Belvoir Inn, 6th floor corridor

"Jingle ......"

The sound of the footbell rang softly during the long walk, the dim light flickered, and the diamond-shaped glass window at the end of the corridor faintly showed the lightning outside the window, and the thunderstorm lasted for a long time, and it seemed that there would never end.

Arthur followed Caesar and watched in silence at the back of the little girl in front of him.

She calmly walked around the bloodstains on the ground and turned her head towards the corridor on the right.

"Why didn't I see a monster when I walked with you?" Arthur looked down the long hallway, the doors on either side were closed, and there were no unidentified creatures to be seen except for one or two corpses lying on the ground.

This is the polar opposite of what he had experienced before.

It's so calm that it doesn't look like it's in the world of the [Minghe System].

"That's because ......," Caesar paused, holding her axe, and turned sideways to look at Arthur, "and they all avoided me." ”

"The principle of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages?"

"Hmm." The little girl handed the goat doll into Arthur's hands, "Help me take care of Dolly." ”

"What are you going to do......

Before Arthur could finish speaking, Caesar raised his hand and slashed at the wooden door with an axe. With the next axe, she directly broke open the door, raised her foot and kicked open the broken door panel, and saw several zombies surrounding a corpse, eating with relish.

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

[Creature Name: Zombie]

[Target location: seven meters]

[Creature Level: A-]

"Found it." Caesar smiled faintly and walked into the room.

When the zombies saw Caesar, they trembled with fright, and the pieces of meat in their hands suddenly fell to the ground, and one of the zombies quickly tore off the intestines in their mouths and retreated under the wall.

Feeling a wave of nausea, Arthur turned slightly.

Immediately afterward, there were several zombie roars and the sound of an axe breaking through the skull, and there was no movement after that.

He looked back with some "respect" and saw Caesar walking out of the room calmly with a blood-stained axe. Behind her, the zombies had turned into corpse pieces, and the mutilated corpse pieces fell to the ground, and the whole room was extremely bloody.

"......" There was a churning pain in his stomach, and Arthur shook his head and followed in Caesar's footsteps.

"It's not a good thing to be too high." Caesar said calmly, "The creatures in the game will hide from creatures of higher rank than you, so it is more difficult for me to raise the score, and I must actively seek prey. ”

Arthur followed Caesar around a long corridor, and he counted the doors in the corridor and silently followed Caesar.

He's like a babysitter.

A personal babysitter for little girls.

“…… Caesar, [Judge] said that whoever opens the magic box will have the opportunity to open the "gambling game", what does this sentence mean? ”

"A gambling game is a gambling game." Caesar kicked a severed limb on the ground, "When you have this opportunity, you will be able to bet against the [Judge], block everything you have, and if you win the game, you will be able to make a condition to the [Minghe System]." ”

"What if...... What about losing? ”

"It's simple, lose everything you have."

“…… Meaning, straight out? ”

"Hmm."

"If you win, can you put forward a condition like 'leave the game'?"

"Nope." Caesar paused and looked back at Arthur, "There's only one way to leave the game, and that's to fight for a place as a survivor." You can mention any conditions other than leaving the game, and the [Minghe System] will fulfill them for you for free...... Of course, you have to win the game. ”

If you win, you are the supreme winner.

To lose, is to have nothing.

Such a gamble seems to hide endless opportunities, but in fact it is the end of the road.

Win or lose, there is no third option.

Arthur shuddered: "Such a gamble is too risky, is anyone really willing to try?" ”

"Yes." Caesar spun the axe around and raised his foot towards the other end of the hallway, "In the last game, Icarus got the box, and he won the [Judge]. ”

"And what conditions did he offer?"

"Who knows." Caesar sneered, "I look at him and seems to have found something, and as for what it is, I'll have to ask him personally." ”

“…… If I were him, I would propose to switch the order of the blood list and make me the top of the list, so that the chances of getting a survivor spot would also increase. ”

"It's useless." Caesar's dark red eyes showed murderous intent, "Even if he is at the top of the list, he will be pulled down by me, and the 'opportunity' in your mouth is a dead end." Icarus wasn't that stupid. ”

“……”

As the two spoke, they walked to a wide area, with the elevator in front of them on the right and the road behind them, in front of which was a semicircular waiting area, and at the end of the corridor stood two statues of Venus with broken arms, replicating enough to be real.

Caesar pressed the elevator button, and the two waited for the elevator to arrive.

They had already walked through this floor from beginning to end, but unfortunately the magic box did not appear on this floor this time, and they planned to try their luck on the first floor.

According to Caesar, all it takes is to come across a living creature.

"Caesar, will all the creatures here avoid you?"

"Mostly so, except for one thing – hunters."

"Hunter?"

Suddenly, Caesar frowned, she raised her hand to cover Arthur's mouth, and looked around warily.

"Someone's coming...... Four or five people. ”

Someone's coming?

Just when Arthur was puzzled, the headsets of the two of them sounded at the same time:

[Attention players, please note players, there are hunters nearby, please pay attention to abide by the rules of the game, and it is forbidden to take any offensive behavior against hunters.] 】

"The most disgusting thing appeared." Caesar muttered, she stood on tiptoe, grabbed Arthur by the collar, reflexively pulled him behind the white sculpture, and pulled him down hard by the collar, forcing him to remain in a squatting position, raising her hands to lower his head, both hiding behind the shadow of the pillar.

In the next second, Arthur also heard footsteps.

The footsteps were a little messy, but they could be heard on the other side of the hallway, four or five people were coming towards them, and the sound of conversation was from far and near—

……

"It's unfortunate that I didn't see a single prisoner on this hunt."

"Will it all be downstairs?"

"Possibly, we just looked at the second and fourth floors, and then we went to the third floor."

……

Arthur was shocked, after the third alarm, all the NPCs should have turned into zombies, I didn't expect that there are other creatures similar to humans in the game?!

He hid behind Caesar, poked his head out from behind the sculpture, and looked at several middle-aged men standing at the other end of the hallway, armed with firearms, discussing something. They were tall and short, fat and thin, but they all wore black suits and white ties, and the only sign that distinguished them was that each of them wore a different hood, with white deer, tiger, elephant, and rhinoceros...... The hood was so large that it completely covered the hunter's head and up to his neck, making it impossible to see the true face under the hood.

Arthur hurriedly retracted and looked at Caesar in surprise.

His expression was like seeing a ghost.

Here, to be exact, hunters are more terrifying than ghosts.

"That's the Hunter, a special character in the game." Caesar lowered his voice and leaned closer to Arthur's ear, "Their mission is to hunt down the prisoners—that is, us." And we, as well as other living organisms, cannot attack them. ”

"No attack?"

"No, I can't. It's the rules of the game, being hunted, and it's one of the ways we torture. Caesar said, and gave the axe to Arthur, and took the goat doll from his arms, and she grabbed the goat doll's two horns, and with one force, tore the goat doll apart from the middle, and changed the way she had cared for it before.

"You ......"

Then, Arthur saw a pistol hidden in the goat doll.

It turned out that she also had a secret weapon.

Caesar raised his eyes and glanced at the elevator.

The elevator is coming.

When the time comes, the sound of "ding" will definitely alarm the hunters on the other side.

Although it was dangerous, it was also their only chance to escape.

With that in mind, she looked at Arthur.

"You know what to do." She glanced at the elevator and reminded in a deep voice.

"What?"

"Ding-" At this moment, the elevator suddenly reached this floor.

"Who?!" The three or four hunters, alarmed by the sound of the elevator, looked over to this side.

Caesar grabbed Arthur by the collar and pushed him hard, Arthur was caught off guard and fell into the elevator, just as the elevator door opened, and he was thrown into the elevator.

"Bang bang bang-" Caesar appeared from her hiding place, she shot decisively, but the muzzle of the gun was not aimed at the hunter, and the bullets hit the door panels on both sides of the corridor, and several hunters subconsciously protected their heads, too late to fight back.

She's covering.

She's deterring.

But they dare not and cannot harm the hunters.

Arthur got up and pressed the elevator button.

"Caesar!"

"Got it." Caesar replied lightly, and she stepped back, but the gun in her hand did not mean to cease fire.

Arthur's voice was also heard by the hunters.

"Hey, did you hear me, it's Caesar! This is a high-level prey! ”

"Quick! Hurry up and grab it! ”

"Don't let them escape!"

The hunters reacted, they hurriedly opened the doors on both sides of the corridor as cover, popped out half of their heads from behind the doors, and fired in the direction of the elevator!

"Brush—"

The elevator doors slowly closed, Caesar shrunk sideways, her right shoulder on the ground, she rolled around on the ground to avoid the fire, and ducked into the elevator at the last second.

"Ding-" The elevator doors closed and the elevator ran downward.

"Are you alright...... "Arthur picked Caesar up and looked at her worriedly, "why are you covered in blood?!" ”

Caesar put away his gun, glanced at the blood on his body, looked around the elevator room again, and replied coldly: "Fool, it's not my blood." ”

"Huh?"

After she reminded him, Arthur realized that he was also covered in blood.

To be precise, it was stained with blood in the elevator.

Only then did he realize that the elevator was not a safe shelter, but another purgatory.

In addition to the splashing blood from the ceiling, the other five sides of the entire elevator were stained with large blood stains, and the blood dripped down the elevator wall and fell to the ground, leaving shocking blood stains on the elevator wall. It was clear that someone here had once been torn apart by ferocious beasts and died a horrible death, blood splattered and stained the entire elevator red.

Caesar stood up and looked silently at the blood around him.

She reached out and wiped her fingertips over the blood that had smeared in the elevator, the blood had cooled but had not yet clotted.

The point is, no bodies were seen.

"Did some player die in the elevator? He was reborn somewhere, so he didn't see the body? Arthur looked at Caesar suspiciously.

"I can't rule it out, but ......" Caesar narrowed her eyes slightly, looking up at the elevator ceiling, "it could also be a creature addicted to corpses." ”

"What creature?"

Caesar was about to answer, when there was a crash on the ceiling, and the sound of the elevator cable rubbing, and a clear beep sounded in the headset—

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

[Creature Name: Corpse Eater]

[Target location: 1 meter]

[Creature Class: V-]

"Hmph, that's kind of interesting." The corners of Caesar's mouth curled slightly, and she grabbed her hand, aimed it at the ceiling of the elevator, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang bang—"

Two shots knocked off the screws on the top of the elevator, and the window fell off because it couldn't bear the weight of the corpse eater, Caesar picked up the square security window that had fallen inside the elevator and held it as a shield to his chest, and then heard only a roar, and the corpse eater popped out of the gap in the security window with a split, fanged head, like an open man-eating flower, roaring and spewing fishy spit from above and down.

Caesar lifted the steel sheet of the safety window in his hand to block the foul-smelling spit, but Arthur was not so lucky, he was sprayed all over, his face and body were covered with sticky saliva, he wiped his face, and scraped some undigested human tissue off his face.

"You filthy thing." Caesar muttered.

"That's right! Fix it quickly, this dirty thing! Arthur angrily agreed!

"No, I'm talking about you."

“……”

"Roar—" The corpse eater leaned down even more, its body was very long, and it got stuck in the rope outside the elevator, and the elevator shook violently, stopping between the first and second floors.

Caesar staggered back, she steadied herself and shot with her gun.

But the corpse eater was only beaten to the muscle tissue, and in the next moment, it became even tighter in its chest, and directly stretched its upper body out of the gap in the square above the elevator!

Caesar threw the gun at Arthur, "Dirty, give me the axe." ”

Arthur didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly pushed the axe off the ground sideways.

Caesar picked up the axe and slashed it at the corpse eater's neck.

The corpse eater let out a low roar, and it struggled violently, the entire elevator shook, Caesar stepped on the blood, and an unsteady slip slipped, and the axe came off its hand and got stuck in the corpse eater's neck.

"Roar—" The corpse eater held out a hand and grabbed straight at Caesar!

She quickly raised the steel plate in her hand to block the corpse eater, and the corpse eater's claw-like hand cut through the steel plate directly, scratching Caesar's arm. Without giving the other party any more chance, she threw away the steel plate, rolled over and stood up, holding the axe in both hands and pulling it out of the corpse eater's neck! The next moment, she swung hard and directly cut off the head of the corpse eater! Due to the inertia, the axe slashed towards Arthur in an arc, Arthur subconsciously shrank down, and the axe slashed at the elevator handrail one centimeter above his head, deeply embedded in the elevator wall.

......The head of the corpse eater that fell to the ground was still moving, but the petal-like tentacles were like dehydrated octopuses, and they struggled for a moment before they stopped.

Smooth resolution.

Caesar smiled slightly, as if he had done a satisfactory job.

Arthur looked at the axe stuck in the elevator wall above his head, and his face turned pale.

What a joke! Just one centimeter away, the axe was going to cut off his skull!

"Caesar! Honestly, didn't you even think I'm still in the elevator when you swing the axe? ”

"I'm sorry, I've always only cared about my prey." Caesar said, crouching down in front of Arthur, she rolled his blouse upside down, avoiding the outer layer of the corpse eater's spittle, revealing a clean inner fabric, carefully and carefully. Wiped the blood from his hands.

"Thank you." She said casually and non-negotiable.

“…… Feed?! Would you like to ask my opinion before wiping your hands next time! ”

Caesar stood up and looked at him condescendingly: "Do you dare to say a word?" ”

“…… Can't. ”

Arthur stood up boredly, glancing at the head of the corpse eater on the ground, feeling nothing but disgust. It's full of its spittle, and it's even more disgusting.

At this moment, the elevator shook and restarted, and the elevator was loosened, and the elevator smashed on the ground on the first floor.

"Ding-" The elevator doors opened.

From the outside of the elevator, you can see Caesar standing still on the handrail, Arthur who has fallen on a, and the head of the corpse eater is full of tentacles, which is covering Arthur's face.

Winning.

"Heh, let's go." Caesar glanced at Arthur, pulled out the axe, picked up the gun on the ground, and strode out of the elevator.

She was humming a song, carrying an axe, and was in a pretty good mood.