Legendary Quality, Encirclement Hunt

As Ji Yan looked at the Silver Needle in his hand, the relevant Information Panel appeared in his vision.

"Congratulations, player. Through interaction, you have obtained an eerie item—Grandmother's Embroidery Needle. Quality: Legendary."

"Eerie Item Description: This is an Embroidery Needle filled with jealousy and hatred. The older sister had always been the sole darling of her father and mother, until one day, her younger brother came into the family and nearly took everything that belonged to her. She discovered that whenever her brother cried, their father and mother would always shower him with even more love. One night, she picked up an Embroidery Needle and sealed her brother's mouth shut. From then on, she never heard him cry again. How wonderful."

"Hidden Description: This is an Embroidery Needle that kills only eeries, not people. After the Embroidery Needle cuts through 10 eerie skins, it can be upgraded, increasing its toughness and granting the 'Shedding Skin' effect."

Was this what a Legendary Quality Eerie Weapon was like? Even its description was far more refined.

For Ji Yan, who had never held equipment of such high quality before, his eyes could not help but glimmer.

But he was even more puzzled.

Just by interacting so simply, he had obtained a Legendary Quality Embroidery Needle.

Where exactly was the difficulty in this Main Quest?

When they left the room, Liu Yitong had also obtained a piece of equipment. Her face was full of delight. "The Eerie Mother actually gave me a Treasured Equipment!"

She held a blood-dripping kitchen cleaver in her hand.

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

Whenever there was any discord between neighbors, the Eerie Mother would always head out carrying this cleaver and resolve every conflict in a very "kind and harmonious" manner. It was obvious how precious it was to Mother.

Liu Yitong had originally thought she would need to raise her favorability to over 90% before getting this equipment. She had not expected to acquire it through a Main Quest.

Ji Yan pondered. "In the end, the Main Quest advanced the game's progress."

"After all, if this quest cannot be cleared, these Eerie Residents will cease to exist as well."

"At a time of life and death, instead of keeping their treasures hidden away, they might as well bring them all out."

Liu Yitong nodded, then remembered something. "Right, hurry and check the chat group. A player revealed the Thief Eerie's current location!"

Hearing that, Ji Yan raised a hand and opened the chat window.

Sure enough, a player had exposed the Thief Eerie's whereabouts in the chat. But Ji Yan did not react much and merely said, "Now that everyone knows the Thief Eerie's fatal weakness, they're all scrambling to hunt it down."

"How could someone be so selfless as to reveal the Thief Eerie's location in the group instead?"

Liu Yitong raised a delicate brow. "You mean the location is fake?"

"It might be real."

"The reason they revealed it voluntarily is probably because they aren't confident they can take it down. They're looking for suckers to go over and wear down the Thief Eerie."

Ji Yan's analysis was simple. In a survival environment like this, anyone could figure out such a scheme without much thought.

"You have a deadly weapon and know the Thief Eerie's fatal weakness, yet you still might not be confident you can kill it?" Liu Yitong did not understand.

Ji Yan asked in return, "If you had an iron spear and knew that piercing a tiger's heart would kill it, would you be confident of killing it alone?"

Liu Yitong suddenly understood.

She patted her head, feeling that her intelligence was plummeting at such a critical moment.

"Then should we go over?"

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

Ji Yan closed the panel and spoke.

The lobby on the first floor of the Apartment.

Dense Eerie Worms spread through the surroundings like a black tide. The Thief Eerie paused there as though it were looking around.

Then, facing a load-bearing wall, it stretched out both hands. Its fingers were like shovels as they dug into a crack and tore the wall apart bit by bit.

Blood slurry spurted out, while the flesh writhing inside the Cement wall displayed vigorous vitality.

After studying it for a moment, the Thief Eerie began mercilessly tearing apart the flesh. Ignoring the silent wails coming from inside the wall, it stuffed the residents' flesh into its mouth and gnawed on it!

"Warning! The Main Quest boss has currently caused 23% damage to the Apartment Dungeon. Players participating in the Main Quest, please stop the malicious eerie's destructive actions as soon as possible!"

"At this rate, this Apartment Dungeon will probably collapse before dawn tomorrow!"

As they headed toward the exposed location, the Dungeon's warning sounded once again.

A clear look of anxiety appeared on Liu Yitong's pretty face.

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

"Look at it from another angle. The eeries are the ones who should be anxious. If the Apartment is gone, we players will merely be sent to the next Dungeon. For the eeries, though, the sky will truly have fallen—they'll be homeless."

Liu Yitong gave a humorless smile.

She had realized that this person could stay composed at any time. Was this really his first time playing the game?

Soon, they arrived at the first-floor lobby.

As expected, the scene was already extremely lively.

Players had already begun encircling and hunting the Thief Eerie.

When faced with the new wave of approaching players, the Thief Eerie's back writhed, flipping out two horrifying eerie skins to intercept the players who came near.

The scene was exceptionally bloody and brutal. Skin fragments, corpses, and severed limbs were everywhere!

Liu Yitong finally understood.

Every time the Thief Eerie flipped out an eerie skin, it gained a hunting rule and indiscriminately hunted players.

How terrifying was that? Even more terrifying was the fact that no one knew how many eerie skins that eerie actually had!

She could not help taking a deep breath and said to Ji Yan, "You were right. Even if we know the Thief Eerie's weakness, it'll still be hard to kill it!"

Ji Yan said nothing, his eyes narrowing slightly as he stared ahead.

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

The other man was also observing from the shadows.

That message exposing the Thief Eerie's location had probably been sent by him.

He wanted the other players to wear it down while he waited for an opportunity in secret.

But the current situation was not going as he wished.

The players in the lobby had not even touched the Thief Eerie before suffering Sudden Death, let alone killing it.

But Ji Yan was soon proven wrong.

A shrill scream suddenly rang out in the lobby!

A sound resembling both a gunshot and an eerie howl rang out. A strange bullet pierced through one of the Thief Eerie's skins and went straight through its body!

The eerie skin fell to the ground and quickly withered.

The Thief Eerie lowered its head and touched the torn hole in its chest. It shoved its fingers into its body and dug out the bullet.

The bullet was a section of finger bone.

The instant it was pinched, it crumbled into powder.

It twisted its head, and the next bullet followed immediately, blasting apart its second eerie skin!

The Thief Eerie staggered, and some of the Eerie Worms covering its body died and fell away with it.

This scene shocked the players present.

Ji Yan turned his head and saw Huang Ran from before. He still held that eerie gun, but black qi now coiled around it. Its quality had clearly risen by a tier.

"It works! The Thief Eerie lost two eerie skins and is clearly injured!"

"It seems this eerie thing has no way to deal with damage from long-range Eerie Weapons?"

"So its hunting rule actually has a range limit?"

"Fuck! You should've said so earlier! Long-range Eerie Weapons are the one thing I have plenty of!"

The staggering Thief Eerie was clearly injured.

This immediately excited the players who had been observing in secret, and they began using long-range attacks.

Strangely, even under these circumstances, the Thief Eerie did not flee. It continued tearing open the walls and devouring the flesh inside.

More eerie skins grew all over its body. The skins wailed one after another as they resisted the players' repeated attacks...

Liu Yitong's pretty face changed slightly. "It would rather stand there and be attacked from all sides than stop destroying the Apartment. Does this malicious eerie hate the Apartment's residents that much?"

"Even if it means mutual destruction, it refuses to retreat!"

Ji Yan did not speak.

Looking at the battered skins that still retained traces of life, he knew his opportunity had come...