nashuaworldcup Chapter 3 When disaster strikes, everyone flies away
Chapter 3 When disaster strikes, everyone flies away
Seeing Ding Xuehui's pleading look again, Jiang Lin shook his head slightly, without revealing his own guess.
Yang Bin saw this and immediately walked up to the old woman. He grabbed her bamboo basket, threw it on the ground, and took out a red banknote from his wallet, throwing it into the basket: "Is this enough?"
The old woman glanced down, then continued in a hoarse voice, "I don't want money, I want meat!"
Yang Bin, slightly annoyed at failing to impress Ding Xuehui, caught a glimpse of Jiang Lin's mocking smile. His anger flared, and he grabbed the old woman's clothes, lifting her off the ground by her short stature. He threatened her:
"I advise you to take the money and tell me honestly how we're going to get out of here. You won't tell me? Heh, believe me or not, I'll send you to see your damn snake fairy!"
Guo Yuan's heart leaped into his throat. He was about to speak up to warn Yang Bin, but seeing Yang Bin's arrogant back, Guo Yuan's eyes flickered and he chose to remain silent.
The old woman grinned but didn't say anything.
Just as Yang Bin was about to resort to violence, he met the old woman's cloudy eyes and suddenly felt a strange chill creep up his spine. Before Yang Bin could react, he saw the old woman's neck suddenly stretch out like a rubber man, opening its blood-red mouth like a giant python.
The old man was incredibly fast. With a sharp crack, Yang Bin felt a sharp pain in his neck, and everything went black before his eyes.
With a "bang!", the burly, headless corpse fell towards Ding Xuehui.
A large amount of blood gushed from the carotid artery in her neck, staining Ding Xuehui's white dress crimson like a showerhead that had fallen to the ground.
"Ahhhh-"
"Help!!!! There's a ghost!!! A monster!!!!"
Tao Tao screamed and ran into the jungle. Guo Yuan was the first to run when he realized something was wrong. Wang Zhe was so scared that he wet himself and ran after Guo Yuan. The originally determined team was instantly reduced to only Ding Xuehui and Jiang Lin remaining in the same place.
The old woman licked the blood from the corner of her mouth, a smug smile spreading across her face. She sneered, "Those who blaspheme the Snake Fairy... will die without a burial place!"
Time and space seemed to have been paused, becoming deathly silent.
Ding Xuehui lost ownership of her body the instant Yang Bin died. She stared wide-eyed in terror as thick blood dripped from her hair.
My vision turned crimson, and my nasal cavity was filled with a fishy, foul smell.
Blood seeped from the corner of her mouth. This was the first time Ding Xuehui had tasted human flesh and blood.
He wanted to scream, but the intense fear caused his consciousness to separate from his body, and his chest heaved violently but he couldn't make a sound!
"It's alright now."
Only when the young woman's soft voice came did Ding Xuehui slowly emerge from the nightmare. The moment she caught sight of the corpse again, she couldn't help but vomit violently.
"Why did Yang Bin also break the rules?" Ding Xuehui couldn't help but ask.
Jiang Lin: "Those who blaspheme the Snake Fairy will die without a burial place. This should be the second rule."
That utterly ridiculous "Snake Fairy Goddess"—just a few words—marked the end of Yang Bin's life.
Jiang Lin gently patted the girl's back while turning to look at the old man. He was still standing in the same spot, and apart from his slightly protruding belly, he was still an NPC waiting for players to submit items.
The old woman noticed Jiang Lin's gaze, her cloudy eyes turned towards him, and she grinned at the young man, revealing sharp, brownish-yellow teeth that sent chills down one's spine.
When Ding Xuehui saw the corpse for the first time, she almost vomited everything in her stomach before she could recover and looked around: "Where are they?"
Jiang Lin shrugged: "When disaster strikes, everyone flies away."
"Then why didn't you run?" Ding Xuehui was surprised. She was stunned by the direct impact of Yang Bin's death. Jiang Lin's reaction was simply not that of a normal person.
"If she really wanted to kill us, do you think we could have escaped?" Jiang Lin saw through the girl's thoughts and explained, "My mother is a doctor. She taught me how to dissect animals when I was a child, so I have a stronger mental fortitude."
As Jiang Lin spoke, he picked up the bamboo basket and returned it to the old woman, taking out a rusty machete from it.
Ding Xuehui looked panicked and asked in terror, "What are you going to do?"
“She’s an NPC who assigns tasks. We can only get clues by completing the tasks correctly. We can’t do it by brute force.” Jiang Lin turned around and walked toward Yang Bin’s corpse with a very calm expression.
The weather was hot in October. Yang Bin was wearing athletic shorts when Jiang Lin slashed Yang Bin's thigh with a knife.
With his incredibly sharp blade and his familiarity with human tissue, he easily cut off a piece of leg flesh and threw it into the old woman's bamboo basket.
The old woman looked at Jiang Lin, then at the bloodied human flesh in the basket, and finally revealed a warm smile: "Young man, you are a good person. What do you want to know?"
The word "good person" is truly ironic.
"How can we leave here?" Jiang Lin chose to ask the key question directly.
The old woman's withered face broke into a chilling smile. She raised her bony hand and reluctantly pointed to the winding steps behind her that led to the mountaintop: "This mountain is called Snake Immortal Mountain. When you climb up, you'll see a cave. Go through the cave and you'll get out!"
As soon as the old woman finished speaking, everyone's phones in the instance world suddenly vibrated.
Jiang Lin's eyes flickered slightly after seeing the pop-up information about the Dead Soul Island game.
[System notification: Evacuation point information updated.]
Evacuation point: Snake Fairy Mountain Cave.
[Evacuation conditions: No additional conditions required.]
[Number of participants: Unlimited.]
[Countdown to evacuation point effective time begins: 8 hours.]
Jiang Lin immediately opened the game map, and a green escape route icon appeared in the originally pitch-black Snake Immortal Mountain area.
The old woman's figure disappeared, leaving only Ding Xuehui and Jiang Lin on the silent mountain path. Unexpectedly, in just one hour, two people had died, and the team had fallen apart.
Ding Xuehui suppressed her surging emotions, wiped away the tears on her face, and said, "The evacuation point should be the method Guo Yuan mentioned for leaving the game world. Jiang Lin, let's go up the mountain?"
Compared to the girl's joy, Jiang Lin did not show much emotional fluctuation.
Jiang Lin: "Besides the known coordinates, there is a large dark area on the left side of the game map. According to the game's logic, these areas need to be explored by players. So even if the extraction points are announced, we will most likely not be able to evacuate safely until we solve all the mysteries."
Ding Xuehui is smart, but not a seasoned gamer.
No game allows players to safely evacuate at the start of the game. This isn't a matter of game difficulty, but rather a matter of player experience.
Similarly, Jiang Lin looked up at the sky, knowing that the mastermind behind this deadly game must also want to see more of the spectacle.
Therefore, the evacuation points announced by the system are definitely not that simple.