Table of Content | Character Guide
East Cross Street of Zone F at Yong Ye City suddenly beca turbulent.
Thirteen people disappeared in their room, leaving only a pool of blood behind, so of which had even turned dry since a while ago. No one knew who the murderer was.
However, when he walked out of East Cross Street, Tang Cuo found out that the atmosphere outside the street hadnt changed much. There were even more players wandering at the exit of the street.
As soon as Tang Cuo stepped out, he could tell many eyes staring at him. Hed received professional training on counter-surveillanceRefers to asures undertaken to prevent surveillance, ie, to prevent yourself from being watched by others., so he was particularly sensitive to this.
He walked a few more steps nonchalantly, then imdiately headed back to his room.
Jin Cheng was once again occupying Tang Cuos room and was reading the information sent to him by Ruby Bar. Seeing Tang Cuo coming back, he raised his eyes as though he was the room master: Already back?
Tang Cuo: Is there no chair in your room next door?
Jin Cheng: Youve guessed it right.
Tang Cuo:
Jin Cheng explained: Little brother Chi has used it as his base camp. Now that the death toll has reached 14, he may co crying to you later.
Tang Cuo poured himself a glass of water: Arent you also investigating it?
You an this? Jin Cheng raised the paper in his hand and continued: It isnt about the murder case, its about Chi Yan. Do you want to have a look?
Tang Cuo was a little surprised, for he didnt expect Jin Cheng to get to Chi Yans origin so quickly. But when he thought about it again this was Jin Cheng, his forr instructor, and it shouldnt be strange that he could pull this off.
Chi Yans information was concisely put in only one thin piece of paper, which recorded his movent from Zone E to Zone F and was roughly the sa as what Chi Yan himself had said previously. The remaining papers contained the information about dungeons of Zone F, so of which were written in great detail while so were ntioned in only a few sentences.
Jin Cheng said: Yong Ye City has a wide variety of dungeons, and this information here is actually only a small part of it. Given our circumstances, its likely that we wont encounter common dungeons, so lets be prepared. You should take a look first and get familiar with the standard moves.
To put it bluntly, this docunt was dungeon walkthroughs; even if it wasnt very detailed, it still contained necessary intelligence. However, Tang Cuo didnt feel much amazed, because from the dungeon of [On A Snowy Night, He Returns], he could see that it wasnt easy to just randomly land into a dungeon that he already knew the walkthrough.
Moreover, the price of these walkthroughs was definitely not cheap. It was unlikely that ordinary players could afford them.
He roughly scanned through the papers and turned to the last page, where he spotted a familiar na: An Ning?
Jin Cheng said with a casual tone: Shes a young girl who entered a dungeon by herself, her attitude was bold yet careful, and her equipnt wasnt bad. Arent you curious?
I think youre too free already.
Tang Cuo didnt have much curiosity about An Ning or Qian Wei or Peng Mingfan. As long as they didnt make trouble for him, he didnt care who they were.
But what was written on this docunt was rather interesting.
Ge! At this ti, Chi Yan turned up again, entered the room and closed the door behind him. Indeed, he shouted for help at Tang Cuo: This is wicked. Weve found another missing person. More than a dozen have died yet theres no clue who killed them.
He wouldnt expect that Tang Cuo simply poured a bucket of cold water onto his head: Its likely that thereve been more than these dozen people. Sothing doesnt seem right outside.
What do you an? Jin Cheng asked.
Judging from the dryness of the blood, this kind of thing has happened for several days. The reason why it was not discovered until today is because the new and old players had a fight a few days ago, everybody knew about it. Moreover, killing people for revenge and robbing their valuable items should be very common in Yong Ye City, it wont be surprising even if it happens every day. But, it draws attention today because there is a sudden outbreak of deaths. Tang Cuo said.
Chi Yan wondered: Could it be that a group of people are fishing in troubled waters? They took advantage of when we were not paying attention to kill and take away points? Can points be taken away directly like that?
Jin Cheng: Of course they can. Youd better remind other people to be careful. Out there, soone is killing indiscriminately and sneaky things are happening, even if you stop your n from causing troubles to others, others might still co to cause troubles to your n. And the murderer has killed so many without getting noticed, this ans hes quite capable.
Chi Yan took a breath of cold air and felt his jaws ache. As he rushed out of the room in a hurry, Tang Cuo narrowed his eyes, looking at Jin Cheng: Why do I feel that you know sothing?
Jin Cheng spread his hands: I know a lot, which one do you want to ask?
After that, Jin Cheng got up and walked to the window. Yong Ye City looked too quiet today, which reminded him of a lot of things in the past: Yong Ye City is a place with no laws, do you know what is the most difficult thing about here?
Tang Cuo, for a rare mont, responded in cooperation: What is it?
Jin Cheng: Its to create a new order for this place.
At this mont, Tang Cuo thought that he saw the forr Lieutenant Colonel Jin. Even as he wasnt wearing a military uniform at this mont, his back was upright. But the next second, he leaned against the window fra again: When I was talking about the prison, I suddenly thought of one thing. Six months ago, the six zones jointly issued a wanted order. The whole city was turned upside down and hundreds of people were sent to prison. Considering the ti, it seems that soone has co out recently. His M.O. is very similar to the suspect this ti.
Tang Cuo: People here are jailed for 6 months?
Of course not. Jin Cheng smiled. When he was released from prison, I killed him again and sent him back to prison.
Okay.
Tang Cuo suddenly felt that he should make a huge poster and hang it on the wall outside, declaring to others that Jin Cheng lived here with a lot of points and plenty of enemies. Then Tang Cuo would nicely kill him by staring at him, so other people wouldnt have to suffer this man anymore.
At this mont, a commotion was heard from the cobblestone street below.
Jin Cheng and Chi Yan in the room next door looked out almost at the sa ti to see soone fighting at the end of the long street. One of them was using magic, making the scene particularly eye-catching.
Boom A magical attack exploded like New Years fireworks, sending people around flying like firecrackers. One of them slamd into the street lamp and bounced onto the ground; his body shook up a little before he turned into a white light and disappeared into thin air.
Chi Yans eyes widened, then he turned around and quickly rushed downstairs.
Jin Cheng moved faster than him. He lightly pushed the window open with one hand and landed decisively on the ground like an eagle, then he stood up prominently in the middle of the long street. The battle at the end of the street hadnt stopped, rather, it seed to escalate even further. The players around the scene were hiding and screaming, everything a chaotic ss.
But before Jin Cheng could make any moves, a giant red net suddenly fell from the sky, entirely covering the most aggressive attackers. With a Whoosh, a pretty girl with short hair landed on top of the street lamppost, her hands firmly grasping the rope to keep the net tightened.
Those who were caught in the net instantly tried to break out, one brawny man among the group shouting at her with his eyes bloodshot: What are you doing?!
The girls expression was icy-cold: Its who wants to ask: What are you doing?
Brawny Man gritted his teeth: I am taking revenge for the boss, why are you stopping ? Are you with them?!
Bullshit! The girl jumped down from the lamppost and gave him a hard kick without saying a word. The kick looked fierce but it actually didnt hurt. She then glanced over, her eyes fixed on Jin Cheng.
I can explain. She said.
Explain what? Jin Cheng folded his arms and looked at An Ning with a smile. The new players who were beaten to the pulp just got up and hid behind Jin Cheng, each glaring at An Ning.
One of them mocked her amid his gasps: Just now you all suddenly attacked us for no reason, we obviously didnt provoke you, and we hadnt made any troubles out here! Youre just looking down on us!
We totally didnt provoke anyone!
Crazy, its that man who is crazy!
You might as well slash to death!
New players who had just arrived in Yong Ye City hadnt even experienced their first mission and were already driven crazy by these successive dangers. People died, then other people were killed, but what did it have anything to do with them?!
But boss Jin Cheng also couldnt care much about these sentints and just sent a cold glance their way: Shut up.
An Ning took a deep breath, her expression stern: Our boss was attacked by soone early this morning. You may have heard about him, Cheng Ke of Zone F.
Tang Cuo also ca over.
An Ning nodded at him and continued: His death is very strange, there are basically no signs of struggle in the room. Looking at the entire Zone F, there are few who can do that to him. Then right before that, there was news that two very powerful persons just turned up at East Cross Street, so they got impulsive.
Tang Cuo had seen ntions of Cheng Ke of Zone F in the docunt about An Ning. He was roughly one of the more powerful players in Zone F; he had his own team and An Ning was one of them.
By right, their team wasnt weak and should have leveled up to Zone E a long ti ago, but Cheng Ke was a person who wanted stability and tried to prevent level-ups. On the other hand, there were other people under him, such as Blonde Hairs group of scamrs, who would scam new players for points and thus strengthen his teams power. This was exactly the advantage that he wouldnt be able to get from other zones.
Apart from that, Cheng Ke was a harmless person.
Im really sorry. An Ning finally looked like the An Ning the saw back in the dungeon. I could tell it was you when I heard the news from East Cross Street, but it was too late when I learnt that they ca here to make trouble. Yesterday evening, Cheng ge already decided to move to Zone E and didnt want to have any conflicts with you, but who would know that
Jin Cheng interrupted her: Two choices: 20 points or go to jail.
An Nings expression changed, as if she didnt expect Jin Cheng to be so rciless. Brawny Man struggled violently: Dont listen to him! Why should I pay 20 points? If you dare then send to jail, at least I can be with my boss!
Why would I? This is my rule. Jin Cheng smiled lightly, but his tone beca colder.
Stop talking! An Ning was angry. She didnt believe that Cheng Kes murder was related to the East Cross Street. Who was Jin Cheng really? Why would he care about players in Zone F?
The Kitchen Knife gang probably had nothing to do with the two of them at all. And after spending ti together in the dungeon, An Ning felt that Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo were not the type who would casually kill soone just to vent their anger.
Ill pay. An Ning gave a final word, ignoring the cries of the other n and resolutely reaching a deal. Her attitude also made the new players feel much better.
She swiped into the air before her and a trading box jumped out, holding exactly 20 points. Jin Cheng didnt pick it up, and he turned around and glanced at Chi Yan: You take it.
Chi Yan: ?
Jin Cheng: You take it first, and wait for the unlucky man who was killed just now to get out of prison before giving it to him.
As he said this, Chi Yan didnt feel anything wrong, but old players like An Ning and her n were all startled. They all thought Jin Cheng wanted to keep it by himself and didnt expect him to give it away.
Was this his rule?
Perhaps Jin Chengs rule was too unexpected, the n stopped struggling and their minds were forced to calm down. They all went silent, their faces a solemn expression.
Tang Cuo said: Take to the scene.
An Ning couldnt ask for more. This is very odd. Cheng ge was sent to jail for no apparent reasons, we definitely cant just leave it like that.
Chi Yan then told her about the situation at East Cross Street. An Ning was astonished at first, then she started to wonder: Who would do this? What is his purpose?
Although she was talking to Chi Yan, An Ning turned to look at Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng, expecting them to give an answer like they always did in the dungeon. But Jin Cheng couldnt answer, and Tang Cuo certainly couldnt explain either.
Fifteen minutes later, the four of them, including Brawny Man, arrived at the duplex apartnt where Cheng Ke lived. With one glance, it was clear that except for a large pool of blood on the ground, there were very few traces of struggle.
But very few traces didnt an no traces.
Jin Cheng reached out one hand to feel the blade mark on the corner of the table and carefully observed along the mark to find so other marks. At this point, he finally ford the final judgnt. He jotted down a few lines in a piece of paper and threw sothing to Chi Yan.
Chi Yan realised it was a red mini speaker, then he looked at the piece of paper, his head tilted in confusion: ng Yufei? Who is this?
The suspect. You just need to announce the content of the paper to the whole zone. If you can lead him out, I would give you this red speaker.
Chi Yan understood at once: Announce to the whole zone, isnt it the sa as the public screen in online gas? People really can hear ?
Jin Cheng decisively called the shots: You can try.
Chi Yan imdiately went ahead, even feeling a little excited about it. He recalled that he was also a prominently loud figure in online gas back then was there any channel that he didnt appear in?
Cough. Chi Yan cleared his throat as he read the content of the paper and almost choked on himself. An Ning leaned over to peek at it with suspicion, but she was equally dumbfounded even after looking at it.
Tang Cuo didnt know what they saw, but he wouldnt expect it to be sothing good. Sure enough, Chi Yans subsequent announcent confird his thoughts.
Coming up now: Were looking for soone.
As Chi Yan made this announcent, his voice beca infinitely louder through the speaker, echoing in every corner of Zone F.
ng Yufei, No. H13131, your Survival Assessnt Report has been lost. Attention please, your Survival Assessnt Report has been lost, please co to Mr. Jin Cheng at East Cross Street to collect it. In order to show our sincerity and credibility, we will announce one article taken from your report every five minutes. Mr. ng Yufei please confirm it carefully.
Article 1: ng Yufei, still wetted his bed at 5 years old, deduct 5 points. Wetted his bed yet put the bla on his dog, deduct 3 points.
Tang Cuo:
He couldnt help turning his head to look at Jin Cheng, his expression difficult to describe. Jin Cheng raised his eyebrows: Im not slandering him. He didnt protect his report well last ti so I took it. Its not like he wetted his bed until 5 years old, but he did wet his bed.
As though I care about whether he wetted his bed or not. Tang Cuo felt that sothing must be wrong with his head to discuss this topic with Jin Cheng, and at the sa ti, he made up his mind that he would never let Jin Cheng see his Survival Assessnt Report.
If Jin Cheng ever saw it, the front page headline of Yong Ye City that day would probably be [A Murder Caused By An Assessnt Report].
Mr. ng Yufei, if you hear the announcent please co to East Cross Street quickly, and we will announce the second article in five minutes. May we remind you that your QZone and Tieba accountsQZone and Tieba are two of Chinas biggest social networks, sothing like Facebook. are both in our hands, please be careful.
After Chi Yan finished the first article, he couldnt help covering his own face. He didnt know why as it was clearly not his own business to mind, but a sense of sha overwheld him as he read these things out loud. He was made to recall his own embarrassing monts, feeling as though he was also a victim of this defamation.
Of course, Jin Cheng didnt write down everything in such details, and his sentences were not so blatant. It was Chi Yan, the one that had been in online ga guilds and student communities for a long ti and was used to make speeches every few days, who autonomously added colours to those announcents.
He even used an accent specially fit for making announcents.
People from all over Zone F heard his words in full and learnt about the heroic deeds of ng Yufeis bedwetting and blaming a dog at 5 years old.
An inexplicable sense of embarrassnt perated the streets and alleys of Zone F, occasionally mixed with a few f**k and chuckles. Everyone involuntarily stopped what they were doing: Those who were drinking put down their cups, those who were fighting withdrew their fists, and those who were dozing off suddenly sat up.
Oh my god, whos that person? So embarrassing. Even if he let out those words, the person was actually looking forward to the next article, himself all ears.
This Mr. ng Yufei who suddenly shot to stardom in Zone F: what was in his QZone and Tieba?
Five minutes later.
Chi Yan followed Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo to go to East Cross Street, adjusting the speaker while walking. Next to him, An Ning carried a bottle of water, fearing that he would be thirsty after talking too much.
Hello? Hello? Can you hear us Mr. ng Yufei?
Please respond if you hear us.
Okay, if you dont respond, we will announce the second article imdiately Dear friends of Zone F, ng Yufeis hair is fake! Rember, his bedwetting is real, his silliness is real, his short legs are real, but only his hair is fake!
ng Yufei has 108 sets of wigs.
Each set is different.
One day ng Yufei and his teacher were walking together and there was a sudden gust of wind. The wind is blowing in the southeast direction and has a strength of Level 4. Question: Between ng Yufeis wig and his teachers wig, which fell down faster? Which flew further?
With the speaker, Chi Yan announced with such enthusiasm while walking, and the players standing along the street had their jaws dropped one by one. This sort of activity was too shocking, one that was rarely seen in everyday life. People were so shocked that they couldnt help but follow him to see what else he would say.
In a short while, the four-person team was followed by a large group of people, and the number was increasing.
Tang Cuo was expressionless.
Whatever random deed he did always drew attention.
Jin Cheng, on the other hand, was in a very good mood. He felt that Chi Yan was really a genius. If in the future he couldnt earn money, he could perform stand-up codies with Wen Xiaoming on the street and make a giant fortune.
He also asked Tang Cuo: Why dont you laugh?
Tang Cuo: My face has been frozen since the dungeon, not good.
You are too funny.
Jin Cheng was about to complint him when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a cold light flashing from the roof of the house on the right. Just as fleeting as the light was the killing intent in Jin Chengs eyes.
Co. The mont his words fell, Jin Cheng conjured his long bow and, as fast as lightning, he shot an arrow into the void.
Dang The tal tip of the arrow hit a blade.
Tang Cuo raised his eyes and saw a thin figure appear in the air, slashing the arrow down. Accompanied the sound of tal falling to the ground was the sound of his gritted teeth.
Jin, Cheng!
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