Chapter 72 Mysterious Player
Xia Bai: [I just got the news that Wugu Village was burned down. I hope you leave safely.]
It was early winter, and even in Datai City, which was as warm as spring during the day, it was a little chilly at night. The cold wind blew into You Yue's torn trouser legs, and he took a step forward in his cloth shoes.
A sharp horn sounded, and a fat, big-eared man poked his head out of the luxury car and cursed at You Yue as if he was looking at garbage: "You blind beggar! Get the hell away from me and don't dirty my car! It's disgusting!"
You Yue raised her head and looked at him. The man didn't know why, but he felt a chill all over his body when he was looked at by her unremarkable eyes. This chill seemed to come from the soul, sharply stimulating his brain.
At the same time, even more strangely, all the immoral and sinful things he had done in his life popped up in his mind, and they were played out in his mind one by one.
It's so weird.
The man patted his head, cursed You Yue as "bad luck", and drove away in a hurry.
You Yue looked at the others again, and all the dark and evil things were revealed to him.
He stepped on the dead leaves and crossed the road with his head down.
You Yue: [Xia Bai, some people say that women are born to suffer more than men. I have a slightly different idea. Those who suffer are the lower class, the people who live in the dark world at the bottom. Even men will be turned into women.]
You Yue: [They turned me into a transvestite so that I would suffer like a girl.]
“Bang!”
There was a loud crash from behind, as well as screams from the crowd.
There was a car accident.
There could be heavy casualties.
You Yue didn't look back, and continued to walk forward holding the phone, [I don't want it.]
You Yue: [Xia Bai, I've made up my mind. I want to be a boy.]
Xia Bai: [Okay, let’s return to the natural gender we had when we were born. From now on, I will call you Brother You Yue.]
It is You Yue's own right to choose his gender, but Xia Bai prefers him to be a boy again, simply because it is healthier for him and he does not need to take medicine to maintain an unnatural body shape.
You Yue: [You can just call me You Yue. I just became an adult this year, and this is the decision I made when I became an adult.]
Xia Bai was stunned. When he saw You Yue, You Yue was wearing a work uniform. He thought You Yue was older than him, but he didn't expect that You Yue was younger than him.
Then he really can't call him brother, and calling him younger brother is a bit uncomfortable, so calling him You Yue is the most appropriate.
Xia Bai: [Do you need a healing player? They are much better than doctors in the real world and can help you recover. If you need one, please contact me and I will help you find one at the Game Management Bureau.]
You Yue replied with an "OK".
After listening to Yan Jingye's detailed description, Ling Changye turned to ask Xia Bai: "Did You Yue leave Wugu Village at that time?"
Xia Bai knew that he was suspicious of You Yue. You Yue was a little strange about this trip to Wugu Village. The strangest thing was that he had lived in Wugu Village before, finished a game, and continued to stay in Wugu Village, but Wugu Village caught fire.
Xia Bai said: "He left. About an hour after we left, he left in a car from the Tourism Administration and is now in Datai City."
They came back in the car of the Tourism Administration. The people from the Tourism Administration came back later than them. They had to stay there to deal with the aftermath. They must have checked and found that there was no problem in Wugu Village before returning. Of course, it was impossible for anyone to be crazy enough to light a fire at that time.
Ling Changye nodded and asked Yan Jingye: "Do you want to go and take a look?"
Yan Jingye: "It's so far away, and we have already dealt with the situation by the time we got there. How about I ask the people over there to video-call us?"
Ling Changye thought the same thing. He could send a plane over there, but it would definitely attract widespread attention. Since it had already been burned, nothing could be changed, so there was no need to go through so much trouble.
They went to the hotel's conference room and Yan Jingye projected the video on the big screen.
Wugu Village is surrounded by mountains with lush vegetation and only a small river, which was of no use in the face of such a large fire. The wooden stilt houses were a natural fuel and were almost all burnt.
It can be seen that the fire had just been put out, and many small flames could still be seen in the hazy smoke.
"Director Yan, we have found more than 20 charred bodies so far. This..." the person in the video said, "Although it has been confirmed that the villagers went crazy and started the fire, but it's just like our people from the Tourism Bureau left... It's a bit unreasonable."
Yan Jingye said sternly, "We went to Wugu Village to clean up the game. We didn't know how many people were prevented from being sucked into the game. They caught fire, so we just tried our best to help. Why think so much!"
There were continuous responses from the other end, and they continued to show them the situation on the scene.
More than half of those found were corpses. Except for those who cleverly jumped into the river, the others who were still alive had severe burns.
Amid the smoke and fire, Wugu Village was filled with curses and cries.
"It's over."
Xia Bai heard a clear cry.
It's indeed over.
After the people were rescued, Wugu Village no longer existed.
Just as they were watching the Wugu Village video, Yan Jingye's phone rang again. Xia Bai saw his note and it seemed that it was another staff member of the Tourism Administration.
Before I answered this call, another one came in.
Seeing Yan Jingye frowning in resistance and staring at his phone as if he were a ferocious beast, Xia Bai realized for the first time that being a leader is not easy.
"Answer it, brother." Xia Bai pointed his index finger at the vibrating phone on the table. "If you stick your head out, you'll get a knife. If you keep your head down, you'll get a knife."
“…”
Thank you for your good words.
Yan Jingye clasped his hands together and bowed before answering the phone. His brows, which were already tense, became even more wrinkled after hearing the words on the other end of the line, and his face looked like a bitter gourd.
Putting down the phone, he said with a sad face, "Captain Ling, the people from the Holy Tour Guild and the Half Moon Group have gathered together, and it looks like they might start a fight."
Ling Changye stood up and picked up the coat on the chair. "What are you waiting for? Let's go and take a look. Call Jing Yan to come with us."
Yan Jingye immediately said: "Alas!"
He was more familiar with Datai City, so he drove them there. Ling Changye sat in the passenger seat, while Xia Bai held Erwa and Jing Yan in the back.
Yan Jingye was constantly answering calls on the way, and the people from the Tourism Bureau were relaying the real-time situation to him. This relied on the player map developed by the Tourism Bureau Research Institute. Just like it can accurately capture the location of the game, the player map can capture the gathering and location of players.
It is difficult to capture a single player, but when players gather together, the energy field is very large and it is easy to lock on to the exact location.
The staff of the Tourism Bureau can capture the dynamics of players just by sitting in the office.
And another car quickly rushed to the players' gathering place through their real-time broadcast.
This time the two clubs gathered in a bar. According to Yan Jingye, this bar has become popular in the past two years since the advent of the game. There are often some novel performances. They have long suspected that this is a bar opened by players.
"Serious Bureau, the energy has weakened, maybe some of them left."
When the Tourism Authority staff broke the news to them, they were less than three kilometers away from the bar.
Since they were almost there, they didn't stop and rushed to the bar.
"Serious situation. The players' energy is almost undetectable. They may have dispersed."
No, it's not broken up.
Standing at the door, they smelled a strong odor of blood.
Yan Jingye scratched his hair in pain. When Ling Changye was about to go in first, he heard Xia Bai ask Erwa: "Erwa, do you feel the danger?"
Erwa shook his head.
Xia Bai asked again: "Really?"
Ling Changye turned his head and saw Erwa holding a coffee cup in his hand. There was no straw on the lid of the cup, and there was a faint black spot there, which looked like hair.
Erwa really didn't feel any danger. Under Xia Bai's gaze, in this place that he subconsciously felt was very safe, a small green leaf grew on his little finger.
Ling Changye stopped and thought that the green leaf in Erwa's hand was more important than the situation in the bar.
Another green leaf grew opposite to the small green leaf, and a tender green bud L sprouted in the middle.
If this bud L continues to grow, it will become branches and rhizomes deep underground when Erwa's skills explode, but now, there is only a small part.
There is no need for so much, Erwa nodded affirmatively, there is no danger.
Ling Changye continued walking forward and pushed open the door of the bar.
There is indeed no danger, all the players who stayed here are dead.
Xia Bai pinched Erwa's small leaves and gave him a thumbs up. A small white flower bloomed on the small branch on the spot.
"These, this... Isn't this Zhang Bingyu, the vice president of the Shengyou Guild?!" Yan Jingye said in shock: "She is actually dead, and these two are also high-level players of the Shengyou Guild, right? They are all dead?!"
Last time at Huaning TV station, the Shengyou Guild wanted to negotiate with the Banyue Group about letting them join the Shengyou Guild, but You Mohan and Shi Danfeng did not agree. After that, almost all the official players of the Shengyou Guild were wiped out in the game.
Last time, there was a veteran player named Bald Liu Qiang. This time, whether he is continuing to negotiate with the Shengyou Guild about joining the group, or coming to find out the truth and avenge Liu Qiang and the others, the Shengyou Guild will send out more powerful players than last time.
Xia Bai and Ling Changye had anticipated this on the way here, but they didn't expect that these people would all die when the vice president took action.
It is said that the president of the Shengyou Guild has been bedridden for many years, and the two vice presidents are the actual people in power. One of them has his gaming identity and skills exposed. He is the "Psychic" who ranks second between Yang Mei and Erwa on the points ranking list. The other one is even more mysterious, and that is Zhang Bingyu.
Unexpectedly, they didn't even know her skills, and she died here, along with two other veteran players of the Holy Tour Guild.
Moreover, their deaths were horrible. Some had several holes on their bodies, and some had no flesh on their faces. Zhang Bingyu's eyes were still open, and he still retained the incredible look on his face at the time of his death.
Is the Half Moon Group so strong? Is it because of the home field advantage?
Ling Changye seemed to be standing casually, but there was a blue light in his eyes. After a moment, he closed his eyes.
Xia Bai asked: "Did you find anything?"
Ling Changye shook his head, "Can we still find someone alive? Let Jing Yan try."
"Hey!" Jing Yan said immediately, "Let's look for it together."
He could find living people faster than others. He only needed to stand in place and scan, using the method of reading people's inner thoughts - he could only see the inner thoughts of the living, not the dead.
"There's another one here." Jing Yan hurried to the dance floor.
Unfortunately, the man was only breathing his last breath, and he died just as they were about to touch him.
While looking for the bar's cameras, Ling Changye asked, "Director Yan, Datai City is the birthplace of the Half Moon Group. You may know them better. Are they so powerful in the local area?"
Yan Jingye said: "I know that the Half Moon Group is very powerful, and every member of their club is willing to risk their lives, but I don't know how they compare to this group of players from the Holy Tour Guild, especially this vice president. I don't even know what her skills are."
Xia Bai was curious, "Brother, do you know who are the members of their club?"
"If we summarize their identities, they are all people who had a miserable life in the real world before." Yan Jingye said: "As far as I know, there are □□, blind people, and people who were deceived into going to neighboring countries. At that time, You Mohan brought a group of people back from a neighboring country. They stopped in Datai City and took in some of the same people in Datai City."
Xia Bai was not surprised, as he could guess a little from the president and his wife.
Yan Jingye added: "Maybe because we have similar experiences, we understand and trust each other, the people in the Half Moon Group are particularly united."
Xia Bai looked at the miserable people in front of him and said softly, "The chance meeting of a group of miserable people is more powerful than the strong."
They cleaned up all the bodies here and compared them with the information from the Tourism Administration. They confirmed that more than half of them were from the Holy Tour Guild, and there were also a few people from the Half Moon Group.
Yan Jingye said: "It's already past eleven o'clock, you guys go back and have a rest, and leave the rest to us."
Ling Changye didn't bother to be polite with him. This was not their job in the first place. "Okay, thank you for your hard work, Director Yan. We will go back first."
They went back in the assault team's RV. As soon as they got in, Ling Changye asked Jing Yan, "What did you see and what's on your mind?"
Jing Yan said: "I saw two people's inner thoughts in total. One was the one next to the dance floor. His inner thoughts were [I deserve to die]. The other was the player from the Half Moon Group near the door. His inner thoughts were [That's great]."
"The player from the Half Moon Group crawled to the door. I saw blood behind him." Xia Bai said, "If the Half Moon Group had the upper hand in this fight, why did he crawl to the door in such pain and effort when he was on the verge of death?"
After saying this doubt, Xia Bai expressed his own guess, "Could it be that the Half Moon Group in front of him did not have an advantage and it was very difficult to fight. He wanted to crawl to the door to escape or open the door to ask for help, and the Half Moon Group behind him came with powerful helpers. His final thought before he died was "That's great"? "
Jing Yan immediately said: "It's very likely!"
This time it wasn't just out of flattery. He really thought it was very possible, but he didn't notice the bloodstains. There was too much blood in the bar at the time, and he was dizzy. How could he notice and analyze where the bloodstains belonged? If he had seen the bloodstains of the Half Moon Group player crawling out, he would have thought so too.
Ling Changye said: "The staff of the Datai City Tourism Bureau said that the energy field has weakened and that someone may have left. In fact, several players must have died at the same time. When she said this, it was only about eight minutes after she reported that the energy field was normal, and it must have been less than ten minutes."
Xia Bai: "You mean?"
Ling Changye: "If he saw a helper, that helper must be very terrifying. He killed so many players in less than ten minutes. Maybe some of them were high-level players from the Holy Tour Guild."
Xia Bai and Jing Yan both looked startled.
So, a very scary mysterious player appeared in the city of Datai where they were?
Xia Bai said: "Is it possible that it is You Mohan and Shi Danfeng? The combination of their skills can indeed cause a group kill."
As soon as he finished speaking, he denied this possibility himself, "Their deaths don't seem to be caused by their skills."
"Well, that's unlikely." Ling Changye said, "The staff of the Datai City Tourism Administration said at the beginning that it was the Half Moon Group and the Holy Tour Guild that were gathering. They may have captured the energy field and switched to the surveillance to see them go to the bar. We can go and confirm with them."
Jing Yan raised his hand. "I also found something strange. I saw the inner thoughts of another dying player. He thought that he deserved to die. Isn't that a bit strange?"
Xia Bai asked: "Then under what circumstances is it normal for a person to think that he deserves to die when he is about to die?"
"Let me think about it." Jing Yan thought hard, "First, when he was dying, he did something that even he hated himself, and he felt so guilty that he wanted to commit suicide. Second, when he was dying, someone asked him whether he should die, and he was indeed not a good person. Third, he had done something that he hated, or that other outsiders thought was extremely evil. Isn't it said that when people die, they will recall their lives in a cursory manner? He remembered these things."
It was much clearer now. Jing Yan asked, "Which one is more likely? I think it's the first one. He may have accidentally killed his companions during the fight. He may have been controlled by that powerful player. If that powerful player can control people and make the enemies go crazy and kill each other, it is possible that it will cause large-scale deaths in a short period of time, which can also match their deaths."
Xia Bai and Ling Changye didn't say anything. From the clues they knew so far, this guess was indeed flawless.
Ling Changye said to Xia Bai, "Do you still remember what the madman who burned down Wugu Village said when he set the fire?"
"What?" Jing Yan was shocked: "Wugu Village was burned down?"
Xia Bai briefly told him about the burning of Wugu Village tonight, and then replied to Ling Changye: "I remember, he said they all deserved to die."
He thought of this when he was silent just now, so he became even more silent.
Jing Yan: "Do you suspect that the man who burned down Wugu Village is the same person who killed someone in the bar tonight?"
Ling Changye smiled and said, "It's a bit of a coincidence, isn't it?"
Jing Yan asked: "Should we tell this to Director Yan?"
"This is not our responsibility. Don't take the work on yourself. Just remind him to check if anyone enters the bar during the day and then have a good vacation." Ling Changye said with a smile.
Xia Bai glanced at him. Ling Changye seemed to be a very easy-going person in the Tourism Administration and seemed to cooperate with his work, but in fact, he was just like what Guo Yang described, like an idle rich boy. He didn't take his work very seriously, even when it came to matters involving the safety of a city or even more cities.
Ling Changye noticed his gaze and asked him, "What are you thinking about?"
Xia Bai said truthfully: "Captain, you are not a man with a sense of patriotism. You are the captain of the assault team. Have you ever thought about maintaining world peace and social stability?"
Ling Changye lowered his head and laughed, "The world is already ruined, what is there to protect?"
“…”
"It is not within our power to preserve the world in front of us. So live your short life well." Ling Changye said.
Then, he asked Xia Bai: "Do you want to maintain world peace?"
Xia Bai shook his head honestly, "I just want to find the God of Happiness in my family."
“…”
Ling Changye was silent for a moment, then said something inexplicable, "Fortunately."
Jing Yan was shocked. These few sentences contained too much information.
What? Aren't you guys here to maintain world peace? Oh, it's just to clear the game.
Wait, what about looking for the God of Happiness?
And, fortunately? What does that mean?
Xia Bai seemed to know that he was curious, so he told Jing Yan about his search for the God of Happiness and said, "When I ask others, can you help me see what they are thinking?"
Jing Yan suddenly felt that he was just a tool in the assault team.
Jing Yan said: "...Okay, your God of Joy is my God of Joy, I will definitely do my best."
Xia Bai's silly face turned serious in a rare moment. "It's not your God of Joy, it's my God of Joy."
“…”
They passed the reminder to Yan Jingye and went back to their rooms to rest.
It was already 12:40 after washing up. Xia Bai hurriedly held Erwa and lay down in the quilt, starting his favorite activity.
Open the game app and click into the Player Communication Center to see players discussing the Wugu Village map that they completed today.
Wugu Village is a bounty mission released by the Game Management Bureau in the Player Exchange Center. It has received more attention and has been attracting attention since the day the mission was released.
"How come there are so many players in Wugu Village?"
1L: Am I ignorant? How could so many players survive a game that they failed to complete twice?
2L: Generally, the survival rate is very high in games with more than two members of the attacking team. Otherwise, why do you think so many people sign up?
3L: I regret not signing up. I feel that the few players who made it out alive weren’t that great. If I had gone, I should have been able to make it out alive and claim the rewards.
4L: emmmm
5L: But this map is very weird. Wugu Village was burned down right after I finished the map. I just saw in another post that a female player who came out of the game died.
Xia Bai was stunned for a moment. Tonight they had been paying attention to the fire in Wugu Village and the fight between bar players, but they didn't know who had died.
Xia Bai subconsciously wanted to ask Ling Changye, but then he remembered that he didn't like to take on work, and L might be enjoying his life right now, so he went to ask Song Shi.
Song Shi quickly gave him the answer, [It's Tao Baobao.]
Xia Bai shared this news with Lin Xiang and Jing Yan. Jing Yan immediately created a group and told them: [It should be Fu Yuqing who killed her. She exposed Fu Yuqing’s evil deeds. When she came out of the game, I saw Fu Yuqing’s inner thoughts, "You are dead."]
Lin Xiang strongly agreed.
Xia Bai also thought it was possible. He was not that concerned about the players who just came out of the same game. After listening to their discussion, he just remembered that he and Tao Baobao had exchanged their experiences of framing others and might be cursed by others.
Tao Baobao said she didn't want to be implicated, so she falsely accused her autistic brother of being mentally ill and sent him to a mental hospital.
Judging from her old age, she probably wasn't telling him the truth.
I wonder if she used the same method to trick Fu Yuqing into killing someone in the game.
Xia Bai thought about it for a moment and then stopped thinking about it. He opened his skill book and glanced over it casually, and saw something that stunned him.
At the prepared corpse, a green light appeared under the image of You Yue.
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