Chapter 394 - Trial (1/2)

Chapter 394 - Trial

TL: xDh20, LifeisaJourney

The players that hadn’t reached level 5 yet would soon lose their qualifications to live in The Trembling World. If the players didn’t work hard to reach level 5, they would fall behind other more hardworking players.

Fortunately for Liu Gan, he was able to keep his level one step ahead of the evolution. This was how he was able to live his life comfortably so far.

From this point on, the players couldn’t relax at all. The moment they slack off for even a bit, then even the slow speed of evolution from zombies and monsters would catch up. It will only get harder to survive from now on, and the unqualified players would get weeded out.

Liu Gan and NaNa rushed forward and lightly injured the several Black-Spot Variants ahead of him. As usual, the experience points were given to the other team members. This powerleveling service wasn’t free. A different player volunteered to follow NaNa to the end of the passage. Once he confirmed it was safe, he returned with the news.

At the end of the passage was a staircase down. Right next to the staircase was an elevator, also heading down. This staircase was one of those fire safety staircases. Even if they wanted to take the elevator, there was no way electricity was still being supplied. As a result, the expedition group could only take the stairs.

As they walked down one flight of stairs, they found the door locked. They continued to the next floor, it was locked as well. The group continued down six floors with all locked doors until they encountered a few Black-Spot Variant Zombies. Along the wall were scattered bodies of rotting zombies. These were probably the zombies killed much earlier by Qiu Zi.

They arrived at the sub-7th floor of this staircase, the last available floor. Just like last time, another member volunteered to go with NaNa to scout around. Once it was safe, then the large group followed along.

Passing through the door was another long and narrow hallway. At the end of the hallway was a large lounge. In the middle of lounge were several sofas and a tea table, along the walls were several rooms. Arriving in this room, everyone seemed to have understood why Qiu Zi was the sole survivor. Scattered across the floor were corpses, not of zombies, but of former players. Their bodies were scattered all over the lounge.

A few of these player bodies were beheaded. The others had several indents on their skulls; most definitely an instant kill. These players didn’t even have the chance to become zombies. Nevertheless, the dead players had a rotting stench. The living players had an increased resistance to certain abnormalities, but their enhanced sense of smell wasn’t able to resist the pungent smell of rotting meat.

Upon deeper investigation of these wounds, Liu Gan frowned. These wounds matched the type of wound created by his large axe. This was the same large axe he took from Qiu Zi. So did this mean they were all killed by Qiu Zi?

There was a big question revolving around why Qiu Zi might have killed his close aides. Did they discover some treasure that caused an all out brawl? Was that the reason why Qiu Zi was the sole survivor? No way, the other players knew that they couldn’t compete against Qiu Zi’s strength. So there’s no way they would be stupid enough to fight against Qiu Zi, unless something happened with their cognitive ability to change their judgement. Otherwise, there’s no reason as to why they would want to challenge the impossible.

Then… What could be the other reason why Qiu Zi would kill all of his companions?

It wasn’t only Liu Gan who noticed this strange occurance, other players soon noticed the wounds on the corpses and matched it up with the large axe. Once knowing this fact, their expressions changed. No one knew the answer to the question of why their ex-leader had killed his lackeys. These weren’t his normal lackeys, these were all trusted aides of his former inner circle.