Chapter 168: The Killing Game of the End of the World
After leaving the village, Xie Fei and others continued to drive north, passing through several cities, sweeping away all the remaining supplies along the way like a swarm of locusts.
Of course, Feng Yuting and his group, because of their strong strength, were able to snatch a lot from Xie Fei and others compared to other retail investors.
Because of their behavior, retail investors have many complaints about them.
After all, Feng Yuting and his men were weaker than Xie Fei's team, and they joined in halfway. However, although retail investors are dissatisfied that their joining has reduced their gains, they can only be angry but not speak out because they are much stronger than themselves.
Ever since the system announced the new rules for the eighth game, Xie Fei and his team had been extremely cautious along the way. Because there will always be people who want to try their luck at getting rich, whether they are instigated by others or blinded by their own greed.
The fact was just as they expected. In the ninth and tenth games, there were people who were not afraid of death and challenged Xie Fei and his group. Some of them fought directly with fair means, but more of them attacked secretly, assassinated, surrounded and killed in groups, or fought in rotation.
But they never caused any waves from beginning to end. They were all killed directly by Xie Fei and others with iron-blooded means. Even the punishment of erasing the system for failing to kill them never appeared once.
In the eyes of Xie Fei and his friends, these were points given to them by the people themselves, so how could they let the system take advantage of them?
Besides, their original plan was to establish a strong and ruthless impression from the very beginning that "they are very difficult to mess with, and you must be prepared to die if you mess with them", so as to avoid endless challenges later on.
You know, as the first place, Xie Fei is not only the target of ordinary players, but also the target of players on the leaderboard, especially in the top 100, there are many people who want to replace him.
After all, competition is a fundamental human nature. The more powerful a person is, the more he wants to suppress others and become the most powerful one, not to mention the abundant supplies and mysterious gift packs that may be dropped by the system as prizes.
As the saying goes, a person's reputation is like the shadow of a tree.
So when those fools who were used as pathfinders rushed up to take the lead at the beginning, Xie Fei and his group just killed them all. The powerful strength, majestic momentum and ruthless means directly frightened the others so much that they dared not move even a little bit.
This is especially true for those on the leaderboard. Without real confidence, no one dares to challenge others. After all, compared to other people, they value their lives more.
Besides, they, like Xie Fei and others, are also the targets of those who are ranked below them, so how dare they get injured easily for an uncertain thing, not to mention that if they fail to kill, they will be directly wiped out by the system. That is simply not only throwing their own lives away, but also making way for others to take the position!
After two rounds of games, word spread from one to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and many people realized that the first place was not some tempting piece of fat meat, but a hard bone that could choke a person to death.
At the same time, everyone's rationality, which had been blinded by desire and greed, gradually returned. They began to re-examine the strength of the players on the leaderboard and stopped acting rashly.
In the following four rounds of games, no one dared to challenge Xie Fei and his group wherever they passed, and no one even dared to appear around them. What's worse, when they saw them, they hurriedly avoided them as if they were being chased by the god of death.
In the blink of an eye, four rounds of the game were over, and many of the one thousand players who had appeared on the leaderboard at the beginning were no longer there. During the six rounds of the game, players on the leaderboard came and went, changing almost all the time.
Even some of the top 100 strong people in the rankings have been replaced. Although the number is not large, that is only relative to the changes in the rest of the rankings.
The competition becomes more intense as you advance in the rankings. As long as you are in the game, the rankings are replaced almost every second.
However, there are exceptions. The top 50 positions on the list have hardly changed. Everyone is able to keep their composure and will not act rashly. They also have the strength, and almost no one who comes to challenge them will succeed, no matter what methods or means they use.
Especially Xie Fei's group. Not only did no one of them get replaced, but the ranking of the people in the team was even gradually rising!
It makes people very angry, but they dare not act rashly.
Finally, the last game is coming.
On the golden bell hanging in the sky, a line of conspicuous large words was hung in the upper right corner of the ranking list:
Game start countdown: 6 days, 23 hours, 58 minutes.
Unlike in the past, every eight hours, a mechanical child's voice that seemed to suppress its joy would resound through the sky, informing all players that the start time of the game was getting closer and closer, and also foreshadowing that the final battle for survival was imminent.
It was at this time that a rumor began to spread among the players, especially among ordinary players.
No one knew where the rumor came from, nor did they know whether it was true or not, but as the saying goes, more and more people began to believe it.
Xie Fei, who was ranked first on the leaderboard, was secretly organizing and uniting the players on the leaderboard, and was preparing to wait until the game started to kill those who were waiting for an opportunity to seize the throne in the bud. By then, they would surely win.
Ordinary players immediately panicked. If this was true, how would they have a chance to survive?
Just when they were in a state of panic and at a loss, someone mentioned that they had also formed an organization. Although their strength was not as good as Xie Fei's group, they had more people!
Everyone nodded, thinking it made perfect sense.
However, the selection of the leader of this organization has become a difficult problem. After all, this is the end of the world. No matter how big a figure you were in the past or how powerful you are now, the people in the several teams will not submit to each other anyway.
The reason is not only that they all think their team is the best, but also because they don't trust each other.
In this turbulent world full of dangers, who would dare to entrust their life and property to the hands of others? Not to mention that person is also one of the competitors.
In the stalemate, Feng Yuting's team stood out.
Speaking of which, Feng Yuting's team is also very strong. They are all people who almost made it into the rankings, so his team is also regarded as the backbone of the organization by these ordinary players.
The reason why I thought of Feng Yuting was because he has a very good reputation.
In this apocalypse where there is no discipline at all, he is basically the only one who still insists on being kind. As for him, they couldn't say they were completely confident, but they were at least 70% confident.
So, Feng Yuting became the representative of the organization in a confused manner.
Feng Yuting had actually heard the rumors a long time ago, but he didn't believe them at all.
Unlike other people, he had had contact with Xie Fei and his group, although it was very brief, but he knew and inexplicably believed that they were not that kind of people.
So he didn't take it seriously at first, until he became the leader of the organization, he really took it seriously.
He felt like he had discovered some secret. Someone must have been secretly fanning the flames of this matter from the beginning to the end. The purpose was obvious, which was to use rumors to stir up people's anger and resistance, and then kill someone with a borrowed knife.
Feng Yuting couldn't help but worry. He was afraid that he was implicated innocently, so he sent people to gather information everywhere overnight.
Then he received the message and couldn't help but be stunned.
The mastermind behind all this is actually Shen Wei!
"Why?" Feng Yuting frowned and asked coldly.
"Why so many whys?" Shen Wei pulled his hand, pouted and snorted, with some grievance in her voice, "I do this for you. Yu Ting, if it weren't for Xie Fei and the others, you would have been on the list! Don't tell me you're not tempted, I don't believe you've never thought about Xie Fei and the others disappearing?" Shen Wei interrupted him.
Feng Yuting looked up at her in astonishment, then lowered his head in embarrassment.
He had thought so, there was no denying it.
However, his thoughts hidden in the dark corners were being peeled off layer by layer. He felt a little embarrassed and murmured, "But this is a bit unfair. If you want to fight, then do it openly-"
"Yu Ting, don't be naive. This is the end of the world, why should we care so much? What's important is not the process, but the result. As long as we win, it's fine. Why should we think so much?"
Feng Yuting opened his mouth to speak, but didn't know what to say.
Shen Wei's strong tone softened, and her face gradually became sad. Tears welled up in the corners of her eyes, and she looked so fragile that people felt pity for her. "And I was right. Xie Fei and the others wanted to kill us. Especially my sister. I could feel that she really wanted to kill me... Although my methods were not very bright, I just wanted to fight for a chance to live! Otherwise, if I just sit there and wait to be killed, I would definitely die!"
"Ah..." Feng Yuting sighed, and his tone softened, "Don't worry, I said I would protect you, and I will never break my promise."
"Yu Ting, of course I believe you. But..." Shen Wei paused, her eyes filled with water vapor looked at him pitifully, and she said tearfully, "But you also know how powerful they are. We are no match for them at all. So I can only resort to this last resort. I don't want to... really, but I can't help it. I'm really scared."
Looking at Shen Wei who was crying in front of him, Feng Yuting's heart was suddenly in turmoil: "Don't cry, I don't blame you. Well, since things have come to this point, it is God's will. Don't worry, I am here to protect you."
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt relieved.
Yes, he actually knew that Shen Wei was not a good person a long time ago, but for some reason, he just couldn't bear to see her sad and crying.
In the village, she was willing to fight Xie Fei to save her, and she took great pains to protect her along the way. Even if she did something unforgivable, she couldn't bear to scold her or abandon her.
Whenever she cried, he couldn't help but feel heartbroken.
He has been struggling these past few days, wondering whether he should risk the lives of so many of his brothers who had been through thick and thin with him to protect her when Xie Fei and the others really want to kill her.
He tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. Today everything was settled and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
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The day before the game started, Duan Huirong received a letter from her little daughter, whom she worried about day and night.
Along with the letter came two or three packets of white powder hidden in the interlayer.
After reading the letter, Duan Huirong hesitated for a while, but finally took the bag of powder and went out. About a quarter of an hour later, a figure hurriedly left the kitchen under the cover of night and quietly slipped out of Xie Fei's territory.
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