Chapter 10 Picking Up People by the River
"Damn it, I didn't expect I couldn't get in, you're such a ruthless shop owner!"
Yin Hua stood in the cold wind and tried to enter the hot pot restaurant again. However, there seemed to be an invisible barrier in the sky above the hot pot restaurant, which bounced him out again.
"Yeah, I tried several times this afternoon and failed. The online takeaway page also showed that I was blocked."
Liang Maocai kicked the snow pits on the ground in annoyance, with a hint of unwillingness on his lips, "But Brother Yin, are we just giving up like this? I can't stand this!"
Yin Hua looked up at the wooden sign above his head that read "Feng Xue Hot Pot Restaurant". After a moment, he smiled sinisterly and whispered:
“You can’t get into the hot pot restaurant, but you can do something outside.”
"Let's move the shelter near the hot pot restaurant and use some tricks to stop those players from entering the restaurant. If we can't eat hot pot, these people won't be able to eat comfortably either."
Liang Maocai immediately agreed, "Good idea, brother. As long as they don't dare to enter the store, it doesn't matter how delicious the hot pot is. Haha, since we can't enter, let's all suffer together!"
Yin Hua: "That's right. We don't need to provoke those combat-class players. We can just threaten those powerless life-class players. As long as their numbers decrease, the combat players will also suffer."
Liang Maocai clapped his hands in agreement: "Yes, this way we don't have to confront the combat players head-on, and we can also avoid the restrictions of the game rules."
After the two discussed the action plan for a while, Liang Maocai suggested: "Then Brother Yin, you go find a suitable location to set up the shelter first. I'll go to the river to get some water and come back to wash up. Once we're settled, we can start tomorrow morning."
Yin Hua nodded, turned around and began to scout for a suitable location.
After about ten minutes, Yin Hua finally chose a place and set up the shelter on the flat ground not far from the hot pot restaurant.
This place is not far from the nearby river, and is also very close to a hot pot restaurant, so many players, especially life players, choose to set up camp in this land.
He clapped his hands in satisfaction and prepared to go into the shelter to rest for a while, but found that Liang Maocai had not returned yet.
"Where did this guy go?"
Yin Hua felt a little confused, so he walked towards the river, intending to see what the other party was doing.
As he approached the river bank, a dark shadow came into view.
Yin Hua was startled and quickly moved closer.
In the moonlight, he suddenly discovered that Liang Maocai had fallen to the ground with his eyes wide open, and was obviously dead.
Yin Hua suddenly felt a chill running up his spine.
He raised his head and looked around, his alertness skyrocketing.
Just as he turned around and prepared to retreat, a white light suddenly shot out from the darkness.
As an assassin, Yin Hua reacted extremely quickly and immediately dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding the fatal arrow.
“Who is it!”
He yelled and quickly looked for cover to cover himself.
But this action failed to save him.
Another arrow came flying through the air, and this time he was unable to dodge it.
Yin Hua's body shook violently, a short muffled sound came from his throat, and then he fell heavily to the ground.
In the darkness, a figure walked out slowly.
"It's you. How can an NPC——"
Yin Hua finally saw who shot his teammate. He covered his wound with an expression of disbelief on his face.
"What's wrong with NPCs? Anyway, the rules of the game only say that players can't attack each other, but they don't say that NPCs can't attack players."
The biting night wind blew across Zhu Yu's face. She shot another arrow at Yin Hua and repeated to him exactly what he had said in the hot pot restaurant.
Yin Hua, who was hit by multiple arrows, quickly lost all his health.
Zhu Yu looked coldly at the two bodies lying on the ground, a hint of disgust emerging between his brows.
Just when she came out of the hot pot restaurant, she overheard the disgusting conversation between the two people in the snowy forest not far away.
When she learned of their sinister plan, she immediately lurked on the road between the shelter and the river, waiting for the opportunity.
Fortunately, the two were already dead. Although the dead were players, Zhu Yu knew that killing the two villains would prevent more innocent players from being harmed, and she felt that this deal was worth it.
She then ran back and forth twice and dragged the bodies of the two men back to their shelter.
After finishing everything, Zhu Yu did not stay any longer. He turned around and left silently, returning to his tent to rest and sleep.
The next day, sunlight shone through the thick clouds. After killing monsters in the morning, Zhu Yu returned to the hot pot restaurant as usual to prepare to open for business.
Before she reached the door, she saw a group of players gathered in front of the store, seemingly discussing something.
"Have you heard? The Yin Hua brothers were killed by the river last night, and the murderer dumped their bodies openly next to their shelter!"
"What? Who did it?"
"I don't know, but those two guys were assassins, and they didn't even have a chance to fight back."
"Serves them right! These two should have died long ago. They only know how to cause trouble all day long. It must be that some enemy couldn't stand it and would rather risk the game punishment to kill them to vent their anger."
"Isn't it? That Lao Li's brother was indirectly killed by them, and he always said he wanted revenge."
"And Auntie Lan's daughter was accidentally led by the two men to the vicinity of the snow wolf's den and was used as bait and eaten by the wolf. Auntie Lan used to be a pig butcher, and was also a combatant. After her daughter died, she was sharpening her knife every day. Maybe she was the one who did it."
"So, that childhood sweetheart couple is also a suspect. It seems that Yin Hua cheated them out of a lot of money in an online transaction before."
"Wait a minute, these two guys just caused trouble in the hot pot restaurant yesterday, and today they died in front of the hot pot restaurant. Do you think it was the owner of the hot pot restaurant who did it?"
"Is this true? This is unlikely, right?"
"How is that impossible? The rules of the game don't say that NPCs can't take action."
"But even if it was done by the boss, isn't it a good thing for us players who live near the safe zone? Now standing in front of the hot pot restaurant, I feel a surge in security."
"That's right. We are not people like Yin Hua, so there is no need to worry about it."
“…”
Zhu Yu listened to the discussion outside the door and casually opened the chat forum.
As she expected, many players in the forum have begun to discuss the assassination of Yin Hua and Liang Maocai last night.
Many players applauded after learning about their bad behavior.
Of course, like the discussion outside the door, some players also linked this incident to her, speculating whether it was the hot pot restaurant owner who took action. However, these speculations were quickly drowned out by various cheers and conspiracy theories.
Zhu Yu continued to browse the group chat and learned from the messages of other players that Yin Hua and Liang Maocai had a long history of bad deeds, and the things they had done were far more than just stealing monsters.
They have also deliberately created chaos, set traps in transactions, and even harassed good-looking male and female players. They are simply full of evil.
Looking at the grand scene of "throwing flowers" in the group, Zhu Yu's mouth twitched slightly.
Yin Hua and Liang Maocai are both talented people. They were able to become notorious in just two or three days, offending so many players and causing public outrage.
But from this point of view, she really did "eliminate harm for the people."
Zhu Yu's discomfort and guilt over his first murder gradually dissipated amid the cheers of the crowd.
She calmed herself down and started a new day of business.
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"Hurry, hurry, I want a spicy beef hotpot!"
In the afternoon, when Zhu Yu was most sleepy, three players shouted, pushed open the door of the hot pot restaurant, and rushed in, which immediately made her energetic again.
"What's going on?"
The other players in the hot pot restaurant turned to look at these three people, with confusion and concern in their eyes.
You can’t blame everyone for being curious. The three players were pale, their lips were blue from the cold, and their bodies were trembling slightly.
Their clothes were soaked through and stuck to their bodies, and their shoes made a "splashing" sound with every step they took.
Water droplets continued to drip down the ends of their hair, almost forming a small puddle on the floor.
It was as if he had just been pulled out of the water.
He Wu's teeth were chattering and he rubbed his hands as if trying to regain feeling in his frozen fingers.
He and his companions were too busy paying attention to other people’s conversations before hastily placing an order for spicy beef oil hotpot.
A few seconds later, the boiling hot spicy beef oil base appeared in the copper pot, the red oil was bubbling and the spicy aroma filled the air.
The hot air blowing in his face quickly melted the tiny ice crystals hanging on his eyebrows and eyelashes.
He Wu couldn't wait to pick up a piece of the cooked meat and put it into his mouth.
The boiling hot soup and spicy taste instantly filled his mouth. The burning sensation directly hit his nerves, causing his face to gradually regain a hint of color and his lips to turn red.
"This hot pot...is really a lifesaver," he said vaguely.
His two companions were also wolfing down the food, stuffing it into their mouths recklessly.
The heat from the spicy beef oil hotpot spread from the stomach to the whole body. Everyone began to warm up from the inside out, and the coldness in their bodies seemed to disappear with every bite of spicy food.
"Haha, I'm finally alive!"
After He Wu and his companions calmed down, they slowed down their hotpot eating and finally had time to answer other players' questions.
"Here's what happened. When the three of us were looking for monsters just now, we saw some monsters catching fish to eat by the river. I thought we might as well try to catch some fish to improve our food."
"I even wore long boots and hung a dagger on a stick to spear fish, but I didn't expect there were several undercurrents under the water. I slipped and couldn't keep my balance. If my two friends hadn't reacted quickly and jumped in to save me, I would have died right there."
After hearing the first half of He Wu's words, many players were eager to try fishing. However, after hearing about He Wu falling into the water, they all calmed down and sat down.
"Brother He, you are really lucky. The river looks calm on the surface, but the current underneath is so turbulent."
"That's right. After hearing what you said, I haven't dared to go to the river recently."
"But I haven't eaten fish for a long time. I really miss the taste. When I reach a higher level, I will definitely catch one to satisfy my craving."
“…”
The other players were chatting idly, but Zhu Yu, who was standing behind the counter, couldn't help but feel a little excited when he heard the news that there were fish in the river.
Because she was very well prepared for this camping trip, she brought a lot of equipment including fishing gear, including fish food, fishing nets, and fishing rods.
But she is very busy on weekdays and has neither the time nor the patience to sit by the river with a fishing rod and wait slowly for the fish to bite.
She planned to spread the fishing net and fish food in the river at night, so that when she woke up early in the morning, she might get an unexpected catch.
Zhu Yu has a strong execution ability. She does what she says. After the hot pot restaurant closes in the evening, she holds a fishing net in her left hand and a small bucket of fish food in her right hand. She calls out system 996 for lighting and walks towards the river.
The scene by the river was still cold and quiet, and the icy river water glowed faintly silver under the moonlight.
Zhu Yu lowered his head and prepared to choose a suitable place to put down the fishing net.
However, just as she lowered her head, she caught a glimpse of something strange out of the corner of her eye.
There seemed to be something on the snow not far away.
Zhu Yu narrowed his eyes and looked carefully in the light of 996, and his heart tightened - it was a human figure, almost blending in with the surrounding snow.
She immediately became alert, put the fishing net and fish food back into her backpack, summoned her bow and arrow, and slowly approached the figure.
As she got closer, the blurry figure gradually became clearer.
Is a player.
The other person didn't move, but strangely, there seemed to be something moving slightly in her arms.
Zhu Yu clenched the bow and arrow in his hand and slowly approached, keeping the bow and arrow aimed forward.
She cautiously walked a few steps away from the player, leaned forward slightly, and placed her fingers lightly on the bowstring.
Just as she was about to take further action, the little thing suddenly crawled out of the player's arms.
It's a kitten.
The cat was covered in fur. Although each of its paws was covered with a mini sock, it was obviously very cold and was curled up and shivering.
After seeing Zhu Yu appear, the kitten raised its head slightly and meowed weakly twice at her.
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