Chapter 919

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

There have always been those who rejoice and those who worry; the myriad facets of human life, the Instance is the same.

In three hours' time, Shen Yao first chose a wild boar as her target, and very smoothly finished processing it in thirty-five minutes, the most time-consuming part being transportation; as for the slaughter work, with the experience of killing pigs beforehand, there was no difference between a wild boar and a domestic pig.

Instance: Dai Lun's Slaughterhouse

Time: 02:29:58

Clearance Conditions: Independently slaughter three Slaughterhouse livestock 【3/3】, obtain Dai Lun's evaluation 【Technique skilled and free, truly a natural-born pig butcher; temperament resilient, really suited for Slaughterhouse work; ability outstanding, you will receive a Work Certificate from Dai Lun's Slaughterhouse】

Side Mission: Independently slaughter Slaughterhouse livestock 【1】

The clearance conditions had not changed at all; rather, the Side Mission below had jumped out with a relevant count, it seems after the main mission is completed one can only make a fuss on the side mission.

Nodding faintly at the Bai Sheng siblings hiding in the Slaughter Room, Shen Yao bypassed the two of them and continued capturing the Slaughterhouse's other livestock.

The closer to the clearance time, the more chaotic the Slaughterhouse's livestock pens became; the livestock inside seemed to have eaten some stimulant, whether they saw people or anything else they would maniacally run wild everywhere.

Shen Yao had personally witnessed a person in the chicken pen get pecked by roosters until their whole body was covered in bloody holes, finally collapsing crookedly in the chicken pen never to climb up again.

Those who come out to fight at this time, besides those who haven't completed the mission, are those wanting a higher score; Shen Yao also saw Special Investigation Bureau personnel in an even sorrier state than before, the three of them in a group cooperating with each other, currently besieging the white sheep in the sheep pen.

The gentle white sheep had long since turned into Godzilla, a pair of sheep horns striving to thrust forward, eyes red like blood jade, looking very bizarre.

Shen Yao withdrew her gaze, placing her sight on the deer pen that had been challenged by people many times before but still ended in failure.

The wild elk here were either lying prone or reclining, shaking the bells on their necks as they ate dry hay.

When Shen Yao placed her arm on the deer pen's small door, the elk still eating hay all turned their heads to look over, several pairs of eyes moving in sync, anyone timid would be startled.

Shen Yao did not belong to the timid sort, but she also realized the peculiarity of the Slaughterhouse livestock; this time when she went out she had specially brought two shields half a person tall.

Neatly opening the pen door, Shen Yao noticed these elk beginning to stand up, consciously or unconsciously leaning toward her position.

Elk are not ill-tempered creatures, but an elk's pair of antlers are scary, especially the Slaughterhouse livestock which look even larger and more robust.

The rope in her hand lightly tossed easily looped around an elk's neck; Shen Yao subconsciously tugged the rope, force transmitting along the rope to the elk's body, causing the elk to cry out miserably and kneel on the ground.

Antlers flashing past attacking her at her side, Shen Yao raised her hand to brace against the elk's spine, borrowing the momentum to circle past the attacking antlers to the other side.

The problem with large livestock is insufficient agility; Shen Yao didn't even need extra operation to avoid these attacks that in her eyes were practically slow motion, and could even use the shield and fork to counterattack.

Constantly leaping and tumbling back and forth within the elk herd, not forgetting along the way to tie up the captured unlucky deer to prevent escape, finally relying on nimble footwork, she brought the elk out of the deer pen without harming herself.

Shen Yao leaned against the outside of the deer pen's fence, raised an eyebrow, and waved at the elk with a leisurely expression, "See you next time."

The elk: ……

Bell sounds and roars intertwined into a strange melody; Shen Yao only felt refreshed in spirit, just now in the deer pen she almost couldn't get out, these elk really were wicked.

System: ……

"Host, how about you mention your own problem?" Can't be that animals have no human rights.

"Me? What problem do I have?" Shen Yao dragged the rope beneath her and hurried toward the Slaughter Room, ignoring the wailing big-eyed elk, "My biggest problem is being overly cautious," if I'd known I should have cast Rest on the elk in advance, if I'd acted earlier, maybe the pits appearing now could have been avoided.

The System was speechless; its confrontations with the Host had always been more losses than wins, moreover in the realm of verbal sparring, ten of it were not the Host's match.

Soon, the Slaughter Room appeared in Shen Yao's field of vision; just as Shen Yao wanted to drag the elk inside, two blood-covered people of indistinguishable appearance suddenly ran out from the side.

"Please, help us, we're just short one livestock……"

The two went *pa* and knelt on the ground, incessantly begging Shen Yao with words.

"You want this elk?" Shen Yao drooped her eyes, hand silently tightening the rope which now struggled with greater force; ever since these two entered her field of vision, the bound elk had become extremely agitated, its originally ruby-like eyes growing even deeper, like a vortex capable of sucking a person's soul inside.

The two kneeling on the ground were completely unaware, still begging Shen Yao to hand over the elk, like puppets without souls.

Shen Yao silently circled past the two before her, simultaneously raising her hand and using the back of the shield to strike the elk's head hard.

The elk's eyes were no longer deep; its body limbs twitching, it was dragged forward roughly by Shen Yao; as the distance between both sides widened again, the two blood people originally kneeling on the ground seemed to have had souls reinjected.

They scrambled up from the ground in panic, stumbling as they ran toward a livestock pen not far away; what on earth had just happened? How could they have sought help from a stranger they didn't know, and not even realize what they had done.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this mind control is really strong," making someone fall for it without gods or ghosts knowing, the System exclaimed no wonder no one else succeeded in bringing an elk out of the deer pen, fortunate that its own Host's spirit was outstanding and not manipulated.

"Keep looking around and I'll dig out those eyes," Shen Yao said softly to the elk, "You don't want to suffer more before you die, do you."

*Plop————*

Regardless of what this elk was thinking inside, Shen Yao raised her hand and pushed open the Slaughter Room, and saw the Bai Sheng siblings huddled in the corner in an even worse state.

The Slaughterhouse had no hemostatic or wound-treating medicine (even if it did Dai Lun wouldn't provide it for free); ordinary people pulled in were mostly unprepared; people like Shen Yao who came with a backpack were extremely rare.

*Bang! *

Lifting the elk onto the slaughter table and setting it properly, Shen Yao twisted open the hose nearby and rinsed her slaughter suit, then expressionlessly wielded her knife to slaughter the elk, first stripping off all the hide, then cutting off the antlers and putting them into the recycling hole, finally processing the venison by size, placing piece by piece into where they belonged.

By the time all this was finished, the Instance time had already reached one hour.

The 【1】 on the Side Mission turned into 【2】; Shen Yao raised an eyebrow in satisfaction, turned and beckoned to Bai Xue, "Want to make a trade?"

Bai Xue: Trade?

Exiting the Slaughter Room again, Shen Yao resumed her old trade and set her sights on the fat, beautiful piggies.

In a great mood she stabbed a white pig to death with one knife, then in one smooth flow cut and collected the pork; timing it right at the Instance's final moments, Shen Yao additionally slaughtered four Slaughterhouse livestock.

*Ding——————*

Instance: Dai Lun's Slaughterhouse

Congratulations to the player for successfully clearing; now transferring away, countdown 10, 9……

Shen Yao only felt her vision go black then flash; when she regained her senses she discovered she was soaking in water.

Calmly holding her breath she surfaced from the water; taking advantage of no Official Personnel patrolling nearby, she seized the time to return to the Parking Lot at the fastest speed.

As before she changed a set of clothes in the car; Shen Yao held a towel wiping her hair while checking her gains this time.

First was her identity: Apprentice Player.

【Name: Shen Yao (Nickname: Not Set)

Level: Apprentice Player

Trait: Mental Enhancement (Her mental power is vast as the sea, a born manipulator)

Items: Sharp Long Blade (A-grade), Instance ID Card (Special), Slaughterhouse Work Certificate (Special), Phantom Ring (A-grade), Part-time Work Uniform (B-grade), Freely Extending Rope (B-grade), Livestock Capture Tool Gift Pack (C-grade), Accessory Gift Pack (Grade Unknown)

Instance Cleared: Dai Lun's Slaughterhouse (Related Reviews Click to View)】

Her personal interface was rather simple; after Shen Yao quickly browsed through it, she first set her nickname as Freelance Home, then opened the instance reviews.

The content above was a huge pile, most of it being self-praise regarding Dai Lun's Slaughterhouse (suspected to be Dai Lun himself engaging in false advertising); the few points that remained concerned that Slaughterhouse Work Certificate and the Instance Work Certificate granted to Shen Yao based on it.

Instance ID Card: A certificate usable in the vast majority of instances; paired with the Slaughterhouse Work Certificate, you are the brightest kid in the crowd, able to find any job, and will never be expelled from an instance for lacking identity 【This item is a special item, not unique, but bound to the player, cannot be transferred or seized】

Accessory Gift Pack: A gift from Dai Lun; he believes a neat hairstyle suits slaughterhouse work, so please do not let your hair hang loose, as it will affect the slaughterhouse's hygiene.

Regarding the instance Dai Lun's Slaughterhouse, Shen Yao's clearance rating was A-grade, so she obtained two A-grade items, two B-grade items, and one C-grade item.

Normally there shouldn't be this many, including special items and items gifted by instance NPCs, but Shen Yao is simply too talented and capable.

One instance yielded an abundant harvest; compared to other players struggling bitterly, Shen Yao's talent was undoubtedly overflowing.

Zuo You idled about; six hours inside the instance, but in reality she had only disappeared for three hours. Seeing that the sky outside had not yet darkened, Shen Yao planned to study these items and traits thoroughly to cope with the challenges ahead.

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"So that's what it means. Traits are hard to obtain, right? Unless one is exceptionally gifted or has some fortuitous encounter, ordinary people's traits are blank."

"Yes, traits are one's originally outstanding aspects remodeled and awakened through instances. In other words, you must first have it yourself before it can manifest through an instance; if you are not outstanding to begin with, no matter how hard you try in the instance, you won't get a trait."

The function of traits is somewhat similar to an enhancement effect in a certain aspect. That is, the same player, after entering an instance, will see their body change to varying degrees depending on how many instances they've participated in, while a trait is an enhancement beyond that improvement—something others don't have.

Shen Yao originally stood out in the mental aspect; now, having entered the instance, she has fully awakened her mental trait, and Shen Yao can now do more things.

Of course, she definitely can't yet reach the level of the previous world where she could spread her mental power flat in one second, but with slow training and improvement, she believes that one day she won't be lacking.

Wearing the Phantom Ring on her hand, the ring's surface had a pair of beautiful red gemstones; this is the key to the Phantom Ring's effect. Thanks to nature's (the elk's) gift.

She drew the Sharp Long Blade and made a few practice moves, but since the site wasn't suitable, she temporarily put it away. The Instance ID Card and Slaughterhouse Work Certificate weren't much to look at either. However, the Part-time Work Uniform was interesting: it wasn't any kind of physical object, but a slip of paper with writing on it. Upon entering an instance or reality, as long as she stuck the slip on her body, it would automatically adjust a logical work uniform based on the environment and surroundings.

Shen Yao tried it out and found that the clothes on her body had changed into a security guard uniform.

Hmm, it also fit the parking lot site; even with automatic toll collection, security patrols were still needed.

The Freely Extending Rope was a rope that could be long or short, usable as a capture tool paired with the Livestock Capture Tool Gift Pack. Inside were not only forks and shields, but also other usable clips and so on.

As for the last Accessory Gift Pack opened, it contained hair clips, hairpins, hair ties, and other headwear items. The lowest was a D-grade item hair tie, the highest a B-grade item fixed hairpin, with the rest mostly around C-grade.

Tsk

She wanted to retract her previous evaluation of Dai Lun; this person was still quite generous. At least this box of Accessory Gift Pack was enough to offset Shen Yao's extra labor.

"By the way, extra slaughtering has pay. Does the instance have circulating currency?"

Shen Yao opened the screen and searched up and down, finally finding the word Wallet in the upper right corner. Opening it, a string of numbers appeared inside.

The most expensive was the elk, 3000 each; the cheapest were those two white pigs, 500 each; wild boars were 1000.

The function of Instance Coins was that they could be taken out and spent inside the instance.

It was said that some players used Instance Coins to bribe NPCs inside the instance to let them pass easily, though doing so wouldn't yield a high rating.

Besides that, Instance Coins could also be used to purchase items. Instances are vast and contain everything; if one luckily went to a resource instance, the function of Instance Coins would be infinitely amplified.

Putting the screen away again, Shen Yao tossed aside the towel she had used to dry her hair, closed her eyes, and asked the system about the current situation at Jinghua University.

"Same as usual. The internet is in an uproar, and not even many entertainment industry hot searches can suppress it."

Compared to the bloodbath at Jinghua University, the commotion here was simply pitifully small. She didn't know how Shen Xi was doing. Since the Host could clear instances, Shen Xi should be fine too, after all, this was its main mission!

The system's anxiety was not received by Shen Xi. At this moment, she was looking at the Little Red Flower in her palm. She had long since run out of the bookstore, during which she had also entered a hardware store to scout. Shen Xi thus concluded that the Little Red Flower belonged to the brave; only those who passed trials could obtain it.

Of course, if one didn't want to take the righteous path, they could take the evil path: one life for one Little Red Flower, stackable without limit, as long as one could do it.