Chapter 43: Explosive Last Train

This system notification is broadcast over the underground, which means that everyone can hear Bai Liu triggering the main quest.

Du Sanying and Mu Sicheng both stare in disbelief as they watch Bai Liu, who is leaning against the underground station, mindlessly fiddling with the coins in his hand.

Bai Liu had just been sitting in the underground, while Mu Sicheng and Du Sanying were actively looking for clues in the carriage, when Bai Liu just said [I need to sort out the information in my head] with a bland expression and sat still, leaving Mu Sicheng speechless.

Bai Liu had told Mu Sicheng everything he knew about the bombing, but Mu Sicheng didn't think much of it, as the focus was now on finding clues in the carriage to trigger the main mission.

The Last Train is a collectible horror game, and in Mu Sicheng's experience, the first thing you need to collect to trigger the main quest is to find it.

What Mu Sicheng doesn't know is that the game can also trigger collection-oriented main quests by parsing out the key things to collect in the background of the game.

I can't blame Mu Sicheng for not thinking deeply about it, it's all in the mind.

Usually, newcomers to the game are not given enough information to find the first thing they need to collect on the map in order to trigger a quest.

But Bai Liu is a bug, he's new and a game designer, he doesn't have this mindset and is used to thinking about how the game is designed from the background, plus Bai Liu knows enough background information to simply work backwards to find things he needs to collect.

He then also dryly bumped right.

When they heard the system beep that Bai Liu had triggered the main quest, Mu Sicheng and Du Sanying both froze in unison and turned their heads to look at Bai Liu, who was resting in his seat.

Du Sanying didn't know Bai Liu well enough to ask him, but he was already looking at him with curiosity, wondering how this man could trigger the main quest without moving.

Mu Sicheng had no more scruples, he took a step forward and asked his question: "How did you trigger the main quest? You didn't even move!"

This is also the heart of the audience, when the system beep came out just now, many people were dumbfounded, no one thought that in a multiplayer horror game where the third and fourth in the Rising Stars list and the [Puppeteer] were present, the first player to trigger the main quest would be a new player sitting still!

It's simply not scientific!

"Shit! How did he trigger that! I guarantee he didn't move from start to finish!"

"...... Could it be that he just sat his butt directly on the broken lens to trigger the quest? Hiss, I suddenly got a pain in my butt"

"Doesn't this kind of good thing usually go to little parrots? How did this newcomer get his turn?"

Mu Sicheng lifted Bai Liu up with his hands directly through the crevice and looked suspiciously under Bai Liu's seat, "Did you just sit on your butt on the lens? Did that just trigger the main quest?"

Bai Liu clenched his fist expressionlessly, " Mu Sicheng, put me down."

At 6'6", Bai Liu hates it when people do that to him! When Bai Liu was a kid, his dream was to slash the ankles of anyone taller than him with a machete!

Someone would dare to lift him up like that, and Bai Liu would make him understand that growing tall is a crime, if it weren't for the fact that Bai Liu would need Mu Sicheng later on--

Bai Liu stopped his overly tyrannical conception, Mu Sicheng put Bai Liu down hesitantly with a chill at his back and turned his head to look at him, "How did you trigger the quest without the lenses? You didn't even move just then."

"Why am I not moving." Bai Liu patted the non-existent dust on his body where Mu Sicheng had touched him and looked up at Mu Sicheng amiably, "My brain is moving, Mu Sicheng."

Mu Sicheng: "......" Bai Liu Such a look at the retard, he felt he was being abused.

After Bai Liu had straightened his clothes, he lifted his eyes and said to Mu Sicheng, "And didn't I tell you the key information? You couldn't figure it out yourself? What's your intelligence worth? You can't even figure this out?"

Mu Sicheng: "......"

You fucking told me 100 million for the mirror, if it was you you would kill the keeper and steal the mirror and the collection for a massive cash grab, what the fuck kind of key information is that!

And Bai Liu, you pervert, stop looking at me with that lowlife look!

Bai Liu claps his hands together and explains to Mu Sicheng as he walks along, with Du Sanying cautiously following behind them, not too far behind him, Bai Liu's voice not deliberately lowered, and behind him Du Sanying gives a slightly surprised look as he listens - so it can be deduced this way! The volume of Bai Liu's voice was not deliberately low.

The audience was also stunned: the

"What's this new player's name, I feel he's thinking a bit interesting and want to go round to watch his little TV."

"...... I've never seen anyone trigger a main quest before Du Sanying in a collection-oriented game. ...... This newcomer is so good, he triggers it faster than Du Sanying who has 100% luck. even faster ......"

......

"The main task is to collect the lenses, or to collect them without knowing the exact number ......" Mu Sicheng held his lollipop and glanced obliquely at Du Sanying who was following them pretending to be searching, licking a little grumpily at his sugar-stained "You're just going to give him the message straight away? He'll find plenty of mirror pieces later."

"This guy has an unbelievable luck value, he's good at finding things, and even the lenses we find are likely to fall into Du Sanying's hands in all sorts of strange ways, so don't you guard against him?"

Bai Liu gave Mu Sicheng a strange look, "Why should I protect myself from him?"

Mu Sicheng looked very bad: "Didn't I tell you that the lenses we are looking for, could also ...... be taken by Du Sanying ......

"Who told you we were looking for lenses?" Bai Liu gave Mu Sicheng a sidelong glance, his eyes swept over Du Sanying behind him and then back again as if nothing had happened, "We're not looking, let Du Sanying look, isn't he good at that? Let him take his time to find enough, and it would be best if he could gather them all afterwards."

"Are you trying to ......" Mu Sicheng was stunned, "wait for Du Sanying to finish collecting them and just rob him?"

Bai Liu: "Yeah."

Mu Sicheng ran his tongue over the back of his teeth, "As much as I would love to carry out your plan, it won't work Bai Liu, you have no idea what Du Sanying's luck value of 100 percent is."

As he said that, Mu Sicheng seemed to have thought of some unpleasant memories that he could not recall, his back teeth clacked and rubbed hard, looking very grim, "As long as you try to rob Du Sanying's stuff, your luck value will fall, keep falling, encounter all kinds of bad luck, even if you have already reached into his system storage, you can be interrupted by monsters, in short, you just can't grab it."

"Oh." Bai Liu was still indifferent, "That's because you can't, I might be able to."

Mu Sicheng was really annoyed by Bai Liu's stubbornness: "I told you, Du Sanying is 100% lucky and no player can grab his stuff, not even Spades."

As the system says - [Du Sanying is a favourite of the gods of luck].

"You said that Du Sanying runs his luck by influencing the fortunes of things around him, right?" Bai Liu finally gave Mu Sicheng a straight look and he looked at Bai Liu again with that sighing look of a fool, "But I can't be influenced by him, my luck value is 0 and it can't go down, his luck doesn't make me more unlucky."

Mu Sicheng was stunned, and Bai Liu turned his head back with calm eyes, the corners of his mouth curling slightly: "Then my misfortune might make him more miserable, don't you think, Mu Sicheng?"

Du Sanying, who was sneaking behind Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng, got a chill on the back of his neck and inexplicably got goose bumps as he looked ahead at Bai Liu in a bit of confusion -

--That strange, unfortunate and fortunate premonition came back to haunt him.

Mu Sicheng was finally intrigued by Bai Liu's statement: "If you're not looking for broken lenses, what are you going to do in this collector's game, Bai Liu? Just sit still like you just did?"

"Of course not." Bai Liu smiled, his eyes looking ahead at the empty carriage with a look of pleasure as if he had seen gold and silver, "You just told me that robbery is allowed in this game, right? Do you think the Puppeteers have money?"

Mu Sicheng snorted, "You have a big mouth, but you may be the one who dies when the time comes."

"It's possible." Bai Liu was noncommittal, "But if I were him, I'd let me live, because there's a lot of value in my survival, and he should have realised that by trying to make me into a puppet."

"Let's see who becomes the puppet of whom." Bai Liu said with a soft smile.

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Zhang Gui squints and scans the carriage, his ten fingers on each hand holding transparent silk threads that extend out and stab the other three players right in the back of their necks.

One of the players, who was lying on the ground looking for something, stood upright as if tugged by a slight movement of his index finger.

Li Gou replied, "No."

Zhang Gui tsked somewhat impatiently, a face of oil-coloured puppets vividly rendered with inverted octagonal eyebrows and a downturned mouth, showing the fact that he was already angry.

"Been looking for almost half a car and haven't found it yet."

The three puppets stood trembling and bowing their heads, huge pale blue drops of sweat appearing one by one on the puppets' foreheads, flowing downwards in a snap like an animation, and Li Gou, wincing, stepped forward and repeated in a low voice, "Master, it is true that no broken lenses were found."

"Don't look for it." Zhang Gui's fingers leapt and the three puppets stood in front of him in unison as if they were in military training.

Li Gou, who was standing in the centre, asked carefully, "Isn't the master going to look for it? Isn't this game about collecting broken lenses to pass the game, how can I pass the game if I don't find them ......"

"Stupid." Zhang Gui looked at Li Gou with some pride and a little contempt, "Don't question any decision I make with an IQ of 93, got it?"

"We didn't trigger the main quest, but we should have been the first to start looking, because we had the advantage of numbers to search for almost half a car and didn't find it, are you still Buming white?" Zhang Gui looked at Li Gou with sidelong glances.

Li Gou had a cold sweat on his forehead, but he was indeed confused too: "Yes, yes to what?"