Chapter 129 Holding the Reins

Gu Fei said that, but he dared to look for Adrian because he was confident.

Humans who wanted to become werewolves used either magic or props. When Adrian transformed, there was a strange object around his neck. Gu Fei was certain that it was a necklace that helped him transform.

But when he had met Adrian before, Gu Fei remembered his neck being bare. This indicated that it wasn't an ordinary piece of equipment that could be casually worn, and then activate a skill to transform. Instead, it was a necklace that would immediately turn the wearer into a werewolf. As long as Adrian didn't put on the necklace, he couldn't transform into a werewolf. Then he would just be an ordinary person. It was that simple.

Gu Fei mentally reviewed his plan again, feeling that it was foolproof. Adrian's large house was already in sight.

Gu Fei stepped forward, took a deep breath, and knocked on the door.

Adrian opened the door. Gu Fei carefully observed his neck again. It was empty.

"Oh, esteemed warrior, you have arrived," Adrian said, repeating his line.

Gu Fei tossed the bag of gold he had found at Murphy's: "I already know what you're up to. This is the gold that Murphy hid. I think it was bait to lure you out, right? You must have been looking for it for a long time."

This wasn't a meaningless gesture. NPCs belonged to a special group. Normally, one could approach them freely, but if the system determined that the contact would lead to life-threatening attacks, the NPC would become like an individual in a safe zone, and attacks would be ineffective. So, at the very least, Gu Fei needed to make Adrian an NPC that he could attack.

When the gold was thrown over, Adrian's expression changed as expected.

"The werewolves have told me everything. I know you're the one behind this. You know their identities, know that they don't want to cause trouble with humans, so you're using them to work for you for free. Despicable!" *How boring…* Gu Fei thought, *I'm actually giving a robot a lesson in morality.*

"Surrender!" Gu Fei revealed the Baptism of Fire.

Adrian suddenly turned and ran, but Gu Fei was prepared. He wouldn't give Adrian any free time, not even a few seconds to put on the necklace.

He swung his knife, and Adrian dodged it. He was quite agile, but still far from being a werewolf. He was at the level of the bandit leader Soto.

"Xiao Yu! Block the back door," Gu Fei shouted.

"Got it!" Xiao Yu was already in position. When Gu Fei entered the door, before he and Adrian had a falling out, she had already blocked the exit as Gu Fei instructed.

Only in a small space like a room would he be able to press the attack so closely that the other person wouldn't have the chance to put on the necklace. Gu Fei had practiced this method in the inn last night. The size of the inn lobby was similar to that of Adrian's house.

As his blade technique unfolded, the scorching waves of the Baptism of Fire echoed throughout the room. Within the red flashes of the blade, the silver line between the blades became especially dazzling. Adrian could only dodge under Gu Fei's relentless attacks.

"Damn it!!!" Ye Xiaowu, who was watching Gu Fei's quest from a thousand miles away, couldn't help but shout when he saw Gu Fei reaching the final hurdle. They had indeed designed Adrian's necklace to instantly transform him upon being worn, but they never expected that this would become an exploitable loophole. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Ye Xiaowu wouldn't have believed that someone could prevent Adrian from even getting the chance to wear the necklace.

Although the quest chain was measured by the completion of the plot, there was usually a high-difficulty battle interspersed within, as combat was the main purpose of online games.

In Gu Fei's quest chain, the final battle with the werewolf was like the final boss of a game. To defeat it, having strength was, of course, the simplest method. Besides that, finding a chance to destroy the werewolf's necklace, or delaying until the necklace's effect wore off, were tricky methods designed for when one couldn't directly defeat the werewolf. But within all this, there was no situation where Adrian wouldn't even get a chance to transform from the start. But Gu Fei had undoubtedly achieved it.

As a result, a proper final boss had his strength greatly reduced. Adrian's current skills were a watered-down version of Soto's; his speed wasn't worse than Soto's, but his attack and defense were greatly reduced.

"Wait! Wait!" Adrian, who was covered in injuries, shouted loudly. He had to be at least a boss-level character, not being instantly killed by Gu Fei like a cowardly mortal. After taking so many hits, he still had the strength to jump around.

Gu Fei didn't stop. What if this was the other party's trick to make him stop, and then he would instantly pull out the necklace and transform?

"Do you know what you're doing? You're helping a foreign race, killing your own kind!" Adrian shouted as he fled. "What are they? They're werewolves, bloodthirsty werewolves!"

Gu Fei was annoyed. How did he end up being given another lecture on morality by a robot?

"Let me go, half of the wealth in my cellar is yours!" Adrian shouted.

The answer he received was a flash of the blade.

"All of it is yours!" Adrian continued to shout.

The answer he received was still the flash of the blade.

Gu Fei showed no mercy. Finally, Adrian collapsed, hoarsely roaring, "You idiot!"

With a raise and fall of the blade, the world became quiet.

Ye Xiaowu stared blankly at the screen. Even the last bit of trickery hadn't fooled Gu Fei. The game designers had programmed Adrian to start trying to trick the player when his health dropped to 15%.

If the player took this as a possible reward and let their guard down, Adrian would use the opportunity to go to the cellar to get the treasure to escape.

This was rigidly programmed. The player couldn't change this plot. Adrian would definitely disappear.

If the final conspirator escaped like that, the quest would still be considered complete, but the completion rate would be at most 80%.

"This guy…" Ye Xiaowu muttered to himself. Since the monitoring system didn't have audio, Ye Xiaowu couldn't hear the words Gu Fei said after killing Adrian: "You're the idiot! If I kill you, the wealth in your cellar will still be mine!"

"Completed!!!" Xiao Yu cheered after killing Adrian.

Gu Fei pulled up the quest log and looked at it. The quest was still there, so there were probably some follow-up tasks. At least until now, he hadn't received any experience rewards.

He crouched down and searched Adrian's body. Sure enough, he found a necklace in his arms: "Fang of the Wolf King. Equipment effect: Transforms the wearer into a werewolf lord, duration 15 minutes, cooldown 60 minutes."

Gu Fei excitedly picked it up, thinking of trying it out, but received a system notification: Quest item, player cannot use.

This was extremely rare in "Parallel World." Even if a mage couldn't wear a warrior's armor, they could still put it on and be weighed down. But Gu Fei had never experienced something like this necklace, where he was directly and forcibly unable to put it on his neck.

Xiao Yu wanted to take a look, but Gu Fei was forcibly stopped in the process of handing it to her.

"It says it's a quest item," Gu Fei said helplessly.

"Oh!"

"Search again," Gu Fei crouched down and continued to search Adrian's body. "Look for the key to the cellar in the back, there's a lot of money."

The key was indeed hanging on Adrian's waist. The two excitedly went to the backyard, opened the cellar, and climbed down.

There was indeed a lot of wealth, but it was all gold ore like in Murphy's sack. Gold was indeed gold, but in the game, no one knew where to exchange it for game currency. The two looked at each other.

"What do we do?" Xiao Yu asked.

"Can this be exchanged for money?" Gu Fei asked.

"I don't think so." Xiao Yu's gold was only exchanged for rewards when she returned to hand in the quest, and it wasn't clear whether the rewards were money.

A cellar full of gold, but it couldn't be turned into usable currency. This was truly a very painful thing.

Even wanting to take it all away was impossible. Gold was very heavy. Xiao Yu had to carry the previous sack, and Gu Fei could barely walk three steps with it.

"Forget it!" Gu Fei sighed.

Xiao Yu chanted to herself: "It's not gold, it's trash; it's not gold, it's trash; it's not gold, it's trash…"

The two left the cellar. Gu Fei took the Fang of the Wolf King and found the village chief, explaining the whole story.

"It was all Adrian's doing. He used this thing to turn into a werewolf, scaring the villagers into working for him, and even killing Murphy." Gu Fei kept his promise and didn't mention that half of the village was made up of werewolves.

"What a bad guy," the village chief said. "Thanks to you, warrior, you've solved a great crisis in our village. To express my gratitude…" The village chief turned to rummage through a cabinet.

Gu Fei was excited. The reward was coming. His hard work hadn't been in vain.

"Take this piece of clothing!" The village chief turned back and handed Gu Fei a robe, a mage robe.

Gu Fei was extremely disappointed. He was only planning to casually get an ordinary mage robe to disguise himself, but now, after such a difficult quest chain, he was solemnly awarded a mage robe. This was a waste. Gu Fei really hated the mage class. He guessed that the quest reward was based on class. If he were a thief, he would definitely be given a thief's cloak.

"Take it!" The village chief said again. Xiao Yu was anxious: "Take it quickly, what are you doing?"

Gu Fei took it with a bitter face, casually glancing at it.

Moonlit Night Robe, not outstanding in defense, which was a common characteristic of mage robes. Besides that, Intelligence +20, Spell Mastery +1, Spell Attack Damage +10%.

"What's Spell Mastery?" Gu Fei asked while showing it to Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu also shook her head blankly.

It either increased intelligence or spells. It was clearly a famous brand mage outfit, but for him… Gu Fei sighed. But no matter what, it was much better than the newbie robe. Its defense alone was much higher! It was a gold-lettered equipment after all. Gu Fei thought as he put it on. It was all black, embodying the "night" brand characteristics.

"It looks evil," Xiao Yu commented.

Gu Fei was helpless. But then he discovered that the village chief had already given the reward, but the Fang of the Wolf King hadn't been taken away. Gu Fei looked at it. It was still a quest item. *Hmm, could it be that if I take it to the werewolves again, I can get another reward?* Gu Fei's hopes were rekindled.