Chapter 21 Un Entertainment No Man's Land truly doesn't need sympathy...
[Dogs: 2]
[Wolf: 2]
[Dog: 1]
[Leopard: 2]
When Jiang Yang and the others arrived at the animal protection association, ten minutes had passed, and the concentration of black smoke overhead was visibly increasing.
From the outside, the association looks more like a prison, with its pitch-black doors making it impossible to know what's inside.
There was a pavilion to the left of the main gate. As Hoshino pounded on the door, a small window in the pavilion was pulled open from the inside, and an old man with a deep, muffled voice shouted from inside, "Come and register!"
Then, a withered hand handed out a notebook that looked very old through the window, and Hoshino was the first to go over and write his name.
Jiang Yang finished writing and returned the notebook. After the old man withdrew his hand, Xiao Chuang quickly pulled down the small window. The door slowly opened to both sides, and then closed quickly after the three entered, just like Xiao Chuang. Yue Jiang turned around, checked, and shook his head, "It can't be opened."
As you walk through the alley, several men with fierce-looking faces are waiting at the bottom of the steps. When they see someone coming, they stretch out their arms to block Hoshino's way.
Very well, he'd chosen the most formidable one. Jiang Yang silently took a step to the side.
"Looking for death?" Hoshino narrowed his eyes.
Taking advantage of their numbers, someone shoved him and said, "What are you pretending for? Tell us your true identity."
Hoshino sneered. Before anyone could see how he made his move, three of the five people in front of him fell to the ground and began to convulse. The hand that had touched Hoshino was cleanly severed at the shoulder.
The scene suddenly reversed. A gaunt old wolf sprang out of the bushes, its eyes glowing red. It glanced at Xingye, then tucked its tail between its legs, picked up the severed arm, and began to eat it in small bites.
Jiang Yang suddenly felt a sense of unreality, and the chewing sound beside him made him hunch over and gag.
One of the two people, frozen in fear, screamed in despair, and the image of a hyena materialized on him.
"In a death throes," Hoshino kicked the old wolf. "Are you full?"
The wolf leaped and landed on the hyena.
Dogs: 0
The fact that a single animal can kill a hunter on its own makes Hoshino's identity obvious.
Hoshino placed one leg on someone who had already fainted, staring contemptuously at the last one, "Now, you answer whatever I ask."
"What's your name? What's your identity?"
"Wang Hu...I am a wolf..."
Jiang Yang vaguely felt that there was a familiar feeling flowing in the air.
"What are their identities?"
Wang Hu pointed to each animal in turn, saying, "Tiger...tiger...hunter..."
"How many people have arrived in total?"
"Besides the five of us, there are two more..."
Where did they go?
“One was probably a leopard, it ran into the hall and disappeared, and the other dog they told me to kill…” Wang Hu swallowed hard.
"Have any of them killed anyone before?" Jiang Yang's stomach ache subsided a bit, and she took a step forward.
Wang Hu turned his head, his confused gaze slowly focusing on Jiang Yang. Xingye tapped him casually, "Have you forgotten? Answer whatever you're asked."
Wang Hu trembled slightly. "I've killed them."
Jiang Yang immediately realized that his state was exactly the same as when he faced Yue Jiang, and Wang Hu's answer also helped him piece together the fragments of the animals' deaths in the forest.
"If I enter the hall, I'll disappear. How am I supposed to get the agreement?" He actually had some guesses now, but how to convince Hoshino was a problem.
Sure enough, upon hearing his mutterings, Hoshino deliberately retorted, "Who said we needed the agreement? Killing all the animals won't stop us from clearing the game, will it?"
“But I don’t want to die,” Jiang Yang said, hating the feeling of not being able to control her own life and death. “If you’re going to kill me sooner or later, you have to give me a chance to save myself, right?”
“You will definitely die by my hand,” Hoshino waved his hand, “but I’ll allow you to struggle now.”
Jiang Yang chuckled and agreed, his face calm and collected, but inwardly he was grumbling, "But what do you plan to do with them?" He was referring to the three who were still unconscious on the ground.
“Won’t they disappear? Just throw them all in,” Hoshino said, stepping onto the stairs. Old Wolf, having bitten one of his legs, dragged himself up the stairs with difficulty.
Under Xingye's control, Wang Hu also carried one, while Yuejiang scanned back and forth between the ground and Jiang Yang, his expression grave.
[Un Entertainment Observation Room - Jiang Yang's Perspective]
"Accept your fate, Yuejiang. What's meant to be yours will be yours."
Yuejiang resigned herself to her fate, raising her chin to signal Jiang Yang to go first, while she carried the last one and followed behind.
Jiang Yang caught up with Xingye, her tone uncertain, "Are we really going to kill them all?"
In less than half a day, he had witnessed too many deaths. Although there weren't many of the eerie things like in Train Zero, he still couldn't stop feeling terrified.
"Jiang Yang, this is no-man's land."
“If you can’t put away your compassion, I don’t mind killing you right now.”
Yes, this is no man's land, and no man's land doesn't need sympathy.
Tiger: 1
[Hunter: 5]
Wang Hu was kept behind by Xingye because after Jiang Yang asked to go in to get the agreement, Xingye was worried that if Jiang Yang died, there would be no one to scare and he would be very bored.
After lingering at the entrance of the open hall for a long time, Jiang Yang finally took a step inside, feeling the cold wind exploring his body. He mustered his courage, lifted his other leg, and followed him inside.
"Are you still alive?"
"Hmm..." Jiang Yang shivered from the cold, but thankfully her judgment was correct.
Anyone who registered could enter the conservation association, whether they were hunters or animals. Those who disappeared in the hall were all players stained with the blood of other animals, which is why he decided to take a gamble, and luckily he won.
My intuition tells me that the protection association isn't as simple as it claims to provide shelter.
Walk forward, and at the very back, a small window has a sign that says "Office." On the counter outside the window is an A4 sheet of paper with four large, glaring characters written on it: "Protection Agreement."
Jiang Yang took two quick steps and reached out to grab it, but was suddenly patted twice on the shoulder. A chill ran down his spine, and he stiffly turned around.
"Don't be afraid, it's me," a familiar voice sounded beside him, and the young man breathed a sigh of relief.
"Meng Jiang, what are you doing here?" Jiang Yang asked in a low voice. "Do you know anything about Old Wei?"
Meng Jiang sighed, "It's a long story. I can't get the agreement while wearing the rat mask. You hold the rat mask in your hand, and once you get the agreement, put it on quickly. Otherwise, I'm afraid the hall will disappear, and you won't be able to leave Xingye's place."
The young man nodded, and he lifted the edge of the A4 paper. The next second, the system prompted that the protection protocol had been successfully acquired. Jiang Yang quickly put his other hand, which was holding the rat face, to his face.
The hard tiles beneath his feet transformed into the soft earth of a forest. Jiang Yang saw Meng Jiang and also saw Xing Ye, who had run towards him but missed.
He was very close to Hoshino, so close that if he made a sneak attack, Hoshino would surely die.
[Because Red Mouse used the hidden function for the second time, the hidden mission will start in one minute.]
[Hidden Mission: Help the Association catch the rabbit that stole the Association's secrets]
The start of the mission caused a scene change, and Jiang Yang's consciousness became blurred, but Xingye, who was not far away with his back to him, became clearer and clearer in his vision.
The young man shook his head violently to regain a brief moment of clarity, his face showing a struggle; he wanted to live more than anyone else.
"No man's land, no need for sympathy. Kill me, Jiang Yang!"
At some point, Hoshino turned around to face Jiang Yang, who was kneeling on the ground with her head in her hands, her voice filled with sorrow and pain, "I can't do it."
He couldn't bring himself to attack an elephant just because he was capable of killing it.
wrong...
A white rose appeared in the young man's palm. He pressed the sharp thorns on the stem into his palm, the pain bringing him back to his senses. He stood up and staggered toward Hoshino. Before the countdown reached zero, he quietly slipped the rose into Hoshino's pocket.
No man's lands certainly don't need sympathy, but what he should do isn't to kill the elephants, but to defeat them.
There are more ways to complete this horror game than just killing.
“It failed,” Yuejiang said.
"What are you doing here?!" Jiang Yang's voice rose.
"I haven't even asked you yet, what are you doing here?!" Nan Ke's voice rose even higher.
Noticing Jiang Yang's gaze, the man coldly uttered two words, "Ji Yang".
Jiang Yang's inner monologue: This is a bit pretentious, bro.
"Hello, I'm Jiang Yang," she introduced herself, then turned to Nan Ke and whispered in front of him, "You've hired someone again."
“I can’t hire him, he’s Xie Lu’s boss,” the two of them started cricketing in front of Ji Yang. “So what are you doing here? Aren’t you in the physical education class?”
"You took on a mission and suddenly found yourself here. Aren't you supposed to be in acting class?" Jiang Yang asked back.
"I've caused trouble," Nan Ke said confidently.
Two hours ago, Ji Yang and he smashed a hole more than half a meter high in the mountain around the pipeline, and after crawling through, the two of them got trapped here.
"Where does it lead?" Jiang Yang noticed another opening inside.
"Hmm...do you want to go?"
Nan Ke blinked, and Jiang Yang had a bad feeling, so she quickly shook her head and declined.
"We need to go in," the mercenary's expressionless face seemed to be a perfect replica.
Ji Yang left those words behind and walked inside, no longer giving Jiang Yang a chance to refuse.
If there were a SAN value this time, Jiang Yang felt that it would cause his SAN value to plummet to 0.
Passing through the cave entrance, they entered a cavern dozens of times larger than where they had been standing. However, once inside, it was not empty. Countless cages were piled together, forming cage walls several meters high. Looking up, at the end, there was an enormous heart.
Jiang Yang couldn't initially make out the shape of the dense black dots covering his heart, until their contractions synchronized with the beating of his own heart...
The young man's breathing quickened, a black tremor ran through his heart, and a hand covered his eyes. "Don't look."
A note from the author:
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"No man's land, no need for sympathy. Kill me, Jiang Yang!"
At some point, Hoshino turned around to face Jiang Yang, who was kneeling on the ground with her head in her hands, her voice filled with sorrow and pain, "I can't do it."
But Jiang Yang's response wasn't just to Hoshino, but also to the puppet who had begged Jiang Yang to kill him.
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