Chapter 640 [(*^▽^*)]
"Don't be scared. Didn't I tell you before? I'll take you home, and if there's not enough time, I'll stay at your place until midnight. Why are you so agitated?"
Li Qianqian now knew who the person in front of her was—a player just like herself.
Do you recognize me?
The man paused slightly. "Why do you say that?"
Li Qianqian: "If you don't know me, why did you specifically target me? Since you've come to my door, just say it. The most important thing now is to survive to the end."
The man raised an eyebrow; he seemed to know what Li Qianqian was thinking. This was quite interesting.
"You...are willing to cooperate with me?"
He smiled as he looked at Li Qianqian, casually confirming something.
Li Qianqian was certainly not stupid; she wouldn't completely believe his identity based solely on her unfounded guesses. If it were Xue Rui here, she might be able to believe him.
After all, Xue Rui was a player just like her, but the identity of the person in front of her was still questionable.
Li Qianqian pretended to be confused, "What kind of cooperation?"
"What cooperation? You're asking me? Don't you know? Or are you just pretending?"
Li Qianqian moved a little further away, "Then tell me!"
This man has a rule-invalidating card; besides being a player, could he also be an NPC? And how could an NPC obtain a rule-invalidating card? If so, how did they obtain it...?
Wait, could it be... could it be what she thinks?
Li Qianqian had a bold idea in her mind: everyone in this entire instance, including players and NPCs, would survive together for seven days starting from the day the instance opened.
The last three of the ten rules are hidden, not only for players but also for NPCs. Anyone who guesses the hidden rule correctly will receive a reward of a rule invalidation card.
If that's the case, then all the NPCs in the entire instance must kill ten people using the rules to satisfy the tenth rule.
Otherwise, at the end of the seven days, they will also die for violating the rules, because they failed to complete the last rule.
What does this mean? It means that if the entire instance has ten million people, assuming the minimum number of deaths, only one out of every eleven people can survive. In other words, even if one more person is killed, the number of survivors will not reach one million.
The total number of survivors might only be half a million, or even less.
Wait, so what? Li Qianqian came to her senses. Even so, what did it have to do with her?
What she needs to do now is figure out how to deal with the man in front of her. Getting rid of him would be the best option, but...
Li Qianqian, "Why aren't you saying anything?"
Does he really think I can't do anything to him? If he pushes her too far, I'll just activate the rule invalidation card and violently kill her.
To avoid being controlled by others.
The man remained indifferent. "Didn't I tell you? I'll leave at midnight after four hours. Did you even understand?"
"If you hadn't wasted your time outside, I could have taken you home and gone straight back to your own place. Why would you need to stay here?"
"If you keep talking nonsense, don't blame me for being impolite! The living room is mine. If you feel unsafe staying here, you can go back to your bedroom."
Li Qianqian's lips twitched. She understood that this person really intended to kill her and had most likely discovered one of her two personal death rules.
One of her death rules is that she cannot go to the bedroom. Other players may appear in the bedroom as soon as they enter this instance, but she appears at the door.
Fortunately, the rule against entering the bedroom was known, so she didn't break it; otherwise, she would have been doomed from the very beginning of the instance.
Li Qianqian, "Are you kidding me?"
“This is my home. If I leave you alone in the living room, who knows what you might do? Of course I have to keep an eye on you.”
As for the collaboration, the two tacitly refrained from mentioning it again.
Li Qianqian stayed in the corner by the window in the distance, resting on the sofa. The two seemed to be not affecting each other, but they were actually monitoring each other, especially Li Qianqian. This was her home, and of course, she had placed a lot of surveillance equipment in her home to prevent anyone from sneaking in when she was not home.
It's perfect for monitoring this man now.
Lin Leyou and his companion, who were observing them from a distance using mechanical spiders, were somewhat puzzled. How did things turn out this way?
Lin Leyou: "Is this guy a player?"
Xue Rui: "I don't know him, I can't say for sure. I haven't seen him in the past few days, but he has a rule invalidation card. He's either a special NPC or a participant."
Lin Leyou said, "Li Qianqian isn't making a move; she must not be confident."
He paused briefly before continuing, "What if this man still doesn't leave after four hours? Will a fight break out?"
"If the house is damaged, will Li Qianqian have to go back to the dilapidated house after 8 pm? Oh right, we can go to someone else's house now."
Lin Leyou said, "Luckily, we hid the mechanical spider outside the window. If it were inside the house, there might have been a problem."
Xue Rui: "You can't go into the bedroom."
Lin Leyou blinked. "This is not bad. It's probably something that's already known. If it were something unknown, and she knew it, then she must have died once. I don't believe she could have a resurrection coin."
Xue Rui said, "So far, apart from the two of us, we haven't seen anyone else who has a resurrection coin."
Lin Leyou suddenly realized something, "This resurrection coin, is it only for people who are killed by the rules to be resurrected?"
Xue Rui: "That's right."
Lin Leyou has already used up his resurrection coin, and now only Xue Rui has one left. He can check the details of this resurrection coin on the spot.
It is true that people who are killed by violence cannot be resurrected using resurrection coins; only those killed by the rules can be resurrected. Fortunately, Lin Leyou was killed once by someone exploiting a loophole in the rules.
That was a close call. Lin Leyou still feels lingering fear every time he thinks about it, because he almost died! If it weren't for the resurrection coin, or if the person behind it had used violence directly, he definitely wouldn't have survived.
Moreover, failing would deduct 1 billion points, but he didn't actually have 1 billion.
In other words, if he fails this dungeon, he will not only lose the dungeon rewards, but also his life, since his total score will be reduced to a negative number, which means he will die.
This resurrection coin was incredibly timely. If he hadn't obtained it, or hadn't had time to use it, he would have died, whether in the endless world or the real world.
It's estimated that his death wouldn't even warrant a mention in the newspapers in the real world, and no media outlet would report on it. In other words... Xue Rui would never know that he was actually from the same world as him.
Lin Leyou has already made plans. Once the rented apartment expires, she will move to her own villa. The Xue Zhengyang family, also known as Xue Qian, lives in this neighborhood...
I wonder if I'll run into Xue Rui.
Fortunately, he doesn't go out often, so he can just order takeout or buy things by courier if he needs them.
Xue Rui, "Are you going to sleep now?"
Lin Leyou said, "It's okay, we'll wait until midnight. Anyway, there's no rush to go out and find a target to strike. There's no need for us to rush."
Xue Rui: "Okay."
Time passed slowly, and nothing happened on Li Qianqian's side; everything remained quiet.
Lin Leyou and his group were constantly on their phones, discussing something, while the entire city, in every corner, fell silent during this period.
At midnight, the once quiet city suddenly seemed to be filled with vitality and murderous intent.
"System notification: At midnight on the fifth day, there are 35 participants remaining."
Lin Leyou stared wide-eyed at Xue Rui. Xue Rui was also shocked when he heard the number. There were only thirty-five left on the fifth day. If they were excluded from the two of them and Li Qianqian, wouldn't there only be thirty-two left?
Xue Rui: "Things are not looking good."
Lin Leyou: "On the fourth day, 101 participants died. Guess how many of them were killed by special NPCs?"
Xue Rui: "I don't know, but judging from how much time they wasted in this neighborhood before, it should account for about 70% to 80%."
Lin Leyou said, "The remaining thirty-five are definitely the most troublesome."
Especially the two of them.
Xue Rui: "Thirty-five of them were placed last."
Just then, something happened on Li Qianqian's end. After all, it was already midnight on the fifth day, and the man should have left by now.
However, he did not leave. Instead, he sat on the sofa openly, watching Li Qianqian talk to him, as if he were watching a play.
Li Qianqian: "It's time. Can you go back now?"
The man said, "What's the rush? My legs are numb from sitting for so long. I'll leave once they're not numb anymore."
Li Qianqian took a deep breath. "Stop talking nonsense. Two or three minutes have passed. Even if your legs are really numb, they should be better by now, right?"
The man suddenly chuckled, then said, "Alright, alright, I'm leaving now. Honestly... I at least took you home, why are you in such a hurry to get rid of me?"
"She spoke to me so gently before, but now..."
Li Qianqian didn't want to pay any attention to him, and the other party didn't say anything more either. He slowly got up, looking at Li Qianqian as he walked towards the door, naturally with his body turned to the side.
He seemed to be on guard against Li Qianqian attacking him from behind, but Li Qianqian had no intention of attacking him.
The man grabbed the doorknob and opened the door, but he just stood there and didn't go out.
Li Qianqian thought he was going to play a trick, but to her surprise, he asked, "By the way, beautiful lady, just now outside this door, you seemed to have used something to make me temporarily unconscious, right?"
Li Qianqian narrowed her eyes. So now they're going to settle scores with her?
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