CHAPTER 50: CHAPTER 50: GENTLY KILL~ME

Mu Qiu, who didn’t yield to violence, finally surrendered to Cheng Zhirang’s gentle approach, obediently got up, took a sticker, and hand it to Cheng Zhirang.

The live chat was flooded with comments mirroring her internal struggle.

[Whoa, she gave in with just one sentence?!]

[If it were me, not just one or two, I’d hand them all over! My life belongs to Brother Cheng! Brother, take me!]

[With such a gentle tone asking for someone’s life... Brother Cheng, you should meet a guy for a more intense competition]

[Ah, so gentle! This is way too gentle! Brother Cheng, be a bit more fierce!]

[Mu Qiu must’ve been torn. Give it? It’s her life on the line. Don’t give it? With such a gentle tone, how could she refuse?! So she had to give it]

[Ah, I’m dead! What a gentle man this is!]

[So agreed and seemingly negotiated, anyone would think he’s making a trade]

[Brother Cheng looks so handsome in a suit, imagining that]

In the broad palm lies a tiny sticker, the contrast is quite stark.

Cheng Zhirang closes his hand, ready to put the sticker into his suit pocket. Mu Qiu, sitting on the cushion, sincerely asked Cheng Zhirang, "Brother Cheng, how about you scratch it now? Let me lose my life with some clarity."

Cheng Zhirang glanced at her and agreed to her request.

Trimmed nails scraped off the protective layer, revealing the clear number inside.

"Three years."

Mu Qiu fell dramatically to the ground.

"After running around for so long, I’ve just lost three years of my life upon arrival."

The key thing is, the main character in this movie didn’t have a particularly long lifespan anyway.

Cheng Zhirang’s tone remained gentle. He patted the ground beside her as she lay there and said, "I came all this way, there’s no one around."

Meaning, if she just leaves from here without running wild, she won’t encounter anyone else who can take her lifespan again.

Three years for a piece of information... doesn’t seem like a fair trade!

But life is about movement, Mu Qiu still resiliently got up.

She flicked the ends of her hair over her chest, her high ponytail swaying, revealing her fair neck.

"Before I go, can I ask a question?"

Cheng Zhirang nodded in agreement.

Mu Qiu: "Brother Cheng, which movie are you from?"

Cheng Zhirang also stood up, looking particularly elegant in his noble suit, his clear and pleasant voice answered her question: "Have you seen ’The Purge’?"

Mu Qiu’s eyes widened.

So, he’s a professional life collector.

... Director, the movie themes are different, how can the combat effectiveness be compared?!

Perhaps her expression changed too drastically, Cheng Zhirang’s gaze fell on her face again.

"Which movie are you from?"

"’Divergent’." she answered feebly.

"Not bad, a bit better than mine."

"How is it better?"

Cheng Zhirang thought for a moment, then seriously said: "You live longer than I do."

Mu Qiu recalled the plot of ’The Purge’ which resembled this program’s format, allowing all hunting games on the night of the free day. Given that, he could be facing being played at any moment, which seemed like she might indeed live longer than him.

However—

"We’re all main characters, as long as we don’t die right away, it’s all about the same."

At least that’s her belief, and she found it very reasonable.

Mu Qiu finally sighed at the sticker in Cheng Zhirang’s hand, "Brother Cheng, take good care of my three years."

Cheng Zhirang paused, furrowing his brows slightly, and nodded solemnly.

Receiving the promise, Mu Qiu "satisfactorily" left the fake high-rise atrium, starting to search for her storyline companions.

Watching her jump down without asking anyone to wait, now she couldn’t even see a silhouette.

Behind her, watching her leave, Cheng Zhirang turned and tore the sticker from his hand, sticking it to the inside of his messy tie fabric.

This position is generally not noticeable by others.

After sticking it, he looked up; there was no movement from the place Mu Qiu fell. If it was really Li Yang up there, he’s probably already left.

He had no intention of going after everyone he met; after hiding the sticker, he left as well.

Mu Qiu didn’t know Cheng Zhirang immediately went back on his promise to her, as she strolled leisurely on a main road, holding an ice cream gifted by the snack stall owner by the roadside, eating and observing her surroundings.

All were proportionately made buildings with various styles and charming designs.

She was picking buildings easy to hide in.

After the previous encounters, she really wanted to find a place to hide until the end; everyone’s fate was similar, hiding till the end meant everything would be fine, even if she didn’t win, at least she wouldn’t be caught and robbed; it was too miserable to be robbed.

She walked on for a while, and when she reached a small house resembling a library, a "pu si pu si" sound came from the side.

Mu Qiu pulled her legs together, lowered one hand ready to press on the bag and run.

She looked around for two seconds and saw a hand reaching out of the bookstore, waving like a beckoning cat.

It looked like a girl’s hand, so it probably wasn’t a plot to lure and rob her of her sticker.

Eating the last bit of chocolate waffle cone, Mu Qiu clapped her hands and cautiously approached the door.

"Who?"

A clean face reflected in the window.

"It’s me!"

"..."

Mu Qiu and Guan Yu hid together in the bookstore, crouching behind a wooden bookshelf, exchanging information with each other.

Mu Qiu: "Sister Guan Yu, why are you hiding here?"

Guan Yu: "I should be asking you that, the hunting time isn’t over yet and you dare to wander outside, do you not know what ’life hunting’ means?"

Mu Qiu: "...I’m sorry, it’s precisely because I understand it too well, I’ve already seen through life and death."

Clearly, someone with a story.

Guan Yu leaned closer, "So, in the first twenty minutes, you’ve already experienced inhumane treatment?"

Mu Qiu nodded painfully.

"Li Yang tried to wait for rabbits, but I avoided him; then Brother Cheng took a sticker from me... you’re not crazy enough to try luring and collecting a sticker from me, right?"

Guan Yu hesitated for a moment before waving her hand, "No, no. I was planning to, but who would’ve thought you’d already been robbed of one."

"...Thanks for that."

"No need," Guan Yu was curious, "tell me, how did Brother Cheng use inhumane methods to torture you and take your sticker? I feel Brother Cheng wouldn’t do such a thing."

Mu Qiu glanced past her at the camera, "You really want to know?"

Guan Yu nodded.

"He terribly brutalized me to hand it to him, I just wouldn’t agree, and then he acted; there was no way my body could fight against him, I had to painfully hand over ten years of my life."

"Ten years?! You have such a long life?"

"..." Mu Qiu didn’t expect her focus to be there, silent for a moment, and said, "Don’t tell me you don’t even have ten years left?"

Could it be she exaggerated too much?

Guan Yu looked sad: "Do you know which movie I’m from?"

"Which one?"

"’The Day After Tomorrow’."

Mu Qiu cast an admiring glance, can’t believe there’s even a female lead in this movie.