Chapter 100: Accomplice

Who was his accomplice?

It was Fox Eyes.

Huang Wei reached her conclusion. She stood up from the long bench and quickly walked out. By the time she reached the courtyard, her head, which had gone dizzy, cooled down as the rain struck her face. Huang Wei abruptly raised her head and saw an unending stream of raindrops falling from the sky.

One drop, two drops, falling bit by bit onto the ground. Huang Wei stretched out her hand and caught the rain.

When she’d first come to this world, she’d always found the sudden gloomy weather terrifying, just as sometimes she couldn’t figure out what Cheng Luyun was thinking—whether she was angry, whether she would die. Because Huang Wei had figured out that even the weather in this instance world would change with Cheng Luyun’s mood.

Right now, seeing countless raindrops fall from the sky onto her and onto the ground, the thought in Huang Wei’s heart was: Ah Yun is crying.

Huang Wei clenched her fists. She knew she couldn’t act recklessly. She was a weak ordinary person. Even if she went out now, there was nothing she could do. The best plan was to find Cheng Luyun and go together.

She tightened both hands and shouted at the sky: “Ah Yun, are you there? Can you hear me?! Come back! I know how to find Chengcheng!”

After shouting, Huang Wei waited in silence for a long time. She got no reply, nor did she see Cheng Luyun. At that moment, Huang Wei realized: Cheng Luyun must currently be consumed by searching for Huang Chengcheng and had no attention to spare for her.

She also thought about Cheng Luyun’s control over the house and how she’d repeatedly said that as long as she stayed home, she’d be fine.

In other words, if she went out, would Cheng Luyun sense it too? But going out now might be dangerous… Different ideas swirled through Huang Wei’s mind. Huang Wei still decided to take a risk. She lifted her foot and headed toward the main gate, twisted the lock, and gently pulled the door inward.

Before Huang Wei could take another step, she heard a voice behind her: “Brother Wei, where are you going?”

Huang Wei let out a sigh of relief. She had just turned around when lightning streaked across the black sky, and Cheng Luyun’s figure abruptly appeared behind her. She looked extremely disheveled, her whole body soaked through by the rain, her hands hanging at her sides, her shoulders slumped. Every strand of hair exuded a dark aura.

Her wet hair covered her eyes, making it impossible for Huang Wei to see her expression clearly.

The rain continued to patter loudly. The lightning that had just flashed was now followed by a rumbling boom of thunder. She stood in the courtyard like a ghost.

The rain was pouring down, just as chaotic as Cheng Luyun’s heart, so jumbled that the sounds outside couldn’t be heard clearly.

Huang Wei saw the madness in her eyes. She was blaming herself: Why did she try to go out? Why did she try to leave her?

Huang Wei knew that no matter what she said now, Cheng Luyun might not be able to take it in. But she still wanted Cheng Luyun to know her feelings and that she had an idea of how to find Huang Chengcheng. Cheng Luyun looked terrifying, but to Huang Wei, there wasn’t a trace of fear in her heart.

She rushed into the rain, came before Cheng Luyun, stretched out both hands, and gripped her shoulders.

She tried her utmost to raise her voice, piercing through the noisy rain into Cheng Luyun’s ears: “Ah Yun, I called for you just now but you didn’t hear! I said, I think I know how to find Chengcheng! Come with me!” After saying this, she took Cheng Luyun’s hand and headed outside.

With Cheng Luyun by her side, Huang Wei had no hesitation. She reached out and pulled open the gate, leading Cheng Luyun straight out.

Cheng Luyun didn’t make a single sound the whole way. Perhaps in her heart, she thought Huang Chengcheng had already met with misfortune. She had probably never experienced losing contact with Huang Chengcheng before, which was why she was so helpless now. Huang Wei understood: they were lovers, but because she herself was too weak, Cheng Luyun had chosen to go out alone and leave her safely at home.

But Huang Chengcheng was also her daughter. They needed to think of a solution together and solve it together.

In the gradually lightening rain, Huang Wei led Cheng Luyun all the way to the entrance of the guesthouse. This time, she didn’t even knock. She directly took out the key in her pocket, opened the door, and walked in.

It was already mealtime. The four players were sitting in the first-floor cafeteria, waiting for the breakfast Huang Wei would bring… or, waiting for Huang Wei to arrive.

They looked as if they had long expected Huang Wei to find them here. Indeed, a boss who could figure out things like players and points should have no trouble thinking of this. The most important question was: what exactly had she figured out now?

Fox Eyes smiled and stepped forward but kept a certain distance from Huang Wei and Cheng Luyun.

He stood under the eaves. Rainwater hung from the eaves and dripped down. Across from him stood the two women, drenched, in the courtyard. The rain, which had been too heavy to see clearly through, had now completely stopped.

“Brother Wei, what brings you here?”

“Chengcheng, my daughter, where is she?”

Huang Wei had no time for pleasantries and cut straight to the point. Her eyes were hidden under her bangs, which were still dripping from the rain. But beneath those bangs, her eyes were so sharp they seemed capable of piercing Fox Eyes. She was like a venomous snake coiled beneath the gloomy sky, flicking its tongue, ready to tear the fox before her to pieces.

When Fox Eyes heard her words, he answered directly: “I don’t quite understand what you mean. Could it be that your beloved daughter is just too busy playing…” Before he finished, he heard a cold command: “Kneel!” Fox Eyes felt his legs sink heavily. Before he could even resist, he crashed to his knees. The moment his knees hit the ground, the floorboards cracked slightly.

…This Word Spirit ability is way too powerful?

Fox Eyes put all his strength into struggling to raise his head. He looked at the woman standing behind Huang Wei. All along, they had overlooked this woman. Though beautiful, she had always stood behind Huang Wei without much presence, merely smiling gently.

But earlier, Luo Chen had shared intel with them, telling them to pay attention to this woman.

“I’m not interested in playing games with you. You’d better tell me straight: you helped Luo Chen; where have you hidden my daughter?”

Huang Wei crouched in front of him, looking down at him from above with a heavy threat in her eyes. Fox Eyes smiled faintly. “Brother Wei really is quite clever. But… if I don’t talk, what can you do to me? Kill me? Or make us wish for death?”

His smile gradually grew, and his eyes narrowed. He truly looked like a fox. “Brother Wei, you’re very clear that even if you torment us as much as you want, you can only torment us for seven days. Today is already the 16th. Three days have passed, which means we’ll return to the Main God Space in four days. In the end, you’ll kill us anyway. You certainly wouldn’t be willing to let us get points for nothing, right?”

Indeed, as he said, as NPCs inside an instance, Huang Wei and Cheng Luyun had no means to deal with them other than killing them within the instance.

These players had no reverence for death. Perhaps even torture wouldn’t work. They might find ways to end their own lives while being tortured, or they might have some passive items on them, or perhaps they’d exchanged for items to block pain. As long as they wanted to, they could always find a way to escape Cheng Luyun’s grasp.

Even if they had nothing, once noon on June 20th arrived, they would return to the Main God Space. Not even Cheng Luyun could stop that.

Huang Wei and Cheng Luyun both knew this well. For a moment they fell silent, because they both understood that no matter what, Fox Eyes wouldn’t tell them. Not only would he not tell them, next time they’d return to clear this instance and do the same thing to Huang Chengcheng again.

Unless… they were made to truly fear.

While Huang Wei was thinking, Fox Eyes suddenly asked: “Although I guessed you would come find me, how could you be so certain it was us?”

Huang Wei tilted her head and looked at him. She wasn’t stingy with the answer: “Because Luo Chen doesn’t have enough points.”

Fox Eyes was a clever man. Just this one sentence from Huang Wei was enough for him to understand what she meant. Deep within his eyes, a chill flashed through. If it weren’t for Huang Wei, most people probably wouldn’t have noticed this. A thought flashed through Huang Wei’s mind: at that moment, she knew how she should deal with the players, and only she could deal with them this way.

Huang Wei stood up. She turned around, her back to the players, and looked at Cheng Luyun: “Kill them.” Where the players couldn’t see, Huang Wei only moved her lips soundlessly: Except that woman.

Cheng Luyun didn’t ask why. She was very decisive. Before the players could recover from the words “Kill them,” Cheng Luyun had already killed them all. In the instant of his death, Fox Eyes still wore a puzzled expression, as if he couldn’t understand why Huang Wei would kill them so decisively.

If it were him, with his beloved child missing, he would never kill the people involved so easily. He would torture them over and over, never giving them such a swift death.

In Cheng Luyun’s heart, she had the same question, but she knew Huang Wei must have her reasons for acting this way, so she simply followed her instructions.

After the three male players were dead, Huang Wei smiled at the female player: “I remember your name is Little An, right? They’re all gone now, so we can have a little chat.” Huang Wei’s smile looked very friendly, completely different from her usual gloom. But if you looked closely into her eyes, you could see the deepest calculation there.

Cheng Luyun appropriately eased the pressure on Little An, allowing her to climb up from the ground.

Little An looked at her dead companions, her face dazed, as if not understanding what was happening. This daze was exactly what Huang Wei wanted. From that minor clash between her and Luo Chen at the village entrance, Huang Wei understood that Little An was definitely the easiest person to use.

Her disgust for Luo Chen was real, and she definitely wasn’t a clever person. A clever person would have amplified that existing disgust, leaving Huang Wei unable to see through the first layer of acting. Since it was already there, there was no need to put on a show. Compared to Fox Eyes, Little An was much easier to deal with.