Chapter 45: All the way north
North of town.
A Danish soldier named "Axel" was walking briskly further north.
In order to make his goal smaller and less likely to be targeted by any "special existence", after he left the city, he did not follow the fleeing team along the main road to continue walking, but randomly picked a remote country road, and got into it alone.
"Axel" is undoubtedly a cautious person.
As he escapes from town, he discovers a rather strange phenomenon.
As far as he could see, about two-thirds of the townspeople did not join the fleeing procession, but hurried in the direction of the chapel with a loud bang that resounded throughout the town.
All these signs of anomalies reminded him that something was going on in this town.
It wasn't until he carefully observed the crowd of people who passed by him and "went against the current" that he couldn't help but sweat in secret, and at the same time, he secretly congratulated himself in his heart how wise and correct his decision to escape from the town was at this time.
Because in the neckline of their clothes, he faintly saw a small handful of mixed colors - hair!
It is definitely not the amount of body hair that a normal human should have, but more like the dense fur attached to the skin of some animal.
"Axel" quietly passed through the crowd of "countercurrents", walked out of the town, and embarked on the road to continue north.
It wasn't until he walked on this secluded path that his hanging heart finally relaxed a little.
After determining his temporary safety through reconnaissance skills, "Axel" finally grinned and showed a sly smile.
"Ah, it's finally safe, anyway, those fools who are still in the town haven't figured out the nature of this so-called 'trial copy' yet, right? Hahahaha. ”
He said this without purpose, since he determined that the strong man of the "Shinra", like him, was also a "candidate", he also determined another thing, that is, this town, that is, the system set up a killing game to strangle them, or "test" them.
He came to this conclusion for two reasons.
First, the system does not give any hints other than the survival time limit of this "Trial Dungeon", which means that the degree of freedom of this "Trial Dungeon" is ridiculously high.
However, the "candidates" generally do not directly abandon the "role identity" assigned to them by the system at the beginning, and begin to explore freely at will.
Because the unknown also means danger.
Therefore, the "candidates" will generally use the existing "character identity" to fully familiarize themselves with the dungeon world for a period of time, and then choose a suitable world, break free from the shackles of the "character" itself, and start to move freely, just like he did before.
To use an inappropriate analogy, this process is equivalent to a novice task in an online game, which is specifically used for players to familiarize themselves with the game.
But the dungeon world is not a game, and the "candidates" are not players.
This is a real world, so real that "Axel" sometimes can't tell whether his previous life in the real world was a dream or not, and this is the real world.
Since it has been done so realistically, the system naturally does not arrange a hasty ending for it, something like "the newbie mission is over".
Instead, it should be a seemingly unexpected and at the same time reasonable "event" as a turning point to seem reasonable and appropriate.
And this "event", "Axel" believes that it is something big that is happening in the town at this time.
And this "big event" will inevitably contain some great dangers with the interest of testing, so as to conform to the ultimate goal of the system's "survival of the fittest."
The second reason for this is that "Axel" suspects that this system has led all their "candidates" to this town.
It is true that until this moment, the identity of the "candidate" that "Axel" can determine is only the strong man of the "HRE".
But even this one person is enough to explain something - you know, there are only 5 "candidates" for their entire trial copy, so isn't it a bit too coincidental that there are 2 candidates in the same town?
Moreover, when "Axel" called up his character status bar, he also found that there was a "candidate" whose original name was Martin Scorsese, who was dead, and the time of his death was at the same time as the fleeting energy fluctuation that occurred in the direction of the "Axel" chapel, which also seems too coincidental, right?
"Axel" is a man who does not believe in coincidences, because his identity in the original world was that of a professional gambler.
"There is no luck in gambling, gambling is actually the sum of probability, technique and psychological game." This sentence was a mantra that he often used on his lips when he was still alive.
So he boldly made another inference - the system manipulated "cause and effect" to enter the town of all of them, and at the same time hid a huge killing game in the town, and used it as a turning point to start a new event.
"This is a survival game, only survival is everything, and since I have judged that the town is the source of danger, then of course, I must stay away from the source of danger as quickly as possible."
This is the response of "Axel" based on the above inference.
That's what he thinks, and that's what he does.
Now that he was standing on a remote road far from the town, before a certain "pocket" was closed, he escaped from the scope of its effect, and it has to be said that although the killing game he predicted was not completely over, it made him feel like he was in the aftermath of the disaster.
"Hehehe, there doesn't seem to be anything for me here, and then I just need to go all the way to the north, and then to the north, and pick those roads that are rarely visited, there should be a high chance of avoiding those unconventional dangers."
However, just as he could finish speaking, two figures walked slowly from the remote path......