“This little black dog is a specialty of our Huaiyang Village.”
“Mr. Chen, who went by the code 0021, brought this little
kitten, and its name was Mina.”
The bridesmaid said, “They were destined to have very
different fates, but now they are bidding farewell to the world together...
Sometimes, humans have the same, aren’t they?”
Upon hearing this, Chen Tian and his two companions’ eyes
widened, and seeing the bridesmaid raise a surgical knife, they already knew
what she was going to do.
When Chen Tian and Chen Qing were in junior high school,
their parents divorced. Originally, they planned to take one child each, but
the twins refused to leave each other. They were already in junior high school
and could live at school, so their parents didn't force them to separate.
When they got to college, their parents had new families and
children, and gradually became indifferent or unable to take care of them. The
siblings worked hard and barely made ends meet.
Chen Qing was a medical student, and some classmates saw her
working hard at different jobs every day, so one day they secretly took her to
their dormitory and said to her, “Chen Qing, do you want to do a very lucrative
job? You can earn at least 1,000 yuan per day, and after a month it will be
even more, up to 100,000 yuan a month.”
When Chen Qing heard this, she thought it was one of those obscene
night jobs. She looked pretty and had been approached by people from that
industry before.
“No, it’s not that. It’s live streaming, and some people in
our medical school are doing it.”
Later, Chen Qing learned that there was a type of black live
streaming called “animal torture.”
There were some people who were obsessed with watching this
kind of live streaming.
They liked to see slender hands holding sharp blades, cutting
open the bellies and heads of cute pets, and their slender fingers digging deep
into the animals’ bloodied body, making them feel excited and crazy.
Some of the pets were even their own pets that they had
raised for a year or two.
That was the first time Chen Tian and Chen Qing experienced
the perverted and vicious side of some humans before entering the survival
game.
Chen Qing naturally refused, and Chen Tian would definitely
not let her do such a thing.
Later, the siblings entered this survival game that exposed
them to the darker side of human nature, forcing them to confront their fears
and the constant threat of death. The game amplified the most negative
qualities of humanity to an extreme degree, with commonplace acts of
cannibalism and violence.
Nevertheless, they still held on to the bottom line of being
human.
They also formed a mutual aid society.
This group of players seemed to be forever trapped in the
abyss of death, but by joining forces, perhaps one person could climb out of
the darkness in the end.
What the bridesmaid was doing in front of them was like what
Chen Qing’s classmate suggested her to do, just more hair-raising.
In front of the cross, two small animals lay on a soft white
cloth, the little black dog helplessly and pitifully crying out, while the
plush cat may not have known what they were about to face, but it was already
sensitively aware of something and huddled anxiously.
Not only were there filming staff in the church but also
people sitting in the front row watching the live performance.
Yesterday, they sat here blessing a newlywed couple for a
happy and blissful life.
Perhaps the day before yesterday they sat here in prayer.
Or perhaps, one day, this place would be filled with people
from all over, watching a bloody feast live.
Every time the knife fell, they would applaud excitedly, no
different from demons.
The bridesmaid smiled and said, “Today, let’s make a plush
dog by reconciling their fate.”
Li Yin signed to Chen Tian, ‘President, what should we do?
Should we save them?’
This game required hiding and evading in many situations, so
many clubs have methods of silent communication and code words.
Wang Ming said, “Are you crazy? Do you want to offend the
NPCs and be chased by them? They’re not even killing people!”
When Chen Tian furrowed his brow in thought, he spun his head
as if sensing something and exclaimed, “Chen Qing is in danger!”
Without hesitation, he ran silently in the darkness, away
from the church, and easily jumped over the wall.
Not far away, Chen Qing was running towards him. “Brother,
you need to save Ning Su! That butcher is not human!”
Chen Tian replied, “Let’s go. We’ll talk while we run!”
Chen Qing explained, “Ning Su and I followed the butcher from
the slaughterhouse to the funeral home, and then to the riverside. We didn’t
encounter any problems on the way, so I thought we hadn’t been discovered.”
“But at the riverside, he suddenly turned around and looked
straight at us. His eyes...he’s not human. It was really terrifying!”
“My scarf was too small and inconvenient to run, so Ning Su
pushed me out and asked me to go ask for help.”
Chen Tian reassured her, “Don’t panic, Ning Su is not as
simple as he looks. He should be able to hold out until we arrive.”
***
At the riverside, fireflies flew out from the grass.
Fireflies appear in the hot summer months, and in the spring
they should be in their larval stage, so obviously these were not normal
fireflies.
The fireflies emitted a faint green light, like wandering
ghostly lanterns.
They flickered across the river, floating over the spring
grass and river, with the mountains as the backdrop illuminating a small corner
of the world.
It was a beautiful and peaceful scene, but when the fireflies
flew around the butcher’s face, landing on his curly hair and drilling into his
green eyes, most people wouldn’t find it beautiful anymore.
Ning Su watched the butcher in the moonlight, his five
fingers stretching and closing.
He was as fast as a shadow, appearing in front of the butcher
before he could even react. The butcher’s green eyes trembled.
Ning Su turned around and lowered his head in front of him,
revealing the back of his neck collar. “Be gentle.”
“...”
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