You Yi moved the fastest, immediately rushing to the corner. Xin Meng, who was following behind, thought he would chase after them, but saw him suddenly stop, frowning as he faced the road on the other side of the corner.
Xin Meng was a bit puzzled as to why he wasn’t chasing anymore, but when he ran up beside him and followed his gaze, he understood the reason.
The two people had vanished.
The street was eerily quiet, with no sign of Fei Fei or the man who had taken her; there weren’t even any footprints on the ground.
What was going on?
Xin Meng ran a few meters forward, carefully searching the surroundings, but found no trace whatsoever.
“Did they teleport, or am I hallucinating?” Xin Meng exclaimed, his eyes wide with shock. “Where are they?!”
You Yi’s gaze swept over the walls on both sides, suddenly pausing, and he stepped over to the left side.
There were two jewelry stores there. Normally, there would be a narrow wall between adjacent shops, but the wall between these two stores was slightly wider than usual, though not very noticeable; if one didn’t look closely, it would be easy to overlook.
You Yi felt around on it, pressed down on a certain brick, and suddenly the wall opened silently like a door.
From the dark passage came the sound of Fei Fei’s muffled sobs, not only filled with pain but also moving deeper into the passage!
You Yi quickly slipped into the passage, with Xin Meng following closely behind. Just as he stepped in, he suddenly heard a strange sound.
A woman’s scream echoed from somewhere behind them, reverberating through the quiet street, chilling to the bone.
That sound seemed to be… the NPC that Olivia had brought along?
It seemed they had indeed made it here!
This was quite awkward; ahead was Fei Fei’s desperate cries for help, and behind was another NPC’s heart-wrenching wail. If they saved one, the other would be in trouble, and if either NPC died, it would lead to a game over!
You Yi turned back to look at Xin Meng: “Split up to save them. I’ll come back to find you.”
In this urgent situation, Xin Meng had no better plan and could only nod, watching You Yi continue into the passage while he turned back, quickly running towards the direction of the sound, which was the bank.
As he got closer, the sharp screams became increasingly clear!
When Xin Meng turned the corner, the scene before him sent chills down his spine!
The young and beautiful Olivia had been reduced to six separate pieces of flesh, her rolling head with deep-set eye sockets and bulging eyeballs, thick blood sliding down her prominent nose and dripping onto the ground, her expression twisted in terror, as if confused, unable to comprehend how she had died like this…
The girl referred to as “big sister” by Xiao Jia and Fei Fei was kneeling on the ground facing the corpse, her face covered in tears, clutching her hair and screaming, her vocal cords tearing, gradually losing her voice, her mind already shattered.
Beside the corpse, a bent-over man was picking up her scattered limbs, reassembling them on the ground into the shape of a person.
He was short, thin, and dressed in prison garb…
Hearing the commotion, he looked up at Xin Meng, even offering him a humble smile.
Xin Meng could hardly believe his eyes, Shen Tu Kou…
He killed Olivia?!
How could this be!
Shifting his gaze to the side, he saw a strange female ghost with disheveled hair and a face smeared with blood reflected in the bank’s glass, glaring at him alongside Shen Tu Kou with a vicious look!
Xin Meng, shocked, turned his gaze back to Shen Tu Kou: “Why?”
Shen Tu Kou arranged Olivia’s two legs into a perfect pose, with bent knees and wide angles. If one ignored the blood still gushing out, it looked like a prostitute trying to please a customer, revealing an enticing paradise to the murderer.
Once he was satisfied with his arrangement, he straightened up, even taking a moment to admire his “work,” and then casually said, “Just a little hobby.”
Xin Meng never expected to encounter a maniac who took pleasure in the brutal dismemberment of his companions!
He shouted angrily, “She was your teammate! Don’t you want to clear the game?”
Shen Tu Kou maintained his harmless demeanor, spreading his hands: “The card says that as long as one person completes the mission, the whole team clears. If I kill you, my mirror fairy will be satisfied, and I can clear the game. You should thank me!”
You?
Xin Meng’s gaze sharpened; instead of being provoked as Shen Tu Kou wished, he keenly caught the oddity in his words.
He didn’t say “her,” but “you.”
Could it be that he wanted to kill not only her but also himself and the other players?
The murderous player had actually reached an agreement with the vicious mirror ghost NPC…
A chill ran down his spine as he saw Shen Tu Kou pick up a sharp long knife from the ground, and without hesitation, he turned and ran!
Sure enough, footsteps followed closely behind, along with Shen Tu Kou’s maniacal laughter: “Just thinking about killing you six times makes me so happy I never want to leave this game!”
Pervert! Crazy!
Xin Meng cursed in his heart, running even more frantically.
He had originally thought that after regaining his NPC identity, he wouldn’t have to worry about dangers in the game anymore, but now he faced a threat from a player!
Although he probably wouldn’t die, he certainly didn’t want to experience being killed and then dismembered.
How did such a murderer even enter the game? What a broken game that lets anyone in!
Shen Tu Kou relentlessly pursued him, his demonic laughter ringing in his ears, the sharp wind from the knife slicing through the air, cutting at the back of Xin Meng’s neck, making his skin crawl, and for a moment, he even felt as if his own head was being severed.
“Oh, I forgot, this isn’t your first time playing the game, have you died before? How many times?” Shen Tu Kou cackled, his expression growing more deranged, as the knife drew closer to Xin Meng, as if he couldn’t control himself after taking some Viagra.
Xin Meng ignored him, desperately running while scanning the sides for a way to escape the chase.
The opponent had a weapon, while he was unarmed; it would be disadvantageous for him in a fight, and facing him head-on was definitely not a wise choice.
But all the shops were closed, and there were no side streets; he couldn’t even find a place to use for a chase.
“Why are you running! Is this the last time? Hahahaha!” Shen Tu Kou was unreasonably excited, swinging the knife and smashing it against the glass of a nearby shop, instantly shattering it, yet his grip on the knife remained steady, without a hint of loosening!
He looked thin, how could he have such strength!
Could it be that a small universe was hidden in the chest of this pervert?
Xin Meng’s heart sank as he barely dodged the flying glass shards. Looking ahead, he saw the entrance to the commercial street; with no time to think, he dashed out, turning right into an alley, picking up a piece of broken stone from the ground and throwing it at Shen Tu Kou’s face behind him.
Shen Tu Kou had to raise his hand to block it, and in that brief moment, Xin Meng had already slipped into the dilapidated building at the end of the alley like a fish, and by the time Shen Tu Kou reached the entrance, he had lost track of him.
Shen Tu Kou looked up, his expression dark as he stared at the sixteen-story building still exposed with steel and concrete.
“Ha.”
Suddenly, he laughed.
Bending down, he picked up a small piece of cut steel rebar with his empty hand.
His eyes narrowed behind the lenses, gazing at the cold, hard weapon with a look of someone admiring a piece of art, his crimson tongue flicking out to lick his lips, his expression strange.
“How naughty…”
With the rebar in his left hand and the knife in his right, Shen Tu Kou walked into the building.
…
Thanks to his previous experience hiding in the kindergarten building, Xin Meng saved a lot of time thinking and rushed straight to a mid-level floor to hide. However, the environment here was much worse than the kindergarten; it was too spacious, with bare unfinished rooms that didn’t even have doors, and the windows weren’t installed yet, with glass leaning against the walls. There was almost nowhere to hide except behind the walls.
The first thing he did was carefully walk to the window and look down, and as expected, he didn’t see any figures; Shen Tu Kou had indeed followed him in.
Confirming his guess, he returned to the wall near the corridor, listening carefully to the sounds outside while sorting through the situation in his mind.
Shen Tu Kou was indeed a murderer, more precisely, a psychopathic killer. From their earlier conversation, it was clear that he had reached an agreement with his mirror fairy: if he killed these players, the mirror fairy would allow Shen Tu Kou to clear the game, and he could continue to the next game to keep torturing his companions, enjoying the thrill of killing.
From this perspective, Shen Tu Kou was quite a clever murderer; he understood how to negotiate, how to find loopholes in the rules, and how to utilize the intelligence of NPCs to do things that others wouldn’t even think of.
No wonder the NPC girl who had been with him when he entered had looked so pale, as if she had been greatly frightened; she probably hadn’t expected to hear such an unbelievable agreement.
So now, these players were in danger.
Now that Olivia was dead, the other two girls were unknown—of course, Xin Meng wasn’t particularly concerned about them—what mattered most was that he was separated from You Yi.
He didn’t know who had kidnapped Fei Fei, but they probably weren’t a match for You Yi. He hoped You Yi would return soon so they could regroup, and he could tell him about this, warning him to be careful of Shen Tu Kou… and deal with him together.
To be honest, Xin Meng was somewhat reluctant to face Shen Tu Kou alone; it wasn’t that he was cowardly, but that man looked clearly unhinged. As the saying goes, the soft fear the hard, the hard fear the reckless, and the reckless fear the insane…
A being like Shen Tu Kou, who was both hard and reckless and also insane, was something even the NPCs with only basic intelligence knew to fear, let alone someone like him with normal human reasoning.
Especially now that You Yi wasn’t by his side, he felt an underlying sense of unease.
But the good news was that at least he didn’t have to worry about the lives of those NPCs. From Shen Tu Kou’s demeanor, it seemed he wouldn’t easily let the game fail before killing them; he still wanted to clear the game and continue slaughtering his teammates like pigs.
This could be considered a small blessing in disguise; otherwise, he would have to go back to save them, and the danger level would immediately increase.
The next step was to buy time, waiting for You Yi to return or looking for an opportunity to strike Shen Tu Kou with a lethal blow!
Xin Meng narrowed his eyes, a cold glint flashing in his pupils.
Having determined his strategy, Xin Meng relaxed his body, pressed against the wall, slightly turned to expose one eye, and quietly watched the corridor outside the door.
The sky had already brightened, and the bright sunlight streamed in through the window, casting a blinding square on the ground.
A dazzling light slid past the glass window leaning against the wall.
The long-haired evil spirit quietly appeared, silently gazing at Xin Meng’s back.
She belonged to Shen Tu Kou.
