A Whole Family!

Yes.

Guan Yutian really did know him.

Or rather, this was Guan Yutian's informant.

"Qi Ge? What is it?"

"Lord Guan, there's a family over in Backstreet Lane. They traveled with a Tiger Clan merchant shop, but after coming back, their temperaments changed drastically. I suspect..."

"There's something like that? Lead the way!"

"Yes!"

For Razor Squad, the most important part of their pay was determined by their battle records.

Killing Specters was a major source of income.

You could say Guan Yutian was a little mediocre.

But he really dared to take on Specters!

Very soon.

Led by Qi Ge, the squad arrived at Backstreet Lane.

In front of a house stood several Dogfolk with troubled expressions.

They were an elderly Dogfolk couple, a Dogfolk woman, and a Dogfolk boy of three or five.

They looked like a family.

When they saw Qi Ge approaching with Guan Yutian and the others,

the family hurried over to greet them.

Zhang Qing took one look from behind Guan Yutian, and his scalp instantly went numb;

Ka Ye; 1040/1040!

Mu Ye; 1030/1030!

Guer; 1020/1020!

Ka Qi; 1000/1000!

Well, damn. The whole family was all here!

All four of them were Specters!

"My lord!"

Several shrill cries rang out.

The moment these Specters saw Guan Yutian, they dropped to their knees.

Tears streaming down their faces, they began accusing someone bitterly.

Zhang Qing understood.

The Dogfolk man of the house had returned from his merchant journey behaving extremely strangely.

He had even cursed them as Specters and said he would report them to Razor Squad.

Such bizarre behavior meant he had most likely been replaced by a Specter.

Guan Yutian was furious after hearing this.

He shoved them aside and kicked the front door open.

The door shattered in all directions. The tremendous crash drew quite a few onlookers.

But when they saw it was Razor Squad, they quickly shrank back.

A voice immediately came from inside the house.

A nearly crazed Dogfolk man, his eyes bloodshot and a longsword in hand, shouted;

"Specters!"

"They're all Specters!"

"Kill them, quickly!"

"Give me back my wife, child, and parents!"

Ka Lian; 34/34!

Sure enough.

Four wolves openly claiming roles, while the villager broke down crying!

In a five-player game, wouldn't he get played to death?

Guan Yutian sneered.

"Heh, I guess this Specter from the wilderness hasn't adapted to the city yet."

"This disguise is terrible!"

Guan Yutian had seen this kind of situation before.

Not many wilderness Specters were intelligent.

The brainless ones often did things like this.

After saying that,

Guan Yutian prepared to step forward and slash open the Specter skin with one stroke.

But

Zhang Qing stopped him.

"Captain, let me do it!"

What a joke.

He was currently standing together with five Specters.

He needed to get farther away from them first.

As for whether they would transform after this Dogfolk man died,

he would see when the time came.

In any case, Zhang Qing was confident now. He was no longer the insignificant nobody he had been at the start.

"Fine!"

Guan Yutian agreed to Zhang Qing's request.

He had gone to Chuan Prefecture and learned some things about Zhang Qing.

The wife he had shared a bed with had been a Specter. How could he not hate them to the bone?

So he handed the task of cutting open the Specter skin to him.

Zhang Qing walked over.

In an instant,

a flash of blade-light swept out.

Ka Lian's head fell to the ground.

Congratulations on killing Ka Lian. Maximum Life +35!

Current Maximum Life; 730/730!

Heh, earning Blood Volume on the job.

After the head fell.

A moment passed.

Yet no Specter's true form appeared.

Then...

those few Specters immediately burst into tears!

They beat their chests and stamped their feet, looking so pitiful that one could hardly bear to watch.

Zhang Qing looked at them.

Heh, not transforming?

Trying to muddle through it?

"Ah, he was probably frightened out of his mind by Specters while traveling in the wilderness."

Seeing this scene,

Guan Yutian prepared to withdraw the squad and leave.

The man had reported his own family as Specters, only to find out they were not.

That blow was exceptionally devastating.

Guan Yutian had no desire to keep watching.

Zhang Qing saw that they were about to leave.

That would not do!

These four Specters with just over a thousand Blood Volume were manageable.

At the very least, they were worth two Attribute Points.

If he managed to take them all, he would get no less than four Attribute Points.

So—

"Captain!"

"What?"

Guan Yutian looked at Zhang Qing curiously.

But Zhang Qing made a move.

A flash of blade-light.

He directly chopped off the Dogfolk woman's head.

Blood sprayed everywhere.

-199!

"I think we should try again."

After chopping off her head, Zhang Qing retreated and said this.

Guan Yutian was speechless.

He felt Zhang Qing was being a little too impulsive.

There was compensation to pay for killing the wrong person.

Even if they did not dare come to Razor Squad to demand it,

the squad captain above them would dock their pay!

For two people, Zhang Qing's wages for two days of patrol duty would be gone!

However,

Guan Yutian quickly realized something was wrong.

The surviving old couple and child

had stopped crying, their eyes filled with shock and confusion.

The next second—

Bang!

The Dogfolk woman Zhang Qing had killed transformed!

Blood Flower Ghoul; 821/1020!

Then, the remaining two elderly people and the child also exploded apart.

Bang! Bang! Bang...

Blood Flower Ghoul; 1040/1040!

Blood Flower Ghoul; 1030/1030!

Blood Flower Ghoul; 1000/1000!

Well, damn.

They really were a whole family, all neat and tidy.

Blood Flower Ghouls.

They were not large, only about a head taller than an ordinary person.

Their bodies were flower-shaped, with several tentacles extending from their lower halves.

Their heads were blood-red flowers, their buds filled with fangs.

"Specters!"

"Form up!"

Guan Yutian was greatly alarmed, then quickly reacted and shouted.

At the same time,

he gave Zhang Qing a resentful glance.

As though he were saying,

Brother, you've gotten your big brother into deep trouble!

There were four of them.

If things went badly, they might all die here.

Then,

Guan Yutian, the strongest member of the squad, charged forward first.

He slashed down with his blade.

-60!

Then he spun around and blocked a tentacle.

-7!

"Hmm? They're this weak? We can fight them!" Guan Yutian was greatly shaken.

These Blood Flower Ghouls had Blood Volume hovering around a thousand, so they should not be strong.

That had been Zhang Qing's initial guess as well.

Who would have thought—it really was true!

"Get up there and hold it off!"

"Zhang Qing, focus on attacking!" Guan Yutian began directing them.

This Specter really wasn't that strong.

Guan Yutian felt he could take it on alone.

In the team, only Zhang Qing had just broken through to the Glimmering Realm, and someone above was looking out for him.

Guan Yutian no longer dared treat him like a meat shield.

He had him attack from range instead.

However...

The moment he finished speaking,

Zhang Qing had already charged forward.

The Kaiyuan Art circulated, and a steady stream of strength surged from within his body.

Then,

Sky-Opening Slash was ready.

Using Chuan Shattering Steps, he charged straight at the Specter he had attacked first.

Its health bar was the lowest. It was the first one he would take down!

He brought his blade down in a direct chop!

The power of Sky-Opening Slash erupted.

It sent the Blood Flower Ghoul flying and tore a huge wound across its flower;

-140!

Blood Flower Ghoul: 661/1020!

Critical hit!

That strong?

Zhang Qing felt his stamina draining from his body.

That strike had consumed at least a quarter of his stamina.

Tsk, tsk.

The consumption was high, but it really was fierce.

However,

Zhang Qing did not stop to savor it. He chased after it and began hacking wildly.

The flower demon Specter roared as it attacked Zhang Qing, leaving wound after wound across his body.

But...

-24!

-23!

He could handle it completely!

Ox-Barbarian Strength passively increased Zhang Qing's defense.

It had even dulled the pain considerably.

And Zhang Qing's broadsword was far more vicious;

-53!

-47!

-58!

Their attack speeds were not the same.

Zhang Qing was obviously much faster!

This was the most straightforward kind of all-out health trade!

The Blood Flower Ghoul's health bar plummeted, even faster than the one Guan Yutian was facing.

Seeing how fierce Zhang Qing was, the others did not intervene.

They all charged toward the remaining Specters.