Chapter 1351 (1/2)
Chapter 1351: 442. Brain Marrow Imitation_2
Cucumber Slice pondered before responding,
“It shouldn’t be. This game does not allow NPCs to imprison players, nor does it allow NPCs to abuse players. However…”
“However, what?” Winter Melon asked.
Cucumber Slice silently shook his head, without continuing.
His feelings were complicated.
Indeed, it was a fact that ‘Starry Sea’ did not permit NPCs to imprison or abuse players.
This included players who were apprehended by the United Bureau.
Nominally, they were incarcerated in jail, but in reality, they were forced to log off.
If their in-game sentence lasted a month, then players could only log back in after spending a month in the real world.
No matter how many times they tried during this period, the game would refuse their logins and issue advisories urging players to obey the law.
However, this was the realm of the Angel Enterprise Alliance, not the United Bureau.
Perhaps the Angel Enterprise Alliance possessed some means to prevent players from logging out…
So, it was hard to say, hard to say, everything was hard to say.
Cucumber Slice could only silently wish those few players well.
“By the way, do any of you have those people on your friend list?” Cucumber Slice asked.
Winter Melon shook his head, pointing to Kelp:
“I don’t, but Kelp should have.”
Kelp nodded and said,
“I do. I just added them yesterday.”
Cucumber Slice asked him,
“Then could you help me keep an eye on these players’ online status? It would be best if you could get them to record some videos to see what the Angel Enterprise Alliance is doing with them.”
“No problem, leave it to me.” Kelp opened his friend list, scrolled down to find the icons of those players, and suddenly exclaimed,
“Eh? Captain, although they are still online, it shows ‘in combat’. I can’t chat with them.”
“I see…” Cucumber Slice pondered briefly:
“Then let’s not worry about them for now. Let’s just complete the remaining two rounds of injections.”
The three paused their conversation and took injectors from the staff.
The other players conversed quietly while nervously injecting themselves.
Under the action of a micro-pressure pump, an unknown elixir rapidly penetrated their skin, a warm sensation flowed within their bodies, intensifying and transforming into agitation and heat.
“Hiss.. the previous injection was cold as death, now this one completely flips—it’s scorching…”
One player loosened his collar, constantly fanning himself.
Another’s face turned red, bloodshot eyes appearing as he panted heavily:
“So hot, so hot, I feel like my blood pressure is rising…”
Before he could finish, the man clattered to the ground, his body sprawled out like mud, utterly limp as if boneless.
“He’s not dead, is he?”
“Hey, buddy, are you dead?”
“What do you mean? Can players even die from high blood pressure?”
Someone nudged the fallen player with a foot, seeing no response, they crouched down with difficulty to check his breath.
“He’s completely dead…”
Cucumber Slice and his companions glanced at the corpse but did not intervene further.
At that moment, they were busy fighting the intense heat within their bodies; they had no time to concern themselves with others.
“Captain, I… I can’t take it anymore…” Winter Melon’s game character, who had the weakest constitution, stumbled and fell to the ground, dead on the spot.
About two seconds later, he spoke through the friend system to Cucumber Slice and the others,
“I’ve revived. I revived in the ship cabin. Has my corpse disappeared?”
“No.”
“No.”
Winter Melon could not help but exclaim,
“This is too eerie. The potion that the Angel Enterprise Alliance injected us with can actually leave our corpses behind. They wouldn’t be planning to use this potion to continuously produce player corpses, would they?”