My lord, spare his life!

"They actually withdrew?"

The rebels who were chasing the prisoners hurriedly returned to reinforce them, and the prisoners who had scattered and fled escaped. This scene was something Shen Zhi had not expected.

For a moment, I felt a mix of emotions.

He never expected that this benefactor would actually do it.

With both quick wit and ability, how could he have been such a scoundrel before?

"What are you standing there for?" Before the question could be pondered further, Zhang Yang urged Shen Zhi to get to work, "Let's retreat too, hurry up and take my head to rejoin my body."

The commander abandoned the prisoners, and she also decided to stop while she was ahead.

Don't be fooled by the fact that she managed to confuse the stubborn general with just two gold bricks. What if the general is a tough nut to crack? If he's determined to have his soldiers hunt down the prisoners and continue to grit his teeth and resist, the enemy will realize that the headless man is actually a bit weak and that his words are embellished.

Because Zhang Yang could only kill one of them at most, not all of them.

Shen Zhi immediately realized what was happening and hurriedly untied Zhang Yang's head from the tree branch: "This strategy of 'besieging Wei to rescue Zhao' shows Your Highness's amazing courage. Those rescued commoners do not know the identity of their benefactor, but if Your Highness wishes to reinstate them in the future, they may be pleasantly surprised."

The doubts that had just been suppressed have quietly resurfaced.

Judging from his interactions with the nobleman these past two days, even if this person isn't renowned throughout the land, he shouldn't be so despicable. Yet, his elder brother is the military commander in the nobleman's household, having far more contact with him than he has, and has never mentioned this side of the nobleman.

Did my elder brother misjudge the situation?

Or is there something else going on here?

Or perhaps, can amnesia truly completely transform a person?

Amnesia is just amnesia, it doesn't mean you've had a new brain.

He glanced at the disorganized rebel army with mixed feelings, then collected his chaotic thoughts and followed Zhang Yang's instructions to reunite with her headless body. Zhang Yang kept urging, "Hurry, hurry, my warning progress bar is about to give out!"

Shen Zhi: "..."

He didn't understand what a progress bar was, but he could tell from Zhang Yang's tone that the situation was urgent, so he subconsciously sped up, completely forgetting that if he were to be ruthless and throw Zhang Yang's head off to buy some time, this guy might actually be killed.

Before this, he genuinely wanted this person to die and find peace.

By the time they realized this, the opportunity had already passed.

Little did they know, Zhang Yang was also filled with regret at that moment.

She thought she could break off her hands, feet, or head at will, and as long as she could collect all the parts, she could synthesize them and restore them to their original state. This would be equivalent to receiving player-like treatment in her own private home. That's why she was so decisive in splitting up earlier.

I never expected this—

This terrible game has a lot of hidden pitfalls.

Just now, with her head hanging from a tree, she was controlling her body from a bird's-eye view to attack the red-named enemy. Everything was fine at first, but when she charged up to kill the enemy general with a gold brick, a red progress bar suddenly appeared in her vision. The right end of the bar was bright red, while the left end was almost black. After the first gold brick hit, the progress bar jumped halfway to the left!

Four large characters suddenly appeared before my eyes—

Health warning!

At the same time, the system notification also included the following message: "[We have detected excessive blood loss. Please go to the nearest medical facility as soon as possible.]"

This made her subconsciously think of health bars.

Fortunately, after stopping, the avalanche-like decline in health bars stopped, which relieved Zhang Yang's anxiety a little.

"What a lousy game designer!"

Why design these sub-sections in a home that is primarily for leisure?

She only hated that she was a game NPC and not a human.

If she were human, she would smash their heads with gold bricks and show them how much water was in their brains!

"Who was that person just now?"

Just as her mind was busy reconnecting with her body, the general who had been stunned by her two blows with the gold bricks also came to his senses. He forcibly suppressed the metallic taste churning in his throat, feeling fortunate to have survived the ordeal, while also staring menacingly in the direction where the headless man had disappeared.

Hatred and murderous intent intertwined in his heart.

"Do you remember this person?"

The generals looked at each other, and all shook their heads.

Although there are all sorts of strange and unusual people in this world, it is still rare to see someone with such a distinctive feature as a "headless person".

Based on their performance today, they shouldn't be unknown.

The commander felt extremely aggrieved upon hearing this.

So he'd suffered such a huge loss at the hands of some nobody? His suppressed anger was completely out of control; the more he tried to suppress it, the more his heart burned like a raging fire: "Draw a picture of this man and post it everywhere! Anyone who provides clues will be rewarded with a hundred gold pieces!"

"Your humble servant obeys."

"General, what should we do with the escaped prisoners?"

"Should we send more men to bring the prisoners back?"

Their mission was to escort the prisoners back, but now all the prisoners had escaped, and they had no way to explain themselves to their superiors. If their colleagues found out that they had been ruined by a roadblock and lost their prisoners, they would be ridiculed by their colleagues for the next two years—a lifelong disgrace!

The commander stared in one direction, his jaw clenched, his molars grinding together: "Where aren't prisoners prisoners?"

How much effort would it take to capture a group of scattered prisoners?

"I remember there are two towns about a hundred miles to the west?"

"Yes, there is."

"This will do."

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[A "headless body" has been detected. Should we synthesize it?]

[Confirm Synthesis]

As soon as Zhang Yang's head returned to its original position, she rubbed her neck and moved it left and right, checking repeatedly to ensure her limbs were flexible. The progress bar, which had been like a death knell, gradually returned to a safe range. Only then did she pull up the system log and skim through it.

Finally, she realized something was wrong.

By counting on your fingers and adding and subtracting, you finally arrive at a value.

Why is my health bar so short and thin?

The other players had hundreds of thousands of health bars, while she only had a mere ten thousand. She had been carefully adjusting her own status over the years to keep pace with the players' levels, so players couldn't detect anything amiss just by looking at her surface-level health bars.

Zhang Yang judged that even if his health bar was not as high as the current version of the game's bosses, which often had billions of health points, it shouldn't be this low.

If she were a player, she could also report bugs to the official team.

Unfortunately, she is a bug in the game because she is an NPC.

Zhang Yang felt a tightness in his chest, a sense of unease, and an urge to hit someone.

She clutched her chest, bewildered and confused.

Why do I feel chest tightness and shortness of breath?

Looking up, she saw Shen Zhiyi not far away, also looking bitter and resentful, which made her even more annoyed: "Didn't all those prisoners escape successfully? Why do you still look so disgusting?"

Shen Zhi's thoughts were pulled back to reality by her.

Already deeply worried, he heard Zhang Yang's angry question and thought to himself, "Old habits die hard." Even with amnesia, he still retained his former arrogance and domineering nature: "I'm not a scapegoat for Your Highness to vent your anger on. As the saying goes, every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt its debtor. What's your anger about? Go find whoever made you angry to settle the score with."

Why should I look for him?

Zhang Yang: "When did I get angry?"

Shen Zhi: "..."

Even important people have their anger written all over their faces, yet you still haven't gotten angry?

Just as he was about to speak, he saw Zhang Yangxu patting his chest, his expressionless face showing a look of sudden realization.

"Oh, so this is what it feels like to be overwhelmed by anger?"

"So this is what 'anger' is?"

Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, love, hate, shame, and fear—emotions that are commonplace in human observation samples—were a challenge for her and once an obstacle to her imitating human players.

However, she is an NPC who is good at observing and learning.

Her notebook is filled with thousands of different emotional responses and scenarios for which she can apply them. When the situation arises, she simply imitates the appropriate response, and she rarely makes a mistake. Her observation subjects also consider her one of the top ten best friends and family members who are emotionally rich, sensitive, and considerate.

Over the course of sixteen years, she has roughly figured out a few types of emotions.

Shen Zhi: "Your Highness doesn't know what 'anger' is?"

Zhang Yang said, "It's not that I don't know, it's just that most of the time I haven't had time to fully savor and reflect on the feeling of 'anger'."

"Didn't have time?"

"Those who make me angry usually don't live long."

Most of them were human players with red names.

There are too many human players in the game.

According to one observation sample, the peak number of concurrent online players can exceed 100 million. With so many players, there are all sorts of characters; every player in this game has a different playstyle. Some are addicted to farming, some to side hustles, some to traveling the game world, some to fighting bosses in dungeons… and naturally, some are addicted to fighting other players.

If you can beat them, stand there and taunt them; if you can't, lie down and taunt them.

Which human player made Zhang Yang show signs of anger?

Oh, usually people just lie at the respawn point and curse her.

She can't even get up; if she dares to, she'll kill him.

However, Shen Zhi didn't interpret these words that way.

His expression changed drastically: "You've regained your memories?"

Zhang Yang's eyes lit up: "Continue with the storyline?"

"you--"

"Hurry up, stop dawdling."

She'll kill NPCs if they annoy her.