Chapter Ch34.1 - Butterfly
translator: xiin
editors: apricot & juurensha
The air was cold, dark, and damp.
The entire structure was subrged underground, causing the ambient temperature to plumt.
Wu Jin drew in air through his nose. The air inside the match grounds didn’t sll good. It carried the scent of earth, tallic devices, and rust mixed in with strange, acidic substances, all stuck together like glue and lurking in the dark.
Caesar, who was carrying a submachine gun, stepped out first.
“Things aren’t quite right.” He narrowed his eyes and looked ahead with a penetrating gaze.
After the second batch of players were sent in, the elevator squeaked as it rose up, the moving parts making harsh sounds as they collided, akin to an eerie screech.
Wu Jin used the illumination from the weak source of light to stare at the moving track for a long ti before retrieving his gaze.
The four of them quickly loaded up their guns.
For strategic reasons, Zoe, despite being a sniper, gave up his usual 12.7mm caliber bullets and replaced them with 9mm bullets that were the sa as the ones Caesar and Wen Lin were using.
In Wu Jin’s hands was a 5.56mm assault rifle. As a mber of the White Moonlight team that tended towards heavy lee, he took on the role of dium to long range support firepower.
“What was that noise just now?” Zoe frowned.
He had clearly heard a dull noise in the distance before the elevator landed.
“Two sounds, heavy objects colliding, then a small machine gun.” Caesar replied, “Wei Yan... might have gotten beat up by sothing. Let’s go and sound it out first.”
Soon, however, the few of them were back where they’d started.
They were standing in a sealed space about 30 ters long and 30 ters wide. The walls on all sides were tallic, smooth, and couldn’t be climbed. There seed to be gaps between the walls, but they hadn’t been able to break them apart.
Zoe frowned, “Let’s first see how high it is. Little Witch,” He turned to look at Wu Jin, “Go to the staircase and asure the wind speed...”
Wen Lin shook his head, “There’s no wind. It should be blocked tight.”
The use of air convection to asure altitude was a common thod of exploring the environnt, but wind was a required prerequisite for this thod.
Zoe stilled for a mont. Wu Jin had just finished calculating with his eyes closed and quickly opened his mouth to say, “80 ters to the surface, and the surrounding walls are 30 ters high.”
On the surface, in the Crosson Show’s live stream room.
Ying Xiangxiang gave an exclamation of surprise, “Worthy of a mory type player. I rember that he was constantly looking at the elevator just now. He calculated the height of the ‘cell’ based on its speed and the ti it took for his view of the elevator shaft to be blocked.”
Blood Pigeon nodded and looked at the ti, “There’s twenty seconds left before their competition officially begins.”
Within the grounds of the Crosson Show match, a ‘ding’ suddenly rang out in the empty air.
“What was that sound?” Caesar bounced up off the ground, reacting quickly.
The four people on the scene weren’t unfamiliar with the sound in the background... It sounded exactly the sa as when the elevator arrived in the twin tower dormitories.
But then, Caesar opened his eyes wide in amazent––
The cracks in the four walls all opened at the sa ti and led to four almost identical corridors. At the end of each corridor, dim sources of light could be seen faintly glowing, giving off a cold feeling as it reflected off the tal walls.
Nobody knew what was waiting up ahead.
“Let’s go together.” Zoe said.
The four of them chose a corridor. Caesar walked up front, Wu Jin hugged his gun and guarded the rear, and almost at the sa mont that he stepped out, the wall behind him suddenly closed up.
Wu Jin hesitated slightly. Along with the sound of the tal bang, he could also hear the sound of countless gears being shifted and pulled.
The source of light was at the end of the corridor, and the closer they were to the light, the stronger it beca––the light was coming from a narrow door.
As they walked in, Wu Jin suddenly sniffed the air.
The acidic sll of chemicals wafted through the viscous air.
“Wait a minute.” Caesar, who was walking in front of him, suddenly bent over and picked up a small envelope from the ground.
When they opened the envelope, a line of text could be seen:
“The most beautiful colors are unpredictable.”
“It’s a clue.” Caesar read it over twice, then stuffed the note into his pocket. “Can you tell anything from it?”
They all shook their heads, and Caesar gestured for them to prepare for battle. He stepped forward and opened the door––
The door closed behind them automatically.
Light bright enough to dazzle their eyes stread down from above, and almost everyone’s first reaction was to close their eyes.
It was too bright!
This was also a 30×30 room, but it wasn’t illuminated with a single white ceiling lamp. There was light that burned like a sharp knife within their field of vision here.
This room had no walls.
Instead, there were six huge, strange mirrors, forming a cube in which the team was caged. Their reflections were infinitely reflected and repeated, and it looked like there was a whole stretch of people standing next to them no matter which direction they looked.
Caesar subconsciously raised up his gun and was about to crack apart the mirrors on the wall.
Zoe hurriedly stopped the fool, “Save your bullets. Also, what if you trigger sothing? We’ll all be eliminated along with you... Why do you want to hit the mirror for no reason?”
Caesar rubbed his head, “Just... feels dangerous.”
Zoe imdiately went on alert.
Survival show contestants were usually both intelligent and courageous, relying on both physical and ntal prowess. As for those like Caesar who never used their brains––intuition was the basis for most of his judgent, instead of his brain cells. If Caesar felt that it was dangerous, this was at least 70% credible.
He was just about to open his mouth when he saw Wu Jin walking over to one corner of the room from the reflection in the mirror beside him.
“Little Witch!”
Wu Jin seed to want to reach out but finally retracted his hand. On the other side, Wen Lin also discovered that sothing was wrong, “Look at the ground!”
The ground was also a mirror.
Zoe looked down, and the smooth mirror rippled, like soone had spilled water on its surface, or like so kind of liquid was spreading out, bringing with it a pungent sour sll––Zoe suddenly looked like he’d seen a ghost.
“It’s moving––” Caesar didn’t hesitate to pull his teammates away, shooting as he jumped up, “The motherf*cking mirror is moving!”
The discharged bullet landed in the mirror, and the glass cracked in a spiderweb pattern, sharp shards flying everywhere. Caesar’s expression beca even more astonished––the originally rippling mirror shards suddenly folded together and hung suspended in mid-air in a way that defied gravity.
The mirror turned into a triangle and folded down the middle before imdiately charging over to attack Caesar like a knife!
––He finally saw what it was clearly.
It was about the size of half a palm. The two mirror shards were actually the insect’s wings. When they were unfolded, they integrated and blended in to beco part of the mirror. When they were folded up, their slender bodies and coldly flashing mouthpieces were revealed.
It seed to be a butterfly. At least, it could barely be considered as a butterfly.
In other words, there was a disgusting insect between the two mirror shards, but there was no doubt that it had flexible control over its wings, and the edges of the wings were as sharp as daggers.
The air suddenly stagnated, and then there were more insects than this single butterfly. Countless mutated butterflies flew up from all sides of the room!
“Bunker down in a corner.” Zoe called out anxiously, “Spread out the firepower!”
The sounds of gunfire rang out as Wen Lin and Caesar quickly began to spread their firepower, shattering mirror surfaces with their crossfire.
The pungent sour sll was mixed in with the scent of sulfur and smoke. The liquid contained in the mirrors lost its barrier and slowly pooled downwards. It appeared to be the secretions from this particular variant of insect.
Wu Jin looked at it and just felt that his stomach was churning. There was a hint of white amidst the secretions...
His gaze stalled slightly.
Wu Jin suddenly reached out, flipped over a broken section of the mirror wall, and pulled a familiar white envelope out from the gap.
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