Thriller Night Talk

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Editor- Koneko, Proofreader- Spring Flower

——“Dong!”

The stone pile hit the big dog and just like a bowling ball when hitting the pins, rolled out a long way, then smashed into a stone wall behind, instantly flattening it into a dog pancake.

Jiang Nan’an: “!!!”

He lowered his head in shock, looking at his own hand.

Jiang Nan’an knew he was quite skilled, but in the past, he definitely couldn’t effortlessly lift a 200-pound stone pillar and throw it two meters away with such strength.

——“By the way!”

Comrade Xiao Jiang suddenly remembered what Grandmaster Tianyuan Zhenren mentioned earlier about the world they were in, “Here, you have much stronger powers than you think!? You have to keep fighting against these terrifying monsters.”

Jiang Nan’an realized that this so-called ‘Tianyuan City’ was essentially a dream, and Ran Qu, as the master of the dream, was the so-called ‘King’ in the world he had created. He possessed absolute authority and was naturally able to bestow upon them powers far stronger than in the real world.

For example, the girl’s instant teleportation and his own unbelievable strength.

Just at that moment, the woman who was saved by Jiang Nan’an suddenly let out a scream, “Ah!”

Jiang Nan’an quickly turned around and rushed to her side.

The woman was squatting on the ground, examining the injuries of another man.

She turned the man over.

The man’s throat was mangled, with an irregularly shaped gash torn out by the trumpet-shaped mouths of two strange dogs. Blood gushed out, soaking half of his body.

On top of this, the man’s eyes were wide open, staring straight ahead. His pupils were dilated and were clearly already lifeless.

“He… he’s dead!”

The woman trembled as she looked up at Jiang Nan’an, her eyes filled with fear and confusion. “This is a dream… It’s a dream, right? It must, it’s not real, right…?!”

She tightly grasped her blood-stained skirt and shook uncontrollably, unable to speak clearly.

“Why would something like this happen!? Why, why…?”

As she spoke, tears involuntarily streamed down her face. “I, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die!”

In reality, this girl was a nurse.

She actually learned about the existence of the ‘Two Pole Gate’ from a patient a long time ago, and soon after, she dreamed of that Yin-Yang fish-shaped gate.

Unfortunately, her work was very busy, with rotating shifts, meaning she never had a regular sleep schedule, so she didn’t have many opportunities to explore the secrets of this ‘Gate’ in her dreams.

It wasn’t until five days previously that she managed to ‘push open’ the ‘Two Pole Gate’ for the first time and enter the city of ‘Tianyuan’.

However, just as the nurse entered, Bei Quan cast a calming and soothing spell on her, and she didn’t even get to hear a complete sermon, only able to watch others confront the old man sitting on the throne.

Afterwards, she saw a post on the forum exposing Grandmaster Tianyuan as a fraud, which completely extinguished her desire for immortality and enlightenment.

Therefore, the poor nurse never imagined that she had only just ‘entered’ the ‘Gate’ out of curiosity, and would inexplicably be pulled into this eerie city on her way home from the night shift.

Without understanding anything, she had suddenly encountered an attack from a group of strange dogs, and witnessed someone dying in front of her.

“What…what should I do?”

In panic, the girl reached out and grabbed Jiang Nan’an’s clothes, as if clutching onto a lifeline. “I don’t want to die! Please, save me!”

Jiang Nan’an: “…”

He wasn’t very good at comforting girls, especially when faced with someone so frightened and pitiful.

“Well…”

He hesitated for a moment, then grabbed the woman’s arms and pulled her up with some force.

The nurse was originally thin, and with Jiang Nan’an’s sudden ability to became a strongman who could lift a thousand pounds, he lifted her up high.

“We don’t have enough time, let’s go inside first!”

Every college student who had played PUBG knew that, and Jiang Nan’an was no exception. “No matter what, survival is the most important thing!”

———————-

Bei Quan and the girl named Luo Lan were struggling to trek through the ruins on the map.

If it was just Bei Quan alone, these obstacles wouldn’t be a problem, but having a high school student with him was a different situation.

To be honest, Luo Lan was trying hard to keep up with Bei Quan’s pace and did not cause him any trouble.

However, reality didn’t always align with a girl’s personal will.

She had been well protected by her family since she was young, rarely exercising except for physical education classes, while not even having to wash a bowl at home.

Now, with her shoulder injured, every movement was painfully unbearable. She was asked to navigate through the ruins of broken bricks and stones in the dark, which was an extremely difficult task at the best of times.

As a result, Luo Lan stumbled every three steps and fell every five steps. The worst time was when her foot accidentally got stuck in a stone crack, rendering her completely immobile. The pain almost made her pass out.

“Be careful!”

Before she fell, Bei Quan quickly reached out his hand and helped her up. “Are you okay?”

Luo Lan was afraid that Bei Quan would think she was troublesome and just leave her behind, even though the intense pain in her ankle made her forehead break out in a cold sweat.

She didn’t dare to cry out in pain, but instead, she endured the tears and softly answered, “It seems like my foot is stuck.”

Bei Quan quickly squatted down to help the girl free herself.

For some time now, he had been silently calculating the time in his mind.

The time until the outermost circle collapsed was only five minutes, while they had only moved less than two hundred meters.

Without knowing how far the collapsable range was, this was not a distance that could provide enough sense of safety.

“We have no time left,” Bei Quan said, squatting down and gesturing for Luo Lan to climb onto his back.

“I’ll carry you for a while.”

With Luo Lan on his back, Bei Quan quickly moved towards the central area.

After fifteen minutes, the ground beneath Bei Quan’s feet suddenly started shaking violently without warning, to the point where it was almost impossible to stand.

Bei Quan stopped and set Luo Lan down from his back. The two of them found a nearby low wall to stabilize themselves.

At this moment, a rumbling sound came from behind them.

Bei Quan and Luo Lan turned to look.

Under the bright moonlight, they saw that the outermost circle of ‘Tianyuan City’ was collapsing violently.

The broken stones and ruins seemed to be twisted, squeezed, and kneaded by an invisible force, turning into powder and then collapsing into the bottomless darkness below.

“Ah!”

The girl covered her mouth and let out a scream.

The collapsing boundary was less than a hundred meters away from them.

If it weren’t for Bei Quan carrying her all the way forward, she might have already been crushed into pieces along with those rocks and fallen into that invisible darkness.

“Th-thank you…”

Luo Lan, with red eyes, thanked Bei Quan sincerely.

Bei Quan just smiled indifferently.

Originally, the case of the angry ghost was his responsibility, and he was just doing his best to protect as many people as possible within his capabilities.

Just then, the sound of a long flute, reminiscent of an air raid alarm, echoed in the air.

[Now broadcasting the latest information.]

After the alarm, the robotic loli voice sounded.

[In the past fifteen minutes, nine people have unfortunately died, leaving thirty people remaining.]

“No way!”

Hearing this data, Luo Lan gasped in disbelief, “N-Nine people have already died!?”

[Believe that all survivors have discovered their own abilities.]

The loli’s voice continued.

[Please remember, the only way to become stronger is to kill others and enhance your own abilities with their power.]

Luo Lan shuddered.

She remembered that she had released a burst of flames in her moment of panic.

But…

She anxiously looked at Bei Quan.

Until now, Luo Lan lacked a sense of reality in all of this. She felt like she was in an overly real and terrifying nightmare, as if she could wake up if she just endured things for a little longer.

But now, her shoulders were in excruciating pain, and someone had just told her that nine people had died within the past fifteen minutes.

What was even more terrifying was that the robotic loli’s voice made her realize that Bei Quan, whom she thought was a protector, was actually her competitor. 𝓫ℯ𝓭𝓃𝓸𝓋ℯ𝓁．𝓬𝓸𝓂

In case the other party wanted to become stronger, the quickest way was to kill for oneself!

Bei Quan seemed to sense the girl’s uneasy gaze, turned his head, and smiled at her. Luo Lan startled and immediately averted her gaze.

[Okay, next, prepare for dropped supplies.]

The robotic Loli voice continued.

[Supplies include, but are not limited to: food, water, weapons, armor, lighting tools, communication devices, outdoor survival gear, etc.]

[The supplies will randomly drop in the form of air drops. Please try to pick up the items before the others!]

The Loli paused.

[Of course, no one can guarantee what’s inside the supply box until it’s opened.]

Bei Quan and Luo Lan looked up and indeed saw many white parachutes in the silver-black sky, illuminated by moonlight.

Each parachute was attached to a bright silver square box with a red indicator light. The light blinked at a frequency of once per second, still very visible in the darkness.

——It looks like those are the supply boxes!

Luo Lan thought to herself, hoping that one or two would land near her so she could get a weapon for self-defense.

——Of course, the condition being…

She glanced anxiously at Bei Quan beside her.

——The condition being that he doesn’t compete with me…

Unfortunately, none of those parachutes responded to the girl’s anticipation and all landed in a place in the distance where they couldn’t see.

The mechanical loli voice hadn’t finished yet.

[The second batch of monsters will respawn in sixty seconds, so everyone please prepare for battle.]

The prompt said, [Also, when this countdown ends, a new fifteen-minute round will begin at the same time!]