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After Shu Mi ran out of the coffee shop, Eight-cloud Ink stood by the window with his hands behind his back and looked at the place where Night Kid disappeared.
Standing behind Eight-cloud Ink, Keita and Kirito looked at each other in confusion.
"Umm … Yakumo, what should we do next?"
Kirito asked.
"Wait and see. Although they acted well, there's one thing they couldn't fool me." Eight-cloud Ink narrowed his eyes and said softly. "Shu Mi was deceived. In other words, Shu Mi didn't know that Night Kid and Kaeunji were faking their deaths."
"You mean … Night Kid and Kaeunji suspected that Shu Mi was the one who killed Gui Xiude?"
The wind lifted Eight Cloud Ink's long hair, and her clothes fluttered.
"Well, who knows …"
I am the section divider that waits and waits for a change.
The night was as quiet as an eternal abyss.
Aincrad, 19th Floor, Cross Hill.
It was foggy tonight.
The withered forest was shrouded in fog, adding a terrifying atmosphere to this area.
There was a tall withered tree in the forest.
Shu Mi, wearing a knight's armor, knelt under the tree with a look of fear and guilt on his face.
In front of him was a lonely tombstone.
"The Tomb of the Late Golden Apple President, Gui Xiude" was written on it.
In SAO, after a player dies, their body will turn into fragments and disappear like the wind, leaving no corpse behind.
Obviously, this was a cenotaph.
"Now that things have come to this, I can only come here to ask for your forgiveness …"
Shu Mi, who was kneeling in front of the tombstone, said with his head buried deep in the ground.
"Please don't kill me! Please! Please, Gui Xiude! I never thought things would turn out like this! I'm sorry! "
In front of the tombstone, Shu Mi kowtowed again and again, his armor made clanking sounds because of his movements.
The night wind blew, and Shu Mi couldn't help but have goosebumps on his neck.
Just as he was about to raise his head, an ethereal female voice that seemed to have come from the depths of hell resounded in his ears.
"Are you … telling the truth?"
Shu Mi's body suddenly trembled violently. Her pupils shrank and her body, which was about to rise, was once again buried deep into the ground.
"What you said … is it true …"
Although her head was buried in the ground, Shu Mi could still feel that something had appeared in front of her.
Specter …
Gui Xiude's ghost …
Shu Mi felt as if her heart was being gripped tightly by a hand, and it was difficult for her to breathe.
"What did you do to me?"
The ghostly female voice asked again. Although the tone of the voice was a little hurried, Shu Mi, who was in extreme fear, didn't notice it at all.
"I'm sorry! On the day I decided to sell the ring, a note and a crystal appeared in my pocket! There's a message on the note! "
"Who put it in there?"
A male voice asked.
Wait, a male voice?
Shu Mi suddenly realized that something was wrong. Why was there a male voice?
Slowly raising her head, Shu Mi was shocked to find that there were two cloaked spirits in front of her!
"Is it Gui Lianluo? Are you dead as well? "
The male voice ignored her and continued to ask coldly, "Who is it? Who gave you that thing and instructed you to do this? "
"I don't know! I really don't know! "
Overwhelmed by fear, Shu Mi shook her head repeatedly. She closed her eyes and shouted, "The note only told me to sneak into Gui Xiude's room and store the location of the crystal. Then, I had to put the crystal into the guild's public item bar!"
"And then?"
"That's it! I've told you everything! Let me go! Let me go! "
"I really didn't want to help someone kill someone!"
Shu Mi kept banging her head on the ground, causing banging sounds to ring out.
Only the sound of Shu Mi's kowtowing could be heard in the silence of Cross Hill.
The thick fog gradually dispersed.
After a long time, the ghostly female voice spoke again. This time, however, it was no longer as faintly discernible as before. "I've recorded everything you said, Shu Mi."
"Huh?"
Shu Mi raised her head.
The two cloaked spirits in front of her had already taken off their hats.
It was actually Night Child and Keenji who had died a long time ago!
Shu Mi wasn't a stupid person. Although she was frightened by Gui Xiude and Gui Lianluo's spirits, now that she saw Night Child and Keenji standing in front of her, she was able to guess the ins and outs of the matter.
"So … it's like this …"
Shu Mi heaved a sigh of relief. She twisted her body and sat down cross-legged.
"The two of you, do you care so much about the guild leader's death …"
"Aren't you the same?" Night Child was still holding the recording crystal in her hand. She looked at Shu Mi who was sitting on the ground with a cold expression.
Shu Mi was about to say something when she suddenly felt her body tremble. Then, she fell to the ground uncontrollably.
She glanced at her shoulder. She didn't know when a throwing knife had pierced into it.
Her green hp bar was also covered with a sparkling yellow border.
"F * ck … How can it be!"
Obviously, the throwing knife was tampered with. The moment the throwing knife hit her, she was inflicted with a 'numbing' debuff!
"Could it be …"
She raised her head with some difficulty to look at Night Child and Keenji who were standing in front of her. What made Shu Mi shocked was that the two people in front of her were looking behind her in fear.
It wasn't them!
A series of footsteps came from behind.
"Ahhhh, this time the prey is really big! Divine Dragon Alliance's high ranking officers … "
An extremely frivolous male voice came. Three cloaked men suddenly appeared. Two of them had already placed their weapons on the necks of Night Child and Keenji who didn't know what to do!
Shu Mi glanced at them and her heart immediately sank.
The three of them were wearing leather gloves with the seal of a smiling skull on them!
It was a smiling coffin.
"Big Brother, how are we going to cook the prey this time? Why don't we play that game! Let them kill each other and let the winner go in the end? "
The frivolous male voice said again.
The tall man snorted and looked at Shu Mi and the others as if he was looking at dead people.
"That's true, but when did you not kill the last survivor?"
"Ah! Big brother, why did you say that! It's not fun anymore! "
The tall man walked straight to Shu Mi who was lying on the ground and slowly raised the butcher's knife in his hand.
"Then … Let's begin!"
The butcher's knife swung down!
"Ding!!"
Shu Mi, who closed her eyes waiting for death, didn't feel like she was hit. After hearing the sound of metal clashing, she opened her eyes in confusion.
The butcher's knife in the man's hand was knocked away by a knife that flew out of nowhere.
"If I really let you kill people in front of me, wouldn't I lose face?"
With a mocking tone, Eight-cloud Ink walked out from behind a withered tree.
Behind him were Kirito and Keita.
Sky fox robe, nine-tailed white fox, such a unique outfit, everyone recognized Eight-cloud Ink at a glance.
"Damn it …"
When the members of Smiling Coffin saw Eight-cloud Ink and the others appear, they all took a step back and prepared to leave.
"Did I say you can leave?"
Eight-cloud Ink raised his eyebrows. After dispelling Shu Mi's paralysis effect with a potion, he said to the three members of Smiling Coffin who had already turned around.
"Your Excellency Yakumo, do you want to become enemies with Smiling Coffin?"
The tall man's tone was a bit cold.
But he knew very well that if they really fought, Eight-cloud Ink could take care of the three of them by himself, not to mention Kirito and Keita, the leader of Moonlit Black Cats.
None of them were easy to deal with.
"Enemies?"
Eight-cloud Ink took out a folding fan and waved his fingers. The folding fan jumped back and forth on his fingertips as if it had a life of its own.
"You think you're worthy?"
"You … Ah!"
The man was about to say something, but Eight-cloud Ink had already appeared in front of him in an instant. When the man was about to raise his weapon to resist, Eight-cloud Ink's karate chop directly landed on his neck.
As mentioned before, whether it was players or monsters, they all have fatal weaknesses in SAO's settings.
When a player's fatal weakness is hit, not only will the damage dealt increase, but it will also cause some debuffs.
For example, the man who was hit by Eight-cloud Ink's karate chop fell unconscious when he was sent flying.
Then, the remaining two members of Smiling Coffin didn't have time to escape before they were subdued by Kirito and Keita.
Perhaps they wouldn't be defeated so easily if they really fought, but because Eight-cloud Ink's presence put too much pressure on them, they couldn't even exert 10% of their strength, so they were easily captured by Kirito and Keita.
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