After Entering a Romance Reality Show Disguised as a Man to Win Over All the Female Leads - Chapter 16

Doctor Lin nodded with great interest. “So? What do you plan to do?”

Rong Yu gave a light laugh. “Very simple. First, drive out all the people getting in the way.”

·

Meanwhile, in the four-person group chat.

Mu Shuiqing’s exclamation marks practically filled the screen.

Mu Shuiqing: He Jiao?? Give me an explanation!!!!!

Lin Mengxing: [Eating melon.jpg]

He Jiao: …I told you, I just happened to know how hyperventilation should be treated.

Lin Mengxing: What? What hyperventilation? How do you treat it? Where we’re from, pheromones can treat every illness.

Mu Shuiqing: She kissed Rongrong!

Lin Mengxing: .

Lin Mengxing followed it with a sticker of walnuts being crushed by mental power.

Mu Shuiqing: He Jiao, don’t forget that you were the one who brought it up. We agreed not to compete with each other, that none of us would hold hands with the male guests, that we wouldn’t drive away the other female guests, and that we’d all hold on until the end and split the program team’s final prize equally.

After sending that, she attached a [Burning Talisman.jpg] sticker. The suppressed anger between the lines was obvious.

The entire group suddenly fell silent. Only after a long while did He Jiao reply.

He Jiao: I haven’t forgotten.

He Jiao: It’s just that back then, I thought Rong Yu was still… I knew that with his ability, he would definitely defeat the other male guests, deceive your feelings, and obtain the final prize money, so I contacted you all in advance to prevent you from being fooled. But the person now isn’t him.

Less than three seconds after sending this long paragraph, He Jiao quickly recalled it.

Then she sent another sentence.

He Jiao: Don’t worry. I won’t forget.

Mu Shuiqing, who was curled up in bed messaging, finally felt relieved. The little paper figure by her bedside hugged the air, raised its hand into the void, and danced a waltz.

Suddenly, another message popped up in the group.

But it was from He Huaiting.

He Huaiting: You kissed her?

The second sentence was:

He Huaiting: When?

Lin Mengxing: …

Lin Mengxing: In terms of reaction speed, it still has to be you.

He Huaiting: I draw my sword quickly.

He Jiao: Drawing your sword quickly doesn’t mean you’re strong. Maybe you can beat Mu Shuiqing, but you might not be able to beat me.

Mu Shuiqing: ? Why can she beat me?

Lin Mengxing: You all… wash up and sleep.

·

In the blink of an eye, it was already the next morning, the third day of the program’s filming.

Because everyone had stayed in the same place the previous night, that morning the program team directly sent over a bus with Heartbeat Moment promotional images pasted on it to pick up the eight guests and bring them to today’s filming location.

Because of Host Zhang Yong’an’s kind reminder yesterday, everyone was wearing sportswear and sneakers today.

Rong Yu’s face was originally androgynous. With neutral clothing and a chest binder, she could still conceal her gender. But today, wearing a fitted, soft tracksuit, the smooth lines of a female figure and bone structure were immediately revealed.

If not for the short men’s curly hair on her head barely helping conceal it, at first glance she would look like a pretty and delicate short-haired girl.

The program team’s other seven guests had already gotten on the bus and sat down in scattered seats. Rong Yu was the last to board.

Since they only had eight guests, the bus the program team had found was not very large. It could seat only twenty-five people in total. Each row had only three seats. The left side could seat two people side by side, while the right side could only seat one person alone. The aisle for walking was in the middle.

Aside from Rong Yu, the other three male guests had all coincidentally sat in single seats. Seeing Rong Yu get on, Qin Wenhan and Sheng Ming glanced at her indifferently, then withdrew their gazes and looked elsewhere.

Seven, however, stared at Rong Yu with a complicated expression. His condition last night had clearly been very poor. Even now, his face was still pale, with two bluish-purple shadows beneath his eyes.

Rong Yu politely nodded at him and looked around at the empty seats on the bus.

Lin Mengxing and He Huaiting had both coincidentally sat on opposite ends of the last row. He Jiao sat alone by the window in a single seat. Only Mu Shuiqing was sitting in one of the middle double seats.

As Rong Yu observed them, her face happened to meet the cameras of the various livestream rooms.

The first ray of morning sunlight spread across the earth. Hazy, velvety light spilled through the window and fell onto Rong Yu. At that moment, the boundary between light and shadow seemed to break apart, dazzling colors leaping around her like Van Gogh’s most passionate painting.

Lin Mengxing propped her chin up and leaned by the window, raising a brow as she looked at the girl who had just boarded the bus.

She liked an unconstrained life. Especially in the ABO world she originally came from, where the strong were supreme, no one had ever dared to order her around because of her unique Enigma constitution and super S-rank mental power.

Lin Mengxing lived without any pressure and was indifferent to everything.

But at this moment, looking at Rong Yu with her back to the light, she suddenly, as if possessed, thought of a poem.

It seemed to be a passage from a parchment scroll she had read a long time ago.

“Ten thousand people want to extinguish this fire, yet I alone raise it high.

This fire is the great blooming and falling of flowers, the sacred homeland.

Like all poets who take dreams as horses,

I use this fire to cross the vast black night of my life.”

This feeling was very strange.

She had absolutely no memory of having read poetry, yet this passage suddenly appeared in her mind.

It was as if she had gained a fragment of someone else’s memory out of thin air.

Lin Mengxing did not like this uncontrollable feeling. But when she looked at Rong Yu, she had to admit that these words were very fitting.

At least, Rong Yu truly did look like a cluster of blue flame—gentle and peaceful on the outside, yet stubborn and fierce within.

The livestream viewers were already frantically licking the screen.

[Whoa, is this a new female guest? So preeeetty!!]

[Sister, that’s Rong Yu.]

[Holy crap, that’s actually Rong Yu?!]

[Ahhhhh, another day of kneeling beneath Rong Yu’s beauty. I admit it, I’m Little Brother Rong Yu’s dog, wuwuwu.]

[Why do I feel like I have a filter again? Why are there pink bubbles everywhere in my eyes? I must be in love!]

[Me too!!! I only have Rongrong in my eyes. Sss, sss.]

Mu Shuiqing, sitting in the fourth row, waved at Rong Yu. Her somewhat wooden face carried a shallow smile.

“Here.”

Today, she wore a reddish-brown sweatshirt. Her long princess-cut hair, which curled inward at the ends, was tied high, immediately giving her originally elegant and gentle features a different kind of presence.

Rong Yu obediently walked over and sat beside her.

Zhang Yong’an, who had originally been sitting in the first row, saw that everyone was seated and immediately called for the driver to set off. Then he supported himself on the seat and stood up, beginning to explain today’s program task.

“After a day of rest, I’m sure everyone has recovered their strength and is ready for today’s task. Last night, I reminded everyone that today’s program task is very physically demanding. Today, I’ll add a few more details: it doesn’t only consume your stamina, it also tests the guests’ reaction speed and tacit understanding. This game is—”

Zhang Yong’an raised his hand, and the bus ceiling immediately flipped downward, revealing a small television.

The television screen played footage of more than a dozen people playing a shooting game.

Zhang Yong’an said enthusiastically, “That’s right! It’s—real-life PUBG!”

An hour and a half later, the group arrived at the outdoor real-life survival game venue.

It was a training camp scattered with shooting ranges, trees, trenches, buildings, and dugouts. Half the venue was exposed to view, while half was hidden beneath towering trees that blocked out the sky. Just looking at the area, it covered at least ten square kilometers, truly a fairly large exercise field.

Inside the camp were many huge rocks and wooden crates, as well as various oil drums and water barrels. There were plenty of cover points, and it really did look like a basic map in a shooting game.

Farther away was an endless jungle. However, to ensure the game could proceed safely, the entire game area had been surrounded by fine mesh fencing, preventing people outside the game from accidentally entering.

To make filming easier, the program team had already booked the entire place. Zhang Yong’an picked up the cue cards in his hand and began explaining the game rules to the guests.

“PUBG, in other words a shooting battle royale game. I’m sure everyone is familiar with the rules. Before the game begins, we will equip every player with the same weapon—a gun. After the game begins, players can obtain victory by killing players from other teams.”

“When only the last team among the four groups remains, the game will automatically be judged over. However, this time we are not determining victory based on survival time, but through a points system. There are a total of eight guest players in the game. Killing one player other than yourself or your teammate earns five points. In addition, there are twenty passerby players invited by the program team. These passerby players will all be dressed in black and will not actively attack you, but killing one of them will earn three points. If you are killed by another player, the player who kills you can inherit all of your points.”

“Finally, and most importantly, after our game begins, a blue light circle will appear at the outermost edge of the game area—commonly known as the poison circle. The poison circle will gradually shrink as time passes, eventually shrinking to the very center of the map. Any player who remains outside the poison circle will automatically be judged dead. So all players, please pay attention to the shrinking poison circle. Otherwise, you may be automatically eliminated. Also, after the game begins, you can search the nearby boxes and cabinets more carefully. You might find different combat weapons. And to avoid exposing everyone’s whereabouts, the cameramen following each group of guests will film from a distance and try their best not to affect your actions.”

“Does anyone still have questions?”

Zhang Yong’an looked around.

PUBG was currently a fairly popular game, with both mobile and PC versions. Even if many people did not play games, they had roughly heard of its rules. No one raised any questions at this moment.

So Zhang Yong’an nodded. “Since everyone understands the game rules, guests, please put on the bulletproof vests, chest armor, level-one helmets, and laser guns we prepared. After that, each group of guests will board a different sightseeing vehicle. We will send each group to different drop-off points.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a line of staff members dressed in combat uniforms walked out from the wooden building behind him. They carried out sets of combat clothing and matching weapons, handing them to each group of guests.

Mu Shuiqing looked at the combat outfit the staff member handed her and accepted it with a wooden face. Her speaking speed was extremely slow, but her clear, chilly voice made every word easy to hear.

“So green…”

Rong Yu: “……”

For some reason, those three words from Mu Shuiqing really made it hard not to overthink.

The two followed the program team’s requirements, putting on the clothes and protective gear and carrying the laser guns on their backs. The other guests around them also prepared themselves.

Rong Yu swept her gaze around and found Lin Mengxing especially eye-catching in the crowd.

Perhaps because the world Lin Mengxing had originally come from was the interstellar ABO era, where almost all Alphas entered military academies and became soldiers, other people looked either cool or beautiful in combat uniforms. Lin Mengxing, however, directly blended with the outfit itself. It was an innate kind of handsomeness.

As if she had always been meant to look like this.

The combat uniform, which originally only looked more professional for playing a game, was worn by her as if it were a real military uniform during individual soldier training. Her wrists and ankles were tightly bound, outlining a sharp and efficient silhouette. Her lean waist was cinched so tightly it seemed one hand could span it, yet it was full of core strength.

When Rong Yu looked at her, Lin Mengxing was holding the helmet in both hands and tossing it once. Then she buckled it onto her head with a reverse movement. As her movement forced her top to shift upward, it emphasized that thin, willow-like waist even more.

Farther down were two long, straight legs and a full, rounded, upturned backside. There was not an inch of unnecessary fat on her whole body.

Rong Yu still clearly remembered that when Lin Mengxing had used mental power and pheromones to control her, and she had accidentally touched Lin Mengxing’s arm, she had felt the muscles attached to her slender bones. Those muscle lines were not exaggerated, but they contained endless explosive power. They could easily lock Rong Yu’s hands behind her head.

As Rong Yu was thinking, Lin Mengxing, who had put on her helmet, suddenly turned her head and looked over, meeting Rong Yu’s eyes through the goggles on her helmet.

Her pupils, darker than those of the people around her, were like a deep sea whose bottom could not be seen. Beneath the calm surface, hidden currents surged.

Across the crowd, Lin Mengxing suddenly took the laser gun from behind her, rested it at her shoulder, and aimed at Rong Yu in the crowd with a standard firing stance.

The dark muzzle pointed directly at Rong Yu. Lin Mengxing mouthed, bang, and the long gun in her hands suddenly shook, as if it had fired a bullet.

Reflected by the laser gun, those dark eyes seemed to glow with firelight, staring straight at Rong Yu.

Rong Yu instinctively blinked. In an instant, she felt as if she had been hit.

In the next moment, Mu Shuiqing tilted her head and walked in front of her. She blinked, her crimson eyes full of simplicity and innocence, perfectly blocking Lin Mengxing behind her as she held the gun.

“Rongrong, shall we get in the car?”

Rong Yu instantly woke up, withdrew her gaze, and nodded at her. “Okay.”

The locations arranged by the program team for each group of guests were different.

Rong Yu and Mu Shuiqing boarded the white off-road sightseeing vehicle assigned to them by the program team. Its earthy-brown body happened to blend into the surrounding scenery. They were driven around the training camp through seven turns and eight bends for about five or six minutes.

The sightseeing vehicle carried the two of them through trees and various cover points before finally stopping in front of a wooden hut covered with mottled green camouflage netting.

Rong Yu brought Mu Shuiqing out of the car. The staff member immediately drove back without saying a single extra word.

Rong Yu looked around and observed the place where they currently were.

The surrounding area was open land. There was not even a blade of grass on the ground. Farther away were trees and trenches. Compared to the surrounding terrain, the position they were currently at clearly had a broader field of vision, and the nearby ground all sloped downward.

Rong Yu led Mu Shuiqing to open the door of the wooden hut and go inside. She discovered that this should be the shooting range’s command room. Maps of operations and detailed maps of various terrains hung on the walls.

In the very center of the room, there was even a huge sand table five meters long and wide.

Based on the geographical situation outside their room, Rong Yu quickly found their location. It was actually right in the center of the entire game field, a central position that made it convenient to go anywhere.

This discovery even surprised Rong Yu.

“A lucky circle.”

The viewers in her and Mu Shuiqing’s livestream room stared wide-eyed.

[Wow, that’s too good. They don’t need to run from the poison circle at all.]

[Whoa, so this is a blessed circle? Amazing.]

[Doesn’t that mean they can directly find a corner to hide in and at least rat their way to second place?]

Mu Shuiqing blinked. She had never played this type of game before, or even mobile games, so she did not have a clear sense of what being in the lucky circle meant.

“Is our position very good?”

Rong Yu thought for a moment, then frowned and shook her head.

If their game were judged by survival time, then a position in the blessed circle was indeed the safest. But they were ranked by kills and points. In that case, their current position was very likely far away from the other players and passerby players, which would be extremely disadvantageous for earning points.

Rong Yu thought about it, turned to look at the laser gun hanging over her shoulder, and began rummaging through boxes and cabinets inside the room.

Mu Shuiqing tilted her head and watched her move. “What are you doing?”

Rong Yu searched through every drawer, bookcase, and even the little boxes by her feet in the entire command room, not letting go of any supplies inside.

Zhang Yong’an had been right. The boxes contained all kinds of supplies they would need, such as level-three armor and level-three helmets.

Rong Yu directly found two full sets of level-three equipment and changed herself and Mu Shuiqing into the most durable gear. Then she picked out several electronic grenades, weighed them in her hand, and satisfiedly hung them at her waist.

“My shooting is very bad.”

Mu Shuiqing looked at her blankly. “So?”

Rong Yu threw the cumbersome long gun on her shoulder to the ground and loaded everything she had found onto herself.

“I’ll take you ratting.”

When she saw the sand table earlier, this impulse had already formed.

Her shooting skill was not good, but her ability to throw grenades was decent. In the blessed circle, they could only hide and wait to die. Once the poison circle became too small, and the other players were driven near the blessed circle by the poison circle, she and Mu Shuiqing would be surrounded by everyone.

At that time, the two of them hiding in the house would be the first targets other players attacked.

So hiding in the room was not a long-term plan.

The best option was to find the highest point with the best vision and hold a position. Although her shooting was poor, her grenade throwing was still good. If holding a gun angle did not work, she could hold a grenade angle.

It was more interesting than hiding in a house and anxiously waiting to die.

Rong Yu explained the plan to Mu Shuiqing, and Mu Shuiqing naturally nodded in agreement.

So the two immediately jogged toward the highest point shown on the sand table.

The game had just begun, and there should not be many people around the blessed circle yet. The two ran straight out of the command room, sprinting across the open dirt slope without being attacked from a distance by anyone else.

Soon, they reached the spot they had chosen earlier—

The top of the huge rock at the highest point in the entire game area, a full five or six meters high.

Although Rong Yu could not understand why such a wide plain would have such a sudden giant rock, as a game field, any strange setting could exist.

She had no time to think much about it and brought Mu Shuiqing to climb up the boulder.

The surface of the boulder was uneven and rough, close to a forty-five-degree angle from the ground. Rong Yu almost had to climb up with her body completely slanted.

After stepping onto the boulder, the higher mountain wind immediately blew beside her ears. The entire game field was within full view. She could even clearly see the oil barrels piled inside the trenches in the distance.

The area at the top of the rock was not large, but fortunately, neither Rong Yu nor Mu Shuiqing was fat. As long as they lay on top and did not move, they generally would not be discovered.

So Rong Yu immediately pulled Mu Shuiqing down to lie flat, concealing their figures while observing the actions of the other guests in the distance.

Lin Mengxing was indeed just as Rong Yu had written in her novel. In the ABO world, she was an undefeated general with no record of defeat.

Leaving aside her world-class Enigma constitution and super S-rank mental power, just her control over weapons was accurate to a supernatural degree.

This kind of shooting game was nothing more than child’s play to her. Lin Mengxing did not even think of using tactics. She openly brought Qin Wenhan straight from the edge of the game area where the program team had dropped them off and walked toward the center of the field.

Whenever a player appeared, she immediately entered combat mode.

Rong Yu raised the binoculars and observed Lin Mengxing in the distance.

She saw Lin Mengxing casually lower her eyes and flick her hand, firing five quick shots that directly hit five passerby players in the center of the forehead. Every shot was a one-hit kill, casually earning fifteen points.

The five passerby players did not even have time to fire before white smoke rose from their helmets, reminding them that the game was over.

Qin Wenhan stood beside her, dumbfounded. He was even more shocked than the passerby players who had been killed.

In an instant, Zhang Yong’an’s announcement echoed through the game field broadcast—

[Player Lin Mengxing has killed five passerby players, for a total of fifteen points.]

The viewers watching Lin Mengxing from Rong Yu’s livestream perspective were stunned.

[?!? Hacking! She’s hacking!]

[Lin Mengxing is hacking!!! Holy crap, shocked.]

[Yes, she’s hacking. I testify. A self-moving human cheat, doge.jpg.]

[Miss Lin and her useless teammate, dying of laughter.]

Rong Yu continued looking for He Huaiting’s position.

But after searching for a long time, she still could not find her.

The poison circle gradually began to shrink.

He Huaiting was still nowhere to be seen.

Until, behind a tree in the distance, Seven’s figure suddenly appeared.

Seven’s complexion looked much better than it had in the morning. Whether because of nervousness or excitement, his face was at least livelier than it had been that morning. He held the gun in his arms tightly and walked out from behind the tree, aiming at someone unknown. More than half his body was exposed behind the tree as he raised his gun and was about to pull the trigger.

The game field was extremely large, and he was standing behind a tree in a green combat uniform. If not for his blue hair, Rong Yu really would not have found him easily.

The position where Seven stood happened to be within the firing range of her and Mu Shuiqing. Looking at Seven, Rong Yu could almost see the “5 points” label above his head.

Mu Shuiqing beside her could not help raising her gun and loading it too.

But in the next moment, before Mu Shuiqing could fire, a white smoke suddenly rose from behind the rock that Seven was facing.

Another player had died.

Immediately after, two more plumes of white smoke appeared.

Zhang Yong’an’s announcement rang out again—

[Player He Huaiting has killed 2 passerby players and 1 player, for a total of 11 points.]

Rong Yu instantly realized.

He Huaiting was near Seven.

No wonder Seven dared to stand out so openly. It turned out he was acting as bait for He Huaiting. She just did not know where He Huaiting was hiding. She had shot and killed three people, yet still had not exposed her position.

Nor did Rong Yu know which player she had killed.

Mu Shuiqing was beside her, and Seven was still alive, so the one killed could only be He Jiao or Qin Wenhan. She did not know which of the two it was.

As Rong Yu was thinking, Mu Shuiqing beside her suddenly gave an “ai” and frowned solemnly. “Miss He is so cold to her teammate. She actually dragged her teammate out to be bait.”

Rong Yu thought she was afraid and turned to look at Mu Shuiqing seriously. “Don’t worry. I won’t make you bait.”

Mu Shuiqing blinked. The melancholy expression on her face stiffened for an instant. She opened those crimson eyes wide and obediently nodded. No matter how one looked at her, she resembled an exquisite, beautiful Chinese-style doll.

Rong Yu was charmed by the cuteness and could not help rubbing her head.

She did not know that the viewers in the comments were sniffing the air hard.

[Sss, why do I seem to smell a white-lotus tea aroma?]

[Hahahahahaha, Little Sister Shuiqing, you’ve changed!! Mm, or maybe you’ve been exposed.]

[Sure enough, the more obedient someone looks, the more they’re angelic-on-the-outside and black-bellied. confirmed]

He Huaiting holding a gun position had clearly made the other players much more cautious. No one dared openly raise a gun and attack Seven anymore.

Just like that, more than ten minutes passed, and no player appeared again.

But the poison circle was still continuously shrinking. More than twenty minutes had now passed, and the poison circle had almost reached the edge of the giant rock where Rong Yu and Mu Shuiqing were.

It was also almost behind the tree not far from where Seven and the others were.

The final face-to-face gunfight was about to break out at any moment.

Yet even now, Rong Yu still had not found He Jiao or Sheng Ming.

Just then, the deafening broadcast rang out around them again—

[Player He Jiao has killed 3 passerby players, for a total of 9 points.]

The broadcast was extremely loud every time, echoing back and forth across the field. For at least ten seconds, Rong Yu could not hear any other sound.

Rong Yu secretly let out a breath of relief. As expected, He Jiao had not been “killed” by He Huaiting.

Only, she lifted the binoculars and searched back and forth for a long time, but still could not find He Jiao’s figure.

Now only 5 passerby players remained.

Viewers in the livestream comments were already beginning to worry.

[Ah, my Little Brother Rongrong isn’t going to get completely shut out, right?]

[Mm… hard to say.]

[Hurry and fight! Surely they can’t end with zero points. It’s over, they really might be last this time…]

The viewers had already seen He Huaiting and Lin Mengxing’s abilities with their own eyes. So killing passerby players was the key for Rong Yu and Mu Shuiqing to gain points.

But looking at the current situation, the viewers had already lost hope that Rong Yu’s group could score at all.

Five minutes later, He Huaiting killed another three passerby players. Three clusters of white smoke slowly rose into the air from three completely different directions. He Huaiting did it so easily it was as if she did not need to aim at all.

[Player He Huaiting has killed 3 passerby players, for a total of 20 points.]

Now there were only 2 passerby players left.

The livestream viewers had completely given up hope.

At this point, even if Rong Yu killed both remaining passerby players, she would only have 6 points. What could she possibly use to compare with He Huaiting, who was currently in first place and already had a 9-point lead?

But just then, everyone saw Rong Yu suddenly sit up and pour dozens of electronic grenades and smoke bombs out of her clothes. She pulled the safety pins from the smoke bombs and threw them everywhere.

In an instant, clouds of white smoke began rising through the forest, obscuring everything.

Even the tree crowns were hidden beneath layers of mist. In less than two minutes, the training camp had become like a fairyland.

Forget using the scope on a gun—even with the naked eye, people could no longer see anything clearly.

Now even the best marksman would have trouble aiming.

Rong Yu then turned and began throwing grenades.

In an instant, virtual thunder exploded one after another, crackling nonstop. Booming sounds echoed through the mountain forest.

The power of an artificial bombing zone created by dozens of grenades was not something ordinary bullets could compare to. The entire game field surrounded by the poison circle was covered in the area damage of electronic grenades.

In less than two minutes, Rong Yu heard the host’s long-awaited announcement—

[Player Rong Yu has killed 2 passerby players and 1 player, for a total of 11 points.]

The livestream viewers were dumbfounded.

[66666, little brother, tell me, how did you hide that many grenades on yourself???]

[Good lord, a mobile armory, right? The cameraman was too far away. I didn’t even see Baby Yu take the grenades. I’m dying.]

[I’m dying. I want to know which guest got blown up.]

[Probably Seven. Seven was standing pretty far forward and didn’t have much cover.]

[Sister, it really was Seven. I went to their livestream room to check. Rongrong’s grenade landed right by his foot. Electronic grenades don’t actually explode; they only make an explosion sound. Seven didn’t know that and jumped three feet high in fright. I’m dying, hhhh.]

[Ahhhhh, Baby Yu is awesome! Holy crap, I only just learned a gunfight game can be played like this.]

Rong Yu looked at the dozens of grenade and smoke-bomb pull rings left in her arms and calculated her score and the other guests’ scores.

11 points. She had already avoided being shut out and was not in last place. Rong Yu was satisfied.

Also, according to the game’s setting, if she killed an opponent, she would gain all of their points. She had not received anyone else’s points, which meant that the player she killed was not He Huaiting, Lin Mengxing, or He Jiao. It could only have been Qin Wenhan, Seven, or Sheng Ming.

This was fine.

The smoke from the smoke bombs could only last seven or eight seconds. But while the smoke bombs blocked the others’ vision, they also blocked Rong Yu’s and Mu Shuiqing’s vision.

A few seconds later, Rong Yu watched as the white smoke gradually dispersed. She could no longer find the positions of Lin Mengxing, He Huaiting, or the others. So she quietly asked Mu Shuiqing beside her for her opinion.

“Shuiqing, we should be second from last, right? Let’s just wait and watch now.”

But after she finished speaking, the only answer was the whimpering mountain wind around her.

Rong Yu’s heart jumped. Instinctively feeling something was wrong, she quickly stood up and looked back.

Only to see a blunt-edged prop dagger held against Mu Shuiqing’s neck.

At some point, He Jiao had silently climbed onto the giant rock. Her knee pinned Mu Shuiqing’s hands down. Her left hand covered Mu Shuiqing’s mouth, while her right hand pressed the dagger against Mu Shuiqing’s neck.

When Rong Yu turned back, He Jiao happened to raise her eyes and look over.

Their eyes met. He Jiao’s blue eyes, like the Milky Way, seemed covered in a layer of fine gold dust, like meteors exploding across the horizon.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed girl was like a smooth, flexible fish. Even the way she used a knife was different from ordinary people. Both hands looped from Mu Shuiqing’s left side around to the front, sealing her mouth and neck.

This posture allowed the hand holding the knife to exert better force. If the blade had been sharpened, one slight movement would have been enough to cut open Mu Shuiqing’s neck.

Rong Yu did not know how He Jiao had slipped over without anyone noticing. She did not remember ever giving He Jiao a high-combat-value setting. But she had to admit that when He Jiao became sharp, she resembled Lian Langsheng even more. That bright, dazzling face became increasingly gorgeous and captivating.

He Jiao used the back of the knife to lift Mu Shuiqing’s chin, but she did not really make a move. Instead, she said, “I said you might not be able to beat me.”

After speaking, she released the hand covering Mu Shuiqing’s mouth and waited for her to speak.

The girl whose hands were pressed behind her back against the rock rolled her eyes toward the sky at an angle Rong Yu could not see. Then she turned back to look at Rong Yu. Her pale, expressionless face had clear crimson eyes, making her look completely innocent.

“Rongrong, save me.”

He Jiao: “……”

She had just been about to speak when a red dot suddenly lit up on her chest.

It was the mark of being targeted by a laser gun.

He Jiao raised a brow and looked in the direction from which she was being aimed at. All she could see was the muzzle of He Huaiting’s gun hidden behind the tree canopy.

Hidden danger lurked behind the dense branches, and the thick killing intent made alarm bells ring in one’s heart.

He Jiao released the hands restraining Mu Shuiqing and took half a step back.

But she did not notice that the top of the giant rock was very small. Her foot missed the edge, and her whole body began sliding downward.

Rong Yu quickly got up to pull her back. But just as she dragged He Jiao up, the inertia pulled her instead, and she slid down.

“Rong Yu!”

“Rongrong—!”

The distance of three or four meters should have ended in a quick landing, but the expected pain never came.

The girl standing at the bottom of the giant rock raised both arms and steadily caught her.

Her curls, tied into cat-ear buns, looked slightly messy, with a few loose strands falling by her face.

Lin Mengxing’s helmet had gone who knew where. Looking at Rong Yu in her arms, she raised a brow and chuckled.

“You bombed me so badly, little villain.”

The viewers in her livestream room immediately echoed her.

[I testify!! Really, so badly, hahahahahaha.]

[First time seeing Cat Cat scurrying around with her head in her hands.]

She placed Rong Yu on the ground and pointed at the top of her own head. “Even my level-three helmet got blown away.”

Rong Yu instinctively felt a little guilty.

Then she heard Lin Mengxing continue, “Collecting a little interest isn’t too much, right?”

She spoke in a low voice, deliberately suppressing it, which brought out a few dangerous signals.

In the next second, Rong Yu pulled another grenade from her clothes.

“……”

This time, Lin Mengxing truly laughed. “You really do have a lot of stuff.”

The earthy smell of the training field and the dry scent of grass around them were gradually replaced by waves of rich lily fragrance.

Rong Yu clearly saw strands of semi-transparent silver-white mental power flowing from Lin Mengxing’s fingertips, wrapping around the miniature microphones on both of their collars.

Lin Mengxing’s fingers slid between Rong Yu’s fingers holding the grenade, guiding her hand to pull open the pin.

The countdown of the electronic grenade suddenly sounded. Every change seemed to beat against the heart.

Only, the recording equipment was blocked by her mental power. Aside from her and Rong Yu, no one could hear what they were saying. The viewers could only barely see their movements through the long-distance camera.

At this moment, the shooting game had just passed the half-hour mark. The poison circle in the game field had also reached the edge of the giant rock and was still rapidly shrinking.

Lin Mengxing gradually moved closer to Rong Yu.

Her hand covered Rong Yu’s hand holding the grenade, trapped between the distance of their bodies pressed close together. They had the closest distance, yet the most dangerous relationship between them.

The electronic weapon’s alarm rang sharply, releasing urgent, tense warnings.

Yet Lin Mengxing seemed not to hear it at all. She lowered her head and approached the corner of Rong Yu’s lips.

The livestream viewers could not help holding their breath.

[Holy crap, is it this exciting?]

[Little Sister Shuiqing won’t be able to sleep tonight from anger! Hahahaha.]

0003…

0002…

0001…

The instant the grenade countdown ended, the poison circle happened to spread over the two of them.

With a booming explosion sound, the livestream screen snapped to black. Only four large words remained displayed on it—

[Game Over]

Livestream viewers:

[?? My kiss kiss isn’t finished yet!!!]

[Ahhhhhhh, I can’t see my Baby Yu anymore! Why did the game end normally before, but not this time? Program team, were you bribed by Lin Mengxing?!]

At the same time the screen went black, Lin Mengxing gently supported the back of Rong Yu’s head and turned her head aside. Then she lowered her head, leaned close to the back of Rong Yu’s neck, and sniffed. Carefully, she bit her once.

The force was not heavy at all, but Rong Yu’s entire back began to go numb. The tingling numbness rapidly surged from her neck throughout her whole body.

Lin Mengxing’s voice was strained, and the warm breath she exhaled was scorching as it brushed against Rong Yu’s neck. Like a cat teasing a toy, she rubbed the tip of her nose back and forth against Rong Yu’s neck.

“I really want to know what your pheromones would smell like after being marked.”