Since the system became my girlfriend

"What does it say on the letter?" Feng Lixi asked.

"Let me see!" Su Rui said as he opened the letter, only to find it full of gibberish.

Encrypted letter

Note: This is an encrypted letter. From the faint markings on it, it can be discerned that these codes come from Marshal Salo's scout unit—the Wind Chasers!

"It seems we can only find out what's in this letter by finding Marshal Salo first," Su Rui sighed.

“Then let’s go find him!” Feng Lixi said.

"Okay!" Su Rui nodded, then left the village with Feng Lixi and headed south.

"This Shadow of Death must have been a member of the Wind Chasers in life, right?" Su Rui guessed. Every undead was once a living person, and Shadow of Death was no exception. However, Shadow of Death seemed to lack intelligence after becoming an undead, so it was unlikely that it obtained the letter later. Therefore, Su Rui guessed that he was a member of the Wind Chasers when he was alive. Unfortunately, he was killed before he could deliver the letter and became an undead, which is why the letter remained with him.

"Maybe..." Feng Lixi said noncommittally.

The two walked south for about an hour and then came to a valley.

"There are stalkers ahead!" Simige suddenly whispered in Su Rui's ear.

"Oh?!" Su Rui immediately stopped and looked ahead. Sure enough, there were two faint figures approaching him and Feng Lixi.

“I’ll drive them out,” Feng Lixi suddenly said.

"You have area-of-effect skills?" Su Rui was taken aback. You should know that thieves in stealth mode cannot be targeted. Even if you know where they are, you have to use area-of-effect skills to force them out first, otherwise you can't attack them.

"It's a skill from my equipment," Feng Lixi said with a smile. Since players are below level 20, they generally don't have area-of-effect skills. Feng Lixi didn't want to arouse suspicion, so she could only say it was a skill from her equipment. Anyway, she was wearing a full set of rainbow-colored equipment, so it wasn't surprising that she had some area-of-effect skills.

"Oh!" Su Rui nodded, feeling incredibly envious. A whole body full of colorful equipment—what a huge gift!

"Whoosh!" Just then, Feng Lixi waved his hand. All the equipment skills were instantaneous, so there was no need to chant.

With a wave of Feng Lixi's small hand, a golden halo radiated outwards. Immediately afterward, a healing effect and a shield effect appeared above Su Rui's head. At the same time, two damage numbers appeared above the heads of the two stealthy rogue-type NPCs who had already approached from a distance!

-357!

-352!

As the two damage numbers appeared, the two NPCs, both of whom were rogues, revealed themselves.

The shadow of death!

These two monsters, like the ones who ambushed Su Rui before, are both Death Shadows. These are undead creatures that look like wisps of black smoke with arms and legs. They are all rogue-like classes, capable of stealth and ambushes. If an ordinary cloth-wearing player gets the first hit by them, they will be crippled even if they don't die!

Fortunately, these two Death Shadows were not elite monsters, but just ordinary monsters. Otherwise, dealing with two elites at once would have kept Su Rui busy for a while.

But now Su Rui has nothing to worry about. After all, these two monsters are just ordinary monsters, and Feng Lixi has knocked them out of stealth. Thief-type classes that have lost the ability to take the initiative can only use normal attacks, so they are not difficult to deal with.

After applying two Corruption spells, Su Rui didn't bother casting Shadow Bolt. He immediately pulled out his dagger and charged forward, engaging the two monsters in combat. Although there's not much skill involved in fighting NPCs—it's all about trading blows—Su Rui had a priest with him, so he was naturally very confident.

Soon, the two monsters died at his hands, but they only dropped a few copper coins and nothing else.

"Looks like we're almost there!" Su Rui smiled after dealing with the two small monsters. The appearance of the undead monsters meant they were close to finding the undead's lair. Salo had gone to find these guys to take revenge, so finding the undead meant they were almost there.

After confirming that they had not gone the wrong way, Su Rui and Feng Lixi entered the valley hand in hand.

The two of them made their way forward, dealing with many undead monsters along the way. At least half of them were Death Shadows, and there were also a few ghouls and zombies. However, since they were all level 20 monsters, Su Rui easily took them down.

In the valley, Su Rui and Feng Lixi fought monsters as they ventured deeper. The only thing that bothered Su Rui was that there were no other monsters here, only undead creatures. And when the undead died, they only had remains, not corpses. This meant that Su Rui's resurrection skill could not be used, and he could not summon a corpse guard to help him.

As Su Rui and Feng Lixi continued to venture deeper into the valley, the level of the undead monsters gradually increased to level 23. When Su Rui and the others arrived in front of a cave, the undead monster guarding the entrance was already a level 24 elite!

Although Su Rui was already level 19, he still found it difficult to deal with two level 24 elites at the same time, without the help of corpse guards.

"This...is a bit tricky..." Su Rui looked at Feng Lixi. This girl only focused on healing during battles; she rarely participated in fighting monsters. In her words, Su Rui did all the dirty work and hard labor; she didn't participate...

Just as Su Rui was in a dilemma, a figure ran over from a distance, and all the undead creatures in his path were instantly wiped out!

“Salo!” Su Rui recognized Marshal Salo, who was fully armed, at a glance!

"Ha! Mercenaries! I've run into you again!" Salo recognized Su Rui and his companion. These two were the ones who had helped him find his son and send the villagers to Donghai Town. Although his son was already dead when he was found, Salo knew that it wasn't the fault of the two mercenaries in front of him.

"Marshal Salo, we've come specifically to see you!" Su Rui said.

"Looking for me?" Salo was taken aback.

“Yes! Lord Daril of Xuanwu City sent us to see you. He has important matters to discuss with you,” Su Rui said.

“No rush, you guys come with me to take down this undead lair first!” Salo said, drawing his sword.

“Okay!” Su Rui nodded and followed behind Salo.

"Let's go!" Salo roared, then charged into the cave. The two undead elites immediately stepped forward to stop him, but Salo killed them one by one at the entrance with his sword. After all, these two undead elites were only level 24, while Marshal Salo was a level 85 big BOSS!