Octavian: Group 2 Players

Stepping over the gaping hole in the galley wall, Arthur and Caesar reached the deck.

Listening to the sound of the sea waves gently slapping the hull of the ship, you can smell the salty sea breeze in your face, just after a long night, with a little water vapor in the air, a line of water and sky in the distance, in the place where the dark blue sea and the sky meet, a red sun is slowly rising from the other end of the sea level, the white light pierces the dark night in the sky, and a circle of white light around the red sun expands in such a circle, it looks as if the gods of the heavens have descended between the sea and the sky, looking at everything in the world with those deep eyes.

"Salad ......" listened to the sound of the waves, shoes stepped on the cold deck, and Arthur and Caesar stopped on the side of the ship.

Raise your head and feel the cold sea breeze in your face.

It's hard to imagine that it's all in a virtual game.

The coldness of the sea breeze is so real, and the air is so fresh that even the seagulls can be heard clearly in the distance.

It's hard to believe that it's all fake.

Arthur noticed that at the other end of the sea level, there was a tall tower, the tower was so high that the tip of the tower could not be seen at a glance, nor could the base of the tower, and the white tower god was thick and narrow at the bottom, so abruptly standing between the sea level and the sky, it looked like a passage connecting the sea and the sky.

He had seen the tower.

During the [Upper Circle Chase and Killing Battle], he once saw this tower standing in the direction of the suburbs in the city. In [Pandora's Secret], he also saw this white tower from the window of the Belvoir Hotel, but he didn't expect to see this tower now, between the sea and the sky of [Mermaid Hunter].

Does this tower have any special meaning?

But this problem is destined to be unsolvable.

There are too many unknowns in this world, and he hasn't even figured out his own affairs, let alone a tower thousands of miles away?

Arthur took a deep breath of the morning sea air, as if to keep this feeling in his heart. He looked at the red sun from afar, and his eyes seemed to be dyed with the color of the morning glow.

The morning sun is warm, it is the beginning of the rise, it came to this world, cut through the loneliness and darkness of the long night, just like a newborn baby, although I don't know how many lives passed the night before, how much darkness hit, but at this moment, its warm face is enough to fill the emptiness of the whole night.

How many more times will he see the sunrise?

This idea broke into my mind at an inopportune time, and when I thought about it carefully, it was a little sad.

They stood at the bow of the ship and felt the cruise ship sway with the current, moving aimlessly, breaking through the waves and heading in unknown directions.

Yes, like every player in this game.

No one knows what awaits them in front of them, and everyone can only swim forward in this vast ocean, trying not to drown themselves.

Arthur looked down and saw Caesar beside him looking at him.

“…… What are you looking at? ”

"The look on your face just now is very similar to Will." She was blunt.

"When you look out from afar?"

"Will used to have such an expression, he doesn't like to talk, sometimes when he sits and thinks about things, it's like this." Caesar's voice seemed to be dyed with the coldness of the early morning sea.

"You seem to know him well."

"No, I never knew him." Caesar looked out at the sea, "I just like to observe him, he's just like you, he hides a lot of secrets. ”

Arthur was silent for a long time, he turned around, leaned his elbows against the railing, and looked at Caesar: "Caesar, I don't remember anything you said about Will. ”

"I know."

"Now my code name is [Arthur], I am not [Will], maybe you look at me now and think of [Will], but I am not him."

“…… I know. ”

She replied with the same words twice, but the second time she answered, her voice was visibly muffled.

He knew that she couldn't quite accept it now.

"I don't know what happened to you and Will, and I don't know why you've been looking for him, but I just want to live well now." Arthur turned around, his elbows resting on the railing, the sea breeze blowing on his cheeks, blowing his hair open, "I know that I may not be able to survive well now, but I will adapt as soon as possible, the next game, the next game, I will gradually become stronger, I will survive here, and leave alive." ”

Accompanied by the sound of the waves, he spoke word by word, with certainty.

It's like saying it to her, and it's like saying it to yourself.

Caesar looked up at him, "Well, not bad determination. ”

Although her tone was flat, it was also an affirmation of him.

After pausing for a few seconds, she added: "But don't think about it when you leave the game, the survivor quota must still be mine." ”

Arthur chuckled: "Little girl, be careful, don't underestimate the enemy, maybe I am your most difficult enemy to solve." ”

Caesar didn't answer, she raised her hand and pulled a few strands of hair behind her ear.

The sun climbed a little more, and the halo that had been white turned golden, more brilliant and warmer, reflecting their cheeks, dyeing on the waves layer by layer, like a piece of broken gold.

"Sister Caesar! Brother Arthur! ”

The little girl's voice interrupted their conversation, and they turned back to see Ogar standing on the side of the boat waving at them, while Blackblade, Beauty, and J were walking behind her.

It turned out that they had been circling the cruise ship before, but they heard the explosion and knew that there must be other players in the place where the explosion occurred, so they followed the sound and chased after it.

Sure enough, I saw Arthur and Caesar on the deck.

Perhaps Arthur was right, and this time the One-Eye inadvertently really did a great favor.

"Great, all the people." Arthur was about to step forward to say hello, but was stopped by Caesar.

He turned his head to see Caesar's eyes defensive, staring at J.

Arthur looked up at J, "Are you hurt?" ”

J nodded.

"He's infected." Caesar's eyes pierced directly.

“…… It was bitten a few times. "But I'm feeling pretty good right now, and I don't feel like I'm going to mutate." ”

"Hmph, you're afraid we'll kill you." Caesar spoke mercilessly.

"The Black Blade said that as long as I kill the merfolk within three hours, I won't mutate." J looked at the black blade on the side, "We have rushed out of the cruise ship and found the deck, we should ......"

Caesar didn't listen to J's explanation, but looked at the Black Blade.

The Black Blade exchanged a look with her, as if to reassure her.

“…… Stand farther away. Caesar looked away coldly, "I don't want to be attacked by a zombie." ”

J sighed, and though he wanted to say something, he stopped and stood obediently on the other side of the deck.

He looked like an isolated man, without companions, and looked quite pitiful.

Ogar frowned and looked at Blackblade, who lowered his head to meet the worry in Ogar's eyes.

“……”

“……”

He knew what she was afraid of.

She feared that if others knew they were infected, they might isolate themselves in the same way.

I'm even more afraid that if she really mutates, she will also become a bloodthirsty zombie.

"Don't worry." After whispering these two words, he withdrew his gaze and looked away.

Ogar nodded, trying to comfort herself, but the hand that tugged at the black-bladed trouser leg tightly revealed her uneasiness.

And this small action was also seen by Caesar, she did not speak, but her eyes narrowed slightly, revealing her inner doubts.

“…… Now that you're on deck, what's next? The beauty was the first to speak and broke the silence, "How are we going to catch a mermaid?" ”

Everyone followed her gaze and looked at the undulating sea.

The sea was dark blue, and it was completely impossible to see what life was below the water level, and there were no small boats on the deck to use, so it seemed that there were no conditions to catch the mermaid.

“…… Maybe you can make a bait to attract merfolk to it. Arthur thought with his chin dragging his chin in mind, "It's like fishing." ”

"What do mermaids eat?" The beauty asked rhetorically.

"This ......," Arthur's brow furrowed wider.

"The sea is full of fish, do they eat dried shrimp?" Ogar blinked.

"Oh, then we're going to have to get a bucket of dried shrimp and make a fishing rod." Beauty teases.

“…… Cannibalism. ”

Caesar said a word, but the atmosphere suddenly dropped to freezing point.

She raised her head and looked at everyone: "Aren't the unknown creatures in this game all eating people?" ”

"Makes sense, it's just ...... Who's going to get the 'bait'? The beauty raised her eyebrows.

"Let the infected go." Caesar pointed to J.

J, who was standing not far away, felt a chill in his back.

"Nope." The beauty expressed her opposition almost immediately.

"Reason." The black blade looked at the beauty.

He ...... Although he was infected, he didn't mutate so quickly, he still had a certain amount of combat power, so it was too wasteful to use it as bait. "Don't open your eyes, she has always been sharp-toothed, but this time she actually stammered a little.

"You care about him?" Arthur saw the beauty in her heart.

"Hey, rookie, you pay attention to me, don't think that you can talk nonsense when you take off the gauze." The beauty glared at Arthur, "If you want me to say, let Ogar be the bait, anyway, she has no use value, and she can be used as a bait." ”

Ogar tensed and took a few steps back.

Black Blade looked at the beauty and sneered: "I thought you were a compassionate person, but it turned out to be a double standard." ”

"I'm 'weighing the pros and cons.'" Beauty retorted.

Caesar thought for a while and looked at Black Blade: "Black Blade, I also think that letting Ogar be the bait is the best choice. ”

Blackblade didn't speak, just remained silent.

Every time he was silent, the atmosphere was terrifyingly serious.

"Ogar is petite, and she is tied with rope, so that if a mermaid wants to bite her, we can pull her up immediately." Caesar explained calmly, "If it had been replaced by that man, it would not have been so manipulative. ”

Caesar pointed to J on the side.

"With what?" Blackblade asked rhetorically.

The beauty walked to the other side of the deck, picked up the thick hemp rope hanging from the railing, and threw it on the ground: "Use this." ”

Ogar looked at the rough hemp rope, and his face turned white.

She couldn't imagine that she was about to be thrown into the sea with such a rope, acting as a breadworm to lure the fish.

If they pulled her up one step later, would it mean that she would have been bitten off half of her body or her head?!

"Black Blade, our little cutie is the smallest, tie her to the hemp rope, and the length of the hemp rope used for the same three circles is relatively small, we can put her a little closer to the sea level." The beauty took the rope and gestured, "Make a cut in her body and let the blood flow into the ocean, which should attract mermaids." ”

"......" Blackblade was silent as he looked back at the little girl tugging at his trouser leg, who was looking at him pitifully, as if he were the only one who could protect her.

He seemed to be her last straw.

“…… Black Blade, she's your weakness? Caesar narrowed his eyes dangerously.

"I don't have a soft underbelly."

"Then tie her to a rope."

"Why don't you let your 'Will' go."

“…… He is large and inconvenient to use as bait. ”

Oh, what a sane answer.

"Ogar is too small, what if he swallows it in one bite and doesn't have time to pull the rope."

"At that time, throw J down as a second bait."

"What if a mermaid doesn't eat infected human flesh."

"Then change to Arthur."

J and Arthur, who were listening from the sidelines, had question marks on their faces, and they hadn't even said a word before they were arranged clearly.

"Caesar, you can't be so arbitrary."

"I'm weighing the pros and cons."

"You don't want to learn the words of beauty."

"I think it's good."

The top two players on the blood list faced off like this.

The beauty watched coldly for a long time, and hurriedly interrupted: "Okay, okay, both of you have weaknesses, one person's weakness is a seven-year-old girl, and the other's weakness is the old lover of the past, so it's okay." ”

This sentence poked the scales of Black Blade and Caesar, and the two instantly united the front.

Blackblade glared at the beauty.

"I'm going to kill the infected pigtailed man right now." Caesar drew his sword.

J, who had been standing on the other side, suddenly felt bad, and he began to seriously think about whether he would not survive even three hours and be killed by the other players......

At this moment, Ogar seemed to hear something.

She leaned closer to the deck and saw a huge shark fin breaking through the waves and swimming towards her.

She was shocked and was about to alert the others when suddenly, a giant great white shark jumped out of the sea and crashed into the hull of the boat!

The hull shook violently, and the six people on the deck lost their center of gravity by surprise, and Arthur, who was standing on the outermost, rolled out of the railing on his back, but he grabbed the white railing and did not fall into the sea, but his body was completely suspended and hung outside the railing.

[Warning, warning, hostile creatures in front of you]

[Creature Name: Giant Shark]

[Target location: 25 meters]

[Creature Level: A-]

The headset sounded, and then, the thirty-meter-long giant shark jumped out of the water again, bit Arthur's leg, and dragged Arthur down with his heavy body, Arthur felt a burst of pain, and subconsciously let go of his hand.

"Arthur!" Caesar steadied herself with her knife into the deck, and she reached out from inside the railing to grab Arthur, but the fingertips of the two brushed over and missed!

She watched as he was bitten by a giant shark and dragged into the sea, sinking into the ocean with the great white shark......

At this moment, some images of the past came to mind......

A dim vision, high and raised vaults, flanked by eerie white columns, she was trapped in the colosseum of ancient Rome, surrounded by two saber-toothed tigers.

The strange players stood on the steps, laughing and watching curiously as she would be torn to shreds by the saber-toothed tiger.

She dodged lifelessly, the saber-toothed tiger's massive front paws scratching through her clothes, leaving deep scratches on her back, and she fell to the ground with a saber-toothed tiger biting her ankle, and the players who watched erupted in cheers—

"Bite her! Bite her to death! ”

"This kind of little girl should have died early, she doesn't deserve to live at all!"

"Hey, I'll bet the saber-toothed tiger on the left for five dollars will bite off her head first."

"No, no, no, I think the one on the right just pounced!"

A saber-toothed tiger bit the back of her neck and pinned her to the ground.

She cried out in despair, and no one came to her aid.

Everyone was watching indifferently, indifferently watching as she was about to be bitten to death.

But at this moment, two gunshots rang out.

"Bang." "Bang."

The two saber-toothed tigers fell in response, and she looked up in panic as she watched a man descend the steps.

He crouched down and held out his hand to her.

“……”

She reached out tremblingly, her bloodied hand touching his fingertips, and finally, she took his hand.

……

(Hold.) ）

(His hand!) ）

Caesar instantly pulled away from the memory, she gritted her teeth and drew her knife, jumped from the railing, and jumped into the sea!