Chapter 1591: Midsummer Night Star River
Young Master Mo sneered, stepped forward, and kicked the man over, "Playing dumb with me!"
The man hit his injured spot and cried out in pain. Young Master Mo was visibly impatient. He took out a prop that looked like a gun and pulled the trigger. All sounds from this 013 Zone player disappeared under a transparent bullet that pierced through his brain.
"I hate people who pretend to be ignorant the most. I'm looking for Midsummer Night Star River. This person is a player from your 013 Zone. How dare you say you don't know?"
This statement was a bit far-fetched. There weren't many people in 013 Zone, but even so, it was still a district. Moreover, the islands here were scattered, and it wasn't uncommon for people from two different places to never meet in a lifetime. How would these people, who hid in Butterfly Bone Town and made a living by hunting players from other zones, know anything?
But their confusion didn't satisfy Young Master Mo. His eyes darkened. The scarred man with glasses beside him, having received the signal, stepped forward with another player and killed one person each. He said to the remaining three, "Think carefully. This person has quite a reputation in 013 Zone."
After a moment of uneasy silence, one of them finally said, "I think I've heard someone mention that name... but I heard 'Midsummer Night,' without the 'Star River' part. I don't know if it's the person you're looking for..."
"Less nonsense." The scarred man's prop tightened around the other's neck.
The man winced and propped himself up, quickly saying, "In Stone Medicine City!"
The scarred man released him and threw down a map. "Location."
The player tremblingly extended his finger and pointed at a spot on the map.
The scarred man retrieved the map and held it up for Young Master Mo to see. The latter nodded, so the former put the map away, took out a magnifying glass prop, aimed it at the player who had just confessed, and asked, "Is what you just said true?"
Fearing for his life, the player immediately said, "It's true! It's all true!"
Young Master Mo had no further interest in the people on the ground. He turned around and said lightly, "Kill them all."
"You didn't keep your word..." The 013 Zone players were shocked, but they had already missed their chance to escape using their tickets.
With the players' bodies lying before them, the residents of Butterfly Bone Town were so frightened they kept kowtowing. Especially those responsible for luring players from other zones, who scrambled to defend themselves: "We were forced to harm people! Otherwise, these players would have killed us!"
"We're all victims! Spare us!"
Young Master Mo didn't look back. The scarred man and the others began their harvest without even blinking. Seeing that he wouldn't survive, Liu Da pushed his wife and daughter forward and turned to flee himself.
He started the trend, and a few other men with decent stamina also ran in different directions, but they all fell one by one before getting far.
Liu Da ran and looked back. In his panic, he saw someone coming out of the woods ahead. Without a second thought, he rushed over and knelt before him. "Save me! Save me! I'm not a player! Those people are crazy! They want to kill everyone in our town!"
Chi Xian, who had put on the "Upside-Down Milk Bottle" protective suit again, awkwardly met the gaze of the scarred man and the others. "What a coincidence."
"Have you been following us?" The scarred man frowned.
"Absolutely not!" Chi Xian raised the prop in his hand. "I was following this prop to find mushrooms and just happened to run into you."
To prove his innocence, he even took a step back to distance himself from Liu Da.
Liu Da's eyes filled with despair. "You outsiders are all the same! You do nothing but evil! Coming to 013 Zone just to kill!"
"What did we do wrong! We were just staying in our own homes! Why should we be killed by you!"
"I feel like applauding you," Chi Xian said, tilting his head to stare at him. "The fungus growing on your neck is called Mutant Fungus 112. The 112 isn't its serial number; it's taken from 'one plus one equals two.' It only parasitizes people who have eaten human flesh. Everyone here in your town has this fungus on their necks, which means you've all eaten people. And you still say you did nothing wrong?"
Liu Da was stunned, then said, "Do you think I wanted to eat people? I was forced to!"
"Although there aren't many mutant beasts in the rainforest, there are enough for you people to live on. So all those traps you dug weren't for catching mutant beasts, but for catching people," Chi Xian exposed his lie.
Seeing that he couldn't fool Chi Xian, Liu Da ran past him into the rainforest without looking back, but fell the next second under Young Master Mo's bullet.
"Inferior genes." Young Master Mo put away his prop and spat out these words coldly.
Those two words made Chi Xian's face darken.
The scarred man had already dealt with the remaining people, including the girl named Xiao Tan who had tricked Xu Huo earlier. With their goal achieved, Young Master Mo and his group were about to leave, but then a rumbling sound came from within Butterfly Bone Town. Young Master Mo stopped and turned his head.
"It's the player traveling with him," the scarred man pointed at Chi Xian. "Probably tricked into coming here too. The person is in the underground cave."
Young Master Mo didn't care and turned to leave.
After they left, Chi Xian walked down into Butterfly Bone Town with a grim expression. Glancing at the robots shuttling through the cave, he stood in the middle and shouted down, "Brother Xu, do you need my help?"
"No need." Xu Huo's voice came up, with no further words.
Chi Xian tactfully didn't go down. Instead, he returned to the surface, piled all the bodies from Butterfly Bone Town together, and sprinkled some white fungal ash on them.
This fungus had good corrosive properties and quickly broke down the clothes, beginning to erode the corpses.
Chi Xian walked around, observing and recording the fungus's growth. Unexpectedly, a few minutes later, the pile of bodies suddenly moved. A player crawled out from underneath. Before he could even catch his breath, he eagerly said, "I'm still alive! You want me dead? No way..."
Their eyes met, and the last word got stuck in his throat.
"You're the one who just told those people where Midsummer Night Star River is," Chi Xian said, squatting in front of him with interest. "Why don't you tell me who Midsummer Night Star River is too? Maybe I'll let you off the hook."
"You're not with them?" The 013 Zone player swallowed hard.
"How could that be?" Chi Xian spoke slowly and deliberately. "If I were with them, I would have left by now."
"Midsummer Night Star River is a very powerful player..." The 013 Zone player was cut off mid-sentence as Chi Xian grabbed his throat. Chi Xian leaned in close, his voice low. "Speak properly. I'm not like those fools just now. If you make up even one word of a lie, I'll slice your tongue into pieces and make you swallow them."
Satisfied with the terror in the man's eyes, he released him with a smile. "Got it?"
The back of his hand slapped the player's face, making a crisp sound, but the 013 Zone player didn't dare dodge. He said, "Actually, I don't know who Midsummer Night Star River is. I've never even heard of it. But I do know about Midsummer Night. There's a poisonous fungus in Stone Medicine City called Midsummer Night. They didn't listen to the whole thing, so it's not my fault..."
Chi Xian laughed heartily. "You're quite interesting, aren't you?"
The 013 Zone player quickly forced a smile, but the next second, a finger-wide blade pierced through the top of his head, all the way down to his chin.
(End of Chapter)