Chapter 195
Chapter 195
The fear Qin Nan had felt earlier was all but worn away by the barrage of memes from the other side.
Qin Nan laughed. “Little Princess, keep sending them. I’m going to check the messages first.”
After replying, Qin Nan began looking through the chat history between Little Princess and the other four people.
There were no particularly special clues. They simply had good relationships, invited each other out, showed concern for one another, and there was some ambiguity between them. It was more or less the same as the previous chat records. The only difference was that, because their personalities were different, the way the conversations played out varied somewhat. Of course, the main theme was still the same.
This was standard interaction between the heroine and the major male and female leads in a dating sim.
Qin Nan returned to the chat window with Little Princess.
Little Princess had sent a whole pile of memes. After realizing that Qin Nan was genuinely focused on reading the chat records, she gave up.
Qin Nan thought for a moment, then typed out a line.
“Don’t you already have five male leads? Our quality is this bad, and you still want us?”
The other side replied very quickly.
“I don’t want to talk to you.”
Seeing this, Qin Nan immediately straightened up. His fingers tapped rapidly across the tablet, typing out a long string of flattering praise before hitting send.
“How could a kind, understanding, invincibly beautiful, once-in-a-lifetime little fairy like Little Princess possibly have the heart to reject my question? If the little fairy refuses, then it must be because my question wasn’t polite enough. All right, then I’ll ask again. Ah, beautiful and adorable little fairy, why would you choose ordinary mortals like us? We are so humble and lowly. How could we ever be worthy of Your Highness the noble princess?”
Jian Fan had been watching Qin Nan for quite a while now, seeing him holding the tablet without moving. When he noticed Qin Nan constantly tapping on it, seemingly typing, he guessed that Qin Nan was probably chatting with the other side and walked over.
As soon as he drew close, he saw the paragraph Qin Nan had just sent.
Jian Fan: “…”
He really wanted to say that he did not know this person.
No matter how disgusted Jian Fan was, Little Princess on the other end seemed to eat it up.
Little Princess replied with a cutesy meme, then added a line.
“Not all of you. Just one person. You are only my Trainee Male Lead candidates. Among you, only the one who survives to the very end can become my true male lead, and also my sixth male lead.”
Qin Nan was stunned.
The faint look of disdain in Jian Fan’s eyes also froze when he saw that message. He patted Qin Nan. Although he did not speak, Qin Nan understood what he meant.
He wanted him to continue.
Qin Nan immediately replied.
“Could the little fairy explain a little more to us foolish mortals?”
Little Princess sent a sighing meme, then sent over a voice message.
Qin Nan tapped it open.
The other party not only looked sweet, even her voice was soft and cute. The contents of the message, however, were not sweet at all.
“Only a Trainee Male Lead who reaches SSR rank can come to my world and become my true male lead. As for how to rank up…” Little Princess laughed, then continued, “It’s very simple. As long as you kill the others and take their card faces, you can rank up. I’ll be waiting for you to come to my world. Don’t disappoint me.”
Qin Nan froze.
He thought of those Character Card abilities.
Their previous guess had been that in this world, the Realm of Death wanted them to kill each other. If that had only been a guess before, then everything now undoubtedly confirmed it.
If they wanted to leave this place alive, they had to kill their companions, rank themselves up, and become the one and only SSR male lead. Only then could they leave.
Qin Nan jerked his head up and looked at the other teammates standing in the room.
Since it had come through voice chat, all six of them had clearly heard it.
“You…” Qin Nan began with some difficulty, but once he had made a sound, he suddenly had no idea what to say.
Everyone understood the logic. But was it really possible to trust one another completely, give up on killing each other? Even if he said it now, no one would deny him to his face. But behind their promises, when they wanted to make a move, they still would. Nothing would actually change.
Jian Fan was the first to come back to himself.
“Qin Nan, do you remember what I told you before?” Jian Fan asked.
Qin Nan shook his head blankly. He and Jian Fan had been through so much together and said so many things to each other. It would be a miracle if he remembered.
Jian Fan wasn’t surprised. His lips moved slightly, and he let out one sentence: “What you need is a Long-term Partner.”
Qin Nan gave an “ah.”
As he spoke, Jian Fan had already walked to his side and pulled Qin Nan to his feet.
He turned to Lu Jing, Qin Weiyi, and the others. “If none of us can truly let down our guard, or if any of us are harboring thoughts of killing our teammates, then I think this is where we should part ways.”
Qin Weiyi raised an eyebrow.
“If I tell you I won’t attack you, will you believe me?” Qin Weiyi let out a laugh as he spoke, then continued, “If we split up, then the next time we meet, won’t we become enemies?”
Jian Fan laughed too. “Then would you believe me?”
Qin Weiyi sighed and said, “Whether or not we attack each other, it seems like this team of ours can’t go on anymore.”
Jian Fan did not refute him.
The moment that voice had casually said those words, their temporary team had already been doomed to fall apart. They trusted one another, but that was when there was no danger. Right now, they knew next to nothing about this world, yet the other party had given them a very direct way to leave this place.
Kill their own companions.
Jian Fan and Qin Weiyi could guarantee they themselves wouldn’t do it, but they couldn’t guarantee whether the others would make a move against them.
Staying together would undoubtedly give the others an opportunity. It tested human nature too much. So rather than that, it would be better to split up here and each go their own way.
It wasn’t as if they had never done that before.
But before that, there was still one problem.
Qin Weiyi reached out, pointed at the tablet in Qin Nan’s hands, and asked, “What do we do with that?”
Jian Fan frowned but did not answer.
It was a difficult question.
The tablet might expose them under the Little Princess’s eyes, but for now, what they needed to guard against even more were their teammates. And although it exposed them, it also gave them hope of obtaining useful information from the Little Princess. In other words, risk and a chance of survival existed side by side. No matter who they gave the thing to, someone would be unhappy.
Yellow Hair and Lin Junruo had remained silent the entire time.
Neither of them had expected the situation before them. Not long ago, they had clearly still been searching for clues together. Yet because of a single sentence, they were now beginning to fall apart.
And once they split up, Yellow Hair and Lin Junruo’s positions would both be far from optimistic.
Everyone sank into their own thoughts. And just then-
Another WeChat notification sounded from the tablet.
Qin Nan snapped back to himself and tapped it open. When he saw the contents, his eyes flew wide.
“Oh? Someone’s already dead. His card was taken. You all should work hard too, okay?”
Someone was already-dead?