Forest of the Dead: Taiga

[Hints so far:]

[Arthur: Superior: The little girl with red eyes; Lower: Men in the Big Three of the Upper Circle]

At the end of the dark passage, leading to all corners of the taiga.

The cool wind blows through the coniferous forest, the fine branches and leaves gently shake, making a "rustling" sound, the air carries the fragrance of earth, the mist is a little wet, the air seems to be floating with fine water droplets, take a deep breath, you can feel the moisture.

"Brush ...... Brush ......"

J's shoes stepped on the greenery on the ground, he held a gun, walking in the shadow of the taiga, the coniferous trees on both sides are of different heights, the thick coniferous trees even need two or three people to hug to be able to hold up, and the thin coniferous trees are as thick as arms, these coniferous trees look all over the mountain from a distance, just like the woods in the middle and high latitudes, but the mosses and ferns on the ground are staggered, and they are not like the phenomena that will occur in real nature. Bryophytes are mixed together on the same virtual scene, creating an incongruous virtual illusion.

J frowned, stepped over an old tangled tree, and jumped down a hillside.

He remembered the prompts on the two cards he had seen in his room a few minutes earlier.

On the card that says "Upper Player in the Food Chain", there is a sentence: A man whose heart belongs.

And on the card of the [Lower Player in the Food Chain], there is another sentence: Killing Machine.

His prompts are one bright and one dark.

The killing machine, if nothing else, should be Caesar.

Only she deserves this title.

Even those as strong as the Black Blade or as cunning as Icarus were not as agile as Caesar in melee attacks.

To put it bluntly, these two people are trained humans, and although they are far stronger than ordinary soldiers in terms of combat skills and combat ability, they are still significantly different from Caesar.

He could tell that Caesar had no formal training, and that all of her aggression seemed to have been learned gradually by observing the other players in the game. Her advantage lies in her body structure, and the explosive power of her body is faster than that of ordinary people, which is reflected in the ability to quickly adjust every muscle in her body during battle, and through the cooperation between musculoskeletal groups, she can instantly burst out with powerful attack power.

It's not something you learned.

It's like she's made to kill.

That's how he felt about her.

The little girl, although petite, is because of this, which makes her more agile than adult males.

To some extent, it is not for nothing that she has been re-elected as the chief.

And now, such a terrifying existence is actually his own subordinate player?

J silently walked around a few tall spruce trees and looked up at the moisture condensing between the spruce branches and leaves.

As for the other codeword, it is more obscure.

[A man with a heart]?

Who could it be?

Of the 12 players, after excluding the women and themselves, the remaining men were: Blackblade, Icarus, One-Eyed, Arthur, Colin, and Mars.

(Colin is still a teenager, under twenty years old, which should be ruled out.) ）

(Well, the rest are Blackblade, Icarus, One-Eye, Arthur, Mars)

Who is the man who has a heart?

J stopped, frowning in thought.

Black Blade and Mars, these two people have always been non-talkative and silent, so they have reduced the output of their own information, and the information related to them is naturally not so easy to know.

Do they have a sweetheart?

The black blade also looks nearly forty years old, and it seems a bit unreasonable to say that he has never liked a woman.

Mars looks quite young, but because he is young, he is prone to impulsiveness and infatuation with a certain woman.

As for One-Eyed and Icarus, it's more obvious.

On the cruise ship Octavian, the mermaid saw their memories and their hearts, and J, who was on deck at that time, also saw the mermaid transform into their sweetheart, Elena and the Duke.

One-eyed's sweetheart is Elena.

Icarus's sweetheart is the Duke.

In other words, One-Eyed and Icarus are likely to be the higher-ranking players who will hunt him down, while Mars and Blackblade are in the dark side.

J's brow locked even deeper.

He needs to avoid the four men at once, any of these four men may want to kill him at the top of the food chain, facing the four of them, he can only choose to escape, otherwise once he fights back, if the other party happens to be the top of the food chain, then he will completely violate the rules of the game......

J sighed.

(How did this system be deliberate!) ）

(Make the prompts bright and dark, triggering intrigue between players, to make the game more interesting.) ）

(A bunch of sadists!) ）

"Click."

Just then, he suddenly heard the sound of a pistol being loaded behind him.

J cried out in his heart, he was thinking about it, not paying attention to the safety around him, he turned around with his gun, and saw a few steps away, under a spruce tree, one eye was holding a pistol, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at him.

…… The one who came was one of the four men.

Or confirm that there is a sweetheart's one-eyed.

Seeing the smile on the corner of One-Eye's mouth, J silently took a step back, and the alarm bell sounded in his heart.

"I didn't expect to meet again so soon, rookie." With a smile in his eyes, he looked at the newcomer with pigtails in front of him and smiled slightly.

He likes to refer to all newcomers as rookies as a sign of his contempt for them, as if that would make him superior to others.

“…… One-eyed, why did you come to me? J thought about it for a few seconds, but decided to pretend to be normal for the time being.

After all, One-Eye doesn't have to be the player at the top of his food chain, maybe the other three men.

Before he was sure of the other party's intentions, he decided to deal with it calmly and not expose his hole cards.

"J, I'm a little curious, who is written on the two cards you got?"

"Hmph, why do you think I'll tell you so easily?"

"Why don't we exchange information? Building a complete food chain as soon as possible is good for you and me, so why not? One-Eye raised his hand and leaned against the clammy spruce, and although he aimed his gun at J, he had no intention of attacking him.

This made J a little confused.

One-Eye also has two cards in his hand, so isn't One-Eye's next player prompt pointing at him?

If this is the case, then they should be parallel and cannot attack each other.

This made J relax a little, but he wasn't going to just cooperate with One-Eye.

After all, the other party is the winner of the last round of the game, and one of the 6 people who survived, such a person, will he be a good person who is simple and easy to talk?

Thinking so, J rejected One-Eye's proposal, "In that case, why don't you first tell me who your upper and lower players are?" ”

"Are you talking to me?"

"Since we want to cooperate, shouldn't we show some sincerity?"

Seeing through the other party's intentions, One-Eye simply stopped beating around the bush, he took a step forward, put away the gun, crossed his waist, and looked at J nonchalantly.

"Hahahaha. My upper and lower players are not you, so after I saw you, I came over to say hello, don't be nervous. ”

One-Eye said, plucking a fern and holding it in his hand.

"Wow, I have to say, the simulation work of this system is quite good, even the smell of these plants is real."

“……”

J still looked at One-Eye in disbelief.

He didn't believe One-Eyes could be so friendly, so he just came over to say hello.

Under the cover of that blindfold, perhaps he hides even more sinister intentions.

“…… One-eyed, what the hell do you want to do? ”

"There's something I want to ask you." One-Eye threw away the fern in his hand, changed his crazy appearance, and looked at J seriously.

"What's the matter?" J didn't let go of the one-eyed gun in his hand.

But the other party didn't seem to mind taking a step forward, bypassing the wooden roots on the ground and taking a step closer to him.

"Yelena, you know what." Cyclops eyes staring at J.

"Yes, your sweetheart."

"How do you know?"

"On the cruise, what I saw, the mermaid changed into her appearance and bewitched you."

One-Eye paced to the side, and J turned his attention warily, the pistol still pointed at One-Eye.

One-eyed raised his head and thought for a moment, then nodded: "Oh, I remember, you were indeed on the deck at the time, and the flesh of the bite was blurred." ”

“……”

“…… But what about other than that? Do you remember anything about Elena? One-eyed looked at him at once, his eyes as sharp as a dagger, piercing the air.

"What do you mean?"

"I was told that you had a relationship with Yelena before, and although I can't remember anything about Elena, you should be able to remember some of it." One-Eye said, taking a step towards J, "J, who the hell are you?" How the hell did Yelena die? Does her death have anything to do with you?! ”

He's getting closer.

He's pressing.

Although he doesn't have a weapon in his hand now, his aggressive aura is like the scene of torture to extract a confession, he looks at his criminal suspect, and he is bound to spit out the truth.

J looked at One-Eyed suspiciously, as if hearing these words for the first time.

"What does your Elena have to do with me? Last time I was on deck, it was the first time I saw her turn into a mermaid......"

Before he could finish speaking, suddenly, some fragments of memories flashed through his mind.

When J remembers the mermaid who turned into Elena,

That face coincided with a figure in my memory......

A woman.

A pale, thin woman.

She sat in a dimly lit interrogation room with her hair unkempt and dressed in prisoner's clothes.

The dim light fell on her thin shoulders, and she was raising her eyes to look at him sitting on the other side of the table, and her lips opened slightly, as if to say something......

……

This image flashed through his mind, and J lowered his eyes and took a step back, his eyes a little shaken.

He suddenly realized that he had an impression of Yelena.

It's just that the pace of each round is too fast, and he doesn't have time to think about it.

Now that he was suddenly mentioned by One-Eye, he recalled the face of the mermaid Yelena, and suddenly felt a little familiar, and along with this familiarity, some broken memory fragments were also awakened.

He.

Probably actually met Elena.

Thinking of this, J's expression became a little solemn.

This unusual look was captured by the one-eyed.

He rushed over, grabbed J by the collar, and pressed him against the trunk.

"Do you even remember anything about Elena?!"

“…… I don't remember. J touched his nose, looked away, and straightened his collar with one hand, "I've never seen that woman, I've never heard the name, I don't know what happened to you, but it's none of my business." ”

He lied.

He instinctively felt that these fragments of memories that suddenly came to him should not be told to One-Eye.

Of course, One-Eye also smells of lies.

"J, do you know how the police tell if a prisoner is lying......" One-Eye muttered in a low voice, "When a person lies, he will subconsciously look away, touch his nose, pull his collar, and you, just now, all did those actions. ”

“……”

One-Eye shoved J to the side and drew his pistol, aiming the muzzle of the black hole at the man.

"You'd better tell me everything you know, and I'm not going to be soft on Elena's affairs."

Now One-Eye, who looks like a cold-blooded killer, is no longer the pretending to be crazy in the past.

This side of him is even more frightening.

"One-eyed, seriously, I just got into this game, my memory is blank, I can't really remember who Yelena is and what happened before, I want to help you too, but ...... I'm sorry. J stood up and watched the muzzle of One-Eye's gun move towards his movements, "This game is a food chain chase and kill battle, One-Eye, you are not my superior player, you and I can't attack each other, otherwise we will violate the rules of the game." ”

Hearing this, One-Eye just smiled coldly.

Rules?

He is now starting to use the rules of the game as an excuse to press him?

One-Eye took out a card from the pocket of his black coat, and on the back of the card, the words "Lower Player in the Food Chain" were written in blood.

J's heart thumped.

One-Eye tossed the card, which flipped in an arc in the air, right up and into a fern at J's feet.

J lowered his head and saw a few words written on the card - [Man with scars on his hands], he subconsciously glanced at his right hand, and saw a striking scar on his right hand.

(Could it be...... ）

(Could it be that One-Eye is really my superior player?!) ）

J raised his head and looked at the cold killing intent that swirled in one-eyed eyes.

It turned out that he deliberately approached him from the very beginning.

Hide his identity, just want to get out what he said about Elena.

But since he insisted on biting his tongue, there was no need for him to continue to be merciful.

After all, it's the rules of the game.

One-eyed smiled slightly, and the corners of his eyes and eyebrows were dyed with his usual madness: "Now, do you still want to talk to me about the rules of the game?" ”

J bit his lower lip, a chill crossed his heart, he stared at the one-eyed pistol with all his attention, silently took half a step back, the sole of his shoe ran over the rough bryophytes, the next second, one-eyed pulled the trigger, but J predicted one-eyed's attack first, he shifted his focus to the backward foot, sideways dodged one-eyed bullet, but the bullet that grazed his ear damaged his eardrum, he felt a heart-piercing pain, and then saw one-eyed muzzle aimed at his heart, he flashed sideways, one-eyed shot hit his left arm, He rolled down the hillside of the coniferous forest, and One-Eye chased after him, and fired three or four shots at his back, but all of them hit the densely intertwined tree trunks, J's body rolled over the sharp stones on the hillside, and he rolled down towards the stream below, and hit the body by the stream on his shoulder, and with a "click" he broke the humeral bone, and his chest hit a large rock, and he lay on the ground and vomited a mouthful of blood.