Chapter 121: Chapter 120: The First Collective Action of the "Tomb Guardian" Faction!
"Wait a second..."
Chen Miao's expression suddenly turned strange, the fixed event number was 128, and the event name was Hell Bus. This bus couldn't really exist, could it? Was the mission to take people who died tragically in the human world and send them for reincarnation?
So far, these uninvited guests hadn't appeared to be aggressive to him.
Basically, most of them died after a single burst of fire.
Lost in his wild thoughts, nearly 7 minutes had passed, but the situation seemed to be getting dicey. Doctor Gou and the others had just reached the destination and were preparing to head back.
Though the return trip was bound to be simpler than the journey there, having experienced it once and some of the traps having been disarmed.
But to return in 3 minutes was still a lot of pressure.
He guessed that some people wouldn't make it onto the bus.
And just then—
A voice reached his ears once more.
"Hello, is this the 119 bus?"
This time, the voice sounded a lot calmer.
Chen Miao, who was leaning against the bus smoking and watching Doctor Gou and the others run desperately in the distance, heard the voice near him and instinctively turned to look. He saw a man in tattered suit carrying a briefcase, his eyes, blurred with blood and flesh, fixed on him.
"Uh..."
After hesitating for a moment, Chen Miao still spoke up, "Yes, but you have to pay the fare first before you can board."
In fact, he had no idea how much the fare was, nor how to collect it; no QR code had been given to him for payment. But the ticket collector's panel instructed to collect fares from these people, and if they didn't pay up, he would die once the train arrived at the terminal station.
Since the panel had said so, he asked, ready to see how the other party would respond. Meanwhile, his Thompson Submachine Gun was already in his hands, ready to open fire at any moment.
Since getting off the bus, he had been holding his Thompson, never stowing it back in his backpack, ready to fire instantly at any moment.
"The fare..."
A glimmer of confusion flitted across the blood-streaked eyes of the middle-aged man before his expression suddenly turned ferocious, and he growled, "That damn woman betrayed me, I was married to her for eleven years, and she gave birth to four children for me!"
"Three of them aren't even mine!!"
"That despicable woman!"
The middle-aged man's roar startled Chen Miao, nearly causing him to flinch and pull the trigger by reflex, given his highly tense state. After wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, he tried to offer some consolation.
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"The remaining one is my dad's!"
"..."
Chen Miao fell silent, expressionless, and after a long time, spoke again, "Look on the bright side, your dad's is still your dad's, at least now that you're dead, you have descendants in your family."
"That's my stepfather!"
"Alright then."
He sighed lightly, rubbing his temples with a slight headache, "So, do you have the fare?"
"I do!"
"Just help me kill that man and that despicable woman, and I'll pay you the fare!"
The moment his words fell!
A panel popped up in front of Chen Miao.
'Ding, congratulations on triggering the hidden mission, slay the faithless who defy social morality.'
'Mission content: Kill the despicable woman and the man in reality before the vehicle reaches the terminal station.'
'Mission reward: Receive the man's fare, D-rated Taboo Item 'Lover's Frenzy', the fare goes to the player.'
'And you will gain the ability to communicate with the outside world.'
Looking at the panel that had popped up, Chen Miao was momentarily stunned, before it dawned on him: so this was the fare. That fare wasn't cheap—a D-rated Taboo Item 'Lover's Frenzy'. Although he didn't know the effects, it was still very tempting.
But this mission was clearly a trap.
Chen Miao, who quickly realized this, looked somewhat uneasy. The bus had a total of 11 stops before reaching the terminal station, and it was already at the second stop. It was a 10-minute stay at each stop, and the journey between each stop took roughly half an hour.
In total, it was only a matter of a few hours.
In just those few hours, finding this pair of traitors in reality was difficult enough, let alone killing them. Besides, he was still inside the event and couldn't leave; only now had he gained the privilege of outside communication, which meant this mission could only be entrusted to someone in the outside world.
The Federation was too vast.
If they were too far distant, the mission would certainly fail!
It was almost certain death!
But there was no opportunity for regret now; the mission had been automatically accepted in the moment it triggered, and it was too late even if he wanted to kill the man to void the mission. The man was now glowing with a golden light, and the malice emanating from him seemed to lessen significantly.
The panel's description stated that, until the completion of the mission, the man was in an invincible state.
As he pondered that invincibility didn't necessarily mean he couldn't throw the man off the bus, he began to probe, "Do you have detailed information and the specific location of that pair?"
To be honest, the mission reward still enticed him.
If they weren't too far, he could still assign others to do it.
Though the air of malice from the briefcase-carrying middle-aged man had lessened substantially, his bloodied visage was still very unsettling. With a tone filled with deep resentment, he uttered each word distinctly.
"In Fengtian City, North Fengtian District, Huacheng Road, Tianmei Community, Building 1, Unit 2, Room 1804."
"That's my house. After they killed me, that pair of traitors probably moved into my house."
"The man's name is Zhang Tianlin, and that despicable woman is Liu Meijia."
"They buried my body in the Sankui Wasteland! I died with my eyes wide open!"
"Fengtian City?"
Chen Miao paused, then couldn't help but reveal a grin, "In other places, my influence might not count for much, but in Fengtian City, my word is definitely powerful. Killing a pair of traitors is easy, isn't it?"
Once he had acquired the privilege to communicate with the outside world.
He received a flood of messages, many from Hungry Monkey Yuan Buping and Zhou Shen—clearly, his sudden disappearance had caused quite a bit of concern for them, but there was no time to reply to that now.
He immediately posted all the information about the treacherous pair in the Tomb Guardian faction's chat channel.
He then conveyed with an urgent voice message.
"I've been drawn into a fixed event numbered 128 called Hell Bus and was lucky to obtain the ability to communicate with the outside world. Gather as much intelligence about this fixed event as you can and send it to me!"
"Also, issue the first full-scale operation of the 'Tomb Guardians' faction!"
"Everyone, by any means necessary, you must locate and kill this couple within the hour!"
"No mistakes allowed!"
"The faster, the better!!"