Chapter 49 Unexpected
Liu Guan stumbled in, holding a player who looked like he had already lost his mind in one hand, and yelled at Duan Jiayi behind him: "Why did you kick me!"
Duan Jiayi straightened his shirt slowly and not too fast, then he looked up and smiled at Liu Guan: "Isn't this because I'm afraid you're running too slowly, so I'm giving you a boost for free?"
"Get out!" Liu Guan was so angry that he threw the two players he was holding in his hands into the corner like sandbags.
At this time, the two players woke up from their dreams, holding their heads which were hurt and crying “Ouch, ouch”.
Sun Yuancheng inexplicably felt a sense of sympathy for the two unlucky players.
And that's not all. The sound of people running was getting louder and louder. There was a fight outside. A few smart ones found the right way and sneaked to the end of the basement corridor. Just when they were about to take advantage of the chaos to catch the two players who were thrown into the corner by Liu Guan, they felt a chill on the back of their necks.
Then his eyes went dark and he fell to the ground with a thump.
Li Ziyue rubbed his sore wrist and nodded to Liu Guan and Duan Jiayi: "Thank you."
Duan Jiayi smiled and waved his hands, indicating that it was a trivial matter.
Sun Yuancheng looked at everyone with confusion.
How come everyone else seems to know everything except him?
What exactly happened?
Why did Liu Guan and Duan Jiayi come?
Who are these two players huddled in the corner and shivering?
Why are there suddenly so many players outside?
Sun Yuancheng felt dizzy and couldn't figure out the reason after thinking for a long time.
The man was no longer as confident as before. He turned back and tried to escape by following the corner of the wall.
Now the number of players is obviously greater than the number of villagers, and the wolf-sheep rules are no longer valid.
Unexpectedly, the next moment, before anyone could react, Zhang Lian had already grabbed the man by the scruff of the neck.
His eyes were dark, and he looked at the man as if he was looking at a cold corpse that had been dead for a long time.
Liu Guan was secretly surprised, and Duan Jiayi's smile also became noticeably stiff.
They knew Zhang Lianqiang, but they only thought of Zhang Lianqiang holding a spear. They didn't expect that now that the spear was no longer in his hand, Zhang Lian's reaction was still creepy.
They had already spent all their energy just paying attention to Zhang Lian's actions.
Duan Jiayi poked Liu Guan teasingly: "Why, Liu Guan, who is ranked 18th on the leaderboard, what are your chances of winning against Zhang Lian, who is currently not on the leaderboard?"
Liu Guan knew that Duan Jiayi was trying to bully him, so he could only be angry for a while.
Less than 10%.
In fact, he knew it clearly.
"Okay," Li Ziyue slowly walked up to the man and gave him a bright smile, "Can we talk now?"
"Can you answer my question?"
The man's eyes were gloomy: "You will pay the price."
"I would rather you threaten me with some actual data," Li Ziyue said, smiling, "rather than relying on vague curses."
"If curses could come true, I would have died long ago," he added lightly.
The man stared at the smiling Li Ziyue with his sinister triangular eyes, and his nails dug long bloody marks on the ground.
But he dared not say any more.
In fact, this trap had been set up long before Sun Yuancheng and Li Ziyue encountered each other.
At that time, Li Ziyue had just come down the mountain and met Liu Guan and Duan Jiayi who had come up the mountain specifically to find him.
"You're going down the mountain? To find your child? Or... your bride?"
Li Ziyue stopped and looked at the two people.
He remembered that these two people spent 10,000 points each to buy 1L of water when they were purchasing props at the beginning of this copy.
If nothing unexpected happens, he should have come here specifically to quickly pass the level and gain superpowers, and was not obsessed with the reward points from the copy.
And Li Ziyue was no stranger to these two people.
He had received their help in previous copies, so he was willing to stop and see what the two wanted to do.
Knowing Li Ziyue's purpose, it seems that he has been investigated in advance.
"We have no ill intentions," Duan Jiayi smiled. "There is a friend of yours down the mountain. If I remember correctly... his name should be Sun Yuancheng, right? We helped him pass the [Breathing Swing] mission, so you don't need to worry."
Li Ziyue said nothing.
"We came to you for only one thing," Liu Guan added, "We hope you can finish the main quest as soon as possible. You should have seen that the purpose of our trip is just to quickly finish the dungeon and get the superpowers."
Having met Li Ziyue in the dungeon before, these two people already knew Li Ziyue's ability to pass the level, so forming an alliance with Li Ziyue was a good choice.
Seeing that Li Ziyue did not directly refuse, Duan Jiayi struck while the iron was hot: "After you were bitten by the zombie, you also received the task [Judge's Blade], right? Don't you think it's strange? Where did the players who received the same task go?"
"Liu Guan and I just checked the player group," Duan Jiayi said solemnly, "There is not a single player bitten by a zombie. Logically speaking, they should have appeared in the player group by now after being bitten and completing the mission last night. How come there is not a single player?"
"Perhaps, they are all dead. Only the dead cannot appear in the sunlight."
Li Ziyue did not comment, he had already guessed this.
"Currently we know of only two conditions that could lead to the player's death."
Duan Jiayi analyzed: "First, he was found to have killed the bride and was hanged to death."
"Second, in a fixed space, when the number of villagers is greater than that of players, the villagers can slaughter the players unconditionally."
"If you want to go down the mountain and continue to complete the main quest, you will need us," Duan Jiayi looked into Li Ziyue's eyes sincerely, "We can attract players to you at the critical moment."
Li Ziyue was silent for a while, then curled his lips and said, "It's not impossible."
Duan Jiayi breathed a sigh of relief.
But then Li Ziyue added lazily.
"But there's no need. I can attract players myself, but it's hard to say whether forming an alliance with you will increase the risk or make it more stable."
As cautious as before.
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Ziyue added: "Can I trust you?"
Duan Jiayi knew that things were not that simple, and he poked Liu Guan who was standing beside him.
Liu Guan calmed down, took out a small key from his pocket, and placed it in front of Li Ziyue: "This is the key to my fist."
Then he bent the key with one hand, and when the key began to bend, Liu Guan's fists began to bleed.
"If you break the key, my hand will break."
He restored the key to its original shape and put it back into Li Ziyue's hand.
"Can you trust us now?"
Li Ziyue woke up the drowsy Zhang Lian.
He handed the key to Zhang Lian: "Test whether there is a distance limit for use."
Duan Jiayi sighed beside him.
If the boss hadn't said that Li Ziyue would never hurt them as long as they were honest, he would really want to quit.
Being too cautious, it is hard to imagine how far one would have to go to gain Li Ziyue's full trust.
No wonder he had been able to survive in the dungeon for seven or eight years. He was originally a fox, and now he has been trained by the dungeon to become a spirit.
Li Ziyue tested every possible situation he could think of where the key might not work, and only then did he reluctantly agree to Liu Guan and Duan Jiayi's request.
"The dungeon lasted for three days in total, and so far it has not directly caused conflicts between players of different skill levels."
"If I were the copy designer, I would light this fire tonight. Otherwise, there would be no point in making a fuss tomorrow when most people will be dead." Li Ziyue snorted coldly.
"But the above is just my guess. Since it is a guess, it is a gamble." Li Ziyue said, "I can't say whether the system will intervene. It would be best if it does. If the system does not intervene and add fuel to the fire, I will trouble you to turn the dispute between the poor and the rich from an uncertain probability event into-"
He paused for a second: "Of course."
"Bind the rich to your side, and the poor will follow you for water."
This is the source of the current confusion.
When the woman took the stone that Li Ziyue had stuck on the manhole cover, Li Ziyue was not actually panicked.
His intention was not to use the stone to block the manhole cover from closing completely, he just wanted to leave a mark on the manhole cover.
It is not ruled out that there are multiple underground spaces. How to make Liu Guan and others confirm that Li Ziyue and his group are under this manhole cover is what Li Ziyue needs to plan.
Currently there are six rich people left among all the players. Liu Guan brought two over, Duan Jiayi pulled another one from behind, plus Sun Yuancheng.
Two-thirds of the rich people gathered at this location like a shining mountain of gold, and the players who held the coordinates in their hands rushed over anxiously.
They are afraid that so much water resources will be intercepted by others in advance. Time and competition are hindering their complete thinking to a certain extent.
It's quite lively at the moment.
Li Ziyue didn't have time to deal with the man anymore. He asked Liu Guan and Zhang Lian to take care of the four rich men including Sun Yuancheng, and he ran out of the room.
He walked through the corridor and finally found two carts of children who were treated as brides in the corner.
Fortunately, all the children are still here, not one missing.
Li Ziyue finally felt a little relieved.
He took the children out of the car one by one, but felt sleepy the next moment.
What to do next?
These children didn't seem to be able to take care of themselves, but he was still worried about leaving them to other villagers.
I'm afraid the villagers here are all birds of a feather.
What's worse is that once the child leaves his arms, his feet will start to shrink after standing on the ground for a long time, and dense flesh-colored lines will appear on the soles of his feet, tightly confining them.
The innocent children cried and felt wronged. They timidly gathered around Li Ziyue, hoping that they could be the one held in his arms.
At the same time, the system sounds a prompt tone.
[Hello, player Li Ziyue, one person cannot bear the responsibility of saving everyone, you can only choose to take one child away.]
"Choice, another choice, choose your uncle!"
Li Ziyue cursed inwardly.
The audience in the live broadcast room were stunned.
[Did I hear that correctly? This is the first time I’ve seen Brother Li curse so angrily…]
[Oh my god, even the model of quality is angry. System, can you be more sensible and give me some slack? ]
[Last time, Brother Li did eight papers without scolding anyone, which shows that his temper has reached a certain level]
[I'll take care of the children, I'll take care of them, I can hold ten children in one hand, let me get into the screen! ]
choose……
All the children were crying around him. Li Ziyue thought about the cold body of the bride, the water tank in his dream that almost drowned him, and...
He shuddered.
Previous memories rushed towards him like a tide, trapping him in an endless swamp of pain.
He could barely open his eyes and vaguely heard someone talking in his mind.
"You know you were chosen, too."
"You know the others were chosen, too."
"What do you have in common? Which cube do you belong to? Are you sinister and angry? Or are you timid and cowardly?"
"Will I be allowed to survive, or be offered as a sacrificial bride to God? Or..."
He should have known long ago that Li Ziyue had gone to so much trouble to lure him to this copy not simply because he wanted to fight him.
[Li Ziyue] This is the real intention.
Let him understand clearly again - "choice".
I'm afraid that Ji Mingyun is also part of Li Ziyue's plan.
[Li Ziyue] Choosing Ji Mingyun was not a spur-of-the-moment decision. Li Ziyue was sure that he was not wrong.
Li Ziyue closed his eyes. Amid the endless darkness and the shrill cries of children around him, he seemed to hear another sneaky voice.
The sounds were dense and continuous, gradually approaching him as time went by.
Li Ziyue opened his eyes instantly.
The scene before him made his heart suddenly sink to the bottom.
Those close sounds were none other than the footsteps of people that were deliberately concealed.
At this moment, there were countless villagers in front of him.
Their dark faces looked as cold and ruthless as the god of death under the orange light.
Some of them were still holding sickles and hoes covered in yellow soil.
The blade is sharp.
Time seemed to stand still, and Li Zi became increasingly disadvantaged.
The number of villagers is significantly greater than the number of players.
Moreover, no one knew that Li Ziyue came here.
Even Li Ziyue himself did not expect all this.
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