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Chapter 72
Chapter 72
Chapter 72
A filthy yellow-white liquid spewed out of the spider’s bloated belly, and a strong stench was blowing over.
The spider’s small face, which didn’t match the huge body, was distorted. The pair of pitch-black malevolent pupils with no whites shrunk in disbelief and anger, looking ugly and terrifying.
It struggled desperately with its long legs, knocking on the surrounding walls, making messy thumping sounds, twisting its body and trying to bite the ant that dared to hurt it with its poisonous teeth. Its turbid saliva ran along Its ugly face and dripped down onto the dirty carpet.
The spider’s body was too large, and it was almost impossible to stretch out in this narrow corridor. The obstacles that the three people deliberately arranged in the corridor made this action even more difficult.
Yu Ran gritted her teeth, her slender fingers gripped the handle of the knife tightly, her fingers turned white due to the force, and her face and body were inevitably stained with the internal organs and liquid that flowed out of the spider’s belly, which smelled foul. She almost suffocated with the smell.
Regardless of the pain in her hand, she continued to exert a downward pressure. The sharp blade went deeper with her movement, as if opening a bulging pustule, and more fluid flowed along the opened wound.
The spider screamed in pain over her head, and struggled on its side with its long legs, shaking its bloated belly, as if trying to avoid Yu Ran’s blade and waiting for an opportunity to attack her.
Her hard teeth cut through her mouth. Yu Ran tasted the strong bloody smell in her mouth, but continued to press down fiercely.
The turbid liquid and internal organs flowed all over the place.
At this moment, the spider recovered from the shock and anger of the sneak attack. It moved its vicious and cunning eyes, and seemed to realize that it was impossible to fight back in this narrow corridor. It stepped back very quickly.
It wanted to retreat to a roomier place more suitable for its movements.
Yu Ran was caught off guard by a stagger, and the handle of the knife almost dropped from her hand.
The spider had already retreated to the half-open door, and found some room to turn around. It showed its fierceness, turned around, and stretched out its sharp poisonous claws, ready to stab at Yu Ran’s abdomen!
The blade in Yu Ran’s hand was still deeply embedded in its soft abdomen, and it was inevitable for a while.
At this critical moment, only a loud “bang” was heard, and the spider’s head was twisted to one side by a strong blow–
Yu Ran seized this opportunity to forcefully pull out the blade that was deeply embedded in the spider’s belly, and then used the extra space provided by the open door to the side to use her slender and flexible figure to go around the spider.
She jumped up, and the sharp blade slashed at the spider!
The next second, there was only a sour sound, and the head of the girl who did not match the bloated body was chopped off, then rolled to the ground, finally hitting the twisted wall of the corridor, and then slowly stopping, revealing a horribly twisted pale face.
The huge remnant body didn’t seem to have reacted yet, and the long legs still struggled and kicked a few times in the narrow corridor, before finally collapsing.
The spider’s heavy and swollen body slammed to the floor heavily, throwing up a large amount of dust, and even the entire second floor seemed to shake.
Yu Ran gasped, her whole body soaked with sweat. As if she was pulled out of the water, she stretched out her hand and wiped her face. The palm of her hand was wet and sticky and covered in yellow and white disgusting mucus.
There was an expression of disgust on her face, but she didn’t have the urge to gag before– perhaps because she stayed in this stench for a long time, her sense of smell was paralyzed, and she was insensitive to smell.
Only hearing a crisp sound of “dang bang”, a wooden stick with a broken edge fell in front of her eyes, and then rolled down to her feet. The front end was still stained with a viscous liquid of the same color as the ground.
At the end of the stick were some bloodstains.
Yu Ran was stunned and raised her head.
She saw Mo Yi standing in front of her, holding the spare flashlight in his hand, illuminating the ugly corpse of the spider in front of him.
His chest heaved irregularly, and he looked down at the spider’s still twitching body.
–It was he who gave the spider an unexpected blow just now, which made Yu Ran successfully fight back.
The side of Mo Yi’s face was stained with some liquid splashed from the spider’s body. He quietly reached out his hand and slowly wiped off the stains on his face.
Long eyelashes hung down on his icy pale face, covering his quiet dark eyes. The fingers pierced by the wood thorns were still bleeding, and while brushing his face, they also left a little blood on the pale skin.
Under the dim light of the flashlight, the extremely bright color contrast looked cruelly beautiful, as if it could take one’s breath away just by looking at it.
And then– that smear of blood, starting from the end, was slowly erased out of thin air.
As if someone cherished and carefully wiped it away, like touching a precious and fragile porcelain, not allowing it to be contaminated by any dust.
Yu Ran was stunned for a moment, such a strange situation made her back feel cold, and her hair stood on end.
When she looked at him again, Mo Yi’s pale face was as clean as ever. He still looked calm and indifferent, and didn’t even move his eyes. It seemed that what happened just now was just Yu Ran’s imagination.
Yu Ran blinked, feeling a little dazed and uncertain for a while.
Did what she saw just now really happen?
Maybe… it was really just an illusion caused by her nervousness?
At this moment, there was the creaking sound of the secret door being opened from the room on the side, and then the sound of the ladder being lowered. Following the sound of footsteps, Zhou Yunchen appeared at the door to the room.
His steps stopped at the door, and Zhou Yunchen’s unbelievable voice sounded, as if he was afraid of disturbing something, but also as if he was worried about waking him up from his dream:
“We really succeeded…?”
Mo Yi smiled and took over the conversation naturally: “You can’t believe it?”
In fact, ordinary spiders enter the burnout period after sprinting for at most ten seconds, but in this instance, Mo Yi did not dare to take risks, so he increased the time to two minutes and 30 seconds, and used all means to provoke it as much as possible.
Even so, the spider still had a certain amount of power after being attacked, which was an eye-opener for him.
Thank goodness for nothing.
Zhou Yunchen took a few steps forward in amazement, then stretched out one foot and kicked the ugly spider’s corpse. Its long legs twitched. He was so frightened that he jumped all the way back.
Zhou Yunchen showed an embarrassed smile, touched the back of his head, and explained:
“It’s my first time fighting back against the boss in the instance. I really can’t react to it…”
Yu Ran, who was beside him, nodded in agreement, then stretched out her hand to support herself on the crooked wall and stood up. Her body was still sore from overexertion. She pulled something for a bit during the movement, which made her hiss involuntarily.
She pulled the corners of her lips reluctantly and said, “To tell you the truth, it actually feels a little unreal.”
The mechanism design of this escape game called “STAY ALIVE” was so that players didn’t have any possibility of counterattack. All players couldn’t bring any weapons into the instance. There were not only no weapon exchange options in the game exchange store, but also no Items to improve physical fitness.
This game seemed to be about fighting for survival in extreme danger, not killing monsters and fighting back.
Just like the rules of the game said at the beginning: their only task was to survive.
Mo Yi pursed his lips and changed the subject without a trace:
“Let’s go, don’t think about it, the players inside are still hanging.”
After he finished speaking, he turned and walked into the room. Yu Ran also calmed down, and walked in behind him. Zhou Yunchen hesitated for a while, but followed the pace of the two.
The room was still full of cobwebs as pale as a shroud, and the three hung players were wrapped like silkworm chrysalis and hung upside down from the window.
Yu Ran took a step forward and used the kitchen knife to cut off the spider silk which made the players hang, and then wiped the blade on the spider web wrapped around a player, which was still stained with yellow and green liquid. She divided the cocoons into two parts and ripped apart the cobwebs that wrapped them.
Mo Yi put the flashlight in his hand on the windowsill and bent down to help.
Zhou Yunchen was silent for a while, then turned to look at Mo Yi. From this angle, he could only see half of Mo Yi’s blurred face hidden in the darkness.
But for some reason, Zhou Yunchen was able to draw the outline of the other party in his mind–
His face was always pale and emotionless, his calm and dark eyes always seemed to be contemplating something, and his light-colored lips were habitually pursed into tight lines.
Restrained, cold, rational. It seemed that the word ‘madness’ had nothing to do with it.
But Zhou Yunchen couldn’t help shivering.
Although the plan was successful, he still insisted on his own opinion–
This guy was a total lunatic.
Although he was very logical, rational and cautious, he was definitely not normal.
Since entering the instance, every choice of Mo Yi was like dancing on the tip of a knife, and every step was like stepping on the edge of a cliff. There always seemed to be a terrible, deep and ruthless force behind him, which drove his every act.
Zhou Yunchen originally thought he was just being extraordinarily bold, but now he understood.
It was not boldness, but indifference. An indifference to all life, even his own.
Fear was an instinct that existed along with the desire to survive. It was with fear that human beings would subconsciously avoid all dangerous things, the tip of a knife, beasts, and the unknown itself… Then, if a person wasn’t afraid… Didn’t he care about his own life?
If a person didn’t even care about his own life, what did he care about?
Just when Zhou Yunchen was staring at Mo Yi’s side profile, Mo Yi seemed to be aware of his sight, and turned his head to look over. As soon as their eyes met, Zhou Yunchen couldn’t help but tense up and subconsciously looked away.
Mo Yi smiled, his eyes magnanimous:
“Why are you stunned? Come and help.”
Zhou Yunchen quickly discarded the messy thoughts in his mind, and bent down to help free the three players from the spider web.
Mo Yi retracted his gaze and was about to continue his movements when he felt that his wrist seemed to be gently rubbed by the soft airflow.
He was stunned and stopped what he was doing.
The next second, Mo Yi heard a strange sound that seemed to come from the corridor. It seemed particularly loud in the silence.
It was the sound of continuous friction, strange like something dragging.