Chapter 94: Vicious Curse +1

Why are you chasing me?

Although I used to mock the tagline of this advertisement a lot before, now Ji Ming really wants to shout this question.

The berserk boar behind him huffed and puffed, panting heavily.

And halfway there we clearly met an exhausted adventurer who had given up, but he just kept biting him relentlessly.

What the hell is this damn boar trying to do?

Although you can't teleport into a dungeon from the surface, you can teleport people inside the dungeon to the nearest exit.

Ji Ming originally planned to summon Xi Er Wei Ya to bail him out, but after thinking about it, he still couldn't swallow that.

When the boar finally entered his scouting range, he opened its status panel.

Just as he imagined, it was a level‑6 female boar.

Because of its racial traits its HP was extremely high, but being tainted by demonic energy reduced its already decent intelligence and pitiful charisma to zero.

Beyond the non‑existent skill tab, the debuff display showed a red icon and a yellow one.

The red one was Berserk, and the yellow one was… courtship?

Huh?

That's not right—why does a sow, when courting, chase me madly?

…

Seeing his own panel showing a charisma of 12, Ji Ming recalled that distant afternoon at the Reno Tavern when he joked he didn't want his pelvis crushed by a wild boar man.

They set this ambush for me!

After downing a sip of Revitalizing Fourth Generation, Ji Ming put distance between himself and the boar again.

He opened the quit‑game screen, preparing in advance to retreat to the real world, and decided to practice on this boar.

The boar that can rally a group to win by strength relies on its high HP and heavy weight for a collective charge.

So then…

Ji Ming extended one hand, timed it, and clenched hard.

"Hmph!"

The gut cramp made the boar emit a panicked howl, and its running motion also became distorted.

This mistake caused it to fail to leap over the boulder; its hooves stalled, and it clattered as it fell out.

Even though its hide is thick and not afraid of knocks, even a tough man would struggle with three sips of weak brew.

It hadn't eaten much these past days, and now everything rushed straight out, instantly leaving it exhausted.

But under the rage, it still had blood‑red eyes, excited and restless, trying to find the male it had previously targeted.

Only to find the target had vanished, as if it had never appeared.

???

In the brain‑overload daze, the boar suddenly felt something hit the back of its head.

Then its system overheated and shut down completely.

"This berserk is a pure debuff, everyone a brainless brute, ready to be slaughtered."

Sheathing his shovel, Ji Ming shook his head with a sigh.

But slaughtering still requires a proper tool; he rummaged through all his gear and found nothing suitable to kill the sleeping boar.

Either it's too light to break the neck, or too blunt to cut the belly.

In the end he could only rely on the Hidden Dragon Spike on his left hand, pressing his fist against the boar's skull.

With a soft "pfft" sound, the sharp steel spike easily pierced its skull and lodged into the brain.

The boar let out a light hum, then its brain was gradually destroyed as it convulsed, dying completely.

【Experience+20】

"So plump?"

Ji Ming opened his panel, saw that this batch of experience was just 30 points shy of filling the upgrade.

In fact, after watching Xi Er Wei Ya resurrect a horde of berserk goblins, he had also tried using this skill to farm monsters repeatedly.

But nobody's a fool; the rules of this world already knew about this bug.

Besides the first few kills that grant normal experience, the more you farm, the more the experience drops, eventually becoming 【Experience+0】.

Now one boar gives 20; if he can catch two more lone beauties to eat, wouldn't that level him up to seven today?

As if hearing his thoughts, amid a series of excited howls, two agitated boars burst out of the forest.

"Whoa, that can't be…"

Clearly they were following from behind; Ji Ming didn't even have time to apply another Breath‑Sealing Talisman before he hurried onto a new escape route.

But his mind was clear: dealing with two berserk boars at once was impossible, so he had to find a way to split them.

According to previous experience, from activating the Fart Technique, using the Breath‑Sealing Talisman, approaching the boar, then striking with the Stun Club, triggering the Shadow Stab, to kill the target.

This series of key actions takes at least a minute to execute safely.

So then…

Ji Ming began to circle around, using the somewhat familiar terrain to suppress one of the boars with the Fart Technique.

Soon, the target boar vanished from behind him onto the road, but with careful searching it could be found again.

He used this method to stagger the timing against the two boars, one after the other, defeating them one by one.

But this maneuver drained stamina heavily; while dealing with the second boar he almost flipped out.

If he hadn't temporarily doubled the dose with his left hand, he might have become a carefree laughing boy today.

In the end, he still won.

He happily gained 40 experience points, and Ji Ming finally reached Level 7.

Today's successful operation was all thanks to running fast enough, but if I hadn't single‑handedly used obstacles or the fart technique to interfere with the demon pig's charge, it would certainly have backfired.

Thus the upgrade's small attribute boost was applied to Agility, making the four stats 【7, 6, 14, 13】.

Hmm, the values of Intelligence and Charisma add up to exactly twice the values of HP and Agility plus a little, and I am still a cute and charming villain.

As for skill points…

【Please wait】

【Congratulations, you have obtained the combat skill: Cramp Technique】

【Cramp Technique: Just shake your hand at the target, and the target will cramp】

【Kindly, I can give you a usage tip: you could first figure out how to hide under your foe's bed, then when he and his wife are sleeping… damn, that spot won't cause cramping!】

Spell—another odd spell!

But the agony of cramping needs no further words; only this one place can randomly torture you in the dead of night, and this time it's certainly a jackpot pulled from a junk pool.

However, Ji Ming felt little excitement, after all the others in the Iron Chain Squad are still of uncertain fate.

He sighed, and in his silence a sudden flash of insight struck, recalling something very important.

Even if, for safety at this stage, we don't want an overlap between the Underground City and Sunlight City…

But resurrecting a dead friend and tossing them into the Sanctuary to serve as an NPC should be harmless, right?

Either way, at least I have to see whether I can harvest corpses!

With his mind settled, Ji Ming twisted open the unfinished Rejuvenating Pill (Fourth Generation).

Just as he was about to pour a few sips into his mouth, he seemed to hear some ghostly movement again.

Instinctively he tried to stand up and sprint, but the surroundings had already gone dark.