Free Web NovelChapter 64: Chapter 31: There’s a Traitor Among Us
After making sure the guards were far away, Ree Shil left the room again.
This time he avoided being seen by Daniel Smith, so that he wouldn’t make a scene again.
It was pointless to waste time on that guy.
Although the mission information mentioned that the Rune Light Sphere would refresh randomly, based on human habit, Ree Shil still wanted to explore areas he hadn’t been in before.
So, at the crossroad, he chose the Path to Sector 18 this time.
It was also a dim, long corridor, and he encountered several crossroads along the way.
After arbitrarily choosing a direction, a new garden appeared in front of him.
It was similar to the Garden of Heaven but with a different arrangement of rocks.
"What’s going on?"
But what Ree Shil thought was even more unusual was that this garden seemed quite chaotic at this time.
[The prisoners are rioting!]
[Backup! Requesting backup!]
[You brazen bastard, take this club!]
"I’m scared~!"
"Die, you bastards!"
"I’m injured, heal me quickly!"
Seven or eight players with numbers on them were fighting back and forth with two teams of six guards each.
Originally, because of their constitution and superpowers, they were not inferior to the guards, and with their superpowers, they were even more powerful.
Some players had large scythe-shaped bone blades growing from their arms, dancing violently.
Some had lasers shooting from their eyes but would vomit uncontrollably after each shot.
Others were hovering in mid-air, using the height advantage to throw stones at people.
Ree Shil saw that there were at least a dozen guards lying on the ground in the garden.
It looked like the players had an obvious advantage.
"Directly teaming up and rebelling, it seems like a good strategy."
Having said that, he didn’t think this kind of play could last long.
Indeed, in less than two minutes, the situation changed.
[Roar!!!]
A roar from the other end of the garden corridor instantly raised the morale of the guards.
[Sir!]
[It’s Sir!]
[Sir, save me!]
The guards quickly turned from worry to happiness.
A huge man with a tiger’s head and a body size no less than the wolf-headed one before leaped into the players’ camp.
Bang!
Even Ree Shil, who was hiding in the corridor, felt the ground tremble three times.
This tiger-headed man was also dressed as a Martial Monk, wielding two bladeless Forbidden Blades.
His eyes were drooping and his forehead had a clear "king" character on his fur.
"Guardian Officer? What’s that?"
"Who cares what Officer, let’s get him, brothers!"
"Charge!"
It was obvious that the players had no idea how powerful the Tiger Guard Officer was.
[Look at me!]
The Tiger Guard Officer suddenly launched his attack, staring at the closest player.
"Huh?"
That player felt like he was involuntarily looking at the other party, and then...
Thud!
His knees buckled, and he fell to the ground.
A cat guardian on standby nearby immediately pressed an explosion-proof fork against him.
"Aaaaah!"
The player was shocked by the green energy on the fork, feeling uncomfortable all over and unable to use his strength, unable even to crawl.
"What the hell, is this thing a Seastone?"
"This tiger-headed guy is not right!"
"Brothers, I’m out of here!"
"Wind is tight, run!"
"For the mountains and rivers to meet again!"
After all, this is an individual competition, so the players can’t unite in the face of a powerful enemy. freewёbnoνel.com
So when one person gave up, the others followed suit.
But they did have some tacit understanding when it came to running away.
There were many corridors in this garden, and each person chose a different one.
One of them happened to run towards Ree Shil.
"Huh?"
That person realized there was someone else in the corridor when approaching, and quickly changed direction.
[There’s another fish that escaped the net here!]
Soon, the pursuing guards discovered Ree Shil as well.
"How unlucky."
Ree Shil dared not to stay and ran as fast as he could.
Fortunately, he ran fast enough and the guards were wearing heavy armor, so he was able to quickly open the distance and shake them off.
"What’s going on... huh... huh... huh...!"
He hid in a corner, supporting his knees with both hands, panting heavily.
But in his heart, he was filled with doubt.
Because when that player approached just now, he saw the number on the other party’s body.
That guy was actually... Zero.
He was the last one to complete the superpower extraction, so he was Contestant 99.
So, Zero was the one who finished drawing the card the fastest at that time.
But from 0 to 99, aren’t there only 100 people in total?
With 99 of them entering Instance, how could it suddenly be 100 people?
Ghosting!
Unable to understand, he opened the mission information and read it word by word again.
Then his gaze fell on the last sentence: [Beware of other prisoners with ulterior motives].
"Right, it didn’t say that the imprisoned prisoners were bound to be us players."
He suddenly understood.
He opened his palm again, the "ghost" character on it was still clear.
"Is it possible that there’s a mole among us?"
"But who’s the mole?"
"Wait a minute."
The next second, he opened the leaderboard.
After quickly browsing it, he was shocked to find the existence of Zero.
With Zero and Contestant 99 present, the leaderboard would only record the spell release count of the players, which meant...
"Simply count the leaderboard from 0 to 99, and whichever number is missing, that’s the mole arranged by Instance!"
With a snap of his fingers, the solution was at hand.
