It is different from the modern and popular pre-match draw to determine the order, and the players play in a step-by-step manner. Halloween Killing Race is much more random.

The grouping mechanism of the qualifiers is also a random draw, and the players are divided into groups of two. However, the draw for this game will not be held until five minutes before the start of the game. And only two contestants will be selected at a time, and the next draw will not be held until the end of the competition between the two contestants.

In a competition with a wide variety of competitors and such a large randomness, it is almost impossible to prepare in advance for the characteristics of the enemy.

But it is precisely because of this that the "entertainment" of the Halloween killing contest is much greater than that of the ordinary contest!

"Hmmm......"

Zhang Luo, who was sitting alone in the preparation room, pressed the red skull mask on his face, lowered his head and kept shaking his legs.

Although some people who are anxious because of nervousness may have this reaction, the person's current situation is not nervous, but-

"Why don't you start yet, it's slow enough." He muttered to himself impatiently.

As a rare human participant, this time he was wearing the same dark gray trench coat with a burning skull armband he wore on the last Antarctic mission - a handsome outfit that was also the uniform of the Strange Tales Workshop.

In the first few editions of the tournament, there were a few tragic incidents of "the game hasn't started yet, and the players are dead". The event organizers finally realized that it was not appropriate to lock up a group of murderous monsters together. So now every contestant has a single preparation room.

The area of the preparation room is about 20 square meters, and the layout inside is very simple, only the cold stone bench, the space door that can directly reach the stadium after opening the door, and an LCD screen to broadcast the live event.

Now, Zhang Luo has been waiting in the preparation room for twenty minutes, but there is still no sign of the game to start, and it is really an unbearable feeling of depression for an avid curiosity hunter like him......

Press the switch on your right hand to open your own "Alternate Dimensional Storage". After confirming the equipment, Zhang Luo was sure that his current self was ready to meet any enemy.

Before leaving the Strange Tales Institute's arsenal, Frankenstein temporarily transferred almost all of the practical weapons in it to his storage space. In other words, the current Zhang Luo is almost equivalent to carrying the entire arsenal of the "Strange Talk Research Association" with him!

Whether it's a "silver bullet machine gun" against a vampire or a super powerful microwave transmitter against a ghost, you have all kinds of weapons in your hands. Even the manuscripts of the Lārayer Text and the Secret of the Worm, which summon the gods of the abyss, were stuffed into Frankenstein's storage space, and they were called "Be Prepared......

So all you have to do now is to wait comfortably for the game to start.

After a few more minutes of waiting, the two commentators of the game, Freddy and Rip Girl, finally appeared on the screen. The two guys were quite professional and didn't talk nonsense for long, and they started the first draw of the qualifiers.

Immediately afterwards, the names of the two players in the first match appeared on the screen in the preparation room, as well as the avatars of the two players.

"Qualifier Game 1: Anderovic vs. Mr. Zhang."

"The first one was me? That's a lot of luck. ”

Seeing the unexpected "good luck", Zhang Luo couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a smile that seemed very "sunny" to people who didn't know the truth.

After being drawn by lot, a red light immediately lit up in the single preparation room he was in, and at the same time, a kind-sounding female voice sounded, saying in standard Mandarin that seemed to have been learned from Google Niang:

"Your race is about to start, so be ready for it in three minutes. When you're ready, press the green button next to the door. To abstain, press the red button. We will empty the preparation room immediately and disinfect it, so good luck. ”

Zhang Luo raised his head and stared at the heavy weapon hanging from the ceiling, and couldn't help but complain: "If you abstain, you will be killed, right...... It's a monster game. ”

Of course, he didn't have the idea of abstaining, but looked at the other party's avatar on the screen, trying to deduce the other party's identity.

The guy in the picture is a man, with short brown hair, an iron mask that also obscures his face, and a cloudy yellow pupil at the place of the eye, and several scars at the corner of the eye next to it.

All in all, this person's appearance is similar to that before Carremon's transformation, giving people the feeling of a "murderer". And it looks like he's a human too, right......

Opening the storage space and carrying a black square metal box out of it, Zhang Luo nodded slightly at the enemy's avatar and said with a smile:

"I'm going to make the game entertaining, huh."

When he was ready, he pressed the green button in front of the door and was teleported to the arena with several stone pillars.

As expected, the audience did not show much enthusiasm for a duel between humans, which can be seen from the lazy atmosphere of the scene.

But even so, Freddy is still very conscientious in introducing the players:

"Now the first contestant has entered the dueling arena. He is a contestant from the 'Strange Talk Research Society' - Mr. Zhang! If you look at me, you will know that the members of the Strange Talk Research Society are all handsome and chic, and they have super combat power! I don't know much about him, but Miss Frankenstein thinks he has a lot of potential, so for now, let's look forward to his performance! ”

There was a listless cheer from the audience. At this moment, Zhang Luo's opponent this time finally entered the battlefield. Stand on the other side of the dueling arena and look at him.

It was a muscular man with a large butcher's knife in his hand, wearing a blood-stained iron mask on his face, and a tight leather suit in khaki color, looking like a butcher who had just finished work and had not yet changed his clothes. On the person's right shoulder, a tattoo of a black dog's head that appears to be a shepherd dog can be seen.

The moment he saw this tattoo, Zhang Luo recognized the other party's origin, and Freddy's explanation sounded in time:

"THE SECOND CONTESTANT IS ALSO HUMAN, AND HE IS MR. ANDNOVIĆ FROM THE ELITE-HUNTING CLUB! Some of you may have heard of this organization, which is in the business of tricking backpackers into traveling, and then using them as killing toys for the rich! If you have some money to spare, you can try it, and it is said that there is a special price recently...... Ah wait, I'm not advertising. ”

Speaking of which, Freddy didn't immediately announce the start of the game, but moved on to another additional rule of the game:

"I'm sure all of you here are tired of the tug-of-war for hours, right? In order to speed up the pace of the game, we have thoughtfully added new special rules to this competition! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the stone floor on the west side of the arena rumbled ominously, and then slowly opened, and a large container-like thing with a black shell slowly rose up.

Seeing this box, the audience at the scene suddenly erupted into huge cheers as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. Freddy also raised the microphone as if he was a little excited and shouted:

"That's right! This time, the special rule is that if a match is not decided for more than ten minutes, this cute monster will be released and eat the two bastards who are wasting time in the arena! ”

"Now, let's raise our hands and welcome SCP-682, a 'special guest' from the SCP Foundation, one of the sponsors of the competition!"