Chapter 537 [(*^▽^*)]
Zhou Nanyue said nonchalantly, "Then I'll go try it now. Anyway, they're all idiots who support human sacrifice, killing one or two won't matter."
Basically, all the villagers in the vicinity heard what they were saying. They automatically ignored the words like "player mission" or "player quest," but they could understand the rest when put together!
The village chief's family gave them the wrong information. Twelve people died while they were verifying the false information. These people were furious and now they want to kill people to vent their anger!
One or two of them will soon be killed by the person who just spoke.
Zhou Nanyue chose the hut closest to him and grabbed a disheveled man who looked rejected by the other villagers. He still left himself a way out.
After all, he was ostracized by the villagers. If a bad system notification appeared after killing him, there would still be room for redemption. He dragged the man outside the house, ignoring his struggles and pleas for mercy. With the man's face full of fear, in front of all the players and the villagers who were watching, he killed him with a single blow!
As expected, Zhou Nanyue did not receive any system notification after killing the villagers, meaning she did not gain any points. However, there was also no punishment or warning. In other words, killing villagers would not result in any punishment or reward, but protecting villagers would allow her to complete a side quest.
Zhou Nanyue: "There were no hints whatsoever."
He casually dragged the body to the ditch in front of him and threw it in. Then he took out a shovel from his backpack, shoveled some soil around the body, and roughly buried it.
Rong Yuwen and the other players also gave up on the idea; since there was no benefit to be gained, they decided to let it go.
"Should we still do the side quests now?"
Many players are hesitant about this issue. Killing villagers doesn't yield any rewards, but protecting them does. However, instead of cooperating with the players' protection efforts, these villagers are secretly sabotaging them!
This time twelve died, who knows how many will die next time!
Players who already supported not doing side quests are even more excited, while those who originally supported doing them are now silent, insisting on continuing to protect the villagers. They might be the ones getting tricked next time.
If we don't protect them... giving up the side quests doesn't seem like a bad idea, since even completing the main quests is quite difficult now.
Although they still have more than seventy players, the more than twenty players who died before were basically among the most powerful players in the group!
Most of those who remain are people who lack confidence in their own abilities, have poor or incomplete equipment, and there are even ten novice trash who have virtually no combat power!
There are probably not even forty of the characters that can actually fight the BOSS, move and attack, and have usable items!
“We can’t afford to lose any more people. Things are already getting tough, so I think we should abandon the side quests altogether.”
Rong Yuwen thought so too, and the other players around him also felt a sense of urgency. "Since that's the case, let's give up. If we can't get the points from the side quests, we can't get them. As long as we can complete the main quests, that's fine. After all, the main quests are the real deal."
The player who hung the wind chimes at the village chief's house had been hiding in the shadows. He hesitated to speak, but after seeing everyone's attitude, he decided to wait until the next day to retrieve his wind chimes.
Rong Yuwen said, "Anyone who objects, please stand up now, so that we don't have different opinions later, which would be very troublesome."
At this point, no player was willing to step forward. The players were all angry because of the villagers' selfishness. They had lost so many powerful players, and now they couldn't even guarantee whether they could complete the main storyline. Who would care about side quests now?
Lin Leyou and his group watched the situation on the players' side from a distance. They couldn't hear what the players were saying from here, but they could roughly tell what they were doing by observing the behavior of some of them.
Xue Rui: "It was Zhou Nanyue. He went inside, dragged a villager out, and killed him in front of everyone. No one stopped him. It seems like things are about to fall apart."
Lin Leyou said, "Isn't this exactly what we wanted to see? The villagers, out of selfishness, told them the wrong information, causing them to lose many players, to the point that even the completion of the main storyline is no longer guaranteed."
"If it were you, would you still protect the villagers, or pretend you don't know anything?"
Xue Rui was silent for a while before saying, "If the NPCs really betray me, I will kill them too."
Lin Leyou's lips curled up. "Isn't that right?"
Xue Rui, "These guardian spirits are getting weaker and weaker..."
Lin Leyou: "The evil god temple has been demolished... Don't these villagers have any reaction?"
Xue Rui blinked. "Maybe the players didn't mention that."
Lin Leyou said, "Later, let Guo Chengzheng and the others accidentally let this matter slip out. They'll say that the temple was demolished, the walls were torn down, even the statues were smashed, the floor tiles were turned upside down, and they dug three feet into the ground!"
Xue Rui: "Let's do it this way."
After several hours of relentless pounding by Lin Leyou's three henchmen, the gatekeeper was finally about to give out, but it looked like it could hold on for another half hour.
What happened in those few hours was truly a spectacle for Lin Leyou and his companion. After the players made their decisions, they actually managed to drive all the villagers out before dawn.
Make them leave the safe house! Some villagers refused to leave, so they brandished various weapons and threatened them. Since there was no punishment for killing them and they weren't doing any side quests, they could kill them as they pleased.
After all, they had really killed someone. Under coercion, all the villagers left these safe huts, cursing the village chief's family for spreading false information!
Only a handful of villagers know the exact location of the entrance to the place where the stone coffin was placed. Most villagers only know that the entrance is inside the evil god's temple, but they don't know the exact location.
But the players are all angry right now, and it's good enough that they can hold back from going on a killing spree. They don't want to listen to what they're saying, and everyone looks cold and impatient.
After the players chased everyone away, the villagers didn't leave. Instead, they stayed near the houses. The players didn't bother with them anymore, as long as they didn't come in.
Rong Yuwen said, "Alright, everyone go back and rest. If there are too many people in any of the smaller rooms, send a few to the less crowded rooms to help them out, so that it's more evenly distributed."
Of course, all ten new players returned to their original houses, and they didn't dare to speak freely. Initially, they might have thought they could follow the experienced players to complete the game, but...
But now the situation is a little different. These veteran players are getting anxious, and they may really not be able to get through the main storyline.
"We can't just sit here and wait to die! The veteran players definitely have points. If we fail and lose 300,000 points, they can still survive, but we're doomed!"
"Yeah, where would we get 300,000 points? I don't even have 30 points."
"But what should we do? Right now, for us, it's either helping veteran players complete the main storyline, or getting 300,000 points before the mission completely fails. Which one do you think we can do?"
Qian Feng, Lin Leyou's high school classmate, who wanted him to help him find a job, looked panicked and was sweating profusely.
After clearing the dungeon for the first time, he received some points, only a few dozen. He took out five points and exchanged them for 50,000 yuan in cash, and had a good time.
He was a big spender and had gained a small reputation in bars and nightclubs, but he never expected that he would die in the second instance!
Three hundred thousand points—you couldn't even buy yourself for that much. Or rather, in a dungeon, the least valuable thing is a player's life.
What to do, what to do, what to do? Qian Feng's mind was filled with nothing but thoughts of what to do; he didn't want to die!
He had just discovered a great way to make money: one point could be exchanged for ten thousand! Now, houses in town, especially those facing the street, could be bought for only seventy or eighty thousand!
He opened his backpack with trembling hands. Inside were only ordinary items he had won in the lottery at the beginning. The most powerful item was a blue-grade item, which wasn't even a weapon!
He no longer has the joy he felt when he first became a player, nor the carefree attitude he had in bars and nightclubs. He has finally realized the fear of being a player without points or items. Points are not just his money, but also his life!
He will never waste his points again! Most... the vast majority of his points must be used to secure his items first, and some must be reserved for points deducted if he fails to complete a level.
But suddenly there's 300,000 yuan, and I really have no way to deal with it!
Of course, the only way now seems to be to complete the main quest, but can the main quest be completed just by wanting to? Those veteran players are all frowning now.
They didn't even take these ten novice players seriously.
Qian Feng looked at them and said, "Do you have any good ideas? Those veteran players don't seem so confident anymore. Even if they fail to clear the level, they won't die because they all have 300,000 points. But we don't. If we fail, we will definitely die!"
New players certainly know this, but Qian Feng is a newbie, and so are they. The most dungeons they've ever run are only two. This is the third one; the rest are the second dungeon.
"I really didn't expect to be assigned to an A-level dungeon directly..."
"We're newbies! Aren't there any newbie protections? System, system, system!"
Two novices were frantically calling out to the system in their minds, expecting no response, but to their surprise, the system actually responded.
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