Forest of the Dead: Larch Forest

[Hints so far:]

[One-eyed: Upper player: A woman among the 6 veteran players; Next player: The man with the scar on his hand]

[J: Upper player: A man who has a heart; Lower Player: Killing Machine]

[Caesar: Upper player: Black-haired rookie player; Lower player: The man who used to be wrapped in gauze]

[Arthur: Upper player: The little girl with red eyes; Lower Player: Male in the Big Three of the Upper Circle]

[Icarus: Upper player: A man under the age of thirty-five; Lower Player: Man in Gas Mask]

[Black Blade: Upper player: Player with different pupils; Lower Player: Player with glasses]

[Colin: Upper Player: Male in the Big Three of the Upper Circle; Lower player: Little girl with blonde hair]

[Ogar: Upper player: a person who is no more than 1.7m tall; a lower player: a person whose appearance is the least commensurate with the codename]

[Duke: Upper player: Blonde-haired player; Lower player: The man with the scar on his face]

[Mars: Upper Player: Proud Female Killer; Next player: Woman with short silver hair]

[Lorraine: Upper player: A man with a scar on his face; Player next: A man who cherishes his hair]

The 35-metre-tall larch trees rise from the ground and rise into the sky, with a diameter at breast height of 90 centimetres, and the old trees and new trees are intertwined, and the needle-like leaves are inserted into the white trunks, intertwined, leaving a shadow in the forest.

[Warning, warning]

[Hostile creatures appear in front of you]

[Creature Name: Mountain Ghost]

[Target location: 3 meters]

[Creature Level: A+]

"Poof—"

The sharp sharp knife instantly pierced the chest of the mountain ghost, Caesar took a step back, dodged a mountain ghost who pounced, pulled out the sharp knife inserted in the chest of the mountain ghost with his backhand, and cut down the other two mountain ghosts who rushed over diagonally, on the right side, the two mountain ghosts immediately pounced, Caesar lowered his head and dodged the first one, but the second mountain ghost bit her arm, feeling a real pain, Caesar shook off the goat doll in his hand, took out the gun in his back waist with his left hand, and pulled the trigger on the head of the mountain ghost, The mountain ghost that the NPC turned into was instantly smashed in the head, and he fell to the ground and struggled a few times before not moving.

A few steps away, three or four mountain ghosts smelled the smell of blood on Caesar's injured arm, and frantically surrounded them, Caesar flashed to the left, one of the mountain ghosts pounced in the air, Caesar ran towards a stout larch, she moved to the left in the center, got up and jumped, a mountain ghost pounced from behind her but did not pounce on her body, Caesar kicked the tree trunk with both feet, and with the help of the power of the tree trunk, he volleyed out and turned his head, and fell to the ground inquiringly, raised his left hand, and "bang, bang" three shots solved the mountain ghost.

And a few meters away, Arthur's battle was not easy.

He sideways dodged a mountain ghost that bit him, raised his hand and shot the mountain ghost in the head, another mountain ghost pounced, Arthur broke its mandible with a punch, and the three mountain ghosts in the back outflanked them, Arthur knocked them down with a sweeping leg, stood up and raised his gun to explode their heads.

At this moment, another mountain ghost pounced, and Arthur was caught off guard by it and fell to the ground.

"Roar—"

The mountain ghost straightened up and was about to bite Arthur's neck!

Arthur raised his hand and was about to shoot his head, but suddenly realized that the person who came seemed to be an acquaintance.

"Pray?!"

"Roar—"

Xiao Qiruo, who has become a mountain ghost, has completely lost the appearance of a normal human, her muscles have rotted, her face is full of dark black rotten flesh, and in the eye sockets of the black holes, two fat maggots are hanging in the tear holes, and one of them is about to come out of the turbinate. It stood with its jaw, its teeth in its mouth were all yellow and rotten, its tongue was rotten, and it was close to the stench of decay, corpse fluid running down its chin and dripping onto Arthur's cheek. It had a lot of strength, and as soon as it pulled Arthur's arm open, he shook off the gun in Arthur's hand, only to hear a "click", Arthur dislocated, and he bit his lower lip in pain.

"Bang-"

At this moment, Xiao Qiruo was suddenly picked up, and Caesar grabbed it by the collar and lifted it from Arthur's body.

The mountain ghost was struggling, waving her two skeletal arms and trying to reflexively grab Caesar, but Caesar raised her hand and cut off her arm twice, she threw it on the ground, raised her left hand, and shot it in the head.

Arthur, on the other hand, was still sitting on the ground, terrified.

Caesar glanced at him, with obvious mockery and disdain in his eyes.

He knew what she was trying to say.

"Idiot."

Really.

Arthur pursed his lower lip and wiped the corpse fluid off his cheek.

For the first time, he was speechless for Caesar's ridicule.

Sitting on the weeds, Arthur looked around, and the mountain ghosts around him were all eliminated, lying on the ground horizontally. After they dried their clothes in the cave, the alarm sounded, and they were chased and killed by the mountain ghosts all the way, there are many mountain ghosts, I don't know where to get out, this mountain forest is like a huge minefield, once the place is not right, more mountain ghosts will be drilled underground, they spent some effort to solve the mountain ghosts along the way, and finally came to a relatively quiet larch forest.

Caesar crouched down beside Arthur and saw that Arthur's arm was twisting into a strange angle.

He was dislocated.

"Bear with me."

Caesar spoke, holding his upper arm with both hands, and before Arthur could react, he jerked his arm down, then pushed it up, pushing it back into the socket.

"Ahh

Caesar took a few steps to the side to make sure he wouldn't splash the corpse fluid on him.

"You...... Can you prepare yourself for another time? Arthur looked at Caesar with a pale face.

"Black Blade said that surprise can alleviate the same feelings."

"And he took your arm?" Arthur's face was full of doubts.

"No, it's my thigh, I dislocated it backwards at the time, and he helped me put it back." Caesar said lightly.

Her tone was as simple as the Black Blade assembling a doll toy.

Caesar glanced at Xiao Qiruo's corpse, who was not killed, and snorted coldly.

This demeanor was naturally seen by Arthur.

“…… I know what you're thinking, but it's not like this for Qi Ruo to be, and she's pathetic. ”

"Words like 'pitiful' can only be used to describe the weak, she can only blame herself, she can't live in this world, she suffers by herself."

Hearing Caesar's cold-blooded words, Arthur changed his serious expression, and he sat on the ground and looked at Caesar.

"Caesar, we talked about it before, to have empathy, do you remember?"

“……”

"Even NPCs are all lives, and you should learn to respect them."

"I'm telling the truth."

"I know, but at least, try to feel their pain, and you'll know that the most tragic thing is that they are the ones who will stay in the game forever, living as no human and no ghost, day after day, forever."

Arthur slowed down.

The thought of a beautiful woman at the prime of life turning into a vicious mountain ghost really made him feel sad.

Sorrow for these NPCs.

I feel even more sorry for myself.

Maybe one day, this will also be his own end - become a tool man of the [Minghe System], and become a tool man to punish players.

Caesar pondered for a long time, then nodded softly.

“…… I'll try to feel it. ”

I don't know if it's because her body is in a special period, now her emotions seem to be more sensitive, compared to the previous dullness and indifference, now she even seems to have a richer expression, although compared to normal people, she is still a wood.

But having an attitude of willingness to change is already very gratifying to Arthur.

Arthur stood up, picked up the pistol on the ground, and his gaze involuntarily lingered on Qiruo for a few more seconds.

He still remembered how she used to look at him pitifully, her long black hair as soft as brocade, and her skin as white as porcelain, but now, she had become a mountain ghost, and only a skeleton remained.

Such a beauty, but it has become like this.

How can it not make people sigh.

Arthur sighed silently in his heart, and when he looked up, he saw Caesar's intriguing expression.

“…… What do you mean by that? ”

"Arthur, you seem to be taking this female NPC very seriously."

"She has a name."

"Oh? I forgot. Caesar replied calmly, "From the moment she died at my hands, my memory erased her message." ”

"Her name is Xiao Qiruo...... Also, are you a robot, and you will also delete memories. Arthur couldn't help but complain.

"Just don't think about it."

"That's not called erasing memory, that's called forgetting." Arthur sighed silently, "Caesar, not everything can be left behind by 'forgetting'. ”

Caesar took a few steps forward and looked up at Arthur: "That'...... What should I do? ”

Arthur stared at Caesar, and he could clearly see that in those eyes, there was no longer the guardedness of the past, the coldness of the past.

She began to try to change, how to become a normal human being, how to have normal human emotions.

"Remember those people, those you killed, remember the good in them, be grateful for what you still have, and go to the future with compassion." Arthur thought for a moment and gave this answer.

Don't forget the past, be grateful for the present, and move towards the future.

That's what he wants her to do, and that's what he wants himself to do.

“…… Everything I have? Caesar looked at Arthur with some confusion.

"Hmm."

"I ...... Nothing. ”

"No, you still have the qualifications to participate in the game, and the combat power you have is far above that of us ordinary players, these are the things you have, and the things you have are still increasing, as long as you feel it with your heart."

Arthur said a lot of philosophical things that sounded a bit false, but when you think about it, they have some truth.

Caesar nodded incomprehensibly.

In fact, she only understood the words "feel with your heart" in the whole sentence, although she didn't know how to put these four words into action, but she still wrote down these four words.

"Hey, little girl, Mr. Mummy, I didn't expect us to meet again-"

One-Eyed laughed from behind him, and Caesar and Arthur turned their heads to see One-Eye standing on a large rock, carrying a shotgun, grinning at the corners of his mouth, laughing freely.

Caesar and Arthur looked at each other, ignored him, and walked towards the other side of the larch forest.

"Hiss......"

Caesar's stomach was uncomfortable because of the menstrual period, and this time the pain was a little heavier. Probably because she was soaked in the cold and dirty river water before, her body was cold, and the bleeding was a little more serious.

Caesar bit his lower lip, crouched down, and tightened his clothes.

Arthur looked at the little girl worriedly: "...... Caesar, are you alright? ”

“…… To be honest, not good. Stomach, ...... pain"

The pain in the abdomen and uterus has become clearer from the faint pain at the beginning, as if someone is scraping the inner wall of the uterus with a knife, and the uterine body is throbbing for a while. Caesar tightened his clothes and drew his dagger and plunged it into the ground, as if to relieve the pain.

She hated the useless body and dragged her back, preventing her from moving as usual.

Now, with every step she takes, she can feel something like a "blood collapse".

It disgusted her.

"Hey, hey! Can you please not ignore me?! One-eye, unhappy, jumped off the stone and struck Caesar in the dirt.

Arthur glanced at One-Eye: "One-Eye, don't make trouble, you are not a player next to us in the food chain, according to the rules of the game, you can't hurt us." ”

Indeed, the one-eyed player in the food chain is J, and the player in J's is Caesar, and Caesar's player is Arthur.

If there is one missing in the middle of the interlocking food chain, the remaining few people do not constitute a relationship between killing and being killed.

That's where the food chain model comes in.

The person you meet may be someone you want to hunt at any time, or someone you want to kill but can't.

"Cut, if it weren't for J's pigtail running away, I would have killed him a long time ago! If I had killed him, you little girl would have been my prey now! ”

One-Eyed complained to himself, while Arthur picked up Caesar on his back, and the two of them walked in the other direction.

"Hey!! Don't ignore me! I'm! ”

One-eyed stamped his foot and followed.

He looked like a vexatious little woman.

"Stop!" One-Eye rushed forward and stopped Arthur, he pointed the muzzle of his shotgun at Caesar, who was being carried by Arthur, and gritted his teeth and said, "I hate the feeling of being ignored, believe it or not, uncle, I shot you guys?!! ”

“…… One-eyed, if you're not afraid of breaking the rules of the game, then you can grab it. Arthur glanced at One-Eyed, still with a plain expression, "Anyway, this game is a [single-phase] game, death is not counted in the total number of lives, it doesn't matter if we die, but the free [judge] will clean you up." ”

Arthur said, bypassing One-Eye.

One-eyed was deflated by his words, and he clearly saw Caesar looking at him like a monkey in a circus, with mockery and contempt.

One-eyed gritted his teeth and thought for a long time, but still put down the gun: "Caesar, I will kill you one day." ”

Caesar, who was carried by Arthur, naturally heard the words spoken by One-Eye gritting his teeth.

She smiled faintly: "One-eyed, think before you speak." Every time you say this, I will kill you. ”

One-eyed snorted softly and raised his heels: "Oh? You can't turn over in this game at all, as long as I kill J, you're done. ”

"Yes."

"You'd better pray that you don't let me see J, or you'll be the next one to suffer."

"Then please go after J and kill him, I'll wait for you to kill me."

"Do you think I'm going to let you go so easily? I'm going to keep an eye on you! As long as I see J along the way, I can finish all three of you in one go! ”

One-eyed J. Caesar Arthur.

He had a lot of appetite and wanted to eat the three people below in one go.

"It turns out that you are pestering with this calculation." Arthur glanced at One-Eye.

One-Eyed cheekily followed them, still watching around them attentively, as if he was afraid of missing a single bit about J's whereabouts.

"Arthur, where are we going now?" Caesar was carried by Arthur and looked at his side face, a little puzzled.

"Look ahead."

"Who's your next player?"

"The male player of one of the Big Three in the upper circle may be Blackblade or Icarus."

"Then you're afraid you won't be able to catch your prey." Caesar snorted.

Arthur sighed.

Indeed, neither Blackblade nor Icarus are characters who are easily subdued, and even if they die at a disadvantage, they are not so easy to kill.

"But the game has to go on."

Arthur replied sullenly.

Regardless of the arrangement of the food chain, the game will definitely continue, and they will stay in this Forest of Dead until the end of the game is reached.

"If it's a black blade, watch out for his throwing knives, and if it's Icarus, watch out for his marksmanship."

Caesar's voice rang in his ears, and Arthur turned his head a little to see her dark red eyes.

"Seriously, Caesar, you're not going to kill me?"

"Not yet."

“…… Because I still have value to use? ”

"Well, as a means of transportation, it's very convenient."

She's honest.

Arthur didn't speak, and the three of them just walked on.

The black shoes stepped on the fallen leaves on the ground, and occasionally the sound of the wind passing through the woods could be heard, causing the branches and leaves to rustle, and the oncoming wind was a little chilly, blowing Caesar's stomach cold, she couldn't help but hug Arthur tightly, and put her stomach against his back, the temperature came from his back, as if a warm heat source, but also brought warmth, and soothed the discomfort in her abdomen.

"One-eyed." Caesar looked at One-Eye, who was carrying a gun to one side.

"What." One-Eye glanced at her angrily.

“…… How do you feel about Yelena? Caesar suddenly became a little curious.

This question made One-Eye slightly surprised.

He didn't rush to answer, his eye, which was not wearing an eye patch, showed a little warmth, and he muttered, "I don't remember much about the past, but as long as I think of this name, as long as I think of this person, I feel warm." The heart will hurt a little, and that feeling makes the heart feel full, as if it has been redeemed. ”

This was the first time Caesar had seen One-Eye speak so normally.

Maybe.

It's a real feeling.

“…… Do you want to get out of here and find her? ”

"She's dead."

Caesar and Arthur looked at One-Eye at the same time.

But his expression was serious, not like a joke.

"How do you know? Aren't all players' memories erased? Arthur looked at One-Eyed suspiciously.

Caesar explained: "No, as the time in the game increases, the player will slowly recover their memories, especially touching some memories-related things, and more likely to recover some of the memory fragments. ”

“…… It was the beauty who told me that J killed Elena. One-eyed said coldly.

"She said that, and you believed that?"

Looking at Caesar with one eye, the two looked at each other, and neither of them spoke.

Caesar asks a question that One-Eyed had never thought of before.

Beauty, is it really worth believing?

One-eyed looked away, he clenched the gun in his hand: "No matter what, J that rookie must have something to hide from me, when I mentioned Yelena just now, his expression obviously had something to hide from me, it won't be wrong." ”

"Whew-"

Just as the three of them were walking, suddenly, there were a few mournful howls of hyenas in the forest, which sounded tactful and whimpering, with a bit of loneliness.

Arthur and One-Eye stopped, and the three of them looked around warily.

I heard a rustling sound in the grass around me, and a pair of red eyes popping out of the shadows.

"It's ......"

Then, the headsets of the three people came with the system's prompt sound-

[Warning, warning]

[Hostile creatures appear in front of you]

[Creature Name: Blood Jackal]

[Target location: 3 meters]

[Creature Level: A+]

The whimper of a jackal could be heard through the trees.

A pair of red eyes watched the three people who had walked to the front of the mass grave.

I could only hear the sound of branches and leaves shaking, and they came out of the grass - blood jackals have pointed ears, slender snouts, two rows of sharp fangs up and down, they are covered with reddish-brown soft hair, about 1 meter long, two large fluffy tails dragged behind them, gently swaying as they run, a pair of blood-red eyes staring at their prey, white saliva dripping down their red tongues to the ground, they like to gouge in mass graves, and some blood jackals still have uneaten human legs in their mouths, But when they saw the fresh living people, they dropped the rotten flesh in their mouths, bowed their heads, and surrounded the three of them with a loud voice.

They are colonial creatures and prefer to hunt in packs.

They live in mass graves and feed on the bones of the dead, but at the same time, they prefer fresh flesh, especially warm blood, and the smell of blood that gushes out when they tear open their veins.

This stimulates their nerves and activates their talent for hunting.

"Whew-"

The largest blood jackal at the head took a few steps forward, it seemed to be the leader of this group of blood jackals, it was the largest, almost 1.6 meters long, its sharp claws stepped on the soft ground, leaving a scratch of different shades on the ground, it lowered its head, grinned, and whimpered before the canine attacked, ready to rush up and bite the throat of its prey.

"Arthur, let me down."

Caesar's voice rang in his ears.

Arthur obediently let her go, and subconsciously raised his hand to protect her.

"Don't worry."

Hearing Arthur's voice, Caesar looked up and saw that Arthur was staring at more and more blood jackals around him, and his expression became more and more serious.

"Hmph, rookie, you're still worried about yourself." One-Eye drew his dagger and took a step back.

The herd of blood jackals surrounded them from all sides, surrounding them in the middle.

The three of them faced each other, forming a triangular attack.

Caesar pulled out his second pistol from his back, held the gun in both hands, and looked at the hungry blood jackal in front of him, and his dark red eyes regained some of their former brilliance.

"Killing, welcome at any time."