(It's her...... ）

Arthur frozes for a moment, remembering this familiar woman—the poor woman who was hit by his ambulance in the previous game, and in this game is struggling to find her husband.

She's still alive.

After the first alarm sounded, she was still alive.

“…… Haven't you found your husband yet? Arthur asked.

The curly-haired woman listened, and her eyes fell on Arthur, and she frowned and shook her head, her voice trembling with despair.

"I've been looking for a long, long time, but I haven't seen him, I haven't seen my Joe ......"

Tears ran down her cheeks, wetting her collar, and her shoulders trembled a little from sobbing.

"A lot of people have died here...... I was scared, scared that Joe was dead too...... I'm afraid I'll never find him again......"

(It turned out that her husband's name was Joe.) ）

Arthur thought silently and lowered his head.

“…… Elena. ”

One-eyed's deep voice resounded in the room, mixed with the thunder outside the window, looking a little sad, but with a little joy of reunion.

Arthur looked in the direction of One-Eye, only to see One-Eye looking at the sobbing woman at the door, his lips trembling slightly, his eyes that were originally full of madness and murder, but at this moment, they were dyed with an inexplicable temperature.

It's as if I've finally found the love of my heart.

One-Eye slowly lowered the hand holding the gun, forgetting even the box at his feet.

He walked towards her.

Walking with some restraint, as if he was afraid, afraid that if he approached, he would see clearly that all this might just be an illusion, and the person in front of him was not his Elena.

He looked at her, and the only eye he had was moistened.

The light in the corridor illuminated the black blindfold, and even more illuminated the large burned scar under the blindfold, which looked terrifying.

"Yelena, I'm ...... here," he took a few steps closer to the blonde woman, and in a deep, soft voice, he slowed down to reassure her.

Hearing the familiar voice, the blonde stopped crying, she raised her head slightly, and looked at One-Eye.

"You...... Who are you? ”

"I ...... It's Joe. ”

"No, no, my Joe doesn't look like this......" The woman called Yelena took a few steps back in fear, "Don't come here, you look so terrible, you have a gun in your hand...... Don't hurt me, please ......"

"Yelena, I won't hurt you, not at any time. I remember the promise I made to you at the Bay Lodge that I will protect you for the rest of my life. One-Eye said, throwing away the gun in his hand, "Look, I don't have a gun, don't worry." ”

Every word he said was carefully spoken.

For fear of frightening the woman in front of him, for fear that she would turn around and flee from his sight.

Arthur and the beauty glanced at each other, and the two chose to stand still for the time being.

"But, but...... My Joe ......"

"Elena ......" One-Eyed paused, lowering his eyes slightly, "After you died, I was surrounded by those police, the shootout in July, the streets of Washington, they shot me in the head, those bullets didn't break my head, they only blinded me. I detonated the bomb and killed them all, but also burned myself......"

He said, looking up at her.

"I may not be the same person you know now. But Elena, my heart, has never changed, and it has been beating for you. ”

Arthur listened to One-Eye's words and fell silent. He had never heard the one-eyed serious tone, although he didn't know him very well, he had always thought that the blind man was a madman and a murderer, but now, this tone full of care and gentleness also came from the mouth of the madman, as if the current one-eyed was the most real side.

How many sides can there be to a person?

Arthur glanced back at the beauty and saw that she was glancing at the box from time to time.

It seems that someone is planning to make a timely move and seize the magic box.

“…… Hey, beauty, do you know what's going on? Arthur lowered his voice and asked.

"Cut, how do I know about that blind man."

"You're all veteran players too, you should know something."

"Who knows. Anyway, all I know is that he will occasionally say a name, which is 'Elena'. ”

“…… So, the woman in front of you is the one-eyed Elena that she misses? Are they husband and wife? ”

"I don't know what their relationship is." The beauty paused, "But this woman is not an ordinary NPC. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Rookie, think about it, how long has it been since the first alarm? Most of the defensive NPCs in the game have been killed by the offensive NPCs. The beauty looked at the woman with golden curly hair at the door, her eyes were cold, "But this woman, her clothes are not stained with blood, and her hands are unarmed, how did she survive?" ”

"What do you mean...... She's an aggressive NPC? ”

"Even if you're an aggressive NPC, it's impossible not to get involved in the melee of other NPCs. There is only one reason why she is alone, and that is that her level is higher than that of ordinary NPCs, and in this game, low-level creatures will instinctively perceive and avoid high-level creatures to reduce damage to themselves, which is the principle of seeking advantage and avoiding harm. The beauty smiled slightly, "Remember what the judge said about what's near the magic box?" ”

After her reminder, Arthur suddenly realized.

But the next moment, a sense of dread hit me.

“…… There are unknown creatures, guarding the box. ”

Before the beauty finished speaking, a third alarm sounded outside the window.

The sound of sirens drowned out the thunder and even made the entire building tremble.

[Warning: Unknown organism appears.] 】

When the sirens stopped, a low laugh could be heard in the doorway.

"Hehehehehe......"

Arthur looked over the mouth, only to see the poor blonde, with her head down, the shadow of the hair on her forehead covering her eyes, but the corners of her mouth raised a strange arc, like a crescent moon.

"Hehehe......"

“…… Elena? One-Eye's eyes narrowed in confusion, and he took a step forward, putting his hand on the blonde's shoulder, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Arthur instinctively felt bad.

"One-eyed! Back off! ”

Just as Arthur's words fell, I saw that the corners of the blonde's mouth suddenly grinned in front of her earlobe, and suddenly showed a mouth full of fangs, and bit the neck of One-Eye.

"Yelena!"

One-Eye didn't have time to struggle, and the next moment, I saw Yelena's body continue to swell, swell, and become flattened, and the sudden change in size broke through her dress, and six long black tentacles broke out of her round body, and the musculature atrophied and rotted in a matter of seconds, revealing the hard black shell under the muscles. Her two upper limbs were elongated and thickened, her fingers were closed, and they turned into two huge chelicerae, and her body was lowered, and a two-meter-long black hard-shelled scorpion tail grew from her lower body.

She turned into a giant scorpion! Only the scorpion's head remains its original human head, but the human head has also lost its musculature, blonde hair has fallen out, covered with a black shell, and has a large open mouth, biting the one-eyed neck.

It lifted its upper body slightly, and with its huge chelicera, it clamped One-Eye off its waist, and with a single force on its mouth, it bit off One-Eye's neck. An adult male became three stages in an instant.

Blood splattered all over the floor, internal organs fell from his broken torso, and white intestines were broken all over the floor.

The scorpion chewed the neck in its mouth and ate it.

Arthur and Beauty's faces turned pale, and they instinctively took a few steps back, looking in horror at the behemoth blocking the doorway in front of them.

Headset, there is a system prompt -

[Warning, warning, there is an aggressive creature in front of you, creature name: Killer Scorpion.] Target location: five meters. Creature Class: V-】

"What a broken system! Still need you to remind?! It's all in front of you! Arthur cursed, and the head of the scorpion heard Arthur's voice and roared in a deep voice, and his dark pupils stared at them gloomily, as if he was looking at his own plate.

The beauty was about to dodge the Pandora's box on the side, but the killer scorpion took a step ahead of her, sensed her intentions, and with a wave of its huge chelicera, it tolerated the box to the corner of the room, just behind herself.

Its meaning is obvious, if you want to get the box, you must first defeat it.

“…… Beauty, you're a veteran player. Maybe you can beat it. ”

"Are you kidding, I'm lower in rank than it, and I just got into a fight with you, and I got a gunshot wound, and now I don't have any weapons in my hand, and you let me be tough with it?!" The beauty glared at Arthur, "You're a man, you go first!" ”

"I'm an A-list!"

"You have to die anyway, early death and early liberation, anyway, it's all [reincarnation]." The beauty muttered and stepped back, leaning against the cold wall, staring at the black behemoth in front of her.

It seems that today, death is inevitable.

But Arthur's face was even more ugly than hers.

He had already died once, and he didn't know if the number of deaths would affect the score of the blood ranking, and he didn't want to lose the opportunity to leave the [Minghe System] because of this.

The six tentacles of the killer scorpion stepped on the ground, closing in on them a little closer.

“…… Hey, beauty. ”

"What?"

"Does the number of deaths affect the blood score?" Arthur stepped back a bit, too, avoiding the disgusting rancid smell of the killer scorpion.

"There will be points deducted, but there is also a difference between more and less points." The beauty smiled faintly, "The faster and simpler the death process, the more points will be deducted." The more brutal, long, and painful the death process, the fewer points will be deducted. In a word, if you want to deduct fewer points, choose some death methods similar to 'a thousand cuts', 'Ling Chi execution', and 'digging out your heart and lungs'. ”

"What the hell is this?! What about the humanization of the good?! Arthur was shocked.

"Who made us felons." The beauty glanced at him, "We were here to be tortured. Do you still expect the 'righteous people' to speak humanity to us...... Humanity is a thing that always only appears in documents, and here, it's fake. ”

The two of them had no way to retreat, leaning against the wall, and could only watch the killer scorpion approach step by step.

It has a scorpion tail held high, and its antennae and chelicerae are covered with hard shells, and the shell is densely covered with steel spikes, which cannot be killed without a sharp blade or gun. Now the two of them are like two feeds being put in, waiting to be eaten up by it in one gulp.

Outside the window, thunder roared.

The lightning that pierced the sky illuminated the killer scorpion, its black shell glowing with cold light, and the killer scorpion lifted its huge chelicera, spread its pincers, and aimed at Arthur, like a monster that had been dormant in the depths of hell, revealing its most ferocious side......

"Die or die......" Arthur closed his eyes.

"Suzu ......"

"Huh?"

"Suzu ......"

At this moment, the corridor outside the door sounded the sound of a crisp footbell.

The killer scorpion stopped moving, felt something, and looked sharply at the door, but saw nothing but the crisp sound of the closer and closer footbells.

"Da Da ......" The killer scorpion put down the pincers that were about to attack Arthur, as if suddenly realizing something terrible, it shrank to one side, the head in front of the scorpion stared strangely at the door, and the right chelicera was protecting its head, as if trying to protect itself.

The beauty's face sank: "She's here." ”

Hearing this, Arthur opened his eyes slightly.

"What?"

Arthur followed the beauty's line of sight, and saw a shadow appear on the carpet at the door, the shadow was getting shorter and shorter, and the sound of the footbell was getting closer and closer.

The beauty sighed: "In this game, the real monster ......"

The next moment, the figure of a 13-year-old girl appeared in the doorway, carrying an axe and the horn of a goat doll in the other, and the footbell stopped ringing as she stopped. She raised her eyes slightly, and those dark red eyes calmly looked at the behemoth in the room, the killing scorpion, and the two "lambs to the slaughter" in front of the killing scorpion.

"Julius Caesar."