Chapter 020: Eating Watermelons in the Archives of Lies (9)
At this time, the other people who had already walked to Fang Yiran's side protected Fang Yiran firmly behind them and confronted Lao Cheng tit for tat.
Fang Yiran glared back at Lao Cheng fiercely.
The feud was completely settled.
Lao Cheng judged that he was outnumbered and thought that it is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. He took a few steps back and walked out of the archives.
The live broadcast room was also very surprised by this development, but still couldn't help cheering:
"Hahahaha, I finally saw that liar Lao Cheng suffer a big loss!"
"A rare life-saving item is given away for free. How satisfying!"
"Am I the only one curious about how Fang Yiran knew this information?"
"I'm curious too!"
Seeing the other players looking at him suspiciously, Fang Yiran explained awkwardly, "Actually, I am..."
"Wait a minute!" Mo Qianhe interrupted his spell.
Everyone else turned around and looked at Mo Qianhe in confusion.
Mo Qianhe said seriously, "It sounds like there's something fishy going on. I think Liu Tang would want to hear it. You should wait until he comes back."
Everyone: “…”
The barrage was full of hahahaha:
"You know how to feel pain."
"I just started knocking my ass!"
"Sure enough, this liar Mo has my wife in his heart!"
"You bold lunatic! How dare you even covet my wife!"
At this time, Liu Tang and the fat man Yin Guanglai finally encountered a video.
In the video, "Tabian Qianfan" is standing in an empty walkway next to the flower bed and making a phone call.
He was clearly furious when he said to the person on the other end of the phone, "You've caused all of this. You've already ruined me, and you still have the nerve to ask me for help. I will never cooperate with you in making up lies to clarify things."
They clearly heard a sharp voice on the other end of the line: "If you don't agree, I'll go find the 'Water Snow Elf'! If neither of you helps me, I'll jump off this building!"
Hearing the other party's frenzy, Qianfan calmed down. He said, "Don't threaten me with death. It's your own business whether you want to die or not. Even if you die, I won't feel any guilt."
After saying that, he hung up the phone angrily.
Liu Tang and Yin Guanglai thought the video would end there, but it continued to play.
"Qianfan" was seen pacing back and forth beside the flower bed, seemingly hesitating whether to go to the roof of the teaching building to check and confirm whether "Matryoshka" really intended to jump off the building.
At this time, he received a call from the "Water Snow Elf". The other party sounded very anxious and said that the "Matryoshka" wanted to jump off the building and asked her to go to the top of the teaching building for a talk.
Qianfan calmed himself down and said to the girl, "This matter is directed at me. It has nothing to do with you. Don't go over there."
There was silence for a moment, and then the person on the other side replied, "Well, don't worry, I didn't go to the teaching building."
Liu Tang understood. It seemed that it was "Qianfan" who had talked to the "Snow Elf" at the beginning.
"Qianfan" told her not to go to the roof, but "Snow Elf" lied to "Qianfan" and said that she had already reached the roof of the teaching building.
"Qianfan" in the video struggled for a while, and finally made up his mind and started walking. He was waiting for the elevator on the first floor of the teaching building.
The elevator finally reached the first floor when he suddenly heard a muffled "bang" from behind him.
The boy looked back and saw a long-haired girl lying on the ground outside the teaching building, with a colorful liquid spreading out from under her that made people dizzy.
The image ends here.
Liu Tang stared at the place where the girl's shadow disappeared for a long time without coming back to his senses.
It’s like “Qianfan” standing in front of the elevator and unable to move.
It was hard for Liu Tang to imagine whether this was the end of a tragedy or the beginning of a tragedy.
Two fragments fell to the ground.
The NPC did not have the authority to pick it up, so the pot-bellied Yin Guanglai walked forward and picked it up with some difficulty.
The fat man didn't feel anything about the death of the girl in the story.
He clicked on the fragments and confirmed that both were fragments of the archives of "Traveling Through Thousands of Sails".
One was a phone call where he said to the "Matryoshka": "Even if you die, I won't feel any guilt."
One of the books was what he said to the "Snow Elf": "This matter is directed at me. It has nothing to do with you. Don't go over there."
"Brother Liu, we have collected all the fragments. Should we go back to the archives?" Yin Guanglai said to Liu Tang in a somewhat servile manner.
Liu Tang was awakened by the other party's voice and felt a little disappointed.
For some reason, he always felt that all this made him feel somewhat familiar.
"Let's go." With that, Liu Tang and Yin Guanglai walked towards the archives together.
I ran into Lao Cheng who had just answered the boss's questions.
Seeing the other party's grim expression, Liu Tang touched his chin with interest: "Mr. Lao Cheng, you don't seem very happy."
Seeing the two men walking back, Lao Cheng guessed that they had picked up the fragments, so he asked Yin Guanglai for them.
Yin Guanglai knew that this person had always been keeping something from him, so he naturally would not hand over the fragments obediently.
Lao Cheng became even more angry when he saw that this fat pig was becoming more and more disobedient.
At this moment, everyone heard the boss' call: "Player Yin Guanglai, please arrive at the archives within five minutes and answer the director's questions. The countdown begins..."
When Yin Guanglai heard this, his whole body trembled, and the fat on his belly even swayed a few times.
Lao Cheng's bad mood finally brightened up and a sly smile appeared on his face.
The reason why his mood improved was obvious. On the one hand, it was because the NPC's prediction that the boss would keep asking him to answer questions was self-defeating; on the other hand, it was because he found an opportunity to control Yin Guanglai and take back the fragments.
The thin man stretched out his hand with distinct knuckles and said to Yin Guanglai, "Give me the fragment and I will ensure your safe passage."
Of course, Yin Guanglai would not allow the other party to control him.
He rolled his eyes and said, "How about this, leave this fragment with me first. I'll give it to you after I finish answering the questions safely."
Lao Cheng nodded with a smile, and immediately used the system to draw up a transaction contract and handed it to Yin Guanglai, saying, "Sign this system contract. After I help you answer the questions correctly, you will give me the fragment. With this contract guarantee, we can all rest assured."
Liu Tang looked at the contract curiously. This should be the system contract that pilot Song Xiaoyan signed with Lao Cheng before entering the copy. It looked quite formal.
Yin Guanglai was not as obedient as Song Xiaoyan. He waved his hand and returned the contract, saying, "If I don't sign it, who knows if there are any loopholes in this contract that you can exploit? I can't figure it out in five minutes."
Lao Cheng's face darkened again.
He couldn't remember how many times he wanted to kill this fat pig.
The man snorted coldly and said, "How can I be sure that once you succeed, you will not turn against me and deny my promise?"
Yin Guanglai said as he hurried towards the archives with a smile, "Ah, you really can't be sure about this. But what other choice do you have?"
Yin Guanglai understood very well that the initiative was in his hands at the moment, and he had to use this hard-earned advantage to open up the situation.
Lao Cheng followed the fat man, but he was thinking in his heart that it might be better to let this fat pig die at the hands of the Boss.
In this way, after the other party dies, the fragments obtained will fall and he can pick them up again.
Yin Guanglai, who was walking ahead, was still talking to himself: "Actually, you've already returned one file fragment, completing the single-player guaranteed mission. So, whether I return the final file fragment or you do, as long as all the file fragments are successfully returned, you'll still have cleared the level. There's not much difference."
For players like Lao Cheng who attach great importance to points, there is of course a difference.
He guessed that although players were guaranteed to return only one file fragment, the more fragments they returned, the more points they would get when settling accounts after completing the game.
Lao Cheng suspected that this fat pig had probably guessed this, so he wanted to grab more points.
Little did they know that Yin Guanglai hadn't thought so much about it.
He simply felt, based on his previous experience of living on the edge of a knife, that the more chips he had, the greater his chances of survival.
Although he has completed the guaranteed mission, the boss may call on him many times to answer questions. In order to survive better, he must use the fragments to exchange for a high enough chance of survival.
At this moment, everyone in the archives stopped discussing the ins and outs of the copy.
They also realized that Liu Tang's speculation about "who the boss would choose to answer the question" was biased.
Fang Yiran said in a panic, "Didn't they say that they wouldn't ask anyone else to answer questions until Lao Cheng died?"
Jiang Minxu tried to analyze the situation and said, "It seems like they'll take turns answering questions. If we can figure out the order of turns, maybe we can be prepared."
Mo Qianhe had already understood the pattern and explained, "The order of turns is most likely based on what Liu Tang said, with players with high evil values being called upon first to answer."
Song Xiaoyan nodded, understanding the situation. "Among the seven players, Lao Cheng has the highest evil value, so he was the first to be named. The second is Yin Guanglai, so he was named second..."
Qin Zhengyi was a little nervous and asked, "After they both finish answering, it will definitely be one of us five's turn next. Who will it be?"
Song Xiaoyan frowned, looked up at her childhood friend, and said calmly, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be me... When we were in Wanjing Garden, Liu Tang told me that my evil value was relatively high compared to the average player."
Qin Zhengyi looked at her childhood friend in confusion. "How is that possible? Isn't this evil value something you only get by doing bad things? You've always been a law-abiding person, and all you care about is studying and working hard to become a pilot. How could you possibly have an evil value?"
Song Xiaoyan had wanted to wait until the instance was over before confessing her story to her childhood friend, but now it seemed she couldn't hide it anymore. She picked out the key points and answered, "I was flying a private plane and deliberately caused it to crash, killing all the passengers on board."
Qin Zhengyi was stunned. She didn't quite understand what the other person was saying. "On purpose? Why?"
Song Xiaoyan turned her eyes to the side and said, "I just... don't want to live anymore."
Qin Zhengyi grabbed the man's hand and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? If you really just didn't want to live, you would have died quietly like me, alone, without implicating anyone. Why would you drag a planeload of people with you to be buried with you?"
Song Xiaoyan felt stung when she heard what the other party said. She looked up at her childhood friend and said, "Without implicating anyone? Do you think that if you die like this, it won't implicate anyone? Don't you care about your parents or me at all?"
Qin Zhengyi was stunned by the other party's soul-searching questions and was unable to cope with them for a while.
She knew that this was in a dungeon and she shouldn't have a breakdown at a time like this, but she still felt a lot of emotions welling up in her eyes, burning them.
Qin Zhengyi took a deep breath and suppressed the words that were about to come out of her mouth. She turned her head away from her childhood friend and said calmly, "Now is not the time to argue about this. Just pretend I didn't ask. Let's finish the dungeon first."
Song Xiaoyan opened her mouth, feeling somewhat guilty for having been too extreme.
I walked over and took my childhood friend's arm.
Mo Qianhe looked at the undercurrent of emotions between the two men, and just called out in his heart for Liu Tang to come quickly.
He really missed too many melons!
At this moment, Mo Qianhe heard Liu Tang's inner voice:
[Okay, okay, dogs bite each other and end up with a mouth full of fur.]
Then Liu Tang followed Yin Guanglai and Lao Cheng into the archives with an interested look on his face.
From the "Voice Wall", Jiang Minxu and others already knew that there was a problem in the cooperation between Lao Cheng and Yin Guanglai, so it was not surprising to see Lao Cheng looking at Yin Guanglai with murderous eyes.
Mo Qianhe quickly signaled Jiang Minxu, and several of them walked over to look for an opportunity to collect the fragments.
The fat man Yin Guanglai saw several other players coming over. He thought for a moment and said to them, "I have two file fragments in my hand."
As he spoke, he pulled out two booklet-like fragments from his pocket, gestured to the crowd, and said, "Now I'm going to answer Boss's questions. I promise that if anyone can help me get through this quiz safely, I will give him both fragments!"
Yin Guanglai was very proud of his "reward". Since Lao Cheng was unreliable, he might as well see if there was anyone else who could help him.
Lao Cheng understood that his cooperation with this fat pig had completely fallen apart, so he decided to break off relations and said to the other players, "Why don't we all just stop helping him and let this idiot die here. His fragments will naturally fall, and we can split them equally, how about that?"
Mo Qianke took a step forward casually, smiling, and confronted the old man directly: "Sorry, we want both."
Fang Yiran, who had been harmed by Lao Cheng before, also cursed: "Who the hell wants to cooperate with you, an old dog!"
Yin Guanglai was very happy to see the two sides arguing with each other.
It's great that while the snipe and the clam fight, he, the fisherman, benefits.
The barrage is also waiting to see the show:
"Fight, fight!"
"Are we finally going to have a head-on confrontation? So exciting! So excited!"
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