As a laid-off reemployed worker, Yun Jian was accidentally swept into a real-life survival game when she had nowhere else to turn. She was also 'lucky' enough to acquire a special attribute...
He increasingly felt that his decision to follow Yun Jian was absolutely the right one.
The fourth brother's gloom vanished, and he opened the world channel with a smile. "This is such a fun thing, I have to go to the public chat to see how it goes. I wonder how many people will applaud it."
Yun Jian also stopped and glanced at the public screen.
At this point, the players were still unaware of what had happened and were in a state of panic.
"Holy crap, I was terrified! Guess what I just encountered? A string of charred corpses, there must have been more than twenty of them! I even wondered if I had disturbed a den of charred corpses. I almost lost my life, but luckily I ran fast!"
"Holy crap, is that scary? More than twenty of them? Should I buy a lottery ticket?"
"Don't tell me, I just encountered them too. There were dozens of them, I could tell. I spotted them early and hid, otherwise I would have been dead already."
"What's going on? Why are there so many charred corpses all of a sudden? Has something serious happened?"
"To be precise, it's not that you run fast, but that the charred corpses aren't targeting you. I just encountered a horde of charred corpses, but they didn't even glance at me and flew right over my head, as if I didn't attract their attention."
"Is this fake? Everyone knows that ever since the charred corpses appeared, their greatest pleasure has been biting people."
"Don't disbelieve me, upstairs! I just encountered the same situation, and I thought I was just lucky!"
"Me too, me too. When I opened my eyes, I thought I had arrived in the underworld. Those charred corpses clearly had other targets."
The public chat was in shock for a while before someone provided the details.
"Do you know whose territory this little hill is? There are charred corpses all over here, good heavens, the charred corpses are piled up like a mountain!"
The person added a picture as they spoke.
A short while later, another video of the scene was recorded.
In the video, dozens of people were seen fleeing while desperately dodging. Strangely, every time a charred corpse was about to catch up with them, another charred corpse would suddenly appear and block the attack for them.
At first, everyone was wondering which force was so unlucky to have offended so many charred corpses, but the more they looked, the more suspicious they became.
"It's a tar-reducing agent!"
"Goodness, judging by their usage, that's quite a lot. As expected of a powerful force, they have a strong foundation and can afford to spend so much!"
"What? Maybe they are from Tengyun Pavilion. They manufacture the Kejiao potion, which is why they have so many potions to squander!"
Upon hearing this, everyone realized what was happening.
"My brain was fogged up by the charred corpses, and I didn't realize what was happening until now. But now that I see it, isn't that the beast from Tengyun Pavilion? They're throwing away potions like water. What other organization is as extravagant as them?"
"Then I won't sympathize with them. They deserve it! Let them earn those shady points!"
"Isn't this a case of 'the hunter who hunts geese all day long ends up being pecked by them'?"
"Hmph, maybe it was their bombs and scorch-reducing agents that angered the charred corpses, which is why so many charred corpses attacked them. Sure enough, heaven doesn't help the bad guys!"
After learning it was Tengyun Pavilion, these players didn't sit idle; they took advantage of the situation and played dirty tricks on each other.
The public chat was as noisy as it was during Chinese New Year, lasting for most of the day.
Cloud Alliance.
As Yun listened to Lao Si's report on the situation in the public chat, she reached out to tease the little bug. The bug, which hadn't moved no matter how much she poked at it before, had finally started to react these past few days.
Occasionally, when she annoyed him, Yun could hear the little insect's voice, "Master, stop bothering me, I want to sleep a little longer."
It's fine, as long as it wasn't overstuffed.
The fourth brother also leaned over and teased the child a couple of times. When he looked up at the public screen again, his expression suddenly changed, and he became extremely angry.
"Boss, those people from Tengyun Pavilion have come back to life!"
He spoke through gritted teeth, hating that the charred corpses hadn't managed to wipe out Tengyun Pavilion completely.
Yun Jian looked up and said, "They have anti-corrosion drugs, so it's not surprising that they were able to survive."
"No! They said in the public chat that the thing that lured the charred corpses there was something we developed, and we used it to deal with them on purpose!"
Yun paused, his expression changing.
"That's really something, they don't forget to try and smear me even at the very end!"
The fourth brother quickly scanned the messages on the public screen and continued to summarize: "They said there is a doctor in our camp, and the medicine was developed by this doctor. They also said... they also said that the doctor cured the boss when he was infected last time."
Yun Jian narrowed his eyes and took the speechpad from the fourth brother's hand. "@Tengyun Pavilion, did you see it with your own eyes?"
Yun Jian personally stepped in to confront the opponent, and the people in the public chat started to jeer.
"Oh dear, is the Cloud Alliance denying it? Then someone is lying?"
"How outrageous! They created such a terrible thing and still won't admit it!"
"Why don't you two have a fight? I'll believe whoever wins."
The people from Tengyun Pavilion were not intimidated. They seemed determined to drag Yun Jian into this mess, and even sent out Cheng Cheng, who had been hiding all along. "Don't try to deny it. Isn't my friend Le Wenfeng in your camp? His methods are far superior to mine. The potions I can make are not difficult for him. If it weren't for him, would you have survived the infection?"
When everyone saw Cheng Cheng appear, they understood everything.
"So you're the one doing research and development at Tengyun Pavilion? No wonder Tengyun Pavilion kept giving evasive answers when we asked who invented the Kejiao potion. It turns out it was you, you scoundrel!"
"You still have the nerve to show your face, spouting all that benevolence and morality, but what kind of monstrous things are you inventing behind the scenes!"
"Anyone who took in Cheng Cheng deserves to die! This Tengyun Pavilion is no good either!"
"They're in cahoots, snakes and rats in the same den, working together in cahoots!"
While everyone was engrossed in cursing Cheng Cheng, messages kept refreshing in the public chat. Yun Jian waited until the messages slowed down before asking, "After all that, these are just your speculations."
The people from Tengyun Pavilion were unconvinced and argued vehemently, "Our speculation is reasonable, and we also have Cheng Cheng's testimony. Do you still want to deny it? You created this thing just to get revenge on us. Now that your evil scheme has succeeded, you don't even dare to admit it?"
Yun Jian gave a low, cold laugh and calmly typed on the whiteboard, "In the end, you still don't have any evidence. But... I do."
When the fourth brother saw this sentence, his brow twitched, and he looked at Yun Jian in surprise.
"Do we have evidence? Boss, when did you leave it?"
He almost wanted to shout that his boss was brilliant, for he could even foresee this.
As Yun Jian sent out the recorded video, he said, "They tried to ambush us from the beginning, but we ended up tricking them instead. They won't let it go so easily. It's always good to have some backup plans."
The fourth brother clicked on that video.
Then a man's message asking for shelter appeared, followed by the man entering the Cloud Alliance and being searched by Yun Jian, who discovered the problematic water. Finally, the man was taken in by the people of Tengyun Pavilion.
Every detail is included, from beginning to end.
The people from Tengyun Pavilion had no more excuses and quickly logged off.
A collective gasp rippled through the crowd: "Holy crap, that was a brilliant sneak attack! The two sides were really evenly matched."
"So it really was Tengyun Pavilion behind this. How come they have so many schemes and tricks?"
"What kind of time is this? Why are we still fighting a civil war? Can't we unite against a common enemy first?"
"I don't care about your factional struggles. I just want to know when you can unite and wipe out the charred corpses together? I've figured it out now. The system's promise to come and get us out of here is just empty talk. We might as well find our own way out!"
Seeing that the people from Tengyun Pavilion were no longer replying, Yun logged off.
But to her surprise, this matter was far from over.