Chapter 447

This is to have a backup plan.

This 'Global Fate' concerning the infectious disease in the alchemy chamber came too coincidentally and strangely, so Leon must be extremely careful.

He couldn't be 100% sure that the antidote his older sister gave him was real, but he didn't dare to gamble, so he could only drink the [Mint Herbal Tea] that he originally planned to use later in the game to relieve the negative effects of the current infectious disease.

If, later on, it's confirmed that the eldest sister is an extremely kind person, then the remaining antidote will be safe and edible.

Overall, Leon's move was quite conservative.

Of course, we also have to thank Losweiser for coming up with this idea.

She was the one who gave the Mint Herbal Tea to Leon; otherwise, Leon would still be painfully agonizing over whether or not to take the antidote.

After leaving the restroom and resting for a while, Leon went out again.

He went to the communal kitchen, retrieved the Black Holy Stone hidden under the water tank, and then went to the lobby on the first floor. After looking around to make sure no one was there, Leon hid the Black Holy Stone inside a guard's suit of armor at the entrance to the conference room.

This is what he noticed during the meeting that morning. The entire first-floor lobby only has the function of a meeting room, and there are no scenes that trigger tasks or fate. Therefore, compared to the communal kitchen, no one comes here except during meeting time.

Hiding inside the guard's armor is also a relatively safe option.

After hiding the Black Holy Stone, Leon returned upstairs.

By chance, they ran into the two daughters of the "Friends Group".

Mu En and Xiao Guang held hands and spotted Leon at the end of the corridor.

"Daddy ~"

Mu En called out sweetly, then pulled Xiao Guang along and jogged over.

Leon crouched down and asked with a smile, "What's wrong? Are you on a mission?"

"Yes, but it's a three-person mission, and we want Daddy to do it with us."

Leon was naturally happy to do missions with his daughters, but he still casually asked,

Why don't you go find your sister?

Upon hearing this, Little Moon's face instantly turned cold.

Leon was taken aback, not understanding what he had done to upset his beloved daughter.

He looked at Xiao Guang.

Fortunately, the Little Pink Hair had already figured everything out.

She leaned close to Leon's ear and whispered.

"After the effect of the 'Seven-Day Lock of Unbreakable Love' ended, the second sister was forced to separate from the eldest sister. Then the eldest sister did a lot of duo missions with Helena, and the second sister ended up like this."

"Hmph, what's so great about it? Xiao Guang and I can do missions too, and we'll definitely be faster Helena!"

Leon scratched his head.

"It's really tough dealing with a sister-obsessed father..." the father sighed inwardly.

Leon actually felt a little guilty about Mu En's dependence on Noa.

If he had been there for his two daughters from the moment they were born, perhaps Mu En would have become more independent.

Well, Leon wouldn't force his precious daughter to change anything.

Whether you're a sister-complex or a younger sister-complex, as long as the family can stay together, that's more important than anything else.

Leon patted the ahoge (cowlick) on Mu En's head and said...

"Then let's try to find another 'Unbreakable Bond' item card, so you can play with your sister again."

Upon hearing this, Mu En's big eyes lit up. "Really, Daddy? Are there any other 'Seven-Day Lock of Unbreakable Love' in the castle?"

Leon nodded. "Yes. A lot of the prop cards are duplicates. My Mom and I had our 'Unbreakable Bond' used once during the day, and you found one and used it with your sister, didn't you?"

Mu En blinked, tilted her head, and asked with a dazed look, "Daddy, how did you know that the Unbreakable Bond' between my sister and me was something I used?"

Please, the whole world knows! Your little face can't hide any lies!

"Alright, second sister, how Daddy found out isn't important. What's important is that since there are even more 'Unbreakable Bond' in the castle, it proves that you and eldest sister still have a chance to reunite!"

"Okay! This time I'm going to find three... no, five—no! Ten! I'm going to find ten 'Seven-Day Lock of Unbreakable Love' cards, so my sister will be bound to me the whole time~"

Leon sweated and smiled wryly; his second daughter was only particularly persistent about two things.

One is to regularly eat the offerings made by his elderly father;

The other is being with my older sister.

Leon stood up, took his daughters' hands, one on each side, and led them to complete the three-person task.

The task for the three of them wasn't difficult, and with Dad's help, they completed it smoothly.

After completing the mission, they received an intelligence card:

"That thing is a curse! It must be destroyed... it must be destroyed!"

Leon frowned slightly as he looked at this passage on the intelligence card.

"It looks like something someone said."

Xiao Guang stroked his chin, his little brain working rapidly. "If we apply this to the game, then this sentence could very well represent a player's main quest, whose mission is to destroy 'that thing'."

Mu En looked left at his father and right at his younger sister, and unusually, he started to rack his brains.

"Then this so-called 'thing' must be the Black Holy Stone, right?"

"Yes, that's what I was thinking too."

Leon said quietly, "But who could have said those words?"

When Leon was paired with Losweiser, he found an intelligence card that said there were at least two lone wolf players in this game.

Since Leon himself is a lone wolf, this statement was very likely made by another lone wolf.

His main objective is to hide the Black Holy Stone until the end of the game, and if the other lone wolf's goal is indeed to destroy the Black Holy Stone, then the situation is quite clear—

Two lone wolves are destined for a battle.

As the father and daughters pondered, a voice suddenly came from Xiao Guang's Imprint Stone:

"[Friend B], you have been 'killed'; [Friend B], you have been 'killed'."

He was killed?!

The short notification sound left the father and his daughters completely dumbfounded.

"What happened? Xiaoguang, how did you get stabbed out of nowhere?"

The pink-haired Le Zilong was completely dumbfounded. "I... I don't know, Dad."

As he spoke, Xiao Guang subconsciously touched his body to see if there were any strange props.

But nothing was found.

She turned back to look at the room where the three of them had just completed their mission, and there was still nothing unusual about it.

She was stabbed... for no reason at all!

A wave of fear instantly swept through the three of them.

Even Leon was somewhat frightened by this bizarre attack pattern.

General Leon's idea of a knife man:

Approaching silently, taking their life in the blink of an eye;

The actual killer:

Strategizing within the command tent, the swordsman strikes a thousand miles away!

Xiao Guang ran his fingers into his hair, his jewel-like pupils filled with resentment.

"Ah... Xiao Guang, don't be sad. Maybe you'll get a resurrection item card or something," Leon comforted him.

"Yes, Xiao Guang, I won't go look for the binding card anymore. I'll go find the resurrection card for you! Don't be sad," Mu En said earnestly.

But Xiao Guang shook his head.

"No, no, no, Dad, Second Sister, I'm not sad. I just feel... it's a shame that I won't be able to see you two fighting each other anymore!"

Leon & Mu En:...

Xiao Guang cried out in anguish, "Why me of all people? I just wanted to see everyone scheming against each other, what did I do wrong? Waaah~"

Shortly after, a staff member rushed over.

"[Friend B] Miss Aurorla, please come with me. We will take you to the God Observation Room, where you can watch the entire game from God's eye view."

Buling!!

Xiao Guang's eyes shone brightly.

Seeing things from God's eye view is much more interesting than seeing them from a first-person perspective!

You should have said so earlier! If you had, I would have killed myself right at the start!

So, the Little Pink Hair who had just been looking gloomy happily went to the God Observation Room with the staff.

The old man and his second sister were left standing there, bewildered in the wind.

"Oh my god Daddy! We're here being scared to death by that murderer who stabbed people from a thousand miles away, and Xiao Guang is just comfortably watching the show!" Little Moon slapped her face with both hands, incredulous.

Leon silently covered his face, "Anyway... let's hold a temporary meeting first, lest the murderer stab us both too."

"Good."

[Imprompt Meeting]: A meeting can be convened in advance when a [corpse] is discovered.

Ten minutes later, all the players except Xiao Guang arrived at the conference room in the lobby on the first floor.

Losweiser was naturally the first to notice that her youngest daughter was missing.

Where did Xiaoguang go?

"I was stabbed."

Leon said, "This emergency meeting was convened by me and Mu En because Xiao Guang was suddenly... stabbed right next to us, without any warning."

Xiao Guang was the first player to be killed in the game in the twenty-odd hours since it started, which naturally attracted everyone's attention.

"You were stabbed without any warning?" Noa asked.

"Yeah. The three of us had just finished a mission and were chatting for a bit when Xiao Guang... got stabbed."

Although a while has passed, recalling that scene of "swords delivered from a distance" still evokes a lingering sense of fear.

"Who had Xiaoguang been in contact with before he was stabbed?"

Mu En shook her head. "There wasn't much people around. Xiao Guang and I were together the whole time. We were planning to do a mission tonight, but it required three people to complete, so we asked Dad to come with us."

"Is Leon with you...?"

The speaker was Claudia.

The beautiful woman looked at Leon with her blue eyes, "Is it possible that Leon secretly dropped the little light knife?"

"Because I found an intelligence card that says there are at least two lone wolves in this game. The lone wolves' missions should be different from everyone else's, right?"

"And Muen Little Guang's Friends Group is the staunchly good guys, so eliminating one of the good guys would give the lone wolf an advantage."

In response to suspicions of a 'wicked mother', Leon calmly replied,

"Senior, there's something wrong with your logic."

"Killing good guys can indeed give a lone wolf an advantage, but you can't just assume that I am that lone wolf."

"And inferences made based on this assumption are not very credible."

"Or do you have some particularly compelling intelligence that proves I'm a lone wolf?"

Claudia nodded slightly. "I can't be sure you're Lone Wolf. But Xiao Guang did complete a mission with you before being killed."

"I agree with Senior Claudia's opinion."

The speaker this time is Ischa.

"My brother-in-law is highly suspicious. This meeting was likely his own doing, designed to create the illusion that 'wolves can kill targets remotely.' That way, if he kills someone again later, everyone will still think of it as 'killing someone from a distance,' and won't suspect him immediately."

"But if Daddy killed Xiaoguang, why didn't Daddy kill me too?" Mu En asked.