Jian Qingrong had no intention of going against the game at all, and stood in front of Wen Shi quite calmly, but his gaze shifted a little, as if he didn't dare to look him in the eye.
Wen Shi could feel that Piao Li had a hint of expectation offline.
Just like a peacock spreading its tail to try to show off its beauty, Jian Qingrong brought him here on purpose. His main purpose had nothing to do with watching the battle, but to show off his new abilities.
"No, it's good." The tone was a little unclear, and Wen Shi added: "It's a very incredible skill."
Jian Qingrong had never heard such straightforward praise since he was a child, and his ears turned red, which was rare.
Wen Shi looked at him deeply and said, "Maybe one day you will become the most feared existence by all monsters."
After all, no monster wants to be purified.
For some reason, when Jian Qingrong heard the existence he feared the most, his heart skipped a beat.
The next second, the world around him suddenly went dark. But within the darkness, he could clearly see a figure sleeping in the center of the world. The aura emanating from that figure, with eyes closed, constantly intimidated the surrounding monsters. These creatures hid far away, their beast-like eyes filled with fear, dread, and a hint of greed. It was like a starving wolf, seeing a hunter with a shotgun, struggling to decide whether to fight to the death.
A delicate balance of power was formed between the two sides.
The person with closed eyes seemed to sense something and turned his head slightly towards Jian Qingrong——
At the moment when their eyes were about to meet, Jian Qingrong heard someone calling his name.
Everything disappeared, and he woke up instantly. The strong palpitations made cold sweats break out on his back. Jian Qingrong saw Wen Shi's worried look.
"Are you okay?"
He shook his head: "Maybe when I attacked just now, I was disturbed by the emotions of the evil spirit."
I continued walking up and found that the unfinished building had a rooftop. Standing on it, my view suddenly became wider.
The night vision capability is still there, but it is not very clear at such a long distance.
The little octopus transformed into a mimic again, crawling along Wen Shi's back all the way to his shoulder, and watched the battle together. It pointed at a rapidly moving black dot and said, "Principal."
This means that the principal has gotten rid of Ji Yuanzhi and the fat man and is trying to prevent the last piece of the torso from being swallowed.
Wen Shi found a place to sit down. The side effects of his health being reduced to zero had not yet passed, and he yawned a little sleepily.
Jian Qingrong: "Go back to the dormitory to rest?"
Wen Shi waved his hand.
It was still a long way from here to the dormitory building, and he was too lazy to go back and forth, and besides, it might not be very peaceful inside the building.
Jian Qingrong moved closer and let him lean on him, while the little octopus was responsible for keeping an eye on him.
With the long-lost sense of security, Wen Shi's eyelids drooped quickly. Just as he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly heard the little octopus say, "The fight has started!"
Wen Shi opened one eye. The battlefield was not too far away.
The real bodies of mermaids are very huge. The principal arrived a step too late. After the swallowing was completed, Teacher Ruan turned into a mermaid nearly three meters tall and started fighting with the principal.
Strangely, this size advantage did not last long. The mermaid's body began to shrink and it seemed difficult to maintain this body shape.
Wen Shi suddenly regained consciousness: "It seems that the principal can control mermaids."
Jian Qingrong nodded: "It's normal for a monster to develop special powers after transformation."
Wen Shi thought that compared to your purification, everything else was just ordinary, and then he mentioned another thing.
"I saw your shadow at the bottom of the lake earlier. He took away a piece of fish scale."
When it comes to the word "shadow", Wen Shi feels a little uncertain. He can't find any similarities between Shadow and Jian Qingrong.
Giving up his heart seemed like something Jian Qingrong would do, but that didn't fit Shadow's logic. Originally, Wen Shi wanted to wait until the tea party to discuss the matter with him in detail.
After hearing this, Jian Qingrong's eyes darkened, but he didn't react much.
To him, those things can be classified as external things, and how to deal with them will only be known after they meet.
While the two were chatting, the little octopus was watching the "match" excitedly by himself. It seemed that it really enjoyed watching people fight.
"The principal actually carried a dagger with him. He used a beautiful feint to pierce Teacher Ruan's kidney."
"Teacher Ruan fought back! Half of the principal's palm was cut off by the hair."
Wen Shi looked at it with some amusement.
The little octopus predicted the outcome: "Yarlin hasn't intervened yet. It's obvious he wants to wait until both sides are exhausted, and then let Mr. Ruan kill him with his remaining health."
Having been bullied by Jian Qingrong for a long time, the weak defeating the strong has become the scene that the little octopus wants to see most.
While patting its head, Wen Shi suspected that its brain had run away from home again.
Jian Qingrong said coldly: "I'm just too lazy to move."
The little octopus knew that his IQ was not as good as Jian Qingrong's, so he simply let his brain rest for a while.
Wen Shi sighed and continued to doze off: "Call me when you're almost done."
The little octopus rubbed his shoulder: "Yeah."
Sleepiness washed over him again. After an unknown amount of time, Wen Shi woke up to find himself covered in clothes. Jian Qingrong was still standing there, unmoving. He glanced at the time door and saw that two hours had passed.
"Isn't it over yet?"
The little octopus was full of energy: "It's almost there. They've beaten each other so badly that their parents won't recognize them anymore."
"…"
This statement is a bit exaggerated. In fact, it was because they were covered in blood, and the principal and the mermaid were covered in blood and flesh.
Wen Shi stood up and said, "Let's go."
Let's drive them over and put an end to this.
The dark clouds outside dispersed, and the moon was completely revealed. The fishy smell in the air was washed away by the smell of blood.
Older students were easy to manage; a simple expulsion would make them obey the dorm supervisor's orders. With the exception of the freshman dorm, most people, no matter how scared they were or how much they wanted to know what was going on, simply stayed in bed.
Wen Shi admired the psychological qualities of these students very much.
Before I got close, I heard heavy breathing.
Up ahead, Teacher Ruan covered the bloody hole in his chest and sneered, "You have no way out. Your entire family should have paid for the sins they committed against the mermaids long ago."
The principal had a grim expression on his face, and he tried his best to regulate his breathing and look for an opportunity to fight back.
Wen Shi stood still and watched quietly for a long moment before interrupting Teacher Ruan's speech: "You should say that all his painstaking planning will be in vain."
Teacher Ruan and the principal looked up at the same time. In the darkness, Wen Shi walked and said, "Then he scolded him for being an idiot. He was searching for a high-level mermaid right next to him."
The principal's eyes finally showed some movement as his sore spot was touched.
Wen Shi suddenly smiled brightly. "I heard that the school wanted to fill the lake not long ago, and you discovered something unusual about the lake. However, you only noticed the water plants that helped the mermaid walk and relieved pain, but the heart was hidden in the lake."
Hearing the heartbeat, the principal finally lost control and said, "You..."
Wen Shi sighed: "Yes, I took the heart away. The sad thing is, you will never know the role I played in this matter until you die."
The principal's expression changed, and he glanced around, but he didn't fully believe it. He was more concerned about something else. He had almost succeeded in killing the mermaid twice before, but each time it seemed as if he was blocked by a special force.
Could there be another accomplice?
This thought was instantly extinguished, because his accomplices had already come out to help.
The principal cursed in his heart those useless people in the school. It would be fine for others, but Lily was nowhere to be seen.
The Mermaid King's heart has an advantage, which makes his heartbeat much slower than others. Even at this life-threatening moment, the principal is still thinking about breaking out of the siege.
Trying hard to suppress the strength in his heart, the principal bulged his muscles and chose a direction to rush out.
Less than three seconds after he had accumulated enough energy, a zombie appeared out of nowhere and stood in the direction he was about to rush.
"Interactive drama performance." He said this inexplicably, and a hint of anticipation appeared on the zombie's inhuman face, as if any place was a stage for him.
Then he actually slowly took out half of the mermaid king's heart from the right chest cavity. This heart almost grew into Wen Shi's palm and could not be completely integrated with the zombie.
The zombie held half of it in one hand and beckoned to the principal with the other hand: "Suck, suck, suck."
"…"
It's like teasing a dog.
The principal was so angry that he kept trying to hold it in, but he finally couldn't hold it in and spat out a mouthful of blood.
The zombie put the heart back in front of him.
Feeling several pairs of dark gazes sweeping towards him at the same time, Wen Shi was speechless.
It really wasn't his order.
At a certain distance, Yarlin, who had been controlling the situation remotely, curled his lips and caught a glimpse of the mirror next to him: [666].
The smile froze in an instant.
If it weren't for my friend, he really wanted to destroy this mirror, as if he could only knock six.
The principal refused to give up his last glimmer of hope. Ignoring the ruptured wounds on his body, he maneuvered and swung in a different direction. At the same moment, Yarlin's spirit leaped up and crushed the principal with its claws. Its hard, fleshy pads landed on his back, breaking two ribs. The principal gritted his teeth and struggled.
Yaerlin was too lazy to wait any longer: "Someone come and clean up."
Teacher Ruan was just as wary of Yaerlin as he was of the principal, so he didn't move immediately. However, Jian Qingrong, who was standing in an area hidden from the dim streetlights, suddenly took a step toward the principal.
Wen Shi covered the little octopus's eyes.
The little octopus's face was full of question marks.
Without a trace of murderous intent on his body, Jian Qingrong walked up to the still struggling principal, ready to try his hand on him to see if he could purify this kind of monster.
The seriously injured principal ignored the pain of his broken ribs. A rugged black line was stretched out in his temple, which looked like a nerve spasm at first glance.
The surroundings were so quiet that the little octopus finally realized that this was not the outcome it had predicted! It wanted to see the weak defeat the strong.
Wen Shi could only use his palm to nudge its head to comfort it.
The black line carried a strong fishy smell. After it was completely pulled out, Jian Qingrong reached out and pinched it, annihilating it in mid-air. Before the principal collapsed, he was clearly covered in flesh and blood, but he was almost like a hollow shell, landing without a sound.
Mirror finally stopped knocking and started showing off his old internet slang: [I feel like my body is being hollowed out.]
Jian Qingrong glanced at the seriously injured Teacher Ruan and looked at Wen Shi.
"Do you want to kill me?"
Wen Shi shook his head.
Too much is as bad as too little. He is now in the mermaid camp. He has already severely injured one with his sword skills. If he kills another one, he doesn't know if it will cause other consequences.
Based on his understanding of the game, the game's more desired outcome is for mermaids and humans to regain a balance of power. It will take a long time for Mr. Ruan to fully recover from his current injury, and then the instance can be used again.
When it's time to give the game some support, you still have to give it some support.
There were footsteps coming from the front.
Ji Yuan had no idea what he was doing before, and he just came over now. Although he looked no different from usual, Wen Shi could feel a hint of gloom in his eyes behind the lenses.
Seeing the principal lying on the ground like a pile of mud, Ji Yuanzhi put on a pair of black gloves and walked over. Without any courtesy, he opened his abdomen and took out half of his heart, then put it in a box.
No one competed with him for it. It was almost a tacit consensus beforehand. He and Wen Shi each took half a pill.
Just as he was admiring Ji Yuanzhi's perfect equipment, Wen Shi heard the system prompt that the task was completed:
[Congratulations on successfully helping the mermaid and killing the principal. The rewards for your faction selection will be settled after the dungeon ends.]
"It's finally over." Wen Shi breathed a sigh of relief. He just wanted to breathe a breath of normal fresh air.
Men and Ji Yuanzhi's eyes accidentally met in mid-air. The latter was stunned when he saw him and asked, "Why haven't you gone back to sleep yet?"
Wen Shi: "…"
You keep saying you don't need me, just go back and do nothing.
Do you know how much I worried about you all night?