"ah!"
The Iron Fist Gang member let out a scream and flew backwards several meters.
The other gang members immediately retaliated by opening fire.
Peng!
Pengpeng!
Gan Ziwen was agile and ducked to dodge, but the two players around him were unfortunately shot and disappeared in white light.
"There are enemies! Kill them!"
Seven or eight Iron Fist gang members rushed out of the abandoned building, but the players were already quite close to them, and started fighting with them while holding rusty farm tools.
A player chopped the Iron Fist Gang member's neck with a short axe he was using to chop wood, and blood splattered all over his face.
The next second, the hired player was shot into a sieve by small steel balls shot from nowhere.
Gan Ziwen took a quick step forward, hugged a gang member around the waist, lifted him up, and slammed him heavily to the ground.
He crushed the man's neck with one foot, killing him.
He then drew the scimitar from his waist and charged into the crowd of Iron Fist Gang members, killing them one by one like chopping melons and vegetables.
"Gan Ziwen is awesome!" "He has the physique of a superhuman!" "I want to beat ten of them!" "Although it's not fancy, it's still very satisfying to see each punch hit the flesh!"
The live broadcast room was filled with barrages of comments.
At this time, three or four expressionless circus servants appeared from behind the abandoned building and approached at a very fast speed.
stop!
whoosh!
They raised the daggers in their hands and stabbed towards Gan Ziwen.
clang!
Gan Ziwen reacted quickly, blocking with his machete and immediately counterattacking. However, these circus servants were not ordinary gang members, and they dodged in time, only being slashed by the machete, but not fatally.
On the other hand, Gan Ziwen was also injured by two swords due to his carelessness.
"—close your eyes!"
Honey Idiot issued a warning in the team channel.
After seeing this, Gan Ziwen immediately retreated and closed his eyes.
Next second.
Everyone present saw the girl with orange pigtails take out a scroll from her backpack and throw it into the air.
Buzz!
A burst of strong light suddenly burst out, like a flash bomb, directly blinding the enemies who accidentally saw it... including two player teammates who did not see the prompt.
This is the magic scroll she prepared in advance - blinding.
"Ah! I can't see!"
"Asshole! What did you do?!"
The Iron Fist Gang members panicked.
Even the circus servants were accidentally blinded and retreated vigilantly, choosing to temporarily leave the battle.
Gan Ziwen did not miss this good opportunity. He opened his eyes, stepped forward immediately, raised his scimitar and killed the remaining Iron Fist Gang members.
Just as he was about to chase those "elite monsters" - the circus servants, he suddenly stopped and turned to look to the side.
A burly man in a vest, leading six circus servants, joined the battle.
Upon investigation, an ID appeared above his head—
"The Circus Behind the Scenes - Patton"!
Gan Ziwen and Mi Juicy Silly Bag looked at each other, and then had a brief exchange of words in the team channel.
“—This is a transcendent!”
"—Well, be careful, I will support you with the scroll."
Not far away, Goutoujin and Forgotten Wuji were watching.
"Well, it's time to help."
"Let's go. We have to do what the president has told us to do. Otherwise, no one will reimburse us for our extraordinary knowledge..."
Dog-head gold put on the mechanical gloves with a reluctant look on his face.
"We can't really fight. They are all circus guys. I don't want Jack's favorability to drop below disgust..."
"Of course. We can't lose the big picture for the small."
The two joined the battle.
Barton looked at these strangers with a cold face and said:
"This is the Iron Fist Gang's territory. Your actions have seriously violated the rules..."
He had just finished speaking.
The hostile players present received prompt boxes one after another.
These are the favorability decrease prompts for the two organizations, "Iron Fist Gang" and "Circus".
Gan Ziwen and Mi Juicy Silly Bag gave a bitter smile.
This was something they had expected. After all, they had accepted money from the God's Love Guild and had come into conflict with the circus, which would naturally reduce their favorability.
"You guys shouldn't have become enemies of the Circus and betrayed the leader's trust in you..."
Patton looked at Goutoujin, Wangwangwuji and others and spoke.
The two players showed depressed expressions.
Once you enter the world, you have no choice but to do what you want, and we don't want to do it.
"Kill them all!"
Patton gave the order.
Ten circus servants gathered behind him and rushed towards the player.
The silly guy took out another scroll and threw it into the air.
With a buzzing sound.
The scroll spewed out three balls of green acid that fell from the sky.
Two circus servants were accidentally infected and their bodies were corroded. They fell to the ground and struggled in pain.
"This is the magician's method!" "Although, the battle of Honey Fool will be more interesting!" "Come on! Fool, you are invincible!"
Gan Ziwen, holding a scimitar, fought Patton in a duel.
Both of them were extraordinary beings, with physical fitness exceeding that of ordinary people, and their attacks were extremely fast. The clanging sounds were endless and the swords flashed everywhere.
Gnoll-Headed Gold and Forgotten Wuji each fought with a circus servant. After throwing two crooked fireballs, they were "accidentally" slashed in the neck by a dagger and disappeared in white light.
When the two of them died, only Mizhihanbao and Gan Ziwen were left.
Without anyone to protect him, Gan Ziwen was soon attacked and killed by the circus servants. In the end, Gan Ziwen also could not escape being beaten to death.
"—It was really difficult. We were wiped out immediately."
Gan Ziwen spoke in the team channel.
"—Two extraordinary people, plus more than 20 players, couldn't defeat them... But it doesn't matter, we still have resurrection times, so we can gather together and go two more times."
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The number of viewers in the live broadcast room gradually exceeded five million.
The World Guild President nodded with satisfaction. Now in the game forum, the reputation of the God's Love Guild has undergone a 180-degree reversal.
Many people said that they did not expect Shen'ai to be willing to spend a huge sum of money to hire Gan Ziwen and Mizhi Hanbao just to rescue a few ordinary guild members whose accounts were almost useless.
In the live broadcast room, many players posted comments such as "God's love and loyalty".
The vice president and cadres sent private messages, expressing that the number of players willing to sign up to join the association suddenly increased dramatically.
Shi Ren leaned back on the sofa, lit a cigarette and started smoking.
A smile appeared on his face.
This act of "spending a fortune to buy horse bones" was considered a success... In fact, he didn't care whether the rotten persimmon could be saved or not, as long as the image of God's love was established.
The world watched the live broadcast room screen on the virtual projection screen.
Gan Ziwen and Mizhi Hanbao have organized a "mercenary player group" and are preparing to launch a second rescue operation.
But the man's hand suddenly stopped, and the cigarette between his fingers dropped ash.
He saw, in the live broadcast, a blind woman in a black dress appeared in front of the abandoned building.
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"Polaris! Centaurs! Check out the live stream!"
The carriage had just stopped at Jack's Manor. Su Keying got off the carriage and turned to Polaris and the centaur and said.
“I’m watching.”
Polaris glanced at Su Keying.
He kept the live broadcast room open and kept an eye on the development of the situation.
The same was true for the centaur next to him.
"I didn't expect... Jack's nun would go there too! These players like Dog-Headed Gold are in trouble!"
The centaur said this with a look of gloating.
Outer city area.
The water beach.
Gan Ziwen and Mizhihanbao stopped and stared at the slender figure in front of the abandoned building.
The players were all shocked.
"—It's the woman in the pilot!"
"—Which one? I don't remember."
"—Jack's nun! An absolute BOSS-level character! Let's go, isn't this a gift?!"
Honey Fool noticed that the players around her were a little flustered, so she turned to look at Gan Ziwen, Goutou Jin and Forgotten Wuji.
"—How's it going? Still fighting?"
"—We have to help. God has given us so much love..."
Gan Ziwen took a deep breath.
Goutoujin and Wangwangwuji looked indifferent. They had already made up their minds to come here and die a few times to show themselves off.
Just then, the blind girl in a black dress slowly walked towards them.
As the players investigated, her ID title "Sister of Silence - Floyin" slowly appeared above her head.
The series of invisible horizontal lines and the bright red "fatal" danger prompts all stimulate the players' hearts.
Floyin's thin shoulders and the short black felt cloak were filled with a faint black mist, obscuring her figure.
Behind her followed Barton and the remaining eight servant killers, like a daughter of death surrounded by people.
"In compliance with Master Jack's will, the undead 'Rotten Persimmon' and his accomplices have violated the "Sun Code" and the "Accommodation Regulations" and are included in the circus's wanted list..."
Flo Yin spoke softly.
She folded her hands in front of her, her posture graceful.
"The order of Amber City is maintained by the circus, and the undead who act recklessly are judged by Master Jack... If you break the rules, I, Master Jack's nun, Floin, will send you off."
The players' faces changed drastically.
The boss battle begins now?!
boom!
There was a loud bang.
The ground suddenly cracked under the players' feet, and dozens of black and purple vines broke out of the ground and stabbed towards them!
“Get out of the way!”
Gan Ziwen reminded loudly.
He suddenly leaped backwards, dodging the vines' attack while cutting off two of them with his sword. The broken vines fell to the ground, still wriggling and twisting like the broken tentacles of an octopus.
"ah!
”
“Too fast!
”
The players screamed in agony.
Even with Gan Ziwen's reminder, most of the hired players were not of high level, generally around level seven or eight, and had no time to react.
They were either pierced by the vines, like bacon skewered on black spears, or strangled by the vines, like a bunch of rice dumplings.
In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen players turned into white light and disappeared, and only a few people were left in the "rescue team" led by Gan Ziwen and Mizhihanbao.
"President! We tried our best!
”
The gold nugget was entangled by vines and threw a fireball with all his might, which landed accurately twenty meters in front of Flo Yin.
Immediately he turned into a white light and disappeared, dying heroically.
Wangwang Wuji was not as shameless as him. He just silently gave up resistance and chose death.
Gan Ziwen quickly dodged the elusive vines and occasionally drew his sword to counterattack.
He looked up at the blind girl in a black dress in the distance, and lost his fighting spirit. The gap between the two sides was too big, and he still had hope of joining the circus.
“Encourage!”
Honey Dumb knew that she was doomed to fail, but she did not give up. She took out the last scroll from her backpack and threw it into the air.
With a bang, the scroll exploded and turned into a strange red talisman.
The invisible force spreads.
Gan Ziwen suddenly felt his blood boiling, and his speed and strength increased slightly. He turned around and looked at the silly guy in surprise.
The orange-haired girl didn't notice his look, and pulled out the musket she had purchased from the Black Emissary on the train, shooting at the vines as she ran.
But within a few seconds, a vine that broke through the ground pierced through the heart.
Gan Ziwen gritted his teeth, raised his scimitar, and while the encouragement effect was still there, he rushed towards the nun who was standing quietly.
The live broadcast room was filled with barrages of comments.
"Gan Ziwen Chong!" "Don't give up! You can definitely die with dignity!" "My wife Fuluo Yin is so great!" "So cool! I want to join this organization too!"
Flo Yin had no expression on her face.
She raised her hand gently, a dim purple light bloomed, and her fingers hooked from bottom to top.
Hiss…!
Dozens of black and purple vines as thick as arms emerged from the ground and attacked Gan Ziwen.
“Uh!
”
Gan Ziwen shouted angrily and raised his scimitar to chop.
Amidst a series of muffled sounds, he cut off several vines, but eventually his strength ran out and he was stabbed by the remaining vines.
Puff, puff, puff…!
Gan Ziwen's eyes widened, and his body was covered with vines, like a hedgehog.
The next second, he turned into white light and disappeared.
"It's so terrifying! The player team was easily wiped out!" "This is not a BOSS that can be faced at this stage!" "Too cruel!" "Amber City Law Enforcer!" "It's miserable! If you cause trouble, your body will be guarded! There's no way to save you!" "Rest in peace, Rotten Persimmon!"
Flo Yin stood quietly.
She single-handedly killed more than 20 players, including two extraordinary players. But she did not show any murderous intent, instead, she exuded a dead silence.
The blind girl suddenly lowered her head and raised her palms, as if feeling something.
"Death and killing..."
She whispered softly.
Barton behind her was startled and looked at the blind girl's back in doubt.
"Master Jack's nun experienced a fight... no, it should be a massacre, and gained enlightenment...?"
Barton felt the blind girl in front of him, her momentum rising.
He asked:
"Ms. Flo Yin, you were promoted... promoted?!"
"Um."
Flo Yin smiled.
Then she murmured in her heart:
"Moon Faction Sequence 8-Executioner..."
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When Gan Ziwen assembled his team, he once again came to Xiashuitan.
The comments in the live broadcast room were full of pessimism.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that this group of players was no match for the powerful Flo Yin, and that they would just be defeated no matter how many times they came.
But more people are instigating and encouraging. After all, they are not the ones dying, so they might as well watch the fun. It is exciting only when they fight, and it is also exciting to be slaughtered one-sidedly.
Gan Ziwen and his team were only doing the job in exchange for money, so they had no choice but to go ahead with it.
"—Everyone follow my command this time and charge forward. As long as we can get close, we might be able to defeat that 'Jack's Nun'!"
"—I think it's a close call. We'll die if we meet face to face."
"—and there are other elite monsters guarding her. It's too bad!"
Gan Ziwen felt overwhelmed as he read the comments on the team channel.
Soon, they returned to the abandoned building.
Same as the first time.
They were stunned again.
This time, the blind girl in the black dress gently stretched out her hand.
On the ground on one side of her, several black and purple vines slowly grew out, intertwining with each other, and finally weaving into a long sickle.
Fuluoyin held the black-purple sickle upside down and walked slowly towards the players.
"Stubborn undead... are you ready to die again?"
Gan Ziwen stared at the scene with wide eyes.
The live broadcast room popped up explosively—
"Oh my god! The boss has directly entered the second stage!" "Why has the battle intensity increased before we even start fighting?!" "My whole team is doomed!" "I'm crying! My wife Flo Yin is so handsome!"
Just at this moment.
Gan Ziwen and Mi Juicy Foolishness suddenly received a text message from their employer, the president of the God's Love Guild, "Shi Ren" -
"After this life is used up, the employment ends here... As for the others, the guild has done its best..."
Gan Ziwen, Mizhihanbao and others looked at each other.
For some reason, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
Just need to die one more time...
Freed.
But I'm afraid that Rotten Persimmon is really beyond help...
Woo woo!
A sharp whistle that broke through the wind was heard.
All the players turned their heads suddenly and saw a blind girl in a black skirt leaping over, swinging her sickle in a black and purple fan-shaped light.
The three players were cut in half, with surprised expressions on their faces.
White light flashes.
Flo Yin stepped lightly.
Puff, puff, puff…!
Dense vines once again broke out of the ground, piercing through all the other players.
Goutoujin and Forgotten Wuji were then split in half by the sickle.
But in the last moment before their death, a look of shock appeared on their faces.
"Grass… !"
Before they could finish their words, the two of them turned into white light and disappeared.
This scene was keenly captured by Gan Ziwen.
History is very similar. The honey fool had no scroll and died faster than last time. Finally, it was Gan Ziwen's turn.
And when he was beheaded by the sickle, he finally understood why the others showed expressions of fear before they died.
You are under soul execution! All attributes -20%! Lasts for 72 hours!
You are dead!
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The mission of saving the rotten persimmon has come to an end.
Gan Ziwen and his team's high-profile plan ended in failure.
While the God's Love Guild was spending money to build momentum for itself, it was also showing the majority of players a terrifying organization of extraordinary people - the circus!
Not only do they have strong lower-level staff, they also have terrifying extraordinary cadres, especially the blind girl in a black dress, Sister Floin, who single-handedly wiped out the "rescue team" twice in a row!
Under the deterrent power of the circus, the players in Amber City were intimidated and no longer dared to act recklessly as before.
Of course, this is also related to the plight of other players.
The fate of rotten persimmon is just a microcosm of this.
Currently, in the game forum, the number of posts asking for help due to being arrested and detained for committing crimes and being unable to play the game normally has exceeded 10,000 and is still increasing.
Among them, the poster of one post was "Lan Shi".
But this post was soon drowned out by more posts.
Under almost all help posts, the most common solution given in the comment area is only one -
"Delete the file and restart."
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Amber City Asylum.
Temporary prison.
Rotten Persimmon sat in the corner of the cell, silently looking at the entry of Church Guard LV1 on the panel.
He smiled bitterly.
When he opened the game forum and saw his post, the most common replies, apart from sarcastic comments, were people urging him to delete the file and start over.
He saw the post from the Shadow Speaker Guild again. It turned out that they had also been arrested, and their situation was almost the same as his.
Rotten Persimmon shook his head.
"Offline."
He said secretly.
After waiting for five seconds of countdown, Rotten Persimmon returned to the darkness.
A kerosene lamp hangs overhead, shining on the retro wardrobe below. The person in the full-length mirror has a lonely expression on his face.
Are you sure you want to delete the archive "Rotten Persimmon"
"Sure."
Rotten Persimmon made up his mind.
But he was not ready to give up, because he had a new plan to open a new save file and start from the beginning.
As for the development plan, of course I have a clear idea of it.
It can be summed up in one famous quote:
"If you can't defeat your enemies, join them."