The next two days are destined to be turbulent.

That night, because the weather was too cold, Du Yue half invited and half forced Ji Tong to enter his tent - but both Du Yue and Qian Yue knew the specific reason.

They currently have no evidence to prove that Ji Tong intends to collude with others to harm them.

On the other hand, if this is true, they also need to use Ji Tong to lure out the remaining people.

In short, for various reasons, they couldn't take action against Ji Tong yet. He was at most a dangerous person.

The most dangerous things must always be kept under our noses to make people feel at ease.

Ji Tong, on the other hand, didn't suspect anything, but was a bit surprised. But at the same time, he took the initiative to get into the tent, as if he was afraid that Du Yue would regret it.

It turned out that his idea was right.

The tent was not big to begin with. It was fine for one person, but it would be a bit tight for two people. Unfortunately, the wind was exceptionally cold tonight. Ji Tong refused to go out no matter what, and even suggested:

"Why don't we squeeze together and keep warm?"

Du Yue: “…”

For a moment, he almost wondered if he had let a wolf into his house. But at the same time, another voice in his head told him not to let his guard down.

Perhaps the moment you let your guard down is the moment your opponent sends you out of the game.

So, the two grown men stared at each other all night, neither of them sleeping. So much so that the next morning, when someone unsuspectingly showed up, Qianyue hadn't even left the tent before the two men had already dispatched them, leaving only a faint scent of blood in the air.

Qianyue: "...Did you two have breakfast this morning?"

Du Yue: "Did I wake you up?"

Ji Tong snorted coldly, pushed Du Yue aside, and said to Qianyue, "Hurry up and put up that sunshade net. I want to sleep."

Qianyue:?

Are you spoiled?

She walked straight past Ji Tong and towards Du Yue without even glancing at him.

"Dead?" Qianyue saw a flash of white light when she walked out. At this moment, there was nothing on the ground, nothing was left.

Qianyue’s first reaction was that the supplies were gone.

She asked, "Didn't you take off your backpack first?"

Du Yue shook his head: "Not a player."

Not a gamer?

Qianyue paused for a moment, then realized, "Is it an infected person?"

Du Yue nodded.

Infected...

After seeing it once in the first dungeon, Qianyue felt like she hadn't heard the word for ages. After all, wealth can be accumulated. After suffering the loss of low spirit value in the first dungeon, I believe few people would not stock up on mental suppressants.

In the second and third copies, she lived alone most of the time and rarely saw ordinary players, so naturally she had no chance to see the infected.

At the end of the last dungeon, some other members of the team said they had encountered this character, but Qianyue herself hadn't. If Du Yue hadn't mentioned it, she would have almost forgotten the existence of this character.

However, she remembered that after being scratched by an infected person, the player's mental strength would drop very quickly. They were currently short of supplies, so things like mental suppressants had to be used sparingly.

So she casually asked, "Are you okay?"

Du Yue was slightly startled, "It's okay."

He himself didn't realize it, and when Qianyue asked him, a smile crept up his lips. However, since he himself didn't notice it, there was no way he could expect Qianyue to notice it.

Ji Tong: "Why don't you ask me if I'm okay?"

Qianyue glanced at him and asked, "What's wrong?"

Ji Tong answered subconsciously: "It's okay, that kind of -"

He wanted to say that such a role was a piece of cake, but just as he started to speak, he saw Qianyue turned around and walked away without stopping after asking. Ji Tong was stunned, then realized that Qianyue's words did not show concern for him at all, but were purely nitpicking!

Ji Tong: grass.

On the other side, after confirming that the two would not suddenly go crazy, Qianyue went directly to the place where she had dug the solar distiller before.

Her intuition told her that something big would happen soon. Afraid that she would not have enough time to clean up, Qianyue decided to pack up all the supplies in advance.

However, just as she walked nearby, she saw someone squatting stealthily beside the hole she had dug.

Without thinking, Qianyue took out a bunch of cactus thorns from her bag and held them in her hand, "What are you doing!"

The man heard the sound, looked up in panic, and then ran away without thinking. Seeing this, Qianyue kicked the stone next to him and hit him in the calf!

"thump"

The man fell face down to the ground. At the same time, Qianyue noticed with her sharp eyes that there seemed to be a strange dark wound on the man's waist.

For a moment, Qianyue didn't know how to describe it.

The wound was almost as long as his entire waist, with flesh and blood turned outward, and the color was dark, even purple. Qianyue didn't know if it was because the distance was too far, but he even felt that the edge of the wound seemed to be emitting steam.

There was a foul smell in the air.

Thinking of the other party's behavior when she came over just now, Qianyue hurried to the side of the distillation pit to take a look.

As soon as I got close, a foul smell hit me in the face.

The plastic film had clearly been tampered with; the stones were in different positions. Qianyue endured the stench and peeled back the film. The mineral water bottle was still securely placed in the pit.

She took out the bottle of water and found that the foul smell was coming from inside. However, the bottle was clean and there was nothing unusual from the surface.

Was the man here to steal the water? If so, why didn't he take the bottle of water with him? Distilled water isn't easy to come by these days.

Several questions suddenly flashed through Qianyue's mind.

Is it because you found that the taste of this bottle of water is wrong?

But logically speaking, the distilled water obtained in this way should not have any strange taste.

Instead, the wound on that person's body looked very suspicious.

Qianyue thought for a moment and poured out all the water in her hand.

If someone were to pass by and see Qianyue's behavior, they would definitely feel heartbroken. Others, in order to save more water, dared not even say anything, fearing to waste saliva, but she just raised her hand and poured out half a bottle.

"Sizzle~"

A puff of green smoke rose from the ground, and the water quickly sank into the sand. Qianyue immediately took a cautious step back. A moment later, she suddenly remembered something else.

She also smelled a smell when she just came out of the tent in the morning, but it was just the smell of blood, not that bad. At that time, Qianyue just thought it was the remaining smell after they killed the infected people, and didn't think much about it.

In addition, the smell of blood was different from the stench in the air at this moment, so Qianyue did not react immediately. Now recalling the wounds on that person's body, Qianyue suddenly understood!

It's said that after a player is injured by an infected person, their mental value plummets, eventually reaching a negative value and becoming insane and infected. But what exactly causes this?

Was it just a tickling?

It's because of the wound!

Just like a virus, once the infected person comes into contact with the player's wound, the virus will begin to invade further from the wound until the player is also completely infected.

Those infected with this "virus" are like walking exploding sacs of poison, with poison spurting out of their entire bodies all the time!

Recalling the man's actions just now, Qianyue reacted immediately.

"That person is an infected person who hasn't completely lost his mind!"

"He's poisoning the water!"

After cursing several times in her heart, Qianyue quickly turned around and ran back. As soon as she got back, she saw Ji Tong fetching water from the lake, as if he wanted to carry more water before the lake dried up.

Qianyue quickly shouted, "Don't hit the water there!"

Ji Tong was stunned and hesitated for a moment, but finally listened to Qianyue and poured all the water back.

Du Yue: "What's going on?"

Qianyue didn't say anything, but instead sniffed around. As expected, she smelled a hint of rancidity, but perhaps because the lake was filled with so much water, the smell wasn't particularly noticeable.

If Qianyue hadn't known someone had poisoned her, she might have simply ignored the smell. The lake in front of her was stagnant, with dead fish and shrimp occasionally present, so a rancid smell was normal.

Qianyue's face turned grim. "Someone infected poisoned the lake. They probably thought they were going to die, so they wanted to take others with them."

Poisoning?

Ji Tong and Du Yue were both stunned.

Unlike Qianyue who has always been a lone ranger, the two of them have more contact with other players and do know some news about the infected, but this is the first time they have heard of someone deliberately poisoning someone.

The most important resource in the desert is water. If he takes action in an oasis, wouldn't a large number of people die?

Ji Tong couldn't help but blurt out a curse word that couldn't be broadcast, and his face suddenly became more angry.

"How can you be so mean when playing a game? Are you crazy?! Where is that guy? I'm going to take care of him right now!"

Du Yue: "Calm down."

Ji Tong: "How can I stay calm? If I stay calm for a while, who knows what he'll do next!"

Qianyue couldn't help but turn around and look at him again after hearing what he said earlier. If she had doubts about Ji Tong before, now Qianyue suddenly doubted whether her previous judgment was correct.

As the saying goes, playing games can easily make people addicted, not to mention that this is an immersive holographic survival game. Many people will do anything to stay alive, to the point that sometimes they can't even distinguish between reality and fantasy.

Since Ji Tong said this, it shows that although he can do such unethical things as taking advantage of bargains, he has his own principles in dealing with major issues. Maybe what happened before was really a misunderstanding.

Qianyue's mind was swirling with thoughts, but the current situation didn't give her much time to think. Ji Tong pulled out his gun and was about to leave, but Du Yue quickly stopped him. Just as he was about to say something, two players acting strangely suddenly appeared in his sight.

"Someone's coming."

And it was obviously directed at them.

The two men immediately stopped arguing and turned to look at the newcomers, secretly on guard. Within two seconds, the two men came closer, and they saw clearly that they were not players at all, but people who had gone crazy!

Ji Tong narrowed his eyes and said quickly, "I've seen the one on the left. He came to the oasis yesterday! The one on the right doesn't seem to be from here. Are those the two people you just saw?"

Du Yue also clenched his weapon tightly, his muscles tensed: "Be careful, it looks like he has gone completely berserk."

At this time, Qianyue said, "No, these two are not the ones I just saw."

The other two were stunned when they heard this.

This is undoubtedly bad news.

What if the person Qianyue saw earlier wasn't someone who was originally in the oasis, and everyone else in the oasis was also infected...

Ji Tong gasped: "In other words, the worst case scenario is that we may have to face five infected people at once?!"

The last sentence took a different tone. It was not a question, but an exclamation.

Because at the same time Ji Tong was speaking, several figures appeared quietly on the hill. From their strange postures, it could be seen that they were obviously non-human.

Qianyue: "...Thank you, I saw it."

She paused, her eyes suddenly fixed on something.

"No, six."