He suddenly stopped and waved his hand impassively.

The two people behind him immediately fell silent.

Kaneda Satoru adjusted his glasses, squinted, and looked down the corridor toward a shadowy spot illuminated by a faint fluorescent light.

There, a dark figure slowly strolled out.

"This size..."

Satoru Kaneda swallowed hard.

"It doesn't seem like a normal adult. The gait is steady but not fast... It's not a Kabane, nor does it seem like an incorporeal evil spirit."

"Could it be... a parasite?"

He suddenly felt a toothache: "Wait a minute, according to Longyuan, the parasitic beasts are mostly hidden high-scoring bosses. We just landed, it's unlikely we'd hit the jackpot right away, right?"

Koji Machida's lips twitched slightly as he lowered his voice and cursed:

"Shut up! If it were really a parasite, you wouldn't have bothered to pretend and just said it outright. Wouldn't that just give it a reason to kill you?"

“It’s alright,” Kaneda Satoru gritted his teeth. “We don’t need to run from the small monsters, but we can’t run from the big ones… How about we take a gamble? We have two lives anyway.”

Machida Koji was silent.

Just as his eyes were flickering, and he was about to abandon Kaneda Satoru and call on Ayanokouji, who seemed relatively normal, to run away together.

"Thump, thump, thump!"

A series of hurried footsteps suddenly came from the corridor behind them.

Wolf in front, tiger behind?

Before the sense of despair created by the pincer attack could even rise, a familiar, distinctly human voice rang out in the empty corridor.

"Stop dawdling and still discussing some bullshit tactics!"

"Look ahead, that monster's face is practically touching your noses! If you ask me, when you encounter one that's alone, just charge straight at it!"

Upon hearing this, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji's eye twitched almost imperceptibly.

“It’s Sudo, from our class.”

Kaneda Satoru and Machida Koji finally breathed a sigh of relief.

As Sudo Ken arrived, the dark figure in front of him stopped.

With the help of the setting sun's afterglow, everyone finally saw what it looked like.

It was a hunched creature, wearing an ill-fitting suit, with a human-like build but arms that almost reached the ground, and a wrinkled ape-like face.

"this......"

Koji Machida was stunned: "Did the gorilla cheat on its partner, or did a brother and sister have an affair? This thing looks so abstract!"

Kaneda Satoru and Ayanokouji were also surprised; the art style was indeed somewhat bizarre, almost like a joke.

But before they could think it through, Ken Sudo, who had arrived, spoke first.

"Holy crap! I was wondering why that picture looked so familiar. Turns out it really is that inhuman gorilla!"

Takeru Sudo brandished his sword, pointing it directly at the gorilla-man, his face full of mockery:

"Haha, perfect! Now I must show you beasts at the bottom of the food chain why humans are at the top!"

Kiyotaka Ayanokoji frowned.

Judging from Sudo's reaction, the gorilla in front of him is clearly one of the targets of this Black Ball test.

The problem is that the black ball only provides the monster's characteristics and verbal tic, and never directly reveals its fatal weakness.

This means that the true combat strength of any monster can only be determined after a fight.

'Speaking of which...'

This is probably one of the reasons why Hirata didn't disclose Su Wei and Kushida's identities together.

This will prevent those blindly confident fools in the class from thinking they can take advantage of an experienced person's help.

Hirata's worries came true so quickly... or should we call it Murphy's Law?

Ayanokouji pondered for a moment, then took a half-step back with remarkable ease, hiding himself in the shadows of Kaneda and Machida.

To everyone's surprise,

Faced with Sudo Ken's provocation, the gorilla-man did not rage and attack like a wild beast.

It simply looked up at Takeshi Sudo, its face expressionless, and said:

"Actually... I just wanted to ask for directions."

"But I'm very interested in what you just said."

The gorilla tugged at his tight suit and tie, as if uncomfortable with his human attire:

"Although by biological definition, you humans do seem to be at the top of the food chain in this world."

"But unfortunately, I have not seen any fundamental difference between the humans of your world and the humans of the world I was born in."

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