Chapter 196: Global Hide and Seek 6
These people began to search every inch of the surroundings.
Bang bang sounds kept ringing out.
Chu Yian watched from above as they circled below the lamppost for a long time, searching every room nearby. Regardless of whether something was reasonable or not, they would sweep it with firearms. Until the last few minutes, all the hunters began to randomly shoot around the houses, not hesitating to fire their last bullet.
The number of prey decreased to 132, and the first round of hide-and-seek finally ended.
A holographic projection appeared before Chu Yian’s eyes: “Congratulations on surviving the first round of hide-and-seek. Please note, we will transfer you immediately.”
They successfully survived.
However, after leaving the game area, they appeared in an unfamiliar building. On the pure white walls, the number 132 appeared. But the number of people in the room kept increasing, and the number also began to gradually grow larger.
The number stopped increasing when it reached 1000, indicating that 1000 players had gathered in the room.
The pure white, empty room was more than enough to accommodate a thousand people.
After everyone had arrived, tables and chairs rose in the middle of the room, and various foods appeared all around.
“Is this a consolation meal after the game?” someone couldn’t help but say.
“Who cares what kind of meal it is, I’m starving, I’m going to get some.”
Someone rushed forward first, took a plate, and feasted in the food area.
Where there was one person, there were a second and a third.
Chu Yian was also hungry, but she had something more important to do – opening the treasure box.
She had missed the chance to open the box during hide-and-seek, and now she needed to find an opportunity. Just as she was wandering around the pure white walls, looking for a secluded environment, someone approached her.
“Little Chu.”
“Brother Jie!”
Chu Yian instantly remembered that she still had a few teammates when she entered the game. At this moment, Liu Wen, Zhang Yunwu, and three other people stood beside Jie Yan. The rest… “The other members of the team must have been eliminated in the game.”
Liu Wen sighed; he had just thought that only Jie Yan and he were left.
“This round of the game caught us off guard. Everyone didn’t even know where they had to be or how to send messages. Let’s all say the nicknames we set during hide-and-seek first.”
Liu Wen suggested, “I’m called ‘A Blade’.”
Zhang Yunwu: “I’m called Black Mist Go Die.”
That name was a bit domineering.
Liu Wen gave Zhang Yunwu a thumbs-up: “I know, I even saw your posts in the group.”
Next was Jie Yan.
“Ri An.”
He said these two words indifferently.
When Liu Wen and Zhang Yunwu heard this, they were stunned for a moment, their eyes unconsciously looking at Chu Yian beside them.
This name… was a bit ambiguous, wasn’t it?
“Yan, right?”
Chu Yian instantly understood the meaning of his name, “I had a suspicion back then that the person with this name might be you. If I had known, I would have chosen a similar name. ‘Yi Zhe’ sounds much better than ‘Huang Fei Hu’.”
Jie Yan smiled at her words, “Huang Fei Hu isn’t bad either, the name is very deceptive.”
At least before she said anything, Jie Yan had no idea what that name had to do with Chu Yian.
“By the way, have you contacted your previous teammate?”
Jie Yan asked, seemingly casually.
This question was very sudden, and Chu Yian replied cautiously, “What’s wrong?”
“We encountered someone in the game who looked and was built a lot like your former teammate, but he was a hunter.”
Players = prey.
This was the content set at the beginning of the game; could there be an exception?
Chu Yian’s heart sank when she heard this. She had already suspected that “The one surnamed Lu” those people mentioned was Lu Qingyuan. Now that Jie Yan had seen him, it meant that there was an eighty to ninety percent chance that Teacher Lu was a hunter this time.
After being teammates for so many rounds of games, have they become opponents this time?
When paths cross, Teacher Lu wouldn’t get rid of her, would he?
Chu Yian considered various problems and possibilities in her mind, but still chose to help Lu Qingyuan hide his identity, “I haven’t contacted him in this round of the game, but it’s impossible, right?”
“There are so many people in the world who look alike; how could it possibly be Teacher Lu?”
“Maybe it’s just a coincidence, after all, Teacher Lu has a common face.”
Chu Yian spoke blatant lies, fabricating a story that she herself didn’t quite believe.
Jie Yan looked at Chu Yian’s expression and felt a slight suspicion about Lu Qingyuan’s identity. However, he didn’t ask any more questions, turning his gaze to the food in the room, “You’re hungry, aren’t you? Go eat something first.”
The players were in a large house.
The non-toxic and delicious food allowed their continuously tense hearts to relax slightly.
People found a little joy in this brief moment, and long-lost smiles appeared on their faces. What they didn’t know was that the enclosed room they were in was actually a one-way glass.
As they happily enjoyed their meal, the hunters who had previously pursued them stood outside, looking at this group of escaped fish.
“Pathetic prey.”
The one-eyed man let out a sinister laugh.
The others looked at the players, and a bloodthirsty hunting expression involuntarily appeared on their faces.
A young man stood quietly among such a crowd, isolated and aloof, ignoring the chattering NPCs around him. The surrounding hunters, whether out of fear or other reasons, tacitly kept their distance from him.
Cyberpunk optical pollution crisscrossed his cheeks, and his indifferent, cold eyes watched the humans inside, who were defined as prey. Although he influenced the life and death of those inside, his face showed no desire.
Until a special figure flashed through the crowd, drawing his gaze to follow her.
That person looked at the wall, her gaze directly in his direction. Like an unsuspecting prey, she inadvertently provoked a napping beast.
The moment Lu Qingyuan met that person’s eyes, a strange desire suddenly erupted—
He wanted to… hunt her!
“Little Chu.”
Inside the room, Jie Yan looked at Chu Yian, who was staring blankly at the wall, “What’s wrong?”
Chu Yian withdrew her gaze from the pure white wall, “I always feel… someone is watching us.”
That feeling of being targeted was like a shadow.
She couldn’t help but touch the smooth wall, then looked up, searching the corners of the room for cameras, “No one would intentionally lock us in here and then want to observe us, would they?”
Just like laboratory mice.
What was the purpose?
To study human social behavior?
Just as Chu Yian was curious, sprayers suddenly appeared on the ceiling, and white smoke quickly filled the entire room. Anyone who accidentally inhaled a mouthful of the gas instantly became paralyzed and lost consciousness.
