When Ma Xiaobo saw clearly what was on his arm, he completely froze in place.
Outside the dormitory, the shield girl immediately sensed something was wrong, and raised her voice: "Ma Xiaobo?"
For the first time, the boys in the room didn't respond quickly or move. Looking in her direction, all she could see was the boy's trembling elbows blocking his face.
Her heart sank, and she immediately stepped inside. The other party seemed to have just come back to his senses, his arms drooped, and a smile that was uglier than crying appeared on his pale face.
"Boss." He opened his mouth. "I feel like I'm going to die."
The girl's eyes fell on him.
The two arms that were originally intact were covered with dark blue sharp scales at some point, spreading from the elbow socket to the wrist, spreading rapidly in all directions!
Holding the shield tightly, she rushed in and pulled him out. As soon as she grabbed Ma Xiaobo's shoulders, an extremely icy chill surged in her palms.
The girl froze imperceptibly.
At this moment, Ma Xiaobo's body feels exactly the same as the elf's body...!
Even though her mind was turbulent, she was not the type who was good at analysis, so she could only take people to the balcony first and then ask Tang Xinjue for help through spiritual connection.
However, in this short period of time, the scales on Ma Xiaobo's body surface had spread to his face at an unimaginable speed, and all the exposed skin below the neck was completely covered, reflecting an ominous blue light.
"Boss... I... no... dormitory..."
Ma Xiaobo strangled his throat in pain, his vocal cords became distorted and weird, and he couldn't make a complete sound.
All the examinees on the nearby balcony were taken aback when they noticed this side. Someone gave a quick shout and asked in surprise, "Student, there is an elf in your dormitory?"
After receiving a cold look from the shield girl, the man shivered and shrank his neck before noticing something was wrong.
The head of this "elf" is clearly the head of a human candidate? !
Or... This is the body of an elf growing out of the head of a human boy!
Shouts of shock and fear kept ringing out, and more and more people were attracted to look at balcony 307. The shield girl turned a blind eye to this, she listened to Tang Xinjue seriously and attentively.
Tang Xinjue's voice was also full of coldness: "The rules and punishments have begun. He has mutated and has no time."
As early as Ma Xiaobo had just entered balcony 307, she had reminded the Shield girl not to let her stay too long.
Now it's a prophecy.
It is known that there are many rules that cannot be violated in this game, camp rules, attack rules, mission rules, death rules... The annihilation of the short and thin boy shows that even the location of the candidates is part of the rules.
If you leave your dormitory, you will be punished.
The girl with the shield had no expression on her face, but her voice in the spiritual connection was very urgent: "Is there nothing I can do? I have a shield, and I can scrape off the scales."
Tang Xinjue: "..."
Do you treat Guan Yu's bone scraping
She looked at the boy whose pupils had begun to dilate with mental strength, and pursed her lips: "Two methods. One is to let him pass the level now, and the dungeon will automatically recover after leaving. The other is to send him back to his own dormitory. chances of surviving."
But in another 90% probability, the deadlock still cannot be reversed.
The shield girl didn't hesitate, "I'll send him down."
She lifted Ma Xiaobo onto the guardrail, and the boy hung his arms obediently. Even though the scales had covered most of his face, they never expanded to release the venom because of the extreme pain and fear, and remained flat against the skin until his thoughts disappeared It started to be chaotic.
He raised his head to look at the girl with the shield, and still uttered the same single syllable as before, as if he wanted to express something.
The shield girl couldn't understand, but Tang Xinjue did.
"He doesn't want to go back to his dorm."
The girl paused, her eyes were sharp: "Why?"
Tang Xinjue looked at Ma Xiaobo's spiritual flame that was gradually extinguished, and sighed silently: "He can't hold it anymore, when he becomes an elf, his roommate is not strong enough to control him, and he will kill him instead .”
"If you stay with you, you can put him in the cloak, and you can get an extra point."
She repeated Ma Xiaobo's last words:
"I should thank you for saving him before and keeping him here."
Ma Xiaobo completely lowered his head, his dyed golden hair shriveled and fell off, and the rugged and sharp tentacles of monsters grew out.
The shield girl caught him subconsciously to prevent him from falling, but the next second the head in front of her suddenly lifted. The bright green eyes are full of malice, the black lips are split to the ear, and there is a familiar hissing——
A long tongue full of mouthparts suddenly protruded from the mouth!
"Totally mutated."
Tang Xinjue opened his eyes, and rubbed his tired brows after using his mental power.
The first time she saw Ma Xiaobo's mutated form, she shared her mental power vision to the minds of the four of them. Now everyone's face is quite serious.
What they saw this time was different from the elves that appeared in the previous three rounds.
The previous elves, no matter how big or small they were, with or without wings, always maintained the body shape of a "monster", which was very different from humans.
But the current "Ma Xiaobo", although he has completely turned into an elf, his limbs and torso still maintain the human form. He not only has the attack ability of a monster, but also maintains the attack and action methods of a human.
Even trickier is...
Zhang You's brows seemed to be in a knot: "It still has an IQ."
"hiss!!!"
A sharp hiss came from the third floor, and the long-haired girl shook off her blood-stained hair and inserted the shield into the elf's throat.
A human's neck would surely die on the spot after half of his neck was inserted like this, but "Ma Xiaobo"'s body was still trembling strangely.
In less than half a second, its hands and feet began to elongate like melting liquid, the sharp claws under the scales turned into mouthparts, and the whole body seemed to differentiate into a core torso and five identical "tongues", continuing to attack the shield girl attack.
The girl did not pull out the shield, but whispered a spell, and four identical "shields" appeared around her instantly, blocking the attacking mouthparts at the same time.
This is the move she has been using to fight the informer remotely: shield phantom.
It's just that before that, there was only one phantom in front of all the candidates, but now several of them were summoned at the same time, and each of them moved and changed as if consciously, and the shield girl didn't show any embarrassment on her face.
It turned out that she also hid her clumsiness before, and her true strength level was not revealed until now.
A few steps away, Yue Qiong watched the battle scene leisurely, neither intending to help, nor taking actions to add insult to injury.
He is like an interested bystander, watching a good show with relish, and at the same time he would like to comment:
"Emotional fluctuations have reached their peak... So that's how it is. Companions can kill each other, isn't that what you can't accept? Sure enough, stubborn behavior and logic are accompanied by demons..."
"Shut up!"
The shield girl has never felt that a person's voice can be so noisy, even surpassing the original Wen Zou Zou male voice who always talks endlessly and always claims to be "underneath".
As soon as she exerted force on her hand, red blood spurted from the neck of "Ma Xiaobo", as if this body still belonged to human beings.
After being splashed with blood, the girl with the shield calmed down a little. She pulled out the shield, and pulled out the cloak directly, ignoring the remaining four mouthparts that were still fluttering. The black cloak covered "Ma Xiaobo" amidst the girl's frosty expression.
People are dead, her anger is pointless, it's time to end.
On the countless balconies of the two dormitory buildings, other candidates watched this scene silently.
Among them, the examinee who had just escaped from the claws of the elf and was standing on a strange balcony in another dormitory, his face was pale and bloodless.
From Ma Xiaobo at this moment, they seemed to see their next self in a trance.
If this is really a game penalty, then will they also, also become like this-
tear-
At this moment, something unexpected happened: two mouthparts suddenly clamped the cloak under the hood, and lifted it up violently!
The girl with the shield suddenly took a step back to catch the cloak. Fortunately, she didn't break away from the fighting state, and immediately blocked the attack of the elf, and fell into a entanglement again.
Above the third floor, Guo Guo opened his eyes from the perspective of mental power with a jerk, and said in astonishment: "The cloak can't be used?"
"It's not that the cloak fails."
Tang Xinjue closed her eyes and said, "It's because it is still partly human in its current state."
The cloak can only be used to "put on" elves. If the elves hide in human skins, the cloak will no longer have restraint power.
unless…
She unfolded her spiritual power and probed deeply.
The girl with the shield rolled on the spot to dodge the blow, and as soon as her sharp, blade-like scrutiny gaze fell on "Ma Xiaobo", she heard Tang Xinjue's voice:
"It's torso from the top to the bottom third, cut there. That's its core!"
The voice fell into her mind, and the girl raised her shield without hesitation, stepped on the guardrail and turned around, inserting the gold-cut metal into the monster's torso, and dug hard—
A piece of the rotting heart, half scarlet and half dark blue, had already stuck to the chest cavity, rolling out.
The elf's frantically twisting body seemed to be pressed the stop button, and seemed to have lost its power source. For a moment, Ma Xiaobo's facial features reappeared on its blood-stained face, with an expression that only humans can understand , looking at the shield girl.
He seemed to want to say something, but he only opened his mouth slightly, and there was no sound. Then it dimmed again, completely gone.
Its body collapsed and quickly shrank into a small lifeless ball. This time, it was covered by the cloak without any resistance, and turned into a new elf ball.
[Ding, students have died, the superposition difficulty is 1%, and the current total superposition is 89%]
At the moment when Ma Xiaobo was completely declared dead, the mutated elves hovering in the sky seemed to have been summoned by some kind, and scattered into the invisible place on the roof, without a trace.
"The third round is over." A candidate looked at the sky and murmured softly.
The end of one round means the beginning of the next round.
So where is the spirit of the fourth round now
No one made a sound, and in the weird silence, many people looked at several positions in unison.
Located in different dormitories of the two buildings, there were a total of ten candidates with extremely pale faces. They stood straight on the edge of the guardrail, staring at the direction where Ma Xiaobo died.
"Student, classmate?"
On the balcony of dormitory 612 in Building A, three short-haired girls stood hesitantly behind a fat boy, tentatively calling him, but they got no answer.
The fat man was hung next to their dormitory when he was thrown from high altitude by the elves, and was pulled up by their soft-heartedness. But when they saw Ma Xiaobo's end, they couldn't help but start beating their hearts.
Originally, except for the excessive fear of the fat man, everything was normal. But in just a few tens of seconds, when the game reminded Ma Xiaobo of his death, the fat man stood there motionless as if attracted by something, without any reaction to the outside world.
The three girls looked at each other, and a guess floated in their hearts at the same time.
Sure enough, in the next second, with a scream from a distance, the fat man suddenly twitched violently, and large pieces of skin fell off, as if being cut from the inside, and a fat and huge blue elf came out to replace it!
"Quick, send them back to their dormitory!"
"It's useless, it's too late."
Seeing ten candidates mutate at the same time, some people panicked, while others realized the reality after a while.
From the very beginning, the moment these candidates were caught by the elves, their ending was already formed.
And there has never been a possibility of change.
"This is the fourth round."
Yue Qiong didn't know what to think of, and his eyes rolled up again.
"Ten elves can only be distributed to ten lucky dormitories. There are too many monks. It's a pity, if you saved a few more people back then, there might be a few more elves now."
His tone was relaxed and cheerful, as if these dead candidates were not living examinees, but goods that could be cashed in for calculations, making it hard for those who heard it not to feel chills down their spines.
"By the way, it's only ten minutes before the end of the capture time."
Yue Qiong spoke again, implying something: "If this link continues to procrastinate, are you sure you can complete your catch?"
Many people's expressions changed slightly.
They saw with their own eyes that the same kind they had just saved mutated into monsters. Even if they knew that they could only get the Poké Ball by killing the other party, they couldn't help but feel a little bit reluctant to do so.
But the tight time rhythm of the game does not allow them to be indecisive.
The first and second floors fell into dead silence. Just five minutes ago, these screaming "elves" were their roommates, but now they are monsters that need to be hunted down.
But they couldn't stop them, they could only keep their heads from looking up, from watching the fierce battle above.
[Ding, students have died, the superposition difficulty is 1%, and the current total superposition is 90%]
[Ding, students have died... the current total stack is 91%]
[Ding…]
With the experience of watching shield girls kill humanoid elves, the candidates have gained the upper hand one after another. If you really can't beat it, don't force it, just hide neatly, and let other dormitories who want points attract the elves.
One elf after another was successfully captured, and death reminders continued one after another. At the beginning, no one seemed to realize that something was wrong. It wasn't until the end of the hunt that more and more people began to realize another serious problem.
"death toll… "
"It's more than ninety..."
"How many are left? Wait..."
etc!
Before the last elf was pierced through its torso, someone finally shouted to stop it: "Don't kill it! The death toll has reached 99!"
—As long as the total number of dead students in the game is loaded to 100, the game will be judged as a failure by the game!
Who knows what the consequences of the failure of the judgment will be, what if it is collective obliteration? Who can take that risk
The machete barely stopped in front of the elf, and the boy with glasses who was holding the machete was panting heavily, and the shouts from the outside world came to his ears, and a trace of bewilderment appeared on his face.
"it's useless."
In the chaos, a calm girl's voice passed through the crowd and landed in the candidates' ears clearly.
Looking up, Tang Xinjue was standing in front of the balcony on the highest floor, with his hands on the railing, quietly watching what happened. He didn't know how long he had been watching.
She said calmly: "Stall here, if the elf doesn't catch it, it won't be refreshed in the next round, and all of us will be dragged to death."
"Letting it go may hurt other candidates, and the death toll will increase, and it will end in the same way."
In other words, from the very beginning, they could only go forward without stopping halfway, no matter whether someone found out or not.
The crowd fell silent, and the machete fell.
[Ding, students have died... the current total superposition is 99%]
The distance is 100, only the last person is missing.
This fact is like an invisible mountain, pressing on everyone's heart.
Because this means that from now until the end of the game, they can't kill anyone, no matter if this person is an informer or a good student.
Only when all members survive to the end can they have the possibility of passing the level.
In this oppressive atmosphere, the sudden laughter was particularly abrupt.
Looking along the source of the sound, I saw a tall and thin boy wearing a black mask leaning on the balcony of Building B 308 and laughing.
Who is not Yue Qiong
When a sure-fire whistleblower laughs at a moment like this, it's just jumping on the faltering mentality of the crowd. Someone couldn't help shouting: "What are you laughing at?"
After more than ten seconds, Yue Qiong straightened his waist and asked lazily: "The game is over, isn't it normal for me to be happy?"
"Are you fucking crazy? If the game is over and we all lose, what is there to be happy about?"
Yue Qiong raised his eyebrows: "Pay attention to the wording, [you] will fail. But what does your failure have to do with me?"
"The game never said, our mission is the same."
His voice was frivolous, but it fell like a death sentence.
"Your failure, to some extent, is also a kind of our victory—is it hard to guess?"
"It's better to say, it's just that you dare not face it."
A single sentence can sometimes start a raging fire. Before the candidate's mentality exploded and he lost control of his emotions, a calmer person hurriedly interrupted:
"Don't let him lead you into the rhythm. Don't forget, we only have 99 deaths now, and the game is not over at all!"
Speaking of this, the man suddenly became vigilant, and quickly took two steps back to look at Yue Qiong: "You don't want to attack us, do you? I advise you to give up, the rules won't allow it."
Yue Qiong opened his hands: "Don't worry, I don't have such an idiot idea of violating the rules."
"It's just..." He snapped his fingers, "People who commit suicide should not be affected by the rules, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the two boys standing behind him trembled strangely.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, one of them took out the blade of the dagger and turned it over, and just like that, he plunged into his chest with force!