Chapter 9 The Forest of the Dead 23
Forest of the Dead: Side Berlin
Standing on the hillside, the straight arborvitae is like a pole, growing in the direction of the sun.
The green foliage of the arborvitae is layered on top of each other, obscuring the light and casting a few fine shadows among the grass beneath the arborvitae.
Listening to the rustling of the wind through the foliage, Mars walked past the arborvitae, holding his breath and slowing down, cautiously observing the situation around him.
Just now in the headset, he heard a series of changes in the game.
First, the order of the food chain is reversed, and then one by one the players leave the game, until he does not hear the code name of "Duke" in the new food chain order.
The mentor he had just remembered was eliminated from the competition.
Who could have killed her?
After reversing the order of the food chain, her superior player is no longer Ogar, but herself, if not herself, it can only be an unknown creature or the most terrifying [Hunter].
Thinking of this, Mars stopped, his face gloomy and ugly, and there seemed to be a depression around him.
There are so many things that have happened today.
He always believed that the object of his chest tattoo was Lorraine, and he did act to protect Lorraine at the cost of his own life in the first few games.
But today, suddenly, someone told him that everything was a misunderstanding.
The person he was supposed to find, the person he was supposed to protect, the person indicated on the tattoo, was the duke, not Lorraine.
- The Duke is the reason why he entered the [Minghe System], and the Duke is his enlightenment mentor.
This overturned his previous code of conduct and made it a little difficult for him to accept.
What's even more unbelievable is that the Duke and Lorraine are actually half-sisters?!
From the conversation between the Duke and Lorraine, it seems that they are incompatible.
And Lorraine, whom he had been protecting before, was actually the sworn enemy of his mentor.
It's an oolong......
Mars thought so and punched the cypress beside him.
How could he have made such a ridiculous mistake?!
If he had noticed earlier, although Lorraine and the tattooed woman were somewhat similar, they were still different on closer inspection, there would have been no such mistake. 、
If he had paid more attention to how each player looked and how he did things, he might have been able to spot his mistakes earlier.
He broke his promise to fail to find her mentor in time, and cost her her life on board the Octavian, and now she has died at the hands of others......
Ask yourself, although he Mars has entered the game, has he taken his own responsibility?
The answer is, no.
As he was thinking, the grass behind him suddenly remembered a strange sound.
Mars subconsciously turned around and raised his hand to shoot at the trunk of the tree, but the man dodged Mars's bullet and dodged from the side of the arborvitae, holding an assault gun and firing at him.
Mars's physical reaction caused him to lie down in the grass beside him, and he rolled over and put it on behind a thick arborvitae, and poked his head out from behind the arborvitae, and saw the beautiful woman standing in the side of the berber, holding an assault rifle in her hand.
"It's a pleasure to see you again, Mars." The beauty smiled from the bottom of her heart.
He was certainly happy to see him again.
Because he's a player at the top of his food chain.
“……”
"Alas, what a pair of hard-working mandarin ducks, I didn't expect you both to die at my hands, tsk." The beauty sighed with regret hypocritically.
But this sentence made Mars not understand.
"What do you mean?"
“…… It means that Lorraine was also solved by me. The beauty said lightly, "Not so long ago." ”
But this sentence, like a stone, smashed into the pool of Mars's heart, causing a wave of waves.
Mars remembered a conversation with Lorraine at the cemetery......
He remembered Lorraine telling him that her next player was a man who cherished his hair.
Now the order of the food chain is reversed, which means that the person who killed her is her new superior player, that is, the man who cherishes hair......
And this person.
Is it actually a beauty?!
Mars was still wondering who had killed Lorraine, whether it was J the pigtails or Icarus the blonde.
But I didn't expect that the one who killed Lorraine was actually a woman with a reverse gender?!
This shocking story left Mars speechless for a while.
And the beauty a few steps away guessed Mars's thoughts.
"What, does it hurt? Because I killed your little sweetheart? I was still shocked that a beautiful woman in front of me was actually a male player. ”
The beauty chuckled as he resumed the man's voice and spoke to him in a man's voice.
"I didn't expect you to be a transsexual."
Mars looked at the beauty with a little more disgust.
The beauty said a little helplessly: "To be precise, I am of different genders from the main personality, although biologically' 'our' body did undergo sex reassignment surgery, from male to female, but poor Evelyn has never known about my existence, she has always regarded herself as a woman, happy that she has succeeded in becoming a woman, and she does not know that there is a male sub-personality of me in the body...... Of course, I respect her choice, after all, women are the two of us who are recognized as the right gender for us, and most of the time, the female personality controls the body, but when I am seriously threatened or other special times, my male sub-personality will awaken and temporarily restore the will of men. ”
The beauty's words made Mars speechless for a long time.
Unexpectedly, this beautiful woman in front of me is not only transsexual, but also a mental patient with a dual personality.
What exactly happened to her.
It made him change from a man to a woman, and derived a sub-personality to protect himself?
"So...... Do you have a dual personality? ”
"So to speak." The beauty smiled, "However, there is indeed a part of the body that 'we' coexist in the form of a woman, if you don't believe it, you can go to bed with me and try it, heh, I promise, it won't make you feel like I'm losing to a woman." ”
“…… You're less disgusting with me. ”
Mars frowned, his eyes filled with disgust and disgust.
"Why, just because I'm not Lorraine, you're rejecting me like that?" Beauty teases.
The corners of his eyes and eyebrows are full of amorousness, but he dominates his body as a sub-personality, so his voice is also a man's voice, which sounds a little awkward.
It's like ......
A man is molesting Mars.
Mars's face was very ugly, and he was about to flee to the other side of Berlin, but the beauty didn't want to give him a chance to escape, so she aimed at Mars's figure and pulled the trigger.
"Tutu Tu Tu Tu—"
The bullet from the assault rifle hit the arborvitae, the dust was flying, Mars dodged, but was hit in the thigh, he rolled on his side, hiding behind a arborvitae, covering his body, while the beauty fired several shots at the arborvitae, the arborvitae trunk was thick, blocking the bullet from the assault rifle, but the bullet hit the bark sideways, Mars covered his head with his hands on his head, the leg of the bullet was throbbing, and blood gushed out of the bullet hole.
The sound of gunfire in the side Berlin alarmed an unidentified creature that had been dormant nearby.
I only heard the surrounding branches and leaves swaying slightly, and a creature that had been hiding in the woods gradually lost its camouflage and walked out step by step.
The sharp sickle-like forelimbs cut off the branches and leaves of the arborvitae that blocked the front, six slender feet stepped through the messy grass, and on the inverted triangular face, a pair of distant eyes looked down on the beauty and Mars in front of them, and a giant praying mantis gradually faded the protective color of its body, turning from transparent to green visible to the naked eye, and appeared.
At this time, the headset of Mars and the beauty came with a prompt sound from the system-
[Warning, warning]
[Hostile creatures appear in front of you]
[Creature Name: Blood Mantis]
[Target location: 15 meters]
[Creature Class: V-]
The praying mantis is about five meters tall, with a long scythe on the left and right forelimbs, its body is slender, it looks like a telephone pole from a distance, but it drags an oval abdomen, on both sides of the abdomen, each has three long feet stepping on the ground to support the body, each long foot is distributed with fine fluff, can sense the slightest vibration from the ground, so as to accurately control the changes in the environment. It is able to control the parts of the body pigment like a chameleon, changing the color of the body according to the environment it is in, and even becoming transparent, leaving only a blurred outline of the body. Its most stealthy predator in the jungle, a pair of long sickles, allows it to harvest countless fresh lives, after killing the prey, and then tearing the carcass of the prey through the sickle-like forelimbs, and finally absorbing the juice and blood of the corpse through the feeding tube at the tip of the insect's mouth, and ingesting the corpse fluid.
Beauty and Mars looked up at the Blood Scythe Mantis that appeared in front of them, and involuntarily took a step back.
This blood sickle mantis doesn't care what the rules of the food chain are.
It only knows that as long as it is a player in the game, it is its prey.
It had been dormant in the side of the Berlin for a long time, and it was already hungry.
The beauty hit Mars in the leg, and the smell of blood stimulated the senses of the blood sickle mantis, which couldn't wait to enjoy the blood......
The Blood Scythe Mantis held a pair of long sickle-shaped forelimbs high and swung them at Mars and the Beauty!
The two of them lunged to the side at the same time, dodging the attack of the scythe, the blood sickle mantis slashed down a large area of the side of the tree with its forelimbs, the fallen tree trunks smashed to the ground, the beauty was hit in the right leg by a tree pole, and Mars managed to dodge a fallen arborvitae.
In the panic, the beauty saw that Mars had no time to take care of herself, so he picked up his rifle and fired several shots at Mars.
Mars took advantage of the chaos to dodge, and the bullet hit the fallen trees and branches, and Mars ran towards the Blood Scythe Mantis!
The Blood Scythe Mantis slashed at Mars with his right limb, Mars sprinted, leaned back a moment before the Scythe slashed at him, his body slipped out by inertia, he tilted his head and flashed under the Blood Scythe Mantis's scythe, and then the momentum slid through the gap under the Blood Scythe Mantis's abdomen, slid directly past the Blood Scythe Mantis, and rolled down a hill behind the Blood Scythe Mantis.
"Damn Mars ......"
The beauty cursed, but the Blood Scythe Mantis in front of her was staring at her, as if she regarded him as her most delicious food.
The beauty turned around and fled to the side, the blood sickle mantis cut off the oriental cypress in front of her with a knife, and the fallen arborvitae blocked her way, she had to turn around and run in the other direction, but the blood sickle mantis seemed to have predicted the direction of her escape, chased forward, brandished the long scythe, and slashed towards the beauty! The beauty heard the sound of the branches and leaves being cut behind her and suddenly approached, she instinctively lay down, and the long scythe of the blood sickle mantis shaved over the top of her head, and most of the long curly hair he had always cherished was cut off!
The beauty climbed up with the support of his hands, the soft hair happened to fall beside him, he raised his hand and touched his head, and found that half of his scalp was exposed, the blood sickle mantis cut his scalp, and the blood dripped down his cheek and fell on the grass beside him, he put down his hand, and saw that his palm was full of blood.
This angered the beauty.
He gritted his teeth and came back to his senses with his rifle in his hand, facing the appearance of the Blood Scythe Mantis holding its scythe aloft.
"I hate being a man the most."
His eyes were no longer disguised amorous, but bloodthirsty chills.
It's like his truest face, the iceberg that has been hidden beneath the surface of the water, the darker part.
The Blood Scythe Mantis held its scythe and slashed at it.
The beauty lowered her head and dodged the left limb of the Blood Scythe Mantis, and the next second he quickly picked up the assault rifle and fired into the eyes of the Blood Scythe Mantis!
"Tutu Tu Tu Tu—"
The bullet from the assault rifle struck the Bloodsickle Mantis in the distant eye, and it staggered back a few steps, two long scythes waving wildly, slashing off the many small branches and leaves of the arborvitae around it.
The branches and leaves fell to the ground, the beauty dodged the falling branches and leaves, left, right, he quickly dodged, ran towards the Blood Scythe Mantis, and when he got close to it, he crouched down, like a well-trained marine, clenched his rifle, and shot wildly at the upper body of the Blood Scythe Mantis!
"Tutu Tu—"
The sound of assault rifles disturbed the calm of this side of Berlin.
Full fire, suppressed fire.
The assault rifle frantically strafed the upper body of the blood sickle mantis, and the bullet exploded on it, breaking the eyes, tentacles, cheeks, and upper body of the blood sickle mantis, and the blood sickle mantis raised its scythe to resist it, but the two scythes were also broken by the assault rifle in the hands of the beauty!
The Blood Scythe Mantis took a few steps back and fell.
The bulky body slammed into the ground, and the ground around it shook as a result.
But the beauty didn't mean to stop at all, he still shot wildly at the oval abdomen of the blood sickle mantis, piercing the belly of the blood sickle mantis and hitting the juice in the mantis's body.
The Blood Scythe Mantis let out a cry of grief, and its two huge scythes hung limply at its sides, and its six small feet struggled a few times before they stopped moving.
It was only at this moment that the beauty stopped attacking.
He gasped slightly, looking at the giant corpse of the Blood Scythe Mantis in front of him, a cold chill rippled in his eyes.
"I hate it the most, people touching my hair."