Chapter 358: Killing Each Other

The USB drive only had one video.

Zhao Ran left Xingfu Community first that day. It was getting dark, and he was afraid of any unexpected incidents.

When he returned to his new home, it was already midnight.

Zhao Ran sat at the desk, looking serious, and clicked on the video.

The video was only one minute long.

In that video, he met someone he had never expected.

It was his childhood friend.

Although the age was not quite the same, the other party had grown up almost proportionally, and Zhao Ran could recognize him at a glance.

Compared with the past, his personality seemed to have changed a little, a little quiet and melancholy.

He got straight to the point -

"Zhao Ran, I have an unwelcome request.

This may sound outrageous, but no matter what, please believe me..."

...

Zhao Ran believed every word he said, even though they hadn't seen each other for many years.

This trust surprised even the person himself when he thought about it later, but at that time, he did complete the task that the man had instructed him to do regardless of everything.

He began to collect information about the dungeon and set up his own team. He heard that someone had gathered players and wanted to set up a player guild.

But Zhao Ran's power is still small, so he can only form a team first.

Zhao Ran's team was originally composed of people who shared the same ideals as him.

Everyone just wanted to be the first to explore the way, so as to leave more opportunities for survival for those who came later.

They all held the belief that they would die, and went through life and death with Zhao Ran.

However, the world after the advent of the White Tower was so cruel that the players in Zhao Ran's team went crazy or died one after another.

As the captain, Zhao Ran felt extremely painful about this. Among the earliest batch of players, only one remained in the team, and the others joined later.

The purpose of these newly joined young people was not very pure. At that time, Zhao Ran's team was already well-known, and many people joined his team because they saw benefits.

Zhao Ran didn't care about their original intention of joining, but he didn't trust them either. At that time, he was studying the copy of the Seventh Hospital. He successfully entered and accidentally discovered the bug in it, which was the small area he and You Xueshan had seen before.

Zhao Ran almost lived in the Seventh Hospital. He stored the food in the player's bracelet, which was a new gadget that had just been released. This thing could ensure that the player could survive in the dungeon for a period of time.

So Zhao Ran stayed here to study this mental hospital.

According to the instructions of the man in black, the Seventh Hospital was one of the "meta-dungeons". If it was turned off, the reproduction rate of the White Tower would be greatly curbed.

Zhao Ran didn't understand what a "meta-dungeon" was. He thought that it might be similar to the existence of the father of all dungeons, and there was more than one such father.

In short, it was a critical dungeon.

The map of the Seventh Hospital was very large, so Zhao Ran stayed there for many days. Until one day, he suddenly heard voices in the dungeon.

Zhao Ran was very familiar with the boss in this dungeon, but he didn't do it. He hadn't studied the Seventh Hospital yet, and it would be best if he could break through it with one blow and pass it directly.

Theoretically, he had entered the dungeon of the Seventh Hospital, and other players should not be able to enter before he failed.

Maybe it was because he was stuck in a bug. When he hid in that special space, the White Tower assumed that there were no surviving players in the dungeon, so it put new players in.

Zhao Ran didn't know the other party's intention, so he could only hide in his own small space and quietly observe everything outside.

Zhao Ran didn't expect that he would see his teammates.

They were led by the deputy team leader, who followed Zhao Ran at the beginning of the team.

This time, perhaps because they were worried about why he didn't come out for so long, they brought other team members to find him.

Zhao Ran was not there, and the deputy team leader's personality was not strong enough. The team members were like a pile of loose sand, wandering around in the dangerous dungeon.

They were still chatting, and it seemed that two or three team members disappeared after entering the dungeon.

Zhao Ran heard them talking about him in front of the deputy team leader, saying that Captain Zhao might really have met with misfortune, so why don't we take the reward and leave, and let the deputy team leader take over as captain.

The deputy team leader asked the team member who spoke first to take care of himself, and they might not be able to get out of the place where Zhao Ran couldn't get out.

The team member was a little unconvinced, and shouted that he would lead the way, and walked past the deputy team leader quickly.

At a fork in the road, he suddenly ran into an ugly monster.

The monster was about 1.8 meters tall, the size of an adult man. Its first reaction when it saw the human player was not to attack, but to panic.

The team member walking in front also had a big reaction. He screamed, and almost subconsciously pulled out his weapon and stabbed the other party.

Blood immediately flowed down, and it was red.

Zhao Ran, who followed them, was shocked after seeing the "face" of the monster clearly.

It was not a monster at all, it was a living person, the youngest member of his team.

He covered the wound on his abdomen, in great pain. At this time, the person holding the knife suddenly stabbed him many more times, fearing that he would not die.

The change happened too quickly, and Zhao Ran was too late to stop it.

"What are you doing!"

He suddenly shouted, shocking everyone.

"Captain?"

"Zhao Ran?!"

The deputy captain wanted to speak, but he found that there was a figure swaying behind Zhao Ran, another monster!

"Zhao Ran, be careful!"

Zhao Ran realized something.

"No - don't do it! He is a team member!"

But the deputy captain acted quickly.

He almost instantly dealt with the "person" behind Zhao Ran.

Another team member fell.

Zhao Ran stared at the hand holding his calf with wide eyes.

"Captain..." The team member's eyes were filled with tears and blood was oozing from his body, "Why, why..."

Zhao Ran immediately squatted down, supported his body, and shouted to other members at the same time.

"Don't do it! You are hallucinating! Those monsters are all lost team members! This is cannibalism!"

However, no one could listen to him. Under the fermentation of fear, they even doubted Zhao Ran's identity.

"How can you speak for the monsters! You are also a monster!"

"After being trapped for so many days, Captain Zhao would have died long ago! You must be pretending!"

The surviving team members were emotional and rushed up waving their weapons.

The deputy team leader had been with Zhao Ran for a long time and understood his character. When he said this, his heart began to waver.

But before he could further believe the other party, the team member's knife came towards Zhao Ran.

The deputy team leader subconsciously blocked in front of Zhao Ran.

Poof——

The knife cut through the soft abdomen and throat, and the deputy captain's blood splashed all over Zhao Ran's body and face.

"No..."

At this time, the last missing team member appeared. Similarly, in the eyes of other team members, he was just a monster that suddenly broke in.

Zhao Ran was shocked by the death of the deputy captain for a long time and couldn't recover. When he raised his head again, there was no one standing.

Blood flowed like a river.

Zhao Ran's head buzzed, and he couldn't hear any sound.