Chapter 49: Explosive Last Train

Bai Liu curled his mouth slowly, "If I'm right, later the Puppeteer will come searching for us and get at us, they should also know that the broken lenses are inside the passenger's body, the Puppeteer will be short of people, he needs to control us to help him search for the pieces in the passenger's body, we obviously can't beat the Puppeteer, so here's my plan --"

"- how about we ask the puppet master for cooperation, in exchange for Mu Sicheng and I being under his control."

Mu Sicheng listened for a moment, then burst into a rage: " Bai Liu, what the fuck are you talking about?

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Zhang Gui fiddled with a diamond shaped object that had been formed from the broken lenses in his hand, his long, thin eyes picking at it meanly: "I have twenty of them, Mu Sicheng, a man who is good at stealing, must have twenty of them, almost forty at one station, ten stations in total... ..."

His three puppets were still looking at Zhang Gui, who had suddenly stopped talking, in a daze, as if they had not reacted.

He actually just didn't spill the beans on the latter stuff for fear that the goods would find out what's wrong with this game.

But Zhang Gui remembered that he had been using these puppets for some time, and that he had sucked the intelligence out of all three of them except Li Gou, who was not very intelligent himself, so it would be strange if these idiots could react to the key aspects of the game.

One life for one shard, four hundred shards would kill four people, and even if they killed all three of Mu Sicheng's men, they would still be one short of the puppet he needed to take to make up for it.

Zhang Gui never cares for his golems, they are always expendable to him, the King's Guild has a number of spare golems, even if all his golems are lost, the King's Guild will recruit new ones for him, so Zhang Gui never cares for his golems, except for the ones that are particularly useful.

But despite Zhang Gui's brutal use of puppets, there is a steady stream of people who want to cling to him as his puppet, after all the death rate of getting through the game on your own is much higher than that of following Zhang Gui.

"We've identified the key clues, we're going to go after Bai Liu's group next, we can't just wear you out." Zhang Gui said, pretending to be amiable, "I'm going to control them, get them to help me search for the shards and consume them."

Li Gou, who had a lot of burns, lit up: "Master, is it time to do something about Bai Liu?"

"No." Zhang Gui looked at the monstrously broken mirror 'diamond' in his palm, he slowly curled his lips, "Kill the seventh player who stirred the game first, I am now certain that the seventh player is most likely Du Sanying."

Li Gou became more and more confused: "Master, how was it confirmed?"

"Just a guess, Bai Liu is a player with 0 luck." Zhang Gui casually plays with the broken lens in his hand, "With his low luck, he would have had the misfortune of running into me in the car in both chases. have run into me a long time ago."

"After all, the fact that I'm in this game should be the biggest misfortune for Bai Liu."

Zhang Gui smiled haughtily and arrogantly, and then tossed the broken mirror to Li Gou, who took it in a panic and looked up at Zhang Gui with fear and trepidation: "Master? Why did you give me this?"

"Of course it's because I think highly of you, Li Gou." Zhang Gui smiled that fake smile that belongs to the leadership as he patted Li Gou's shoulder, "Keep it safe, this is a big job for you, do it well."

If Bai Liu were here, he would have recognised Zhang Gui's smile as a [fake smile for the leader to dump].

In fact, Zhang Gui's move to give the broken lenses to Li Gou and Bai Liu's move to give the broken lenses to Du Sanying both serve the same purpose - to reduce the risk to himself of carrying important items, as well as to confuse the public.

Du Sanying and Li Gou are both under the control of Bai Liu and Zhang Gui, and even if they give them to each other, they have no great influence on themselves and can get them back at any time before the end of the game.

But both of these human-faced creatures coincidentally chose a sweet and cuddly shell to wrap their sinister intentions in.

Bai Liu's is [This is the trust I give you, Du Sanying].

And Zhang Gui's is [It's because it values you, Li Gou].

"Now let's go and find out where these three people are hiding." Zhang Gui said, shaking his finger, the transparent end of the silk threads on it went into the joints of the three puppets' hands and feet, and Zhang Gui flicked the silk threads on his finger, and the three puppets trembled as if they were electrified.

"But before that, a reinforcement for you, puppet players other than Liu Huai, reinforcement!"

[System Alert: Player Zhang Gui uses his personal skill (Puppet Enhancement) to sacrifice his puppet's spirit value by half in exchange for doubling the puppet's panel attributes].

[Player Li Gou's personal panel].

[Spiritual Value: 80→40]

[Stamina Value: 251→502]

[Agility: 270→540]

[Attack: 310→620]

[Resistance: 350→700]

[Combined Defence Attack Power increased, total panel attribute points exceeded 2000, rated as A- player, player Li Gou level increased, from B to A level]

[Player Fang Ke's personal panel].

[Spiritual Value: 82→41]

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[Combined Defence Attack Power rises, panel attribute points total over 2000, rated as A- player, player Fang Ke level rises, from B to A level]

Li Gou and Fang Ke lost focus almost instantly, their eyes standing still, as if in some sort of trance, unable to think any more, they were clearly in pain, their puppet faces taking on strange and struggling expressions, their mental values dropping so that the two puppet players instantly entered the hallucination phase, they were clearly suffering in their own hallucinations.

But Zhang Gui is completely unconcerned with the pain of these two men, whose joints in their limbs are tentatively lifted by Zhang Gui in a perfectly consistent movement.

Zhang Gui smiled with satisfaction, a very naked superiority in his eyes, Zhang Gui fiddled with his fingers, carelessly and with pleasure, moving the powerful puppets under him to perform various actions, and said in a cocky and arrogant tone: "Although the drop in mental value will make you lose your ability to think on your own, your stupid brains thinking out actions are also stupid, so they might as well be used for something else."

The only unenhanced puppet, Liu Huai, cowered in a corner, shivering, so scared he could barely speak.

The look on Zhang Gui's face as he admired his puppet was like that of an artist admiring a brilliant work of art in his hands, one that had lost its mind and its ability to think, one that obeyed his instructions to the letter, a look that sent chills down his spine.

Zhang Gui is an inhumane player who enjoys the thrill of controlling and slaughtering others.

Liu Huai really regretted betraying Mu Sicheng. Although Mu Sicheng was not a good person, at least he did not use people and then throw them away like Zhang Gui did.

But what was the use of regretting it, there was no way back for him.

Zhang Gui crouched on a chair in the underground, Li Gou and Fang Ke's eyes were empty like dolls without batteries, their limbs were spread out at his feet, Zhang Gui hooked his fingers and said to Liu Huai with a smile, "Come here, I have a task for you, you go to Mu Sicheng and say that you betrayed me and want to join them. want to defect to them."

Liu Huai swallowed hard, "They, won't believe me, will they? I'm all a puppet for you, master."

"Is it hard to believe in the second betrayal of a betrayer?" Zhang Gui spread his hands on his chair and sneered, then sat down again in his chair and crossed his fingers against his jaw and said, "Just say that I am inhumane and ready to consume endlessly using your life values for shards, you don't want to die, you want to live, so you betray me."

"But, but-" Liu Huai panicked a little, "even so, they won't accept me easily, will they? I still have your puppet silk on me! You can control me at any time!"

Liu Huai felt a sharp painful cramp in the joints of his limbs, and he fell to his knees with a scream, covering his elbows. "

Liu Huai was dumbfounded, he did not expect Zhang Gui to retrieve the [Puppet Silk] so easily and was at a loss as to how to react.

Zhang Gui wiped the blood from the puppet silk on Li Gou's body and said slowly as he did so, "They will definitely accept you, as I just said, they are short of people, they need expendable players, even if they see that you have ulterior motives, they won't just push you away as a sent up for them to find pieces. "

Liu Huai mumbled, without speaking, as he removed the puppet hood from his neck and placed it gently on the seat, saying carefully, "Then, then I will go, Master."

Before Liu Huai turned to leave with a feeling of apprehension, he heard Zhang Gui's slow voice coming from behind him.

" Liu Huai, do you know how to control someone who is likely to betray you repeatedly?"

Liu Huai's back lurched and his voice trembled a little: "No, I don't know master."

"That is, don't give him the leeway to betray you." Zhang Gui suddenly laughed, " Liu Huai, you don't really think I've taken away all the puppet silk from you, do you? Look down."

Liu Huai looked down, and to his astonishment he saw a very transparent thread, like a fish line, running through his chest, and he turned to follow it all the way to Zhang Gui, where the thread through his heart was tied to Zhang Gui's little thumb.

Zhang Gui smiled, "Do you think I'm a fool like Mu Sicheng, who relies on trust to keep people together? Liu Huai, if you misbehave at all, I will kill you."

"I have no shortage of anything but smug fools and puppet players." Zhang Gui slowly withdrew his hand as he raised an eyebrow and smiled at Liu Huai who was trembling and pale, "And unfortunately, you seem to be both."

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Liu Huai's face is blue and white as he walks along the swaying train. He may have had the faintest idea of betraying Zhang Gui before, but he can't do anything against him now.

Zhang Gui really doesn't leave any loopholes in his plans.

Liu Huai doesn't think Mu Sicheng and Bai Liu will be his opponents, the difference in rank is too great.

Liu Huai has seen Bai Liu's videos before and he has to say that he is very clever, but not as clever as Zhang Gui, who at least wouldn't mix with Mu Sicheng and Du Sanying in a collector's game. The two are thieves and the other is a scavenger.

But Zhang Gui does not underestimate Bai Liu.

Liu Huai's ears ring with Zhang Gui's plan.

"Now this game has become a game where both sides grab heads because of the need for life values for broken lenses, and now it's three heads on my side, and I certainly don't count heads myself."

" Three heads on Bai Liu's side, but because the four on our side are bound, there's no easy way for them to grab them, and I think Bai Liu will think we'll take the initiative and set a trap for us to throw ourselves at them, and I'm sending you there to test the waters."

"Because this shitty game requires 400 shards and there is no way I am going to consume myself, I need you to tell them that because of my intent to consume my golem for shards, this caused my golem to storm off and our side to implode and I am not in a position of absolute protection."

"My puppet manipulation skills are not 100% flawless, and I will suffer a degree of backlash in the event of a puppet's sworn struggle, so I will temporarily retract the more conspicuous puppeteer silk on your body, this puppet silk on your heart will not be visible to anyone other than yourself and I. You can tell them that this is the result of your sworn struggle, and to avoid backlash I retracted the puppet silk that was on you."

"On their side Du Sanying is an inexpendable, Bai Liu is a panel F guy, Mu Sicheng is definitely a key expendable, his spirit should be encrusted by now after two rounds of chase, although he can be bleached back with bleach, but I think Bai Liu will stop him. "

"I don't think Bai Liu can control Mu Sicheng as he needs him to lower his spirit level and go into a berserker state to increase his strength. "

"This way, before the next train arrives for the passenger boarding chase, I'm sure some thief with a grudge against me and cornered by the situation will be moved to try and steal pieces from our side and attack me, because with me under control, things will be much easier, my golems are all b-rank players without my personal skill enhancements and are good to take down individually. "

Liu Huai doesn't really understand why Zhang Gui is so complicated.

I don't know why he has to do all this spy-counter-trick stuff, because with Zhang Gui's strength, he could have beaten his opponent even in a head-to-head confrontation.

But Zhang Gui was speechless, he couldn't help but look at Liu Huai with that stupid look again: "Of course it's to preserve everyone's life points, I don't want to deplete my side's life points, nor Mu Sicheng's and Bai Liu's, it's better to play ambush one by one, it's less depleting, a head-to-head conflict is too depleting for everyone. It's too costly for all of us, if the sum of our life points drops below 400 in a fight, we'll all die together."

" For Bai Liu to have dragged it out so far, I think he must have entered into a partnership with Mu Sicheng, but it must have been a rather shaky one."

Zhang Gui smiled, he looked at Liu Huai, patted Liu Huai's face with the back of his hand, lowered his eyelids and lengthened his tone: "I believe that when Mu Sicheng sees you, Liu Huai, he can't help but remember his unhappy partnership. The only thing I ask of you, Liu Huai, is to keep reminding Mu Sicheng in front of him that you betrayed him."

As Liu Huai finished his recollection, he wiped the blood stain from the corner of his mouth, which had been inflicted by Zhang Gui, in order to put on a realistic show and act out the feeling of infighting.

But Liu Huai's heart was still troubled, as he felt that Mu Sicheng would not necessarily believe him because he had betrayed him once in order to live.

But Zhang Gui, with a smile in his eyes and a strange tone in his voice, said, "It is because you betrayed Mu Sicheng because you wanted to live that it seems so real that you betrayed me because you wanted to live, remember, you really wanted to live and you really did betray me because you wanted to live, and that is why I chose you.

Liu Huai took a deep breath and continued on his way, bloody handprints gradually appearing on his carriage, traces of previous attacks and battles, which meant that there had been players here not so long ago.

[The train is coming to the station, the next stop is Yellow Springs Road, please line up next to the door if you want to get off, first get on then get off -]

The lights in the carriage flicker on and off as Liu Huai walks to the last carriage, Mu Sicheng leans against the wall with his arms in his hands and Du Sanying crouches sadly beside his battered go-kart.

As soon as Liu Huai stepped in, Mu Sicheng instantly opened his monkey paws warily, and Liu Huai raised his hands in embarrassment and fear as he whispered to the stunned Mu Sicheng, "Fourth Brother, I have come to surrender to you."

Mu Sicheng's face clouded over, his monkey paws contracted, and he suddenly snorted, " Zhang Gui actually brought you along this time."

"I ...... Fourth Brother ......" Liu Huai did not dare to look Mu Sicheng in the eyes, lowering his head as his voice grew weaker and weaker, "I was also to live."

"To survive, you offered to cut off one of my hands and give it to Zhang Gui as a token of your loyalty?" Mu Sicheng laughed coldly, the red light in his eyes so red it was dripping blood, "Didn't you join the King's Guild? Did Zhang Gui take you this time? You've been treated well, such a high ranking player is willing to take you on, you seem to be doing well in the King's Guild."

"You would betray Zhang Gui? It was a trick he played too, wasn't it? I won't fall for the same trick a second time." The more Mu Sicheng laughed, the more sarcastic he became.

Du Sanying stopped Mu Sicheng as he was about to start talking. There's no point in pushing someone out of the door even if they're fake!

Liu Huai told Mu Sicheng and Du Sanying exactly what Zhang Gui had told him to tell them.

Du Sanying and Mu Sicheng looked at each other - Liu Huai was saying much the same thing as Bai Liu and their analysis, that Zhang Gui had blood sacrificed his own golem for the shard.

"Wait!" Mu Sicheng's eyes sank slightly as he took out a balance prop in disbelief, then suddenly lashed out and grabbed Liu Huai by the throat.

Liu Huai's eyes grew red as a drop of Liu Huai's blood splattered on the end of his eyes, and Liu Huai was strangled to the point where he could not breathe. I'm really here to ask for help!

Mu Sicheng snorted, his face turning strangely brutal as his hands became harder and harder: "You said you weren't lying, I have my criteria for determining that."

[System Alert: Player Mu Sicheng uses prop (Judge's Scales) on player Liu Huai - Honest or not, the weight of your conscience]

[The Judge's Scales can only be used three times per day on one player at a time, and can only be used to determine if the answer is yes or no. The rest of the answers to overly complex questions cannot determine if the player is lying].

"Alright, now I'll ask you to answer." Mu Sicheng wickedly hooked one side of his mouth into a smile, one hand open to choke Liu Huai who kept struggling, the other hand holding up a strangely shaped scale with [Cheng] written in traditional Chinese characters on the left and [Lie] on the right, "First question, did Zhang Gui send you here?"

Liu Huai choked and coughed, looking at the prop in a fearful whisper as he subconsciously lied, "No, it's not!!!"

The scales are tipped in favour of [lies].

Mu Sicheng gave a sneer, "Second question, is Zhang Gui safe now?"

Liu Huai's eyes were tearing up from the choking and he begged for mercy: "Fourth Brother! Fourth Brother! I didn't know you had this prop! Please let me go! You still need me!"

Mu Sicheng was impassive, his grip on Liu Huai's neck slowly tightening: "Answer my question."

"YES!!!" Liu Huai was driven to madness by the feeling of near death, tears flowing everywhere, "He's safe now! He's being protected by the two puppets that have been enhanced!!! I came here though as he asked me to! Fourth Brother, but I really didn't come here to harm you! I really came here to belong to you! I really won't betray you again like I did at the beginning! I won't cut off your hands for Zhang Gui anymore! He's a madman! I couldn't live any longer before I came to your Fourth Brother!

"Mu Sicheng looked at Liu Huai, who was begging for mercy, and suddenly visions of blood seeped from his hands, and Mu Sicheng slowly moved his eyes Mu Sicheng slowly moved his gaze and saw that his shoulder had been cut off, bleeding from this spot down to his fingers - just as he had done when Liu Huai had cut off both his arms.

[System Alert: Player Mu Sicheng's mood has fluctuated too much, his mental value has dropped to 60, and he has begun to experience mild hallucinations! Please pay attention to restore your mental value!

Mu Sicheng blinked slowly, beads of blood dripping down the side of his face onto Liu Huai's, his face expressionless as he bowed his head, "Okay - one last question, surprisingly you said you wouldn't betray me again - -"

"So I ask, are you still loyal to Zhang Gui, part of his plan and still under his control, or have you really betrayed Zhang Gui completely and fallen out of his control and fallen into our side of the camp-"

Mu Sicheng's eyes were unmoving.

Liu Huai's chest rose and fell violently, drops of sweat slid down his face, his palms began to tingle and burn from the excessive tension, and he had a feeling that if his answer was not what Mu Sicheng wanted, Mu Sicheng would probably kill him.

This is the look Liu Huai has seen before - it is the look Mu Sicheng gets when his spirit level drops below the safe level, and in this state, he can easily go on a killing spree.

It was in this state that Mu Sicheng killed Zhang Gui's four puppets, while Liu Huai escaped because he betrayed Mu Sicheng and overstimulated him, who was too low in spirit.

"I came to you as part of Zhang Gui's plan, but I am truly betraying Zhang-" The puppet, before he could finish the sentence, the transparent puppet strings in Liu Huai's heart suddenly surrendered to his heart.

Because he said he wanted to belong to Mu Sicheng's camp once and for all, Zhang Gui wanted to kill him - Liu Huai suddenly realised this, Liu Huai gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, his desire to live made him speak out in desperation, "I will not betray Zhang Gui. Gui."

The scales swayed twice and eventually fell slowly towards [Lie].

Mu Sicheng slowly released the hand that was strangling Liu Huai's neck, and his eyes were strange and mocking: "...... It seems that you can't live on Zhang Gui's side either, you betrayed Zhang Gui, just like you betrayed me because you couldn't live in the first place. "

"You are loyal only to yourself, Liu Huai ." Mu Sicheng snorted, "Rather, I could use you."

Liu Huai coughed and looked at the small balance in Mu Sicheng's hand in disbelief - he had indeed betrayed Zhang Gui just now because Zhang Gui wanted to kill him, or rather this thought had never stopped after Zhang Gui had made him a puppet ......

Did Zhang Gui anticipate this and know that Mu Sicheng had this scales prop here, that's why he sent him over ......

Liu Huai suddenly shivered.

Mu Sicheng once again asked Liu Huai about the whole process of coming here, and this time Liu Huai did not deceive and told Mu Sicheng everything. Even if I really wanted to attack him, I would only do it when he was almost done with the broken lens at a later stage, and he wanted to separate me from Bai Liu.

Speaking of which, Liu Huai suddenly noticed something very strange, he had been here for a short while and hadn't seen Bai Liu, he looked around: "Isn't Bai Liu here?"

Du Sanying scratched his face a little embarrassed: "...... that, when we discussed the plan before, Bai Liu actually wanted to cooperate with the puppet master, but Mu Sicheng did not agree with the plan, so Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng had a big fight and then Bai Liu broke up with us to join Zhang Gui. Bai Liu broke up with us and joined Zhang Gui."

Mu Sicheng grunted coldly and turned his face away, "Bai Liu and I don't need anyone to divide us! We can break up on our own!"

Liu Huai: "......"

Liu Huai: "?????"

What is it ?????? Who did Bai Liu go and join?!

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[The train is coming to the station, the next stop is Yellow Springs Road, please line up next to the door if you want to get off, first get on then get off -]

Bai Liu made his way to the front of the car and found Zhang Gui sitting neatly in his seat with two hollow-eyed puppets standing in front of him, he didn't seem surprised to see Bai Liu coming and greeted him naturally, "Here you are, have a seat, it's a bit quicker than I thought."

Bai Liu sat down opposite Zhang Gui and sighed, "You have sent Liu Huai here, so Mu Sicheng is no longer a pawn for me, so I have to come and defect."

"You're the smart one." Zhang Gui smiled meaningfully, "Just a little unlucky to have run into a smarter me."

Zhang Gui crossed his legs and spread his arms on the back of his seat, a very relaxed and conceited posture, he raised his jaw and looked at Bai Liu askance with a smile on his face, "This game requires the sacrifice of four people to pass. If you choose to stand on my opposite side and fight me, your panel attributes are so poor that I will definitely win, but then the overall life points will definitely be consumed ineffectively, and after I have you under control, then I will most likely choose to sacrifice you to get four hundred life points in exchange for me to pass the game."

"For you Bai Liu, I actually think the best plan is to work with me, although there is a possibility that I will control you, but at least I won't sacrifice you so easily."

"But Mu Sicheng will certainly not agree to work with me." Zhang Gui smiled as if he was a little sorry and sighed falsely, "And you won't come to me easily to seek cooperation, after all, not many people want to be subject to others, you might even have the idea of asking Mu Sicheng to steal from me, I have no choice but to ask Liu Huai to persuade you. "

The fish that Zhang Gui wanted to hang from the beginning was Bai Liu, not Mu Sicheng.

To catch the Bai Liu fish, it was necessary to shake up the partnership between Mu Sicheng and Bai Liu.

There is nothing like a Liu Huai to shake Mu Sicheng's trust in his teammates.

While a sane Mu Sicheng might have been able to maintain his partnership with Bai Liu despite the fact that this was a secondary game, an abnormal Mu Sicheng, with Liu Huai present to remind him of what happened, would have been unable to control his suspicion and hatred of his teammate. The team's suspicion and hatred of him must have been uncontrollable.

Of course, Mu Sicheng can drift his spirit back to normal, but this is definitely not what Bai Liu wants, and if Bai Liu chooses to follow through with his partnership with Mu Sicheng and stand against Zhang Gui, he will need Mu Sicheng to go berserk to maintain a high level of combat power to defend himself against Zhang Gui.

Bai Liu can certainly put himself into a berserker state and become a high fighter, but Zhang Gui doesn't think Bai Liu will do so easily.

Bai Liu, a F-ranked player, has much weaker basic attributes than Mu Sicheng, an A-ranked player, and Bai Liu is a fragile, high-output player who can easily die in a berserk state.

Zhang Gui's plan was to take Bai Liu first and then use Liu Huai to control Mu Sicheng.

As for Du Sanying, just let him die when the time is right, Zhang Gui is not interested in a man like Du Sanying who has no power and who relies on his luck to get to the top.

Bai Liu was honest: "I actually persuaded Mu Sicheng to work with you, but not only was he reluctant, he beat me up."

Bai Liu shows Zhang Gui his personal panel as he speaks, and the life expectancy item clearly says [Attacked by player Mu Sicheng down 40].

This is actually the result of Bai Liu taking Mu Sicheng for a transport vehicle at the beginning, and Mu Sicheng's anger and frustration in punching Bai Liu down, which is now used by Bai Liu as one of the proofs of his own defection without blushing.

Bai Liu sighed regretfully, "I only have about 20 lives left, so I can't get through with them. I was hoping that Mu Sicheng would be able to kill you when he was berserk. But after I learned of Liu Huai's existence, I gave up working with Mu Sicheng altogether."

Zhang Gui gave Bai Liu an approving look, "Because in Liu Huai's presence, Mu Sicheng's berserk state will be more unstable and he will be more inclined to attack his own teammates when the time comes."

"It's too easy to die with the amount of life I have." Bai Liu spreads his hands, "As much as I want to win the game, I want to stay alive more than anything, so I've come to you for cooperation."

If Mu Sicheng were here, he would have cursed Bai Liu, a psychopath who wanted money rather than life, for speaking such nonsense, but Zhang Gui did not know that Bai Liu was a psychopath who wanted money rather than life, so he smiled with satisfaction as he drew out a roll of transparent puppet silk and said with a raised eyebrow, "Then you know what I am working with me on conditions, you have to be my puppet to do so."

"Yes." Bai Liu agreed, or perhaps he had expected such an outcome, and rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "But cooperation is a mutual matter, right? Zhang Gui, I'll be your puppet, so you have to show me your sincerity, like what are the benefits of being your puppet?"

Zhang Gui was quick to say, "What do you want me to do to show my sincerity in working with you?"

"I have a prop that Mu Sicheng stole, it's called the [Mermaid's Amulet]." Bai Liu's eyes fell slowly, "I also infighted with Mu Sicheng because of this, and I would like you to help me get it back if you can."

"That's it?" Zhang Gui was a little surprised, as if he hadn't expected Bai Liu to make such a simple offer.

"That's a life-saving prop." Bai Liu's eyes rolled and he whispered, a very Buming smile at the corners of his mouth, "I'm so low on life, I want you to grab it for me before this train leaves, that way at least I'll be safer back there, you don't want you to have a hard time getting me and then I just die like that, do you?"

"Fine." Zhang Gui smiled, "I prefer a willing puppet, and surprisingly Bai Liu, you know so much and are willing to make a deal with me, so I'll-"

The puppet thread in Zhang Gui's hand trembled violently, and the sharp, needle-sharp end of the thread dug into Bai Liu's bones, wrapping several times around them.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu has become the puppet of player Zhang Gui]

Zhang Gui slowly pulled back the corners of his mouth, his normal smile turning eerie and wicked: "- it's come to this, and you actually think you can still negotiate with me, Bai Liu, so I'll have to teach you the rules."

[System Alert: Player Zhang Gui has used his personal skill (String Doll) on Bai Liu Bai Liu].

"Now, Bai Liu, take everything you have on you and pay me, especially the weapons." Zhang Gui tickled the silk threads on his own fingers, "I won't give you any more chances to roll over."

Bai Liu moved stiffly, his face still white with pain, his hand froze as he clicked on his system panel and kept throwing things out.

A snow-white fish bone, some small messy things, an old wallet, Bai Liu's face changed violently when he saw the old wallet being thrown out, which in turn caught Zhang Gui's attention and he lowered himself to pick it up: "What is this? Your personal skills?"

Zhang Gui patted his wallet and gave a dismissive laugh, "That's pretty shabby." He flipped open the wallet and raised his eyebrows when he saw the contents, Zhang Gui pulled out a stack of points notes and showed them to Bai Liu with amusement: "What is this? A tangible points wallet? You like this mess, but there's a lot of points in it. ...... Let me count, 12,000."

"Then I'll laugh at it all." Zhang Gui laughed.

Bai Liu, who was already under control and whose face was originally pale, lowered her head without saying a word and bit her lower lip, as if she was suffocating enough to not know what to say, and finally only said stubbornly, "Take it, and I'll take it as payment for your help."

Zhang Gui sneered meaningfully, "If you want to be so self-congratulatory, that's fine."

But if Zhang Gui looks down at Bai Liu's expression, he sees a calm gaze and a small, slow curve in his bitten bottom lip.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu gives Player Zhang Gui 12,000 points to make a deal. Player Zhang Gui needs to retrieve the item (Mermaid's Amulet) to Player Bai Liu before the train starts again].

[If one of the parties does not complete the deal, the system will impose a penalty - the party that does not complete the deal will be imprisoned in the system (old wallet) and become soul money]