66 Tokyo Dream 07
◎I promised some people that I would avenge them◎
When Zhu Heng woke up, he found himself floating on the Bian River.
He turned over and jumped out of the water, swam all the way back to the shore, and then returned to Sun Yangzheng's store.
In the communication channel, I could occasionally hear the normal voices of several other people talking to each other. It seemed that he had not been away for long and no one noticed that he had disappeared for a while.
Zhu Heng went straight to the restaurant's kitchen and selected suitable tools. Various knives, pots, pans, and bowls collided with each other, making crisp sounds.
"What are you doing?" Helandao heard his movement and asked him through the communication channel.
"Find a good knife and kill someone." Zhu Heng replied calmly.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone fell silent.
Xiao Zhao asked tentatively, "Do you know who the murderer is?"
Zhu Heng didn't answer. He took out a light, sharp dagger and suddenly called out Liu Qiao'er's name: "You did all this, didn't you?"
After finding the dagger, he calmly went to look for fire and a club.
But everyone was getting excited, Xiao Zhao was especially agitated: "My team leader? How is that possible!"
Liu Qiaoer, who was identified as the murderer by Zhu Heng, remained silent.
Zhu Heng ignored Xiao Zhao and only asked Liu Qiao'er, "Those ninety-nine people were chosen by you from among the countless players after entering the 'Universe History' system, right? You used your authority as leader of the Song Dynasty team to send them all here, and then used a borrowed knife to kill them."
"Borrow, borrow, borrow a knife to kill someone?" Xiao Zhao's emotions gradually calmed down. "So you're saying that my team leader is not the murderer?"
Zhu Heng was speechless: "When did I say she was the murderer?"
"I didn't expect you to figure it out," Liu Qiao'er finally spoke, admitting frankly, "Yes, everything you saw was done by me. I modified the system data, turning an F-rank instance into an S-rank instance. The funny thing is, these people thought they'd gotten away with a no-brainer instance, unaware that the deceased in the system had already marked them as the murderer."
Augustus hummed and said to Helan, "She recruited all these players? Oh, I see. Maybe it has something to do with her background... No wonder she joined us in the first place. It seems she's been planning this revenge from the very beginning."
Helan Dao remained silent.
So you have to involve yourself?
"But, Team Leader," Xiao Zhao said, "If you're flipped by that Möbius strip, you'll also be marked..."
Speaking of this, Liu Qiao'er became angry. "Who can I blame? It's all your fault! If you hadn't come along to join in the fun, why would I have to temporarily change the way I enter the dungeon just to turn you into mirror images and kick you out of the range where you'll be marked?"
Of course, the most unexpected thing was that Zhu Heng was marked together with her because of this.
Liu Qiaoer clenched her fists. She had no other choice.
She had been waiting for this moment for so long, so long that this was the only thing left in her life, this was the only goal, to kill them, to use any means necessary, to kill them, to turn their real bodies outside the game into soulless shells, to imprison their spirits in the game, never to rest in peace.
Even if she was brought to the All-Time Human Court for such an action, she would never regret it.
Xiao Zhao didn't know what his team leader was thinking, so he just asked, "What about you?"
Liu Qiaoer came back to her senses, concealed the surging hatred in her eyes, and said in a calm tone, "What else can I do? I'll just die."
Zhu Heng, who had finally picked out the tools, happened to hear Liu Qiaoer's words, and his expression was indescribable.
When he was marked together was air.
Zhu Heng weighed the tool in his hand and said, "This is easy. If you want to break the curse, just kill those ninety-nine people in advance." After saying that, he glanced at the backyard.
Xiao Zhao started to be wary: "Are you going to kill the players!?"
"What players?" Zhu Heng raised his eyebrows and said lightly, "These people are murderers. Life for life. They deserve to die."
Liu Qiaoer's clenched fists suddenly loosened a little.
What does he mean?
Zhu Heng walked out of the kitchen carrying his tools and stood behind the ninety-nine players. "I promised some people that I would avenge them. I must fulfill my promise."
Xiao Zhao shuddered: "Even if they are all murderers, they will die the next day without you having to do anything!"
"It's just that this way of dying is too easy for them. Those who were hurt deserve a life worse than death. It's a life for a life, it's karma."
Liu Qiaoer looked up in surprise, her eyes filled with shock.
Zhu Heng stood behind one of the men, knife in hand, and gently pinched his neck. "You slit the throat of your own wife, eight months pregnant. Did you hear her cries in your dreams at midnight? You didn't hear them, but I did for you. So, I'll cut her throat this time."
The blood in the man's carotid artery spurted out along with the urine from his lower body. Zhu Heng loosened his hand and smelled the overwhelming smell of urine in the air. He frowned in disgust and said, "It's so dirty."
"What is he doing!" Augustus no longer looked indifferent. He shouted, "He's killing players? He's crazy!"
"He's not crazy." Helando said.
"You won't stop it? Players killing each other is a taboo. Audiences who escape the system's control and die violently will no longer be under the system's control. They will stay here forever."
"Then let them be trapped in this copy."
Augustus' eyes widened. "I really hope you're not kidding me. Zhu Heng will be brought before the Human Court of All Time if he does this."
Helan Dao said, "I can protect him."
Augustus listened to Helan Dao's words on the channel in disbelief.
At this moment, Helan Dao made Augustus feel unfamiliar, as if he had never really understood this person before.
"So, you actually knew all along." Augustus calmed down, and suddenly he understood something. "Liu Qiao'er doesn't have the permission to modify system data. You turned a blind eye and acquiesced to her revenge. When did you find out?"
He Landao replied, "Dr. Xu told me this a long time ago, before I entered the General History of the Universe."
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Zhu Heng waded through the blood on the ground and came to another player. He pressed the player's head with one hand and threw him into the water tank in the open space in the backyard.
"It's nice to feel the life slowly slipping away in the water, right?" Zhu Heng leaned close to the player's ear and lowered his voice, like the devil's whisper.
The player kept struggling, and the oxygen in the water was exhausted, and his struggling limbs gradually became motionless.
Zhu Heng grabbed him by the collar, turned him over, and threw him into the well.
Then he came to another group of people, pulled out another light and sharp knife, and neatly peeled off half of their scalps one by one.
Players he targeted were almost powerless to resist. The scene was filled with wailing and blood, a scene as horrific as hell.
Zhu Heng built an altar in the middle of the backyard, threw the remaining surviving players and spectators onto it one by one, lit it on fire, and burned it clean with a crackling sound.
The other people in the channel couldn't see what was happening on Zhu Heng's side, but just listening to his heart-wrenching screams was enough to imagine how tragic the scene was.
Liu Qiaoer's legs went weak and she fell to the ground.
She covered her mouth tightly, trying her best not to scream.
Is it...their...God?
At this moment, the system dinged and went online: [Congratulations to everyone for successfully finding the murderer. The deceased's injustice has been redressed. The curse on Sun Yangzheng Store has been lifted, and its former prosperity and tranquility have been restored.]
The scene in front of everyone's eyes changed, and the single-line world in which everyone was located converged together, and they could finally see each other.
"Team Leader!" Xiao Zhao saw Liu Qiao'er and immediately rushed forward to help her up from the ground. "Even if you escaped death, there's no need to be so excited, Team Leader."
Zhu Heng placed the tip of his knife against the wooden pillar, using it as support for half of his strength.
He Landao walked up to him and handed him a piece of blue cloth.
Zhu Heng lowered his eyes and took a look. It was the blue silk he got from the previous copy. He didn't expect that Helan Dao was still carrying it with him.
He was stunned for a moment, then took it and gently wiped the blood splattered on his hands and face, saying, "I'll return it to you after washing it."
"No need, you keep it." Helan Dao said.
At this time, the sound of oars came from a distance, and the surrounding environment unknowingly turned into a pier near the Bian River. The passenger ship that took them into the copy quietly appeared on the shore.
Everyone boarded the boat with their own thoughts, and returned the same way, passing under the Rainbow Bridge again, and walked on the Möbius strip again, so that everyone's body organs would be turned upside down.
After leaving Hongqiao, the central city is right in front of you.
Zhu Heng sat on the boat without moving.
Helan Dao, who was about to get off the boat, turned around, looked at him with a strange expression, and then stopped.
A white butterfly flew over from somewhere and landed on the back of Zhu Heng's hand. It flapped its wings slowly and then flew to Zhu Heng's shoulder and stayed there.
Helandao suddenly raised his eyes, first looking at Zhu Heng, then, as if he thought of something, he turned his head to look behind him, in the direction of Augustus.
Augustus was also looking at him, and in front of him, he turned his gaze to Zhu Heng.
"Zhuang Zhou Butterfly." He said word by word.
He Landao warned in a low voice: "Augustus."
"I have to do this, Helan Dao." Augustus ignored Helan Dao's invisible defense and directly pulled out his weapon from his waist, aiming it at Zhu Heng's forehead. "For all mankind."
"Augustus!" Helan Dao raised his voice. "Even if this is Zhuang Zhou Butterfly, how do you know it has pledged allegiance to someone, or is just stopping by for a short while?"
"I'm sorry, I'd rather kill one person by mistake than let a thousand go." Augustus put his index finger on the trigger. "Humanity will thank me, and so will you, Helan Dao. Remember the agreement between you and me? Whoever is soft-hearted, the other one must be ruthless on their behalf."
Augustus pulled the trigger, and with one movement, all three men moved.
Zhu Heng remained calm and composed, sitting on the boat without changing his expression, as if the person being pointed at by the gun was not him.
Helan Dao stood in front of Augustus' gun.
Liu Qiao'er watched all this happen in a trance. The development of the situation was worse than she had imagined.
At the critical moment, Helan Dao rushed forward and hugged Zhu Heng. Inertia carried them both backwards towards the river. They both fell into the water, and together with the butterfly on Zhu Heng's shoulder, they sank...sunk...
The Zhuang Zhou butterfly split into countless small butterflies, enveloping the two of them. From a distance, it looked like a giant insect cocoon. The cocoon slowly reached the bottom.
"System!" Helandao suddenly shouted, "Take us away!"
As he finished speaking, a flash of white light appeared, and the cocoon continued to sink underwater. The system spoke: [Congratulations to both players for successfully completing the "Tokyo Dream" dungeon. The more dangerous the place, the safer it is. Congratulations on unlocking a new dungeon world.]
He Landao led Zhu Heng into the new world, and did not forget to turn around and order the system: "Shut up, guard the outer door, and don't let anyone in."
System: [Okay, daddy.]
System: [Now, welcome to watch the large-scale TV series "A General History of the Universe" - "City upon City."]
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