Chapter 157 Safe House
Xu Zhiyan encountered the problem of the century.
He thought he was not a saint and was prepared for bad guys to enter the safe house.
But the villain he imagined was someone who broke up a relationship with his teammate and stabbed him in the back. If he really encountered a wicked ungrateful person who abandoned his mother without any remorse, it was beyond his understanding.
All he wanted now was to change the rules and immediately throw the short boy in front of him out of the gate.
I went to watch the live broadcast room on purpose because the player’s behavior was too abnormal.
What kind of person would voluntarily give up the hope of survival to others when surrounded by monsters? How could such a person survive until the four-star dungeon?
Thinking of the messages in the live broadcast room, Xu Zhiyan frowned.
He was jumping back and forth between several live broadcast rooms, so the information he got was not comprehensive. He only knew that the player who was left behind was called Yu Rou, the mother of the short boy in front of him, and was forced into the game because of her son.
As for the short boy's information, since the other party was very weak, he didn't know anything about him except that his name was Guo Kangshun.
The incident happened too suddenly and Xu Zhiyan felt very confused.
Just as he was thinking about what to do next, a short-haired woman crawled out from the crowd.
"She's your mother? Why didn't you save her?" She staggered to Guo Kangshun's front. Her legs were a little unsteady, but she still shook her ankles and raised her leg to kick the tearful boy's face.
But no.
Human players are prohibited from harming each other in the safe house.
The woman's raised foot ultimately failed to land, but just hung in the air, as if there was an invisible wall blocking her.
The air in the yard was quiet for a moment.
Sensing that its host was in a bad mood, the safe house system had not dared to make a sound. However, other monsters hid behind the door and did not dare to come forward, and some players did not know the rules, so it had to stand up and make a broadcast.
[The safe house rules have been sent to your panel, please abide by them.]
It's so scary.
This was the first time that the system so intuitively sensed the unhappiness of the safe house heir.
Xu Zhiyan believed that harmony brings wealth, and he always had a smile on his face, whether in the safe house or in the dungeon. It was surprisingly rare that his voice was so cold like today.
Seeing that its host did not have a good impression of this group of players, it was not sure whether the safe house would be temporarily closed, and it did not dare to hastily issue rules requiring players to exchange props points for time points. It only issued basic rules.
The safe house is a private place and is not controlled by the main system. Although driving this group of people away will damage some of the reputation, there is currently only one safe house in the copy and players have no choice.
The system's CPU started spinning rapidly.
It is somewhat immoral to just drive them away, but is it really necessary to be moral when facing immoral people?
The short-haired woman glanced at the rules on the panel, spat angrily, and withdrew her foot while cursing.
Xu Zhiyan stood up, folded his arms, looked at the woman in front of him, and raised his eyebrows slightly.
What's going on?
Clearly, when he asked just now, no one expressed the desire to help the mother, but now they jumped out.
The woman seemed to have teammates. She glared at Guo Kangshun, pulled up her teammate next to her, and looked at the group of monsters stacked outside with a complicated expression.
"Your mother would rather give birth to a piece of barbecued pork than you." After cursing, she spat in the direction of Guo Kangshun.
Guo Kangshun, who was spit on, came back to his senses, his face flushed red, and he retorted: "If it weren't for me, you would have died outside! How dare you still say that to me?"
His legs were still weak and he couldn't stand up.
But when he thought of the stranger's question, the uneasiness in his heart was filled. Looking at the contemptuous looks from other players, Guo Kangshun retorted with dissatisfaction.
"She was trying to save me, and you were just helping her. You're just taking advantage of me! And didn't you think about helping her? Why are you scolding me instead?"
He felt that others should not scold him.
The woman snorted coldly.
"Yes, because she herself said that it was for you, and she was standing very far away, so we didn't want to take the risk to save her."
Players who can survive to the four-star copy will be relatively cautious. In the chaotic situation just now, although others had opportunities, they did not consider turning back to rescue people.
Between life and death, no one is willing to take risks just for themselves.
What's more, Yu Rou's rescue of other players was just a side job, the most important goal was to save Guo Kangshun.
Women have a very clear understanding of their own positioning.
"She's not my mother, and she didn't die to save me. I didn't think of helping her just now because I'm cold-blooded. I'm cold-blooded and selfish, so I'm still alive today."
"I know I'm not a good person, but I'm much better than a fool like you who even abandoned your own mother."
I don't know if it was the woman's words that resonated with the other players, or if the topic of 'abandoning one's mother' was too heavy.
When everyone heard this, they looked at Guo Kangshun with even more contempt in their eyes.
A few minutes later, Xu Zhiyan listened to the conversation between the players and roughly got the information about Yu Rou and Guo Kangshun.
The players entered the dungeon last night. Due to time constraints, they logged into the safe house on the second night. Prior to this, the players had been together for almost a day and knew a lot about the relationship between the two.
After Yu Rou divorced her husband, her child was taken away by the man. Over the years, she always felt that she had not been able to give her son enough company and always wanted to compensate her child.
After being brought into the game by Guo Kangshun, she did not blame him. Even though she felt desperate, she grew up quickly in order to protect her children.
Under the protection of his mother, Guo Kangshun, who was a waste, hugged the thighs and entered the four-star copy smoothly.
But this did not make him feel grateful to his mother.
The players came to their senses, got up from the ground, and finally had the mind to look around.
Soon, they discovered the monsters hiding in various corners and watching.
Someone noticed something was wrong.
"Trade, the safe house should have time to exchange!"
"They didn't come over, but looked at us..."
Several players' minds raced, wondering why the transaction had not taken place yet.
There is free time in the safe house, and you can also use props and points to exchange for extra time. They are the few living people left in this copy, and they are all planning to trade for more time.
Rumor has it that the owner of the safe house is a ghost...
Although it was unclear what level of NPC the other party was, considering the word "God" in the name, a few smart players began to wonder if their ungratefulness made the owner of the safe house unhappy?
Several people looked at each other, and then at the players around them who didn't notice anything unusual, and gradually raised their voices of accusation.
Yes, compared to this ungrateful guy, they don’t seem to be that cold-blooded!
Seeing that the situation was almost resolved, these people suddenly changed their words and said that they were just frightened, otherwise they would be willing to save people.
"Sister Yu is a very nice person. Yesterday I fell down and was almost caught by a monster, but Sister Yu helped me up."
"Yes, except for her doting on this piece of barbecued pork, everything else is pretty good."
"Alas, it's a pity that everyone is dead now. It's not that I didn't want to save them, but I really didn't react just now. If I had a chance now, I would definitely save them..."
The three people who spoke said that they had the will but not the strength to do anything. Now that the person is dead, they can do nothing.
The safe house system also figured it out, turned off the broadcast and secretly complained to the host whose mood was gradually easing.
[Hypocrisy! So hypocritical!]
[These people are not good people, throw them out! ]
Why did you save someone when they were already dead?
Without waiting for Xu Zhiyan to make a decision, the woman who first scolded Guo Kangshun turned around and looked at the three people who spoke with a puzzled look on her face.
"Are you three crazy? Who are you pretending to be for now that the person is dead? I counted you guys as the fastest when you were running just now." She sneered and mercilessly exposed the hypocritical words of the three people.
"I don't believe you can save people."
The woman had had enough of the ridicule, rolled her eyes, sat down on the ground, took off her shoes and began to treat the wound on her ankle.
"Say less hypocritical words like this, or you'll end up deceiving yourself."
She didn't say whether she would save people if she hadn't been injured. There is no point in assuming something that didn't happen.
Xu Zhiyan glanced at the woman who was treating her wound, then looked at the three people who were blushing due to the ridicule, hesitated for a moment, and interrupted the players' conversation.
"If she is still alive, will you go and save her?" he asked, pointing outside the door.
With just one sentence, all twelve people present were stunned.
"No, impossible!"
A sturdy man shook his head and spoke.
Others chimed in, saying that it was impossible for the woman to be alive surrounded by so many monsters.
Xu Zhiyan pointed to his eyes under his thick bangs and said with a smile: "I can see some things beneath the surface."
"Her characteristic is cocoon. It looks like she has activated some skill..."
Before he finished speaking, Guo Kang shouted strangely: "If you don't like us, just say it directly. Now that we are all in the safe house, do you want us to die? She has no skills at all!"
He didn't have a deep relationship with this stepmother, except for feeling a little guilty for pulling her into the game in the beginning. But as time went on, and under the other party's words of "wanting to make amends", he actually felt that his mother's kindness to him was a matter of course.
"Isn't it very common to awaken skills between life and death?" Xu Zhiyan shrugged.
"I saw she was still alive."
"The whole person is wrapped in a hard white cocoon."
In fact, he couldn’t see it, but the audience in the live broadcast room said it.
After the players entered the safe house, the few viewers in Yu Rou's live broadcast room began to scroll through the screen frantically. It turned out that she was not torn to pieces by the monsters. Instead, at the moment of life and death, she awakened her skills and bound herself into a hard cocoon.
The monsters were unable to break through the cocoon's defense, but correspondingly, Yu Rou also lost the ability to move.
Looking at the silent and shocked players, Xu Zhiyan glanced at the monsters in the safe house standing behind the pillars and spoke lightly.
"Didn't everyone just say that if she were still alive, they would be willing to save her?"
That's why he asked Guo Kangshun if the other party wanted to save Yu Rou if she was still alive.
"But! But we don't have any props!" The quick-witted trio spoke first, giving their reasons before anyone else.
"There are monsters everywhere outside, and we can't defeat them. Going out now would just mean death."
"It's not that we don't want to, it's that we don't have the ability."
"Yes, after all, props to repel monsters are hard to come by, and now I can't open the system mall, even if I have points. If I can spend money to save me, I will definitely save me..."
After a few words, the players who had just echoed and said they were willing to save people seemed to have found an excuse. Some even threw a few glares at Xu Zhiyan, as if to say that he was meddling in other people's business.
Xu Zhiyan didn't care about that. He had a sarcastic smile on his face.
"But this is a safe house, we should be able to buy props and other things, right? Didn't you say..." He turned his head to look at Liu Liu who was hiding behind the door.
The other party received the look and came out hesitantly.
A powerful pressure appeared around everyone, and the millipede-like monster twisted its body piece by piece and lurked around the players.
"We have planned a rescue plan for you."
"The relevant supporting props only require 20,000 points."
"Recharge 100,000 and get 10,000 for free...95% off on purchases."
[Wow host! I don't think they'll pay!]
The safe house system is not optimistic about this rescue package. It has seen through this group of hypocritical players.
Xu Zhiyan didn't say anything.
He just felt that Yu Rou shouldn't die like this... Even if she died, she should first see the true face of this unfortunate son.
Just as silence fell, the short-haired woman who spoke up first seemed to have made up her mind. She looked at the list of plans in Liuliu's hand and spoke with gritted teeth.
"Can you give me a discount? Twenty thousand is too expensive, and I don't have that many points."
Her teammates pulled her wrist, their eyes almost popped out: "Fuck Jiang Yufei, can you please stop sticking your head out? We are so poor that we have to pay for our pants!"
Jiang Yufei waved his hands impatiently: "Sister Yu is still alive. She is a good person."
She had received Yu Rou's favor, and because of her leg injury just now, she didn't think she could escape with a person weighing over 100 pounds. Now that she had the chance, Jiang Yufei was willing to pay.
Xu Zhiyan looked at the monster that had already dispersed and the white cocoon lingering among the monsters, and suddenly relaxed.
It seems that these players are not all garbage.
It looks like there is no need to modify the rules for the time being.
Liuliu was almost pierced through by the look in its master's eyes, but considering that Xu Zhiyan's current identity was a disguised player, it couldn't ask directly and could only stammer and guess the answer.
"Maybe... maybe... maybe we can give you a 10%, 20%, 30% discount or even free of charge."
"?" Jiang Yufei was stunned with a nervous look on his face.
Why does it feel like this monster isn't very smart?
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