Player Reload

The red rider looked around at the grass and stopped slowly, his chest rising and falling due to heavy breathing.

When I was running away just now, I was in such a hurry that I didn't pay attention to the location of other people, and they got separated inadvertently.

He held the mission battery in his hand, and guarded Pokémon such as Flame Rat and Pichu at his feet.

These little guys had been trained not to make a sound, but they had just witnessed their companion Fiery Monkey being brutally killed, and they were all in a very low mood.

The driver touched his Pokémon with mixed emotions. One hellish thing was that the killing field was full of dangers and there were too many things that were difficult to understand.

Being able to die cleanly is not even the worst ending.

After a brief moment of sadness, the driver's expression became serious again and he began to think about countermeasures.

Killing Fields will not issue missions that require death. There must be one or several ways to complete the mission.

Maybe, like what Xiaoying said, there are some clues in the grass that the players haven't discovered yet.

Maybe the second battery is in Cliff's belly and needs to be killed before it can be released.

Of course, regardless of the final outcome, the top priority is to find others to join up with.

Rustling——

The grass in front of him was suddenly pushed aside, and a tired-looking Zhao Zijin appeared in sight. The soles of the shoes were suspended two or three centimeters above the ground, as if they didn't want to leave footprints.

"It's you."

The rider breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his voice: "Where are the others."

"We haven't found it yet." Zhao Zijin said calmly: "Take the battery and let's go together."

Zhao Zijin took out the radar guide and looked at the direction, then gestured to the driver to follow and walked diagonally to the side of the blue arrow on the guide.

The driver and the remaining Pokémon quickly followed, fearing that they would be separated again if they were not careful, "Aren't you going back to that clearing?"

"We're not going back. We only have one battery on hand, so it's all in vain."

Zhao Zijin explained without looking back: "Instead of doing this, it is better to seize the time to explore the grass and look for other lines."

Before the word "suo" was finished, the Pokémon at the driver's feet all used their skills, including wind blades, thunder and lightning, fireballs, flying leaf blades, etc. to attack Zhao Zijin.

Boom!

All kinds of attacks were blocked by the invisible barrier formed by telekinesis. Zhao Zijin stood on the spot unscathed. He turned around with a cold look and looked at the red driver who was running backwards holding the battery.

She raised her arms and swung them to both sides, and the tall grass in front of her suddenly swayed like Moses parting the sea.

The driver who was hit by the telekinesis also lost his footing and fell into the mud pit together with the mission battery.

The Pokémon on the side immediately tried to fight back, but Zhao Zijin directly controlled the driver's hands with telekinesis, forcing him to take out the Poke Ball and put away all the Pokémon.

And smash the Poke Ball switch so that the Pokémon cannot escape.

After doing this, Zhao Zijin stepped forward, looked down at the riders in the mud pit, and asked calmly: "Why did you attack me?"

"You are not Zhao Zijin, at least not the one I know."

The driver gritted his teeth and said, "I have a skill that allows me to detect whether the opponent has killed someone recently and accumulated karma.

Originally, Zhao Zijin had no karma, but you do.

If you didn't kill Cliff, it means you just killed someone else. "

Zhao Zijin frowned and said, "Is it because of this?"

"More than that." The driver clenched his fists and said, "When Cliff first appeared, he suffered quite a lot of injuries, and he also said, 'Who should I kill this time?'

In addition, in the pit where the mummy of [Bismuth Yellow] was located, Pei Fei and others claimed to have seen two Catherines. One Catherine was cut in half by an unknown entity in front of them, and the body was also taken away.

Combining this information, the entire field of tall grass is really just like what Xiaoying said, it is a time loop mode similar to "Terror Cruise".

At the same time, there are more than two groups of us players.

The Zhao Zijin I know cannot possibly kill his companions in just a few minutes.

In other words, you are the future Zhao Zijin in the time loop mode. "

"Zhao Zijin" looked at him in surprise as if meeting the driver for the first time, "You are smarter than you look."

"Excessive praise."

The smile on the driver's face was uglier than crying. All Pokémon were sealed in the Poké Ball. His body was only slightly stronger than ordinary people, and he had no chance of winning against the blackened Zhao Zijin.

In a desperate situation, the driver calmed down and said: "In those movies with time loop themes, ordinary people always get into panic.

But players need to be more rational and calm. Facing another self and another group of companions, you may not be unable to sit down and cooperate well.

You have never thought about cooperation, whether it is cooperation to kill Cliff, or cooperation to use two batteries to open the gate to complete the task,

This side proves that you have obtained certain information in the future and concluded that there is no possibility of cooperation.

It may be that only one group of players can escape to Ascension, while the other group will be stranded here.

Or maybe he had to kill all the other living people before he could escape from the bushes. "

"You answered correctly. Unfortunately, there is no reward."

"Zhao Zijin" snapped his fingers.

The power of thought pours out quietly, penetrating the skin. The rider's internal organs were minced, and pieces of internal organs were ejected from his mouth. Just as depicted in the prophetic painting.

At the last moment of his life, he laughed with difficulty and took out an explosive device from the backpack column with both hands.

"Zhao Zijin" did not hesitate to withdraw his telekinesis, forming a thick wall in front of him. The next second, the explosive pack exploded.

The mental barrier blocked all the frontal shock waves of the explosion, but the mission battery was knocked high into the air and jumped out of the tall grass.

"Zhao Zijin's" face turned gloomy, and the driver actually made a move at the last moment - players had tested it before, and anything that crossed the top of the tall grass would disappear.

At that time, in order to avoid mission failure, no one tested the battery.

At this moment, the driver detonates the explosive pack and knocks away the battery. If the battery disappears because it passes over the tall grass roof, it will be revenge on Zhao Zijin, and everyone will not be happy.

If the battery does not disappear, but successfully crosses the tall grass, it can also use this trick to alert potential earthworms.

"Zhao Zijin" stood there, released his mind power, and caught the fallen mission battery.

Fortunately, the battery itself was not damaged in any way, and the power was still only 40%.

Others and Cliff might appear at any time. She took the battery and used telekinesis to crush the driver's corpse and the Poké Ball several times before quickly retreating.

After a moment, the tall grass was pushed away again. Li Sheng and Hui Yu looked at the corpses of the riders scattered on the ground, silent.

After all, they were acquaintances who had gone through missions together. Li Sheng was not in the mood to tell hell jokes and carefully examined the surrounding environment.

Hui Yu asked, "Could it be that Mr. He who did it?"

"It's Cliff." Li Sheng said without raising his head: "The Khrushchev you are talking about is the leader of the former Soviet Union."

Huiyu was stunned when he heard this, "Huh? Isn't Khrushchev a friend of Nobi Nobita?"

"That's my husband."

"Isn't my husband a character in The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Slaying?"

"That's Ji Xiaofu."

"Isn't Ji Xiaofu a minister with iron teeth and bronze teeth?"

"That's Ji Xiaolan."

"Isn't Xiaolan Xinyi's girlfriend?"

As the two were talking, their footsteps gradually approached. The bandaged man came here and saw the fragmented corpses in the explosion crater. His voice was trembling and he said, "This, is this the driver?"

"Well, it was like this when I came here. It seems that the mission battery was also taken away."

Li Sheng checked the action camera carried by the red rider and found that it was completely broken and could not be restored.

The bandaged man couldn't hold himself any longer and sat down on the ground with a plop, holding his head in his hands and rocking back and forth.

That Cliff was a Level 20 transcendent, and it was difficult for players to defeat him. Now that Midnight Howl and Crimson Rider are both dead, the situation is extremely unfavorable.

"I have to go home," the bandaged man seemed to have recalled more memories, and said painfully: "My wife is still sick, and my daughter is in a special children's education center. I have to go home."

Generally speaking, the killing system tends to select ordinary people with obvious characteristics and great potential and let them become players.

As the saying goes, when Heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on a person, he must first work hard on his mind and body. Among the players, life is much more miserable.

The bandage men seem to be the worst offenders.

His parents died early, his wife was seriously ill, and his daughter had a congenital defect and had to be taken care of. As a firefighter, he himself was severely burned in a fire, and now he was dragged into the killing field.

After a while, Zhao Zijin and Catherine, who were attracted by seeing the battery flying, also came to the explosion pit, and all the survivors reunited.

"There are only one driver's footprints in this area,"

Zhao Zijin observed for a moment, frowned and said: "There is a move called Moon Step in the Sixth Marine Style, which can temporarily stay in the air by stepping on the air. Could it be him?"

"It's hard to say. As a summoner, the driver's actual strength is limited. If Cliff were to sneak attack him, I estimate that he would be instantly killed without making any movement."

Li Sheng shook his head, and suddenly seemed to realize something, and sniffed the air sharply.

A subtle fragrance.

His eyes lit up, and he immediately took out an industrial-grade olfactory analyzer (electronic nose) from the three-dimensional warehouse, and installed it on his nose with the special effects of [Assembling a Muppet].

The olfactory analyzer consists of three parts: gas-sensitive sensor array, signal preprocessing and pattern recognition. It is widely used in chemical industry, food and beverage, environmental odor detection, medical examination and other fields.

After being installed on the nose, the extremely faint fragrance in the air immediately became clear and pointed clearly towards the three o'clock direction.

Li Sheng took the lead and ran in that direction, explaining as he ran, "In the world of Pokémon, stink flowers are also divided into male and female.

The pollen spilled from the pistils emits an extremely strong stench that can spread up to two kilometers away. The odor of male stink flowers is much lighter.

After dilution with air, it becomes a light fragrance.

The driver's stink flower is male. Before he died, he must have let the stink flower contaminate the battery (or maybe the person who killed him) with pollen or nectar to give us guidance. "

If the driver was still alive at this time, he would definitely shout weakly, "This is my last ripple, worm!"

Catherine passively ran after her and asked out of breath, "No, isn't it a trap?"

Li Sheng was too lazy to answer this question. Hui Yu glanced at Catherine and complained: "Auntie, do you have the right to choose?"

What auntie, I haven’t graduated from college yet!

Catherine's expression was distorted, but there was really nothing wrong with the title - after all, Hui Yu's age was technically only seven or eight months old. No matter who you face is qualified to call you uncle or aunt.

Everyone walked forward looking for the fragrance in the air. Before they could clear the grass, they heard a shrill, very familiar female voice coming from the front, "No way!"

Rushing out of the tall grass, I saw the second Zhao Zijin kneeling in the mud puddle.

She looked dazed and desperate, as if she had been greatly stimulated. In front of her was a withered male corpse wearing camouflage uniforms.

The male corpse made a labored breathing sound, as if it was in a strange state of neither death nor life.

There was a mission battery inserted in his chest, and the power had reached zero. Next to the body, there were dozens or nearly a hundred empty batteries of the same type piled up.

Suddenly seeing the second self, Zhao Zijin next to Li Sheng was also extremely shocked.

Just as she was about to say something, she saw Zhao Zijin raise his palm, control the telekinetic short arrow, and pierce her head. She died on the spot and there was no time to save her.

Once again, the scene in the prophecy painting was reproduced.

All of this happened in just a few seconds. Zhao Zijin, who was still alive, stepped forward, picked up his dead self from the mud pit, and inspected it carefully.

There is no disguise, no human skin mask, every mole and every tooth on the headshot corpse is exactly the same as hers, this is Zhao Zijin herself.

"There is a time loop in the grass, and a second group of selves exists at the same time."

Zhao Zijin's mind changed quickly, and he also thought of the No. 2 Catherine he had seen before, and came to the same conclusion as the driver.

Li Sheng's focus is on the empty batteries.

Batteries were stacked haphazardly, numbering nearly a hundred. If these batteries are all part of a cycle, it proves that the cycle has been repeated at least nearly a hundred times.

Where did all those Li Shengs go?

Li Sheng thought calmly, stepped forward, looked down at the withered male corpse, and used the skull reconstruction skills in his mind to restore the original appearance of the corpse.

Caucasian white male, in his thirties, with a square face.

This image points to the president of the Amalgam Guild, the Level 30 transcendent, Mithril.

"Mithril?"

Li Sheng raised his eyebrows and looked at the corpse that was neither dead nor alive, "Are you not dead yet?"

"Just resurrected."

The withered corpse spoke weakly, his voice hoarse and rough as a broken gong, "Are you teammates of this woman who committed suicide? You are unlucky, like amalgam, you will be trapped here and die."

Judging from the empty batteries around, this should be the ninety-eighth time we have repeated this conversation. "

"What on earth is going on? What did you just say to the second me that caused her to commit suicide."

Zhao Zijin dropped the body and stared at Mithril with cold eyes.

In her [Lattice Detection] skill display, the original Lv30 Mithril's current life energy is only equivalent to the Lv10-Lv12 level.

"I just told her the truth about this patch of grass."

Mithril whispered: "Kill everyone before you can escape the cycle. Otherwise, you will be trapped here forever like Cliff and I."