Playing the Foolish Beauty in a Deadly Game - Chapter 63

Nelson? Lin Qiao was puzzled. This guy had already achieved his goal, so why was he showing up in front of him? After some time to think, Lin Qiao had figured out Nelson’s actions.

Nelson wanted to kill all the players and become the sole survivor in the scenario. Although Lin Qiao didn’t understand why he would do this, there must have been enough benefits to drive him to make such a choice.

Setting up a gambling trap to kill the Dao Zhang and Yatagarasu, who were in the top five, creating a target for Lin Qiao to restrain the Church, and attracting evil spirits.

In this way, when Nelson took action against the other “sacrificial” players, the Church wouldn’t interfere. After all, once the passing line was announced again, as long as they weren’t in the top five, NPCs didn’t care whether the players lived or died.

By that time, the strong-willed Dao Zhang and Yatagarasu would be dead in the campus. Except for the Perfumer, no other players would be a match for Nelson. In fact, Nelson had already succeeded halfway.

Although he failed to kill Yatagarasu and Dao Zhang, Lin Qiao had attracted the Church’s attention. According to Nelson’s plan, he came here… Could it be to kill Little Snake? But it didn’t seem like something Nelson would do to have a direct conflict with NPCs.

The vehicle Lin Qiao was in was hit violently, and under duress, the entire car was forced to stop. Outside became noisy. It was still daytime and in the city, with civilian NPCs from the scenario world outside. They were frightened by Nelson’s move and scattered in all directions, causing chaos at the scene.

The enforcement team of the Woof Woof Church and the human army were deployed to maintain order at the scene and confront Nelson.

After coming out of the school, Yatagarasu also understood Nelson’s scheme. He was quite angry, after all, he had helped Nelson kill quite a few players who were following them.

Not only was he foolishly sent away by Nelson, but he also lost a head while fighting the strongest green ghost in the school.

The reason Yatagarasu was called Yatagarasu was that he had eight heads and eight tails, equivalent to having eight lives to use. But using one meant losing one. In a sense, Yatagarasu had already been tricked by Nelson’s scheme and had “died” once. However, it might be because Nelson didn’t understand Yatagarasu’s abilities and couldn’t figure out how many heads Yatagarasu had left, so he didn’t take this into account.

Yatagarasu got out of the car, threw Little Flower to Lin Qiao, and he wanted to see what that foolish Nelson was up to.

Nelson had changed into a new set of clothes, very formal, a high-quality coat with a vest and suit underneath, a tall top hat on his head, and trousers and leather shoes.

In addition to that, he had a delicate cane in his hand. This outfit was retro and elegant, and yet… quite peculiar, like an actor playing a role in a theater.

A Western Victorian-era attire, British yet somewhat juvenile, for no apparent reason.

Yatagarasu didn’t know what Nelson was up to this time, and the human representative confronting Nelson also inquired about his intentions. Nelson’s gaze swept over Yatagarasu, but his response was: “Hand over Lin Qiao to me.”

As Nelson spoke these words, he unhesitatingly destroyed a high-rise building. The thunderous roar and the collapse of the adjacent structures signaled Nelson’s strength and audacity.

The Church and human representatives had encountered players who attacked NPCs before.

Some players, in order to please the ghosts in their live-streams, would do anything. They not only tortured pets to gain emotional value but also, under the instigation of the ghosts, captured and harmed NPCs.

Generally, players knew it was best not to provoke NPCs, but in the later stages, when players were fighting for survival, they didn’t mind offending the NPCs in the scenario.

The human representative was very angry and internally scolded, “We shouldn’t attack players before the final passing line is announced. If we attack Nelson now, under the constraints of the game rules, it would be equivalent to suicide.”

The Woof Woof Church representative, a girl, had an even louder voice than the male human representative: “Lin Qiao is not a player. Taking him away doesn’t violate the game rules.”

The human representative continued, “But he has the highest likes! He’s the number one in the Best Streamer Competition! He’s the highest-valued sacrifice allowed by the game rules.”

The Woof Woof Church representative shouted, “So what do you suggest we do? Hand Lin Qiao over to him?”

The human representative didn’t deny the suggestion: “He won’t get away. What’s the harm in waiting a bit longer? Besides, Lin Qiao has such a high protection value; he’ll be fine.”

The Woof Woof Church representative sneered, “Dear human representative, didn’t you just say that Lin Qiao is human and must be taken over by humans, and that we should respect his privacy as a human?”

“How can you now disregard his life and death just to avoid offending the player? Those players all think Lin Qiao is a player. The protection value can’t protect Lin Qiao from the harm of other players.”

Lin Qiao in the car was also curious about the NPCs’ choice. As far as Lin Qiao knew, NPCs couldn’t interfere with the content of the players’ live-streams.

That is to say, no matter what the players live-streamed, whether it was torturing pets or killing players from the opposing faction, the NPCs couldn’t intervene. The Church was so cautious that they didn’t even want to show up as long as the players were live-streaming.

If that were the case, then Nelson, who was causing massive destruction throughout the scenario, could probably live-stream the destruction of the world, and the NPCs wouldn’t be able to fight back, right?

Lin Qiao felt the absurdity. If that were the case, then a direct violent Pass the level would also be possible, but the game wouldn’t set such an obvious loophole for the players.

So Lin Qiao speculated that while players could kill ghosts and pets without NPCs being able to fight back, the only exception was when killing humans, which would allow for retaliation.

On the other side, the Woof Woof Church representative ordered her subordinates to bring a cannon. The small-framed girl shouldered it and aimed at Nelson: “Player Nelson’s rampant destruction has endangered humanity.

According to the game rules, we can retaliate.”

The human representative still wanted to avoid conflict. It wasn’t that he didn’t care about the lives of civilians, but in his eyes, as long as Lin Qiao was handed over, the problem could be solved.

Why make a big fuss and fight Nelson? Why let so many people die?

The NPCs launched a counterattack. Nelson was a very strong player, but he was only one, while the number of NPCs was… the entire scenario world.

This urban area had already been evacuated. The fighting between the two sides caused roads to be destroyed and the ground to collapse. Helicopters surrounded Nelson and began to fire.

Nelson had lost his patience. Human high-tech weapons could indeed hurt him, but they were not fatal. To completely kill Nelson, large-scale thermal weapons would have to be used, but that would also affect the humans in the city.

The enforcement team of the Woof Woof Church was also attacking Nelson. It was the battle between non-humans that played a role in curbing Nelson.

But Nelson still had points. He exchanged props and attacked the dogs that had turned into human forms, and he was deadly serious.

Yatagarasu was astonished: “Has Nelson gone mad?”

Doing this would only mess up the scenario and had no chance of passing through. Moreover, fighting NPCs in the scenario was their home ground. The game wouldn’t allow the scenario world to be destroyed.

If a certain line was crossed, the game would definitely intervene.

Moreover, the game did not allow the exchange of props that could cause crushing blow to the scenario world. If this continued, NPCs could wear down the players.

Nelson was doing something meaningless, foolish, and self-destructive, which was not rational!

Sure enough, the NPCs also had their trump cards. They were intelligent and not rigidly set “NPCs.” The scenario had its own operating rules.

To ensure the continued operation of their world and prevent its destruction, they would definitely take preemptive measures against player destruction.

The Woof Woof Church representative instructed, “Nelson’s likes are currently fifth. Just now, he destroyed the human habitat, and his likes rose one position, to fourth.”

“These likes are enough. Let’s unleash our secret weapon. Also, protect Lin Qiao well. Send the entire enforcement team to Lin Qiao’s side and have them kiss Lin Qiao.”

After receiving this order, the enforcement team’s doggy tough guys felt incredulous. They could understand protecting Lin Qiao, but why did they have to kiss him?

Finally, a member of the enforcement team mustered the courage to approach Lin Qiao and try to give him a kiss. But as soon as he got close, he was grabbed by the Doberman by the head: “What do you think you’re doing?”

The team member replied sincerely, “The representative told us to queue up to kiss Lin Qiao.”

Lin Qiao was taken aback for a moment, and then his phone started to notify him of a crazy increase in protection value.

He understood. The representative wanted to make the Doberman jealous, after all, the big dog’s possessiveness was also very high.

The Doberman pushed his teammate’s dog head away with a sigh, “Go away, I know what the representative means. You don’t need to come and provoke.”

The teammate’s ears stood up in a triangular shape, with thick fur. The outer ear fur was black, while the inner ear was mostly white. Lin Qiao thought of a type of dog, a Husky.

After being stopped by the Doberman, the other dog still had the courage to accuse, “Why, how can you not listen to the representative…”

Before he could finish his sentence, he was quickly dragged away by his other teammates.

Lin Qiao hid in the car and looked out the window. He didn’t know what the Woof Woof Church representative’s order was, but he could guess from the Church’s actions.

The scenario was the NPCs’ home ground, and the Church must have had some secret weapon against players. The container being transported nearby was very suspicious.

It was an opaque device, resembling an upside-down bowl, or a well-shaped tomb. After the outer part was opened, there was a rectangular device inside, also made of an unknown metal container.

After the members of the Woof Woof Church put the thing down, they quickly moved away. Soon, something inside the rectangular device seemed to be thrashing about.

The rectangle itself looked like a coffin, and now it seemed even more like a coffin with a zombie inside.

With a loud “bang,” the thing inside came out. It was a ghost, a malevolent ghost.

At first glance, they were green, yellow, blue, and white. They were full of resentment and extremely hungry, having been restrained by the Church.

Seeing the top five sacrifices was no different from a starving wolf smelling blood. They rushed towards Nelson.

Some evil spirits also sensed where Lin Qiao was, but since the Lin Qiao in the car was not the real one but a decoy, the number of evil spirits attracted was not many.

Yatagarasu didn’t think twice and came over to help Lin Qiao. Nelson, however, stopped his approach to the vehicle and created a distance from it, as if he didn’t want the evil spirits to entangle Lin Qiao either.