Translated by Crooked
Edited by Dust Bunny
The short man turned pale, trembling with fear. He said, “Th-they beat me up, and I was knocked unconscious.”
Li Longhu looked at him coldly. “As long as even one of them escapes, none of us even need to think about making it out alive. If you’re scared now, what were you doing before? Are you still not going to find them for me?!”
“Yes!” The short man turned around and fled, still shaking. Because he was so flustered, he even fell down and ate shit, but he just stumbled up and kept running.
At that moment, Gu Xizhou had a big headache. They hid inside a room, huddled in a corner. They couldn’t get out, so obviously Tu Yao’s wish wasn’t to escape this place. He remembered, when this girl was taken away, she looked very frightened, helplessly reaching out and clutching his clothes. If he said Tu Yao’s wish was for these people to die, Gu Xizhou would find it quite reasonable.
But the problem was that they couldn’t kill anyone!
In the mission world, they couldn’t kill anyone, NPC or not.
“If we can’t escape, either we kill them, or they kill us.” Gu Xizhou frowned and turned to everyone. “Damn, and I was still thinking this world was simple earlier…”
“Kill an NPC?” When the others heard Gu Xizhou, their hearts jumped. They couldn’t do that. Inside the mission world, they couldn’t kill anyone, regardless of whether they were an NPC or a teammate unless you exploited a loophole in the rules. But now they’re in a situation where they can’t escape, and they still haven’t uncovered any death conditions.
Everyone seriously considered this problem. Apart from Tu Yao, who was completely unconcerned, the others sank into contemplation.
“Then what do we do? These people have guns. Even if we knock them out like Si Yaoxing did, we don’t have any rope… It’s impossible to tie them up!”
Gu Xizhou finally broke his silence and said helplessly, “I don’t know.”
Lai Shenglei was conflicted when he heard him say this. He couldn’t tell if the ‘NPC’ was telling the truth or not.
Tu Yao was still in the same position as before, clutching Gu Xizhou’s shirt hem. She was still muttering oddly under her breath.
“Gu Ge, you’re hurt!” Fang Zhi cried out. The others looked at Gu Xizhou’s waist. His cut had split open, and blood soaked through the gauze, staining it bright red.
Si Yu took off his own clothes and pressed them onto Gu Xizhou’s waist. “Are you okay?” he asked softly.
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Gu Xizhou nodded. “I’m fine.”
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“Just now, didn’t we speculate that as long as these people died, we could escape? Then can we try to get them to kill each other?”
As soon as this was spoken, everyone gasped. They wanted to let these people destroy each other, dog-eats-dog, but how could they get them to follow their plan?
“Will they obey us?” asked Lai Shenglei, frowning helplessly.
One of the men said, “No, we don’t need them to obey us. Just now, we heard those two people say that if we escape, they’ll all be killed. All we need to do is hide so they can’t find us and mistakenly think we escaped. As soon as the task time is up, they’ll be killed.”
“Where do we hide? The factory isn’t that big, and we can’t get out!” A sweet-looking girl curled her lips and said, “Just now, we were almost discovered.”
Suddenly, they heard footsteps approaching them again.
“Fuck, did you two see Fatty’s body?” asked a lone voice.
“Saw it. Hu Ge said it’s a kill for a kill, really…”
“Yeah, will we also be…” The man drew his finger across his neck in a throat-slitting motion.
“Who knows. No one knows how much blood is on Hu Ge’s hands. Those disobedient grunts before were all killed by him.”
“In any case, we need to find those people, and fast. If not, we’ll end up just like Fatty.”
As soon as he mentioned this, the other two’s faces turned ugly. Clearly they’d remembered what they had to do in order to guarantee their safety. If these people ran away, they’d end up just like all their unlucky predecessors. Executed. Who knew if they’d be killed immediately, or if their organs would be sold first!
The three of them suppressed their fear and wiped away the cold sweat on their foreheads before continuing their search for Gu Xizhou’s group of nine. They had to find them, or else they’d be the ones to die.
The three of them had no weapons, while Gu Xizhou and the others had just retrieved a switchblade from the short man and the fat man each. Gu Xizhou handed one to Lai Shenglei and said, “You can’t die.”
“Eh?” Lai Shenglei saw Gu Xizhou hand him the switchblade and was surprised. It seemed like Gu Xizhou’s attitude toward him was too good. He found it a little bizarre.
As for the other one, Fang Zhi didn’t even think before handing it to Si Yu.
As the three criminals approached, Fang Zhi, Si Yu, and a few others ambushed them first. In the end, it was hard for two fists to beat four, and the three men were knocked out and robbed of their weapons.
After the rest of their group walked off, Gu Xizhou asked Si Yu, “What did you say to that person?”
“I told him that some of us have already run away, so even if they catch some of us, they’ll still die.” Si Yu grinned.
Gu Xizhou: “Will that work?”
Si Yu shrugged. “Who knows, we’ll try it out.”
When the group was about to leave, they suddenly heard a voice behind them speak coldly. “I found you. Put your hands up. Otherwise, my bullets could go anywhere.”
They turned around, and Gu Xizhou couldn’t care about keeping his abilities secret anymore. He thought about using them, but suddenly he heard the sound of chains and he couldn’t move his body at all.
God.
Dammit, why did it have to be now?
Gu Xizhou’s body was shackled in an instant, as if bound by countless invisible chains.
What did this thing want to do!
Because they let two girls go hide, they were missing two people in their group and only had seven.
Si Yu turned to look at the badly battered Guang Ge. He narrowed his eyes and stared for a moment before speaking. “Hey, have you ever killed someone?”
Guang Ge’s face changed, not knowing what the man was asking that for.
“What?” Guang Ge was confused, not understanding what Si Yu meant.
Si Yu smiled faintly, a plan in mind as he said, “Oh, you didn’t notice there’s only seven of us here? Two of us have already run away, so I was just asking.
“Typically, if you haven’t killed anyone, you’d only get a ten year jail sentence. Killing someone is different, though.”
Guang Ge’s expression soured, carefully counting Gu Xizhou’s group. Sure enough, there were only seven. There were two girls missing. If they were arrested… no, being arrested was already a good outcome. After all, he hadn’t killed anyone, but Hu Ge was different.
“Guang Ge, don’t talk about nonsense with them. They’re obviously playing a trick. Anyway, we have guns…” the little gang member persuaded him until he saw Li Longhu come over. “Hu Ge!”
Noticing that Hu Ge was coming over, Guang Ge’s expression changed minutely. He continued to point the gun at them. Hu Ge, carrying his own gun, walked over and patted Gu Xizhou and the others on the cheek. “You want to run away?” he asked. “Try and do it again for Laozi!”
After he finished speaking, he raised his gun and pointed it directly at Gu Xizhou’s head. At this moment, Guang Ge shouted urgently, “Hu Ge, wait! There are still two girls missing…”
After Guang Ge spoke up, Li Longhu pressed his gun’s muzzle to Gu Xizhou’s jaw and asked, “Where are those two girls? Where are they?”
“They’ve already run away. You just wait to be arrested!”
Gu Xizhou naturally wouldn’t say where, plus he was currently powerless. Gu Xizhou’s face was cold. He knew the man facing him was no Buddhist. It seemed like he would really pull the trigger in the next moment.
Dammit, even a simple world can crash and burn!
As Gu Xizhou cursed darkly in his heart, Li Longhu placed his finger on the trigger and was about to pull it when suddenly, a figure concealed in a nook jumped out in front of Gu Xizhou’s body!
“Oh——” Li Longhu sneered, looking provocatively at Gu Xizhou. He pushed forward toward the person protecting Gu Xizhou, and Guang Ge and the others went to where they’d jumped out from and dragged out the sweet-looking girl. “Hey, little officer, are these the ones you said ran away?”
“What are you doing?” Gu Xizhou glared fiercely at Tu Yao in front of him.
Tu Yao didn’t know what to do in the face of such fervor. “I-I’m sorry…”
Li Longhu turned to look at Gu Xizhou and silently gave him and Lai Shenglei a onceover. “You two can’t be allowed to stay. No one’s ever tried to run before.”
“Your corneas were originally promised to someone, but it doesn’t matter. I don’t want to look at you two anymore, so I’ll kill you for extra insurance.
“Kneel!”
Li Longhu smirked as his underlings went up to Lai Shenglei and pressed him down to the ground. Lai Shenglei’s back was to Li Longhu as he knelt on the ground, shaking. He continuously comforted himself in his heart: It’s okay, you were originally going to die anyway… going to die…
Li Longhu raised his weapon and was about to shoot when he suddenly looked to the side at Guang Ge for some reason. He said, “Come on, they escaped because of you, so you should be the one to settle it.”
“Me?” Guang Ge pointed at himself, turning even paler.
“Is that a problem?” Li Longhu asked, raising his eyebrows.
Guang Ge’s adam’s apple rolled, frightened by Li Longhu’s cold and severe expression. He subconsciously shook his head, and his hands shook as he recalled the question that man asked him: ‘Hey, have you killed anyone?’ ‘Typically, if you haven’t killed anyone, you’d only get a ten year jail sentence. Killing someone is different, though.’
Killing someone is different.
Thank you for the chapter!!
Aaaa Xixiii don’t die ಥ_ಥ
Stupid world why won’t you help xixi use his power aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Omg I forget about his powers