Two hundred-pace vipers twined together, flicking their tongues directly over Yisheng Xunmeng’s face—
The distance was so close that Yisheng Xunmeng could smell the foul stench emanating from the vipers’ mouths.
—In truth, his level was higher than Su Shu’s, and now that they were outside the safe zone, skills were usable.
Yet he had completely forgotten.
Under extreme terror, a person’s mind goes entirely blank; far from recalling spell incantations, they cannot even remember their own name.
However, Su Shu heard a trickling sound.
Her gaze shifted downward; Yisheng Xunmeng’s pants were soaked.
Su Shu: “…”
Didn’t the game’s devious designers disable excretion, leaving only eating and drinking? How on earth did he get scared into wetting himself?
Su Shu immediately looked away, giving her hand a shake so the snakes suspended on the umbrella dropped onto Yisheng Xunmeng’s body—
Tsk, filthy thing, a complete eyesore.
Yisheng Xunmeng dissolved into a streak of white light, while the men still standing in the courtyard—
Instinctively covered their crotches in unison.
Su Shu looked at the snakes on the ground: “…”
Fuck.
The snakes she raised were no longer clean!
Bullet chat flew past like falling snowflakes—
—Re… releasing snakes to bite the crotch?
—Is Master Huashuo doing this on purpose?
—Right now, I feel a chilly breeze blowing between my legs…
—I actually feel a bit of pain.
—So ruthless…
—Can… can that thing still be used?
—User above???
—I feel like this trauma will last a lifetime…
—Isn’t this woman Huashuo a bit too vicious? No matter what, Yisheng Xunmeng is just a student…
—A student? What about being a student? Did students skip twelve years of compulsory education?
—The user above is hilarious; being a student means you can go back on your word?
—Huashuo saw through his intent to cause trouble long ago. She gave him a chance without killing him on the spot, but he didn’t cherish it. Who else can he blame for seeking his own death?
—Am I the only one who finds Rumeng Zhimeng truly disgusting?
—If she hadn’t intentionally manipulated things, would this so-called “student” have gone out of his way to trouble Huashuo?
—Speaking of which, hasn’t Rumeng Zhimeng been playing dead for a long time now?
—Tsk, I think it’s great that Huashuo is teaching Yisheng Xunmeng how to behave.
—He’s just playing a eunuch in the game right now; behaving like this in reality might make him a real one.
—Exactly, so what if he’s young?
—Who isn’t a precious baby!
—What to do when a child’s idiocy won’t cure? Beat them black and blue!
—Ah… speaking of which…
—The flatbread Huashuo fried, shouldn’t it be ready to eat by now?
—…
—Presumably?
—I can already smell the aroma…
Yisheng Xunmeng did not respawn at the resurrection point Su Shu was blocking.
He had returned to the city.
The remaining players held their crotches, watching the snakes on the ground twisting themselves into intricate pretzels…
Regret welled up in their hearts.
Some secretly glanced up at their companions nearby, realizing that no one’s eyes carried the previous resolve to face death without hesitation.
The only one who hadn’t moved was Change, who still stood in the exact same spot.
Su Shu cast a glance at her stream window, sniffed, and walked back to her pot—
Under everyone’s watchful eyes, she flipped the flatbread over.
—She had made up her mind to dig in and play the long game here.
Either the people inside killed her, or the people inside caved.
To put it plainly, her coming here to pin them down today was to send a message to everyone: anyone who chose to cross her was bound to meet a miserable end.
From the start, Su Shu knew she couldn’t match these people in either level or equipment, so she had picked a very clever position.
It was inside the safe zone while perfectly blocking their exit.
Meanwhile, the people pinned down by Su Shu watched her sitting on the threshold of the resurrection point, alternating bites between wild fruit and flatbread, accompanied by a group of accomplices that tied themselves into intricate knots…
Truly…
It made them so furious!
Yet they were completely helpless against her.
Rumeng Zhimeng’s supporters: fuming_like_pufferfish.jpg
Su Shu, however, was thoroughly enjoying herself. She had pocketed seventy to eighty thousand gold coins today, which translated to nearly forty thousand Alliance credits—
Almost enough to cover her living expenses for an entire semester at Alliance University.
Taking a bite of her bread, Su Shu calculated in her mind what she should buy to reward herself after logging off—
She had genuinely had enough of strawberry-flavored nutrient fluid!
—Tsk, did Master Huashuo finally remember that her main job in streaming is mukbang?
—??? Mukbang?
—Personally, I think Master Huashuo’s routine is blocking people + casually making food, right?
—Passing bystander asking a question here: what flavor of nutrient fluid doesn’t exist nowadays? Even snail noodle-flavored nutrient fluid is out. Why do you guys still like watching this stuff yourselves?
—User above doesn’t get it, right? Life in this world comes down to eating and drinking. Nutrient fluid…
—If it weren’t to stay alive and avoid washing dishes, who would eat that stuff!
—Ah… it would be even better if the streamer could describe what this flatbread tastes like.
Su Shu happened to catch this comment. Swallowing the bread in her mouth, she recalled the streams she used to watch before transmigrating, and asked casually, “If I tell you what it tastes like, will you tip me?”
The bullet chat paused for a moment.
It seemed the audience watching her was using silence to express—
Want us to tip? Keep dreaming!
Su Shu didn’t mind, continuing to chew away happily.
Then—
—Tourist ASDF gifted Streamer Huashuo 66 Hearts!
—Tourist zxcv gifted Streamer Huashuo 88 Bananas!
—Tourist 1234 gifted Streamer Huashuo 5 Kiwis!
…
Gifts flooded across the entire screen.
Looking at the stream overflowing with gift notifications, Su Shu: “…”
Is human nature truly governed by “hypocritical enjoyment in the end”?
So, swallowing the food in her mouth, Su Shu weighed her words carefully before finally saying, “Delicious.”
The noble and reserved stream audience: ????
We suspect you’re mocking us.
And we have proof.
Taking another bite, Su Shu added, “A bit dry, though.”
Stream audience: “…”
If we tip you again next time, we’re dogs!
Su Shu let out a light laugh, cast a sideways glance at the utterly miserable players inside the resurrection point, and said to the audience in the stream room: “That’s all for today’s stream. Next time, I’ll make spicy chicken for you guys.”
Stream audience: Heh, woman, now you know who the patron dad is?
“And then I’ll draw a few lucky viewers to eat together with me.”
Stream audience: “…”
—Master Huashuo, I’m a dog!! The Husky kind!! I eat a ton!
—Master Huashuo, I’ll tip you!! Do you still want kiwis, bananas, or pineapples!?
—Master Huashuo, you’re my dad!!! You must pick me!!
Glancing at the bullet chat in the small window, Su Shu offered a light smile to the viewers watching her stream before switching off the broadcast.
The onlookers in the stream room were momentarily stunned by her smile.
Long after Su Shu had left the stream room—
—Am I the only one who felt completely captivated by Master Huashuo’s smile just now?
—She clearly isn’t conventionally pretty…
—Yet she’s genuinely so charming!!!
Su Shu withdrew her smile and turned her gaze toward the outside of the resurrection point.
Outside lay the same ruined, shattered debris she had blown apart earlier.
Su Shu’s eyes settled behind a massive boulder: “Since Goddess Rumeng has arrived, why hide behind there?”
“I’ve already turned off the stream.”
The moment those words were spoken, the person behind the rock finally stepped out.
Light finally returned to the eyes of the utterly miserable players inside the resurrection point—
Filled with anticipation, they looked toward the newly arrived figure clad in pink—Rumeng Zhimeng.
Rumeng Zhimeng’s gaze passed over Su Shu, landing inside the resurrection point.
Visible sorrow filled her eyes.
Wearing a face full of apology, Rumeng Zhimeng said to the players inside the resurrection point, “I’m sorry, I came late.”
The impressionable hotheads inside the resurrection point whose resolve had begun to waver were brought almost to tears by her single sentence.
They spoke all at once: “Rumeng! We’re fine!”
“Rumeng, why did you come?!”
“We’ll just out-wait this old hag! Let’s see who can outlast whom!”
“Hurry back! A little fairy like you shouldn’t be hanging around an old hag with blood-soaked hands like her!”
Hands-soaked-in-blood · Old Hag · Su Shu leaned against the door, looking at the players inside as if observing a pack of idiots.
—Brainless kids not only loved indulging in self-touching delusions, but were also blind to the poorly hidden disgust lurking beneath their goddess’s skin.
However, as someone viewed by them as purely evil, anything she said now would fall on deaf ears, nor did she wish to continue tormenting herself here—
In truth, she wasn’t particularly keen on dealing with a sore loser like Rumeng Zhimeng.
Tapping the doorframe with her umbrella, she cut short the self-touching moment between the people inside and outside: “Goddess Rumeng, spill it: what on earth did you come here for?”
Rumeng Zhimeng took a deep breath: “Huashuo, I came to apologize to you on their behalf.”
A question mark slowly materialized above Su Shu’s head.
Rumeng Zhimeng said, “Their behavior in cornering you caused you distress, and I am deeply sorry for that.”
“However, I am the ultimate culprit behind all of this, so I…”
“So how do you plan to compensate me?” Su Shu cut her off, speaking straight to the point.
Rumeng Zhimeng choked on her words.
The players inside the door glared at her with fury as well—
To interrupt a beauty shedding tears, was this person’s heart made of iron?
Su Shu acted as if she hadn’t noticed, proceeding to prove to them that her heart wasn’t just made of iron, but of stainless steel: “Don’t go feeling like you’re taking a loss. Ever since last time at the city gate, your followers have been looking for trouble with me.”
“Although they haven’t dealt me any real substantial damage, still…”
“Flies get very annoying when there are too many.”
The flies inside the door: “…”
Fuck!
“Furthermore,” Su Shu said with a look of disgust, “don’t act as if you’re the aggrieved party. Goddess Rumeng, please face reality first.”
“If you hadn’t been a sore loser who put out a bounty, they wouldn’t have come here to suffer this ordeal.”
Rumeng Zhimeng: “…”
Su Shu: “There are no outsiders here anyway. Speak up: what exactly do you want to accomplish by coming here?”
Rumeng Zhimeng glanced at the people still inside the resurrection point.
Su Shu understood: Rumeng Zhimeng wanted to clear the area.
With a flick of her long umbrella, she gathered all the snakes hanging from the door into her burlap sack and smoothly stuffed it back into her bag.
Watching her actions, Rumeng Zhimeng’s eyelids twitched uncontrollably.
—She couldn’t understand how a woman who looked as plain as Huashuo, spoke vulgar words, and acted so ruthlessly could still have people taking her side.
Rumeng Zhimeng had been online the whole time today, knowing from the start that Huashuo had used black gunpowder—
What an utterly tragic and inhuman thing to do!
And she actually planned to boil human flesh in water!?
Why could such a brutal and unrefined woman still receive positive acclaim from the majority on the forums?
—Even her own fans’ damage control efforts couldn’t suppress it!
Huashuo had even intentionally harmed Fang Zhi’s face!
How could such an ugly woman stand here with such calm composure?!
Rumeng Zhimeng truly felt that standing in the same scenic area as Huashuo made it…
IMPOSSIBLE! TO! BREATHE!
—Of course, if Su Shu knew what was going on in Rumeng Zhimeng’s head, and if the game allowed it, Su Shu wouldn’t mind being a bit more vulgar by twisting her head off directly to pour out the water inside her brain.
However, Su Shu didn’t know, and Rumeng Zhimeng had to endure it as well.
Her “little fairy” persona could not shatter.
Only after those people were dismissed by her did she stand before Su Shu once more: “I will compensate you.”
She handed over an umbrella—
The body of the umbrella was enveloped in a faint layer of purple light. Without even taking it to inspect its stats, Su Shu knew from the glowing aura alone that this item was bound to be immensely valuable.
Su Shu didn’t take it.
Rumeng Zhimeng said, “I’m giving you this umbrella. I hope everything between us from now on is erased in one stroke.”
Su Shu raised an eyebrow: “Give me an umbrella, and we write everything off?”
“This umbrella is top-tier,” Rumeng Zhimeng said. “It is more than enough to offset the matter of snatching the staff and the bounty.”
Su Shu stared at the umbrella for a long time, then let out a light laugh and accepted it.
“The bounty, the staff…” She looked up, fixing her eyes on Rumeng Zhimeng: “In that case, everything is easy to discuss.”
Rumeng Zhimeng let out a sigh of relief.
Only after Rumeng Zhimeng left did Su Shu open her mailbox.
Letters from Wuji arrived one after another.
Each bore only a few words—
Do not accept Rumeng Zhimeng’s items.
Su Shu glanced at them twice, crumpled them into a ball, and threw them away directly—
She had no intention of accepting Wuji’s favor.
There is an old Chinese saying: to catch adulterers, catch them together; to catch a thief, catch them with the loot.
To strike a snake, one must hit its vital spot seven inches down.
Rumeng Zhimeng had been in this server for so long; if she really wanted to deal with her…
She had to hit her mark in a single strike.
Preferably making it so she could never use that pretentious facade to go around swindling people ever again.
Su Shu twirled the umbrella in her hand…
And let out a sinister, dark laugh.
—Hopefully, Rumeng Zhimeng’s skill level wouldn’t be too low and disappoint her.