Chapter 269: [Rotten Bones and Resurrected Flesh] Utmost Duty Fulfilled
Bai Cha held no answer to offer.
If the instance were destroyed, yet these NPCs continued to exist, would they enter a brand-new instance?
Much like Mother Han had.
If so, then destroying the instance held a single value: for the players’ sake.
Firstly, players could clear the game; secondly, it would eliminate one instance from existence.
Yet would the number of instances truly decrease?
She didn’t even grasp the significance behind everything she had been doing all along; she simply went through with it.
How could she not know that relying on her own power, harboring delusions of confronting the game or the Buddha statue, was nothing more than an idiot’s daydream, a mantis trying to stop a chariot with its arms?
Perhaps owing to her personality, because she detested the feeling of things falling outside her control, she had harbored a desperate craving to destroy the game all along.
Even if she couldn’t achieve it, she had to at least reach a tier where she could stand on equal footing with the game.
Because only then would she possess the capability to bring Xu Shengsheng out of the game at the very least, returning her to a normal person’s life.
Yet in reality, she knew full well that whether it was the game or the Buddha statue, she held a strong possibility of being incapable of dealing with either—a very high probability at that.
Nor had she ever believed that the game and the Buddha statue chose her due to any inherent uniqueness of her own; she believed there ought to be plenty of players like her out there.
They granted a player a form of special treatment—as if chosen—from a high-and-mighty stance, making it exceedingly difficult for one not to foster the sensation of receiving main-character treatment.
What would this kind of uniqueness—especially a uniqueness granted by an entity so formidable that resisting was impossible—ultimately lead to?
Becoming lost.
These thoughts merely flashed past in a single instant before Bai Cha snapped back to her senses, spreading her hands.
“So, do I still have a choice to regret things now?”
Master Gao let out a cold sneer.
“What do you think? They are fundamentally beyond my ability to control.”
As he spoke, his figure vanished abruptly, and the umbrella soared high into the air.
Amidst the dense crowd, umbrella after umbrella followed suit.
They merged together.
A massive canopy drapes over the entire city.
Countless grating, piercing voices shot straight through the eardrums, leaving one’s entire mind buzzing continuously.
“I know this bride—she’s masseuse No. 6, right?!”
“She had an affair with a delivery man—how utterly shameless.”
“I’ve seen this female college student on a certain website long ago; she dove into sex work ages ago.”
“Tsk tsk, at such an advanced age, hiring hostesses for comfort—playing quite wildly, huh!”
“These days, truly anyone can take the graduate entrance exams. A whore having the nerve to post about it.”
“Look at her clothes—so short; one glance and you know she isn’t respectable.”
“She’s been vomiting constantly lately—could she be pregnant?”
“I know this guy—he used to teach over on our side; a repeat offender! Anyone with a daughter at home better be careful!”
“This woman used to be a campus belle back then, tsk tsk… wonder if she started back in school.”
“Wearing such heavy makeup, one glance tells you she’s no decent person.”
“Hilarious! A guy getting drugged by another guy—who asked him to grow long hair? Got mistaken for a woman, right? A man growing long hair, neither male nor female—serves him right.”
The overwhelmingly noisy, chaotic voices left Bai Cha dizzy and disoriented, blood gushing from her nose once more.
The other players fared no better.
Bai Cha gripped the Tai Sui in her hand tightly, exercising every ounce of control.
Because the Tai Sui was so thrilled at this moment that it had completely blanketed the entire instance.
In the sky, apart from that massive umbrella suspended right in the center, lay the pitch-black expanse of the Tai Sui.
It continuously absorbed the power of the umbrella.
Until it wrapped around the entire umbrella completely.
Bai Cha narrowed her eyes slightly, drawing her Dodder Vine seeds out from within the Tai Sui.
They coiled around the canopy.
The Tai Sui froze in place.
Unwilling to yield, it attempted to compete with Bai Cha for nourishment, yet Bai Cha had already extended her left hand to grip its main body.
The black threads in the air thrashed violently for a single instant, then submitted with absolute obedience.
Someone approached Bai Cha.
Black threads coiled around Bai Cha’s surroundings as well, detecting him in the very first second.
“Zheng Zelin, what are you trying to do?”
Zheng Zelin lowered his eyes to inspect her.
“Nothing much—just wanted to have a chat with you after we get out.”
Bai Cha looked at him coldly.
“You’d better discuss it with the Voodoo Guild first; after all, they came to find me first.”
Zheng Zelin thereupon raised his head to look at Chen Mi not far away.
Their gazes clashed, and Chen Mi offered a friendly smile.
Zheng Zelin turned his eyes back onto Bai Cha.
“We mean no harm—we purely want to talk.”
Bai Cha rolled her eyes subtly.
The canopy was now completely covered in Dodder Vines, which remained hidden from public view under the cover of the Tai Sui.
However, the Tai Sui’s power had been displayed previously in Dr. Qin’s instance.
Thus, certain people in the bullet chat had already recognized her—they simply weren’t certain just yet, because they hadn’t seen the Tai Sui’s main body.
While speaking with the person over here, Bai Cha diverted a fraction of her focus to convey her intent through the Dodder Vines.
Due to the Tai Sui’s previous invasion, seeds of the Dodder Vines resided inside their bodies as well.
If they were willing to grant her their power, she would bring the Soul Flowers belonging to them out to reality.
If they were unwilling, then she could truly offer only her apologies.
She felt immense sympathy and desperately wanted to help them—much like if time permitted, she might have gone to embrace every single one of them.
Yet regrettably,
this was the world of the game.
Had this instance not been a competition mode, matters ought not to have escalated to the current situation.
She might still have been able to soothe them one by one to the best of her abilities.
Yet there was no way around it; judging by the situation moments ago, Chen Mi possessed formidable strength and had kept it hidden to boot—he ought to be fully capable of killing the NPC Master Gao.
Should he take action, the ultimate method of clearing the game would still remain destroying the instance.
And the sole method of destroying the instance was slaughtering these NPCs.
This world had been birthed precisely because of them, after all.
Chen Mi appeared as if he intended merely to stand aside without making further moves, yet he was an eliminated individual.
What would he rely on to clear the game?
Particularly when the other party brought up Yu Zhenzhen once more.
Bai Cha had been in a foul, deeply irritable mood right from earlier.
She couldn’t even look after herself, to say nothing of helping others—she simply lacked the energy for it.
Everyone held different stances; she needed to survive, and that was all there was to it.
Refraining from sitting aside to watch them get slaughtered one by one was already born of sympathy; otherwise, she could have completely preserved her own strength instead.
When all was said and done, she had already disguised her identity—even knowing certain people could discern who she was, why bother exposing herself so thoroughly?
It was merely that if she took action, these specters might still retain a sliver of something if they were willing.
If others took action, there was no telling what would remain.
She had fulfilled her utmost duty.
Yet at this moment, Zheng Zelin was still lingering here to chat.
Bai Cha countered with impatient sharp inquiry: “You mean no harm, yet you wanted to plant a puppet technique on me?”
As long as a puppet technique wasn’t utilized to guide a player into committing suicide, it didn’t count as players slaughtering one another.
Case in point: when he controlled Shen Xiao-luo to deliver her into that room, he refrained from killing her precisely because Shen Xiao-luo herself was a player, as was he.
However, had he directed Shen Xiao-luo to attack the umbrellas inside that room, Shen Xiao-luo would have died without a doubt.
That would count as a successful murder by borrowed knife.
This skill was thoroughly disgusting.
Bai Cha prompted the specters inside the umbrella once more, granting them merely a final ten seconds to ponder.
Zheng Zelin said, “It was merely a test to see if you have the qualifications.”
Bai Cha swept a cold glance across him, uttering no reply, yet her look conveyed everything.
Seeing this, Zheng Zelin let out a regretful sigh.
Over on the canopy’s side, Liu Ruyi and Master Gao agreed, followed by several other specters agreeing one after another, totaling roughly ten individuals.
Yet the remaining specters refused to agree.
What difference lay between the outside and this place? None whatsoever!
Everywhere was rotten to the core!
Bai Cha looked up at the sky.
Since that was the case, she could only say she was sorry!
