As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 680 That Man
Rococo.

A female player from Cairo Game World.

Level 58.

In fact, not long ago, Rococo was still a lone wolf player.

She was lucky enough to have avoided the bloody storm of the previous batch, and grew up to the present in the normal "Endless Corridor" mode. Because she was attacked by other corridor players in the previous script, she chose to join a team a few weeks ago.

That team was a branch team of a large guild in the "Endless Corridor". It had abundant resources and nice people.

The captain is an old man.

Also a few days ago.

The old man heard news from his superiors that there was a maze in the mining area, where it seemed possible to level up, but the news was not reliable, so they volunteered to come and take a look.

Very lucky.

If this really is a maze that can be used to level up... maybe I can find a way to keep up with other players in the corridor here.

It was about three days ago that Rococo and his teammates found the entrance to the maze.

The maze stipulates that gold coins and props must be paid first in order to obtain higher security. Although it seems like a scam, they still choose to believe it. After all, no one would regard their own destiny as part of a gamble.

According to the book outside the maze.

The difficulty of the first level corresponds to around lv25~lv35.

Facts have proved that it is true.

The first level is not difficult except that it is very convoluted.

There is a BOSS on the second floor, a slime that is immune to physical damage. You can gain a lot of experience points by defeating this guy.

The third floor is still an ordinary maze, and starting from this floor, more and more players appear.

It is reported that there were nearly 200 players in the entire ten-story maze at that time.

On the fourth floor, after coming out of the stairs, you can actually see waterfalls and woods. Not only does it have weather and natural scenery, but there are even indigenous people from another world.

There are more and more strange species such as Cairo aliens, orcs, elves, and this place even has its own world view.

The maze is larger and more complex than imagined. It may be a big world in itself.

It was also from here that the intensity of the maze changed significantly.

The boss on the fourth floor is a griffin.

Rococo is now very grateful that her captain, the old gentleman, is a wise man. Without the old gentleman's command, the griffins might become an insurmountable obstacle.

The fifth floor.

A village appeared.

There is a rest area exclusively for adventurers.

At this time, nearly fourteen days had passed since they entered the maze, but in the real world, only less than three days had passed.

Feeling extremely tired, they took a nap on the fifth floor and got ready for their journey.

Hearing that the difficulty of the sixth floor corresponds to players above level 60, Rococo's team deliberately hired a group of orcs and jointly formed a team with players from another team. A total of people went to the sixth floor in a mighty manner.

They are full of confidence.

They even began to fantasize about getting through the entire maze.

Now Rococo doesn’t understand why he was so obsessed with going to the sixth floor.

Maybe it’s because the rewards of the maze are really too attractive.

Compared to the long and slow pace of the script, the maze only requires you to fight level by level. You don’t have to care about interpersonal relationships, just kill, kill, kill.

After a few days, although I was exhausted, my level was actually raised to six, and I got a lot of loot. I also bought a lot of interesting props from the merchant on the fifth floor. This was only the first half of the maze.

So six to ten floors…it makes me salivate just thinking about it.

However, just after reaching the sixth floor, Rococo and his team, which were almost infallible, were wiped out by several giant mantises which could only be called elite monsters here.

Rococo was killed when a slime drilled into his brain during the battle.

Fortunately, the maze has a chance to revive after death.

After her resurrection, she returned to the sixth floor. The first thing she did was to find her teammates. Those guys were very nice to her, and she couldn't be a deserter.

The sixth floor is only dark and dark, and if you want to pass this floor you must defeat the dragon guarding the end.

There was no news from her teammates at this time.

This is a "realistic script" and all principles are based on the real world. The player panel has strong restrictions, such as blocking the "teammate position".

Rococo planned to run to the fifth floor, seek help from the upper five floors, and then come back to find his teammates.

She has a very important discovery to tell her teammates.

In the dilapidated building, it was so quiet that you could hear the sound of breathing.

Rococo walked quietly in the dark alley. The pendant [Heart of Eliminating Odors] she found in the maze came in handy at this time, and the sleeping demon wolves hiding in the ruins of the city did not discover her.

She has survived in the script as a lone wolf player for a long time, and has a lot of skills that can make her invisible.

Her insight value is higher than all other values, reaching 177 points, which is the basis for her to stand firm in danger.

Rococo tiptoed carefully and dodged a multi-eyed floating monster in the corner. Then, after going around a stone pillar, he activated [Invisibility] to hide in the darkness, restrained his breath, and closely observed the multi-eyed monster swimming by.

These monsters are the sixth-level monitoring system.

They have red magic filaments on their bodies, and the ends of the threads are locked onto the giant dragon a few kilometers away.

Damn it, Rococo complained in his heart, if he wanted to pass the sixth floor, he had to avoid the dragon's eyes or defeat the dragon directly.

These are all impossible things.

The dragon's scales are covered with eyes. It is a mutated monster dragon. Players who can fight against it must be at least level 80.

Rococo put aside her complaints. The monsters had already passed by her. She took advantage of the fact that there were no living creatures wandering around, bit her finger, and wrote the names of her teammates on the ground. The bloody words evaporated into red particles the moment they touched the air, and flew out of the alley with the breeze.

[Blood-Energy Searching Technique]: As long as someone is familiar to her, she can use this method to find their location.

Relying on this trick and the stealth skill, she has always played the role of an assassin in scripts and team battles.

Just as Rococo was about to follow the blood to find his companions, a hand appeared in the shadows behind him.

The moment she heard the noise, she turned around and saw a demon wolf crawling out from the shadows. The wolf was about the same size as an elephant, and its body was completely black, with only its scarlet eyeballs glowing.

Rococo covered her mouth subconsciously, oh no.

The giant demon wolf could tear her to pieces with one claw. She had already used up all her resurrection skills, so if she died again, she would really die.

At the moment when fear spread, the passing demon wolf suddenly stopped.

The demon wolf can smell the fear of its prey.

It also emits a magical factor that encourages fear in living things.

Rococo stuck to the wall, and her invisibility was of almost no use here. The demon wolf turned its head and got closer and closer. The fishy smell hit her nose. The fear became stronger and stronger, so she had no time to think about how to escape.

Who will save me...

help me……

I don't want to die...

Tears almost overflowed from the corners of my eyes.

The magic wolf stretched out its tongue and licked her. She subconsciously dodged. The mucus secreted from the magic wolf's tongue corroded the wall behind her and made it smoke.

Rococo was forced into a corner. She had almost no room to escape. Her fear reached its peak at this moment. The demon wolf discovered her position and opened its bloody mouth to bite her!

Snapped!
The wolf's bite broke the hard wall, but it did not bite Rococo.

When Rococo came out of her fear and opened her eyes, what came into her sight were her teammates.

At this moment, Rococo could no longer suppress the fear and burst into tears.

The woman named Liz covered her mouth.

"Shh... There are monsters outside, don't make too much noise."

Rococo nodded slightly, his pupils looking down at the ground. The [Transmitted Life Card] card was burning on the ground. The function of this thing was to pull teammates back to his side instantly.

In fact, the scent of the searching blood released by Rococo was smelled by his teammates. One of the boys was a werewolf with a very sensitive sense of smell. He used cards based on the specific location and rescued Rococo at the critical moment.

Sitting at the far end of the group was an old man with a white beard. He was wearing a baseball cap that did not match his age. He was known as Old Mr. Alexander and was the leader of the team.

"Old sir...where are the others?"

Rococo asked.

There was one person missing from their team, a slim girl. All the hired adventurer teams were not here, and there was also no trace of players from another team.

Old Mr. Alexander took a deep breath.

"They probably all died."

"how so?"

Rococo widened her eyes in surprise. So many people died in such a short time?

Liz, who was beside her, briefly explained what had happened.

"After you died, a large number of monsters besieged us and we were scattered. The mercenary team ran back and their whereabouts were unknown. They were probably all dead. As for the players, once they were eaten, there was no way to revive them normally."

As Liz spoke, her eyes turned to a monster moving outside the window.

It was a goblin with tumors all over its body. Its eyeballs were glowing. The glowing pupils meant that it had the player's experience points, which also meant that it had eaten the player.

In order to revive the eaten player normally, they need to kill the monster that ate the player, but the sixth floor area is full of dangers. As long as they dare to walk out of the house with the [Enemy Encounter Rate Reduced by Half] setting, they will be immediately besieged by monsters.

Luo Keke lowered his head: "Sorry, I wanted to go to the fifth floor to find mercenaries to save you."

Old Mr. Alexander said, "Things are more complicated than you thought, Rococo, you don't have to blame yourself for this."

He plays the most benevolent leader.

"The difficulty here is obviously much higher than the preview. At least that's what the group of mercenaries who claim to be natives said. Something must have happened."

"Then now..."

"One of us must die, resurrect in the hall, and then leave here and go to Basel to find someone to help."

Things are just complicated.

Because the maze is not a normal script, it is a realistic script.

Even if they used the tickets to take refuge in the script, they couldn't leave here completely.

Of course, you can find a scenario to upgrade and come back to try to get out of the maze, but that's a cool plot. The reality is that a few elite monsters on the sixth floor can kill them all and eat them, making it difficult to revive them. This is not a level issue.

Because the gap is too big.

The starlight from the night sky shone through the window onto the old man's face. He took off his hat and took out a letter from it.

"When any of you can get out, go find the guild above me. They should be able to help."

Speaking of the upper-class guild of Alexandria, Rococo and others present had heard of it.

"Is it... Miss Safa's Grand Guild?"

"Correct."

Mr. Alexander did not allow his team members to contact Safa's subordinates because he knew that Safa's group of people came from the bloodiest era in the legend.

Today, the "Endless Corridor" is like a lake, with only a breeze sweeping across it, but just over a year ago, the "Endless Corridor" was a deep sea, experiencing the baptism of storms all the time.

"You mean, let's go find Safa?"

"Safa..."

"Yes! That... the legendary Safa."

"of course not."

Alexander narrowed his eyes.

"I haven't even met that woman."

Theoretically, in the same guild, even if there is level segregation, if the president is willing, there is a way to make himself visible to those below.

But for this group of players, how could the big guild, which is one of the strongest below lv99, be a secret treasure that they could see?

Alexander's meaning was clear.

"A few of Miss Safa's men, if you can, might be able to help us out. You don't have to worry about the price."

They are not bottom players.

They are even considered pretty good players at the same level.

But status is something that is difficult to surpass.

It was quickly determined that two people in the team had committed suicide.

"Wait a moment, I have something to ask of you."

Rococo stopped the two people who were about to commit suicide.

"When I was in the lobby, I met a group of players who helped me skip the step of spending money and go back to the sixth floor directly."

Luo Keke still remembers the help Xiao Wu and others gave her.

"Please tell them to go back as soon as possible."

"What are you afraid of?"

"Those guys are obviously scheming, but they are kind-hearted. People like them get into trouble, but they don't have much power."

Well, Rococo does have the skill to explore the target's abilities.

But each of Li Nuo and his friends has the ability to hide the real data on the panel, and this ability is too precious for Rococo and his friends who grew up in a "greenhouse". They have only seen it in other corridor players.

The two players promised her that one minute after committing suicide, their bodies would disappear here.

"Sir."

Rococo has something important to say.

"I discovered something. When I returned to the lobby on the first floor just now, I was wondering why we would risk our lives to go down to the dungeon. We knew it was dangerous here, but we still faced danger. This doesn't make sense."

Liz, who had been silent all this time, agreed with her statement.

"We players are a bunch of people who like to rely on the plot. This dungeon clearly has its own world view, but we only remember to go downstairs and don't think about the plot at all. Indeed... we may have been cursed from the beginning."

They also remembered that before entering the maze, the book told them that the traps in the dungeon were the most dangerous.

Old Mr. Alexander has his own speculations.

“Because there is no panel anymore.”

Very simple.

Here is the reality script.

In real scripts, the panels and systems of the corridors will be limited, and many things will not appear. For example, when you are cursed, it will not pop up to tell you that you are affected by a DEBUFF.

Liz took off an earring she found in the upper maze. She always felt that earrings were strange. After putting them on, she had the illusion that her brain was full of excitement but her body was as if filled with lead.

This earring has not been bound yet.

She handed the earrings to the old man curiously.

“This thing… I always feel like there’s a soul there.”

The gemstone in the earring opened an eye.

This scene made everyone gasp. Alexander quickly pinched the earring, and when he opened his palm, only a pinch of powder was left.

"Is there a problem with the item that came out of the treasure chest?"

"I don't know...but at least it looks that way."

Except for Rococo, the other three people felt as if their brains had been hit hard, and a very relaxed feeling spread throughout their bodies.

There is indeed a problem with the earrings.

But the bigger problem lies outside.

Because of the fear just now, the demon wolf came over, and this time it brought its cubs with it.

Alexander looked out the window: "Oh no, there are at least thirty of them..."

Their best option now is collective suicide, but that doesn't work for Rococo. She can't die anymore.

"I, I'll buy you some time."

Rococo smiled, stood up and walked towards the door.

"girl."

"Thank you for your care during this time."

Rococo didn't let them continue.

"I'll go outside to lure away those monsters. You guys kill yourself as soon as possible. That way, at least your bodies won't be eaten."

After saying this, Rococo pushed the door open and walked out.

As soon as she walked out of the room, she saw a pair of scarlet eyes aiming at her in the distance like the infrared rays of a sniper rifle, and she was so scared that she wanted to cry.

But Alexander's old hand grasped her shoulders.

"Silly girl."

Alexander and two others also came out.

Rococo: “You guys?”

"We can still be resurrected, giving you a chance to escape. Go to the fifth floor and get some help!"

After saying that, Alexander pushed Rococo, and Liz jumped out of the door and chanted a spell, releasing the secret technique of [Flash].

The night at this moment is as bright as day.

However, touching passion only exists in literary works; reality is cruel.

Liz turned into a pool of bloody mud.

The demon wolf stood on her corpse, licking her flesh and blood that had invaded the soil. It ate the player's experience points, and its eyes glowed with a strange light.

The level difference is too big.

Rococo, Alexander, and the last person in their team could only watch with their eyes open the horrific nightmare before death, hoping that it was really just a dream.

at this time!

The wall behind them was torn open by a huge hand!

A figure like the Hulk squeezed out from the crack in the wall. The moment the demon wolf saw this guy, it immediately roared and called its cubs to attack from all directions.

Next, Rococo saw the giant pass over them and, with his rough and direct fists, he dug the magic wolf into the ground, then picked up the magic wolf, tore off its claws, and beat it madly. This giant monster was much more terrifying than the magic wolf!
Alexander grabbed Rococo and another player, and while the two monsters were fighting, he ran away. Now was the only time to survive!
However, those dozens of small-sized demon wolves would not let them go.

A dagger slid silently across Rococo's face, and the dagger split into countless "Dagger Rain", bombarding the dozens of magic wolf cubs like grenades. In just a blink of an eye, Rococo and the others saw the group of creatures that could destroy them being suppressed.

Boom!
The huge demon wolf was thrown out and landed in front of Alexander's eyes.

This horrifying creature was missing two legs and was trembling as it dived into the shadows to escape. The gigantic monster leaped up and crushed its head with one foot, ending the wolf's life completely.

Although the giant monster in their eyes killed the demon wolf and saved Liz, the even greater feeling of fear made Rococo and the others completely give up hope of survival.

A Hulk-like creature, at least four meters tall, wearing a black rag cloak, and a monster that could crush the players with one punch.

The giant's body suddenly shrank to the height of a normal male human.

Then this guy shouted behind Rococo and the others.

"Captain! Done!"

When Alexander and the others turned around, they saw several people in black cloaks walking out of the shadows. Among them was a graceful woman holding a dagger in her hand. There was no doubt that it was this woman who had used the [Dagger Rain] just now.

The man standing between them said in a magnetic voice: "Are you all right?"

Rococo looked at their old gentleman, but saw Alexander's rolling throat.

"Don't be nervous, we are all players."

The man with the magnetic voice took off his hood, revealing his golden hair and handsome face.

Alexander's expression gradually froze.

"You, you are..."

There used to be a group of people in the "Endless Corridor" who were called monsters. The reason they were called monsters was not only because they grew at an astonishingly fast speed, but also because they were the survivors who survived the bloodiest period.

Among them, a group of players who walked out of the "Eternal Life Train" were the most outrageous.

The lady holding the dragon-slaying sword in Safa's Grand Guild came from that train.

The man standing in front of Alexander also came from that train. He was a player who was related to the rumored [Explorer] and [Rescuer].

— "Adam Ireland."

(End of this chapter)