20demayo Chapter 635 Funeral, Some Kind of Omen
Chapter 635 Funeral, Some Kind of Omen
The sky over Blue Star City is as bright as ever, with a warm sun, a gentle breeze, and clean air, making it feel like spring all year round.
However, the many players standing in front of the funeral were not in a cheerful mood at all.
Su Li and her teammates stood outside the mourning hall, listening to the suppressed sobs inside.
"Sigh, everything was fine before, how could this happen..." Su Li sighed.
He looked up and saw Ren Jianhan standing in the very center of the mourning hall. In his hands, he held a pale yellow glass jar, inside which floated a lump of flesh.
Through a telepathic link, Song Mingyu explained to Su Li, "That was Ren Jianhan's wife's child, only four months old. We managed to save the child through some means."
Su Li looked at the child and couldn't help but sigh again, "What a tragedy."
Ren Jianhan's team consists of 9 people, 8 of whom are Ren Jianhan's wives.
Ren Jianhan's team initially consisted of only three people. Ren Jianhan was a show-off and performed many heroic rescues of damsels in distress in the early stages of the game.
Although the hero rescuing the damsel in distress is a cliché, it's incredibly effective. The female players who were rescued all fell for Ren Jianhan.
If Ren Jianhan hadn't changed his mind later, the number of people in this team would definitely not have stopped at 9.
The ones who died this time were Ren Jianhan's second, fourth, and ninth wives.
Yes, Ren Jianhan lost three wives this time.
Su Li and Ren Jianhan often sparred and held family banquets; they were all acquaintances. Ren Jianhan's second wife was a classic beauty. She could be considered the manager of Ren Jianhan's team. His fourth wife specialized in life skills; she was responsible for making most of the team's secret recipes. His ninth wife was an unconventional mature woman. She looked like a mature woman, but was only 17 years old. She had been with Ren Jianhan for over a year and recently came of age, which led to their wedding.
Unexpectedly, this time, they all failed.
[Actually, the 7th and 9th sisters are also dead. But they still have a chance to be resurrected.] Sophia sent the message. [It's too tragic.]
Su Li considered the roles of these people. The Classic Beauty was a healer, the fourth was a life skills player, and the ninth was a support player, but his skills were very poor, and he seemed to have just entered the silver rank.
The resurrected Old Seven is a production-oriented player, mainly responsible for their resource production. Old Nine is less clear, but his strength is probably not very strong.
The funeral ended quickly. After the burial, everyone who had attended the funeral left, except for a few groups who were closest to Ren Jianhan.
When Su Li found Ren Jianhan, Ren Jianhan was drinking in front of the tombstone.
Su Li sat down and took a glass of wine from Shi Lei's hand.
They didn't speak, just drank their wine. After a long while, Ren Jianhan suddenly spoke: "I'm an idiot."
Ren Jianhan spoke, and Su Li and the others breathed a sigh of relief. It was better to talk about it than to keep it bottled up inside.
Ren Jianhan stared at his wine glass, his voice full of regret, "When I sparred with you guys, my win rate was exceptionally high. At its peak, it could reach over 90%. But recently, my win rate has been declining."
Ren Jianhan's fighting style focused entirely on offense. His goal was to kill the enemy the moment he saw them.
His swords were all specially made, so thin that one might suspect they were made of just a single layer of metal atoms. These swords were so thin that they would become unusable after just one use.
This extreme attack method, coupled with Ren Jianhan's habit of unleashing his ultimate attack the moment he sees an opponent, has made him consistently invincible. The downside is his weakness in prolonged battles; after one wave of attacks, it becomes difficult to launch another.
He's like an assassin who kills on first sight. When the win rate of an assassin who can one-shot their opponent drops to 60%, it means that his raw skill level can no longer keep up with Su Li and the others.
Zurich has mentioned this point before.
Ren Jianhan has developed a path dependency. He's always been using the same method—one or a few strikes to instantly kill his enemies. With an easier, more elegant, and safer method available, it's impossible for him to go through the same arduous back-and-forth, move-by-move process as us.
In fact, this is also a fighting style. The fighting style of Su Li and his group is mainstream, but that doesn't mean that Ren Jianhan's approach is unworkable.
However, Ren Jianhan became obsessed with instantly killing people, and after his brilliant display of skill in slaying the traitor, he became arrogant and blinded by his own limitations.
His teammates, too, had always comfortably hidden behind Ren Jianhan, but when Ren Jianhan could no longer hold out, death came.
Ren Jianhan downed another large glass of wine. It was clear he was already somewhat drunk. As he drank, he began to recount their recent exploration in broken sentences.
Ren Jianhan and his group are exploring a world of ghosts and monsters, a world where a disease has broken out, causing everyone's soul to leave their body.
After investigating, Ren Jianhan discovered that one of the causes of the world's destruction was their drilling, which uncovered an ancient ruin deep in the ocean. This ruin contained a ritual for the ascension of the soul.
What followed was a story of everyone holding ceremonies, wanting to ascend to immortality, and ultimately going awry.
Ren Jianhan's final battle was against the soul-fused monster created through the ritual. This type of monster was particularly vulnerable to mental attacks. Although Ren Jianhan's sword energy incorporated his spiritual will, it was insufficient against this stronger enemy who specialized in mental attacks, resulting in heavy casualties.
Ren Jianhan fell silent as he spoke.
Several people carried Ren Jianhan into the house. Then they left Ren Jianhan's room in silence.
Su Li listened to Jian Han's exploration story, and it felt strangely familiar. [Isn't it somewhat similar to the world of the Spirit-Eyed People?]
Su Li looked at the others and saw that they also had thoughtful expressions on their faces.
Su Li spoke first: "Everyone, I see you are all deep in thought. Have you ever encountered a similar world?"
Shi Lei answered first: "That's right. In the last world, I also encountered something similar. They discovered some kind of ritual to advance their knowledge, and then messed it up. So I have some feelings about it."
“Isn’t this quite common?” a burly man said. Su Li wasn’t very familiar with this man, only knowing that he was skilled in martial arts. “On Earth, this kind of thing happens frequently in various games and scripts. At our level, we all understand information interference.”
"This shows that such things are very common in the void."
Su Li pondered for a moment, "We don't have enough intelligence yet. Let's communicate with our friends and get a summary of the situation."
Su Li recounted the warning from the God of Pioneers.
"There are high-ranking individuals who are deliberately spreading this taboo knowledge."
"I don't know what his motives are. Maybe it's to go further, or maybe it's to understand the nature of the world, the soul, and the mind, but it's not good news for us."
"Don't forget, the worlds we're exploring are fragments of worlds that are relatively close to Blue Star City in the void. If the world fragments we encounter were destroyed by that high-level being, then our world has most likely ended up in that being's playground."
The thought of being around someone with a purpose to destroy the world sends chills down my spine.
Su Li glanced at the group and said, "Gentlemen, be careful when you encounter strange items in the future. Blue Star City can't afford any more trouble."