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With the woman’s warm persuasion, numerous whispers and gossip filled Li Yinhang’s ears, turning into a piercing buzz that felt like needles penetrating her eardrums.
“Isn’t she the ‘Cube Boat’ team’sLi Yinhang?”
“The woman who made a mysterious announcement and cleared out Squirrel Town?”
“So what? She’s willing to hang out with this Nan Zhou guy, they’re in cahoots, and maybe he’s already brainwashed her–”
The woman seemed to genuinely care about Li Yinhang and protested loudly, “Maybe she was tricked by him?”
“Besides, the mission instructions clearly state that there’s only one NPC who escaped, Nan Zhou. He’s the only target for hunting. Are you guys going to kill innocent people?”
“Stop pretending!”
A tall and burly man grabbed the woman’s collar, pushed her aside, and said angrily, “Jiang Hong from the ‘Qiming Team,’ right? Stop playing your shady tricks! You saw that ‘Cube Boat’ has a high score and wanted to recruit a noob to help you out? I’ve heard of your tactics. You like to recruit high-score players who are injured and alone to boost your own team’s reputation.”
The woman who was just speaking righteously suddenly blinked and her words became flirtatious and suggestive, “You can’t say that. I’m protecting the poor little ones who were deceived. You can kill your Nan Zhou, and we can each get what we need. Isn’t that great?”
Nan Zhou crouched in place, holding his knife horizontally, as blood trickled down from the corner of his mouth.
Although Nan Zhou didn’t know the specific mission assigned to these players or the reason why they received it in the safe zone, he was aware that they were targeting his life and that each team had their own purpose and needs.
On this street, there were at least three teams.
One group of people followed a tall and burly, irritable man.
Another group belonged to Jiang Hong of the “Qiming Team”.
While the two of them engaged in a heated argument, the two teams were also confronting each other, afraid that the other would snatch away the fruits of victory.
As they were wary of each other, Nan Zhou noticed that only the person who had just thrown the phantom knife at him was not paying attention to the internal strife.
He gritted his teeth, his eyes shifting between the knife that had been taken away from him and the hidden location of the sniper, his face revealing an expression of uncontrollable concern.
Nan Zhou thought that he and the sniper upstairs should be on the same team.
That was to say, there were currently three teams on this street, as well as countless people who had arrived here but were hiding in the dark, ready to move at any time.
It’s just that for a while, everyone didn’t know how to act.
Killing someone by surprise was a simple matter.
However, how to carry out the subsequent distribution of benefits was always a matter that needed to be carefully considered.
Nan Zhou’s thinking was fast.
If the team surrounding them had both short and long-range combat capabilities and the ability to change the Moon’s phase, then he would probably be dead by now.
The three teams, on the contrary, gave him room for maneuvering.
On the surface, among these three teams, only the original owner of the Phantom Dagger seemed to care about the life and death of their teammates and sought revenge. However, they carelessly lost their weapon. None of the teams, apart from them, were in a rush to put Nan Zhou in a desperate situation.
They had already controlled him with the Lunar Card.
As long as he made a move, there would be seven or eight props with different usages to restrain him.
Props were valuable, and no one would want to waste them.
So this was why they formed such a standoff.
While Nan Zhou was panting and struggling to think of a way out in the extremely uncomfortable feeling of powerlessness, Jiang Fang, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.
“What are you talking about?” He looked around and even his tone became clumsy and unfamiliar with Russian Mandarin, “What’s going on?”
Under the moonlight, his face lost its color and looked extremely anxious.
“You guys come over here and stay away from the person next to you!”
Seeing that Li Yinhang’s position was wavering, the handsome mixed-race guy became a target that could be won over. Jiang Hong immediately changed her target and tried to persuade him, “This monster is a boss that ran out of the dungeon and it can kill people!”
“The system gave us a task, requiring players to clear this bug on our own and even opened the permission to use props. If you don’t believe it, you can check your prop list now.”
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“We must complete this task, or else players can’t even have a safe point!”
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Just like the [Brain Invasion] instance they had just walked out of.
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If this reprisal was because of that time when he used the Ghost Gate that he had kidnapped from the instance to blackmail the system, then the reflex arc was a little too long.
Now, the information they could obtain was too little.
The only known information was that the players had received a task to kill him.
This was a pvp game of one against ten, one against one hundred, or even one against one thousand.
“You mean, Nan Zhou…”
Jiang Fang took a deep breath, showing strong feelings of shock, pain, and fear.
“No… no, no, no!” Jiang Fang shook his head repeatedly, resisting this conclusion with all his might. “I’ve been with him since we entered the dungeon! He… he’s my friend–”
The way he said these words, however, was not completely convincing.
His gaze kept flickering towards Nan Zhou behind him.
The fear that seeped out of his bones made Nan Zhou feel amused and adoring.
He acted so well.
Nan Zhou also tilted his head, trying hard to act as if his words had hurt him, trying to keep up with Jiang Fang’s rhythm.
“He’s very dangerous!”
Noticing Jiang Fang’s intense emotional turmoil, Jiang Hong emphasized her tone once again. Then, she softened her voice and began to gently persuade him.
“Come on, don’t be afraid, come to us. It’s safe here, and we’ll provide you with the best protection.”
Jiang Hong’s words were very persuasive, “If you consider him a friend, he should also consider you a friend, trust you, and tell you everything about himself instead of deceiving you, playing with you, and hiding things from you. Do you think I’m right?”
Jiang Fang’s forehead was covered with a thin layer of sweat.
He looked at Nan Zhou and asked, “Is it true? …Are you lying to me?”
Nan Zhou thought for a moment and shook his head seriously, “I don’t want to lie to you.”
Jiang Fang suddenly retreated several steps in disbelief, moving away from Nan Zhou.
Jiang Hong immediately showed a triumphant expression and gave a signal to one of her henchmen who was hiding in the dark.
Because the alley where the henchman was located was the one Jiang Fang was approaching.
They needed to intercept him to prevent him from running away.
After receiving the announcement from the game system, Jiang Hong carefully studied the team called “Cube Boat”.
There was little known information about this person named Jiang Fang, but his score was not low.
Keeping him would be very useful for her team.
Moreover, from his flying to save Nan Zhou just now, and his determination that was easily provoked by her, it could be seen that he was loyal but mentally fragile and had little determination.
——It is precisely the most suitable type of person to be used.
Jiang Hong was even starting to calculate which person in her team had the lowest score so that Jiang Fang could easily compete for the position and take the team to the next level.
The man hidden in the shadows received the signal from the leader and immediately greeted him, ready to open his arms and accept the new team member.
However, when he met Jiang Fang face to face, the man heard a joke from Jiang Fang’s beautiful lips, “…you finally came out.”
Before he could figure out what Jiang Fang meant, his stomach suddenly hurt.
A dagger was completely wedged into his abdomen.
It was extremely neat and decisive.
Jiang Fang was very determined.
…Jiang Fang was there to root out the problem.
Like Nan Zhou, during the brief time when they confronted and fought against each other, he quickly determined that there were currently three teams against them.
The hotheaded man who kept cursing had four subordinates, plus himself, for a total of five people.
The sniper who was killed and the dagger man who was disarmed were in a group of two.
Jiang Hong had four subordinates on the surface.
Jiang Fang thought that if they knew the information that Nan Zhou was afraid of the moon they would keep the person who could use the Lunar Card in the dark.
This was like when playing games, where you have to assign frail mages to hide in the grass or stay in the back line.
This “dark place” had to be a location where they could see both the moon and Nan Zhou, and easily coordinate. As a result, after excluding other possibilities, only one alleyway remained as a hiding place for this “Lunar manipulator.”
So, Jiang Fang pretended to be panicked and carefully chose this alleyway before accurately plunging his blade into the Lunar manipulator’s stomach.
With this one strike, the Lunar Card user’s life was immediately in danger.
The Lunar Card, which was originally functioning normally, stopped rotating and its casting was interrupted, pausing the invisible Tiān Gǒu taking a big bite from the sky, transforming the full moon into a crescent moon.
When the effects of the Lunar Card disappeared, the restrictions on Nan Zhou suddenly relaxed.
Seeing that they had lost control of Nan Zhou, their plan failed, and their teammate injured, Jiang Hong was infuriated, “You–”
Jiang Fang turned to the side with teary eyes and gently wiped a bright red tear mark from the corner of his eye with his fingertip, laughing as he spoke.
“Didn’t you guys want to play a murder game? Can’t handle it now?”
Before Jiang Hong could speak, she let out a scream and fell to the ground with a thud.
Li Yinhang, who had been ignored, was holding an empty fire hydrant that had been placed on the street corner and had swung it at Jiang Hong, knocking her down.
She then turned to swing it at the rude man who was still enjoying the show on the side.
The rude man instinctively backed away to avoid the attack.
Li Yinhang seized the opportunity to hurl the fire hydrant like a shot put, shattering a piece of glass above the furious man’s head with a resounding crash.
The sharp glass shattered like a downpour.
The angry man cursed loudly, “F*ck!”
Li Yinhang stumbled over to Nan Zhou’s side and pulled him along, saying, “Let’s run!”
Before she could regain her balance, Nan Zhou, who had regained some strength, hugged her waist and lifted her onto his shoulder like a sack, while holding onto Jiang Fang’s bloody hand with his other hand, and ran towards the other end of the street in big strides.
Two people in Jiang Hong’s team were seriously injured, which hindered their pursuit.
The original owner of the Phantom Dagger hesitated briefly, but ultimately gave up on Nan Zhou, and headed toward their sniper teammate who was unconscious.
The angry man shook off the pieces of glass on his face and yelled, “Chase them!”
Before he could finish speaking, a Phantom Dagger stabbed him, leaving a deep groove in the center of his scalp.
A piece of white scalp was exposed, and his black hair was in disarray.
The angry man felt a cold sensation on his head and touched it, becoming even angrier.
But before he could release his anger, the dagger came back and cut his ear, then rebounded off the nearby wall and slashed a team member who was trying to grab the dagger, leaving a bloody wound on their neck.
The Phantom Dagger returned to Nan Zhou’s palm and spun around again for another attack.
The original owner of the Phantom Dagger rushed to his teammate’s side and found that they were still breathing. He looked out from the rooftop and saw chaos below.
He was stunned when he saw his double-jumping dagger, attacking the angry man’s group.
…This motherfucker got started too quickly, right?!
Unfortunately, the Phantom Dagger’s attack and control range was limited.
When Nan Zhou retrieved the dagger for the third time, he put it directly into his backpack, ignoring the chaotic footsteps that followed. He turned to Li Yinhang on his shoulder and asked, “Yinhang, where should we go?”
Li Yinhang gritted her teeth.
She knew it was time for her to make a choice.
She lifted her hand and tightly grabbed the clothes on Nan Zhou’s back, causing her fingertips to change shape and turn white.
She spoke with a hoarse voice, struggling to say, “Let’s…go together.”
This was not an answer to his question.
But it was Li Yinhang’s answer.
Nan Zhou was about to say something when he saw three forks in the road ahead of him.
One led to the Douzhuan Casino, one led to a street filled with bars and brothels, and one led to the outskirts of the city.
They had escaped too quickly, and their pursuers were left behind, unable to form a siege.
Without much thought, the three of them rushed straight towards the road that led to the outskirts of the city.
As the three of them disappeared down the street, three burly players stumbled out of a nearby bar.
They were drunk, arm in arm, and walked straight towards the angry male-led pursuit team.
The only way to explain their fearless appearance was that “alcohol emboldens the cowardly.”
The angry man stopped in his tracks.
With his bleeding ears and blood-stained shoulder, paired with his furious expression, he looked extremely terrifying.
He cut to the chase, “Did you see anyone run by here?”
The person in the middle of the group emitted a strong smell of alcohol.
He burped and rudely said, “What the hell?”
The angry man suppressed his tone and anger, and his voice almost squeezed out from between his teeth, “People. Three people. Did you see them?”
“Ah… people?”
One of the drunks pointed to the street where the gambling den was and slurred, “They went that way.”
Without even saying thank you, the angry man led his group forward.
Before leaving, he didn’t forget to leave a dirty word, “Damn drunks.”
As the sound of their footsteps faded away, Sun Guojing bit his toothpick and squinted to look back, sneering.
… Where was the drunken state from earlier?
Although the rewards for this game were generous, many players did not want to participate for various reasons.
To be honest, many players avoided even serious dungeons, let alone troublesome ones that were delivered to their door.
This was also the reason why there were few people on the street today.
They were worried that they would be affected, so they simply stayed home. And Sun Guojing’s trio also had their reasons for not participating.
Luo Ge said foolishly, “Brother, since we knew the content of the mission early, even if we don’t plan to do it, we should remind them when they go online, right?”
“Remind them?” Qi Tianyun, the dog-headed military strategist, shook his head incessantly, “Do you not want to live? Anonymous reporting?!”
The world channel shows people’s names.
There were not many people who wanted to participate in this hunting competition, but there were also many that did.
They didn’t need to stand with Nan Zhou and make enemies for themselves.
Since they didn’t want to offend other players, they might as well shrink back, find a small tavern, and have a drink of old wine to enjoy themselves.
However, since they found out that their login location was [Paper Gold City], and since they discovered that they had escaped the control of those people through the conversation in the world channel, and since they were lucky enough to meet them, it was only natural that they help each other.
Sun Guojing looked back at the street where the three people disappeared and snapped the toothpick in his mouth.
He muttered, “Save my life, and I will pay you back half of it.”
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