Chapter 10 Hide and Seek
Now it's my hunting time.
The flat-headed brother was a little embarrassed, and Gu Nian explained to him: "He's not talking about you."
Flathead Brother also realized that since he wasn't talking about himself, he must be talking about the people who died this time. He said angrily: "Those people are really stupid teammates!"
Originally they only had to deal with three monsters, but now there were thirteen more. Thinking of the scene of more than a dozen monsters appearing at the same time, he couldn't help but shudder.
Remembering that he hadn't said the key thing yet, Flathead Brother quickly said, "The bodies of those people upstairs are gone. We only found one survivor on the 29th floor."
According to the survivor, he was afraid of facing the monster and did not want to argue with everyone, so after he found that the man in the suit and others had left, he secretly followed them and hid alone on the 29th floor.
The flat-headed monster had a disdainful expression. His words were nice, but in reality, he was just trying to use the people downstairs to draw fire. Apparently, the men in suits thought the same thing. They could then quietly hide, which was definitely safer than downstairs. But unfortunately, none of the monsters went downstairs.
The flat-headed brother snorted, "They are being too clever for their own good."
Hearing this, Gu Nian suddenly stood up and said, "Yes, being too clever is foolish!"
She finally figured out what was wrong.
Gu Nian looked at Xie Han and said firmly, "That monster is using us. The ballad was a deliberate message it leaked to make us hide. It's bluffing."
The monster must not have been strong enough at the beginning, so it chose to kill people in a roundabout way like hide-and-seek. Otherwise, it would not need so many actions and could just kill people directly.
Xie Han was a little surprised. He didn't expect Gu Nian to figure it out before he even said anything. He nodded, "Indeed." After a pause, he added, "But it's hard to say now. Your previous guess might be true. They are evolving."
From appearing once an hour to appearing early, from eating only one person at a time to three monsters killing thirteen people, the monsters are getting stronger.
Xie Han glanced at Gu Nian, and he realized her previous idea was correct. The sooner they gathered the crowd and directly confronted the monster, the greater the chance of success and the smaller the losses. Because in the later stages, the monsters would become more powerful with each evolution.
If these people hadn't been killed this time, perhaps they would have succeeded.
The flat-headed brother looked confused and asked, "What are you talking about?"
What's this bluffing and evolution? Why doesn't he understand a word of it?
Xie Han did not answer, but asked instead: "If you hadn't met her, where would you be now?" His eyes were directed at Gu Nian.
The flat-headed brother thought about it carefully and gave a very honest answer: "Probably either he continues to hide at home, or he has turned into a monster."
The situation was so terrifying. He saw the dead come back to life and eat people in front of him. If he hadn't seen someone coming out, he would have had no intention of going out.
Xie Han asked again: "What do you think will happen if you keep hiding?"
The Flathead Brother knew the answer to this question without thinking. This was also the reason why he decided to follow Gu Nian downstairs. He said without hesitation: "If we kill monsters layer by layer like this, I guess there will be more monsters than people in the end. We will all die." It's just the difference between dying early and late.
And even if they finally went down, after discovering that the monsters had changed their appearance pattern and randomly appeared on a certain floor, they would probably hide on their own, and the later they died, the better, not to mention gathering together to fight the monsters.
His face paled as he finally realized, "You're saying the monster did it on purpose? It appears once an hour and eats only one person at a time, just to make us feel lucky and hide separately, so it can grow more powerful?"
Is this really a monster? Why is it so smart?
Doesn't that mean they played the game from easy mode to hard mode?
Gu Nian pondered further, wondering if these monsters appearing before them were also a mist cast by something, deliberately designed to confuse them. After all, the monsters transformed from corpses seemed to only know how to eat people and didn't seem very smart.
And no one knows how the body appeared in the first place.
Gu Nian and Xie Han exchanged a glance, both clearly having the same thought. The key to the problem lay with the first monster that appeared; they had to find it.
Gu Nian said to the flat-headed brother: "Go and find the building manager, we have to tell everyone about this." It is useless to hide it, it will only make the situation more chaotic.
If we unite, there may be a glimmer of hope.
However, before the flat-headed brother could find the building manager, chaos broke out outside. After learning that they would likely face more than a dozen monsters next time, many people clamored to leave the building. But when the first few people left the building screamed, the rest of the people retreated with pale faces.
After much effort, the building manager finally explained the situation clearly. However, everyone had already lost the courage to face the monster. Some people who had originally disapproved of facing the monster began to protest.
"You guys are talking about gathering together and catching all the monsters in one fell swoop?"
"That's right, we're facing not three monsters, but over a dozen! And as you said, there are even evolved monsters. Who knows what they've become now?!"
"If you ask me, we should all go back to our own homes. If we hide for a little longer, we can still wait for rescue from outside. At that time, life and death will be determined by fate, and no one can blame anyone else."
Many people remained silent, but they all shared the same sentiment. No matter how the building manager urged them, they were unwilling to gather again. Who knew if there would be others hiding like the man in the suit? Didn't the last person hiding on the 29th floor survive?
Soon, most people left, except for those who originally lived on the second to fourth floors.
Xie Han said with a hint of sarcasm: "You see, this is how people are."
Then I got hit on the head.
He looked to the side in disbelief. Gu Nian frowned and said, "How can you act so mature at such a young age? Isn't it normal for people to be afraid of death?"
She thought this was not difficult to understand. "As long as you are responsible for your own choices, that's fine."
Hearing Gu Nian's matter-of-fact tone, Xie Han couldn't even care less about being angry. He looked at her strangely and asked, "You seem very satisfied with the current situation?"
It was as if I had finally fulfilled my responsibilities and could get rid of a huge burden.
He even felt that he saw a hint of eagerness on the other person's face.
Gu Nian shook his head seriously and asked curiously, "Why do you think so?"
She touched her fingers and touched the black line that emitted a slightly cool chill. She said seriously, "I just think it's time for my hunting now."
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