Chapter 42 Does Platinum Joy Supermarket really not want to settle things even? ...
In the end, Shen Su's plan failed.
Because the sofa was too narrow, and given Chen Su's height and long legs, it was impossible for him to rest his head on someone else's lap on such a small sofa.
Shen Su wasn't really sleepy, so he decided not to sleep. He found a candle somewhere, lit it, and discussed the plot with Shi Yu by candlelight: "Lin Fengbai relayed all your thoughts to me. You said you suspected that we were investigating in the wrong direction from the beginning. Did you find anything at the supermarket?"
"It's not exactly a major discovery." Shi Yu was probably a little cold, so he pulled his coat up higher and tucked his hands inside. He said, "The supermarket is unmanned, the shelves are all self-service restocking, and you can hardly see any sales staff. That's not surprising, but there is something unusual."
"The supermarket is very crowded, especially around 10 p.m. It's almost as crowded as a Carrefour supermarket during its Chinese New Year shopping festival."
Shen Su rested his chin on his hand, turning to look at Shi Yu's face in the candlelight. He might not have listened to much of what Shi Yu was saying, but he was looking at Shi Yu very intently.
"The Platinum Joy Supermarket is doing very well, which may be one of the reasons why it is unlikely to go bankrupt," Shi Yu concluded.
Shen Su nodded in agreement: "There are definitely too many people in the supermarket, it's abnormally crowded! Do you think it's possible that someone is paying people to go to the supermarket every day to inflate the supermarket's sales figures?"
"You went to the supermarket tonight too, didn't you?" Shi Yu asked.
This was probably the first time Shi Yu had gone off-topic during a conversation.
Shen Su: "?!"
He seems to have inadvertently revealed something.
However, there was nothing wrong with admitting it. Chen Su hummed in agreement and asked, "You saw me?"
Shi Yu said, "There must have been a brief overlap before the supermarkets officially merged. I did see a figure that looked a lot like you. At first, I thought I was seeing things."
It turned out that Shi Yu had seen him too.
Shi Yu saw him, but didn't come to find him. Instead, she happily went shopping at the supermarket with Lu Chengjing.
"Actually, I saw you too," Chen Su said in a chilly tone.
Shi Yu: "?"
"I also saw that scoundrel next to you."
Shi Yu: "?"
Why did you suddenly start swearing when we were just having a normal conversation?
What a scoundrel!
You even drank Lu Chengjing's champagne, okay?
Shi Yu was puzzled by Shen Su's behavior, and the live stream chat was buzzing with excitement.
Can you smell the sourness? It's so sour, so sour, so sour! Isn't this an abandoned clothing factory? Why does it smell so strongly of vinegar?!
[Yu Yu just said, "You saved me once, I'll save you once, we're even," but Shen Su immediately made Yu Yu owe him another favor. Tsk tsk, does he really not want to settle things?]
[The scene where Chen Su's expression was priceless when Lin Feng gave Shi Yu 666 origami cranes was quite amusing, and the instant change in Chen Su's expression upon learning that Shi Yu had given him the candy to someone else was also quite telling!]
[I strongly suspect that Shen Su deliberately chose this modified motorcycle so that his wife would have nowhere to hold on and would have to cling to his waist. He also deliberately drove very fast so that his wife would hold on very tightly! That's quite a little scheme, typical of you!]
[My wife, Yuyu, sleeps in a very proper posture. He pressed her head onto his shoulder and then accused her of drooling. Shameless!]
Having a wife is enough; why bother with saving face? Those who care about face don't have wives!
...
The topic of "dog men" was clearly not going to progress, so Shi Yu steered the conversation back to the merging of the instances.
"Logically, the purpose of a system in a game is to serve the tasks and the players. The system should be a symbol of fairness and justice. In the previous game, the system gave Lin Qinghe a great deal of power, but it also imposed some restrictions on him."
“But in this game, the system gives me the feeling…” Shi Yu paused for a moment, carefully choosing her words, “It seems to be playing games? Teasing? Pranking me.”
“Every game should have its own philosophy and its own meaning. Is the purpose of this game’s multiple dungeons just to make NPCs kill each other after the dungeons are merged? Or to make players kill each other?” Shi Yu shook his head slightly. “This makes me feel even more that the system is no longer a fair and just standard, but is like a naughty and mischievous child.”
Shen Su let out a short, soft laugh.
"What are you laughing at?" Shi Yu turned his head to look at him. He seemed a little angry, and there was a spark in his dark eyes, which made his usually calm face come alive.
Shen Su stared blankly into Shi Yu's eyes for a moment, then came to his senses after a few seconds and said, "What you said makes sense. In reality, game systems are indeed like tools, but this is not the real world, and this is not an ordinary game. We cannot think about it with normal thinking."
"Since it's a game where real people go on adventures, maybe it's just about killing for fun?"
“What’s more, there’s also the live streaming function.” Shen Su spoke slowly, enunciating each word, then suddenly leaned forward and said in a deep, melodious voice, “Do you know what some people in the live streaming room like to watch the most? Handsome men and beautiful women? Exciting storylines? No, no, no, those aren’t exciting enough.”
"What can make your blood boil and your adrenaline surge? Racing cars are more thrilling, more insane than gambling... They're even willing to spend a fortune on it." Warm breath brushed against Shi Yu's neck and earlobe, and two words were whispered in his ear, "Murder."
Shi Yu's body trembled.
He suddenly looked towards Chen Su.
Shen Su had already distanced himself from the two and leaned back on the sofa. His gaze was fixed on the half-burnt candle on the desk. He said indifferently, "The fact that the system can issue this mission means that this mission is legal here. So let's talk about the current situation according to its rules."
"Besides you and me, there are currently six players in the hotel fighting each other. The best-case scenario is that only one or two remain, which would be great. The worst-case scenario is that they don't kill each other thoroughly enough, and the number of people alive in this instance exceeds four, which would be troublesome."
The candlelight reflected in Shen Su's light-colored eyes. When he said "the killing wasn't thorough enough," it was as natural as saying "I'm going to have a bowl of noodles tonight."
Many years ago, Shi Yu met a pair of eyes in the attic of the Shen family that did not belong to an 8-year-old boy.
For a fleeting moment just now.
Shi Yu felt that she had touched upon another dark and unknown side of Shen Su.
"I'm wondering if it's really the right thing for us to do to hide?" Shen Su asked the question, tilted his head and thought for a while, then answered himself, "We can hide here for a while, but when the six hours are up and there are more than four survivors in the instance, some of us will still be killed by the system."
"That person could be someone else who survived, or it could be you or me. We are not participating in the competition for survival spots among players right now, and we can only entrust our lives to the system's random chance."
"To hand over the power of life and death to others..." Shen Su clicked his tongue twice in disapproval. "This is not my style. Perhaps we should not sit idly by and wait for our doom."
Shi Yu remained silent for a long time before asking, "Are you going to kill someone?"
"Is that not allowed?" Shen Su asked back.
Meeting Shen Su's gaze, Shi Yu's heart skipped a beat. He looked away and said, "The system is deliberately forcing players to kill each other. I can't control others, but you have to make it willing."
"Are we supposed to wait for the system to judge us?" Shen Su forced Shi Yu to look at him with sharp words. "Isn't the so-called granting players death just an excuse for the system to kill people at will?"
Shi Yu swallowed hard: "It's wrong for the system to judge the life and death of players, but it's right for you to judge the life and death of others?"
"Does right and wrong matter?" Shen Su said calmly. "Even if I don't kill them, they will still attack us. Mu Zhuo in my instance is an old player with rich experience and a lot of items, so he will be fine. As for the other two who are lying down like me, they are most likely cannon fodder now."
Shen Su continued, "Mu Zhuo, with the three from your dungeon, that makes four spots. Perhaps they've formed a temporary alliance and are on their way to ambush us. Do you believe that?"
"4v2, which side has a higher probability of winning? If they take out the two of us, they can be safe for a few hours."
The live stream chat is currently flooded with exclamation marks:
[Shen Su's intuition is incredibly accurate!!! Yes, they are indeed on their way to ambush you!!!]
His prediction was accurate!! Those four did indeed form a temporary alliance!!!
So what's going on now? My favorite streamer is going after my favorite couple?!
There's a swear word I really want to say right now!
...
A few tens of minutes ago, at the hotel.
With the dungeons merged, players from the two dungeons inevitably met. Upon meeting, some were trembling with fear, some were at a loss, some were wary, and some were on guard. Mu Zhuo took the initiative to propose cooperation to the players from the other dungeon.
“But how are we supposed to cooperate?” Jiang Yan glanced around. “There are six of us, but only four spots can survive under the game rules.”
Mu Zhuo pulled out a pistol from somewhere, raised it, and with two loud bangs, the two men behind him fell to the ground. Without even turning his head to put the pistol away, Mu Zhuo said, "Isn't that enough now?"
Thus, Mu Zhuo, Jiang Yan, Gu Heng, and Yang Qiwen reached a temporary cooperation agreement.
This cooperation was less voluntary and more forced, or rather, a last resort.
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Shi Yu remained silent for a long time before speaking.
“Perhaps it’s wrong and too sentimental to talk about judging someone’s life and death in a place like this, but…” Shi Yu’s fair face was bathed in a soft candlelight. His gaze toward Chen Su was gentle and calm, as if he were laying out a tender heart in front of him. He said, “I don’t want you to do this.”
After saying this, Shi Yu smiled bitterly to himself. Even he knew that his words were not very convincing, so why should he expect to convince Shen Su?
Chen Su stared at Shi Yu for a few seconds.
"Okay, let's think of other ways."
The live stream chat was still flooded with messages just a second ago:
[This kind of thinking is dangerous! It's not positive, optimistic, or like that of a model youth at all!]
[But it's understandable; everyone wants to live, and nobody wants to die.]
Desperate situations often bring out the worst in human nature!
The next second, the screen was filled with comments that changed to:
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