"Our game is about to end. Are you going to let us out?"
Huang Xu was overjoyed. Ever since these days began, he had dreamed of leaving this place.
Wen Wen chuckled oddly and shook his head. Let them out?
There’s no such good fortune!
Zhao Xuelu’s face suddenly turned pale. If the game ends but they aren’t let out, then it means...
"Hey, seems like you’ve figured it out. Quite clever, aren’t you?"
Zhao Xuelu turned and ran. She guessed their upcoming fate and wanted to quickly get away from Wen Wen.
The ropes on Wen Wen’s body snapped automatically. Leisurely, he tidied up his clothes; his collar had just been damaged by Luan Xing.
Seeing Wen Wen break free, Huang Xu and Li Xingyang’s expressions changed dramatically. The crossbow bolts and large knife were released simultaneously, but the crossbow bolts were caught by Wen Wen’s nostrils, and the knife on the neck emitted a sound like metal clashing. Huang Xu lifted the knife to find a huge notch on the blade.
Meanwhile, Zhao Xuelu, trying to escape, discovered all doors and windows tightly shut. Despite using all her strength, she couldn’t pull open a gap, and no matter how loudly she shouted, it seemed like nobody outside could hear her.
"Don’t waste your effort; you can’t get out."
Wen Wen shook his head, "The reason I’m telling you is because I’ve essentially completed my observations of you three."
"Though Zhao Xuelu isn’t particularly outstanding, she won’t cause trouble. Huang Xu has performed well. If you continue performing , you might earn a new life. As for Li Xingyang... hehe, your wife’s illness can be treated with money."
After he spoke, the expressions of the three turned strange. Wen Wen’s words plunged them into conflict.
Wen Wen’s attitude alternated between making them feel they’d die here and that they’d merely undergone a normal test, making it difficult to gauge his intentions.
"Hmm... I originally wanted to say more, but it looks like time’s about up." Wen Wen’s smile was eerie.
"What do you mean time’s about up?" Huang Xu asked, trembling.
Wen Wen stood up and walked to the corner of the wall, "The monster that broke into the camp today is one of the five ’foods’ just released today—sand giant earthworm."
"Simply put, it’s a large worm that moves underground, suited for sandy terrain, making its movement slow here, but you can see the traces when it moves."
"In this situation, it can prey only on stationary targets that don’t detect its movement. Who do you think fits that description now?"
Li Xingyang felt a chill. Though he didn’t know what a sand giant earthworm was, from Wen Wen’s description, the most suitable prey was precisely those who’d hid in the wooden house for months!
But he realized it too late. In the next second, a massive meat worm with a diameter nearing two meters burst from the wooden house’s floor, its mouth lined with sharp teeth swallowing Huang Xu and Li Xingyang, then quickly retreated underground, leaving only a huge pit.
Standing nearby, Zhao Xuelu shivered, narrowly avoiding being devoured by the terrifying worm.
Before she had time to gather her thoughts, she suddenly felt a powerful force from behind and stumbled into the pit dug by the sand giant earthworm.
After a sharp, tragic scream, her breathing vanished.
"Ding, three casualties, hmm... Including me, that should be four people, fourteen left... The days ahead for you won’t be easy, hehe."
Luan Xing led Geng Xingshu and the others over, finding the wooden house in disarray, Zhao Xuelu and the three already vanished, Wen Wen chuckling oddly in the corner.
The small, grim Li Wei suddenly charged at Wen Wen, slashing a dagger toward his neck.
But Wen Wen suddenly dropped to the ground, rapidly moving his limbs like a large spider to crawl out of the wooden house, then scaled to the top of the wall.
At the top of the wall, Wen Wen halted and let out a loud, eerie laugh towards Luan Xing and his group before completely disappearing from sight.
Luan Xing’s face was livid. Their only clue was now gone.
The man with gold-rimmed glasses knelt, both crying and laughing, on the verge of a mental breakdown. The others’ expressions weren’t good either.
Geng Xingshu rubbed the exoskeleton gloves on his hand, doubting this thing could protect him.
Luan Xing took a deep inhale and then exhaled deeply, "Send a few to restore the defenses; you wouldn’t want anything else coming in?"
"This thing is likely the sand giant earthworm mentioned today. Judging from the commotion earlier, it probably already left us, but there are more terrifying things here, not just this."
Actually, Luan Xing knew the defenses they set up could only block ordinary beasts like leopards and tigers, ineffective against certain special threats, but giving up hope wasn’t an option.
What he didn’t know was that the initial bears and tigers released had already perished, and those left outside were all creatures difficult for ordinary humans to resist.
Had Jidro not deliberately controlled it, the story mode would have had no survivors two days ago.
"Now you see, staying here doesn’t guarantee surviving a month, so I’ll lead a team out for exploration tomorrow. Does anyone have objections?"
None of them spoke; the bloody reality showed them staying here could only lead to death.
"So, who wants to go out with me?"
Geng Xingshu, the security captain, and Li Wei all stepped up, having both the capability and courage to make this decision.
But Luan Xing shook his head, "We can’t all go, or if something goes wrong, the rest won’t survive... How about this? We’ll draw lots to pick five people to go out and explore."
"Exploration prioritizes safety; retreat upon danger and bring back all useful information. I hope those chosen won’t refuse!"
Luan Xing’s gaze was intimidating, and anyone chosen but unwilling would regret it.
While Luan Xing and his team discussed tomorrow’s plans, Wen Wen was swiftly darting between several spaces.
Actually, the high walls had no exits, only illusions created by Wen Wen through Jidro.
Within this story mode, there are forty-nine spaces in total: the central space and four corner spaces each occupied by nineteen or twenty test subjects.
Apart from the five safe camps, other areas present as mazes. If they’d sought others initially, they might have found them, but now finding other safe camps would be much harder.
Additionally, these people are unaware that the so-called survival game doesn’t actually allow surviving thirty days. Within ten days, everyone here... must die!