Under Song Yun’s gradually terrified expression, the pitchfork pierced his skin bit by bit.
The pain, accompanied by the fear of death, tormented Song Yun both physically and mentally.
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People in the live broadcast room held their breath.
This was the first time they had seen Bai Lixin subjectively want to kill a player.
But even so, they didn’t feel anything was wrong, instead, they felt it was right.
[Good people are easily bullied, if God Xin doesn’t show his power, do they really think he’s someone they can easily manipulate?]
[Kill him! I support God Xin’s actions. Some people don’t even see themselves as human, so it’s right to use a chicken to scare the monkeys.]
[Go, God Xin!]
[People from the Shentian Guild should be watching now. What expressions do you think they have seeing their own people being killed by the prey they wanted to hunt? Anger? Shock? Or embarrassment?]
[The Shentian Guild used this method to oppress other players before, and it’s always been effective. They probably didn’t expect someone to defy them to this extent. Serves them right. God Xin is different from those before, okay? Deserved it.]
[God Xin even pointed out their names to the sky—the Shentian Guild, the guild leaders, the alliance, and even the Little Overlord. Killing this Song Yun isn’t because of personal grudges, it’s just a warning to the Shentian Guild.]
On a certain high level floor beyond the reach of ordinary players, there was a magnificent palace-level guild.
At this moment, several people were sitting in front of a large screen. One of them, a young man with an arrogant expression, looked at the enlarged handsome face on the screen with a murderous look in his eyes, grinding his teeth.
In the live broadcast, Bai Lixin ignored Song Yun’s screams. Song Yun’s neck had already oozed a layer of terrifying crimson lines. The bright red color flowed into the collarbone along his neck, staining his light-colored sweater red. The collision of dark red and light brown looked both glaring and bloody.
“Listen.” Bai Lixin looked up at the sky with cold eyes, his expression serious and solemn. “I know many people are still watching my live broadcast. In that case, I have a few words to say.”
“I, Bai Lixin, hereby announce that from today onwards, I will target every player of the Shentian Guild and its allies.”
All the viewers in the live broadcast room were stunned for several seconds. They never expected that such words would come out of Bai Lixin’s mouth.
Targeting the Shentian Guild and its allies?
Isn’t this God Xin sniping those who want to snipe him?
Damn it, pursuit and counter-pursuit? Brilliant! Too brilliant!
God Xin’s move was too high.
Humans are creatures who seek benefits and avoid harm. There are no permanent enemies, only permanent interests.
Many people, in order to obtain the benefits they want, build opportunities for common goals and communication by targeting a unified opponent.
Is their real goal this opponent? No, it’s the benefit.
It’s like a strange phenomenon among some young children. Everyone directs their hostility towards one child, doing things that hurt this child, as if this child has committed some unforgivable crime.
But in fact, the vast majority of them have never met or even know this child. They do this just to integrate into another group.
And that attacked child becomes the tragic victim of bullying.
Bai Lixin’s current situation was similar to that of the bullied child, except… God Xin was too awesome that no one could equate him with the bullied, let alone now he that he was taking the initiative to declare war on the Shentian Guild in front of everyone.
[I have a bold idea. Perhaps God Xin planned this from the beginning. If God Xin directly declared war on the Shentian Guild in the game lobby, the publicity would definitely not be as strong as now in this copy where so many people are watching. He deliberately announced the time he entered the copy, pulling the Shentian Guild and their lackeys into the same copy. In this way, people from the Shentian Guild and its allies would pay attention to this copy, as well as players who are watching the excitement. The attention would be unprecedentedly high. God Xin must have thought of this. ]
[Declaring war under this exposure and killing chicken to scare monkeys is like publicly stripping off the Shentian Guild l’s clothes and parading them in public.]
[God Xin is really daring. Is there anything in this world that you’re afraid of?]
[If it’s really as the brother said earlier, then God Xin is too handsome! Single-handedly confronting the omnipotent Shentian Guild. In my mind, he has become the man who uses leverage to move the planet.]
[God Xin, you’re so cool, I love you!!! You’re my dream lover!!!]
[Hey, don’t say this, be careful not to make the big boss jealous.]
[I think the big boss doesn’t even consider us or regard us as opponents.]
[Although your words are true, it hurts, brother.]
On the scene, Bai Lixin continued to address the sky.
“My targeting is not limited to just copies. If I meet you in the game lobby, I will kill you.”
“I, Bai Lixin, never speak empty words. I do what I say.”
Upon hearing this, the audience watching the live broadcast erupted once again.
[What does this mean? Can you also kill in the game lobby? Is that possible?]
[This is God Xin, what’s impossible for him? He can carry out such a slaughter in a ‘non-player attack’ copy, maybe he can do it in the game lobby too.]
[So during the fifteen days Bai Lixin disappeared, he had actually gone out to get some cheats?]
[Amazing, God Xin’s move is truly cutting off the enemy’s retreat. If they are ruthless, then I’ll be even more ruthless, making others have no way to go. While the Shentian Guild threatens to kill members and allies of the Core Fire Guild in copies, God Xin went even further, directly unleashing a massacre in the game lobby. Compared to killing in the copy, God Xin’s move is even more terrifying. As long as he can find a player in the game lobby, he can take their life on the spot.]
[Hahaha, so thrilling, so cool. I’m so excited, family. Well done, God Xin. My biggest misunderstanding of God Xin was that he’s a kind and beautiful person. It turns out God Xin can be so ruthless and wild. I love this kind of God Xin too.]
[God Xin can be kind towards anyone, but if someone harms his friends and followers, they should be prepared to face God Xin’s wrath. God Xin feels so secure. With such a leader, who wouldn’t say they’re lucky? I also want to entrust myself to such a leader, at least I don’t have to worry about being used as a stepping stone for someone else’s success, becoming a sacrifice for others to succeed.]
[Now that you mention it, I suddenly remember, didn’t God Xin enter the undead copy at the very beginning and save the already dead Zhou Guang? He probably didn’t accidentally enter that copy, but deliberately entered it to save Zhou Guang.]
[No wonder a decisive and smart person like Zhou Guang dotes so much on God Xin. He even gave God Xin the guild he diligently maintained. It turns out there is a reason behind it. If I were Zhou Guang, I would do the same.]
[Not only Zhou Guang, but also Xia Chi, Li Cancan, and Liang Xi, God Xin has been very helpful to them along the way.]
[Looking back at the Shentian Guild. Song Yun would rather die than reveal information about the guild. One can imagine how ruthless the people in the Shentian Guild are, scarier than death itself.]
[On one hand, there’s God Xin who helps everyone around him with all his might, and on the other hand, there’s the Shentian Guild that suppresses its members with tyrannical methods. Comparing the two, only a fool would choose wrong, right?]
[Yes, God Xin’s declaration today completely shattered the Shentian Guild’s oppressive advantage. Now the Shentian Guild and the Core Fire Guild are already standing at opposite ends as equals.]
[Awesome, have you noticed that God Xin only used one move and destroyed the dignity the Shentian Guild has built for so long? Now the image of the Shentian Guild is in jeopardy, and it’s definitely been questioned by many players. I guess this is what God Xin wants to see. It seems he not only wants his own safety, but also wants to pull the Shentian Guild down from its high position.]
[Whatever he wants, I’ll give it to him!!!! (loud screams!!!) God Xin, you’re so handsome, I want to join you!! Let me join you!!!]
The Shentian Guild did not expect the situation to develop in this direction, especially the guild leader of the Shentian Guild. He was now extremely irritated, feeling as if he’d eaten bitter melon.
After years of hunting, today they were instead pecked in the eyes by the geese.
Under his management, the Shentian Guild was mysterious and legendary.
It was the first guild of the horror game, with many wonderful stories passed down by people.
It can be said that the Shentian Guild is the ancient white moonlight in the minds of players.
It sits high on the throne, let alone other guilds shaking its position, even mentioning it in the same breath is not worthy.
But Bai Lixin shamelessly provoked the Shentian Guild like this.
He stepped on the Shentian Guild’s face and stood on the opposite side of it. He just burst into everyone’s sight and became an opponent equal to the Shentian Guild.
The Shentian Guild has always used other guilds as stepping stones. Today, it was unexpectedly used as a stepping stone by such a little brat.
It was frustrating.
This player named Bai Lixin was not only difficult to deal with but also particularly cunning.
A fox that has been practicing for thousands of years probably doesn’t have as many tricks up its sleeve as he does, they were as numerous as a beehive.
Why be so cunning?!
On a certain floor of the tower, the door of a familiar hall was tightly closed.
Inside the door, it was crowded with people.
In the hall, in various rooms, wherever there were seats, there were many people gathered around.
Each person had at least one computer in front of them, their fingers tapping on the keyboard quickly, and lines of text appearing on the barrage of the live broadcast screen one after another.
A sharp-eyed, beautiful woman patrolled the crowded hall, holding a loudspeaker in one hand and a tablet in the other. Nine live broadcast screens were simultaneously displayed on the tablet screen.
She watched the dynamics in the live broadcast room while speaking into the loudspeaker.
“Good, the taunting group is doing a good job, keep stirring up public opinion.”
“The nostalgia group shouldn’t fall behind either, quickly send out all of God Xin’s other deeds and pull public opinion over!”
“The forum group shouldn’t slack off either, it will be over soon! We can see the dawn of victory.”
“This is a war without gunpowder. While Bai Lixin fights in the copy, we fight outside. Whether we can pull the Shentian Guild down from its pedestal depends on us! In this battle, there is no failure, only success is allowed!”
A steaming cup of water was placed in front of the woman. Just as she finished speaking, her eyes instinctively followed the cup of water, shifting to a gentle and refreshing smiling face.
Sun Ning was stunned for a moment. “Cancan?”
Li Cancan raised the water cup high, bringing it close to Sun Ning’s face. “You’ve been shouting for hours, even a rooster would lose its voice. Have some water to moisten your throat.”
Sun Ning swallowed, and found that her throat was indeed dry.
She looked at her hands that were holding things and shook her head helplessly. “Put it aside for now. I’ll drink it after I finish the work at hand.”
Li Cancan raised her eyebrows, not allowing any objections as she brought the water cup even closer to Sun Ning’s lips. “That won’t do! If I listen to you now, you’ll forget again, and in the end, you won’t drink anything. I won’t listen to you this time. Since your hands are busy, I’ll hold it for you. You must finish it, otherwise, I won’t take the cup away.”
White steam rose from the cup of water.
Looking through the white mist, Sun Ning felt that Li Can Can’s already beautiful face was even more charming.
She blushed slightly, hurriedly lowering her head to take a sip.
Seeing this, the smile in Li Cancan’s eyes increased.
She slowly raised the water cup, and watched as Sun Ning drank the water obediently. Then she took back the cup with satisfaction and raised her hand to pat Sun Ning’s shoulder, “Sister Ning, you are so good and obedient.”
Sun Ning felt even more embarrassed.
Being praised as “obedient” by a girl several years younger than herself felt really subtle.
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After making the declaration of war, Bai Lixin stopped looking at the sky and turned to look at Song Yun.
At this moment, Song Yun was barely clinging to life.
If he couldn’t see that Bai Lixin was determined to take his life, then his years of wandering have been in vain.
Song Yun lifted his head and opened his mouth to speak to Bai Lixin, but only emitted a few vague whimpers.
The pitchfork cut Song Yun’s throat, damaging his vocal cords.
He could no longer make any sound.
Bai Lixin stared at his mouth, vaguely understanding what he was trying to express from his moving lips.
—I won’t spare you even after I become a ghost.
Bai Lixin: “…”
Until this time, he had been asking for the secrets of the Shentian Guild, but now he was suddenly interested in the methods of the Shentian Guild.
What kind of methods could make such a selfish person refuse to yield even in the face of death?
With Song Yun barely holding on, an unexpected event occurred.
A cold electric current sounded above their heads, simultaneously entering Bai Lixin and all the players’ minds.
[Ding! Player Song Yun pushed other players to block the blade. According to the system’s judgement, this action triggers the behavior of ‘harming other players,’ and Player Song Yun will be punished by the system.]
[Punishment method: Decapitation.]
[Punishment will be carried out after a three second countdown. All players, please step back to prevent accidental injury.]
Bai Lixin paused.
Other players froze.
Even the involved party, Song Yun, was dumbfounded.
Song Yun’s mud-stained face twisted, looking like he wanted to cry and laugh at the same time.
In the end, he neither cried nor laughed, but instead formed a strange, crooked expression.
He probably didn’t expect that his death would be in such demand, with so many forces vying to kill him.
The countdown begun to echo in everyone’s minds. Other players lying on the ground silently watched the miserable Song Yun, unsure whether it was in anticipation or simply confusion.
[3.]
Bai Lixin glanced at the Black Scarecrow.
The system continued its cold countdown: [2.]
The Black Scarecrow didn’t step back. Instead, it quickly raised the pitchfork, sharply piercing Song Yun’s neck. The sharp pitchfork stabbed through Song Yun’s fragile collarbone, with the gleaming blade entering and the red blood coming out.
Song Yun’s pupils suddenly contracted and then rapidly dilated.
He opened his mouth wide, looking at Bai Lixin in disbelief.
[…] The final countdown didn’t end, and the sound of the system’s electric current crackled several times. [It was detected that the punished Song Yun has lost his vital signs. System punishment is over.]
[At present, the game has now entered the fifth day, with nine players remaining. I wish all players a pleasant game.]
[Please follow the game rules carefully and refrain from any behaviors that violate the rules.]
[I look forward to our next meeting, goodbye.]
The players lying on the ground pretending to be dead looked at each other, and saw the despair and helplessness in each other’s eyes.
‘You retarded system!
You still say “refrain from any behaviors that violate the rules,” but the most brutal “rule-breaking” behavior is happening right under your nose!’
‘Are you blind?
You can detect Song Yun’s rule breaking, but you can’t detect Bai Lixin?
Are our injuries all in vain?!’
‘System, you’re blind.’
Bai Lixin glanced at the seven people lying on the ground, and everyone immediately shrank their necks, pretending to be even more dead.
Song Yun was dead, would the next one be them?
But Bai Lixin didn’t lay a hand on them, he just looked down on them like a victorious warrior surveying the remnants of his battlefield. Then he turned and walked away with the three monsters and two men without any hesitation.
Even as their figures melted into the darkness, Bai Lixin didn’t look back at them once.
One of the seven quickly struggled to support himself and took out a healing card from his backpack to treat himself.
Seeing this, the others followed suit, and for a while, the area was filled with green light.
After they recovered, the seven of them collapsed on the ground panting. Only then did they realize that they were all soaked in sweat and in a sorry state.
Having survived the ordeal, they all felt a wave of relief.
“Ah!” someone exclaimed, and everyone’s gaze immediately shifted to that person.
The person’s face turned slightly pale. “I just entered the answer ‘clock’ and found out it was wrong.”
Everyone’s expressions changed accordingly.
One of them opened the taskbar.
[Task One: Survive for five days and five nights. (Four days and four nights have been completed so far, with 11 hours, 18 minutes, and 21 seconds remaining until the end of the game.)]
[Task Two: Find the real culprit who stole the Kiss of the Crown: _____ (Two more chances to fill in the answer, total of three chances.)]
The person who initially screamed gritted his teeth and clenched his fist. “The answer ‘clock’ is wrong. I only have one chance left now. Whoever still has a chance, try something else.”
Someone asked, “Try what?”
Someone suggested, “Time monster?”
“We need to first determine how many more chances we have for trial and error, and then decide on each person entering an answer. Otherwise, we’ll waste our chances.”
“But can this prevent conspiracies? What if someone’s answer is correct, but they intentionally tell us it’s wrong, causing us to miss the correct answer, while they enjoy it alone?”
“How could there be such a person?” someone retorted loudly. “We are comrades from the same camp. How could anyone harm their own people?”
“Why not?” someone sneered. “Didn’t Song Yun always claim he would give us the best? When it came to the end, he used his teammates as human shields? And this kind of lying is different from Song Yun’s behavior. Lying is tiptoeing at the edge, it is not considered a true ‘harm to players,’ so it won’t be punished by the system.”
“If more people fail, doesn’t that mean less people competing for the bonus in the copy? Doesn’t it mean you can enjoy it alone? If one of us happens to have such a thought and happens to fill in the correct answer, then we will all miss the correct answer, and it would all be in vain.”
Several people who were originally eager to cooperate suddenly woke up as if from a dream after hearing these words. They looked around vigilantly, quietly retreating and widening the distance between themselves and others.
It’s difficult to build a solid team, but it’s easy to break one apart. Doubt, selfishness, greed, baseless suspicion spread and even without any external force, it would collapse from within as easily as crumbling earth and collapsing bricks.
The team of seven, without the original leader Song Yun, quickly fell apart without any outside interference. From people who could cooperate with each other, they turned into individuals who trusted each other the least.
They looked at each other, each harboring sinister intentions, and for a long time, no one spoke.
The scene was extremely awkward.
The sound of patrolling footsteps in the distance pulled them back from this awkwardness to reality. Someone took the opportunity to change the subject, “An NPC is coming over. Let’s leave here first and talk about the answers later.”
Everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief, as if they had found their own way out.
No one objected. They nodded quietly, turned, and ran towards the alley.
But as they ran, one person turned and started running in another direction.
Then the second person, the third person…
Finally, this team completely disbanded.
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In the live broadcast room, there was a wave of sighs.
[God Xin didn’t take action against them, did he already anticipate this outcome?]
[Building something is difficult, but destroying something is easy. It’s so ironic. I’ve learned a lesson today.]
[This is reality. Most ordinary people are selfish but blind. This ending is unexpected yet within reason.]
[It’s ironic. An hour ago, these people were united in thinking about how to harm God Xin, but in the blink of an eye, they fell apart like a ball of loose sand. ]
Under Song Yun’s gradually terrified expression, the pitchfork pierced his skin bit by bit.
The pain, accompanied by the fear of death, tormented Song Yun both physically and mentally.
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People in the live broadcast room held their breath.
This was the first time they had seen Bai Lixin subjectively want to kill a player.
But even so, they didn’t feel anything was wrong, instead, they felt it was right.
[Good people are easily bullied, if God Xin doesn’t show his power, do they really think he’s someone they can easily manipulate?]
[Kill him! I support God Xin’s actions. Some people don’t even see themselves as human, so it’s right to use a chicken to scare the monkeys.]
[Go, God Xin!]
[People from the Shentian Guild should be watching now. What expressions do you think they have seeing their own people being killed by the prey they wanted to hunt? Anger? Shock? Or embarrassment?]
[The Shentian Guild used this method to oppress other players before, and it’s always been effective. They probably didn’t expect someone to defy them to this extent. Serves them right. God Xin is different from those before, okay? Deserved it.]
[God Xin even pointed out their names to the sky—the Shentian Guild, the guild leaders, the alliance, and even the Little Overlord. Killing this Song Yun isn’t because of personal grudges, it’s just a warning to the Shentian Guild.]
On a certain high level floor beyond the reach of ordinary players, there was a magnificent palace-level guild.
At this moment, several people were sitting in front of a large screen. One of them, a young man with an arrogant expression, looked at the enlarged handsome face on the screen with a murderous look in his eyes, grinding his teeth.
In the live broadcast, Bai Lixin ignored Song Yun’s screams. Song Yun’s neck had already oozed a layer of terrifying crimson lines. The bright red color flowed into the collarbone along his neck, staining his light-colored sweater red. The collision of dark red and light brown looked both glaring and bloody.
“Listen.” Bai Lixin looked up at the sky with cold eyes, his expression serious and solemn. “I know many people are still watching my live broadcast. In that case, I have a few words to say.”
“I, Bai Lixin, hereby announce that from today onwards, I will target every player of the Shentian Guild and its allies.”
All the viewers in the live broadcast room were stunned for several seconds. They never expected that such words would come out of Bai Lixin’s mouth.
Targeting the Shentian Guild and its allies?
Isn’t this God Xin sniping those who want to snipe him?
Damn it, pursuit and counter-pursuit? Brilliant! Too brilliant!
God Xin’s move was too high.
Humans are creatures who seek benefits and avoid harm. There are no permanent enemies, only permanent interests.
Many people, in order to obtain the benefits they want, build opportunities for common goals and communication by targeting a unified opponent.
Is their real goal this opponent? No, it’s the benefit.
It’s like a strange phenomenon among some young children. Everyone directs their hostility towards one child, doing things that hurt this child, as if this child has committed some unforgivable crime.
But in fact, the vast majority of them have never met or even know this child. They do this just to integrate into another group.
And that attacked child becomes the tragic victim of bullying.
Bai Lixin’s current situation was similar to that of the bullied child, except… God Xin was too awesome that no one could equate him with the bullied, let alone now he that he was taking the initiative to declare war on the Shentian Guild in front of everyone.
[I have a bold idea. Perhaps God Xin planned this from the beginning. If God Xin directly declared war on the Shentian Guild in the game lobby, the publicity would definitely not be as strong as now in this copy where so many people are watching. He deliberately announced the time he entered the copy, pulling the Shentian Guild and their lackeys into the same copy. In this way, people from the Shentian Guild and its allies would pay attention to this copy, as well as players who are watching the excitement. The attention would be unprecedentedly high. God Xin must have thought of this. ]
[Declaring war under this exposure and killing chicken to scare monkeys is like publicly stripping off the Shentian Guild l’s clothes and parading them in public.]
[God Xin is really daring. Is there anything in this world that you’re afraid of?]
[If it’s really as the brother said earlier, then God Xin is too handsome! Single-handedly confronting the omnipotent Shentian Guild. In my mind, he has become the man who uses leverage to move the planet.]
[God Xin, you’re so cool, I love you!!! You’re my dream lover!!!]
[Hey, don’t say this, be careful not to make the big boss jealous.]
[I think the big boss doesn’t even consider us or regard us as opponents.]
[Although your words are true, it hurts, brother.]
On the scene, Bai Lixin continued to address the sky.
“My targeting is not limited to just copies. If I meet you in the game lobby, I will kill you.”
“I, Bai Lixin, never speak empty words. I do what I say.”
Upon hearing this, the audience watching the live broadcast erupted once again.
[What does this mean? Can you also kill in the game lobby? Is that possible?]
[This is God Xin, what’s impossible for him? He can carry out such a slaughter in a ‘non-player attack’ copy, maybe he can do it in the game lobby too.]
[So during the fifteen days Bai Lixin disappeared, he had actually gone out to get some cheats?]
[Amazing, God Xin’s move is truly cutting off the enemy’s retreat. If they are ruthless, then I’ll be even more ruthless, making others have no way to go. While the Shentian Guild threatens to kill members and allies of the Core Fire Guild in copies, God Xin went even further, directly unleashing a massacre in the game lobby. Compared to killing in the copy, God Xin’s move is even more terrifying. As long as he can find a player in the game lobby, he can take their life on the spot.]
[Hahaha, so thrilling, so cool. I’m so excited, family. Well done, God Xin. My biggest misunderstanding of God Xin was that he’s a kind and beautiful person. It turns out God Xin can be so ruthless and wild. I love this kind of God Xin too.]
[God Xin can be kind towards anyone, but if someone harms his friends and followers, they should be prepared to face God Xin’s wrath. God Xin feels so secure. With such a leader, who wouldn’t say they’re lucky? I also want to entrust myself to such a leader, at least I don’t have to worry about being used as a stepping stone for someone else’s success, becoming a sacrifice for others to succeed.]
[Now that you mention it, I suddenly remember, didn’t God Xin enter the undead copy at the very beginning and save the already dead Zhou Guang? He probably didn’t accidentally enter that copy, but deliberately entered it to save Zhou Guang.]
[No wonder a decisive and smart person like Zhou Guang dotes so much on God Xin. He even gave God Xin the guild he diligently maintained. It turns out there is a reason behind it. If I were Zhou Guang, I would do the same.]
[Not only Zhou Guang, but also Xia Chi, Li Cancan, and Liang Xi, God Xin has been very helpful to them along the way.]
[Looking back at the Shentian Guild. Song Yun would rather die than reveal information about the guild. One can imagine how ruthless the people in the Shentian Guild are, scarier than death itself.]
[On one hand, there’s God Xin who helps everyone around him with all his might, and on the other hand, there’s the Shentian Guild that suppresses its members with tyrannical methods. Comparing the two, only a fool would choose wrong, right?]
[Yes, God Xin’s declaration today completely shattered the Shentian Guild’s oppressive advantage. Now the Shentian Guild and the Core Fire Guild are already standing at opposite ends as equals.]
[Awesome, have you noticed that God Xin only used one move and destroyed the dignity the Shentian Guild has built for so long? Now the image of the Shentian Guild is in jeopardy, and it’s definitely been questioned by many players. I guess this is what God Xin wants to see. It seems he not only wants his own safety, but also wants to pull the Shentian Guild down from its high position.]
[Whatever he wants, I’ll give it to him!!!! (loud screams!!!) God Xin, you’re so handsome, I want to join you!! Let me join you!!!]
The Shentian Guild did not expect the situation to develop in this direction, especially the guild leader of the Shentian Guild. He was now extremely irritated, feeling as if he’d eaten bitter melon.
After years of hunting, today they were instead pecked in the eyes by the geese.
Under his management, the Shentian Guild was mysterious and legendary.
It was the first guild of the horror game, with many wonderful stories passed down by people.
It can be said that the Shentian Guild is the ancient white moonlight in the minds of players.
It sits high on the throne, let alone other guilds shaking its position, even mentioning it in the same breath is not worthy.
But Bai Lixin shamelessly provoked the Shentian Guild like this.
He stepped on the Shentian Guild’s face and stood on the opposite side of it. He just burst into everyone’s sight and became an opponent equal to the Shentian Guild.
The Shentian Guild has always used other guilds as stepping stones. Today, it was unexpectedly used as a stepping stone by such a little brat.
It was frustrating.
This player named Bai Lixin was not only difficult to deal with but also particularly cunning.
A fox that has been practicing for thousands of years probably doesn’t have as many tricks up its sleeve as he does, they were as numerous as a beehive.
Why be so cunning?!
On a certain floor of the tower, the door of a familiar hall was tightly closed.
Inside the door, it was crowded with people.
In the hall, in various rooms, wherever there were seats, there were many people gathered around.
Each person had at least one computer in front of them, their fingers tapping on the keyboard quickly, and lines of text appearing on the barrage of the live broadcast screen one after another.
A sharp-eyed, beautiful woman patrolled the crowded hall, holding a loudspeaker in one hand and a tablet in the other. Nine live broadcast screens were simultaneously displayed on the tablet screen.
She watched the dynamics in the live broadcast room while speaking into the loudspeaker.
“Good, the taunting group is doing a good job, keep stirring up public opinion.”
“The nostalgia group shouldn’t fall behind either, quickly send out all of God Xin’s other deeds and pull public opinion over!”
“The forum group shouldn’t slack off either, it will be over soon! We can see the dawn of victory.”
“This is a war without gunpowder. While Bai Lixin fights in the copy, we fight outside. Whether we can pull the Shentian Guild down from its pedestal depends on us! In this battle, there is no failure, only success is allowed!”
A steaming cup of water was placed in front of the woman. Just as she finished speaking, her eyes instinctively followed the cup of water, shifting to a gentle and refreshing smiling face.
Sun Ning was stunned for a moment. “Cancan?”
Li Cancan raised the water cup high, bringing it close to Sun Ning’s face. “You’ve been shouting for hours, even a rooster would lose its voice. Have some water to moisten your throat.”
Sun Ning swallowed, and found that her throat was indeed dry.
She looked at her hands that were holding things and shook her head helplessly. “Put it aside for now. I’ll drink it after I finish the work at hand.”
Li Cancan raised her eyebrows, not allowing any objections as she brought the water cup even closer to Sun Ning’s lips. “That won’t do! If I listen to you now, you’ll forget again, and in the end, you won’t drink anything. I won’t listen to you this time. Since your hands are busy, I’ll hold it for you. You must finish it, otherwise, I won’t take the cup away.”
White steam rose from the cup of water.
Looking through the white mist, Sun Ning felt that Li Can Can’s already beautiful face was even more charming.
She blushed slightly, hurriedly lowering her head to take a sip.
Seeing this, the smile in Li Cancan’s eyes increased.
She slowly raised the water cup, and watched as Sun Ning drank the water obediently. Then she took back the cup with satisfaction and raised her hand to pat Sun Ning’s shoulder, “Sister Ning, you are so good and obedient.”
Sun Ning felt even more embarrassed.
Being praised as “obedient” by a girl several years younger than herself felt really subtle.
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After making the declaration of war, Bai Lixin stopped looking at the sky and turned to look at Song Yun.
At this moment, Song Yun was barely clinging to life.
If he couldn’t see that Bai Lixin was determined to take his life, then his years of wandering have been in vain.
Song Yun lifted his head and opened his mouth to speak to Bai Lixin, but only emitted a few vague whimpers.
The pitchfork cut Song Yun’s throat, damaging his vocal cords.
He could no longer make any sound.
Bai Lixin stared at his mouth, vaguely understanding what he was trying to express from his moving lips.
—I won’t spare you even after I become a ghost.
Bai Lixin: “…”
Until this time, he had been asking for the secrets of the Shentian Guild, but now he was suddenly interested in the methods of the Shentian Guild.
What kind of methods could make such a selfish person refuse to yield even in the face of death?
With Song Yun barely holding on, an unexpected event occurred.
A cold electric current sounded above their heads, simultaneously entering Bai Lixin and all the players’ minds.
[Ding! Player Song Yun pushed other players to block the blade. According to the system’s judgement, this action triggers the behavior of ‘harming other players,’ and Player Song Yun will be punished by the system.]
[Punishment method: Decapitation.]
[Punishment will be carried out after a three second countdown. All players, please step back to prevent accidental injury.]
Bai Lixin paused.
Other players froze.
Even the involved party, Song Yun, was dumbfounded.
Song Yun’s mud-stained face twisted, looking like he wanted to cry and laugh at the same time.
In the end, he neither cried nor laughed, but instead formed a strange, crooked expression.
He probably didn’t expect that his death would be in such demand, with so many forces vying to kill him.
The countdown begun to echo in everyone’s minds. Other players lying on the ground silently watched the miserable Song Yun, unsure whether it was in anticipation or simply confusion.
[3.]
Bai Lixin glanced at the Black Scarecrow.
The system continued its cold countdown: [2.]
The Black Scarecrow didn’t step back. Instead, it quickly raised the pitchfork, sharply piercing Song Yun’s neck. The sharp pitchfork stabbed through Song Yun’s fragile collarbone, with the gleaming blade entering and the red blood coming out.
Song Yun’s pupils suddenly contracted and then rapidly dilated.
He opened his mouth wide, looking at Bai Lixin in disbelief.
[…] The final countdown didn’t end, and the sound of the system’s electric current crackled several times. [It was detected that the punished Song Yun has lost his vital signs. System punishment is over.]
[At present, the game has now entered the fifth day, with nine players remaining. I wish all players a pleasant game.]
[Please follow the game rules carefully and refrain from any behaviors that violate the rules.]
[I look forward to our next meeting, goodbye.]
The players lying on the ground pretending to be dead looked at each other, and saw the despair and helplessness in each other’s eyes.
‘You retarded system!
You still say “refrain from any behaviors that violate the rules,” but the most brutal “rule-breaking” behavior is happening right under your nose!’
‘Are you blind?
You can detect Song Yun’s rule breaking, but you can’t detect Bai Lixin?
Are our injuries all in vain?!’
‘System, you’re blind.’
Bai Lixin glanced at the seven people lying on the ground, and everyone immediately shrank their necks, pretending to be even more dead.
Song Yun was dead, would the next one be them?
But Bai Lixin didn’t lay a hand on them, he just looked down on them like a victorious warrior surveying the remnants of his battlefield. Then he turned and walked away with the three monsters and two men without any hesitation.
Even as their figures melted into the darkness, Bai Lixin didn’t look back at them once.
One of the seven quickly struggled to support himself and took out a healing card from his backpack to treat himself.
Seeing this, the others followed suit, and for a while, the area was filled with green light.
After they recovered, the seven of them collapsed on the ground panting. Only then did they realize that they were all soaked in sweat and in a sorry state.
Having survived the ordeal, they all felt a wave of relief.
“Ah!” someone exclaimed, and everyone’s gaze immediately shifted to that person.
The person’s face turned slightly pale. “I just entered the answer ‘clock’ and found out it was wrong.”
Everyone’s expressions changed accordingly.
One of them opened the taskbar.
[Task One: Survive for five days and five nights. (Four days and four nights have been completed so far, with 11 hours, 18 minutes, and 21 seconds remaining until the end of the game.)]
[Task Two: Find the real culprit who stole the Kiss of the Crown: _____ (Two more chances to fill in the answer, total of three chances.)]
The person who initially screamed gritted his teeth and clenched his fist. “The answer ‘clock’ is wrong. I only have one chance left now. Whoever still has a chance, try something else.”
Someone asked, “Try what?”
Someone suggested, “Time monster?”
“We need to first determine how many more chances we have for trial and error, and then decide on each person entering an answer. Otherwise, we’ll waste our chances.”
“But can this prevent conspiracies? What if someone’s answer is correct, but they intentionally tell us it’s wrong, causing us to miss the correct answer, while they enjoy it alone?”
“How could there be such a person?” someone retorted loudly. “We are comrades from the same camp. How could anyone harm their own people?”
“Why not?” someone sneered. “Didn’t Song Yun always claim he would give us the best? When it came to the end, he used his teammates as human shields? And this kind of lying is different from Song Yun’s behavior. Lying is tiptoeing at the edge, it is not considered a true ‘harm to players,’ so it won’t be punished by the system.”
“If more people fail, doesn’t that mean less people competing for the bonus in the copy? Doesn’t it mean you can enjoy it alone? If one of us happens to have such a thought and happens to fill in the correct answer, then we will all miss the correct answer, and it would all be in vain.”
Several people who were originally eager to cooperate suddenly woke up as if from a dream after hearing these words. They looked around vigilantly, quietly retreating and widening the distance between themselves and others.
It’s difficult to build a solid team, but it’s easy to break one apart. Doubt, selfishness, greed, baseless suspicion spread and even without any external force, it would collapse from within as easily as crumbling earth and collapsing bricks.
The team of seven, without the original leader Song Yun, quickly fell apart without any outside interference. From people who could cooperate with each other, they turned into individuals who trusted each other the least.
They looked at each other, each harboring sinister intentions, and for a long time, no one spoke.
The scene was extremely awkward.
The sound of patrolling footsteps in the distance pulled them back from this awkwardness to reality. Someone took the opportunity to change the subject, “An NPC is coming over. Let’s leave here first and talk about the answers later.”
Everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief, as if they had found their own way out.
No one objected. They nodded quietly, turned, and ran towards the alley.
But as they ran, one person turned and started running in another direction.
Then the second person, the third person…
Finally, this team completely disbanded.
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In the live broadcast room, there was a wave of sighs.
[God Xin didn’t take action against them, did he already anticipate this outcome?]
[Building something is difficult, but destroying something is easy. It’s so ironic. I’ve learned a lesson today.]
[This is reality. Most ordinary people are selfish but blind. This ending is unexpected yet within reason.]
[It’s ironic. An hour ago, these people were united in thinking about how to harm God Xin, but in the blink of an eye, they fell apart like a ball of loose sand. ]
