The girl with black hair slowly showed up. She just looked at Su Bai coldly and indifferently. Now, she was no longer calm and mischievous. Instead, she became a little hysterical, like an ugly girl who became angry, ashamed and stunned after her heavy makeup was suddenly washed off.
"Yes, I’ve underestimated you—not you, but the Sophia woman. If she didn’t tangle with me, costing me so much energy, you would never make it here."
A creepy smile appeared on the girl’s face.
"But none of them can leave here alive."
Su Bai shook his head and thought: We had never made such an extravagant wish that all of us could leave alive. After all, it was a story world for a group task. As long as he himself could survive, who’d care about others?
The purple aura was all over Su Bai, but it couldn’t send him away. They were in a stalemate.
"What?" Su Bai looked at the girl. "Afraid to reset me again?"
The fundamental principle of this story was merely to reset the time. There were 20 participants in total and each time, three of them could be reset; but every time, this girl with black hair would take up one position, which meant that she cut three people down to only two. Thus, the story became much easier, and numerous pressure would be saved by reducing only one person.
However, Su Bai managed a perfect timing. The girl with black hair and the two western men had entered the river, and then he stepped in just in time. It was like a door; Su Bai had stretched out his hand to it before it closed, or even squeezed in half of his body, but the owner of the door was afraid to let him in.
Once Su Bai was in, the girl with black hair would definitely lose her chance because she was not a human being but an embodiment of this river. Of course, she could pretend to be an audience and slip through, but when another genuine audience entered this purple aura with them, he would take up the position without a doubt, while the counterfeit would lose hers.
In a word, Su Bai had pushed the girl out of the game by simply standing here.
The purple aura couldn’t send Su Bai away because once everything was reset, the girl herself would become one of the reset objects. The river had created this game but now, it would lose its control over this game.
More than just a Sophia, more than just a Su Bai; among the 20 audiences, someone would notice the problem of this story, then another one…Without the girl trying to fix everything, the story game wouldn’t last long.
"Next, there won’t be a reset. I wonder how many of you can survive." The girl’s eyes turned red. Clearly, she wasn’t going to give up and let things drift.
"In fact, I’m impressed by your efforts."
Su Bai looked at the river. Even till now, he still had no idea about the relationship between the story world and the Dreadful Radio; but facing the Dreadful Radio as an audience, he was so weak and powerless. However, this river was actually challenging the Dreadful Radio. The ending was doomed to be tragic, but it was also heroic.
At last, the purple aura increased dramatically and Su Bai vanished from where he was.
Everything was reset…
…For the last time!
...
Opening his eyes, Su Bai was a little surprised. He was not standing by the road, but sitting by the fireplace in the cabin. In front of him, a western girl was sitting there: it was Sophia.
Just then, Sophia opened her eyes and looked at Su Bai.
"Hi," Su Bai said. In the meantime, he sat straight to show some respect.
"You don’t have to thank me. I was planning to tell Jack but every time, we’d just miss each other by inches…Besides, to some extent, Jack was not as good as you were. That was why I chose to tell you."
Su Bai didn’t care. He looked around; it was rather dirty, and there was no beer or sausages.
"Why are we here ahead of everyone else?" Su Bai asked. Judging by the surroundings, apparently, Fatty and Ego had not arrived at this cabin yet.
"This is the last reset, so all the memories from earlier resets are coming back to everyone. How many people did we kill in all those resets? How much hatred and rage will we get?"
Sophia stood up and walked to the window.
"This story is going to end. The Dreadful Radio will certainly create a highlight, a bloody exciting highlight, to make it more enjoyable. If we’re put among other audiences, everyone will start killing each other immediately, then it’s gonna take all the fun out of it. He won’t like that."
"So…everything is still under the control of the Dreadful Radio? This river was just a clown to make the story more interesting?"
"I respect this river," Sophia pointed to the river by the cabin, "and it was honorable."
Su Bai nodded and walked to Sophia. "By the way, did you find the source?"
"You’ve figured it out, didn’t you?" Sophia looked at him.
"So what are we gonna do? Go find him?"
"First of all, we’ll have to leave this forest alive."
Just as Sophia said that, fierce roars and growls came from under the river as turbulent tides. Next, the dead people which used to walk at the bottom of the river started to madly climb ashore and run toward here—They had only one simple target: the cabin and the two people in it.
Su Bai held the azure staff in his hand and waved it like a baseball bat.
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