ARBW Chapter 03

While she was trying hard to convince herself to stay with Lin Mian, the live chat in Lin Mian’s streaming room was particularly lively.

“Hahaha, what a fool.”

“Yeah, she really is stupid.”

“Lower Class People, just surviving in this apocalypse is good enough for them; I don’t know what they’re being so proud about.”

“Exactly, we let them live, they should be grateful to the point of tears.”

“A bunch of useless trash, and they still want to bargain with us?”

“I think these Lower Class People in the town have it too good; they should be made to live in the outer city and suffer a bit, then they’ll behave.”

“A bunch of xx.”

“This Lin Mian, a Lower Class Person, acts like a rich young master; someone should go over and teach him a lesson. I’ve been putting up with him for too long.”

“Right? Who does he think he is?”

A middle-aged Noble man, about five feet tall, was walking towards the house where Lin Mian was.

Before heading over, he not only brought a special serum but also a self-defense weapon.

To prevent any resistance from the townspeople, these Nobles always carried weapons.

He had long been eyeing Lin Mian, but unfortunately, there were Noble big shots in the live stream who wouldn’t let him act, so he had been holding back until now. Now that the big shot had spoken, he could finally have his way.

As he approached Lin Mian’s house, he hurriedly walked without noticing the air behind him ripple slightly, and a figure suddenly appeared under the streetlight.

Earlier that day, Pei Yuhuai had strolled around the game town and only encountered a few NPCs out and about. Later, he started working and casually turned off his backup phone.

He didn’t log out of the game; he just turned off the phone screen. His life assistant, Xiao Su, hearing the sound of his backup phone running out of battery, helped him charge it.

After a busy day, Pei Yuhuai finished washing up and lay down, planning to use his backup phone to scroll through videos and check the news.

As soon as he turned on the phone screen, he realized he hadn’t logged out of the game earlier.

With the phone on, the game automatically logged him in, and his character stood on the street of the town.

The game time seemed to sync with the real world. Just as he lay down, he instinctively glanced at the time, and it was exactly the same as the game time—just past nine in the evening.

Seeing this, Pei Yuhuai nudged his character, thinking he wouldn’t play the game tonight, when he spotted a sneaky NPC.

The figure quickly passed in front of him, stealthily heading towards a house not far away.

It was late at night, and many rooms in the town had their lights off.

Pei Yuhuai watched as the NPC crouched by a window to peek inside, then entered someone else’s home without knocking.

What was going on?

Could it be that he triggered some hidden game quest?

Pei Yuhuai, who had been raised with good manners, completely couldn’t understand the behavior of peeping into someone’s window at night.

Thinking it might be a hidden quest, he instinctively followed…

Meanwhile, on the other side, the Nobles in Lin Mian’s live stream had already spotted the approaching middle-aged Noble.

Upon seeing the serum in his hand, the group of Nobles watching the live stream became excited.

They shouted in the chat, “Hurry! I want to see xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx!”

“Hahaha, let him be proud, let him put on airs; once he tastes the sweetness, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.”

“Exactly, sh, trash, Lower Class People, let him be proud, make him g die.”

…

As a resident of the town, Lin Mian wore a streaming watch on his wrist, so he could see those comments.

When he realized someone was coming, he glanced at the girl with a complex expression, then immediately wanted to push her out of the room.

He was starving and had no strength to resist the incoming Noble, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

He didn’t want to show various humiliating sides in front of his roommate; at least he wanted to retain a shred of dignity until the end.

The girl initially didn’t understand what was happening, but when she saw the short, chubby middle-aged Noble enter Lin Mian’s room, she realized what Lin Mian was about to face.

Because she had experienced it herself, her original intention was to save Lin Mian, but now it seemed… she was putting him in danger.

Thinking this, she suddenly regretted it. Had she known it would turn out like this, she shouldn’t have saved him.

At least if she hadn’t given him a piece of bread, he would be in a comatose state and wouldn’t have to endure the pain while awake.

Watching Lin Mian lie there with a numb expression, looking at the Noble as if he were a dead dog, the Noble seemed to be angered by his gaze and couldn’t help but point at Lin Mian, cursing, “xx, what kind of look is that? I’ll xxxx you today…”

Hearing the curse, the girl instinctively wanted to step forward to stop him when she saw he was about to slap Lin Mian.

“Noble sir, why don’t I serve you instead? I have more experience than him, absolutely…”

Before she could finish her sentence, the Noble man kicked her, sending her sliding out of the way.

These Nobles, having taken Gene Serums, not only could resist various infectious viruses from the outside but also had much stronger physical abilities than ordinary people.

For instance, this middle-aged man, despite his small stature, had quite a bit of strength when it came to hitting people.

Watching the girl who was kicked out and fell to the ground, unconscious, Lin Mian thought that being tortured like this was better than being watched by the Noble.

As he resigned himself to his fate, he didn’t notice that many strange comments suddenly appeared on the watch on his wrist.

“Ah? Wait, there’s a Noble entering the room, why is there another Noble?”

“Wait, who is this person? Doesn’t he understand any rules?”

“This person seems to be a Noble who just arrived in the town during the day. Judging by his attire, he should be a young master from some financial conglomerate?”

“Are today’s young masters all like this? Not even willing to follow the town’s rules?”

To protect the rights of various Nobles and to avoid conflicts among them, once a room in the town already had a Noble, by default, other Nobles were not allowed to enter.

For example, in Lin Mian’s room, since a middle-aged Noble was already present, other Nobles could not continue to enter.

However, the “Noble” who entered didn’t seem to know the rules here or simply didn’t want to follow them; after the middle-aged Noble entered, he unhesitatingly followed him in.

At that moment, Pei Yuhuai was observing the house, wondering why the doors were all unlocked.

Was it because this town was too safe? Or was there some other reason?

Then he followed the middle-aged man’s footsteps to the room where Lin Mian was.

Before he could figure out what was going on, he saw the middle-aged, sleazy man suddenly kick a girl.

The girl was none other than the one he had given a small piece of bread to earlier that day.

A girl who looked very weak and deserving of pity was kicked away like that.

Seeing this, Pei Yuhuai immediately felt worried and wanted to check on the girl’s condition.

Just then, he saw the short, chubby, balding middle-aged man suddenly pick up a strange syringe and prepare to stab a young man lying on the bed.

From Pei Yuhuai’s perspective, the characters and objects in the game, including the house, were all simplified, cartoonish versions.

So whether it was his own game character, the sleazy NPC in front of him, or the handsome young man on the bed, they all had a relatively cute art style.

However, even with such a cute art style, it couldn’t hide the heavy sleaziness emanating from the NPC man.

Pei Yuhuai thought this might be a hidden quest; players who had played the game knew that encountering situations like rescuing a beauty usually involved hidden bosses or treasure chests.

Moreover, the middle-aged man looked too much like a villain, and his behavior resembled that of a lecherous dog, so without a second thought, Pei Yuhuai stepped forward to block him.

He reached out and clicked on the NPC man; no matter what the NPC had been doing just a moment ago, once Pei Yuhuai interacted with him, he had to put everything down and face him.

Yes, he wasn’t mistaken.

Even if he had been doing xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx a second ago, the next second he had to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx turn around and face Pei Yuhuai, waiting for him to decide what to do next.

Thus, in Lin Mian’s live stream, everyone witnessed this bizarre scene.

Because the middle-aged man was so fixated on Lin Mian, after entering, he didn’t pay attention to the comments on the streaming watch.

So he, like Lin Mian, was unaware that a young “Noble” had followed him in, disregarding the town’s rules.

After that, his attention was entirely on Lin Mian, his mind filled with the intention to inject Lin Mian with the serum.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Yes, it was that urgent; not a moment could be wasted.

Because he xxxxxxxxx, even a slight delay would probably mean the end.

Plus, having spent years in various towns, even with the enhancement of the Gene Serum, his body had already been drained.

Of course, there were other reasons; that was his lyps, even if he was short, ugly, and weak, he still wanted to show it off to others.

Just then, the young “Noble” behind him tapped him.

Given his urgency, he would usually ignore it and get straight to business. After all, no one who came to such a place was afraid of doing that kind of thing in front of others.

But strangely enough, even though he was already red-eyed, he still stiffly turned around.

Pei Yuhuai found the scene quite eye-watering; even though the game had automatically censored it, the art style was still relatively cute, he still felt a bit nauseous.

He thought to himself, no wonder it’s set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland; moral decay indeed fits this era.

If it weren’t for the fact that the other person was human, seeing him like this, he would have suspected he had entered an animal world.

Disliking the other’s behavior and considering him a villain, Pei Yuhuai knew that villain NPCs could be killed in the game.

However, he felt that killing him would be too easy, so he opened the interaction options, planning to go through all the negative interactions available.

There were four negative interactions: tease, mock, hit, and kill.

Pei Yuhuai clicked on tease, and the screen automatically switched to his inventory page, displaying all the items that could be used as teasing props.

He spent quite a while selecting from a pile of items, and since the time on both sides was synchronized, it meant that however long he took to choose an item, the middle-aged Noble would wait that long as well.