There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game-Chapter 451 - 391: This isn’t a loss!

"I’m planning to follow the track to other areas to check on the situation," Luo Kai said, as he burned the remnants of dark matter on the platform. "The main thing is to confirm whether there are any Abyss Rifts nearby."

After the division of loot, Luo Kai carefully attended to incinerating the sticky dark matter stuck to the walls of the track.

Xu Shuo, who was pondering over how to allocate points, replied without even looking back, "You go ahead. Call me if you encounter any problems."

"Okay."

Luo Kai took it as Xu Shuo wanting to rest and nodded before jumping off the track and heading deeper.

This time there were no insurmountable blockages on the track, but the track walls were covered with a lot of the viscous dark matter, which he meticulously cleaned.

If this darkness were not removed, and an ordinary person touched it, they could die at best and at worst become another monster.

Xu Shuo still sat on the ground leaning against a wall column. He didn’t plan to follow because he knew there were no Abyss Rifts or other abnormalities inside the track.

After all, when his spiritual power expanded, he was well-aware of even the presence of ant hills, so all that was left to do was to clean up the dark matter.

So, Luo Kai it was, to run the errands.

Xu Shuo opened the Player’s Handbook and pulled out several of his Character Cards.

The ’Chen Chu Character Card’ had been upgraded once before, but other than increasing the ’Time Reversal’ ability from one minute to two minutes, there were virtually no changes.

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And the points for the second level had risen to ten thousand.

This time, Xu Shuo looked at the Chen Chu Character Card and hesitated for a while before deciding to try upgrading it another level.

[Upgrade points: 10000.]

Deduct!

The Character Card for the two-faced doctor quickly got a purple border, and the suffix behind the name changed from "I" to "II." The skill description at the bottom of the card also changed.

[Chen Chu Character Card II: When transformed into Doctor Chen, you can use the ’Time Retrospection’ ability to rewind time to any point within the past ten minutes (skill can be upgraded). When transformed into Doctor Chu, you can ’One-Click Kill’ your opponent, with skill strength equal to the player’s strength.]

Xu Shuo raised his eyebrows as he examined the skill’s description.

This was indeed a qualitative change. Before, he could only passively revert back a few minutes, but now he could actually choose the timeline himself!

Not bad, this foray was worth the continued investment!

It was just that the upgrade points required for the subsequent levels caused Xu Shuo some pain.

The third level actually required one hundred thousand points!

This was equivalent to the price of a third-level Abyss Creature, and it was only for a low-rank Character Card!

If the number of cards increased in the future...

Suddenly, Xu Shuo felt as if he was playing a card collection game, and the key point of a card collection game was continually nurturing the cards!

An inspiration struck!

The studio wasn’t big enough to produce a AAA title yet, so why not settle for creating a beautifully crafted card game first!

Besides upgrading the Chen Chu Character Card, Xu Shuo also went ahead and upgraded a special skill he had improved before, ’Darkness Forward.’

The rules for upgrading special skills were nearly identical to those for Character Cards, minus the fancy borders and upgrade numbers, with the required points being the same.

[Special Skill ’Dark Stealth’: Darkness is your shadow, and your shadow is your stride. If there is no darkness, then we shall create it!]

Xu Shuo was taken aback, reading it over several times before confirming he hadn’t misread.

The skill description no longer had the ’upgrade’ suffix.

Had it reached the maximum level?

He pondered for a bit and directly used the ’Dark Stealth’ skill. Instantly, a cold sensation swept across his body, and at the same time, the light in his field of vision seemed to dim considerably.

Xu Shuo felt the changes within his body.

When he was attacked by that Abyss Creature, its darkness had pierced his skin and attempted to corrupt his flesh and blood. Xu Shuo had wanted to experience the Abyss’s mode of corruption up close at the time.

However, he later discovered that the creature’s corruption seemed to have no effect on him.

At least he hadn’t felt any change.

Now, as he used "Dark Stealth," the darkness lurking within his body drifted across his pallid skin before spilling out from his fingertips.

Xu Shuo looked at the clump of darkness in his hand, tentatively pinched it, and instantly felt a sticky sensation.

Xu Shuo: "..."

Without hesitation, he flung the darkness onto the ground, then expressionlessly took out a handkerchief to wipe his hands, which were not stained at all.

It seemed the monster’s corruption hadn’t been completely ineffective, just too insignificant to notice while it lay dormant within his body. He had planned to take medicine afterwards, just to be safe, but now it seemed unnecessary.

The final version of "Dark Stealth" could actually control darkness—did that mean—

He would no longer need to rely on Qiuzi?!

At that thought, Xu Shuo’s previously sour mood slightly improved, +1, +1...

The reason for the slight improvement was that some scripts did not allow the use of special skills, so the Qiuzi Character Card was still quite important, but at least now he had a second choice.

After wiping his hands, Xu Shuo looked at the patch of darkness on the floor, and with a talisman paper in hand, he threw it directly at it.

Both the darkness and talisman paper vanished without a trace as if they had never existed.

However, the very next moment, a dark shadow coalesced on the ground at Xu Shuo’s feet, looking like a big stain upon the ivory-colored floor.

He had created it out of thin air.

Xu Shuo didn’t feel any evil will or contamination from this shadow; it seemed to be just pure darkness extracted from space, like the shadows cast by the sun on the opposite side of objects.

As for the principle, it seemed that various substances existed in the world, and darkness was also one of them...

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Xu Shuo, who had just begun to think along these lines, immediately stopped his train of thought.

Then, he deactivated his Alpha Character Card.

The shirt that had been pierced by the monster returned to its original state—effects experienced while using a Character Card did not affect the user’s real body, just like how even if the user’s hand were severed, using a Character Card would not translate that state.

But... Xu Shuo felt his brain was still in a negative state of stabbing pain and dizziness.

It seemed that spiritual power was linked with his physical body.

Rubbing his head, Xu Shuo stood up and stepped into the shadow he had just created.

Coming out onto the street, the radiant sunlight beamed down on him, warming his slightly stiff and icy body instantly.

Looking at the bright, dazzling sun overhead, Xu Shuo seemed to have an epiphany, so he opened up the Player’s Handbook and used his remaining points to upgrade his special skill "Radiance" by two levels directly.

[Special Skill "Radiance": When even the most brilliant sun cannot overshadow your radiance, you become the radiance itself!]

The suffix for upgrading was gone.

Xu Shuo pondered, could it be that special skills obtained at lower stages can only be upgraded two levels?

After that, he raised his hand.

A glowing light bulb appeared on his fingertip.

Using this skill no longer required him to bask in the light to store energy; he could now draw it from thin air, and even compress it to the extreme to be released directly without any medium.

For example: previously, Xu Shuo needed to channel it into a staff before releasing it, but now the radiance could be used as a direct attack.

Just like a laser cannon~

Whoosh—

The small light bulb shot out from his hand at the speed of light, piercing through an unsuspecting trash can on the street before its light energy swiftly dissipated in mid-air, leaving no trace behind.

This upgrade was totally worth it!

Xu Shuo withdrew his gaze, contented, put on his face mask, and stepped away from the vicinity of the subway station.

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