The flow of blood slowed down, and something inside the cranial cavity was falling apart. All my senses seemed to be stripped away in an instant, and I couldn't see the girl's pale face, nor could I hear the wails and shouts that filled the surroundings. I felt like a sharp knife was churning in my stomach, the sharp tip of the knife sliced through my intestines, sliced my organs, and the pain and nausea squeezed me out of breath.

"You...... What did you say? ”

I knew I heard what the girl was saying, and I knew I just couldn't accept the plain truth. I remembered seeing the red on the girl's fingers during the examination earlier - it turned out that it was not her blood.

"Sister, sister, she-"

I raised my hand to interrupt the girl, because I couldn't listen again.

Now, memories and tellings had drained all her courage, and the girl rubbed her eyes, leaving only choked voices echoing through the cave walls.

"Bunny, pull me up!"

The big man's roar sounded at the right time, and I settled down, turned around and crawled to the entrance of the cave. He was lying on the edge of the rock wall and looking up, and when he found me again, he immediately shouted anxiously,

"Hey! You're talking, what's going on! ”

Hearing Dahan's question, and looking at his eager expression, I suddenly realized that he didn't seem to hear the conversation between me and the girl before. My face twitched a little at the thought of this, and my outstretched hand was stuck in the air.

"Oh, no! What do you mean? ”

"The little girl told me everything that had happened, and the other girl ...... She ......"

I pondered the words, but couldn't find a suitable way to say the bad news.

"What's wrong with her?"

Seeing that my face was a little ugly, the big man was also nervous,

"Say it quickly!"

I pursed my dry lips, not daring to make eye contact with him, and when I spoke, it only felt like a steel needle was pressing against my throat,

She ...... Didn't get out. ”

There was silence, both the girl behind me and the big man standing below.

The silence of the cavern was terrifying, and the sound of the heart beating violently was clearly audible. Half a ring, I heard the big man answer with a trembling voice,

"What?"

I opened my mouth to say the girl's words, but something seemed to be blocking my throat and preventing me from making a sound. I saw the big man shake his head and step back, his eyes staring at me were already blood-red.

"Impossible, impossible."

Standing a few meters away from the entrance of the cave, the big man's gaze was so fixed that I couldn't move. As he spoke, the grief and indignation in his words were rapidly accumulating,

"How do you know for sure? Didn't you ask her how she got here? Without a flashlight and no physical strength, why didn't anything happen to her? I don't believe it, I don't believe it! There's got to be something wrong with that! She's lying! ”

Although the tone of the man's voice was not high, I could feel the real pain from it.

"I didn't ask, but she certainly wasn't lying."

I said, and the image of the girl convulsing and crying appeared in front of me again, and it could not have been a play to deceive me.

"And how do you explain that?"

The big man asked aggressively, and at the same time, his eyes narrowed into a dangerous arc.

I frowned, and I thought it was too strange, if that monster really killed the girl, why would it just let the girl go? And from the security room to the cave here, on the way, not only to trigger the mechanism, but also to swim through a deep pool more than ten meters long, with the physical strength of a little girl, can it really be done? But given the girl's current condition, I don't think it's a wise decision to continue to press her.

"Maybe ......"

I suddenly thought of a possibility, since I and the big man were not there, and the girl was also killed, the only one who could walk freely in the dark was probably ...... The monster.

I wondered, could it be that it brought the girl here? Why? Wait a minute...... If so, then some of the things that happened before make sense———— when the big man first saw the monster, it was crawling out of the cave in the security room, and I also felt the wind blowing, maybe it was just after transporting the girl and bumped into us on the way back.

I took a breath of cool air, and the weirdness of the matter suddenly rose to another level, and I looked at the big man, who was also looking at me with the same incomprehensible eyes.

"It's ......"

I said slowly.

The big man crunched the two rows of teeth, and the two of us looked at each other, both thinking of this heart-chilling speculation.

"MD, why?"

The big man scolded, and the green tendons on his clenched fists were exposed.

I suddenly felt a tightness in my chest, and I had a very bad feeling that this monster was not only a beast that knew how to pounce on its pursuers, so what was the meaning of these actions? I rubbed my temples and kept looking for explanations. After multiple analyses to no avail, I'm going to think about the reason for all this from a monster's point of view:

In the eyes of the monster, we are the prey, or the kind of prey that can use our brains and like to huddle, and it is precisely because of this that we will go down to the pit of the security room, and we will be trapped and almost caught by it———— it must have planned to catch the turtle in the urn at that time, but unfortunately it was a step too late. Since it miscalculated, it had to find another way......

My breathing quickened, my hands broke out in a cold sweat, and the trepidation in my heart rose, and I felt like I was about to touch the real mystery.

So I swallowed my fear and continued to reason:

What if I'm a monster and I know this trap might be broken?

If so, then I would never have watched the duck fly, like an experienced old hunter, never only the next trap, but also other traps!

My heart was beating so hard that the adrenaline was boiling in my blood, and my whole body was shaking, because I thought of the answer———— this monster must have set a trap in advance!! It knows us and knows the purpose of our actions! Know what to do to make us willingly stay here————

This trap! It's the girl we found!

I remembered the moment I fell from the platform of the cavern, the monster's hideous, twisted face, the last time it looked at me, and if that face and jaw were still there, it must have been grinning!

I trembled and raised my hand on my forehead, only to feel that the world was spinning,

", it's over."

Everything around me is no longer safe in my eyes, and the scheming monster may have touched it from somewhere else, smiling and watching us speculate and speculate here, and all this is just a death throes in its eyes!

Suddenly, I jerked my head up, and there was an astonishing chill down my spine.

It seemed like the girl hadn't made a sound in a long time.

The air around him cooled down in an instant.

I don't know if it was because of fear or the freezing atmosphere, I didn't dare to breathe, my arms went limp, and I could barely hold my body that was shaking violently.

With a cunning rabbit-like look like a hound's fangs around the neck, I slowly turned my head away.

At some point, the girl sat up, facing me, and the flashlight fell at her feet, revealing too many details. Her tiny arms hung unnaturally beside her, her elbows twitched, and from time to time a bright red flicked off her fingertips and fell in front of the white pillar of light of the flashlight to bloom into a bewitching flower.

"Ah...... Ahhhh......h

My mouth was wide open, discordant tones squeezing out between my teeth, and my perspective shifted upward......

Until I saw the hellish scene:

The girl's neckline was empty, the part above the collarbone was shaved off in unison, and the fresh blood that was hotter than the environment was steaming, spurting and dyeing the girl's blouse all red.

Suddenly, there was a loud gasp from behind the girl's corpse, and the stench of blood burst into my nostrils.

Before my brain could recover from the horrific sight, I saw a hook-like silver claw reach out of the darkness, grab the girl's petite torso, and then flick it over!

"Ahhh

I screamed, but my limbs seemed to be filled with lead water, and I didn't know how to dodge as I watched the corpse fly towards me.

With a muffled thud, the girl's shoulder slammed into my chest, and the huge force instantly broke several ribs, and my throat tightened, and the blood spurted out of my mouth and flew out of the air, and then fell heavily on the hard rock face.

"What's wrong?!"

The big man shouted and rushed to my side, and I raised my only movable right hand to point at the entrance of the cave, and he looked down to meet the monster that was about to fly down. I took one last look at the monster's red-glowing pupils, and then I couldn't hold it anymore and passed out in the dark.

Confusion and confusion of illusions were entangled, and in the noise my consciousness was sometimes awake and sometimes blurred———— I saw the big man and the huge monster scuffling together; Seeing the monster's sharp claws streak blood on him; I saw the big man being inserted and fell to the ground, and the fragments of blood and organs were dripping all over the ground.

The torrent of darkness was mixed with the flickering images, and consciousness faded, and the noisy collisions and shouts around them became both illusory and real, until they returned to nothingness.

I finally opened my eyes, and saw the monster staring at me face to face, and in its cloudy, strange eyes, I saw my own weak, unfamiliar face. I was powerless to resist, and there was no hope, my spirit calmed down in the chaos, and the monster's rough palm pressed against my head.

With a crunch of my skull, my life came to an end.

And what is the ending?

Bright, surrounded by the empty room, a metal ball floated on its own. The ruins of the school, the pitch-black caverns, the nightmarish dissipation of horrible monsters without a trace.

When I opened my eyes, I looked at the unfamiliar scene without the slightest doubt, and even felt so intimate.

Shimmering tentacles stretched out from both ends of the ball, and the tentacles tangled together, forming a square about one meter long and wide.

As if turning on an old TV, a bright light flashed in the center of the square, and then the flash spread rapidly, turning into a blank screen bounded by tentacles.

I watched everything that was happening in front of me like a puppet, and when the screen was formed, I felt as if I had been sensed and raised my hand to the center of the screen. The cold touch made me feel a little uncomfortable, but in the process, I seemed to be controlled by some mysterious and irresistible force, which invaded my brain and completely lost my ability to take the initiative.

"Confirm Identity"

The sound of the machine sounded, and my hand hung down and hung limply beside me.

Suddenly, characters flashed across the blank screen:

...... Number of runs: 0

...... Running Replica: Ruin 1490

...... Running deviation: 3%

...... Runtime Framework: Complete

...... Procedure A: Normal

...... Procedure B: Normal

...... Procedure C: Normal

...... Master: Normal

...... Data is uploaded to the cloud

...... The backup is complete

...... Reset all exceptions

...... The reset is complete

The character flickered a few times before vanishing, followed by a green tick and an emotionless mechanical voice:

"You're doing a great job"

As the words fell, I felt as if something had penetrated into my spinal cord from the back of my neck, and although I didn't feel any pain, I only felt indescribably sleepy, and I blinked, trying to figure out what was going on, when the hook in the center of the screen slowly disappeared, and a new row of instructions resurfaced:

...... Number of runs: 1

...... Substitution Copy: Lonely Village 9580

...... Launch all programs

...... Open all audience channels

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The characters were still there, but I couldn't hold back anymore and closed my eyes.

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...... Wake up the master

I woke up.