Everyone gathered before the checkout counter again. This time, the atmosphere was much stiffer. Xiao Lan and Zhao Xiaohe stood on one side, and the other five on the other, with silent air between them.
Xiao Lan quietly asked Zhao Xiaohe, “Did you find any clues?”
Zhao Xiaohe nodded, and gave him a ‘don’t worry’ look.
Xiao Lan didn’t say anything else; since Zhao Xiaohe was sure, he wouldn’t meddle either. Now wasn’t a good time to exchange leads.
But unexpectedly, someone on the other side spoke up. The middle-aged woman glared at Xiao Lan unhappily. “What’s the matter, huh? You’re not going to say anything about the information you found? Youngsters nowadays sure are selfish.”
Xiao Lan glanced lightly at her. “Auntie, you don’t have to be afraid of the boss ah. From your face alone, ten bosses wouldn’t be able to penetrate it, even if they took turns night and day.”
Even if the current atmosphere was tense, Zhao Xiaohe couldn’t help letting out a “pfft”.
To match the moment, Luo drew a large medal around the middle-aged woman and wrote, “Today’s Face Star”. This sort of drawing which hurt the soul was at complete odds with Luo’s graceful writing, and perfectly embodied the fact that ‘nobody was perfect’, though this one wasn’t a person.
Hearing this, the middle-aged woman’s face turned as red as pig’s liver. She turned her head to look for help from a comrade, only to see their disdainful, “are you so bored you have to do this” gazes.
She hastily said, “Aren’t I doing this for everyone…”
Lin Yan waved his hand at her and turned to Xiao Lan. “It seems that you’ve both decided to oppose me?”
He barely said the words, when the sleeve tattoo gangster clenched his fist and waved it at Xiao Lan and Zhao Xiaohe in a clear threat.
Xiao Lan returned Lin Yan’s gaze, unafraid. “The game stipulates that players can’t hurt or kill each other, right?”
Lin Yan’s expression changed. Seeing this, the sleeve tattoo gangster’s face also revealed some unease. The person who had been about to make a move was him.
Xiao Lan smiled. “As expected. The game regulations you spoke of probably aren’t complete, and perhaps your own capability isn’t as strong as you claim it is.
“So much so that you even have to make use of them.” Xiao Lan pointed at the people next to Lin Yan.
He didn’t want to go into what Lin Yan was doing. Firstly, he didn’t want to provoke a veteran player’s ire, and secondly, even if he told this group, which was already brainwashed and controlled by Lin Yan, they wouldn’t necessarily believe him.
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The people he pointed at were a little baffled, and one after another, they turned to look at Lin Yan.
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“Hahaha… How amusing, hahahaha!!!”
Zhang Dong’s laughter abruptly rang out and interrupted the players’ confrontation. Only then did everyone realise that he had appeared; who knew how long he had been watching from the side.
His cloudy eyes swept over everyone present with a slimy and cold sensation that felt incredibly uncomfortable.
“Mn, this time, you start first ba.” He pointed at the middle-aged woman. “You’re really noisy. I don’t want to play with you anymore.”
The middle-aged woman immediately turned pale as all thoughts of taking unfair advantage were thrown out the window. She curled in on herself like a de-shelled prawn and took a few steps forward, before she turned back to look at Lin Yan. Lin Yan nodded at her, and only then did the woman continue forward.
Less than several minutes later, she returned.
The middle-aged woman took out an egg from her bosom. It was black and of average size, and it looked especially familiar — this was the egg Xiao Lan had chosen during the first selection.
The woman trembled as she handed the egg to Zhang Dong. Zhang Dong’s deathly gray face, which had a rotten air to it, suddenly drew closer until it was only a centimeter away.
That terrifying face stretched into a smile. The smile grew bigger, slowly exceeding the limits of the human body as it split all the way to his earlobes to reveal shiny white teeth!
“Are you trying to cheat?” Zhang Dong sounded delighted. “How should I punish you ne —”
“No! Impossible!” The middle-aged lady turned her head in a fluster to ask Lin Yan for help, but only saw an apathetic expression on his face.
Instantly, she understood everything.
This person, Lin Yan, had done it on purpose. He deliberately said that items that had been chosen before were safer, and had gotten her to test it to see if a person would die from this!
“Lin Yan! You bastard who deserves a thousand cuts —”
Before the middle-aged woman could finish cursing, her body suddenly twisted uncontrollably, like an invisible hand wringing a towel, and her bones crunched at the unbearable pressure.
In the end, her whole being was like a towel wrung dry as all the blood was squeezed out, leaving behind a corpse that was changed beyond recognition.
“Lin ge, you…” The boyfriend’s expression as he looked at Lin Yan was already strange.
“Hmph. Now at least you know you can’t select the same item again. Why, want to burn the bridge after crossing the river?” Lin Yan spoke coldly.
“Hehe… That’s right ah.” The boyfriend agreed with a smile.
An ineffable power dragged the middle-aged woman’s corpse away. Zhang Dong’s gaze swept over the group again, and this time, he found the person who was trembling the hardest.
“Next is you.” He pointed at the girlfriend.
“No…” She cried so hard that tears and snot covered her face, and her makeup was already ruined, which made her look a little comical. She turned and looked at her boyfriend. “Jie ge, I’m scared.”
The man, who had previously appeared irritable and selfish, looked at his girlfriend, then gritted his teeth and protected her behind him. “I’ll go first.”
Zhang Dong looked at them, and seemed to feel that this was also amusing, so he agreed.
“Be careful ah…” the girlfriend said tearfully.
The boyfriend mustered a smile with some effort. “Don’t worry; what Lin ge said… Weren’t we perfectly fine in the last round?”
After a while, he returned with a small item from the special offers section, and placed it cautiously on the checkout counter.
“I thought you were going to bring me something interesting,” Zhang Dong said coldly.
Everyone couldn’t help sucking in cold breaths. Wrong again? Their quiet glances at Lin Yan already held wariness, and they even shifted a few steps away, trying to stay further away from Lin Yan.
Zhang Dong smiled gloomily.
He then cruelly waved his hand, and the boyfriend’s body was straightaway lifted off the ground.
The boyfriend had a deathly pale expression, but he still tried to look for a chance. “Wait! Aren’t things from the special offers section the cheapest? I didn’t waste money ah!!”
Zhang Dong’s wide mouth split open to give him a horrifying smile, but he didn’t reply. The boyfriend’s body rose up even faster.
Seeing that he was done for, the boyfriend finally turned his head, as if to look at his girlfriend. Before he could turn all the way round, however, his body had already crashed into the ceiling at great speed.
After a tremendous smash, only a blotch of flesh and blood remained on the ceiling.
“Jie ge —” the girlfriend screamed.
Immediately after that, she rushed at Lin Yan as if she had gone mad, and reached out to yank violently on his collar. “You liar!! Liar!! You lied to Jie ge! He wouldn’t have died, if it wasn’t for you!!”
The woman hit him and cursed like crazy, but Lin Yan stood perfectly straight, as if her strength was nothing. He furrowed his brow somewhat impatiently.
He reached out to lightly grab the woman by the shoulder, and exerting some strength, he flung her away. The woman’s back smashed against the shelves and made a lot of noise.
Xiao Lan watched this with a frown, and felt some misgivings in his heart.
This woman wasn’t thin and weak at all; she weighed at least 60kg. Lin Yan was about 170cm and didn’t have a strapping physique either, but not only didn’t he budge an inch at her pulling, he could even toss her away with one hand. How could he be so strong?
Did veteran players possess a special buff that Lin Yan hadn’t mentioned?
“Jie ge…” The woman who had been flung to one side sobbed bitterly as she sat on the floor in a daze, and was deaf to the female shop assistant’s urging to hurry up and make her selection.
At the third warning, she suddenly stood up, and under everyone’s startled gazes, rushed towards the wall, slammed her head against it, and promptly fell to the ground, dead.
Where she fell just happened to be under where her boyfriend’s blood dripped down from the ceiling. This pair of lovers, who weren’t charming at all, came to such a tearjerking end.
“Ask what love is in the world, it’s…”
Zhang Dong seemed to want to say a couple of elegant words, but since his knowledge was rather limited, he couldn’t finish the sentence, and thus choked at this point. He shot a stealthy glance at the female shop assistant with cloudy eyes, as if asking for help.
However, the shop assistant on the side had no intention at all of lending a hand. That sweet smile which remained pasted on her face carried some ridicule, and clearly illustrated the constant strife that the NPCs were engaged in.
This was clearly a bitter scene of dying for love, yet right now, there was an indescribable air of black humour about it.
Zhang Dong’s gaze swept over the players, and finally found the main culprit who humiliated him — that damn four eyes!
Thanks for the chapter! Lin Yan really deserves a good beating, pei Σ(-᷅_-᷄๑)
Lin Yan’s turn. Hope he gets his just dessert.
Thanks for the chapter.
Yes! Zhang Dong’s gonna attack the glasses dude… wait, who’s the glasses dude again? Lin something something?
Lin Yan is just reaping what he sowed. I’m looking forward to what’s going to happen to him!!!😊
Such a vile person deserves a horrible death! ‘^’
Thank you for the chapter!
Ooh, definitely excited and looking forward to the next chapter! I hope he gets what he deserves!
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
Is Lin Yan the ml or is it Luo?
Luo.
I knew it, “I wasn’t born lucky” vibes
And thank you for the confirmation
definitely definitely DEFINITELY wouldn’t be a green tea b*tch like lin yan
Thanks for the chapter! ^ ^)♡
This is probably the most interesting novel I’ve read on here. I love the horror video game aspect of it!
Thank you 🤩
That was fast, already three gone in this round lol
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
honestly this pair of lovers is actually quite commendable, even in such a situation the bf stood up to try & protect his gf and his gf didn’t just discard him after he died
Did he deliberately put others forward first so that they could try different theories out first and see whether it kills them? 😡
Seem’s like everyone just waiting for Lin Yan’s turn 🤣
I actually love the loving couple. The boy still stood up for his gf in such situation and still look for her till the end. And the gf didn’t stand down and attack the culprit even though she’s scared and lost sanity from his death shows she loves him.
Welp rip.
Cant wait for Lin Yan to die.
They’re quite dumb. Hypothetically speaking, if i was a person who hated to waste money and I got a free coupon, obviously I would use the coupon to buy something that’s expensive and necessary for myself. Why would I waste a free coupon on something cheap? I’m a minor and I am not experienced in pricing decisions but this should be common sense to adults
Trágica historia de amor ~
Pena que não era um casal gay, se fosse seria ainda melhor
… Não… Eu não quero coisas tristes acontecendo com os gays
Lin Yan is finally getting his karma.