Chapter 53 X-level copy 6

The blue ice cave is just ahead, and it seems that there is only this one monster guarding it.

Hearing the analyst's words, another survivor in the team couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

It turns out that the scary forest monster is just a low-level monster.

However, facing this situation, Ye Xiaoxuan did not dare to relax at all. She remembered the nursery rhyme she had heard from Elder Duoji before:

"The Karakoram Mountains are high and high,

There are treasures hidden in the blue ice cave.

The greedy man reaches out to take it,

The eyes turned blue and the teeth grew longer. ”

Looking at the giant in front of her, a solemn look flashed across Ye Xiaoxuan's eyes. She could only control it temporarily and then said:

"The blue ice cave is ahead, let's go in."

…

The location of the blue ice cave was buried under the snow. When Ye Xiaoxuan's body entered the ice cave, she couldn't help but gasp - the entire cave was a dreamy deep blue, as if she was at the bottom of the sea.

The ice wall was inlaid with countless tiny crystals, which sparkled strangely under the light.

"It's so beautiful..." she exclaimed softly, and the team members who came in later also expressed their heartfelt admiration for the scene.

At this moment, a faint voice came from the corner, "Who...who are you?"

The moment she heard the sound, Ye Xiaoxuan immediately turned her head and saw several team members huddled in the corner, looking at them and trembling.

"Comrade, we..." Ye Xiaoxuan was about to explain, but before she could finish her words, a scream of "Ah" interrupted her next words when Ye Xiaohua appeared with the blue monster.

Before Ye Xiaoxuan could ask them what was going on, she saw one of the young men pointing at the monster behind them with a trembling finger.

A cold blue light seeped out from the crystals on the cave wall, like a frozen will-o'-the-wisp. The five survivors huddled in a hollow in the rock wall, their clothes caked with ice, and their breath shattered as soon as it left their lips. The stalactites hanging from the cave ceiling were dripping water, one drop, two drops, three drops...

Wait, five? Ye Xiaoxuan suddenly realized something and counted again. After making sure she had counted correctly, she looked at the monster on Ye Xiaohua's back and thought about the nursery rhyme she had heard before. She instantly understood something.

But if that was all, the monster was only level D, so there didn't seem to be any need to do this...

Then, before she could figure out what was going on, she saw that the monster that was originally on Ye Xiaohua's back suddenly twitched all over and died.

Then another unexpected situation occurred to them. The top of the cave, which was originally open, suddenly closed. A blue number suddenly appeared in the air. Based on her experience, Ye Xiaoxuan judged that it was a five-minute countdown.

It was during these five minutes that Ye Xiaoxuan learned the basic rules of the game from the survivors of the advance team nearby.

This is a game similar to tag. After the five-minute countdown, the game officially begins.

In this round of the game, a catcher, also known as a "ghost", will be randomly generated. Once the catcher catches a person, he will lose his identity as the catcher and become the caught, and the caught person will become the next catcher.

Then take turns to be the catcher until the 10 minutes are up. The last person to be the catcher will be punished and turned into the monster he was just caught in, and the game is over.

Then the second round of games begins.

Unlike Ye Xiaohua and his group who were stuck at the first level of the game guide, since there happened to be a former gaming master in the advance team, their game progress was quite smooth at the beginning, until...

The good swimmer drowned, and the young man was the first to die.

But his death also provided them with experience. After many experiments and the sacrifice of six people, they found that as long as the following two conditions were met at the same time: there was an "Eternally Hungry" (blue monster) in the copy, and the "Eternally Hungry" and the participants were in two different spaces, the game would not proceed. Thus, the scene that Ye Xiaoxuan saw when she just entered the cave was formed.

Originally, before Ye Xiaoxuan and the others came, things were in a strange balance. The supplies in the cave were constantly consumed, bringing future crises to the survivors, but the distance between the "Eternal Hunger" and them kept them away from the current crisis. Then, until Ye Xiaoxuan and the others brought the "Eternal Hunger" in, the balance was completely broken.

Ye Xiaoxuan's face became solemn when she heard the rules of the game. The loser would be turned into a monster and die, which meant that the next 10 minutes would be a torture of passing the bomb to each other.

As expectations changed, Ye Xiaoxuan suddenly became nervous, but at this point, it was no use regretting.

As the last five minutes pass, the 10-minute countdown begins.

"Pah——"

Suddenly, a dazzling light burst out from the right side of her field of vision. Ye Xiaoxuan looked back and found that one of the survivors had changed.

Next to him, there was a man in his 30s wearing a beautiful halo with numbers cleverly inlaid behind it, like a decoration.

By the way, if this aura appears on your body, it means that you are the Captor, and if you touch another person's body, it will automatically transfer to that person.

Anyway, that’s what it means, and the arrest has begun.

As the first captor was identified, a sharp voice echoed in the cave: "What, what thing? Why am I the captor?"

The one chosen was a survivor from their side, who had no previous experience and looked terrified.

What he got was a calm reply from the survivors of the advance team: "The captors were chosen at random."

“Damn it,” the survivor cursed subconsciously, and then continued: “No, why do you just decide who the arrester is?”

The survivors on the other side were clearly numb: "It doesn't matter. The most important thing is the last person to catch him, so it doesn't matter who is the first one."

Those who were suddenly in great danger forgot their fear of the copy and started swearing. After all, that halo was essentially a death sentence. Who would be happy?

Unlike the noisy people here, the survivors of the advance team on the other side were obviously more numb. It seemed that they must have experienced a lot before they came.

Quietly, the other team members understood the situation, and the partners who had just been working together immediately and carefully distanced themselves from the captors.

"Everyone calm down first and don't fight with each other." Seeing that the situation was about to become chaotic, Ye Xiaoxuan immediately spoke up to stabilize the situation.

Then, she failed, and the one who was chosen was a D-level mutant. Almost the moment he understood the rules, he immediately rushed to his teammate next to him at the fastest speed.

Level D, even if the level is not high in this copy, it is far beyond the existence of ordinary people, especially when their lives are threatened. The speed was so fast that even Ye Xiaoxuan could not see clearly. She luckily dodged it, but the analyst next to her was not so lucky. In an instant, the halo was transferred.