Chapter 379: Preseason

1am, reality, inside Bai Liu's rented house.

Du Sanying was already asleep, Bai Liu and Tang Er were sitting on both sides of the coffee table, which was piled with a lot of materials.

Tang Er Ta's feet placed an ashtray, inside the mortar and pestle has extinguished a lot of cigarettes, Tang Er Ta's mouth is still holding a burning one, he frowned at the information on the coffee table, reached out and turned over a copy of: "These are all I have just asked Su Yang to print and send it over, about last year's sunshine property owners of the information. He frowned and looked at the information on the coffee table.

"If it's as you analyze it, then the profile of the victimized homeowner group in this Sunnyside development fits the nascent portrait of the Russell Cemetery Guild."

Tang Er hit said a beat, "But one thing that's strange is that if these people they really are gamers, their life trajectory is just too ......"

Bai Liu looks down at the information: "Normal, huh?"

Going to work, coming off work, eating, living, taking vacations, there's little trace of this group of people taking part in a bizarre game behind the scenes, just a bunch of tired, ordinary people who are surviving.

"Yes, game players are more or less extreme, and will think of utilizing game props outside of the rules of reality to escape the squeeze and sanctions of reality, such as the Zealot Lambs we encountered before." Tang Er hit his brows tightened, "But this group of people showed no signs of that at all despite being greatly oppressed."

"That's why we didn't find anything unusual when we investigated last year, they didn't look like gamers at all."

Bai Liu drew out a few points of information and lowered his head to read it, asking a question while reading, "Captain Tang, if you were the owner of this property and you got into the game, what would you do?"

Tang Er hit was only slightly stunned before answering without hesitation, "Use the points exchange props to track down the traces of the escaping developer and bring the other party back."

Bai Liu pulled out a copy of the information he was reading and put it in front of Tang Er, "Is that so?"

The information is posted on a newspaper - [Sunshine property developers suspected of surrendering, saying that the rolled-up funds are not in their hands, and have long been transferred by an offshore shell company].

The news in the paper was dated last October, right after the preseason ended and a month after these owners jumped.

"This developer surrendered after all the assets were mortgaged to fill the empty space of the sunshine building, but also far from filling, and finally sentenced to life imprisonment." Bai Liu looked up at Tang Er fight, "Now the developer was arrested, but did not play a role, you still have to pay back the loan every month, still have to work hard in the game to save points to survive, what will you do next?"

Tang Er typed thought for a moment, he momentarily actually did not know what to do, a kind of empty feeling of not being able to find a place to land, he slowly spoke: "...... I may continue to pursue the developer's matter ...... "

But he also stopped in mid-sentence.

"It's pointless to chase after the developers, even if they get people killed, it won't help, it will only be a waste of points, as soon as the money enters the overseas, it's like water dripping into the sea, after three years, it's probably been laundered for several rounds, the possibility of getting it back is too small." Bai Liu analyzed in a calm tone, "The only thing that can solve their predicament is money."

"The points earned in the game can be exchanged for money, but that's something to save their lives, and they have to go through the game once a week, so they shouldn't dare to move those saved points easily, and they can only and only dare to earn money to pay off the mortgage by working."

Bai Liu leveled his eyes at Tang Er and typed, "What you said is actually correct, they are just a group of ordinary people, they also just want to live an ordinary life, the momentary extreme emotions brought about by the change pressed this group of ordinary people into the game."

"Instead of solving their problems, gaming puts a huge burden on them, the despair and stress builds up like a snowball rolling up, and working and gaming at the same time is not an intensity of life that a normal person can handle."

"They got into the game because they were escaping reality, and in the game they had nowhere to run, so they went into Russell Cemetery."

Tang Er hit his face stony and picked up a newspaper, "These people all have jobs with stable incomes, families, normal social contacts, relatives and friends, people who are in the same problem together, according to my knowledge, even if they encounter some difficulties, they shouldn't have collapsed so quickly, and come to this point in three years."

Bai Liu looks to the black and white photos published one by one in the newspaper of the people who jumped off the building last year and speaks softly:

"It may not be three years that makes a person fall apart."

"Rather, thirty years."

Bai Liu's gaze falls on a black-and-white photo of a man named [Wang Juping], next to a newspaper with the caption [Thirty Years of Loans]:

"Whether it's in or out of the game, a problem that lasts for three years may be nothing, but once you don't see hope for thirty years, it's a great test for the average person, the mortgage can still see hope for repayment, but the game doesn't see hope for coming out of it, and I think that's the main reason for their mental collapse."

Bai Liu looked at Tang Er hit: "Not everyone has the toughness of Captain Tang, hundreds of worlds in the game to see no hope can stick it out."

Tang Er struck a silence as he pressed the cigarette out of the side of his mouth, leaned back on the sofa, closed his eyes and exhaled a mouthful of smoke, and asked an abrupt question, "Bai Liu, if you were the president of the Russell Cemetery and you wanted to save these people, what would you do?"

"Win the game once by all means." One by one, Bai Liu pulls out those owner's materials and quickly skims through them, "Just win one game, and both the money and the game's problems can be solved at once."

"The points can be used to pay off the loan, they can be used to fix the problems of those ordinary people in the guild, and that wish-"

Bai Liu looked to Tang Er and typed, "I think that president, should be trying to make a wish to get everyone out of this game."

"This isn't a game where normal people can survive, normal people go crazy or die in this game, he wants everyone to survive, he has to get everyone out of the game, there's no way to do that other than winning the league once."

"This kind of naive idea at a glance has never heard of Captain Tang's story, it should be a pretty young person." Bai Liu's action of rummaging through the owner's information finally slowed down, he pulled out a piece from a pile of owner's information, placed it on the coffee table and turned 360 degrees and pushed it in front of Tang Er hit, "This person, can Captain Tang find out his details?"

Tang Er hit's eyes fell on the information Bai Liu handed him -

[2701 Household Owners: Yuan Guang - Sunshine Owners' Victims Group Leader].

The last day of preseason and midseason games in the Wandering Circus Conference Room.

Tang Er, who had checked the data all night last night, rubbed his temples and closed his eyes to refresh himself; Bai Liu, who had read the data until four o'clock last night, held his jaw and half-closed his eyes; Mu Sicheng, Liu Jiayi and Mu Ke were waiting in the conference room, and the three of them looked in good spirits.

Wang Shun pushed the door open and entered, he looked around and took a deep breath, "Today's team to play against, Russell Cemetery."

"Before we leave for the viewing pool, here's some good news."

Wang Shun tapped on the system panel, "As I told you all before, President Bai's popularity ranking rose to 73 after the last tournament, and he is the first person on our team to have an immunity medal."

"And today, we have our second popular player with a get-out-of-jail-free card."

Wang Shun's gaze slowly shifted to Mu Sicheng : "The lagging effect of the last tournament, coupled with God Mu's recent outstanding performance, the popularity has risen to 98, so congratulations, you've been awarded a gold medal for exemption from death."

Mu Sicheng was stunned for a moment, as if he hadn't reacted yet, and then he clenched his fists violently and jumped up and shouted YES!

"I've emphasized the importance of the immunity medal to all of you many times, your eyes can't just focus on the match in front of you, but also look forward to think more about future matches, if we win this match, we'll have to compete with the eight guilds that were selected for the mid-season tournament next, and play a challenge match."

"Today is also the last day of the mid-season tournament, excluding today's matches, the top eight guilds in terms of total points from the current points situation are--"

Wang Shun tapped the system panel:

"First in line, the killer sequence.

Second in line, the King's Guild.

Third in line, the Deer Hunter.

Fourth in line, Golden Dawn.

In fifth place, the Gamblers' League.

Sixth place, Ka Bala

## Seventh place, heaven ##

Ranked eighth, Cloak of Invisibility."

Wang Shun looked at everyone, "These eight teams, no matter which one of them is a top powerhouse, and basically all of them are full of exemptions, so even if we have currently qualified for the Playoff Challenge, we can't be lax in today's match, not only do we have to win, but we also have to win beautifully in order to gain the crowd's support, and try to get all of our players in this match to get the gold medal of exemption."

"And in order to do that." Bai Liu slowly opens his eyes, "We're going to have to interrupt that Mist Skill player first."

"If we let our opponent successfully perform skills to cover the map and the viewers' field of vision, it will not only increase the difficulty of our match, but it will also prevent the audience from seeing the match, not to mention gaining audience support."

Bai Liu stood up and looked around the circle faintly, "When you're ready, move."

All responded in unison, "Yes!"

Bai Liu turned around and walked forward, Tang Er got up and strutted next to Bai Liu, he turned his head sideways and asked in a low voice: "Did you see anything when you looked at the information all night?"

"Don't see much." Bai Liu replied lazily, "Except that Yuan Guang and I are peers."

Tang Er hit a stark expression and subconsciously asked back, "Peer? He is also a smuggler?"

"No." Bai Liu swept Tang Er to fight with his afterglow, smirking, "He's an artisan."

The other end.

Yuan Guang sat nervously on the bench shaking his legs, clenching his hands into fists and taking deep breaths, but his face was still suffocated into a purple color.

Shi Qian next to me was both annoyed and amused: "As the leader of this club, can you not be a little bit of a great general when you go on the field? Is it reasonable to be so nervous?"

"I don't know how many times I've had to go on stage to give speeches and introduce myself and all that from elementary school to college to work ......" Yuan Guang looked slyly sideways at Shi Qian, "I'm now as nervous on stage as I was when the main beauty introduced I'm just as nervous as I was when I went on stage and introduced myself to the main beauty."

Shi Qian see Yuan Guang this is really poor, did not hold back and repeat the old words: "pre-season advanced two teams, this does not play me can also be advanced to the playoffs challenge, why don't we give up ......" right.

"No way!" Yuan Guang's voice calmed down all of a sudden as he looked towards Shi Qian, "This one must be fought."

"Give up this we play the challenge match directly against the big guilds will definitely die a lot of players, we are not sure we can win, the wandering circus is one of the guilds that we have encountered in recent times with the most sufficient base money, the players who have died and those who are going to die next will need a pension, otherwise their families can't afford to pay the mortgage, there are still many people who can't afford to pay the mortgage this month already, if we don't win this The betting pool of ......"

Yuan Guang Deep gritted his teeth and took a breath, "Anyway, I will win this match!"

Shi Qian pretended to be upset and retorted to Yuan Guang's words, "What do you mean you or not you, it's the two of us who will surely win this match, okay!"

Yuan Guang was quiet for a moment, "Thank you, originally we were just coworkers, I dragged you into this."

Looking at the wandering circus group approaching in the distance, Shi Qian also nervously clenched his sweaty fists and exhaled, "Relationships in reality as in reality, and relationships in the game rounds in the game."

"We're standing here now." Shi Qian turns to Yuan Guang and smiles, "Then we are no longer coworkers, we are comrades in arms! "

Shi Qian said with great certainty, "We will definitely win!"