—Can’t the GM and the dog planner come out and do something about this? How can players even craft black powder in the game?
—Black powder??? Isn’t this an ancient Chinese thing? Are people still using such backward stuff nowadays?
—Backward?? Backward my ass!
—You call it backward when it blew up over a hundred people?
—Aiya, backward is relative to modern weapons, okay~ If you want to use your own mortal flesh and blood to compare with black powder to see who is more durable against falling, of course you can’t compare~
—Why are people suddenly talking about this stuff? Has the game released new weapons? Is it related to ancient China?
—No. That’s because of a woman.
—Our server has a ruthless person who seems to have gotten saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal from the game, crafted this stuff herself, and blew up over a hundred people in one go.
—I truly learned in this lifetime what it means to “flesh and blood fly while talking and laughing, without changing color on one’s face.”
—It’s fucking too brutal!!
—…A fierce person indeed.
—Who?
—Based on the recent forum trends, I have a bold idea…
—Me too.
—Yes, it’s her.
—…As a noob on the same server as Huaishu, seeing this name, my heart had zero emotional waves, and I even felt it was only natural.
—Upstairs, did your server never think of teaming up to kill her?
—We did think about it. Isn’t this post saying that everyone teamed up to block her, only to be blown sky-high just now?
—Then block her again!
—Block my dick!
—????
—Have the people of Zhaixinchen gone crazy?
—Not crazy, upstairs go take a look at that Huaishu’s live stream.
—What happened?
—That group of people who got blown sky-high are currently being blocked inside Wuya Peak’s spawn point by her alone.
—They can’t even come out.
—…Fuck!
More and more people gathered in Su Shu’s live stream. Su Shu sat at the main gate of the spawn point, smiling warmly with zero self-awareness of being glared at angrily.
While smiling, she even said, “I’m always a gentle and amicable person; if others don’t offend me, I won’t offend them. You say we have no grievances or grudges between us, so why are you blocking me?”
The players inside the spawn point numbly looked at the things under Su Shu’s feet, their faces full of disbelief.
#If you have the ability to say such sarcastic words, then have the ability to let us out to duel single-handed!
Su Shu shook her backpack: “You say everyone worked so hard to gather equipment, and it gets picked up by me in two or three moves, how cost-ineffective.”
Players: “Then return it to us!”
Su Shu raised an eyebrow and placed the bag at her feet: “Come get it yourselves.”
Players: “…”
*If they could come out, would they still fucking be staring at her dumbly inside the spawn point?*
Su Shu used her long umbrella to pick up the items in front of her and place them on the threshold. She raised her eyebrows and mocked, “If you’re cowardly as hell yourselves, don’t blame your own bad luck.”
The players inside the spawn point were almost infuriated to death by Su Shu—
This fucking…
*Who could have expected that this bastard named Huaishu, besides knowing how to plant explosives, fucking knew how to catch snakes too?!*
*Weren’t the BaiBu Snakes at the bottom of Wangshan Cliff extremely precious because they killed with one bite and refused to refresh more than one extra snake? How could this woman not only eat dead ones, but also grab such a big handful of live ones out from her bag?*
—Yes, that’s right. During her few days at the bottom of Wangshan Cliff, Su Shu had not only harvested many medicinal herbs and snakes, but also caught quite a few live ones in her bag.
Actually, she hadn’t caught them either; she had simply raided a few snake nests while strolling around and casually stuffed the eggs into her bag.
Who would have thought that the red eggs she had picked up earlier came with their own temperature and hatching skills. When she opened her package again…
The newly hatched little snakes had already been warmed to the point of being at their last breath, just short of being cooked through.
Then she casually strung these little snakes together by their tail tips like braiding twist braids-.-
These little snakes didn’t know what they grew up eating either; Su Shu hadn’t untied them, yet they grew at the game’s growth speed—
Now these strands of twist braids were hung by her umbrella right on the main gate and the threshold of the spawn point.
The only spot without snakes happened to be blocked by Su Shu holding a big axe.
The upside-down twist braids looked exceptionally ferocious because they were bound. Su Shu, holding the big axe, checked the gear dropped by them when they died earlier, making a fortune—
While they were currently inside the safe zone, completely helpless.
—Because the skills they released inside the safe zone had no offensive power.
—But the BaiBu Snakes hanging upside down on the door did!
Earlier, someone had wanted to use lightwork skills to fly out, but Huaishu flipped them back with one swing of her axe, and that unlucky child was bitten by a snake and refreshed straight back inside the room.
There were also those who refused to believe in evil and used skills to immune damage—
Yet even if you could immune the first bite of snake venom, could you immune seventeen, eighteen, or even twenty-three or twenty-four mouths biting down on you simultaneously?
Just looking at that strand of twist braids on the ground was enough to make people faint, okay?!
Not to mention there was a ruthless person at the door who didn’t play by common sense.
The counter-blocked players: *We are too hard.*
—*Who the fuck knew that wild map monsters could be captured live and relocated?!*
—*Could this one named Huaishu be a plant hired by the dog planners?*
In the end, however, someone couldn’t hold back: “You’re just one person, blocking us like this. Aren’t you afraid that when my brothers arrive later, we’ll pincer attack and kill you from both sides?”
Su Shu carried the axe and kicked the bag at her feet with her foot: “If I die, I’ll just grab the bag and leave.”
“Having picked up such a large bag of stuff…” It was so heavy she couldn’t even carry it on her back. Su Shu said, “Even if I die once, I still make a profit, right?”
Everyone: “…”
*So logical, impossible to refute.*
“Besides…” Su Shu rubbed her hands, pointing at the open ground and woods behind her, “Are you sure when your good brothers arrive, they won’t end up like you guys, having a way in but no way out?”
Everyone fell silent—
No one knew exactly how much black powder Su Shu had buried.
Even though what she said sounded like bluffing, she had already realized many impossibilities one by one in front of everyone—
So regarding her words, even though they were unbelievable, people couldn’t help but want to believe them.
Furthermore…
Some of them had actually sent messages to Rumeng Zhimeng long ago—
Although most of the people killed by Su Shu had accepted Rumeng Zhimeng’s bounty and came for money, there were also some who indeed came to stand up for Rumeng Zhimeng, or rather were friends of Rumeng Zhimeng.
Yet Rumeng Zhimeng, who was clearly online, acted as if she were dead—
However, holographic games had almost no concept of “AFK” from the era of keyboard online games.
Rumeng Zhimeng was simply turning a blind eye.
Some of them had also taken the initiative to private message Wuji, wanting Wuji to mediate between them—
After all, according to rumors, Wuji was the main culprit who caused the opposition between Huaishu, this god of slaughter, and Rumeng Zhimeng.
Yet how did Wuji reply?
Wuji directly bought out a full section on the *Rivers and Lakes Daily*, replying: “As long as Huaishu is happy. If she’s too busy, I’ll help out.”
People who saw this message became numb—
Was having a god of slaughter blocking their door not enough? Did they have to invite another one themselves?
Wuji wasn’t a solo player like Huaishu; under his command was a group of followers whose fan base was no inferior to Rumeng Zhimeng’s.
So even though Huaishu at the door directly tore up and burned the *Rivers and Lakes Daily* worth 1 gold when she saw Wuji’s reply…
Still…
When facing Huaishu, everyone was no longer as reckless as before.
The blocked people: *Why is it that the person we bullied and wanted to hunt down across the whole server is now blocking and bullying us instead?*
*We are really too hard…*
—Su Shu hadn’t closed the live stream, and the people watching the live stream also felt that the blocked people were too hard…
Yet no matter how hard, life had to go on.
After staring at each other unilaterally for two hours, just as Huaishu picked up the iron pot again to prepare to make large flatbreads, someone among the players inside the spawn point finally stepped out—
“Big Boss Huaishu, let’s talk.”
A single address basically indicated the attitude of the people inside.
Su Shu shifted her head from her large pot to the man who stepped forward.
She had seen this man before; he was one of those who surrounded Rumeng Zhimeng when they were grabbing chicken feathers at the start.
Su Shu broke into a smile.
She had opened a live stream in the game, and in her perspective, there was always a small window.
Su Shu raised her head toward the small window and said, “They want to talk? Should I talk with them?”
The popcorn-eating crowd who had been following the stream but had been ignored by Su Shu to the point of being at their last breath finally welcomed Su Shu’s first wave of interaction—
The popcorn-eating crowd thought reservedly—
*Why should we pay attention to an unprofessional streamer like you?*
Then bullet comments like heavy snowfall flashed across Su Shu’s small window rapidly—
Talk talk talk!! Fall in love!!!
Talk talk talk!! Fall in love!!!
Talk talk talk!! Fall in love!!!
Fall in love!!!
Su Shu: “…”
She turned off the stream window.
The popcorn-eating crowd who were suddenly faced with a black screen: “…”
*If you don’t communicate, fine! Now you won’t even let us see the picture?!*
*Motherfucker! Knew you weren’t a sincere streamer!*
That person stood properly outside the attack range of the venomous snakes, waiting for Su Shu’s answer.
Su Shu said, “What do you want to talk about?”
That person said, “I am Change, the shooter of Rumeng Zhimeng’s fixed team. On behalf of Rumeng Zhimeng, I apologize to you for them.”
Change said, “Release them, and you can dispose of me as you wish.”
Su Shu sized up this man, remaining silent for a long time.
Change wasn’t very old, probably still a student.
Change continued, “Huaishu, I know you are very formidable, but when you can forgive someone, forgive them.”
“Even if you borrow Wuji’s momentum, what kind of person is Wuji? Can you borrow his east wind for a moment? Can you borrow it for a lifetime?”
“You’re a merchant, right? I’ll personally give you another 2,000 gold as compensation for you.”
A winning smile hung on Change’s face: “Miss Huaishu, you have to believe that taking a step back opens up a vast world.”
Su Shu’s gaze fixed on Change’s face, unmoving for a long time.
Perhaps because Su Shu’s gaze was too intense, Change’s face gradually turned a bit red: “I… I’ve long given my heart to someone…”
Su Shu immediately interrupted his self-indulgent mind-wandering: “No… hold on a second.”
Su Shu’s gaze swept past Change, falling upon the people behind Change, her tone filled with disbelief: “You guys discussed for three hours, and this is what you came up with?”
“Are you guys genuinely low in IQ, or are you taking me for an idiot?”
“If you’re taking me for an idiot, being blocked in here by me for three hours makes you even worse than an idiot.”
The faces of the people inside the spawn point flushed deep red.
The mockery in Su Shu’s eyes was completely unhidden—
She looked at Change: “You say you represent Rumeng Zhimeng? Then may I ask in what capacity?”
“As Rumeng Zhimeng’s pursuer? Follower? Or teammate? Or perhaps spokesperson?”
Change hurriedly said, “Naturally as a teammate!”
Su Shu said, “Is that so? Seeing you so certain, I thought you were her husband.”
Change’s face flushed deep red.
Yet Su Shu didn’t let him off, continuing, “You say I have a grievance with Rumeng Zhimeng. Fine, I killed her once and her skill was inferior to others; even if it’s my fault, I admit it.”
“But these people inside…”
“They either came for that 10,000 gold, or like you, wanted to take my head to curry favor with Rumeng Zhimeng—”
“May I ask, as the target of their hunt, what do I owe them?”
“From start to finish, Rumeng Zhimeng was the one chasing after me without letting go. I think as an eyewitness from start to finish and Rumeng Zhimeng’s fixed teammate, you have always known the truth—”
“Does Wuji falling out with Rumeng Zhimeng have half a cent to do with me? Are you not clear on how Rumeng Zhimeng’s staff was taken back?”
“Never mind that the others are stupid; after all, they are blind.”
“But may I ask, Mr. Change, as a party involved who knows everything, from what stance are you putting on an act in front of everyone?”
Su Shu let out a laugh: “The world hustles for profit, the world bustles for gain. The group of people inside doing it for money is understandable; I want to be a merchant and they want to earn bounties, nobody is nobler than anybody else. But you—”
“For your own little shameful intentions, you reverse right and wrong, spout nonsense, and even pride yourself on sacrificing yourself for others—”
“Have some fucking shame, will you?!”
“When you get beaten, stand at attention; when your skill is inferior to others, you should admit defeat—”
“Yet you—”
“Never mind that you can’t beat me, how do you still feel aggrieved yourself?”
“Looking at you up and down, you seem like an educated person, but with your actions, may I ask if the ‘Benevolence, Righteousness, Propriety, Wisdom, and Trustworthiness’ you read about for so many years were all fed to the dogs?”
“2,000 gold?” Su Shu smiled amiably, but the mockery in her tone materialized to the point where it almost made the blushing Change unable to lift his head—
“Even if I were willing to accept it, won’t you ask Rumeng Zhimeng if she thinks the price you offered loses face for her!”