After listening to Bai Zhi's explanation, Tian Huo's expression clearly changed.

"What, you know him?"

Bai Zhi raised an eyebrow slightly.

"I've heard of him, but I don't know his real name. His Player ID is [Seeing First Frost]. He's a guy with a terrible reputation, and he has a Perfect- Level summon [Earth Horse] that's quite troublesome."

Tian Huo's face was gloomy.

"I've had a few conflicts with him before."

"Do you think you can win?"

"If my Master were here, we could win."

"Is that all?"

"... I can hold him off for a while. You take my Little Brother and the others and run. When I can't hold on any longer, I'll self-destruct and try to hurt him as much as possible."

Tian Huo gritted his teeth slightly.

"It's impossible for them all to leave."

"You have half an hour left. Tell me about your Master's current condition."

After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi asked the question.

"What is your Master's current condition? Is there any possibility of recovery? If your Master can recover, then everything will be much easier."

--At this moment, [Seeing First Frost] was on his way on horseback.

"... She has been corrupted by the Curse Origin. You could say my Master is now the very source of the Anomaly, the new source of the Anomaly... I've tried many times before, but all of them ended in failure."

As if he had made up his mind, Tian Huo took a deep breath.

"Actually, I'm only one step away from success. If I can complete the last missing condition, my Master can still come back to life... My plan is still one step away."

"What plan? Tell me about it?"

Bai Zhi asked with slight interest.

"... The Curse Origin has been fused with my Master for quite some time. If I want my Master to return to normal, the first step is to strip the Curse Origin of the Curse Origin from my Master's body, and then completely destroy it."

"That's all?"

"That's all? Can you completely eradicate an Anomaly?"

Turning his head to the side, Tian Huo spoke calmly.

"I have a way to extract the Curse Origin from my Master's body, but I cannot destroy it. Even if I devour the Curse Origin, it will remain forever."

Have you tried this before?

Bai Zhi raised an eyebrow slightly.

"... Yes, and then I almost got beaten to death by my Master."

"Completely eliminate... What exactly is this Curse Origin you speak of? Do you know anything about it?"

After a moment's thought, Bai Zhi asked the Tian Huo in front of him a question.

"Besides, are you sure you just want to eliminate them?"

"My Master is incredibly strong; she's Peerless Genius, one in a million. If I can do this, I can definitely bring Master back to her senses."

Tian Huo began to speak with a stubborn expression.

"I don't know what the Curse Origin is. Although I had it before, I was almost killed by my Master that time. It looks like a small black cube, and just holding it in my hand makes my Sanity Value drop drastically."

"Hmm... what do you think of this?"

After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi took the [Pitch Black Rubik's Cube] out of his Inventory and casually tossed it to the other person.

"Compared to this [Pitch Black Rubik's Cube], what's the difference between the Curse Origin and it?"

"Pitch Black Rubik's Cube? What's that...!?"

Slightly puzzled, Tian Huo reached out and took the Black Cube that had been tossed to him. Before he could finish his sentence, his expression changed drastically.

She hurriedly threw the Rubik's Magic Cube back out, her face ashen as she clutched her hand tightly.

Beneath her skin, one blister after another was rising, as if something was about to break through the barrier of flesh and grow out from beneath her skin.

After a long while, the abnormality under her skin gradually disappeared. Tian Huo then realized that she had broken out in a cold sweat without even realizing it. She looked up at Bai Zhi, who was playing with the Magic Cube's Cube in front of her, and frowned deeply.

"What the Eerie Thing you just threw at me?!"

"Oh, it's just a Magic Cube's Cube, no need to worry about it."

Bai Zhi waved his hand.

To be honest, he hadn't expected that others would react this way after obtaining the Magic Cube, reviving after being removed from his side... [Mutation Curse]?

This thing... is it really this dangerous?

--At this moment, [Seeing First Frost] was still on his way on horseback.