Absolute Death Game-Chapter 485 - 52 The Story of Bai Yunfei_2
"No way? Haha, this game really is a tragic world, huh? When we killed those human-shaped monsters for gear, we never thought they had this sort of game background, haha."
After Li Baocheng left, everyone decided to use this Newbie Village as their base, because it was quite far from Nine Dragons City, and generally, the players who appeared here were ones they could handle, which was relatively safe.
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About three or four days after they settled down, Bai Yunfei began to notice something was wrong. The NPCs of the village gradually stopped communicating with them. When they approached the village chief or the militia captain in hopes of getting quests or inquiring about skills, those NPCs would simply walk away as if they were invisible. And these weren't even the worst parts. The most unbearable was that they could no longer buy food from the grocery store or the farmers. After a few days, their food supply ran low. Though they could get some meat by hunting, without staple food, everyone's stomachs were in discomfort. This was very different from playing through a computer; they were living here as real people now, and could not ignore any aspect of daily life, including eating and sanitation.
And the most lethal issue was that just at that time, their nominal leader, Zhang Yaoyang, suddenly disappeared. No one knew his whereabouts, and it caused total chaos for a time. But of course, Bai Yunfei knew – he was the only one among them who could see ghosts. So, ever since they were in the office, Bai Yunfei knew that the ghost of Zhang Yaoyang's sister had never left. It would automatically appear about ten steps from Zhang Yaoyang, like a translucent pet.
Zhang Yaoyang entered the company, played the game, and rose to become the captain of the Azure Dragon team, mostly for his sister. Now that he had finally entered the game, how could he possibly miss this great opportunity? So if Bai Yunfei guessed correctly, Zhang Yaoyang had gone to resurrect his sister. However, the other team members were completely ignorant of this matter. In their view, having entered the game, they had left their families and their world. For two days, they could not buy a bit of rice or flour. The only food they could have was badly roasted, bloody wild dog meat. And Zhang Yaoyang, who could have been their spiritual leader, had vanished at this critical moment.
Without needing Bai Yunfei to elaborate, Xiao Buli could understand that under such circumstances, probably no one was in a good mood. In a fit of rage, they ended up killing the grocery store owner and robbing the store. Everyone participated in that robbery. Even though they looted enough flour, rice, and other foods to fill their packs, they were inevitably going to become wanted criminals.
"Did you guys run?" Xiao Buli couldn't help but interject.
"NO," Bai Yunfei shook his head, for the first time since seeing Xiao Buli, there was a sense of silence and oppression in his tone, "In the end, we decided to finish what we'd started and just massacred the entire village."
"What? You guys..." Even though killing in the game was normal, a massacre? Xiao Buli still remembered the Demon Clan massacre that he'd experienced, which was the first time he'd felt sympathy for people within the game. And despite the danger, he joined the army confronting the Demon Clan, so the idea of indiscriminately killing innocent villagers was somewhat horrific to him at the moment.
"Yes, we killed everyone in the village. At that moment, everyone was a bit crazy. You know, at that time I felt like there was a voice in my head talking to me. I thought it might be the system communicating with us in some form..." Bai Yunfei seemed to be trying to find a rational explanation for their outrageous behavior.
"You mean the Heart Demon? That's when you guys started seeing the Heart Demon?" Xiao Buli quickly asked. When they had just separated, the concept of the Heart Demon wasn't in their dictionary yet, so Bai Yunfei naturally didn't know about it then.
"The Heart Demon? You mean the voice talking to me?" Bai Yunfei took a moment to recall, "It does sound similar, huh. Like when someone goes insane from practicing a spell incorrectly. You know about this too? Even named it?"
"Every player in the game will encounter this thing eventually. It constantly urges you to hand over control of your body to it. I found out about it later. Lin Beifeng of the Qilin Group was the first to succumb to it and then died. And soon after, I began to hear that voice too," Xiao Buli explained to Bai Yunfei.
"Wow, misery loves company. Anyway, I think we must have been bewitched by that voice at that time. We only realized how excessive our actions were after killing everyone. And being in the game, you know? The realism when killing someone?" Bai Yunfei seemed almost reluctant to continue, pausing for a while before going on.
Not long after the massacre, Zhang Yaoyang came back, of course, with his sister. But when we saw them, Zhang Yaoyang didn't look as happy as he had anticipated. His sister had come back to life, or rather, her body had, though infused with a soul, she had become an NPC. Moreover, her name was now listed as the follower of adventurer Zhang Yaoyang. She obeyed his orders like a puppet. This was definitely not the outcome he had expected. And I think our massacre wasn't what he expected either. He thought he'd only be gone for two days, that he'd quickly take care of his affairs, and that nothing much would have changed. But when he came back, bam! Everything had changed; we had all become fugitives wanted by the system," Bai Yunfei sighed heavily, laughing self-deprecatingly.
