Doll Survival Game - Chapter 143

They knew that this kind of large instance was very likely to be live broadcast, but no one expected that there would even be bullet screen comments on the current display panel.

After all, this had never happened before.

In the pitch-black night, a faint electric current sound came from above. Luo Yiran looked up at the sky, then saw the tightly woven net above-what was that?

An electric net?

Unable to confirm for now, Luo Yiran withdrew his gaze. His current position was on the balcony of a tall building. Luo Yiran looked at everything before him and, for a moment, thought he had restarted the previous instance.

Because the scene in front of him was also like a ruin.

The Sky City that Lin Ye and the others had previously described was prosperous and advanced. Although perhaps to fit the Eternal Night of the second mode, Sky City also had no daytime.

But no resident found it strange, and in the setting of Sky City, there had not been daylight here for a very long time.

Luo Yiran looked at the messy street below-before the last instance, no player knew there was this instance location in World Human, and judging from the perpetual night setting of Sky City, Sky City should have only been put into use not long ago.

However, in just the short week they were gone, Sky City had turned from a prosperous and stable city into a city of chaos.

But the scope of the chaos should not be too large yet.

Luo Yiran opened the holographic display, then saw the map of Sky City. On the map, the area where he was located was a whole patch of red-anyone could tell at a glance that it was very dangerous.

Luo Yiran quickly glanced around, then opened the notification.

This time, there was no announcement for the instance.

Things like the task introduction were sent directly to the holographic display for players to check themselves.

Luo Yiran quickly skimmed through the notification, then paused, his eyes lifting as he carefully reread the notification.

Just as they had previously deduced, this instance did require players to kill monsters, but it was not just about killing monsters.

This instance used a points system, with a total duration of ten days. After ten days, the organization with the highest total points would win, and all others would be eliminated and die.

And as far as Luo Yiran knew, the largest organization in the game only had a little over a hundred people. Even if those who survived were all from that group, the survival rate was still quite low.

Moreover, for an organization of over a hundred people to have every single member survive was almost impossible.

Luo Yiran slid his hand down from the holographic display, his gaze dropping as well. Then he looked at a certain word and his lips moved: “Parasite.”

Among the much more lengthy rules compared to other instances, one of them was: every organization had a parasite, and a parasite referred to a player who had been parasitized by a monster and belonged to the monster camp.

And the parasite’s task was to kill humans.

Luo Yiran’s gaze did not change, his expression extremely calm.

In this instance, quite a few players were probably temporarily organized because they wanted the rewards, so internal strife was unavoidable.

After all, even organizations that had been together for a long time could have internal strife in this situation, let alone teams that were temporarily formed.

Luo Yiran did not bother to think about who in his organization might become the parasite. He just looked up again and saw the very first line at the top of the notification-[You are all residents of Sky City.]

This meant that their setting was not as outsiders, so perhaps this identity setting had other uses.

Another key point was the score.

Luo Yiran spun his index finger in circles. Next to the map on the holographic display was the points ranking list, but not a single organization’s score had changed-right now, all were at zero… It was unclear whether this was because everyone had not started acting yet or if the ranking list only displayed at certain times.

Sliding the holographic display down again, Luo Yiran saw the scoring methods for parasites and players.

Players received one point for killing a monster, but that was only for killing the most basic monster. If the monster’s level was higher, the points would also be higher.

And if a player killed a parasite, the points would fluctuate depending on strength, but the minimum was ten points, much higher than killing a monster.

For the parasite: killing an ordinary human was 0.1 point per person, with other scores varying according to status, and killing a player had a minimum score of five, with higher scores depending on strength and team leader status.

There were a total of 47 organizations participating in this instance, but now there were 48. The extra one was made up of parasites chosen by the game.

The parasites’ points did not count toward their original organization’s score; they only counted toward the 48th organization. So when the ranking could be viewed, if calculated carefully, it might be possible to identify the parasites.

However…

Internal strife was absolutely unavoidable.

At this moment, a message popped up in the group chat. Via was the first to break the silence, and even from his words, one could sense his noisiness: [Hey hey hey! Has everyone finished reading the rules? Who’s the parasite?]

[Want to self-destruct~]

The group was silent.

Via continued: [Just kidding, of course the parasite wouldn’t say it. After all, they’re already our enemy, so if they said it, they’d definitely be ganged up on!]

Via sent messages rapidly: [By the way, Ranran, I see you. Want to come down? I’ll catch you!]

Lin Ye seized the chance to speak: [Via, is Li Qi Feng by your side?]

Via: [No. Uncle, where are you? Say something, Lin Ye is looking for you!]

Li Qi Feng didn’t reply. Maybe he had run into trouble on his end.

So Lin Ye said very seriously, “Doll, I’ll leave Via to you.”

After finishing the last instance, Lin Ye just felt that Via would cause trouble again.

Luo Yiran, who had been silent all along, replied with a “mm,” then shifted his gaze away from the holographic display and looked down. Amid the dim and chaotic ruins, a conspicuous head of gray-white hair was moving below.

Luo Yiran’s gaze paused slightly, then he lowered his head to look at his own index finger, and his eyes moved a bit farther away-that was where the magician was.

“Ranran!” Via tried to raise his voice from below but still kept it from being too loud as he called out, “What are you doing? Jump!”

Luo Yiran sighed, then saw something flash behind Via.

Via seemed to react as well, but just as he was about to turn around, he caught sight of Luo Yiran jumping down. That palm-sized doll fell from midair, and Via reflexively ran over to catch him.

Luo Yiran paused. The silver thread he had extended turned toward the area behind Via, but he himself landed directly in Via’s hands, using the silver thread to cushion the fall.

Via caught him and immediately turned to look at the strange, tangled “person” behind him. “Oh my god, is this a person… or that so-called monster?”

On the net woven from silver thread, a humanoid creature was frantically biting at the threads. Its appearance was extremely human-like…

Via had just thought this when he saw this “human” split its arms and head, forming a black weapon he was all too familiar with-a gun.

“…Damn!”

Via rolled behind a broken wall nearby.

Gunshots kept sounding behind him. Via held the doll and complained, “Where’s the teamwork?”

If Luo Yiran hadn’t jumped at such a tricky moment, he probably would have killed the monster.

The doll’s silver thread, which was just about to extend, was interrupted by Via’s movement. He said expressionlessly, “I’d like to ask that too.”

He had clearly thought Via would go deal with the monster, but unexpectedly, Via ran over to catch him. What for? It’s not like he couldn’t get down by himself.

Sighing inwardly, Luo Yiran felt that, among these people, Via was probably the one least in sync with him.

Via clicked his tongue, but still asked, “How do we handle this?”

“I’ll cover you.” The doll left Via, glanced at his own item bar, and found that all items were usable. His eyebrows raised slightly-seemed these monsters were strong.

Via had no objections. He was more used to charging into battle anyway, so he drew his weapon, a playful smile on his round face. “Then you’d better keep up with my speed.”

Luo Yiran knew Via wouldn’t trust him, but, well, if trust was lacking, then he’d just make up for it with strength.

The gunfire behind the wall paused for a moment. Luo Yiran and Via both heard other noises not far away. Realizing this was a high-risk zone, they both understood those sounds must be other monsters drawn by the noise.

Via took out a shield that looked very thin with his left hand, then stood up with a swish. “Hope these guys are worth more points.”

Luo Yiran’s silver thread formed an even denser net, following beside Via. He said helplessly, “Let’s just hope we don’t get surrounded.”

Messages appeared on the holographic display, but neither of them had time to check now.

Duan Miaomiao’s starting point was under a high wall. From the map, inside the wall was the high-risk zone, and she was at the edge of the safe boundary.

But just now, someone had come to take her a bit farther away, saying that even though there was still an electric net above the wall and monsters couldn’t get out, it was still dangerous.

Duan Miaomiao had no choice but to follow that NPC a bit farther from the high-risk zone. Mainly, if she fought, she would turn into the shapeshifted being, which obviously looked like a monster, and would probably be attacked by these NPCs.

However, Duan Miaomiao sent the information she had just gathered from the NPC to the group: “The current time point is about half a year after our last instance.”

“Monsters broke out from that Tianhong company. They can parasitize humans, and their intelligence is increasing over time. Fortunately, the people of Sky City managed to confine them in these high-risk zones before their intelligence rose too much.”

Lin Ye replied quickly: “Got it. They say there are no monsters outside the high-risk zones. If that’s true, then we can only enter the high-risk zones to kill monsters.”

Duan Miaomiao replied with a couple of “mm”s, then looked at the holographic display with some worry-parasite…

Sigh, who could the parasite in their organization be?

According to the rules, the parasite was the enemy, a player belonging to Organization 48.

Hiss-no matter who it was, she felt she couldn’t bring herself to do it… Could she just let them go…?

In the darkness of night, human eyesight couldn’t see far, but that didn’t affect the magician at all. After all, even when he was wrapped in bandages, his vision was never impaired.

The magician stood atop the electric net above the high wall-or more precisely, suspended in the air above the net.

Behind him, huge black feathered wings gently flapped.

“Sigh.” With a soft sigh, the magician looked down at Via and the even smaller doll on the ground, who looked like ants from up here.

So small, truly cute. But… even with his eyesight, it was hard to make out the doll’s size from this distance.

If it weren’t for his connection with the doll, he probably wouldn’t have noticed at all.

He really wanted to just go in… The magician glanced expressionlessly at the electric net.

“No causing trouble, that’s against the rules.”

A fist-sized, round, black ball with a bamboo-copter on its head floated beside him, a childish boy’s voice coming from inside: “You don’t want to get logged out right at the start, do you?”