Deceitful Game

Chapter 218 We cannot ignore cries for help.

Chapter 218 We cannot ignore cries for help.

Shi Yue gasped for breath. Painful moans escaped his throat, but his wide eyes were filled with hope.

Finally, finally————

She finally made it!

They reached the finish line before the spider caught up!

But just then...

Her expression suddenly froze.

That hope faded in an instant, turning into horrified despair.

That's all.

Gone!

Shi Yue kept clutching her spider keepsake in her left hand. Her father's keepsake, on the other hand, was in her pocket.

Because of her injured right arm, she had no strength to grip anything. When she opened the door earlier, she already felt excruciating pain just from lifting the spider keepsake.

But----

When she reached into her pockets again, she found them completely empty.

No matter how many times I checked, I couldn't feel anything.

Although she rationally knew what had happened, she still stubbornly and mechanically searched every pocket of her body, defiantly searching as if she were a robot. But she still couldn't find the spider keepsake.

She clearly hadn't heard anything hit the ground the entire way!

"How could it be gone!"

Her voice was sharp and shrill.

She felt feverish all over, her mind blank. It was as if she had lost something incredibly important, but had no idea where she had lost it.

Perhaps it was from nervousness, or perhaps from increased blood flow, but she felt an intense itch all over her body. The itch was so intense that she scratched her arms until they bled profusely, yet the itch was unbearable. Or perhaps, she had to scratch her skin raw with her sharp nails; only the pain brought her any slight relief.

No—wait, if that's the case—

After she accepted that she had indeed lost the keepsake, she tried to recall it carefully, but it seemed that several fragments appeared vaguely in her memory. The "clanging sound of something falling to the ground," which she had never noticed before, suddenly appeared in her memory.

But now that things have come to this, reminiscing is useless.

Even if she knew where it was lost, she simply didn't have the ability to retrieve it!

The spider was right behind her.

It has already turned the corner.

The crackling sound, like glass beads colliding, grew closer and closer!

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Help me, help me!

She practically lunged at the glass door.

It was like a bird swooping down and crashing into a window.

With her blood-stained left hand, she kept tapping the spider keepsake on the glass door.

Each time the token touches the glass door, it emits a "beep" sound. The monitor above the glass door also changes from blue to yellow.

Like constantly ringing a doorbell, she hoped that someone in the opposite passage would hear her and come to her rescue.

—Although Shi Yue herself didn't believe that such a person existed.

But with the spider drawing ever closer, this was the only struggle and resistance she could muster.

But from her perspective, she didn't see it—

There were indeed two people separated from her by only one wall.

Mingpo was about to go over when Shen Yiqi reached out and silently stopped her.

Mingpo frowned slightly and turned her head away.

Shen Yiqi simply shook his head slowly but firmly at him.

Give me your token.

Mingpo didn't explain, but calmly extended her hand to Shen Yiqi.

Seemingly hearing the sound coming from the door, Shi Yue, who was knocking, fell silent for a moment.

Immediately following was a scream that was almost a sob, accompanied by even more urgent knocking on the door.

"Don't open the door."

Shen Yiqi simply said slowly, "Let's not even talk about whether the spider will follow us in during these three minutes."

"Just considering the timing, we can't open the door. If we do, we're not far from losing."

Mingpo knew what he meant.

The door has a 30-minute cooldown, and the spider's hunting interval is also 30 minutes.

The safest strategy is to enter the door the spider used after it has finished hunting. Then you can simply follow the spider and "scavenge the carcass" without any danger.

Since the spider spirit will not choose the same door twice in a row, it means that the door where the hunt just ended is the absolute safe zone.

This is similar to how, in a battle royale game, those who are in the "safe zone" and can wait for the enemy to finish has an overwhelming advantage over those who are forced to run around with the poison circle and are affected by the poison circle and other players.

All they had to do was wait for the spiders to finish their hunt, then open the door in front of them. Their "fate circle" would already be painted on their faces.

"But if this door is opened, the cooldown time and hunting time will be synchronized."

Shen Yiqi said, "When we go in after the cooldown ends, the spider will have already entered the next door. If the spider turns back, we will be at a disadvantage, forced to move forward by the spider; if the spider doesn't turn back, we will always be thirty minutes behind."

"What was once a winning position was suddenly leveled, or even turned into a disadvantage. And all of this is because you wanted to open this damn door!"

When Shen Yiqi said the last few words, his voice suddenly became much louder, and each word was louder than the last. When he said "door," it was almost a roar.

Mingpo simply repeated, "Give me the token, a second time."

Shen Yiqi also calmed down.

He questioned, "You're not from the realm of virtue, are you? Just because of that little girlfriend—you've softened your heart? You're a liar, bro! What kind of woman can't you have?"

Shen Yiqi's eyes were full of incomprehension.

Looking at his expression, at his eyes filled with surprise, anger, and incomprehension, Mingpo's heart suddenly calmed down.

Because he realized that although they looked very similar, Shen Yiqi was ultimately not Ai Shiping.

If he were here—he would definitely open the door.

She's not my girlfriend.

Mingpo said calmly, "I'm really not familiar with her; we just knew each other before."

"Then you one."

Shen Yiqi was about to say something.

"Because someone I know asked me for help," Mingpo said softly.

Perhaps it's because people speak kindly when they're about to die, or perhaps it's because Mingpo knew her life was worthless—

Or perhaps, as he grew weaker, his rage and malice also weakened.

At that moment, the voice of Ai Shiping inexplicably popped into Mingpo's mind.

Because I cannot ignore someone's pleas for help.

He had clearly never heard of that phrase before.

Yet it also felt as if someone had saved me in this way sometime in the past.

Mingpo extended her hand again, her attitude becoming increasingly resolute: "Don't force me to say it a third time."

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I don't want to use my abilities on my companions.

Shen Yiqi remained silent for a while.

"If I were the one asking for help," Shen Yiqi stared into Mingpo's eyes and asked seriously, "would you open the door?"

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"certainly."

Mingpo grinned as usual, but the familiar madness was nowhere to be seen on his face.

It was simply a kind of almost transparent, yet somewhat weary and vulnerable, acceptance and tranquility.

""

Shen Yiqi's lips twitched slightly.

He tried to see deception in Mingpo's eyes, but all he saw was sincerity.

He seemed to want to mock Mingpo, but in the end he said nothing.

"—You're a real oddball. You're nothing like Brother Jingxing."

Shen Yiqi sighed, and instead of throwing his own token to Mingpo, he reached out and took Mingpo's token.

Mingpo didn't stop him; he simply stood there. He didn't stare at Shen Yiqi because he trusted that Shen Yiqi wouldn't steal his token.

At this moment, Mingpo can see through other people's hearts.

That person had already given in. Given in the will of Mingpo.

Shen Yiqi walked over with both tokens in hand and shouted sternly at the door, "Let go! If you open the transaction door, you won't be coming in alive!"

He pressed both tokens at the same time, opening the glass door.

Shi Yue, covered in blood, rushed in looking disheveled.

She rushed through the door, as if all her strength had left her. She collapsed to her knees.

Because there's no need to run anymore.

If the spiders manage to get here before the door closes, then they'll have nowhere else to go.

"Thank you! Thank you all—"

—

She spoke almost in tears, her vision blurred and she could barely see anything. But she could tell that the people inside the door had been arguing—arguing about whether or not to save her. She also knew how many unnecessary risks these two had taken, and how much of their advantage they had lost, in choosing to save her—

But----

But she had to live! It didn't matter if she died, but her friend was going to die!

Her father is dead because of her foolish impulse!

If he can't rescue Snow White, he will have died in vain!

But just as she was about to say something, her stomach churned.

Whether from nervousness or exhaustion, she felt like vomiting.

Or rather, she had already vomited.

Shen Yiqi crossed his arms in disgust, standing far away from her, yet subtly blocking Mingpo's way.

Mingpo, who was about to greet her, suddenly froze.

Because right after Shi Yao entered, the white light emanating from his body illuminated Ming Po.

But when Mingbo was bathed in the white light she emanated.

The strange whispers in Mingpo's ear, along with the severe headache that made him lethargic and unable to concentrate—

They all vanished instantly!

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