nycdaug Chapter 180 The Book of Corruption
Chapter 180 The Book of Corruption
Sun Yue asked Yan Xun, "Don't you remember your sworn brother?"
"I don't remember," Yan Xun said.
His earliest memories are from the Meimei Building; he barely remembers anything from before that.
At the end of the previous instance, Lou Yanchuan passed on some memories to him, and when facing the Bodhisattva Guanyin, he also saw the moth pattern.
He had pondered what that moth was, but unexpectedly, he found the answer with Sun Yue.
Upon hearing Yan Xun's words, Sun Yue immediately regretted speaking so directly—the disappearance of a contract partner is a major blow to a player. Yan Xun's inability to remember is likely due to the other party's demise, which caused him to be too severely injured and lose that part of his memory.
"It's alright." Yan Xun saw through Sun Yue's thoughts.
“This matter…” he pointed to himself and Sun Yue, “I hope that only the two of us know about it.”
Sun Yue nodded immediately.
“The witch told me that only players with protective amulets would recognize this mark,” she told Yan Xun. “Unlike ordinary tattoos, only players with protective amulets can see this.”
Yan Xun nodded.
The two parted ways just like that... It wasn't until Yan Xun entered the bathroom that he reached into his pocket.
Suddenly, red eyes appeared in his pocket, and he was holding a very familiar book with longing eyes.
However, this book also became very tiny in the arms of this palm-sized eyeball.
Yan Xun casually held his eyeballs up to his eyes. "You took them?"
He nodded and then handed the book to Yan Xun.
Yan Xun reached out and took the book, which immediately shrunk to its normal size in his hand. At the same time, he also read the basic information about the item.
【The Book of Corruption - Damaged Version (S-Rank Item)】
[Legend has it that this is a book written by that being, whose words are unreadable to humans. Anyone who sees even a glimpse of it will be cursed, consumed by mad thoughts, and driven to harm themselves and their families.]
Fortunately, this is a damaged version; although humans still cannot read it, they can still use it.
[How to use: When facing a target, open the book; the target will instantly turn into rotting flesh.]
[Interval: It is recommended that beginners use it once every 15 days.]
[Side effect: Will make the user stupid (lasts for 1 hour); excessive use will turn the brain into tofu pudding.]
[Note: It's strange, what secret did that person write in this book?]
Yan Xun looked at the book in his hand, and at this moment the book's appearance had changed somewhat.
The original wings disappeared, and a half-closed eye appeared on the cover... Soon, a red eyeball jumped into the eye shape, and the next second, the eye on the Book of Corruption moved, and it even blinked at Yan Xun a few times.
There was a line of small print on the back of the book, which was then crossed out.
Although the text was incomprehensible, perhaps because it was not covered by any power, Yan Xun did not feel any discomfort.
He put the book in his backpack, washed up, and left the bathroom in a bathrobe.
The man with the mustache let them stay there for seven days and naturally prepared other clothes for them. After finding the clothes, Yan Xun did not leave the room again.
He sat on the sofa in the room and started the live stream again—
【No? What is it that people in the live stream can't see? Are you being petty?】
[Where is everyone? How did we suddenly get to the room? Where did that Angel Guild member go?!]
[The witch brewing poison: That one is very angry.]
The witch who brews poison rewards the recipient with a sports car X10.
[The witch brewing poison: But I find it very interesting.]
Yan Xun had just thanked the witch when he noticed that the person who often said one thing but meant another in his live stream had also appeared.
[I'm not a fan: I suspect you're out of your mind.]
[I'm not a fan who tipped off a yacht X5]
[I'm not a fan: Take your money and get your brain checked.]
"Thank you to the non-fans who donated the money for my medical treatment," Yan Xun read expressionlessly. "I'll see a better doctor."
Some viewers were randomly switching between several live streams.
【I still don't understand? Why are the Angel Guild members being asked to open the chests?】
How did you determine how cats and humans came to be?
"There's no way to be sure," Yan Xun said. "So all of this is speculation in the early stages, and we can only rely on someone to open the box and verify it."
"There are seven players in total. After entering the instance, the process of raising the human-cat..." Yan Xun thought for a moment, "You can think of it as a transformation ritual."
"The one who takes this transformation ritual the most seriously will eventually become a human-cat."
“The box showed favorability and satisfaction from the very beginning.” Yan Xun looked at the comments. “After entering this instance, the only information the players received was that they needed to adopt the human-cat from Jonathan Company.”
"The human-cat is inside the box, but to create it, a few things need to be done." Yan Xun flipped over the notes on the whiteboard. "How do you, as regular players, choose?"
[So you must be diligently completing the task?]
I will at least complete the first day diligently.
"Then you find that the cat's affection for you has increased under your care."
"On the second day, the human and the cat began to need blood."
"Players have also discovered that if one person is always feeding the human-cat, the human-cat's affection level can be increased quickly. Since players don't know what affection level represents, their first reaction is definitely that when the affection level reaches 100, the human-cat can be born smoothly."
"To smoothly reach 100% favorability, most people will choose to have that person exclusively feed the human cat," Yan Xun said, looking at the comments. "And then?"
"At this point, we're back to square one. How does the box choose the next human-cat?"
Yan Xun held up his finger. "My guess is two possibilities. One is that it's the person who fed the most and gained the most favor from the human and cat."
"The second one is the one that violates the rules the most."
"What's in the box is just a 'cat.' A person needs to enter the box for the final human-cat that can grant the player's wish to be born," Yan Xun said after thinking for a moment. He added that it might not be accurate to call the thing in the box a cat; it might be a collection of some kind of consciousness.
"Once players discover this rule and have ulterior motives, they can deliberately set up a scheme to have a particular player break the rule or increase their favorability."
If they hadn't entered as a team, but rather as a random group, it would most likely have turned into a situation where they schemed against and killed each other.
Of course, it's also possible to get through it safely. Yan Xun thought that many people probably wouldn't know until the end of the dungeon that the birth of the human-cat requires the sacrifice of one of their teammates. They would only find out when they opened the chest that the missing teammate had been transformed into a twisted human-cat.
"This way, a human-cat can be created quickly, eliminating the possibility of becoming a human-cat themselves."
Yan Xun pointed to the sky, "This instance has deliberately set entry requirements."
[Don't understand? What does it mean?]
Yan Xun looked at the barrage of comments.
"For watchability."
Yan Xun said that when he looked at the comments in the live stream, he was also looking at the viewers hidden behind the live stream.
"The trick of one person scamming six idiots is boring," Yan Xun said.
No viewer wants to see a seasoned veteran completely outsmart six novice players—this kind of trick is common in any beginner dungeon, and there's no need for viewers to specifically come to this dungeon.
What they want to see is a battle between high-level players.
Yan Xun didn't want to talk too much about this in front of the audience, so he quickly changed the subject—
"We chose to let the Angel Guild open the chest because the precautions only stated that opening the chest would kill the human and cat."
"It didn't say what would happen to the person who opened the box, nor did it say whether a new human-cat would be born after the human-cat died..."
"So we're just giving it a try," Yan Xun said, shrugging. "That way, even if it fails, we'll still have our own box to use."
Before the Angel Guild took action, Yan Xun, Li Wu, and others considered the possibility of cooperation, such as jointly raising a human-cat to minimize losses.
But that ceased to exist the moment White began to see them as both prey and nourishment.
They had to eliminate the threat completely; they couldn't let the Angel Guild leave the instance—since they had already offended the entity behind them, there was no need to show mercy and cause trouble for themselves.
"Since the person who opens the box will be directly selected by the box, there is no need for us to specifically test who will be selected."
Of course, they could also allow the Angel Guild members to continue breaking the rules, or to keep feeding the human-cat to increase their favorability.
However, there are too many uncertainties in this instance, so it's safest to just convert a member into a human-cat.