Read Novel Full Chapter 598.2
Chapter 598.2
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Bai Lixin stood in the snow, with a continuous, biting cold wind at his back.
Perhaps it was because the weather was so cold that it slowed his thinking, but when he saw the message from Xia Chi, his brain froze for a second.
This was completely different from his guess.
Samael turned out to be an extra, and there was actually a “Life Link” skill in this game.
Could all his previous guesses be wrong?
Was there no special unknown entities mixed in with the players, and the extra people were just players dragged in by “Life Link”?
Bai Lixin frowned under his thick down jacket.
So far, there was one extra person in the safe house and two more outside.
Bai Lixin called out in his mind, [Sister System.]
Escape System: [I’m here, Master Bai Lixin. What do you need?]
Bai Lixin: [Do you know about the “Life Link” skill?]
Escape System: [I do. It’s a skill that links one’s fate with another’s. Initially, it was developed for the marriage system. But after beta testing, it was found unsuitable, so it was officially canceled, along with the marriage system.]
Bai Li Xin: [If it was canceled, how come someone activate this skill?]
The Escape System said confidently: [That must be a bug. After all, it’s this game, it’s normal to have bugs.]
Bai Lixin: [….]
‘You’re so brazenly bad-mouthing your former employer, aren’t you afraid for your life?’
S419M: [Can I ask why the marriage system was canceled?]
Escape System: [Because the main brain found that the state after merging produced an inexplicable chemical reaction between players, making some bonds unbreakable. This didn’t fit the competitive elimination spirit of the horror game. The main brain wanted players to form connections, but connections with a sense of distance.]
S419M: [Your main brain is quite mean.]
The Escape System straightened up: [Exactly!]
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Sister System, you’re getting bolder.’
Bai Lixin: [So, in your opinion, how many of these “Life Link” skills could exist in this game?]
Escape System: [At most one.]
Bai Lixin: [Think again, is there any other similar skill that allows players to share a spot and enter the copy together?]
The Escape System didn’t answer immediately this time and replied after four or five seconds: [There shouldn’t be any. The main brain really dislikes this kind of link mode. “Life Link” was the first experimental skill and was killed in the cradle. It won’t develop a second such skill.]
Bai Lixin had his answer: [Alright, I understand. Thank you.]
Samael was an accident, an exception; he was unintentionally dragged in.
So, his previous conclusions weren’t wrong.
Bai Lixin glanced at the second floor of the wooden house.
Since he was an accident, he could be a variable, potentially playing a special role in the future.
Bai Lixin sent another message to Xia Chi: [You haven’t finished checking the rooms. Keep looking.]
Seeing Bai Lixin’s message, Xia Chi left the room and continued to search the remaining rooms.
The following bedrooms weren’t locked and were also empty.
After checking the last bedroom, only the bathroom remained.
Xia Chi pushed the door and entered the bathroom, the sound of dripping water came to his ears.
The bathroom here was somewhat like a public restroom, with a public sink outside and separated by a door, and the toilet inside.
The public sink area was visible at a glance. Xia Chi scanned around and found nothing unusual, so he pushed the door and went inside.
The toilet was made up of small cubicles, with three in total.
The cubicle doors were ajar, and the lock indicators were green.
Xia Chi patiently opened each door.
They were all empty.
He shrugged and was about to open a private message to inform Bai Lixin of his findings when his eyes inadvertently fell on the sink outside.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
The sound of dripping water filled his ears.
But the faucet at the sink was tightly shut, with no water dripping at all.
Xia Chi stopped typing, swallowed hard, and slowly approached the sink. As he got closer, the dripping sound grew louder, but there was still no water in the sink.
He cautiously wiped the sink’s surface. It was very dry.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
But the mysterious dripping sound still echoed around him.
It was nearby, as if it was right…
Xia Chi felt a weight on his shoulder and slowly looked up.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
This house was made of wood, but it was waterproofed.
Above him was not a pointed wooden tripod but flat white tiles.
Xia Chi stared at the ceiling and noticed that one white tile directly above him looked different from the others. The edges were darker, as if it had just been stuck on.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
Xia Chi’s back felt cold, and his heart suddenly began to pound fiercely.
At that moment.
The sound of the system echoed in his ears.
[The player did not leave the hall within the safe limit time. Entering judgment phase.]
[Judgment begins.]
[Judgment ends.]
[Unfortunately, the player did not refresh the safe house time limit. The player’s drop location will now be randomly refreshed.]
[Refresh complete. The player dropped into an unknown snowy field. The cold night is bitter. Please proceed to the safe house for shelter as soon as possible.]
[Remaining spots in the safe house: 1.]
[Remaining spots in the safe house: 0.]
A few seconds later, just as the previous system prompt had faded, a new system prompt appeared.
[Ding! Player death X1. Current remaining players: 87.]
[The game continues. The cold wave will last for another hour. Time until the next safe house time limit: 3 minutes.]
[I wish the players a pleasant game.]
Players: “…”
‘Who is enjoying the game!’
Another player’s death message arrived, and Xia Chi’s fear suddenly faded a lot.
His brother had him search the room for a reason. He was timid, but he was the only one around now.
Tan Yue was not by his side.
His brother needed him; he didn’t have time to be scared.
Taking a deep breath, when Xia Chi looked up again, his eyes were resolute.
The floor was about 2.5 meters high. After a quick scan, Xia Chi leaped and landed agilely on the sink counter, his toes touching the wall.
He took a short knife from his backpack and carefully cut around the edges of the white ceramic ceiling.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
The dripping sound was closer, it was clearly coming from here.
Xia Chi held his breath and slowly lifted the white ceramic piece.
Above the white ceramic was another dark space.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
The dripping sound grew louder.
Xia Chi took a flashlight from his backpack and shone it inside.
A bloody, fleshless face appeared in his sight!
Even though he had prepared mentally, the sight made Xia Chi’s heart skip a beat. He almost screamed and fell from the sink.
He wobbled but quickly steadied himself.
The scene was too shocking.
This person had been attacked, and his body was covered in grotesque, torn wounds as if bitten by some beast.
Savage, brutal, inhuman.
His flesh was mangled, with only crisscrossed internal tissues visible. The outer skin was gone.
He lay naked in the narrow space above, blood dripping from his body onto the ceiling, making the eerie “drip, drip, drip” sound.
The dripping sound Xia Chi heard earlier came from here.
Because there were no eyelids, the corpse’s eye sockets bulged, and the eyeballs seemed ready to fall out. The eyes were wide open, staring directly at Xia Chi.
Even without skin, Xia Chi could see the pain from the corpse’s twisted bloody muscles.
A dead person, there was a dead person here!
Xia Chi quickly jumped down from the sink, trembling as he opened the chat window with Bai Lixin: [Brother!!! I found something! There’s a corpse above the bathroom ceiling!]
[It seems to have died recently, the blood hasn’t coagulated yet.]
[All the skin is gone, but I’m not sure if it was peeled off.]
[The clothes are also missing.]
[I suspect a monster wore his clothes and skin and snuck into the safe house!]
Xia Chi’s heart was pounding, and he did not forget to list everything clearly when sending the message to Bai Lixin.
[Brother, isn’t the safe house supposed to be safe? Damn it, someone died inside.]
Bai Lixin: [How many people are in the safe house in total?]
Xia Chi: [Including Samael and the corpse, 22 people.]
Bai Lixin: [Consider Samael and Emil as one person, so it’s 21 people.]
[Fuck,] Xia Chi’s mind conjured a terrifying thought, [Could the monster have taken a player’s identity by wearing the skin? And took a spot?]
Bai Lixin: [I have another theory.]
[Maybe a player who dies in the safe house still occupies a spot until the time limit expires, then when the player is moved out, a spot opens up.]
Just as Xia Chi finished reading Bai Lixin’s message, the system’s voice rang out.
[The player did not leave the safe house within the safe house time limit. Entering judgment time.]
[Judgment begins.]
[Judgment ends.]
[Ding! Unfortunately, the player did not successfully refresh the safe house time limit. Teleportation to a random location begins.]
[Teleportation starts, teleportation ends.]
[The player has been teleported to a random location.]
[Remaining spots in the safe house: 1.]
[Remaining spots in the safe house: 0.]
[Time until the next safe house time limit: 10 minutes. I wish the players a pleasant game.]
Xia Chi frowned and raised his flashlight towards the hole.
The corpse that was just there had disappeared!
[Brother, are you a prophet?! The corpse is really gone.]
[Pink Hair! It must be him!] Xia Chi gritted his teeth and said with certainty, [He’s been acting strange from the start! He’s been up to no good, he’s very suspicious!]
[I’m going to expose him!]
Bai Lixin: [How will you expose him? The corpse is gone, do you have evidence?]
Xia Chi paused, [Then what should I do?]