[Brown faction player Gao Ying has been killed.]

The screams stopped before the roar ceased, but the chainsaw man did not stop.

He finally turned off the chainsaw only after the pieces of the body had covered the ground.

Looking at the pile of minced meat he had created, the chainsaw man vomited, and only after vomiting up yellow liquid did he pick up his chainsaw and go back downstairs.

"Wait."

Hearing voices from the second floor, the chainsaw man immediately restarted the chainsaw and cautiously looked up.

Shi Jinzhe asked as usual, "Do you know where the players are on the map?"

He had little hope for the outcome, but he still had to ask, just in case someone was mentally challenged.

The chainsaw-wielding man scrutinized the two men and shook his head.

"I'm on the same side, don't be afraid..." The familiar opening line came again, and Shekh pushed him away and looked directly into the chainsaw man's eyes.

"Tell me everything you know, and I'll let you go."

Looking at his legs, which were sealed with stone, the chainsaw man decided to confess.

"I really don't know, but I overheard something: map players might not even know they are map players..."

He said, "There was a fight here before. I overheard them saying that the Black Faction had gathered 41 teammates. All 41 of them were ordinary players. In addition, they had lost 6 people. But the system hasn't reported the faction coordinates yet. Even if we exclude the bomb player, the number doesn't match up."

The 6 dead players are not part of the map, the 41 found players are not part of the map either, and one bomb was dropped. It's impossible that there are only 2 players left on the map.

Therefore, map players are unaware that they are the map.

At this moment, Shi Jinzhe really wanted to curse.

The chainsaw man looked up at Shi Jinzhe and said, "Their expressions were quite similar to yours back then; they looked like they really wanted to beat their parents up."

Can't you stop hitting people? You went from protecting five people to protecting forty.

Shi Jinzhe closed his eyes and waved his hand twice to urge him to leave.

The petrification was lifted, and the hall returned to silence.

He glanced at the pile of minced meat on the second floor, then turned away, no longer looking at it.

Shekh raised his chin toward the shop in front of him. "You can stay there."

Shi Jinzhe walked over and had her corrode the door lock, and the two entered the men's clothing store.

The shop is located in the middle of the second-floor hall, not against a wall, with an independent design and transparent glass windows on both sides.

He found the fitting room behind the counter. There were padded benches, but the seats in the fitting room were really narrow. Shi Jinzhe had to take several thick cotton coats and put them on the floor, sitting directly in the pile of clothes.

The walls here are very thin, and you can hear even the slightest noise outside, so it's not ideal for hiding. But having a knife, a gun, and a Shekh makes it perfect for a sneak attack.

Perhaps because the previous fight had been too commotion, no one had come here. After about ten minutes of tension, Shi Jinzhe relaxed.

The fitting room wasn't very big, so he sat directly on the floor. Sheikh sat on a narrow chair for a while, then bent his legs and sat on the floor as well.

She anticipated that it would be difficult to find a spacious place to sit until the end of the game, and that sitting on the ground would keep her at a greater distance from the ceiling.

Shi Jin folded his legs to make room for her and covered Shekh with the clothes he had draped over himself.

After the lights went out, the airport's heating stopped working as well. Now that the temperature is dropping, we need to keep our body temperature up, otherwise being too cold will affect our nerves and muscle reflexes.

He leaned back and said, "This game feels a bit strange to me; there are too many newcomers."

Shekh took the clothes: "Is there some kind of saying about it?"

"The points given in each game are just enough to reserve one failure, but in dungeons like this, newcomers are just sent to their deaths. They don't have any points, so if they die, they're really dead."

Unlike veteran players, who have reserved points, being killed here is like experiencing a real death.

As long as they have enough points, they still have a chance even if they fail to complete the level. However, sending newcomers into a battle royale game with such a high casualty rate is not in line with the game's usual style.

"So, you're saying the game is quite protective of newcomers?" Shekh said sarcastically. What good could a broken system that treated her like a prop and gave her away be?

"It's not that we're taking care of newcomers; it's that the system is constantly making people do things for it. Veteran players are more skilled, but where do veteran players come from? Aren't they all grown up from new players?"

Shi Jinzhe leaned slightly towards her, turning his head to look at Shekh:

"After you left the maze, the system told me that you were a reward I received for completing an extra mission, but I did nothing except take you away."

Shekh tilted his head: "So?"

"So I must have done something unintentionally to become my reward. After all, I'm a cheater, I shouldn't have been eligible."

"The cheater..." Shekh recalled the strange behavior of the girl named Xiaomin when she heard about the greeting card, "That Xiaomin..."

"You mean she felt guilty when she heard about the greeting card?"

Shi Jinzhe pondered, his thumb unconsciously tracing the back of her hand. "Perhaps she's also an evasive player when it comes to handing over greeting cards, which is why she feels guilty."

"So in this game, including you, two people skipped, two people cheated, and all the points were just freebies..."

Sheh paused as he spoke. There were light footsteps outside, some distance from the shop, belonging to a small group passing by downstairs.

A few minutes later, the group went to the terminal where they had been.

"That's enough, the person is gone."

Shi Jinzhe lowered his voice again, pulled his clothes up, and manually reduced the volume.

“There were more than two. The middle-aged man was an evasive player, and the one with the chainsaw was a cheater. This is the first time I've encountered other cheaters, and I've met several of them at once.”

Shekh had a bold idea, "You said the game was delayed by half a month, what was the reason again?"

"Fix system vulnerabilities."

"Do you think that, in the eyes of the game, people like you are considered system loopholes?"

The moment was almost over, and my nerves tightened.

Shekh had no good impression of the game and said maliciously, "Maybe the game just wants to gather all of you together and kill you all."

"Then what's the point of hiding the player map? Is it to encourage everyone to work together to clear the game?"

Even Shi Jinzhe himself doubted these words. The game might have a tiny bit of conscience towards newcomers, but to give such a noble and righteous reason is absolutely impossible.

"Who knows?"

Sheh changed her position. She had several pieces of clothing underneath her, which would sag if she sat for too long. She leaned down and found the most comfortable spot, then hid inside her clothes.

This action made Shi Jinzhe feel like the farmer in "The Farmer and the Snake," who hid the snake in his clothes.