Earth's Best Gamer - Chapter 296
Chapter 296: Desperate Musical House Players
Pa!
Zhong Zhou’s head flew up into the air, his face all twisted.
It then fell on the ground next to the pale-faced Musical House players.
“What? Boss Zhong has lost!”
“Boss Zhong is a first batch beta tester. He has mastered his music skills and was using a pipa, the weapon he’s good at. How could a woman defeat him…”
A few Musical House players were Zhong Zhou’s fans, and they couldn’t believe what had happened.
“No! That was cheating!
“The deal was that they would have a pipa competition, but she has ambushed him with a flying sword! That was against the rule!”
A topless strong man wielding a pair of One-legged Bull Bones yelled as he tried to knock the drumsticks, which had recovered a little bit of their Extraordinary power, against each other.
“That’s right. It shouldn’t count.”
A few other pale-faced players chimed in, also looking flustered.
Because Zhong Zhou’s defeat had not only affected himself, but it would also affect the fate of them as well.
Pa!
Before the topless man’s drumsticks could make contact with each other, a streak of lightning hit his arm. The current then ran through his body, rendering him unconscious.
Gongsun Sheng, who had kept his eyes shut to rest his mind, suddenly opened his eyes, which were frighteningly bright now.
“Roar!”
The Bloody Tiger Battle Tally hanging at Wu Song’s waist roared ferociously, upon which the few protesting players collapsed and almost dropped their musical instruments.
“Humph!”
Yang Zhi snorted, his eyes flickering coldly behind his Black Mountain Armor. His fighting will then surged, overwhelming everyone.
Pa! Pa! Pa!
However, what really frightened the Musical House players was Ji Ye.
When he flicked his fingers, the white light of Dragon Aura covered the stone he picked up off the ground. It then broke into over a dozen pieces before hitting all the Musical House players.
Immediately, the players were paralyzed. Their limbs went numb, and they couldn’t even utter a sound.
“Was that acupoint pointing?”
Some of the new players looked pleasantly surprised.
The Twin Dragon Mount was a settlement that focused on martial prowess, and acupoint pointing didn’t really work on alien races, but when facing the Musical House players, who were also of the Human race, the skill was enough to fill them with despair.
“Now, just like what I said before…
“It’s up to you what we should do with them!” said Ji Ye.
There was an indescribable look in his eyes when he talked to Pei Xingnu.
He meant it. He was going to fulfill his promise and follow Pei Xingnu’s instructions.
It wasn’t because of her potential as a “pipa girl”. Rather, it was because of her status as a native here.
Apart from the new players, there were also a lot of natives among the onlookers around the arena.
Heroes like Wu Song, Gongsun Sheng, and Ninth Uncle were also here.
The reason behind the “Musical House settlement incident” was already widely spread among the natives.
The chosen one had betrayed the natives by not only stealing the settlement resources but also using the natives as pawns to stop the alien races. One could only begin to imagine the ill effect such conduct had caused.
If the incident wasn’t handled properly, it could easily drive the players and the natives apart, which could be a hidden danger.
To some extent, the natives were more significant to the Twin Dragon Mount than the players.
The advantage of the players was their knowledge and technology from Earth, but such an advantage would diminish with time.
Once they reached the Transcendent or Legendary levels, modern technology from Earth wouldn’t be of much use, and the settlement had to depend more on the natives.
This was why Ji Ye had decided to let a native girl, who was one of the “victims”, make the decision as a way to show the attitude of the management level of the Twin Dragon Island.
“He’s actually letting a little girl make the decision…”
Hearing Ji Ye’s words, although the Musical House players had had their acupoints pointed, they still stirred.
Actually, before the duel, Ji Ye had mentioned that Pei Xingnu would be the one to determine their fate.
But over half of the Musical House players didn’t really believe him.
They believed that Ji Ye had only said that to give them pressure, so as to subdue them in the end.
After all, they were all Extraordinary players who had mastered the special musical skills. They would be very valuable to any settlement.
But Ji Ye was asking Pei Xingnu’s opinion in front of everyone, which meant that he really didn’t care about their value.
It greatly frustrated some of the players who thought very highly of themselves.
However, they had no idea that, apart from Ji Ye, at least 80% of the Twin Dragon Island management personnel didn’t think much of the dozen or so Extraordinary players.
Because the Twin Dragon Island had over 400 Extraordinary members already. Heroes like Wu Song, Lu Zhishen, and Gongsun Sheng, who had been summoned at an earlier stage, even reached Extraordinary Rank-8 a few days ago.
There were also people like Zhao Yun and Li Yuanba, whose Transcendent power had been sealed, but they were both at the peak of Extraordinary Rank-7, which meant that they could completely suppress the Extraordinary Rank-8 players.
Only a third of these people showed up at the arena. The rest had all gone to the Snake Monkey Island ahead, where defense works were being built.
Because the Twin Dragon Island was getting closer and closer to the Magma Island of the Magma Monsters.
The two islands would collide in no more than 24 hours.
Although Ji Ye had taken out the Musical House settlement and the provident core, the Magma Monsters still obtained a lot of Stones of Civilization and Souls of Civilization. Once they digested them, their capabilities were bound to improve. They might be able to make a breakthrough to Extraordinary Rank-8. Together with their environment that could retrain humans and their exceedingly long-range cannonballs, they could become very troublesome enemies!
Therefore, the management level wanted to wrap it up as soon as possible so that they could prepare for the battle against the Magma Monsters.
“I…”
Pei Xingnu’s eyes widened when she heard Ji Ye.
“I really want them to pay with their lives! We’d better let the Magma Monsters kill them so that they can feel the excruciating pain of having the hot magma pouring over their heads and to die from suffocation and the scorching heat!”
She then turned to the Musical House players with hatred in their eyes.
“Isn’t it a bit over the top, getting killed by magma? They’ll be traumatized…”
Hearing Pei Xingnu’s words, some of the new players couldn’t bring themselves to think about that picture.
Getting killed in the Land of Inheritance didn’t mean that they would die on Earth.
Therefore, they had no problem with executing the players.
But getting burned to death by magma was too cruel…
To some players, that punishment had gone a little too far.
“What’s wrong with that? Didn’t you hear the girl say that the betrayed natives were burned to death by magma?”
There were players who found the verdict reasonable.
“But they were natives, and these people are players.”
“That’s right. The natives’ memories will be wiped out after they’re dead, so there won’t be any lasting effect…”
The conversation was followed by another moment of silence.
But it was immediately broken by what Pei Xingnu said next.
“But Uncle Yang told me that my settlement had been destroyed, and killing them wouldn’t change anything!”
The ashen-faced Musical House players all looked stunned.
“He also said that we humans shouldn’t kill each other in the Land of Inheritance, because it’ll only hurt our own strength. He said he wanted to rebuild the Musical House… And he told me that two men looked sorry when he was killed, which meant that these people still had a heart…”
Pei Xingnu wiped away her tears with the back of her hand.
Some of the Musical House players seemed pleased.
They had thought that with Pei Xingnu calling the shot, they were definitely going to die. But the dead native’s soul summoned by Ninth Uncle had affected the girl.
Her words suggested that not only did they have a chance to live, but they also saw a possibility of staying at the Twin Dragon Island as well.
However, they didn’t remain happy for much longer.
What Pei Xingnu said next caused them to turn pale again.
“Uncle Yang was a good man, but a good man like that was killed by these people… My suggestion is that they should hand out all the things they took from my settlement. After that, they should fight in the war against the Magma Monsters and fulfill the duty they’re supposed to fulfill!”
Staring at the pale-faced Musical House players, Pei Xingnu gritted her teeth.
“What? She’s chosen not to kill these people?!
“Is she as dumb as her pipa master?”
Mister Bug was confused.
“No, on the contrary, it proves how smart she is.”
Guo Wei shook his head.
“After all, the Chosen One isn’t a native.
“To her, Master Ji is still a Chosen One, who’s from the same world as the Musical House players.
“If she insists on killing the players right here and now, or even throwing them into the magma, she can indeed vent her rage, but what would the players think of her? They’re still on the side of the Chosen One.
“With their Musical House destroyed, how are she and the pipa woman in green going to face us in the future?
“And what will the people on Earth say about our master? He will always be suspected of killing those people for their treasures.”
The natives knew that the Chosen Ones came from another world and didn’t find that too strange.
Because to the people of the Land of Inheritance, a lot of the people who were summoned here came from various worlds, and “Earth” was just one of the more peculiar ones.
“By choosing not to take the revenge but sending these people to fight against the Magma Monsters, she and her people will be considered very magnanimous.
“Plus, after losing their advanced musical instruments, these people will have little chance in surviving the battle against the Magma Monsters.
“Moreover, under such circumstances, the players themselves can’t decide who will survive. It will be Master Ji’s call, which means that the master is the one to make the final decision.
“That’s why I said that she made a clever decision.”
Guo Wei’s eyes flickered when he studied Pei Xingnu, whose eyes were still filled with hatred.
“Damn. How can an eleven-year-old girl cover so many aspects?!”
Mister Bug looked stunned when he realized that the little girl was a lot more clever than he was.
“She may not have come up with the idea herself.
“Maybe that ‘Yang Lu’ summoned by Ninth Uncle has left this piece of advice for her. But it’s not a bad thing if the decision was her own, right?” said Guo Wei.
Under some circumstances, scheming people weren’t that popular.
But here in the Land of Inheritance, if someone didn’t have a mind of their own, other people wouldn’t find them reliable enough to handle problems.
Scheming or ambitious people wouldn’t be a problem, but incapable people would be!
