"Our game is over, are you going to let us out?"
Huang Xu was overjoyed. For days, he had dreamed of leaving this place.
Wen Wen smiled sinisterly and shook his head. Let them out?
As if such a good thing would happen!
Zhao Xuelu's face suddenly turned pale. This was a survival game. If the game was over but they weren't released, then it meant...
"Hey, it seems you've figured it out, quite smart."
Zhao Xuelu turned and ran. She had guessed their impending fate and wanted to get away from Wen Wen quickly.
The ropes on Wen Wen's body snapped automatically. He tidied his clothes leisurely; his collar had been damaged by Luan Xing.
Seeing Wen Wen break free from his restraints, Huang Xu and Li Xingyang's expressions changed drastically. They unleashed a crossbow bolt and a saber simultaneously. However, Wen Wen caught the crossbow bolt with his nostrils, and the saber striking his neck produced a metallic clang. Huang Xu raised his saber and saw a large notch in its blade.
Meanwhile, Zhao Xuelu, who had been trying to escape, found that all doors and windows were tightly shut. Despite exerting all her strength, she couldn't open even a crack. No matter how loudly she screamed, it seemed no one outside could hear her.
"Don't waste your energy, you can't get out."
Wen Wen shook his head. "The reason I'm willing to tell you this is that my observations of the three of you are nearly complete."
"Zhao Xuelu isn't particularly outstanding, but at least she won't be a troublemaker. Huang Xu has performed well. If you perform like this a few more times, you can earn a new life. As for Li Xingyang... hehe, your wife's illness can now be treated."
After saying this, the expressions of the three became peculiar. Wen Wen's words plunged them into a dilemma.
Wen Wen's attitude made them feel at one moment that they would die here, and at another that they had merely passed an ordinary test, making it difficult for them to guess his intentions.
"Hmm... I wanted to say a few more words to you, but it seems time is running out." Wen Wen gave a sinister smile.
"What is running out of time?" Huang Xu asked tremblingly.
Wen Wen stood up and walked to the corner of the wall. "The monster that infiltrated the camp is one of the five 'food' items deployed today, the Sand Dune Great Earthworm."
"Simply put, it's a large worm that moves underground. This type of worm is suited for moving in sandy terrain, so here its movement is slow, and you can see traces when it moves."
"Under these circumstances, the only prey it can hunt are stationary targets that cannot detect its movement. Who do you think fits this condition now?"
Li Xingyang was startled. Although he didn't know what a Sand Dune Great Earthworm was, based on Wen Wen's description, the most suitable prey for such a creature would be the people who had been hiding in the wooden house for months!
But he realized it a moment too late. The next second, a massive flesh worm, nearly two meters in diameter, erupted from the ground beneath the wooden house. Its mouth, filled with sharp teeth, directly swallowed Huang Xu and Li Xingyang, then quickly retracted underground, leaving only a huge pit.
Zhao Xuelu stood nearby, trembling. She had narrowly avoided being swallowed by the terrifying worm.
But before she could recover, she felt a sudden strong push from behind, and then she fell into the hole dug by the Sand Dune Great Earthworm.
After a sharp scream, her presence vanished.
"Ding, three casualties, hmm... including myself, that's four. Fourteen remaining... your days ahead won't be easy, hehehe."
Luan Xing, along with Geng Xingshu and others, surrounded the area and saw the devastated wooden house. Zhao Xuelu and the other two had disappeared, while Wen Wen hid in the corner with a sinister grin.
Li Wei, the sullen short man, lunged at Wen Wen, his dagger slashing towards Wen Wen's neck.
But Wen Wen suddenly dropped to the ground, his limbs moving rapidly like a giant spider as he crawled out of the wooden house and up to the top of the wall.
At the top of the wall, Wen Wen stopped and let out a loud, strange laugh at Luan Xing and the others, then completely disappeared.
Luan Xing's face turned ashen. Their only lead was now broken.
The man with the gold-rimmed glasses knelt on the ground, grinning while crying, his sanity on the verge of collapse. The expressions of the others were also grim.
Geng Xingshu touched the exoskeleton gloves on his hands, realizing they might not protect him here.
Luan Xing took a long breath and exhaled it completely. "A few of you go and restore the defenses. You don't want anything else getting in, do you?"
"This must be the Sand Dune Great Earthworm they mentioned today. Judging by the commotion just now, it should have left our area, but there are other terrifying things here."
Luan Xing knew that their defenses could only keep out ordinary beasts like tigers and leopards, and were useless against certain special entities. But that didn't mean they should give up hope.
However, he didn't know that the bears and fierce beasts initially released had all perished. The creatures remaining outside were now all beings that ordinary humans could not resist.
If it weren't for Jideluo's deliberate control, everyone would have died two days ago in story mode.
"Now you see, staying here, we might not truly survive for a month. So, tomorrow I will lead a team to explore outside. Does anyone have any objections?"
No one spoke. The bloody reality told them that staying here would only lead to their demise.
"Then who wants to go out with me?"
Geng Xingshu, the security captain, and Li Wei all stepped forward. They had the ability and the courage to make this decision.
But Luan Xing shook his head. "We can't all go out, otherwise if something happens, the remaining people won't survive... How about this, we'll draw lots later, and five people will be chosen to explore outside."
"Safety first during exploration. Retreat if you encounter danger, but bring back all useful information. I hope those chosen will not refuse!"
Luan Xing's gaze was fierce. If someone was chosen and refused to go, Luan Xing would make them regret it.
While Luan Xing and the others were discussing their plan to go out tomorrow, Wen Wen was swiftly moving between several grids.
In reality, there were no exits on top of those high walls, but rather illusions created by Wen Wen at Jideluo's behest.
In this story mode, there were a total of seven by seven, forty-nine grids. The center grid and the four corner grids each contained nineteen or twenty test subjects.
Apart from the five safe camps, other areas were presented as a maze. If they had ventured out to find others from the beginning, it might have been possible, but now the difficulty of finding other safe camps had greatly increased.
What these people didn't know was that the so-called survival game would never allow them to live for thirty days. Within ten days, everyone here... would die!