“What do we do? Should we run?” one of the players from the evil faction asked hurriedly.
“Are you insane? Run where? They have over a hundred thousand people, and there are only a few of us! If we run, we can forget about keeping our accounts!”
“Go turn yourselves in!”
“Damn it, I’ve got a Shapeshifter Mask. What am I afraid of? I’ll just disguise myself. And don’t even think about saying you know me!”
“What the hell? Is it really worth this much trouble over a Golden Mask?”
“It’s not about the Golden Mask! Didn’t you see the overseas news? Do you have any idea how terrifying the attributes you get after completing the quest are? Your character will instantly take off!”
“Guys, don’t believe him. He might be a mole!”
The evil faction quickly descended into chaos.
Still, they all obediently headed toward the eastern side of the town.
By then, the first wave of the goblin army had arrived.
There were no traps or trenches outside the town.
But faced with the terrifying green tide, the players defending the town showed no fear whatsoever. All they felt was an overwhelming hunger for contribution points.
“Kill!”
Countless players charged forward, fighting to snatch up the points.
Chu Fu released six hundred Forest Spirit Contract Plants. Like reaping wheat, they cut down the goblins in swathes.
She did not go to the front line at all. Instead, she stood on the eastern side of the town, watching all the players who arrived.
There were 487 of them in total.
According to the list, forty-eight people had yet to show up.
Chu Fu did not care. She raised the Staff of “A Little Too Much Poison,” which radiated green, yellow, and purple special effects.
The staff was no longer shaped like a mushroom. Its tip now resembled a crystal filled with countless toxins, with bubbles rising inside.
It looked poisonous just sitting there.
“Soul-Extinguishing Calamity!”
In an instant, a wave of soul-annihilating power struck the four hundred players.
They had no idea how they had died. One moment, their minds had gone blank; the next, they had collapsed to the ground.
The map immediately exploded with messages.
“Plantman, we came here to turn ourselves in! Why did you kill us too?”
“Exactly! People from the Thorn Guild aren’t going back on their word, are they?”
“Plantman must have a reason for doing this. We’ll be resurrected!”
Some players wanted to curse Chu Fu, but they did not dare. They could only question her timidly. Others even spoke up in her defense.
Chu Fu manipulated Soul-Extinguishing Calamity, directing its powerful soul force over the faces of all the corpses.
Then, with a violent pulling force, she tore the Golden Masks from one player after another.
Chu Fu’s attack power was simply too high now. Even the slightest move from her would kill these players.
There was no way to ensure they survived.
So she simply killed them all and removed their Shapeshifter Masks.
The 487 Shapeshifter Masks instantly swelled into a fleshy sphere shaped like a giant mask-covered face. Its diameter reached three meters, and the masks began to crush against and fuse with one another.
The sight was horrifyingly bizarre.
Chu Fu’s expression did not change. This area was still within the range of the Calamity of Ruin. Blue soul waves continued attacking the enemies, and the moment the enlarged fleshy sphere came into contact with them, it was annihilated. It let out shrill screams before dissolving into nothingness.
Ten pieces of Evil God divine power material dropped onto the ground.
After some time, the first wave of monsters had been wiped out, and Chu Fu had finished clearing up the area as well.
There were 4,820 pieces of Golden-grade Evil God divine power material, but they could only enhance Golden equipment below Level 10.
There were also 500 pieces of Evil God divine power material that were Golden-grade, but these could enhance Level 20 equipment.
Clearly, the former came from masks that had not advanced to Dark Gold grade, while the latter came from masks that had undergone an upgrade.
None of them were as good as the Dark Gold-grade Evil God divine power material dropped by Werewolf Tuge.
After killing them, Chu Fu said, “Once the town-defense battle is over, the Holy Healing Angel will come and resurrect you.”
This time, some of the players were genuinely unhappy.
“We want to participate in the town-defense battle too! We still want to earn contribution points!”
“This isn’t what we agreed on, Plantman. You’re going back on your word!”
“Exactly! Otherwise, why would we have come here?”
Chu Fu let out a cold laugh.
“Why did you come here? You know perfectly well. You thought no one would be defending the town, so you came to destroy it and claim the attribute rewards!
“People like you don’t deserve any contribution points. And there’s no chance you’ll be following the members of our Thorn Guild into a Genesis-level Rift!”
How could she possibly let them tag along to farm attributes and improve their talents?
They could lie there on the ground and dream.
The players’ plans collapsed completely.
They had all turned themselves in for precisely this reason.
If they followed Chu Fu’s demands, wouldn’t they be taken into the Genesis-level dungeon as well, and eventually get their talents improved?
That would be an incredible bargain.
Look at them—people who had done evil expected good people to offer them benefits before they would let the matter rest. They were still trying to profit from their wrongdoing.
Unfortunately for them, Chu Fu had been prepared for this from the beginning.
Meanwhile, every one of the more than four hundred players from Guguan Town who had participated in the game was surrounded by three players from the Army Soul faction.
“This is official business. Please cooperate. Once we confirm that you aren’t a player from the evil faction, you can participate in the town-defense quest. Not only that, you’ll also be able to join the upcoming Genesis-level dungeon.”
“I’ll cooperate! Of course I’ll cooperate!”
“Wow, I can join the Genesis-level dungeon too? Doesn’t that mean I can get 100 points to all attributes? I’m going to take off!”
Everyone cooperated smoothly.
They were simply puzzled. Did the authorities really have a way to detect Shapeshifter Masks? After all, the item could alter one’s appearance and even change one’s character name.
They were soon gathered together. Among them was a player whose name was Lie-Detecting Master. He tested them one by one.
“Are you a follower of the Evil God? Do you have a Shapeshifter Mask?”
Those who did not have one naturally answered no.
This Lie-Detecting Master was an official psychologist.
He had also been one of the later players to join the game, but he had quickly come to fully accept it. Combining his real-world profession and abilities, he had chosen this ID.
Perhaps because he had joined later, his talent had only reached A-rank: Lie Detector.
He had changed class into a special profession: Judge.
He could forcibly determine whether someone was telling the truth, then pass judgment.
However, this ability was normally used on monsters. This was his first time using it against players. If the other party told the truth, no judgment would be carried out.
It was an extremely powerful profession against players and other intelligent beings.
After a series of questions, they quickly found the hidden shapeshifters.
Some people grew nervous and tried to escape, but the Army Soul players killed them on the spot, carried away their bodies, and delivered them to Chu Fu.
There were forty-seven more corpses.
Chu Fu continued her work. More than half of those forty-seven had killed over a thousand people. Of course, that did not necessarily mean they had PKed random players.
Back when the Universal Studio still existed, the Holy Healing Angel had been there as well.
After killing players, they would resurrect them, allowing the Shapeshifter Masks to advance. This was a privilege reserved for the studio’s upper management and high-potential players.
Naturally, these people had been unwilling to give up their Dark Gold equipment.
Chu Fu gained another 270 pieces of Level 10 Evil God divine power material and 2,000 pieces of Level 20 Evil God divine power material.
There was only one person left to deal with.
He was a player whom Dream King knew. The two of them had once joined forces to fight against the Universal Guild.
His ID was Doggo Sneaky.
