Chapter 38 On the same stage
The man was over two meters tall, with a slender build. He was only wearing a grey sleeveless vest on his upper body, and the muscles on his arms were terrifyingly powerful.
He seemed to glance at Sun Yuancheng out of the corner of his eye, causing Sun Yuancheng to shrink and slowly put down the hand that Wang Qi had pulled up.
"Liu Guan," he looked up at Qian Wanlong and raised his arm to introduce the person next to him, "Duan Jiayi."
Qian Wanlong looked them up and down and nodded to indicate his consent for them to participate.
Duan Jiayi is shorter than Liu Guan, with a slender figure. He is more elegant and easy-going than Liu Guan, with a warm smile on his face. He does not look like someone who is good at physical work.
The fence surrounding the swing was opened, and several black dogs, starving to the point of drooling, were chained to the ground. Their fang-baring mouths were tied tightly with ropes, and their bloodshot eyes stared at Liu Guan and Duan Jiayi who were walking toward the swing.
"Will you let it go?" Duan Jiayi smiled slightly and asked inexplicably.
Liu Guan raised one eyebrow: "If I let you go, what if you blame me for looking down on you later?"
Duan Jiayi just smiled and didn't answer.
It was not until the two of them sat on the swing that Duan Jiayi slowly sighed, "I'm so scared, Liu Guan."
Liu Guan was silent for two seconds, then he laughed and said meaningfully: "Is this what you are afraid of?"
Duan Jiayi just squinted and smiled. He moved his gaze to the other side. Under the dazzling sunlight, he could vaguely see the dense forests on the surrounding mountain tops. Below was a black mass covered by thick fog, making it impossible to see what was inside.
The wooden swing creaked and the dogs barked. It was getting close to noon and the sun was getting hotter. The food was nearly 10 meters in the air. If people raised their eyes slightly, they would not be able to find the food at the first moment. The overly bright sunlight made their eyes hurt.
Tears were streaming.
Sun Yuancheng wiped away his tears and comforted Wang Qi with a slightly apologetic look.
"We were just a step late, which is not too bad. Besides, their first attempt will help us better understand the rules of the game." He wiped the sweat from his forehead, frowning. "Besides, this mission doesn't say that a player must die. What if there is a way to have both? We only have one life, so we must cherish it."
Wang Qi hung his head dejectedly and waved his hands: "Thank you for your comfort, but..."
"I don't have the strength to swing too high. If we want to have the best of both worlds, you have to cooperate with me and swing slowly. But this way, neither you nor I can get any food, and in the end, both of us will be bitten to death by the dogs below..."
Sun Yuancheng sighed heavily, and his gaze moved over to see that Liu Guan and Duan Jiayi were swinging at almost the same height, and were almost approaching the food in the air that seemed to be shining with golden light.
The two swings are not independent, but connected together with a bamboo pole in the middle. The swings themselves are not very stable. The vibration caused by the movement of one player can directly affect the other player. In this case, it is very difficult for both players to maintain almost the same height while swinging quickly.
Moreover, this pair of role models, who could be considered as the standard answer, were not as cool as everyone expected.
Liu Guan's feet were already bleeding, and the bottom of his trousers were torn into several long strips, with fresh human blood hanging on them, floating in the air as the swing rose and fell.
Duan Jiayi seemed to react more quickly, but he was also injured and his smile was stiff.
"It's okay..." Sun Yuancheng bit his lower lip, which had turned pale with fear. His voice trembled as he spoke, but he was still trying to comfort Wang Qi, "There will always be a way for us to survive. Don't be so pessimistic... Aren't these two people very harmonious..."
He hadn't finished speaking yet, as if to immediately confirm his bad words, and before the people watching below could react, the sound of the rope being cut powerfully penetrated their ears.
“Sizzle—”
Everyone's heartbeat seemed to stop at the same time.
The swings at both ends, which were originally peaceful, suddenly twisted without any warning.
The rope on one side of the swing that supported the player's stability and provided strength was ruthlessly cut by a sharp weapon, and the balance on both sides was instantly disrupted.
The change in the direction of force causes the swing to expand rapidly outward, and the food that was originally right in front of you moves to a place far away that is difficult to reach even if you stretch your arms in the blink of an eye.
Duan Jiayi opened his mouth, took the food at the top, and then used inertia to jump off the swing.
He stood on the steady ground, smiling slightly as he looked at Liu Guan, who was hurt again because of his departure.
"Come on."
Liu Guanlue clenched his teeth in anger, then suddenly grabbed the barely stable wooden bar with his arms and stepped on it with both feet. As soon as he exerted force, the place where he was bitten by the dog before felt weak and he almost fell down again.
Duan Jiayi elegantly held the food shaped like a human heart in his palm, opened his mouth and took a bite without pause, while his other hand leisurely tossed a piece of stone that had been polished to a very sharp point.
He had used such a stone shard to cut Liu Guan's swing rope before.
The rules do not prohibit players from playing tricks, and based on the changes in the number of dogs and the setting of connecting the swings, it can be easily concluded that the two players in this task are in a purely competitive relationship.
It is good to compete fairly in order to achieve win-win cooperation.
But without the unpredictable human heart, it would be meaningless.
Duan Jiayi chewed the bright red food in his mouth slowly and even had the mood to explain to the players next to him: "This just looks like a human heart, but it actually tastes like an apple, juicy and sweet. I recommend you try it later."
Liu Guan tried his best to jump off the swing, and at the last moment he managed to grab the food on his side, but he was inevitably in a mess.
He took a bite of the food viciously and yelled at Duan Jiayi: "You asked me to let you go, why are you so cruel to me?"
Duan Jiayi stopped chewing, with a look of obvious faked daze on his face: "Ah...you really want to let me go...you should have said it earlier...Okay, don't be angry, don't be angry, I'll give you a bite."
Liu Guan ignored him angrily, but his feet were seriously injured and he inevitably bumped into things while walking, and he accidentally fell on Sun Yuancheng.
When Sun Yuancheng fell, Wang Qi beside him was also implicated. In an instant, the three of them fell together.
Sun Yuancheng felt wronged and wanted to cry, but he was angry but dared not say anything - the fact that Liu Guan was able to complete the task even when the rope was suddenly cut was enough to prove his own strength, not to mention that he was still furious at the moment.
Sun Yuancheng calculated that he could only withstand one punch from Liu Guan at most, so he swallowed his grievance.
Duan Jiayi was watching the fun and fanning the flames: "Hey, Liu Guan, it's really embarrassing for you to fall down."
Liu Guan climbed up from the ground with a dark face. When he passed by Duan Jiayi, he took a big bite of the food in his hand without hesitation.
Duan Jiayi complained about Liu Guan eating too much, and took out a bottle of drink from his backpack and handed it to Liu Guan: "Drink it and you won't be angry with me anymore."
The other players looked at the bottle of drink with slight surprise.
Duan Jiayi seemed to know their confusion and explained with a smile: "This is given after the mission is completed. I didn't expect that I would be given something as luxurious as a drink."
Some players who originally planned to endure hunger could not help but start to take action.
Generally speaking, a person can live seven days without food and only three days without water. Moreover, in such an environment, the survival time will be greatly shortened...
If you can get water...
On the other hand, even if Duan Jiayi did something tricky, they survived, which means that this mission is not as dangerous as everyone imagined...
Players willing to attempt this task lined up in a long queue.
Sun Yuancheng got up from the ground in a panic, and at the same time pulled Wang Qi, who was hunched over and coughing.
He forgot the pain after the wound healed and praised Wang Qi happily: "Thanks to you for letting me raise my hand earlier. I don't know what kind of food the second team will get after completing the task. I originally thought that the first team would only get something like hard-to-bite black bread."
Wang Qi wanted to give a kind smile, but the continuous coughing made him unable to straighten his back.
Sun Yuancheng patted Wang Qi on the back with concern and said, "Don't worry, this mission shouldn't be as difficult as everyone imagines. The biggest problem should be the dogs under your feet, but you just saw Duan Jiayi's correct demonstration and Liu Guan's wrong performance... um..."
He grinned and said, "It seems that this task is easier. I will swing slower later. Don't worry. Once you find the rhythm, stretch higher."
Wang Qi shook Sun Yuancheng's hand tremblingly, and kept thanking him: "You are... a good person... ahem... good people will be rewarded..."
Sun Yuancheng waved his hand nonchalantly: "Not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning."
Duan Jiayi looked at the players queuing up anxiously and curled his lips: "It's getting more and more interesting. Thank you for being alive. It gave them the illusion that this mission was very simple."
At this moment, Liu Guan completely suppressed his previous exaggerated anger, and his whole person suddenly became deep and indifferent.
He glanced at Duan Jiayi and calmly returned the bottle of drink to him: "Besides this, what else did you get?"
Duan Jiayi narrowed his eyes.
"If you don't eat a few pieces of dry steamed buns with water, you'll probably choke to death."
Liu Guan was silent for a few seconds: "...I can imagine how the poor players feel when they get the mission reward after working so hard."
Duan Jiayi did not continue the topic: "The task assigned by the system has been completed. How is the progress of the task assigned by the boss?"
Liu Guan looked ahead and for the first time did not answer Duan Jiayi's question.
On the other side, Sun Yuancheng and Wang Qi had already sat on the swinging swing.
It seems easy to operate when others do it, but when you try it yourself you find that everything is far from as easy as you imagined.
The swing seat is just a slightly thick rope. When people sit on it, the force-bearing area is small and it is easy for them to lose balance and fall to the ground.
In addition, the ropes at both ends of the swing had been tossed around by Duan Jiayi and Liu Guan, and their strength was greatly reduced. Qian Wanlong simply tied a knot at the broken part, and the knot caused the swing to tilt to the outside, making it difficult for players sitting on the swing to eat the food without reaching out to move it.
and……
Sun Yuancheng grabbed one side of the bracket and moved it slightly twice, then he heard the brackets on both sides creaking as they could not bear the weight.
He swallowed fearfully.
How did those two people exert their strength? The swing seemed to become extremely solid in their hands... But in fact...
Cold sweat covered his palms and he felt his breathing becoming heavier and hotter.
That is a sign of fear.
Now there is another problem, which is who will sit on the swing on the broken side.
Sun Yuancheng thought of Wang Qi's old age and frailty, and his heart softened. Just as he was about to go over there, Wang Qi stopped him and said, "I'll go, you live well."
Wang Qi showed a bitter expression: "I'm going to die anyway..."
Sun Yuancheng stopped moving and was about to retort, but he heard Wang Qi say: "... maybe you can go a little slower... just a little..."
Wang Qi sighed helplessly: "If only I could have some time... to look up at the sky again..."
Sun Yuancheng tried hard to hold back the tears in his eyes. Seeing Wang Qi's insistence, he could not say anything more: "I will be very slow... Don't worry... I..."
Wang Qi smiled at him, with only gratitude in his eyes.
"That's enough."
That's enough.
Wang Qi looked at the profile of Sun Yuancheng sitting on the swing. Because he was too nervous and scared, his profile was tense and his lips were bitten until they were bloodless.
Like a lamb to the slaughter.
Wang Qi's thoughts were slowly brewing in his mind.
It's enough that you are slow.
I'll have you die quickly... on this mission.
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