Chapter 31.1 (1/2)

Xiao Tangqiu’s heart trembled violently. He stared at the familiar face in front of him, his lips quivering as he almost blurted out the name Meng Xinghe. But after looking at those eyes that were devoid of any emotional fluctuations, he swallowed down his words again, lowered his eyes and felt a bitterness on his tongue.

“It’s really troublesome to have so many newbies……” The strange voice rang out again, filled with malice, “It’s really such a bother – too many people dragging our feet. We should just kill them all.”

The voice that was full of harsh mockery had shocked Xiao Tangqiu. He couldn’t help looking at the person who was speaking. It was a man wearing a white windbreaker. The man was very handsome; the gentle kind of handsome. He also wore a pair of exquisite gold-rimmed glasses, quite like an elegant scholar just out of the university. But there was a scar on his brow bone, which added a roguish look to his originally gentle, refined face.

However, what made Xiao Tangqiu most surprised was the knife that the man was fiddling with. Such a sharp weapon looked like a mere toy in his hands. He stared at the knife for a moment before suddenly realizing that it was a scalpel.

The man stood beside Shen Yuan; he must be one of Shen Yuan’s teammates. In addition to him, there were also two women. Before Xiao Tangqiu could continue to size up his surroundings, the new rookies regained consciousness. One after another, their frightened voices interrupted Xiao Tangqiu thoughts.

“Who are you?!”

“Did you kidnap me? Let me go at once!”

“Do you know who I am? If you know, then, let me go!”

Xiao Tangqiu suddenly understood the man’s prejudice towards the newbies. He was just about to stretch out his hand to rub his slightly swollen temple when a familiar voice rang, “Qiuqiu? Great! We actually entered the same instance!”

He turned around. It was Tang Mianmian, which made him feel a little relieved. Although the S-level difficulty of this instance made him despair, he had to admit that he felt much better after he saw this familiar face.

Even though he thought that way, he couldn’t resist laughing bitterly, “What’s so good about that? Didn’t you hear? This is an S-level mission….. “

Tang Mianmian rubbed his nose, “……Yeah, our luck is really terrible.”

On the other side, one of the women next to Shen Yuan had just finished counting the number of players and calmly reported, “There are 20 people in all, more than half of them are rookies.”

Shen Yuan gaze was calm; he only nodded slightly.

“So many rookies just means more trouble. Ai, they’re so damn noisy!” the man in the white windbreaker stuck out his tongue, “Should we just get rid of them, Captain…..”

When the newbies who were still making a din heard this, they immediately felt frightened. A middle-aged man in a suit shouted, “Who are you? What gives you the right to kill us? This is a legal society! Killing people is against the law!”

A middle-aged woman also cried out, “Don’t you just want money? I won’t give you any! Let me out! A group of social trash! Trash who want to take advantage of us! I’m calling the police to arrest you! “

Others also shouted loudly, while a girl with low psychological endurance burst into tears.

“It’s so fucking noisy!” The man in the white windbreaker lost his temper. Without waiting for a reply from Shen Yuan, his fingers moved as the scalpel shot towards the noisiest one – the middle-aged man in the suit. The unique metal of the scalpel glinted with a cold light, flashing across the air like lightning as it flew towards the middle-aged man.

Within the next second, the scalpel grazed the man’s scalp and stabbed the tree trunk behind him.

The crowd couldn’t hold back their laughter as well. The heavy atmosphere relaxed a little. The man in the suit only reacted then. He stretched out his hand and touched his cool forehead. His face turned red as he got up to retrieve his wig in a fluster.

But even though the man in the suit used all his strength to pull out the scalpel, it was still firmly nailed to the tree, not budging at all.

“I’m going to give it to you straight. In short, you’re now in a dangerous world, and you must complete the assigned mission if you want to leave here,” the woman said again, her voice was faint. “I checked earlier and found that this is a forest, and the only way out is the trail that we’re currently on. Following this trail out should get us to the end of the trail where the location of our mission is this time.”

Xiao Tangqiu was puzzled. Did she look around earlier? When was that? She clearly hadn’t left at all from start till now!

“Why should we believe what you say?” The middle-aged woman asked angrily.

“You can choose not to,” the woman said indifferently. “I said it for the people who want to live. It’s up to you whether you want to believe it or not. Those who want to live can follow us, but don’t blame us for not warning you in advance – you can choose to follow us, but in the case of danger, we won’t save you.”

“Anyway, it has happened many times before. Even if we don’t allow others to follow, there will always be someone following us. We might as well allow you to follow. As for whether you live or die, that all depends on you. We won’t help you or save you.”

“Captain, let’s go.”

After the woman finished speaking, she completely ignored the newbies’ doubts and protests and turned to leave with Shen Yuan. Windbreaker Man looked around, his gaze landing on all of the newbies’ faces, revealing a hint of mockery before he left.

Soon enough, Windbreaker Man met Xiao Tangqiu’s gaze as well. His heart skipped a beat; he wanted to turn away at once. Windbreaker Man merely licked his lips, revealing a look of interest.

……The feeling of being targeted by the BOSS immediately welled up in his heart. Xiao Tangqiu turned away but from the corner of his eye, he saw Windbreaker Man snap his fingers, then the scalpel returned to his hand as if it had a consciousness.

Windbreaker Man slowly followed Shen Yuan’s group, fiddling with the scalpel as he walked.

Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian gave each other a look before quickly following after them. No matter what, they had to hold onto this group of great gods’ thighs, even if the great gods were unwilling themselves.

The forest was eerie and silent. Apart from the occasional sound of bats flapping their wings, there seemed to be no other movement. The strange stillness aroused terror in their hearts. The others didn’t dare to stay behind and quickly followed as well.

As the woman had said earlier, the only path in the forest was the trail under their feet. They walked all the way down this trail without encountering any forks in the path.