Chapter 562: Chapter 561: Be Careful or Brother Huai Will Choke You with Crunchy Noodles

Mu Qiu never expected that one day the punishment for wandering NPCs would be not being allowed to drink water!

What kind of human suffering is this, not drinking water will kill you! She wouldn’t even need to wait for the monsters to be released; she’d collapse on the road and get sun-dried into jerky!

She immediately slammed the table, "I don’t agree! The punishment for wandering NPCs should be about winning and losing the game, not denying our human rights and not letting us drink water!"

Guan Yu admired her fingers, blowing on her nails with a happy mood.

"How many times do I have to tell you, Mu Shufen, wandering NPCs have no human rights."

Mu · Shufen · Qiu choked.

Then she looked at Li Yang with a sorrowful expression.

"Our lives are over!"

Li Yang, however, remained calm.

"The director hasn’t even agreed to their proposal yet. Besides, there can’t be no water here; even if there’s no bottled water, there has to be tap water in the residential buildings, right?"

"I’m afraid the bacteria in the tap water pipes have also mutated."

"... You really didn’t have to say that." 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Great, now all he could think about was the bloated shapes of mutant bacteria, making him feel a bit nauseous.

Trying to suppress those thoughts, he added, "There’s definitely drinkable water. There’re only twelve of us left; we obviously can’t empty out all the water in the ruins. Unless the water here grew legs and ran away?"

Mu Qiu nodded, stroking her chin, "Makes sense. Li Yang, you’re maturing."

Li Yang snorted, ruffling his hair, with a face full of "What’s there to be surprised about? This is my usual brilliant self."

The others couldn’t help but roll their eyes.

Guan Yu remained persistent in applying to the director to exchange her privileges for water, while Chu Qiu tried to hold her back.

"Just wait a bit, what if later he really agrees with you? Then we find water, your privilege would be completely wasted."

Guan Yu rubbed her neck, "But my throat’s already smoking."

"Let it smoke, it’s not like... I mean, it’s smoking but not on fire, right? You can bear it a bit longer."

Guan Yu countered with a fierce punch to the chest.

The director and staff, always carrying an earpiece, put them on, played some music, and ignored their demands outright.

Even if Shu Ran suggested that they wouldn’t start the first round of discussions without water, they just went along, pretending they were in a different timeline.

The ones in front of the camera couldn’t outmatch those behind it, and who knew how the show would retaliate later, so that plan eventually fell through.

They endured their thirst and began the first round of narratives.

The first person was forced to provide a narrative; Shi Yuhuai was coerced by ten people together.

Li Yang: "Come on, Brother Huai, why did you and Brother Chen Yi separate? Where did you go afterwards?"

Cheng Zhirang: "There were four screams outside, did you hear them? If you did, why didn’t you come over?"

Shi Yuhuai replied smoothly... well, it was actually just one sentence, not quite flowing, more like refusing to cooperate.

"This is a narrative session, not an interrogation."

Guan Yu glared menacingly, "Then start narrating."

"Narrating requires a peaceful, harmonious, and quiet environment," he glanced down at Guan Yu, saying, "You’re disturbing my narrative mood."

"......" Guan Yu toppled backward.

Chu Qiu casually grabbed her arm, "Hang in there, I’ll get you a fast-acting heart pill."

Seeing her finally silenced, Shi Yuhuai visibly relaxed.

"Chen Yi and I initially went to a small clothing store on the left side of the street, the cashier inside had been smashed, most of the cash was gone, only a few bills were scattered on the ground, showing the thief was in a hurry.

After leaving the clothing store, we purposefully searched for places with food. To be more efficient, Chen Yi and I split up in two directions to search separately.

On the road I took, there was a deli, the food inside was still there, but the shop owner had been killed on the counter, blood and some unknown viscous fluid mixed with the food, making it inedible.

After the deli, I searched for a long time without finding another food store, finally finding a supermarket on the far outskirts."

At this point, he paused, slightly furrowing his brow, appearing puzzled.

"The supermarket was a bit strange. There had been a fierce fight inside, many shelves were knocked over, soy sauce and vinegar bottles shattered everywhere, and the whole supermarket had a tang of sourness.

Several supermarket staff were lying neatly in the vinegar, eyes gaping, with drag marks on the ground.

Apart from that, many of the food items on the shelves had fallen, scattered all over, it seemed someone had tried to rob the place but was in such a hurry that many goods were left behind."

This was a lengthy account, everyone listened carefully, discerning key points and analyzing reasons, only Li Yang perked up, his eyes shining as he latched onto his own key point.

"The supermarket has lots of food? Then after we finish here let’s head straight to the supermarket?!"

Shi Yuhuai glared at him in exasperation for two seconds, resembling a teacher hearing someone disrupt classroom notes.

Guan Yu: "Pay attention in class, or Brother Huai will choke you to death with those two packs of extra spicy instant noodles."

Mu Qiu: "...such a unique form of punishment."

Shi Yuhuai stared at her.

She coughed, lowered her head, and began counting her fingers.

Cheng Zhirang cast a glance at her, then quickly shifted his gaze, "The fact that several staff members were lying neatly together, with their eyes wide open, could it indicate that this was man-made? And the killer was someone they didn’t expect?"

"It could also be apocalypse monsters, and their wide eyes could just be due to fear. The apocalypse has destroyed the old order, so finding out who the killer was has lost significance."

Chu Qiu analyzed.

Han Xizheng didn’t agree: "Finding out who the killer is can help us identify who the betrayer is. It’s said that three days after the apocalypse, only we twelve are left, but it’s not clear whether the others died from the apocalypse or because of us twelve."

There were people who met with fatal accidents, given that the crew used dummies to replace them, this indicates that "only you twelve are left" doesn’t mean people here vanished without a trace with the arrival of the apocalypse.

Instead, they encountered a disaster, which could be caused by apocalypse creatures or by human infighting.

Others nodded thoughtfully.

"Makes sense," Zhao Yu also bravely joined their analysis, logically.

"The crew’s definition of the betrayer is that they want to monopolize resources, right? If they want to monopolize, then everyone else wouldn’t matter to them. It’s not surprising they’d target others.

After the apocalypse was confirmed, they might think laws and morals no longer apply, so they began the slaughter.

The first day, there might have been many people; on the second and third days, the threat of monsters, the harsh environment, combined with the betrayer’s slaughter, left only us twelve, and they may continue this massacre."