Chapter 49.1: Exploding Last Train (1/2)

Bai Liu’s mouth slowly curled up. “If I’m not guessing incorrectly, the puppet master will come find us to attack. He should also know that the broken lenses are on the passengers’ bodies. The puppet master is lacking people and will need to control us to help him search the passengers. We obviously can’t beat the puppet master so my plan is this—”

“—It is better to seek the cooperation of the puppet master in exchange for me and Mu Sicheng being controlled.”

Mu Sicheng heard this and became furious. “Bai Liu, what the hell are you talking about?!!!”

Puppet Zhang played with the broken lenses in his hand, his sharp eyes picking out something that looked like a deformed diamond. “I have 20 of them here. Mu Sicheng is good at stealing things and should have 20. There are around 40 at one station and a total of 10 stations…”

Puppet Zhang stopped the following words in time. His three puppets stared at Puppet Zhang who stopped the conversation suddenly, as if they couldn’t react. Puppet Zhang couldn’t help wanting to sneer at this silly look. He had been afraid that this group of goods had found the problem with this game and didn’t say the rest.

Then Puppet Zhang remembered that he had been using this batch of puppets for a while. Apart from Li Gou, the other puppets had their intelligence sucked by him. However, Li Gou himself wasn’t very intelligent. It would be strange if this group of idiots could find out the key point of this game.

One health point was exchanged for one mirror fragment. 400 fragments would kill four people. Even if all three of Mu Sicheng’s group were killed, one of his puppets would need to take the last spot.

Puppet Zhang never felt sorry for his puppets. The puppets were just consumables for him. There were many spare puppets in the Kings Guild. Even if some of his puppets were wiped out, the Kings Guild would recruit new ones for him. Puppet Zhang never felt sorry for his puppets except for the ones who were easy to use.

Even though Puppet Zhang’s use of puppets was cruel, there were people constantly clinging to him to become his puppets. After all, the death rate when clearing the game themselves was much higher than when they were Puppet Zhang’s puppets.

“I have identified the key clues. Next, we need to find Bai Liu’s group. I can’t just consume you.” Puppet Zhang pretended to be kind. “I’m going to control them. Then I will have them help me search for the fragments and consume their health.”

The extremely burned Li Gou’s eyes brightened. “Master, are you going to attack Bai Liu?”

“No.” Puppet Zhang looked at the deformed mirror ‘diamond’ in his hand and slowly smiled. “Kill the seventh player first. I am now sure that the seventh player is Du Sanying.”

Li Gou was even more confused. “Master, how did you confirm it?”

“Bai Liu is a player with a luck value of only zero.” Puppet Zhang played with the broken lenses in his hand. “According to his low luck, he should’ve met me in the carriage during the two chases. If it wasn’t for a player with high luck being with him so that he ‘just’ missed me every time, he should have been in my hands a long time ago.”

“After all, I should be the biggest misfortune for Bai Liu in this game.”

Puppet Zhang smiled arrogantly and pretentiously. Then he threw the broken mirror fragments to Li Gou and Li Gou hurriedly picked them up. Then he looked up at Puppet Zhang with trepidation. “Master? Why did you give them to me?”

“Naturally, it is because I value you Li Gou.” Puppet Zhang gave a hypocritical leader’s smile and patted Li Gou’s shoulder. “Take good care of them. This is the big task I’m giving you and you should do it well.”

If Bai Liu was here then he would surely recognize Puppet Zhang’s smile as ‘a leader’s special fake smile’.

In fact, Puppet Zhang’s move of giving the lens to Li Gou had the same purpose as Bai Liu giving them to Du Sanying—reduce the risk of carrying important items and create confusion.

Du Sanying and Li Gou were both under the control of Bai Liu and Puppet Zhang. If given to them, it wouldn’t have much impact on Bai Liu and Puppet Zhang. They could get them back any time before the end of the game.

However, these two guys with a human face and an animal heart chose a sweet and amiable shell to wrap around their sinister intentions.

Bai Liu’s was: This is the trust I give to you, Du Sanying.

Puppet Zhang’s was: This is because I value you, Li Gou.

“Now let’s go and find where those three people are hiding.” Puppet Zhang waved his fingers and transparent silk threads wrapped around the joints of his three puppets’ hands and feet. Puppet Zhang lightly flicked the silk threads with his fingers and the three puppets trembled like they were shocked.

“Before that, let me give you an enhancement. Puppet players other than Liu Huai, enhance!”

[System tip: Player Puppet Zhang has used his personal skill ‘Puppet Enhancement’. Half the puppet’s mental value is sacrificed in exchange for the puppet’s other panel attributes doubling.]

[Player Li Gou’s Personal Panel]

[Mental value: 80 → 40]

[Physical strength: 251 → 502]

[Agility: 270 → 540]

[Attack power: 310 → 620]

[Resistance: 350→ 700]

[Comprehensive defense and attack power has increased. The total of the panel attribute points has exceeded 2000 and the player is rated as an A level player. The player Li Gou’s level has increased from B to A level.]

[Player Fang Ke’s Personal Panel]

[Mental value: 82 → 41]

……

[Comprehensive defense and attack power has increased. The total of the panel attribute points has exceeded 2000 and the player is rated as an A level player. The player Fang Ke’s level has increased from B to A level.]

Li Gou and Fang Ke lost their focus in an instant. They stood blankly on the spot like they were caught in some type of confusion. They had no more thoughts. They were obviously in pain. There was a strange and struggling expression on their faces. The drop in mental value caused the two puppet players to instantly enter the hallucination stage. They were obviously tortured in their hallucinations.

Nevertheless, Puppet Zhang didn’t care if the two people were suffering. Their joints were raised by Puppet Zhang and they made exactly the same movements.