Chapter 344 - Chapter 344: Chapter 344: An Unprecedented Game (Part 2) (1/2)

Chapter 344: Chapter 344: An Unprecedented Game (Part 2)

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In the game, Xiang Kun’s voice was still gently narrating the plot. Although there was not yet a place for her to make choices, the background sound, or more appropriately, the commentary style and rhythm gave her a deep immersion. She was seriously listening to the story, without any impatience.

“Before your consciousness becomes fuzzy, a caravan appears on the distant horizon. You can see it’s a group of merchants. Then, you lose consciousness and faint.”

Fainted just like that? How long will she be out?

Tang Baona looked up upon hearing this at Old Xia, who was also sitting on another sofa, holding his phone and listening attentively to the game audio with his headphones on. She wondered what part of the plot he was currently hearing. Then she looked at Yang Zhen’er, who was sitting in the restaurant with her feet on the table, holding her phone and grinning like an idiot, curious about what she was listening to.

At that moment, a familiar voice came through the headphones: “Your consciousness slowly recovers, and when you open your eyes, you see a face covered with a veil and a turban. Those eyes seem to be able to see through everything. A male voice next to you says:

“Miss, how are you feeling? This is our Master Xia Dong. She was the one who decided to rescue you.”‘

The male voice was still Xiang Kun’s, but due to changes in speech rhythm and pronunciation emphasis, Tang Baona could instantly tell it was an older man. Combining this with the story’s context, she imagined a shopkeeper in his fifties.

At this moment, the ordinary background sound rang again: “You set your sights on the veiled woman and begin to speak…”

Tang Baona was taken aback for a moment, then remembered the content she had heard half an hour ago upon entering the game during the phase where the settings and gameplay were explained. She realized that now was her turn to speak.

So, like how she would send voice messages on WeChat, she pressed a button and began to speak: “Thank you, Master Xia Dong, for rescuing me.”

After releasing her hand and inputting the audio content, she began to wait curiously—this was her first time taking part in the game process. She wanted to see what Xiang Kun’s “It’s up to you to decide how the story develops” mechanism was like.

In her earphones, the narrator started: “The woman with the veil replied to you…” Then, after a pause of two seconds, a familiar voice sounded: “You’re welcome.”

Before Tang Baona had time to wait for the next prompt from the narrator, she pressed the input button and continued to ask: “Old Xia? Is that you?”

Two seconds later, Old Xia’s voice came: “Strictly speaking, you shouldn’t know me now.”

Tang Baona was stunned. Was it really Old Xia?

There was no surprise in Old Xia being “Master Xia Dong” as she knew that the three of them were the only “players” in the game and it was normal to “encounter” each other.

But the problem was that at the beginning, the narrator had introduced that her character, “Tang Ying,” had been injured while escaping after trying to assassinate the leader of the Blood Hand Group, “Xia Libing.”

It was clear therefore that this “Master Xia Dong” with the caravan and the “Xia Libing,” whom she tried to assassinate, were not the same person, otherwise the story wouldn’t have proceeded this way.

If this “Master Xia Dong” is Old Xia, then who is the leader of the Blood Hand Group, “Xia Libing”?

Tang Baona looked at Yang Zhen’er, who was sitting in the restaurant staring at her phone with a cunning smile, and immediately understood. Yang Zhen’er had used the name “Xia Libing” in the game. She was the leader of the Blood Hand Group.

Tang Baona was speechless. This girl even took the real name of another “player”. Clearly, she was planning on playing dirty.

As she thought, she wanted to ask Old Xia for his current name, but suddenly found the voice input button was stuck. After a few seconds, when she thought the game had a glitch and was about to ask Xiang Kun, the narrator’s background voice came on:

“Tang Ying found out that the caravan leader who saved her was an old acquaintance from the martial arts world, ‘Xia Shiwan’. After talking, she learned that the identity of ‘Xia Shiwan’ as the caravan leader was false. Everyone in the caravan was actually her companion. Their journey, like Tang Ying’s, was aimed at assassinating the monstrous leader of the Blood Hand Group, ‘Xia Libing’. Therefore, Tang Ying told the other party about her previous attempt to assassinate ‘Xia Libing’, and the two parties began to discuss how to achieve their common goal.”

“Xia Siwan”? What the hell? Four balls? Old Xia’s naming process was weird. Wait, not four balls, but “Shiwan”? Because he was trying the game out, so he chose the name “Shiwan”, Xia Shiwan? Alright, if Zhen’er’s naming method was too cunning, then Old Xia’s naming method was just too unique.

With these revelations, Tang Baona was stunned. So, according to this setting, do the characters she and Old Xia play already know each other? Was this the original setting, or did the setting change based on the two sentences she just said?

Thinking about the descriptive style of the background voice when she first woke up from the “coma,” and the few seconds of pause earlier, she guessed that the latter was more likely.

However, to judge and modify the subsequent drama in such a short time based on what she said, and to listen to it without feeling much inconsistency, this game was highly intelligent!

She also noticed that the tone of the narrator seemed to have shifted to narrating the entire story, instead of solely speaking to her. It seemed that what she and Old Xia heard was the same narration?

She heard the background voice of the narrator again: “Xia Shiwan checked Tang Ying’s injuries and confirmed that she was stable and not in critical danger. She then called the two strongest members in the caravan to the carriage to discuss the plan to deal with the leader of the Blood Hand Group, ‘Xia Libing’.”

Next, the narrator introduced some details regarding Tang Ying’s previous assassination attempt. Truth be told, even as the creator of the character, Tang Baona was just now learning about these details from the narrator.

Finally, when she got a chance to speak and the input key was reactivated, Tang Baona decided to continue with the plot. So, immersing herself in her character, she asked, “‘Miss Shiwan’… In your opinion, how should we assassinate ‘Xia Libing’… the leader of the Blood Hand Group?”

She wanted to raise a few suggestions on how to deal with the leader of the Blood Hand Group, but when she mentioned the character names chosen by Old Xia and Zhen’er, she could hardly suppress her laughter; it was too hard to bear.

The voice of Xia Libing came: “According to Lady Tang’s story, ‘Xia Libing’ would probably send people to chase you. If our caravan continues as originally planned, we’ll likely encounter the Blood Hand Group between tonight and tomorrow morning. I have a suggestion. Lady Tang, would you help us set up a trap…”

Old Xia was very serious in experiencing the game. Based on the initial introduction by the narrator, in addition to some of his own imaginative scenarios, he came up with a delegation that opportunistically exploited the Blood Hand Group’s motive of chasing “Tang Ying.” He had a spectacular and seemingly feasible plan to lure the “leader of the Blood Hand Group, Xia Libing.”

Tang Baona responded, “‘Miss Shiwan’ is indeed worthy of being called the Heroine Prodigy. Certainly, it’s a great plan!”