Octavian Cruise: The second group of players

Behind the wooden door of the second group of players, there is also a long and narrow passageway, but this passage is the opposite of the one taken by the first group of players, it is a completely dark passage, the passage seems to be four or five meters wide, but the height is only one meter five, which belongs to the short and fat type of passage. Walking in such a passage, normal adults must bend down to barely move forward. The walls on both sides were painted with pitch black paint, and only a small oil lamp burned in front of a wooden door at the end, pointing the way.

Caesar walked in the front, the dim light brushed her shoulder line and fell behind her, and the other five people followed her, Caesar, J, Beauty, Ogar, Arthur, and Black Blade, and passed through the corridor in turn, and finally came to the wooden door.

Caesar held the doorknob and was about to open it.

The beauty cautiously reminded: "Caesar, I don't know what it looks like behind the door, have you prepared a weapon?" ”

Caesar looked back at the beauty slightly, and in the light of the oil lamp, her dark red pupils seemed a little deeper, like dark red amber, with brilliance in the night.

"I'm a weapon."

She said as she pulled open the wooden door.

"Squeak-"

The moment the wooden door was opened, the dazzling light shone into the corridor, Caesar narrowed her eyes slightly, she let go of the wooden door handle, and walked into a space that suddenly opened up - it was the engine room of the cruise ship, which was four or five stories high at a glance, and the intricate gray stairs crisscrossed the corridors of different lengths, and the steel pipes connected and meandered from the bottom to the top, all the way to the upper floors that were difficult to see. Huge boiler equipment and turbine generators occupy the main functional area of the engine room, and the sound of machinery running is filled with the sound of the air, mixed with water vapor and engine oil, which makes people feel a little dizzy.

There was no one in the engine room, but the machines were still running in order, as if everything was fully automatic.

Combustion, steam, power generation, propulsion.

The machinery of the engine room maintains the shipping power of the entire cruise ship, and this is the power core area of the cruise ship.

But......

"It's not like a normal engine room." Blackblade stood beside the grid walkway, leaning over to look at the stunning giant engine room in front of him.

He was right, the height of the engine room has reached four or five floors, which is not at all what a normal cruise ship can accommodate.

The irrationality of such a space makes people feel endless weirdness when they are in it.

"Dah. Click. Click. ”

The sound of shoes on the grid echoed in the engine room, and Caesar walked to the end of the grid walkway, looking at the three winding and branching roads in front of him, silently thinking about which direction to take.

There were only six of them, but there were thirty or forty stairs in the engine room, which led to different corridors, and they had no map, and they didn't know which corridor led to the deck, and now it was like a blind man walking at night, without a clue.

“…… Do you want to split up? Arthur stood beside J and looked at the complex engine room.

"What if we split up and are wiped out?" J makes a good question.

Splitting up increases efficiency, but it also reduces survival.

Moreover, this round of the game is not a [reincarnation system] that can be resurrected indefinitely, in this game, these newcomers, if they die, they are eliminated, and there will be no second chance.

Arthur was silent, his expression solemn.

None of them dared to take the risk and gamble.

"Alas, this place looks like a big labyrinth, there are so many paths, which one is the right one......" the beauty muttered, rubbing her temples, "Alas, annoying, I hate solving puzzles the most." ”

"The ship is heading north, and generally going north will reach the bow deck." Blackblade speculates.

"Good proposal, now you give me a direction." The beauty unceremoniously poured cold water.

Blackblade looked around and saw that the engine room was airtight, with no windows, so it was impossible to sense the direction of the wind.

He took a closer look at the walls around him, and found them to be "clean", so clean that they were snow-white, and there were no notices posted, let alone any maps or directional signs.

"Damn."

The Black Blade cursed in a low voice, causing Ogar beside him to take a few steps back.

Or...... We can divide into two groups. J thought for a while and came to this conclusion, "Caesar and Blackblade lead different groups and go in opposite directions, and they should be able to find an exit." ”

"Why go the other way around?" The beauty raised her eyebrows.

"The quickest way to crack the maze is to work in groups and start from different directions, so that you don't search for duplicate areas, which also increases the probability of finding an exit." J looked at the intricate grid staircase, "It's hard to distinguish between north and south now, and although the engine room is large, you can't use common sense to guess the location of this engine room on a cruise ship...... The easiest way to do this is for one group of people to go up the stairs and another group to go down, up and down, and one group should reach the deck. ”

The beauty listened to J's proposal, thought silently for a long time, and nodded: "It seems that this is the only way now...... Julius Caesar, what do you think? ”

The beauty turned her head and saw Caesar crouching in front of the fork of the stairs not far away, holding the goat doll and pressing her other hand on the grid of the stairs, as if thinking about something.

"Caesar, what's wrong?" The beauty blinked in bewilderment.

"Shhhh......h

"Boom. Boom. ”

Along the metal pipe, faintly, there was a faint sound.

"Something is approaching." Blackblade took a step back with his gun in his right hand, placed his left hand on his waist, and drew his dagger.

J and Mito also clenched the guns in their hands, and nervously raised their heads to look around.

Everybody, heard.

"Boom. Boom. ”

The approaching sound of a heavy object slamming against a metal pipe.

"Boom. Boom. ”

The sound grew closer and closer, from the first point, to the point to become clearer and heavier, almost like the sound of a hammer weighing hundreds of pounds on the metal floor.

"Boom. Boom. ”

The surrounding pipes also trembled slightly, and some lead dust fell from the pipes and fell at Caesar's feet.

"Here we are." Caesar raised her head instantly, and in the direction she looked, the huge worm had been drilling through the metal plate in the upper left, directly breaking through the wall of the engine room, volleying, and slamming down on the steel plate of the generator.

Even though the "Zizi Zi ......" generator was made of King Kong, it was smashed and deformed, the surrounding current was unstable, and the white light flickered.

The giant worm raised its head and roared at the six players—

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

[Creature Name: Mechanical Creep]

[Target location: 15 meters]

[Creature Level: Parent Level V+, Derivative Level A+]

The headset sounded a system beep, and the mechanical worm was fifteen meters long and five meters high, covered in dark red skin, and the skin secreted moist mucus that adhered to its surroundings as it moved. Its epidermis has many spinous protrusions, small spikes distributed around its body, and next to its soft body, it has six mechanical antennae that can support its bulky body and achieve rapid movement. The mother body of the mechanical worm has no eyes, no nose, and at the front of it is a round mouth, and the open mouth is a ring of fangs, which are circled and sprayed outwards with foul-smelling mucus.

Caesar stood up, his dark red eyes condensed with murderous intent.

At this moment, the body of the mechanical worm mother suddenly contracted violently, and then, the smaller derivative came out of the mother's skin, they drilled out of the mother's skin like offspring, and also had a soft body and six mechanical tentacles for movement, but the difference was that the body of the derivative was smaller, only one meter seven in height, two meters in length, they were the mother's trap, and the mechanical worm obtained the necessary nutrients for the mother through the hunting of the derivative, so as to ensure the survival of the mother.

The spider-like tokens burrowed out of the parent body one after another, carrying slime and landing on the grid staircase on the side, increasing in number, from single digits, to tens, all the way to a huge number of about thirty or forty, almost encircling six players.

"...... [Minghe System] can really constantly refresh my lower limit of patience." The beauty muttered, and she shot a mechanical creep that lunged at her, the bullet piercing through the body of the derive, and it let out a wail and fell to the ground.

But the next moment, three more derivatives pounced!

For a moment, the gunfire rang out, and J and Arthur cooperated, back-to-back to kill the disgusting creatures that kept coming up, and the mechanical creepy slime sprayed them all over, hanging wet next to their cheeks, full of stench.

Caesar tore open the goat doll and pulled a knife out of the doll.

With a flick of her arm, the knife instantly changed its folding state, and the open blade was a meter long, sharp and sharp, with a jagged barb.

Several mechanical creeps lunged at Caesar!

She lowered her head to dodge a token, slashed off the mechanical limb of one of the tokens with her backhand, stepped on the grid staircase with her right foot, she climbed the railing of the staircase and jumped to the next staircase, several of the tokens were unable to react, and with her movements, they threw it out and smashed directly to the bottom. Caesar stood up, her long knife spun in an arc, she leaned over and sliced the body of one of the lunging tokens, bowed her head to dodge the attack of the other token behind her, and raised her foot to kick it down! Three derivatives came around on the right side, and she held the hilt of the knife with both hands, and with a horizontal knife, she cut them all down! Leaning up the stairs in front of her, dodging to the right and back, avoiding the gaping mouth of one of the tokens, she turned her blade and sliced off the mechanical limbs of the tokens that rushed from above and in front of her, kicking them down the stairs with a sweep of her legs.

On the other side, the black blade also went on a killing spree.

With a gun in his hand, he smashed a lung-out derive, and when he heard a sound coming from behind him, he quickly lowered his head to dodge the derivative that pounced on the wall, and stabbed into the body of the derivative, and threw it out with a forceful flick, instantly knocking out the two tokens that were about to rush up. A token lunged at his feet and bit his leg, Blackblade frowned in pain and smashed the token with a single shot, lifting his foot to throw it out, just in time to hit a token that hurt Ogar.

"Waste, find your own cover!" Blackblade commanded loudly.

"Yes...... Be. Ogar hurriedly ran towards an iron door not far behind him.

"Whoa—" Several tokens circled in the direction of Ogar!

J kills the tokens with a few shots, and Ogar is able to make it to the iron gate.

But just as J was helping Ogar, he ignored his own defenses, and a derivative rushed forward and bit his arm, and the small teeth arranged in a thin ring pierced into the biceps at once, and the derivative tore and almost tore off a piece of flesh!

J struggled to shake off the derivative in his hand, but the more he struggled, the tighter the derivative bited, and on the left, several tokens were also trying to come up, J was in danger!

"Bang bang bang-"

At this point, Arthur shot and killed the derivatives that had come around, loaded, and aimed, killing the mechanical worm that was biting J's arm.

"Thank you." J breathed a sigh of relief, but at this moment, he saw several derivatives from Arthur's back pounce!

"Arthur, back!!"

Arthur turned around, and the derivatives pounced on him, and he swayed and rolled down the stairs! I followed the stairs of the net, fell out of the railing, and fell into the small passage on the side.

“！” Caesar raised her hand to cut off the two tokens, and she jumped over the railing, landed on the massive metal pipe, and chased in Arthur's direction.

At the same time, Ogar also ran to the iron door.

She panted and looked back at her teammates—

Caesar slashed at all derivatives that stood in her way.

On the grid staircase, Blackblade was battling three or four tokens, but he was trying to retreat to the small passage behind right.

In front of the fire exit, J smashed several of the onrushing tokens with his pistol and ran towards the front left passage with his head down.

The beauty not far away angrily pulled a derivative off of herself: "Damn it, don't touch my hair!" ”

The mechanical mite in the center of the engine room seemed to realize that its prey was fleeing in all directions, and it roared, and more tokens burrowed out of its skin and rushed towards the gamers present!

Knowing she couldn't mess with the others, she turned and opened the iron door.

"Roar—"

Three or four derivatives pounced on the little girl.

She hid in the room, clutching the doorknob and trying to close it!

"Bang." A derivative inserts a mechanical limb into the crack in the door, preventing it from closing.

"Roar—" the token roared, about to open the door.

The sharp mechanical limb cut through her arm, and the little girl subconsciously let go of the doorknob, but fortunately, the door had the function of automatic closing, and the heavy door panel clamped off the mechanical limb of the derivative and closed the door with a "bang".

And the mechanical limb moved on the ground, and then stopped moving.

Ogar lowered his head, looked at a seven-centimeter wound on his right arm, and couldn't help crying.

At the end of the day, she's just a seven-year-old.

At this age, a child should enjoy the joy of childhood under the protection of her parents, but she is trapped in this world, and it is likely that she will never be able to get out, and will always repeat the cycle of running away and being killed.

What did she do wrong......

Ogar crouched on the ground with her arms folded and cried, her small body leaving a small arc-shaped shadow under her, it was a warehouse, there was only one door, and the only sound of her crying was in the boxy storeroom.

She didn't dare to cry too loudly, for fear of alarming the unknown creatures outside.

I could only bite my left arm and wipe my tears.

I don't know how long I cried, but I just felt that there was silence around me.

She waited a little longer, making sure there was no sound around her, before opening the door to the warehouse.

Outside the door, it is no longer a engine room, but a storage room full of shelves.

This living labyrinth automatically changes scenes.