Chapter 98, The Dangers Hidden Behind Sudden Wealth
Zhong Bingxuan reaffirmed that Fu Yuchen's idea was correct. Killing humans and turning them into wooden figures would result in mental pollution and even being the wooden figure's primary target of hatred. This was not a correct rule and should not be followed.
"Aside from these two rules, based on my experience over the past three or four days, I can confirm that Rule 3 is completely correct, Rule 4 is temporarily verified as correct, and after further review, Rule 6 is also correct."
[Rule 3: One, two, three, freeze! Don't speak, don't move. When you hold the wooden figure and shout these 13 words, the wooden figure will not attack you.]
Zhong Bingxuan had used this rule before, before she was chased by the wooden man, and it worked without any problems. As for whether there are any other side effects, it's not clear yet.
Rule Five: Those you kill will be transformed into wooden figures, and those killed by these wooden figures will become part of your accumulated wealth.
The beginning is correct, but the following part is like Rule 2. It may cause mental pollution. For now, it is set as the correct rule, but it has the kind of mental pollution.
[Rule Six: Wooden figures are afraid of the things that killed them in their lifetime. If you encounter a wooden figure who is not thinking clearly and wants to retaliate against you, you can use the things that killed the wooden figure in their lifetime to scare them away.]
Judging from Zhong Bingxuan's actions when she met that man, there's definitely no problem.
"So, are there still three rules—Rule 1, Rule 4, and Rule 7—that we're unsure about?"
Li Hanmo pointed out the unfinished words of Zhong Bingxuan.
"According to the dungeon's timeline, Rule Seven, which states that the treasure will appear within three days, should be correct. However, the following rule, which requires players to collect the desired amount of wealth within three days and find the treasure using the treasure maps hidden throughout the Treasure Forest, is somewhat baffling and seems to be enticing players to make mistakes."
Fu Yuchen added to Li Hanmo's words, but Zhong Bingxuan looked disapproving.
"It's also possible that the secret treasure is a crucial clue to our escape from this forest, so we can't afford to ignore it."
"Rule number four: the box with the wooden figures, the people you kill will become your wealth. Isn't that useless? We don't need to get rich quick, and we can't take the wealth here with us anyway."
Zhong Linlin was curious about this last rule, which had no clear definition. This rule was useless to the players, and no one should die because of it.
However, Zhong Linlin was wrong this time. For players, wealth is not only not useless, but also very precious.
"Xiao Le, why are you moving so slowly? Hurry up and kill him."
"Brothers, please have mercy on me, I won't fight you for the treasure anymore."
Qiu Baixuan ignored the other party's pleas for mercy and impatiently urged his newly recruited subordinate to get to work. Originally, he would have been better off doing this himself, but who knew if this rule would work? Of course, he needed a scapegoat to test it out first.
"Boss, isn't what we're doing wrong? It's a human life at least."
"Yes, yes, murder and arson are illegal. Brothers, you don't need to risk your lives because of my worthless life."
Xiao Le was a newbie who had just entered the dungeon, and he still couldn't get over the guilt of killing someone with his bare hands.
Furthermore, the man's appearance was so pitiful that he couldn't bring himself to kill him.
"Our team doesn't accept useless people. If you don't join, don't blame me for kicking you out of the team."
Qiu Baixuan stared fiercely at Xiao Le, whose hands trembled as she hesitated.
If he were alone, it would be fine, but he has his younger sister behind him, and it's too dangerous for him to walk alone.
But is it appropriate to dirty your hands in order to join a team where human life is treated like dirt?
Qiu Baixuan had no patience to wait any longer, so he signaled to Ma Long, one of his lackeys, to take care of the man.
"Go, hurry up, don't mess up even this small thing."
"Okay, boss."
Qiu Baixuan was extremely impatient. Ma Long, who was Qiu Baixuan's trusted subordinate, was first-rate at reading people. He immediately stepped forward and killed the man. After returning, he looked at Xiao Le with disdain and cursed inwardly, "Coward."
"Boss, the matter is resolved. What do you think we should do with this guy?"
Malone pointed at Xiao Le, signaling his boss to give the order to deal with this disobedient subordinate.
"Let him come along, and he can do all the dirty and hard work from now on."
Qiu Baixuan originally wanted to kill the man directly. This man had followed them for a while and knew too much, so it would be safer to just get rid of him.
But considering it was only the first day of the dungeon and there were still three days left, it wouldn't hurt to spare this person's life and use him as cannon fodder for scouting later. So he stopped Malone's murderous intent and spared the lives of Xiao Le and his sister.
Xiao Le breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing Qiu Baixuan's words; he had thought he was about to be killed.
Malone is too much. He's always trying to kill him because he thinks Malone will threaten his position. He's using his seniority to try and undermine the boss.
Just wait and see, he'll definitely do better than this guy.
To protect his younger sister, Xiao Le had no choice but to climb higher.
Especially during this period, Xiao Le watched as she and her sister did dirty and tiring work while those people ate, drank, and had fun, which intensified her jealousy.
On one occasion, Qiu Boxuan once again ordered someone to deal with an indigenous person. After Xiao Le finally abandoned his conscience and killed someone, he no longer felt that there was anything wrong with his thoughts.
Xiao Meng felt that her brother had changed. The gentle and considerate brother of the past had become bloodthirsty and cruel, killing without blinking an eye.
She had tried to persuade her brother to stop killing, saying that those people looked down on them and that no matter how much they did for them, it would be useless.
But her brother wouldn't listen, telling her to go away, because he wanted to be superior to others.
Killing someone earns you one point. Although it's not much, once you kill someone and they turn into a wooden doll, as long as you're not killed by others, each kill will add one point to the player who killed you. Little by little, Xiao Le has accumulated tens of thousands of points.
For a newcomer to accumulate so many points so quickly is incredible.
Even Qiu Baixuan was wary and signaled to Ma Long not to go forward and kill anyone.
The dungeon wouldn't allow players to gain such a huge advantage, and an overabundance of points would cause the currency to collapse. Qiu Baixuan isn't stupid; he can easily sense that there's something wrong with it.
But Xiao Le is a newcomer and doesn't understand the system's nature. He's focused on earning more points so he and his sister can live a better life, so he desperately kills the natives to make them earn money for him.
He had heard that after clearing the dungeon and returning to the train, points were the main currency, and with points, they could exchange for anything they wanted.
Although Malone was jealous of how many points Xiao Le earned, out of respect for his boss, he stopped killing the natives and did not continue hunting. He just watched enviously as Xiao Le earned a lot of points as if drinking water.
"Boss, is it really impossible to continue?"
"The system won't give players that much benefit. Haven't you noticed that Xiao Le's condition is a bit off?"
Qiu Baixuan gestured to Ma Long, whose eyes were blinded by greed, to look at Xiao Le's current state and then consider whether he should continue.
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