Chapter 39: Exploding Last Train (1/2)

Bai Liu’s figure disappeared completely as Mu Sicheng jumped frantically.

Mu Sicheng bit his fingernails and circled the place where Bai Liu disappeared a few times anxiously. He crouched down, grabbed his hair and crushed the lollipop in his mouth. Finally he gritted his teeth, clicked on the icon of Exploding Last Train and followed Bai Liu into the game.

One second before entering the game, Mu Sicheng talked to himself in a depressed manner. “Damn Bai Liu, this guy made me curious too. I didn’t do anything to prepare for a level 2 game!”

[The game ‘Exploding Last Train’ has gathered two players. Five more players are needed for it to start.]

Two minutes after Mu Sicheng disappeared, four players with almost the same height, figure and appearance showed up in front of the screen.

They all had weird puppet paint on their faces and they walked like puppets being led on strings. Every step they took had a strange sense of pause in their limbs and joints. They looked like four identical puppets made by a skilled craftsman and it was hard to tell the difference using the naked eye.

The first person, or puppet, asked in a low tone, “Bai Liu entered this game?”

When this ‘puppet’ spoke, his mouth moved up and down a lot like a puppet pretending to speak under the control of strings while the low and hoarse voice came from the one lifting the string behind him.

A hint of a desire for revenge flashed in the eyes of another puppet carrying a butcher knife on his back as he respectfully replied, “Yes, Mr String Puppet Master.”

“Is this Exploding Last Train?” The ink painted eyes on the puppet’s face narrowed realistically before he gave a vicious smile. “A level two game. It seems that even if I don’t fight against Bai Liu, he is unlikely to come out alive from this game. It is a pity for such a high talent to die. He should just be used as my puppet.”

“Go!”

The four puppets acted neatly together as they clicked on Exploding Last Train and disappeared together.

[The game ‘Exploding Last Train’ has gathered six players. One more player is needed for it to start.]

A person wearing a sweater, thick plain glasses and holding a thick tome in his hand appeared at the screen next to the entrance.

His thick square glasses were so big that they covered half his face. The lower half of the face exposed by the glasses had scattered freckles on the bridge of his nose. His head was shrinking down into his sweater. If Bai Liu saw him then he would think this player was similar to Jeff in Siren Town.

However, he looked weaker and more normal than Jeff. He seemed to be a normal student. Yet in the game, a normally dressed student seemed strangely abnormal.

“Let’s see what game I should choose…” The player pushed up his glasses and looked closely at the screen like he was wearing reading glasses. Then he opened the management panel of his game manager.

The personal panel of his game manager showed:

[Player Name: Du Sanying]

[Today’s Rising Stars Points Ranking: You have surpassed Mu Sicheng’s 170,000 points, who is fourth on the rising stars ranking. He will definitely not be able to catch up with you in the short term. Please continue to work hard to widen the gap and catch up with the players in front of you.]

[Achievements: Winner who did nothing, the only lucky one who survives, the player who is ignored by monsters for no reason, the fighter who attacked you missed 100 shots.]

[The items you bought in the game store are being discounted from 10,000 points to 1 point. Do you want to buy them?]

[Congratulations to player Du Sanying for winning the top player gift package with a winning rate of one in 100,000! Do you want to receive it now?]

……

Du Sanying seemed to have become numb to these windfalls. He didn’t receive any of the rewards or gifts. He crossed out of all these interfaces until he reached his personal panel on the last page. Du Sanying pushed up his glasses and almost pushed his face to the panel. He squinted as he searched for the information he wanted.

[Luck value: 100 (You are the luckiest person in the world today. You are favoured by the god of luck. Choose the game you want according to your instinct! The one you choose will make you the luckiest!)]

“The luck value is also 100 today?” Du Sanying glanced hesitantly at the entire screen. “In that case, it is better to choose according to intuition. Then—”

He glanced around and his eyes finally froze on the icon of Exploding Last Train. Du Sanying’s hand hung above the icon and a creepy premonition surged in his heart. It seemed that if he clicked on this icon, something very lucky and very unlucky would happen. This was a feeling that Du Sanying had never felt before when choosing a game as he was 100% lucky.

Previously, he always had a certain feeling that he would be lucky if he chose a certain game. Why did he feel that he would suffer a lot if he chose this game but at the same time, he would be very lucky…

It was a mess. Du Sanying shook his head and hesitated a long time. Even so, he still clicked on the game icon of Exploding Last Train.

[All players have been gathered for the game Exploding Last Train. The game will start.]

On the big screen, the ‘full’ mark appeared in the lower right corner of the Exploding Last Train icon. The next second, Bai Liu opened his eyes in a subway station. At the same time, seven small TVs lit up in the game hall. One of them showed Bai Liu’s calm face in a crowded subway station.

Wang Shun was looking for Bai Liu in the game hall when his game manager shook again and again.

[System tip: Bai Liu, the player whose small TV you have bookmarked, has logged into the game. Please go and be a viewer~]

[System tip: Mu Sicheng, the player whose small TV…]