Chapter 922: Chapter 920: Crisis
The cruise ship marked as number six was also the first to land.
This cruise ship did not encounter mishaps during its journey like the others did. Everyone followed the rules, and overall, it maintained a 95% survival rate.
However, just as everyone disembarked, a group inside suddenly went berserk, killing all the hundreds of participants who had been jovial on the ship and started absorbing them.
Eventually, the ’Three Sisters’ emerged from the heap of bodies on the shore, walking with a proud gait, drenched in blood.
Their attire was nearly identical, all donned in black, high-collared tight outfits that could be concealed within the night, their silhouettes under the moonlight were of the highest grade.
The three sisters also had a unique background; they were not related by blood but were selected for a genetic project since birth and had been trained intensively in a national institution.
As adults, they roamed between countries executing various missions, achieving a 100% success rate.
Due to the influence of the Fu Jiang phenomenon, their bodies began to transform and led them here,
Unlike others, the three sisters were equipped with cold weapons forged by masters: longswords, daggers, and double-handed axes, along with firearms taken from their organization at the waist or back.
Their killing efficiency was incredibly astounding.
As the three evenly absorbed the contestants, they immediately delved into the island with the fastest speed.
The fake humans they encountered were directly forced out by a single bullet through their television brain, then instantly beheaded by the eldest sister with a slash of her longsword, their coordination was perfect, allowing them to seamlessly penetrate the outer island.
Upon entering the Inner Island, the increasingly lush vegetation and jagged hills, as well as the absence of the television fakes, compelled them to slow their steps.
For some reason, although they did not sense any danger, the three felt an inexplicable unease.
This abnormal silence was the least favorable situation for them.
"Let’s go to the top of this mountain and take a look... Perhaps the television is hidden deep in a cave."
Just as they were about to ascend, the eldest sister walking last noticed something.
Influenced by Fu Jiang, her head suddenly twisted 180° to look back, and the Third Eye on her forehead split open, capturing a hint of yellow in the forest behind with newly gained dynamic vision.
"Something’s there!"
Upon the eldest sister’s words, the other two immediately dispersed to both sides,
One leaped to a tree trunk five meters high, swiftly taking and assembling a sniper rifle from the backpack between her back,
While the other concealed behind a rock, taking out a thermal imaging device to quickly observe the surroundings,
Neither the sniper scope nor the thermal imager detected any targets, and as the two were about to disassemble the gear and regroup, they found the eldest sister had not moved from her spot since earlier, unlike their usual coordination.
"Eldest sister?"
No matter how the two called out, the eldest sister remained motionless, and because her back was towards them, they couldn’t clearly see her front.
As they cautiously approached and reached the front of the eldest sister, a terrifying sight froze them stiff, with their hair standing on end.
The eldest sister maintained a fully stretched smiling posture, both eyeballs and the Third Eye on her forehead were gouged out, and more so, the inside of her eye sockets was completely charred, with even ashes spilling out.
As potential Fu Jiangs, they could feel that while the outer skin of the eldest sister was intact, her insides had been completely burned.
"What on earth was that thing!?"
The remaining two sisters leaned back to back, observing their surroundings with extreme vigilance, even ready to die.
But strangely, the danger did not arise.
More than ten minutes passed, and they even heard the sound of other contestants treading on leaves, suggesting the source of the danger that caused the eldest sister’s death was no longer present.
After a brief analysis,
The eldest sister’s death was not because of an encountered danger, but because she ’saw’ something she should not have.
However, the real danger in the island was far from over,
Due to the time delayed by the unknown visual danger encountered by the three sisters, other teams also arrived in the Inner Island area and began climbing the mountains.
The mountains of the Inner Island had a feature of having numerous caves, making it inevitable to wonder if the television leading to the live broadcast was hidden in one of the caves.
At present, there was a team of contestants, the largest group reaching a total of seven people.
They had long addressed each other as sisters on the cruise ship, battling through thick and thin together, complementing each other.
As they moved along the rugged mountain path, they unexpectedly encountered a rather bumbling-looking mountain climber at a corner of the path.
The other party’s head had few strands of hair sticking up like green onions, a very ordinary backpack with a pointed top was hanging, his eyes unable to focus and looking around randomly.
The frail body was only clad in a pair of beach shorts, looking exceedingly funny and ugly.
"I’m lost, can you take me out of here~ As long as I can return to the beach, that’s enough."
The group had painstakingly come from the beach, and now was a time against the clock, naturally, it was impossible to help the fool in front of them.
"No time!"
Right after they refused, the man in beach shorts suddenly fell to his knees, crying pitifully, "Please! I haven’t eaten or drunk anything for days! If you can just take me to the beach, I’ll help you with anything you want then."
The leading woman was already impatient, and seeing the man kneeling in front, looking at that smooth neck, impatience and a desire for slaughter merged together.
She drew a climbing knife from her waist and hacked towards the man’s neck.
Clang!
The knife snapped and stuck into the nearby rock wall, the woman’s wrist went numb with shock, a face filled with terror!
The kneeling man looked up, still wailing pitifully but with a rather fierce expression, "Ah! Not helping is one thing, but trying to kill me... Am I that unlikeable?"
"Watch out!"
The leading woman shouted, but before having the chance to retreat. As she opened her mouth to speak, a hand was already lodged within, piercing through the throat and gripping the spine!
Swoosh!
The entire spine was completely extracted.
"Not a bad spine, with some enhancement it can be used as a weapon."
The man’s palm holding the spine extended iron chains to reinforce and stabilize it, transforming into a thickened bony mace.
For a moment, blood splattered in the mountains, screams echoed continuously.
Naturally, these screams weren’t too far away for Liu Xinzhi, who was gearing up to climb the mountain, to hear.
"Mr. Yi, there seems to be something more dangerous up the mountain! Should we go up or move within the valley?"
"The more dangerous it is, the more likely the television exists. Of course, William’s thought process might be the opposite, decide for yourself."
"Oh! Then we won’t go up the mountain for now, let’s see the valley."
A valley, a low and narrow spot between two mountains, was filled with numerous trees and occasionally had streams or small lakes.
The two walked not too far within the valley and unexpectedly glimpsed a crystal-clear lake, reflecting the bright moon; possibly having not drunk water for a long time, Liu Xinzhi rushed up, scooped up water, and drank voraciously.
After drinking her fill, Liu Xinzhi’s peripheral vision caught something odd in the lake’s reflection, a hint of yellow at the opposite shore,
Thinking it might be other contestants who arrived here,
She rubbed her eyes, trying to clearly see the reflection,
Yet it wasn’t a human she saw, but an upright floating yellow robe, its surface inscribed with strange symbols.
Filled inside the yellow robe was an odd granular substance, which emerged in the robe’s hood... precisely eyes.
Those ashen eyes were stuck together by decaying flesh, surrounded by numerous dead arms, giving a sense of holding a cluster of eyes.
The strangest part was, despite being a head constructed randomly by numerous eyes, the face appeared to showcase a bizarre smile through the arrangement of eyes.
Even just through the reflection’s gaze, Liu Xinzhi’s eyes and entire body started heating up, continuously increasing in temperature with no sign of stopping.
At this moment,
Suddenly an icy hand reached from behind, gouging out her eyes and throwing the entire body into the lake to cool down, her survival depending on her own luck.
The part of the lake where Liu Xinzhi fell even began bubbling and boiling, a terrifying sight.
On the shore,
The eye Yi Chen had just gouged out had already turned to ash, as he fixed his gaze at the yellow robe across the bank with a grave expression.