For anyone playing a game, who hadn’t died a few times?
For those who spent years in the game world, who among them hadn’t long put life and death out of their minds?
At most, it was just losing a bit of experience—
Either way, for max-level big shots, experience was the last thing they lacked.
However, right now, Shentu Kangshi—
That was the man currently pinned down by Su Shu with a dagger—didn’t think so at all.
It wasn’t that he had never been killed by having his throat slit with a dagger before, but those deaths happened so fast that almost before he could react, he was already back at the spawn point.
Yet the woman pressing down on him didn’t do that. She smiled brightly, looking as if she wasn’t using much force, but he could clearly feel the woman’s hand pressing down bit by bit—
A sharp, slow pain came from his neck.
In fact, when the dagger first touched his neck, it was still cold.
Now, however, he could no longer feel that metallic chill—
Replacing it was a kind of warm heat.
Perhaps his own body temperature had warmed the icy dagger, or perhaps it was because…
The blood being slowly forced out of him.
Killing a man was nothing more than a nod of the head. Having died over and over in games for so many years, Shentu Kangshi had almost truly believed he was a heroic knight who feared neither life nor death—
Only now did he realize that he was not.
Even though he knew that even if Huaishu hacked him into a thousand pieces, he could still stand safely at the spawn point in the very next second…
He still felt an uncontrollable urge to pee.
Shentu Kangshi wimped out.
Words of pleading were almost at the tip of his tongue—
“If you don’t release my big brother, our Goddess Meng Legion will never let you off!”
The purple-haired mage shouted arrogantly.
The surrounding colorful-haired smartasses who had been stunned by Su Shu snapped back to their senses, shouting one after another: “Even if my big brother is cut into a thousand pieces and torn apart by five horses! He still won’t be intimidated by you!”
“Don’t think you’re awesome just because you pulled off a sneak attack!”
“If you have the capability, duel our boss single-handed! If you have the capability, gang up on us!”
The words Shentu Kangshi was about to say were completely choked back by his own cronies.
Su Shu broke into a laugh. Pressing down on the dagger, she said to Shentu Kangshi, “The little companions you brought to vent your anger seem to prefer that you die~”
Su Shu’s voice was neither too loud nor too quiet, just right for the people around to hear—
“Even if our boss dies, so be it!”
“Immortal glory!”
“He won’t be afraid!”
—To be generous at someone else’s expense; even if it were someone else’s life, it would still appear so cheap.
“Fuck your second granduncles!”
—The generous Shentu Kangshi finally roared out!
“Bullshit! It’s not you guys being threatened, right?!”
Shentu Kangshi’s movements were a bit too big when he roared, and the dagger sank three-tenths of an inch deeper—
He froze again.
Su Shu let out a genuine chuckle.
She lowered her head, leaned close to Shentu Kangshi’s ear, and asked softly, “Tell me, if I make each of them give me 50 gold, would they be willing to trade for your life?”
Shentu Kangshi had brought eight people, which made 400 gold.
Not a huge amount, but not a small number either.
Shentu Kangshi didn’t answer.
If it were three minutes ago, he could have rightfully told the woman pressing down on him that his brothers would save him—
Yet three minutes later, just as his brothers couldn’t see his fear, he also realized that he didn’t understand them.
Su Shu didn’t actually want his answer—
She didn’t need to guess to know that the news of her teaching Rumeng Zhimeng’s dog legs a lesson had already spread outside. If she didn’t scare this group of people completely this time, there would only be more and more people looking to trouble her in the future.
Flies were nothing to fear, but too many of them were annoying.
She simply wanted to push things to a more ruthless extreme.
Su Shu directly stated her terms—
The surroundings erupted into an uproar.
In no time, the title “Huaishu is obsessed with money” spread across the *Rivers and Lakes Daily* and the forums.
Among them, Shentu Kangshi’s brothers made the biggest scene.
Fussing back and forth, they just didn’t want to spend money—
What did a brother’s life count for? You respawn after dying, okay?!
If they gave the money, where would Goddess Rumeng put her pride?!
Looking at the shirking gazes of his brothers, all of Shentu Kangshi’s fear and fury vanished—
He lowered his eyes and said to Su Shu, “Just kill me. I won’t trouble you again in the future.”
The others had no time, but as a hostage with nothing to do, he had time to browse the forums—
Rumeng Zhimeng was on his friend list, and he knew she was online; forum posts were popping up one after another, and he didn’t believe Rumeng Zhimeng didn’t know about it.
However…
Shentu Kangshi felt a pang of bitterness in his heart—
In the end…
His devoted affection was given to the wrong person, sigh.
Looking at his half-dead expression, Su Shu couldn’t help getting goosebumps—
She didn’t really understand this kind of one-sided self-dramatization.
However…
She said to Shentu Kangshi, “Don’t be in a rush. Hasn’t your goddess not arrived yet?”
Shentu’s eyes suddenly lit up: “Is my goddess really coming for me?!”
Su Shu nodded: “Otherwise, do you think I would keep you alive until now?”
Her time was very valuable too, okay?
Shentu Kangshi’s eyes sparkled: “…I will live on!”
—For his goddess, even if he were a hostage, he would accept it!
“But I think your goddess might not really want you to live on,” Su Shu shattered his fantasy. “Otherwise, she would have come out long ago.”
A question mark slowly floated above Shentu Kangshi’s head.
“If you’re alive and she comes out, she’ll even have to pay out of her own pocket for you,” Su Shu explained thoughtfully. “So a minor side character like you is actually better off dying.”
Shentu Kangshi: “…”
*Life is already so hard, why do you have to expose it?*