Just like that, because of Qin’s “softness”, the three people stayed. They didn’t have a portable tent, so they used the hoods of their protective suits, turned on the warmth-keeping function, and the three of them squeezed onto a raised rock.
He couldn’t sleep, so he was fiddling with the flying machine to kill time.
From time to time, the cries of the other contestants could be heard outside, but no one went out, not even An Yinong.
In the forest.
“How could this happen?” Allen, who was standing unsteadily, was washed by the river to the side of a corpse. At first he didn’t know there was a corpse next to him, but a lightning bolt split the sky and illuminated the world. Allen only then saw the corpse, the contestant uniform on the stone, and the mission watch on his wrist.
Mission watch had stopped working, they were tied to the players.
The rain washed his face, but he could not come back to his senses for a long time. Another lightning bolt flashed, finally waking Allen up. He blankly looked around, recalling the conversation between him and one of his suitors not long ago.
He said that this game was very difficult, and had already caused the seismic frame to create a 100-meter-high wave, and there might be other disasters later. Allen didn’t feel anything at the time, since he wasn’t a participant, but now…
“Wait a minute! The mental pain can be relieved!” He stopped a team with a boat. This person was different from the ones who had passed by before. Allen was sure that there must be advanced Zerg among them.
The other Zerg did not have the trouble of rapid spiritual growth causing severe pain, and their levels and abilities were poor. Allen waited for more than half an hour to select this team.
But what he didn’t expect was that the man didn’t even look at him, and the boat just swayed and drifted by.
“Do you know who I am? It’s a charmer! I can…”
Before he could finish his words, an invisible force pushed him up the hillside. Allen was dizzy and almost couldn’t get up.
Ken’s live studio whistled: “He doesn’t even want the charmer bug, straight man Ken is confirmed.”
“I didn’t expect there to be a charmer insect entering the game. I took a quick glance and couldn’t see clearly what it looked like. Is it really that harmful to the country and the people?”
“No matter how good-looking they are, they are retired soldiers and have received professional training. Beauty has no effect on them. That charmer has found the wrong person. It would be better to find that second-generation high-level Zerg who has no idea of the sufferings of the world.”
Allen didn’t know about the mockery in the live broadcast room, but he had already realized that something was wrong. Since he split, he had never met such a person, and this kind of disregard was like a slap in the face to him.
Hit him to hurt him and wake him up.
Sweet pheromones had a huge effect on comfortable people, but it was different for people who had been trained in death crisis, because those people always had an abnormal tolerance for pain.
He looked at the other contestants who he had not taken seriously before: “For survival, I can endure it.”
The rain outside was still heavy and the night was still deep. Suddenly, a strange sound of flowing water appeared, and there were the faint sounds of players’ wailing and beasts’ roaring. The three players trembled even more violently, and they were still one of them a few minutes ago.
An Yinong stopped what he was doing and looked outside. The three people were startled and also looked outside, but it was pitch black outside.
The air conveyed a feeling of irritation and restlessness, and many sleeping animals were awakened. They followed their instincts and began to flee from here.
Was it from the program crew?
When An Yinong crossed the line set by Qin, the temperature outside was several degrees lower, which made him shiver, and his senses became clearer.
There had indeed been some kind of change, and even the rain brought an indescribable feeling of anxiety.
He looked up at the sky, and a flash of lightning streaked across the pitch-black sky. His eyes widened as he looked at the water pouring down like a river over the distant woods.
“What is that?!” The trio shouted.
“Ahhhh——” A contestant’s desperate wail could be heard not far away. These waves were not rain, but more like tsunamis, with the crests rising more than ten meters high, forming a crazy white wall.
The white wall roared and pressed forward.
“Crack?”
The cave that An Yinong and his companions were looking for was in the middle of the rock wall, several meters above the ground. However, two huge waves hit it, and the trees were toppled in the water, and the players and animals were floating in the water.
The game show crew couldn’t wait any longer, so if there wasn’t a flood, they would create one.
Along with the waves came a sudden drop in temperature. An Yinong saw a layer of white frost on the driftwood floating in the water, and even floating ice pieces in the rolling waves. He shivered again.
The big snake that had left before appeared again, covered in slippery water stains. It looked frightened and scared, and was looking for support to climb.
The trio’s faces turned pale with fear, but An Yinong asked the big snake to come over.
“Go up, to higher ground, and don’t look back.”
The big snake stayed in the cave for a short while before slithering away.
“Let’s go too.” He woke Fengchi and turned to Qin, “Qin, the waves are too big, the water will rise here soon.”
Qin stood up and Xing expressed his support.
An Yinong packed up the tent, took Fengchi with him, and they decided to climb up. When the three people in the cave saw this, they followed suit.
There was no ready-made path to climb from halfway up the mountain to the top of the cliff, so they stepped on the protruding rocks and climbed up along the walls.
The rain was so heavy that it blurred their vision and lowered their body temperature.
The protective clothing provided by the game was only the most basic, and its warmth-keeping function was almost non-existent in such extreme weather. An Yinong felt that what he was wearing was not clothes, but ice, and his teeth were chattering with cold.
“Don’t catch a cold.” An Yinong allocated the thirteen points that had not been allocated before to health and constitution. Health increased by 65, and constitution increased by 8.
This made him feel not so cold.
The cliff wall was extremely slippery due to being washed by rain, so he still had to be careful to grab the plants growing on the cliff wall to avoid falling down.
An Yinong used all his time to climb up without looking back, so he didn’t know what was happening. He could only hear the whistling sound of the waves and the screams in the background.
The waves carrying ice cubes caused great damage to the contestants and plants. More and more creatures joined the fleeing team. They gathered in groups, not caring whether they were mortal enemies or not, and they all crowded together to go to a higher place.
These creatures all avoided An Yinong and did not squeeze him, which ensured his safety very well.
“Follow me,” he said to the three people behind him. The three people were very grateful and followed him closely so as not to be squeezed and left behind by the group of fleeing animals.
Suddenly, a hemispherical ice shield appeared above An Yinong, blocking all the raindrops flying towards him. The corners of his mouth curled up, but he began to worry about using his strength to harm Qin.
Isn’t it said that high-level Zerg could not overuse their abilities?
Finally, An Yinong reached the top of the mountain and Qin was already there, with a thin layer of frost on his head but his body was not wet at all.
Fengchi shook the fur on his body. It seemed that he could secrete a waxy substance on his body to protect his fur, so when he shook like this, there was not much water on his body.
An Yinong was more miserable. Not only was his hair soaked, but there were also many scratches on his hands. The wounds had turned white and he had lost the sense of pain.
He grabbed a vine and looked back.
After several big waves, the water level rose slowly, covering the bushes and the small trees. The dead bodies of animals and broken tree trunks were pushed violently by the waves and hit the cliff with a powerful thrust. The fleeing animals and stones on the cliff rolled down together.
Corpses and broken tree trunks floated on the water.
In the distance, a Zerg transformed into their bug shape, spread its wings and flew, but was struck down by lightning the next second.
In such an extremely harsh environment, no matter what kind of Zerg it is, it was difficult to survive through the floods and rainstorms. Even Zerg that were good at swimming found it difficult to survive in such water with a large number of tree trunks, floating ice and many undercurrents.
This was not the work of nature, but of man. It was the game host who pushed the script behind the scenes, and the poison circle began to shrink.
An Yinong did not notice that there was a man in a tattered robe in the rolling waves. He was holding a piece of wood floating on the water, his body was trembling with cold and his face was purple.
“Help.” Pale and cold fingers grabbed the ankle of a passing contestant. The man was about to get angry when sweet pheromones floated over. He had never smelled such a pleasant smell.
“Help.” A handsome young man appeared on the cold water surface, with pale skin and rosy lips, and water droplets flowed down his exposed skin.
The man whose ankles were grabbed licked his lips: “Okay.”
Top of the cliff.
“We can’t stop yet, let’s go further inside.” An Yinong gritted his teeth and continued to move forward.
He kept walking in areas with slightly higher temperatures and was shivering and could no longer hold on, so he leaned against a huge rock and put down the tent.
He went into the tent and lit the ring’s light.
Qin looked at the shadow on the tent, where the boy sat, wiping his hair and treating his wounds. The warm yellow light and the blue-purple shadow had a strange beauty.
The trio also found some branches and leaves, prepared to set up a makeshift tent, and hid in a corner farthest from Qin.
Outside the camera, the organizer also caused heated discussion because of this big move.
There were too many survivors in the last game and the organizer was scolded for three years. The audience guessed that this year’s game would be big, but they didn’t expect it to be so big as soon as the game started.
The first level simulated a massive tsunami, with each wave higher than the last, catching the players off guard and directly carrying thousands of people into the sea, leaving no one dead or dead.
At that time, they speculated that there would be a terrible disaster on the second level, and many people speculated that it would be a plague. The game would let the players take a break and then release the plague.
They were correct.
On the first night, the temperature on the second floor began to drop, and on the second night it dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius. Heavy snow covered the area and extreme cold arrived.
At this time, the remaining seawater was still there, merging with the lakes to form a thin layer of ice. If a contestant accidentally broke the ice and fell into the water, he or she would basically not survive for more than a few minutes, and would soon freeze all over and enter hibernation or die.
Due to the tsunami and extreme cold, all the players on the first level died, and the players on the second level with slightly weaker abilities couldn’t even make it to second place.
Do you think that ends here?
No!
The host was also on the third level.
On the first night, heavy rain and lightning began to fall in the forest grassland area. Many animals in the forest were forced out of their homes by the floods and fought with the contestants.
The second one was even more severe, with continuous lightning and heavy rains, as well as an artificially created flood, a chilled sub-zero flood that carried broken ice and washed away the survivors in the forest and grassland.
In just one night, there were at least 10,000 contestants eliminated. This number was a bit scary.
There were 30,000 people, the first ten thousand are gone, the second ten thousand are gone, and now only one third are left.
Netizens were discussing whether it was good or bad to use disasters to advance game progress in the virtual world. Some people also tried to figure out the source of the organizer’s inspiration.
“So it’s a reproduction of the ancient times of the Zerg?”
“Is it a replica? It can’t be that simple. Judging from the abilities of the players and the items they carry, if it was just a replica of an ancient environment, the possibility of survival is very high.
“So I think it’s not just a reproduction of the original environment, but a recreation of the disaster that the Zerg experienced that almost wiped out our ancestors.”
“In the history of our Zerg race, tsunamis, extreme cold, and floods have all occurred, and this order is arranged according to the history books. In addition, the code name of this game is ‘Lost Literature’…
“I’m kind of looking forward to what’s going to happen next.”
WhiteMoon x BlackSun 