Chapter 482: I Panicked, I Admit It (6/5, Autumn Subscription)

He had to admit it—Fang Yue was panicking.

The cruelty of the other's methods exceeded anything Fang Yue could have imagined.

At this moment, Fang Yue couldn't move a muscle; his whole body was drained of strength, every negative status from the knockout drugs stacking up like mad, and even 【Night's Breath】 couldn't pull him back in time.

"Parchment! Parchment!!"

Clinging to his last shred of consciousness, Fang Yue screamed in his heart. Yet the parchment gave no response.

Dropping the ball at the critical moment—damn you!

His eyelids were so heavy they wanted to close, and lying on the table, right at the edge of his fading vision, was the girl who moments ago had been fawning over him like a simp, adding dishes to his plate, but now sat leisurely in her seat, elegantly sipping the broth.

As if sensing his gaze, she glanced sidelong at Fang Yue and slowly let out a line.

"Yese Liming, the great god, the number one player in the game—is nothing more than this."

What?!

Fang Yue's pupils snapped to pinpoints, and under the layered knockout drugs, his whole body arched up in agitation.

A player?! She's a player?!

"You—what exactly are you people! What exactly are all of you!"

Fang Yue immediately roared out harshly.

In his heart he was actually screaming—"Parchment! Parchment!! Sheepy!!!"

Yet the slumbering parchment remained asleep!

Fang Yue's scalp went numb as he realized this might be the most dangerous moment he'd faced since entering the game!

And while Fang Yue lay collapsed on the dining table, every other servant of the Ning Family looked on as if nothing were happening, without even a ripple, as if everything were exactly as it should be—no reaction at all.

Only Liao Guanjia turned and walked outside.

"Get rid of him."

"Safe travels, Lord Liao."

The one responding to Liao Guanjia… was Ning Laotou!

His status seemed to be a notch lower than Liao Guanjia's!

"Aiya ya, today's toy broke way too early today."

Ning Wudian stretched lazily, wiped his mouth, came to Fang Yue's side, and slipped a Fluorescent Bracelet onto Fang Yue's right hand.

"Not enough."

Xia Xiyu had also wiped her mouth and stood up. She glanced at Fang Yue and continued, "Put ten Fluorescent Bracelets on him… no! Twenty… no, cover both his arms, both his legs, and his neck!"

Fang Yue's eyes instantly went wide.

Damn!

What grudge, what grievance!!

Are you freaking poisoned or something!!

Over here, Fang Yue was still thinking of Hidden Endurance—waiting for 【Night's Breath】 to suppress the knockout drugs' effects, then turning the tables.

And over there, the response was to slap Fluorescent Bracelets all over him!

When it comes to ruthless, you really take the crown—how very un-trusting of me!

Send friend request! Send friend request! Send friend request! Send friend request!

Fang Yue frantically sent friend requests, only to be ruthlessly rejected.

"Xia Xiyu! You're a vagrant, and so am I—what do you mean by helping them? I can pay you, as long as you…"

"Tsk tsk."

"…What are you tsk-ing about?"

"How unsightly." Xia Xiyu walked with a gait like a model's catwalk, came right up to Fang Yue, bent down and breathed into his ear, and in a seductive voice whispered, "Yese Liming, this game isn't as simple as you think. Money can't buy certain things."

After speaking, Xia Xiyu straightened up and, like a noble lady, cast a glance at Ning Wudian beside her.

"What are you still gawking at? Put the Fluorescent Bracelets on him."

"Is that necessary? Even the legendary Lord Han—we only put one big Fluorescent Ring on him. Could he possibly be more dangerous than Lord Han?" Ning Wudian said, a little disgruntled.

Xia Xiyu frowned slightly, then quickly smoothed it out, and crooked a finger at Ning Wudian. Ning Wudian instinctively leaned closer…

Smack!!

A slap, landing directly on Ning Wudian's face and knocking him to the ground.

"You?!"

Ning Wudian covered his face and looked up in fury, only to see Xia Xiyu looking down at him from above with a gaze of contempt, as if regarding trash.

"Not necessary?"

She let out a cold laugh: "You clueless fool!

The battle of the Rain Tribe that had the vagrants all buzzing—if we split it by merit, Lord Han has eight parts of the credit, but he has two!

After that one battle, Lord Han ended up with nothing but his head left, yet he came out completely unscathed!

That was a Rain-tier battlefield! Just how much is he hiding, just how much real strength does he have—can't you even imagine it? Face a Rain-tier battlefield head-on—could you survive it?

No! Because you don't have Rain-tier strength! Ning Lao doesn't have Rain-tier! None of the three stewards have Rain-tier strength either!

And I don't either, so I choose caution—caution, and more caution!

That's why I told you to use the maximum dose of knockout drugs, compound them, distribute them evenly, then mask them with seasoning, calculate the most precise timing, and make the most thorough preparations! Let every knockout drug stack and erupt—and even so, this guy still hasn't dropped, still hasn't passed out. You think if it were you, you trash, you could take it?"

The final question was asked in a fierce, cutting tone!

Ning Wudian was cowed, Ning Lao's movements froze, and the scene fell into silence.

After a good while, Ning Lao played peacemaker: "Listen to Xiyu. Cover him in Fluorescent Bracelets."

"…Yes."

Only then did Ning Wudian cover her face, glare resentfully at Xia Xiyu, slip a Fluorescent Bracelet onto Fang Yue's right hand as well, and pull out even more Fluorescent Bracelets…

Strength, draining away.

Internal force, being siphoned.

Lifespan, vanishing.

Of these three, only the drain of lifespan was relatively the slowest—but that was all.

Fang Yue's face turned deathly pale.

His heart sank into utter darkness.

If it were only the hallucinogens piling on debuffs, Fang Yue was confident that, given a moment to catch his breath, he could definitely clear them all.

And Fang Yue's confidence had grounds.

Because right now, amid the stacked hallucinogen effects, he was instead growing clearer-headed, and his eyelids were no longer so heavy.

Breath of the Night was frantically offsetting the drug's effects, and the system prompts that had been popping nonstop had already stopped.

The number of hallucinogens, not counting those already offset, was 222 kinds currently on him!

But the instant the system prompts stopped popping, that number began plummeting like mad.

First blood, double kill, triple kill, quadra kill, penta kill—frenzied slaughter, Legendary, Godlike forever!

Breath of the Night was annihilating the drug states in a brutally violent, savagely cruel fashion.

But all of this—the moment the Fluorescent Bracelets were hung on him—hope was shattered.

Breath of the Night could restore strength, but it could not restore internal force or lifespan.

At the same time, once his hands, both arms, both legs, and neck were all hung with Fluorescent Bracelets, even Breath of the Night could no longer restore his strength; he lay on the ground like a paralytic, unable to move at all.

What was left of his entire body was all Fluorescent Bracelets—the man was about to become a bracelet person!

Looking at Xia Xiyu, who gazed down at him with the contempt of a queen, Fang Yue forced out a voice with great difficulty.

"Why… did you know… I was coming…"

"Because we had someone bring the bracelets to find you on purpose, to lure you here.

Lord Han's matter—you can't go public with it, can you?

Otherwise everyone will know Lord Han has lost his cultivation. How dangerous will Lord Han's situation—and yours—become?

So you had to investigate personally, and you were bound to track it back to us. All we had to do was wait by the stump for the rabbit.

In one sentence—the intelligence I hold is above yours!"

Book recommendation

"I'm Too Strong in Naruto"

Uchiha Itachi: Every one of my attacks seems to be anticipated by Lord Hokage; the shuriken I throw have never even grazed the hem of his clothes.

Raikage: Lord Hokage's speed isn't faster than mine, but every time he perfectly dodges my attacks.

Uzumaki Nagato: He—too strong! My attacks are completely useless against him.

(End of chapter)