Chapter 226 Hidden Achievement: Ghost Exorcist

Su Ze looked at the trio's relieved yet anxious expressions, the curve of his mouth becoming more pronounced.

"What do you say? If you want me to accept you, there has to be some kind of gesture, right?"

Ye Qingqing and Shen Jie looked at each other, unable to grasp his meaning for a moment.

Gai Qian reacted the fastest; although she was weak, her mind was racing.

"Are you saying... there are other conditions?"

"Smart." Su Ze snapped his fingers. "I don't like trouble, so let's set the rules first."

He held up his first finger and pointed at Gai Qian.

"First, you, teach me all the skills you just used, as well as all the Supernatural Entity skills you know."

That's right, Su Ze coveted their skills.

After all, since she could activate a Bond and transform herself into a Supernatural Entity...

...then her skills were highly likely to be usable while in that transformed state!

Like the possession skill, or the skills that allowed her to significantly boost her strength at a cost... and so on.

When these words were spoken, Gai Qian was stunned.

"Teach... teach you?"

She was somewhat incredulous. "These... these are Supernatural Entity skills, skills that can only be learned after becoming a Supernatural Entity. Generally speaking, human players cannot learn them..."

"That is not a problem you need to consider." Su Ze interrupted her indifferently. "I only ask you: will you teach, or not?"

Gai Qian looked into Su Ze's bottomless eyes, her heart skipped a beat, and she nodded hurriedly.

"I will teach! I will teach you everything!"

This man was full of mysteries everywhere; perhaps... he really did have a way to learn them?

Regardless of whether he could learn them or not, she had to maintain the right attitude.

Su Ze nodded with satisfaction, then held up his second finger, waving it between Ye Qingqing and Gai Qian.

"Secondly, both of you need to agree to one more condition."

"What condition?"

Ye Qingqing and Gai Qian asked almost in unison, both feeling a bit nervous.

Su Ze looked at their nervous expressions, his eyes suddenly darted, and he smiled.

"As for that... no rush."

"Once we return to my territory, you will naturally know."

Since they could activate a Bond, it would be a sin not to take them in.

Who would pass up such an overpowered Bond effect?

Although the two women were filled with various speculations, they dared not ask another question and could only obediently nod in agreement.

Just then, Su Ze received a private message from Lu Jiaming.

"Boss! We are on the Ninth Floor and have confirmed that there are a large number of players on the Eighth Floor, but there are too many Supernatural Entities outside, and we dare not act rashly!"

"Understood, I'm coming over now."

Su Ze instructed Ye Qingqing and Shen Jie: "Call out everyone hiding on this floor, get ready, and come with me back to Jinghai University."

"Yes!"

The two received their orders and were about to make arrangements when Gai Qian spoke up weakly.

"Um... Mr. Su Ze, I am really too weak right now. I'm afraid I cannot move for the moment; I need... I need a little time to recover."

Su Ze frowned, looking at her body which was almost becoming transparent.

Gai Qian struggled to take a jet-black stone out of her system inventory.

Soul Stone.

She held the Soul Stone in her palm and took a deep breath.

Wisps of black smoke, visible to the naked eye, separated from the Soul Stone and slowly poured into her body.

Her illusory body began to become solid at a slow but steady pace.

Su Ze watched with some surprise.

This thing... can actually be used by Supernatural Entities to recover?

He had quite a pile of these Soul Stones in his own inventory, all dropped from killing Supernatural Entities; he hadn't expected them to have this use.

"Then go ahead and recover."

Su Ze spoke, his tone leaving no room for negotiation, "But don't recover too much strength."

Hearing this, Gai Qian revealed a wry smile and could only nod.

She understood that Su Ze was blatantly warning and guarding against her.

Ye Qingqing and Shen Jie sighed and, without further delay, immediately went to gather the players hiding on this floor.

Soon, a large number of survivors emerged from within.

Su Ze glanced over, feeling somewhat surprised.

Just on this floor alone, the number of people hiding was actually over five thousand!

"There are over six thousand people below, mainly concentrated on the Seventh and Eighth Floors," Ye Qingqing added from the side.

"With so many people concentrated together, aren't you afraid of triggering rules and attracting a siege of Supernatural Entities?" Su Ze raised an eyebrow.

According to the game's rules, the more people gathered, the more monsters would naturally be attracted.

"We are afraid, but there is also an advantage to being concentrated, which is that we can provide concentrated protection."

This time, it was Gai Qian, who was absorbing the Soul Stone, who spoke.

"I had already made arrangements. Outside the main doors of the Seventh and Eighth Floors, I set up four turrets, all of rare quality, specifically targeting Supernatural Entities. They are very powerful, though they consume a bit too many copper coins."

"The main doors have also been upgraded to level five. Based on our tests, those turrets are sufficient to blast away all Supernatural Entities before they can even get close to the doors."

Su Ze frowned: "That won't work either. The Supernatural Entities' ghost cries can ignore physical defense and attack the mind directly, causing players to become delirious or even faint."

"Yes, but there is a bug in this." A hint of smugness appeared on the corner of Gai Qian's mouth.

"What bug?" Su Ze raised an eyebrow.

"Actually, ghost sounds are more of a psychological intimidation," Gai Qian explained. "If you can't hear them, or if you hear them but aren't afraid, and there is a sufficiently sturdy door in between, you basically won't be negatively affected."

"So, I had Qingqing and the others prepare a large amount of sleeping pills in advance, and I had everyone on the Seventh and Eighth Floors take them and fall asleep. As long as they are asleep, they won't feel fear, and no matter how much those things scream, it's useless."

Su Ze suddenly realized.

Good grief, this maneuver was truly wild.

He nodded inwardly.

It seems that having an experienced veteran player who is also a "Supernatural Entity insider" as an advisor can indeed save a lot of trouble.

However, Su Ze thought about it carefully; this tactic would probably be hard to replicate at Jinghai University.

The World Financial Center has large floor areas, so it can cram in a lot of people; you only need to concentrate forces to protect a few floors.

But the Dormitory buildings at Jinghai University won't work; every floor has many independent rooms.

The corridors outside the dorms are areas where monsters wander; you can't just cram tens of thousands of people into a few rooms, right?

It wouldn't fit anyway.

However, this intelligence about resisting ghost sounds by sleeping or being unconscious is valuable in itself.

Perhaps at some critical moment, it could come in very handy.

While thinking this, Su Ze had already arrived at the Ninth Floor with the massive troop behind him.

Further down was the floor where players were most concentrated.

At the stairwell, Lu Jiaming was waiting anxiously with his people.

It was only the first night of the second round, yet he had already lost quite a few of his men; now only about eight thousand remained, with over three thousand sacrificed.

You have to realize that all these casualties occurred within just one hour after midnight; it was fortunate that he had made the decisive choice to surrender to Su Ze.

"Boss!" Lu Jiaming hurried to greet Su Ze when he saw him.

Su Ze nodded, his gaze passing over him to look at the entrance to the Eighth Floor.

He saw that outside the heavy metal door, dense swarms of Wandering Ghosts were crashing against it like a tide, wave after wave.

But before they could get close, the four automatic turrets on the sides and top of the door spewed out scorching energy beams, blasting them away one by one, leaving nothing but copper coins on the ground.

Su Ze had no interest in wasting time here.

He stepped forward directly.

"Roar—!"

A Soul-Shaking Roar, like a thunderclap on flat ground, instantly swept across the entire floor.

The nearest group of Supernatural Entities was directly roared into dissipation!

At the same time, a peach wood sword appeared out of thin air in his hand, and with a flash, he charged directly into the group of ghosts!

The Supernatural Entities that were still crazily attacking were like wheat being harvested, dissipating in swathes.

Behind him, whether it was the players Lu Jiaming had just gathered or the people brought by Ye Qingqing and Shen Jie, everyone was stunned.

Is this the strength of their new boss?

It's simply... too strong to be human!

A few minutes later, the Supernatural Entities on the Eighth Floor were completely cleared out.

Su Ze did not stop and charged straight toward the Seventh Floor.

Just as he was slaughtering in all directions, constantly reaping the lives of the Supernatural Entities, a series of system notifications suddenly rang in his mind!

[Ding! Congratulations on becoming the first player across both regions to accumulate 10,000 "Wandering Ghost" kills!]

[You have obtained the special achievement: Ghost Exterminator!]

[Ghost Exterminator: Passive effect, damage dealt to all Supernatural Entity targets is increased by an additional 8%!]

[You have obtained a reward: 12 free attribute points!]