Chapter 1 Mingmei Was Startled

Mingmei was shocked to see that the two bowls of boxed noodles and two portions of roasted mutton that had been there before were now reduced to one bowl of noodles and one portion of boxed rice.

In the next second, Mingmei immediately checked the academic points in her system backend, and surprisingly, without her noticing, another 0.9 academic points had been added!

"What the heck! My boxed rice was stolen?!" Mingmei suddenly exclaimed in surprise, but immediately denied it, "Hey, no, my boxed rice was bought? When did this happen? Guigui, do you know?"

Guigui: [...]

Clearly, it didn't know either.

"Could it be... A-Chen?"

Her boxed rice had only been touched by someone during that short period of time, and it was that A-Chen who had discovered the food box and even helped her bring it back before leaving.

However, she distinctly remembered that it was that maid who had reported the other two players!

If this was a player, how could there be someone reporting their teammates?

[Could it be that someone touched your food box before that A-Chen brought it back, and we just didn't know?]

Guigui also couldn't understand why players would engage in the operation of reporting each other; this was a fatal flaw.

There weren't many players to begin with, and if two more were reported, wouldn't the game be ruined?

Were they crazy?

[Then, Host, why don't you go find her and test her out?]

Guigui suggested asking directly. Anyway, since she was a player, she probably wouldn't be too wary of a mysterious merchant. If she was an NPC, then it wouldn't matter either, as long as the questions weren't too direct.

Mingmei thought that this was also a possibility, so she immediately put away the boxed rice. As soon as she left her tent, she was about to head towards the tent where the other maids were resting.

Halfway there, Mingmei saw the two players who had been captured earlier being taken, bound hand and foot, to the most central and luxurious king's tent in the camp.

[Are they going to be interrogated by the tyrant himself?] Mingmei stared at the group of figures and quietly asked the system.

[It looks like it. The character setting in "Assassinate the Emperor" is that the tyrant Chu Rong is a complete war maniac and a brutal offender. If enemies fall into his hands...]

Guigui could only use silence to answer at the end, [Host, I think you're doing pretty well right now. What if you ran into that tyrant before the plot...]

Now Guigui would never say anything about NPCs not being able to kill each other like it had said in the beginner village.

Hearing what Guigui said, Mingmei also felt a sense of lingering fear. Although Mingmei thought the Boss in the beginner village was alright (?), she didn't dare to let her imagination run wild in this instance.

However, thinking of the designer of this game, Mingmei was already planning whether to bring a packet of laxatives with her next time she went back to see her Uncle Yan Hui during her vacation.

It was one thing to坑 (keng - trick/scam) players, but what was the deal with坑 (keng - trick/scam) her own family?

With resentment towards her uncle, Mingmei had just arrived at the maids' tent when she learned that A-Chen had been summoned by His Majesty and had already been taken away.

"Taken away?" Mingmei was a little dazed. She turned around and looked at the largest and most magnificent tent in the camp, and her heart suddenly began to beat faster.

[Host, Host! What's wrong? Your heart is beating so fast!]

Guigui immediately noticed that something was wrong with Mingmei's physical condition and quickly asked what was going on.

[Guigui, that person called "A-Chen" might be... the player playing the assassin!]

[Then, then... why did she report the other two players?]

[Because this way... she can meet the tyrant...] After Mingmei finished speaking, the things that had happened before and after were immediately connected together.

[Remember those two players who were escorted away on the road when we came to find A-Chen just now? Now, in the king's tent... all three players are present.]

Mingmei felt her scalp tingle after she said that. Assassinating the tyrant and ending the war between Hua Liang and Chu Rong, could it be... that the game was going to end so quickly?

Mingmei stood dazedly outside the tent, looking towards the direction of the king's tent not far away, and then looking at her pitiful 1.2 academic points, Mingmei's heart was very agitated at this time.

For a moment, she didn't know whether to hope that A-Chen and the others would succeed in this trip, or to hope that something unexpected would happen.

If something unexpected happened, she could sell more boxed meals, but if something unexpected happened, would those three players still be alive?

However, soon, Mingmei discovered that the group seemed to have failed...

That afternoon, Mingmei stood outside the enthusiastic Chu Rong soldiers, watching the scene where a corpse in a maid's uniform, beaten beyond recognition, was hung high there to be exposed to the sun, her face a little pale.

The other two players who had been tied up earlier didn't know what had happened in the king's tent. Although they had saved their lives, Mingmei clearly saw that they were extremely disheveled.

Their clothes were disheveled, and the wounds on their faces and bodies could not be covered by their clothes. They stood depressed in the corner, also looking in the direction of the corpse.

However, it seemed that the two had been cleared of suspicion and released.

The Hua Liang envoy, whose tea had been drunk by the two players at noon earlier, also looked depressed.

He pulled the two of them back, and Mingmei stood far away, not hearing what the envoy said. She only saw the two players suddenly clench their fists, their veins bulging, and say something while glaring at the envoy, but their argument was interrupted by the other party waving his large sleeves, and the guards around him forcibly took them away from this place.

[They failed...] Mingmei withdrew her gaze, turned around and was about to return to her place, her eyes gradually becoming sharp, [Tonight, I will sell all these things.]

Feeling that Mingmei was in a bad mood, Guigui didn't dare to say anything, but it still thoughtfully sent Lu Xiaoyao's live broadcast to Mingmei.

In the live broadcast that Mingmei saw, Lu Xiaoyao and the others were wearing gorgeous dance dresses, standing with other beauties around a middle-aged rich merchant, listening to the man's instructions.

It was nothing more than telling them to be obedient and not to have any crooked ideas, and then taking the maid A-Chen, who was beaten to a bloody pulp and exposed to the sun outside, as an example.

"Did you see the corpse outside?! Hmm?! Let me tell you, if you don't perform well tonight and something goes wrong, that person will be your end!" After the merchant finished speaking, his narrow eyes, squeezed into slits by fat, suddenly widened, and he shouted loudly, "Did you hear that!"

"Understood!"

Lu Xiaoyao, who was a step behind, blinked her eyes after everyone else had shouted, and looked at Bai Xiao, secretly winking at her.

It wasn't until the merchant left that Lu Xiaoyao pulled Bai Xiao and asked, "Why do I feel like... this person is talking strangely?"

Bai Xiao wanted to praise Lu Xiaoyao's sensitivity, and was about to tell her that he felt this rich merchant was not simple, but—

"We're selling our talents, not our bodies, right?"

Bai Xiao, who was about to nod, suddenly stiffened slightly, reached out her hand, and awkwardly touched her neck, which was almost nodding, with a forced smile: "What do you think?"

She couldn't figure out where Lu Xiaoyao's thoughts had led her.

"Didn't they say they were offering beauties who could dance? We can't... we can't just dance and then do that, can we?"

Bai Xiao's eyes twitched slightly, and asked, "You're not going to say that the other party is a pimp, are you?"

"Yes! We're not really going to use a seduction scheme, are we?" Lu Xiaoyao worriedly covered her chest with her hands, and widened her eyes and said, "I'm not ready yet!"

Bai Xiao: ...

Bai Xiao tugged at the corner of her mouth at Lu Xiaoyao's statement that she was not ready to seduce the tyrant. Bai Xiao, who always only talked about serious matters, looked at Lu Xiaoyao at this moment, looked her up and down, and only said: "Don't worry, you're an A, you're not worth it."

Lu Xiaoyao: ...

The audience in front of the screen: [...]