Chapter 197
Chapter 197
The two men had already walked up to her.
The effect of the skill still hadn’t worn off, so Mu Xin could only lie sprawled on the ground.
Even so, she forced herself to rally and lift her head, looking up at the two men before her.
Then, all of a sudden, she laughed.
The moment Mu Xin laughed, both men stopped in their tracks, afraid it might be a trick.
Mu Xin glanced at them with a hint of contempt. “You actually dare to believe Xia Zeqin?” After saying that, she shook her head and went on, “No, that’s not quite right. He wasn’t wrong. This game really is about killing each other. But he didn’t tell you the whole story.”
The two men froze. One of them asked, “What?”
“Killing me won’t do you any good, because if you truly want to leave this place, there can only be one person left,” Mu Xin said.
Both men stiffened.
Mu Xin continued, “You must have drawn cards too, right? The card rank is R, isn’t it? This is a card-person game. The card ranks are divided into three tiers: R, SR, and SSR. Right now, we’re at the lowest tier. If you want to leave this place, you have to level up to SSR. And the way to level up is by killing people. When you’ve killed everyone and you’re the only one left, you’ll level up to SSR, become the true protagonist, and leave this world.”
The two men were stunned speechless by what Mu Xin said.
Mu Xin looked at them and smiled. “There’s only one of me. Have you decided which one of you is going to kill me? A friendly reminder: whoever kills me will raise his rank, and the skill he gains will be stronger than the other person’s. After killing me, are you sure the companion standing beside you won’t turn on you? Maybe not now, but what about later? This world only allows one person to clear it, after all.”
“You think we’ll believe your nonsense?” one of them snapped, cutting her off.
As they spoke, Mu Xin could feel the exhaustion and dizziness weighing on her gradually fade away.
Her mind cleared again.
But she didn’t climb up from the ground. Instead, she kept pretending.
“You don’t have to believe me. Either way, I’m dead for sure. As for you…” Mu Xin smiled. “This isn’t bad either. One life for one life. I won’t be losing out, will I?”
The two men began to feel unsettled by Mu Xin’s attitude.
“Come on, then. Have you decided which one of you is going to farm me for experience?” Mu Xin asked, looking at them.
The two men paused, then suddenly turned to look at each other.
“You do it,” one of them said first, using the chance to make his stance clear. “I don’t believe a word she’s saying. We’ve worked together for so long. Don’t you know what kind of person I am? Go on.”
As soon as he said that, Mu Xin laughed again. “That’s hilarious. If you don’t believe me, why bother emphasizing all that to him?” Then she looked at the other man and said, “Believe it or not, the second you make a move against me, he’ll finish you off from behind. Once he’s killed you, I’m just a girl with no ability to resist, so he can easily kill me too. With both our lives in his hands, he’ll level up. Obviously, that will give him an advantage over everyone else. Then he can use that advantage to go after the others, breaking them down one by one and widening the gap more and more until he successfully kills everyone and leaves this world.”
“What the hell are you talking about?” the man who had made the suggestion immediately shouted, trying to stop her.
Mu Xin raised an eyebrow at the other man. “See? I hit the mark, didn’t I? If I hadn’t, why would he be in such a hurry? Would a few words from me really make you believe me and start suspecting your own teammate? The reason he’s so anxious is clearly because I exposed what he was thinking. He’s afraid of giving himself away.”
Maybe he hadn’t believed her at first, but after his teammate’s strange attitude and Mu Xin’s deliberate guidance, he began to suspect his own teammate. The look he gave him turned doubtful.
“Are you out of your mind? You actually believe what she said?” the man who had made the suggestion asked, staring at him in utter speechlessness.
“How could I possibly believe her?” the other man laughed a few times. But his next sentence made the first man’s face turn cold. “I believe you. This woman really deserves to die. She slandered you like that, so how about this? You go kill her. Vent your anger.”
If this had been before, he might not have suspected his teammate. But after Mu Xin’s little speech, bringing up that suggestion again made the malice hidden behind it all too obvious.
He shot Mu Xin a vicious glare.
She looked young, but she had plenty of schemes. Still, he had to admit that, no matter which of them it was, a seed of suspicion had now been planted in both their hearts.
“Then let’s do it together,” he proposed again, trying to keep their two-man team from falling apart.
The other man hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
After that, the two reached an agreement once more and turned back toward Mu Xin.
However, just as they were about to act, Mu Xin spoke again. She asked, “How do you plan to kill me?”
Both men froze.
“Are you going to strangle me? Then you’d better calculate it carefully. Just because you think you killed me together doesn’t mean the System will acknowledge it as a joint attack. Who actually deals the fatal blow to me-that’s the important part of the judgment,” Mu Xin said with a smile.
With a single sentence, Mu Xin dragged the topic right back into its original dilemma.
Even if they attacked together, what if the other person had ulterior motives and killed this girl one step ahead of him? Would he then turn on him?
That thought surfaced in both their minds.
This wouldn’t work. That wouldn’t work either.
“Keep her alive,” one of them said.
The other nodded when he heard it. “Fine.”
Since they couldn’t decide, they would let Mu Xin live for now. Even so, without Mu Xin needing to say another word, the two had already developed a trace of wariness toward their own companion.
It wasn’t as if they had never seen someone stab a companion in the back. They had witnessed it before. In the end, their cooperation had only been built on the premise that their own lives were not at risk. But if things were really as Mu Xin said, and only one person could leave this world, then they were bound to become enemies. In that case… perhaps they should seize this chance now and kill the other.
If they took two kills first, they could establish enough of an advantage for themselves. Only then would they be able to fight the other people with the Player role.
Mu Xin watched the two of them secretly sizing each other up from time to time, and she let out a slight breath of relief in her heart.
No matter what, staying alive came first. As for these two… Mu Xin lowered her eyes slightly, concealing the emotions in them.
These two were far inferior to Jian Fan and the others. They had the same status as Old Player, and although they were the final two survivors, with these skills and these brains, they were probably only a little better than Lu Jing and Lin Junruo.
Of course, overall, they were even worse than Lin Junruo and Lu Jing.
At least Lu Jing and Lin Junruo trusted their teammates wholeheartedly. They would never be driven apart this easily.
At that moment, Mu Xin completely ignored just how strong her own ability in this area was.
They had originally cooperated seamlessly and trusted each other quite a bit. Yet in the end, under her every word, cracks began to appear.