CHAPTER 85: CHAPTER 85: OGRE

The time quickly reached three minutes, and four people still hadn’t fallen asleep. Su Changxing didn’t actually kill them.

His goal was to enthusiastically help these people sleep in order to gain Mysteriousness points, not to kill them.

At the five-minute mark, finally, another person fell asleep.

This was really not easy, being able to fall asleep under such high pressure and heavy injury.

[You enthusiastically helped others fall asleep, increasing Mysteriousness by 25 points]

Five points less than before, but still a lot.

Using the same method to gain Mysteriousness, the efficiency of acquiring Mysteriousness will decrease.

Is this because doing the same thing too many times becomes less mysterious?

Su Changxing raised his eyebrow, feeling it wasn’t that simple, but couldn’t quite understand the specifics. The determination of Mysteriousness itself was very puzzling.

At the ten-minute mark, another person fell asleep.

[You enthusiastically helped others fall asleep, increasing Mysteriousness by 19 points]

[Dreamer: 262/500]

At this moment, there were still two survivors who hadn’t slept, pretending to be asleep, unsure if they couldn’t fall asleep or were trying to bluff their way through.

With Mysteriousness reaching over two hundred and fifty, Su Changxing’s vision suddenly became clearer and brighter, seemingly enhancing his Night Vision ability significantly.

In his vision, there were ghostly black mists swirling faintly around the faces of three survivors.

This mist was in a translucent, illusory state, resembling mysterious gauze.

Su Changxing immediately understood that these three people should be asleep; this should be a Dreamer ability, enabling one to perceive whether others are in a state of sleep.

It seems this ability was unlocked when Mysteriousness reached over two hundred.

Su Changxing withdrew a short knife and slowly walked forward, the ghostly black mist beginning to show spots of red light.

The red light should represent the target’s waking status.

The three survivors were only in light sleep, ready to wake at the slightest disturbance.

Upon careful consideration, Su Changxing found he could seemingly intervene somehow, manipulating the ghostly black mist to suppress the red light.

The ghostly blackness began to move, gradually covering the red light, as the breathing of the three sleepers stabilized, seemingly entering a deeper sleep.

Manipulating others’ sleep was a very peculiar sensation.

Su Changxing walked to one of them, abruptly inserting the knife into his temple from the side.

This person did not even react, killed silently.

He took out his phone for a look. The log was indeed updated.

[You completed a perfect assassination, increasing Mysteriousness by 15 points]

Hm?

Perfect assassination?

He estimated this should count as assassination, though he didn’t expect it to be a perfect assassination.

Was it because the target was utterly unaware, or was the movement minimal?

[Dreamer: 277/500]

Su Changxing approached another sleeping survivor, killing them in their dreams as before.

This might as well count as dream-killing.

[You completed a perfect assassination, increasing Mysteriousness by 12 points]

Afterward, Su Changxing walked toward the last sleeping survivor. This was the last chance for the two pretending to be asleep to truly sleep.

The difference was between dying painfully or peacefully in their dreams.

Not yet approached.

A survivor in a gray hoodie, close to Su Changxing, suddenly sat up, unable to withstand the pressure.

He felt Su Changxing had already killed two—he might be next.

The survivor in the gray hoodie protested unwillingly, "Didn’t you say you’d stop if we fell asleep?"

Su Changxing nodded seriously and replied, "That’s right, but you weren’t asleep, were you? Did you fall asleep? No, you didn’t."

The survivor’s eyes narrowed, suddenly bursting forth, wielding a hatchet to slash at Su Changxing in a desperate attempt.

"Bang~"

At the same time the hatchet was raised, Su Changxing lifted the gun slightly, pulling the trigger, blowing his head off, turning and shooting at another pretending survivor.

The survivor grunted on the floor, then went silent.

"Sleeping so heavily, it’s a terrifying ability."

Su Changxing turned to see the last person remained asleep despite the sound of gunfire, with the ghostly black mist steadily suppressing the red light.

Su Changxing realized he was even better at manipulating sleep than a previous Extraordinary who could hypnotize.

That person could only put people to sleep to some extent but would wake from louder disturbances.

Whereas Su Changxing could make people sleep deeply, unaware of gunfire, but with one restriction—the target must already be asleep.

Su Changxing executed the last person in the same manner, gaining 10 points of Mysteriousness.

[Dreamer: 299/500]

Looking at the bodies scattered around, Su Changxing fell deep in thought. Unnoticed, he’d killed more than ten people, unimaginable before.

The most striking part was the feeling of shooting a person was akin to squashing an insect, emotionless.

"Can you describe me as ruthless now?"

Su Changxing self-mockingly remarked, turning to Mu Qing, who peeked from behind observing the situation, "You handle scavenging the corpses’ loot; I’ll go up and check things out."

Mu Qing nodded, "Okay, leave it to me."

She felt like she was dreaming; suddenly, the outcome took a positive turn.

Su Changxing spent 260 Points at the store to exchange for the final thirteen bullets and filled two high-capacity magazines with seven original rounds.

Now he had thirty bullets, enough to kill at least twenty people.

Su Changxing ascended the stairs to the ground floor, surrounded by many white fluorescent tubes, not making one feel gloomy.

This floor had four or five large rooms structured with a dining room and a room filled with stools and chairs.

Those earlier were in the dining room for pre-battle mobilization, outside, allowing Su Changxing to eavesdrop on their discussion.

But now, the floor was empty. The remaining survivors hid, adopting a ’hide if can’t fight’ mentality.

Su Changxing would inevitably leave, avoiding clashing with someone who had a gun.

Entering the dining room, Su Changxing noticed some empty dishes with food scraps left on the table.

"This should be a human hand bone."

Su Changxing judged, identifying the survivors as ogres, eating humans.

Though earlier judgment said they, like zombies, could survive without feeding.

Could it be they had to satisfy a cannibalistic urge, or perhaps it was a retained zombie trait?

Everyone would be infected, including Extraordinary ones.