I, the little cat, am a substitute for others who are starving and thin

"Well."

Before Yimi could check on the little girl, a loud noise came over.

She let the little girl lie there, and she ran over, lay down in the crack, closed one eye and took a look, just in time to see the scene where the people from Laughing Coffin stabbed Kirito with a knife.

26

Chapter 26: Fatal Chicken Fight.

Kirito's level is much higher than Laughing Coffin's overall level. Although this sword hit him hard without any resistance, it only took away less than half of his health bar.

However, the distraction created by being attacked from both sides still caused Kirito to be hit by the poisonous knife of the person in front of him.

"Kirito!"

The effect of poisoning has entered Kirito's status bar. In addition to deciphering the potion, the people of the Blood Alliance Knights have helped Yimi develop pufferfish sushi to counter the effect of poisoning. The advantage of this food is that it can be eaten quickly as long as you can free your hands even during the battle.

The side effects of stewing rats also became apparent. If you eat other dishes within half an hour after eating it, you will not get any buff bonus.

This rarely happens in the strategy group. Most of the time when attacking the BOSS after the 30th floor, even if the people standing behind to clean up the monsters are just strangers you just talked to, as long as you can still hear their movements, you can attack with confidence, and someone will remind you if you miss a monster.

"Tsk!"

Kradir smacked his lips in his heart. If it were him, he would have been left with little health if not killed.

No one noticed his little movements in the melee, and even if they did, they could just explain it away as him being inexperienced.

The members of the Smiling Coffin, who were grinning at the successful sneak attack on Kirito, suddenly noticed that the man holding the poisonous knife opposite them had a strange expression.

Realizing that there was someone behind him, he reacted quickly and turned around, but it was too late.

"Meow-"

A sharp pain as if his intestines were being torn apart came from his abdomen, and then the scene in front of him flashed by quickly. His back slammed into the stone wall of the safe zone, suffering a second crushing injury.

"Ugh..."

He only had time to let out a painful groan as if his throat was being strangled before his health bar immediately dropped to the bottom. Perhaps no one knew that he suffered real physical pain before his death.

The whole place was silent. Both parties who were fighting stopped what they were doing and looked at the uninvited guest standing in the middle of the place.

In this situation, everyone's attention is only focused on the attacks from the enemy's hands and the signs and health bars above their heads.

At this time, the sudden appearance of an extra health bar may not be a big problem, but if there is one that obviously does not belong to the player and is decorated and suddenly squeezes out from under a large number of orange and green labels, it is hard not to notice it.

She looked like an ordinary little girl with cat ears, wearing a red and white shrine maiden costume, and the weapon in her hand was indeed the dagger dropped by the man who had just died.

"Is it the boss?"

"Hey, this is a safe area! Why is this happening?"

A member of the Laughing Coffin, who had already intended to surrender, let out a terrified cry.

They only thought about how to kill other players, so of course they had never seen with their own eyes the difference in the health bar of the BOSS defending the floor.

He wasn't the only one. The rest of the team, who had no impression of Yimi, also cast a mixture of fear and confusion at this point. This was only the lower level, but this little girl had already killed someone instantly the moment she appeared!

Yimi, who emerged from the crack, raised her hand and placed it on Kirito's back, which had just been pierced, in confusion. The unique light and shadow effects in the game had gradually disappeared over time.

Slowly lowering the tip of the gun, the little girl, who looked harmless, tensed her face and looked around, with a hint of oppression as if her divinity was radiating outward.

"Yimi, how did you get here?"

Kirito, who wanted to take out his second sword with all his strength, quickly changed his stance and used his other hand to protect the little girl. He raised his sword in the same posture as Liu Huaqiang and pointed it at the poisonous knife man who he thought was the biggest threat.

He knew Yimi was still quite strong on the current floor, and it was just a subconscious action. The poisoning in his body was constantly deducting his health, but there was no need to dwell on it. The one-second invincibility frame after Rat Soup's resurrection would clear the negative status.

Asuna, who was standing beside him, also held her rapier horizontally. If it were in reality, a little sweat would have seeped out of her forehead.

Although they felt confused and angry about Yimi's disobedience, if such a situation occurred in such an occasion, something they didn't want to see would definitely happen.

"BOSS? No, there's no BOSS at all! Can't you see? This is the NPC that provided them with the resurrection potion!"

Just as Asuna had thought, a relatively clear-headed Laughing Coffin member laughed heartily as he relayed this news to everyone present, seemingly unaffected by the desperate situation.

A key NPC who provides exclusive items to the front lines. Although only the Blood Alliance Knights can meet Yimi often, her existence is not a big secret even in the lower levels.

However, the only information about her that we can hear verbally from the strategy team is that we know very little, which is why there are rumors that the strategy team is so crazy that they are catching mice.

"Shut up!"

Godfrey picked up the axe and chopped at the man.

His reaction was quite quick, but unfortunately this action only confirmed what the other party said.

After dodging his blow sideways, the guy grinned: "Hey, what's the point of killing people? Isn't it all thanks to this NPC that we can suppress them? Did you see her health bar? This NPC is a target that can be killed! If it weren't for this little bitch——"

When dodging a large-scale axeman's attack, the movements needed to be very large. If a rapier user with a higher attack speed attacks at this time, even a dagger user with a higher movement speed will not be able to dodge.

Asuna, who had been holding back, had a gloomy face and used her strongest sword skills at this stage to pierce the opponent's throat, determined to strangle him on the spot.

This kind of person's brain has long been abnormal. The moment he was killed by her, he first showed the fear and surprise that he should have before death. However, when these expressions appeared, the smile in his eyes did not change.

Under his instigation, the Smiling Coffins, whose momentum was already waning, seemed to have found a breakthrough. Some lunatics even determined that the strategy group did not dare to kill people, and even though they were low on health, they still launched a counterattack without hesitation, and attacked while staring at the thin health bar.

"Meow?"

Yimi could tell from their clothes that these gloomy guys in black were all in cahoots with the bad guys that day!

Kill them all, kill them all!

Without waiting for Kirito and Asuna to say anything, she took the initiative to run out of the protective circle formed intentionally or unintentionally by the two of them and the players, pierced the chest of the guy with the poisonous knife with a gun, and sent him flying with his eyes wide open.

The disgusting and crazy laughter from before finally stopped. Physical pain is the best tool to awaken the fear of death.

"Yimi!"

"NPC actually attacked people..."

"Isn't this the time to focus on this? Protect that child. He's our hope of completing the raid!"

The melee erupted once more, but this time the Laughing Coffin men had a primary target, attacking the most conspicuous little creature in the center. These psychopaths, who had already taken killing for fun, certainly wouldn't be moved by the cute appearance of a young cub.

The constant interruptions and disregards made the man who kidnapped Klatir feel a little embarrassed. If this game had firearms, he would have wanted to fire a warning shot into the air.

But in this situation, he could only yell: "Don't move, can't you see I have a hostage?"

"Don't kill me! I didn't eat rat stew!"

Kradir yelled in cooperation. Before being hijacked, he was able to control his health bar in the yellow area and discarded his weapon, making his sense of crisis seem more real.

The members of the strategy group finally gave him a look, but most of them still focused their surprise on Kraldiel.

In this game where health is the priority, no one expected that hostage-taking would occur during a group fight. How incompetent would someone be to allow hostage-taking? If they were so incompetent, why would they even participate in the crusade against the Laughing Coffin? Even if they participated, they didn't even take the resurrection potion.

With their brows furrowed, the first ones to become restrained were definitely the members of the Blood Alliance Knights. Even though Kladil, the guy who offended the mascot, was not popular, he was still one of their members.

But after this man spoke, the people in the Smiling Coffin seemed to understand something and took a step back and stopped charging.

If these guys continue to fight, the strategy team will have a reason to fight back.

"hehe."

POH, who was hiding in the dark, really wanted to laugh out loud this time.

This scene was obviously not part of his plan, but as the leader of the criminals, he certainly knew what would happen next.

Between the life of an important NPC and the life of a real living human being, which one will the player choose?

In terms of utilization value, Kraldir is absolutely no match for that NPC, but the overall value of this society is people-oriented.

The members of the strategy team are watching, what will happen next?

Kirito, who was the quickest to react among all the players, obviously realized this, and he had already made up his mind to take the blame for all the closed beta testers when he was on the first level.

"Sorry……"

He swung out the second sword, and the faster two-sword technique was ready. Next, he would kill the Smiling Coffin staff member. As for whether Kradir lived or died, it all depended on his own luck.

And... whether Kradir lives or dies, he will be blamed by all the players again after this battle, but he is used to this kind of thing, isn't he?

However, when he was about to swing his sword, Yimi, who had just killed a black man, rushed up. It seemed that his momentum did not seem like he was trying to save anyone!

Koneko's idea was simple. With only the average knowledge of a seven-year-old, she didn't have a clear understanding of "hostages" before, but thanks to her friends in Gensokyo, they taught her what hostages were.

Hostage = accomplice.

She had known for a long time that this little brother was not a good person!

"Stop it Yimi!"

Kirito called out from behind.

No matter what, you can't be the bad guy!

"why?"

Yimi's ears twitched.

Choosing to trust Kirito, she stumbled two steps, trying to stop, but she was running too fast and her legs couldn't stop her. She could only lower the tip of her gun.

It pierced straight through Kladil's crotch.

27

Chapter 27: Just killing a beast.

“Ahhhh—”

He screamed even more miserably than Tom, and couldn't even maintain the posture of being held hostage and fell directly to the ground. Unlike Kirito's glowing wound effect that recovered within seconds after being stabbed, a gap in the light curtain appeared directly at the crotch of Kradir's pants.

"Help, ambulance..."

He was in so much pain that he was incoherent and his words were illogical. His mind was blank and he didn't even check the health bar that had dropped to red.

The pain that hit his vitals made his voice a little sharper. This was much more painful than when he molested his female classmate in elementary school and was hit hard. In addition to the pain, he really felt that the most important part of his body had fallen off.

All the men in the room couldn't help but clamp their legs together, but seeing Kraldiel's twisted expression, they didn't show much empathy. Only Kirito knew he was truly in pain. The others thought he was just acting to get out of this situation, because it was common sense that there was no pain in this game.

It's too exaggerated, it's just okay.

"What the hell are you doing, man?"

The man who had just held him hostage finally reacted and slashed at Yimi's head with a knife.

Yimi simply turned her confused gaze towards Kirito, and an invisible force automatically emanated from behind her, throwing the Smiling Coffin staff member who was intending to attack away. His health bar, which was originally above the green line, dropped to the bottom and he died on the spot.

Unbeknownst to everyone, [The World] stood behind Yimi with his arms folded, staring at them.

It kills instantly, and you can't even see the trajectory of the attack.

No matter how tempting the thin health bar next to the cat's ear was to touch it, the other members of Laughing Coffin were forced to pause for a moment. But Kirito, who had been disgusted all the way, knew that these guys would never give up.

He quickly came to Yimi's side and looked at the previously annoying Kladil lying on the ground with pity. Before that, he was just hit in the stomach by Yimi's little fist, and this guy was directly cut off... and the special effects of the injury that could be recovered in a few seconds seemed to have no sign of recovery.

The knot in his heart was still there, but seeing how pitiful the other person was, Kirito reached out and grabbed his arm: "Can you stand up?"

Then, perhaps because he accidentally touched something while rolling around, Kirito grabbed the metal arm guard without much force and pulled it off.

Then, Kirito stared at the pattern printed on his forearm and fell into deep thought.

Two black coffin boards stacked together with an ugly smile printed on them were the logo of the Wu Shi Guild's Smiling Coffin.

"I see, is this your trick?"

Kirito withdrew the trace of pity in his heart, patted Yimi's head to let her know that she had done nothing wrong, and then grabbed Kradir's wrist and lifted it up for everyone to see:

"You want to sow discord in this way and make us lose our greatest hope? This is all you can do."

Directly announcing to the public that Kradir was an undercover agent of Laughing Coffin would cause a rift in the trust of everyone in the strategy group, including him. Even the largest guild, the Knights of the Blood Alliance, had Laughing Coffin infiltrated. God knows how many more people they had actually buried in there.

But instead of creating this rift between Yimi and the other members of the strategy team, it would be better to let the strategy team share the burden among themselves. This is what he thought at this time.

POH, who was watching secretly, lowered the corners of his mouth again. He knew that this good show was no longer interesting.

"Is that so, Kladil?"

Godfrey, who still had some concern for Kladir, glared at him angrily. "Stop using your affected acting to hide your guilty conscience. Even at this point, you're still trying to direct the blame towards Little Yimi?"

Kradir wanted to object, but the constant pain without bleeding made him unbearable.

The entire time, Heathcliff stared at the spot where Immie had appeared, lost in thought. It was only here that he shouted his first command after the opening, but it was to the Laughing Coffin:

"You have no hope left. If you surrender now, you can still save your life."