Chapter 43: A Private Message from a Gigolo

By the time they reached the last group of people, it was already 5:00 a.m. Mo Yubai and Wen Ruyan stood back-to-back, staring at the six men in front of them, and struck first without hesitation!

As Mo Yubai’s flying dagger slit the throat of the last man, the first ray of sunlight from the east fell upon them.

She looked up and shared a smile with Wen Ruyan, a silent understanding passing between them.

Returning to her own highway, Mo Yubai bid a weary farewell to Wen Ruyan.

Summoning her remaining energy, she drove back to the site of last night’s fight and collected the seven slightly damaged Electric Tricycles first.

She placed their seven backpacks next to the thirty-five backpacks she had gathered from her pursuits the night before. After a moment’s thought, she reluctantly put on gloves to loot the corpses.

To her surprise, she actually found something good. In the pocket of the burly leader she had killed first, she discovered a Pause Gold Coin.

She put it into her backpack to check its details.

[Pause Gold Coin: Click the back of the coin to use on a player within a 1-meter range. Freezes their actions for one minute. Uses remaining: 2/5]

Looking at the description, Mo Yubai broke out in a cold sweat. Only now did she realize why that burly man had looked so confident right before he died.

Fortunately, she had acted decisively and finished him off quickly, first kicking him into a tree and then kicking his head, leaving him dazed.

Otherwise, if he had used this coin, even a single minute would have been enough to finish her!

It seemed she really had to be more careful in this Survival Game. If she could attack from a distance, she would never engage in close combat!

Committing this lesson to memory, Mo Yubai returned to the Pickled Pepper Fish Head.

She took out the reward for ranking first on the vehicle leaderboard, the Automatic Repairer.

Aiming it at the deformed rear of the Pickled Pepper Fish Head, she selected repair!

[Beep! Damage level detected at 30%. Required repair materials: Iron Block x50, Plastic x15, Battery x30, Rubber x12, Glass x9, Leather x11. Proceed with repairs?]

These materials were a mere drop in the bucket for Mo Yubai now, so she decisively chose to repair!

The Automatic Repairer flew up and attached itself to the vehicle’s body. A white light flashed, and when the repairer flew back down, the vehicle was as good as new!

Mo Yubai immediately praised, “Now that’s fast!”

Putting away the Automatic Repairer, Mo Yubai decided she couldn’t be bothered to fix those battered tricycles and electric scooters. She was dead tired and wanted nothing more than to sleep.

Sighing, she took a sip of Shuilan Tree Sap, then grabbed a steamed bun and some chili sauce sent by Zhu Ou to grab a quick bite.

Once she was sure her stomach was no longer growling, she handed driving control over to Xiao Ling, slumped onto the car seat, and fell fast asleep.

As Mo Yubai slept, she had no idea what a massive shockwave her night of slaughter had sent through the chat channel!

“Is it over?”

“It’s over.”

“Holy crap, everyone in that group is dead?”

“Looks like it. Just around 4:50, the last few players said the six of them were going to turn the tables on Boss Mo and Boss Wen.”

“And now, if you click on those six avatars, they’ve all been deleted.”

“What did they do to offend the bosses so badly that they’d spend the whole night hunting them down?”

“Their talent for getting into trouble was truly unmatched!”

“Aren’t any of you going to call out Mo Yubai and Wen Ruyan for being completely insane? No matter what, they shouldn’t kill like this. How are they any different from monsters?”

“Boss Mo, we never said anything bad about you! If you want to hunt someone down, go after the living Buddha^[1] above me!”

“Are you kidding me? Are we doing thought police in a Survival Game now? Ever heard of free speech?”

“I hear you, but I took a screenshot. I have Boss Mo on my friend list, so I’m sending it to her right now.”

“Daddy! I was wrong! I have a big mouth! I just like using double standards on people. Please don’t send it to Mo Yubai! I don’t want to die yet!”

“Hahaha, you coward, you folded so fast! Your grandma was lying to you, I don’t have Boss Mo on my friend list.”

“You , I !”

“Hahaha, are you triggered? You idiot, stop barking when you don’t know anything!”

“Exactly! Boss Mo did a great job killing them! Everyone in that group was a beast!”

“A very pretty girl on my friend list was driven to her death by five guys from their group! Boss Mo did the right thing! Dying like that was too easy for them. They should have been sliced into a thousand pieces, dragged down to the eighteenth level of hell^[2], and reincarnated as beasts for all eternity!”

“You shouldn’t say that. They’re already dead, so let bygones be bygones. Isn’t it a bit much to keep cursing them like this?”

“Bro is right. How can a girl say such vicious things? Besides, maybe your pretty friend was willing?”

“Yeah, let’s be real, guys. There are plenty of pretty girls who private message me every day offering their bodies for supplies!”

“See, what did I tell you? In this harsh survival environment, the guys in that group were kindly taking in you helpless girls for free, only to be framed and brutally murdered by extremist women. Do you get it now, brothers? Think twice before doing a good deed in the future!”

“All I can say is these women want to have their cake and eat it too. They act all reluctant on the outside, but who knows how thrilled they are on the inside~”

“Lmao, I thought you looked familiar. Hey, ‘private message bro,’ didn’t you private message me yesterday saying someone stole your supplies, begging me for some water, and even saying you’d sleep with me? I blacklisted you immediately. How are you turning around now and claiming you have tons of supplies?”

“Wait, do you have proof? You can’t just open your mouth and frame this brother.”

“Of course I do. I’ll post the screenshot in the chat channel right now. Come on, ‘private message bro,’ or rather, ‘private message gigolo,’ say something.”

“Holy crap, it’s real. Is this guy selling himself?”

“To be fair, this private message gigolo actually has a great body and face. He’s the ‘young pup^[3]‘ type. With moves like that, he probably did this for a living before.”

“Definitely. Why else would he immediately accuse others of doing it? He only knows because he’s in the business himself~”

“Honestly, girls, I’m kind of digging his looks!”

“Get some taste, will you? You’d actually eat this crap?”

“I get it now. This was all just a marketing tactic by the private message gigolo. Look at him, he just sold himself!”

“Isn’t this thread getting off track? Weren’t we denouncing Mo Yubai and Wen Ruyan? How did we end up talking about a gigolo?”

“Only you guys with guilty consciences are denouncing them. Even though I’m a guy, I think Boss Mo did a great job! Those beasts who only know how to bully women deserve to die at the hands of women!”

“Plus one. Only those with a guilty conscience would denounce the bosses. After all, if you don’t do that kind of stuff and don’t actively look for trouble, the bosses don’t have the time to watch you all day.”

“I don’t want to denounce the bosses, and I don’t want a gigolo. I just want to know why the boss hasn’t come out to sell vehicles yet. My electric scooter was wrecked by a giant stone monster, and now I just want to buy one of the boss’s secondhand vehicles.”

“Plus one, waiting for the boss to put secondhand vehicles up for sale!”

“The boss spent the whole night killing people. She’s probably resting right now.”

“So, what do you guys think my chances of success would be if I went to sneak-attack the boss right now?”

“One hundred percent, bro. Go for it! I believe in you! Just, could you take a screenshot of your vehicle first? I want to see if I like it. If I do, I’ll buy it without hesitation when the boss puts it up for sale later!”

“Go for it, bro! You’ll definitely succeed right now!”

“Your intentions are as clear as day. You’re not even trying to hide it!”

“If you want to die, we can only respect your choice and wish you the best.”

…

When Mo Yubai opened her eyes again, it was already noon. She woke up with a sore back and aching muscles.

Xiao Ling had been driving at top speed all morning, but since some of the chests guarded by stronger monsters couldn’t be automatically collected, their haul wasn’t particularly abundant.