Welcome to Rewind World Game-Chapter 1333 - 1326: Angel Thread 1 - "Let’s Die Together.
The bloodstains in the hallway had dyed the stairs red.
The fluorescent light flickered dimly, echoing with footsteps.
"Be careful, I’ll go in front, maybe the killer hasn’t gone far yet." Wu Yi signaled Su Ming’an to follow behind.
Su Ming’an followed him and suddenly heard screams.
"Pain! Pain! It hurts so much! Save me, save me—!"
Under the dim light, a young man with medium length bangs and thick-soled glasses was howling. He was lying on the ground with [No. 007·Xue Jiarui] floating above his head. A crimson butterfly was flying around him, gnawing at his body.
This crimson butterfly was precisely the WARNING-009 that Su Ming’an encountered in the forest initially, its killing rule being direct gaze for over three seconds.
"So noisy." A look of disgust flashed in Wu Yi’s eyes: "With such loud screams, that killer with a 500% strength boost will likely be drawn here soon." He took out a shiny silver knife, twirled it around his finger, and aimed it at Xue Jiarui’s chest: "I’ll make this person shut up forever now."
Seeing this, Xue Jiarui screamed even more miserably, blood continuously oozing from his body as he crawled over with red eyes: "No! No! Save me, I beg you—"
At this moment, the red butterfly saw Su Ming’an, and as if seeing a malevolent deity, it immediately flew away. Xue Jiarui quieted down, leaving only his heavy breathing in the corridor.
Su Ming’an had thought Wu Yi would put down the knife, but unexpectedly, Wu Yi became even more excited. His breathing intensified, and the knife pointed towards Xue Qixia on the ground.
Suddenly, as if thinking of something, he placed the knife in Su Ming’an’s hand: "You try it."
"Try what?" Su Ming’an was puzzled.
"Killing." Wu Yi’s face flushed: "Try it. You’ll soon fall in love with this feeling. Initially, it might feel a bit repulsive. But soon you’ll realize, this red scene is beautiful, especially when the blood flows out..."
At this point, Su Ming’an patted Wu Yi’s forehead.
Wu Yi was stunned, his azure eyes looking at Su Ming’an.
"Kids shouldn’t have such edgy thoughts." Su Ming’an pocketed the knife: "I’ll help you keep this knife."
Luowasha is truly criminal, Wu Yi looks only about fourteen or fifteen, yet he has such terrifying thoughts.
Su Ming’an casually placed a plush jellyfish toy in Wu Yi’s hand: "Don’t hold the knife, hold this."
This was made using the Immortal’s Talisman.
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[NPC (Wu Yi) Favorability: 75+5 points!]
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It’s still so simple to brush for favorability.
Su Ming’an looked at the favorability with satisfaction. The reason he traveled with Wu Yi was, one, because Wu Yi was his "True Friend," and he had to ensure Wu Yi’s survival. Two, because he saved Wu Yi in the first stage of the Disciple Game, Wu Yi had persistently approached him, eagerly promoting his storyline, making it impossible to shake him off.
Wu Yi looked down at the fluffy white plush jellyfish in his hands and quietly hummed two words under his breath: 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦
"...Hypocrite."
In such a killing game, if you don’t kill, you’ll be killed. But somehow a Great Kind Person appeared, isn’t that hypocritical?
Looking at the relieved Xue Qixia, Wu Yi suddenly thought of a good idea, smiled, and said to Su Ming’an: "Super Jellyfish, how about a bet with me?"
"Super Jellyfish?"
"It’s the nickname I gave you."
"What do we bet on?"
"Bet..." Wu Yi tossed the plush jellyfish:
"Bet that you can’t prove the existence of pure kindness in this world before the end of the third stage. If you win, I’ll tell you everything I know. If you lose..."
His voice shifted:
"If you lose, you’ll have to choose my storyline and can’t abandon me."
Su Ming’an agreed: "Alright."
As they spoke, Xue Jiarui suddenly staggered up and almost crashed into Su Ming’an’s arms, whom Su Ming’an kicked away.
In Xue Jiarui’s hand was a knife, and had Su Ming’an not kicked him away, the knife would have stabbed into Su Ming’an’s chest.
"I saved you, and this is how you repay your savior?" Su Ming’an frowned.
"Re... repay!" Xue Jiarui’s pupils trembled, his intense anxiety having unbalanced this ordinary person’s spirit, he shouted in hysteria: "I am repaying you! Please, let’s die together! In this kind of game, if you don’t kill, you can’t survive. So... so we might as well end it with dignity together! Since you’re a good man, how about... we commit suicide together! At least we can ensure we’re clean, right?"
Wu Yi snickered; he had anticipated this outcome.
"If you want to commit suicide, then do it yourself, don’t drag me into it." Su Ming’an turned his head.
At this moment, a transparent thread appeared abruptly at Su Ming’an’s neck, almost slicing a line of blood; Su Ming’an broke the thread and looked back at Xue Jiarui.
Xue Jiarui’s limbs transformed into black tentacles, a shell emerged from his back, and his mouth began spitting out a mass of transparent threads, stabbing towards Su Ming’an. His expression had completely collapsed, continuously repeating: "Die with me... die with me..."
Wu Yi teased: "Do you have to cling to your savior? Why not find someone willing to commit suicide with you?"
Xue Jiarui rambled uncontrollably: "From the beginning, I was selecting someone to die with me. Among the twenty-three people, he was the most suitable, I knew right away..."
From the start, he intended to bring someone along to die together, and he had chosen Su Ming’an.
Wu Yi watched the spectacle, sighing: "Super Jellyfish, you truly are a sinful person. You didn’t do anything, yet still got tied up with Divine Gold."
Expression unaffected, Su Ming’an grabbed onto the threads around him, flicked his wrist, and looped them around Xue Jiarui’s neck, pulling hard—
Xue Jiarui’s face quickly turned bluish-purple, his eyeballs bulging as he stared at the expressionless Su Ming’an. In his final moment, he actually smiled, seeming more excited.
"...Hehe, hehehe... it’s over, it’s over, isn’t it wonderful..."
With a "crack," his cervical vertebra was snapped by Su Ming’an’s force.
Su Ming’an released his grip, the threads like ethereal white snow, covering the decapitated body of Xue Jiarui, who astonishingly died with a smile.
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[No. 7 Xue Jiarui, has died.]
[Current remaining number of people: 21.]
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Simultaneously, a thin book appeared on Xue Jiarui’s chest.
This is the book that appears after the death of a Luo Washa person.
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[You have obtained Xue Jiarui’s relic: "Xue Jiarui."]
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Pained by the scene, Su Ming’an remembered Yuanyuan’s book. He closed his eyes briefly before picking up Xue Jiarui’s book.
Xue Jiarui’s book was much thinner than Yuanyuan’s, with only a few pages telling of Xue Jiarui’s dull and ordinary life.
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[Xue Jiarui was born into an ordinary family and studied diligently, eventually attending a good high school.]
[On this day at sixteen, he was packing his backpack when he looked up. A group of laughing boys were in the corridor, surrounding a frail girl.]
[These campus bullies were up to their antics again. This time, they were bullying the girl Xue Jiarui secretly had a crush on.]
["Jiarui, you must be cautious at school. Your mother worked her fingers to the bone to send you to this city’s most prestigious Disciple Game training school. We’re counting on you standing out in the Disciple Game... This school is full of children from high-class races, they are mostly the wealthy and the powerful. We can’t afford to cross them, we must avoid trouble, just endure it..." His mother’s admonition echoed in his mind.]
[The rice barrel at home was always empty, his mother’s apron always stained with grease, and her fingers always had chilblains... Thinking of this, Xue Jiarui silently put on his backpack, ignoring the girl’s pleas for help and walking past her.]
[In that moment of walking away, he felt his heart shatter. His three-year unrequited love seemed like a joke.]
[Ordinary people are just ordinary people, never able to challenge high-class races. If those people just spoke a word, the life he worked so hard to maintain would crumble instantly, so it was better to be a cowardly turtle, as this is the survival law for ordinary people.]
["Anyway, that girl will only get beaten up once, but my mother and I can’t let our family be affected..." Xue Jiarui consoled himself.]
[The next day, Xue Jiarui heard the news that the girl had been beaten to death. In the morning, her naked body was hung on the exterior of the school building, her body black and blue, like a purple and white flag.]
[He was stunned in that moment.]
[And those people merely shed a few tears and said a few sorry words to the teachers to continue their arrogance openly.]
[Xue Jiarui couldn’t hold it in anymore. He rushed forward madly, punching and kicking those bullies to the ground. He cried and shouted, "Why did you do this! Why did you do this! What did she do wrong! What did people like us do wrong! Since there’s no need for our kind of people’s lives, why were we even born!!" He beat them madly, venting his anger, feeling satisfied as he watched their pleading postures.]
[——But in reality, that was just his imagination.]
[He didn’t dare to rush forward, nor to vent his anger. Even if he did, the outcome would only be him getting knocked down. He suppressed the anger in his heart, lowering his head cowardly, listening to their wanton laughter, continuing to be an insignificant Shadow.]
[He was indignant, yet powerless.]
[On the day the Disciple Game commenced, Xue Jiarui silently vowed in his heart—In the class-division solidified Luo Washa, the Disciple Game is the only chance for ordinary people to change Destiny! He must win to the end, to avenge the girl, to bring happiness to his mother.]
[In the first level, he used the knowledge he learned at school to find a small Zombie Antidote.]
["Xue Jiarui, you cowardly wretch, give me the antidote now!!" He encountered one of the bullies who was infected with the zombie Poison, harshly threatening him.]
[He didn’t give it. He finally overcame this societal class guy for once, he laughed heartily, "Disciple Game, everyone is equal. You can’t threaten me anymore! I just won’t give it to you!"]
[He watched the bully die joyfully and turned to leave.]
[During the settlement of the first level, he received numerous rewards and his body became stronger. He thought, this is the beginning of him changing his Destiny!]
[But what he didn’t expect was—during the short rest period between the first and second levels, his mother was killed.]
[Because he didn’t obediently hand over the antidote like a dog, didn’t continue to be a fawning little lapdog. In the Disciple Game, those upper-class people couldn’t do anything to him, but during the rest period?]
[During the rest period, Luo Washa was still Luo Washa, classes were still classes, nothing changed, nothing was different. People like him can only be dogs all their life.]
[After that day, Xue Jiarui went mad.]
[The girl he secretly loved was gone, his mother was gone, nothing was left to support him to live on. He went crazy in the Disciple Game’s second level, using traps to kill the other bullies.]
["You are mad! If you kill us, once our parents know, you won’t survive in Luo Washa!" The bullies showed panic for the first time.]
[Looking at their pained expressions, Xue Jiarui laughed gleefully, with a deranged smile, "Die! Die! I don’t want to live anymore, you shouldn’t live either!"]
[During the rest periods of the second and third levels, Xue Jiarui was hunted down, but he didn’t care anymore. He had offended those big figures and certainly couldn’t survive, and he didn’t want to live anymore.]
[A groveling little lapdog never has a living path, a mad dog biting those people to death is the only thing it can do in its whole life.]
[Some are born human, some are born dogs.]
[The dog is tired, the dog needs to rest.]
[Xue Jiarui entered the Disciple Game’s third level, having resolved to commit suicide, hoping to find another person in pain like himself. So that in death, he wouldn’t be too lonely...]
[Then, he saw Number One.]
[In Number One’s eyes... there was a similar struggle and pain to his own.]
[It was an eye filled with suffering, lifeless, yet somehow still yearning for Survival.]
["You must be in pain too." Xue Jiarui mumbled to himself, "Let’s end it together..."]
[He walked towards Number One, unexpectedly encountering the attack of a red butterfly, but fortunately, Number One actively walked towards him.]
[This dirty, desperate World, he could finally say goodbye to it.]
[Number One, let’s go together...]
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Blood flowed, dyeing the ground red.
"...Oh." Wu Yi wobbled over, nudged Xue Jiarui’s eyeball with his foot, and smiled at Su Ming’an: "You’ve killed someone too. Just like me... now you’re not clean either."
Su Ming’an rubbed his shoe against the ground, wiping off the bloodstains.
"...A living person forced to madness." He said faintly.
He was about to step forward when he heard the system prompt sound:
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"Ding-dong!"
[The "Pairing" stage will now begin.]
[At specified times, 24 Players will gather to form 1v1 pairs, creating 12 two-person teams, continuing until the next pairing. Pairing must be consensual; singles will be executed.]
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