Chapter 124
Chapter 124
The people around them could not understand their little exchange, much less Xiao Huai’s answer.
What did he mean by being interested in her faith? Follower No. 3 was only a name, wasn’t it?
But several people in the hall had begun to sense something was wrong.
Even if they noticed, they would not reveal it.
Inside the horror game, teammates were sometimes competitors. Until every rule had been disclosed, no one would show their entire hand.
Xiao Huai slowly passed through the crowd and stopped before Follower No. 3.
Several vicious-looking killers stood around her. The instant Xiao Huai approached, they took out daggers and drew them across their throats in a threatening gesture.
They looked eager to kill him as quickly as possible.
Not a trace of fear entered Xiao Huai’s eyes. His gaze settled on the thin young man behind Follower No. 3.
For once, the thin young man raised his head, though he still peered at Xiao Huai furtively.
When their eyes met, the young man made no attempt to look away. Instead, he seemed to fall into Xiao Huai’s gaze and stared for a very long time.
Follower No. 3 coughed lightly. “What is your answer?”
She had already extended a hand, expecting to see Xiao Huai’s written proposal. Most of the players had spent the allotted time writing on draft paper.
Before everyone’s eyes, Xiao Huai pointed at the thin young man behind her. “I choose him.”
The hall fell silent for an entire minute. Even breathing faded until the only sound was the beating of hearts.
When the minute ended, almost everyone began whispering at once. That silence had given them time to react.
Time to process something they found unbelievable.
“Is he insane? He chooses that one? What does that mean? Wasn’t he supposed to come up with a proposal? Does he want to die?”
Some players had already begun disparaging Xiao Huai.
Yet the more people mocked him, the uglier another group’s expressions became.
Those were the people who had truly begun to understand.
Xiao Huai was no simple man.
Once someone cleared the debris hiding a pit, anyone who passed afterward could naturally see how deep it was.
Xiao Huai was the one who had swept away that debris.
He had said very little, yet some people felt as though the clouds had parted to reveal the sun.
Follower No. 3’s expression shifted, her excitement deepening. “What did you say? Say it again.”
Everyone assumed Xiao Huai was about to receive her punishment.
Instead, he answered coldly, “I said I choose him. He will kill the other four and take every gold coin.”
The instant he finished, they heard someone laugh.
A low, nearly manic laugh echoed throughout the hall. The thin young man raised his head, his twisted expression like a beast returned from hell.
He looked entirely different from the miserable, dejected man he had been before.
Now… he looked like a truly deranged killer.
The thin young man covered his mouth. Sharp-eyed players glimpsed what lay behind the gaps between his fingers, and their eyes widened.
His mouth was filled with fangs!
Was he even human?
Once the thin young man stopped hiding, the other four killers’ expressions turned grim. They instinctively tried to put distance between themselves and him.
The next second, he appeared before all four as though he had teleported.
It took only a second.
Agonized screams filled the hall.
All the blood was ripped from their bodies in an instant, leaving them shriveled like mummies.
Nearly everyone stared wide-eyed, their entire bodies trembling as cold seeped into their hearts. It was as though they had fallen into an icy lake, their very breathing slowing.
They were genuinely terrified, too frightened even to speak.
Yet Xiao Huai stood at the center of it all, his gaze perfectly calm. He merely lifted his eyes for a glance.
The thin young man turned, his fangs covered in blood.
A close look at the four fallen bodies revealed clear bite marks on their necks.
It had all happened so quickly that no one had even seen when their blood was drained.
The thin young man walked slowly toward Xiao Huai. Follower No. 3 folded her arms across her chest, watching them with the delight of someone who found the spectacle insufficiently chaotic.
When he reached Xiao Huai, he bent slightly at the waist. One hand rested over his abdomen while the other extended toward Xiao Huai, apparently intending to take his hand and kiss it.
Before he could touch him, Xiao Huai backed away several steps, his gaze icy and his disgust entirely undisguised.
The thin young man coughed awkwardly twice, changed to a more elegant posture, and bowed. “Everything happened as you wished.”
He raised his head, looked at the surrounding players, and introduced himself.
“Hello. I am Follower No. 2. Like Follower No. 3, I am a vampire.”
After Follower No. 2 spoke, everyone else was truly stupefied.
The reversal was far too dramatic. At first, they had thought Xiao Huai was certain to die. In the end, they were the ones who looked like fools.
What kind of challenge was this? How could humans fight a vampire?
The four killers had been helpless before a vampire killer. All of them died in a single second.
All the players currently knew was that the game was called *Vampires*.
If this place was filled with monsters like that thin young man, how were they supposed to survive?
Whose funeral was this supposed to be?!
Xiao Huai looked at Follower No. 3, his voice perfectly flat. “Does that count as completing the mission?”
The players watched him closely. If he had not volunteered first, someone here would almost certainly have been called upon.
And in all likelihood, they truly would have offered some meaningless mathematical analysis.
Would they then have ended up like those four killers?
But Xiao Huai’s appearance had changed everything.
They could not help paying more attention to him. Some were even curious about who he truly was.
Follower No. 3 smiled faintly. “Of course.”
She looked at the gold coins, picked one up, and handed it to Xiao Huai. “You are the most outstanding human player here. This is the reward you deserve.”
The moment Xiao Huai accepted it, the system notification sounded.
[Congratulations, players. The timed mission is complete!]
[Game rules will now be announced. This game uses two opposing factions.]
[One hundred players are participating. Twenty among you are already vampires and belong to the vampire faction. Current survivors: human faction, 80; vampire faction, 20.]
[Human victory condition: Collect four gold coins to earn a chance to leave.]
[Vampire victory condition: Seize the humans’ gold coins and remain inside the instance for five days to earn a chance to leave.]
The system was still announcing rules when Xiao Qian suddenly frowned and looked warily at Xiao Huai.
Follower No. 3 had deliberately called him a “human player.”
If the vampires won by seizing the human players’ gold coins, then one person was in the greatest danger.
That person was… Xiao Huai.
He was the only known human player who possessed a gold coin.
His identity had been confirmed.
But twenty vampires in the hall had yet to expose themselves.
The enemy was hidden. He stood in the light.