Chapter 18: Well-behaved
In order to prevent Li Ziyue from bringing up the matter, Zhang Lian took out a bunch of light-tasting snacks from his backpack and piled them next to Li Ziyue, who was watching the video seriously. He sat obediently on the other side, holding a pen in his hand, writing something.
Li Ziyue lazily watched the video with one hand supporting his chin, and reached his other hand into the bag of potato chips beside him. He watched the whole process two or three times.
Yang Hu raised his knife and chopped at the fake person who looked exactly like Sun Yuancheng. The fake person fell to the ground, and then the system broadcast sounded. He and Yang Hu were on the verge of a fight, and Sun Yuancheng stood between them and spoke...
This all seems perfectly normal.
Just looks.
Li Ziyue narrowed his eyes slightly and his gaze stopped at the corner of the video - where the restaurant's electronic screen was hanging.
He zoomed in on that area and finally saw the answer he wanted.
The time in the lower right corner of the electronic screen gave Li Ziyue's doubts the final confirmation.
really.
Li Ziyue wiped his fingers that were dirty from eating potato chips with a tissue. As soon as he turned around, he saw Zhang Lian holding a few long yellow test papers in his hand.
His heart skipped a beat before he remembered that yesterday, because Zhang Lian helped him get all the correct cloze test answers, his English teacher was furious and gave him five new test papers. He was too busy running around tonight and he was injured, so he didn't have much time to do his homework. He didn't expect Zhang Lian to pick up his paper and do it again.
However, when he looked carefully, he found that Zhang Lian did not give him a choice of answers, but instead wrote down his own ideas for solving the problem in pencil, just like before, to make it easier for Li Ziyue to sort them out later.
Li Ziyue paused.
Somehow, I began to feel guilty for taking advantage of Zhang Lian before.
He stood on the other side and took the test paper from Zhang Lian. Li Ziyue lowered his head, so Zhang Lian couldn't see his expression, but he heard him say slowly in a low voice: "...If I meet you in a copy other than the Pseudo-Human series in the future, I will help you, Zhang Lian."
Zhang Lian looked up at him with a smile on his face.
He stretched out a hand, with the other fingers closed and only the pinky raised: "Hook."
Li Ziyue was stunned. He was such a grown-up, why was he still doing this?
Zhang Lian's expression was serious.
Li Ziyue didn't want to spoil his fun, so he reached out and hooked his hand.
His fingers were warm, and they touched Zhang Lian's cool hands just right.
Zhang Lian actually didn’t care whether or not to pinky promise, he just wanted to take this opportunity to hold hands.
But he wouldn't tell Li Ziyue.
On one side, there were bursts of hurried footsteps coming from the corridor. The sound of armor hitting the ground was unusually uniform. They should be a group of patrollers.
The sound became clearer and clearer, and Li Ziyue was not sure that the inspector would not enter the room, so he pulled Zhang Lian and prepared to run.
At the critical moment, Zhang Lian froze. Li Ziyue couldn't pull him anymore. He turned around and was about to say something to Zhang Lian. Unexpectedly, Zhang Lian lowered his head and looked at his wrist. He suddenly said, "Can you pull me and run?"
Li Ziyue was stunned.
He instantly understood what Zhang Lian meant.
When Sun Yuancheng was around, Li Ziyue basically didn't care about Zhang Lian's life or death. It wasn't that he didn't want to care. Zhang Lian was very strong and didn't need his concern at all. Sun Yuancheng was an inexperienced newcomer, so it was understandable that he took care of Sun Yuancheng more.
Unexpectedly, although Zhang Lian didn't say anything, he still kept these things in his heart.
Li Ziyue didn't know what to say for a moment. He kept silent, but the strength of the hand holding Zhang Lian's wrist gradually increased.
"Walk."
Zhang Lian followed obediently.
Unexpectedly, the number of inspectors this time was far beyond Li Ziyue's expectations. As soon as he slipped out of the window of the room, he saw a long line of inspectors lined up in an orderly manner, and the large number of them made Li Ziyue's scalp tingle.
He murmured in a low voice, "Why are so many inspectors dispatched? Do they want to kill all the fake people and players, and then they will rule the infinite dungeon?"
Zhang Lian leaned aside, with a spear already in his hand: "Do you need me to kill them all?"
Li Ziyue: “……?” No, how did you know I meant that?
He continued in a deep voice: "There must be a reason why so many inspectors are dispatched. The instance is over tonight, and the final battle situation may be more complicated than we imagined."
Zhang Lian lowered his eyes and looked at Li Ziyue, just nodded without saying anything.
"Let's go to the hall now," Li Ziyue held Zhang Lian's hand tightly, "The answer to all this is in the hall. If all my deductions are correct, ending it all tonight is the best outcome."
Unexpectedly, just as he finished speaking, he heard an urgent sound of wind coming from the side. Li Ziyue had just grasped the scimitar and was about to start the blocking action, but he heard a "clang" sound from Zhang Lian's side. Li Ziyue turned his head and saw that Zhang Lian had already shot the inspector who attempted a sneak attack and paralyzed him.
At the same time, a human screamed from another corridor. Li Ziyue's eyes fixed on it. That voice...
He pulled Zhang Lian and ran over there. Sure enough, several inspectors surrounded Sun Yuancheng and Yu Yu. Sun Yuancheng huddled in the corner, his face as pale as paper. Yu Yu's eyes were heavy, as if he was thinking about how to escape.
Li Ziyue did not hesitate too much. The scimitar flew between his fingers and instantly swept across the back of the heads of the two inspectors closest to him. Two crisp "bang bang" sounds were heard one after another. The inspectors were attracted and slowly turned their heads.
[you. ]
One of the inspectors had red eyes and looked familiar with Li Ziyue.
Li Ziyue raised his eyebrows. The wound on his waist was still aching slightly. The inspector in front of him could be considered an "old acquaintance" of his.
But now is not the time for revenge or to settle old scores. Li Zi rushed forward, with the scimitar following behind him, cutting through the knees of the inspectors around him. At the same time, countless mechas collided with each other, and the sound of "crackling" was heard.
Li Ziyue pulled Sun Yuancheng, who was squatting in the corner and about to cry because he was too moved, over and ran: "Let's go!"
Yu Yu's face darkened, but he hurriedly followed them.
The patrolman was about to chase after them, but the next moment he felt a chill on the back of his neck. The tip of the spear seemed to have just swept past him lightly, and two patrolmen fell in an instant.
One of them wanted to raise his head and continue chasing, but was stepped hard on the neck by someone from above. The man had a gloomy face and looked down at the inspector who was struggling on the ground. With a "clang" sound, the long spear was deeply inserted into the ground and stood in front of the inspector.
The man's voice was calm, but contained an inexplicable threat: "Did you injure his waist?"
The inspector's eyes flashed red. Li Ziyue and his group had disappeared, and the one who stayed behind seemed even more terrifying...
…
Sun Yuancheng was dragged by Li Ziyue to run in the aisle. He felt mixed emotions for a moment. He wanted to speak several times but stopped. He was embarrassed to look at Li Ziyue, but he also wanted to see him and wanted to chat with Li Ziyue like before.
Unexpectedly, Li Ziyue spoke first: "How are you? Are you hurt?"
Sun Yuancheng would rather Li Ziyue scolded him harshly, but now playing the sympathy card made it impossible for him to control his tears.
He cried so hard that he could hardly run due to his emotional excitement. He could only rely on Li Ziyue to hold his hand and lead him.
Sun Yuancheng shook his head like a rattle: "No..."
Li Ziyue glanced at him, heard his panting while crying, and heard that he still needed him to drag him faster, and said gently, "Then I feel relieved."
Sun Yuancheng had never been looked at with such gentle and kind eyes by Li Ziyue. All the fatigue and grievances from being chased by the inspectors before were piled up here. He was a person who could turn into a dyeing factory with a little color and shine with a little sunshine. He wanted to stop and hug Li Ziyue and cry until he got his snot and tears all over him.
The three of them finally stopped at the door of the hall. Li Ziyue led Sun Yuancheng in and glanced at Yu Yu at the door.
Yu Yu felt no better than Sun Yuancheng. His relationship with Li Ziyue was not as good as that between Sun Yuancheng and Li Ziyue. But it was indeed Li Ziyue who saved him and Sun Yuancheng just now. He should thank Li Ziyue out of both emotion and reason.
But he suddenly didn't know what expression he should use to face Li Ziyue.
After all, he really had the intention to kill when he was experiencing the plot.
Li Ziyue sighed: "Go in, we are all players, I won't care so much."
Yu Yu lowered his head and said "hmm", then followed Sun Yuancheng into the hall. However, he walked behind everyone and no longer had the familiarity he had before.
After entering the hall, the numbers displayed on it remained unchanged.
[As of 5:30 Beijing time]
[Number of players: VI]
[Number of fake people: VI]
The total is still 12, and there seems to be nothing unusual.
However, sometimes there may be something abnormal underneath that is enough to reverse the entire situation.
You can often hear the system announce the death of a fake person or player, but no matter how it changes, the numbers displayed on the electronic screen in the lobby never change.
This number was so stable that the ratio of players to pseudo-people remained at 6:6 for the entire night.
The time in the lower right corner shows that it is 5:51 Beijing time, and there are 9 minutes left until the end of tonight's copy.
According to the data above, if there are no new pseudo-people and player conversions, the game will have to be forced into overtime. However, are the data displayed on the electronic screen real data?
Li Ziyue was not in a hurry to deal with this problem. Instead, he smiled brightly at Sun Yuancheng standing beside him.
Sun Yuancheng looked at his smile, but a chill rose in his heart...
"Do you know why Yang Hu was so hostile to me when you were resurrected in the restaurant?"
Li Ziyue suddenly brought up this topic.
Sun Yuancheng was stunned and answered subconsciously: "You are a fake person if you doubt him..."
"No, think about it, he was already staring at me before I said he might be a fake."
Li Ziyue was playing with the scimitar in his hand. The reflective back of the blade reflected half of his face, with an obvious smile on it.
Sun Yuancheng felt that his movements and appearance were very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him before. He could only continue to answer him woodenly: "Then... I... I don't know."
Li Ziyue didn't beat around the bush. The tip of the scimitar gently slid across his fingertips. His voice sounded light and comfortable: "It was Yang Hu who killed a 'fake person' who looked exactly like you. Logically, that person would stare at Yang Hu who killed him before he died."
"But before he died, he didn't even look at Yang Hu. Instead, he kept staring at me."
"He opened his mouth to speak, and I made a 'hush' gesture to him." The machete flashed brightly under the lights in the hall.
Sun Yuancheng suddenly felt alert without any warning. His strong survival instinct instantly reminded him of the scene when he saw Li Ziyue's expression - that was the first night, when Li Ziyue held the knife and went out to kill Yang Hu.
However, it was too late.
The handle of the scimitar slid into Li Ziyue's palm, and then, almost no one present reacted to what had happened. Only a sharp cold light flashed in the transparent air layer.
Then——
Sun Yuancheng's eyes widened, blood gushing out of his throat. He couldn't even ask "why". He could only stare at Li Ziyue who was standing lazily in front of him with a smile on his face.
Then, his body fell to the ground with a loud bang, and the tables and chairs around him fell over with a series of crisp "crackling" sounds, and thick blood stained everything nearby.
The blood is warm and the body is cold.
Sun Yuancheng is dead.
"You!" Yu Yu was so anxious that he jumped up and rushed towards Li Ziyue, "You are really a fake person! You really have bad intentions! You really..."
"Hush." Li Ziyue put his finger in front of his lips and smiled at Yu Yu, "Listen to the sound."
At the same time, the system broadcast sounded.
[The pseudo-human is confirmed dead, data is being updated, and humans will be resurrected soon]
"What!"
Yu Yu froze in place for a moment.
"Aren't you looking for the fake person hiding among the five of us?" Li Ziyue's smile did not fade, and the blood-stained scimitar was still spinning in his palm, "Found it."
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