Chapter Forty-Two: The Emergence of the Dark Blood-Colored Skull Shop

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The Dark Blood Shop...

This was Bai Wan’s primary objective in coming to this instance. It contained an entry slot for the Desolate Village instance, as well as rare recipe menus.

“Sorry. Are you all right?” Su Yue Ning hurried over from the distance. She had suddenly felt drowsy just now and had nearly fallen asleep. When she regained consciousness, she saw Bai Wan using bombs to blast the monsters. Clearly, the monster had used some method to make her lose consciousness and had disguised itself as her.

“I’m fine. You came at just the right time. I happen to need your help.” Bai Wan stroked the sunflower, summoning two Ice Shooters and two Gatling Peas from within it.

Then he simply picked up the two Gatling Peas with his hands.

Su Yue Ning stared blankly at Bai Wan, who was holding one Gatling Pea in each hand. The Gatling Peas looked extremely unwilling.

“Help me provide cover. You take these two Ice Shooters.” Bai Wan pointed at Su Yue Ning.

“Huh? I have to carry them too?” Su Yue Ning hesitated. But when she saw Bai Wan smiling at her, she immediately guessed what he was about to say. “Fine, fine, fine. You’re going to say I’m your best friend, right? I know.”

With that, Su Yue Ning picked up the Ice Shooters. They felt cool and refreshing in her hands—actually rather comfortable.

“Let’s go! I’ll take you around the Dark Blood Shop!” Bai Wan smiled at Su Yue Ning, then gazed expectantly toward the distant shop.

Su Yue Ning had noticed the shop earlier. The Dark Blood Shop could be considered an exceptionally rare existence. Many ordinary players went their entire lives without ever entering it once.

With Bai Wan leading the way, Su Yue Ning decided to summon her courage and make a run for it.

Thus, while the plants and monsters were locked in fierce combat, Bai Wan and Su Yue Ning quietly took a detour and headed toward the Skeleton Shop.

Because the monsters were being suppressed by the Ice Shooters, there were not many along the way. Still, a few isolated monsters that had refused to join the group battle had been slacking off on the sidelines. Now that they saw Bai Wan and Su Yue Ning, they charged over, desperately trying to salvage their performance.

Facing the charging monsters, Bai Wan and Su Yue Ning raised their Peashooters and began firing.

Bang, bang, bang!

Su Yue Ning fired icy bullets that slowed the monsters down, while Bai Wan’s Gatling Peas rattled away, mowing them down one after another. Although there were many monsters in the cemetery, they did not seem very powerful. They were all ordinary monsters, completely incomparable to the ones in the wooden cabin. The monsters in the cemetery were closer to half-human, half-monster NPCs. If time had not been so tight, Bai Wan would have loved to dance in front of them one by one. He might even have earned a large amount of monster currency.

Bang!

Bai Wan took precise aim and fired.

Suddenly, as he ran, he said to Su Yue Ning, “Yue Ning, aim for their heads. Their heads are their weak points. Blow their heads off!”

Su Yue Ning froze for a moment, then said hesitantly, “The monsters’ weak points are their heads too? I only remember that zombies’ weak point is the head.”

Bai Wan was stunned as well. Embarrassed, he said, “Sorry. I thought I was playing a zombie-shooting game.”

Su Yue Ning: “...”

Hey, take this seriously!

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You’re in an unwinnable instance right now!

Su Yue Ning’s feelings were truly complicated. This instance should have been capable of wiping out their group of newcomers several times over, yet Bai Wan had single-handedly held it back. He showed no sense of danger whatsoever.

She could not help thinking of what Captain Zhou Lu had said.

Monsters kill humans, but humans can hunt monsters too.

In Bai Wan, Su Yue Ning saw a different future.

Humans were always at a disadvantage when facing monsters, but Bai Wan was different.

Perhaps one day, this seemingly unhinged young man really could bring humanity a different kind of hope.

Just as the captain hoped for—no, just as all monster hunters hoped for.

A future in which humanity would no longer be helpless before monsters, but would possess the power to fight back.

Su Yue Ning shook her head and stopped thinking about it, focusing instead on what lay ahead.

She could not always rely on others.

Although she, Su Yue Ning, was weak now, in the future she would be able to drive every last monster away!

Boom, boom, boom!

With the Ice Shooters and Gatling Peas working together, the two of them soon reached the depths of the cemetery and arrived behind the enormous gravestone.

Just as they were about to enter the Skeleton Shop, a towering monstrous shadow suddenly flashed into existence from within the enormous gravestone. One of its hands reached toward Bai Wan and Su Yue Ning.

A terrifying, icy aura poured from its body.

This had to be the most frightening monster in the Ghost-Burial Graveyard. It was utterly different from the weak monsters they had encountered before. Even the Black Mist Monster from the wooden cabin was a level below it.

A blue-black hand reached toward them.

At that moment, blue light began to flicker around Su Yue Ning. She became astonishingly fast, and the Monster-Blood Sealing Strip in her hand also flashed with blue light as she slapped it directly onto the monster.

Hiss!

The Monster-Blood Sealing Strip released a bloody radiance that collided with the curse of the towering shadow.

When two monsters clashed, there was ultimately only one thing to compare: whose curse power was stronger.

The Monster-Blood Sealing Strip had originally been incapable of resisting the monster before them. However, Su Yue Ning’s character skill, Rapid Rescue, had strengthened the item’s power, causing the two forces to reach an unexpected balance.

This had been a sudden inspiration on Su Yue Ning’s part. The monstrous hand had reached toward both of them at once, so she had repeatedly hinted to herself that she needed to rescue Bai Wan. In the end, she had actually succeeded in activating her character skill.

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Of course, Bai Wan did not need her rescue. He had merely used the conditions of her character skill to exploit a loophole, and it seemed to have worked perfectly.

Seeing Su Yue Ning locked in a stalemate with the monster, Bai Wan did not waste the opportunity. He pulled a bloodstained skeleton bandage from his pocket and threw it at the towering shadow.

Hiss!

A blood-tier monster item released its power at that very moment.

The bloodstained bandage wrapped directly around the towering shadow.

The towering shadow, which had been locked in a stalemate, immediately fell silent.

The curse power released by the Monster-Blood Sealing Strip combined with the bloodstained skeleton bandage far exceeded that of the towering shadow.

Bai Wan had used the item for a total of two seconds. A blood-tier monster item consumed forty monster coins per second, so the total cost was eighty monster coins.

Bai Wan did not feel the slightest bit of regret. The Skeleton Shop was right ahead. The monster had to be dealt with quickly—otherwise, complications might arise.

Su Yue Ning, meanwhile, was utterly green with envy.

Damn it!

How many trump cards did this wretched Bai Wan have?

First the Blood Eye, and now the blood-colored bandage. That already made two monster items.

And neither of them looked low-grade.

When she remembered how she had previously worried that Bai Wan, as a newcomer, lacked a life-saving trump card and had given him two Monster-Blood Sealing Strips, she felt like a complete idiot. It was like a beggar sharing his pocket money with the emperor.

I really want them back!

Bai Wan had no idea about Su Yue Ning’s inexplicable train of thought. His entire attention was focused on the Dark Blood Skeleton Shop before him.

They had finally reached this point. He wondered what treasures the rarest shop of all might contain.

Bai Wan and Su Yue Ning entered together.

An icy, blood-colored aura instantly enveloped them.

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