Don't provoke mentally ill people in the infinite flow genre!

[Damn, no wonder I still can't get on the Emerald Tower. I don't have that kind of mental fortitude. Being chased by armed thugs on the ship and having to relive the deaths of those passengers—just thinking about it is too horrible.]

[It's a major qualifying tournament, so it's normal for it to be difficult. But I've never seen anything like this before. I thought it would be a regular ghost and monster puzzle game, but the last night turned into a physical survival challenge. How can anyone survive this?]

[Because the players in this game are all too skilled. Look at Yi Zanglan, look at Yan Zhao, look at the Mirror Twins, and that Ouyang Yu, his boomerang is incredibly powerful. How could the system not increase the difficulty?]

Alright, stop researching. We can't help with that anyway. Let's just keep watching and wish them good luck.

……

Given how bloody and exciting the final night of the series was, viewers in the live stream outside the game even spoke less, all focusing their attention on something important that they might miss.

Inside the game, the seven players continued to showcase their skills in a desperate struggle for survival.

"This woman is mine now. Don't touch her. I'll make my own arrangements later."

The bandit known as Brother D was a minor leader. After being influenced by Yan Zhao's skill, he obediently led her away from the guest room.

The other bandits, assuming he had truly taken a liking to Yan Zhao, only made a few teasing remarks and didn't ask any further questions.

Yan Zhao pretended to be scared, grabbed Brother D's arm, and walked towards the hot spring resort, constantly hinting to him to try to avoid the gaze of other bandits.

When the two-minute skill duration expired and she noticed a change in his gaze, she decisively drew the tactical straight knife from his waist, plunged it into his heart, and then spun it twice to completely bury the blade inside.

"It's filthy."

She dragged the body to the nearest toilet, removed his gun, thought for a moment, and then quickly changed into his combat uniform, tightening the belt twice to secure it.

After doing all this, she quietly slipped away along the wall, intending to go upstairs through the emergency exit and try to reunite with her teammates.

Just as she reached the corner of the stairs, a person suddenly emerged from a nearby shop, covered her mouth, and dragged her inside.

The man was incredibly strong, and she couldn't break free for a moment. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed that he was also wearing combat gear and assumed he was a bandit. She immediately drew her tactical straight knife from her waist and was about to stab him in the thigh.

The next second, the hand holding the knife was firmly gripped, and the other person turned around, grabbing her arms and pinning her against the wall.

"Wow, you reacted pretty quickly."

The gentle female voice held a hint of laughter, and Yan Zhao was instantly shaken, only realizing it belatedly.

"...Lanlan?"

Upon hearing this, the other person loosened their grip, raised their hand, and pulled off their mask, revealing a face that she knew all too well.

Yan Zhao was overjoyed: "I was just about to come looking for you! How did you recognize me?"

"It's hard not to recognize her." Yi Zanglan glanced at her, then his gaze shifted downwards to the gun in her hand. "Do you know how to use it?"

"Won't."

Yi Zanglan nodded, then took the gun, removed the magazine, and demonstrated the reloading process to her in slow motion, starting from the beginning. He then pulled the slide all the way back to chamber a round and finally released the safety.

"Do you understand now?"

Yan Zhao was quick-witted and had an almost photographic memory. He immediately and confidently replied, "I understand."

"Very good, next I'll teach you how to shoot." Yi Zanglan handed the gun back to her, supported her arms from behind, and helped her adjust the angle. "Grip it firmly with both hands, bend your forearms slightly, don't tense it too much, otherwise the muzzle will deviate."

"Um."

Yan Zhao concentrated intently and followed the instructions meticulously.

"Sight sights, crosshairs, target—three points in a line. Use your intuition to aim." Yi Zanglan patiently guided her, whispering in her ear, "Relax, inhale slowly, and pull the trigger when you exhale."

Before he could finish speaking, footsteps sounded outside the corridor. A lone robber was hurrying past the shop window.

"Watch closely."

Yi Zanglan wrapped his arms around Yan Zhao, helping her lift the gun, skipping the aiming process, and decisively pulled the trigger.

boom!

The bullet whistled through the air, a single shot to the head.

"..."

Yan Zhao stood there with his gun, still looking a little dazed. He looked up and saw Yi Zanglan quickly stepping forward and removing the weapons from the corpse.

It was an assault rifle, and considering that it would be a little difficult for her to operate, Yi Zanglan decided to use it herself.

"Let's go find Yunxi first."

* * * * * *

At this moment, Tang Yunxi, along with the Jiang siblings, had just met up with Ouyang Yu and Zhang Nan.

The specific situation is as follows: Zhang Nan used his remaining two tracking skills to first find Ouyang Yu, and then found Tang Yunxi.

During the journey, Ouyang Yu was shot in the shoulder while protecting him. Currently, everyone is taking shelter in a private room at a bar to rest and bandage her wounds.

"Those beasts just finished a slaughter, they shouldn't be coming here for a while." Jiang Ling looked out through the crack in the door and saw the bartender with his head smashed lying not far away. She couldn't help but sigh. "Luckily, Yunxi brought gauze and medicine, otherwise it probably wouldn't be easy to get medicine from the medical center."

Zhang Nan was wrapping gauze around Ouyang Yu's left shoulder; the bullet hole was a bloody mess, leaving a shocking burn mark.

His movements were slow and careful; he didn't say a word the whole time, only silently shedding tears.

Ouyang Yu was afraid that he would blame himself, so she had been enduring the pain. But when she saw his tears, she couldn't help but feel helpless.

"Sigh, am I the one who got shot or are you the one who got shot? Why are you crying again? You've always been such a crybaby since you were little, and you haven't improved at all."

Zhang Nan's voice was terribly hoarse: "I...I'm useless, I can't help you, and I always...I'm just dragging you down."

"Who said that? You've clearly helped me a lot." Ouyang Yu sighed as she comforted him. "It's nothing. You're under my protection. Would I let you get hurt? If you get hurt, it'll be my loss of face."

"But I..."

"No buts. Anyway, these are just minor injuries. They won't stop me from killing those bastards."

At this moment, Tang Yunxi came over and asked tentatively.

"Miss Ouyang, do you know how to use a gun? We just confiscated two guns."

Ouyang Yu nodded: "I took two shooting lessons a long time ago and learned some firearms knowledge on my own. It's purely a hobby, not something I'm good at."

"That's enough! Please teach us how to fire the gun. We can't have guns but not know how to use them, or we can just use the butts of the guns to smash people, can we?"

"OK."

So, relying on the vague memories in her mind, Ouyang Yu demonstrated to them how to change bullets and how to load a gun.

Jiang Ling snatched two light submachine guns, which were not very heavy and had little recoil, so theoretically they could use them.

"I've already practiced with it, so I have experience," Jiang Ling volunteered and took one. "I think I can handle it. I like this gun."

Since Ouyang Yu had his own weapon, the other one was left to Tang Yunxi. Jiang Yao also found a woven bag somewhere, filled a large bag with foreign liquor bottles from the liquor cabinet, and decided to throw them out as hidden weapons at the critical moment.

"What are your thoughts? Should we continue hiding here, or go find Miss Yi and Miss Yan first?"

"I will definitely go find them," Tang Yunxi stated without hesitation, "but I won't force you."

"We can't hide here for long," Ouyang Yu said. "Besides, for both personal and professional reasons, we should go and find her, especially Miss Yi. I think she's a very important asset to our team."

At times like these, everyone must work together to have any chance of breaking through.

The others had no objections, but before they could get up and move, they suddenly felt a violent tremor in the ceiling, and an explosion came from upstairs.