CH 10

Ch10 - I just Vaguely Have Such a Hunch

The muscular man in blue originally wanted Ji Dong to “lead the way”.

In his opinion, the curly boy with a baby face was most likely an ‘experienced’, but it was a pity that the big man volunteered to lead the person, and the long-haired man who looked like a witch, neither resembling a male nor a female, was unexpectedly paired with the babyface.

He had to turn around furiously and go back to his followers.

“Jie, Brother Jie…”

When the “boss” came back, the couple pushed each other twice. After being elbowed by his girlfriend, the young man had to bite the bullet and step forward, asking the muscular man in blue in a restrained tone, “I want to ask you, our plan for tonight…”

As he spoke, the man looked up at the gray sky outside the glass door.

Since people had come to this city, the sky had been shrouded in gray clouds, and the sky had never brightened.

It didn’t mean time didn’t pass.

As long as they paid a little attention, it was not difficult for them to see that the sky had gradually darkened and it was time for dusk.

Seeing one of their companions being burned to death by the ‘Golden Snitch’ and only leaving behind one set of clothes, they were all scared. They were unwilling to take another step out of the safety zone. Now, seeing that the night was coming, they wanted to shrink into the supermarket with food and drink until someone came to rescue them.

Brother Jie squinted at the young man, and a trace of contempt flashed in his eyes.

In his opinion, these ‘newcomers’ were too weak and dim-witted.

According to the standard of [Peach Blossom Spring], the five people he had weren’t strong enough to pass the first [Film]. They deserved to die!

So, of course, brother Jie didn’t intend to protect any of them.

The reason why he wanted to take them all the way was just to get some particularly important ‘props’ from these people.

Thinking of this, the face of the muscular man in blue sank again.

This was his third [Film].

In other words, next time, whether he was willing or not, the [Peach Blossom Spring] would force him to enter a more difficult world.

Brother Jie was quite self-aware.

He was neither cautious nor savvy enough, nor was he good at analyzing or solving puzzles. His combat effectiveness was just ordinary. Even these muscles were strengthened by adjusting and consuming the points of customs clearance rewards. In addition to greater strength, apart from running faster, there wasn’t much difference between him and the “newcomers”.

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In the first two games, “luck” was the most critical factor in his survival.

Although he had been lucky enough to survive until now, he had not received the ‘key props’ in the first two games that were essential for survival in the difficult [Films] in the future.

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If we use online games as an analogy, the first three games with relatively low difficulty were an opportunity for them to practice and level up in the [Peach Blossom Spring].

During this period, players should explore the rules of the game, become familiar with various skills, and exercise survival skills. The most important thing was to become a professional specializing in a certain set of skills. Only in this way could they cope with more difficult [Films].

However, [Peach Blossom Spring] was not an online game.

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And as long as the progress bar on the watch starts to move forward, the players would synchronize with the plot. They could neither save nor go offline. It was a real conflict of life and death. If they died in the world, it would be equivalent to actual death.

Although brother Jie had managed to survive with a little luck, he had no reliable team and no capable ‘props’ to protect his life.

According to the experience of the “predecessors” in the [Peach Blossom Spring], after the difficulty had been upgraded, those who did not obtain special props and stimulated special abilities could only be regarded as waste, having no way to survive.

But in a sense, he was indeed a lucky man.

Because he had met a lot of people in the last films before entering this world.

Experienced performers in [Peach Blossom Spring] knew that the more people participate in the world, the more opportunities they would have to get special props.

This world, which was almost full of newcomers, would be particularly beneficial to brother Jie, who had certain qualifications as an ‘experienced person’.

This meant that brother Jie saw the newcomers as “broilers” who could be bullied at will, he revealed some convincing, true, and false information to them to gain their complete reliance and quickly rose to the position of team leader.

This way, not only could he use them as meat shields in case of danger, but also, more importantly, he could control everything they got. That way, no matter who had received the special prop, he could easily deceive them and take it for himself.

But what if he wasn’t the only ‘experienced’ performer?

Brother Jie glanced bitterly in the direction of Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo.

He had never seen Ji Dong and the others in the [Peach Blossom Spring], after all, the place was too big. The players came and went, so no one knew how many people there were. And it hadn’t been long since he came to the [Peach Blossom Spring]; there were many people he had never met.

The reason why he suspected that there were ‘experienced people’ among the three was because their response was too sophisticated.

After all, he had seen a lot of newcomers in his previous world.

Ordinary newcomers, including himself, woke up in the first[Film] and found themselves in a strange space, completely different from the real world. It was not surprising that they were always panicked, felt overwhelmed, had difficulty coping with the situation, and had a weak psychological recognition ability. Some even collapsed because of how scared they were.

So, in the first game, the mortality rate of new people was also the highest. Most of them died inexplicably before they even had a grasp of the situation.

However, Ji Dong, Mo Tiangen, and Ren Jianmo not only escaped the attack of dragonflies, but they also found a safe shelter, and helped them. Both their attitudes and responses seemed unhurried. At the first glance, people felt that they had something in mind.

This was human nature.

Once the seeds of doubt were planted, they would quickly take root and sprout, unstoppable.

The more he looked at them, the more he thought they were suspicious, and the more he wanted to find out which one of them was most likely the ‘experienced’ one.

There was also a rule in [Peach Blossom Spring] that newcomers did not have a chance to know.

That was, every time before entering the world, the participants had an opportunity to watch the trailer.

This short 30-second trailer was no different from an ordinary movie trailer. It would not explain the complete world outlook and plot line; it could only provide them with some piecemeal fragments so that the participants could decide what weapons they needed to survive the world.

It was after watching the trailer that brother Jie exchanged his points for a gun and a large number of bullets and brought them to the city of ashes as a life-saving prop; but they hadn’t come in handy yet.

It was precisely because of the existence of this rule that brother Jie pushed himself to others and felt that the bag carried by Ji Dong must be the ‘props’ he’d brought along. Therefore, he concluded that this person was probably the same as him, an “experienced player”.

“All right, all right, don’t chatter!”

Brother Jie glared at the young man, then turned to look at the three weak girls resembling quails, his expression becoming even more impatient.

These losers were all useless, and the only thing they appeared capable of doing was dragging him back down the path to death. They didn’t even act as a meat shield, let alone assist him in discovering the special props he cared about.

“Can’t you find a place to spend the night in such a big Walmart?”

He deliberately turned up the volume so that Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo could hear it.

Since there were experienced people over there too, brother Jie thought he should change his strategy.

In this world, he wanted to collect special props anyway.

If another experienced person refused to let go, he didn’t mind using some necessary means to get what he wanted.

Sure enough, Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo looked up at him.

On the other hand, when the couple and the best friends group heard their leader say that they would be spending the night here, they all showed a relieved expression and complimented brother Jie’s wisdom.

“Oh, is he going to drive us away?”

Ji Dong hummed and laughed, “The lion opened his mouth.”

Ren Jianmo looked up and glanced in the direction of the glass door.

“It’s almost evening.”

He looked at the dark red in the haze sky and sighed softly, “This place is not as safe as they think…”

“Oh?”

Ji Dong turned his head, his big eyes wide open, staring at him in surprise. “Do you mean it’s dangerous to stay here?”

He blinked and asked, “What’s the danger? How do you know? ”

Ren Jianmo looked back at Ji Dong. There was a faint light in a pair of those heterochromic eyes.

When Ji Dong thought of the time they had just held hands, his cheeks felt hot, and his heartbeat became irregular.

Ren Jianmo raised his lips and smiled at him. “I don’t know…”

As he spoke, he suddenly gasped, clenched his fist with one hand, pressed it against his lips, and coughed a few times.

Ji Dong remembered that the man’s body didn’t seem to be in a very good condition. When they’d first met, he had been coughing badly, and hadn’t even been able to stand steadily.

He quickly patted Ren Jianmo on the back to help him.

Ren Jianmo coughed for two minutes. After he finally stopped, he finished the second half of the sentence, “I just vaguely have such a hunch.”

Ji Dong: “…”

The hunch was such a foreboding thing. If you didn’t believe it, there was nothing you could do, and no one could prove it to you.

As an unlucky person who hadn’t experienced partial fortune since childhood, even in the New Year’s draw where the hypermarket claimed to have a 100% winning rate, he could only win a bag of paper towels. Ji Dong had never counted on “luck”, and of course, didn’t believe in the so-called sixth sense.

——But… If it’s Ren Jianmo…

He raised his hand and rubbed his baby bow bag.

——Perhaps this time, this person’s hunch would be more accurate?