Rong Zheng walked forward, dodging people, holding a few game coins in his arms. He noticed that other players were alone like him, there were basically no players with companions, even if they were prisoners in the same team.
It seems that the trust between them is not as high as he thought, the possibility of maintaining the relationship by cards is as high as 99%.
The remaining 1% is because he has no evidence to confirm.
The cooperative relationship is still reliable in normal times, but it will definitely not work in this level.
Bai Leshui chose the shopping mall level because he guessed the game mechanism of player-versus-player battles, he guessed right.
Rong Zheng passed by several stores along the way. He would go into each store to take a look and look at the price list of all the goods. It seemed like he was looking for goods that were less than 100 yuan. He got annoyed after just looking for a while, his eyes kept glancing at other prisoners from time to time.
Some players noticed Rong Zheng's dangerous eyes and avoided him from a distance.
If you are not prepared and do not know whether the other party is a player or an NPC, it is safest to hide far away, so as not to lose your own 100 coins to others to pass the level before you have enough money.
Seeing there are fewer and fewer people around, Rong Zheng saw no one noticed him, so he walked to a remote place. He happened to see Yan Li, and tapped the glass window with his fingers, attracting Yan Li to look over.
Rong Zheng flashed into the store, Yan Li walked and staggered, followed in.
In the corner of the store stood a executioner, staring at every prisoner who entered the store to prevent them from violently smashing and looting. Apart from the executioner, there were only two of them in the store.
This is a suit store, with all kinds of suits hanging on the wall, several rows of clothes racks, and mannequins.
Rong Zheng and Yan Li communicated across two rows of clothes racks.
"Will you go out with me ma?" Rong Zheng asked.
Yan Li: "Is there a place to hide?"
Rong Zheng: "Duan Yan." Hiding in the prison guard's room, no one check.
Yan Li: "Tsk, OK. Now?"
"mmh."
Someone came in, saw two people here, hesitated for a moment and went out again.
"Make trouble?"
"Don't make." Rong Zheng replied briefly, "No need."
The card table has been decided to be overturned, you still ask if you want to grab the enemy's playing cards?
"Should have said it last night." Yan Li whispered.
"Forgot." Rong Zheng replied briefly.
It took some time to determine their next move yesterday, so naturally there was no time to discuss such small details.
Yan Li was silent. OK ba, his things are all small details, nothing to say.
The two left the suit shop one after the other, followed the street to the center of the mall, looked at the direction pointed by the statue in the middle, then turned to the west.
Yan Li and Rong Zheng followed at a certain distance. It didn't look like they were walking together. Instead, Yan Li was following Rong Zheng.
It seems that he (YL) was eyeing him (RZ). Players who saw the two of them thought so in their hearts.
To seize game coins, naturally, they target non-player prisoners. Cards with theft effects are best, so they can leave here easily. Or they can strengthen their physique, such as increasing their strength to forcibly seize. Even if they only snatch one or two coins, they have hope of buying goods and leaving here.
The worst is to face players.
"It's terrible a... I didn't expect to encounter such a situation when the number of NPC prisoners was reduced." Oka walked out of a store with a wry smile. He was a player of Team 6. The prisoners in Team 6 had been reduced to only players.
After observing the watch store and not seeing any goods below 100 coins, Oka left the store regretfully. When he went out, he saw a girl with a ponytail coming out of the jewelry store with a look of regret.
She was also startled when she saw Oka. The two of them just stared at each other blankly until Oka said, "Jamie?"
Jamie from Team 9 raised her eyebrows: "How did you recognize me?" The three teams had no chance to meet. If it weren't for Steven's card, players of the three teams would have basically no intersection.
"You mentioned that a guard pulled your hair and insulted you." Oka replied, "You are the only long-haired woman among the prisoners."
Jamie said, "Oh," and turned away without saying anything.
"Want to cooperate ma?" Oka held up two fingers, "I only need two coins. Two people together are always more reliable than one person." The price of the goods is between 110 and 150, two coins are 20, which is enough.
Jamie looked at him: "Aren't you Steven?"
"I'm Oka."
"No need, who knows whether what you said is true or false, I would rather cooperate with people from the previous team 9."
Oka shrugged regretfully, and did not force it. When he saw the person turning around to leave, Oka suddenly stepped forward and slapped Jamie on the shoulder. A tingling sensation spread from the place where he touched to his whole body. At the same time, a chat box popped up in front of him, and a line of words clearly appeared in front of him: Steven has terminated his friendly relationship with you, the agreement has been cancelled.
Jamie looked back with difficulty: "Steven..."
Oka... no, Steven smiled and said, "Sorry, I also can't help it ma."
Watching the person fall down with a bang, he took out all the coins from her pocket and stuffed them into his own pocket, then turned around and went to the store to buy a product, and asked for ribbons for gift decoration. Of course, those beautiful and strong ribbons are actually used to tie people up. The store gave him a roll, which was definitely enough.
"Don't let it be known that I'm Steven a." Steven dragged Jamie, who was paralyzed by the electric shock, into the men's clothing store, dragged her to the men's restroom at the back, and stuffed her into a small cubicle in the restroom.
Jamie stared at him with her beautiful eyes, she was so angry that she could eat people.
"In order not to expose my identity, you can only stay here until after six o'clock." Steven said with a smile. Then he took out a card and slapped it directly on Jamie.
"Can't talk, can't move, can only be in abnormal state unless someone touches you. But... who will come to this men's bathroom to find you ne?" Steven said with a smile, "I know, you don't have any teammates in this game, you also don't have a good relationship with anyone ba. It's very helpful."
After that, he slammed the bathroom door shut under the desperate gaze of Jamie.
To be honest, the game has developed to this point, which is beyond his own expectations. At the beginning, his purpose was very simple, that is, he wanted to take an open-book exam.
Different teams go to different levels every day. As long as they exchange information in the group, they can know the content of a certain level in advance, even know tricks to pass the level. It was originally good. He forgot who suddenly mentioned in the group, they used a card to let prison guard be their substitute to die in their place. Because the prison guard died, the team leader neglected the management of the prisoner list, and they escaped a day of punishment. The next day, they forgot to take them to the execution ground, so they spent a day in the cabin. It was not until they were hungry at night that they knocked on the door to attract the attention of a prison guard, and found that there was actually one person missing here.
As a result, the person was lucky to escape for a day, and prison guards did not say anything, they just flipped it over lightly.
Then someone joked, if the prison guards were gone and no one was managing them, would the punishment be cancelled?
At that time, no one took it seriously, but there were many people who were tempted and tried it, otherwise why did everyone suddenly start to target the prison guards?
Should have stopped them earlier.
As a result, all the prisoners in the three teams were managed by team 1.
The role of knowing the information in advance has been lost. The only thing left is the agreement not to provide false information and not to attack the card holder Steven, of course Steven will not attack them.
In this situation where they can only rely on robbing other prisoners' coins to pass the level, it seems to be a very tricky thing. But this is not the case. The premise of not being able to attack each other is that the card is still in use, and everyone in the group is in a friend state with Steven, so it is naturally not allowed. Once the friendly relationship with someone is terminated, the situation of prohibiting two-way attacks will disappear immediately. The switch is in Steven's hand. In fact, he can attack anyone at will, and the opponent can also fight back if they reacts in time.
The people pulled into the group came from three teams. Everyone only said which team they were from, then reported their names. Some people used the character name directly, and some used pseudonyms. It is hard to tell the truth from the false. As long as the information is true and reliable, who cares who you are.
Steven has two identities in the group, one is his identity Oka using the character name, and the other is the pseudonym Steven. This is his privilege as a card owner.
As Steven, he is the 'group owner', and as Oka, he is an ordinary player pulled into the group. He is Oka and Steven.
Every day, both accounts are online, playing two identities, hiding themselves among a group of players, no one can figure out who Steven is.
Didn't expect that the preparations made in advance would be used now.
Steven bought a watch, the gift box was small, so he could hide it by stuffing it into his pocket. Then, holding the remaining coins, he continued to walk around the store with a bitter face.
He couldn't go out too quickly, nor too late. As long as he got in the middle time, he could hide himself in the crowd.
With such a cautious self, he would definitely be able to pass the level and advance to the dungeon this time. Steven was full of confidence.
On the other side, Rong Zheng and Yan Li turned around in the mall and came to a small shoe store in the corner. This store looked lower than other stores, but the price of shoes in the store was not low. Most of the products in other stores were priced at around 150, and few were priced over 200, but the products in this store were basically not less than 150, and most were even higher than 200.
For a price of more than 200 coins, at least two prisoners' coins had to be robbed to be enough.
Of course, the price is not the point. The problem is that only the executioner of this store is standing at the door. Perhaps the space in the store is too small, and there is no extra space for the executioner to stand.
Yan Li looked outside the store and saw that there was no one around. After entering, he whispered, "Which way?"
Rong Zheng did not answer. He walked straight to the checkout counter and squatted down. He lifted the soft carpet, touched the gap in the floor, then lifted a floor tile.
There was a passage below, filled with a wet fishy smell.
Yan Li covered his nose with disgust, watching Rong Zheng walk down without changing his face, and followed him helplessly.
With a bang, the wooden bricks were covered. The executioner standing at the door heard the sound, walked into the store and wandered around, but saw nothing. It tilted its head in confusion and saw that the carpet behind the counter was lifted up. It stepped on it with Its black feet and covered it back. It continued to walk to the door to guard.
In the dark tunnel, the two continued to walk one after the other, and finally saw the light. After going out, I saw a group of people walking around like zombies in the rooms and corridors with green moss on the walls. They were wearing tattered dresses, with dull expressions and stiff limbs, and wandering around aimlessly.
The area was very closed, with no windows and bad air. Just when Yan Li wanted to ask where this place was, he saw a dark executioner dropping a corpse.
The ghosts who were originally like zombies immediately pounced on it and buried the corpse in a dense pile like a hill.
Yan Li: "...Eating?"
Rong Zheng hummed.
"Where is this?"
"Where the crew works." Rong Zheng said, "It is also where the resentful souls of the victims on the original ship usually live. The normal operation of the ship depends on them."
Yan Li: ...
He was so shocked that he couldn't speak.