BXBX NOVEL Chapter 243: Seclusion
Different from the ordinary process of "receiving missions—completing missions," almost all Evil Events had to be triggered. Players must find the correct trigger before they could receive missions.
But conversely, players could also use this logic to judge which events would be beneficial to them.
Evil Events will reward Evil Value, so the goal of Evil Events must be related to that—in other words, it can help the player level up.
This was evidenced by the original event chain involving the Godhead.
So for a veteran player like Gu Nan, Evil Events were more like road signs indicating that something nearby could help him level up.
"Ying Ge?" Gu Nan murmured the name aloud, his brows wrinkling slightly.
Just from a name, he couldn’t even determine whether the other party was a person or an object, so he could only look for it slowly. However, for experienced players of the Evil God game, finding a needle in a haystack was a common occurrence, and they’d long gotten used to it.
In fact, his top priority right now was to nurse back his health.
The people from Starry Ocean Pavilion actually weren’t stupid. The three fellows who dared to ambush him indeed had some ability.
The three’s combined assault was extremely powerful, and they also picked the instant when Gu Nan was traveling through space and couldn\'t escape, almost instantly critically injuring him.
But unfortunately, Gu Nan had a godly skill like Resistance, so the so-called critically injured state couldn’t actually affect his fighting strength.
It was precisely this skill that allowed Gu Nan to have the characteristic of "even if I only have one HP, my attack power is still the same as when I’m at full health" commonly seen in traditional games.
This was the main reason he could make a comeback. Otherwise, if someone else was so heavily injured, they wouldn’t be able to resist at all.
To make matters worse, after he "insta-killed" the man in blue, he already sensed a more dangerous person approaching before he even turned to look.
Fortunately, the law of shadows had extremely high sensing ability, which allowed Gu Nan to escape in advance.
But the person also left some means to suppress Gu Nan\'s self-recovery ability when he realized he wouldn’t be able to catch up to Gu Nan. This prevented his injuries from recovering quickly.
"Not right, it\'s more like the wound is continuously deepening." Gu Nan sensed his injuries and made his own judgment.
His self-recovery rate hadn’t slowed down, but every time the wound recovered a little, it would deepen again, and so on.
Although the recovery speed was still slightly faster, the time till a full recovery had been greatly delayed.
Gu Nan habitually tried to scratch the back of his head, but he had already lost a piece of his head, and his hand found empty space. "A strange law. This is a bit like… curse?"
There were all kinds of laws in the world. Not even Gu Nan dared to claim he knew all of them. He could only say that he had seen most of them.
This strange phenomenon was similar to the curse of "deepening injuries" in his impression.
……
Gu Nan was now in a single-story house, and Zhou Jingwen was laboriously carrying a lot of items inside. The pile was full of medicine, food, and drinks.
"Senior, why don’t you eat something first!" Zhou Jingwen leaned in ingratiatingly. She felt that Gu Nan had just finished running away from his pursuer, so he must be at the stage where he most needed to replenish energy.
Contrary to belief, Gu Nan didn\'t ignore her—he’d always felt that his personality was quite normal. He looked at the food in her hands and said, "They don’t taste good."
“……”
As a matter of fact, Gu Nan\'s Evil God physique had long since stopped absorbing energy through food, so consuming food would only satisfy his taste buds.
So for Gu Nan, not eating anything that didn’t taste good was actually the truth.
Naturally, medicine wasn’t needed either. His recovery speed wasn’t actually suppressed. It’s just that his wounds were constantly expanding. This little medicine was like splashing a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood; it was entirely inadequate.
"I don\'t need these." He casually pushed aside the medicine with his hand and pointed his half-open head at Zhou Jingwen. "Help me find clues on ‘Ying Ge,’ and I will reward you."
Zhou Jingwen, who originally had a gloomy expression, suddenly felt her eyes brighten after hearing these words.
Wasn’t this exactly why she wanted to befriend him?!
Classmate Zhou didn\'t mind Gu Nan’s cold attitude at all and even made up an explanation that "all powerful experts should be like this, unreasonable and only talking about benefits!”
"I understand!" She said excitedly, "I\'ll be back this time tomorrow. Senior, please give me this chance, please!"
She said while doing a 90-degree bow, which made Gu Nan feel a little strange, reminding him of people from a small country in his past life.
However, he had seen many civilizations from various worlds, so he didn’t care about this.
Zhou Jingwen soon left, leaving Gu Nan alone in the small one-story house.
It was already evening when he descended upon Floral Jasper Star, and now the sky was even darker. When Zhou Jingwen got home, her parents would probably give her a firm scolding.
As night fell, Gu Nan just sat quietly in the dark, enjoying the tranquility brought by the night.
"That fellow… I really might not be able to beat him in a direct battle." Gu Nan\'s gaze flickered and he sighed softly in the dark.
He was naturally referring to the person who cursed him at the end of the previous fight.
Gu Nan\'s law nullification was practically invincible among Tier 4 experts, but in the end, it wasn’t truly invincible. He didn\'t expect to meet someone with the ability to suppress that power so soon.
Curses could indeed suppress the law nullification attribute. This was related to the mechanism behind how curses took effect.
Curses continuously took effect on the target. Even if Gu Nan tried to keep his law nullification power active for a long time, the curse would still continue to take effect. Thus, unless he resolved the root cause of the curse, such an act was meaningless.
And that person’s own strength was probably also at the peak of Tier 4. It was likely that not even Starry Ocean Pavilion would have many such people around.
But Gu Nan was still fearless—just because he can’t beat the other party in a direct battle doesn’t mean he can’t beat the enemy in a sneak attack!
With Gu Nan\'s skillset, not being an assassin was the greatest waste. As long as he could successfully launch a sneak attack, the damage output from his first wave of attacks was more than enough to make an opponent at his same level suffer a big loss.
Speaking in the game’s terms, Gu Nan was like a player who specialized in assassination skills, while Yue Jiu was a black mage covered in godly equipment.
Although Gu Nan didn’t have much chance of winning against Yue Jiu in the arena, in the wild, he had plenty of ways to grind Yue Jiu’s health bar to zero.
"After this wave of injuries heals…" Gu Nan\'s gaze was icy and dark. "Oh, do the mission first. Maybe I can unlock the third law slot."
Although it was a bit unpleasant to suffer a loss at an NPC’s hand, a top player’s rationality still prevailed.
The Evil Event was right in front of his eyes; there was no reason why he shouldn\'t do it. Besides, if he could unlock the third law slot, he could literally hang the other party upside down and crush him.
Gu Nan just didn\'t expect that plans always couldn’t keep up with changes. Merely the second day after he landed on Floral Jasper Star, an uninvited guest paid him a visit.