Erotic Survival Game - Chapter 341
Chapter 341: After the Beauty Saved the Heroes
Shen Yu's injuries were too severe. In the mere blink of an eye, his blood had already pooled across the floor.
Afraid he would bleed out and die on the spot if they delayed any longer, Jiang Ting and Qin Yanshu supported him. Ji Ning was the first to enter the room where the five-man team had just spawned the Chainsaw Killer. The interior had already transformed.
Once all four were inside, Ji Ning closed the main gate, and they were immediately engulfed by the familiar white light.
Back in the Wooden Cabin, Ji Ning sent a video call request to Shen Yu at once.
When the video connected and she saw that his severely wounded, nearly severed leg had fully recovered, Ji Ning felt as if she had just recovered from a grave illness. Her drained energy and strength came flooding back.
Even though the game was fake, the people were real. Even knowing rationally that as long as you didn't die, you'd recover upon returning to the Wooden Cabin, seeing Shen Yu's entire left leg nearly split in half—the raw, hopeless shock of it—still made her sanity crumble.
"It's all healed now." Shen Yu spun around, even unbuckling his belt and pulling down his outer pants to show Ji Ning his leg without any cover. "Feel relieved now?"
Wearing only his underwear, his lower body was lean and powerful, flawlessly perfect without a single trace of injury.
Ji Ning once again witnessed the Wooden Cabin's ability to heal wounds.
She couldn't help but think: it felt more like all players entering the Survival Game were actually in a full-dive VR game that only extracted consciousness by linking to their nerves.
That was also why, from the trending videos, you could only see the surveillance footage of players after they entered the Survival Game, but never what happened inside the Wooden Cabin.
But in that case, was this body inside the Wooden Cabin her real physical body?
Ji Ning felt that wasn't necessarily the case either. There were too many details that couldn't be explained by science or common sense.
Perhaps not monitoring the Wooden Cabin was simply giving players like them a last shred of privacy.
After finishing the video call with Shen Yu, Ji Ning spaced out for a moment. When she looked back at the chat interface, the unread messages had suddenly multiplied to an absurd degree.
Even more than when she'd come out of the Cannibal Theater instance and got caught seducing men.
She didn't need to look to guess the reason for this commotion: the video from the last instance had hit the trending charts again.
When she'd first checked the Points Leaderboard, she clearly saw that the trending videos were almost all five-star instances. What on earth had gone wrong that she kept dragging three-star and four-star instances onto the trending charts?
Ji Ning figured it definitely had something to do with the Popularity Leaderboard.
She opened Xing Ye's messages first. The more she read, the guiltier she felt.
Xing Ye: I watched your last instance video.
Xing Ye: I want to take you away from here, but there's nothing I can do.
Xing Ye: Can you promise me, next time even if you have an extra life, try to find another way first? Don't trust the game. Don't use yourself as a human shield.
Xing Ye: If something unexpected happens, I truly won't be able to bear it.
What made Ji Ning feel guilty was that Xing Ye was right. Thinking back on it now, at that moment, being hacked wasn't the only option.
If she hadn't had that extra life, she would definitely have dodged and fled together with the three men first, entered the ICU, and then figured out a plan based on the terrain.
But relying on that extra life, afraid the three of them would get slashed, she had blocked the way in front to protect them.
It wasn't like the later situation with Shen Yu, which was truly urgent and left no choice but to use her body as a shield.
If something had gone wrong, if she had died protecting other men, how devastated would Xing Ye be…
And not just him—every single one of them. Especially Jiang Ting, Qin Yanshu, Shen Yu, and the others.
Xing Ye's words woke Ji Ning up: in the Survival Game, never casually use your most critical trump card.
Ji Ning: Brother Xing Ye, I promise you I'll never do it again. From now on, I'll cherish my little life, never be careless again, and do my best to avoid any preventable accidents (three fingers pointed to the sky).
After soothing Xing Ye, she still had plenty of headaches waiting for her.
Song Weiyang's tearful complaints, Sheng Churan's brooding resentment, and… Yan Qiao's scathing rebuke.
Yan Qiao: Tired of living, are you?
Yan Qiao: Three grown men that old, what the hell are they good for, still needing a woman like you to block the way in front?
Yan Qiao: If you don't want to live anymore, next time I'll carry you to your death myself. If you're going to die, you can only die in front of me. Not for anyone else.
Yan Qiao: Stay alive for me.
Yan Qiao: You hear me?
The fiercer he was, the sweeter Ji Ning actually found it. Smiling, she replied: I heard you, heard you with both ears. I won't dare do it again, Big Brother Yan, please calm your anger.
After soothing everyone in turn, Ji Ning deeply realized one thing.
Her life was no longer her own private property. She now had deep emotional bonds; the hearts of these seven men were all tied to her.
Even for the sake of their mental health, she had to properly protect her own little life.
…
Before entering the new instance, Ji Ning asked Xing Ye about the five-star instance question she'd been curious about for a long time.
Although she could see other players' experiences in five-star instances from the trending videos, asking someone who had personally experienced them would naturally give a more three-dimensional and comprehensive understanding.
Ji Ning: Brother Xing Ye, what do you think is the difference between a five-star instance and a four-star instance?
Xing Ye: The difference in the instance's worldview, the danger level of the NPCs. Players can die at any moment.
Xing Ye: Instances before four stars are all games. Once you reach five stars, that's when the true survival test begins.
Xing Ye: Actually, the NPCs in your last instance didn't quite match the setup you'd expect for a four-star instance. They were more like five-star instance NPCs—more intelligent, possessing autonomous thought and judgment. Even smarter than some players.
Ji Ning: Yes! Those Chainsaw Killers were practically like living people.
As she watched Xing Ye continue to supplement her with detailed five-star instance experience, Ji Ning suddenly realized: Xing Ye had only five more instances than her, yet he had already experienced three five-star instances.
She had entered seventeen instances total, but not a single five-star instance.
This probability didn't seem like the result of random assignment. It felt more like it was specially arranged based on a player's individual ability.
So… even if two people had both cleared thirty instances, the gap in their points could be enormous, and the gap in their ability ceiling could be just as vast.
Ji Ning opened her personal info panel and looked at the last line: "Exchange Identity: Insufficient Points, Not Activated."
She didn't know exactly what identities could be exchanged. But now she was certain: only those with strong abilities could exchange for higher-level identities, like Brother Xing Ye.
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