Who Was the Missing Person?

Zhang Tie instantly felt a chill run down his spine and began counting on his fingers.

"Team Leader Lin, don't scare me..."

Lin An did not answer, intending to make Zhang Tie think it through himself.

He first collected the Mutant that had already been reduced to powder on the ground, then reached out and touched the cracked Blood Cocoon.

As expected, a System Notification rang out.

"Beep, obtained ??? corpse"

"Beep, obtained special item: Blood Cocoon (Damaged)"

"Item Level: White (Common)"

"Item Effect: The Blood Cocoon, which contains vital energy, can preserve a wounded person's fading vitality and prolong their life."

Hmm, an item that can extend someone's life.

It was fairly practical. If they encountered someone gravely wounded in the future, they could simply put the injured person inside and buy time to wait for rescue.

Who would have thought that the monster transforming from the Bloody Witch, who enjoyed tormenting and slaughtering humans, would specifically drop this kind of healing item? It was rather interesting.

Was this a case of things going to extremes and then reversing?

While Zhang Tie was still nervously calculating who was not human, Lin An simply opened his Player Panel to take stock of the things he had obtained recently.

"Character Information: Lin An (First Order Awakener, Player Level: 1)"

"Next Player Level (1/4), Next Awakener Tier (1/16)"

"Strength: 23.4"

"Agility: 19.4"

"Physique: 19.4"

"Will: 19.8"

"Equipment: Doomsday Ring (Black, Special), Soul-Devouring Hand (Orange, Epic Equipment)"

"Items: Blood Stone 3/3, White Common Blood Cocoon 1/1, Giant Lizard Extract (Potion) *12, Snake Venom Purified Extract (Potion) *12, Highly Poisonous Spirit Plant *1, Licker Spine *2"

"Objects: Military Individual Ration *4, Drinking Water *5, Energy Bar *1, Licker Corpse *2, ??? Corpse Fragments *1"

Awakener Talent: S-Rank Talent—Strength Burst

Equipment Skill: B-Rank Soul Shriek (1/1)

"First Order: All Attributes +4 (The individual maximum values for ordinary humans are 10.)"

Savior Template Skill: Eye of Judgment

"Savior Mission Information 1: Kill the Second Order Mutant Stitcher"

"Mission Level: Dangerous!"

"Mission Time Limit: 240 hours (83 hours remaining)"

"Mission Reward: Antidote Serum *3 (Removes the Zombie Virus from the body.)"

"Savior Mission Information 2: Recruit 5 team members (Time Limit: 30 days), Current Progress (2/5)."

"Mission Reward: Doomsday Base Vehicle (Initial)."

"Contracted Partner: S-Rank Abyssal Black Dragon (Sleeping, Petrified State)"

Lin An nodded in satisfaction. His current attributes could be called the First Order limit.

Every attribute was approaching the Second Order threshold, while his Strength attribute had already surpassed the First Order.

The Doomsday Game had only just begun. If the Leaderboard showing Combat Power rankings six months later were available now, he would most likely be number one in Hua Country!

Doom Equipment, Epic Equipment, and an S-Rank Black Dragon.

If any one of these three things became known to other players and factions, they would likely be so envious that they would go mad, driving countless people into a frenzy.

Anyone who obtained even one of them would inevitably become a regional overlord!

Especially the S-Rank Black Dragon, which could be considered Lin An's greatest trump card.

Glancing at the snake-shaped Stone Statue on his wrist, Lin An let out a soft sigh.

Unfortunately, he did not know when the Black Dragon would awaken and break free of its petrified state.

Otherwise, with a top-tier Second Order fighter by his side, as long as he did not run into a Third Order Mutant, would he not be able to walk sideways at this stage?

At the same time, the countdown in the Savior Mission reminded Lin An that only 83 hours remained until he had to kill the Stitcher. After dealing with everything today, he had to hurry to Wanda Plaza.

Fortunately, his current strength was far greater than he had expected.

He was still quite confident about killing the Stitcher next.

With his current strength, along with Zhang Tie and Wen Ya, he had enough confidence to take it down!

He simply did not know how An Xia and An JingTian were doing now.

Lin An recalled the little girl's helplessness that night, and his heart ached.

My brother, An Xia.

I'll be back soon...

"Team Leader Lin... are you all right?"

"Team Leader Lin, don't scare me!"

Lin An felt as if he had heard that line many times before...

Zhang Tie watched Lin An nervously as he alternated between smiling and looking sorrowful, unable to keep the panic from rising in his heart.

The room they were in was truly frightening.

Two short legs stood upright at the doorway, while a bloody, eerie cocoon lay in the corner. The floor was covered in fragments and blood, and faint candle flames swayed all around them.

An unconscious girl lay on the bed. It looked exactly like the scene of an evil cult's ritual.

If an ordinary person walked in, they would probably faint on the spot.

Especially after what Lin An had just said to him. Zhang Tie had racked his brain but still could not understand what was going on, and the more he thought about it, the more terrified he became.

Lin An patted Zhang Tie's shoulder with a strange expression, signaling that he did not need to be afraid.

He could never have imagined that someone as huge as Zhang Tie would be completely different from his appearance.

"Do you remember the bandaged person you brought back?"

Lin An did not plan to tease him any longer and asked the question directly.

"I remember! She was a girl who looked a lot like my little sister!"

Lin An fell silent for a moment. No wonder Zhang Tie had rescued her.

"Let's continue from what we were just discussing. In my memory, there were 26 people, and that included the Bandaged Girl."

"There were 33 people in the hotel at first. The monster saying that 25 people were still alive proves that it knew I had killed several people earlier, rather than just making up a number."

"But I had never interacted with the Bandaged Girl, so I would only regard her as a living person."

"Yet when that monster imitated my inner voice, it only mentioned 25 people. That exposed its identity."

"Its perspective is different from mine!"

Lin An walked as he spoke, heading straight out the door.

Zhang Tie followed nervously all the way, but could not help asking, "What does that prove? That monster is an idiot?"

"No. It most likely instinctively ignored one 'person.'"

"And there's a very good chance that something allowed the monster to make such a low-level mistake."

"The Bandaged Girl either died, and I didn't know about it. Or..."

"She isn't human at all!"