"Where's my brother?" she asked arrogantly, hands on her hips. She glanced around Li Mo but couldn't see him, and frowned. "You didn't lose your brother, did you?"
"Here it is." Li Mo smiled and held up Yin Xiu's little wooden figure in front of Ya Ya and waved it.
"Wow! This little wooden figure looks just like my older brother, so small and cute!"
Ya Ya dropped the rabbit doll and reached for it, but Li Mo snatched it back.
"This is mine, you can't touch it."
Then, with a smile, he walked past Ya Ya to Zhong Mu, who was standing behind him in a daze, and took out the heart from his storage items, handing it to Zhong Mu. "Here you go."
"Huh?" Zhong Mu shrank back in horror. What were these big shots doing, coming back from killing someone and shoving a still-beating heart into his hands?!
He's not that kind of pervert! He doesn't want to!
"Here you go." Without saying a word, Li Mo shoved the heart into his arms.
The moment the prop came into contact with Zhong Mu, a notification sound about the prop rang in his mind.
[Congratulations to player Zhong Mu for obtaining the SSS-grade item: Mu He's Heart.]
[Item Description: This gentle monster doesn't open its heart to others easily, but it will do its best to protect those it accepts. However, its heart, without a protective shell, is easily injured. Please store its heart carefully, as it will feel pain even from a thousand miles away.]
[Item Usage: Regardless of whether it's inside or outside the instance, anyone who acts maliciously against the item holder will be turned into a small wooden doll, unable to harm others. The doll can only be freed when the item holder chooses to.]
[Item Restriction: When you possess this item, this heart will be linked to your own. Please keep this heart safe to ensure you do not die because of it.]
[Muhe's special note: I'm not angry, and don't be sad. When you no longer need me, remember to give my heart back to me.]
Zhong Mu was somewhat bewildered, clutching the heart in his arms. This... this still-beating heart was an SSS-level item??
"Holy crap?" Zhong Mu's mind went blank for a moment. Was such a powerful item something a newbie like him deserved?! Even the big shots in the town didn't have many SSS-level items, right?
"Uh... this is for me?" Zhong Mu looked up in disbelief, her head spinning.
"Hmm." Li Mo nodded lightly, then reluctantly handed over the little wooden figure of Yin Xiu, "Change him back."
Zhong Mu glanced at the little wooden figure in his hand that looked exactly like Xiu Ge's, and with the hint from the props earlier, he immediately understood that Xiu Ge had been turned into a little wooden figure by this prop, and someone had to bind the prop and free him!
He wasn't the only one from the same town in the instance; he got a huge advantage.
"Following Brother Xiu is so great!" Zhong Mu wiped his face with gratitude, hurriedly took the little wooden figure from Yin Xiu, and tentatively asked, "Um...unsealing?"
As soon as he spoke, the little wooden figure in his hand became heavy at the speed of light, startling Zhong Mu, who quickly put it on the ground. In just a few seconds, the little wooden figure quickly returned to Yin Xiu's appearance.
The first thing Yin Xiu did after recovering was to roll up his sleeves and wipe his face, then looked up at Li Mo beside him and said, "You kissed me all over my face."
Li Mo smiled and responded, pretending nothing had happened.
Ya Ya's eyes widened. "My brother stole a kiss from you?!"
She stomped her foot in annoyance, "I want a kiss from my brother too! You kissed him so many times, you have to kiss me too!"
Yin Xiu, who had just gotten up from the ground, replied helplessly, "Okay."
He bent down and kissed Ya Ya on the forehead. Ya Ya immediately smiled and touched her forehead contentedly. She received the same treatment as the big black monster. Her brother still loved her!
Li Mo smiled silently to the side. His kiss was different from Ya Ya's kiss. Sure enough, he was still special in Yin Xiu's heart!
Both monsters were secretly pleased with themselves. A small, black, tentacled ball slowly crawled out of the pit in the underground hideout and plopped towards Yin Xiu, shouting, "I want one too! I want one!"
"Despicable! You can't have it!" Ya Ya rushed forward at lightning speed to intercept it, and wrestled with the little tentacle ball.
One clone and one original! That's a lot! Ya Ya wished she could turn into many of them, so her brother could kiss each one.
Yin Xiu ignored the commotion around him and looked at Li Mo instead, "He's dead, right?"
Li Mo nodded, pointing to the corpse he had brought back beside him, "He thought his head was going to fall off, and he was in a constant state of panic."
"Oh my god, isn't this the kid from before?! Brother Xiu, did you kill him?" Zhong Mu was stunned again, not even noticing that this person had dragged back a corpse, his heart pounding in his chest.
Yin Xiu smiled casually and raised the knife in his hand. "I didn't cut off his head. I just made a shallow cut around his neck. It didn't even go deep. The only thing that was really injured was the carotid artery. He will die in a few minutes, but he will spend those few minutes in panic, feeling himself disappearing little by little. It's much better than killing him with one blow."
Yin Xiu knew very well that he would be turned into a little wooden doll in an instant, and it would be too unpleasant to be killed with one blow.
"Great, I like it very much." Li Mo nodded in agreement, praising her boyfriend highly.
Zhong Mu, standing to the side, frowned. What kind of bizarre topics were these big shots talking about? He often felt out of place because he was too normal.
"Ahem..." He coughed twice hastily to interrupt the conversation, "Brother Xiu, it's not dark yet, are you going back later?"
"Well, I'll go get the hunter's clothes first before going back." Yin Xiu said as he prepared something by the campfire Zhong Mu had set up, eating something to replenish his rapidly depleted strength. "I plan to use his corpse to gain their trust, then lure the hunters to the island, and then catch them all in one fell swoop."
Yin Xiu looked at Zhong Mu and asked, "You can gather players to prepare a trap, right?"
"Of course!" Zhong Mu nodded seriously. "I will complete any task that Brother Xiu assigns me!"
"Hmm... but tomorrow is only the fourth day. Wouldn't it be a bad idea to kill them all so early?" Yin Xiu pondered seriously, trying to recall the rules in his mind. The only rule that Yin Xiu was really concerned about was the last one.
[If you survive seven days, you will be the most suitable prey in the hunting grounds, and no one will be able to hunt you again.]
There is still no reasonable explanation for this statement. The rules for players and the rules for hunters should not conflict, right?
Killing 100 lives within seven days and surviving to the seventh day will make you the most unhunted creature.
Yin Xiu narrowed his eyes and suddenly realized that these two seemingly unrelated things actually had a competitive element in them.
The monsters must collect all 100 lives on the island before the dungeon ends in seven days, while the humans, on the contrary, must survive the pursuit within seven days no matter what.
One of these two points was completed seven days ago, and the other will be witnessed seven days later.
Do I need to choose one of the options to get the item?