Chapter 552: Chapter 542: Qin Gui?

Looking at how this one acted, everyone was stunned and for a moment, they even forgot to cheer raucously.

Rabbit slightly frowned and waved his hand, “Keep shouting, don’t mind me. In my hometown, the nightlife has just begun!

Let’s get pumped up and shout all night long!”

Upon hearing this, everyone’s faces turned dark. In their world, night life was also not uncommon, but it usually wound down before midnight.

They were all so exhausted they wished they could crash into a pillar and end it all, thinking Rabbit must be near his limit too, but then he told them the nightlife was just starting, and to top it off, shouted all night long!

They howled in their hearts:

“Mom, it’s the wee hours!

Are you really planning to have us shout all night?”

Red-eyed, they stared at Rabbit in front of them, wishing they could just bite him to death if they were strong enough!

“Keep going, keep going!

I just love this sound, it’s even better than any song, haha…”

Yi Zheng understood clearly, being hailed as Emperor, and having people shout ‘Long live the Emperor!’ wasn’t an opportunity that came often. A siege only lasted a day, and after that, he’d have to wait for the next siege to hear it again.

What if something unexpected happened and he couldn’t hear it for a long time?

With a principle of enjoying it while he could, he truly planned to go all night!

Under the mighty threat of Rabbit’s martial power, a group of civil and military officials had to shout out again. At that moment, they didn’t only feel nauseated, they were so exhausted they wanted to die…

“Kee-kee~~kee!”

With the crowing of a rooster and a streak of sunlight shining into the great hall,

the civil and military officials who had shouted ‘Long live our Emperor, may he live forever!’ all night long were now completely hoarse, with weak and raspy voices, sounding like evil spirits, “Long live the Emperor, may he live for ten million years…”

Then with pitiful puppy-dog eyes, they looked at Rabbit as if to say, “Big brother, it’s morning, can we stop now? We really can’t take it anymore!”

Yet, Rabbit cleared the roasted meat from the table, took out a bowl of rice noodles, and exclaimed, “Eating a bowl of noodles early in the morning really refreshes you, clears the wine and revives the soul!

The more you eat these noodles, the better you feel!

Don’t look at me, keep shouting…I’m still good to go.”

The group of officials looked at Rabbit with faces full of sorrow and rage, with bloodshot eyes as if saying, “You’re still good to go? We’re done for, just kill us!”

Though filled with grief and rage, NPCs differ from players and wild monsters in that some NPCs cannot be resurrected. These NPCs carry unique quests, and once dead, their quests disappear too.

They were critical, hence players generally didn’t dare to harm an NPC lightly, lest a quest they needed was interrupted due to the NPC’s death, leading to significant loss.

And since the system didn’t notify them in advance which NPCs could resurrect, they also didn’t know if they could come back to life. If not, they would be truly dead.

Thus, even though they harbored thoughts of death, they dared not truly seek it out, much less voice it.

After all, Rabbit was a wild monster, not a player; he attacked without hesitation.

Caught between sorrow and the fear of death, they could only continue to hoarsely cry out.

Noon, afternoon, evening, dusk…

“Ding! The siege has ended, the attack has failed. Will you extend the siege time or give it up?”

At the same time, the officials also received a system notification: “Ding! The siege time is up, the siege has ended, defense was successful. Since you didn’t kill any invading wild monster, points are zero. The system will not provide any reward… Please wait for the attacker’s decision.”

Just moments ago, the ministers were crying their eyes and noses out, thinking they finally endured until the end.

Hearing the latter part, everyone was dumbfounded, thinking, “What does that mean? What do you mean wait for the attacker’s decision?”

Then they heard Rabbit excitedly shout, “Can we extend the siege time?!”

The ministers below instantly rolled their eyes back and foamed at the mouth, muttering, “Damn… really?”

Yi Zheng was genuinely surprised too. It wasn’t that he had never committed to just sieging without slaughtering a city before, but back then the system never mentioned anything about extending siege time.

Clearly, the rules in Kunlun World and the minor worlds were different.

So Yi Zheng decisively slammed the table, “Add time, we must add time!”

“Ding! The attacker has decided to continue the siege, the siege continues!”

Upon hearing this…

“Pfft!” An old minister spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

The others just collapsed on the spot.

And another dignified old man shouted, “I can’t take this anymore,” then turned and crashed into a pillar in front of him!

With a bang, the pillar was fine, but he was knocked out.

Yi Zheng, looking at the ministers wailing on the ground, smacked his lips, “Gentlemen, is it really that hard?”

“Rabbit, shouting is okay, but isn’t this a bit much? This is outright torture!” one minister supported himself with his raspy voice and shouted.

“Exactly, this is torture! Shouting that same phrase all day and night? Do you think we’re made of iron?” another stepped forward with a chest puffed out, a fearless demeanor, and righteously said, “At least let us rest a bit?”

Yi Zheng had thought this was a tough guy, but it turned out–he wasn’t.

The one who slammed into the pillar seemed to be the tough one.

However, Yi Zheng didn’t care about that; he just wanted softies who could shout ‘Long live the Emperor’ all day and night.

However, what the other party said also seemed to make sense, so Yi Zheng, seeing that they were about to break down, said, “I see, well, why don’t you take a break? Rest for the morning, and we’ll call it a day!”

The minister who had been knocked out earlier sprang up and shouted, “Long live the Emperor…”

Then, a group of them scampered off.

Yi Zheng was stunned and thought, “Damn, he was faking it! And here I thought this one was tough, playing me like that?”

“Hold on! Stop right there, come here!”

Yi Zheng pointed at the feigning minister and called out; the old man shuddered and looked back at Yi Zheng mournfully, “Your Majesty, do you have any other commands?”

“Oh?

Oh!

Oh my goodness!”

Rabbit’s eyes lit up again.

The minister immediately had a bad feeling.

“Your Majesty…what a good phrase! It’s the first time I’ve heard it today. What did you just say? Say it again.”

Rabbit leaned in, eagerly staring at the minister.

The minister internally wailed, “This is deadly…”

But, being afraid of dying, he honestly, with his throat burning in pain, repeated, “Your Majesty… ”

Rabbit: “Ah…go on.”

“Do you have any other orde… ”

Before he could finish, Rabbit waved his hand, “No need for the rest, just repeat those first two words a few more times.”

The minister’s face turned utterly dark, “Your Majesty…Your Majesty, Your Majesty!”

Rabbit, all smiles, listened, “Sounds good, I like this word! Keep going…oh, what’s your name by the way?”

The minister, with a pained expression, just when the other party finally remembered to ask his name after all night, struggled to say, “I am Qin Gui, Your Grace.”

“Pfft!”

Yi Zheng spat out a mouthful of drink, staring with wide eyes, “You said your name is what?”

Qin Gui looked anxiously at Yi Zheng, “I…my name is Qin Gui…”

Yi Zheng grinned, “What a talent!”

Then Yi Zheng waved his hand, “Take him away, beat him up first!”

Qin Gui was stupefied, shouting, “Your Majesty, Your Majesty! I haven’t done anything wrong! Why do you treat me this way?”

Yi Zheng replied, “Nothing much, just…got some anger to vent on you.”

The education Yi Zheng received from childhood had made him genuinely hate some people, Qin Gui being among them.

Although this wasn’t the real Qin Gui, and was nothing at all like the Qin Gui Yi Zheng knew, it didn’t stop Yi Zheng from giving him a beating.

A series of chilling screams followed…

After a while, Qin Gui, barely alive, was brought back by Zi Xing.

Seeing the shoe marks on Qin Gui’s face, Yi Zheng knew those screams had been genuine.

“Your Majesty…I’ve been wronged,” Qin Gui weakly cried out.

Yi Zheng said, “I know, but I still had to beat you. If you didn’t die, shall we talk a bit?”

Qin Gui eyed Yi Zheng warily; he still remembered how, just after a few words earlier, he had been dragged out and beaten for getting his name wrong.

So, he took the initiative to say, “Your Majesty, how about, I just keep calling you ‘Your Majesty’ or ‘Long live the Emperor’?”

Yi Zheng patted his head, “Don’t get worked up, don’t get worked up, there’s no rush for that, you can all shout it together later. I am asking you, you guys are all NPCs of this Imperial City, why are you so timid?”

Qin Gui hadn’t expected Yi Zheng to ask such a question and then bitterly smiled, “What else can we do? After the game world arrived, we were forced to become NPCs. All the things we strived for all our lives turned into a bunch of useless numbers.

What’s more laughable is, with the system in place, whatever we want to do or obtain, there’s hardly any chance now.

We are just a bunch of tools working for the players…

Without ideals and vengeance, all that’s left is to drift through the days.

As for shouting who lives forever, does it even matter?”

Yi Zheng fell silent, this reasoning seemed to make sense.

However, Yi Zheng didn’t agree with their argument, thinking back to when he was thrown into Newbie Village as Little Boss. That was a role destined to be beaten up relentlessly, a total loser without any power to resist.

Yet didn’t he turn things around, breaking out from the Number 1 Newbie Village in the Huaxia District of Earth and becoming the boss of Number 1 Newbie Village in West Kunlun?

Thinking of this, Yi Zheng got a bit depressed, “Damn, why do I feel like I’ve risen but also like I haven’t?”

In any case, Yi Zheng didn’t subscribe to the theory of fate; in his view, in the game world, whether they’re wild monsters or NPCs, they are all players; it’s just that everyone plays differently.

Of course, he also didn’t bother to clarify this to Qin Gui, who was in front of him, then he grabbed Qin Gui and inquired about the Cangshan Mountain World.

Cangshan Mountain World is a purely martial hero and fantastical hero world, where there’s no complicated civilization like on Earth. They assumed that because the civilization is simple, there would be fewer wars, so they almost unified quickly.