novelraw Chapter 464 - 463: You Guys Are Too Ruthless
Chapter 464 - 463: You Guys Are Too Ruthless
Shu Ran still went through with the exchange with Li Yang as planned by the organization.
Mu Qiu’s spirit of "ignoring enemy pressure to wholeheartedly pass information to teammates" moved everyone, and Guan Yu and the others couldn’t help but gather around her and applaud.
"So inspiring. Brother Cheng was about to lift you up, but you were still thinking about Li Yang."
Why does it sound like she’s watching the pot while eating from the bowl?
Mu Qiu rolled her eyes, freed herself from Cheng Zhirang’s grip, and poked her head out to check on Li Yang’s situation.
A minute can be short or long; when exchanging, a minute felt too long, but when someone else was exchanging, a minute passed in the blink of an eye.
"Time’s up for the one-minute exchange!"
Li Yang immediately tore off the red armband covering his eyes, stood up, and turned to look at Shu Ran behind him.
She had just closed her eyes, leaning against the back of the chair. When Li Yang stood up, the chair slipped forward, and she slid forward as well.
Li Yang quickly bent down to steady the chair: "Sister Shu Ran, are you okay?"
Shu Ran: "I’m fine."
"Sorry, I moved too... oh no, oh no, oh no, I’m a mute!"
He looked at his electronic wristband with a mournful face, expecting to see a missing point, but was surprised instead.
"Huh?! No deduction?"
"What?! No deduction?!" Mu Qiu widened her eyes in disbelief and then immediately turned to Cheng Zhirang.
"You’re not mute, Sister Shu Ran isn’t mute... Brother Jiang Lu is mute? When did you guys exchange?! Then, if you’re not mute, are you deaf or lame?"
He had rushed over quite quickly and responded by nodding and shaking his head to her questions, so whether he was deaf, lame, or mute, he would have been deducted points.
So at first, she thought he was mute, but that wasn’t the case either.
In other words, they intentionally sacrificed a point from Cheng Zhirang, let Shu Ran and Li Yang exchange, and turned Li Yang into either a deaf or lame state.
If the state is unclear, then to avoid point deductions, Li Yang would have to follow the rules of both being lame and deaf, not running too fast and not hearing anything.
... That’s genius, this method is genius.
She sat on the ground, cross-legged, leaning beside Cheng Zhirang’s foot, holding her head in despair and asking.
"Who thought of such a devious plan?!"
Guan Yu laughed up to the sky: "Stepped into a trap, didn’t you?! Mu Qiu, today is your day too!"
Mu Qiu didn’t want to pay her any attention, sulking by herself next to Cheng Zhirang’s leg.
Li Yang finally figured out the crux of the situation and moved over slowly, squatting down to sigh with her.
This round is hopeless; until now, they’ve been screwed over by the other two teams joining forces, with no hope of turning the tide.
Now there’s only half an hour left, and he’s so clueless about his own Control Lock state that he doesn’t know when all his points will be deducted, turning him into a roaming NPC.
So now he’s afraid to move, not even daring to try, planning to survive until the game ends.
Qiu Shuang saw the two of them had lost their fighting spirit and sat down too, pondering for a moment.
Suddenly, there were three people sitting cross-legged beside Cheng Zhirang, all resting their chins in their hands and sighing, making the scene quite amusing.
He looked down at the top of Mu Qiu’s head.
During this time together, he noticed that sometimes when she sat in a soft chair to type, she would subconsciously curl her feet up.
If he knocked and went in, she would cover her typing tools and focus on talking to him, sitting cross-legged next to him, looking up to talk, sometimes even tugging at his clothes.
This height difference, body difference, made him feel she was someone who needed to be spoken to gently, with a soft hand patting her head, lowering his voice.
She always seemed to know how to switch between being cute and rational, knowing how to hit his sweet spot.
Cheng Zhirang was a bit lost in thought.
And the person he was lost in thought about was now analyzing her mistakes with teammates.
"I misjudged. I originally thought people were kind at heart. But now, I realize this world is getting worse, and people are ruthless! They are so cruel!"
"Sorry, it’s all my fault. I’ve come to deeply understand my mistake—I’m still too kind-hearted."
"Even though it’s too late, I still want to say, if I had known, I would have held back just now, not let Li Yang switch with Sister Shu Ran. Sister Shu Ran has been led astray by Brother Jiang Lu."
This method must have been thought of by Jiang Lu.
She was lamenting with "tears" of pain, leaving Li Yang and Qiu Shuang dumbfounded. Guan Yu was beside them laughing in all sorts of ways, at different speeds and volumes.
When she was growing weary of speaking, Shi Yuhuai raised his hand to check the time and said, "Fifteen minutes left."
Mu Qiu: "!!"
Her expression changed, her tearful speech paused for two seconds.
But then she quickly resumed, continuing to scold Cheng Zhirang and his group with heartfelt emotion.
Ten minutes is too long for them in this state of being prey; they had to wait a bit longer. In the end, when there were five or three minutes left, they would pounce on someone and force an exchange.
If they really couldn’t get an exchange, at least by not having any more points deducted, they wouldn’t be completely at a loss.
So they dawdled until the last five minutes, while she was talking aimlessly and watching everyone’s expressions, ready to make a move when she found an opportunity.
But before she found a suitable opportunity, Guan Yu suddenly shouted, "Wei Yi, charge," and then the three of them dived into the crowd.
The brawl began early.
Mu Qiu didn’t care anymore and immediately stopped talking, shouting to Li Yang and Qiu Shuang: "Li Yang! Find anyone to exchange with! Qiu Shuang, you go for Wei Yi! Ow! Who’s pulling my ear?!"
Nine people crowded together, one covering someone’s mouth, another covering someone’s ears, and yet another covering someone’s eyes. Even those who didn’t want to participate in the brawl were forced to join in.
For example, Shi Yuhuai.
He was like the monk who accidentally stumbled into the web cave, frowning all the while, being pushed around.
From being squeezed to the middle, then from the middle to the opposite side, finally about to escape, when someone’s hand grabbed him, banging him against someone so hard it hurt his chest with their head.
Just like him, Cheng Zhirang and Jiang Lu felt the same way. In fact, it wasn’t accidental that they were here; the ones truly enjoying the brawl were just a few.
Guan Yu, Mu Qiu, Shu Ran, and Li Yang.
Maybe you could grudgingly include Wei Yi and Qiu Shuang.
But the main forces were the four above, pulling and shouting at the center of the brawl, cheering and adding fuel to the fire. Compared to them, the others were almost just trying to break things up.