Chapter 177: Heart-Stopping Carriage (11)
Xing Ye's body blocked the front of the bunk. Ji Ning was shielded by him, huddled against the bed, watching helplessly as the two men opposite them lunged viciously at Xing Ye. The man from the upper bunk also leaped down and aimed a kick at him.
The situation was changing in the blink of an eye. There was no time left for thinking; any negligence or carelessness would be fatal.
At the line between life and death, judgment and action were driven entirely by instinct.
Ji Ning quickly leaned out toward the table between the two bunks and grabbed the electric kettle the train provided for passengers to use as a weapon.
It didn't have much lethality, but it was still harder than her flesh-and-bone fists.
At the same moment, Xing Ye kicked the fat man in the crotch, a clean, direct strike to a vital point that instantly drained most of the fat man's attacking strength.
His hands struck out simultaneously, trapping the upper-bunk man's leg and ruthlessly folding it down toward the inside of the lower bunk. The massive inertia caught the man off guard and sent him crashing down from the upper bunk.
A brief window to catch his breath opened in front of him. Xing Ye seized the chance to deal with the man on the opposite upper bunk, twisting his arm backward to restrain him, then violently shoving him toward the laser net at the doorway.
"Aaaahhh—!"
Accompanied by a blood-curdling scream, the man was sliced into several chunks like cannon fodder from a biohazard crisis. Black smoke rose from the severed edges of the flesh, and a bizarre roasted-meat smell drifted through the air.
Xing Ye did not stop. Taking advantage of the gap before this opponent could recover his strength and attack again, he turned around, scooped Ji Ning up horizontally, and deftly lifted her onto the now-empty upper bunk to keep her safe.
He was worried he couldn't protect her fully down below, because pure defense was useless—he needed to attack. The moment he left the space in front of the bed, Ji Ning would be in danger.
While Xing Ye was settling Ji Ning, his back was exposed to his opponents. Even though they were in pain, they still struggled up and joined forces to besiege Xing Ye again.
However, not only was Xing Ye dividing his attention, listening to the movements behind him, but his physical prowess far surpassed these men. Even with his back exposed, it was not his weak point.
Almost at the exact moment he set Ji Ning down safely, Xing Ye executed a sweeping kick, a turn, and a block in one fluid motion. He not only neutralized the attacks of two grown men but also kicked the opposite upper-bunk man's knee with a crisp "crack."
Ji Ning wasn't idle either.
Thankfully, she had grabbed one of the few props in the carriage first. Now with the advantage of high ground, she gripped the bed railing firmly with one hand to steady herself, clenched the handle of the steel kettle in her right, and leaned out to hammer the two men opposite her with the bottom of the kettle. She aimed straight for their heads, knocking them with a "thud thud" like a whack-a-mole game—it sounded painful just to hear.
Livestream comments:
"The Ning-Ye combo is the absolute best."
"Came here for Pretty Boy Qin, but Player No. 6 has won me over!"
"Ning-Ning is amazing, Mommy loves you!"
If Xing Ye was like a damage-dealing tank blocking the front, she was like a long-range archer, hitting wherever she could, sneakily looking for chances to add damage.
The two cooperated flawlessly. Even as a man and a woman, they beat the two men opposite them until they had no strength to fight back, especially with one of them being a fat man.
The opponents retreated step by step, but Xing Ye only fought fiercer. He seized the right moment to break them down one by one, using the laser net to quickly finish off those two men.
In the end, only two living people remained in the compartment: Ji Ning and Xing Ye, along with a pile of rags and chunks of flesh rolling around inside.
Just as the broadcast had said, the laser net at the doorway dissipated, restoring itself as if it had never appeared.
Xing Ye cautiously grabbed a pillow and tossed it out to test. The pillow landed intact on the corridor carpet.
Seeing this, the two finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Ji Ning was utterly exhausted. She slumped onto the bunk, panting heavily. Watching Xing Ye, whose face wasn't red and whose heart wasn't racing, she inwardly clicked her tongue in admiration—he was seriously impressive.
Xing Ye stood by the bunk, reached out, and tucked Ji Ning's damp, stray hair behind her ear. He smiled. "You looked so cute hitting people with the kettle, good girl."
Ji Ning felt both proud and shy at the praise. She placed her hand over Xing Ye's, her heart still fluttering with lingering fear. "It's a good thing I came to Brother Xing Ye's compartment."
Her original compartment only had two female passengers. It would have been very hard to beat the other two men, especially the sleazy middle-aged man on her lower bunk, who didn't look easy to deal with.
"Yes, it's a good thing I was by your side." Xing Ye was also immensely grateful for his decision to take Ji Ning with him.
Ji Ning put down the kettle and climbed down, both worried and curious about the situation in the other compartments. "Brother Xing Ye, let's go out and take a look quickly."
After the two stepped out of the compartment, they realized that their side, due to the complex situation, had been relatively late in getting the laser net opened.
After regrouping with Song Weiyang and Qin Yanshu, the four took stock of the survival situation in the carriage.
Originally, according to the broadcast, as long as a compartment had two people, the laser could be eliminated. Logically, there should have been sixteen people left in Carriage 12 by now.
But there were two compartments with only a single player. They chose to kill all the NPCs. Even after the laser net was already eliminated, they still struck the killing blow. This left the number of survivors at only fourteen.
Among them were eleven Real Players and three NPCs. Female Player No. 11 had died at the hands of an NPC.
After being locked in by the laser and forced into a segment of mutual slaughter among passengers, even those who had survived for now could not keep a light heart.
Because who knew if there would be more "Passenger Elimination Plans" coming next? Who could say?
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