Dark and damp underground.
The City Lord's Mansion covers a large area, but when Jie Fangcheng and Nie Shuangshuang arrived at the basement, they found that the basement was even wider than the City Lord's Mansion above. However, compared with the exquisite construction of the City Lord's Mansion on the ground, the underground construction was quite simple.
After coming down the stairs, there is a vast platform that looks like it was used for sacrifices. The platform is covered in blood and it looks like it was used not long ago.
There were messy skeletons scattered around the platform, and at a glance, most of them were children's. It seemed that the missing children of Fulai City were "absorbed" here by the city lord and the Taoist priest using secret methods.
In addition to this platform, there are some traces of human work. Looking around, there are narrow paths everywhere. There are about forty or fifty of them at a glance, and you can faintly hear the sound of flowing water.
Nie Shuangshuang frowned: "Why does this place not look like a place where humans would live? It looks more like..."
"Ant hole." Jie Fangcheng added.
Whether it is the narrow paths that look eerie or the "walls" around the platform that were carved out with some unknown tool, they all appear to be very rough.
People like the city lord would call musicians to entertain him when he was up there, so the simple environment down there was obviously not a place for him to live.
If you just want to use the secret method, the platform is enough, there is no need to build so many small paths.
"Never mind." Nie Shuang flipped her hands, made a hand seal, and instantly a large group of flaming butterflies flew out of her hands.
[Skill: Spirit Fire Butterfly·Rare·Special·Unique (3/3) (Downgraded) (Downgraded)]
[Introduction: Where the Fire Butterfly dances, will you also see the Flame Rose blooming? ]
[Tip: Please believe in every butterfly! They will bring the warm flame to the most splendid place! ]
[Effect: Summon the Spirit Fire Butterfly.]
[Special Skill 1: Breath of Dancing Butterfly (Sealed)]
[Special Tip: This skill has been downgraded due to [Forced Transfer], please use it with caution. ]
[Special Tip: This skill has been downgraded due to [Forced Transfer], and [Heart of Fire] has been extinguished, please use it with caution. ]
[Special Tip: This skill has increased usage restrictions due to [Downgrade], please use it with caution. ]
In her heyday, each butterfly would be like the sharpest weapon, slicing the monster's throat.
But at this moment, the butterflies emitted a bright flame, illuminating only Nie Shuangshuang's face.
Nie clasped his palms together.
"Go ahead!"
The spirit fire butterflies that were reluctantly circling around her spun twice, and then obediently, each one flew towards a pitch-black hole.
Nie Shuangshuang explained: "Butterflies are not aggressive, but if they touch something they will bring news."
"Oh." Jie Fangcheng looked over, then turned his head with an envious expression, "You have so many skills."
Nie Shuangshuang was stunned for a moment, and then gave a bitter smile in her heart.
Among her personal skills, not to mention that many have been downgraded, at the top of all her personal skills, her most core and most powerful skill is currently gray.
[Skill: Heart of Fire·VII·(9/12)(Seal)]
The best skills most players can access are of rare level, but even rarer skills can be obtained in dungeons.
The only thing is that the one marked with capital numbers 123 cannot be dropped from the copy.
The president's personal skill [Heart of the Dragon] is three, and it is said that the president of Chaoyang Guild is [two].
The president guessed that the skills with this number represented the awakening of a person's core skills.
Just like Nie Shuangshuang, ever since she obtained the seventh-ranked [Heart of Fire], the skills that popped out after she cleared the dungeon are basically all related to fire.
If the transfer had not been forced...
Nie Shuangshuang shook her head, very curious: "What exactly are your personal skills?"
This guy is ridiculously strong, and it really makes people curious whether he also has ranking skills.
What skills does Jie Fangcheng have
He didn't get any points for completing the copy.
Thinking of this, Jie Fangcheng's eyes even flickered for a moment.
After all, Nie Shuangshuang standing in front of him wanted the points he earned from passing the level this time.
This time when he completed the dungeon, people came to ask him about his score and Jie Fangcheng answered “zero points”… He felt a little embarrassed.
But Jie Fangcheng's somewhat guilty expression changed its meaning in Nie Shuang's eyes.
She immediately glared at him: "Damn it! You are so secretive. If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me!"
This girl also has a hot temper.
She treated Jie Fangcheng as her own. After all, although this guy was a little irritating, he was not the kind of person who would beat around the bush, and sometimes he had similar interests to her.
So although you don't ask other players about their personal skills and items, this is considered an unspoken rule. After all, everyone is afraid of encountering competitive dungeons, and of course they are unwilling to reveal too much of their own information to potential competitors.
But Nie Shuangshuang still asked casually. She felt that they were good friends and brothers and there was no need to worry about those things.
As a result, the boy was beating around the bush again at this time, looking guilty.
Mad!
Just at this moment, the message from the Spirit Fire Butterfly came back, and five butterflies were extinguished.
Nie Shuangshuang randomly chose one of the five paths and rushed in without looking back.
"Hey!" Jie Fangcheng called her.
Nie Shuangshuang turned her head coldly.
Jie Fangcheng asked: "You run so fast, can you defeat the city lord if you meet him?"
Nie Shuangshuang: “…”
Nie Shuangshuang gritted her teeth: "If you can't beat me, can't you run away???"
After saying that, he left without looking back.
Jie Fangcheng scratched his head, not knowing what she was angry about.
As a result, within two seconds, Nie Shuangshuang's face appeared at the entrance of the cave again.
She said angrily, "Come on, big brother! Are you really going to let me fight the city lord?"
"Oh oh oh." Jie Fangcheng hurried to catch up.
Nie Shuangshuang kept mumbling along the way. Jie Fangcheng only knew that she seemed angry, but Manager Jie was only experienced in beating people, and had no idea what to do with Nie Shuangshuang who was so angry that she was mumbling.
So Manager Xie decided to pretend not to see it.
The two of them hurried on their way, one whispering to the other in silence.
The cave is very narrow, only enough for one person to walk in front.
Nie Shuangshuang was in front and Jie Fangcheng was behind. Although Jie Fangcheng was slow, his slowness also depended on who he was compared with.
Compared to someone like Nie Shuangshuang, whose personal skills have been strengthened hundreds of times by the system, it is indeed slow. Even compared with the BOSS in the copy, its speed is not enough.
But his speed was at least much faster than the fastest man in the world. The more Nie Shuangshuang walked, the more she felt something was wrong.
Suddenly, she stopped and frowned as she looked at the cave, which seemed to be of unknown depth.
"How strange." Nie Shuangshuang said, "We have been running for such a long time. Judging from the speed, I think we are almost out of the city. Isn't this too long?"
Jie Fangcheng had no idea about this kind of distance. After hearing her say that, he just asked, "The City Lord's Mansion is to the west. What is to the west of the city?"
Nie Shuangshuang caught a hint of the sound of water in her ears, and the sound seemed to be getting closer and closer.
Her expression suddenly changed: "Damn it, there's a lake in the west of the city! Go back!!"
But it was too late.
The sound of water was originally just far away, like a small stream.
But soon, the stream broke through something that was blocking the flow of water, and then suddenly rushed in.
"Damn!" Nie Shuangshuang was shocked, "I can't swim!!!"
Jie Fangcheng was struggling in front, and turned back to look at her: "This is not something that can be solved by swimming, right? This requires diving, right?"
"Can you dive?" Nie Shuangshuang asked.
Before they could finish their words, behind them, there was a "plop" sound and the flood finally rushed in.
The props that Nie Shuangshuang took out to block the water flow were washed away in an instant under the huge water pressure, and the cold lake water instantly submerged the two of them.
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And in the City Lord's Mansion on the ground—
The little girl in red was holding a rag doll. The rag doll in her hand had become untied during the fight, revealing the cotton inside.
The little girl in red held the doll tightly but still stood in front of the monster.
The monster, which originally had a human form, now looked like the city lord, with pairs of eyes growing all over her head. Her big belly was facing the sky, and under her belly grew countless hands and feet that did not belong to her.
"Why are you so difficult?" The little girl in red was angry, and her long ponytail was already scattered.
Just as she tried to reach out again, her hand shattered like broken glass.
She turned around and saw that the water on the ground had washed away the last remaining piece of white grid.
Then there's no way…
The little girl in red tightly grasped the doll in her hands.
When I get home, I will ask Sister Nie to help me sew the doll together.
With a "bang", the red figure disappeared.
Similarly, the "living flesh" that she had protected behind her had long since disappeared.
The "monster"'s nostrils twitched, and then he looked in one direction.
She smelled that there were several living creatures hidden there.
The "monster" grinned, and its densely packed hands and feet under its belly moved together as it headed east.
In the room on the first floor at the easternmost part of the City Lord's Mansion.
This should be a place for servants to live, and there are four figures hiding there.
Yan Chen gritted his teeth, and he and his companions pushed all the furniture in the room against the door, then he breathed a sigh of relief.
"alright."
"Is this okay?" Xu Hanrui asked in a crying voice.
Yan Chen gave her an unpleasant look: "Cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, it's useless. Will crying help?"
It's so unlucky.
After this monster came out just now, several little resentful babies ran out of the well one after another. When have the new players ever dealt with such things? When they were most scared before, they just hugged paper dolls. But those paper dolls are not only not aggressive, everyone has one, and at least they look a little bit similar to themselves.
The brave players will communicate with the paper dolls after returning, hoping that they are the chosen ones, and that the paper dolls they make at random are all big guys and can become magic weapons to help them pass the level in the future.
But who would have known that the atmosphere of this dungeon was just a bit eerie yesterday, but the next day they would have to face such a disgusting and terrifying monster. So when the monster appeared, the novice players didn't care what Aunt Li and Lu Tonghe were saying, they screamed and ran away in panic.
Yan Chen was also in a panic, but humans will instinctively gather together when they are afraid. So after they hurriedly ran into this room, Yan Chen looked at the players he was following and couldn't help but curse "bad luck" in his heart.
Not only are there no old players, but there are also two women.
What can a woman do? She just cries. She is a piece of trash that can't even move a piece of furniture.
Take Nie Shuangshuang for example. So many veteran players listen to her, but what do they hear now
"Damn it, are these old players sick? They said they would just fight the BOSS directly, and I thought they were so powerful! Now the BOSS is not killed yet, and they have forced us to follow them to this City Lord's Mansion." Yan Chen cursed.
"That's right, why are you pretending to be so arrogant? If you can't win, then you can't win. It's fine if you want to die yourself, but you want to take us with you." Someone echoed.
At this moment, Xie Yutong, who had been silent in the room, pursed his lips and said, "If it weren't for them yesterday, we would have died a long time ago."
"Bullshit, without them, we have so many people, how could they really kill us all on the first day? Didn't you hear what the old player said to us on the way here? The first day is the safest time, and generally there won't be a situation where we lose people on the first day."
"These veteran players said they had cleared the game several times. How awesome did I think they were? Didn't I just run away? If I had skills and props like them, I would have killed those little monsters in one go. A rookie is a rookie."
Another girl couldn't stand it any longer: "You are really... How do you know that you will become powerful after you have skills and props after completing the game a few times? Besides, do people have any obligation to protect you?"
Yan Chen disagreed.
When he was alive, he was a newly graduated art school student. He filmed a TV series and two web dramas while in school. He was definitely a future star and was also quite popular on the Internet.
After entering the game yesterday, a girl recognized him.
Although he accidentally fell from a high altitude, with his natural protagonist looks and experience like Ziweixing, he is very confident that he will become famous in this infinite game.
As for the other four people in the room, the two women were of average looks, and the one who was crying just now looked a little fat.
The remaining two men, one is a fat otaku and the other is a lackey, they agree with everything he says and are obviously cannon fodder who can be sacrificed at will.
At this time, Yan Chen sneered: "Yes, they have no obligation to protect me. If a monster comes later, I have no obligation to protect you two women, so don't cry and beg me later."
It was as if she was agreeing with what he said.
Outside the house, something heavy and smelling of blood approached.
The five of them immediately fell silent and hid behind the furniture at the door.
The window of the room was very small and half blocked by an upright table. At this moment, the distorted, huge shadow of the monster half came in through the window.
The shadow stopped at the door and didn't move.
Xu Hanrui covered her mouth tightly to prevent herself from crying out loud.
She is indeed just an ordinary white-collar worker, going to work and coming home every day, having a loving husband, and just recently found out that she is pregnant.
Just when she was immersed in happiness and felt that her future life would be peaceful and happy, a major car accident on the highway took the lives of her entire family.
Her husband and children are gone, and she is the only one left in this infinite game.
If Xu Hanrui hadn't had the thought that "maybe my husband has also come to this game", she would have wanted to just die.
At this moment, the monster outside the house made people's hair stand on end, and Xu Hanrui was shaking uncontrollably.
She shuddered, and the furniture she was leaning against behind her hit the wall, making a very subtle but very clear knocking sound in such a deadly atmosphere.
The other four people in the room were looking at her, even the girl who had been supporting her had a look of resentment and fear on her face.
The monster standing outside the house seemed to have heard the sound, and it let out a strange laugh, like a child, but also like an adult woman.
The shadow moved slowly and was soon submerged in darkness - the monster came to the door of the room.
"Knock, knock, knock." It knocked on the door politely. "Why are you guests hiding in the servants' room? Please open the door."
Xu Hanrui no longer dared to lean on the furniture behind her. She sat on the ground, trembling all over.
Yan Chen was also panicking in his heart, but he rolled his eyes in disgust at her performance.
Women just hold back.
Yan Chen cursed in his heart.
This monster is so terrifying that even veteran players can’t deal with it—even if Yan Chen feels that if he clears the dungeon and obtains great skills and items, he will definitely perform better than them, but isn’t this just a new player in this game
A protagonist like him cannot die in such a low-level book.
Outside, the monster knocked on the door several times, but the room remained silent.
It gradually lost its patience.
"Open the door... Open the door!" The nails scratched on the door, making a harsh "scratching" sound.
The monster hammered the door frantically. Its huge belly shook with its movements. Its belly seemed transparent, and suddenly countless small hand prints appeared inside, as if many babies were struggling to get out of its belly.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
The noise of it banging on the door became louder and louder. Everyone could hear the sound of wood breaking and the furniture against the door was shaking.
Obviously, this crude method of resistance could not protect the people in the house.
Yan Chen's expression changed, and finally, his gaze turned to Xu Hanrui, who was still sitting on the ground, completely frightened and unable to stand up.
It's all this woman's fault!
"You're so scared of horror games. If you hadn't been shaking and bumping into the furniture, how could you have attracted this monster? Go and atone for your sins!"
Xu Hanrui was picked up like a sheep to be slaughtered.
Xie Yutong grabbed his wrist and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Are you fucking stupid?! Everyone has to die in this situation! Isn't it worth it to kill this idiot to save everyone else?"
Xie Yutong's teeth were also chattering.
But when he looked at Xu Hanrui, this girl was just like him before, cowardly and incompetent, not even daring to take the first step.
At that time, everyone had left indifferently, leaving him with their backs, but there was still one person left, and that person gently pushed him.
"Let go." Xie Yutong said, "Sister Shuangshuang and Brother Jie have gone to find the BOSS. Wait for them to come back. There's nothing to worry about these small monsters! You are also a human being. How can you do such a thing!"
"Are you giving me a moral education?" Yan Chen was angry. "It's not surprising if a hundred of these cannon fodder die at the beginning! Get out of my way!"
Xie Yutong was about to say something when suddenly, there was a "puff" sound.
He felt a pain in his chest.
Xie Yutong slowly lowered his head.
A skinny hand, like that of a three-year-old child, pierced his abdomen, and large amounts of blood dripped from the wound.
The hand opened in front of him and pulled him away from his place like a hook, and he hit the furniture with a "clang".
Xie Yutong fell in a pool of blood and closed his eyes, uncertain whether he was alive or dead.
Everyone looked up.
A round hole appeared on the door and furniture, which was pierced by the monster at the door.
At this time, a head full of eyes stood at the door, staring at them.
"Oh, I saw it."
The blood in Yan Chen's body seemed to have solidified, and he stood there in a daze.
In fact, he also felt this fear when falling from a height.
He couldn't sleep all night last night, and kept recalling the scene of his death in his mind.
Fear, fear.
At this moment, he experienced it again.
That's... a horror game.
A horror game where people may die at any time.
Even I... could die at any time.
Is he really the chosen protagonist
Yan Chen's fingers stiffened. The next second, he didn't know where he got the strength from, but he pushed the furniture at the door open and then opened the door.
Then, amid the screams of another girl and the roar of the remaining lackey, Yan Chen threw Xu Hanrui, who was so scared that she could not even stand, to the feet of the monster, and then he ran away.
That's it-
Sacrifice these cannon fodders and let them serve as stepping stones on the road to fame and fortune. They are cannon fodders anyway, and in TV shows and novels, they are just background boards whose names don't even appear.
I can't die!!
He is not cannon fodder! He has been the focus of everyone's attention since he was a child!
Although he died unexpectedly, this infinite game is just another starting point for him!!
Those cannon fodders died, but how could a well-known person like him die at this level
He who will not die, will not die—
"puff".
Yan Chen ran forward two steps before he felt the pain belatedly.
He lowered his head.
The skinny hand that once appeared in front of Xie Yutong's abdomen appeared in front of him this time.
That little hand was holding a beating heart.
Plop.
Plop.
puff-
The blood from the exploding heart sprayed on Yan Chen's face and he opened his eyes wide.
Before he died, he was still thinking—
Why... would a protagonist like him die
The hand on his chest opened again and dragged Yan Chen's body back like a hook.
The eyes on the monster's head kept blinking, looking at the fresh flesh and blood in front of it with great excitement.
The corpse came closer and closer, and then the skin on the monster cracked, revealing its mouths.
Soon, the sound of chewing was heard.
This sound finally woke up Xu Hanrui who was slumped at the door.
She cried and crawled backwards with her last bit of strength.
She doesn't want to die.
But the two people in the room behind her also woke up from their dreams, and immediately, the door that had been beaten to pieces by the monster closed in front of her.
Before closing the door, in order to slow down the monster from breaking through, Xie Yutong, whose life or death was unknown, was thrown out, leaving a bloody mark on the ground like a broken doll whose cotton had been hollowed out.
Xu Hanrui knocked on the door, her voice weak and hoarse out of fear and despair.
"Open the door—I'm still alive—"
The door didn't budge, and was even blocked by the furniture once again.
Even though the people inside the door knew that these furniture could not stop the monster for long, they still made this choice at this moment.
Xu Hanrui's hands were stained with someone's blood, and when she slapped the door, a bloody handprint of unwillingness was left.
How could this be... How could this be!
The little girl in the door, she and her became "friends" from the very beginning when they entered the copy. They are of similar age, and coincidentally, they went to college in the same city.
Neither of them was very courageous. In this terrifying atmosphere, in Xu Hanrui's mind, they were each other's crutches.
If you put yourself in her shoes, if it was her outside the door, Xu Hanrui would definitely open it.
Why?!
She was crying.
But whatever she was thinking, the monster's chewing stopped.
A skinny little hand appeared on Xu Hanrui's shoulder.
She turned her head slowly.
The monster behind her had half of its eyes looking at her and the other half looking at Xie Yutong, who was no longer sure whether he was dead or alive.
In the end, she seemed to think that Xie Yutong should eat as soon as possible, so she took her hand off her shoulder.
The monster squatted down and its hand reached towards Xie Yutong.
Xu Hanrui looked at it and remembered the hand that blocked Yan Chen when he was holding her clothes in the house.
Xu Hanrui was still shaking all over. She had no strength left, but in the next second, she reached out and grabbed a piece of wood at her feet.
This was taken when the monster was knocking on the door.
Xu Hanrui gritted her teeth and threw the wood at the monster. Then, she didn't know where she got the strength from, but she stumbled to her feet from the ground. Like a grasshopper with a broken leg about to be thrown into a frying pan, she struggled desperately to take a few more steps forward.
But it should be... It's useless.
After all, Yan Chen ran so fast just now, and the monster's arm stretched out in an instant.
I still have to die... But I can't just watch others die in front of me after they helped me...
Xu Hanrui staggered two steps and fell to the ground, but she immediately got up again.
Just then, she felt a pain in her shoulder.
This time, two skinny little hands passed through her shoulders, and then lifted her up into the air like tentacles.
“Ahh—”
The huge pain made her struggle reflexively.
The monster lifted her in front of him. His eyes were only a fist's distance away from hers. He stared at her intently, as if he was curious about where this tiny ant got the courage to make such a provocative move just now.
Then the monster seemed to have discovered something and looked at Xu Hanrui's belly.
A woman's hand stretched out from the monster's arm and gently touched her belly.
"Child... Child..." The monster muttered incoherently, "There used to be a child here... Where is the child? Why can't I see it... Is it because... it's covered by its belly?"
Xu Hanrui was startled, then she sensed something and began to struggle frantically.
But her struggle only resulted in her legs being pierced by the skinny little hands.
The monster was still staring at her belly.
"If you cut open the belly... you can see the baby... right?"
As she spoke, the pair of gentle, caressing hands of an adult woman suddenly grew long nails and cut fiercely into Xu Hanrui's belly.
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of something breaking through the air.
A strangely shaped hairpin-like object pierced the monster's body. Although the wound did not seem to be serious, the monster immediately roared and rolled over.
The next second, the four little hands that controlled Xu Hanrui were quickly pierced by a gun. Xu Hanrui fell downwards, but before she hit the ground, she was caught by an unknown transparent object, and quickly evacuated together with Xie Yutong who was lying not far away.
Aunt Li kept shooting.
She is indeed old, having only completed the game three times, and usually makes a living by selling pancakes.
But no matter how old she is, she knows that there is no such thing as respecting the elderly and loving the young in this place. If she wants to survive, she must have some survival skills.
[Skill: Hairpin that never disappears]
[Introduction: Is your hair messy? Do you need to use a hairpin to tie it up? ]
[Tip: Do you often find that the leather string for tying your hair is missing after untying your hair? Do you always have trouble finding the right tool when you need to tie your hair? Then don't worry, this is a hairpin that will never disappear! ]
[Function: This is a hairpin that you don’t have to worry about losing, because it will be found by itself. But please note that this is just a hairpin. ]
[Special Tips: The hairpin used in the skill has been strengthened, and the hairpin recall cooldown time has been increased. ]
[Cooling time: 10 minutes.]
The prop for shooting hairpins in Aunt Li's hand was given by Nie Shuangshuang. It was a bow and arrow with a low-level exorcism effect. If she didn't set up a stall, she would have to practice bow and arrow for a while after returning to keep her hand feeling. It finally came in handy at this time.
"Walk!"
The invisible man is Lu Tonghe. His personal skill can make him transparent, but his attack power is greatly reduced after becoming transparent. He cannot fight monsters, but he can still cooperate with Aunt Li to save people.
After the two met up, Aunt Li held Xu Hanrui, and Lu Tonghe carried Xie Yutong up, and the two disappeared quickly.
Over there, the monster that was stabbed by the hairpin rolled over twice and recovered from its injuries. It stared with resentment in the direction where Aunt Li and the others disappeared.
It doesn’t matter, even if they run away now, it will be able to find them slowly later.
Now-
Aren't there two living creatures in this room
The monster slowly turned its head and slammed its hand on the door again.
“Open the door… Open the door!”
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Over there, Aunt Li and Lu Tonghe quickly moved the two of them to the easternmost part of the City Lord's Mansion.
There is a courtyard here that looks like it has been abandoned for a long time, and now there are about ten players gathered in it.
"How is it?" As soon as they came back, someone came up to them and asked.
Aunt Li and Lu Tonghe first placed Xu Hanrui and Xie Yutong against the wall.
Xu Hanrui was fine. Although there seemed to be a lot of blood on her body, the four wounds did not hurt her vital parts.
But Xie Yutong's intake of air is much less than his exhalation.
Lu Tonghe was still hesitating.
He has seen many newcomers like this, and only a few can survive the first copy.
Of course, I have points that can be exchanged for a bottle of recovery potion for him, but this effort will most likely be wasted.
After all, he is just a newcomer...
But before he could decide whether to exchange the potion, Aunt Li had already exchanged it and fed it to Xie Yutong without saying a word.
Lu Tonghe couldn't help but look at her again.
This Aunt Li sets up a stall outside the base every day and is obviously a life-long player.
The vast majority of life players are very poor. They are different from players like Lu Tonghe who play dungeons all day long. The minimum points for a first-level dungeon are 10,000, and the reward points for a little more effort are 30,000 to 40,000.
But for life players, like Aunt Li, one pancake only earns about ten points. Even if they sell a hundred a day, that's only a thousand points. The cost has to be deducted, and the best they can earn in a month is ten thousand points. After deducting the rent and daily living expenses... Basically, life players can just barely survive in the base.
At this time, Aunt Li was willing to directly exchange a bottle of medicine for this newcomer. Lu Tonghe was stunned at first, and then a feeling of shame emerged in his heart.
Ever since he played a dungeon with Nie Shuangshuang and saw what kind of people the players of Ronghua Guild were, he would always use Ronghua Guild to motivate himself.
But at this moment, when he, a player with at least 400,000 or 500,000 points, was still hesitating, others had already rescued everyone. He was really...
Over there, Aunt Li was answering the person who was asking the question.
"I didn't see them."
Aunt Li and Lu Tonghe originally went out to look for Jie Fangcheng and the others, but unexpectedly they did not find them and brought back two new people.
Some old players were dissatisfied: "Don't save these newcomers, what's the use of them? Hurry up and find Shuangjie and Jiege!"
Some of the newlyweds showed signs of resentment on their faces, but they quickly suppressed it.
Although they have the largest number of people, they are the weakest and are now relying on the care of veteran players.
Lu Tonghe felt very uncomfortable after hearing this.
"New players are also human beings, so save them if you can."
A look of disdain flashed across the old player's face.
The mortality rate of new players is extremely high, and many of them die after just one day in the dungeon. How can they be compared with old players who have completed the game many times and have experience
Aunt Li said nothing and just helped Xu Hanrui bandage the wound.
Xu Hanrui thanked him while crying, and then quickly and quietly repeated what had just happened.
Aunt Li touched her head and said, "Don't be afraid, Shuangshuang and Xiaojie will definitely come."
"What if they don't come?" At this time, someone finally couldn't help but speak up, "It's all because of the two of them who insisted on coming to the City Lord's Mansion! Now there are a bunch of little monsters blocking the door, and we can't get out. But they said they were going to chase the BOSS, but they never came back, leaving us here! We don't know when those monsters came. They disappeared for so long, even if we didn't hear any sound, we still have to come up to take a look, right? They just disappeared in such a dangerous place!"
"That's right, you still call them sister and brother! If you don't have the ability, don't take on this job!"
"They boasted so loudly that I thought they would be able to kill the boss right away after they arrived, allowing us to clear the level! What should we do now?"
"What should we do?" Aunt Li stood up and looked at him quietly. "When I cleared the dungeon for the first time, there was only one veteran player in our team. That veteran player didn't care about the lives of us newcomers at all. He didn't tell us the rules of the game or how to clear the dungeon. On the first day, more than half of us new players died. On the second day, I was the only one left. It was only because I cooked delicious food that he was willing to help me clear the dungeon."
"Yes, I told you that the first day is the safest for players, and generally there will be no casualties. But I seem to have forgotten to tell you that veteran players will basically not die on the first day because they know the rules of the dungeon! You died because we veteran players were kind enough to tell you the rules! Some new players died on the first day of the dungeon without knowing what was going on!"
“You—you guys, you were lucky the first time you cleared the level. You met good people like Shuangshuang and Xiaojie. They could have ignored you. After all, to them… no, including us old players, you are all burdens with insufficient strength. But they didn’t. Yesterday they helped you get candles, so that you all lived to the next day. Today they brought you to the City Lord’s Mansion, and before Shuangshuang left, she used her props to protect you. Are you still not satisfied?!”
"They don't owe you anything!" Aunt Li said sternly, "If you die, it's because you are weak. If you want to pass the level, you have to find a way yourself! If you want to survive the monsters - don't you have hands? Don't you have feet?!"
"This is a horror game, not a game for you guys! Listen carefully!" Aunt Li swept her eyes across each of their faces, "No one is obligated to save you! If anyone says something like that, please leave! Find a way to clear the level yourself! It is your own responsibility to survive in the dungeon!"
(End of this chapter)