Chapter 749: Chapter 749: Ye Chong
At dinner, it’s unknown whether the reason was due to the new king’s arrival, but in addition to the food, the restaurant was also supplying plenty of good wine.
Everyone was eating and drinking together, talking about the new king, a man named Ye Chong, whose territory was around Lianyun Port. After Bai Youwei’s territory expanded, it bordered his, and he came over to investigate the situation.
Fortunately, Chu Huaijin had been dedicated to recruiting all kinds of talents, as long as they were kings and subjects, he wished they all could be sent to the headquarters, given centralized training to contend for as many sparks of humanity as possible.
Therefore, Chu Huaijin immediately invited the latter, who willingly accepted.
Although there were distinctions between territories ruled by kings, they were in fact lands reclaimed from the puppet game by humanity. There was no need to discriminate just because someone was a king or subject from another territory.
Chu Huaijin personally led Ye Chong on a tour around the headquarters, introduced everything inside and outside, and finally brought him to the restaurant in the middle floor of the building.
The restaurant operated buffet style. Due to the efforts of Chu Huaijin and Professor Song, there were no issues with the food supply at the base apart from fresh meat. Seafood such as fish, shrimp, crab, and clams had temporarily replaced meats like chicken, duck, pork, and lamb. If anyone really wanted to eat meat, they could choose canned food.
Bai Youwei overheard two servers chatting:
“Do you think those white gloves are his props? Are they powerful?”
“Not sure… but I heard during the preliminary games, everyone in his gamefield was killed and not a single one survived. So this guy must be really powerful, right…?”
A player getting food nearby chimed in: “You guys must be new here, right? There were several people who wore white gloves from Guangzhou, their skills were pretty good. They ran away after some incident, I’m not sure if this guy with the white gloves is affiliated with them.”
“An incident? What kind of incident?”
After several months of construction at the base, many new residents have been absorbed and internal structures adjusted, so not everyone knew about the “Hide and Seek” incident.
Some people, even if they knew, didn’t think it was something serious.
In this new world where the law of the jungle reigned, to improve their own survival rate by betraying their allies in the game, seizing puzzles and props, was indeed a brutal and despicable act. However, the more they were accustomed to the fights in the game, the more their original sense of justice and morality seemed to decrease.
Thus, the little society maintained by Chu Huaijin and Professor Song at least preserved a basic level of stability, where murder, robbery, theft, and other illegal behaviors were to a certain extent restrained.
“Who do you think among these kings will win in the end?”
“Shh… Are you tired of living? Be careful, if anyone hears this kind of talk, no matter which king it reaches, you will offend someone!”
“Don’t you know that those who have been through the labyrinth a few times have much sharper hearing than ordinary people?”
“Ah…then let’s not talk, let’s get back to work…”
Bai Youwei listened to the lively conversation for a while but found it uninteresting when there was nothing new. She absentmindedly grabbed some fruit salad and prepared to return to her seat.
Zhu Shu came over and asked with a smile: “Did you overhear it too?”
“Yes, they are all talking about the new king.” Bai Youwei replied indifferently, “He might get eliminated at any time, what’s there to talk about?”
She was not fond of the guy with the white gloves.
Zhu Shu turned towards Chu Huaijin’s direction and whispered: “If the death of those people in the preliminary game really had something to do with him, having such a king win the game wouldn’t be good news.”
Opinions differed on this matter.
Some people said that a giant monster appeared during the preliminary games, killing everyone and the man with the white gloves was the only one who managed to escape;
Others said the preliminary game was a massive melee, where the man with the white gloves was the only one who broke through and achieved final victory.
No matter what the story was, it all came down to one fact: the man with the white gloves was formidable.