A perfectly good battle had ended in utter confusion after Lin Bai bluffed and frightened his way through it. The players looked at one another, feeling as though none of it was real.
"That's it?" [Great Golden Immortal] asked.
"What else do you want? For Shopkeeper Lin to turn them all into puppets?" [Crazy Guy] complained irritably. "If all the NPCs become his puppets, what the hell is left for us to play? We should be the stars of the battlefield, not Shopkeeper Lin. We play games for the thrill. But what did we get?
We spent a whole day and night flying on Suspension Talismans, and our greatest amusement was helping Shopkeeper Lin recite a few tongue twisters.
Trapped inside the Sky Curtain, we didn't even get close to the evil spirits before Shopkeeper Lin's lightning wiped them all out. How the hell were we any different from the spectators outside?"
The players were speechless.
After a long while, [Long Xi] finally said, "Shopkeeper Lin founded the Righteous Alliance to consolidate the NPCs, right? Maybe the Game Developers want us to witness a Boss's rise. All those fellows Shopkeeper Lin subdued will become elite Bosses on our path to fighting Lin Bai."
"Rise, my ass. Consolidating them this way will leave endless trouble in its wake. Those elite Bosses probably hate Lin Bai even more than we do. Who knows when they'll stab him in the back?" [Bai Yin] said.
"Shopkeeper Lin is practically begging them to stab him in the back!" [Crazy Guy] said. "That'll give him another chance to make a move."
"What if they do it in secret?" [Bai Yin] asked.
"Does it make any difference?" [Crazy Guy] glanced over and said, "Knowing our Shopkeeper Lin, even if nobody stabs him, he'll stab himself just to