94 - Coercion

Translated by rabbitrisu

“In this nightmare world, it’s not just the world itself that can kill people. There are also many other things that are ignored.” Wu Qing uttered those words outside the door. They could no longer be regarded as coercion, but a threat.

In fact, Wu Qing’s words did have an effect, but then he said too much, which had a counterproductive effect for Lin Xiao.

At first, when Wu Qing promised Lin Xiao that he would ‘bring Lin Xiao out of the nightmare world as soon as possible,’ she was completely caught. But when Wu Qing started to threaten her with ‘death,’ Lin Xiao was unmoved, and even had a sense of relief in her voice.

That’s because Wu Qing was completely wrong.

For Lin Xiao, the situation she has to face if she misses the best time to return to the real world, since she’s not yet mature… it may be more terrifying than ‘death.’

So death wasn’t a threat to Lin Xiao.

“I’m not going out anymore.” Lin Xiao simply curled into a ball and looked at Jiang Wei and Su Zimo, slightly conflicted. “But you probably want to leave.”

“I have no wife, no children, no home, and no job. I’m afraid I have nothing to worry about except starving to death here.” Jiang Wei smiled bitterly. “Anyway, if we don’t leave, they won’t come in. Let’s see who will kill who first.”

When Lin Xiao heard the word ‘kill,’ her expression was slightly sour.

‘Eagerly approaching death’ is chic, but to university students who hadn’t yet entered society and hadn’t thought about it, it was actually easier to speak about than to go through with it.

“I see that the other newcomer is here.” Wu Qing obviously heard Jiang Wei’s voice through the door. “You seem to have said before that your name is Jiang Wei. Are you confident that you want to clear the task yourself? Why are you trapped now?”

“Aren’t you in a hurry to clear the task?” Jiang Wei sneered.

“Speaking of, Gan Yuan, I asked you to bring something to eat”

Wu Qing raised his voice a lot as if he was deliberately mocking Jiang Wei. “What did you bring?”

“……” Gan Yuan, who should have been standing behind Wu Qing, did not respond.

If Su Zimo remembered correctly, Gan Yuan was the eldest miss of the Gan Family, and Wu Qing was the so-called ‘oil bottle’ brought into the Gan family through Gan Yuan’s stepmother. Gan Yuan didn’t like her stepmother or half-brother, so Gan Yuan always played the role of an arrogant and domineering bully toward Wu Qing, even having her boyfriend bully him.

The boyfriend seemed to be a veteran of the nightmare world, but Su Zimo didn’t see him this time. He didn’t know if it was because he hadn’t become Wu Qing’s slave or if something unpredictable had happened.

But this time, Gan Yuan refused to say a word beside Wu Qing.

“Speak! Do you want to end up like Xiao Yuyang?!” Wu Qing suddenly shouted in outrage, and reminded Su Zimo that Gan Yuan’s boyfriend was called Xiao Yuyang.

“You were worried that you would be thrown onto an uninhabited island with just sea water like last time, so I prepared a backpack full of biscuits and vitamin tablets. Everyone else is also carrying plenty of water.” Guan Yuan’s weak voice unwillingly rang out.

Only then did Su Zimo know what Wu Qing and the others had in the heavy backpacks behind them.

“Jiang Wei, have you heard? We have rations prepared for a week on an uninhabited island. What about you? Can you survive a week?” Wu Qing threw another medallion under the door with six black dots. “Lin Xiao isn’t afraid of death, but what about you?”

Standing outside the door, Wu Qing didn’t immediately get the response he wanted, but the long silence made him feel like he had won.

Wu Qing really enjoyed the feeling of victory. When he was bullied by Gan Yuan, he would vent all of his unwillingness and fury into his phone or computer games. He took the money the Gan family gave him and the money his mother got from his stepfather. All of the money was invested into games, trying to use money to create a record of local tyrants in every game that used krypton gold to solve problems and then leave happily.

Over time, when Wu Qing used his game ID to speak on social platforms, he would be called a ‘big boss’ or ‘great god.’ They were mostly compliments, so the feeling was Wu Qing’s favorite.

But before entering the nightmare world, Wu Qing was always crushed by some ‘ants’ in the real world rankings.

Above him were Gan Yuan, everyone in the Gan family, and even those who helped Gan Yuan bully him.

In fact, anyone who knew that Wu Qing was the Gan family oil bottle would step on him.

The brilliance of the online world and the darkness of the real world had long turned Wu Qing into a somewhat twisted person. On one hand, he accepted it, but on the other, he kept looking for a breakthrough.

How vowed to show those people how great he was!

When entering the nightmare world for the first time, Wu Qing tried to snatch an item from an NPC, but ended in merciless failure.

That NPC, who was obviously not real, said something that he didn’t remember to make him grow up… In Wu Qing’s opinion, it wasn’t the Gan family’s efforts that allowed him to grow so strong. Only the mother who secretly gave him money was truly good to him.

But for some reason, whenever he fell asleep in the middle of the night, Wu Qing often dreamt that the NPC was looking at him in contempt.

Wu Qing didn’t actually remember what the NPC’s expression looked like in the beginning, but he always dreamt that those eyes were extremely cold and filled with unbearable contempt.

And the face of that NPC…

Wu Qing couldn’t understand why that game NPC who didn’t really exist had such an outstanding face.

Wu Qing hadn’t inherited even half a point of beauty from his mother. On the contrary, he looked very similar to his dark and skinny gambler father.

Wu Qing actually wanted to find an item in the game that could change his appearance. Although he hadn’t found one yet, he has something better than that.

Thinking of that, Wu Qing took out a sword with a gorgeous scabbard and hilt from the long sleeves of his clothes with satisfaction. He pulled it out of the scabbard and swung the red blade in front of Gan Yuan several times.

“When I asked you just now, why didn’t you answer right away? Are you still unconvinced? Maybe I should show you the functions of the slave medallion, although Xiao Yuyang told me about that thing.”

As Wu Qing said that, he was very satisfied that his once-aloof sister grit her teeth. Although she was filled with hatred, she didn’t say a word.

“As long as you carry this medallion, unless I die, you must enter the same nightmare world with me at the same time. In addition, holders with other numbers will never be able to attack the first medallion holder.” Wu Qing looked an Gan Yuan proudly. He enjoyed telling that to the people in the hiking club over and over again.

“If a slave wearing a medallion dies in the nightmare world, all their nightmare points belong to the holder of the first medallion. In addition, the holder of the first medallion has the power to collect nightmare points from the slave.” Having said that, Wu Qing tsk-ed. “It’s so pitiful. You’ve experience a few nightmare worlds, but you haven’t strengthened your body at all. You don’t even have half of the props I do. Your survival is because of my pity for you.”

“Also, since I turned you into slaves, I can enjoy five times the nightmare points alone. I’ll become stronger and stronger. I’ll raise you like pigs and make you obediently earn me nightmare points.” Wu Qing was extremely satisfied with his plan. “If I had a slave medallion earlier, I wouldn’t have done anything to Xiao Yuyang. I lost a pig who could earn nightmare points for nothing.”

“Fortunately, maybe two new members will join us soon.” Wu Qing looked certainly at the closed classroom door.

Even if the two newcomers couldn’t make it out, Wu Qing still had absolute confidence in his current strength. His ability to solve the supernatural events on campus so quickly was the best proof.

It was also a rare opportunity for Wu Qing to meet a powerless newcomer like this time.

“You must have a lot of things you want to say, right?” Wu Qing’s eyes swept across the members of the hiking club, and finally landed on Gan Yuan. “If you don’t speak up, it’ll be very uncomfortable, just like I was at the beginnning.”

“Now I’ll give you a chance to say whatever you want. I can’t bear to act against my baby piglets.” Wu Qing was killing time, trying his best to torture Gan Yuan and the others.

It took who knows how long before Gan Yuan, who had rarely spoke, cleared her dry throat and spoke coldly, “Wu Qing, I’m not a good person, but you’re no longer human.”

“Being a ghost is more comfortable than being a member of your Gan family.” Wu Qing sneered.

“If you hate the Gan family so much, why do you use our money? The clothes you wear, the expensive computers you use, the game equipment you only use once, and the huge sums of money that you put into meaningless games are all using my father’s money. What aren’t you satisfied with!” As Gan Yuan spoke, she squatted down and started crying into her heavy backpack.

“My father is so good to you, and he’s so old! Why do you still torture him!!” Gan Yuan wailed loudly. “I know you won’t kill me, just make my life worse. I don’t care anymore. Just please, don’t torture him with malicious spirits anymore!”

“Yes, just vent it all like this.” Wu Qing wasn’t at all moved. “Have you not noticed that the world has begun to change? Old men and ordinary people like that can’t adapt to the incoming world. Am I not helping him adapt more quickly?”

“Well. You can keep your mouth shut again.”

“……” Gan Yuan was humiliated, but she stopped talking after that.

“Those inside, don’t you feel hungry now? Even if you continue to delay, you’ll still have to face the same result in the end. It’s better to finish fighting quickly to make both sides feel better. How about it?”

When Wu Qing shouted through the door, he felt that the two newcomers who didn’t even bring backpacks must be starving after such a long time. Coupled with the oppression from all kinds of malicious spirits, they would soon succumb.

But what Wu Qing didn’t expect was…

A voice came from the door.

“Chocolate biscuits? Ayu, you still carry this kind of thing with you?”

“Oh my god… is this pineapple pie? Is your backpack a 4D pocket?”

“You… even brought two cans of mango juice? There are also pineapples on top of the pineapple pie… Are you Doraemon?” ¹

Wu Qing: “……”

Footnotes

<ol>Doraemon is a Japanese cartoon about a blue cat robot that helps a little boy solve his problems. He’s known for randomly pulling helpful things out from a 4D space pocket. It’s kind of similar to the purple backpack from dora (lol Dora-emon) but less annoying.</ol>