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The woman on the ground, who had been obedient from beginning to end, suddenly revealed an extremely eerie smile at the corner of her mouth when she just lifted her head.

It looked extremely unsettling.

But fortunately, he wasn't afraid.

"Transform."

In the instant he pressed the woman's head down, the staff in Chen Yi's hand suddenly thrust out like a spear, aiming directly at the woman's head in an attempt to kill her with one strike.

He didn't understand what had happened to this woman, but the sudden and unexpected change led him to quickly deduce that she had become an unstable and potentially explosive element.

Eliminating her at the first opportunity was the only thing he should do.

"Crack."

Successful hit.

The woman's head, as fragile as cheesecake, was successfully pierced by the staff.

But the next second—

Her head suddenly split into two, and grew wildly, turning into two terrifying saw-toother heads full of fangs, which bit furiously towards Chen Yi's head like man-eating plants!

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At the critical moment, a blue streak of light swiftly slashed across the woman's neck.

The two horrific, fanged heads suddenly froze in place, then lost their source of power, and their body slowly fell to the ground. The fanged heads slowly merged back into the woman's original head on the ground.

After rolling a few times on the ground with eyes full of unwillingness, they then stared straight at Chen Yi.

Her mouth opened and closed a few times, but before she could say a word, the light in her eyes quickly faded.

Dead beyond doubt.

"Are you alright?"

Sword Without End retracted the blue light—it was he who had acted, killing the woman who had suddenly mutated.

Chen Yi stood still and did not speak, only the staff in his hand, which had reverted to a sniper rifle, once again transformed into staff.

He had a prop known as the Septagon Badge.

When activated, it could instantly transform into a hundred gun muzzles, dealing a fatal blow to the enemy.

Based on the special effects of his sniper rifle, it could essentially form a guaranteed deadly attack.

It's just that Sword Without End was a bit too fast. Before he had time to activate the Septagon Badge, Sword Without End had already killed the suddenly mutated woman.

This also saved him a sum of Points and the charge of the Septagon Badge.

"What's going on here?"

Tuberculosis Rabbit stood puzzled in front of the woman's body, continuously poking at the cross-sectional wound on the woman's neck with chopsticks, "What's with this woman? Why did she mutate all of a sudden?"

"There was not even a sign, isn't it too abrupt?"

"Hmm?"

Just then, he seemed to have thought of something, took off the woman's clothes, and looked at the immaculate corpse in front of him.

Tuberculosis Rabbit stood in silence.

On the woman's stomach, he saw a row of text tattooed like markings.

"Hell Player."

"After killing 10 players within the map, a revival to Blue Star is granted."

The string of text, as if freshly branded, was red-hot on the woman's pale abdomen, but then it slowly disappeared, as if it had never existed.

"This line of text wasn't here before."

Chen Yi shook his head and began with a slight frown, "It appeared after she died."

He had been standing with his staff the whole time and had observed the woman several times, never spotting any tattoos on her abdomen, which indicated that this text appeared only after the woman's death.

Hell Player?

Can revive and return to Blue Star after killing 10 players within the map?

Does this mean that this woman was already a dead player from Blue Star?

Is there really such a world as Hell, where the dead can exist?

And by completing certain tasks, one can even revive?

These two lines of text contained a lot of information.

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A hint of strangeness flashed through Tuberculosis Rabbit's eyes, "I think I understand what's happening. It means this woman was a player who had died on Blue Star and became a Hell Player."

"We belong to opposing camps."

"So just by killing enough players within the map to reach the count of ten, she could have been revived?"

"But the problem is, this woman had a watch unique to this map, is it something a player could obtain? It looks like she was an original resident of this map."

"Maybe... she had just logged on recently."

Chen Yi interjected suddenly with a chill, he began to vaguely understand some of the hidden rules of this map.

The woman had been acting normally at the start, and it was likely that her sudden mutation was due to the Hell Player logging on.

This also explained why their abrupt arrival at the café had not caused any commotion.

Before the three of them arrived,

Three people were sitting inside the café. After their arrival, they took control of the bodies, and since it was just the consciousness switching, naturally, it didn't raise any alarm.

To outsiders, they had been sitting there from the start to the end.

But the problem was, he had already considered this possibility and meticulously checked his own body, which was definitely his own, even down to the small hair in his right atrium.

It was unique to him, irreplaceable.

For some reason, a small hair had started growing at his right atrium, about half a finger long, protruding starkly from the skin and appearing extremely conspicuous.

"Is there really a hell?"

Standing aside, Sword Without End's body froze on the spot. His previously indifferent eyes suddenly blossomed with unprecedented brilliance. He abruptly turned his head to look at Chen Yi and the other person, "Doesn't that mean I have the chance to resurrect some people who died in the past?"

"Like my lover?"

"Um..."

Tuberculosis Rabbit pondered for a while before speaking, "Although I don't want to crush your hopes, I think this Hell Player probably only refers to players who have died in the past few months."

"People who died before probably don't count as Hell Players."

"Otherwise, think about those historical figures. If they appeared on the same map as us, how much hope do you think we would have to win?"

"Not to mention anything else."

"Just like in City 13, where the class distinction between the Upper City and Lower City is so solidified and clear. If you let that art student who failed his college entrance exams become a Hell Player and come to this map, do you believe it wouldn't take many days before City 13 starts preparing for an uprising?"

"That's kind of scary."

Sword Without End was stunned for a moment, a bit disappointed, but the light in his eyes didn't completely fade away; he still held onto a sliver of hope.

What if?

What if there was such a possibility?

"Let's go."

Chen Yi didn't plan to dawdle. He intended to personally check out this map for himself. With the sled's speed, no matter how big the map was, he could investigate it thoroughly before leaving.

In the upper left corner of his personal panel was a plan view of this map.

His location was marked as Greenpoint, while the Law Enforcement Bureau in District 78 was marked as a red dot, a few blocks away from them—and also their target destination.

They needed to kill a prisoner inside the Law Enforcement Bureau.

"Get in."

The next second—

"Bang!"

Leaving behind a chaotic scene, Chen Yi and his companions smashed through the floor-to-ceiling windows with the sled, burst out of the building, quickly gained altitude, and started sprinting towards the edge of the map at high speed!

Only dozens of minutes later!

They saw the edge of the map.

An imposing air wall with a viscous liquid inside, yellowish and mixed with white granules.

Just like the air wall in the wilderness map.

"What... what is this?"

Sword Without End, seeing this scene for the first time, was somewhat shocked and stood rooted to the spot.

"Just an air wall."

Tuberculosis Rabbit casually glanced at it and said, "It's nothing to be surprised about. It looks like this map also has an air wall. After hearing what that man said, I actually thought we'd see some sort of desolate planet."

Chen Yi didn't speak, but simply controlled the sled to start circumnavigating the perimeter of the map at high speed.

Without any exceptions.

The entire city was enveloped within this air wall, with numerous armed helicopters rising to chase after them, but regrettably, they simply couldn't catch up.

Even the rocket launchers fired at them failed to see their exhaust, making it impossible to accurately lock on to their targets.

The speed gap was too large.

No fighter jets or missiles were seen, whether they hadn't taken off, or they simply weren't there.

Two hours later.

They had driven at high speed around the perimeter of the map by the edge of City 13.

It was a completely enclosed city.

Completely self-sustaining.

At the same time, they also saw what was called the Upper City.

A large stretch of farmland.

There, a vast number of crops were grown, and every household seemed to have some livestock and poultry, which looked somewhat similar to the rural areas on Blue Star—this was the so-called Upper City.

People here didn't need to eat artificially produced food but could enjoy the original taste of food.

The coffee they drank was also made from freshly ground coffee beans.

Not some human coffee maker.

The meals they ate were also cooked from the vegetables and poultry in their backyards.

Not some human food preparation machine.

Each household had a standalone courtyard, but actually, if you put aside the food, according to the concepts on Blue Star, these buildings looked more like slums.

...

Inside the city library.

Chen Yi kept flipping through paper books, then suddenly laughed, turning to look at Tuberculosis Rabbit, "Do you know how hard it is to create a real world?"

"Uh..."

Tuberculosis Rabbit, squatting in the corner puffing on a cigarette and indulging in comic books, suddenly paused and looked puzzled, "What do you mean? I don't understand."

"It's quite simple."

Chen Yi tossed the paper book he was holding back into the shelf and then picked up another one, "If you want to build a real planet, that planet must possess its own unique culture."

"Including philosophy, historical stories, myths and legends, and so on."

"All these things are different on each planet; different planets cannot give birth to the same culture."

"And the philosophical thought on this planet is almost a carbon copy of Blue Star's. The historical stories are either missing or also simply emulating Blue Star. Several history books, when opened, turn out to be blank; they are merely white paper with not a single word on them."