THN: Ch 19.2

Tong Yao’s violent cough broke the silent confrontation in the banquet hall.

Chi Yiyin walked towards her and held out his hand to her: “Are you okay?”

Looking at the outstretched palm in front of her eyes, Tong Yao’s eyes moved slightly. She clasped the hand: “I’m okay, thank you.”

Her voice was still hoarse, and there were physiological tears in the corners of her eyes from when she was being strangled, but because of Chi Yiyin’s appearance, her calm demeanor had begun to return.

“Clap! Clap! Clap!”

A casual applause. Li Li dropped the corpse in his hand, and walked slowly towards their side.

“It’s really touching. The friendship between teammates. I didn’t expect you to come back to save her, Chi Yiyin.”

Chi Yiyin raised his eyes, glanced at the other, then looked away with disinterest. He  asked Tong Yao in a low voice: “What happened when I was not around?”

Tong Yao sat on a chair, looking at the bloody remains of the boy’s body all over the floor. Her eyes couldn’t help turning red.

When Chi Yiyin and the aunt left the banquet hall first, Tong Yao noticed it, but didn’t care.

She still remembered that Chi Yiyin had deceived everyone before, which made her hair stood on end. She couldn’t tell whether he was trustworthy or not, or whether her trust in him was also part of his plan.

For intelligence that’s far beyond the limit of imagination, people would call it a monster and stayed away from it in the name of fear.

Tong Yao was no exception.

And she also wanted to use Chi Yiyin to see through the aunt.

But unexpectedly, after Chi Yiyin left, the three younger siblings who no one knew what they had said to their aunt suddenly went berserk and started attacking the players, and those faceless servants also rushed up in loyalty.

Killed one, and another appeared. The number of those servants appeared endless.

The players were worried about hurting NPCs and inducing their hatred, so they were restrained and did not dare to kill, but that in turn gave the NPCs an opportunity.

Not only that, but Li Li and his companion had been diverting their own trouble by using a special prop in their hands to divert the NPCs’ attention to other people.

Tong Yao cursed in anger, but Li Li shrugged, saying that the system did not say that props could not be used. The meaning was, props were allowed.

At the beginning, Tong Yao tried desperately to protect the other two newcomers, but she was quickly overwhelmed. After being entangled by the two younger brothers, they wanted to kill her.

The older brother whispered in her ear: ‘A dead sister is a good sister. Sister, for the sake of this sibling’s relationship, can you help me? Help me by being dead.”

At this time, the young man lost Tong Yao’s protection, and the younger sister forcibly tore off his skin and meat one by one along following the texture of the muscle, and threw him into a pool of blood, like torn meat soaked in red oil.

The young man died in despair under severe pain.

Just a little more and Tong Yao would have died as well.

Fortunately, Chi Yiyin arrived in time.

Because of what Li Li did just now, Tong Yao hated the pair very much, so she refused to share the information publicly, and sent all the information to Chi Yiyin through messaging.

Her hands were shaking violently while typing, she had yet to completely recover from what happened just now.

Chi Yiyin looked at the information and smiled.

The most important reason for him to save Tong Yao was the information in Tong Yao’s hands, and secondly because he noticed that there was a tendency of opposition among the players’ camps. Although he was not afraid of being alone, multiple helpers would be of great help.

After the NPCs and faceless servants left, only five people remained alive in the empty banquet hall.

Li Li and his companion had obviously shown their ferocity and malice. They came here for the instance’s reward, and they were not afraid to tear their faces with others.

And standing opposite them were Chi Yiyin and Tong Yao.

There was also another one, the female student, who took the initiative to talk to Chi Yiyin on the train.

She huddled in a corner, shivering, with pieces of meat splattered on her school uniform, as if she had been frightened silly.

When Chi Yiyin’s eyes fell on the female student, he paused and became suspicious.

She was also a newcomer with no protection. Why was the other young man died miserably, but the female student was unscathed? Her whole body was bloody with pieces of meat splattered that just looked embarrassing, but a closer look revealed that the female student did not have even a scratch.

Even an old player like Tong Yao was seriously injured…

Chi Yiyin’s eyes dimmed.

“When I was on the train, I thought you were a newcomer, and it was your stupidity that you would help Tong Yao. But now it seems that it is my habitual thinking—butcher couple.”

Li Li pulled the tablecloth, wiped the blood on his hands lazily, and said: “I didn’t expect to take precautions, but still didn’t guess your original identities. You voted to kill Ah Si before, and you deliberately provoked Ah Si to open the voting mechanism, right? Because you think Ah Si knows your true identity.”

“Using ‘Pope’ as a cover-up. Instead, you concealed your true identity, and Ah Si, who guessed your identity correctly, died because of your intentional guidance—Ah Si didn’t think that until he died, everything he did was used by you to kill him instead.”

Li Li sneered and said: “It’s a pity that I didn’t expect at that time that what the fox Ah Si said was right. But I was swayed by your statement about the truth about the aunt’s identity, so I voted for Ah Si instead. At the very least, you should tell the truth about the aunt, right?”

Chi Yiyin looked at Li Li calmly, as if fully acknowledging what he said.

Only a few viewers noticed something was wrong: [The butcher couple? No, they have entered another instance.]

[Damn, I just realized that we thought he was the pope, and Li Li thought he was the butcher… Could it be that in the end, he is actually no one? This is not a choice at all, but both are a cover-up?]

Chi Yiyin hooked his lips and chuckled, “I didn’t promise you that I would tell you the truth about the aunt. I just said, I know. As for the rest…”

He tilted his head, with a smile on his brows and eyes: “It’s whatever you believed.”

Li Li gnashed his teeth with hatred. He simply wanted to go back to voting immediately, and this time, he must vote for Chi Yiyin.

His companion’s eyes were also looking at Chi Yiyin with coldness, but he quickly restrained his malice, and looked around with his hands in his pockets.

“One, two… five people. The initial number of players in the instance was eleven people, and now it happened that half of them had gone offline.”

The companion counted the number of people, and said lazily: “This time there are newcomers in the instance, will it automatically trigger the free live broadcast rule?”

Li Li nodded: “Soon.”

Hearing the conversation between the two, Chi Yiyin frowned, and looked at Tong Yao with questioning eyes.

After being repeatedly rescued by Chi Yiyin from danger for three times, Tong Yao had completely trusted him. After meeting his gaze, she didn’t think too much, and immediately answered: [The live broadcast room with less than 10,000 fans is free live broadcast. Anyone can watch without spending points.]

[But the free live broadcast doesn’t mean there’s really no charge. When the number of players in the instance goes below half, the system will determine that the survivors are in crisis. It will randomly grab a lucky viewer from the current free live broadcast audience to enter the instance to help other survivors to complete the instance.]

[That is to say, one in ten thousands will become the lucky one. But most of those who watch the free live broadcast are poor players who have no strength to exchange for points, so those who are selected will have a high probability of dying in the instance.]

After a pause, Tong Yao continued: [Just like our current instance, whoever enters it will die… Only saving a couple of points, but your life will be lost.]

Chi Yiyin immediately understood the situation.

For the hard instance of [Dear Home], only newcomers would have less than 10,000 followers. There are three newcomers including him in the instance, and the system will grab a viewer from their respective live broadcast rooms and send them to the instance to supplement the number of people, from five to eight.

—It’s really sending away a lucky audience at random.

Sure enough, the system’s broadcast prompt soon went online, and a commotion began at the live broadcast room.

It was already useless to exit the live broadcast room this time. The system had recorded the ID code of each players. It was now congratulating the players for participating in this exciting game with its cold mechanical voice.

However, most of the players were unperturbed, and instead was waiting for the draw with relish—everyone felt that the bad luck would never fall on them.

They looked forward to the scene where the selected person cried and tried to deny the result, but was thrown forcibly into the instance by the system. Their adrenaline soared because of the anticipation and were laughing excitedly in the live broadcast room.

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[Here we go, the most anticipated lucky draw is here!]

[Let me see who is the lucky one this time!]

[Hahaha, yes! I watch the free live broadcast just for this moment, how exciting!!!]

[The fear of waiting for death, ah~~ It’s so wonderful!]

The system played cheerful background music according to the occasion, and all the players names’ were rolled in the prize pool, then paused randomly, and a name was spit out.

When the teenager who had been staring at the screen saw the name “Jingcha,” he squinted his eyes and laughed happily.

He got up in leisure, hummed a song, peeled off another lollipop, and put it in his mouth.

But when another lucky viewer saw his name, his excited laughter stopped abruptly and turned into a frightened panic: “How could it be me! No, no! There must be something wrong.”

“This is [Dear Home], it’s impossible to survive! I don’t want to go in, no!!!”

But the system stayed unmoved, and still strictly enforced the rules.

[In this instance, there are two live broadcast rooms with less than 10,000 followers, and two survivors are randomly selected. Congratulations to the survivors! The countdown to be sent to the instance is in is 3,2,1!]

Two figures appeared in the banquet hall in an instant. A middle-aged man fell heavily to the ground. When he fell, he just happened to be face to face with the dead young man. As soon as he looked up, he was startled by the lifeless and empty eyes of the corpse, and started screaming frantically.

As for the teenager, he landed lightly and slowly. He was wearing a hoodie with rabbit ears, and the hoods’ two black rabbit ears danced in midair.

Chi Yiyin noticed the teenager’s gaze were looking at him, and was following him.

He was calm on the surface, but couldn’t stop the doubts in his heart.

Other players didn’t think there was any problem with the two random audience chosen, but Chi Yiyin himself knew that in this instance, there should be three newcomers including him. But now the number was not right…

The system would not make mistake in this kind of place. The only explanation was that one of the three lied, and was not a new player.

Chi Yiyin knew that he was one, and so was the young man who died. The remaining one was the female student…

He calmly glanced at the female student from the corner of his eye, seeing that she was still shivering in terror. Even Li Li was tricked by her.

Was there really a problem… He is a newcomer pretending to be an old player, so that others didn’t dare to act rashly, and so he was able to be safe and sound even if he didn’t understand the game field. He was then also able to earn the time and opportunity to familiarize himself with the game field.

Then why did the female student, an old player, pretend to be a newcomer? What is the purpose?

The female student noticed Chi Yiyin’s gaze, and smiled bluntly and shyly, as if she hadn’t gotten out of her fear before responding to the other’s kindness towards her.

A kind and well-behaved appearance, harmless to humans and animals.

[Survivors who randomly enter the instance will each bring an initial duration of 6 hours. In case of death, the same rule is applied as other survivors. Countdown to current instance 105:49:26]

[The banquet is over, it’s time for younger siblings to go to bed, and the aunt has moved in under the arrangement of the housekeeper. She hates people waking her up. Night time will start in 10 minutes. All survivors are requested to return to their room to rest. After nightfall, they are not allowed to leave the room at will.]

[The countdown starts now.]

Chi Yiyin calmly withdrew his gaze from the female student, and did not tell anyone of his discovery.

He was about to take a step, but the teenager with rabbit ears stood in front of him with his boots on.

With a lollipop in his mouth, the teenager looked up at Chi Yiyin in curiosity. His round eyes were as cute as a rabbit, pure and clean.

As if he shouldn’t appear in the game field, standing in blood and dead bodies, but more like a well-protected flower in a greenhouse.

Chi Yiyin just glanced at the teenager calmly, and was about to leave from the side, but the other stretched out his hand to him and introduced himself with a smile.

“I’m Jingcha, how about you?”

The teenager tilted his head, and the rabbit ears swayed accordingly. As he smiled, a small canine teeth appeared.

Even Tong Yao couldn’t help but feel soft-hearted, thinking that the teenager was another poor newcomer.

But before the live broadcast, someone wailed and scratched his head: “Ancestor! Why didn’t you use a special prop to change your appearance? And you still used your real name! Are you serious!”

Chi Yiyin looked at the slender palm stretched out for a while, and a sneer flashed across his lips.

Others didn’t know, but the system reminded him that the new anchor named Jingcha came from his live broadcast room. Now the other approached him as if he didn’t know his name?

He spread his hands and made an apologetic expression: “Sorry, I’m a clean freak and don’t like to shake hands.”

After he finished, Chi Yiyin bypassed the teenager and walked straight towards the young miss’ boudoir.

Behind him, the teenager’s eyes suddenly turned cold, and after a long time, he slowly withdrew his palm that was frozen in midair.

Chi Yiyin sensed the coldness behind him, but didn’t care.

His goal is to survive the instance. After seeing Ma Yuze’s story, he had another idea of what to do for this miserable woman. Besides, he wasn’t here to make friends.

He rescued Tong Yao because Tong Yao has intelligence value to him, but this teenager with unknown motivation… Heh.

He already has the entire hatred value of the instance, another Jingcha was nothing.

Seeing that Chi Yiyin was gone, Tong Yao also hurried to catch up. When passing by Jingcha, she smiled at him apologetically, and comforted him in a low voice: “Don’t worry, Chi Yiyin will protect you. His character is one that is cold on the outside but kind on the inside.”

After she finished speaking, she ran to Chi Yiyin, wanting to talk to him before going back to the room.

Therefore, she did not see the gloomy expression on the teenager’s face.

Jingcha looked at Tong Yao’s back coldly, and laughed contemptuously.

A monster like Chi Yiyin was actually said to be “cold on the outside and kind on the inside?” Heh, it seems that Chi Yiyin’s disguise was indeed very successful.

It’s just a pity that the one who survived… is the real one.

As the system counted down, Li Li and his companion also walked towards the young miss’ boudoir.

But they had never set foot in the boudoir before, and the servants had disappeared without a trace after nightfall. Chi Yiyin and the two in front had disappeared. They looked at each other, and could only start looking for the location of the boudoir in the large mansion, and try to get back to the boudoir before the countdown ended.

The female student was timid and fell far behind Li Li and his companion, as if she wanted to find the boudoir along the way. She was acting like a standard newcomer.

Jingcha looked around the banquet hall coldly, ignoring the middle-aged man who was wailing on the ground, and refused to accept reality.

Finally, the banquet hall was empty and quiet again.

The dead young man laid on his back in a pool of blood, his body gradually melted, turning into a puddle of sticky flesh in the blood.

Only the twisted skin was floating in the blood.

In the darkness under the stairs, a faceless servant walked out slowly, bent down and picked up the face.

And on the stairs, there was a regular thumping of a ball.

“Thump!”

“Thump!”

“Thump…”

A pair of innocent eyes of a child appeared.

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