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The remaining Gu insects all flew toward Ning Su, who ran straight into the human faction players.
The players who were about to attack him hesitated, and some started to run back, shouting, “Don’t come over here!”
[...]
Ning Su said, “It’s safest with you guys. The Gu Witch won’t kill you.”
Two players fell to the ground in quick succession.
“......”
Taking advantage of the situation, Ning Su threw a baseball bat to Gui Sheng. “Gui Sheng, do as you practice at home!”
Gui Sheng caught the bat. “Mm!”
He moved a stone in front of the Dark Swamp flower, stood on it, and raised the bat high.
He was best at hitting flower heads.
“Bang!”
A flower head was hit and accurately smashed into a male player.
The male player, agile and quick, blocked the head with his hand, only to find the thing biting his finger, and he couldn’t shake it off.
He looked down and saw a bloody human head attached to his hand.
“......”
“Ahhhh!!! Get it off! Get it off!!!”
[...]
After the earlier battle with the human pupae, the Dark Swamp flower now only had five flower heads left.
None could be wasted.
Gui Sheng hit each one carefully, aiming for one head per person.
The Heaven-Piercing Silk couldn’t be used anymore. Ning Su retrieved it and took out the throwing knives he got from Ning Changfeng.
The throwing knives were very effective against other players but difficult to use against the Gu insects.
Ning Su swatted away a Gu insect on the back of his neck and looked up at the Gu Witch. His gaze swept to a spot diagonally behind the Gu Witch, and he paused.
Without Ning Su’s reminder, the Gu Witch also noticed it. He saw a cold, white blade light burst out and scatter from a single white point at an angle behind him.
He gripped his fan tightly and, without thinking, waved it in that direction.
The sharp knife fell to the ground.
There was the high school student there.
He coughed up blood, and a bug fell onto the muddy ground next to his festering hand.
The Gu witch tightly gripped his fan and looked at the other, his emotions hard to discern.
Ning Su paused for a moment and walked over to the high school student. “Why did you do that just now?”
The high school student lay on the ground, spitting out several mouthfuls of blood before weakly saying, “Ning Su, come here. I have something to tell you.”
Ning Su pressed his lips together and squatted in front of him.
The high school student raised his head with difficulty and whispered in his ear, “I know that if I die, he will also die.”
“I saw the Gu insect burrow into your body. I want to help you.”
Ning Su was stunned. He didn’t understand why the high school student would kill another version of himself just to help him.
Blood flowed from the high school student’s mouth again. “I know I wasn’t going to live long, anyway. Meeting you was just a dream. Only in a dream could I meet someone like you.”
The dream was ending. He was about to die, so he told him everything.
“But I still really like you. How could you spot me among so many people? How could you cover me with pants and prepare an ointment for me?”
Ning Su stared at him in a daze.
It turned out that in the most desperate times, someone’s love and hatred could be so fierce and resolute.
Just after waking up from death, Shi Tianzhu asked the Gu Witch if he was a man or a woman, and was hated by him for many years.
At the same time, he only gave him a pair of pants and a tube of ointment, and he was willing to kill another version of himself for him.
The high school student looked at the Gu Witch, who was standing stiffly to the side, and said to Ning Su, “I know he doesn’t like me, and I don’t like him either. But we both like you, and we don’t like that we like you.”
“Do you understand why he planted the life-and-death Gu on you? Because he likes you. Liking someone means wanting to live and die together...”
Ning Su didn’t understand.
He had never wanted to live and die with anyone. To him, living and dying together required long-term companionship and accumulated feelings.
The high school student grasped the cotton T-shirt on his shoulder, slowly sliding down. “Why... didn’t we meet when we were kids? If we had known each other when we were kids, it would have been so great... we could have...”
He slid to the ground, his festering fingers falling into the bloody mud.
Ning Su looked at his fingers and heard the sound of someone falling to the ground behind him.
The top fighters of the Yongming Guild were all dead.
Ning Su No. 2, four people from the Yinhua Guild, and Gui Sheng had also sent away over a dozen other players.
The remaining dozen or so people were a bit panicked.
What made them even more nervous was that they heard the sound of zombies.
The zombies’ “huff huff” cries were not sharp or loud, but could be heard from a great distance, indicating that there was a very large group of them.
In the distance was the howling of the zombie horde, and on the ground in front of them were five players with bulging veins, writhing in agony.
The dozen or so players were silent for a few seconds, then several of them simultaneously started attacking each other.
[???]
[Sit down, this is basic operation!]
[This is standard procedure in guild matches. They all realize they can’t beat the Yinhua Guild, so they are defaulting to Yinhua being number one. By eliminating a guild, they can move up one rank.]
[This time, the dungeon setting was still competitive. In previous guild competitions, other guilds wouldn’t even compete with Yinhua and Yongming. They would automatically rank themselves 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th, after Yinhua and Yongming determined the 1st and 2nd places.]
[...]
The two Ning Su looked in the direction of Shi Tianzhu.
Under that tree, a skeleton was digging a hole.
Ning Su knew that Manman wanted to bury the young Shi Tianzhu.
When the match ended, all players, regardless of life or death, would leave the game, leaving this world.
But the players’ previous selves would not.
Every quarter’s guild competition was different, meaning this dungeon world would only be opened once.
Ning Su No. 2 walked to Manman’s side and said to the little girl, “Dig one for me too.”
The little girl’s fingers trembled.
Ning Su No. 2 said, “Make it bigger, the underworld might have very high property prices.”
He bent down, rubbed the little girl’s head, then walked to Ning Su’s side and said to him, “Let’s go.”
Ning Su responded with a hum.
They walked together towards the base gate.
Ning Su No. 2 said, “You know what I’m going to do, right?”
Ning Su nodded, “You are me, of course I know.”
Ning Su No. 2 said, “This point in time is too sensitive, you must know.”
He glanced back at the high school student lying on the ground. “When they appeared here, it was just before they were about to die, right?”
Ning Su nodded.
Ning Su No. 2 said, “Ah, so from the very beginning, this world destined us to die.”
“Looking on the bright side, it gave us a better place to die and let us see our future selves before we died.”
“Seeing your future self before dying is such a wonderful and magical paradox.”
But thinking about it negatively, it’s such a cruel thing.
Ning Su replied in his heart.
From a player’s perspective, this was like dying twice.
After dying once and entering the game, the self that was about to die was pulled back to die in front of oneself again, even personally killing one’s past self once more.
From the moment they entered the instance, when the clothes they wore at the time of their initial death came into view, it was destined.
They walked to the street in front of the base gate and looked down simultaneously.
Zombies roamed everywhere in the human survivor base, with no sign of humans.
They all knew that most people were hiding in underground shelters, with only a few in the houses above the ground.
Ning Su No. 2 stuffed a crumpled paper ball into Ning Su’s pants pocket. “I’m leaving now. I said I’d help you win this game.”
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