Chapter 82 The Number of Graves is Paramount 44 Sixth Middle School

Wu Wangwang thought for a moment and said, "If we have painkillers, we should be able to manage. After all, it looks like we just have a lot of wounds, not that the injuries are really serious."

Ling Yuanshan nodded and took out a box of orange pills from the first-aid kit: "The painkiller that the school usually keeps on hand is this ibuprofen sustained-release capsule. It should work. Take it two hours in advance, and it will last for about eight hours. If necessary, take one more at noon. That should be enough for the whole day of exams."

"Then there's no problem. The rest is up to them." Wu Wangwang looked at the sleeping students and decided to give them one last helping hand, offering a slight boost of energy. After all, it wasn't the real college entrance exam, so it didn't count as cheating.

The NPCs downstairs went berserk at night, and some players even tried to unlock the doors to go upstairs. By around 1 a.m., they had already damaged the stairwell door on the fifth floor.

These players will do anything to survive, but they are selfish without any bottom line. Many people are like this when they enter the game, since the initial rewards are mostly related to money. Even if the initial reward is for healing, you will be rewarded with money for a period of time after the illness is cured.

In such situations, human desires are amplified infinitely.

They've become accustomed to trading other people's lives for game rewards, and even knowing that one day they too will be sold off, they don't think they'll be that unlucky.

Ling Yuanshan frowned as he listened to the commotion in the hallway: "What should we do? They'll come sooner or later, but they're too exhausted to fight anymore."

Even if Ling Yuanshan and Wu Wangwang can withstand all the attacks, the students still need to be able to stand up before they can run.

Wu Wangwang thought for a moment and said, "Actually, I had a plan during the day. If they hadn't been kicked out of the cafeteria, this plan could have saved everyone."

"What method?" Ling Yuanshan asked hurriedly.

“Let’s go to 504. You and I can use items to withstand the ghosts’ attacks, so we don’t have to worry about getting trapped inside. But once we’re inside, no one else will be able to find us.” Wu Wangwang had thought of this plan during the day, but she didn’t want the players to come with them.

The players know too many dark rules. If you're with them, they'll try to squeeze every last drop of value out of everyone, just to get more benefits. It would be even better if you could get items from Wu Wangwang and Ling Yuanshan.

Ling Yuanshan thought this method was feasible: "Okay, then wake them up and give it one last shot. As long as they can hide over there, they won't have to worry about not making it to the last day."

After waking the students, Ling Yuanshan originally planned to mobilize them before the players arrived, but now they were no longer the students who would only hide. Having experienced life and death, their mental strength was really different. They quickly packed their things, carried their simple homemade bundles, and ran with their luggage.

Each dormitory building has two stairwells. Ling Yuanshan listened for a while to determine which side the players came from, and then led the group down to the other stairwell.

As expected, they hadn't attacked from the other side yet, but after only three floors, they encountered an NPC. Ling Yuanshan led the way, while Wu Wangwang covered the rear.

The stairs are narrow and there are many protective nets, so even NPCs can't break through them.

Ling Yuanshan moved quickly, using his long sword to gradually push back the NPCs. They soon reached the second floor, where the NPCs were already talking in the corridor, but Ling Yuanshan ignored them and continued downstairs.

After finally managing to rush out of the dormitory building, Ling Yuanshan saw Cheng Hai downstairs. He hadn't gone upstairs like the other players, and there was someone with him.

Cheng Hai used an electrified chain to fend off another wave of NPCs attacking him, and smiled at Ling Yuanshan: "Oh, you're finally willing to come down? You bunch of brats, you're really lucky to be alive. But you must have other ways to survive. I already said, we can cooperate."

Ling Yuanshan's eyes turned cold: "Cooperation? Cooperation means luring our defenseless people out to their deaths?"

"You can't say that. They have the items you left behind, so they're still alive, aren't they? When clearing a dungeon, you have to preserve your forces. They're newbies, and we're veteran players. Veteran players have a higher chance of survival. If the newbies aren't capable, they'll just be used as expendable resources in the next dungeon. What's the point?" Cheng Hai said dismissively.

“But they are my classmates, real people in the real world!” Ling Yuanshan gritted his teeth and growled.

Cheng Hai scoffed: "Pfft—stop pretending. Aren't we all human? Haven't you ever shown us any pity?"

Ling Yuanshan seemed to be caught up in Cheng Hai's logic, and he couldn't refute it for a moment. After all, he wasn't the type to talk a big game and was usually very quiet.

Wu Wangwang threw out a pair of scissors to clear out a wave of NPCs, walked over and threw Ling Yuanshan to the rear guard position, facing Cheng Hai directly: "This game is called Night of Return of the Soul. It's a mechanism that appeared to ensure the balance between life and death. You are the ones who should have died. They weren't. They were sent in before their lifespans were over. You think they died? Who will compensate for the lifespans that were cut short?"

Everyone present was hearing this for the first time, and Cheng Hai's expression turned serious: "Who told you this? I've entered quite a few dungeons, and I've never heard of such a thing before."

“That’s because you haven’t done enough dungeons—” Before Wu Wangwang could finish speaking, the referee suddenly appeared and interrupted her.

"Player Ge Nan, for making inappropriate remarks, your reward level will be reduced by one," the referee said, standing on the third-floor balcony, writing the punishment on the list in his hand. "Using the rules of other instances to obtain information is fine, but spreading it like this is not allowed. Be careful next time."

No one believed Wu Wangwang's statement at first, but now that the referee has appeared and even imposed a penalty, it proves that Wu Wangwang was right.

Cheng Hai looked at Wu Wangwang in astonishment. He had always looked down on Wu Wangwang, thinking that she was a shield pushed out by Ling Yuanshan. Even if she really was trying to find a solution, Ling Yuanshan always listened to her and did not believe her. He never expected that she was the real core of this group.

When falsehood is taken for truth, even truth becomes falsehood; cleverness can backfire.

If they had known that Wu Wangwang was a key figure, they wouldn't have offended her so many times. Now it's truly irreparable. Who knows if Wu Wangwang knows any other hidden rules?

Judging from the referee's words, Wu Wangwang must have encountered a dungeon with a very high code level, so she used the rules at the time to obtain some information that could not be disclosed to outsiders. That information might have allowed them to escape the game, and such a good partner was ruined.

Cheng Hai suddenly felt a hatred for Wu Wangwang; if she were dead, it wouldn't be so heartbreaking.

After all, knowing so much still leads to death; perhaps her information is completely useless, which would make me feel much better.

The more Cheng Hai thought about it, the more he realized it made sense. He stared at Wu Wangwang with a vicious look in his eyes, threw away the chain, took out a scarecrow, and snapped Wu Wangwang's neck.

The next second, Wu Wangwang's neck seemed to snap as if someone had twisted it open, and Cheng Hai revealed a maniacal laugh: "Hahahaha... So what if you know the news? You're still trash!"

The students were terrified, then their eyes widened in fury, and they roared, "Ge Nan—!"

Among this group, only Ling Yuanshan remained calm. He looked at Cheng Hai, then shrugged off a group of NPCs. Then, Wu Wangwang appeared beside him, and the two stood side by side, their eyes still calm as they looked at Cheng Hai.

Cheng Hai was stunned when he saw this, then shook his head in disbelief, before quickly realizing, "Do you have a resurrection item among you?"

Ling Yuanshan also released the long knife in his hand and slowly took out a test tube containing small pink spheres that looked like apple snail eggs. These pink spheres looked like meat and floated slightly, as if they were breathing. They were stuck together in pieces, and at first glance, they would definitely be mistaken for apple snail eggs.

“I rarely get this angry. Most of the rewards I get from dungeons are malicious, and I never use them. You’re the first one.” Ling Yuanshan stared at Cheng Hai and said, his hands moving non-stop. He poured out a small pink ball, crushed it, and red liquid flowed all over his hand.

Cheng Hai didn't even have time to react before he disappeared from the spot like a mosaic. It wasn't death; it was data erasure at the game level.

In a more understandable way, Cheng Hai completely disappeared from the underworld's register. It's not simply like crossing out his lifespan in classic literary works; this person completely vanished, as if he had never existed.

This prop is extremely malicious. Ling Yuanshan had never used it before, no matter how much he hated Wei Dong. He had experienced too many dungeons and knew how important it was to maintain one's true self. But this was the first time someone had so clearly attacked Wu Wangwang in front of him.

When Wei Dong pushed him down, Ling Yuanshan hugged Wu Wangwang. He thought about how he hadn't used the item for her, but Wu Wangwang still chose to save him. He secretly vowed then and there that he would never let Wu Wangwang die in this instance.

No matter how powerful Wu Wangwang is, he will never forget to protect her.

Because of the disappearance at the code level, the surrounding NPCs were stunned and too scared to move, so they all retreated a bit. The remaining players seemed to be nailed to the spot, not daring to breathe, for fear of saying the wrong thing. Ling Yuanshan continued to work, as there were quite a few golden apple snail eggs in his test tube.

The referee spoke first, and after modifying the record, said: "Player Cheng Hai, data erased, Huihunye will no longer be able to retrieve this person. As a price, player Gao Hu will not receive any rewards for the next three dungeons, and this dungeon can be considered the first one."

Everyone looked at Ling Yuanshan and suddenly understood what the so-called malicious prop meant. Using it once would mean no rewards for three dungeons. It was like having to do three dungeons for nothing if you just wanted to survive. No matter how you looked at it, this business seemed a bit of a loss.

Ling Yuanshan looked indifferent. He stuffed the test tube into Wu Wangwang's hand and said, "Here, if I'm not around in the future, at least you'll have a guaranteed item. But three dungeons with no rewards might not be a good choice for you right now."

As soon as she took the prop, Wu Wangwang heard the voice of the prop exchange in her mind.

[Science Fiction Life Series - Initial Nest: Self-derived life forms created by advanced civilizations. Each one represents a life form about to be born. Initially, there is one. Each subsequent instance will automatically generate and add one more life orb. If a life orb is destroyed, the life form will completely perish.]

Although he felt that Ling Yuanshan was not worth it, his own choice to do so was also a way of showing how much Wu Wangwang meant to him, and that a person's sincerity should not be betrayed.

So Wu Wangwang simply put the props away and said, "Thank you for avenging me. I will protect you from now on."

That's the best answer.

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Author's Note: [End of Chapter]

Wu Wangwang: It's okay, I'll earn it back for you. [Thumbs up]

Ling Yuanshan: It's okay, I have plenty of [dog head with rose in hand]

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