Chapter 44 Platinum Joy Supermarket: Death can strike in the blink of an eye. ...
"My presence here is no coincidence."
"It was Mu Zhuo who arranged for me to be bait, to lure you out."
After exchanging pleasantries, Gu Heng's opening remarks astonished everyone present.
Even Shen Su was taken aback.
They couldn't help but look at Gu Heng with a completely new perspective.
Gu Heng didn't care what others thought of him and continued to speak plainly: "Mu Zhu killed two of his companions at the hotel and formed a cooperation with the three of us. He used a prop to locate your position and asked me to pretend to be chased and escape here to meet you by chance, gain your trust, and lead you to a designated location."
"Mu Zhuo is in the woods 500 meters outside the garment factory. He has a sniper rifle and is a very accurate shot."
"You must be wondering why I'm telling you this? There are two reasons. First, we don't really want to cooperate with Mu Zhuo. I don't agree with his disregard for human life in the game, but we are afraid that he has guns, so we had no choice but to agree to his cooperation request."
"Secondly, I don't trust Mu Zhuo's character, neither in the game nor outside of it." Gu Heng looked at Shi Yu and casually uttered a weighty statement, "But I trust Shi Yu."
Shi Yu looked surprised.
Shen Su's gaze toward Gu Heng had changed from scrutiny to a stare filled with deep dissatisfaction.
“As a lawyer, I’ve met all sorts of people. I can usually tell at a glance who’s two-faced and who has ulterior motives. I’m a rather introverted person, and when I’m working, I don’t care about family or friends. I don’t have many friends…” Gu Heng’s face was still expressionless, but you could hear the sincerity in his words. “Although we’ve only known each other for a few days, you are the kind of person I would like to befriend.”
Seemingly finally noticing Shen Su's displeased gaze, Gu Heng looked away from Shi Yu, his tone more serious than before: "Of course, you have the right to question the truthfulness of my words."
“But I still want to make one last effort.” Gu Heng took off his shirt, revealing the injuries underneath. He said to Shen Su, “You’ve studied martial arts, so you should know how to assess injuries. All the injuries on my body are fresh, within half an hour. Mu Zhuo created them to make my acting more realistic. The time was before I entered the clothing factory, and the location was in that grove of trees next door. You can also examine the mud under my shoes. This is enough to prove that more than half of what I just said is true.”
"Furthermore, my allegiance to you is not unconditional." Gu Heng said the last sentence while looking at Shen Su, a cold glint flashing in his calm eyes for a moment. "I only have one condition: do not touch Jiang Yan."
He repeated, "No matter what happens later, don't hurt Jiang Yan."
"If you find out I've lied to you in any way, you can kill me anytime, but don't hurt Jiang Yan." Gu Heng stared into the void, his gaze hard to describe, as if he were longing for her, or perhaps saddened. "She is my only and best friend."
“I believe in you.” Shi Yu interrupted, stepping forward to pat Gu Heng on the shoulder with a reassuring look in his eyes. “I believe in Attorney Gu’s character, and Attorney Gu is also a friend I want to make.”
Gu Heng finally gave a faint smile: "Thank you."
Shi Yu responded with a smile.
When I turned around, I met Chen Su's resentful gaze.
Shi Yu paused for a moment, then reached out and patted Chen Su on the shoulder.
What I was thinking was that I shouldn't show favoritism.
The viewers in the live stream didn't think so:
[When Yu Yu pats Gu Heng on the shoulder, it's to comfort him; when she pats Chen Su on the shoulder, it's like a boss telling an employee: "Work hard, and I'll give you a raise at the end of the year!"]
[Hahaha, that's spot on! You understand your boss.]
[It's so cute how Yu Yu's wife tries so hard to keep the bowl of water level!]
Gu Heng really cares about Jiang Yan! Even though they're just friends, it's still so sweet to watch!
【Wait, why did you all sit down? Why did you start chatting? Mu Zhuo is still feeding mosquitoes in the tree, don't you have any conscience?】
[Gu Heng: I've already betrayed you, and you're asking me about my conscience?]
To be fair, Attorney Gu is a lawyer after all; his eloquence is truly impressive! I suspect that if he really wanted to be an accomplice to evil, he probably could have done it!
But Attorney Gu didn't do that. He's fundamentally upright, and I suddenly become a fan!
[What an amazing friendship between Gu Heng and Jiang Yan! I'm so sad!]
...
Mu Zhuo spent nearly two hours feeding mosquitoes in the tree, but there was no sound from the garment factory.
Gu Heng either betrayed them or was killed. Of course, the former is less likely because Jiang Yan is still here, so Gu Heng is most likely killed.
However, it's better to be dead.
To avoid taking up a spot and getting in the way.
It was almost six in the morning.
Six hours had passed before the death trial was about to begin, and the total number of surviving players in their instance was clearly more than four.
Mu Zhuo calmly put on the Resurrection Armor that could withstand one fatal blow.
The Resurrection Armor is a rare item in the game and is extremely difficult to obtain. He only has two pieces, and each piece can only be used once. He plans to give the other piece to Jiang Yan.
Mu Zhu put away his sniper rifle, jumped down from the tree, and pushed open the door of the small house where Jiang Yan was hiding. The house was empty.
Jiang Yan has disappeared.
.
Jiang Yan was treating Gu Heng's injuries in the factory manager's office.
An hour ago, she received a message from Gu Heng in the game, so she quietly sneaked in to meet up with him.
Seeing the harmonious atmosphere inside, and apart from the several additional injuries on Gu Heng's body, she roughly guessed what had happened.
Jiang Yan was not surprised by Gu Heng's defection to Shi Yu and his group; in fact, she approved of it.
To be honest, she offered to be the bait for this very reason.
Putting everything else aside, just look at their appearance.
Although both are younger brothers, Shi Yu is much more pleasing to the eye than Mu Zhuo.
During this period, the four also discussed the possibility of "Platinum Supermarket's bankruptcy and early clearance".
The method is feasible, but this time there is clearly not enough time.
It's almost six o'clock.
They cannot escape the first systemic trial.
Dungeon 1 and Dungeon 3 have been merged into Dungeon E. The surviving players in Dungeon E at this moment are: Mu Zhuo, Gu Heng, Jiang Yan, Shi Yu, Chen Su, and Yang Qiwen.
Of the six people, who lives and who dies is entirely up to fate.
Jiang Yan said, "Mu Zhuo has an item similar to the Resurrection Armor. After use, it can block one fatal blow. This fatal blow includes the one that comes from the system. Dying in the game is the same as dying in real life. Mu Zhuo will probably use the Resurrection Armor this time."
“These kinds of items are very rare. Neither Gu Heng nor I have any. Do you have any?” Jiang Yan asked, then added, “I’m sorry, I forgot you’re still new players. You probably don’t have any items. We’ll just have to leave it to fate.”
Shi Yu has three props: [Lin Fengbai], [Thousand Paper Cranes], and [Broken Sugar Granules].
Because the instance is currently very dangerous, he did not release Lin Fengbai. He didn't know what the "Schrödinger's Luck +1" function of the item [Thousand Paper Cranes] meant, and as for [Broken Sugar Granules], they were completely useless.
Jiang Yan is right; they can only leave it to fate.
No, it should be said that it depends on the system's mood, on who the system wants to die?
It was exactly six o'clock in the morning.
The game panel for all surviving players popped up—
The total number of players in instance E is six, which exceeds four.
[Two players will be randomly killed in one minute. Please be prepared.]
"..."
What, you want to be prepared to die?
This minute felt both infinitely long and incredibly fast.
Yang Qiwen, who was fast asleep leaning against a tree trunk in the grove, was enveloped by a beam of black light.
He fell into a permanent sleep in his dreams.
Another black beam of light stopped above Jiang Yan's head.
Death can strike in the blink of an eye.
In the blink of an eye, Gu Heng pushed Jiang Yan away.
The beam falls.
Gu Heng did not die.
The beam of death, which was falling straight down, suddenly veered off course just before it was about to hit Gu Heng.
Meanwhile, all four people here received the same system message—
[[Thousand Paper Cranes] Schrödinger's Luck +1 activated - from Gu Heng.]
[Death results in execution failure; execution will be retried in one minute.]
There is also one—
[Death grants successful execution; player Yang Qiwen has died.]
Lin Fengbai folded 666 origami cranes, so the [Origami Crane] skill can be used 666 times. At the critical moment, Shi Yu gave Jiang Yan and Gu Heng each an [Origami Crane] status. Unexpectedly, "Schrödinger's luck" has this effect.
Gu Heng realized that Shi Yu had saved him with a prop, and he nodded to Shi Yu: "Thank you."
"You're welcome."
Shi Yu nodded, and then added the [Paper Crane] status to all four people, with a flashing red paper crane icon appearing above each person's head.
One minute later.
A beam of light appeared above Shen Su's head.
Shi Yu noticed that the origami crane icon above Shen Su's head had turned gray, while the other two's were red. Only Shen Su's had turned gray. As if realizing something, he suddenly pounced on Shen Su.
[Item [Origami Cranes] Schrödinger's Luck +1 activated - from Shi Yu.]
[Item [Origami Cranes] Schrödinger's Luck -1 activated - From Shen Su.]
Shi Yu threw himself on top of Shen Su. The beam of death avoided Shi Yu and struck the ground to the side. Shen Su, whose body did not block it, suffered a minor injury to his left arm, but fortunately, he survived.
It was only then that Shi Yu realized that the luck of [Thousand Paper Cranes] was not 100% effective. It was called "Schrödinger's Luck" because it could either increase luck by 1 or decrease luck by 1.
[Death results in execution failure; execution will be retried in one minute.]
[Death results in execution failure; execution will be retried in one minute.]
[Death results in execution failure; execution will be retried in one minute.]
...
The player is given the [Origami Crane] status. When the origami crane icon above the player's head turns red, luck increases by 1, and when it turns gray, luck decreases by 1. Therefore, before each beam of light falls, if the origami crane of the person under the beam turns gray, then the person with the red origami crane will rush over to help block one death.
They used this method to dodge five times.
Until the sixth time.
The origami cranes above the heads of the four people all turned gray.
This time, the black beam of light stopped above Gu Heng's head.
Jiang Yan tried to rush over without thinking, but Shi Yu grabbed her arm tightly, and she could only watch helplessly as the beam of death fell.
[Death grants successful execution; player Gu Heng has died.]
[The Death Invoke effect in instance E has been fully executed; the current number of surviving players is four.]
[17 hours and 52 minutes remain until the next instance merge.]
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