What malicious intent could NPCs possibly have? C18.2

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Chp18. part2

Owen looked innocent. “When you guys were scanning the QR codes, I tried it out with the helmet on. Of course, I’d check the health and hygiene class first, otherwise? Chinese, math, English, physics, and chemistry?”

Curly said, “How about we borrow a baby?”

Short-haired replied, “Definitely not. The mission says it needs ‘your child.'”

Curly continued, “Find a baby, become someone’s godparents? Or adopt one?”

Godparents seemed a stretch, probably wouldn’t work, but adoption was a real idea. The group immediately started asking around.

However, the result was disappointing; there was no such thing as adoption here.

The punishment for this mission wasn’t random player selection and execution; everyone had to complete it.

Even Alphas like Pei Han and Jing Yao were no exception.

Jing Yao glanced at Ning Ge and Jiang Jin.

“It’s actually very simple. Giving birth only takes two hours. We have two women, and we need five children in total. One of them will give birth to two children, and the other to three. It’ll be over quickly.”

He spoke casually, as if he were peeling five apples.

Pei Han sneered, “You’re dreaming.”

Under the influence of hormones, everyone is a little abnormal. The man with the short-hair couldn’t help but look the two girls up and down.

“Brother Jing is right,” he said, “There’s no other way. We still need you girls to sacrifice a little, for everyone’s sake.”

Jing Yao said, “I won’t let them give birth for nothing. I’m willing to pay them after we leave the dungeon.” He glanced at Pei Han, “If the girls are willing, what’s it to you? Are you trying to stop them?”

Jing Yao glanced at Jiang Jin, knowing there was no chance, and then asked Ning Ge, “Aren’t you short of money? Don’t you want to take this opportunity to make some money?”

He had seen her at the transit station in her baggy, shabby clothes and knew she was poor.

“If you don’t want me to, of course I won’t touch you. There are other ways to have a child, I just want to buy your body to have a baby,” he said. “Tell me, how much do you want? The price will definitely satisfy you.”

Owen chuckled. “The last time I smelled this was when Fantine sold her hair and teeth. Why don’t you go back to your coffin from two hundred years ago and rest¹?”

Ning Ge coldly said to Jing Yao, “Having a child is absolutely impossible. I think actually…”

Seeing her resolute refusal, Jing Yao didn’t want to hear what else she had to say and interrupted her, “It’s fine if you two refuse. I’ll just find a female NPC to help me.”

He was good-looking, maybe he could really trick an NPC into having a child for him.

Curly-haired, blushing, said, “Actually, it’s not impossible to sincerely marry an NPC and have a baby with her. Babies are so cute.”

Owen asked him, “You’ll run away after giving birth? Besides, the baby can’t leave the dungeon. Can you bear to leave your child, and your child’s children, all in this hellish place where you can only live for a few days?”

Short-haired, calculating, and plotting his own scheme.

He was of average appearance, with no outstanding features, and might not be able to fool an NPC so quickly. He still needed to hold onto Jing Yao’s coattails.

“Brother Jing, time is so tight. What if we don’t have enough time to find an NPC?”

Jing Yao smiled. “How could we not have enough time?”

Ning Ge shuddered at the thought of the blood on the nanny.

The short-haired guy continued to persuade him, “NPCs are unreliable. What if the system sets a trap for us with an NPC? That would be a disaster! There are clearly two women here who could help us…”

Owen couldn’t take it anymore, “Help your boss. Anyway, this mission has an eight-hour time limit, why don’t we just abandon it and go find the anchor point?”

Pei Han, who had been deep in thought, suddenly said, “I think we can give it a try.”

Curly hair cried out in anguish, “Give it a try? We don’t have a single clue about the anchor point right now, where are we supposed to look?”

Jing Yao was swayed by the curly-hair guy, “Stop whining, how long are you going to keep this up? I think I’ll give up. I don’t care about anyone else, but one of you two women has to help me with the mission.”

Pei Han interrupted him with a look of impending violence, “Go ahead and try…”

What happened next was so fast that Ning Ge didn’t even see it.

Jiang Jin, who had been silent all along, flashed by like a ghost.

Jing Yao froze for a second, then suddenly roared from the depths of his throat, bending over in pain and clutching his pants.

A gash appeared in his pants, the wound healing instantly with barely any blood, but unfortunately, the severed part couldn’t be reattached.

She castrated him with a single stroke.

“Jiang Jin, are you fucking crazy?!” Jing Yao was furious.

Her strike was too fast, ruthless, and completely unexpected, even an Alpha like Jing Yao couldn’t dodge it.

Ning Ge understood Jiang Jin’s thinking perfectly.

She clearly didn’t trust anyone. Not only Jing Yao and his group, but also Pei Han and Owen. There were only two girls here, Ning Ge and herself, but a group of men, including two Alphas—it would be difficult to defeat them all.

The simplest method was to intimidate everyone directly.

Like in a group fight, even if the other side has many people, if you grab one and beat them to a pulp, you can scare the others into not daring to fight.

Otherwise, who knows what these men might do to survive and complete their mission to leave the dungeon.

However, Ning Ge was surprised by her choice of Jing Yao, suggesting they weren’t very close.

Jiang Jin’s strike was remarkably effective.

As a bucket of cold water was poured over their heads, all the men involuntarily felt a chill run down their spines.

The curly-haired man’s face stopped blushing, while the short-hair man was completely stunned, all the thoughts that had been simmering since the talk of having children vanishing instantly.

Jiang Jin twirled her dagger in her hand, coldly glancing at the short-hair, whose face turned deathly pale. He stumbled back several steps, his legs trembling.

In the ensuing silence, the curly-haired paused, then quietly comforted Jing Yao.

“It’s alright, as long as you don’t die, it’ll grow back as soon as you leave the dungeon.”

These were the words Owen had used to comfort him after his arm was severed.

Ning Ge thought: Although it will grow back after leaving the dungeon, Jing Yao will feel that Jiang Jin’s hot-tempered strike has cut off his path out of the dungeon.

Now, not only could he not have children with Ning Ge and the others, he couldn’t even have sex with NPCs.

Now, his only way to survive was to find the anchor point within the eight-hour mission timeframe.

He was probably going to do something desperate.

Sure enough, Jing Yao’s face turned from white to green, contorted for a moment, then suddenly stopped covering himself, lunged forward, and tried to snatch Jiang Jin’s dagger, seemingly intending to stab her as well.

The two started fighting without a word, both ruthless and fast, a dazzling display of skill.

However, Pei Han was there.

This time, unlike during the health check when he half-heartedly fought Jing Yao, he really did it, pinning Jing Yao against the wall in just a few moves.

He gestured towards Ning Ge, “Quiet down, she has something to say. Listen to her.”

They finally stopped arguing and were willing to listen to Ning Ge.

Ning Ge repeated, “I think it’s not necessarily about having a baby, there should be other ways.”

Jing Yao’s tool for committing the crime was gone. To complete his mission, Ning Ge’s ‘other ways’ suddenly became his only option.

His face turned ashen. He broke free from Pei Han’s restraint, no longer attacking or uttering a sound.

Ning Ge said, “To order a chip, as long as the management system has the baby’s information, the ordering process can be completed. Since the baby was really born, I want to find out how the baby’s QR code came about, and how the serial number got into the management system.”

Pei Han understood her meaning, “You want to create a fake baby in the system?”

“That’s right,” Ning Ge said.

1. This is actually a direct reference to Victor Hugo’s famous novel Les Misérables. Fantine is a tragic character in Les Misérables. She is a struggling mother who becomes so desperate to send money to her daughter, Cosette, that she literally sells the only things she has left: her hair and front tea.
   Owen literally insults them; the smell can mean decay, poverty, or death. Selling teeth and hair in the 1800s was a gruesome, bloody, and “dirty” business. ‘Coffin from two hundred years ago,’ he is calling them ancient, outdated, or “walking dead.” ↩︎