CH 6

The crowd gathered once more at the cashier’s desk, this time in a significantly stiffer atmosphere, with Xiao Lan and Zhao Xiaohe standing on one side and the remaining five on the other, with an air of silence in between.

Xiao Lan whispered to Zhao Xiaohe, “Did you find a clue?”

Zhao Xiaohe nods and gives him a look of reassurance.

Xiao Lan didn’t say much, since Zhao Xiaohe was sure of himself he wouldn’t be nosy, and now was not a good time to exchange clues.

The middle-aged woman stared at Xiao Lan with displeasure, “What’s wrong with you? You didn’t even say anything when you got the information this time.

Xiao Lan glanced at her lightly, “Auntie, you don’t need to be afraid of the bosses, just because of your cheeky skin, ten bosses can’t get through it even if they take turns day and night.”

Even though the atmosphere is tense, Zhao Xiaohe can’t help but let out a giggle.

To match the scene, Luo drew a large medal around the middle-aged woman with the label “Cheeky Star of the Day” underneath. The soulfulness of the drawing was the polar opposite of his elegant handwriting, which perfectly illustrates that no one is perfect, although this one is not human either.

At this, the middle-aged woman’s face turned red and she turned her head to look for help from her teammates, only to find that they all looked at her with a disgusted look of “what are you doing with your food?

She was busy saying, “I’m not doing this for everyone’s sake ……”

Lin Yan waved a hand at her and turned to Xiao Lan: “So you’re determined to go against me?”

At his words, the flower-armed punk immediately cupped his fists and waved them at Xiao Lan and Zhao Xiaohe, the threat in them unmistakable.

Xiao Lan stared back undaunted, “The game states that players can’t kill each other, right?”

Lin Yan’s face changed, and the flower-armed punk’s face showed some unease, as he was the one who had just tried to make a move.

Xiao Lan smiled, “Indeed, I’m afraid the rules of the game you speak of are incomplete, and I’m afraid you yourself are not as strong as you claim to be.”

“Even – you’ll need to use them.” Xiao Lan gestured to the people around Lin Yan.

He didn’t want to make it clear what Lin Yan was doing, because he didn’t want to piss off the old players, and because even if he did, the guys who had been brainwashed and controlled by Lin Yan wouldn’t necessarily believe him.

The people who were pointed at were somewhat puzzled and turned their heads to look at Lin Yan.

Lin Yan’s face sank even deeper: “It’s nothing, he’s just trying to provoke us.”

They didn’t say anything, not knowing whether they really believed Lin Yan’s story or whether they were already in the boat and had no choice.

“Hahahaha …… so funny hahahahaha!!!”

Zhang Dong’s laughter rang out abruptly, interrupting the confrontation between the players. It was only then that everyone noticed his presence and wondered how long he had been watching from the sidelines.

His cloudy eyes swept over the crowd present with a kind of wet, cold air that made people feel extremely uncomfortable.

“Well, let’s start with you this time.” He pointed his finger in the direction of the middle-aged woman, “You’re really noisy and I don’t even want to play with you.”

The middle-aged woman’s face turned pale, and any thoughts of taking advantage of her were thrown out of her mind. She took a few steps forward, arching her back like a shrimp, and then turned her head to look at Lin Yan, who nodded at her before the middle-aged woman moved on.

Within a few minutes, she returned.

The middle-aged woman pulled an egg out of her pocket, black and of an ordinary size that looked familiar – it was the egg Xiao Lan had chosen in the previous round.

She fearfully handed the egg to Zhang Dong, whose dead grey, corrupt face leapt closer, only a centimetre between them.

Just see that horrible face pull out a smile that grows bigger and bigger, slowly surpassing the limits of the human body and revealing all the white teeth that crack all the way to the roots of the ears!

“Are you trying to cheat?” Zhang Dong’s tone was all excited, “What would be the best way to punish you-”

“No! It can’t be!” The middle-aged woman panicked and turned her head to Lin Yan for help, only to see the indifferent look on the other woman’s face.

In an instant, she understood it all.

This person, Lin Yan, was deliberately saying that it was safer to choose something that someone else had chosen, so that she could test it out – would it kill her!

” Lin Yan! You son of a bitch–”

Before the middle-aged woman could finish her curse, her body suddenly twisted uncontrollably, as if an invisible hand was wringing the towel, and her bones made an unbearable creaking sound.

In the end, her entire body was drained of blood like a towel that had literally been wrung out, leaving only a faceless corpse.

” Brother Lin , you ……” The way the couple of men looked at Lin Yan had gone wrong.

“Hmph, now you at least know that duplicates can’t be chosen, what, you want to cross the river?” Lin Yan said coldly.

“Oh …… yeah.” The lover boy agreed with a dry smile.

An inexplicable force drags the middle-aged woman’s body away and Zhang Dong’s eyes turn back to the crowd, this time spotting one of the people who is shaking the hardest.

“Next, it’s you.” The finger was pointing, at the female of the couple.

“No……” she cried as her tears and snot mixed with her face, already messing up her makeup and looking a little ridiculous as she turned her head to her boyfriend, “Jai, I’m scared.”

The man who had seemed rather grumpy and selfish before instead looked at his girlfriend and gritted his teeth and shielded her behind himself, “I’ll go first.”

Zhang Dong looked at them, seemed to think it would be fun too, and agreed.

“Be careful ……,” cried the lover girl.

The lover boy gave a forced smile, “Don’t worry, Brother Lin said …… we were fine last round, weren’t we?”

A few moments later, he returned, holding a packet of trinkets that had been placed in the specials section and discreetly placed at the checkout counter.

“I thought you had something interesting to bring me.” Zhang Dong said coldly.

The crowd could not help but suck in a breath of cold air, wrong again? Their eyes had taken on a wary look when they glanced at Lin Yan, and they even shifted slightly on their feet, trying to stay away from her.

Zhang Dong smiles grimly.

With that, he gave a rough wave of his hand and the couple man’s body flew straight up.

The loverboy’s face went white, but he tried to find a way to live: “Wait! Aren’t the things in the bargain section the cheapest, I didn’t spend my money frivolously!!!”

Zhang Dong cracked a big, oozing smile at him but didn’t reply as the loverboy’s body headed upwards faster and faster.

Seeing that there was no longer a chance, the lover boy turned back at last, as if to look at his girlfriend, but before his head could fully turn, his body was already rushing up to the ceiling.

After a loud crash, all that remained on the ceiling was a stain of mixed flesh and blood.

“Jai-” a scream from the lover girl.

She then rushed towards Lin Yan like a madman, reaching out and tugging him by the collar: “You liar! Liar! You lied to Jai! He wouldn’t have died if it wasn’t for you!

While the woman thrashed and cursed frantically, Lin Yan stood upright, as if such force was no burden on his body at all. He frowned, a little impatient with the situation.

He just reached out and gently grabbed the woman’s shoulders and with one force he dropped the person straight out, the woman’s back hitting the shelf with a loud thud.

Xiao Lan frowned at the scene, while having some doubts in his mind.

This woman was not skinny, she was at least a hundred and twenty pounds. Lin Yan, a man who was a little over one meter seven and not very sturdy, not only managed to stay still under his opponent’s tug, but also managed to throw people out with one hand, how could he have such strength?

Do older players have any special enhancements that Lin Yan doesn’t talk about?

“Jie ……” the woman who had been thrown out cried out in pain and sat on the floor, lost in thought, deaf to the words of the female guide urging her to hurry up and make her choice.

It wasn’t until the third cue appeared that she suddenly stood up and, to the surprise of the crowd, quickly rushed towards the wall before crashing headlong into it and collapsing to the ground.

She fell exactly where his boyfriend’s blood was dripping from the ceiling. It was a not-so-pleasant pair of lovers that came to an end in such a saddening way.

“Ask what is love in the world, straight ……”

Zhang Dong seemed to be trying to make a couple of elegant remarks, but his level was quite limited and he could not add the last half of the sentence, so he was stuck.

Sister Xiao, the shop assistant next to her, did not want to help, but still had a sweet smile on her face, which was a bit of a mockery, a clear indication of the internal rivalry within the NPCs.

What is clearly a tragic scene of martyrdom inexplicably has a touch of dark humour at the moment.

Zhang Dong’s eyes scanned in the direction of the players and finally found the culprit who had made him lose face – the dead glasses!