"Make way, make way! How can we rescue anyone with you all crowding around to watch the fun?"

The rescue NPCs pushed through the crowd of onlookers on the lakeside boardwalk, armed with professional tranquilizer weapons, ready to intervene.

Although a voice in the back of their minds told them not to rush, since they were here, they still had to shout the necessary warnings. Even Wang Wenfei, mixed in with the crowd being pushed aside, felt that these rescue NPCs seemed somewhat reluctant.

They pushed the people aside and stood on the shore with their weapons, making no immediate move to act.

"They're a lot less enthusiastic than they were rescuing the Ferris wheel at noon," Mandison muttered quietly to Wang Wenfei. "You think the NPC settings include something about hating overtime? They were supposed to be off work, and then suddenly they get a mission!"

"Maybe?" Wang Wenfei raised an eyebrow. Otherwise, she couldn't explain the NPCs' apparent dawdling. Was this some kind of veiled protest from the game developers?

Smuggling in personal grievances?

But, thinking about it this way, Wang Wenfei felt worried for the people on the bamboo raft surrounded by crocodiles in the lake.

At the very least, the merchant miss shouldn't be treated like this!

As the people on the shore talked about her, Mingmei felt her nose itching. She watched as Lu Xiaoyao, forced by Mu Chen, trembled and clung to the bamboo pole used to propel the raft.

"Big Bro… Are you serious about this QAQ?"

"You need to believe in yourself."

For the first time, Lu Xiaoyao heard Mu Chen speak so gently.

However, the gentler his tone, the more Mu Chen's words sounded like a death warrant. "There are so many crocodiles here. Just think of them as a floating bridge."

Lu Xiaoyao: "…?"

She couldn't afford to walk this floating bridge!

"What if… what if I slip?"

"What do you think?" Lu Xiaoyao said "what if," but then she met Mu Chen's half-smiling gaze. "You slipping and me kicking you down there are about the same result."

Although the ends were the same, Lu Xiaoyao was truly, truly afraid of running out there!

"Is there another way?" Lu Xiaoyao wanted to struggle one last time.

"If you don't think 'stepping stones' will work, how about 'single-board water skiing'?"

"Single-board? Water skiing?"

The expression on Lu Xiaoyao's face gradually turned blank.

She almost didn't recognize those two words anymore _(:з」∠)_

Don't think Lu Xiaoyao didn't know that the "single-board" Mu Chen was talking about was a crocodile. That, that was even more outrageous, right?

"Rather than single-board water skiing, how about our bamboo raft? It's big and stable. As long as I try hard, isn't it just poling? I can do that…"

As she said that, Lu Xiaoyao mimicked the posture of a boatman and stuck the bamboo pole into the water. Suddenly, a crocodile leaped out of the water and chomped down on the pole, taking half of it.

Lu Xiaoyao: (￣△￣！)

Boatman NPC: "No, you can't."

Mingmei: "…"

Bullet Screen Viewers: […]

[Speaking of which, those crocodiles have pretty good teeth?]

[Of course! On old Earth, they're related to the ancient ferocious dinosaurs! How could they not be powerful?]

[Sounds impressive, but… they're extinct. If they were created, who would be stronger, them with their thick hides or the zerg?]

[Even if they were created, they'd have to evolve. Look at the zerg, they've been around for so long they even dare to bite into stars. Calling them ferocious beasts is just on that planet, right?]

[I'm saying, what's with watching a game stream and worrying about the fate of the universe? If you're so concerned, why not join a research institute?]

[I'd love to join a research institute… but I'm not smart enough.]

[Me too… Forget it, let's just watch the stream e=(´o｀*)))]

[Getting back to the topic… I remember that long pole was originally for the little one to use for balance, right?]

[It's already been bitten in half! What's the point of balancing? Oh well~ lighting a cigarette in a weary way.jpg At worst, when our daughter comes out, we'll give her a bamboo shoot reward.]

Bamboo shoots: Although the live streaming platform is free, the special effects are very flashy, comparable to a reward of 100,000 star coins.

Known as the "digging bamboo shoots effect."

You don't have any money, but it looks pretty impressive.

The viewers in the live stream had already calmed down and were waiting for their daughter to be eliminated.

Even Lu Xiaoyao was thinking despondently that she might as well not bother the big boss to stretch out a foot. She should just jump down herself.

But, living badly was better than dying!

When she really rushed out, Lu Xiaoyao only felt that her potential was limitless!

Amidst the exclamations of the crowd, they saw a person "fly" out of the bamboo raft in the middle of the lake. She ran lightly across the slightly rugged "water surface," like a dragonfly skimming the water.

She rotated, jumped, and never closed her eyes!

Finally, just one step away from the shore, a crocodile suddenly jumped out of the lake, its mouth wide open, ready to bite down on the figure!

"Goodbye to you!"

Lu Xiaoyao shouted and threw the remaining half of the bamboo pole directly into the crocodile's mouth, propping it open for two seconds.

And in those two seconds, Lu Xiaoyao's foot stepped directly on the other's lower jaw, using the force to perform a 360° mid-air turn, and then successfully landed on the shore!

Slipping was not an option!

Mingmei: Clapping!!

Onlookers: 666!

Also, at the moment when Lu Xiaoyao successfully landed, the rescue personnel NPCs seemed to have instantly understood everything, and the movements in their hands suddenly became swift. They madly shouted for rescue!

The swift and decisive actions they took to rescue Mingmei and the others still on the bamboo raft and to drive away the crocodiles were completely different from the way they had been looking at the sky, the water, picking their noses, and dawdling earlier.

All of this, falling into Wang Wenfei's eyes, saw her eyes flashed slightly, as if guessing something, gave Mandison a look, and the two went to Lu Xiaoyao's side.

But it was also strange, since Lu Xiaoyao got ashore, those crocodiles seemed to have lost their target in general, ignored Mingmei, and Mingmei and others were so inexplicably rescued.

"If Lu Xiaoyao hadn't been willing to try earlier, what would you have done?"

As soon as the two of them landed, Mingmei asked Mu Chen this question.

"If she wasn't willing, I would have carried you and stepped on crocodiles to escape~"

Mingmei:?

Originally, she thought Mu Chen was joking, but when she looked up, she saw that he was answering seriously. Then, meeting Mingmei's questioning gaze, he mischievously smiled for a moment, then withdrew it, innocently tilted his head, and asked, "Is there a problem?"

"Ah… no, I initially thought you had Lu Xiaoyao do that to attract the firepower…"

Mingmei didn't say the words "to let her die."

"I did want her to attract firepower. At that time, wherever she was, death would follow her there. I couldn't possibly let her stay with us."

"Either I take you away, or she runs away alone. The end result is the same."

Mu Chen's answer was honest. Regarding Lu Xiaoyao's having only three chances, being chased by death again and again wanting to kill her and dragging them in, he could tolerate giving Lu Xiaoyao a "way out" was already considered good.

As long as they were separated from Lu Xiaoyao, they would naturally be safe.

"Besides, everything was her own effort. I didn't really want to sacrifice her directly," Mu Chen said, then looked at Mingmei. "After all, she is a friend you care about."

Because she is your friend, my tolerance is unexpectedly high.

…

"Ah, does 'no more than three' really mean that these amusement facilities can't be used more than three times?"

Lu Xiaoyao's thrilling escape naturally attracted the attention of other players. Just as she had returned in the evening, drinking warm coconut milk and planning to eat her boxed meal, she didn't expect four players to come to her door at the same time.

So, Lu Xiaoyao told them what happened during the day.

Especially after Lu Xiaoyao admitted that she had done something that led to her death twice, the other players didn't know what to say.

Lu Xiaoyao could be considered a capable person in some respects.

Courting death, and still escaping death, a remarkable person!

Just then, Wang Wenfei suddenly proposed another shocking conjecture—"You say, was Charlie's death really from a seafood allergy?"

"What do you mean?"

Lu Xiaoyao, who was about to eat her boxed meal, was stunned and heard the other person continue:

"Because Charlie ate three boxed meals in a row at the time."