Chapter 53 [Seeking support and collection]
Everyone was asked to contribute a random amount of money, and thankfully, all the players present were genuine, not monsters disguised as humans.
Zhou Feng said, "The thing in the slaughterhouse is the butcher's weapon, a sharp knife. He always carries it with him, so it will be very difficult to steal it. You might have to kill the butcher to get it."
Someone gasped in shock; it was the butcher's dagger. "Are you kidding me? How are we supposed to hold that? Didn't you guys say he only needed one hit to kill a player?"
"Even if someone goes up to stop them, it won't work if others try to grab the knife. A few quick swings and everyone's done for!"
Zhou Feng said, "That's why we need to discuss this with everyone, since we can't think of any solutions right now."
"Aren't there some veteran players here? Everyone should have points and items. Is there anything we can use? Let's use them while we still have so many people. If we wait until all the players are gone, even if we have items, we won't be able to use them."
Many veteran players remained calm and collected, and even Xue Rui pretended not to hear.
Do they have any items? Those who become veteran players must have some skills, unless they are the kind who pass the level purely by luck, but such players will definitely not last long.
There were originally ten new players, but now there are only three left. The three of them always get together whenever they meet, since the veteran players stick together, and the new players have no choice but to stick together on their own.
Anxiu: "We can't have nothing, can we? What if everyone keeps things hidden? What will we do then?"
Seeing that a conflict was about to break out between the veteran players and the newcomers, Zhou Feng quickly changed the subject, "Alright, let's not talk about that now. Have the teams responsible for other areas found any useful clues?"
"Hmph." No one wanted to argue with the few remaining newcomers. If they really angered them... players could kill each other.
"We have a lead at the hotel. After all, three players have died. The item we have here is most likely the necklace around the hotel owner's neck, the one he always wears."
"We in charge of the school also noticed it. Today was the first time we encountered the principal, and the system notification was about the cane in the principal's hand."
That's strange, what kind of treasure is a walking stick?
"We found them at the church too. They're similar to the team that's in charge of the school. We hadn't run into them for a while, but today we happened to see a woman in a black dress. When we passed each other, the system notification said it was her cross, the one she was wearing around her neck."
Xue Rui said, "We found it too. What they need at the cemetery is the tombstone of the grave keeper, but the grave keeper has been sitting there with his tombstone, so we don't dare to make any rash moves."
"Before this, the gravediggers always maintained that posture, and they were neither warm nor cold to us. We never got close to them, so as not to trigger any death rules."
"This time I reached that distance by chance, so the system notified me."
Zhou Feng: "I didn't expect everyone to have such a good harvest today. What about over in the woods?"
"No, we didn't find anything in the woods, nor any clues."
In the end, only the restaurant remained. This meant that, apart from the restaurant and the forest, they already knew what they needed to obtain in the other five places.
Xue Rui said, "Uncle Feng, I suggest we all work together to retrieve what we already know first, and then figure out how to overcome the challenges of the restaurant and the forest."
Zhou Feng didn't draw his own conclusion, but looked at everyone and said, "What do you think? Now, all of us players combined are only thirty-one people left. Even if we act together, it's not a lot of people."
Everyone is considering the pros and cons, but some people still have objections.
"Thirty-one people together is still too many. Sometimes in an emergency, the escape route may be narrow, and too many people will cause more players to die. Just to be safe, let's split into two groups."
Everyone agreed with the suggestion, but dividing them into three groups of about ten people each felt unsafe.
"Now we need to decide which two places to go first. Do we need to vote?"
Zhou Feng said, "No need to vote. As for the hotel owner's necklace, wasn't it said that it was uncertain? Since that's the case, let's rule it out for now. Does everyone agree? We'll confirm it later. Besides, we still need to stay at the hotel for the time being, so we can't afford to fall out with the hotel owner right now."
Everyone accepted this statement.
"I suggest not to put the butcher's knife at the front either. The butcher is very ruthless. He seems to have the ability to kill with one blow when he holds the knife. He is very vicious."
A single, decisive blow?!
Everyone was a little scared, but no one objected.
"Excluding the restaurants and woods where there are no leads yet, now we're left with the school, church, and cemetery."
"As for the school, we need to find the principal. Do you know where the principal lives? Or what time he comes to the school?"
Zhou Feng looked at the person in charge of the school.
"The principal will most likely be at school for a period of time every morning, and occasionally he will appear at other times, so it is quite random."
Zhou Feng: "What about the woman in the black dress at the church?"
"This woman actually lived in a house behind the church all along, but we didn't notice before because that house wasn't within the church grounds."
Zhou Feng: "The last gravesite... the tombstone that the gravedigger always leans against, the location is fixed, there's no need to spend time looking for it."
"I'd like to go to the church and the cemetery first. Does everyone agree? If we go to the school first, although the principal appears at a fixed time, there are a lot of people at the school, and we'll need to spend time looking for an opportunity."
Zhou Feng's analysis made a lot of sense, and no one refuted him.
"Now everyone split into two groups. Is anyone willing to go to the church or the cemetery?"
Finally, the half of the group that was originally in charge of the church went to the church to find the woman in the black dress and try to get her cross.
The rest of the people went to the cemetery to see how they could get the gravedigger's tombstone.
Lin Leyou sat listlessly in his chair, looking up at the sky. He really couldn't understand why the players hadn't come for three days!
What's going on? Did I scare them away by killing two players in a row, so they don't dare to come back?
No way? They're not coming?
Were they all killed?
But if they all die, shouldn't there be a notification that the job is done?
Or are there just a few players left, barely clinging to life, too afraid to do quests but unable to leave, so they're hiding away to kill time?
Should I go out and take a look?
Not long after, the chef came to the iron gate again to buy pork.
The pork Lin Leyou gave him was the pork that he had hung up on his first day. It was peculiar; although it smelled bad, the pork hadn't actually rotted.
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