Chapter 026: Eating Watermelons in the Archives of Lies (15)
Lao Cheng no longer believed Liu Tang's statement about "Avici Hell". Anyway, he didn't feel anything unusual at the moment, which made him even more certain that his guess was correct.
As his mood lightened, he decided to tease the NPC in front of him, hoping to see how he could justify himself. "You said my evil value was over 10,000. That damn fat pig Yin Guanglai has harmed far more people than I have. Shouldn't he have passed 10,000 long ago? Why does the boss always call on me first, and then him?"
Liu Tang looked at the number above Lao Cheng's head and flipped through it. "You're talking about directly harming people, right? He seems to have done more than you. You're better at using someone else's knife to kill someone. Although you don't end up killing them yourself, you can still cause chaos and indirectly harm countless people. Of course, your evil value is higher than his."
Lao Cheng sneered, "Then you hells really do settle accounts. I've been very well behaved for the past ten years or so, and haven't done anything wrong."
Liu Tang sneered, "Yeah, it seems like it's not easy to commit crimes in prison. But didn't I tell you that you're good at indirectly harming people? Even though you can't get out, you're not shy about coming up with ideas to harm your fellow inmates who are about to be released."
When Lao Cheng heard this, he could no longer maintain his smile.
His suspicion towards this NPC grew even stronger.
How did this person get these details?
But he couldn't force or bribe the other party to tell the truth, so he could only continue to ask questions.
"You NPCs can even make this up, you're really smart." Lao Cheng deliberately provoked.
Liu Tang waved his hand and explained nonchalantly, "No need to make it up. Just look at the evil value above your head and you'll see clearly all the bad things you've done."
Liu Tang flipped through the evil value records and said, "So you've harmed so many people since entering 'Hell's 18th Layer.' Furthermore, your vicious methods were spread through live broadcasts, and other players have imitated and used them.
"Did you know that for every point of naughtiness gained by those players imitating you, you'll also receive a commission. It's like an educational subsidy, right? You've also increased your naughtiness quite a bit this way."
When Lao Cheng heard this, he didn't take it to heart at all. Instead, he became proud and said, "If someone imitates me, it must be because my method is good. They want to promote my way of survival, and that's their own free will."
Liu Tang rolled his eyes: "What a shameless person, invincible in the world."
[Let me see which godly police officer arrested this evildoer and put him in jail~]
Liu Tang flipped through the records and gradually found out how Lao Cheng was arrested and imprisoned.
Then he was stunned. In that record, he saw a child called "Mo Qianhe".
He suddenly remembered, yes, this man is Mo Qianhe’s biological father.
How could he ignore this fact because he hated this man so much?
It turns out that Lao Cheng's original surname was not Mo.
Instead, he married into the Mohist family, and then went around cheating people under the banner of the Mohist family, falsely claiming that his surname was Mo.
He married the most favored daughter of the Mo family, gained the trust of the Mo family, and worked hard to obtain almost the highest power in the Mo family.
He could have lived the rest of his life in peace and comfort as a son-in-law, relying on the Mo family's wealthy background.
But how can an antisocial scumbag settle for a good life?
What he enjoyed was never money or status, or rather, it was not just these.
What he enjoys is the pleasure of playing with others in the palm of his hand.
This scumbag likes to trick the most shrewd people. After slowly draining their value, he tears off his mask and lets them know how he wove traps to control them until they can't move.
He likes to lure the most innocent person into the quagmire of evil and make her as smelly as himself.
That's all he did to the Mohists.
After gaining the trust of the most astute head of the Mohist family, he seized control of the Mohist family and then wantonly tore off his mask, forcing the Mohist family to watch him destroy their family business bit by bit, splitting up and selling the huge enterprise to feed the small families that were surrounding him at the time.
For example, the Qian family that took advantage of the situation and rose to prominence, or the Zhou and Feng families that are already on the decline, or the Shen family that wants to move to the next level.
I heard that the Zhou family was not up to the task later on and produced a useless Zhou Youwei. Even though food was right in front of his mouth, he still couldn't keep the family going.
However, the Feng family took advantage of the sudden change and managed to survive.
Not satisfied with destroying the Mo family business, Lao Cheng also seduced his wife, who had been favored at home since childhood, and led him step by step into the abyss.
He made Mo Qianhe, who was only five years old at the time, witness with his own eyes how his mother was tortured and hurt by others, how she went crazy and rotted bit by bit, and how she became a ghost and helped her biological father to harm people.
Even seeing the premature disgust and hatred on his son's innocent face was really funny to Lao Cheng.
Fortunately, Mo Qianhe was smart enough and was able to cooperate with the police and the head of the family at the age of five to collect the criminal evidence hidden by Lao Cheng and bring him to justice.
But the bad thing is that Mo Qianke is smart enough.
He was so smart that he saw all the ugliness in human nature, understood it, and remembered it deeply.
After his mother was imprisoned in the old city, she had no face to continue living and chose to commit suicide before being arrested. All members of the Mo family went mad or died.
Perhaps the only one who still looked like a human being was Xiao Mo Qianhe, who was sent to an orphanage.
But who knows whether the poisonous sore left in his heart can be healed?
These are all the evil consequences created by Lao Cheng.
Liu Tang looked at the little Mo Qianhe who was alone and helpless in the welfare home, and tears came to his eyes.
Lao Cheng looked at the NPC with a blank look and crying in confusion.
Those unfocused eyes made him look like a freaked-out robot.
After analyzing it for a while, the man suddenly felt that this NPC was nothing special.
Liu Tang withdrew his gaze. This was the first time that he did not feel happy about gaining points from eating melons, but felt heartache and hatred.
He turned around and continued walking forward, not wanting to look at Lao Cheng again, as if if he looked again, he would go blind.
He murmured, "I wish you could live forever. An old immortal like you deserves to suffer in the 'Avici Hell'."
My poor Boss Mo, he was so young back then.
When Mo Qianhe heard this, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
It was as embarrassing as if someone had discovered the disability he had tried to hide for years.
Even Liu Tang, who grew up with him, did not know all this during his lifetime.
The barrage was blank:
"No, what did this NPC see? Tell me!"
"Why is my wife crying?! Wuuwuwu! Lao Cheng must have done something horrible and evil!"
"Lao Cheng is bad! My wife is good!"
"I still want to know what he saw! Can someone tell me?"
"My wife looks so beautiful when she cries! Lick it, lick it, lick it!"
"20 minutes left until the return of the files."
At this moment, a report sounded in the player's mind.
They must return all the fragments within 20 minutes or they will fail the level.
Lao Cheng looked leisurely and not in a hurry at all.
Anyway, he has already exceeded the single-player guaranteed mission and now has a fragment in his hand. As long as he doesn't go back, no player will be able to pass the level.
The ones who should be anxious are the players who haven’t received their guaranteed bonus yet.
And the NPC Liu Tang who has always wanted to help those players.
File management, everyone heard the countdown and took action quickly.
Jiang Minxu was the first to walk to the file shelf of "Sad Nesting Dolls" with the fragments.
Pilot Song Xiaoyan followed beside him.
According to the information Liu Tang had provided previously, the next person the boss would call on should be Song Xiaoyan, so she took her place and prepared in advance.
Jiang Minxu clicked to play the fragment, and the shrunken figure of the "Matryoshka" appeared in the air, with its head lowered, saying, "I'm pregnant, and the child is 'Travel Through Thousands of Sails.'"
After confirming that it was correct, he decisively placed the fragments on the file shelf.
The system announcement rang out in the player's mind: "10% of the files have been successfully returned. The total return progress has increased to 80%. Clearing the game is just around the corner. Don't let up~"
Qin Zhengyi finally gave up. It seemed that the "Matryoshka" had been lying from the beginning, and President Jiang was telling the truth.
She was happy and sad at the same time.
Before she could process her emotions, she saw Boss had come to the archives and asked his childhood friend, "Excuse me, what is the truth behind the fragments that were just returned?"
Song Xiaoyan had dealt with this situation before, but she didn't feel any easier this time.
She could feel the pressure from the Boss coming towards her.
I don't know if it's because the other party has completely unlocked it, or if they've killed a player before.
She took a deep breath and answered as clearly as she could: "The child is not from 'Traveling Through Thousands of Sails', but from 'Blind Chai Chai'."
When Fang Yiran, who was standing not far away, heard this answer, his whole body felt numb as if it were electrified.
He suddenly understood that the "blind" in the name meant that he was blind and could not see the truth.
Everyone had no objection to this answer, and with Jiang Minxu's evidence, this question was almost certain to be answered.
The boss's originally peaceful face gradually turned ferocious. She seemed to be laughing heartily and announced, "Wrong answer!"
Then she stretched out a bony hand and fiercely pinched Song Xiaoyan's neck, pushing her against the file rack, and raised her other hand to reach into her mouth and pinch her tongue.
No one present had expected this development. Jiang Minxu wanted to rush forward to stop it, but was slapped away by the boss.
He fell to the ground and wanted to use the life-saving item "Resurrection Copper Coin" returned to him by Qin Zhengyi, but found that he had used the "Bind Card" at the beginning and then used the "Sound Wall". The two opportunities to use the item had been used up and he could not use the item at all.
Qin Zhengyi took out the life-saving item "Delay Clock" from the system backpack. This was the only life-saving item she had finally obtained after going through the game so many times and it could help her avoid being killed by the Boss's rules.
The girl chose her childhood friend Song Xiaoyan without hesitation and turned the knob behind the clock.
"Oops, wait a moment~ Give me another ten minutes~" the clock made an electronic sound.
The boss paused, let go of Song Xiaoyan, turned around stiffly, stretched out his arm to pick up the clock on the ground, and reluctantly returned to the front desk.
Song Xiaoyan's body relaxed and she fell to the ground.
Qin Zhengyi quickly rushed to her childhood friend's side and checked his condition: "Xiaoyan, are you okay?"
Song Xiaoyan's eyes were filled with natural tears, purple marks appeared on her neck, and she coughed for a long time before she could breathe again.
She comforted her childhood friend, stood up from the ground with difficulty, and shook her head, "It's okay, just now, thank you."
Qin Zhengyi turned around and looked at Jiang Minxu who was approaching angrily and said, "Didn't you say the child wasn't yours?! How could this happen? Are you lying?"
Jiang Minxu was at a loss at the moment, looking at the injured Song Xiaoyan with some self-blame.
If the question was still in quick-answer mode, Song Xiaoyan should have answered it himself. He would have to pay for his own wrong guess.
Mo Qianhe stepped forward to persuade him: "This cannot be blamed on President Jiang. The successful return of the fragments proves that the 'Matryoshka' did lie...but..."
Fang Yiran's face shattered even further as he reacted to the unexpected series of developments. "It's just... the child isn't Jiang Minxu's, nor is it mine?! Then whose is it?!"
The celebrity couldn't believe it, ruffling his long-held hairstyle and saying, "Impossible! I don't believe it!"
The live broadcast room was also a mess:
"Okay, okay, another one went crazy."
"What's going on?! How is it wrong? I'm confused, brothers!"
"No wonder the clearance rate for this dungeon is so low. I can't figure it out at all!"
"Even they have the person involved present and they still can't figure it out. Wouldn't us players be completely blind if we went in?!"
"It's too difficult! This question is too difficult!"
Liu Tang was walking beside Lao Cheng and paused.
[What's going on? How could something go wrong at this point?!]
Where did the analysis go wrong?
He suddenly remembered that since the exchange of information, although Lao Cheng shared the fragments obtained on the rooftop, no one else knew the complete conversation between the "Matryoshka" and the "Snow Elf" before his death.
Maybe they missed some crucial information.
Another player who was on the rooftop at the time, Yin Guanglai, has now been "eliminated", and the only person who knows about it is Lao Cheng.
Liu Tang thought about it and looked at the evil value above Lao Cheng's head again, trying to find some clues from the records.
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