LWGP - Chapter 10
Chapter 10: 0 and 1
Do the murderer and gunman in this dungeon even watch Empresses in the Palace?
Seeing that even his own director was left breathless, Zhang Xu cleared his throat. “What does that mean?”
“Bro, let’s check the countersign. What if you’re just some local perverts from this hospital lying in wait for us? That’d be a raw deal. Hurry up, give us the countersign!”
Zhang Xu looked at Wang Jiu and Li Meng. The two women behind him just stared back at him silently.
“I rarely watch those kinds of palace intrigue dramas.”
“Oh, are you going to do it or not?” Wang Jiu asked him flatly.
“Fine, I’ll do it. Lao Wang, get that axe away from me.”
Zhang Xu cleared his throat and replied: “You think this servant doesn’t wish to hate? This servant cannot do it!!!!”
Sincere and heartfelt, mournful and lingering.
It was spot on. All that time spent binge-watching dramas wasn’t wasted. Truly a friend to the ladies.
“My man, you can act! You really got into character. We’ve finally found our people. We’re coming over now.”
The group hiding over there began to slowly approach.
On the other side, in the space by the elevator entrance, Wang Jiu, Liu Guang, and Big Guy stood at either end of the opening. Only two minutes passed before three dark figures appeared outside.
“Bros, we’re here. Where are you?” a coarse voice called out.
At that moment, Wang Jiu, hiding behind the door, took out her phone and quickly sent a useless mass text.
The faint glow from Wang Jiu’s side and the sound of the text message notification from their bodies happened at almost the same time.
Swoosh! One of them charged toward Wang Jiu, but Big Guy reacted faster. He lunged forward, taking one down with a single move. The other two reacted, instantly raising their axes and hacking wildly toward the commotion where Big Guy was... but Wang Jiu and Liu Guang flashed out. Two sounds, two muffled grunts.
After a moment of tension, Zhang Xu and the others heard nothing. A while later, the silence was broken when Liu Guang said, “They’re dealt with.”
He quickly shone his phone’s flashlight on the corpses on the ground, then turned it off.
Everyone had already confirmed the identities and deaths of the three.
In any case, they had each received a system notification.
One murderer kill count per person.
They had previously heard the voices of those Empresses in the Palace fans and predicted they were about a hundred meters to the right. To get here, they would have to dawdle cautiously for at least four or five minutes. After getting close, they would still lie low and observe for a while before daring to approach. How could they be like these three murderers, who eagerly rushed over to claim the identity? That’s why Wang Jiu had said that if this group arrived extremely quickly and moved toward her as soon as she spoke, they definitely had hostile intentions and belonged to the murderer faction. However, they could also use a text message to confirm. It wouldn’t matter if the other party had turned off their notification sounds; they would take them down first anyway. If they hadn’t, it would be perfect for pinpointing their location.
Sure enough!
The Dean, his mouth also bound, couldn’t make a sound. He could only glare, watching his three subordinates get wiped out, silently cursing that having a strong body was useless if your brain didn’t work!
No, it should be said that the young man and woman in this group were too clever!
Especially that woman.
The commotion they made had probably scared off the Zhen Huan squad in the basement, and they no longer dared to approach.
By now, all the murderers were KO’d, right? Only the gunman was left.
Speaking of which, did that gunman really come in?
He had.
And he was very close to the elevator entrance, just seventy meters away, standing behind a pillar. He could confirm the location of the stairwell because he had heard the sounds and seen the faint glow of the phone just now. However, he couldn’t shoot in such darkness. Just as Wang Jiu predicted—he didn’t dare to fire blindly in the dark, in case he killed the Dean, whose legs were crippled...
But this way, his advantage was completely gone. What was the use of a gun then?
However...
He remembered how one person on the other side had used a text message to test them, and the phones of several people on their side had also reacted. And later, when another person used a phone to illuminate the corpses, the shadow cast by the light... there was no one else near the bodies, only one person. The rest were all hiding inside, probably watching the Dean.
To take down three of his own murderers in such a short time, it would take at least two people, right? So where did the others go?
Heh, they probably came out to ambush him.
Having figured out the other party’s tactics, the gunman narrowed his eyes and sneered.
He had a gun, so he wasn’t afraid of exposing his position. In fact, he wished they would come looking for him. As long as he could pinpoint their location.
That person was dead!
With that thought, the gunman took out his phone and, copying their method, sent out a mass text.
There!
Gunners generally have sharp eyes and ears. He had already moved away from the pillar, aiming his gun toward the location where he had just sensed the text notification sound. The phone’s location still had a brief halo of light, but it quickly went out.
He took aim and fired directly.
The bullet shattered a window and hit the person. They fell to the ground, but he also heard footsteps.
There was another one!
Swoosh, he rushed out, approaching that position, and quickly swept the area with his phone’s built-in flashlight. The phone’s flashlight had a limited range, but because he had run over, the tail end of the light beam just managed to catch the person’s figure.
He immediately raised his gun, aimed, and prepared to fire...
Suddenly, the world was filled with light.
The gunman only knew that the sound of a car starting came from not far behind him, then the wheels screeched as it shot out of its parking space.
Not good!
He spun around abruptly, watching it rush toward him at high speed. It was too close; he couldn’t dodge. BANG!!
The bullet flew toward the driver’s seat, shattering the windshield, but the car also slammed violently into his body.
The man was sent flying, blood splattering across the cracked windshield. He tumbled and rolled to the ground, the gun in his hand falling beside him.
The car stopped. Wang Jiu, who had ducked down to avoid the bullet, sat up. She glanced at the rearview mirror, grabbed the steering wheel, started the car, and reversed. CRUNCH!
The gunman, who had been on the ground, relying on his faint consciousness to secretly reach for the gun beside him for a counterattack, was now truly dead. Ding-dong!
The system notification arrived.
Receiving the notification, Wang Jiu looked in the mirror again. She saw that her hair was a bit messy, her face a little pale, and her expression blank. The lens of her glasses, however, was slightly cracked.
“Congratulations, you have just single-handedly killed the Hospital 444 dungeon’s gunman. This will be recorded in your personal achievements, and you are granted a main quest clue—0 and 1, either is fine.”
What the hell is this?
Even the clues are given so half-heartedly.
She frowned slightly, glanced at the corpse in front of her, pushed open the car door, got out, and exhaled. Then she walked over quickly to pick up the gun.
“Big Guy, come on out. Time to bring in the laundry.”
The Dean was the laundry that needed to be brought in.
Click. The switch on the electrical box was flipped, and the lights came on, still flickering. It seemed the wiring really was bad.
“Can you talk now?”
Everyone surrounded the Dean, not yet over the shock of Lao Wang running over the gunman with a car, and now they were in the state of interrogating the big boss behind the scenes.
The Dean, for his part, hadn’t recovered from the shock of his top enforcer being run over by a car, and now he was surrounded.
“I won’t talk. If I do, you’ll kill me. We might as well all die together.”
He was extremely stubborn, putting on an air of “I’m determined to take you all down with me.”
“Your gunman and murderers are all dead. Where does a decrepit old man like you get such nerve!”
The Dean sneered. “Don’t you forget, there’s still a snake.”
Everyone was instantly horrified, but they tried to argue. “It’s upstairs. Can it even find its way down here?”
“You can’t get out. Are you going to hide from it for the rest of your lives? Heh, besides, who says it can’t find its way here?”
This old bastard was too infuriating, completely uncooperative, and even seemed to enjoy provoking people.
While the others were fuming, Wang Jiu mentioned the main quest clue she got from killing the gunman.
“0 and 1? What does that mean? The Dog System is getting less human by the day.”
Li Meng thought for a moment. “The 0 and 1 on a circuit switch?”
Xu Kai: “Floor 1 is upstairs, so does floor 0 refer to this basement? Is there also a key on the first floor?”
Liu Guang: “Killing or not killing are both fine?”
Zhang Xu: “For gay guys, being a top or a bottom are both fine?”
Liu Guang’s words were the most enlightening, but Zhang Xu, who spoke at the same time, stole all the thunder.
Under everyone’s scorching gaze, Zhang Xu said, “My knowledge is quite broad.”
“It is quite broad.” Wang Jiu smiled and said, “Director Liu has a point. The 0 the system is referring to might mean that if we kill all threatening enemies, we’ll be safe, which is equivalent to clearing the dungeon. As for the 1, that’s the key. If we have the key and escape, that’s also clearing it. After all, the main quest hasn’t been triggered yet, which is unusual. It might be because it was open-ended from the start.”
Everyone had a moment of realization. That seemed to make a lot of sense.
Liu Guang also smiled and said, “The system has actually given us a hint. Survival. The so-called survival is just about staying alive. The reason this place is dangerous is because of enemies like the Dean, right? Getting out isn’t actually a mandatory condition. After all, there’s no setting like a time bomb that’s set to go off.”
“But isn’t there still a snake?”
“Right, there’s a snake.” Wang Jiu caressed the gun, her expression turning slightly grim. “If we keep the Dean alive and let him stall for time, we might just be stalling until that snake finds us. Also, have you noticed? The snake isn’t set up to be on their side. Even the Dean is afraid of it, which means it’s a third party, independent of both of us. Now it just depends on how the system has set the rules for this survival dungeon.”
“And, it depends on how you choose, Dean.”
The Dean met Wang Jiu’s profound gaze, and his heart skipped a beat, but he said, “I’ve already said, if you don’t spare my life, then I...”
BANG!!
A bullet suddenly pierced through the Dean’s head.
A headshot. He was dead on the spot.
Zhang Xu, who had jumped in fright, stared dumbfounded at Wang Jiu, who had fired the gun.
The others were also utterly astonished.
“You just killed him?”
“He might have been about to talk.”
“Now we can’t get out!”
Wang Jiu held the gun, facing everyone’s complicated gazes, especially the disapproving accusations from Xu Kai and Wang Ling. Zhang Xu and Li Meng wanted to defend Wang Jiu, but before they could speak, Wang Jiu responded herself.
“He kept saying we had to spare his life, but he refused to trust us. Our demands were not aligned. He was deliberately stringing us along, clearly stalling for time. The longer it takes, the more likely that python is to appear. Taking a step back, even if we kill him and lose the key, it doesn’t matter. There are so many usable cars here, and there’s the laboratory upstairs. We can use a lot of materials to make a bomb and blow the door open, right? The only thing to fear is not having enough time. But whether we have time, whether that snake appears, has nothing to do with whether he’s dead or not. In fact, this saves time. Based on a comprehensive deduction, killing him is the most efficient way to complete the dungeon right now.”
“According to my personal habits—if it’s a risk with a viable fallback, I don’t mind trying.”
“Of course, I don’t need to ask for your permission either. Explaining things to you has always been a matter of courtesy and humanitarianism. Understand?”
Her tone was the same as ever, neither overly aggressive and self-centered nor excessively kind and weak, just polite and rational. As for the content of her words, built upon her abilities and achievements, it seemed there was nothing wrong with it.
Most importantly, she had a gun in her hand and seemed quite skilled with it. Zhang Xu and Li Meng guessed it was because Lao Wang had a background of studying abroad and had joined a shooting club overseas?
Xu Kai and Wang Ling instantly shut up.
Just then, a system notification arrived.
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