Chapter 58

Chapter 58: The Peerless Garlic (12)

Translator: Sigma Editor: Sigma

The Peerless Garlic Chapter (12)

"The blood in the barrel seems to still be full," Feng Bujue came to the barrel, "seems the Derivative doesn’t need blood . It came here to kill those two players . "

Little Tan continued, "So why didn’t it come to kill us? Aren’t our levels the lowest here?"

"It’s easy to explain why it didn’t kill you . Your location was very close to the two GMs; if it wanted to kill you, it had to recklessly enter the distance that the other two could spot it . " Feng Bujue said, "When the scenario has begun, Young Master Jibu, The Name Is Difficult To Choose and I were possibly its targets . Especially me, whose level is the lowest and I was working alone . If I got killed, the GMs would assume that it was because of the Bloody Zombie Wolves . "

It was the best time to kill me, but the Derivative didn’t do that or search for the other two players . Until we were with the two GMs in the Allerbmu Building, it came here for the other two . Thus," Feng Bujue raised his head, calling out for Pan Feng and Hua Xiong, "hey, generals, is it true that at the beginning of the scenario, there’s a period that the Derivative can’t move?"

Hua Xiong cocked his head and yelled back from the rooftop, "It’s not that it can’t move . It has just not completed its transformation yet . " He immediately added, "Do you remember the cup of coffee?"

"How?" Feng Bujue said .

"The normal data is just like the coffee powder; it will melt with warm water . However, the Derivative is the uncontrollable data, and it needs more time to dissolve totally," Hua Xiong answered, "under normal circumstances, it’s about the time when we’ve almost finished the scenario with the other players that the Derivative has completed its transformation and appeared in the game . " He paused for two seconds before he continued, "But this time, the Derivative had completed its transformation quite fast . "

"Oh, so it's like that . " Feng Bujue appeared to suddenly remember something, "Yeah, how do you know that the target is ranked level 4? It’s the system’s notification, or you could see it from the GM’s menu?"

"After we have ‘contacted’ with it, we can see its level in the menu," Pan Feng answered, "we only need to take a weapon used for close combat to touch it . "

"Wait a second," Feng Bujue said, "in other words, it’s just your assumption to say that this one is a level 4 Derivative?"

Pan Feng and Hua Xiong exchanged looks then smiled, "Ha, ha . What did you think when we told you that the Derivatives are classified into four levels? Where to find the level 3 Derivatives? Our job is to kill all the level 4 Derivatives . Unless we’ve failed many times or the level 4 Derivatives are lucky enough to appear in the scenarios of six players, the level 3 Derivatives will not be born . "

Feng Bujue gave them a dry smiled . "Alright, I hope you were right . "

"Hey, little brother, how is 'checking the scene' going? Did you jump to any conclusions yet?" asked Pan Feng .

"Ah," Feng Bujue poked his hands into his pockets, walking back and forth, "the Derivative is a woman, around 165 centimeters tall . She looks thin, too . She could instantly take out a weapon, or she’s already wearing it, which is a claw-shaped equipment of around 20 centimeters . Her speed and strength aren’t much different from the Ashford monster we’ve met in the Allerbmu Building . "

"According to my assumption, you guys could only know its position within the radius that the system could detect . However, it could locate you guys well, also the exact locations of each player . Thus, you can’t make us become its bait, because whenever you guys are near, it will not come for us .

"How smart this Derivative is, I don’t know for now . According to the current situation, it completely knows what it ‘should’ do . Its purposes are to survive and evolve . And, the indispensable condition to do that is to make all the players and GMs get out of this scenario . "

"From its point of view to plan, first, it wouldn’t stop you from taking advantages and complete the scenario as soon as possible since once the scenario is completed, all the players would leave . To it, this is a relief . "

"Next, it’s an indispensable condition to ensure safety . For example, when it is moving far from you, the Derivative is not afraid of killing players by itself . Perhaps this helps it grow? I don’t know . "

He stopped walking . "Besides, there’s something that makes me notice . It’s the relationship between the Derivative and the mobs . Would the mobs attack the Derivative or they could communicate? The fact that whether they would be able to affect each other to change the direction of the plot in the scenario therefore affected the Main Quest or not, I have no way to confirm .

"In short, if I were the Derivative, in the particular situation of this scenario, I have three options . "

Feng Bujue sat on the couch again, cocked his head while his two fingers were patting on his forehead . "Yeah, top option, use itself as a bait and wait for the right time . For example, when the night falls, it would come into your searching range and lead you to a particular location then work with Ashford and the Bloody Zombie Wolves to kill you . " He raised his head and rubbed his nose bridge . "I know you can check the hidden details, the mobs' profiles, and the map, but you can’t get the exact location of each mob . It’s not difficult to figure out since you’ve used the hidden details of the plot to find doctor Ashford . After it had turned into the monster and ran away, you’ve found it hard to locate the monster again . " He lowered his tone, "Assuming that the Derivative could find Ashford and talk him into its plan, since it’s smart, of course, it could make use of the monster to achieve what it wants . To the Derivative, this option has the highest success rate . "

He pointed to a general direction afar then glared at Little Tan . Little Tan then turned around to see a coming Bloody Zombie Wolf . As he understood what Feng Bujue meant, he took his bat and walked to the mob .

By the time Little Tan was fighting with the mob, Pan and Hua jumped off the rooftop . Since Feng Bujue had told them that ambushing was useless, they didn’t need to stay there to enjoy the wind anymore .

"The second option is to kill Ashford," Feng Bujue continued, "if it did so, Little Tan and I would leave the scenario because it’s completed . Then, the Derivative would deal with you guys or play cat and mouse with you for the next eight or nine hours, which is the time you have to logout due to time restriction . Of course, as it is just a group of data, might be it doesn’t know that," he paused for a short while, "if it chose this way, it meant that the Derivative couldn’t communicate with the other monsters . To prevent the unexpected factors like the mobs and the players, it had to do so . Also, we could see that the Derivative had assumed that once it tries to one on two with you guys, it could kill you both . "

Little Tan had killed that mob, and he was walking back to them .

"About the last option, which is a bad one, the chance is not much," Feng Bujue said, "this bad option is to ambush the four of us randomly . " He continued, "However, this is not the way the Derivative has been using from the beginning; but if it stormed to us like that, there would be a reason behind it . For example, after it had eaten Ashford’s brain, it had become an intimidating monster, and that gave it the confidence to kill the four of us . "

After having listened to Feng Bujue’s analysis, Pan Feng and Hua Xiong dropped their jaws in awe . They looked at him the way they used to look at the mobs . "Excuse us, what do you do for a living?"

"Great—" Feng Bujue was about to say one of the answers he liked to use .

Little Tan directly interrupted, "Freelance!"

Feng Bujue shrugged, get them back to the topic, and talked to the two GMs, "We should discuss the ways to deal with these three options . Except for the second option, Little Tan and I could help you with the other two . "

"The fact that the players at level 14 and 12 got killed speaks something . From your own reasoning, you’ve estimated clearly the strength of the Derivative, do you really think that you two could help us?" Pan Feng said, "I know you are a potential player and you got your own ideas, not just depending on the game . If I’m not the GM, I can’t be compared with you, but in front of an existence like the Derivative, fighting competence is the key factor, the others are just secondary . "

"You’ve belittled the players’ competencies," Feng Bujue said deliberately, "as you’ve said, one GM alone could chase and kill a level 4 Derivative, and the success rate is over 95% . So, from the competence of a GM, in this scenario, the Derivative is just like a player ranked under level 20 . Moreover, it is just a group of data, an AI, not a real human being .

"Young Master Ji Bu and The Name Is Difficult To Choose got killed instantly because they were careless . If they had considered the Derivative a powerful opponent then used firearm and skills to fight against it, I think they could at least hurt it or even escape from it . "

"I can’t wait to see the hunt for the Derivative . Moreover, I can be able to participate in the hunt, thus," he paused for a while, "now we suppose that the Derivative had chosen the first option, which is the best for it and the toughest for us, we should think about how to deal with it . "

. . .

The night fell . Every bit of air in this city had become as cold as ice, which could freeze people’s blood .

The Bloody Zombie Wolves now had their eyes as red as blood . Although their action was still slow, their sense of smell became better . Whenever they found a prey, their running got faster as they even ran on all four . Their strength, speed, and competence were significantly different from that in the morning . At this moment, the Bloody Zombie Wolves were twice as strong as the normal zombies .

Under the cover of the night, two figures were dashing forward .

There were more than 50 Bloody Zombie Wolves chasing after them .

20 minutes ago, the Derivative had appeared in the detecting range of the two GMs . However, it had been running around for a while without attempting to approach them . This suited Feng Bujue’s reasoning, which was also the worst situation .

At this moment, Pan Feng and Feng Bujue were running away from the Bloody Zombie Wolves with a faster speed, dashing towards the general direction of the Derivative . Their clothes had gotten many bloodstains from the mobs, which was impossible to avoid when fighting with them .