The players stood still, uncommonly, gazing straight at the young man, who tilted his head back, their eyes filled with obsession and astonishment.
The tall player was named Han Wenzhao. When he saw the boy, he felt like he had seen him somewhere before, but he couldn’t recall where.
Just as Han Wenzhao was puzzled, an excited and thrilled female voice echoed in his mind.
[Four hundred thousand!!!]
[Brother!!! He’s the one worth four hundred thousand!!!]
[Capture him, and we’ll be rich! Four hundred thousand! I can regain my body! Maybe we can even leave this cursed place, wuwuwu!]
The woman’s voice was so excited that she burst into tears.
Han Wenzhao was also excited, but he quickly calmed down and spoke in his mind.
‘How do we exchange if we catch him? We can’t submit bounty tasks in the instance, and if we die, we won’t be able to find him.’
If this was any other instance, they could probably capture this person to collect the bounty points before clearing this instance. However, in this instance, hoping to leave alive is futile. Even if they captured this person, it wouldn’t make a difference.
The woman’s voice in Han Wenzhao’s mind immediately wilted, [......Right.]
Han Wenzhao felt extremely uncomfortable. Four hundred thousand points were right in front of them, yet they couldn’t get it.
Han Wenzhao wasn’t upset, but rather, his brows furrowed because of another matter. He spoke in his mind.
‘Xixi, why could you recognize him as the one from the bounty task?’
He clearly had no impression of this young man, just a faint sense of familiarity.
This familiarity wasn’t even because of the bounty task.
[Because he looks exactly like the person in the bounty task video. And we’ve encountered him before, in the <Xishan Residential Area> instance, he’s that married NPC pursued by Su Zhen and the others.]
Han Wenxi spoke matter-of-factly, wondering why her brother would ask such a stupid question.
That married man was so beautiful that no one who saw him could forget him, right?
No, Han Wenzhao couldn’t recall the appearance of that married man anymore, and neither could other players, it seemed.
They didn’t recognize at all that this young man was the one from the bounty task video.
Because the young man in the bounty task video had a stiff appearance, looking fake as if he had undergone plastic surgery, although he was beautiful, it was hard to feel amazed.
But the young man before him was completely different. His beauty was indescribable in words.
It was very difficult to connect the two together.
Too strange.
It was as if what they saw and what his sister saw were not the same person.
Although the players in the game’s main city area saw a stiff, plastic-like face, Han Wenzhao did not suspect that there was a problem with his sister’s cognition.
He suspected that there might be issues with himself and other players instead.
Their memories and the images they saw of the young man seemed to have been blurred.
And because his sister’s body was destroyed, and she was borrowing his body, she became an existence that was neither a player nor an NPC, seemingly unaffected by the blurred memory.
Han Wenzhao was greatly alarmed by this discovery. The ability to blur the memories of all players could likely only be achieved by the game’s main system.
Who exactly was this young man?
Ruan Qing was originally looking at the plane, wanting to see if there was anything that could replace the missing parts. Suddenly, he felt a strong gaze.
He glanced to his right.
There, a group of people stood, also looking in his direction.
Ruan Qing immediately recognized that this group of people were players. After all, they were the same team that he initially entered with together.
The leader was the tall player.
They likely came here to the airport to see if they could leave the island by plane.
When the male player holding the game console glanced over at Ruan Qing, he subconsciously straightened his clothes, as if afraid of dirtying the other’s eyes.
It wasn’t until he realized what he was doing that he stiffly put his hand down, even feeling like there was something wrong with his brain.
The male player was the man who had originally recalled the avatars, noticing their consistent abnormal behavior.
Recently, the man had refrained from using avatars to enter instances and instead opted to disguise himself and enter on his own.
He feared that instead of gaining much power, he might have turned himself into a lunatic.
After all, ever since those avatars started doing some inexplicable things, he began to feel quite unwell.
He always subconsciously wondered what those avatars were up to.
He even began to wonder what it would feel like to do those things in front of others.
He could endure all that.
But now, seeing someone attractive staring directly at him, still caring about his appearance like an idiot, was too much.
It seemed that the sick avatars were starting to affect him.
But this person...
It seemed to be the one that Su Zhen and Lu Rufeng, those two idiots, offered a reward of one hundred thousand points for.
The man faintly curved his lips, a hint of pleasure evident in his eyes, completely washing away the annoyance of not doing well in the game he’s playing earlier.
It seemed that the four hundred thousand would be his.
When Jiang Shuyu looked over at Ruan Qing, she also followed his gaze.
Seeing this group of people staring straight at Ruan Qing, Jiang Shuyu immediately stood in front of Ruan Qing, her face vigilant as she stared at the group of people.
Han Wenzhao paused when he saw this, walking towards the two while displaying a friendly expression. “Hello, are you also here to...”
Before Han Wenzhao could finish speaking, the sound of a helicopter whirring came from above their heads.
Everyone subconsciously looked up towards the direction of the sound.
It really was a helicopter.
The helicopter was flying over from a distance, its altitude getting lower and lower.
Judging from its trajectory and condition, it seemed like it was going to land at this airport.
Excitement and thrill appeared in the players’ eyes. If there was a helicopter, they could leave this island.
They could finally clear this instance.
Only Ruan Qing wasn’t as optimistic. After seeing the helicopter, he grabbed Jiang Shuyu and retreated directly under the plane.
Using the plane to shield themselves.
His intuition told him that there was definitely something wrong with the people on the helicopter, otherwise they wouldn’t have followed their car in flight.
After the helicopter flew over his head, Ruan Qing didn’t hesitate and left with Jiang Shuyu.
Jiang Shuyu had no objections, not even asking a question, just following Ruan Qing as they ran away.
Obviously, she trusted Ruan Qing completely.
damn these players. i changed my mind about being happy to see them. they just want the points!!
ReplyDeleteTrue but it's gonna be fun watching them change their minds and become slightly obsessed with our Qing
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