Tap tap tap.
Worn-out leather shoes clattered on the steps.
Player Yuuki, carrying a knife and accompanied by two beautiful girls, entered the subway station.
From the signs on the wall, this was Red Moon City’s Line Seven.
Both the knife and the blood on his body made the fleeing people avoid them.
A few security guards with riot sticks rushed towards them, but seeing Player Yuuki with his furrowed brows, murderous aura, and blood-stained clothes, they quickly fled back.
Player Yuuki frowned as he ran, having no mind to pursue.
He only slowed his pace when he reached the lowest level and saw the tracks in the tunnel.
Why use a question?
This trait was clearly a trump card for new players; even players who didn’t perform well in the novice mission could access the supernatural.
Who wouldn’t unlock it?
“Hey, what are you spacing out for?”
Player Yuuki stood blankly on the platform for several seconds, until Mai patted him on the back, pulling his thoughts back to reality.
“Senior, when you left the old castle just now, did you unlock a trait?”
“Yes, didn’t I just say so?”
“What was the content?”
“That strange whisper directly said, ‘Player Mai, survive the first night, unlock the Id Trait: Puberty Syndrome.’ This is a bit like a stage quest in an online game; you complete it, and it will naturally be given to you.”
Ai also nodded, indicating that she was in a similar situation, and glanced at Mai, wondering what kind of strange trait that was.
Then that’s strange, why should I choose?
Yuuki remained calm, as if simply curious.
“Although I don’t know what happened, this isn’t the time to talk about it, is it?”
Ai’s urging brought Yuuki back to his senses.
The top priority now was to catch his breath; there would be plenty of time to think later.
As ‘thugs,’ they naturally couldn’t take the subway, so they all jumped down, their heads swaying back and forth.
“Which way?” Ai asked.
Yuuki looked around and pointed to the left: “Is that the direction of the old castle?”
“It seems so, but this is already the terminal station. The front is a dead end, let’s go right.” Mai pointed to the station sign on the wall, having noticed the detail while running.
“Did you two calculate how deep it is here just now?”
Oh, this.
Ai and Mai exchanged glances and both shook their heads.
They were too busy running just now; who would calculate such a thing?
“I did, so let’s go left.” Yuuki showed a strange smile and turned to walk into the left tunnel.
“Hey, wait a minute.”
“Aren’t you afraid of being blocked by enemies in that dead end?”
The two girls didn’t understand, but they didn’t abandon Yuuki.
After a moment of hesitation, they still followed him, and conveniently found a reason for him.
If the enemies pursued them, they would definitely search along the tunnel, so going right would be more dangerous.
In fact, Yuuki’s thoughts were more complex.
When he was on the ground, he observed that the old castle and the square were on the same level, so he specifically calculated the depth when he entered the subway station.
‘The depth difference from the second basement floor is less than five meters?
Is this a coincidence?’
Yuuki didn’t believe in coincidences, just as when the game started, he insisted on going to the very bottom to take a look.
Without that look, he would have been gnawed to dust by now.
They walked along the tracks and soon reached an open space.
Judging by the complex tracks on the ground, this should be a temporary dispatch room, with some temporary maintenance facilities nearby.
The subway would turn around here and then run in the opposite direction.
There wasn’t a single person.
He quietly pushed open the door of the lounge with his knife and saw it was empty inside, with a few bottles of drinks spilled on the floor.
“It smells like cola, but the label is different.” Mai picked it up and sniffed it, a little depressed.
“It seems this isn’t Earth, and even the technological development is strange.”
All three of them had good observation skills and had already noticed some anomalies, such as how the onlookers were clearly taking photos with smartphones, yet there wasn’t a single surveillance camera in the subway.
“Hayasaka, did you find anything?”
Yuuki turned to look at the blonde girl, who was sitting in a swivel chair typing on the keyboard, her fingers flying, opening and closing web pages.
She was searching for familiar information, and came up with nothing.
“This is the city’s local intranet.
I can’t find any information outside of this ‘Blood Moon City’.” Ai was equally disappointed, glancing at the expressionless Yuuki, “You don’t seem surprised at all?
Don’t tell me you’re still acting like a naive fool.”
An old castle besieged by living corpses was still within acceptable limits, but this instance expanding to a city, with hundreds of thousands of people, each one lively, creating consciousness, order, and satisfying physiological and psychological needs, this transcended the realm of science fiction.
Yuuki had indeed played the role of a somewhat clever, yet desperate and infinitely energetic naive fool in front of Ryan, but Ai knew that this man had been an expert ever since he joined the game, even more professional than veteran players in some areas.
“I wasn’t acting. For an existence that can send us here, it is a miracle in itself. Whether it’s crossing to another world or creating a living city, it’s all within its capabilities.” Yuuki spread his hands, a scene that reminded him of The Matrix.
“Maybe we’ve been turned into data and inserted into a fixed program, a bit like the recently popular concept of virtual reality games?”
“We might be data, and then entered a pre-set game?” Mai’s mind stirred, instantly thinking of aliens or something.
“I’m just giving an example, don’t forget Ryan is a veteran player, don’t forget we were sent here simultaneously from different places. If Miss Mai wants to try if she can wake up after death, I’m willing to help.”
Yuuki pushed open the gleaming blade with his thumb, which sent a shiver down Mai’s spine.
Then the man’s teasing gaze made her flare up, so she tilted her chin.
“Forget it, I don’t like taking risks.”
“Are you afraid of pain?”
“I’m not even afraid of death, why would I be afraid of pain?”
“Uh, then the screams I heard during the breakthrough must have been hallucinations.” Yuuki slapped his forehead, looking very distressed, “This Reincarnation Game is too cruel, it actually gave me mental illness.”
Pfft.
Someone’s typing hand paused, and she covered her mouth, then, as Mai’s cold gaze swept over her, she returned to her expressionless, serious state.
These two are really annoying.