7 hours ago.

The steward of the Mahmut Family and an important figure in the Iris Flower Brotherhood, Maight, was killed seven hours ago.

The manner of death was quite simple.

A fine sword slashed his neck, then, like turning a mill, spun around the cervical bone, shredding the throat and arteries like slicing dried bean curd. Finally, it was pulled out, without dragging any flesh with it, and swung again, hitting precisely at the same spot.

With a sound, his head flew off, landing right into a nearby bag.

The True General's swordsmanship was exquisite. Caramel Snail just had to pull a string, and the bag was sealed, handed it over to Li Aozi, and took out the previous corpse of Asher. Li Aozi used the [Bloodline] sample to fake a bloodline sample, swapping the corpses to make it seem like Asher fled with a huge sum of money.

This way, no one could have imagined it was done by two Abyssal Dark Households.

"The whole plan was pretty good, except for one problem."

Caramel Snail sighed, looked at Li Aozi, who was also tied up on the opposite side, and complained:

"The problem was in the execution."

"Indeed."

Li Aozi nodded:

"I just casually took an extra bottle of cold drink."

"Would you die if you didn't have a cold drink! I have a cold drink machine at home, you can drink as much as you want there, it's on me!"

Caramel Snail retorted:

"True General, this was your plan, didn't I tell you that after we kill the target, we should quickly transfer the funds and escape, but you just had to indulge in a bottle!"

"I didn't expect someone would put Void Mayflies in the cold drink."

Li Aozi said innocently.

"Anyone used to robbing people should know not to take things from the scene, it's common sense... How could you make such a mistake? True General, did someone else take over your account?"

Caramel Snail was speechless.

Why is it that every time he teams up with the True General, unexpected and messy problems always arise?

"But at least our goal was achieved."

Li Aozi glanced at the skylight and comforted Caramel Snail:

"Although we're now hanging in prison, with a pool beneath us full of Void Razorfish—if we let go, we'll be devoured by the fish—but looking at the bright side, at least we've infiltrated the ancestral home of the Mahmut Family."

"'Infiltration.'

Caramel Snail curled his lips:

"True General, to be honest, I'm still live-streaming, and the viewers are all cursing the streamer for being such a noob.."

"There's nothing wrong with that statement, it's true."

"I'm the streamer! In my own stream! Where have you ever seen a streamer being cursed by viewers for being a noob!"

He rolled his eyes and didn't want to continue complaining to the True General.

Usually, he was a normal person, how come at critical moments he messes up.

Unlike Caramel Snail's complaints and sighs, everything was under Li Aozi's control.

The Iris Flower Ancestral Home needs a Void Rune to be opened, ordinary means genuinely can't get in.

However, if he directly told Caramel Snail, even if he's a fool, he would notice something's off.

After all, he had been foreseeing unpredicted things along the way; if he didn't create a deliberate error, Niuniu would probably suspect him of cheating.

Having achieved his goal, Li Aozi was in no rush to reveal himself, he waited patiently for the plot to trigger.

Facts proved, his speedrun had no issues.

"Surprisingly, you dare to return."

The murky purple dust slowly dispersed in the air, and a cold voice echoed in their minds:

"Thanks to the Imperial Monarch, I've already uncovered your details, you two ignorant fools, who killed my son and steward and burned down the family business."

While Caramel Snail was still puzzling over where the voice came from, Li Aozi sent him a private message:

"I've triggered the plot, hold on."

"Hmm?" Caramel Snail was puzzled, "Is that even possible? Why didn't I trigger it?"

"Maybe it's because I have a task item."

Li Aozi casually brushed him off.

[Of course, you wouldn't have it, because I didn't even trigger the task at the beginning.]

"Iris's Isolation Path" as a hidden task, its triggering conditions are actually quite complex; it must be informed by the steward about the family's calamity to trigger the subsequent plot.

However, who knows how the code for [Player] Plyer is written, maybe they were lazy and just used a template, resulting in a ridiculous bug here:

First, it's known that only by informing Old Mahmut and his wife can the plot trigger, so most would choose to spare the steward, letting him escape with the news.

Red Name Bro did exactly that, acting chivalrous for once, resulting in silently triggering the task and being cursed for months, which is the normal player process.

But, what if the steward dies on the way to spread the news?

Previously, Li Aozi intentionally left Asher's corpse, to swap it with the steward's corpse, not only to avoid suspicion but also to exploit a system loophole.

He deliberately exposed himself, to attract Old Mahmut's attention.

The disguised corpse was well-hidden, unnoticed, but the real steward's corpse would certainly have its soul memory read by Old Mahmut.

At this point, Plyer's code starts to malfunction.

Without any task prerequisites, the system reaches this point and can't determine whether the task should be triggered in such a scenario.

The survival of the butler—Old Mahmut's couple learns intelligence—Notify the remnants of the Iris, task trigger.

That is to say, these three are necessary conditions.

But now, the butler is dead, Old Mahmut still knows the intelligence, and the Iris Flower Family was burned by Li Aozi with a single fire.

With two necessary conditions gone, the program written by Plyer started continuously backtracking, reading, and writing, constantly checking whether to issue tasks to the players.

Subsequently, an absurd issue arose: the System itself, due to the generation of repetitive and redundant data, instead fell into a memory overflow problem.

In the end, the system itself triggered the deadlock prevention program and remained silent about these events.

Presumably, it's for this reason that the Players need to cooperate with Lai Anding and organize a large number of official personnel to maintain the system.

There are several similar tasks; if not for wanting to kill Qixi Lei quickly, Li Aozi wouldn't be exploiting bugs like this.

If tasks do not trigger, then the mechanism for dynamic strength will not activate, and Li Aozi and Caramel Snail, both Lambda (11), will face not enhanced enemies but a group of Primitives.

However, Li Aozi still intends to be a little more cautious.

[Come to think of it, since [Hunter King] copied the lineage, can the power of the bloodline be utilized to do something…]

"Tell me your names, and I can make things a bit better for you."

A chilling voice slowly spoke:

"Two Layer Abyss stowaways wouldn't have the guts to murder my child, especially when… you should know what this violet light signifies, and knowing this much, the Void won't let you go."

'What does it signify? Happiness? Joy? What's with this Void?'

Caramel Snail was utterly confused.

"Confess, who exactly ordered you to do all this—was it that Chicken People guardian, or the Sea Beast Commerce Guild?"

'Who is who here?'

Caramel Snail muttered inwardly.

Is this villain's imagination so strong that eventually, he might fabricate an imaginary enemy and then release the two of them voluntarily?

He glanced at Li Aozi, hoping the True General might show some prowess and turn the situation around through the plot.

Since the task was triggered in such a place, the plot should be complex; however, the game wouldn't cause players to die for no reason; there must be a turning point.

"Not talking? Didn't expect you to have some backbone."

The interrogator sneered.

Hmm?

Caramel Snail was baffled, frantically giving Li Aozi signals with his eyes:

'Darn, you should say something, open your mouth, True General, what are you doing?'

Yet Li Aozi seemed to be in a trance, silent and speechless.

"Fine, since you are unwilling to speak, I can't do anything about it either."

A large, ethereal purple hand appeared out of thin air, reaching toward Li Aozi and Caramel Snail.

'General!'

At this moment, Li Aozi spoke:

"Alright, got it."

"Hmm?"

The surprised voice didn't just come from the interrogator but from Caramel Snail as well.

"You got it? So now you've decided to confess who ordered you to commit arson and murder?"

"I already know. Besides summoning the wind and rain, how else can this thing be used?"

Li Aozi raised his head, his pupils gradually becoming narrow, gray like a haze, quickly spreading across the iris:

"Just thought about it a bit, a no-injury strategy."

"No injury?" Caramel Snail leaned forward, completely bewildered: "True General, are you sober?"

"Niu, later go to the second room on the left-hand side on the third floor. The password on the door is 890211. Once inside, remove the framed picture directly facing you and place it on the table on the left. This will trigger the mechanism and open the secret room."

Li Aozi suddenly instructed quickly:

"Remember, in the second drawer of the desk, there are three gems. After entering the secret room, solve a puzzle around the room, but considering your IQ, I'll directly give you the answer: place the amethyst on the left statue, the jade on the right, and the blood diamond on the center. Lastly, just say a single phrase in Void Speech: 'All things are void, eternal and unchanging.'

"Wait, why is this expanding so suddenly, let me write this down!"

"No worries, no rush, I type slowly, listen to me carefully, but for now..."

Li Aozi nodded, gazing into the profound shadow in front of him, suddenly declaring:

"(In Dragon Language) Sky, Sun, Strength."

[You have unleashed the Dragon Transformation Technique, choose an appropriate Dragon Race species to transform into—]

Just as he imagined… Dragon Language Magic can be used casually.

By simply repeating the phrases once uttered by Glina Swirl, he obtained this magical effect.

Li Aozi hesitated not at all, choosing either a high rank or lower rank dragon clan, his age being insufficient to display strengths.

Among many dragon race types, there is one species that perfectly avoids issues of inadequate age and development.

And he is quite familiar with it.

The next moment, an ancient and ferocious aura instantly enveloped the earth.

[You are about to transform into—Earth Dragon People]

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