As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 483: The Chess Game of the Weak
The other world, the city center.

Inside the tall tower that symbolizes the power of the city of Minas, densely packed insect eggs are scattered throughout the corridors.

There are a total of one hundred and ninety-nine insect eggs.

They look like soft corn kernels covered with dark red blood vessels. They are hung from the ceiling, and when the wind blows, they make a "crying" sound like wind chimes.

The chimera ant queen raised her face.

The queen ant is a giant chimera ant over two meters long. It cannot speak and can only use telepathic mental waves to transmit information to other chimera ants. However, it has emotions and has genes from other intelligent creatures mixed in its body.

She noticed the uninvited guest and said with her mind: [Come out... I'm still a little short, I can't let anyone... disturb me. ]

The layers of insect eggs fluoresced, responding to the queen's call. They illuminated the dark building like lanterns.

The blood threads on the eggs closer to the queen ant spread out like a spider web, and after squirming a few times, some of them began to burst.

Bang~!

A figure fell out of the wet egg.

The queen ant instructed: [Cuckoo, bring back their brains. ]

The player from the Death Corridor looks at her Queen.

"it is good."

……

There are a large number of vampires hiding in the other world, so it is very easy to find the leader.

The three Hodum brothers plus Shao Hong, even if the four of them were considered "useless", were more than enough to deal with the leader. Therefore, within twenty minutes, the four of them basically got back most of the equipment.

"Now I understand."

Hodum put on his [Triple Jump Boots] and stomped the ground with the soles of his shoes a few times. He found them extremely comfortable.

"The vampire leader hid for some reason, and he hid in this space."

"So... everything is clear now, right?"

Shao Hong paused for a moment and asked, "Hodum, is the matter of the Chimera Ants reliable?"

Hodum adjusted his sunglasses and looked at the high-rise buildings in the city center.

【Chimera Ant's Nest】

"Seventy percent is reliable. If the answer is the same after multiple verifications, it can be raised to around 80 percent."

Shao Hong took a deep breath, took out a tablet, and recorded all the information he had discovered in it:
First, there are the invisible bugs all over the city. Those creatures come from the other world, and they carry viruses and live on humans or other creatures, injecting the viruses into the human body.

Viruses are: transmission links.

The mutated fungus lives in the blood. Not everyone will be infected. According to analysis, the infection rate is 2%.

In fact, everyone in the entire city of Minas has been infected with the virus.

Once the virus breaks out, the host immediately turns into a vampire.

Vampire: Not a race of blood in the broad sense, but a blood bag that sucks blood.

The vampire leader...

Shao Hong paused for a moment.

"Speaking of which, why did the vampire leader become the bounty target of the Cairo expedition team?"

The [Cairo Guard Bandit Badge] worn by the player belongs to the "Cairo Expedition Team". In theory, it has nothing to do with the player's mission, but the result is that as long as the vampire leader is killed, it will help the Cairo Expedition Team solve the problem and obtain equipment recycling rewards.

In response to this incident, Shao Hong used his computer to open his own network connection library.

【Extract Cairo World Data】

[Consume 10000 gold coins]

"Just spend my personal gold coins."

[Verifying...]

The three brothers came over and were somewhat surprised by Shao Hong's equipment.

"Awesome, sister, you are a top exploration player."

"Thanks to Mr. Johannesson and Luo Lei, without them, I would not be able to explore the world."

Shao Hong's equipment is almost all for exploration. She is a small-scale [Explorer], so Johannesson said that she is the most important person. Even Li Nuo, who has only spoken a few words to her, agrees.

【Verification completed! 】

Shao Hong immediately turned down the volume of her tablet computer, as she was worried about disturbing any monsters nearby.

[According to the expedition team's data report, two teams have recently experienced "abnormal biological invasions". The status is: interstellar hunters suddenly mutated and indiscriminately attacked surrounding creatures. Their ultimate goal is to suck blood. Since only two similar situations have been found, the danger is considered to be negligible. ]

[Vampire leader: Let’s call him that for the time being. In the two attacks, the leader played an important role. The leaders are all high-ranking people. It is preliminarily determined that killing the leader can control the vampire phenomenon. Since the leaders are people with "status", they are dangerous to a certain extent. Killing them can earn commissions. ]

Shao Hong touched his chin. The problem was more serious than he had imagined.

"Sister, this thing of yours... I remember that I had to spend a lot of money to buy it from the Cairo aliens, right?"

Huodum was very knowledgeable and he could tell that Shao Hong's tablet computer had a long history.

"Mr. Johannesson got it for me."

Shao Hong tied her hair up into a ponytail.

The weakness on the woman's face disappeared, and her eyes showed the shrewdness of an analyst.

She continued to record the analyzed information on the tablet:

Vampire leaders: They are of great significance. As leaders, they dominate the actions of vampires, similar to the only brain of a cluster of creatures. The most terrifying thing is that most of the vampire leaders are "top talents" in various industries. The awakening of these guys means that the things behind them can directly control a region, a city, or even a country.

And so on.

What exactly is the role of vampires?

They suck blood and spread viruses, but the probability of inducing viruses is actually not high.

When Shao Hong reached a bottleneck, Huo Dumu gave her an important message.

"I can see through my sunglasses that a large amount of magic factors are emerging from the ground and are being conducted to the high-rise building where the ant nest is located."

Shao Hong frowned slightly, and then his mind started to open up.

"Vampires absorb blood, decompose it into magic factors, transmit it into this world, and then transfer it to the queen ant, so that the queen ant can absorb the energy?"

Queen ant, the queen of chimera ants.

Chimera Ant: A creature from Hunter x Hunter.

The harm mainly comes from its reproduction method which is different from other organisms: feeding and mating.

As the name suggests, they can lay offspring as long as they eat. They do not need to mate and lay eggs. Moreover, their appetite becomes extremely strong during the breeding period. They can eat several times their own body weight in a day. They will lay 1 to 5 eggs each time they eat.

Because different individuals have different preferences for food, they are also called "gourmet ants."

Through feeding and mating, chimera ants can eat other organisms and produce a chimera ant offspring with the characteristics of that organism. In other words, the richer the variety of food, the more diverse the genes of the offspring.

If the Chimera Ant eats the player, if it eats the Cairo alien, what kind of monster will be born?

In order to verify this conclusion, Shao Hong dug out his right eye with his fingers without hesitation.

The three brothers gasped at the bloody scene. The contrast between Shao Hong’s decisiveness and her usual image was amazing.

[Detection and Secret Eyeballs]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Effect: Release a huge exploration circle with a radius of five kilometers. The location and properties of all creatures in the area can be sensed by the user.]

[Negative status: can only be used for ten seconds, vision deteriorates after use]

[Brief description: Xiao Ming crushed his eyeballs and found that there were billions of himself around him. He suddenly realized that everyone was running a race.]

Shao Hong raised his eyeball into the air, and it turned into a wave of air in mid-air and spread in all directions.

【Players: 31】

【Strength: High】

The eyes give clues.

The players gathered almost all in the high-rise building where the ant nest was located.

"Oops……"

Shao Hong still remembers the player who attacked Li Nuo in the "Death Corridor". In his memory, thirty-one guild players disappeared collectively.

But their appearance here means that the group of players has established a connection with the Chimera Ants.

When the three brothers saw Shao Hong's face turn bad, they all realized the seriousness of the problem.

Shao Hong frowned and asked, "Hodum, is there any way to go back?"

Hodum: “No.”

The four of them need to hide and wait for Johannesson and Lino to rescue them.

"Girl, let's hide first."

Huo Dumu patted Shao Hong's shoulder, his eyes were firm behind his sunglasses.

"The three of us can protect you."

"Thank you, thank you..."

Shao Hong bit her thin lip. Could she really put her life and the lives of her companions in the hands of others? Could she really believe that if I did nothing, they would be able to live in peace?
The chimera ants will eventually give birth to a "king", who will be born to reign at the pinnacle of biological power.

If the queen ant eats the power of the player or the Cairo people, there is a chance that the "king" will be a god-level creature with immortal power.

Shao Hong didn't know how capable Li Nuo was, and wasn't sure whether the [Low Blood Man] could eliminate the "King".

She only knew that Johannesson and Luo Lei didn't have that ability.

At this moment, a black shadow was reflected on Hodum's sunglasses. The shadow was very far away, but in an instant it brought malicious intent like a devil. Surprisingly, he and Shao Hong had not noticed any malicious intent before.

A shadow descends nearby, a woman, a player.

cuckoo.

From "Death Corridor".

All players, including Hodum, received the signal that an [invader] had been discovered.

"take it easy."

Du Juan comforted them and looked around at the four players of the Endless Corridor.

"The [Residual Blood] is not here?"

Dujuan raised the corner of her mouth when she didn't see the legendary "Li Nuo".

"Great."

Shao Hong yelled, "Run!"

She had equipment that could detect the strength of enemy data, and the "Cuckoo" that appeared was far stronger than Shao Hong and his four companions.

The murderous intent was overwhelming.

The malice sweeping around.

An extremely terrifying feeling of oppression.

Super standard!
The road was rustling with the sound of plowing, and the team brought by Dujuan was like the dark shadows that spread rapidly after the sunset, standing on the high ground around them one by one.

The lives given birth to by the queen ant include not only players but also soldiers.

They learn things very quickly. In a technological society, the first thing they need to learn is the use of thermal weapons.

For example, a bazooka.

boom--!
Shao Hong raised her eyes in the flames. Du Juan was standing in front of her. With just a blink of an eye, she slapped Shao Hong's head, turning it into bloody foam.

This scene stunned Hodum.

The memory of being wiped out by the "End of Corridor" was recalled again.

Du Juan wiped the blood off his hands and looked at Shao Hong's headless body, feeling that something was wrong.

The big tree of one of the three brothers changed into plants and surrounded the azalea, but was uprooted by the woman with her strange power. Sancho, the second of the three brothers, pulled out a longbow from the box on his back, took out three feather arrows, aimed at the cuckoo, tightened the bowstring with his thumb, and had a cold look in his eyes.

Arrows that can pierce fantasy world steel cannot penetrate Dujuan's skin, and her physical stats are as high as "450".

There were elements of magic left inside the bow, which ignited an explosion of light and fire, wrapping Dujuan in it.

The woman walked out of the fire step by step, her body being engulfed by the flames. Her skinless cheeks were wriggling with flesh and blood, and she gritted her sharp white teeth. The flames could burn her to death, but with only this little fire, it was meaningless.

Dujuan's eyes slowly pierced upwards.

In an instant, Sancho was crushed by the shadow, and a gorilla born by the queen ant flew down from high above and bent his back with one punch.

Hodum saw his two brothers lose so quickly, and as the only one who was not a fighting type, he knelt down.

"I am willing to join you...I can tell you about them."

It was he who was said to have protected Shao Hong, and it was also he who was said to have been a traitor.

Du Juan nodded.

A tail instantly shot out from the buttocks and lifted up Hodum's head.

She took out the brain and looked at the gorilla next to her.

"Tell the queen ant that the tasty 'player' has been obtained."

Dujuan drew the reward for killing the player and got Hodum's sunglasses.

"That's it..."

She wore sunglasses, looked at Shao Hong's body, and realized the problem.

"This woman is still alive."

……

Shao Hong opened her eyes, breathing heavily, her cheeks flushed with nervousness.

"That was a close call..." [Clone]

[Type: Active Skills]

[Effect: Create a clone, and the original body's aura is taken away by the clone. After the clone dies, it will give others the illusion that the "original body" is dead.]

She used [Bone Marrow Ash] to amplify the most basic [Clone] skill to a "+10" life-saving skill.

Shao Hong is very timid.

She usually acts as a clone, and her real body is usually hidden in a secret corner.

The alien space is a replica of the city. The lights of "reality" cannot reach here, and there is only darkness.

Shao Hong sat in a cafe without a waiter. She took out the clone's tablet from her waist bag, turned on the screen, and wrote down all the information on it.

Then she took out the [Super Brain Magnetic Disk] from her pocket. This was what Li Nuo got when he killed the "Death Corridor" player. It could record the contents of blurred images and gave it to her companions.

The magnetic disk touches the temple and turns into blue particles that enter the brain, which means it is equipped.

She has decided to look for the ant nest.

According to the setting of "Hunter x Hunter", if the King Ant is born through "Caesarean section", his power will be weakened. Letting the King Ant appear earlier may be a solution.

If possible, Shao Hong decided to use her own eyes to convey the truth and turn what she saw into the final "death video" to allow Johannesson and Luo Lei to survive. This was the last duty she could fulfill as a useless teammate.

She took out the thermos cup that Li Nuo had given her.

[Aura Potion: After drinking it, a circular aura with a radius of 50 meters is released. Within this aura, your presence is slightly weakened.]

When I unscrewed the bottle cap, the smell made me feel like I was wandering in a dry toilet.

Shao Hong took a deep breath, pinched her nose and drank the medicine.

Twenty minutes later.

Shao Hong used the effect of [Breath Potion] to sneak into the high-rise building where the ant nest was located.

In reality, this is the gathering center for the city's wealthy class.

The corridor was pitch black. Players' vision naturally improved after reaching level 80, but the degree of adaptation to darkness varied from person to person. Above the floors, huge ant eggs served as guiding lights.

Shao Hong met some cute little guys here.

Among them was a Cairo alien.

"(_) Do you like it?"

When Cairo asked this question with a cute expression, Shao Hong was horrified.

"Unappetizing……"

"That's it."

Shao Hong continued to record information, and the queen ant gave birth to the hybrid Cairo Jun.

She probably understood why the script difficulty was level 200.

Shao Hong left a clone here, while the real body continued to explore upwards. Whenever an accident occurred, the clone would immediately self-destruct, triggering the effect of "appearing to be dead to others".

For the effect to trigger, someone must witness the doppelganger's death.

"Hey……"

Shao Hong mustered up the courage to call out to Cairo Jun.

"If you want to eat, just stare at me."

"Really?"

Cairo was born mentally retarded.

"Well, trust me."

Shao Hong wanted to use the [Medical Puppet] to retrieve Cairo Jun's memory, but in an instant she had an ominous feeling, as if if she took any action against the little guy born by the queen ant, unstoppable misfortune would occur.

She "let go" of Cairo-kun.

The main body avoided Cairo's sight, continued to move upwards, followed the queen ant's eggs, and found a place with a mixed fishy smell.

From here on, more and more people came.

All you can see are the soldiers born by the queen ant. A group of creatures that look like animals gathered together. The entire floor is divided into living areas, and there is even a special nursery.

[Mist Invisibility: Creates a layer of darkness around the body, suitable for walking in the shadows]

Shao Hong triggered her skills. As a timid player, she had a lot of "life-saving" skills. Assassin might be more suitable for her, but this cowardly woman still didn't dare to swing a knife. She was more like a student hiding in the dark to spy on the answers to the college entrance examination, rather than an assassin who cut throats with a broken sword in the shadows.

"The queen's appetite has increased recently. Those magic factors are not enough for her."

"Phew... it's troublesome. It's hard to get the food it wants."

"Speaking of which, what should we do with the three guys called 'players' we just found?"

Three cute little animals are discussing how to "eat people".

Shao Hong went around and no one noticed her.

Finally approaching the queen ant area, she stopped and looked around. The ant eggs here were even larger.

Several of them were already broken, and the things inside had already hatched out.

Shao Hong hid in the shadows and summoned the [Medical Puppet], controlling the dull puppet to insert the memory extraction needle into the egg.

Then, she took out the tablet, summarized everything into a simple version based on the extracted information, input the content on the screen, and used the function of the [Super Brain Magnetic Plate] to form memory transmission. What she saw would be shown to Johannesson when she died.

1. There are chimera ants. The queen ant produces about two hundred soldiers. The average strength of the soldiers is above that of ordinary players.

2. There are thirty-one players in the "Death Corridor", all of whom are here. Preliminary observation shows that thirty-one are over the standard.

3. The queen ant has not yet given birth to a "king", but she has absorbed a lot of power from the Cairo people in this world, which is very dangerous.

4. The Chimera Ants have established an effective ruling system. I suspect that there is someone controlling these Chimera Ants.

5. The area where the Queen Ant and the player are located is the inner world. The way to enter is "the vampire leader will open the door in the shadow", and there is no way to leave.

When writing “5”, Shao Hong originally wanted to ask Johannesson and others to rescue her.

But his fingers paused on the virtual keyboard.

She deleted the information of "5" and changed it to:
5. The Queen Ant's nest is in the high tower area in the center of the city. I will try to build something that can teleport here to help you find her quickly.

There are footsteps nearby.

Shao Hong began to feel fear.

She bit her lips in fear until they bled.

6. There are invisible bugs in the city. They are virus transmission machines produced by the queen ant. The probability of being infected is 2%. After the virus attacks, they turn into vampires. The elite class plays the role of vampire leader. The blood they suck becomes nutrients and turns into "magic factors" that are discharged into the "inner world" of the subspace, becoming one of the queen ant's foods.

7. The Queen Ant is still hunting players. I strongly suspect that many players in the Endless Corridor have become her food.

8. According to the information from the eggs I extracted, in addition to the "Corridor of Death", there is another corridor causing trouble, and I fully suspect the "Corridor of the End".

"..."

9. There is a "high-dimensional life form" in the real world, and the correct probability is about 70%.

"..."

10. From all the above content, we can only draw one conclusion: don’t get involved, escape if you can, and find a way to leave this script. Neither the "higher-dimensional life form" nor the "king" are things we can face.

"..."

Shao Hong didn't know Li Nuo's abilities, she could only warn her compatriots.

Just then, a player walked out from a side passage. His eyes were as dark as night as he walked past Shao Hong.

"..."

Shao Hong didn't dare to breathe at this moment. She had already turned off the tablet, extinguished the light, and hid in the shadows using her skills.

The player stopped and said, "Amazing! You can actually sneak in like this."

Shao Hong took a breath of cold air.

She immediately controlled the clone who stayed on the lower level to detonate the bomb in her hand!
boom!
Fire started below the floor!
[Doppelganger] Effect trigger: The main body is considered dead.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Shao Hong did not run, but ran towards the queen ant.

There were only two things on her mind:
According to the setting of "Hunter x Hunter", the "king" born by the queen ant is born prematurely, and its power will be weakened.

For this purpose, Shao Hong took out a [Fall Guys Bomb] from his waist bag and used it to crash into the queen ant!
roof,

The "Cat Ears" player sitting on the top floor opened his eyes.

"Not dead~"

Boom!
The floor shook.

Du Juan rushed in from outside and stepped on Shao Hong.

Blood gushed out and sank to the ground.

This is Shao Hong’s last clone.

[Medical Puppet] is hidden in the blood and inserted next to the queen ant as a "landmark" and also into the core area of ​​the ant nest.

As long as someone can use the magic of space, they can pass through the defense and face the queen ant directly.

Shao Hong is dead.

The queen ant looked at her soldiers angrily.

She was about to get angry.

Suddenly, the last gift left by Shao Hong jumped out of the blood, and she jumped up as a spirit after death.

[Blood Demon Art: Spirit after Death]

Living people have their uses.

Every death has its own meaning.

Shao Hong used the last of her soul to make a face at the queen ant.

"w(Д)w!"

Her last appearance on earth was particularly funny.

Shao Hong, who was full of blood and anger, was extremely happy. Look, who said that the weak cannot touch the chessboard?

[Kill her!] The queen ant was frightened and had a slight miscarriage.

Snapped!
Du Juan stepped on Shao Hong's bloody shadow.

The safety pin of the [Fall Guys' Bomb] that fell to the ground fell off by itself.

As a spoof toy, it popped out countless beans, each bean was filled with a happy smile. It was Shao Hong's funeral for herself and also the final step in scaring the queen ant.

If you use something malicious to attack the queen ant, you will definitely be discovered. That's what she thought, so she used this thing to bury herself.

The sudden appearance of the beans scared the queen ant for the second time.

The queen ant finally had another miscarriage and could no longer suppress the food in her stomach.

She used her mind to convey a message to everyone: [Quick, help me! The king is moving on his own!]

……

[Border prison mission updated, the source of the virus has been found]

[Main quest update: Kill the "King"]

[Main quest difficulty changed: lv120~lv200 → lv100~lv170]

[Mission details updated: Chimera Ant is one of the truths behind the whole incident. The birth of the king was inevitable from the beginning. The sooner it appears, the better for you. But even so, there is still a brush behind the whole incident.]

[The queen ant is pregnant, and the "king" will be born within two days]

[The death of a weak person does not bring much value. It depends on whether her final decision can leave you with a new idea.]

[Some people, once they die, they are dead]

……

[Your teammate, player 5450 has died]

Johannesson turned off the panel.

Luo Lei parked the car on the side of the road.

The two of them sat in silence in the carriage.

……

The warehouse door opened.

It's already daytime.

sunny.

All the dark clouds from yesterday have dissipated.

Li Nuo stood at the door and stretched in the sun.

Johannesson left a message for Cairo on his toy phone.

——"Shao Hong is dead."

In addition to this message, the clues found by Shao Hong were also sent over.

Li Nuo walked out while looking at his phone, the bottle of medicine tied around his waist clinking.

A message from "Cardboard Ram" came over the phone, and photos of three "Death Corridor" players who remained in the real world slid across the screen one by one.

"..."

Li Nuo called Johnathan.

"Do it."

(End of this chapter)