civilwarnovels Chapter 373: Would You Kill for Money
Chapter 373: Would You Kill for Money
Excited as he was, there was still a day and a half left before this round ended, so he needed to keep pushing to find more treasures!He wanted to give his girlfriend a good life!
He carefully put the gold sheet into that wooden box, then placed the wooden box into his backpack.
Picking up the entrenching tool from the ground, Wang De prepared to leave.
But before he could walk away, he heard hurried footsteps behind him.
He turned and saw, dozens of meters away, a burly bearded man.
The burly bearded man, realizing he had been spotted, instantly slid to a stop.
As soon as he stopped, he said to Wang De in front of him:
"Kid, hand over the treasure you just found and I'll let you go."
Of course Wang De would never hand over the treasure he had just found.
But looking at the burly man's build, he knew he was no match.
So without another word, he turned and ran.
Seeing Wang De flee, the burly man immediately gave chase.
I Want to Be the Treasure King live stream room.
Middle-aged Uncle watched this scene on his computer screen.
He typed: [What the hell is this Wilderness Brother? He never looks for treasure, always robs other people?]
Middle-aged Uncle had been watching Wilderness Brother for a long time.
He had noticed this guy never actively searched for treasure.
Bomb King said: [Normal, Wilderness Brother is exactly like that. Others look for treasure, he looks for people.]
Fairy Sister: [Hey, Bomb King, I want to ask, if someone really handed the treasure over to him, would they be okay?]
Bomb King: [Heh, Wilderness Brother is the most despicable person I've seen. Even if you hand him the treasure, he'll still attack you, kill you. After all, each game participant represents a medium treasure.]
[Anyway, these days, these despicable shameless people do the best. Those who are honest and keep their word fare worse.]
Little Aunt: [No worries. If Wilderness Brother has a conflict with Jiang Ran, let Jiang Ran teach him a lesson.]
Bomb King scoffed: [You guys from other live rooms have no idea how terrifying Wilderness Brother is. That weakling Jiang Ran—he won't even be able to save his own life then.]
...
Wang De was chased hard by Wilderness Brother.
Wang De kept glancing back;seeing Wilderness Brother getting closer and closer, he threw the entrenching tool in his hand behind him to slow Wilderness Brother down.
At the same time, it reduced dragging weight while running.
After he tossed the entrenching tool away,
Wang De ran while shouting angrily.
He shouted with great force, veins bulging on his forehead.
"Explode! My little universe!"
Right after he shouted that, his speed surged.
In an instant he put a notable distance between himself and Wilderness Brother.
Seeing Wang De pulling away and growing farther ahead, Wilderness Brother gave up the chase and stopped.
He panted heavily to catch his breath.
At the same time, he was puzzled:
"Strange, why are there so many people who can run this round?"
"Before this, it would take dozens of rounds to encounter a few who could run."
Wilderness Brother muttered gloomily:
"Even with years of training, once age sets in, you're no match for young people."
"If I were young again, that woman and this guy right now would never get out of my hands."
Wilderness Brother's middle- to long-distance running had clearly deteriorated.
The only thing still decent was short-distance acceleration.
His speed remained terrifying.
But still, he had encountered two people in a row and failed to catch either.
"This round, I still haven't made a move..."
...
After escaping Wilderness Brother, Wang De relaxed.
He planned to stop, but the slope under his feet was a bit steep and slippery,
so he went tumbling and ate dirt.
The fall wasn't serious.
He got up quickly.
After standing, he took a water bottle from his backpack and gulped several swigs to relieve the physical exhaustion and thirst from the chase.
"That person must have been one of this round's game participants, right?"
As a participant himself, Wang De naturally had the participant list for this round.
There were six people in total.
He took out his phone and checked the list,
trying to guess which of the six the man who had chased him was.
He scanned the list, ruled out Participant No. 6, the Mysterious Figure.
He figured the man chasing him was Participant No. 2, Wilderness Brother.
After all, the scruffy beard and his look matched the name.
"Good thing I'm not like my roommates who do nothing but attend class and camp in the dorm playing games. At least I exercise — otherwise if it were my roommates, they'd definitely have been caught."
Wang De shuddered inwardly.
Wilderness Brother looked so old, yet could run so well. Especially in that initial stretch, he nearly caught him.
"I have to thank my girlfriend!"
Wang De felt that escaping death was entirely thanks to his girlfriend.
Because his girlfriend disliked fat otaku types, she constantly urged him to work out at the gym.
"Alright, for my girlfriend, I'll work even harder!"
Wang De rested a moment, then continued forward to look for treasure.
Not even five minutes later, he heard a faint, ethereal voice drifting over.
He froze and listened, not catching it clearly at first.
He moved toward the voice source.
Only then did he make out a girl's voice, seemingly shouting: "Help! Help!"
"Someone's shouting for help?!"
Wang De followed the voice.
After passing through patches of overgrown plants,
he saw, under a large tree about ten meters ahead, a girl sitting beside the tree.
Her right foot was trapped in a black animal trap.
Her right ankle was stained with blood.
There was also a pool of blood on the ground;the wound looked serious.
Seeing no one else around, Wang De stepped out.
The girl's face was extremely pale, possibly from blood loss.
When she saw Wang De, she cried in a flimsy, pleading voice:
"Big brother, please save me! I'm caught in an animal trap!!!"
Wang De instinctively moved to help.
But in the next moment, his mind suddenly remembered the rules of this game he had read before.
Every game participant counts as a medium treasure;killing another participant grants you a medium treasure.
A medium treasure can be exchanged for 500,000 yuan after the game ends.
Wang De had extremely good luck in the previous round.
Besides getting two small treasures, he hadn't encountered any other participants.
So he had wondered if he had been the only participant in that round.
Wang De had no intention of killing anyone.
He thought the rule was outrageous.
Isn't murder illegal?
You'd go to jail and get shot!
Kill someone for 500,000?
What if they put you in prison before the money arrives.