240. Chapter 240 This is the distance between life and death
"Calm down! Everyone, calm down!"
Wen Jiahao tightened his grip on the simple thick wooden stick in his hand. Although he remained calm on the surface, only he could hear the slight rattling sound of his teeth shaking and colliding uncontrollably.
Right now, a group of fifteen people were squatting in the grass outside the guardrail of the children's playground at the first target point.
What appeared in front of them was a scene full of childlike innocence - in a small playground, dozens of five or six-year-old children chased each other around the amusement facilities, making bursts of joyful noises from time to time.
laughter.
The key to forcing them to stop was not that these children appeared out of nowhere, but that these children were not the ordinary ones they saw on the road during the day, but just transparent figures with the outlines of children.
Glass man!
Faced with such a strange sight, a woman in the team finally couldn't bear the pressure of fear, screamed loudly and got up from the ground, turned around and ran away towards the entrance of the amusement park.
"This idiot... get out of the way and hide quickly!"
Wen Jiahao cursed secretly, ignoring the sharp branches, covering his head and face with his arms and dove into the bushes beside him.
Others quickly followed suit and looked for nearby shelters to hide.
The woman's scream attracted the attention of the glass children in the amusement park. As if they had discovered their favorite candies, they cheered and poured out of the amusement park gate in groups.
"Play with me! Play with me!"
The speed of these glass children was not very fast. They were almost the same as ordinary five or six-year-old children. The woman's speed was enough to get rid of them.
But the woman was so frightened that she just kept looking back, but forgot to pay attention to her feet. As soon as she ran less than a hundred meters, she tripped over something and slid down a long way against the ground.
The flashlight also fell into the bushes nearby.
"Play with me! Play with me!"
Dozens of glass children quickly caught up, repeating these innocent yet weird words, and hugged the woman's limbs.
At the same time, thin white threads like silk floated out of the bodies of these glass children, wrapping around the woman's body in an irregular manner.
The fear in the woman's heart had reached its limit at this moment. She suddenly picked up a stone from the ground and hit a glass child on the head. The whole head shattered into bright fragments flying in the sky.
"Ah——! Help!"
These glass children seemed to be frightened by the woman's ferocity, screaming in fear and running away.
The woman didn't expect to be able to get out of trouble so easily. She stood there blankly holding the stone in her hand, feeling a bit at a loss.
At this moment, dozens of red lines suddenly appeared all over the woman's body. Those thin white lines wrapped around her body had become deeply embedded in her flesh as the glass child ran away.
"No... don't! I don't want to die yet! Someone come and save me! One of you come and save me!"
The wound drawn by the thin thread continued to flow out with bright red blood. At this moment, the woman was completely dyed with red blood. She raised her hand and stretched out towards the direction where everyone was hiding. She moved forward a few steps with difficulty, her whole body
Suddenly, it was like a cracked ceramic doll, shattered into large and small pieces of meat on the ground.
Although the woman was dead, she successfully led all the glass children dozens of meters away. The children's playground was empty at this moment, which was a good time to take action.
"What are you waiting for? Run!"
Wen Jiahao roared and jumped out of the bushes, rushing to the front.
Everyone witnessed the miserable death of that woman, fearing that if they were too late, they would follow the footsteps of the woman just now. They jumped out of their hiding places and ran away like their butts were set on fire. They all wished they could be reincarnated.
Mom and Dad gave birth to two more legs.
"Play with me! Play with me!"
The group of glass children who had fled in all directions had now gathered together again. After spotting the volunteers, they rushed out and immediately turned around with weird and cheerful laughter to catch up.
The children's playground was mostly filled with large toys such as slides and seesaws. The scattered arrangement made it difficult for volunteers to pick up speed. In addition, they were rushing to escape and pushed each other. Finally, a woman accidentally tripped and fell. This immediately caused a chain reaction.
Several people in the rear who were panicking fell directly on top of the woman, and the entire team was instantly thrown into chaos.
When being chased by a lion, you don't have to outrun the lion, you just need to be able to outrun your companion.
As soon as they were blocked by the fallen people at the end of the team, the glass children temporarily gave up on literary giant Li Mengnan and others, laughing happily and stepped forward to hug the few people left on the ground, and those deadly white thin lines appeared again.
"Help! Yiming, help me!"
The fair young woman Ke Cailian was also among the people who fell. Her legs seemed to be suppressed by the people above her, and she couldn't get up even though she struggled hard. Seeing the glass children rushing toward her, she couldn't help but scream for help in fear.
Although she calls Ke Cailian "sister", Hao Yiming, a middle school boy in middle school, has always had an extraordinary fondness for this young woman who is full of gentle maternal nature. When he heard Ke Cailian's call for help, he subconsciously turned around and asked for help.
Go rescue people.
But at this moment, as if the scene just reappeared, another man and a woman were cut to pieces by white thin lines on their bodies after smashing two glass children. The blood sprayed accumulated on the ground in a dark red color.
of blood pool.
"Yi Ming, help me!"
The lotus below was almost dyed into blood. Only the place where the tears flowed on her face remained white. She crawled forward hard on the muddy dark red ground, reaching out to Hao Yiming again and again.
.
"no no……"
The bloody scene of a man and a woman being chopped up suddenly flashed in Hao Yiming's mind. His face suddenly turned as pale as paper, he couldn't hold the spear in his hand and it fell to the ground. His legs were shaking violently uncontrollably.
, as heavy as cement and steel nails.
When he was reading those unlimited novels, he would always sneer at the loser newcomers in the team, and then imagine how awesome he would be if he entered the world of horror movies, killing everyone.
But now when he personally faced these monsters that could only be seen in horror movies, he finally understood that those losers were the most real, and he was also a loser.
Seeing Hao Yiming turning his head with difficulty, Ke Cailian's eyes in the distance suddenly turned gray, and he clasped his hands tightly on the ground and let out a desperate cry.
At this moment, Li Mengnan suddenly moved, and passed by Hao Yiming with lightning speed. He swung a homemade eyebrow-level stick in his hand and struck it left and right, and immediately grabbed the few who could pick the lotus.
The entire upper body of the glass child was shattered.
"Sister Lian, leave quickly!"
Li Mengnan suddenly exerted his strength to drag Kecai Lian out of the crowd. He pulled her, who was still a little confused, to turn around and run wildly. He kept turning around and named the glass children who were chasing him one by one.
"Help! Help me!"
Seeing that Ke Cailian was rescued, several volunteers who were still struggling in a pool of blood also ignited hope again and kept struggling to ask for help from Li Mengnan, but their calls for help did not win Li Mengnan's return.
With Li Mengnan's ability, he could actually save another person, but the chance of being surrounded would increase by at least 30%. He was not a holy lady, and there was no need to take such risks for some scum who deserved death.
Pushing the lotus out, Li Mengnan quickly turned around and closed the gate of the children's playground. He took the half of the nylon rope thrown by Guo Debiao and locked the two gates tightly.
Those glass children who chased after me didn’t seem to know how to take the detour. They just clung to the gate and the fence, stretching out their crystal-clear little arms from the gaps, constantly calling: "Play with me! Play with me!"
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"Boss, you are so awesome!" Guo Debiao ran over and gave a thumbs up.
"Don't talk about those useless things. Go around and lock the door on the other side." Li Mengnan scolded with a smile.
Although these glass children didn't seem to have much intelligence, they had to be just in case. He didn't want these little guys to come from behind and burst his anus when facing the next enemy.
"Sister Lian, I'm sorry."
Hao Yiming walked to Ke Cailian with his head lowered and regretful, but Ke Cailian just shook his head and said nothing.
Hao Yiming could see that Ke Cailian did not blame her, but after this incident, it was obviously impossible for the relationship between the two to return to the harmony it had before.
Li Mengnan took a sip of the mineral water handed over by Tian Laogen, looked around and asked, "Where are Wen Jiahao's group?"
"Run away, faster than a rabbit."
Tian Laogen squatted on the ground and lit a cigarette. After all, he was getting older, and this rush was a bit too much for him. If not for this, when Li Mengnan went to rescue people just now, he would have gone out to cover for him.
Li Mengnan nodded, it was completely expected that Wen Jiahao and others would do this.
"Actually, those people didn't have to die." Tian Laogen exhaled a faint smoke and suddenly sighed.
Li Mengnan understood what Tian Laogen was referring to.
Although those glass children have strange and cruel attack methods, their individual strength is actually very weak, just like their size, they are only about the size of an ordinary human child of five or six years old.
There are a total of twenty people in their group. On average, each person has to face less than three glass children. As long as they cooperate properly, they can completely destroy them before the other party launches a fatal attack. Unfortunately, most of them only care about escaping for their lives.
, but were defeated one by one by these pitifully weak monsters, resulting in heavy casualties.
Guo Debiao, who went to lock the door on the other side, also came back at this moment, asked Tian Laogen for a cigarette, took a few puffs and sighed: "We have just passed the first level, and half of the twenty people are already dead. It seems that
The 50% survival rate mentioned by Euonymus is actually too high."
"Perhaps a quarter of it is too much to survive in the end." Tian Laogen curled his lips and said.
…
When Li Mengnan and his team of five arrived at the second mission location, the "Mirror Maze", they found that Wen Jiahao and others who had escaped immediately were still lingering at the door. Apparently, they were frightened by the experience just now, and no one dared to take the lead.
cannon fodder.
Seeing Ke Cailian who was supposed to be dead in the children's playground appear in the team, Wen Jiahao was a little surprised and couldn't help but look at Li Mengnan a few more times. Although he did not see the scene of Li Mengnan saving people with his own eyes, the words on the top of the wooden stick were
The scratches say it all.
The solo escape of Wen Jiahao and others just now has made Li Mengnan and his group feel resentful towards them. It is obviously impossible to join forces as before. After just maintaining face and saying hello, the two groups separated.
One side.
"Boss, what should we do now?" Guo Debiao asked, sitting on the steps in front of the "Mirror Maze".
"Wait." Li Mengnan leaned against a tree and closed his eyes.
"What do you mean?"
"literal meaning."
Guo Debiao was completely confused, but since Li Mengnan was unwilling to answer, he did not dare to ask any more questions, so he could only sit there boredly and count the stars.
To reach the final mission destination, you need to pass through three locations in sequence - children's playground, mirror maze, and ghost house.
After the encounter at the children's playground just now, Li Mengnan could vaguely guess the content of the "Ghost House" level, but only the "Mirror Maze" in the second level still puzzled him.
Although it is speculated from the literal meaning that this "mirror maze" should be a maze composed of countless mirrors, the purpose is to "trap" rather than "kill".
But this is just an idea, and someone needs to verify it personally if you want to be completely sure.
This mission has a narrow escape, which means that if you want to pass this "mirror maze", at least one person must be abandoned as cannon fodder.
Li Mengnan didn't want his own members to play the role of cannon fodder that was almost certain to die, so he had to let Wen Jiahao and his team take the lead.
The only way to achieve this goal is to "wait".
It was already 7:30 at night, and there were still four and a half hours left before the time limit for the first phase of the task. Li Mengnan was going to compete with Wen Jiahao's group to see who could keep his composure.
"Sister Lian, can you tell me your story?" Since he was idle anyway, Li Mengnan asked Ke Cailian about the reason for her imprisonment.
Among all the people in his group, Ke Cailian was the only one he didn't understand.
"Me?" Ke Cailian was stunned. She didn't expect that Li Mengnan would suddenly ask her this question. She pinched her fingers and said, "I actually have nothing to say. I went to prison for traffic accidents."
"Traffic accident?"
Not only Li Mengnan, but the other three were also quite surprised. This was probably the lightest crime among all twenty volunteers.
"To be precise, it was driving without a license and causing a hit-and-run."
The night breeze was slightly cool. Ke Cailian tightened the blanket around her body and hugged her knees. A trace of regret appeared on her face and she said: "My husband and I had a fight that day. I got angry and drove on the road by myself. I wanted to go
I was shopping in the business district to relax, but in order to avoid a cat that suddenly jumped out on the road, I mistakenly used the accelerator for the brake and drove into a food stall on the roadside.
I was frightened at the time and didn't know what to do, so I ran away subconsciously. It wasn't until later that I found out that I had killed five people in total that day, one of whom was a baby under two years old.
Killing to pay for life, debt to pay back money, I am sentenced and there is nothing to say. The only thing I can't worry about is my child. He is only three years old and he cannot live without his mother..."
Li Mengnan patted Ke Cailian's shoulder comfortingly and said, "Sister Lian, don't worry, we will definitely leave here alive, and you will definitely be reunited with your child."
"Thanks."
Although Ke Cailian knew that these were just words of comfort, she was truly grateful to Li Mengnan. If it hadn't been for Li Mengnan, she would have been cut into pieces like the previous prisoners at the children's amusement park just now.
Time slipped away unknowingly in the small talk between you and me.
Soon, Wen Jiahao's group finally lost their composure. Under Wen Jiahao's instruction, Yue Laosan and Zhu Lu showed their knives and began to force the man and woman who had narrowly escaped before.
Two volunteers entered the "Mirror Maze" to explore their way.
"No! I won't go in! You can't do this to me!"
The coerced man's facial features were extremely distorted due to fear. He clung to the door frame of the "Mirror Maze" and refused to let go no matter how much Yue Laosan beat him.
In addition, the woman was so frightened that she lay on the ground like a pile of mud, and her crotch was wet.
Just when Yue Laosan and Lard were unable to do anything to the two men, Wen Jiahao suddenly stepped forward, took out the machete on his back and chopped off the fingers of the man who was being coerced, clinging to the door frame, and shook off the blood on the blade.
He said fiercely: "Don't toast or eat as a penalty! You wastes who only want to hide behind others and be protected have only this little use value left... Now I will give you two options: One, immediately
Go in and explore the way for me; second, I will stab you to death right now!"
"You...you dare to kill someone? Aren't you afraid of being arrested and sentenced when you go back?" the coerced man said in horror.
"Damn it! Are you threatening me?" Wen Jiahao made a nearly ten centimeter gash on the man's face with a knife. The tip of the knife poked at the wound where the flesh was curled up, and sneered: "Oh my god.
The land is huge, and the best thing is to survive! It’s hard to say whether I can go back alive. What bullshit laws do you think I care about? If you don’t believe it, do you want to give it a try?”