Urban & Central Hospital——

"Bang bang—"

A flurry of gunfire broke the calm of the hospital, and doctors and patients who had been talking in the hallway screamed and dodged into the surrounding wards. The next moment, a small police officer in ward 12 was seen pushing a blonde man in a hospital gown and escaping from the ward in a hurry.

Behind them, a female nurse chased after them with a black face. She stopped, loaded, raised her gun, and pulled the trigger on Colin's back.

But the man on the move didn't aim so easily, and she fired several shots, all of which missed, and one of the bullets grazed Colin's right calf and landed in Icarus's wheelchair, where Icarus shook and nearly fell off his wheelchair.

"Ding-" Ahead, an elevator opened, and two male nurses were entering the elevator with medical supplies.

"Get in the elevator!" Icarus made a quick decision.

"Elevator wait, wait!!" Colin picked up his pace.

In the elevator, a male nurse was pressing the button of the elevator door, and the male nurse was taken aback when he saw them running towards this side, but his fingers had already pressed the "close door" button, and the elevator sensor door slowly closed. Colin gritted his teeth and pushed Icarus and rushed in, the elevator doors rubbing against the sides of the wheelchair, stopping to close and reopening in an instant.

Colin pushed Icarus into the elevator, turned around by inertia, and confronted the Duke in hot pursuit.

Feeling his body turn around for a week, Icarus in a wheelchair instantly pulled out his pistol and fired three shots at his pursuer in the next moment.

"Bang bang bang-"

Icarus's gun struck the duke in the right abdomen, and the duke's body shook, and the blood gushing out stained her white nurse's uniform, and the next moment she fell to the ground in pain clutching her abdomen. The next moment, Icarus hit the elevator button with his elbow with his backhand, and the elevator door slowly closed, and the moment the door was stitched shut, he smiled slightly, facing the Duke's unwilling expression on his face.

Seeing this, Colin hurriedly touched his waist, only to find that the gun on his waist had been taken away by Icarus at some point.

"When will you ......"

"While you put me in a wheelchair." Icarus replied flatly, glaring at him, "It's a waste to put a pistol in the hands of a waste like you, so it's better to give it to me." ”

"Sir, that's my gun!"

"Oh? Your gun? Glasses boy, will you load it? Will you disassemble a pistol? Do you know how many bullets this pistol has? ”

“……”

For a moment, Colin was speechless.

"You'd better get used to it early, gunfights are commonplace in the [Minghe System]."

"Maybe I'll need a little time to digest."

The other two male nurses in the elevator looked at each other and stood in the corner of the elevator awkwardly, not knowing what to do.

The elevator goes down one floor at a time.

７、６、５、４……

Colin looked at the lights on the floors that turned on and off in turn, and silently counted down in his mind.

"Ding—"

The elevator eventually stops on the first floor.

The elevator doors opened slowly, but the sight before them was shocking.

Corpses, corpses all over the ground.

The corpses of nurses, doctors, and patients fell to the ground in all directions, blood staining their clothes red, and their wide-open pupils that had lost their temperature still told of their fear before they died. Occasionally, the sound of gunshots and the unbridled laughter of criminals can be heard in the distance, and the state apparatus is paralyzed at the first alarm, a city that has long been a hell where anyone can squander the brutality of the depths of human nature.

"This ...... It's ......" Colin pushed Icarus and stepped out of the elevator.

Behind them, the two male nurses were so frightened that their legs went limp, and they fell in the elevator.

Icarus looked at the corpses indifferently and opened his lips slightly: "Be careful, don't get this filthy blood." ”

“…… Do you say these people are really alive? Or was it already dead in the first place? Colin looked at the corpses that had not yet cooled, and fell into deep thought.

Maybe an hour ago, they were talking and laughing, but now, they are lying on the ground unable to move, gradually losing their vital signs, as if they were not alive in the first place.

"Generally speaking, the NPCs in this world used to be criminals in the real world, and like us, they are all felons who were included in the system after trial, but they didn't win the place to leave the [Minghe System] in the first few rounds of the game, so they were deprived of their right to freedom by the system and stayed here forever."

Icarus used a flat voice, as if he was talking about something that did not concern him.

“…… You mean, if you can't get the only place to leave, you'll stay here forever? ”

"Yes." Icarus paused, "However, for some criminals, this is not a bad thing - they stay in this system, and before the alarm sounds, they can live a normal life, marry and have children, go to work, and do everything without delay, and after the alarm sounds, it will be their time to party." In this virtual world, no crime counts, they can burn, kill, loot, fight, rape, and do whatever they want......"

Colin listened to Icarus' words and fell silent.

He pretended to push Icarus towards the back door of the hospital, but quietly took out the needle he had been hiding from his pocket and aimed the pointed needle at Icarus.

He admits that he is not a good person, and maybe, really is a criminal.

But the judge has made it very clear just now that this is a [Upper Circle Chase and Kill Battle], and as a newcomer to the game, his goal is to kill the Big Three in the upper circle.

Although he didn't know exactly who the Big Three were referring to, he knew that the handsome blonde man in front of him was one of them.

The syringe had just been taken off the nurse's cart by Icarus, who had just taken advantage of his lack of attention, and just injected the drug into his body......

Thinking of this, Colin couldn't help but speed up his heartbeat.

Although it is already innocent of the crime, it is the first time after all, and it is inevitable that I will panic.

He looked at Icarus defenseless, with his back to him, and tightened his grip on the syringe in his hand, his joints turning a little white from the force.

"Press, according to what you say, you can do whatever you want by staying in the [Minghe System], why do players still fight to get out of here?" He tried to divert Icarus' attention.

“…… Because they don't always exist as 'people'. ”

The other party did not seem to be aware of his actions in the slightest.

"Huh?"

Icarus's answer piqued Colin's curiosity.

"When the third alarm sounds, these freewheeling felons will be transformed into bloodthirsty zombies, attacking gamers in every round. This is what the Minghe System is asking for from them—the price. ”

[As soon as the words fell, a third shrill siren pierced the sky over the city——]

[Warning, Unknown Organism Infested]