Thriller Trainee

These guys, who are animals from head to toe, are dressed in glamorous human clothes, holding a brightly colored feather fan, and rubbing scarlet rouge on their mouths; there are also people holding pipes and talking and laughing with their legs up.

The difference is that they evolved from walking on four limbs to walking on two limbs. The original claws became hands, and the head was much bigger than remembered and looked more ferocious. There was no other difference.

But this is amazing enough.

Under the light, the faces of these animals seemed to be attached to a twisted look of magical nature, and they became obnoxious.

Absurd, too absurd.

The young man was wearing a knee-length white prison shirt. Because the cage was not high, he was forced to sit on a soft cushion, revealing a pair of legs that were too slender.

His hands and feet were bound by chains, and his white hair slipped from his back and hung obediently behind him. The pale skin is intertwined with the cold iron chains, which abruptly brings out the abusive beauty.

The dazzling lights on the auction stage fell from a high place, stimulating his pale pink pupils into waves of shaking water.

Seeing the "cat" in the iron cage raise their heads, the guests let out a series of stunning sighs, many of them whistled and applauded.

"What beautiful eyes, what beautiful hair and color scheme!"

"Look at this leg, it's the love cat of my dreams, and the right to use it for three days is not lost."

"I haven't seen such a pure-bred cat for a long time. I don't know what breed it is?"

"It seems to be caught from the outside. Looking at the color scheme, you know that the variety is rare, and there is a priceless one.

The real animals cheered and commented on the human being placed on the auction table.

Just when Zong Jiu saw the looks of the audience clearly, the subsystem spoke slowly.

[You feel surprised, because the situation in front of you is beyond your understanding. The distorted and hateful faces of these "audiences" make you feel flustered, so...take a sanity check.]

Zong Jiu: "???"

The sanity value is also called the SAN value and is one of the special rules announced by the main system before entering this copy.

All trainees have their own SAN value, which can also be understood as a mental value, or a sanity value.

The higher the SAN value, the stronger the will of the trainee.

If you see something beyond the scope of your own understanding, it will cause the SAN value to drop. If it drops too much at one time, the trainees are likely to fall into a transient situation of memory loss or confusion.

If the SAN value returns to zero, the trainee will be permanently crazy, the kind that even the main system cannot save.

"No." Zong Jiu bargained with the subsystem in his mind: "Do you think I was flustered when I saw these animals? Are you serious?"

Sub-system: [...]

After a long silence, it hesitated to speak out [But this is the rule, you have never seen animals like humans before. These creatures are inherently filthy and evil. Their temperament will pollute you and affect you. Sane]

"Impossible, my heart is like a rock, and I enter the infinite loop just to find excitement. Don't fool me, I have no mood swings, this little scene can't hold me."

Zong Jiu said indifferently, "It won't be too late for you to judge me when I really fluctuate in reason."

[That, then all right]

[But if their evil temperament really pollutes you, I will ask you to pass a sanity check at any time]

It may also be detected that the trainee's current sane situation, and the sub-system accepted his proposal very aggrievedly.

After all, Zong Jiu's remarks are not untenable. For example, ordinary people need to pass a Sanity check when they see a corpse, but a murderer does not need it when they see a corpse, and they are even more excited. Logically speaking, this conforms to the rules of the main system.

On the other side, after waiting for the crowded audience below to marvel and admire the beauty of the cat in the cage, the host seemed to want to extend the gift stick into the cage to amuse the beautiful but lazy little guy.

With such an action, the audience immediately protested.

I don't know why, this very beautiful cat seems to have a different kind of charm in every move, and it can easily capture their hearts.

"What are you doing? How dare you touch such a precious cat with your dirty walking stick?"

"Do you want to abuse the cat with this action? Can you be empathetic?"

"You can't afford a piece of this beautiful cat's hair for half a year's salary in the circus. Get off!"

Not only the audience around the auction stage, but even some top aristocrats instigated the domestic servants to send cold reprimands, scaring the host to kneel and fall directly on the stage.

Ironically, these audiences were enthusiastically discussing fur production before they knew that the auction item was a "cat". After knowing it, another face was completely revealed.

The backstage immediately walked out of the two cow heads and horses, and the big-waisted circus servant dragged the host involved in the abuse of rare animals from the auction stage.

Soon, a new host was sent up.

The new host is obviously more on the road.

In order to calm the anger of the audience, when it appeared, another cage covered with red cloth also appeared.

Zong Jiu, who was sitting in the cage, finally had a reaction. After being prompted by the main system, he did not turn his gaze on the distorted animal faces below, but instead looked at the cage beside him.

"One of the same scarce species, a species that hasn't appeared in nearly a hundred years—"

The red cloth fell.

The same as his attire, Tu Yumen, who was tied in a cage by a chain, helplessly greeted the frantic gaze below.

"It's a dog!"

"Oh! Cute puppy hook! This breed is the legendary husky, yes!"

The cheers no less than Zong Jiu's appearance almost overturned the entire auction floor.

Tu Yumen: #$%! (a series of swear words in my heart)

At the next moment, he also received the system's sanity check prompt.

As a normal person with obvious emotional fluctuations, it is naturally impossible for Onmyoji to evade the test like Zong Jiu.

So he was forced to pass a sanity check.

Of course the sanity check failed.

[You throw 2 points, deduct 2 sanity points]

【Current sanity value: 48/50】

[You have fallen into an additional state of sanity deduction]

In the next second, Zong Jiu saw Tuyumen's eyes divergent, and he slammed straight into the iron cage railing, causing a turmoil in the audience.

Zong Jiu: "..."

Fortunately, he has not passed a sanity check.

He withdrew his gaze, lowered his eyebrows to think about the situation now.

Obviously, in this copy, the identities of animals and people have been reversed in a strange way.

Human beings have degenerated from being a ruler to an animal controlled at will, while animals have become a human being as a ruler.

Moreover, looking at their situation, it is obvious that humans are divided into three, six or nine classes, just as humans classify animals. Unfortunately, they don't know the basis for the classification of human species by animals.

Zong Jiu was a little curious, and didn't know what other humans in this Super S Grade dungeon looked like.

"System, are there any other tips on how to find a way to link to the main system?"

[Sorry, I am only a sub-system with limited abilities, I can only respond when the trainees need to throw, and cannot plan a specific course of action for the trainees]

[But before the disconnection, the main system sent a message]

[Twenty years ago, five teams of survivors entered this Super S Grade dungeon. If you can find the clues left by these five teams of survivors, you may be able to reconnect with the main system]

The sub-system picks and picks, and clearly shows the information that can inform the trainees.

In fact, the information from the main system is much more than what it tells the trainees.

Under the inquiry of the instructor's access authority, the main system actually found an unexpected piece of information.

This Super S Grade dungeon was not classified as a dark dimension at the beginning, and even twenty years ago, the main system had a cooperation with this Super S Grade dungeon.

It's a pity that a total of five teams were entered that time, and nearly a hundred survivors were still wiped out in the end.

Calculating the timeline, it happened that after the five teams of survivors entered the dungeon, this super S-rank dungeon ran from the light dimension to the dark dimension.

As a high-dimensional existence, although the main system has no emotion and personality, it has always been clear.

Originally, after discovering that the two trainees had lost contact, it planned to give up the two trainees directly. After all, there are too many uncertain elements in the dark dimension, and it may even contaminate the main system itself, leaving it to prepare for many years, which is the purpose of holding the thriller trainee competition.

But in the end, the instructor couldn't stand it and used the authority.

On the other side, the host who showed two items not for sale announced loudly.

"The non-sale items are displayed by Vanni. Next, we will auction other collections. The three-day use rights of the non-sale items will be auctioned at the final hour of the auction. Please stay tuned."

The curtain on the heights slowly fell, covering the two huge iron cages.

They were transferred to the background for the time being.

Zong Jiu looked at the surrounding environment.

The backstage of the auction platform is very large, and after the curtain falls, there is a dark staircase leading to an unknown direction directly below.

In addition to them, there are also some other auction items stacked here.

For example, pieces of unknown products are as thin as a cicada's wings, and are exquisitely crafted like butterfly wings in the light.

Tu Yumen's face was a bit ugly: "All the skins hanging over there are human skins."

In fact, there is no need for Onmyoji to speak, Zong Jiu can also see it.

This human skin is different from the human skin peeled from the old woman with mercury in the deserted village copy, but a human fur coat made by tearing off the scalp and hair.

The hair of every piece of human skin stays on the scalp fortunately, and it can be dyed in any color, becoming the luxurious fur worn on the animal.

Not only human skins, countless human products are also placed in the backstage.

There are yellow body oil, bracelet accessories polished with white human bones, jewelry inlaid with human nails, and small statues carved on the teeth.

"In this Super S Grade dungeon world, humans are animals in the eyes of animals."

Zong Jiu is clear: "They treat humans as cruelly as they treat animals in other worlds."

Because just like humans treat animals, when animals are in a dominant position, humans will not make much difference.

The level of the food chain has always been cruel.