Chapter 90: Deadly Travel Group (15)
The tour guide said yesterday to meet at the village entrance at 9 a.m. When Ji Ning and Sheng Churan arrived, several couples were already there.
Survival-type instances like this don't rely heavily on clues, so most real players fought alone, with no one initiating conversation to cooperate.
By the time the tour guide did a headcount, Ji Ning still hadn't seen Player No. 7 and No. 11.
And there were twenty-four people on site not counting the guide. The two extra "people" who had appeared halfway through were still there, not only with names and identities, but they even answered roll call. Everyone was neatly dressed, carrying bags and belongings.
If not for Sheng Churan's corroboration, Ji Ning would have doubted her own conclusion.
"Two people haven't arrived yet; their phones are going unanswered. I'll go to their lodgings and hurry them up. Everyone wait here for me." The tour guide put away the roster and walked toward where No. 7 and the others were staying.
Ji Ning quickly followed. "No point just standing around, let's go together."
The other players all understood things weren't simple and stood up to go as a group. Ji Ning and Sheng Churan no longer stood out.
Following the tour guide, everyone arrived in front of a somewhat remote, empty house. Before they even reached the door, a thick stench of blood assaulted their nostrils.
The door was bolted from the inside; several men had to force it open together.
Once the door swung open, the scene inside was so bloody it was hard to look at directly.
The room was a wreck. No. 7 and No. 11 seemed to have struggled. One had scissors stabbed into the chest, the other's arm had been hacked off. They lay in a pool of blood that covered most of the floor, still twitching slightly, not yet fully dead.
But just as the group was about to rush over, the two gradually stiffened, even their faint breathing stopping. It was as if they had held on just to wait for this very moment.
The light-screen panel flickered, updating with a notification:
【Female Player No. 7 and Male Player No. 11 made the wrong choice. Total death.】
This was the first time Ji Ning saw a player death other than elimination. So the system notified you about a "total death."
She felt this way of dying, tormented by the fear of death, was even more terrifying than elimination.
Ji Ning performed her part along with everyone else, putting on a very scared and horrified reaction. Sheng Churan wrapped an arm around her and led her out of the building.
The tour guide endlessly comforted the tourists who were on the verge of breaking down, and called people to handle the bodies. The scene was chaos.
Ji Ning and Sheng Churan hid off to one side. To outsiders, it looked like a boyfriend comforting his little girlfriend; in reality, they were continuing their conversation from earlier that morning.
"Two times, two choices, corresponding to two outcomes. Wrong choice equals death." Sheng Churan summarized.
"So... if you choose correctly and survive, you have to deal with Poye, who needs the essence of love. And if you choose wrong, you face the death trap of Guma Lazi." Ji Ning's gaze shifted as she fell into thought. "Heartthrob, don't you think Guma Lazi is trying to prevent Poye from gaining energy?"
"Yes, I was thinking the same. Also, I believe this so-called 'Poye saving us from paranormal phenomena' is nothing more than a self-directed charade."
Sheng Churan's words struck Ji Ning as very reasonable.
That deity Poye was always pulling dirty tricks to scare people, forcing them to be intimate so it could provide energy. But they dared not refuse—what if the paranormal actually escalated to something that could kill?
These two deities that generated and restrained each other, neither one was any good.
If this were reality, a trip with this many deaths would certainly have ended by now. But inside the game, there was still plenty of plot to go.
Under the tour guide's strenuous "persuasion," the tourists decided to continue the trip, following the guide to see Cat's Eye Spring.
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