Red Maple Leaf Boarding School, third-floor corridor.
Zhou Datong held Jiang Jue hostage, pressing White Blade across his neck. He did his best to force a fierce look into his eyes as he glared at the surrounding players. "Let Brother Chen go, or I'll kill him!"
The players gathered around them were all injured to varying degrees. The worst off had his right leg severed at the root and lay twitching on the floor, letting out agonized groans.
Two steps in front of Zhou Datong, two Listen Wind Guild members had Chen Lidong's arms firmly pinned behind him, holding him to the ground. A standoff had already taken shape.
On the afternoon of June 2, after searching the entire school without finding any trace of Qi Si, Chen Lidong realized that he most likely would not be able to complete Ms. Medina's side quest, "Capture 47."
He decisively chose to gather the materials for the medicine as quickly as possible and complete the main quest.
As long as he cleared the Instance before the deadline for the punishment, he still had a slim chance of survival.
Afterward, Chen Lidong and Zhou Datong ambushed a lone player, drove him into a bathroom, and killed him, obtaining a portion of soil.
The two then secretly took some yellow flowers and yellow butterflies from several corpses that had been dead for quite some time. They also plucked the poisonous mushrooms from Philid's back, gathering enough materials to make two doses of antidote.
Everything seemed to be going smoothly. Chen Lidong's thinking was simple: since Jiang Jue was unwilling to do the dirty work, he would do it himself. He had tested the medicine on himself first. Next, all he had to do was kill someone and make the medicine—then Jiang Jue would have