Chapter 42

Chapter 42: Hand It Over.

This item was not unfamiliar to Yuan Pei. After all, not long ago, he had just used it on Ning Rong. But he never expected that in such a short time, someone would also use a Forced Team-Up item on him.

Thirty seconds of preparation time was not exactly short. At the very least, it still gave Yuan Pei enough time to say a few words.

He cursed loudly. “Someone used an item on me. I’m about to enter a dungeon.”

His companions did not react at first.

Since when had Forced Team-Up items become cheap cabbages that people could use whenever they wanted? Weren’t these things scarce and expensive, barely circulating on the market at all? Yet someone had actually used one on Yuan Pei?

None of them thought of connecting it to the newcomer. Deep down, they simply did not think Ning Rong was worth their attention.

Someone asked, “Who did you offend?”

Yuan Pei cursed nonstop. “How the hell would I know? Damn it, I wasn’t prepared at all. Good thing it’s only a B-rank dungeon...” Before he even finished speaking, his whole body was transmitted into the game.

After he vanished from the spot, someone shook his head and sighed. “That mouth of his... sooner or later it was bound to offend someone.”

Another person laughed and said meaningfully, “Hasn’t it already?”

Yuan Pei had no idea whose malice toward him was so great that they were willing to use such a precious Forced Team-Up item on him.

In this horror game, there were many kinds of team-up items. One kind was the one Juan Juan often used, a one-sided binding to Zhou Yujing. Once Zhou Yujing entered a dungeon, she would also be pulled into the same dungeon. Another kind was the one Yuan Pei had used before: after locking onto a target, it forcibly dragged that person into the high-level dungeon he was currently in.

Besides those, there were many other team-up items with different functions.

When Yuan Pei entered the game with a gloomy expression, wanting to see exactly who had schemed against him from behind the scenes, he unexpectedly saw two familiar faces.

The question slipped out immediately.

“It was you?”

Ning Rong stepped forward, her tone calm. “I didn’t expect we’d meet again so soon.”

Yuan Pei lowered his brows, looking as if a storm were about to break. “So it was you who used the item on me.”

Ning Rong said, “Surprised?”

At this moment, the group of players stood inside a run-down amusement park. It was dusk, with the sun half-set, and the afterglow of sunset dyed the entire sky blood-red. Against such a backdrop, Ning Rong herself seemed to blend into the halo of crimson light, making it impossible to clearly see her brows or expression.

For some reason, when Yuan Pei saw this scene, unease rose in his heart.

She was obviously just a newcomer who had only recently entered the game. Why did she make him feel a little dangerous?

[Holy crap, big sis is entering another dungeon already! My meal-time side dish is back!]

[This guy again?]

[Got it. Last time Yuan Pei directly dragged the little newcomer into an A-rank dungeon. This time the newcomer used his own method against him and dragged Yuan Pei into a B-rank dungeon.]

[6.]

[Worthy of big sis. She doesn’t take even the slightest loss. You scheme against me once, I immediately scheme back once.]

[Summary: Offend anyone you want, but it’s best not to offend big sis!]

Even after seeing Ning Rong in person, Yuan Pei was still extremely surprised. “You have an item? Where did you get it?”

Naturally, Ning Rong would not answer such nonsense.

She merely asked calmly, “You targeted me because of Boundless Domain?”

[What’s going on? Why because of Boundless Domain?]

[Wait, the little newcomer looks to be in her early twenties, right?]

[If that’s the reason, then it actually makes sense why she was targeted.]

[What kind of riddle are you people upstairs speaking in?]

[Still not certain. Let’s keep watching.]

[Keep watching.]

Hearing this, Yuan Pei’s brow twitched violently.

Last time, when he dragged Ning Rong into the game, she had asked one question.

“Was it Wilderness?”

At the time, he had not thought much of it, nor had he answered her.

After all, in his eyes, Ning Rong had only been cannon fodder who would never survive Amnesia.

So what if she guessed something?

At that time, he had not even thought deeply about why she knew the name Wilderness.

But now, he had no choice but to think more about it.

He sneered. “Looks like you’ve already discovered something. I don’t know whether to call you bold or ignorant. You let me know so easily that you’ve noticed something. Are you afraid you won’t die fast enough?”

Ning Rong’s tone was as calm as ever. “It seems you never mentioned me to anyone else.”

Yuan Pei snorted with laughter. “What qualifications do you have for me to mention you to anyone?”

After leaving Amnesia, he had completely thrown Ning Rong to the back of his mind. If his teammates had not mentioned her earlier, he would have almost forgotten her entirely.

Ning Rong shook her head slightly. “Then you have no chance now.”

Yuan Pei did not understand what she meant and pressed, “No chance for what?”

No chance for what?

Of course, no chance to tell anyone else that she had already realized something and had become wary.

Because...

Yuan Pei would have no chance of leaving this game alive.

Ning Rong said lightly, “Item Seal.”

Yuan Pei: ???

He checked his item inventory and found that most of his items had actually been sealed? He had many items, but the most useful few were all in a sealed state!

How was that possible?

What had she done to him?!

What the hell was going on?

When he sealed other people’s items, Yuan Pei looked lofty and superior. But after his own items were sealed, he panicked more than anyone.

The viewers in the livestream were just as confused as Yuan Pei.

[Brothers, I can’t understand this. The little newcomer’s previous skill can be used like this too?]

[Who can understand this?]

[New skill?]

Ning Rong appreciated Yuan Pei’s furious and humiliated expression for a moment.

The reason she had not directly sealed his skill and had only sealed his items was because she felt his skill was still within the range she could control.

But as for items...

She was worried Yuan Pei would use one to run away again.

On another front, she was also worried he might use an item to call reinforcements.

After all, there were so many items in this game. Who knew whether he had one that could summon helpers?

Though on that point, she had overthought things.

Yuan Pei’s mouth never spared anyone once he had the upper hand, and he had long since offended everyone around him, big and small alike.

He knew that group of people, and no one would come save him.

Even more so because he had entered only a B-rank instance. His companions all believed he was capable of handling whatever happened in a B-rank instance. With that in mind, even fewer people would come help him.

But in Ning Rong’s view, cutting off every possible escape route for Yuan Pei was still very necessary.

When she activated her skill, she looked cool.

But only she herself knew that she was currently completely deaf in both ears.

And this was the side effect of activating the skill Wealth Without Mercy.

How long would the side effect last?

Unknown.

But the effect of the skill was fairly satisfying.

This skill was a derived skill from I’ll Give You Fifty Million, You Give Me..., one she had only unlocked not long ago.

Under what circumstances would I’ll Give You Fifty Million, You Give Me... usually appear?

For example, in domineering-CEO romance novels.

The overbearing CEO’s mother looks down on the heroine, thinks she is unworthy of her son, and prepares to use money to send her away, saying—

“I’ll give you fifty million, you leave my son.”

But to a large extent, that sentence is disrespectful. It assumes the other party worships money and can be bought off, carrying the meaning of humiliating someone with wealth.

And the sentence itself also carried a tone of superiority.

Ning Rong had obtained this skill long ago, but had never used it even once.

And the derived skill of this skill was likewise a negative skill.

Wealth Without Mercy: Yours is mine, and mine is still mine. What? You say I’m unreasonable? Don’t be silly. A rich person like me doesn’t need to be reasonable. Hand it over!

Below that description was a small note:

This skill is a negative skill. Random side effects may occur after use. Please use cautiously.

Because the skill contained the phrase “Yours is mine,” then did that mean she could use Yuan Pei’s skills?

Facts proved that she really could.

The moment she activated the skill, six cards with their backs facing her suddenly appeared before her.

The pattern on the back of each card was exactly the same. Judging from appearance alone, there was no difference at all.

If her guess was correct, each of these six cards represented one skill.

Which meant that up to now, Yuan Pei had unlocked a total of six skills.

And what she needed to do now was flip one of those six cards.

Whichever one she flipped, that would be the skill she took.

Fortunately, her luck was good.

She flipped the one she wanted most—

Item Seal.

After his items were sealed, Yuan Pei gritted his teeth and shouted the words for the sealing skill. After sealing her skill, he had originally wanted to seal Ning Rong’s items as well.

But when he tried to use that skill, he unexpectedly found a line of text beside it—

Skill currently lent out. Time until return: 23:58:13

After having her skill sealed, Ning Rong merely glanced indifferently at her skill bar.

Money Makes the Devil Turn the Millstone had been sealed again.

But it was no big deal.

The other side had their items sealed by her. He should feel worse than she did.

Facts proved that the sealing range of Item Seal was much broader than Skill Seal.

Skill Seal could only seal one skill.

But Item Seal could seal several items.

Otherwise, in her last game, Ning Rong would not have had all of her items sealed.

—

The clash between the two sides had taken place in no more than three short minutes.

And after that bit of time had passed, the other players were only then teleported in one after another.

The moment all the players were teleported in, before they had even steadied themselves, the familiar electronic mechanical voice rang out in their minds at the same time.

[Welcome, everyone, to the brand-new infinite-flow horror game.]

[The game has now been fully updated. Compared with the previous version, the gameplay will be greatly different.]

[Friendly reminder: Past experience will no longer apply.]

[So then, we wish you all a happy time in the game, and enjoy yourselves to the fullest.]