After finishing off Shentu Kangshi verbally, Su Shu raised her head, her gaze searching around before finally settling on a spot outside the crowd circle.
She said in a clear, loud voice, “Goddess Rumeng, are you still not planning to come out?”
Everyone followed her gaze all the way over—
And actually saw Rumeng Zhimeng.
Rumeng Zhimeng was currently wearing a ornate decorative mask, her big eyes blinking, looking as if she hadn’t quite realized what was happening—
Putting on an expression that said, *What are you all looking at? I want to see too.*
In her past life, Su Shu had met countless people while on missions, and her greatest skill was recognizing faces. So ignoring Rumeng Zhimeng’s act of playing dumb, she said, “Goddess Rumeng, what are you playing dumb for?”
As soon as Su Shu spoke, the colorful-haired companions began to scream—
“Oooooh, it really is Rumeng Zhimeng!”
“Her staff! Monetxi, the Chanting Poet! Goddess!!”
“Goddess, I finally get to see you!”
“Goddess, did you come to avenge our big brother?!”
“Wuuuu, I knew our goddess wouldn’t abandon our Rumeng Legion!”
The half of her face that Rumeng Zhimeng exposed gradually grew awkward under the cheers of her brainless fans and Su Shu’s mocking smile—
*One really isn’t afraid of a god-like opponent, but fears pig-like teammates.*
However, she quickly adjusted her expression and pulled down her mask.
An exquisite little face was revealed.
To speak from the bottom of one’s heart, Rumeng Zhimeng’s face indeed had the capital to be called a goddess—
Yet the face-connoisseur Su Shu didn’t buy it at all.
After all, she had seen the goddess’s hideous appearance right before her death.
Rumeng Zhimeng put on a standard smile and said gracefully to Su Shu, “Release this little brother, and I’ll give you 1,000 gold.”
The surrounding people gasped.
Although Shentu Kangshi had asked for trouble first and deserved to be beaten to death, Su Shu’s act of holding a hostage for money was also not approved of by everyone—
Yet Rumeng Zhimeng was now stepping forward on her own initiative, not only offering to pay for her follower, but even doubling the amount!
One had to know that this hostage-taker, Huaishu, was the very person who had stolen her staff!
—This was simply a textbook example of repaying injury with kindness!
—A goddess is indeed a goddess!
Su Shu smiled warmly: “Regarding the money, let’s not be in a rush.”
Rumeng Zhimeng: “Aren’t you doing this for money? Or is 1,000 gold not enough? How much more do you want? Is 2,000 gold enough?”
She maintained her gentle and polite goddess demeanor, but the words coming out of her mouth no longer carried that meaning.
Su Shu’s gaze fell upon Rumeng Zhimeng’s staff: “I just want Goddess Rumeng to answer one question…”
Rumeng Zhimeng: “What question?”
She blinked playfully at Su Shu: “Just to clarify first, I’m not interested in girls, okay~”
Su Shu: *Okay my ass.*
However, Rumeng Zhimeng was being very polite, so Su Shu couldn’t blurt out profanities first. Thus, while using her eyes to express “are you an idiot”, Su Shu stood up, flicked the blood-stained dagger in her hand, and kicked Shentu Kangshi away from the ground with one foot.
Su Shu said, “Goddess Rumeng, your cronies say that your staff was stolen by me?”
Rumeng Zhimeng was startled.
She hadn’t expected Su Shu to ask her this question.
However, she quickly replied, “As for what the truth is, I think you should be very clear about it.”
Neither denying nor admitting it.
A very clever way to answer.
Su Shu raised an eyebrow.
She was indeed very clear, but the onlookers weren’t.
However, whether the onlookers were clear or not had nothing to do with her, so she said, “So Goddess Rumeng’s meaning is that you, a max-level expert ranked in the top twenty of the healer leaderboards, couldn’t beat the Level 7 me at that time, is that right?”
Rumeng Zhimeng immediately refuted, “How could that be possible?!”
“Is that so?” Su Shu took a step forward.
Rumeng Zhimeng reflexively took a step back.
Su Shu stopped her footsteps, speaking with deep meaning, “It seems Goddess Rumeng… is a bit afraid of me?”
Rumeng Zhimeng said, “You have too many tricks. I’m just afraid you’ll play dirty.”
Su Shu made no comment: “Then how do you plan to give me the money?”
Rumeng Zhimeng: “…”
The crowd of onlookers: “…”
???
*Things were so tense, and the result is asking for money?*
—*So the news on the forums about Huaishu selling gold coins and having her ID banned by the administrator is true?*
Su Shu threw the dagger in her hand onto the ground, opening the five fingers of both hands to show she had no weapons on her.
Su Shu said, “What, Goddess Rumeng clad in top-tier purple gear is afraid of a low-level alt in trash gear like me?”
Everyone’s eyes fell back onto Rumeng Zhimeng.
If Rumeng Zhimeng didn’t dare, then it would confirm the claim that she couldn’t beat Huaishu.
Rumeng Zhimeng gripped the staff in her hands tightly—
She had been at the scene when both Wuji and Shentu Kangshi were handled by Su Shu.
To say she wasn’t wary of Su Shu’s skill was impossible…
However…
Rumeng Zhimeng glanced at the dagger on the ground that had already disappeared after being refreshed by the system, and walked generously over to Su Shu. She pulled out a brocade pouch from her bag and handed it to Su Shu.
To lighten the burden on players, gold coin transactions in *Dreaming of the Rivers and Lakes* were placed in brocade pouches. Therefore, whether it was 1 gold coin or 1,000 gold coins, there was only one small brocade pouch—
A player had to open the pouch to know how much money was inside.
Su Shu took the brocade pouch, smiled at Rumeng Zhimeng, and directly pulled open the opening—
2,000 gold, not a single gold coin short, fair and square.
Su Shu looked up at Rumeng Zhimeng: “The goddess is indeed generous.”
Rumeng Zhimeng assumed a high posture: “I naturally keep my word.”
“The goddess naturally won’t break her promise.” Su Shu pinched the brocade pouch with a smile, then shifted her tone, “However…”
Rumeng Zhimeng became vigilant: “However what?”
Su Shu: “However… I don’t give a damn about it.”
Before Su Shu’s voice even faded, she flung her arm upward—
2,000 gold coins clashed against one another in mid-air—
The sound was crisp and melodious, shimmering with the radiance of gold!
Everyone was stunned—
Su Shu suddenly launched an attack!
She bent her knee and raised it, driving it directly into Rumeng Zhimeng’s abdomen!
Rumeng Zhimeng let out a muffled groan and was about to counterattack—
Su Shu shifted her footwork, circled around to her side, pressed one hand on her head, wrapped her other arm directly around her neck, and choked with force!
Amid the crisp sound of gold coins hitting the ground, the slender and proud neck abruptly let out a loud *click*—
And hung limply down.
An exquisite dagger lay quietly at the spot where Rumeng Zhimeng turned into a streak of white light.
—If Su Shu hadn’t acted just now, then this dagger would have been the one Rumeng Zhimeng stabbed into Su Shu.
And Rumeng Zhimeng’s expression of disbelief, distorted by pain, fell into everyone’s eyes before she turned into white light.
Time seemed to freeze for a moment, and every scene was magnified, making it unforgettable.
Everyone looked at Su Shu.
Their feelings were somewhat complex.
Although they knew that a player’s physical fitness had a huge impact on the game—
Ignoring defense and snapping a neck with bare hands??
Su Shu looked at the completely dumbfounded crowd and smiled apologetically: “I’m really sorry, everyone. I broke my word.”
“I didn’t expect your Goddess Rumeng to be so… weak against hits, to the point that I didn’t even need to use a dagger.”
After saying that, Su Shu picked up the dagger from the ground, dusted off her sleeves, and left without taking a single cloud with her.
*Accomplishing the deed, brushing off one’s robes, and hiding both fame and merit away.*
Only after a good while did someone among the onlookers react—
“Did that big boss just mean that she was saying sorry… because she didn’t let us hear the sound of cervical vertebrae being crushed by a dagger?”
Everyone: “…”
*Fuck!*
*Weren’t they just eating popcorn and watching the drama? Why did they have to suffer this kind of mental attack?!*
Emerging from the spawn point, Rumeng Zhimeng was driven almost insane with rage!
She directly issued a bounty order on Huaishu in the game—
Kill Huaishu once for 5,000 gold.
No upper limit.
The huge sum of 5,000 gold drove all the bounty hunters in the game crazy.
However, the guys frantically trying to find Su Shu to earn extra cash searched the entire game map, yet couldn’t find her anywhere.
For a time, the *Rivers and Lakes Daily* and the forums were all saying—
That Huaishu, who sold coins on the forum and snapped necks with her bare hands, had vanished without a trace.