Following Old Zheng's voice, including Sleepless Sky Huole, all the surviving nobles still present in the hall suddenly fell into a deep slumber.
Lin Yu let out a long, relieved sigh.
"Whew, a close call—even though the plan was changed at the last minute, this part still went ahead as scheduled."
Anyway, now that he had obtained part of Old Zheng's abilities as a 'Third Tier' player, Lin Yu felt he could handle any unforeseen variables that might arise later.
Of course, before proceeding with the next step of the plan, after all the nobles had entered dreamland...
Lin Yu began patrolling the auditorium, searching.
"Berner... hmm, already dead."
"The Cren Marquis and his family, also dead."
"Oh dear, this one isn't dead."
Lin Yu squatted down from ti to ti, delivering a finishing blow to so lucky survivor.
Only half of what he had said to Sleepless Sky Huole earlier was sincere.
Lin Yu truly wasn't indiscriminately slaughtering innocents—it's just that those who died were all bargaining chips.
The bargaining chips from his transaction with the Sleepless Night Family Head.
"There are also so fellows I find quite detestable, yet not worth personally killing. If an evil and chaotic 'outsider' accidentally slaughtered them all, I would probably be quite pleased."
And the Sleepless Night Family Head had provided a list of over thirty people.
This was also why Lin Yu sighed at Sleepless Sky Huole's kindness. On one hand, it was because compared to her mother, she indeed possessed far more humane qualities.
On the other hand... if Sleepless Sky Huole were a bit calr and observed the deceased more carefully, she would discover that, excluding irrelevant interference, the dead nobles were basically all those who had obstructed the Sleepless Night Family's path in recent years, or were naturally opposed to her, Sleepless Sky Huole.
In other words, although it seed her reputation would suffer at this banquet, upon waking up—or a few months later—Sleepless Sky Huole would be astonished to find.
All her work would proceed much more smoothly!
Of course...
This was only part of the transaction.
After dealing with the last few unlucky souls on the list who had offended the Sleepless Night Family Head, Lin Yu also began to attend to his own affairs.
He carried Old Zheng, swaying slightly, and arrived before Alt rcury, then extended a hand to extract a wisp of spiritual energy and inject it into the other's body.
Old Zheng was utterly astonished: "Holy crap, you learned fast!"
Lin Yu curled his lip: "It's not that hard."
Old Zheng was left speechless for a mont upon hearing this, then said, "Hmm, right, it really isn't hard. Actually, I got it right away back then too, haha, it's been so long I'd forgotten."
Subsequently, Alt rcury also slowly regained consciousness.
Looking at Lin Yu squatting before him, Alt rcury sat up.
After pondering for a mont, Alt rcury said, "It seems the rumor about a Peerage Noble being targeted for assassination is true, and the target is , correct?"
Looking at the unexpectedly composed old man, Lin Yu nodded in surprise.
"That is indeed the case... I was commissioned to co and take Alt rcury's life."
Alt rcury looked at Lin Yu and asked the sa question Sleepless Sky Huole had.
"Just to kill , was it necessary to go through such elaborate trouble?"
"Of course," Lin Yu answered briskly, sitting cross-legged opposite Alt rcury. "After all, you are entangled in a deception that has lasted 'fifty years.'"
Hearing Lin Yu's words, Alt rcury was sowhat taken aback.
"There's a deception on that has lasted fifty years?"
This old man quickly connected this sensitive tifra to the most significant event in his life.
"Could it be related to my succession of the rcury Family?"
Lin Yu gave a slight nod.
"Yes, to be honest, this secret is buried so deep that I couldn't figure out at first where the problem lay."
"However... based on a certain 'high-level' reason, I was always eighty to ninety percent certain that there must be a 'deception' involved in the commission concerning you or your assassination."
Lin Yu said calmly.
A 'Promotion' task is always related to one's 'Class.'
It's like a locked door in a puzzle ga; a player is bound to suspect it hides sothing.
And Lin Yu rembered, his 'Class' is 'Fraudster,' not 'Assassin'...
So why did the [Personal Dungeon] part of his 'Second-Tier Trial' require him to complete an 'assassination' commission?
This was like letting Lin Yu see a locked door.
And in the process of continuously approaching the assassination itself, Lin Yu finally gathered all the "fragnts of truth," until finally... with the hint from Sleepless Sky Huoxing, he finally understood what this deception was.
"Fifty years ago, why did Arlan rcury disappear in the Great Wasteland? Why did you succeed as the head of the rcury Family... Although such brotherly affection is very rare, leading the people of Sleepless City to relish your story, as an outsider, I instead sensed sothing amiss."
"The Sleepless Night Family Head once told that Arlan rcury had tearfully complained to her, saying he didn't want you to die... How strange, Alt rcury. Even if stepping down as family head carried a risk of death, why would it drive Arlan rcury to the point of 'tearful complaints'?"
"Also, this matter of you being a 'Chosen One of Life' seems secretive... but in reality, it feels like anyone with half a brain could deduce you are the Chosen One of the God of Life."
At this point, Lin Yu paused: "What a colossal, heaven-concealing lie. Only now do I understand where the true difficulty in completing the commission to assassinate you lies."
Alt rcury pondered and said, "I don't understand. I don't recall telling any colossal, heaven-concealing lie."
Lin Yu shook his head.
"Of course you don't understand, because regarding this lie... your dear brother, Arlan rcury, had no intention of letting you know."
"Because he knew if you were aware, you would never agree to his act of risking the entire family just to keep you alive—no wonder the Sleepless Night Family Head looked down on him so much. As a family head, Arlan rcury is practically his polar opposite."
"And you two brothers are truly cut from the sa cloth. The people of Sleepless City praise your righteousness, but Arlan rcury is no less... tsk, especially after seeing so much fratricide among the siblings of the Sleepless Sky and Saint-Land families, I can't help but sigh, you two are truly a breath of fresh air."
Hearing this, Alt rcury was beginning to vaguely comprehend.
"You an..."
Lin Yu nodded and calmly spoke the truth.
"Alt rcury... you are not the Chosen One of the God of Life at all."
"You are rely a dead man who died accidentally fifty years ago."
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