Chapter 4: Race to the Death: The First Trial

"A rookie is a rookie, and he always cares too much about these details."

Brother Bang walked forward while laughing at Lu Yu. He'd seen this happen a few times, and in order to faithfully simulate the environment, the system would sometimes generate things that looked the same as the real facilities, but didn't have the corresponding functions. For example, the paintings that can't be taken down from the wall at all, the flowers that can't be picked in the flower garden, and so on.

The emergency exit in front of you is obviously such a product, and if the game does have an exit near the starting point, it will either be a trap that opens the door and die, or it is a dead door that cannot be opened, otherwise the game will be too unchallenging.

Taking into account the former possibility, even Brother Bang didn't dare to be careless. I saw that with a flick of his right hand, an iron hook appeared in his palm, and the speed was so high that Lu Yu beside him couldn't see where it was taken out at all.

"Oh, that's taking something out of your backpack!" Lu Yu suddenly realized.

"You're really noisy!"

Brother Bang glared at him, turned his head and carefully hooked the doorknob with the iron hook, and pulled it back with all his strength. There didn't seem to be any traps attached to this door, but just like the second scenario predicted by Brother Bang, no matter how hard he tried, the door didn't move.

"See, it's just an ornament." Brother Bang put away the iron hook and said with some frustration. It is false to say that there is no expectation at all, and there are many old players present, who know that this door is mostly just a decoration, but there is still a vague expectation in their hearts. Now seeing that Brother Bang's attempt failed, everyone showed disappointed expressions.

"Okay, leave this rookie alone."

Brother Bang said as he started to run. This little episode took a minute, and after confirming that the door couldn't get through, everyone quickly ran, including Lu Yu.

After all, the three countdowns are there, and we don't know what the so-called "trial" is, and the closer to the end before the "trial" appears, the more likely it is to survive.

It's just that unlike most of the people who ran forward with all their might, Lu Yu ran forward while not forgetting to look around. Because of this, his physical fitness, which was not outstanding, slowly fell behind the team, and the glasses girl who was a newcomer ran in front of him.

"You're not like everyone else." A voice suddenly sounded behind Lu Yu. He turned his head and saw that it was the last player to appear, "Amano". Ever since he appeared, he has always seemed to be outside the public, neither standing too close nor participating in discussions, just silently observing everyone present.

"You're not like everyone else." Lu Yu turned his head and said, "I also noticed you just now. You don't speak, you don't investigate, you just follow the big army, you stop when everyone stops, and you run with everyone. ”

He turned around and ran backwards, allowing him to speak face to face with Amano.

"But there's one thing that strikes me as weird." Lu Yu Zhengse said, "If you are the kind of person who is used to standing aside and observing silently, it would be fine, but you give me the feeling that you are not thinking at all, just numbly following the actions of others." If it's really a game of personality that matters, you're acting like you're just killing time. ”

"Because there's still survival points left." He actually confessed.

"By the way, I would like to remind you again." Amano lazily continued, "Don't make wrong inferences from my performance. The 'Demolition Pistol' brother just said that the survival points are basically correct, and if you lose the game with 0 survival points, you will die. ”

"And even if you are deducted a little bit with survival point 1, as long as you can participate in a game and win before 12 o'clock tonight, you can continue to live." Lu Yu said, "According to this, your lazy performance in this game can be explained." Crazy by nature, you pursue the pleasure of struggling between life and death, and now this game that will not die even if you lose not only does not arouse your interest, but has become an obstacle to your pursuit of pleasure. So you want to die quickly to move on to the next round, right? ”

Amano nodded: "That's right. ”

"Only by believing in you can you have a ghost."

Lu Yu laughed, turned around sharply and returned to his normal running style. Amano shrugged and continued to follow him unhurriedly. This conversation just now didn't affect their forward speed too much, and it can be seen from here that Lu Yu and Amano still have reservations. At this time, under Lu Yu's strong pursuit, the large army that was almost invisible just now re-entered his field of vision.

"There haven't been any doors since the starting point." Lu Yu thought to himself. He had just run a short distance from the starting point and found a second door that said "Emergency Exit", and although he told everyone about it in time, after a failed attempt, they didn't want to waste their time on such a thing. Then he didn't run far, and Lu Yu found the third door. But the strange thing is that if the doors were to be regarded as decorations, they should have been placed at basically equal distances, but since the discovery of the third door, Lu Yu has never seen the fourth door.

"Three doors and three 'trials', is there any connection between them......" Lu Yu drew a big question mark in his heart. But a bigger problem was coming, and while finally catching up with the large army, Lu Yu's accurate internal clock told him that the twenty minutes that the first countdown was coming.

"The time is almost up."

Lu Yu was just about to say something to remind everyone, but Amano behind him suddenly spoke, startling Lu Yu. This one didn't wear anything like a watch, so it can be seen that he is another person with a clock in his body.

When everyone heard this, they were all stunned, and their pace slowed down a lot. Some of them also have their own methods of calculating time, and although they are not as accurate as Lu Yu and Amano, they also have a rough idea that the time limit is approaching. In the face of the so-called "trial" that did not know how it would appear, everyone tensed their nerves and waited for it.

"What's that sound?" The glasses girl said suddenly.

At this time, everyone had already stopped, and as soon as the glasses girl said this, they immediately held their breath and listened. The sound of "sizzling" in the darkness gradually became clear, accompanied by the rustle of sandpaper rubbing against the ground, slowly approaching everyone from all directions.

"Hey...... It can't be 'that'. The bald man, who was also a newcomer, changed his face, apparently thinking of something. Most people also gasped after hearing the sound clearly. But contrary to their reactions, a few veteran players showed relaxed expressions instead.

"Don't panic, it's just that there is still a way to deal with snakes. Who has a flame-based weapon here? It's time to take it out. "Brother Bang showed his experience as a veteran player at this time. He commanded everyone to stand in a circle in the middle of the tunnel back to back, and collectively guarded the outside. He and the other four took out their weapons in unison. In the hands of Brother Bang and another veteran player was a flame radiation gun that looked very powerful, and the other three took out a spear with a flame burning at the tip of the gun, and the other took out a lighting torch with a jet - although the power is not estimated to be large, this is also a fire attribute attack.

And the last one simply pulled out what looked like a wand, and with a few taps, a fireball flew outward.

"Is that okay?" Lu Yu couldn't help but complain about this chaotic worldview.

The gray snakes swam towards them from a distance, and at first glance they were so overwhelming that they began to worry about what would happen after they ran out of ammunition. But Lu Yu knew that the number of snakes must be limited, and since the goal of the game said that he wanted to survive the "trial", it meant that this setting would not make everyone unable to live.

"Fire!"

Brother Bang patiently waited until a part of the snakes were within range before raising his arm and giving an order. All the weapons with fire attributes were fired at once, and the raging flames scorched the cold-blooded animals in front of them into black charcoal. The snakes in front couldn't stand the heat around them and turned around and retreated, but the snakes in the back kept surging upward, causing chaos in the snakes for a while.

Seeing that the opportunity could not be missed, the other armed people also came up with what they thought would come in handy. On the battlefield, all kinds of Eastern and Western weapons went into battle together, killing happily, and the scene was very beautiful.

Lu Yu, the three newcomers who had no serious weapons, couldn't join the battle, so they had to go back to back, using the iron rods they picked up to drive away the approaching snakes. Although Brother Bang is fierce on the surface, he seems to be a cold-hearted person. Among the veteran players present, he was the only one who kept an eye on the situation here, and when he saw a snake getting too close, he turned the muzzle of the gun and sprayed it to relieve them. With his support, the three newcomers are safe and secure for the time being.

In the chaos, Lu Yu paid special attention to Amano's actions.

The guy was still looking lazy at this time. Unlike others who had taken the initiative to kill snakes, Amano just leaned against the wall, kicking the approaching snakes away with his unsightly kicks, and at the same time taking out a dagger to defend himself. The ordinary dagger seemed to come to life in his hand, flying freely in the air, a hundred times more agile than a snake swimming past the wall. Lu Yu saw the flesh and blood flying in front of Amano, and pieces of gray things were scattered, and when he looked closely, it turned out that the snakes that had pounced had been split in mid-air.

"That's amazing!" Lu Yu stuck out his tongue.

Sensing the sight here, Amano raised his head and grinned at him.