Elvia looked around and found that all the players this time came in teams, basically five or six people in a team, and there were no solitary players at all.
This situation should be relatively rare, because the Nightmare City has not been open for long, and many players are fighting alone. At most, they will start to work together with other players to complete tasks after entering the dungeon.
Even they only got together to form a team because of Zhou Zhou, and they were basically not familiar with each other.
As for the other teams present, there were five burly men at the front, standing there menacingly, looking at the other teams with arrogance and disdain in their eyes. They were also the team that picked up the most eggs at this time, with each of them picking up at least two, and were still looking for other eggs of different colors.
The other two teams seemed to be a mixed bag, with all kinds of people in them. They were probably players who had met each other in the previous dungeon just like them.
There is also a team standing at the back. The four people all look somewhat similar and have friendly smiles on their faces.
Alvia could tell at a glance that they were all from the Sharp family. She didn't expect to meet members of the Sharp family in the game. Although they had never seen what he looked like in the game, the Sharp family was known for their cunning and treachery. Now that there were four of them, no one knew what they would do in the game.
There are five teams in total, with nearly thirty people in total. Does this dungeon require teamwork?
Elvia didn't know either, but when he observed the players around him, everyone else had picked up the Easter eggs.
The short trees are only about as high as the players' knees and are shaped like mini pine trees. Under each pine tree, there is an Easter egg of a different color.
The egg Zhou Zhou picked up had a snow-white background, light golden patterns, and was almost weightless.
The others also picked up an egg from the ground closest to them. Shirley picked up an egg with a red pattern, Keli picked up a sea blue one, and Heya also picked up an egg with brown markings from the ground.
Eddie took a long time to choose. After all, there were a lot of eggs on the ground. He picked and chose, and finally chose one with a pink pattern. He had just looked at it for a long time and the pink color seemed to be the least, so he chose this one.
Seeing that Al had been standing there without choosing his own Easter egg, Zhou Zhou found an egg closest to Al and handed it to him.
"Al, here you go!"
Elvia looked at the egg with green patterns that Zhou Zhou handed over and took it silently without saying anything.
After taking it, I found that the egg was warm and very light, and it didn't look like there was something inside.
Everyone then looked at the egg they had chosen, trying to see what was inside through the sunlight, but they could see nothing at all, not even a shadow.
Some people shook the eggs but didn't hear any noise inside.
Shirley held the egg in one hand and guessed, "Could a chick hatch out of this?"
Keli looked at the eggs in the other people's arms and was eager to move them. When he heard Shirley's words, he looked at her in disbelief: "Have you ever seen eggs this big?"
The Easter egg is about the size of an adult's palm, so it definitely can't be an egg.
Shirley was unconvinced and said, "Maybe it's the egg of some other animal?"
"Are you stupid? This is a virtual egg in the copy. Does it have to be an animal? Maybe a person will come out." Keli felt that his guess was more reliable.
"Did a baby hatch out? That seems pretty good." Shirley looked at the egg in her hand with anticipation.
Eddie: "...Hasn't it occurred to you that this is a horror game?"
Shirley and Keli paused at the same time, looking at Eddie with condemning eyes: "Can't we forget this fact for a while and have some anticipation?"
Eddie shrugged and didn't burst their fantasy. He said perfunctorily: "Okay, okay, I was wrong. There must be some cute little animals or babies inside."
Zhou Zhou stared at the egg in his palm like a treasure, and looked down at his feet from time to time while walking, for fear of dropping the egg in his hand. Heya casually held the egg in one hand, and walked silently behind Zhou Zhou, looking at him, as if he was afraid that he would accidentally drop it.
The atmosphere in their team was very harmonious, but the other teams were not so friendly.
Each member of the strong men's group picked up several eggs. They also selected different colors and patterns. If they found that players from other teams had a rare color, they would forcibly snatch it away.
Zhou Zhou's team didn't dare to come over because Heya was there. Although the four people from the Sharp family did not look very old and looked like young people, their similar looks and temperament in their gestures were very distinctive, so the strong men did not go to trouble them.
Eddie and Keli looked for a long time and felt that only they and another group of four people who looked somewhat similar had one egg each, while the other groups had at least two eggs each.
"Zhou Zhou, what do you think? Should we pick up a few more?" Eddie asked.
Zhou Zhou asked them in confusion: "Why do we need to pick up more? Isn't the mission that everyone should adopt one?"
Keli: "What if the ones we have can't hatch? Wouldn't that mean the main mission has failed?"
Zhou Zhou said confidently: "It will definitely hatch."
Eddie: How do you know?
Zhou Zhou: "Because I think everyone can hatch it."
Perhaps it was a kind of herd mentality. Although what Zhou Zhou said made sense and the system only stated that one could be adopted, seeing that others had picked up so many and they only had one, they were indeed a little nervous.
The system only says to adopt one, and it doesn’t say that you can’t adopt more.
As soon as Shirley saw Keli's hesitant expression, she knew what her brother was thinking. She went over to hold Keli's shoulders in an intimate manner, and then twisted his arm hard: "Whatever Zhou Zhou says is true. Have you forgotten how you passed the level last time?"
Keli gritted his teeth in pain. It wasn't that he didn't trust Zhou Zhou. He just looked at the others getting so much and was a little worried that they would fall behind.
But since you have chosen to believe Zhou Zhou, let’s just take it one at a time.
Eddie was also a very smart guy. When he found out that the team had reached a unanimous decision, he no longer mentioned taking more.
"Hey, why is this egg so light? Could it be that part of it is rotten and can't be hatched at all?" A young man from the Sharp family held the egg with a red pattern in his hand, looked at the sun for a long time, and suddenly said.
"Yeah, I also think the weight is not right. Could it be that the main task requires us to find the ones that can actually hatch from all the eggs on the ground? Otherwise, it would be too easy." The young man next to him said worriedly.
"Then what should we do? If we can't hatch, we will be eliminated."
"There are so many eggs here anyway, let's find a few eggs of different colors and open them. This way we can find the difference between the good ones and the bad ones."
The other two teenagers echoed.
The four people were talking in loud voices. After hearing them, many people began to look down at the eggs in their hands. The weight of the eggs did not seem to be filled with something.
A few strong men also heard it and looked at the eggs in their hands. They had so many, they should be able to hatch at least one.
“Crack.”
A sturdy man casually cracked an egg, and the crisp sound immediately attracted the attention of others.
The sturdy man looked down at the eggshell in his hand which had been broken into several pieces. There was nothing inside. It was an empty egg.
He threw away the eggshell and said to his companion: "The one just now was bad. There is nothing inside."
Are the good and bad ones distinguished by color?
The other group of players saw that the eggshell thrown on the ground by the strong man was green, so they also crushed a green egg in their hands.
There's really nothing in there!
He quickly called on his companions to throw away the green eggs and pick up a few more.
Koli and the others looked at Al, who also had a green one in his hand.
Only Zhou Zhou stared at his hand nervously. His look was different from that of the others, not because he felt the egg in his hand was empty, but because he was afraid that he would crush the egg.
Alvia asked, "How much do the eggs in your hands weigh?"
I don't understand why he suddenly asked this question. Several people said it was light and had almost no weight.
"Since the weight is about the same, I guess all of them are empty when opened."
As soon as he finished speaking, the sturdy man who broke the first Easter egg seemed to open a few more eggs of different colors, only to find that without exception, all of them were empty.
Eddie's eyes widened: "So all our missions will fail?"
Elvia glanced at the four people from the Sharp family who were the first to speak about the quality of the eggs. What they first proposed was just one egg each. No one broke the egg in his hand, but stood behind and watched the actions of others from a distance.
"Just because there is nothing now doesn't mean there won't be anything later. This is just a game, and it's impossible for it to be a dead end from the beginning. Take the eggs you picked up and don't worry about what others say or do."
Zhou Zhou nodded: "I thought so too!"
Shirley and Cole looked at each other, and Eddie also felt that what Al said made sense, and touched the pink egg in his hand.
Naturally, Heya couldn't refute what Ai'er and Zhou Zhou said.
“Aaaaaaah.”
When everyone was trying to find out which egg was not an empty egg, a terrified scream was suddenly heard.
The first strong man who crushed the green empty egg now covered his face with his hands and howled in pain.
"What's wrong with you?" his companion took a few steps forward and asked anxiously.
"My face, my face hurts!"
People from other teams also looked over here, not understanding what was going on.
The strong man covered his face and kept howling, then suddenly stretched out a hand to his companion next to him: "Help me, my face hurts!"
The moment they saw half of his face, people who were close to him couldn't help but take a step back.
Eddie was even more active than the strong man's companion. He had already run over to watch the fun. When he saw the other man's face, he was also shocked: "Oh my god, what's going on?"
At this time, the sturdy man's face was covered with white cracks, and the cracks continued to extend from the face down to the neck, and even the exposed arms were cracked.
"Save me, save me quickly." He kept asking for help from his companions and even wanted to go to their side.
However, he was avoided by his equally frightened companions.
“Ahhhhhh.”
With a bang, the strong man's howl disappeared and his whole body was split apart.
It should be said that he looked like a smashed plastic dummy, broken into pieces, and the cracks were all crooked white cross-sections. There was no trace of blood at all, and no visible muscles and bones inside.
The companion who was speaking and moving normally just now suddenly broke into pieces, and even a piece of his face with an eye fell in front of the other strong men.
One of his eyes, wide open in fear, seemed to be still staring at his companions, as if questioning why they didn't come to rescue him.
"Ahhhhh, don't come over here." A strong man was so frightened by the piece of facial fragment with eyes that his legs went weak and he fell to the ground. At the same time, he involuntarily loosened his hands, and several eggs in his hands fell to the ground.
He kept moving backwards, even knocking down several small trees and crushing several eggs.
Such a scene also made everyone present feel terrified.
Why did a good person suddenly become like this?
“Aaaaaaah.”
Another scream was heard, this time from the player on the other team who was imitating the strong man's movements and crushing the Easter egg.
His face was also covered with white cracks, and soon it too cracked.
Pieces of broken arms and limbs fell to the ground. Although there was no blood, it looked even more terrifying.
It was still broad daylight, the sun was shining warmly, and the surrounding scenery could even be called very beautiful, but everyone began to feel a chill in their hearts.
They have discovered the similarities between the two men, they both crushed the Easter eggs.
At this time, the remaining people couldn't help but begin to be glad that they just threw the egg away and didn't crush it.
Only the strong man who had just been frightened sat on the ground and looked at the crushed eggs behind him in horror.
He suddenly stood up and ran away desperately, as if he felt that as long as he escaped from this place, he would be able to escape the same fate as his companions.
Under the gaze of everyone, he ran farther and farther, then broke into pieces again and fell on the grass in the distance.
Two of the five strong men who had been so arrogant just now have died. The remaining three stared at the pile of eggs in their arms in horror. They wanted to throw all the eggs of doom out, but they were afraid that they would accidentally break them and suffer the same fate.
Eddie sucked in a breath of cold air. Since he was at the front line watching the scene, he was very close to the first two players who were shattered. There were broken arms and limbs all over the ground. Although it looked more like a shattered mannequin, this miserable scene might as well have turned into a human mosaic.
At least it doesn't look that scary.
After taking a few more glances at the fragments on the ground, Eddie discovered that the cross-sections of these fragments were crooked and of different sizes.
The first strong man's fragments were larger, only a few pieces, while the second player's fragments were scattered, with small debris all over the ground that could not be put together.
How can this be compared to...
He suddenly thought of something, looked down at the egg in his hand, and immediately ran towards Zhou Zhou, being careful not to step on other eggs.
"Oh my god, please protect the eggs in your hands." He said after running in front of everyone.
“See, if the egg is broken, we will be eliminated, and it’s such a horrible way to die.” Shirley felt that she was about to have a trauma.
Eddie: "Not only that, I just saw the egg in your hand break in the same way you broke it. This is not an egg at all, this is our life."
Keli opened his eyes wide: "If the egg cracks, will we also crack?"
"I don't know, I guess it should be like this."
The other players also noticed this, their faces turned very ugly, and they carefully put the extra eggs in their hands on the ground, leaving only one.
After that, I didn't dare to make any big movements, for fear that the egg in my hand would break.
A young man from the Sharp family shook his head and said to his companions, "It seems that we guessed right. After the egg is broken, you will really be eliminated, and no matter whether it is the one you choose or the one on the ground, you cannot destroy it."
"Yeah, but those guys are also very interesting. They didn't make any other moves just like us." He said and looked in the direction of Zhou Zhou's team.
Every team must have a leader, and although Zhou Zhou's team did not clearly state who the captain was, everyone gathered together because of Zhou Zhou, so their eyes were always following him, and they would ask him some questions first, and they had tacitly regarded him as the captain.
In fact, if you look at his aura, Heya is already very eye-catching, but he has been silent since he entered the copy, just following behind Zhou Zhou, looking like a bodyguard-like character. As for Alvia, who had an even colder aura, because there were people from the Sharp family in this game, although he was sure that the other party would not recognize him, he still restrained his aura, so there was nothing special about him except that he had a good-looking face.
So the person the Sharp family looked at was Zhou Zhou.
Looking at Zhou Zhou who was still carefully holding the golden egg, a young man from the Sharp family asked, "Do you know which family he is from? He looks very unfamiliar."
"Not sure, but the tall man behind him is probably a mercenary."
"Well, Heya is one of the top three mercenaries, right?"
"You hired a high-level mercenary to protect yourself in the game? You're better at it than us."
"Let's wait and see. If necessary, we can get to know him and the other black-haired man in their team. I always feel that he is not simple either."
The Sharp family is one of the major noble families in the empire, so they are naturally very good at observing people's words and expressions. Although Al was very low-key, some clues were still discovered. However, they could not associate him with the emperor of the empire. They just felt that this person was not as simple as he appeared.
Zhou Zhou didn't know that he was being stared at. He held the egg in his hand seriously and raised it high.
Al looked at him, as if he was offering a sacrifice, and couldn't help asking, "What are you doing?"
"Sunbathing."
After saying that, he turned the egg over.
“It also needs to be heated evenly.”
Then it turned over again.
Shirley on the side couldn't stand it anymore: "Zhou Zhou, you flip the eggs too often, what if you fall down?"
Zhou Zhou shook his head: "It won't fall."
He held it very firmly and would never let the egg fall.
Eddie also came over and found that the egg in Zhou Zhou's hand seemed to be a little bigger than his. After comparing them carefully, he found that it was indeed bigger.
"Zhou Zhou, your egg seems to be a little bigger than mine. How did you manage to make it grow?"
Zhou Zhou thought for a moment and said, "Sunbathing?"
Eddie asked in confusion: "I've been leaving it out to dry."
"That means silently chanting a spell."
"Any more spells?" Eddie became interested.
Zhou Zhou held the egg in one hand and gently touched the eggshell with the other: "Just pray to yourself, grow up quickly."
Eddie: "...That's it? Okay, I'll try it then."
Later, Eddie discovered that the egg in his hand had indeed grown a little, but the eggs of others were also growing.
The speed of the egg growing and shrinking was different. After a few hours, Zhou Zhou needed both hands to hold the egg. If it wasn't still light, I don't know how he would hold it.
Among the six people, only Al's green egg remained motionless and did not change in size.
Shirley and Eddie were both a little anxious, fearing that Al had really taken a "bad egg", but it would be too late to change it now.
Al remained calm, because although the size of the egg had not changed much, its weight had increased a little, so it couldn't be empty.
As for the other teams they were in, the strong men's group could no longer act arrogantly because they were missing two people. They waited quietly with the others for the eggs in their hands to hatch.
The other team of players, with full members, wanted to find the exit to pass the level. Because at a glance there were no big trees here except short pine trees, and there could be no tree holes either. They thought the exit should be somewhere else, so they left together.
The group that was missing a player originally wanted to leave, but because they were afraid and the other teams had not made any moves, they stayed.
Zhou Zhou walked back and forth holding his egg with golden patterns in his hands. He felt that it would soon come out. He discovered that the four boys in the group were often looking at him, holding the egg in one hand and waving the other hand vigorously to greet them.
Shirley was almost scared to death by his dangerous action. The egg was so big, and he had to hold it with one hand. What if he fell? The scene of several players being smashed to the ground just now was really terrifying.
When the Sharp family noticed that Zhou Zhou was waving at them, they also waved at him with a smile.
Zhou Zhou originally wanted to go over and get acquainted with them, but he heard a slight noise.
He looked down and saw that the egg in his hand had a thin crack on the top.
He blinked. So, the eggs are about to hatch? Or did he crush the egg?
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