Chapter 23: The Mysterious Death Threshold 3
As he watched the candles go out one by one, his mouth moved quickly to keep up with An Yi's words, and at the exact moment An Yi finished speaking, all 99 candles went out.
The figure retreated into the darkness, and An Yi quickly pointed to the lantern marked with the number 16 that floated before his eyes.
After doing all this, An Yi finally let out a slight breath of relief.
The 16th team is the reason for the thieves, slightly complicated, speeding up to barely finish before the 99 candles go out.
In any case, the reason has been explained, and the problem should be largely resolved.
But...
After a brief voting time, after the voting results appeared on the sheepskin scroll above the bonfire, An Yi's eyes suddenly widened. Even, the face could not help but rise with a shocking color.
No. 16: No. 1, No. 2, No. 4, No. 6, No. 10, No. 14 (6 votes)
No. 6: No. 3, No. 7, No. 8, No. 9, No. 11, No. 12, No. 13 (7 votes)
Abstention: No. 5
At the same time as the voting results appeared, the figure of the No. 6 long skirt girl emerged from the darkness.
The girl in the 6th long skirt had a calm and quiet face, but with a hint of surprise. She seemed to have not expected this voting result either.
Before she could change her expression, a **emitting smoke and flames suddenly poured down from above her head.
Thick, sparkling with a yellowish crystal color. But that gray smoke reveals a temperature that is not low.
Is this... liquid tree resin?!
Liquid branches instantly covered the entire body of a 6-year-old girl in a long dress.
The 6th long skirt girl's body was surrounded by an invisible barrier that blocked the overflow.
Liquid resin, rapid curing. Then...
Amber!
The high temperature of liquid resin is enough to be ignited after contact. Especially with a contact area as large as the human body.
But... The 6th long skirt girl was stiffly turned into a large piece of amber.
Even her face still maintained that stunned expression, without any hint of pain or struggle.
$$ Darkness falls, An Yi's face looks unwell.
What's going on?
Isn't it clear that team 16 is the thief? How...
Suddenly, a term floated into An Yi's mind.
At the end of the Upper House cleansing match, a term that Yuǎn Liǎn Pàng Zǐ mentioned to ān Yì...
Death threshold!
Yuán liǎn pàng zǐ yě gāi bù zhī dào jù tǐ, yīncǐ duì sǐ wáng mén cún de jiè shào, nán miǎn hěn shì lóng tǒng. Yīncǐ, ān yì gēn běn méi wǎng mǒu xiē fāng miàn xiǎng. Kě cǐ shí...
Before the game started, when I saw the slightly curious expressions on many people's faces, An Yi felt a bit of an inexplicable sense of unease. And at this time, with the addition of this strange ticket type, An Yi suddenly realized something!
I finally realized what that death door was all about!
Before the game started, many people in the field had a slightly curious expression on their faces, which undoubtedly proved that there were not a few people in the field who, like An Yi, were entering the professional arena for the first time.
If most of the people in the scene have just been promoted from primary school...
When the score first reaches 10 points, it will be promoted to a professional arena. And the cleaning match...
The score of the winner in a clean sweep will undoubtedly exceed 10 points!
But how many people are there in this strange world? How many people are there in the primary field? An Yi didn't know, but it was certain that there were absolutely not a few!
Yes. The washing race is definitely not lacking in cases like An Wei's rise.
But among them... there must be many who just got lucky and accidentally entered the professional arena!
Even, like No. 2 Xiaotaimai in the previous season's clearing match, if luck is good, it is also possible to directly upgrade to a professional arena without experiencing a primary arena adaptation!
Lucky, but lack of soft and hard power, what will happen when promoted to professional arena?
If you accumulate points slowly and gradually move up to the professional arena, even if your soft and hard power are not strong enough, it won't be too dangerous. Because you avoided the 'crowded period'!
What is rush hour?
Professional field and primary field, which one has more people when comparing the two sessions?
This can be guessed with toenail thinking! It must be that there are many people in the primary field! And it must be a lot more!
Yes! The washing contest is a matter of life and death!
But... what if the total number of people in the primary field is a geometric multiple of the total number of people in the professional field? What would happen then?
What if countless washing matches were held at the same time?
A large number of primary players will be promoted to professional arenas after each cleaning match!
What situation will this lead to? A large number of 'newbies' surrounding a smaller number of 'veterans'!
But! If these 'old birds' were all prepared, what would happen? It would be... a massacre!
Even... An Yi can be sure that this thief team, namely No. 16, No. 3, No. 7 and No. 13, is definitely an old bird team!
They are prepared, in this crowded period, to slaughter the grass mudfish and reap benefits.
That's right! An Yi previously explained clearly that the reason why team 16 was considered thieves. However...
But can most laymen understand what they hear?
What if you don't understand at all? Then it will follow their original thinking!
It is believed that Team 1, 2, 4 and 6 are not good at speaking! It is believed that Team 1 is a thief because of poor speech!
But in fact... they also voted for No. 6 of Team No. 1!
Lost? This game... just lost like this?
The 6th girl in a long dress was executed, and there were only three yamen runners left on the scene!
Four thieves against three constables, and all of them were caught off guard...
An Yi's face sank slightly, he didn't expect to actually lose.
The brief darkness receded, and the figure of No. 1 School Uniform Xiao Pangzi appeared. But...
Before the death of No. 1 school uniform Xiaopangzi appeared, the figure of No. 3 shorts youth also revealed darkness.
"No. 3, death by self-inflicted punishment!" A dull voice sounded.
A steel knife appeared at the neck of Youth No. 3's shorts, a clean and swift slash.
Fresh blood was like water gushing out of a faucet, spraying outward from the neck of the young man in shorts No. 3.
At the moment when the young man in shorts No. 3 fell down, a gunshot suddenly appeared.
The bullet came from nowhere and hit the 1st school uniform fatty right between the eyebrows.
The dark night had just ended, but because of the suicide of a young man in No. 3 shorts due to fear of punishment, everyone was pulled back into darkness again.
This loss... is too frustrating. But! An Yi was powerless to change it!
An Yi stared blankly at the extinguished bonfire in front of him.
The brief darkness receded once again, and the figure of the girl with glasses perched on the end of her nose reappeared.
A look of horror and panic filled the face of glasses-nosed girl No. 2. But...
The 16th thief team seemed to not want to waste any more time, and at the same time that the shadow of the girl with glasses and a pug nose appeared, the shadow of the athletic boy No. 13 also emerged.
It was that steel knife again, appearing out of thin air at the neck of the 13th sports head boy, another clean and swift slash.
The body of boy No. 13 in the sports jersey fell to the ground, and another shot rang out, with the bullet hitting girl No. 2 with glasses right between the eyebrows.
A look of horror and panic was frozen on the face of glasses-wearing, pug-nosed girl No. 2 as her body stiffly fell to the ground.
Death in the game does not mean real death. However...the current situation, 2nd glasses girl may not be able to get up again. Unless...
The thief team's suicidal surrender once again dragged everyone back into darkness, leaving no one with even a glimmer of hope.
In the silent darkness, An Yi stared blankly around him. Waiting, waiting for this game that had left him powerless to end...
The darkness receded, and the figure of Youth No. 4 in his Western suit emerged from the shadows.
This time the thief did not continue to escape, however... The young man in suit No. 4 was actually the last yamen runner!
A black iron collar made of two rings appeared on the neck of Youth No. 4 in a suit.
Two rings are linked by a chain each, one chain going up and another going down.
The chain going up slowly pulled upwards, bringing with it the body of the young man in suit No. 4, who was locked in a neck ring, bit by bit into mid-air.
Suffocation, blood congestion, caused the face of the young man in the No. 4 suit to flush red bit by bit, but he couldn't do anything except hang a panicked and terrified expression on his face.
The chain linked to the second button on the neck of the young man in suit No. 4 extends downwards, and at the very end of the chain is a large hook.
A black weight hung from the hook. Because of this weight, the young man in suit No. 4 was strangled to the point where he could hardly breathe. But...
Everything didn't stop. Piece by piece, it appeared out of thin air and hung continuously from the hook below the chain.
The weight grew heavier and heavier until the moment when the weight of the scale exceeded the limit that the young man in suit No. 4 could bear.
With a ripping sound. The 4th young man in the suit was beheaded, his neck severed between the two metal rings around his neck.
The No. 4 suit youth and the headless corpse fell to the ground with a thud, meaning that the good people's camp, including the yamen runner and civilians, failed.
It's far from over! The death of 4th Youth in Western suit didn't bring an end to it.
Seven hemp ropes suddenly hung down from above and tied around the necks of seven civilians including An Yi.
The rope was tightened and slowly lifted up, gradually lifting all 7 civilians including An Wei into mid-air.
Fear of death brings various expressions on other people's faces.
An Yi, suspended in mid-air by the hemp rope, had a calm face but felt suffocated, physically experiencing this kind of death that was almost indistinguishable from reality, and his heart couldn't help but stir up waves.
Asphyxia and cerebral congestion gradually caused An Yi to lose consciousness bit by bit.
In the instant before consciousness completely receded, An Yi saw a row of characters slowly appearing on the sheepskin paper scroll above the bonfire.
Thieves win!
No. 3 (thief), points +4;
No. 7 (thief), points +4;
No. 13 (thief), points +4;
No. 16 (thief), points +4.
Completely different from the feeling of being in a dream, it's as if I've lost myself, no thoughts, no emotions, nothing... nothing at all!
A feeling of emptiness, perhaps lasting for a long time, or maybe just for an instant, An Yi suddenly opened his eyes.
Staring blankly around, everything that had just happened flashed before An Yi's mind.
I just... died.
He took out his mobile phone and glanced at it. When he saw that the number of substitute puppets had decreased to 1, An Yi's heart sank.
An Yi's eyes narrowed as he quietly scanned his surroundings.
The game ends with the thieves' victory. Therefore, several thieves who died in fear of punishment will be unconditionally resurrected.
The shadows of No. 16, No. 3, No. 7 and No. 13 had long since departed, leaving behind only the corpses around them.
Looking at those corpses, especially the 6 corpses that were hung in mid-air by ropes, An Yi's face turned slightly pale.
Yes! If it weren't for No. 8, No. 9, No. 11 and No. 12 messing up, we wouldn't have lost.
If it weren't for these few people, others wouldn't have died either! Even if An Yi didn't have a substitute scarecrow...
Yes! For others who were implicated, these four people are hateful and infuriating!
But for these four people, who should they hate? Who should they be angry with?
If it weren't for this strange game, such a thing wouldn't have happened!
