Chapter 44 (1/2)

Puppet Zhang snorted proudly. “An idiot is an idiot. One of the three people is Bai Liu. This guy has very poor panel attributes and his movement speed isn’t as fast as all of you under my control. He can’t search the carriage faster than you.”

“Mu Sicheng moves fast but his intelligence isn’t as high as Bai Liu’s intelligence. When it comes to finding things, he can’t compare to me who has intelligence and you puppet players. Unless those two people unite, I must be the fastest player to search the carriages.”

“However, those two definitely won’t cooperate.” Puppet Zhang’s smile became malicious as he casually kicked one of the puppets in front of him. The puppet fell as he was kicked, bowing his head and kneeling in front of Puppet Zhang.

Puppet Zhang stepped carelessly on the kneeling puppet’s back, lowering his head as he approached the puppet in front of him with a smile. “Right, Mu Sicheng’s one-time good friend, Lin Huai?”

The puppet player called Lin Huai said nothing, his limbs trembling slightly.

“I specifically brought you with me because I knew this game will have Mu Sicheng.” Puppet Zhang smiled. “Mu Sicheng wouldn’t think that you have become my puppet player, right?”

“He almost became my puppet because of your betrayal but in the end, Mu Sicheng’s mental value fell to 18 and he violently attacked me. He violently killed my four puppets and escaped. So many of my puppet players died that I had to take you as one.”

“Still, it is good to be my puppet. You must be happy too. Wait until you see Mu Sicheng and remember to give a good performance to disturb his mind, understand? If you let him run away then the fate waiting for you isn’t something as good as being my puppet.”

Puppet Zhang spoke while patting Lin Huai’s face with his hand. Lin Huai’s puppet face was constantly sweating and he didn’t dare say a word.

Puppet Zhang seemed to feel bored and quickly withdrew his hand. “Mu Sicheng will never cooperate with anyone let alone Bai Liu who obviously has a lot of thoughts. Even if Bai Liu intends to cooperate, Mu Sicheng will definitely disobey. These two people, whether alone or cooperating, can’t search the carriages faster than me. We should be the fastest players in the game but we still can’t find any. There are only two possibilities—”

He raised two fingers and explained, “The first possibility is that the broken lenses needing to be collected aren’t on the train at all.”

“The other one—” Puppet Zhang’s eyes narrowed meaningfully “There are seven players in the game. Mu Sicheng, Bai Liu, the three of you and I occupy six players. There is one more spot left. If the player who entered later has the ability to find all the broken lenses before us then it is a possibility.”

Li Gou might be scared but he still raised his head and asked in a confused manner, “Master, we have searched half the train at full speed and haven’t seen any lenses. It is impossible for all the lenses to be in the other half of the train and they also happened to be collected by the last player who came in, right?”

“Why is it impossible?” Puppet Zhang gritted his teeth a bit as he spoke this person’s name. “If the last person who entered is Du Sanying then it is possible for all the broken lenses to be piled up in front of him, waiting for him to pick them up!”

Bai Liu glanced at Du Sanying behind him. Du Sanying was searching the seats one by one in a distressed manner. He didn’t find any broken lenses but had already followed Bai Liu and the others through two carriages.

“No…” Du Sanying murmured to himself. He felt it was really strange. “How come a broken lens hasn’t been found?”

He had done this type of collection task before. This was the first time he looked for so long while being empty-handed.

Du Sanying pushed up his glasses and clicked on his game manager to check that his luck value was still 100%. Then he became deeply confused. How could this be? His 100% luck value had always been good at finding something…

Du Sanying had a strong hunch that he could successfully pass the level with Bai Liu. It might be accompanied by a sense of discomfort that made him feel creepy but Du Sanying never doubted his own intuition. His instincts told him that he would be able to clear the level with Bai Liu and it would definitely be the case.

Bai Liu saw Du Sanying checking the luck value on the panel and turned to speak to Mu Sicheng confidently. “There are no broken lenses on the train.”

Mu Sicheng had given up on understanding Bai Liu’s thinking process and directly asked, “Why?”

“If there are broken lenses on the train, it is impossible that Du Sanying who has 100% luck hasn’t found one yet.”