Chapter 42
Live broadcast hall.
A wave of cheers erupted from multiple sections, startling everyone who peered out.
Seeing this incredible spectacle, the other spectators were stunned for a moment before bursting with joy. They rushed up and grabbed the nearest person, asking, "Did someone beat the game?!"
The viewer immediately pointed to the live stream screen, excitedly babbling incoherently: "The BOSS has been killed, we'll be able to clear the game soon! You guys hurry up and watch it, the server-wide announcement hasn't gone off yet, maybe we can even participate in the points lottery and see the strategy easter egg!"
Upon hearing this, the others eagerly checked the live stream room number. Seeing that the streamer was actually a record [6], they were immediately filled with admiration.
Upon entering the live stream, the screen was filled with praise.
Awesome!
6666666!
As expected of a master with a record of [6], he truly has the ability and is amazing!
: Let's just say that the best interpretation of "The Dragon Slayer" is the one that is literally translated. Why do we need to consider so many other things?
The system is clearly up to no good. The trial was designed to make everyone hesitant to act, but who would have thought that this trial had no traps at all, which is why everyone was so easily fooled.
Fortunately, the boss was determined and didn't hesitate to take down the Ghost King, otherwise we would have been finished.
Although the bullet comments can discuss the details of clearing the game, they will be cleared by the system after a short time. Trying to exploit the loophole to post walkthroughs will result in being banned. Therefore, the bullet comments are mostly frenzied cheers and shouts.
Ahhhh, you're so handsome! I want to have your babies!
In the live stream, [6], who had just killed the Ghost King, looked at his rapidly increasing points balance and seemed to feel the enthusiasm of the audience. He glanced at the live stream camera and laughed triumphantly.
"See? I told you I'd smash through this dungeon. What's the Ghost King compared to that!"
Looking at the battlefield where [6] is located, it can be described as a complete mess.
The house collapsed, kicking up clouds of dust. Everywhere were grotesque fragments of limbs and bones, black blood splattered on the mud bricks, emitting a strong, pungent stench.
The battle was very difficult. Not to mention that almost all of his teammates [6] were wiped out, and he himself was exhausted. After all, using items is not without its limitations and will consume mental energy.
[6] He was still quite cautious. After killing the Ghost King, he carefully and calmly observed for several minutes to make sure that the corpse had no heartbeat or pulse and showed no signs of resurrection before he relaxed.
At this point, he kept making statements, trying to get more donations from the audience to recoup his losses.
"I thought this monster king would eventually turn into an evil dragon, but who would have thought it would remain the same from beginning to end? I must have cut off its chance to become a dragon!"
[6] He kicked the corpse’s head and said in a casual tone, “Poor thing, don’t blame me for not giving you a chance. The world is cruel. It’s either you die or I live.”
As he kicked, he withdrew his foot, as if a conscience had not been extinguished: "Sigh, it's already died such a miserable death, let's not torture it anymore."
[6] Saying this, he took a few steps forward.
Suddenly, without warning, he turned around abruptly and kicked the corpse away.
The kick was incredibly powerful; you could almost hear the bones cracking! Then he picked up his trident and cleanly sliced the corpse into pieces, giving the live stream camera a cruel smile: "You all know how dungeons are; you can't leave them without finishing them off."
[6] Clearly, they understand the effects of live streaming, and the live stream chat exploded instantly.
Some thought he was too cruel, while others praised him for being cautious, meticulous, and thorough.
[6] looked at the points rising again and laughed wildly: "I thought a dragon would crawl out of the corpse at the end, but there was nothing. How boring."
"Alright, alright, let's go." He slung the trident over his shoulder, thick, foul blood dripping from the tip and landing with a thud, and swaggered forward.
There's no system notification yet, so it seems he has to survive until the required number of days is up. He plans to find a safer place.
Unaware that the viewers watching the live stream from a third-person perspective were watching, their smiles vanished instantly, their mouths slowly opened wide, their pupils contracted sharply, and they were filled with indescribable shock.
In their view, the corpse that was about to be chopped into mincemeat suddenly split open, and a thick claw covered with ferocious scales emerged from it.
Its size far exceeds the dimensions of the corpse, and it appears at an illogical speed and in an abnormal form!
In the blink of an eye, the entire arm tore through space, and the claw wind stirred up countless blood foams.
Five sharp fingernails suddenly opened and slammed down onto the rubble, smashing the hard stone into dust!
[6] Hearing the sound, he turned around and his pupils widened inch by inch.
Before his head was crushed, the only thing he could see was the scarlet beast's eye, which had shrunk into a cold vertical line.
The live stream room did not disappear immediately after the streamer died.
The audience froze in front of their screens, watching the crimson-scaled monster, which blotted out the sky, unleash a deafening roar and spew forth raging flames.
The flame had some strange properties; it could even ignite stone bricks!
In an instant, the entire ruins were engulfed in flames. The intense heat distorted the air, and countless slender black figures struggled wildly within, like demons dancing in chaos.
The red-scaled monster continued forward, stepping out of the Jiang family's gate, causing the entire earth to tremble.
Wherever it went, fire followed, and heart-wrenching screams and wails echoed everywhere.
Until the fire spread across the entire land, leaving behind charred remains of indeterminate shapes, and apart from the crackling sounds of objects exploding, no other sounds could be heard, including human voices and the sound of the wind.
The giant red-scaled creature finally stopped.
In that instant, the raging fire launched a vicious counterattack, igniting the land with the same ruthlessness that had just burned it.
"roar--"
His sharp teeth suddenly loosened, and bits of flesh and blood, stuck to the roots of his teeth, fell down in a trickle, like rain or tears.
The giant creature looked up at the sky and let out a painful and shrill wail, but made no struggle whatsoever.
"Roar! Roar!..."
The giant red-scaled creature roared with all its might, seemingly questioning someone, its mournful howls echoing throughout the heavens and earth.
Only when its entire body turned into pitch-black charcoal and its putrid, filthy blood rapidly evaporated in the fire did it, as if utterly exhausted, slowly close its heavy eyelids.
The live stream room instantly vanished into countless specks of light.
All the audience members who had witnessed this scene remained seated, motionless, for dozens of seconds, in a deathly silence.
In the center of each zone, the live broadcast screens in the viewing pool kept disappearing.
All those who chose to attack the Demon King prematurely were wiped out.
*
Jiang Kaile looked at Chan Sheng, who was tilting his head as if listening, and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with you? You've been spacing out since just now, and you don't respond when I call you."
“There are voices saying that many people have died.”
The system message was malicious, and Chan Sheng felt uncomfortable, so he rubbed his ears.
Looking up, Chan Sheng saw Jiang Kaile looking puzzled, as if he hadn't understood what he was saying at all. After thinking for a moment, he asked for help, "Do you know what the Dragon Slayer is?"
The council speaker was talking about the dragon-slaying youth, the other players were talking about the dragon-slaying youth, and even Xie Xubai would occasionally mutter it a couple of times.
Perhaps if everyone knew what the Dragon Slayer was, they wouldn't have to die, nor would they have to suffer so much.
"The dragon-slaying youth?"
Jiang Kaile had no idea what was going on in Chan Sheng's head. Just a moment ago, he blurted out something nonsensical like "I ate a lot of bread," and the next second he was talking about some dragon-slaying youth.
However, seeing Chan Sheng's expectant look, he thought about it seriously: "I've only ever heard stories of princes rescuing princesses. A cruel and ruthless dragon kidnaps a princess, and the prince goes through many dangers to kill the dragon and finally wins the heart of his beloved."
Chan Sheng shook his head; he felt that wasn't it.
Seeing him frowning in extreme distress, Jiang Kaile also struggled with the situation for a long time before finally giving in with a sigh, taking out her phone and saying, "Alright, alright, I'll check it for you."
Chan Sheng was instantly overjoyed and eagerly leaned closer: "Can you find it?"
“Of course, the internet is so advanced now.” Jiang Kaile looked at his phone screen, then suddenly remembered something, and his face involuntarily darkened.
Chan Sheng: "What's wrong with you?"
“…It’s nothing.” Jiang Kaile tapped on her phone screen.
Chan Sheng waited obediently beside him, watching the boy's trembling fingertips hovering over the screen. Suddenly, in a fit of despair, he slapped the phone into the boy's arms: "Fine, fine, look it up yourself!"
Chan Sheng took the phone blankly, then looked at him: "?"
How could an idiot use a cell phone? Jiang Kaile knew this, but couldn't muster the courage to help him search. After a long silence, he muttered, "If I see those stories, something bad will definitely happen."
After the cycle started, there was no television in his house, and his Chinese final exam mock test only had dictation and basic multiple-choice questions filled in.
Jiang Kaile recalled Xie Xubai's test that morning, which was supposed to be used to communicate his results to his mother. However, he felt dizzy and couldn't write a single more word when faced with the dense text.
He's really awful.
Fortunately, the teacher didn't say anything at the time, she just patted his head... Hmm?
Feeling the touch on his head, Jiang Kaile looked up in surprise and saw Chan Sheng clumsily rubbing his head while grinning at him.
Chan Sheng was clearly imitating Xie Xubai's way of comforting him, but with his face wrapped in bandages and his expression stiff, he made a poor imitation.
"It's alright, it's okay if we don't know," Chan Sheng said. "Let's go find Yu You."
Jiang Kaile froze, staring at him stiffly for a long time before slowly pulling the hand off her head and awkwardly ruffling her hair: "What are you doing? Stop touching me like that, you've messed up my hair!"
Chan Sheng: "Ah, your face is red again."
Jiang Kaile: "Shut up!"
Jiang Kaile gritted his teeth and pushed the idiot forward, but the latter suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Kaile couldn't see the virtual screen that suddenly popped up in front of Chan Sheng, and asked in confusion.
[A teammate has used a rallying cry to request help. Do you want to teleport to their side?]
Chan Sheng looked at the words on the screen; he didn't recognize them, but he remembered them.
Before he left, the Speaker of the Council taught him to recognize the patterns on the props. He had to go because it was urgent.
"My teammates seem to be in trouble; they need me." Chan Sheng clicked "confirm" based on his memory.
Jiang Kaile suddenly had a bad feeling and reached out to grab him: "Wait, don't go!"
But when he reached out, he missed his target by passing through the cicada's body.
Chan Sheng looked at Jiang Kaile, whose pupils were wide with shock, and said, "It's okay, don't worry."
He said reluctantly, "I will try my best to come back alive. You must save the candy for me."
After thinking for a moment, he grinned again and gave the boy an awkward smile: "Don't be sad, go find Yu You."
As the person vanished from the spot, Jiang Kaile's scarlet beast eyes flashed: "Cicada Life—"
On the other side, at Jiang Family Hospital.
Madam Jiang was no fool. The moment she uttered the words "also fulfilling the wishes of all beings," she was deeply shaken.
All the strange and incongruous places from the past seem to be connected by a clear and distinct thread!
"Why would I forget something so important?" Madam Jiang murmured in disbelief, her emotions spiraling out of control as she unconsciously gripped the steel handrail, making a cracking sound. "It was the Jiang family, it was them...!"
Xie Xubai couldn't help but frown, feeling that something was still amiss.
His intuition told him that he was very close to the truth, but was missing a crucial piece of the puzzle.
Wait a moment?
Xie Xubai suddenly looked up.
Madam Jiang said that it was illogical that the servants still liked Jiang Kaile even after he showed a fierce appearance on his first birthday!
How could a normal person remain unmoved by a scene that even a biological mother couldn't help but be afraid of?
Suddenly, Xie Xubai had a flash of inspiration and asked eagerly, "From the time Jiang Kaile was born until his first birthday celebration, what was the attitude of the Jiang family servants towards him, and how many of them liked him?"
"Servants?" Madam Jiang didn't know why Xie Xubai asked this, so she temporarily suppressed her anger towards the Jiang family and shook her head.
"Back then, Jiang Kaile was the lifeblood of the entire Jiang family. Who would dare to neglect him?"
"But he does have Jiang Shirong's blood after all." Madam Jiang changed the subject and sighed, "The Jiang family has strict rules, especially harsh on the servants, and they are not allowed to resign. How many of them can be completely without resentment?"
Before he could finish speaking, Xie Xubai suddenly stood up, his solemn expression startling Madam Jiang.
"I'm sorry, Madam, but I must find Jiang Kaile immediately. I cannot allow anyone from the Jiang family to have any further contact with him!"
Before Madam Jiang could speak, Xie Xubai strode out, looking anxious.
The scene receded rapidly in my peripheral vision, and my thoughts flashed through my mind like lightning.
The servants of the Jiang family didn't "still" like Jiang Kaile; they "suddenly" did!
Why did they suddenly like it? Because they found it amusing to see Jiang Kaile bite the Jiang family head.
By fulfilling the wishes of all living beings, the Jiang family members are living beings, but aren't the servants of the Jiang family also living beings? In fact, their numbers are even greater, and their suffering is even more tragic.
When the servants are suffering from oppression by the Jiang family and have no way to escape, they suddenly learn of an opportunity that may fulfill their wishes. What will they do?
It's just making a wish, it doesn't take much effort, and there's no clearly stated cost. For someone who's been driven to the brink, why not give it a try? What if it comes true?
People may not be able to reach a consensus on their desires, but they can certainly reach a consensus on hatred for a certain type of person.
They wished the Jiang family members, including the Jiang family head, would die.
So Jiang Kaile, holding Buddhist prayer beads that bore their hatred, grew a mouthful of sharp teeth and bit down on the grinning Jiang family head.
At this moment, Xie Xubai finally understood that all the malice in the world was the root cause of Jiang Kaile's alienation.
To rescue Jiang Kaile, we must first keep him away from those with malicious intentions!
boom!
Suddenly, the ground shook violently, and Xie Xubai quickly grabbed the wall to steady himself.
He suddenly looked up and saw that in broad daylight, the sky was crackling with lightning, fireballs and snowstorms were falling all at once, and strange roars could be heard from time to time.
Seeing the Jiang family servants staring blankly as they swarmed toward the source of the commotion as if summoned, Xie Xubai's heart skipped a beat.
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