Chapter 546: 11.72 First Green Star - Punishment World: 'Labyrinth' (2)
Chapter 546: 11.72 First Green Star – Punishment World: ‘Labyrinth’ (2)
The Arrival of the Hell Train and the announcement woke the players up. They’ve all got on the train one at a time. Those in groups had sat together while those solo players took a dark corner to hide their presence.
Hei Anjing and his team sat on one of the long connected seats inside the train. The couples of course sat together. An Yuan felt tired and a bit sleepy. He was dozing off on the seat leaning his head on Han Ya’s shoulder when he heard someone talking near his ears. He looked up with his groggy eyes and saw cool beauty standing in front of Han Ya. An Yuan immediately woke up.
“You are Han Ya aren’t you? You are back in the Abyssal World.” The cool beauty was a bit cold but she looked friendly to Han Ya. Obviously, she knew Han Ya well, the former Han Ya that is. “It’s me, Lu Feifei. I am a Player in the Red Zone like you do, though we haven’t played together much before for someone as well known as you, everyone in the Red Zone knows about you. To think you would join a group with two rankers, a rising genius, and two newbies.”
Lu Feifei looked at Lan She and said, “Hi there, our Red Zone’s rising genius. No longer going solo?”
“Um. Found teammates I want,” said Lan She. On his side, Chu Mo is sleeping deeply while snoring. No one would believe it if they say this insensitive man is that notorious assassin, Player Reaper.
Snore~ snore~
Then LuFeifei sneaks a peek at the other couple who is a hundred times more dangerous than the Reaper. But at this moment, Ye Xiajie was ignoring her overall presence while smiling at his wife. He was holding his wife’s waist as he let Hei Anjing sit on his lap despite the countless empty chairs beside him. On the other hand, the latter is so calm and relaxed on Player Abyss’s lap as if the lap itself was his personal chair. Plus his husband is holding a cup filled with milk tea with a straw inserted. He only needs to open his mouth to take a sip. Hei Anjing’s eyes squinted in satisfaction.
Lu Feifei mumbled, “It’s already a well-known fact that Player Abyss is a soloist who is considered a monster even by the Abyssal monsters within the games. Now… he even found a partner that isn’t that less ruthless and powerful than he is…”
Han Ya and An Yuan noticed her looking around their group and they observed her in silence/ The Professor activated his eyes secretly to look into this female player. What appeared before him is Lu Feifei’s current status.
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Lu Feifei
Position: Veteran
Zone: Red
Element: Water
Bloodline: Siren
Personality: Cautious, decisive, loyal, and playful.
Games Played:
Green: 100
Blue: 50
Red: 10
Black: 0
P.S.: She used to like Han Ya but after seeing his intimacy with Player An Yuan she lost interest in him. She is now interested in his team instead.
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Seeing the descriptions of her status made An Yuan sigh in relief. Of course, his reaction didn’t escape the eyes of Han Ya and Lu Feifei. They knew he had used his ability on her to check something. Even though she didn’t know what it was, Lu Feifei knew about it and didn’t stop him from doing so.
With a teasing smile on her face, Lu Feifei asked, “Are you at ease now, Player An Yuan?”
Startled for a moment knowing that she was caught, An Yuan hid his face in Han Ya’s arms. his muffled words say, “Sorry that was rude of me.”
“It’s okay. Most of the status of players in the Blue and Red Zone is recorded. You can look all you want. But your ability is quite amazing. Even though I didn’t know what you have seen, I think you knew that I am not here to fight.” said Lu Feifei with a friendly smile on her face.
If she didn’t smile she would look like a cool beauty like an iceberg. Her appearance leans on the same features as Hei Anjing. The type when they don’t have an expression on their face looks like they are unapproachable but when they smile they look so lovely that others couldn’t move their eyes away. Though Hei Anjing’s features are even more above average than Lu Feifei’s.
Han Ya asked, “Why are you here?”
“Nothing. I just want to check on something. Now that I saw what I want our team would no longer continue to play this game. After all, everyone knows that only one team or one solo player can win in the end. We will be retiring now. You are already hard to beat. Together with a rising star like Doctor Lan and a Player like An Yuan who can see through players plus three monsters in your team, it is impossible for us to win.” said Lu Feifei
Chu Mo who was pretending to sleep suddenly opened his eyes and retorted, “Oi. oi. Don’t add me up as a monster. Only the boss and his wife are one!”
“Can’t you just shut your mouth and don’t dig your grave too early,” said Lan She.
Then everyone watched as the pouting Hei Anjing brought out a black talisman with an eerie red blood word written as Unlucky and pasted it on Chu Mo without any hesitation.
Hmph!
“Divine Punishment,” said Hei Anjing as he continued to allow his husband to pamper him. Ye Xiajie sneered at his subordinate’s foolishness.
Lan She even pushed away his lover and sat far away from him. An Yuan, Han Ya, and Lu Feifei who were seated close to Chu Mo had also changed seats. Ye Xiajie carried his wife and moved location. Chu Mo was instantly desolated.
(QAQ)…(QAQ)…(QAQ)
Chu Mo spoke, “Lord Hei~, I’m sorry~”
Sadly, Hei Anjing played dead and ignored him. He closed his eyes and slept while leaning on his husband’s chest listening to his rhythmically breathing as if it was a lullaby. It didn’t take long for him to fall asleep for real. Chu Mo was about to open his mouth once more but suddenly stiffened when he received a sharp glare from his big boss. Clearly, warning him to shut his mouth.
Han Ya murmured, “This happens because you can’t hold back your tongue. Tsk!”
“Don’t worry, Brother Chu. It was only an unlucky tag that would affect you alone. We would be safe even if we are beside you,” said An Yuan while smiling. But to Chu Mo, this innocent smile looks like a little devil smile.
Lan She once again sat beside his lover and comforted him. Knowing he wouldn’t be affected by his lover’s bad luck he decided to accompany him.
“Next time… Just don’t talk. We are going into an unknown labyrinth. Most labyrinths are full of traps so… Um, with your current state. You might be used as a bulldozer to activate all traps for us. By the way, An, how long does this Unlucky Talisman last?” asked Lan She.
An Yuan raised one finger. Seeing this Chu Mo was relieved in his heart thinking that it would only take one day of unluckiness. Who would have thought that An Yuan would one his mouth at the last moment.
“One month!” said An Yuan with a cheerful voice.
Chu Mo fell off the chair while the others were shocked. Even the always calm Lan She couldn’t hold back the surprise that was now imprinted on his face.
“Fuck! (QWQ)” muttered Chu Mo. He held back his scream afraid of getting more punishment. If he accidentally woke up the sleeping Lord Hei, his own Lord would definitely kill him this time. On his face are imaginary tears that fall down nonstop.
System Yue looks at the Warden so pitiful. [Un! No matter what world we are in, the Warden would always have the weakest standing among the four.]
[Yue’er, you can’t just say that. Look how depressed, Warden Lou is.] said System Yang.
Thoughts of Chu Mo at this moment, ‘I can hear you both too clearly!!!’
Watching the whole ruckus as an outsider, Lu Feifei couldn’t hold back her laughter. She couldn’t believe that the all-star team in the mind of the outsider was this warm and jolly. They were all funny yet most of them are powerful enough to destroy a game if they wish to.
Pfft~ hahaha~
With a smile on the corner of her lips, Lu Feifei said, “Sir Reaper and Sir Abyss never went to this Punishment world right? How about buying the information I have with me? My team has completed this punishment game twice so my information is legit.”
“You have completed this game twice already? As the sole survivor!?” asked An Yuan in amazement.
Lu Feifei said, “Of course! Even though I look like this my team is full of Veterans. Plus this game mode gives the largest rewards with the greatest risks. With no rankers entering this game we veterans can fight for it. But now… since Sir Reaper, Sir Abyss, and Sir Hei are here, it is almost impossible for us to win so we will be retiring now. So how about it? Are you interested?”
“Of course! Tell me. I will buy your information about the Labyrinth Village and the Battle Royal.” said An Yuan.
Lan She said, “Let’s use the team fund to pay. We will buy it if the information you give us is useful. We will first give you 10,000 gold coins as a down payment and pay another 40,000 gold coins if it’s satisfactory.”
Lu Feifei was instantly joyous when she heard that these players who were considered the richest after the First Phase of the game would buy her information. Her teams’ rewards at the end of the first phase were also quite rich but compared to a team who got more than 100,000 gold coins as rewards their 20,000 plus gold coin looks so little.
“Okay. I will tell you everything about the Labyrinth Village. As the words themselves say, it is a village built within a labyrinth. The entrance to the Village is the entrance to the Labyrinth. Once you enter inside you would be considered entering the labyrinth and the second phase of the game would begin. Within the Labyrinth, you would find a Village, in that place you would be able to collect hints of the changes in the maze. The contents of the labyrinth change. It would never be the same as the past Labyrinth.
The labyrinth we had undergone before is based on horror novels. Each path would bring you into a world of novels and you would be given a mission. You need to complete that so the path before you would open up. Failure to do so, you would forever be stuck inside the book so be careful. The second time we entered the Labyrinth Village it was no longer based on a horror book but instead on supernatural entities like aliens and such. That was quite creepy as the monsters and entities that appeared there looked grotesque. Thankfully, we gathered enough information in the village before diving deeper into the maze.
You can watch our old streaming videos, there are samples there regarding the labyrinth. Though those videos are locked by us, I can sell them to you as well. 5,000/video there are only 3 each labyrinth as you need to complete three missions in the labyrinth before it can be considered as a completion for the Second Phase of the Punishment Game.” said Lu Feifei.
An Yuan gives 10,000 gold coins for the downpayment and another 30,000 gold coins for the videos. Lu Feifei happily accepted their payment and continued her part. This time she starts explaining the last phase which is the Battle Royal.
Lu Feifei said, “As for the Battle Royal, it is what you thought. All players would be fighting one another. But there’s an easter egg, Boss NPC would be appearing at random times. They might appear in the middle of the battle or suddenly fall from the sky. Plus the restrictions on their strength are removed. They are mostly in the Demigod to God stage of strength. But rumors say that even Highgods descended, which is weird, they weren’t just Abyssal Monsters.
Other pureblood races would appear as well and kidnap some players who awakened the same bloodline as them. Of course, I don’t know what happened to those who were captured but they were deemed failures by the world consciousness so don’t get caught okay? The final phase would be considered complete once only one team or one player exists in the Battle Royal Arena. That’s all I know.”
Han Ya looked serious and asked, “Do you also have videos regarding the battle royal? Better if you have some that recorded the other races that descended on the stage as you’ve said.”
“Our recordings didn’t capture those other races as we fled away from them but some guys might have posted some on the black market. Why don’t you check on the Abyssal Store’s Black Market?” said Lu Feifei.
An Yuan passed the remaining payment which is 40,000 gold coins. Overall Lu Feifei got 80,000 gold coins from their team in exchange for information. Lu Feifei happily received it. The other teams who had the same information as Lu Feifei felt bitter. Why didn’t they resolve themselves and forget their fear of Abyss and his wife, Hei Anjing? If they are the ones who sold that information that 80,000 gold coins would be theirs instead.
“Thank you for the information. It was definitely helpful for us.” said An Yuan.
Lu Feifei said, “Come on~ even without the information I gave you. You would definitely survive as you have them with you.” She was talking about the shameless couple at the corner who was in their own world sleeping peacefully in each other’s embrace.
Seeing this An Yuan felt embarrassed and envious as well. He wanted to be like Hei Anjing sticking to Han Ya without getting embarrassed but who let him be born with a thin face. Even at this cute scene his face couldn’t help but blush.
Lu Feifei said, “Oh my~ so cute~ Han Ya you are quite lucky to get such a cutie~”
“Of course!” said Han Ya with a proud smile on his face.
That smile was covered by An Yuan who said, “Stop smiling. (OwO), so embarrassing~”
Then everyone laughs at them.