Originally, [The soul of the player who failed the transaction will be imprisoned inside] was a warning given to Bai Liu by the system when he got the [Old Wallet], which was used to restrain Bai Liu from abusing this skill.
If the transaction is not complete, the soul will be imprisoned by the system. This is a restriction measure that requires Bai Liu to keep his word. It is the same as the [small black room] of Taobao merchants, but it is thought that Bai Liu uses it to scam trading partners.
For someone like Zhang Kui who likes to plan and thinks he is very smart, there is no better plan than to follow his plan. He will lower his vigilance in the sense of accomplishment of seeing the prey step by step walking into his trap, and Bai Liu will have a chance to seek a breakthrough.
Bai Liu lowered his eyes and thought.
But Mu Sicheng is in trouble. He just found out that Mu Sicheng and Liu Huai have such a love-hate relationship. Zhang Kui also brought Liu Huai with him. Although the hallucinations caused by the reduction of mental value have little effect on people like Bai Liu who only care about money, for a human like Mu Sicheng who has normal emotions, the influence of the hallucinations brought by a close friend who has betrayed him is probably immeasurable.
When Mu Sicheng talked about Liu Huai, he felt something was wrong.
Bai Liu learned that the mental endurance of most people in this game is around 70. 60 is dangerous enough. Those who can come out of the game without going crazy with a mental endurance below 20 are people with extremely strong mental qualities. However, Bai Liu still needs Mu Sicheng's mental value to be further reduced. His requirement for Mu Sicheng is even lower than the lowest mental value of 18 in history. By then, the hallucinations and psychological impact on Mu Sicheng will only be more serious.
With Liu Huai as a temptation, Mu Sicheng estimated that big problems were going to arise.
It's a bit difficult.
[The train has arrived at Huangquan Road - please board first and then alight, and enter the train in order]
Zhang Kui moved his index and middle fingers like playing a piano, pulling the transparent silk thread in his hand, and Bai Liu was instantly pulled behind him. Zhang Kui put on the puppet headgear that Liu Huai had taken off and gave him before, and said with a smile: "Okay, now you look like my Zhang Kui."
"I know you won't be willing to do this. Maybe you are just pretending to surrender to me. You and Mu Sicheng may have other plans." The corners of Zhang Kui's mouth rose slowly. He seemed to be putting shackles on Bai Liu and put down the heavy, huge, stuffy puppet headgear.
Bai Liu's face was slowly covered by the puppet's hood. He raised his eyes and looked at Zhang Kui. Bai Liu saw Zhang Kui's last expression before the hood fell off. It was one of malice and determination, with drooping eyelids and an arrogant look in his eyes as if everything was under his control.
Zhang Kui spoke in a hoarse and low voice, "But Bai Liu, you must have overlooked Liu Huai's influence on Mu Sicheng. With Liu Huai around, it is impossible for Mu Sicheng to stay sober and determined to cooperate with you. No matter how many tricks you have, as long as Mu Sicheng collapses here——"
Zhang Kui laughed and said maliciously: "--Mu Sicheng is the most valuable card in your hand. As long as he collapses, your plan will completely collapse."
Bai Liu's expression remained unchanged, but his mind was working rapidly.
To a certain extent, Zhang Kui was right. Mu Sicheng was indeed the most important part of this plan.
[Mermaid's Amulet] is on Mu Sicheng.
If Mu Sicheng completely collapsed and lost his resistance, and Zhang Kui got the [Mermaid Amulet], the deal would be completed, and everyone would be doomed. Bai Liu had thought about cheating before and let Mu Sicheng use this item directly, but -
[System prompt: During the transaction period, the transaction item, that is, (Mermaid Amulet) must exist, otherwise it will be considered an invalid transaction]
If Mu Sicheng was forced into a desperate situation during this period, or simply did not want to listen to Bai Liu and used the item (Mermaid Amulet), Bai Liu would be doomed and would really become Zhang Kui's puppet.
Therefore, Mu Sicheng is a very important part of Bai Liu's plan. If this guy collapses, Bai Liu will be in great danger.
Bai Liu is gambling, and it is a big gamble. All the chips he has on the table are Mu Sicheng, and he is an extremely unstable chip. At present, it seems that his chances of winning are not very great. In fact, Bai Liu has also thought about using Du Sanying, but Du Sanying is a completely intuitive animal, like a sharp rodent. If Du Sanying confronts this guy head-on, he might just throw the sculpture to Zhang Kui to reduce his own danger, just like he abandoned the car and ran away because he sensed the danger before.
Du Sanying is very unstable. When Bai Liu is controlled by the Puppet Master, he cannot remotely control Du Sanying. This Du Sanying is far less worthy of use than Mu Sicheng, who has a grudge against the Puppet Master and has a firm stance.
So in the end, Bai Liu chose Mu Sicheng.
The door finally opened slowly, and countless charred bodies of passengers wailed and burned as they poured into the carriage. Zhang Kui moved neatly and controlled the two puppets to rush forward to grab the debris. He did not use Bai Liu, as he seemed to know that Bai Liu had very low health points and could easily die if used carelessly.
Zhang Kui manipulated the puppets very quickly. In just a few dozen seconds, the two puppets moved through a carriage like ghosts and presented a pile of broken mirror fragments to Zhang Kui with their burnt hands. Zhang Kui took them without even looking at them, his face darkening: "Let's go and clean the next carriage."
The hatred values of the [passengers] at the back were all locked on the two puppets, so Zhang Kui was actually very safe here. However, the two puppets moved very quickly, and Zhang Kui operated very accurately, so there was almost no extra damage. After clearing one, he entered the next car with the puppet following behind him, and he cleared half of the car in less than a minute.
The reason why the three people before Bai Liu had such a hard time was mainly because Mu Sicheng was the only player with an A-level panel attribute. Now there are three A-level players here, and Zhang Kui is even a super A. He can even jump out to clear the [passengers] in the gaps between manipulating the puppets, making it easier for his puppets to obtain the lenses. He is completely on a different level from Bai Liu, a weakling who falls to the street at the slightest slap of a whip.
Mu Sicheng told Bai Liu that he currently knew of two main personal skills of Zhang Kui. The first one was called [Marionette], which means manipulating puppets and implanting puppet strings. However, the puppets have self-awareness, and only their limbs are controlled by Zhang Kui.
When the puppet is not voluntary or is under absolute control, it is difficult for Zhang Kui to implant puppet threads into the limbs of the struggling puppet. This is why Zhang Kui said that he likes active and voluntary puppets. The puppets he uses most often are also hired voluntary puppets, because for involuntary ones, such as Mu Sicheng, Zhang Kui has to spend a lot of energy to control the implanted puppet threads.
The second skill is called (Puppet Strengthening). This stage requires sacrificing 50 points of the puppet's spirit value. The puppet has no independent consciousness, but the panel attributes will be doubled.
Puppets at this stage will be more difficult to control because they have entered the [Danger Mental Value] zone, so the puppets themselves will be in pain and sometimes struggle unconsciously. However, since they are unconscious, they will hardly be afraid of any attacks and their fighting power will be very strong. As long as the puppeteer does not stop the silk threads in his hands, they will not stop attacking no matter how painful they are.
However, Mu Sicheng told Bai Liu that this skill cannot be used on puppet players whose spirit value is lower than 20, because the players at this stage have entered a berserk state and the puppeteer cannot control them at all.
"In this game, no one has ever tried to control a player with a spirit value below 20. Even Zhang Kui can't do it." Mu Sicheng squinted at Bai Liu, "Except you, Bai Liu. You actually tried to make me, whose spirit value is only 10, remember the planned task you gave me. This is totally impossible."
Bai Liu just smiled and said, "How can we know if we don't try? We don't have any other options, right?"
While Bai Liu was thinking about something, a rare female voice rang out over the radio in the carriage:
"Because there are heavy passengers and special items on board the train at this station, in order to protect the safety of the passengers and items, the stop time is extended to five minutes. Passengers on the train, please be patient and stay away from the door——"
A huge charred corpse, several times larger than an ordinary passenger, used two huge, still burning hands to prop open the door and squeezed in with its head lowered.
Both of this guy's eyes were burned away, and his eye sockets were black with carbon marks from burning. The skin of this big corpse was burned off, and his whole body was exposed and bloody muscles. On his chest was a hexagonal fragment the size of a palm, which was embedded in his bright red and bleeding pectoral muscles like a heart guard, and it was glowing in the flames. He stood up, taller than the carriage, and he forced himself into the carriage with his neck tilted, and he almost pierced through the carriage.
The big charred corpse with its neck tilted seemed to be unhappy. It roared and punched the roof of the car, which directly tore a big hole in the roof. Flames came out of the body of the big corpse and filled the entire car, making a bang and explosion sound.
Zhang Kui's face turned dark and he quickly retreated into another carriage. He clenched his ten fingers and pulled. The two puppets stretched out their limbs like zombies and retreated into his hands. He used his other hand to lift Bai Liu's neck. Zhang Kui's movement speed was already very fast, but he was still burned, and Bai Liu was also burned.
[System prompt: Players Zhang Kui, Bai Liu, Fang Ke, and Li Gou were attacked by the monster's flames, and their health points were reduced by 10. Player Zhang Kui and player Bai Liu's spirit points were reduced by 20. Player Fang Ke and player Li Gou were in puppet state, and their spirit points were reduced by 9.]
Bai Liu coughed due to the burning sensation, and blood slowly flowed from the corner of his mouth. His face, hidden in the puppet hood, became even paler. He glanced at his personal attribute panel:
[HP: 11 (decreased after being attacked by the player Mu Sicheng and burned by fire)]
[Physical Strength: 70 (replying)]
[Spirit value: 69 (slightly mutated due to being attacked by a monster)]
Bai Liu quickly glanced at the monster book again:
[Refresh of "The Last Train Monster Book" - Thief Brothers (2/3)]
[Monster Name: Thief Brothers (Brother)]
[Features: Extremely strong and tall, moves very fast, can use a large-scale attack once every minute (1400 points of movement speed, fire has a bonus effect, likes to use fists to make the opponent obey when angry, extremely strong attack power)]
[Weakness: ? ? ? (to be explored)]
[Attack method: Rage Hammer, Flame Shock (For player Bai Liu, if you are currently attacked by any of these two, you will go to see God, Amen)]
Bai Liu licked the blood from the corner of his mouth and said in a hoarse voice: "...The big broken mirror on the chest of this monster should be his weakness and what we want to collect."
"I want you to speak!" Zhang Kui interrupted Bai Liu unhappily. He looked at the thief who was approaching him with every step, vigilantly. His fingers danced quickly to arrange his puppets. He gritted his teeth and said, "This crappy game, the five-minute stop not only prolongs the chase time, but also gives us a big boss..."
The mortality rate of the second-level game "Last Train" should be close to 80%. Even for him, it would be difficult to survive.
Zhang Kui clenched his teeth tightly and couldn't help but curse: "You are really good at picking, Bai Liu! You picked the most difficult one in the second-level game!"
"Thank you for the compliment." Bai Liu said lazily, as if he was a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water. "Why don't you try to snatch the broken mirror fragments from the chest of this monster?"
"What the hell!" Zhang Kui kept cursing. His mentality was really broken now. "Looking at the attack just now and the movement speed of 1,400, this monster is at least A-level. My two puppets are just food. We can't get anything out of it! Even if I bring six puppets with full health to this dungeon and encounter this kind of thing, I can't guarantee that I can pass it smoothly! If I had known that there was such a thing in this game..."
Zhang Kui gritted his teeth and retreated as he spoke, feeling extremely resentful - if he had known that this copy would be like this, he would never have followed in so easily!
Zhang Kui had never seen a second-level game that was so ridiculously difficult! The Bai Liu family picked the most difficult one Zhang Kui had ever seen! !
——Damn, the luck value is indeed 0!!
“No.” Zhang Kui pulled two puppets in front of him and quickly calmed down. “My puppets can’t beat it. In this copy, I guess only Mu Sicheng in a violent state can deal with it. But if he can deal with it, he will be dead soon——”
"I can handle it even in a violent state, right?" Bai Liu asked, his eyes calmly diverting Zhang Kui's thoughts.
For Bai Liu, Mu Sicheng cannot die, because the [Mermaid Amulet] is with him. If Mu Sicheng dies, the [Mermaid Amulet] will be exploded. If Zhang Kui gets it, Bai Liu will really become Zhang Kui's puppet.
"Indeed." Zhang Kui narrowed his eyes and snorted, "But your health points are only a dozen or so now. Even in the violent state, you will almost die if you block this thing's attack. You are my puppet now. Compared with Mu Sicheng, I would certainly choose to let him die instead of you. I still have a use for you, but Mu Sicheng has never submitted to me——"
Zhang Kui sneered and gathered all the puppet threads. Bai Liu and the other two puppets stood behind Zhang Kui: "Then let him die!"
[System prompt: Player Zhang Kui used the item (I really want to see you) on player Liu Huai, and will move to player Liu Huai's current position within ten seconds]
Bai Liu just felt dizzy. When he looked up again, he saw Liu Huai, Mu Sicheng, Du Sanying and others who were also collecting broken mirror fragments in another carriage.
These three people are cooperating with each other. Although it is a bit strenuous and difficult, it seems that they are holding on.
But the worst was Mu Sicheng. He didn't have Bai Liu to help him attract hatred, and most of the passengers rushed towards him. Although Liu Huai helped Mu Sicheng block some of them, Mu Sicheng's condition deteriorated seriously. His face was covered in blood, the red light in his eyes was shaking and flickering, his breathing was not smooth, and he was rolling on the floor in a panic.
Zhang Kui withdrew his hand with a cold expression and pulled the silk thread on his little finger. The heart of Liu Huai who was fighting was instantly tightened. Liu Huai felt his heart was pulled in a certain direction. This pulling was like a reminder, without murderous intent. So Liu Huai covered his aching heart and subconsciously turned his head to look in that direction.
He saw Zhang Kui hiding between a carriage, behind countless corpses and flames.
Zhang Kui pointed at Mu Sicheng expressionlessly, then scratched his neck fiercely and mouthed to Liu Huai, "The plan has changed. A big boss is coming. Give up Mu Sicheng. You go to motivate Mu Sicheng and lower his spirit value to make him go berserk to fight the big boss. Don't worry about his life or death."
Liu Huai also heard the voice on the radio and knew what the big boss meant. But when he saw Zhang Kui was so cleanly preparing to abandon Mu Sicheng, Liu Huai's heart trembled and his face turned ugly. He understood what Zhang Kui meant.
——This big boss is probably very difficult to deal with. It is estimated that only Mu Sicheng in berserk state can deal with it.
But isn't this a second-level game?! How can there be a monster that requires Makushiro to go berserk to death?!
Just when Liu Huai was hesitating, the big corpse came running towards them furiously. Wherever it passed, all the car windows were smashed and flames were burning. Those [passengers] screamed miserably and turned into ashes in the [thief brother's] angry flames. It can be seen how strong the killing power is and how high the temperature is.
Zhang Kui pulled three puppets forward and rushed into the carriage where Mu Sicheng and the others were. The large corpse following Zhang Kui frightened Du Sanying, who burst out crying out in shock: "Fuck! What the hell is this!!"
Zhang Kui suddenly tightened the puppet string on his little finger and shouted at Liu Huai: "Liu Huai! Do it! Otherwise, we will all die!"
Liu Huai felt a sharp pain in his chest from being pulled by Zhang Kui's puppet strings. He gritted his teeth and swung out two hidden swords, one in his left hand and one in his right hand. Standing behind Mu Sicheng, Liu Huai lowered his head and said "sorry", then stabbed forward without hesitation.
Du Sanying was shocked and screamed: "Mu Sicheng! Watch out behind you!!"
Mu Sicheng had sensed this and rolled over to avoid Liu Huai's backstab. He stood up swiftly and wiped the blood dripping from his eyebrow with his elbow. It was from Liu Huai's hidden sword when he was dodging. Mu Sicheng sneered, "Liu Huai, do you think I can trust you with my back? Impossible."
"Of course." Liu Huai's smile was complicated, with a little sadness and a little cruelty. He laughed, "Fourth brother, although we were once the best friends and the best combination, [Assassin and Thief], we are omnipotent and invincible. We can steal anything and assassinate anything, which of course includes each other, right?"
"We are all doing this for ourselves, Fourth Brother." Liu Huai's face finally darkened completely. He raised the sword in his sleeve. "You stole my things for yourself, and I assassinated you for myself. We are all selfish people."
"Master!! Catch Mu Sicheng!" Liu Huai shouted, and he stabbed him with his sword without mercy.
Without saying a word, Zhang Kui threw a sharp puppet thread under Mu Sicheng's ankle. Mu Sicheng hooked his hand on the ring and narrowly avoided it. Du Sanying was so anxious that he drove his go-kart in front of Zhang Kui, but was blocked by a puppet thrown by Zhang Kui.
Now it was Zhang Kui, Liu Huai, and Li Gou against Mu Sicheng alone. Du Sanying was restrained by a puppet, and he was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead and his face turned red.
Bai Liu said that Mu Sicheng must hold on until the train starts and not be restrained by Zhang Kui and the others! But how can he hold on now?
Du Sanying subconsciously looked at Bai Liu. Mu Sicheng managed to maintain his balance while being restrained by three people, but soon the big corpse broke the balance and was about to run into the carriage where Mu Sicheng and the others were. Zhang Kui's attack to restrict Mu Sicheng became more and more fierce. Almost the entire carriage was filled with puppet threads. Mu Sicheng could hardly move. His face was covered with scratches made by the puppet threads. Mu Sicheng's hands, which were good at stealing, were tightly bound by Zhang Kui's puppet threads.
Zhang Kui panted, "Liu Huai, take action."
Liu Huai panted and approached Mu Sicheng step by step, with his hidden swords raised in both hands.
Mu Sicheng suddenly grabbed all the puppet strings on his body with his backhand, clicked his tongue and said, "Bai Liu, if you have any tricks up your sleeve, use them quickly. I really can't hold on any longer. I'm now helping you hold on to Zhang Kui's puppet strings to control you. Zhang Kui's puppet strings rely on the fluctuations of the strings to control people. Now that I've tightened my grip, his fluctuations can't be transmitted to me. But I can only hold on for a while or my fingers will be cut off by the strings. But you can move on your own now."
Zhang Kui was startled. He looked suddenly at Bai Liu, who had stood behind Mu Sicheng at some point, and then swept over Mu Sicheng's hand. As expected, Bai Liu had tightly bound his puppet strings. Blood dripped from Mu Sicheng's bony hands, falling drop by drop on the hot floor and quickly evaporated.
Bai Liu slowly lifted the puppet's head cover behind Mu Sicheng. There was an innocent smile on the ink-coated shell of the puppet.
Zhang Kui's face changed.
"Fuck! These two guys are still in alliance! Liu Huai, hurry up and do it!!!" Zhang Kui tried to manipulate the puppet string several times, but the wave of manipulation was held by Mu Sicheng and could not be transmitted at all. He really couldn't control Bai Liu. Zhang Kui pulled the puppet string with a dark face, trying to cut off Mu Sicheng's fingers, and shouted, "Liu Huai! Quick! Bai Liu has no attack power now!"
Du Sanying also screamed as if he had grasped the last straw: "Bai Liu!! Hurry up!!"
Liu Huai stabbed forward without hesitation. Mu Sicheng subconsciously looked at Bai Liu behind him. Bai Liu still had that innocent smile on his puppet head. He opened his hands, slowly placed them on Mu Sicheng's back, and gently pushed forward. The defenseless Mu Sicheng fell forward.
Mu Sicheng's pupils suddenly shrank.
Du Sanying opened his mouth wide in a trance, Zhang Kui loosened the puppet strings in astonishment, Liu Huai looked at Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng in a daze, the blood on his sleeve sword slid down the tip of the sword.
Mu Sicheng's arms were pushed onto Liu Huai by Bai Liu. Liu Huai's hidden sword pierced into Mu Sicheng's shoulders and cut off his hands at the shoulders.
Mu Sicheng's two hands fell to the ground silently.
It was just like the last time Liu Huai betrayed him and cut off Mu Sicheng's arms.
But last time it was Liu Huai.
This time it was Bai Liu.
Blood gushed out from Mu Sicheng's broken shoulder.
"I also think what Master Zhang said makes sense." Bai Liu inside the puppet said in a low voice, still smiling, "Mu Sicheng, if you are not sacrificed to go berserk, everyone will die."
"It's no use cooperating with you. You're too weak to make it through." Bai Liu's voice was accompanied by a cool and gentle smile. "So I decided to be the master's puppet wholeheartedly and obey his orders."
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