Chapter 114: Hell on Earth

The player whose skull cap was missing went limp and collapsed into his seat, the remaining half of his head facing a female player to his right, terrifying her into a sharp scream.

The female player had screamed less than two times when dozens of bullets from somewhere poured down on her body, making her tremble violently like a shaking sieve, before she finally went limp and slumped in her seat. Even in death, her mouth was still wide open, her face frozen in an expression of fear.

Another player was blasted directly from his seat, his body shattering into several pieces… His flying arm landed draped over another player’s shoulder, while his head happened to smash onto another player’s keyboard, his eyes staring straight at the player sitting in front of the computer… This frightened that player so much he immediately wet his pants, stood up, and ran screaming from his seat…

The heavy machine gun on the Internet Cafe ceiling quickly locked onto this player who had left his seat. The rotating muzzle spat flames, mercilessly pouring bullets into his body…

By now, Lü Yang had already taken off his headphones and was sitting quietly in front of his computer. About a minute into the chaotic fight, he unexpectedly encountered an FPS expert with a teaching/training rating of ‘S’ in an alley. That expert, holding a small dagger, bounced left and right as he closed in on Lü Yang… trying to dodge Lü Yang’s handgun bullets with extremely flashy footwork, intending to plunge the dagger into Lü Yang’s neck.

Lü Yang watched the player jump around flamboyantly and did not fire immediately, pretending to be a novice who couldn’t find his aim. Only when the opponent landed from a jump did Lü Yang seize the moment, suddenly raise his gun, and rapidly pull the trigger three times, easily eliminating the other, simultaneously earning himself a chance to advance to the next round.

Successfully passing this round, Lü Yang also received a reward of Eerie Points, clearly set up by the Mysterious Domain’s creator Death Killer. However, the other players in the Internet Cafe could not obtain Eerie Points; only Lü Yang, who possessed the Mysterious Tool and was a special Survivor, could receive such rewards.

Ten minutes later, inside the Internet Cafe that originally had over forty people, twelve more corpses lay scattered. Over ten people successfully advanced to the second round, while the remaining twenty-plus players, who neither completed the task nor were killed, were gathered into an indoor basketball court. They lined up in two rows, standing face-to-face about ten meters apart. After the command to fire was given, a fierce volley of gunshots rang out, and only eight of the twenty-plus players remained standing. More than ten more corpses were added to the Internet Cafe.

Death Killer was indeed perverted and cruel enough—the first round of the game slaughtered more than half of the players! And it forced the players to kill each other! These vibrant lives were so easily erased from the world by Death Killer, not even their relatives would remember they had ever existed.

About twenty people were still alive, but five or six had been shot and wounded, screaming in pain nonstop in their seats…

Throughout the Internet Cafe, many computers were stained with blood. In front of more than twenty computers lay corpses in various bloody, gruesome positions, with many body parts scattered across the floor. Combined with the red walls and desks, the horrific scene made the entire Internet Cafe look like hell on earth.

Due to females’ natural disadvantages and lack of proficiency in computer games, the vast majority of those who died in the first round were female. Among the remaining twenty-plus survivors, only four female players were left.

“Congratulations to everyone for entering the second round. All injured players will automatically recover…” The Electronic Voice sounded again. As the voice spoke, the screams in the Internet Cafe faded away, seemingly because the injured players’ wounds instantly healed.

The Internet Cafe was now very quiet. After experiencing such an extremely bloody battle, no one dared to question the Electronic Voice anymore. Everyone just listened quietly as the Electronic Voice echoed through the cafe, announcing the rules for the next round of the game.

The computer screens switched to the second round’s game screen. From the familiar figure and howls on the screen, it was clear this was a game about fighting Zombies.

This time, there was no teaching/training; the Electronic Voice only briefly explained the rules: players had to hold out for ten minutes on a besieged Rooftop, after which a Helicopter would come to pick up the surviving players. Only those successfully rescued by the Helicopter could survive into the third round of the game.

“Is this Left 4 Dead?” A male player around twenty years old in the Internet Cafe murmured into his headset after hearing the introduction.

“Yeah, probably? The unreleased third generation?” Another male player agreed with the previous speaker.

Lü Yang had of course played Left 4 Dead, but he would not simply assume the second round was exactly that game.

This was the Mysterious Domain; many unexpected things could happen. Death Killer would definitely not design just a few simple FPS games to test Lü Yang’s intelligence. There might be traps hidden here; one careless move could trigger a death route in this Mysterious Domain.

“Please all players put on your headphones; the game is about to start…”

After listening to the rules announced by the Electronic Voice, Lü Yang picked up the nearby headset and put it on. Then he clicked the game start button with his mouse. After a shift of light and shadow, he instantly left the Internet Cafe he was in before and appeared on a Rooftop. Now, he was completely immersed in the game world!

Raindrops fell from the dim sky onto Lü Yang’s face, bringing a faint chill.

This was a game because… Lü Yang saw some things resembling game options floating around him. When he reached out and touched the option to temporarily leave the game, the light and shadow shifted again, and Lü Yang returned to the Internet Cafe computer screen. On the screen, the character he controlled was standing motionless on the rainy Rooftop, looking dazed.

A real-scene game!

No… This was not the normal Real world; this Internet Cafe was not an ordinary one; this game was not a real computer game either! These players, like Lü Yang, were all dragged into the Mysterious Domain by Death Killer. The world inside this computer game, to be precise, was a Mysterious Domain within the Mysterious Domain!

There was no time to think further. Lü Yang entered the game world once again. He was standing with the other twenty-plus players. Everyone looked at their own bodies and the surroundings with extremely shocked expressions, probably not expecting the second round to completely depart from mouse and keyboard controls, placing the players’ True Bodies directly into the game world!

Lü Yang had no trouble adapting to this. He had used the Eerie Computer many times for such real-scenario training, and this feeling was quite similar to those earlier trainings.

No matter what, he had to find a way to last ten minutes, to survive the second round. Only then would he have a chance to figure out what Death Killer was up to.

Before the game started, Lü Yang quickly ran around the Rooftop, surveying the terrain.

At the northernmost part of the Rooftop was a Helipad. In one corner of the Helipad lay a large immovable metal box containing a large supply of ammunition, Hand Grenades, and other weapon supplies. Next to the ammunition box was a Heavy Machine Gun that could be rotated freely, with a long ammunition belt extending directly into the ammunition box—apparently, it had unlimited ammunition.