The terror of discovering that the people close to you, the ones you trusted, were ghosts, was more prolonged. It seeped densely into every pore, sending shivers down one’s spine at the mere thought of it.
“Her hair was just hanging there. I couldn’t see her expression as she looked at Dong Zhengxuan. I only saw her hand plunge into Dong Zhengxuan’s throat, tearing open his mouth, as if trying to extract something from his body.”
Several players felt their scalps go numb.
Xue Wei’s complexion wasn’t good, not because of Wan Bo’s description, but because she found this instance very irritating.
She felt an impulse to deal with all the corpses here once and for all, to end it.
If it were any other instance, whether corpses or players, she would’ve done it.
But unfortunately, this instance had a prompt to “do good deeds.” Before killing them, she had to figure out which ones were players.
When Xue Wei was extremely irritated, her expression became terrifying.
Gu Xinghua said, “Then tonight, let’s not trust anyone.”
That would be safer.
Xue Wei returned with a sullen face.
Gu Xinghua hurried to catch up.
He knew his suggestion was safe, but the human pupa master might not be satisfied.
Was she angry because a player lost their life?
What a joke.
She was angry because of her own leadership mistakes, and angry because she was once again mocked by the rules of the instance.
The human pupa master was one of the strongest members in the guild, but she had never been selected as the vice president because others believed she was brave but lacked strategic thinking and had a tendency to be excessively fond of killing.
She was fixated on becoming the vice president. In the end, the guild introduced a system with four vice presidents, just to accommodate her.
She had been quiet for a while, but this guild competition, the president, had prepared five teams, and none were led by her.
It didn’t work again.
Gu Xinghua could sense that she had considered leading players to clear this instance to prove herself, but this damned instance repeatedly proved that she couldn’t.
This method of temporarily not trusting anyone and acting alone might be effective in the short term.
But she didn’t like it. What she wanted was the success of her leadership.
After Xue Wei angrily left, Ning Su and the other two remained in place.
Pang Yang patted Wan Bo’s shoulder.
Ning Su looked thoughtfully at Yun Xiangning, who was huddled in the corner of the bed.
Yun Xiangning seemed to sense Ning Su’s gaze, slowly lifted her head, and the not-so-bright light in her eyes was very evident in the darkness. When she noticed Ning Su’s stare, the light started to tremble.
“What are you looking at?” she said anxiously, with an unfriendly attitude.
Fang Qi furrowed his brows. “Why are you so aggressive?”
Yun Xiangning hesitated for a moment and looked at Ning Su nervously.
The clear and beautiful eyes of the young man were quietly gazing at her, so clear and tranquil, as if they could see through everything.
She became even more flustered, but the other just walked away.
Ning Su left, and Fang Qi and Pang Yang didn’t stay either.
The three of them went back, each sitting on the edge of their beds, silent for a long time.
Pang Yang sighed, “How could players turn into corpses? What are we going to do in the future?”
Ning Su said, “The system already warned that players could turn into corpses.”
“When?” Pang Yang asked in confusion.
Fang Qi suddenly remembered. “It did warn us. When we just entered the instance, the system said ‘seek sameness and disregard differences.’”
Pang Yang suddenly realized.
When they first entered the instance, the system mentioned that, once discovered, those beings would “seek sameness and disregard differences.” He heard it, but it didn’t register in his mind.
Later, when the corpses killed the players, he focused only on the aspect of death, seeing only “disregard differences” and forgetting that the corpses would “seek sameness,” which meant they might turn players into similar corpses.
The seniors in the guild repeatedly told him to carefully read the instructions and pay attention to the system’s instance broadcasts, but he never seemed to learn.
While discussing this, they heard someone approaching and turned to find Yun Xiangning surprisingly close.
Yun Xiangning was a middle-aged woman who looked about forty, wearing smooth, dark floral pants. Her legs appeared slightly bent, and her back was slightly arched. Her disheveled hair and tired expression were evident at the moment.
Fang Qi and Pang Yang were unsure why she had come over and looked at her with slight surprise.
The two children sitting next to Ning Su also looked up at her.
She stared at Ning Su, hesitating to speak.
Ning Su looked at her and said, “No need to probe anymore. I indeed guessed that you knew long ago that Lin Lin was a corpse, but you never warned everyone.”
“What?” Pang Yang stood up in surprise, looking at Yun Xiangning, “Really?”
Yun Xiangning stared at Ning Su tightly, opening her mouth several times, and wrinkles appeared on her exhausted forehead.
Ning Su said, “You’re from bus 05, and so was Lin Lin.”
The human pupa master asked everyone to write down the details in a notebook. When Ning Su got the notebook, the first three players had written a lot.
Since Ning Su couldn’t reveal many details, he copied half of what the previous players wrote and added some watered-down content.
The first thing he copied was the bus number, which the first three players had all written. Including Lin Lin, she was on bus 05, written at the very beginning.
After he finished writing, he passed it to Yun Xiangning.
When Yun Xiangning wrote, her hand kept shaking, and she didn’t write her bus number. That’s when Ning Su felt something was odd.
Now, seeing Yun Xiangning’s reaction, he truly understood.
Yun Xiangning remained silent, and Fang Qi and Pang Yang knew that what Ning Su said was true.
Pang Yang questioned her in shock, “Why didn’t you say anything? If you had given us a hint, maybe Dong Zhengxuan wouldn’t have died!”
“No, not just him.” Pang Yang became angrier as he thought about it. “If Lin Lin wasn’t thrown off the ship by the human pupa master, more than just Dong Zhengxuan might have died. Have you thought about how you put us in danger?”
Fang Qi also felt furious because of her selfishness. “You witnessed Dong Zhengxuan’s tragic death in front of you. How do you feel?”
Yun Xiangning finally broke down a bit because of these words.
The scene of Dong Zhengxuan being killed by Lin Lin repeatedly flashed in her mind.
Terrified pupils, a split mouth, and gushing blood.
She could barely control the volume of her voice. “Do you think I didn’t want to give a hint? Do you think I’m feeling okay about this?!”
She wiped her eyes with her sleeve. “But how do I give a hint? She kept looking at me, and writing ‘bus 05’ at the top of the notebook was her warning to me. If I had hinted, she would have definitely killed me.”
Indeed, Yun Xiangning and Lin Lin were in the same bus.
They were both quite cautious individuals. On the first day, they stayed on the bus the entire time and didn’t dare to get out.
It wasn’t until the second day that they confirmed each other as players and decided to help each other.
However, right after expressing their intention to support each other, Lin Lin was killed by a corpse.
At that moment, she was in a state of panic and fear, but that fear was nothing compared to seeing the deceased Lin Lin walking towards her on the ship.
No one could understand that kind of fear. It wasn’t faced by a group but by her alone.
When Gu Xinghua mentioned that Lin Lin was a player, Lin Lin looked over, and she began to tremble.
Seeing the “bus 05” written by Lin Lin, she thought of that moment, when they secretly held hands behind the backs of those corpses, encouraging each other and promising mutual support.
Perhaps it was that one unconventional action that drew the attention of the corpses. In less than an hour, Lin Lin died.
She felt that “bus 05” was Lin Lin’s warning to her.
In Lin Lin’s presence, how could she dare to remind others?
But later on, Lin Lin chose the bunk diagonally above hers, and she felt that was also a warning from Lin Lin.
Lin Lin must be sitting on the bed, looking down at her.
She didn’t dare say a word.
The terror of discovering that the people close to you, the ones you trusted, were ghosts, was more prolonged. It seeped densely into every pore, sending shivers down one’s spine at the mere thought of it.
“Her hair was just hanging there. I couldn’t see her expression as she looked at Dong Zhengxuan. I only saw her hand plunge into Dong Zhengxuan’s throat, tearing open his mouth, as if trying to extract something from his body.”
Several players felt their scalps go numb.
Xue Wei’s complexion wasn’t good, not because of Wan Bo’s description, but because she found this instance very irritating.
She felt an impulse to deal with all the corpses here once and for all, to end it.
If it were any other instance, whether corpses or players, she would’ve done it.
But unfortunately, this instance had a prompt to “do good deeds.” Before killing them, she had to figure out which ones were players.
When Xue Wei was extremely irritated, her expression became terrifying.
Gu Xinghua said, “Then tonight, let’s not trust anyone.”
That would be safer.
Xue Wei returned with a sullen face.
Gu Xinghua hurried to catch up.
He knew his suggestion was safe, but the human pupa master might not be satisfied.
Was she angry because a player lost their life?
What a joke.
She was angry because of her own leadership mistakes, and angry because she was once again mocked by the rules of the instance.
The human pupa master was one of the strongest members in the guild, but she had never been selected as the vice president because others believed she was brave but lacked strategic thinking and had a tendency to be excessively fond of killing.
She was fixated on becoming the vice president. In the end, the guild introduced a system with four vice presidents, just to accommodate her.
She had been quiet for a while, but this guild competition, the president, had prepared five teams, and none were led by her.
It didn’t work again.
Gu Xinghua could sense that she had considered leading players to clear this instance to prove herself, but this damned instance repeatedly proved that she couldn’t.
This method of temporarily not trusting anyone and acting alone might be effective in the short term.
But she didn’t like it. What she wanted was the success of her leadership.
After Xue Wei angrily left, Ning Su and the other two remained in place.
Pang Yang patted Wan Bo’s shoulder.
Ning Su looked thoughtfully at Yun Xiangning, who was huddled in the corner of the bed.
Yun Xiangning seemed to sense Ning Su’s gaze, slowly lifted her head, and the not-so-bright light in her eyes was very evident in the darkness. When she noticed Ning Su’s stare, the light started to tremble.
“What are you looking at?” she said anxiously, with an unfriendly attitude.
Fang Qi furrowed his brows. “Why are you so aggressive?”
Yun Xiangning hesitated for a moment and looked at Ning Su nervously.
The clear and beautiful eyes of the young man were quietly gazing at her, so clear and tranquil, as if they could see through everything.
She became even more flustered, but the other just walked away.
Ning Su left, and Fang Qi and Pang Yang didn’t stay either.
The three of them went back, each sitting on the edge of their beds, silent for a long time.
Pang Yang sighed, “How could players turn into corpses? What are we going to do in the future?”
Ning Su said, “The system already warned that players could turn into corpses.”
“When?” Pang Yang asked in confusion.
Fang Qi suddenly remembered. “It did warn us. When we just entered the instance, the system said ‘seek sameness and disregard differences.’”
Pang Yang suddenly realized.
When they first entered the instance, the system mentioned that, once discovered, those beings would “seek sameness and disregard differences.” He heard it, but it didn’t register in his mind.
Later, when the corpses killed the players, he focused only on the aspect of death, seeing only “disregard differences” and forgetting that the corpses would “seek sameness,” which meant they might turn players into similar corpses.
The seniors in the guild repeatedly told him to carefully read the instructions and pay attention to the system’s instance broadcasts, but he never seemed to learn.
While discussing this, they heard someone approaching and turned to find Yun Xiangning surprisingly close.
Yun Xiangning was a middle-aged woman who looked about forty, wearing smooth, dark floral pants. Her legs appeared slightly bent, and her back was slightly arched. Her disheveled hair and tired expression were evident at the moment.
Fang Qi and Pang Yang were unsure why she had come over and looked at her with slight surprise.
The two children sitting next to Ning Su also looked up at her.
She stared at Ning Su, hesitating to speak.
Ning Su looked at her and said, “No need to probe anymore. I indeed guessed that you knew long ago that Lin Lin was a corpse, but you never warned everyone.”
“What?” Pang Yang stood up in surprise, looking at Yun Xiangning, “Really?”
Yun Xiangning stared at Ning Su tightly, opening her mouth several times, and wrinkles appeared on her exhausted forehead.
Ning Su said, “You’re from bus 05, and so was Lin Lin.”
The human pupa master asked everyone to write down the details in a notebook. When Ning Su got the notebook, the first three players had written a lot.
Since Ning Su couldn’t reveal many details, he copied half of what the previous players wrote and added some watered-down content.
The first thing he copied was the bus number, which the first three players had all written. Including Lin Lin, she was on bus 05, written at the very beginning.
After he finished writing, he passed it to Yun Xiangning.
When Yun Xiangning wrote, her hand kept shaking, and she didn’t write her bus number. That’s when Ning Su felt something was odd.
Now, seeing Yun Xiangning’s reaction, he truly understood.
Yun Xiangning remained silent, and Fang Qi and Pang Yang knew that what Ning Su said was true.
Pang Yang questioned her in shock, “Why didn’t you say anything? If you had given us a hint, maybe Dong Zhengxuan wouldn’t have died!”
“No, not just him.” Pang Yang became angrier as he thought about it. “If Lin Lin wasn’t thrown off the ship by the human pupa master, more than just Dong Zhengxuan might have died. Have you thought about how you put us in danger?”
Fang Qi also felt furious because of her selfishness. “You witnessed Dong Zhengxuan’s tragic death in front of you. How do you feel?”
Yun Xiangning finally broke down a bit because of these words.
The scene of Dong Zhengxuan being killed by Lin Lin repeatedly flashed in her mind.
Terrified pupils, a split mouth, and gushing blood.
She could barely control the volume of her voice. “Do you think I didn’t want to give a hint? Do you think I’m feeling okay about this?!”
She wiped her eyes with her sleeve. “But how do I give a hint? She kept looking at me, and writing ‘bus 05’ at the top of the notebook was her warning to me. If I had hinted, she would have definitely killed me.”
Indeed, Yun Xiangning and Lin Lin were in the same bus.
They were both quite cautious individuals. On the first day, they stayed on the bus the entire time and didn’t dare to get out.
It wasn’t until the second day that they confirmed each other as players and decided to help each other.
However, right after expressing their intention to support each other, Lin Lin was killed by a corpse.
At that moment, she was in a state of panic and fear, but that fear was nothing compared to seeing the deceased Lin Lin walking towards her on the ship.
No one could understand that kind of fear. It wasn’t faced by a group but by her alone.
When Gu Xinghua mentioned that Lin Lin was a player, Lin Lin looked over, and she began to tremble.
Seeing the “bus 05” written by Lin Lin, she thought of that moment, when they secretly held hands behind the backs of those corpses, encouraging each other and promising mutual support.
Perhaps it was that one unconventional action that drew the attention of the corpses. In less than an hour, Lin Lin died.
She felt that “bus 05” was Lin Lin’s warning to her.
In Lin Lin’s presence, how could she dare to remind others?
But later on, Lin Lin chose the bunk diagonally above hers, and she felt that was also a warning from Lin Lin.
Lin Lin must be sitting on the bed, looking down at her.
She didn’t dare say a word.
