Survival Game? But She's Already Slaughtered the Entire Server - chapter 35

Chapter 35

Ruan Tian entered the room, walked straight to the sofa, and flopped down onto it, her limbs sprawled out carelessly like a doll whose battery had run out.

She lifted her fingertip and pointed vaguely in a certain direction, saying to Li Huainan, “The kitchen’s over there. Help yourself.”

Li Huainan raised his eyebrows. “Alright.”

He understood the need to get familiar with the work environment in advance.

Li Huainan took a tour around the kitchen. The basics – oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar – were all there. The rice jar in the corner was half open, with some rice left inside. Next to it, a bamboo basket held a few wilted vegetables, their leaves wrinkled, clearly having sat there for some time.

He poked half his body out from the kitchen doorway and called to Ruan Tian on the sofa, “Hey, are you hungry? What do you want to eat? I’ll cook.”

It was already afternoon. Because of Li Huainan, Ruan Tian had exited the instance early, hadn’t even had breakfast, and had rushed out to rescue someone.

Hearing this, Ruan Tian perked up.

She turned to look at him. “Make your specialty.”

Li Huainan asked, “Can you eat spicy food?”

“I can give it a try.”

“Alright.”

With that, Li Huainan started busying himself in the kitchen.

Earlier, he’d caught a wild chicken outdoors, which was perfect for making spicy chicken now.

While Li Huainan was busy in the kitchen, Ruan Tian, with nothing to do, suddenly got interested and started scrolling through the Chat Hall.

It was as lively as ever.

[Big news! Zhang Wang’s younger brother, Zhang Yang, and his gang were all killed in the wild today. It was brutal. I heard the scene was bloody, corpses everywhere. No idea who was crazy enough to go that far.]

[Serves him right, I say. Always bullying people just because his brother is Rank Two on the Power Ranking. This time he messed with the wrong person.]

[Bro, you’re brave, saying this in the Chat Hall. What if Zhang Wang’s people see it and think you did it?]

[No worries, I’ve turned off my personal info. Even if he sees it, he can’t find me.]

[What a coincidence, me too.]

[……]

A bunch of people were recklessly discussing Zhang Yang’s death in the Chat Hall, with occasional team-up messages mixed in.

At that moment, a system message floated to the very top of the Chat Hall.

[System Announcement] Player Zhang Wang has spent 100 gold coins to post a Bounty Task: Task 1: Find information on the killer of his brother Zhang Yang and their companions. Anyone providing valid clues will receive a reward of 50 gold coins.

Task 2: Successfully kill the culprit or assist the poster in capturing the culprit, and the bounty doubles to 200 gold coins! Task time limit: 72 hours. All players can accept. Join now!

As soon as this announcement appeared, the Chat Hall went silent for a moment, then the players exploded into chatter.

[Whoa, whoa, whoa, did I read that right?]

[Someone actually used the game system to post a bounty. 100 gold coins! I’d have to go without food or drink for 50 days to earn that, and he just gave it to the system.]

[You upstairs, are you dumb? Don’t look at the cost, look at the reward!]

[Even if you can’t catch the person, just providing useful clues gets you 50 gold coins.]

[No wonder he’s Rank Two on the Power Ranking. He’s loaded.]

[Top Player, look at me! I’m your long-lost brother!]

[Suddenly regretting not going out to the wild today.]

[Is that the point? If someone gets all the rewards, that’s 250 gold coins, right?]

[Even though that number doesn’t sound great, it’s real gold coins. I’ll take the 250 gold coins.]

[Me too.]

[Count me in.]

[……]

The Chat Hall instantly descended into chaos, with people saying all sorts of things.

Ruan Tian stared at the bounty announcement for a while, then asked, “001, he’s probably looking for me, right?”
The time, place, and people all matched up.

It couldn’t be wrong.

[Host, it’s you.]

Ruan Tian suddenly laughed, “Can I catch myself, and then ask him for gold coins?”

[001: ???]

Did it just hear that?

Is that right?

The more Ruan Tian thought about it, the clearer her mind became: “I can provide the information about killing his brother on the system, get 50 gold coins first. Then tell that guy the culprit has been caught, and let him come here to pick it up, so the 200 gold coins will be credited too.”

As for whether he can actually kill her, that depends on his own ability.

[001: …]

Listening to this… it actually seems possible.

Ruan Tian didn’t need 001’s consent or approval, she just wanted to share her genius idea.

She was already starting to operate.

She opened the Holographic Screen, pulled up the Bounty Task, and looked at the bounty Zhang Wang had posted. In just a few minutes, Task 1 had already been accepted by thousands of people, and the number was still growing.

The first task wasn’t dangerous; you just needed to enter what you knew into the system and submit it.

If the system judged it as a valid clue, you’d get a reward of 50 gold coins.

Even if you were wrong, there was no real loss.

That’s why so many people took the task.

Just make something up-if you happened to guess right, that’s a free 50 gold coins.

As for Task 2?

Compared to the popularity of Task 1, Task 2 was completely ignored.

Why didn’t anyone take it? The players weren’t stupid.

Zhang Yang and his group died so miserably, it was obvious the person who did it wasn’t someone to mess with.

For 200 gold coins, to go kill someone like that-are you tired of living?

Ruan Tian operated on the Holographic Screen, simply edited her own process of killing, and uploaded it.

She thought the 50 gold coins were in the bag, but the system prompted: Invalid evidence. You have one more chance. If you fail, you will lose eligibility to participate in this bounty.

This time, Ruan Tian was stunned.

Wait, she was the one involved!

She killed the person herself-who could know the situation better than her?

If this wasn’t a valid clue, then what was?

“001, what’s going on?” Ruan Tian frowned at the Holographic Screen, completely puzzled. “Is there something wrong with your system? Such direct evidence, and it’s invalid?”

001 tentatively replied: [Host, maybe try adding your name?]

Ruan Tian: “…”

She’d gotten too excited and only wrote the process, not her name.

Careless.

Ruan Tian added her name and resubmitted.

A prompt popped up on the Holographic Screen: [Task submitted successfully], accompanied by the sound effect of 50 gold coins being credited.

At the same time, the task list on the Bounty Task was updated.

The bounty Task 1 posted by Zhang Wang now showed as completed.

The players who were just about to make up a story and try their luck were instantly dumbfounded.

[Whoa, who was that? So fast!]

[I just accepted it and it’s gone.]

[…]

Ruan Tian directly ignored the complaints.

Looking at the 50 gold coins just credited, she felt great.

The next second, a prompt popped up on the Holographic Screen: System deducts 50 gold coins from player, current player owes System Mall -1388 gold coins.

Ruan Tian: “…”

No more smiles in a second.

001 sensed Ruan Tian’s mood drop and quickly comforted her: [Host, you’re earning gold coins really fast. It’s only been a few days and you’ve already paid off a third of the 2000 gold coins. You’re the most amazing Host I’ve ever seen.]

Ruan Tian said quietly, “You’ve had other people before?”

[001: …]

A loaded question.