Xu Nian and Xie Baiyu entered the game area and waited for a short while before the other surviving players arrived one after another.
As the last player entered, a familiar voice announcement rang in everyone's ears.
"Congratulations to the surviving players who have reached the game venue meeting point. Now let's start the third mini-game. Find your preferred weapon and form your respective squads within ten minutes."
"The maximum number of team members is ten, and the minimum is two. Each team member must kill five monsters to complete the level."
"The weapons here include guns, arrows, knives, and clubs. If you can find the right weapon to kill five monsters, you will win."
"I wish everyone good luck!"
"Friendly reminder: Anyone who cannot kill 5 monsters will turn into a monster!"
After the game instructor, Xiao Yao, finished speaking gently, she started laughing again. The laughter made the faces of the hundreds of players who were still alive look rather unpleasant.
The helplessness of being mocked, the fear of being unable to control one's own life, and the reality of life being as insignificant as grass are all pounding on their fragile nerves.
Xie Baiyu held Xu Nian's hand the whole time, preventing her from leaving his sight.
Someone invited Xu Nian to team up, but he dismissed them with just a few words.
"Xie Baiyu, shouldn't we find someone else to team up with?" Xu Nian asked, still unwilling to give up.
This mission is clearly a team-based mission. She had never seen his combat strength, but judging from how he was panting after just three steps, was he really going to fight monsters or just become easy prey for them?
"Niannian, this game is full of traps, it's not a case of the more people the better." Xie Baiyu said, making a few gestures in the air before handing over his and Xu Nian's team information.
"Our most important task now is to find weapons, preferably ranged weapons, and guns and arrows would be best." Xie Baiyu led Xu Nian to find weapons without giving her a chance to argue.
They only have less than ten minutes, and it will be difficult to find a suitable weapon in that time.
The meeting place was very large, with rooms connected one after another on each floor, somewhat like a maze with no exit.
The staircase seemed endless; after climbing one floor after another, all you could see when you looked up was an endless spiral staircase and floors.
Xie Baiyu deliberately led Xu Nian up the stairs, coughing lightly as he climbed, looking so weak that he seemed about to collapse at any moment.
"Xie Baiyu, we've climbed to the seventh floor. We have three minutes to find a weapon. Are you sure we'll make it?" Xu Nian fiddled with the baseball bat she had picked up, looking up at the endless staircases and floors above her head, a sense of helplessness washing over her.
“Niannian always trusts me, doesn’t she? You can trust me again this time.” Xie Baiyu smiled gently.
If he hadn't been staring at her with such intense and fervent gaze, she would have almost forgotten that this person with a gentle exterior was a yandere.
"Hmph! Who said I believed you? I'm just seeing what tricks you're up to."
"Xie Baiyu, don't blame me for not warning you. Climbing stairs like this will drain your energy. If you can't find the ranged attack weapon you mentioned, then your five monsters will be hard to kill." Xu Nian swung the baseball bat in her hand, gave Xie Baiyu a probing look, and then casually looked away.
"Thank you for your concern, Niannian. I won't let you down," Xie Baiyu said with a gentle smile.
His skin was as pale as snow, his body thin and frail, as fragile as porcelain, as if a gust of wind could shatter him.
Despite his frail appearance, he climbed all the way to the eighth floor in one go.
He looked like he was about to collapse at any moment, but he never let go of Xu Nian's hand and would occasionally rub the skin on her wrist.
This hypocrisy only fueled Xu Nian's growing doubts.
"We've arrived." Xie Baiyu stopped on the ninth floor, with only one minute left to search for weapons.
He opened room after room door, ignoring the weapons in the other rooms, and headed straight for the middle room on the ninth floor.
In the last second of the allotted time, he got the pistol and twenty bullets.
White fog began to fill the ninth floor, reducing visibility to only about two meters.
Xie Baiyu calmly loaded the magazine into his pistol, and the instant the white mist began to dissipate, he casually fired a shot to his right.
"Roar!" A beast's painful roar rang out, and the white mist completely dissipated at that moment.
Xu Nian also saw what Xie Baiyu had hit with that casual shot.
It was a creature that resembled a dinosaur but wasn't quite one; it had sharp claws, a slender body, bulging eyes, and a mouth full of sharp teeth, with chunks of fresh flesh still clinging to them.
Xie Baiyu's shot hit the monster in the chest, and the monster lay on the ground struggling and roaring, extremely ferocious.
Seeing that it was still alive, Xu Nian grabbed a baseball bat and swung it hard at the monster's head.
With a "crack," the monster's head was severed, and it stopped roaring. Xu Nian held a "1" in her hand.
"Did I steal someone's kill?" Xu Nian asked in surprise.
After her initial surprise, her face darkened again.
Xie Baiyu is right. This game is full of traps, and having more teammates isn't always better.
Whoever kills this monster is considered the one who killed it, and each person has a task quota of 5 monsters.
In order to complete the mission and survive, the act of stealing kills will inevitably occur.
However, if disagreements arise among members of a team, the consequences can be very serious.
A selfish person who feels he can't survive will inevitably drag those around him down with him.
After thinking about all this, Xu Nian couldn't help but look at Xie Baiyu again.
He seemed to know from the beginning that the game would cause disagreements within the team, and he also knew where the best weapons were, and even where the monsters would emerge from.
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