Infinitely Criticizing the Villain for Being Like My Ex-Boyfriend

"The main quest is to live in Shuangshi Village for a month...the clearance quest...and to replace the identity of 'Zhang Chunliang'?" The player Wang Liukai solemnly repeated his quest to his teammates.

As soon as he came in, he was trapped in a fleeing team in a very bad situation, and his skills and system backpack were blocked.

He had prepared himself mentally before coming in that this team competition would not go particularly smoothly, but he did not expect it to be so confusing.

Now, after going through untold hardships, he finally reunited with his four teammates.

After several people communicated with each other, they discovered a serious problem: their tasks were the same.

"Li Mufeng? Are you hurt? Why do you look so ugly?" The team leader, Ping Yi, the current vice president of the Zhifengmuyu Guild, looked worriedly at the pale young man in front of him.

"I'm fine... I just haven't eaten for a long time." Li Mufeng muttered to himself.

This was the first dungeon he had played since the Doomsday dungeon. The guild members were worried that he would be in a trance and perform poorly due to Li Muxue's death, so they specially selected a five-person team dungeon for him.

But he never thought that the friend he met in the cafe yesterday would become his "clearance mission" in this copy.

However, as far as he knew, Zhang Chunliang had never downloaded this copy.

Did they happen to stumble into a dungeon where the opposing team was tasked with playing each other's members?

His heart was filled with absurdity, confusion, and deep fear.

Because he suddenly realized that there was only one "Zhang Chunliang", but they had five members, so how could they complete the task at the same time? Moreover, how could they successfully replace Zhang Chunliang?

"The system won't do such a stupid thing as letting team members kill each other. Let's take it one step at a time." Pingyi comforted them, "The environment here is too harsh. We should hurry up and get to Shuangshi Village before the other guild."

"I always feel that the name Zhang Chunliang sounds familiar...I seem to have seen it somewhere." Cui Hui muttered suspiciously.

Zhang Chunliang once did not understand the rules of the game, which resulted in his real name being on the rookie list for a while. Some players still remember his name.

"Stop guessing, it must be the name of an NPC. Will Game House give you a special task to replace another player? Don't be so funny." Wang Liukai, who had just escaped from the cannibalistic refugee group, retorted in a somewhat irritable tone.

Li Mufeng followed the crowd silently, keeping his mouth shut, and silently denied Wang Liukai's guess in his heart.

Somehow, he was very sure that the "Zhang Chunliang" in the mission was the person he knew.

As early as in the Doomsday Dungeon, he vaguely felt that the difficulty of that dungeon was not right. Not only were there all kinds of terrifying monsters, but there was also the crisis of the destruction of the entire world. There was even a player named Li Jun who was cheated by the Game Home and interfered and harmed other players.

It can be said that if it weren’t for Zhang Chunliang and his evil boyfriend, he really wasn’t sure if he could get out alive.

It seems that, since a long time ago, the main system of Game House... has been targeting Zhang Chunliang.

But in this copy, it no longer pretends to be fair and just, but exposes its malice without any disguise.

Li Mufeng was extremely confused. He wanted to tell Zhang Chunliang the news as soon as possible, but all his props were blocked. He could not send any message or interrupt the game.

His original plan was to take things one step at a time, get the "key" to the copy as soon as possible, and escape from here. Unexpectedly, during the next seven days on the way to Shuangshi Village, his teammates all encountered strange situations.

……

"I always feel that they are not my teammates." Li Mufeng said to Zhang Chunliang with a vacant look in his eyes and a tired tone, "Or... they have been replaced by something."

He would inadvertently see his teammates staring at him, eyes full of inquiry and creepy curiosity, as if they wanted to eat him whole...

What was even more unbearable for him was that one night, he woke up from a nightmare and found that three of his companions were not asleep. The three of them were sitting straight beside him, staring at him without saying a word.

He broke out in a cold sweat, but didn't dare show any abnormality and just endured the whole night.

Finally, when all those people had returned to their bedding, he pretended to wake up with sleepy eyes.

"First it was Cui Hui, then it was Wang Liukai...then it was Shen Mingming, and later, even the strongest brother Pingyi became abnormal." Li Mufeng felt a little sad.

Pingyi was the only person who did not show any abnormalities. He and his sister Li Muxue had a good impression of each other. Pingyi was powerful, calm and meticulous. In his heart, he was the best candidate for the future brother-in-law. But now, they all died in this copy.

"So, you didn't go to Shuangshi Village in the end?" Qu Anran asked lazily, supporting his chin.

Li Mufeng shook his head in frustration: "The road we took was wrong. Wang Liukai said he had a map and volunteered to lead the way, but we walked for a long time and didn't see the village. Moreover, their temperament changed drastically during the journey. They wanted to eat a lot of food every day. The food we collected was not enough for them."

Moreover, the way they ate was so ferocious that Li Mufeng didn't dare to compete with them for fear of irritating them.

"I was able to survive only because Brother Pingyi secretly gave me some food...but later on he also..." Li Mufeng's smile was extremely bitter.

No one could understand how he felt. His relatives and friends died one after another while saving him, but he could not find any way to avenge them.

He's just an incompetent lucky bastard.

"Can you tell me about your brother Pingyi?" Qu Anran listened with great interest and asked proactively, "When did he become abnormal, and when did he die?"

Li Mufeng was stunned for a moment, then tilted his head to look at Qu Anran.

After he recovered his memory, he still couldn't remember the identity of this familiar boy: "By the way, who are you..."

"I am your father's friend." Qu Anran solemnly stretched out his paw and shook hands with him.

Li Mufeng didn't react for a while. After shaking hands, he realized that the "father" this annoying guy was referring to was Old K.

His face darkened, but he knew that now was not the time to get angry with this guy.

So he forced himself to swallow his anger and searched his memory for things related to Pingyi.

"Brother Pingyi is very good at dungeon clearance. He is the number one figure in our guild and the most likely candidate to become the next president..." Li Mufeng recalled, "It is said that our guild's name was given by him to show his loyalty to my sister."

"No, no, no, you misunderstood, nephew." Qu Anran patiently interrupted him, "What I meant is, since you entered this instance, has Pingyi shown any strange behavior?"

Li Mufeng was stunned at first, then he understood the meaning of his words and frowned slightly.

"No, he is very strong and has always been the main force of our team. He was the first to gather everyone and lead us towards Shuangshi Village..."

"Isn't there anything strange about him?" Qu Anran asked persistently, "The other members have become like that, but he remains normal?"

Li Mufeng seemed to realize that there was something wrong with his expression. He sat up straight and finally began to recall seriously.

"...No, it seems, a little abnormal." He suddenly said, "He seems... to like asking me questions, intentionally or unintentionally asking me about things related to Zhang Chunliang, as if... knowing that I must know these questions."

Zhang Chunliang politely picked up the bamboo tube and clinked glasses with the two men: "That's right, I've always been very popular."

Qu Anran couldn't help laughing, and then the black cat slapped him hard on the mouth with its tail.

"Yeah... It's so strange. Why can't I remember... how did Brother Pingyi die? Wait, how did I... die?" Li Mufeng looked at Zhang Chunliang blankly, his eyes full of confusion. "Zhang Chunliang, am I not fully awake yet? Are you faking it?"

"Because you fell into the trap, silly nephew." Qu Anran rubbed the corners of his mouth that were throbbing with pain and shrugged helplessly, "Have you never doubted the unreasonableness of your mission? How could the mission of replacing the same person appear on five teammates in the same camp?"

Li Mufeng moved his mouth, feeling that his IQ was insulted, but unable to refute.

"You were deceived by them." Zhang Chunliang also understood what Qu Anran meant, so he explained to Li Mufeng, "You five people were most likely assigned five different tasks."

Li Mufeng's eyes became even more confused, and he subconsciously asked: "That's impossible, how did they know what my mission was? Why did they lie to me?"

Qu Anran raised Li Mufeng's dirty paw and pointed it in the direction of Zhang Chunliang: "Don't you understand? You know that Game House is targeting Zhang Chunliang, so as a close friend of his, isn't it normal for you to be targeted?"

"Your memory has been tampered with. The food Pingyi gave you may contain some ingredients similar to hypnotic drugs. He is stealing the information about me in your memory." Zhang Chunliang patted his shoulder, "You are just an information extractor."

Pingyi was the one who was truly chosen by the system to play the role of "Zhang Chunliang", and his other teammates should have received tasks related to Li Mufeng, such as "playing Li Mufeng", or helping Pingyi gain Li Mufeng's trust.

Therefore, they would deliberately spy on Li Mufeng's every move, and even gather around him at night, trying to hypnotize him to obtain information.

"The night you woke up, maybe they all knew you were awake~" Qu Anran threatened him maliciously, "They are trying to break through your psychological defenses and make you collapse first."

Li Mufeng's face was distorted. He had a strange illusion of being a poor student among a group of academic geniuses. In order to prove that he had no IQ deficiency, he tried hard to refute: "If this is really the case, then why did Game House go to such lengths to let me know that it wanted to target you? Isn't this very contradictory?"

"Because it's testing your attitude." Qu Anran's eyes showed a little pity, "If you had shown any intention of cooperating with it to complete the task, you wouldn't have been played so badly."

Li Mufeng fell back into his chair weakly, with a very contradictory expression on his face.

He seemed to understand what Qu Anran meant.

In fact, in this team, he has many opportunities to take the initiative to reveal Zhang Chunliang's identity. As long as he seizes one of them, he will become the most important core figure in the team, the one who "replaces" Zhang Chunliang's identity.

However, he never chose to betray him once, so Pingyi took over his mission... and gave up on him.

"Why did you choose me?" Li Mufeng asked calmly, "Is it because I'm stupid?"

"Because you have betrayed me before." Zhang Chunliang comforted him softly, "It wants to lure you into betraying me again."

Just imagine, if Li Mufeng really chose to be the one to replace Zhang Chunliang, what a funny and sad drama it would be when Zhang Chunliang met him and revealed his true face.

"So, after Pingyi and the others squeezed out all my information, they killed me in my sleep?" Li Mufeng asked again.

"That's probably the case. It's also possible that you saw through their trick and were silenced." Perhaps because Li Mufeng's expression was really bleak, Qu Anran rarely spoke human words. "After all, they drugged you so many times that it's normal for your brain to be confused and you have lost your memory."

"I'm leaning towards the second scenario." Zhang Chunliang raised his hand. "Li Mufeng used the salted fish prop I gave him, which means he must have resisted consciously."

His intense emotions awakened the power of Lao K in his body, helping him break through the system blockade and put on a protective lock for himself before he died.

"What about them?" Li Mufeng asked, "My teammates, are they really dead?"

Qu Anran seemed to have thought of something, revealing a subtle expression. He nodded and said, "My dear nephew, maybe your uncle has avenged you unintentionally."

Li Mufeng lowered his head, exuding a dejected air. He thought Qu Anran was playing a bad joke on him.

"You can't have both luck and brains." Qu Anran added, "Although you don't have a good brain, you have good luck."

Zhang Chunliang made a zipper gesture to him, signaling him to shut his mouth.

"You have to believe that everything is the best arrangement." He tried hard to piece together the broken pieces of Li Mufeng.

"Zhang Chunliang, you don't need to comfort me. I know very well that I am a useless person who has accomplished nothing. I am weak and stupid. Without my sister, I will be the cannon fodder who dies the fastest."

Qu Anran followed Zhang Chunliang's orders and covered his mouth obediently. Every time he heard Li Mufeng belittle him, he nodded rhythmically, looking particularly annoying.

"You are very important." Zhang Chunliang raised Li Mufeng's head seriously and asked him to look at him. "I can say that I am very grateful that you are still alive. If you were not here, this game would probably be a dead end for us."

Li Mufeng looked at him in confusion, but realized in his heart that Zhang Chunliang was not comforting him.

"Look at your task now. Is it still the same as before?" Zhang Chunliang reminded.

After Li Mufeng's body revived, his player identity and system panel also returned. He subconsciously opened the panel and was surprised to find that his mission had changed. Probably because he was in a new round of the game, he was assigned to Zhang Chunliang's team.

"The mission to pass the level...identify ten followers of the Thousand-Armed Buddha?" Li Mufeng read out the words and looked up at Zhang Chunliang, but still didn't understand what he meant.

"All the NPCs in this world are fake. You can regard them as a trace of obsession after death, a trace of residual soul. Therefore, none of them can be called a true believer." Zhang Chunliang pointed at the table, his tone solemn.

"So how do we accomplish this task?"

Qu Anran raised his hand first.

"Student Qu, you answer." Zhang Chunliang made a "please" gesture.

"If only complete people can be called believers, then only players in this instance meet the requirements. We need ten players to take the initiative to become believers of the evil Buddha and then identify each other."

"Full marks." Zhang Chunliang said with a smile.

"However, there was one person in our original team who was a puppet sent out by the evil Buddha, so it cannot be called a complete person." Qu Anran looked at Li Mufeng in surprise and suddenly exclaimed in admiration.

"I take back my impolite words." He said sincerely, "So you are our savior, my dear nephew."