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Forces of Temptation - Chapter 122

Published at 26th of December 2023 11:57:19 AM


Chapter 122

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A group of people ran quickly through the streets of [Paper Gold City] at midnight.

They ran ahead, accompanied by a man with iron wings on his back soaring through the sky, patrolling from above to ensure nothing was overlooked.

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The piercing wings sliced through the air, producing a distinct and sharp sound of rushing airflow.

The people below asked the man who had taken control of the air, “Did you see him?” 

The man’s voice resonated through the night sky, leaving behind a lingering echo: “No!”

 

Although the view from above was good,  the entirety of [Paper Gold City] was illuminated by countless neon lights, resembling the hairs on an ox. The excessive light pollution forced the man with iron wings to rub his eyes for a moment to readjust after his observation.

This made him a little annoyed.

At the same time.

 

Nan Zhou, who was hiding in a dark corner at the end of the light, was staring at the birdman flying over their heads.

His eyes were full of curiosity.

During the time when the three people were hiding, Nan Zhou had already briefly explained his past to Li Yinhang.

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I, Nan Zhou, am a paper man. 

Jiang Fang looked at Li Yinhang, who was covering the injury on her head with toilet paper, “You don’t seem surprised about Nan Zhou.”

Li Yinhang turned around numbly, “Do I look like I’m not surprised?”

Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang nodded in agreement.

Jiang Fang confirmed with her, “When did you start to feel that Nan Zhou is not an ordinary person?” 

…If she had to say it, she felt that way when they first met on the bus and he stood next to a mushroom without changing his expression.

Li Yinhang sighed, ‘…Probably during the time in the snowy mountains.’

Nan Zhou’s negative state of being abnormally weak under the full moon was completely dissipated at the moment of sunrise.

Li Yinhang found it hard to ignore this bug. 

But she still pretended that nothing had happened in the spirit of “if you don’t say it, I won’t ask.”

Curiosity would affect her performance of clinging to someone.

 

Now that Nan Zhou’s identity has been inexplicably exposed, a huge boulder that was hanging in Li Yinhang’s heart has finally fallen.

Moreover, her thoughts were not “Damn, it’s the Paper Man boss. Is it dangerous?” 

It was “Is he just a boss?”

—“Isn’t he a game planner who just randomly came to play on a private server?”

Li Yinhang was quite optimistic and leaned back, saying, “Before I started playing games, I didn’t even buy stocks because I was afraid of losing money.

“Now that I’ve done everything I haven’t done in the first half of my life, we should aim for first place together, or it won’t be enough.” 

Seeing the birdman still lurking around, Nan Zhou’s attention returned to him.

Nan Zhou, “Did you see him?”

Jiang Fang, “Mhm.”

Nan Zhou, “He’s flying.” 

 

Jiang Fang peered out and asked, “Do you want that too?”

 

Most importantly, he wasn’t in a hurry to catch up with the team but rather lingered in the same place for a long time.

His goal was probably not just to find Nan Zhou with his naked eye.

His every move seemed to be telling Nan Zhou, who was hiding in the dark, “I could find you at any moment, come and attack me.” 

Looking at the cold sharp thorns around his wings, it’s hard not to suspect that this was a trap.

Nan Zhou, however, asked Jiang Fang in response, “Isn’t bait supposed to be caught with a fishing line?”

 

Jiang Fang looked at him for a moment and raised an eyebrow slightly, “”Then wait a moment, I’ll catch you a bird.”

Li Yinhang, ‘…’ 

She leaned over proactively, “Can I do anything?’

The three of them huddled together in the shadows, exchanging messages with each other.

 

………… 

 

At this moment, the iron-winged man was patrolling like a hawk while acting as bait, flying happily.

This was the baiting tactic that their team had discussed for half a day since deciding to participate in the hunt.

The iron-winged man and his team were determined to win this chase. 

The reward was all of the personal points that the boss Nan Zhou had earned in the game so far, and at least 10,000 starting points.

The reason why it’s called “starting at 10,000 points” was because it’s one of the rewards for the dungeon.

The hunting time lasts for three days.

Starting from the moment Nan Zhou and his team returned from the instance, hunting Nan Zhou for an hour every night would produce an additional 1,000-points bonus on top of the 10,000-point base. 

After 72 hours, the reward points that could be stacked in the prize pool could reach up to 70,000.

The 70,000 points, combined with Nan Zhou’s current personal points, were enough to allow any bottom-ranked player to jump into the middle-upper tier and any mid-tier player to enter the top ten of the leaderboard.

If a top-ranked team killed him, it would be like adding wings to a tiger, practically locking in their victory!

No wonder a group of people were so eager to hunt Nan Zhou. 

It’s also no wonder that some people were sitting back and watching the tiger fight, just following along without being in a rush to make a move.

They wanted to accumulate more rewards in Nan Zhou’s “prize pool” before making a move.

 

However, there were always people who wanted to seize the opportunity and strike first before others.

After all, the longer they waited, the more variables and competitors there would be. 

Instead of struggling until the end and competing with a group of people for the 70,000 points that may not even be obtained, it was better to act early and get some points.

Those teams who had this calculation included not only the three teams that started besieging Nan Zhou from the beginning, but also the team that the iron-winged man was in.

Having a flying prop was the most obvious advantage that the iron-winged man and his team had compared to the others.

It would be great if they could use their high-altitude advantage to lock down Nan Zhou’s escape route. 

Even if Nan Zhou was worried about being discovered and attacked them first, they wouldn’t have to worry.

The automatic weapon equipped on the iron-winged man, which was connected to his reflex nerves, could protect him and counterattack the attacker as much as possible, even if the target was too large and he had nowhere to hide.

Although Nan Zhou took away the Phantom Dagger, that small dagger was nothing compared to the 108 steel feathers on the iron wings of the man.

If they wanted to attack first, the self-protection function of this flying prop would turn the attacker into a sieve in an instant. 

Thinking of the unlucky guy who was robbed of an A-grade item as soon as he met Nan Zhou, the iron-winged man couldn’t help but laugh.

His foolish behavior had already spread on the world channel, and he had been mocked with over a hundred comments.

Compared to the “Cube boat,” team who had just come out of an instance, they had the advantage of initiative, terrain, and information, and everything seemed to be in their favor.

To have their things stolen, they must be a little brainless. 

Only an idiot would let someone take their things.

As he soared at a high altitude, the wind brushed against his hair, and the sensation of the buildings shrinking under his feet left him feeling slightly dizzy.

The iron-winged man was in this dizzy state when he was stopped by a thin line.

He looked down in surprise and saw a neon-colored light flowing from a narrow alley, tripping him up by his ankle. 

After a brief moment of shock, the iron-winged man grinned, unable to hide his excitement.

He took the bait!

 

The steel feathers on his wings responded instantly, generating a teeth-grinding mechanical sound as they rubbed against each other. They stood upright like real bird feathers, alert and ready for action.

The bird claws with hooks on his feet instantly broke the strange line and swooped down over the small path. 

It must be said that the hiding place chosen by Nan Zhou and the others was very clever.

The alley was extremely narrow, and almost every corner was a blind spot.

He adjusted his angle and waited, ready to seize the figure. With utmost precision, he swooped down, aiming to ensure a fatal blow that would leave the target lifeless and dismembered.

As long as that person showed any sign… 

No, he didn’t even need to show himself. As long as he revealed a little shadow, he can-

As he was about to unleash the power of his steel feathers, an object suddenly flew out of the shadows in the alleyway at the right moment!

His eyesight was good, and because of the lights around him, he vaguely saw the silhouette of a seductive woman on the cover.

The quality, art style, and design of this book all looked like a cheap pornographic magazine found in a trash can by the roadside. 

The iron-winged man was overjoyed and, with a thought, shot thousands of sharp and dazzling sharp knives toward the corner where the object flew out!

108 bone-cutting steel knives with bloodletting grooves, swept out like a machine gun, covering the entire alleyway. The iron-winged man didn’t believe that anyone could dodge his attack.

Just as he was feeling proud, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

He wanted to redesign Nan Zhou to look like a hedgehog. 

But his eyes couldn’t move away from the cover of that pornographic magazine!

And thus his wings, which were closely connected to his nervous system, of course, nailed all his feather knives onto the face of the seductive woman on the cover of the pornographic magazine according to the direction of his gaze.

He was left with a lonesome feeling.

Before panic could set in, his naked wings, which had not yet grown new feather knives, were suddenly pulled down by ahuge force. 

——What is this?

He turned back in amazement, only to find that at some unknown time, a light net mixed with thin moonlight and neon light had quietly spread out behind him.

 

It was like a huge bird-catching net.

This terrifying force made his wings, which had already entered the battle state, flap quickly, trying to escape the restraint first. 

But the strength of the catcher was too incredible.

The horsepower of his wings was completely unable to resist the huge force transmitted from the other end of the bird net.

After being wrapped in the net and his wings entangled in the lines, he fell to the ground.

Before he fell into the alley, his wings hit the wall and made a huge noise. He was knocked out by Nan Zhou, who had pulled the light net with one hand and easily jumped onto the roof. 

And his proud bird suit was silently and quickly stripped off by Nan Zhou.

Clean and neat.

The [Right Hand Light Finger Chain] had been strengthened to level 6 after frequent honing in the [Brain Invasion] instance.

It had developed dual attributes of “strengthening” and “invisibility”. 

Previously, it was just a small trick that lured the iron-winged man to take action.

By combining a 10% [Pornographic Magazine] that could seduce people and have them not be able to move their eyes away from it, and [B-level Come and hit me] card that could attract the hatred of all attackers, the results obtained were very pleasing.

They exchanged for the [S-grade Flying Bird Suit].

The streets nearby were already empty. 

The iron-winged man shot all the knives onto a [Pornographic Magazine] and accidentally crashed, but only a few nearby teams had noticed.

These people were all “fatteners”. After communicating with each other in their teams, they decided to follow from a distance and stay put.

Unfortunately, the iron-winged man’s teammates who were searching ahead had already gone far away and did not notice any movement behind them.

When they turned around, they found that the pair of iron wings had disappeared without a trace. 

One of the teammates muttered, “Damn, where did he fly to?”

Another one shrugged, “Maybe he had to go to the bathroom because of the strong wind in the air.”

 

The group burst into laughter, completely unaware that their teammate had been stripped down to his underwear and was lying unconscious in the alley with no one knowing.

Meanwhile, Nan Zhou was standing next to the unconscious person, flapping his new S-grade wings. 

If they had seen this scene, they would probably have had a stroke on the spot.

After trying it out, Nan Zhou put the wings away in the warehouse, “It’s not useful, the prop is just too big.”

Jiang Fang pointed his toes at the chest of the unconscious formerly iron-winged man and said, “We have too little information at the moment.”

“We don’t know why your identity was suddenly exposed, we don’t know who described your specific physical features that allowed them to lock onto you at first glance, we don’t know when this game against you will end, and we don’t know what we can get out of this.” 

The questions raised by Jiang Fang were indeed very important.

Nan Zhou propped up his chin and pondered for a while. “Why don’t we ask someone?”

Li Yinhang glanced at the man lying unconscious on the ground, looking like a miserable, skinned fish. “Should we catch another person to ask, or wait until he wakes up?”

Nan Zhou said, “No need to be so troublesome.” 

Not many people wanted to take action at the moment.

As a group of people were silently dividing and locating the position of Nan Zhou and his team while wandering around the entire [Paper Gold City] area, a message popped up in the world channel with a “ding” sound.

[Cube boat – Nan Zhou] Hello, everyone.

[Cube boat – Nan Zhou] When will the game end? 

[Cube boat – Nan Zhou] If you can’t kill me, what will happen to you?

The polite use of words and the deliberate provocative connotations could immediately elevate one’s blood pressure when scrutinized.





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