The Death List Novel - Chapter 276

Chapter 276 Before The War

A lonely orange explosion-proof lamp could not illuminate the monitoring room, and a dark figure was reflected on the wall.

Qin Lun leaned on his head with one fist and stared at the wall without any focus. His expression was uncertain, and he didn’t know what he was thinking.

On the only tattered sofa in the surveillance room, there was a small mute. She was wearing a large coat and was sleeping soundly.

“En!” The little mute’s dark eyelashes gently blinked. With a reminder, he woke up, rubbed his eyes, and stood up from the sofa. His face was blank, as if he hadn’t sorted out his thoughts for a while.

“Squeak!” Sensing her master’s awakening, the squirrel grabbed the little mute’s ear and poked its head out from under her hair.

When the little mute entered the space-time converter, neither she nor Qin Lun noticed it. As a result, the little thing followed suit. He hadn’t expected that it would actually survive. However, even Qin Lun couldn’t judge its current state.

This little thing was definitely not an apostle. Qin Lun had never heard that the shattered starry sky would turn a non-intelligent creature into an apostle. However, it was not a summoning object. The transformation of the Laws Body was completely different from the transformation of a summoning object.

Perhaps during the entire transformation process, this little squirrel was treated as part of the little mute. It was estimated that the souls of one person and one mouse had an inexplicable connection. Now, it should be an accompanying relationship. It was quite in line with the situation where the two little fellows had always depended on each other for their lives.

“You’re awake. Have something to eat!” Qin Lun turned around and threw a piece of black dried meat to the little mute.

The little mute’s expression was still very confused. Seeing a ball of black stuff tossed over, he was immediately shocked. He quickly retreated with his four limbs and shrank to a corner of the sofa.

The little mute’s body was covered with a coat. The moment she retreated, the coat slipped down, making her feel a chill. Only then did she realize that she was completely naked and was barefooted.

“Ahhhhh!” The little mute screamed and quickly put on the big coat. Then, he jumped off the sofa, hugged his knees, and shrank to the corner of the wall. After a while, he secretly opened his eyes and looked at Qin Lun.

Qin Lun didn’t have time to pay attention to her right now. He was aimlessly manipulating the monitor screen while thinking nervously.

After the little mute woke up, he slowly felt hungry. Seeing that Qin Lun was no longer paying attention to her, he immediately took a few steps forward and picked up the piece of dried meat thrown by the youth. He retracted it back to the corner of the wall and tore it down bit by bit, feeding it to the little squirrel on his shoulder from time to time.

However, the little fellow quickly felt the difference in her body. The originally dirty and sticky feeling on her body disappeared. Instead, it was replaced by a refreshing feeling that she had not seen for a long time, just like the moment her parents finished bathing and applied talcum powder to her.

The little mute secretly looked through the collar of his coat. It was still the image of a skinny rib, but it was much whiter. It looked pink and tender, and it had a bit of a flesh color again.

“You’ve just changed your Laws body. It’s best for you to move more and adapt!” The little mute was looking down at him when a gentle voice sounded in front of him. He was immediately shocked. He looked up and saw Qin Lun holding a glass of water in front of her.

The youth put down the water and turned back to the monitor screen. The little mute pouted his lips and drank all the water in one gulp. He was still a little indignant in his heart. This water, this food originally belonged to her, but Qin Lun still refused to leave even now …

“By the way, little fellow, you should keep this thing!” Qin Lun threw her another item without looking back.

The little mute reached out to catch it and found that it was the tattered doll. She had originally treated this item as a trading item, so she asked Qin Lun to activate the time-space converter. The little mute wiped away the dirt on the doll’s face. A layer of mist slowly appeared in his eyes, and tears fell down. She hugged the doll tightly and buried her head in her knees, her shoulders trembling slightly.

At this moment, Qin Lun couldn’t care less about the little fellow’s feelings. His mind was a little heavy. After Little Mute completed the transformation of his Laws Body, he came into contact with the Space-Time Converter once more. As expected, Shattered Star Sky had given him another temporary hire mission. However, the reward for the mission was still to increase the evaluation of the mission by one rank. There was no change at all.

Qin Lun decisively gave up this temporary hire mission once more. After the countdown was over, he contacted the Space-Time Converter again and started refreshing the mission. This time, the reward for the temporary hire mission was indeed different. There were 100,000 Shattered Crystals, Skill Scrolls, and other options.

Raising the evaluation of a Tier 1 mission and rewarding an ordinary mission with a broken crystal were truly not easy to compare. Qin Lun then refreshed his temporary employment mission a few more times, and finally chose an ordinary mission reward. However, he didn’t choose 100,000 broken crystals from the reward options. Instead, he chose a 10-point lifespan limit, a random skill scroll, and a recovery item.

The Skill Scroll was an Intermediate Stress Training Scroll, and Qin Lun directly threw it on the dagger skill, upgrading it to Intermediate Dagger Proficiency. Recovery item is a bottle of high-concentration holy water. It has good recovery effects on HP and energy, and can also eliminate all negative effects.

If these three simple mission rewards were placed in the mission world, it would definitely not be as good as upgrading the mission evaluation. However, during the hegemony battle, they exceeded the upgrading of the mission evaluation. Especially that bottle of high-concentration holy water, it could be said to be priceless.

It was easy to destroy the time-space converter. Qin Lun had originally thought that he needed to destroy the entire instrument. In fact, the Broken Star System only required him to destroy the runes on the surface of the instrument.

Without the cover of these Laws and runes, the internal Laws of the Space-Time Converter would be neutralized and fused by the Laws of the World that shattered the starry sky. Next, regardless of whether the space-time converter was complete or not, the laws it possessed would no longer work.

In other words, even if someone were to create such a space-time converter in the shattered starry sky in the future, the laws of space and time inside would no longer have the effect of changing space and time.

The little mute actually didn’t know that she had been unconscious for two days and one night. While she was unconscious, there were several more chaotic battles in the area monitored by the Underground Research Institute. After five or six days of surveillance, Qin Lun slowly began to sort out the situation in this area.

Qin Lun estimated that the number of junior apostles in this region had dropped to less than a hundred, or perhaps there were only 70 or 80 left. However, he slowly discovered that the current form was beginning to leave his control.

He had originally envisaged using the treasure map to cause the junior apostles in this region to kill each other, reducing the total number to twenty or thirty. In his plan, the remaining twenty or thirty beginner apostles should be in a state of extreme weakness at that time, and their energy and magic scroll reserves would be exhausted.

However, now he realized that this was only his wishful thinking! The remaining seventy or eighty apostles were almost all stronger than him, though most of them had been depleted of supplies.

Although Qin Lun still had a few magic scrolls, Elven Ancient Tree Essence, and half a pot of walnut wine left, and now he had another bottle of high-concentration holy water, every time he fought head-on, he would win less and lose more.

The reason for that was because the remaining apostles had a very complete system of vocational skills. Even without the help of magic scrolls, they were still experts.

On the other hand, Qin Lun did not possess any powerful damage skills. No matter how powerful his pupils and detection skills were, he did not possess any damage abilities. Facing these apostles head-on, one had to rely on a war of attrition in order to have a chance of victory. Such a war of attrition was the last thing Qin Lun wanted to do.

This is not the last selection. Once we enter the attrition war, let’s not talk about whether there is a third party involved. Since the remaining seventy or eighty apostles had survived until now, most of them had life-saving means. Without a powerful trump card, they would not wait for Qin Lun to grind them to death.

The result of a head-on battle was very likely that Qin Lun had exhausted himself and watched helplessly as his target left the battle. This was still an ordinary target among the seventy or eighty apostles. If it was those perverts who could cross levels, then Qin Lun would have almost no chance of victory.

Apart from the unexpected strength of these apostles, there was another crucial point that Qin Lun hadn’t expected. There were still about four and a half days left before the end of the battle. However, as time drew to a close, the intensity of the battle began to decrease.

The remaining seventy or eighty apostles had roughly judged the situation after these few days of fighting.

They knew who was difficult to provoke and who they could deal with. Most of the apostles had passed the initial probing stage, and even the fragments of the treasure map would find it difficult to seduce them into a life-or-death battle.

The few perverts who possessed cross-stage combat power were no longer able to massacre others like they had at the beginning. One was that the remaining apostles were also very powerful and were no longer targets that they could slaughter at will.

Both of them were aware of their strength and would no longer fight them easily. Some of the weakest apostles even began to form temporary teams to fight against the strong.

After a few days of surveillance and re-evaluation, Qin Lun discovered that even after the battle was over, there should still be 50 to 60 beginner apostles left in this area, not the 20 to 30 that he had originally predicted.

In other words, none of the apostles could move. The weak saw the situation clearly and gave up the fight for the treasure map, no longer participating in the battle casually. After killing a few days ago, the experts had already obtained enough. They were no longer focused on collecting treasure maps to avoid being robbed by other experts.

In this way, Qin Lun became extremely embarrassed. With his current preparations, he could deal with one or two of the seventy or eighty weak apostles. However, most of these weaklings had only killed one or two people. Adding on their own invitation letters, even if Qin Lun succeeded in killing them, his profit would be around 300,000 broken crystals at most.

If he wanted to complete his original plan, Qin Lun had to deal with those perverts who possessed cross-stage combat power. Those people had collected seven or eight invitations each, because there were more murders, and they might also have Atlantis’ legacies that other apostles had searched for.

Thinking of this, Qin Lun couldn’t help but focus his gaze on the few videos left on the surveillance screen and began to analyze them carefully.