You tell me, this is called daily youth?

On the contrary, this is the most stressful thing, like waiting for the other shoe to drop.

The shadow stroking me couldn't be a demon, tut, it turned out to be the flower pot outside the window; the disinfectant smells so strong, is it some kind of hallucinogenic toxin? I quickly pinched my arm.

After being suspicious for more than ten minutes, Yuki suddenly raised his hand.

Hey.

The footsteps stopped in unison, and some drew their guns, some took up their knives, and they all looked around alertly. Mai turned his head this way and that, but could not see anything.

"What happened?"

"Look forward."

Several people turned their gaze forward, and their eyes twitched slightly.

The corridor is very long and extends forward. The wall lamps look like yellow rice grains in the distance. The visible distance is about ten meters. There is fog lingering farther away, and you can only see clearly by moving forward.

There weren't any scary demons, but there was no stairwell at the end of the corridor.

Yuki immediately activated the Demon Eye, and saw only a cold darkness, just like the 'Nine Turns of the Large Intestine' he saw in the monitoring room.

Hiss, this is a new way of playing.

"Hiyori, how many meters are left?"

The girl had just looked at the floor evacuation map and estimated based on the scale, and replied, "About 110 meters."

It’s not far away, why can’t I see the door?

Several players looked at each other in bewilderment; they really didn't expect the other party to do this.

"Empty city plan?"

"He's not that stupid. He should have gotten the hint long ago and realized that we can't afford to waste time."

"That's psychological warfare."

"That's possible, but don't forget that the lower the floor, the more things he can do. It can't be underestimated."

Everyone has experienced this. The fourth and fifth floors are still blocked by puppets, and the third floor can bridge the gap between reality and abnormality. God knows what the second floor can do.

How to do?

Yuuki glanced at the digital clock and clenched his teeth, calculating that the players could not stop moving forward, and perhaps he also guessed that the weakened demon was some kind of chaos item.

"Go ahead, don't waste a second."

No one objected to the rash suggestion. Every player knew that in the reincarnation game, hesitating was the worst option.

This opponent is very smart and has the advantages of home court and intelligence, but where is the time to slowly think of countermeasures?

"Wait a moment."

After taking two steps with all their might, they were stopped by Yuki again. They turned their heads around feeling a little at a loss.

"No matter how reckless you are, or how cowardly you are, Hasaka, take that thing out." Yuki lowered his head, a sinister smile on his face.

"Let's take a chance on it."

......

Yuki was the last one to step into the black fog. Before entering, even though they were on the same floor, the signal on the intercom was completely lost.

It was as if a black cloth was covering his eyes. He could not see Sakurajima Mai, who should have been half a meter away. He could only hear the dense footsteps and the soft touch in his hand.

One step forward into the unknown.

This situation is creepy, it's worse than facing a powerful demon. In addition, the touch under the feet is also problematic, it's soft, like stepping on the floor.

"Everyone be careful, there's something strange in this corridor!" The tyrant's voice came, and it sounded very nervous.

Even the most powerful player would feel guilty in this dark environment. Mai opened her eyes wide and squeezed Yuki so hard with her palms that it hurt a little.

The fear in her heart grew like a tsunami. If Hayasaka Ai hadn't been blocking her way, she would have ignored everything, closed her eyes, gritted her teeth, and ran wildly across the hundred-meter-long corridor.

"Calm down, calm down. You pinched me and hurt me. Are you so afraid of ghosts?" The man's voice came, and it was so strange as if he was speaking into a loudspeaker, but it made people feel at ease.

"Aren't you afraid? What the hell is this place?" The senior student didn't want to argue anymore. She turned her head back and forth, but she couldn't see anything.

After she finished speaking, her beautiful eyes widened a little more because she couldn't hear Yuuki's answer.

"Speak up, don't you usually talk so much nonsense?"

There was no answer, her heart was pounding, Mai exerted force as if she was using a handgrip, and then raised her voice:

"Hey, you can act like a pig all you want now, I won't be angry, but if you dare to scare me on purpose, I will definitely settle the score with you."

The voice was trembling a little, and Mai suddenly realized that not only could she not hear Yuki's answer, but even the footsteps and breathing sounds around her disappeared, and then there was the touch of the handshake.

I felt like I was thrown into a deserted desert and couldn't help but want to scream.

Before she could open her mouth and make the loudest sound in her life, her steps paused.

A cold and slippery touch was clearly transmitted to the calves through the hiking pants, and a chill went from the calves to the tips of the hair.

In the lightless corridor, an invisible demon grabbed her legs, and the already soft floor turned into a swamp, dragging her into the bottomless abyss.

For a moment, she waved her arms around like a drowning person, but she couldn't feel anything even though she should have been holding Yuki's hand.

Am I going to die on the second floor?

As soon as this tendency emerged, it spread uncontrollably. I instinctively swung my hands hard, but the more I swung, the more obvious the feeling of being pulled became.

My head felt like it was stuck in water. No matter how hard I tried, air couldn't enter my nasal cavity. My consciousness spread with the suffocation. My body was sinking, but my soul was flying upwards lightly.

Death is coming.

The struggling hands began to drop, and a feeling of relief and relaxation emerged. Just when the endless darkness was about to swallow up the soul, the drowning feeling suddenly disappeared.

Swah——

Just as she opened her mouth to breathe, her hearing returned, and then she felt the touch of a sharp blade scratching her calf. Mai felt as if someone grabbed her neck and pulled her out of the quagmire.

Without any thought, she instinctively turned around and clung to her life-saving straw, like a moth to a flame, leaning her face towards the direction of her pounding heartbeat.

The sound of heartbeat is like the only light in the darkness. After the near-death experience, I wish I could drill into the other person's chest.

"Okay, senior, if you want to be an octopus, we'll have plenty of time to exchange poses after we return."

As the hot air brushed past her ears and the man's slightly teasing voice sounded, the feeling of shame returned, and Sakurajima Mai's face turned red like boiling water.

But unlike before, she held the other person tightly and refused to let go, and was soon covered by the gray mist of demon possession.

"Okay, then hold on tight, lift your legs up, and clamp your arms around my waist." Yuki felt a little regretful that he couldn't see the shy and helpless octopus pose of his senior, and he wasn't in the mood to take advantage of the opportunity.

He hadn’t intentionally frightened Mai just now, watching her perform performance art in the middle of the corridor. Link City itself had been attacked by the corridor, but the difference was—

"My demon eyes can see different scenery."

It was pitch black to the naked eye, but in the red eyes with strange patterns there was a different kind of scenery.

The corridor was still the same corridor, without any quagmire or signs of sinking. In his eyes, Tyrant, Hayasaka Ai, and Shiina Hikaru were shiny black, and looked like three stick figures performing performance art.

The first two were swinging their limbs crazily and pulling the trigger with bang bang bang sounds. Shiina Hiyori was better off, lying on the ground with his head in his hands, waiting to die.

It looked a little crazy, but Yuki looked up and saw a darker arm sticking out of the floor in the black fog.

It was also black and blurry, and it stretched out its twisted body like a newborn baby and crawled towards his head.

It was going to play a prank on me, cover my eyes, plug my ears, and then spread all over my body like slime, finally forming an outer coat, depriving the player of their five senses and breathing.

Swah——

Yuki cut the baby in half with a knife, letting it fall to the ground, lying together with several similar black light corpses. Then he hugged the senior with one hand, held the knife with the other hand, and moved forward with a light flick of his wrist.

The blade passed by, cutting the "leather case" just right, only tearing the girl's dress and leaving a faint line of blood.

In addition to these invisible demons emitting black light, Yuuki actually couldn't see Shiina Hiyori who had escaped. He swung the sword based on the feel of his hand. He passed by and said only one sentence:

"Come on, keep moving at a steady pace as before, and if you feel similar again, just do the noodle dance on the spot."

"I understand." Shiina Hiyori crossed her arms and quickly stood up. Since she didn't see Yuki, she followed him slowly as he said.

Invisible to the naked eye, the demon's eye could only see the demon, and as if inspired by his counterattack, more and more baby arms stretched out from the floor.

Yuki cut off the opponent as he appeared, and walked towards Hayasaka Ai in front of him. When he was still a few meters away, he saw that she suddenly stopped "going crazy".

He turned around decisively, raised his right hand, and aimed accurately at his own head in the darkness.

Click.

The hammer was cracked, the magazine was turned, and countless arms swaying like seaweed were the background.

The death knell is about to ring!

Chapter 33: Through the Devil's Corridor (Part 1)

In the long and narrow corridor, the ringing of the death knell was enough to clear a direction, but seeing Hayasaka Ai raising the gun, Yuki was not panicked, but seemed to be thinking about something.

Not only can it smother people to death like a slime, but it can also control their bodies?

A major discovery, then he rushed forward towards the muzzle of the gun, and after a 'click' sound, the trigger could not be pulled.

Land Contract: Team members cannot launch fatal attacks against each other.

now it's right.

Yuki opened his eyes wide and rushed forward faster. This meant that the devil could control the player's body, but the player was still a player and was still bound by the rules.

This is only the first level. This rule at most allows Yuuki to protect himself. When Hayasaka Ai takes the initiative to face the challenge, it seems like she is going to sacrifice herself.

Yuki flicked his wrist, and the heavy blow became gentle.

On the second level, non-lethal attacks can be effective.

Swah——

The death knell could not ring, but the blade cutting was effective. Of course, the devil did not know the rules of the contract and acted only on instinct, which happened to fall into Yuki's trick.

"Keep up, hold onto Hiyori, keep pace with her, and don't stop."

The two men passed each other, and Yuki did not stop and ran straight to the tyrant in the front. The other party seemed to have discovered the problem and was controlling him to walk into the wall, at least to take one person away.

But the tyrant was very powerful after all, and he was not as easily controlled as Hayasaka Ai. He struggled, and only his left shoulder hit the wall.

The fog was as thick as a quagmire, and more baby arms stretched out, like dark lines, pulling him deeper.

The corridor in front of Yuuki stretched out his arms like swaying seaweed, not only holding him, but also climbing up the calves of Hiyori and Hayasaka Ai behind him.

The blade slashed through, splitting everything in half. Yuki realized that he was a little behind, and growled:

"Left front, forty-five degrees, shotgun fire."

Hayasaka Ai, who was about to shoot at the foot, did not hesitate. She raised the gun by instinct, took aim, and sounded the death knell.

boom! !

Like the firing of a twelve-pound infantry gun, hundreds of shotgun shells cleared the walls and the ground. Since Hayasaka Ai couldn't see, she would just cover them with bombardment.

The road ahead was cleared, Yuki suddenly accelerated, pounced forward, cut off dozens of baby arms with a backhand knife, leaned forward, cut through the "leather sheath", and pulled the tyrant out from inside.

All of a sudden, the tyrant was in darkness again, but he could hear the heavy breathing of the man next to him, as if he almost suffocated.

But at this time, Yuki didn't have time to comfort him and quickly looked around.

The floor, ceiling, and both sides of the corridor were all covered with baby arms, so densely packed that based on the direction they were extending from, the Devil's Eye could roughly locate the positions of several people.

There were endless arms, and it was not only inefficient to cover them by myself, but it was also impossible to leave the corridor. Fortunately, every teammate remained calm and composed.

Under heavy pressure, they still moved forward at a constant speed as ordered, which greatly reduced the amount of calculations required by Yuki while keeping the speed constant.

Calculate, think, and report.

"Stick to my back and walk backwards, seven meters ahead, burning bullets."

Boom!

The Tyrant demonstrated the qualities of a veteran player. Even though his breathing had not yet returned to normal, he was still able to shoot accurately according to Yuki's instructions.

Flames bloomed right in front of Hayasaka Ai's feet, but there was no light in the black fog, only the arm blocking the way was burned to ashes.

effective.

Yuki turned around and continued on his way, his back to the crowd, his brain calculating constantly.

One hundred meters in, the speed of Hayasaka Ai and the others, the distance from herself and the tyrant, the speed at which those arms extended...