Today was a safe day. After the safe house barrier closed, the leaderboard remained unchanged. I lay back on the bed and unconsciously opened my friends list. Wufeng's tracking information showed that he was dead. Zhang Funan had become much quieter since he came back. He went back to his room and played a mobile single-player game by himself.
Having safely passed through the night, everyone seemed much quieter the next morning, glancing at the clock from time to time with anxious looks in their eyes. I thought for a moment and took out some instant noodles, porridge, and soy milk powder from my spatial storage. Li Song raised an eyebrow in surprise: "Where did you get all this? Sister Su, did you hide it in your spatial storage?"
I was speechless. Ji Lin'an quickly smiled and said, "I used my skills to convert the supplies." I looked at Ji Lin'an. He walked behind me and put his hand on my shoulder. If everyone knew that I had been hoarding a lot of things, it would probably cause dissatisfaction. In this special period, let everyone focus on the kill mission.
Zhang Funan didn't seem to be in good spirits. He looked tired as he looked at Ji Lin'an and me without saying anything. He silently took a bowl of instant porridge and went to the water dispenser to make it. Everyone chose what they wanted to eat. Seeing that it was almost 9 o'clock, we went to the restroom or changed our clothes.
Ji Lin'an and the others' room door wasn't closed. As I passed by, I saw Zhang Funan changing into his bulletproof vest. I immediately remembered that Ji Lin'an had given Wufeng a bulletproof vest, so why wasn't he wearing it?! Wait, I was wearing a bulletproof vest yesterday too, but I was still stabbed in the abdomen. I quickly called Ji Lin'an over and pulled him aside: "You, Wufeng, and Zhang Funan all have bulletproof vests, but Wufeng died yesterday, and I was also stabbed, which means the bulletproof vests aren't working anymore. But I remember that Zhang Funan's bulletproof vest worked when we first entered the Misty Forest, so why did it stop working yesterday?"
Ji Lin'an pondered for a moment: "Perhaps it's because the bulletproof vests are too protective, which is unfair to the other lucky ones, so the system changed the rules."
I frowned: "But you created the bulletproof vest with your skill, and other lucky ones can create it too. What's unfair about that?"
Ji Lin'an shook his head: "The rules of the game are decided by the system. It is their decision to give everyone weapons, and it is also their decision to make everyone's weapons disappear. With guns, you don't really need any skills to kill people, so most people will stop using skills. In that case, having skills is not very meaningful, except for protective skills. But we saw yesterday that the protective shield is not omnipotent, and skill fusion can also be broken through. I'm just curious who the first person to discover that this can be done is."
I sighed: "If Zhu Chen's team also knows this method, then there's not much point in us activating our shield. If a fight breaks out now, we should prioritize using high-damage skills to ensure we can kill them faster."
Ji Lin'an nodded: "Yes, but I think the protective shield can still be activated. We only need to activate one skill to allow them to use two skills to break the shield, so it's worth it."
I nodded: "Yeah, that's true. Zhu Chen and the others have already gone through the maze once, so they must know the way well. If they come again today, it will take much less time. I think we should just ambush them at the exit today, so as not to waste time going in and exploring."
No sooner had he finished speaking than An Xin appeared beside us: "Let's go, it's almost time."
I turned to look at the scene. At 8:56, Ji Lin'an hurriedly gathered everyone at the door and quickly informed them of today's battle plan. As soon as the barrier door opened, we headed towards the entrance. When we got close to the entrance, we discovered that the animal traps that Ji Lin'an and his group had hidden yesterday were gone. The ground was exactly the same as before it was dug. Chen Hu used a branch to poke around in the soil and searched, but there was no trace of them. "Strange, we didn't see that group of people come here yesterday. How come the animal traps are gone?"
Ji Lin'an said, "It looks like it was taken back by the system, otherwise there would definitely be traces of it being dug up on the ground."
Chen Hu tossed the tree branch aside: "They can take it back whenever they want, and the guns are the same. They're completely in control of this."
Ji Lin'an patted Chen Hu on the shoulder: "Never mind, let's go, let's go first."
The entrance to the maze was the same as before, with no place to hide except for the winding paths. Ji Lin'an checked the time and activated the skill to observe the surroundings at 9:30. Yesterday, it took them an hour and a half to get here while exploring the maze, so today they might be able to get here in almost half the time.
For safety reasons, Ji Lin'an and Zhang Funan waited at the entrance to the maze, Chen Hu and Li Song at the entrance to the desert rock, An Xin and Xiao Dian at the entrance to the misty forest, and Song Yi and I waited at the crossroads. Wei Bin had not yet woken up, so we left him in the safe house.
After waiting for a long time without seeing any sign of Zhu Chen and the others, Ji Lin'an and Zhang Funan had taken turns using their observation skills, but still couldn't find them. We all got tired of standing and sat down on the ground. Chen Hu walked out of the intersection, stretched, and walked towards us: "Hey, it's not a good idea for us to just stay here and guard, it's too passive."
I smiled helplessly: "It's not necessarily safe for us to take the initiative to attack. Wei Bin is still in bed, so we can only stay in this area."
Chen Hu shrugged helplessly, stretched his body, and turned back to the entrance. Chen Hu seemed to have thought of something and turned back again, but the next second we heard several gunshots coming from Ji Lin'an's direction. We hurriedly ran towards the maze entrance, but Ji Lin'an and An Xin were nowhere to be seen. I was about to walk into the maze when I was suddenly pulled by a hand. I turned around and saw Ji Lin'an. He had activated his invisibility shield.
Suddenly, we heard another noise behind us. When we turned around, we saw a shocking knife wound on Chen Hu's chest, which ran from his left shoulder across his chest to his right. Chen Hu was clutching his chest and kneeling on one knee in pain, struggling to stay upright. Song Yi and Xiao Dian had also disappeared; they must have activated their invisibility abilities.
Three people suddenly appeared on the pontoon bridge: Kaka, the man, and Dai Qiang. Ji Lin'an led us toward Chen Hu and pulled him into the invisibility shield. We heard Li Song calling softly from behind. We wanted to turn around, but Song Yi pulled Li Song into the skill first.
Several people appeared one after another in the maze. They were the same men who had been with Zhu Chen earlier. Ji Lin'an gestured for us to be quiet. We stood at the intersection of the floating bridge and the road. Kaka and the others couldn't see us, but they didn't seem flustered at all.
The next second, several buckets of paint suddenly appeared in the hands of the people standing at the maze exit, and they poured the paint into the air...
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