Chapter 112

Chapter 112

Yu Min didn’t believe him. “Suppress my score?”

He knew some of the information on the person in front of him. He’d heard the man’s Jinx was the real deal. What did suppressing scores have to do with bad luck?

Ning Shuo said, “You know, some members of our team have special abilities. Including me.”

The dorms were about to close, so they talked as they walked. “And a while ago, I got an item from the System. With that item boosting me, my chances of Koi Luck are higher than Jinx.”

Through the Live Stream Room camera, Shen Xiao saw Yu Min’s cold, distant expression. He looked nothing like the smiling big boy he usually was. “Sir, since Wolf has already laid it all out, I’ll be direct too.”

“The moment I realized getting a high score meant an extremely high chance of death, I prepared myself for the possibility that I wouldn’t make it back.”

On the first day he entered the Script, Yu Min had found a hand-drawn class ranking chart on his desk.

It mainly kept track of the highest scores in the class over the past few weeks.

According to the chart, the class’s top score had always hovered between 650 and 665. It had never gone above 665.

Yu Min had his doubts, so that day he deliberately looked up the past grades of Fan Jiangnan, the class’s highest scorer.

A High School’s elite senior-year class was formed in the second semester of each year. Before Fan Jiangnan entered the elite class, her scores had always stayed above 700.

After entering the elite class, her grades were still very stable, stable in that they never exceeded 665.

[Your hidden identity: Murderer. Killing condition: Complete a Murder Case with the assistance of first place.]

With the assistance of first place.

If his teammates knew the killing condition, they wouldn’t just leave Yu Min alone.

As for the Accusation, they had already made it into an Arena Match. Every Player was sharp as a fox, especially in a Script like this, where the time span was incredibly long and the two teams were often together.

In this kind of Script, finding the real Murderer was only a matter of time.

Now that they no longer had the protection of the preparation period, if the Murderer was correctly named in an Accusation, death was certain.

Since the Murderer was going to die no matter what, Yu Min thought.

Then the first-place student, who would most likely have to die because of the killing condition, might as well be the Murderer himself.

At least that would minimize the team’s losses.

Yu Min was good at fooling other people, but when it came to fooling teammates who understood one another almost completely, making them believe the killing condition was something else-Yu Min didn’t have that kind of confidence.

So he simply never admitted to being the Murderer.

Every team participating in the Star Zone Arena understood one thing very well: this was a journey where people would definitely die.

Everyone had something they cared about deeply.

That was why every contestant in the Star Zone Arena had long since prepared themselves to see their teammates off.

One of them, or several.

Or perhaps to die themselves.

When Shen Xiao realized that Yu Min had prepared himself to go to his death long ago, her lashes trembled.

She really had lost that smiling boy completely.

—

Yu Min looked at Ning Shuo. “Since this is cooperation, there must be something you need our help with. In that case, the risk can’t be small. I won’t let my teammates take that risk to help you.”

A person who had already prepared himself to die didn’t want his teammates dragged into danger. That was only human.

No wonder Shen Xiao liked him so much.

Ning Shuo, who had seen Yu Min in Shen Xiao’s dream long ago, had no intention of admitting that he knew Shen Xiao.

This was the negotiation stage. Only an idiot would admit he knew the other party’s enemy.

With no one around, Ning Shuo smiled and said, “No. As long as you accept my help, you’ll already be helping me.”

The Yu Min of now had no idea that Ning Shuo’s Water Moon Mirror item had stopped working.
Ning Shuo lowered his eyes, every inch of him the picture of someone acting for Yu Min’s own good. “You know this. The reason Zone F rarely plays PvP is because we don’t want to hurt other Players. Naturally, the same applies to the Star Zone Arena.”

“Whether you die or not has no effect on us. With Lolita here, I can guarantee our team will be the first to find the Notary Office.”

“As for my other teammates, they know a thing or two about fighting. I’m also eighty percent certain we can keep your team tied up until the Script ends, so you’ll never find the Notary Office.”

In that case, Zone B’s Murderer Mission couldn’t be completed, and neither could the Innocent Mission.

Ning Shuo had spent so long in the palace that he was very practiced at mixing kindness with intimidation.

He glanced at the hand Yu Min had hidden behind his back and smiled. “You don’t need to consider the possibility of killing me right now either. First, you can’t beat me. Second, if you kill me, life won’t be easy for you with the NPCs from now on.”

The restriction that killing conditions imposed on a Murderer was that if they killed outside those conditions, the NPCs would place even stricter demands on the Murderer’s character setting in the future.

For example, right now Yu Min was the class monitor, and his character setting was that he was helpful. Originally, Yu Min only needed to put on a show. But if he actually killed someone outside the killing conditions, whether Yu Min would still have time to study in the future was hard to say.

Not to mention, the class monitor was still studying at two in the morning.

Before, no NPC had come looking for him at two in the morning. After he killed Ning Shuo, that might no longer be the case.

On the Forum, public opinion began to lean toward Zone F.

Most of them were Zone B Players who changed their tune after confirming that Ning Shuo really did want to help Zone B.

003, who was ostensibly still hosting the venue but in reality had done nothing and simply let public opinion ferment, sent a reply to the Main God: “Oh my, public opinion is rising. The rules won’t allow a disturbance on this scale. When that happens, all those years you’ve spent hiding will be for nothing. In that case, your movements will be discovered by them.”

“You’ve hidden for so many years. You wouldn’t want to expose your trail because of a mirror, would you? Especially when it’s only a fragment.”

—

Seeing the item section in his Backpack return to its normal color, Ning Shuo smiled and held out his hand. “A pleasure doing business with you.”

Yu Min frowned. “Are you really doing this purely out of kindness?”

“Of course not. As for what I want, you’ll know once you leave the Script and check the Forum.”

“It won’t harm you, though.”

Yu Min watched his back as he slowly followed behind.

How should he put it?

Although they were on opposing sides, and although he couldn’t easily trust an opponent when his life was on the line…

Yu Min truly did want to live.

To get out alive, and then see Qi Ran.

—

Only after Ning Shuo returned to the dorm did he open Ning Wang’s note. When he saw the message written on it, his hand paused on the door.

He looked up and asked the NPC who had already arrived in the dorm, “It’s been so long since I asked for leave. Do you still remember how to ask the teacher for permission to go home?”

The NPC’s eyes were dull. “Why do you need to go home?”

Without the slightest change in expression, Ning Shuo said, “Someone in my family is fighting over the inheritance. I’m afraid that if I don’t go back now, my tuition and living expenses for the next month will be gone.”

The body was the foundation of studying. If he had no money to eat, how was he supposed to study properly?

The NPC nodded. “I have the teacher’s number. Your grades are good, so when the time comes, the teacher can talk to the security guard and have them let you out.”

Ning Shuo nodded in thanks. When he left, he took a detour to Rao Lin’s dorm and passed the note in his hand to Rao Lin.

After lights-out in the dorm, Willow, who was studying at night, opened the note.

[I remembered some things about the System civil war from a few years ago.]

[I remember… I think you died.]