Mingmei was truly astonished to see that the original two bowls of noodles and two portions of roasted lamb rice boxes had been reduced to just one bowl of noodles and one bowl of rice.

The next second, Mingmei immediately checked her credit points in the system backend and found that she had gained another 0.9 credit points without her noticing!

"Oh no! My lunchbox was stolen?!" Mingmei exclaimed in surprise, then immediately denied it. "Wait, no, my lunchbox was bought? When did that happen? Guigui, do you know?"

Gui Gui: [...]

Clearly, it doesn't know when either.

"Could it be... Ah Chen?"

Her lunchbox was only touched by someone else during that short time. It was Ah Chen who found the lunchbox and even helped her take it back before leaving.

However, she clearly remembered that it was that maid who reported the other two players!

If this were a player, why would they report their teammates?

[Could it be that someone touched this food box before Ah Chen brought it back, but we just didn't know?]

Guigui also couldn't understand why players would have the option to report each other; this was a fatal flaw.

There weren't many players to begin with, and now two more are reporting us? Are we just messing around?

Has he gone mad?

【Then, host, why don't you go and test the waters with her?】

Guigui suggests just asking directly. Since they're players, they probably won't be too wary of the Mysterious Merchant. If it's an NPC, then it's fine too, just don't be too direct when you ask.

Mingmei thought this was acceptable, so she immediately put away the lunchbox and headed to the other maids' resting tents as soon as she left her own.

Halfway there, Mingmei saw the two players who had been captured earlier, now bound hand and foot, being taken to the most luxurious royal tent in the center of the camp.

"Are they going to be interrogated by the tyrant himself?" Mingmei stared at the group of backs and quietly asked the system.

[It seems so. The character setting in "Assassinating the Emperor" is that Chu Rong's tyrant is a complete warmonger and a brutal criminal. If you run into one of his enemies...]

In the end, Gui Gui could only respond with silence. "Host, I think you're fine as you are now. What if you run into that tyrant before the plot unfolds..."

Now Gui Gui will never say the thing she told the NPCs in the starting village that they shouldn't kill each other again.

Hearing Gui Gui say this, Ming Mei felt a pang of sympathy. Although Ming Mei thought the BOSS in the newbie village was alright (?), she didn't dare to have any wild thoughts about him in this dungeon.

However, thinking of the game's designer, Mingmei was already considering whether she should bring a packet of laxatives when she went back to see her Uncle Yan Hui next time she had a holiday.

It's one thing to cheat players, but what's with cheating your own people?

Filled with resentment towards her uncle, Mingmei arrived at the maid's tent only to learn that Achen had been summoned by His Majesty and taken away.

"Take it away?" Mingmei was a little confused. She turned around and looked at the largest and most magnificent tent in the camp, her heart suddenly racing.

[Host, host! What's wrong? Why is your heart beating so fast?!]

Gui Gui immediately noticed that Ming Mei's physical condition was not right and hurriedly asked what was wrong.

Hey, that guy named "Achen" might... be the player playing the assassin!

[Then...why did she report the other two players?]

"Because that way... I can see the tyrant..." After Mingmei finished speaking, the events that had happened before and after were immediately connected.

Remember those two players who were taken away on our way to find Ah Chen? Now, in the royal tent... all three players are here.

As soon as Mingmei finished speaking, her scalp tingled. Assassinating the tyrant and ending the war between Hua Liang and Chu Rong... could the game really be over so quickly?

Mingmei stood outside the tent in a daze, looking towards the royal tent not far away, and then at her pitiful 1.2 credits. Mingmei felt extremely restless at this moment.

For a moment, she didn't know whether to hope that Ah Chen and the others' trip would go smoothly, or that something unexpected would happen.

If something goes wrong, she can still sell some boxed lunches, but if something goes wrong, will those three players still be alive?

However, Mingmei soon discovered that the group seemed to have failed...

That afternoon, Mingmei stood outside the raging Chu Rong soldiers, her face turning pale as she watched the mangled corpse dressed as a maid hanging high in the sun.

Meanwhile, the other two players who had been tied up earlier had no idea what had happened in the royal tent. Although they had survived, Mingmei could clearly see that they were in a terrible state.

His clothes were disheveled, and the wounds on his face and body could not be covered by his clothes. He stood in the corner with a depressed expression, also looking in the direction of the corpse.

However, it seems that the two have been cleared of suspicion and released.

The NPC who had been tricked into drinking tea by two players earlier at noon also looked gloomy.

He pulled the two of them to go back, but Mingmei was standing far away and didn't hear what the envoy said. She only saw the two players suddenly clench their fists, veins bulging, and glare at the envoy saying something, but the envoy interrupted their argument with a wave of his sleeve and had his guards forcibly take them away from the place.

"It failed..." Mingmei withdrew her gaze, turned to return to her own place, her eyes gradually sharpening. "Tonight, I'm going to sell all of these things."

Sensing that Mingmei was in a bad mood, Guigui didn't dare to say anything, but it still thoughtfully provided Mingmei with Lu Xiaoyao's live stream.

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