Legendary Quality, Encirclement and Hunt

As Ji Yan looked at the silver needle in his hand, a related information panel appeared in his sight.

"Congratulations, player, for interacting and obtaining an Oddity—[Grandmother's Embroidery Needle], quality [Legendary]."

"Oddity Introduction: This is an embroidery needle filled with jealousy and hatred. The elder sister was always doted on by her parents, until one day her younger brother came into the family and took away almost everything that belonged to her. She discovered that whenever the younger brother cried, her parents would love him even more. One night, she picked up an embroidery needle and sealed her brother's mouth. From then on, his cries could no longer be heard. It was wonderful."

"Hidden Introduction: This is an embroidery needle that only kills eerie beings, not humans. When the embroidery needle pierces 10 eerie skins, it can be upgraded, its toughness will increase, and it will be granted the 'Shedding Skin' effect."

So this is a Legendary quality eerie weapon?

Even the description is much more refined.

For Ji Yan, who had never held such a high-quality piece of equipment, his eyes couldn't help but gleam.

But he was even more confused.

He obtained a Legendary quality embroidery needle just by interacting so simply.

What was the difficulty of this main quest?

When he exited the room, Liu Yitong had also obtained equipment. Her face was filled with surprise: "The Eerie Mother actually gave me a piece of Treasured Equipment!"

She was holding a blood-dripping cleaver in her hand.

This was the Eerie Mother's chef's knife.

Whenever there were disputes among the neighbors, the Eerie Mother would take this cleaver out to kindly resolve any conflicts, showing how much the mother cherished it.

Liu Yitong had originally thought she would need to reach a favorability of 90% or higher to obtain this equipment, but she never expected to get it from a main quest.

Ji Yan mused, "To put it simply, the main quest has advanced the game's progress."

"After all, if this quest isn't completed, these eerie residents will cease to exist."

"In a situation of survival like this, it's better to bring out all these treasures than to hoard them."

Liu Yitong nodded, then remembered something. "Right, quickly check the chat group, a player has revealed the current location of that Thief Eerie!"

Upon hearing this, Ji Yan raised his hand and opened the chat window.

Indeed, a player had revealed the Thief Eerie's whereabouts in the chat window, but Ji Yan wasn't too moved. He said calmly, "Now that we know the Thief Eerie's fatal weakness, everyone is rushing to hunt it down."

"How is it possible that someone is so altruistic as to reveal the Thief Eerie's location in the group?"

Liu Yitong raised her eyebrows. "You mean the location is fake?"

"It might be real."

"The purpose of actively revealing it is likely because they aren't confident they can take it down. They're looking for a sucker to go and wear down the Thief Eerie."

Ji Yan analyzed simply. In this kind of survival environment, one could figure out this kind of tactic with their eyes closed.

"Now that we have a deadly weapon and know where the Thief Eerie's fatal weakness is, how can we not be confident in killing it?" Liu Yitong asked, confused.

Ji Yan retorted, "If you have an iron spear and know that hitting a tiger's heart will surely kill it, do you have the confidence to kill it in a one-on-one fight?"

Liu Yitong suddenly understood.

She patted her head, feeling like her intelligence was rapidly declining at this critical moment.

"So, should we go?"

"Yes, just like the person who revealed the location in the group, we'll hide in the shadows."

Ji Yan closed the panel and said.

The apartment's first-floor lobby.

Dense eerie worms spread out like a black tide. The Thief Eerie paused here, as if surveying its surroundings.

Then, facing the load-bearing wall, it extended its hands, its fingers like shovels, digging into a seam and tearing the wall apart bit by bit.

Blood gushed out, and the writhing flesh within the concrete wall displayed a strong vitality.

The Thief Eerie pondered for a moment, then began to ruthlessly tear at the flesh, letting the silent wails from within the wall, and stuffing the original residents' flesh into its mouth to gnaw on!

"Warning! Main quest boss's current progress has caused 23% damage to the dungeon apartment. Players participating in the main quest are requested to quickly stop the malicious eerie entity's destructive behavior!"

"At this rate, the apartment dungeon will likely collapse before dawn!"

On the way to the revealed location, the dungeon's warning sounded again.

Liu Yitong's pretty face also showed obvious anxiety.

Ji Yan remained calm. "Being anxious is useless."

"Think about it from another perspective. The ones who should be anxious are the eerie beings. If the apartment is gone, we players will just be sent to the next dungeon. But for those eerie beings, it's truly the sky falling, leaving them homeless."

Liu Yitong gave a fake smile.

She realized that this person could truly remain composed at any time. Was this his first time playing a game?

Soon, they arrived at the first-floor lobby.

As expected, the scene was already quite lively.

Players had already begun to surround and attack the Thief Eerie.

As the Thief Eerie faced a new wave of attacking players, its back writhed, revealing two horrifying eerie face skins that intercepted the approaching players.

The scene was exceptionally bloody and brutal, with skin fragments and dismembered corpses everywhere!

Liu Yitong finally understood.

Every time the Thief Eerie revealed an eerie face skin, a hunting rule would be activated, indiscriminately targeting players.

How terrifying would that be?

Even more terrifying was that no one knew how many eerie face skins the Eerie possessed!

She couldn't help but take a deep breath and say to Ji Yan, "You're right. Even if we know the Thief Eerie's weakness, it's still hard to kill!"

Ji Yan remained silent, his eyes fixed ahead, narrowing slightly.

In a hidden corner across from them, he spotted Long Yuan's familiar face.

The other man was also observing from the shadows.

It was likely he who had leaked the information about the Thief Eerie's location.

He wanted other players to weaken it before he made his move.

However, the current situation wasn't going as planned.

The players in the lobby had died before even reaching the Thief Eerie, let alone killing it.

But Ji Yan was soon proven wrong.

Suddenly, a piercing scream erupted from the lobby!

A sound like a gunshot, or perhaps an eerie howl, rang out. An eerie bullet pierced through the face skin on the Thief Eerie's body, directly penetrating it!

The eerie face skin fell to the ground, rapidly withering.

The Thief Eerie lowered its head, clutching the gaping hole in its chest. It inserted its fingers into the wound and pulled out the bullet.

The bullet was a finger bone.

The moment it was grasped, it turned to dust.

It twisted its head, and the next bullet followed immediately, shattering its second eerie face skin!

The Thief Eerie staggered, and some of the eerie worms covering its body died and fell off.

This scene shocked the players present.

Ji Yan turned his head and saw Huang Ran from before, still holding that eerie gun, but it was now shrouded in black mist, its quality clearly upgraded by one tier.

"It's working! The Thief Eerie lost two eerie face skins, it's clearly injured!"

"This Eerie creature seems unable to do anything against ranged eerie weapons?"

"So, its hunting rules actually have a range limit?"

"Damn it! You should have said so earlier, I have plenty of ranged eerie weapons!"

The staggering Thief Eerie was clearly injured.

This made the players observing from the shadows excited, and they began adopting ranged attack methods.

Strangely, even in this situation, the Thief Eerie didn't try to escape. It continued to tear through the walls, devouring the flesh and blood within.

More eerie face skins grew all over its body, and these skins let out wails, resisting the players' continuous attacks...

Liu Yitong's pretty face changed slightly. "It'd rather stand and be besieged than stop destroying the apartment. Does this malevolent Eerie hate the apartment's residents that much?"

"It's willing to be destroyed together rather than retreat!"

Ji Yan remained silent.

He watched the shattered face skins that still held a trace of life, knowing his opportunity had arrived