Chapter 50: Growing Players

Just as Deng Li Buduo had anticipated, when he logged back in, the players in Jiamu City were already waiting on the path ahead of him.

Even the Dark Guards who usually trained in the City Lord's Mansion had all run out to join in the fun.

To cooperate in a play and spend one copper coin to befriend a master—why wouldn't one do it?

……

Emerging from the restroom.

Deng Li Buduo walked forward along the street, full of confidence.

He had only taken two steps.

A player named Jingbuyi approached from the opposite direction, gave Deng Li Buduo a wink, tripped his own left foot with his right, and fell to the ground with a thud: "Ouch, my leg! Can someone give me a hand?"

A flat-ground fall?

Deng Li Buduo looked at Jingbuyi, who was clutching his leg and wailing, his mouth dry; are you insulting my intelligence?

However.

Since it had come to this, he had to act it out, even if it was awkward.

Deng Li Buduo bit the bullet and rushed over: "Brother, I'll help you up, but are you willing to pay a reward of one copper coin?"

"I am willing." Jingbuyi sounded like a devout believer meeting a priest, his tone full and his acting awkward to the heavens.

In an instant, the surroundings fell silent.

I want to die!

What kind of rotten idea did I come up with?

Why is it that whenever Lin Bai causes trouble, others are the ones who feel awkward, but I am the one who must forever personally experience this unbearable shame?

The corner of Deng Li Buduo's eye twitched violently, and with a smile on his face, he bit the bullet and helped Jingbuyi up.

"Thank you, you really are a kind person." Jingbuyi stood up smoothly and placed the copper coin he had already prepared into Deng Li Buduo's palm.

Before Deng Li Buduo could react, Jingbuyi had already cupped his hands and said loudly to the onlookers: "Establish a new civilized atmosphere, I take the lead in good deeds, dear fellow villagers, Rice Divination by the Kitchen God welcomes you."

Damn it!

Deng Li Buduo was about to go crazy; he quickly switched to the private chat channel: "What the hell, what are you doing?"

"Promoting for the big boss!" Jingbuyi returned a smug look, "Brother Deng, no need to thank me, this is what I should do."

F***!

I'm on a quest!

Did I ask you to run an advertisement?

Deng Li Buduo roared in his heart; he had never been so embarrassed in his entire life, even though the people around him were just NPCs!

What a way to play this game.

He hadn't gained much experience, but his thick skin had certainly been tempered.

Yet, he had no way to explain it.

After all, on the forums, the account Deng Li Buduo was a marketing master in every sense, and nominally, he still held thirty percent of the restaurant's shares.

The most critical point was that the advertisements he used to recruit people on the forum were also in the name of marketing.

Hell!

Behind them.

Zhang Bao held paper and pen, asking Zhang Dashan beside him in a daze: "Da Shan, does this count as a success?"

Zhang Dashan nodded in confusion: "I suppose so. The manager always does things unexpectedly. He wouldn't let Little Deng come out to do good deeds for no reason; this must be the manager's new method of soliciting business."

……

Behind the crowd, watching the two players perform their play, Lin Bai almost burst out laughing.

He truly hadn't expected Deng Li Buduo to pull something like this.

However, this worked too.

If he dared to keep acting all the way through, it would be the perfect Gentleman's Virtue, and it would definitely fool the system...

Having enjoyed Deng Li Buduo's flashy operation, Lin Bai couldn't be bothered to follow anymore; he had more important things to do and couldn't spend every day chasing players to watch the fun.

……

At the same time.

Lao Mi and Gengmi snuck into the Beggar's lair.

Facing a nest of beggars, Lao Mi stepped forward: "Who is the boss?"

"It's you two?" Liu Quan recognized Lao Mi and his companion at a glance, and he sneered, "You ran out of the City Lord's Mansion, you've got some skill, brothers..."

He only got halfway through his sentence.

Pfft!

Lao Mi drew his newly purchased dagger and, clean and swift, stabbed it into Gengmi's heart.

Fresh blood sprayed out.

Gengmi collapsed limply to the ground, blood bubbling from his mouth.

He died with his eyes wide open.

Having practiced Basic Martial Arts in the City Lord's Mansion for two days, Lao Mi had reached level two, his strength much greater than an ordinary person's; by hitting a vital point, he could easily achieve a one-hit kill.

The sudden scene stunned all the restless beggars.

Liu Quan's expression changed several times, his voice trembling slightly: "You... what do you want? You've killed someone, don't think you can escape..."

"Are you the leader?" Lao Mi asked.

"It's me." Liu Quan couldn't help but glance at Gengmi on the ground, nodding subconsciously.

"From now on, this territory is under my protection, any problems?" Lao Mi wiped the blood off the dagger on Gengmi's corpse and said calmly.

"On what grounds?" the little Beggar Li Ergou asked, neck stiffened.

"On the grounds that I am more ruthless than you all," Lao Mi said.

"..." The group of Beggars were collectively dumbfounded.

Are you fucking sick?

Who kills their own companion to show how ruthless they are?

Liu Quan's face sank like water, and he gritted his teeth: "A life for a life; the evidence is ironclad. Take him down and send him to the City Lord's Mansion."

"See you in a bit," Lao Mi grinned hideously, turned, and ran.

"Fuck, a lunatic!" Watching Lao Mi run off at full tilt, Liu Quan cursed in exasperation and kicked Li Ergou beside him. "Ergou, go see if that woman can still be saved!"

Li Ergou leaned close to Gengmi, tremblingly reached out a hand under her nose, and shook his head: "Boss, she's dead."

"You're the one who's fucking dead," Liu Quan said with a gloomy face and a foul temper. "Two of you, go over, throw her into the well out back, and wipe the blood clean. What fucking bad luck!"

"Should we report it to the authorities?" Li Ergou asked.

"Report my ass!" Liu Quan's expression was extremely ugly. "Are you worried we don't have enough trouble already?"

Two Beggars carried Gengmi's corpse to the backyard, threw it into a dry well with a splash, each muttered about bad luck, and returned to the front hall.

Before they could report to Liu Quan, both of them froze in place.

Standing at the door—who else could it be but the two from before?

"Ghost!" With a shrill scream, one of the Beggars rolled his eyes and fainted on the spot.

"Can we talk now?" Lao Mi looked at Liu Quan with a smile.

"Who on earth are you people?" Liu Quan stole a glance at Gengmi standing next to Lao Mi, sweating profusely; he wasn't sure if she was human or a ghost right now.

"Nonsense, obviously we're human," Gengmi rolled her eyes at him and said.

"To be precise, undying people," Lao Mi said, weighing the dagger in his hand. "Submit to us, or we'll kill you all one by one. Come to think of it, we still have a score to settle!"

"An illusion, it must be an illusion," Liu Quan said hysterically.

"Even if it is an illusion, do you dare to bet on it?" Lao Mi drew another dagger, handed it to Gengmi beside him, and sneered.

Dying once means losing a level!

Killing a teammate as a sacrifice is fine once, but doing it again would truly make them idiots.

They had no other choice.

The Beggars cooperated well; even though they had learned Basic Martial Arts from the City Lord's Mansion, if they really had to fight the Beggars head-on, perhaps they could take down this group by sacrificing a few lives...

Subduing them by force was absolutely impossible, but if they fought them to the death, they would have no subordinates left!

The Beggars wouldn't respawn; they couldn't just go out on the road, drag people in to be Beggars, and start a new Beggar Sect, could they?

After thinking it over.

Using the Undying Body to bluff people was the most suitable approach.

This was the only trump card they could bring out at the moment.

Fortunately, their levels were low; dying once only took a day to train back, a loss that was completely acceptable.

The only good thing about this game was that the NPCs had thoughts and could gain benefits through negotiation.

Looking at the two unyielding figures, Liu Quan had grievances he couldn't voice. What the fuck kind of situation was this?

He didn't dare to bet at all!

After all.

He had seen that woman die and come back to life with his own eyes.

What if what they said was true?

Being a Beggar was still a way to live!

Besides, they were living quite well...

"I'm counting to three," Lao Mi held up his fingers. "One... two..."

"Fine, I agree," Liu Quan interrupted him in despair. He swallowed his saliva. "But I have one condition."

"Speak," Lao Mi said.

"Great Hero, I can be your subordinate, but you must change the habit of killing your own people," Liu Quan said with a mournful face. "We only have one life; we can't afford to be toyed with by you!"

【Big Brother has the right to speak for a street (Completed), Reward: Luck 2 (Already issued)】

The moment Liu Quan submitted, a mission notification reached Lin Bai's mind.

(End of chapter)