I Kill Gods in Escape Game

Chapter 118: Pier Fraud (Two in One)

The first characteristic of the title "Listener" - conversations with angels.

Lin Yuan didn’t know whether the angel was omniscient and omnipotent, but there would be no harm in trying. After all, he had the opportunity to ask questions once a day, so he might as well make the most of it.

"Angel, tell me, will the follow-up mechanism of the Life-Slaying Alliance bounty order take effect during my suspension period?"

Lin Yuan clasped his hands together, closed his eyes, and made a pious gesture.

The feature took effect, but what Lin Yuan heard was not the answer to the question, but the sound of crashing waves.

She was stunned for a moment, then suddenly opened her eyes and found herself in the azure blue sea again.

A crescent moon floats in the sky like a small boat. The sea and sky are one color, and it is almost impossible to tell whether it is the moon falling into the ocean or the small boat drifting towards the sky.

She walked barefoot on the soft, light white sand, feeling as comfortable as if she were walking on a carpet.

Seeing the familiar scene, Lin Yuan lowered his eyes.

"It turns out that you can enter the offshore space that can only be entered under high pressure conditions by just talking to the 'angel'."

At this moment, a dazzling light flashed across the sky. Lin Yuan raised his eyes and just caught sight of the light from the moon.

There seems to be a beautiful shadow on the moon, but as the clouds pass by, the true appearance of the shadow cannot be seen clearly.

However, Lin Yuan still saw the long, wavy skirt with sparkling star powder hanging from the moon boat.

"can."

Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment before realizing that this was the angel's answer.

Her lips just opened to inquire further.

[You can only ask one question a day, and you have crossed the line, you should not peek at the angel]

As the warning in his heart sounded, a vortex opened up in the space behind him, and the huge suction force swallowed Lin Yuan in.

Lin Yuan's consciousness fell into a daze.

When I woke up again, it was already the next morning.

Lin Yuan rubbed his head, his shoulder blades and neck felt a little sore.

I slept on the table all night last night and now my body is stiff and uncomfortable.

"Not even a glance."

Lin Yuan smacked his lips, stood up, stretched a few feet, ate something casually, and when his body was almost recovered, he went downstairs and rushed to Xingyue Strait.

Although the aftereffects were a bit annoying, she got the answer she wanted from the angel.

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Star-Moon Strait.

The strait is tens of millions of meters long, with rugged rocks and green plants scattered on the surface.

There is a shallow beach along the coast, with hundreds of people active on the beach. A pier has been built near the sea, and from time to time, people bring in treasure chests full of gold coins from the pier.

Those boxes appeared out of thin air on the dock. Whenever a batch of treasure chests landed on the dock, there would always be corresponding adventurers to recover them.

"Is this the Star-Moon Strait?"

Lin Yuan sat on a rock, watching the busy crowd with great interest.

The crowd below are all adventurers from the two cities of Star and Moon. Whenever a light circle flashes, it means that a new adventurer is being teleported over.

Stand in the water, and when the waves come, the adventurer will be teleported into the dungeon.

The game pool here can also be said to be a sea of ​​games.

Lin Yuan read the panel prompts carefully.

[Current coordinates: The border between Star City and Youyue City, Xingyue Strait]

[As an adventurer, the first sailing pier you can access is here]

[Complete this instance and you will have a chance to get treasure at the end of the game. The treasure chest will be refreshed at the designated dock and only the owner or someone sent by the owner can take it.]

"Is the treasure chest considered an extra reward for clearing the dungeon?"

Lin Yuan was new here and didn't understand these rules at all.

Yesterday Gao En said that someone in Fanxing had released a copy and would explain it to her.

Lin Yuan naturally walked towards the gathering place of the players in Star City. Unexpectedly, he heard a noise just as he reached the edge of the crowd.

"Zhang Heng, we are willing to give up 70% of the gains from the dungeon! All we need is a life-protecting shrine!"

A young man spoke earnestly to four or five tall and strong men in black vests, bending his waist and kneeling, with a humble and pleading look on his face.

Behind him, several adventurers looked worried, but were reluctant to pull him back. They seemed to be expecting the young man to go to the so-called "life-protecting shrine".

Zhang Heng, the man in the black vest, threw his hands impatiently, with a mocking smile on his face: "I have the best copy and I have the right to distribute it. Why should I share the precious items produced in the copy with you?"

"Do you think I'm a saintly father? Do you think I'm pitiful and I sympathize with you?"

This remark caused a burst of laughter from the people around him, and many people expressed their gloating.

"That's what the trash in Star City is like. They are useless and have a lot of trouble!"

"Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself? If it were me, I would have retreated out of shame. How can I have the nerve to continue begging?"

"I heard that you guys are all from the Star Guild. This rubbish guild should be disbanded as soon as possible. It has the largest number of people, but they are all low-level dogs."

"You know what, although the low-star dogs are of low rank, some of them are really good-looking. It's not impossible to open a 'back door' to make some concessions."

The men in black vests joked without restraint, and the young man's face suddenly turned gloomy.

Veins popped up on his forehead, but he tried his best to suppress his anger and argued:
"Let's talk about the facts. On the pirate ship, many pirates' knives were blocked by our people. You used the time we bought to catch up with the plot, so of course your plot completion is higher than ours."

"This isn't the way MVPs should be judged. Besides, I don't think our contribution is worth a purple item."

Zhang Heng waved his hand indifferently: "Xiao Yu, what do you need the life-protecting shrine for?"

"I'll take this item back and hand it in to the guild. The contribution points I'll get will be enough for me to live happily for several months."

"However..." Zhang Heng changed the subject, "If I give it to you, I won't get anything."

He glanced at a mature woman in Xiao Yu's team, his eyebrows raised, his meaning was obvious.

Xiao Yu took a deep breath, a trace of bitterness flashed across his face.

The contract their team signed with Fanxing stipulated that they must pay Jiang Liuxing an epic quality life-saving item this month.

But how can it be so easy to get life-saving props?
After working hard for a month, I finally found a life-saving shrine in the dungeon, but it was stolen by players from Youyue City at the last minute.

The MVP evaluation mechanism of the dungeon is so unfair!

Either he bows to Zhang Heng, in which case the other party might soften his heart and give up the life-protecting shrine, or he ignores Zhang Heng, returns empty-handed, and faces a high penalty for breach of contract.

The former only suffered a little injustice, but the latter lost all his wealth, which is truly the word "death" in the world of sailing.

"All of our members' personal treasure chests can be divided into 90% and given to Brother Zhang. We only ask Brother Zhang to give us a way out."

Xiao Yu begged humiliatingly for the item called "Life-Protecting Shrine".

Lin Yuan glanced over and saw a strangely shaped small cage hanging in Zhang Heng's hand.

[Item name: Life-protecting Shrine]

[Quality: Purple (Epic)] [Effect: God lives inside and can protect the owner from any attack for a period of time. If there is any danger, the god will inform in advance]

Looks like a good thing.

Lin Yuan was more interested in the "treasure box" and said to himself, "Does everyone have this box?"

Unexpectedly, an old man sitting on a beach chair next to her glanced at Lin Yuan and said, "Young man, you are a newly promoted adventurer, but you don't even know such basic things?"

Lin Yuan looked at the leisurely old man who was more energetic than her, and inexplicably felt a little nervous.

But the old man seemed to know a lot, so Lin Yuan said "hmm" as an admission, wanting to see if the old man would continue to say no.

Sure enough, the old man smiled and said, "At this level, it's not easy to upgrade the star. The basic rewards of the dungeon are too small. If you want to move forward, you must fight for the treasure chest."

"In the intermediate dungeon, every player who successfully clears the level will receive a batch of treasure chests. The treasure chests are divided into experience treasure chests, gold coin treasure chests, and if you're lucky, you'll also get items and titles."

"These are personal rewards. Apart from that, the treasure chests in the common reward pool are the biggest part, but only the MVP selected by the dungeon is eligible to receive them."

"It's a pity that there can only be one MVP, and this person is usually an adventurer from Youyue City."

The old man waved his fan and pointed it at Zhang Heng: "Look, that's the MVP of their dungeon. There was only a purple item in the public prize pool, and he was so excited that he almost couldn't close his eyes."

Seeing the old man looking like he was giving orders, Lin Yuan blinked and wondered if the old man was a master.

He dares to point fingers at players and always says "it's just a purple item".

Lin Yuan pretended to listen attentively while the old man continued to talk.

"The people of Youyue City also rose from Zhongxing City in the beginning, but once people reach a high position, they want to trample those who were once on the same level as them into the ground."

Lin Yuan wanted to hear the old man's opinion, but his voice suddenly lowered.

"The team only needs to make sure one person wins the MVP award. The rest of the team can interfere with other players' games. This is the old trick of Youyue City. Even if they put a dog in the C position, it can bark at the people from Zhongxing City."

"Huh?" Lin originally just wanted to know a little bit about the treasure chest, but he didn't expect the old man to suddenly drop a piece of news that was like thunder.

The next second, the people on Zhang Heng's side shouted loudly.

"Hey, you old fool, what did you say?!"

Lin Yuan widened his eyes in confusion, just in time to see the old man kick his legs and run faster than the wind.

The beach chair was overturned, raising a cloud of dust, and a slipper was thrown away and sank into the sand alone, with only half of it sticking out.

"What did you just say to Old Zhutou?"

Zhang Heng clenched his fists twice and walked towards Lin Yuan with a bad look on his face.

Lin Yuan naturally sold the old man without hesitation.

"He suddenly rushed in front of me and started talking about the players from Youyue City. Before I could hear him clearly, you scared him away."

"He's old..." Lin Yuan pointed to his head, "I guess he has Alzheimer's disease."

Zhang Heng laughed and agreed, "Then he is just a lunatic, ignore him."

He glanced at Lin Yuan and found that he was alone. He was a stranger and probably a free man who had not joined any organization.

If someone is not one of Fanxing's people, he would be too lazy to make things difficult for them.

However, the girl had just said bad things about herself to Old Zhu, so she needed to be punished appropriately.

"You, go and move the boxes from the dock to me."

Lin Yuan looked in the direction of Zhang Heng's finger and saw several boxes taller than a person stacked on top of each other. Even from a distance of more than ten meters, he could feel their weight.

Lin Yuan's eyes flickered: "I'm afraid it's not possible."

It was inexplicable. She would not work for free.

The young man in the black vest who was with Zhang Heng was waiting to watch the show, but Xiao Yu of Fanxing couldn't help but said, "Aren't you deliberately making things difficult for me?"

"The public rewards for a dungeon are at least 18,000 gold coins, and there are also experience treasure chests. Even strong players like us have to carry them back and forth several times, and you ordered a weak girl to carry the boxes."

"Don't even mention whether you can move it or not. Why do you want others to do the work for you for no reason?"

Zhang Heng smiled and said contemptuously: "If you like to help others, go and do it for her if you have the ability. But you can't do it, so why are you just talking and showing off?"

Perhaps Xiao Yu's words woke him up. Zhang Heng felt that he should give some compensation to show his status as an elder brother.

So he changed his words: "Let me put it this way, I won't mind if you and Old Zhu say bad things about me."

"On the contrary, if you go to the dock and help me carry a box over, I'll give you fifty gold coins, which is already a gift to you."

Lin Yuanxin said, "You don't think I'm rare, do you?" But her expression didn't show anything unusual.

Feeling unhappy and vengeful, Lin Yuan glanced at the shrine hanging on Zhang Heng's shoulder and suddenly smiled.

"I am timid and poor. If you tell me to give me gold coins, I will write it on the contract paper."

"Only the transactions written in the contract are considered transactions. If you agree verbally, you can go back on your word at any time."

Zhang Heng frowned: "It's such a small matter and I still need to write a contract. It turns out that low-star ones are troublesome."

"It's only fifty gold coins. Brother Zhang makes tens of thousands of gold coins every day. Will he refuse to pay?"

Zhang Heng's younger brother smiled and said, "Our boss is not short of gold coins, your worry is a bit unnecessary."

The players of Fanxing all showed distrustful looks, and looking at Lin Yuan, they were about to shout out the words "Be careful of being cheated" out loud.

Lin Yuan took out the contract paper directly, took out a pen and wrote quickly on the paper.

A simple contract is completed.

As soon as he finished bragging, Lin Yuan handed the contract to him.

Everyone's eyes were focused on him, with both the blind trust of his companions and the disgust of the Star Players.

Zhang Heng was very proud and felt he was in a difficult situation.

He thought that Lin Yuan was so persistent in signing the contract, could he be trying to extort money?
Looking at the end of the contract, Zhang Heng found that the amount was indeed only fifty gold coins. He signed his name neatly and snorted in his heart, "Fifty gold coins and he's still haggling over it. He's so petty. He must be from Star City!"

On the other side, seeing Lin Yuan signing a contract for even fifty gold coins, Xiao Yu said sadly: "She must be from our Star City. Only players from Star City are so poor."

Suddenly, he clenched his fists: "Except Jiang Liuxing."

Next to her, Shen Mengjie, who was actually the team leader, comforted her: "It's okay, some people are at a high place, they may not..."

You may not always be in a high position. If you accumulate too much resentment, there will always be a time when everyone will push you down when the wall falls.

Before he could finish his comforting words of chicken soup, a box suddenly flew over and hit the sand in front of everyone.

"boom--"

Everyone was stunned for a moment as they watched Lin Yuan throw a treasure chest taller than a person at them like a rag doll.

Zhang Heng was surprised and said, "I underestimated you."

Lin Yuan: “Reward.”

Zhang Heng unhappily called up the gold coins from the panel and said disdainfully, "I'll give it to you. You're so obsessed with such a small amount of gold coins. You're really hopeless..."

Lin Yuan stared at him and suddenly smiled.

"It's the life-protecting shrine. You just signed it on behalf of your team."

(End of this chapter)