A dull, shocking sound shattered the silence. Ma Ziyao lay sprawled in a pool of blood, his body contorted, before falling silent.
Upon seeing this, the players who had been standing around retreated, their eyes filled with fear and reluctance.
Their faces were grim, each one fearing this would be their fate. They hadn't even started playing yet, and their hearts were already heavy with fear!
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Above, the players weren't paying much attention to the people who had fallen, because they were too busy taking care of themselves.
Xiao Jin sat alone in the back, listening to the whistling wind, a look of doubt appearing in her eyes.
Because right after Ma Ziyao and his companion fell, four more people on the roller coaster fell in quick succession.
This shouldn't be happening!
Xiao Jin frowned slightly.
If it were just a problem with the safety ropes, the players wouldn't have fallen so easily! Could it be...?
Puzzled, Xiao Jin tried to observe her surroundings for clues, but found nothing. Little did she know that not long after, she would be the one in danger.
A moment later, a cold wind silently swept past Xiao Jin from behind, carrying an indescribable chill that seemed to penetrate her clothes and reach her very bones.
Accompanied by a rustling sound, inexplicable whispers wove together in the air into an invisible net, suddenly enveloping Xiao Jin tightly.
An indescribable eerie atmosphere permeated the surroundings, and bursts of laughter, sometimes faint and sometimes loud, sent chills down one's spine.
In that heart-stopping moment, a rope suddenly shot out from behind Xiao Jin and silently wrapped around her neck.
At that moment, a feeling of suffocation surged in like a tidal wave, quickly overwhelming Xiao Jin's consciousness.
Xiao Jin instinctively struggled, grabbing the rope with one hand and quickly reaching for her waist with the other.
She drew her Shadow Dagger, a flash of cold light, and launched a fierce attack at the ghostly figure behind her, but apart from the increasingly intense eerie aura, there was nothing else in the air.
The Shadow Assassin missed his target.
The feeling of suffocation intensified, the veins on Xiao Jin's neck bulged, her mouth opened, and her face turned red.
With a sliver of clarity, Xiao Jin twisted her wrist, intending to chop at the rope around her neck and sever the restraint.
However, just as her fingertips were about to touch the rough rope, an unexpected scene entered her field of vision.
Below, a player's figure is helplessly falling from the sky, eyes wide open, face full of terror, and seemingly very confused.
This scene struck Xiao Jin like a bolt of lightning, making her mind jolted and causing her to stop moving involuntarily.
A flash of inspiration struck Xiao Jin, and he seemed to have thought of something.
Immediately afterwards, Xiao Jin made a desperate gamble, her tense muscles suddenly relaxing, looking as if she were offering her neck for execution, letting that indescribable force lock her throat shut.
As time passed, Xiao Jin seemed to hear only the thunder of her own heartbeat. Her vision began to blur, and the world around her was slowly drawn down by a thick black curtain. Her ears were ringing, and her consciousness gradually faded.
Suddenly, Xiao Jin's body jolted violently, as if he had been lifted up by an invisible giant wave, and all the feeling of restraint vanished in an instant.
When she opened her eyes again, the scenery around her was different. She was sitting on the roller coaster unharmed, as if nothing had happened.
What rope? What ghostly figure?
The spot where the Shadow Assassin was blocking was none other than the safety rope that he had carefully tied for his safety.
Xiao Jin was taken aback for a moment, then raised an eyebrow.
It was all an illusion! She finally understood why so many players had fallen.
The sheer real sense of suffocation would likely cause most players to act irrationally in a panic.
'Bang! Bang! Bang!'
In the next half minute, the players on the ground saw figures falling from the sky one after another, like dumplings being dropped into a pot.
In the blink of an eye, there were more than ten corpses on the ground.
Everyone looked terrified and completely panicked. This was just a roller coaster! Was it really that difficult?!
Fortunately, after realizing it was an illusion, the players didn't encounter any further danger. Having learned from their previous experience, when the animals on the tracks came to life later, no players chose to jump off the train to escape.
'45, 46...50.'
Xiao Jin never forgot to keep track of the time. With the station just around the corner, the roller coaster was now almost parallel to the ground.
The players who survived the ordeal were all incredibly excited.
It's finally over. They'll probably be traumatized by roller coasters from now on.
But the next second, the players' expressions froze.
Why don't roller coasters slow down?
Yes, with railings and barriers right in front of us, the roller coaster shows no sign of slowing down. At this rate, it's bound to crash into them.
"grass!"
In just a short distance, the players' adrenaline surged.
Some people couldn't resist and, seeing the roller coaster going on, quickly broke their safety ropes and jumped out. Many others followed suit.
Xiao Jin narrowed his eyes, showing no sign of anxiety, but he had already cut the safety rope.
However, she didn't rush. Instead, she waited until the yellow line on the ground fell behind her, then launched herself and jumped directly off the roller coaster.
He rolled on the ground to dissipate the force, and stood up without looking disheveled.
"Bang!"
The very next second after Xiao Jin jumped off, the roller coaster crashed heavily into the railing, scattering parts everywhere and sending many people flying.
The roller coaster, billowing thick black smoke, slowly came to a stop in the distance.
A moment later, a voice cursed angrily, "Damn it, it really doesn't stop!" These words immediately expressed the sentiments of all the players.
Because of the previous suspenseful events, many players thought that this was also intentional, since the roller coaster suddenly accelerated when it started.
It will definitely stop!
Unfortunately, the other party didn't intend to play by the rules.
Those players who remained on top suffered minor injuries, which could be healed with a red pill. The more serious cases resulted in immediate death, either being skewered in metal or thrown to their deaths.
At this point, 44 people survived the roller coaster ride; nearly a third of them had died.
The surviving players looked somber, a mixture of worry and relief.
Worried about what to do with the next game, but thankful that he didn't die and at least got a medal.
Immediately afterwards, players who had completed the roller coaster lined up with the ticket inspectors to collect their badges, ignoring even the players who tried to get information out of them.
This is crucial to their mission progress!
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