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"An invisible wall...?" Ichinose's face turned deathly pale. "We're... trapped in a box?"

"Hmph, idiot."

Long Yuan snorted coldly, then turned to the nearest object and tried to wave.

Like a hot knife cutting butter, the solid wood bench slid in two, the cut surface as smooth as a mirror.

His eyelids twitched slightly, but he still tried to remain calm.

"Since this is our 'exam,' how could those idiots outside possibly have the right to interfere?"

Resigned to reality, Ichinose returned to the crowd and tried to analyze the situation, saying, "Since it's an exam at school... or rather, an exam as defined by the Black Ball, they certainly wouldn't go so far as to kill all the students."

“Yes!” Kikyo Kushida chimed in, trying to lighten the tense atmosphere. “Didn’t the black ball just say that the points earned after the exam could be exchanged for class points proportionally? Perhaps this exam was actually a ‘special project’ arranged by the school’s higher-ups, just in an exaggerated way.”

"Besides...didn't the black ball say that each of us has three chances?" Ichinose clutched her shirt as if trying to convince herself. "So even if we fail, we probably won't really die. At most, it'll just be considered expulsion, right?"

What if all three chances are used up?

Su Wei interjected unhurriedly, "Is it real death, or... just dropping out of school?"

Everyone's breath caught in their throats.

According to the rules set by Suwei, a person who dies three times or scores zero on three consecutive missions will trigger the black ball cleanup process.

Indeed, as Ichinose Honami said, the loser's memories were cleared, his injuries were healed, and he dropped out of school.

But in the minds of these gamers, this highly developed, isolated academy island is a place where they are isolated from the world.

Once the right to exist on this island is taken away, the so-called dropping out of school and death are, in a sense, no different.

It is even more frightening than death itself.

“Tsk,” Long Yuanxiang stared fiercely at the shopping street in the distance, “You don’t actually think we have any choice, do you? What we’re facing now is a one-hour hunt. And our opponents… haven’t even shown up yet.”

"Although Ryuen is rude, his quick thinking is commendable."

Sakayanagi Arisu rested her chin on her hand, raised the X-GUN in her hand, and studied the precision screen on the side.

"However, instead of agonizing over dropping out or dying, aren't you all going to take a look at what you have in your hands?"

"If the parasite suddenly jumps out, we might all be wiped out without any chance to fight back."

Upon hearing this, everyone lowered their heads.

"What's this?" Honami Ichinose noticed the LCD screen on the stock of the Y-GUN rifle, where a red dot was flashing continuously. "Is it our target?"

"Huh? So, the one with the knife has absolutely no intelligence sources?"

Long Yuanxiang frowned, staring at the ordinary gun in Su Wei's hand with hostility.

Sakayanagi Arisu, without any hesitation, turned the gun around and showed the screen to Ryuen: "For everyone's safety, I suggest you stay rational, Ryuen. Look at the screen, it's getting closer."

Long Yuan glanced at the rapidly shrinking distance on the screen and suddenly turned around.

Almost simultaneously, the automatic sensor bell rang from the side door of the convenience store not far ahead.

"Welcome!"

A lean and honest-looking shop assistant in a green uniform came out carrying two bags of trash.

He looked so ordinary, and was rubbing his neck, looking tired from working overtime.

But when he turned his head and saw Long Yuan holding a knife and a group of people with guns in the darkness, the honest look on his face vanished instantly.

"it's him?"

Long Yuanxiang raised his long blade, his muscles tensing instantly—the instinctive reaction of a wild beast encountering its predator.

The shop assistant tilted his head, his voice so deep it sounded inhuman.

"Have we been exposed?"

"He had been lying in wait perfectly, planning to wait for the girl who often came to buy red bean bread to be alone."

"Oh well, since we've already been found out..."

In everyone's contracted pupils, the shop assistant's entire face split horizontally from his eye sockets and the bridge of his nose, and his bloody, mangled tentacles danced under the dim streetlights!

"Then let them all die here."

"Shh!"

Long Yuanxiang felt a coolness on his cheek, and a few strands of hair floated in the air.

The vending machine behind him had been cut in half.

The beverage cans rolled all over the ground, making a screeching sound.

The monster, however, sighed with regret:

"...It's off-center."

"So annoying."

Volume 1: Chapter 4 The Death of Ryuen