When I traveled through time and became a player, I just wanted to commit suicide

"Finally escaped!"

Under the warm sunshine, Tifa adjusted her breathing, panting slightly, her vest soaked with sweat.

In the distance, hundreds of meters away, the dark rat tide surged like water waves in the cover of the clouds, daring not to take half a step towards the place where the sun shone.

"Ahem... vomit -"

Eivor, who had just gotten off Basat's back, squatted on the side of the road with a painful expression, retching on the weed-covered ground.

"They seem to be afraid of the sun." Basat said in a low voice while holding the black iron giant sword.

"Ah."

Tifa nodded and looked solemnly at the distant sky.

On the high slopes several miles away, heavy and oppressive dark clouds spread out with Viscount Arman's castle as the center, enveloping a large area of ​​land like a whirlpool.

Those red-eyed Junkrats were moving within the scope of the dark clouds, and they seemed to have already surrounded the entire castle.

"cough......"

Eivor, whose expression softened slightly, stood up, wiped the corners of his mouth, and looked at the strange sky.

"It's not good." He murmured, "Is it Miss Yoni's problem?"

When they were inside the castle before, they were completely unaware of the strange weather. But now that they were far away from the castle, they could clearly see that the sky seemed to be interfered with by extraordinary power.

Abnormally gathering dark clouds, continuous drizzle, and a terrifying tide of rats coming from nowhere...

"Do you want to go back?" Basat asked.

There was blood oozing from many places on his body, which were traces of rat bites.

In the process of escaping, many rats still jumped on him and bit him madly. Although they were thrown away not long after, or were stabbed to death by Eivor with a short dagger, Basat still let Basat Suffered many injuries.

Tifa's condition was much better, with only a few holes in her clothes and a small wound on her palm.

"If we go back, we won't be able to help much." Eivor said with a bitter smile, "And with those crazy rats around, we can't go back either."

Just now, at the last moment, at least tens of thousands of red-eyed mice were chasing them.

If Eivor hadn't hastily thrown out some of the most powerful paralysis potions and stopped most of the rats, they might have been left in the rat tide forever.

"Go back to Farm City."

Tifa made the final decision. She stared at the surging rat tide in the distance, caressing her silver earrings with her left hand, her red eyes showing determination.

This decision surprised both Eivor and Basat. They thought Tifa would choose to go back to find Lithen alone.

With Tifa's skills, although it is difficult to cross the rat tide, it is not completely impossible.

"This is very close to Farm City, and the cloud may continue to expand."

Tifayan explained briefly and concisely.

She remembered what Lithern had entrusted to her: to help take care of Alice and the others.

"If the clouds spread, the rat tide will also spread to Farm City..."

Eivor instantly understood what Tifa meant.

"You are right, we should go back. This matter must be reported to the Extraordinary Guild." He showed a serious expression, "Let them pay attention to it and send more people. This is much better than us trying to show off ourselves."

"I just hope Lithen and the others can hold on..."

......

Li Shanren stared blankly into the void, looking a little dull.

He was looking at the dark gold personal panel. All the rats that died in the warehouse just now provided him with a total of more than a thousand runes. Calculated based on the fact that each rat could grab one or two runes at most, the rats that died inside would be at least Thousands.

【Name】: Li Shanren

[Race]: Ordinary human

[Level]: 26

[Equipment]: Stargazer suit, meteorite staff, King's Army straight sword (blood)

[Amulet]: Fire Dragon Emblem Amulet

[Magic]: Pyroxene Magic Gravel, Pyroxene Arc, Rock Ball

[Prayer]: None

[Combat Skill]: Blood Slash

【Rune】：11

[Experience required to reach the next level]: 847

Counting the remaining runes, Li Shanren upgraded himself two more levels, this time raising his intelligence from "18" to "20".

He plans to give priority to improving the intelligence attribute to "23" next, which will be related to the mage-oriented melee weapon he will obtain in the future. 23 points of intelligence is one of the equipment conditions of that weapon.

At the same time, intelligence is also the attribute most directly related to his strength, and it is not a loss if it is improved.

Now, his attributes are as follows——

【Life】: 7

[Endurance]: 7

【Focus】：16

[Strength]: 10

【Dexterity】：10

[Intelligence]: 20

【Belief】：7

[Perception]: 7

"The health and stamina attributes are a bit low. You can consider raising these two items later. You have to raise them to 10 points first."

Li Shanren silently planned the next series of strategies to add points.

The endurance attribute is essentially the upper limit of his physical strength. If the endurance is increased, it will not be easy for him to fall into a state of exhaustion like today.

Closing the dark gold interface, Li Shanren looked at Dylanner and Butler Kate a few steps away.

The two were in a dispute, which had been going on for quite some time.

"This fire cannot be extinguished. It had better stay burning until at least tomorrow morning."

"Mr. Direnner, the castle doesn't have that much firewood to waste! Don't you have any other plans?"

"Sorry, if I don't want those mice to crawl out again, this is the only way I can think of."

"Mr. Direnner, Viscount Arman entrusted you with the task of defending the castle, not just to hear what you said." The old butler raised his voice.

"Then you go ask other people! Sorry, I have to continue to investigate today's death. Forgive me that I can't stay here too long, but I must tell you that if the rat tide starts again because the flames go out, I, Dillenna Gaitan, will not be held responsible for this."

As soon as he finished saying this, Dillenna walked up to Li Shanren with a cold expression, "Follow me and take you to the next place."

Li Shanren smiled at the unhappy housekeeper Kate, and then left behind Direnner.

The silver-haired old butler stood in front of the burning warehouse, watching the backs of the two people silently. The firelight only illuminated the left half of his face, while the right half of his face was slightly dim, making him look a little uncertain.

On the way to the castle, Li Shanren asked: "Are we leaving like this? Is it okay?"

"The rats have gone back to their holes, and there's no point in us staying there," Dillenna said in an emotionless tone.

"Oh, that's right."

Li Shanren smiled softly, and then glanced behind him as if nothing had happened. There was a slender figure who seemed to be following them secretly.

"Aren't you going to take care of it? Just let her follow you?" He looked at Direnna and asked.

Dillenna stopped and exhaled heavily, a trace of helplessness flashed across his face.

"Fuya!" He turned around and looked at the figure hiding behind the shadow of the bushes, "Come out!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a beautiful female archer with long light brown hair walked out of the shadows hesitantly, lowered her head and came to Direnna, and glanced at her captain anxiously.

"Don't follow us anymore." Dillenna said calmly, "Go back and garrison with the others."

"But, captain..." Fuya looked at Li Shanren with defensive eyes, "I don't feel comfortable having this magician alone with you."

Li Shanren twitched his lips, feeling confused. Did I do anything extraordinary?

If it was what happened in the hall before, then you were the one who took action first, okay?

If it weren't for Tifa, I would have almost lost half my life by your arrow!

"No need to worry," Direnner said. "He can be trusted for the time being."

Li Shanren looked at Dilenna with some surprise. He didn't know when he had raised the level of trust in Dilenna's heart. Could it be because they fought together briefly just now?

"If he wanted to attack me, he had many opportunities when we were alone together." Dillenna said pointedly.

Li Shanren's eyelids twitched slightly and he cursed, no wonder this man had acted unprepared many times before. It turned out to be a test...

The female archer seemed a little anxious when she heard that her captain had actually been alone with this dangerous magician for some time.

"Captain, I discussed it with Ryan and the others, and they agreed to let me stay with you for the time being."

Fuya took half a step forward, faintly separating Li Shanren and Dillenna.

"Anyway, for your safety, I must follow you, we have lost Irina!"

Dillenna frowned, looking at Fuya's stubborn look, he could only shake his head slightly, "Okay, you can follow us."

Then, he looked at Li Shanren and said, "You don't mind, do you?"

"It's up to me. Even if you bring the whole team, I have no problem with it."

Li Shanren looked indifferent.

He is now purely barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes. He is already prepared to die in this castle fortress. No matter what happens, he will not particularly care.

The exception is being chewed alive by rats into skeletons...

"Let's go then."

Dillenna turned and led the way.

The female archer followed closely, looking back at Li Shanren from time to time, her eyes full of vigilance and precaution.

Li Shanren, who had already put away the meteorite staff, spread out his empty hands and smiled at her without saying anything, looking innocent.

Fuya snorted coldly and turned her head away.

Li Shanren touched his nose and felt a little dumbfounded.

It wasn't that he was showing favor to the female archer. She didn't want to see him if she didn't want to see her, and he didn't particularly care.

Li Shanren just hoped that she would stop focusing on herself and pay more attention to the potential enemies in the castle.