PFRG: Chapter 125

“How did he put this hood on?”

Wu Ruici turned around when he heard this and found that the people coming were Chi Ting and the others, whom he had met before.

Facing Yue Ren’s gaze that seemed to be full of interest rather than concern, the corners of his mouth trembled for a moment. But he still answered truthfully. “We just found nature’s… it should be nature’s punishment. Then…”

“Nature’s punishment?” Yue Ren pondered in a low voice. He turned back to look at Chi Ting and said playfully, “It seems that whether I participate in this last activity or not is a good thing.”

“Indeed.” Chi Ting walked over and squatted in front of the player named Yu Gui from the Blue Mountain team. He still kept a close distance, observing the connection between the other party’s headgear and body.

“Help! Someone come and save me!’ Yu Gui was on the verge of collapse with a splitting headache. He realized that there seemed to be someone approaching, and he struggled to reach out for help. Before he could reach Chi Ting, several other black shadows appeared and tightly wrapped their wrists around him, stopping him within a short distance.

It wasn’t that Chi Ting didn’t notice Yu Gui’s instinctive action of asking for him, but he didn’t intend to stop it. He didn’t react for a while. Then when he looked up, he found that Yu Gui was actually controlled by Yue Ren’s shadows.

Ji Xingque couldn’t bear to watch it, so he came over and said kindly, ‘Don’t bother with it. This headgear has grown on your body now. If you take it off, you might lose your head.”

Yue Ren smiled when he heard this. “Your level of comfort is really in the same vein as your captain.”

Regardless of whether this was spoken from the heart or out of ridicule, Yu Gui really didn’t dare to continue messing with his headgear after hearing it. But the aura of despair emanating from his body became more and more intense.

Obviously, he still had a terrible headache. His hands were tightly clasped on both sides of the hood.

Seeing that he had no intention of jumping towards Chi Ting again, Yue Ren retracted his shadow and said, “It is just a change of body part. The process might be a bit painful, but it seems that the situation has calmed down.”

Chi Ting looked at Wu Ruici to confirm it. “How do you know it is due to nature’s punishment?”

Wu Ruici was slightly relieved to see that Yu Gui had finally calmed down. He replied, “Just now, Yu Gui saw a strange-looking box and asked me to take a look. As a result, before I got close, I saw him take out a game card from it. Then… then he started to become like this. Combine this with the content of the rules and this is the only possibility that can be associated with it.”

“Game card?” Chi Ting thought for a moment and asked, “You are teammates. This means you should be able to see the number of game coins he has now, right?”

Wu Ruici’s tone sank slightly. “I just checked. Yu Gui’s game coins have decreased by 500. I think it should be because he found nature’s punishment that he was cursed. But if this is true, this project is too much of a gamble on luck.”

Such words were heard in Wu Ruici’s live stream room, making the audience inside feel at a loss as to where to start.

At the same time, they also felt a bit surprised. After all, for some old friends who had been following the live stream room for a long time, this obviously wasn’t the usual style of the Blue Mountain team.

[He actually directly put out the result, speculation and the inventory? Did he change gender suddenly? Someone come to tell me. Is Captain Wu planning something bad again?]

[All the real information has been revealed. There is no place to plan something even if he wanted to.]

[This team has been encountered before in the doll catching machine area. it looks like he is trying to seek an alliance.]

[Isn’t Wu Ruici famous for only looking up to high-level players? How can he form an alliance with this team? Is this team that powerful?]

[F*k, I remember the last time Captain Wu had a sincere discussion with someone. Is this team really that strong?]

[Or… is sincerity his cover?]

Some people still had doubts, but Wu Ruici was really being honest with Chi Ting this time.

It wasn’t that he really agreed with the strength of this group. The main reason was that there were only two teams with a certain amount of strength among the surviving players left in the arcade. No matter how strong the Jazz team was, at least he could feel a certain goodwill from the Dawn team. This meant they were naturally more suitable for cooperation.

Now Yu Gui was basically half dead, and their Blue Mountain team was left with only one and a half people. If they wanted to successfully complete the instance, allies were absolutely necessary.

Wu Ruici had always been very clear-headed. He might like to take advantage of ordinary players, but he usually knew his limits. At this time, he was able to put himself in the right position. The moment he asked Chi Ting another question, he completely regarded himself as a subsidiary team of the Dawn team. He asked sincerely, “Captain Chi, do you have any other ideas about the current situation? You have seen the situation on our side. If there is a need, I am willing to cooperate with you.”

Chi Ting blinked slowly. “Are you asking us for help?”

“Huh?” Wu Ruici couldn’t follow Chi Ting’s train of thought for a while. After being stared at like this, he paused for a moment before answering, “Yes… of course.”

The moment he finished speaking, he saw that there seemed to be something he didn’t understand being faintly lit up in the other person’s eyes.

Chi Ting did have some ideas.

Being asked for help by humans instantly made him feel better. “I remember the rules stating that nature’s punishment and nature’s gift should be transferable, right?”

Wu Ruici heard this and his first reaction was that Chi Ting was giving him a hint.

He had long been accustomed to the unwritten rules of the unlimited world. In an environment where everyone was struggling to survive, there was naturally no such thing as free help. He smiled with a good attitude and said, “Of course, if you need it then you can use whatever we find later…”

Before he could finish his words, Yue Ren suddenly said, “No.”

The smile on Wu Ruici’s face froze slightly. “…Is it still not enough?”

“He wasn’t talking to you. He was talking to me.” Chi Ting hit his legs and stood up from his squatting position. He looked at Yue Ren with a helpless expression. “Why are you being so tough? I just want to try it.”

“It is no use trying.” Yue Ren raised an eyebrow and pointed at the huge doll headgear on Yu Gui’s head. He looked like he was smiling but his temperament was extremely gloomy. “I don’t want to see something like this on your head.”

Chi Ting said, “…It is indeed not pretty, but some things need to be confirmed first.”

Yue Ren glanced at Wu Ruici and sincerely proposed, “Let him go and confirm it?”

“He doesn’t have enough game coins.”

Yue Ren: “……”

There was a short silence before he finally asked, “So you have to do it?”

Chi Ting smiled slightly. “What do you think?”

Wu Ruici was confused by the conversation between the two of them.

But since he was seeking an ally, there was nothing much to say at this time, and he could only wait anxiously for an answer.

In the end, it was obviously Yue Ren who was defeated first.

He rubbed his head, looking uninterested and helpless. “Okay, if you really want it then I’ll do it. He might not have enough game coins, but I do have enough, right?”

Chi Ting knew that Yue Ren never understood his style of always liking to take risks and seemingly doing things that were thankless, so he wanted to persuade Yue Ren to let him try. At this time, he was stunned. “You do it? Don’t you… think the headgear is ugly?”

“It won’t be you wearing it. At the very least, I can’t see what it looks like on me.” Yue Ren walked straight to Yu Gui and kicked him to signal him to come back to his senses. “Give it to me.”

Yu Gui raised his head in a trance.

Yue Ren felt overwhelmed when he saw the huge hood and his tone became more and more impatient. “Haven’t you received nature’s punishment? Bring it here quickly.”

Yu Gui said, “Huh? Yes… oh…”

Wu Ruici had always thought that Chi Ting asked this question because he was planning to plunder the nature’s gift that might be obtained in the future. He never accepted that what they were going to accept would actually be the nature’s punishment that they had already obtained.

What type of trick was this? There couldn’t be anyone who would be willing to carry the burden for others, right?

Was there some conspiracy hidden somewhere that he couldn’t detect?

Wu Ruici watched Yue Ren’s every move intently. Then he watched Yue Ren naturally take the game card from Yu Gui’s hand.

He checked it immediately and found that the number of Yu Gui’s game coins had increased by 500 again as the nature’s punishment was transferred. Looking at Yu Gui again this time, he could find that the headgear on Yu Gui’s head was obviously changing. He was returning to normal little by little!

Yue Ren obviously didn’t care about the lives of other players at all. He took the game card and looked at it. He found that apart from the color, it was no different from the cards in the hands of other players. Therefore, he held it casually in his hand.

He glanced at the game coins in his hand and found that the number had indeed increased by 500. He didn’t take it too seriously. He just stood there leisurely, waiting for the next change.

One second, two seconds… until 10 seconds passed, and still nothing changed.

Yue Ren’s eyelids slowly lifted a bit, and he looked at Chi Ting with a smile. “Congratulations, Captain Chi. You guessed correctly again.”

After a long time, he didn’t get a response, so he slowly raised his voice a bit higher. “Chi Ting?”

He finally heard Chi Ting reply. “I see.”

Yue Ren glanced at the other person’s expression. “You aren’t happy.”

Chi Ting told him, “I’m very happy, but next time, I’ll do it myself.”

Such words made Yue Ren pause for a moment. Then he smiled and said, “Yes, let’s talk about it next time.”

Ji Xingque listened to the conversation between the two of them and looked dazed. “So what is the guess? Why is it okay when you get the game card?”

Chi Ting retracted his gaze from Yue Ren. “The nature’s punishment was indeed the reason why this friend turned into a doll, but it seems that the real qualitative change was due to the reduction in the number of game coins. From Yue Ren’s current situation, it can be seen that as long as the number of game coins remaining on him is sufficient, even if he is punished, he will at least be safe as long as it doesn’t fall below the baseline.”

Ji Xingque finally understood. “In other words, in the final analysis, we only need to consider the number of game coins?”

He was about to say something else when he caught a glimpse of the numbers on the game card changing. He uttered a low sound. “Wait, it seems like just now…”

Chi Ting also saw that the number of his game coins had just decreased without warning. “It seems that this is the reason why Rule 3 emphasizes that we should actively invest in the search.”

Yu Gui, who was standing next to him, gradually recovered the number of game coins he had lost. However, Wu Ruici couldn’t smile. “In other words, as long as we can’t find a way to obtain nature’s gift, will the game coins be automatically decreased over time? If the small number of game coins is really the reason for the doll transformation, it doesn’t matter whether there is nature’s punishment or not. In the end…”

They would gradually be cleared due to the irregular deductions of game coins, thus becoming real dolls.

“So this is the real way to play this instance.” Chi Ting didn’t give a direct answer, which was considered as tacitly agreeing with Wu Ruici’s speculation. However, judging from his expression, he did reveal a bit of satisfaction.

In this way, he seemed to have found a method to help others pass the instance.