Chapter 231 - Who Is in First Place?

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“15 heads, more than 700 points! It’s clear I’ve underestimated the opponents in this mission a little—there are quite a few good people!”

Unfortunately, the person who had gotten such a strong record and ranked first was not Feng Luo. At the moment, Feng Luo—who had already retreated to the edge of the beach and the forest—was just as shocked as Bowl of Instant Noodles.

Feng Luo’s current head count was 10 people, while his killing point total was only 400-plus, nearing 500! That meant that he was still some distance from the person ranked first.

As for these killing points, due to it being unlike the points of the Agent missions and the past city-building missions, which provided a ranking leaderboard, he had no way to determine where he stood. Nonetheless, based on the information revealed by the army officer, the gap in the number of kills between him and the person whose points ranked first could at least be known!

But regarding this conclusion, Feng Luo was actually not very surprised. Because his achievements throughout the past three hours in the night were not considered all that great.

Other than consecutively killing the three targets—who were, namely, the rebel beast Heavy Armor Warrior, the Sniper player, and the rebel beast Light Armor Warrior—swiftly earning him more than 100 killing points, the process of obtaining points had slowed down.

This was mainly because most of the people did not have the ability to fight at night at all. Therefore, they had all chosen to cautiously find a hiding place nearby and to not even open the electronic map!

In such a situation, even if Feng Luo had intended to take advantage of everyone’s “equipment-naked” state at first to “snowball” his early advantage, but it was still very challenging to find targets at night without the map’s position indicator.

Moreover, the coverage of Death Hunter Island was not small, and its layout was very complex. The map even had marked special positions where the “organizer” had specially set up some ruins and buildings.

Although his vision had already been enhanced by the W-virus, it still did not match up to the night vision ability of the rebel beast warriors, who had vision like that of wild creatures! Therefore, up until finishing the rebel Elite Reconnoiter just now, the heads he had claimed amounted to just two, while his killing points would reach 500 in just a bit!

“But this first person—will he be a friend?”

Feng Luo had a slight guess.

Even though to most of the participants of this killing game, everyone on the island—other than themselves—fell under the category of either prey or enemy, Feng Luo was a bit of an exception! Because his participation in this mission was actually part of the “Agent” investigation mission. And there were indeed four “teammates” and one “instructor” participating in this “battle royale” game with him.

No—in fact, if counting the five players and one NPC instructor, respectively, from each of the other two Agent organizations, it could be said that among 1,000 people, there were 17 “teammates”! And the abilities of these people certainly would not be weak, especially the three NPCs who could even be “instructors.” So, then, surviving in this killing game and even earning large numbers of points shouldn’t be a huge problem, right?

“So, this first person may not be a player!”

******

All the players on the whole island were looking dignified or delighted due to learning the last selection criterion of the game. Meanwhile, beside a Japanese-style bamboo house built at the foot of a mountain, with flowing spring water slightly to the right of the center of the “Death Hunter Island” map, a Level-45 Wind Manipulator of the rebellion—wearing a light blue-colored energy shield on his body—was fleeing in the direction of the bamboo house with his face filled with panic.

As a Wind Manipulator, due to the energy-enhancement skill, his speed might not have even been inferior to that of a sprinting Sniper over a short period of time.

But even if he had been faster, he would not have been faster than the snow-white blade of light behind him, brighter than the rays of the rising sun in the sky!

Peng!

A samurai sword longer than a meter in length, with a black handle and a snow-white blade, struck the rebel Wind Manipulator’s energy shield with huge impact from behind!

Ka!

The light blue energy shield with strong defense capabilities was instantly, completely shattered! While the strength of the samurai sword seemed not to have been weakened at all!

After breaking the energy shield, the tip of the sword, glimmering with a chilly spark beneath the sunlight, pierced through the thin layer of the energy robe on the body of the rebel Wind Manipulator straight away!

A look of fright was on the rebel Wind Manipulator’s face as the chilly blade pierced through the gap between two ribs in his back!

Peng!

With a powerful impact, the samurai sword—together with the heart area of the body of the rebel Wind Manipulator it had pierced through—hit the bamboo wall of the house!

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A blood-red lethal damage indicator gradually appeared above the head of the rebel Wind Manipulator who had been pierced through by the samurai sword.

Da da...

“Federal Investigation Bureau” Agent Instructor Haruko stood tall in high black combat boots and a black samurai uniform with flower petals, on which bloodstains were now visible. Her hair was pulled back into a ponytail. She walked over. Gripping the black handle of the samurai sword pierced deep into the bamboo wall, she effortlessly pulled it out, along with a splatter of blood!

Pu!

Haruko’s face was cold and blank, turning a blind eye to the body of the Wind Manipulator who had fallen to the sword right before his death. She only raised her head and looked up at the bright sky. After which, holding her samurai sword with its bloodstained blade, she drew a special symbol on the side of the bamboo house, then turned to leave.

At the moment of the rebel Wind Manipulator’s death, the point total of the person ranked the highest once again rose by 40 points, breaking 800 points!

******

“Everyone is looking a little enraged!”

The wrinkle-faced army officer in black showed the same mocking smile on the semi-transparent screen in front of every “player.” Obviously, the collars had surveillance capabilities, and he must have already seen the grim faces of countless players.

“Could y’all have forgotten something I said earlier? Since you’ve joined this game, you must abide by the rules! Y’all have already seen the consequences of not abiding by the rules, but have you forgotten about it after just a few hours’ time? But it’s nothing much to have forgotten. I have a little something that can perhaps remind y’all a bit!”

Once the army officer in black finished speaking, the screen switched to a view of the beach and the sea’s surface. Someone, undoubtedly an average NPC, wearing a collar on his neck, could be seen swimming rigorously in the sea, moving in a direction away from the island.

Then, at the next moment, a white-colored water column rushed up from the water’s surface with a whoosh.

Once the sea spray had completely fallen, the waters surrounding the original position of that person became blood-red in color with two floating body sections!

“A reminder to everyone, never ever try to escape by sea. That intelligent collar on everyone’s necks has an extremely acute positioning system. Once you’ve gone beyond a certain range in the sea, it’ll happily explode automatically!” The army officer in black continued to play his role of mocking the players.

The area of the screen that had just displayed the explosion was followed by another horrifying scene. The entire surface of the water suddenly seemed like it was boiling as the already separated sections of the average NPC’s corpse were rapidly ripped to pieces by something in the water!

“Right, I’ve forgotten another thing! There are also many highly aggressive mutant man-eating fish species in these waters. Thus, even if you enter the sea within the collar-bounded area, you might still be directly throwing your life away! That precious life of yours ought to be converted into others’ points, not used to feed these low-life fish, should it not?”

The image was switched back to the smirk on the wrinkle-covered face of the army officer in black!