Forest of the Dead: Necropolis

The Duke looked at Ogar's cooled body and put away his pistol.

She subconsciously looked at Mars chasing Lorraine in the direction where she had disappeared, wondering what was happening to the two now.

But in the system prompt I heard before, Lorraine's name was no longer in the food chain, and it was obvious that she was dead, and she should have been killed by her superior player, Beauty.

As soon as Lorraine died, the food chain was shortened, which meant that Beauty's next target was Mars.

Although Mars has a relatively strong physique, Beauty is also a veteran player, and she is a little worried about whether Mars will also die at the hands of Beauty.

If Mars is also dead, then the next person to be hunted down by the beauty is herself.

Just as she was about to follow the direction Mars had left to check the situation, a voice suddenly came from behind her.

"Click."

It was the sound of a pistol being loaded.

The duke paused and stopped on the white stone steps.

She turned her head slightly: "Who is it?" ”

But the other party did not answer.

"Yes...... Colin? The Duke frowned

In the current food chain order, her upper player is Colin, which means that unless Colin is killed, other players are not qualified to attack her.

But......

In her impression, Colin was a rookie who couldn't use a gun, second only to Ogar in terms of weakness.

How could he ......

"I'm not the four-eyed imp."

Behind the duke, there was a voice processed by a voice changer, and when he heard this voice, the duke's heart was cold, and a thought crashed into his mind-

(It's over!) ）

The duke bit his lower lip, raised his hands, and slowly turned around.

She saw a [Hunter] standing in front of Ogar's corpse, holding a gun to herself.

It was a [hunter] with a lion's hood.

The Duke looked the [Hunter] up and down, his body was muscular, and he did not look like the fat [Hunter] she hated the most in her heart.

“…… Rest assured, I'm not Joseph. His hood is a white eagle, and mine is a lion. [Lion Hunter] seemed to read her thoughts, and spoke lightly, dispelling her doubts.

But this sentence did not make the duke half a point easier.

On the contrary, her heart was tightened even more.

"Who are you? How do you know that name?! ”

"I still know a little about you." The voice of the [Lion Hunter] has been processed by a voice changer, and it is also mixed with some electric sounds, which sounds a little weird.

“…… Are you going to kill me? The Duke silently stepped back.

"Shhhhh

[Lion Hunter]'s words are a great deterrent.

The other party saw through the duke's actions at once, and pointed a gun at her head and then at her chest, as if wondering where to shoot.

Such an action invisibly carries a great deterrent effect.

It's scary to see if he'll pull the trigger the next moment.

The duke stabilized his mind, and now there is no escape, there is no way to retreat, so he simply faces it calmly.

Thinking so, she calmed down instead.

“…… Then shoot, haven't you [hunters] always taken pleasure in hunting players. ”

She doesn't like to be a madman who is cornered.

At all times, she had to keep her sanity.

Even under the threat of a gun to her head, she could not lose her composure.

"Hmph, it's worthy of being brought out by the Pope, it's just different." [Lion Hunter] chuckled under his breath, the semantics were unclear.

"How do you know about the Pope?!" The Duke's eyes widened slightly.

"Because I'm also a member of the Bloody Eye."

"You too?! Could it be that in the last game, you asked the engineer to ......?"

The Duke was about to say something, but [Lion Hunter] raised his hand and made a "shhhhhh

The duke understood and kept his mouth shut.

But in her heart, she understood a little.

The recovery of her memories was an act planned by someone else, and [Cole Corporation] was unaware of it.

And the person who made her recover her memory is likely to be the [Lion Hunter] in front of her.

…… But what is his purpose in doing this?

The Duke wanted to ask him, but he was worried about revealing that he had recovered his memory, and he was erased by the [Minghe System] for the second time.

The memories she had finally gotten back were too expensive, and she would never go back to being ignorant of herself.

For this, she could not afford to take a single risk.

No matter how curious you are, you can't.

After a long silence, the duke asked, "Did you appear this time to kill me?" ”

"Hmm."

"Why?!"

A man who helped her regain her memories is now going to kill her again?!

What logic??

[Lion Hunter] did not answer, but bowed his head and glanced at the body of Ogar, which had cooled.

He minded, she killed Ogar.

"I wasn't going to make a move, until you killed her just now."

“…… But that's the rules of the game. The Duke frowned, "She's my lower player in the food chain, and the only person I can kill, and if I don't kill her, the food chain won't be shortened." ”

"It's not an excuse."

"But this game is a [single-phase system], not a [death system], and if I kill her, it doesn't mean that she is eliminated."

"I won't allow anyone to hurt her." [Lion Hunter] word by word, said decisively.

No matter how good the other party is, he cannot accept this act of opposing the opposite.

It's like an unreasonable person who doesn't listen to a word or believe a word of others.

This tone was recognized by the duke.

A name, crashed into her head.

She knew who the man with the lion's hood was in front of her.

But at the same time, she also realizes that she is destined to be killed.

“…… In that case, why did you send her to this hellish place? ”

"I didn't do it."

"Who is it?"

"Victor."

"I don't remember this man." The Duke looked away.

Actually, she knew.

But in order to pretend that she still had lost her memory, she told a necessary lie to show the game's controllers.

And the other party, too, knew her intentions, so he helped to lie-

"It doesn't matter if you remember or not, you won't be able to get out of the [Minghe System] anymore, will you?"

“……”

"Duke, I want you to remember one thing, every time you kill Ogar, I will show up and kill you. Remember this phrase, next game, goodbye. ”

[Lion Hunter] said, pulling the trigger.

He shot the duke in the head, and before the duke could say a word, he collapsed in a pool of blood.

The system, due to the death of a new player, once again conveyed a prompt sound -

【Attention to all players, attention to all players】

【Player Death】

[Changes in the food chain]

[The new food chain order is: Beauty - Mars - Colin - Blackblade - Icarus - Arthur - Caesar - J - Beauty]

This is the first time in this round of the game that a [Hunter] has successfully hunted a gamer.

The food chain, once again, has been shortened.

The slaughter game between players is getting faster and faster, more and more players are leaving the game, and the rest of the people will fight more fiercely.

Gunshots could be heard faintly in the depths of the forest, but the Lion Hunter turned a deaf ear.

He squatted down next to Ogar's already cooled corpse, gently raised his hand, brushed the hair from her cheeks, his eyes fell on the small whistle on Ogar's chest, and his slightly cool fingertips lightly touched the small whistle, and his eyes revealed a complex dark color.

He leaned over and carefully picked up Ogar's body, the cold body of the little girl, lying in his arms, like a cold puppet.

He stood up, his eyes fixed on the tombstone where Ogar had fallen.

He also saw a black-and-white photograph of a young woman on the tombstone.

There was a flicker in his eyes, but the surging emotions were silenced by him.

He bowed slightly, as if to greet the tombstone.

Then, he left the cemetery with Ogar's body in his arms.

The game continues, but none of this has anything to do with him.

His back disappeared into the shadows of the forest, and the words he muttered were blown away by the wind......

"Miss, let's go home......"