Forest of the Dead, Taiga, Creek

[Hints so far:]

[Arthur: Upper player: The little girl with red eyes; Lower Player: Male in the Big Three of the Upper Circle]

[One-eyed: Upper player: A woman among the 6 veteran players; Next player: The man with the scar on his hand]

[J: Upper player: A man who has a heart; Lower Player: Killing Machine]

The babbling stream flows down the mountain, gradually collecting the water of the mountain springs from all over the place, and gradually turning into a small river. The cold drinking water flows through the black riverbed, over the crooked riverbed, and finally forms a small river halfway up the mountain.

On the left bank of the river is a lush cedar forest, and on the right bank of the river, there is a white rock beach, white pebbles of various sizes piled up on the bank, lined with the white mist in the distance, as if the white mist also condensed into solids and fell on the riverside.

"Brush ......"

Caesar stepped on the white stones on the ground and walked upstream, along the river.

Listening to the sound of gurgling water, she frowned slightly, subconsciously covering her lower abdomen, for some reason, after moving around, the discomfort in the lower abdomen became more obvious, originally only slightly uncomfortable after waking up, but after the activity, the feeling was amplified, the lower abdomen was cold and swishing, but there seemed to be something tearing at the internal organs, and occasionally I felt a faint pain, especially when the range of activity was larger......

Caesar stopped, grabbed a stone, and threw it into the river.

With a "bang", the stone sank, as if in Caesar's heart.

She was never willing to show weakness and admit that she had any weaknesses.

She thought that her body was the most suitable to survive in this virtual killing world, but now, it was not like that. There was a slight flaw in her body, and although this time it was a "normal physiological phenomenon" that Lorraine told her, it more or less restricted her movements, so that she could no longer jump up and down and chase prey like before. Now, even if she moves around a lot, she does not dare to be presumptuous because of the restrictions of special circumstances, and her hands and feet are like being handcuffed, so that she cannot move freely.

She frowned, her mind in a mess.

Will Beauty and Duke be like this?

But why haven't they ever been unwell before?

Isn't time relatively static for all players?

Why does her body seem to be constantly growing and developing?

Isn't her time relatively static, like other players?

Thinking so, Caesar stopped and looked at the flowing river, as if he saw the passage of time.

If, if her time doesn't stand still, does that mean she can grow up? Can it no longer be the same as a 13-year-old now?

Thinking so, Caesar took a few steps forward, and she looked at her reflection on the river, and suddenly wondered what she would become.

If you grow to the age of a beauty or a duke, will you be as tall as them? Will you look so good?

(If...... ）

(If only Will could see that picture...... ）

This thought involuntarily appeared.

But then, what comes to mind is Arthur's face, or, perhaps, Arthur's and Will's. They are like the same person, with the same face, but they don't feel the same person, they are two relatively independent individuals.

Thinking of Arthur, Caesar's thoughts were pulled back.

She remembered the rules of the game - the food chain chase.

Arthur is her lower player in the food chain.

The two cards in her room, the upper card read: [Black-haired rookie player], and the lower card reads: [Man Wrapped in Gauze].

Obviously, the next player is Arthur.

That is, she can hunt down Arthur, but Arthur cannot fight back, only defend or escape.

But...... So who is the top player?

(Black-haired rookie gamer? ）

Caesar groaned, her brow furrowed, and she went upstream along the creek, without purpose or direction.

There are six rookie players: Arthur, Lorraine, Colin, Mars, J, and Ogar.

Lorraine is silvery-white with short hair, excluded.

Ogar is blonde with medium-long hair, excluded.

Arthur is light brown haired and is her subordinate, excluded.

Mars, J, and Colin remained.

Mars has always had a flat head, but his hair color looks like black, Colin has a normal parted head, and his hair color is indeed black, and J has black hair tied with small pigtails.

In other words, Mars, J, and Colin, one of these three people is her Caesar's superior player.

Who could it be?

As Caesar was going upstream, he saw a man lying face down in front of the hillside by the river, and the white stone under him was red with the blood on his body, and from a distance he lay there as if he were dead.

Caesar pulled out his pistol and walked toward the man.

(Is it an NPC?) ）

She was a little puzzled, she hadn't seen a single NPC since the beginning of the game, could it be that these NPCs had all turned into corpses? If so, are there some secrets hidden by these corpses?

She was speculating, approaching the "corpse", crouching down to take a look, and found that the man was still alive, his back slightly undulating with his breathing, but he had a gunshot wound to his left arm, stained red with his white shirt, and his left ear was also injured, and blood flowed down the ear canal and across his cheek. There were many fine wounds on his cheeks, which appeared to have been bruised from his tumbling down the hill.

“J？” Caesar was slightly surprised.

Not long after the game started, he was already like this?

Is someone chasing him? Is it his superior player?

Caesar subconsciously raised his head and looked around.

At this moment, J also seemed to hear Caesar's voice, frowned, and woke up.

Seeing him wake up, the vigilant Caesar stood up instantly, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at J's head.

J, who rolled down the hillside, was covered in wounds, his bone-band was cracked, and he was in pain. He gritted his teeth and sat up, shook his head, a ringing in his left ear, it was the eardrum that had been injured by the one-eyed gunshot just now, which damaged his hearing, he looked up and saw Caesar in front of him standing with his back to the light, the light brushed her shoulder, her shadow fell on him, her expression was cold, those dark red eyes were like the color of apples in the Garden of Eden, and at this moment she looked like a god in heaven, who would judge him and fall into hell.

"How did you end up like this?" Caesar spoke first.

“…… It's one-eyed. ”

"He's your top-ranking player in the food chain?"

"Hmm." J nodded, recalling the unpleasant conversation in the woods before, he was still very lucky in his heart, fortunately there was a hillside in the forest, so that he could roll down the mountain to escape, otherwise, he would have died at the hands of One-Eye.

Thinking so, J looked up at Caesar.

"Anyway, Caesar, you have to thank me."

Thank?

Caesar frowned suspiciously, pursing his lower lip for his own explanation.

"If it weren't for me, you'd be One-Eye's next prey." J said, propping his right hand on his body and standing up with a little shaky.

Caesar took a step back, and J's words were a bit informative, so she couldn't react for a while.

One-Eye is a high-ranking player for J.

Kill J, and you'll be One-Eye's next target.

Other words......

"Click." J pulls out his gun, and points it at Caesar.

There was a bit of guilt in his eyes.

"I'm sorry Caesar, I'm your superior player."

Caesar took a step back.

She remembered the card she got that said the next player, [Black-haired Rookie Player], which was referring to, J?!

"Hahaha, I didn't expect you to have such a day, Julius Caesar."

The most unwanted voice appeared.

Caesar and J looked back, and saw One-Eye standing on a big rock not far away, looking at them proudly, he obviously just came down from the mountain, along the steep slope, bypassed the stones on the hillside, found a path, and came to the river, originally his goal was only J, but he didn't expect to receive a lot of goods, I don't know if he saw his lower player in the food chain, even J's lower player was also known to him, the key is that he has always been thinking about solving the sworn enemy - Caesar, what kind of good day is this? He was almost going to make a bomb to celebrate the [Minghe System]'s wise and martial arrangement!

Caesar took another step back, but his eyes were fixed on One-Eye: "One-eyed, you damn blind. ”

"Caesar, remember what that said?" Being my enemy is the stupidest thing you've ever done today', and I can finally give it back to you as it is! As he spoke, One-Eye jumped off the rock, and came to the white rocky beach.

He still remembered the cruel things Caesar said to him during the [Upper Circle Hunt and Killing Battle].

He's not a good guy.

He's a bad guy who will repay him and compare his money.

How others treat him, he will definitely write it down in his heart and return it in the future.

That's how he survives.

Only by being more ferocious than a fierce person can we eat black, devour evil, and live.

One-eyed looked at J and pointed the pistol at J: "Little pigtail, you choose, do you kill Caesar first, and then I kill you, or do I kill you first, and then kill Caesar myself?" ”

Although One-Eye is currently at the top of the food chain, he is not Caesar's neighbor after all, and he cannot directly kill Caesar.

But in any case, in his opinion, Caesar could not escape!

He gave J two options, but in reality there was only one.

J looked at Caesar.

He didn't have a choice.

If you let One-Eye kill yourself first, then your score in this game will be at the bottom, which means that you will be killed if you don't get a single point, and the score on the blood list will definitely be miserable. But if you kill Caesar first, and then be killed by One-Eye, the result will be very different, Caesar is the chief of the blood list, limited by the rules of the game, and now Caesar can't fight back, this is also his best chance to slaughter the chief as a newcomer, once successful, his score on the blood list is bound to be greatly improved, even if he is killed by One-Eye, it is enough.

"Caesar......" J took a step forward.

There was guilt in his eyes, but he clenched the gun in his hand.

He was not a brutal murderer, and he was unwilling to kill a 13-year-old girl with his own hands.

But the situation was broken, and he had to do it.

Between compassion and survival, you are destined to choose only one.

Caesar took a step back, she looked at One-Eye, and smiled coldly: "Hmph, kill me, you can get a large number of blood ranking points, One-Eye, are you willing to give this benefit to J?" ”

One-eyed tapped his head with the muzzle of a pistol and looked at Caesar with a smile: "Caesar, I'm not stupid, do you think I don't know what you're calculating?" You're moving so fast, the moment I kill J, you're going to run away, and you think I'm going to let you go? I'm going to see you die here today. ”

Don't look at him sometimes crazy and crazy, but his head is very smart and spins fast.

I had already made a calculation in my heart.

Caesar's ability to act, as a veteran player, is not unenlightened, if she is allowed to run away this time, it is difficult to say whether she can catch her in this mountain forest.

In order to miss this opportunity, even if it is not his one-eyed person, he must not miss it.

"Boy, I gave you a gift package of blood rankings, and you have to thank me." One-eyed looked at J and laughed.

J hesitated, and looked up at Caesar.

Caesar saw his entanglement, but he also saw what was hidden deep under that entanglement, and he was resolute.

People are selfish.

When cornered, they will always choose the decision that is beneficial to them.

J's fingers, gradually pulling the trigger.

Caesar bit his lower lip and clenched his fists like an enraged cat.

At this moment, the fir forest on the side suddenly rang out with the sound of carbines.

The bullet hit the rocks on the white rock beach, and a burst of fire suppressed, and J and One-eye subconsciously crouched down to avoid the bullet. A figure rushed out of the cedar forest, and Caesar looked back and saw that it was Arthur!

He took the carbine and shot in the direction of J and One-Eye, and due to the rules of the game, he only hit the rocks around them, but forced the two to retreat, Arthur took the opportunity to rush over, he met Caesar's eyes, hugged Caesar, and fell into the river!

"Plop—"

There was a splash on the river, and Arthur and Caesar sank into the water.

The icy river water swept every pore on his body at once, and his facial features were instantly impacted by the cold water, Caesar closed his eyes and let the turbulent water rush him downstream.

And J didn't want to kill Caesar, so before the one-eye could react, he hurriedly fled into the cedar forest on the side.

One-eye looked at the turbulent water, fired a few shots at the water, and saw J fleeing into the woods, so angry that he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, so he had to chase after him.

"Damn rookie, look at Uncle Ben if he doesn't solve you!"