After a satisfying meal, Yao Ye slept deeply throughout the night, waking with a start only when the day was bright. He realized he hadn’t woken up at the time he’d planned the night before.
“Damn!”
Seeing the light outside the door, Yao Ye’s expression changed. Hurriedly, he got up from the floor, cautiously pushing the door open just a crack. The corridor outside was peaceful, devoid of the eerie horror from the day before.
The supposed terrifying judge, who was rumored to roam during the day, was nowhere in sight.
Relieved, Yao Ye slipped on his shoes, which he had placed aside the previous night, and quickly tidied his messy hair. Then, he stepped out.
He couldn’t stay here forever. He had to explore the island, find a way to escape and return home.
And, well, he needed to find his own food.
He couldn’t always rely on the bandaged figure. What if its act of kindness was just a one-time thing? Would he starve then?
Although these thoughts filled his mind, the memory of the delicious meal from last night made him savor the memory.
It was so good… He wondered how that hulking figure had made it. From its warmth, it seemed as if it was freshly cooked.
Yao Ye didn’t dare imagine the bandaged figure cooking. The image was too thrilling for him to envision.
Stepping out of the building, as expected, he saw a group of drowsy survivors outside the slaughterhouse. They seemed too afraid of daytime dangers to hide inside the building and had come out to nap in the open.
Hoping to go unnoticed, Yao Ye hid in a corner, observing silently.
As he scrutinized the crowd, he recognized a few individuals from the day before who had tied him to the tree. Anger flared within him as he ground his teeth.
Damnit! Why should they be here, comfortably lounging, when he had faced such horrors?
His clear eyes now clouded with hatred. He felt like a rat in the gutter, secretly cursing those cold-hearted bastards, wishing for their immediate demise.
“Brother Li, when do we start?”
From a concealed spot on the edge of the clearing, the pink-haired girl asked eagerly.
The one addressed as “Brother Li” smirked mysteriously. “Soon, very soon. These baits will bring us our prey.”
Rock and Dollar laughed, gazing at the unsuspecting NPCs on the ground. These fools had believed every word they’d said after the chaotic night before. Now, they did everything as told, even more obedient than dogs.
Now, to lure out the monsters, they had instructed this group to stay in the open. The NPCs didn’t doubt a thing. Their grateful expressions were comical.
To Brother Li and his group, these NPCs were not real lives. If they died for their mission, it was justifiable. They felt no guilt.
“How much longer? I’m getting hungry.”
Thirty minutes quickly passed. Yao Ye’s legs began to numb from crouching. He still wasn’t sure why these people were gathering in the open. Soft murmurs began to rise amongst the group.
“Yeah, I’m starving too. I wonder when the rescue team will come…”
“Rescue team… Will they really come?”
Despair painted some faces.
The ghostly events and eerie sounds from the night before had crushed the spirits of these once upper-class individuals. Some were on the brink of a breakdown.
Listening to the murmurs, a malicious expression crossed Yao Ye’s face.
A rescue team? For these scum? They’d better die right here!
Yao Ye looked at his wrist, rubbed raw and sore, and his mood worsened.
He knew it was wrong to resent them all, but he couldn’t control his rising anger and the dark thoughts flooding his mind.
Everything had gone wrong since arriving on this unfamiliar island.
The previously kind uncles and aunts had changed. Yao Ye felt even himself changing, growing more irritable by the day. His previous upbringing seemed to have been forgotten.
To be honest, he wished none of them were rescued. They were all guilty! First, they turned a blind eye; then they purposely tried to kill him! All of them were mad!
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From the nearby shrubs, several grotesque humanoid monsters emerged, their eyes greedily fixed on the group.
Driven by insatiable hunger, the only thing these monsters saw was the meat pulsating with fresh blood. Nothing else mattered.
They never stopped to consider why such tempting bait would be near the slaughterhouse, where the judge often appeared, or if this could be a trap.
The survivors, who were casually chatting moments ago, were now filled with terror.
Suddenly, a monster, with a pig’s head and a large belly, lunged forward, biting off half the face of the closest middle-aged man.
“Ahhh!!!”
The man’s eyeball fell out, revealing teeth and red gums beneath the missing skin. Blood stained half his body.
His screams pierced the air.
“Ah! Monsters! Ahhh!”
Several survivors beside the middle-aged man also screamed, fleeing in panic towards areas free of monsters.
However, within these few chaotic seconds, the monsters, drawn to the scent of blood, surrounded the survivors, enveloping them like dough over the fillings in dumplings.
One by one, the humanoid monsters with animal heads lunged at the humans, biting and tearing. The green grass was soon drenched with blood.
In just over a minute, the clearing had become a living hell, littered with severed limbs and drenched in blood.
“Ah! No! Help! Brother Li! Where are you, Brother Li?!”
“Help! Help! Ahhh!”
Some cried out in desperation, seeking help from the leader they trusted.
But the concealed Brother Li and his group only coldly watched, showing no intention of intervening.
When the time was right, they raised their guns and began shooting the unsuspecting monsters.
Yao Ye, covering his mouth and trying to breathe silently, watched the gory scene from a distance, careful not to alert the monsters or humans.
Thud.
A severed arm, torn by a monster, landed near Yao Ye’s hiding spot.
Yao Ye jolted. After his initial shock, he recognized the arm. It was delicate and pale, adorned with an emerald bracelet now dulled by blood.
It was unmistakably familiar.
Yao Ye remembered that among those he saved yesterday, there was a beautiful woman. To survive, she’d torn her collar, looking pitifully desperate. Yet, she had been the first to restrain him and, in the end, tied a dead knot in his rope.
In order to prevent him from escaping, they acted as ruthless towards him as they would towards an arch-enemy.
The once-kind woman’s final malicious glare was something Yao Ye would never forget.
“Heh… Heh… Huh?”
Yao Ye was startled by the laughter escaping from between his lips, covering his mouth again as if not believing the sound came from him.
But soon, looking at the severed arm, he burst into a genuine childlike giggle.
“Hehe… serves you right… hehehe.”
Yao Ye chuckled softly, his face more relaxed than it had been since he arrived on the island.
They wanted to kill him? Now, it was they who were dying.
That’s right… they should all die like this…
Yao Ye covered the bottom half of his face, his eyes glimmering eerily.
“Brother Li, I’ve killed enough! My hand’s so sore~”
Elsewhere, the pink-haired girl playfully whined, putting down her gun. Brother Li impatiently pulled her into his embrace, his hands wandering.
This game’s realism was striking. The sensation of killing felt so genuine, amplifying one’s desires. For instance, Brother Li, now stimulated by the blood and gore, was utterly excited.
“Hehe, just wait a bit more, darling. Once I finish off the last one, we can thoroughly enjoy the remaining two days~”
Rock and Dollar, both single, continued to shoot the remaining monsters, trying to ignore the couple.
The game’s mission was to survive on the island for three days and kill ten monsters each. They were almost done, but their bait was running out. They had to speed up.
Frankly speaking, Brother Li was too distracted by his girl.
According to the gameplay guide, they should’ve killed slowly. But the pink-haired girl grew impatient, wanting a thrilling experience. So they used up what would have lasted three days in one go.
Rock and Dollar were secretly critical of Brother Li’s decision, but they were friends in the real world, and for their buddy’s pleasure, they tolerated it.
The ground was now a river of blood. Entrails and limbs were scattered everywhere. Many monsters were feasting on the delicious human brains, looking content.
The four or five remaining humans looked pale with terror, desperately trying to escape the encircling monsters. Their futile efforts of running in circles seemed somewhat comical.
Yao Ye, with indifferent eyes, continued to watch everything, his smile never fading.
Just die… All of you!
But then, something changed.
From the woods outside the slaughterhouse, a tall man began to walk out.
Bang! Bang!
The man, wrapped in bandages, looked at the scene before him and raised the massive blade he held.
Swoosh—
A pig-headed monster, greedily sucking marrow, was effortlessly cleaved in two. Blood splattered, and its filthy innards spilled out.
“You shouldn’t be here.”
His chilling voice, cold enough to freeze souls, sent shivers down the spines of the blood-soaked monsters.
With blood-red eyes peeking through the white bandages, the man seemed more terrifying than ever.
Hiss! It’s the Judge!!! The Judge has come!!!
The monsters that still retained their sanity scattered in all directions to save their lives. Only a few, lacking intelligence and still engrossed in their bloody feast, continued to chase the remaining humans.
“Ah! Help! Save me!!!”
A gaunt young man, his face streaked with snot and tears, sprinted across the clearing, frantically escaping from a faceless monster pursuing him from behind.
Whoosh!
A blade sliced through the air, and the faceless monster, distinguished only by its terrifying elongated limbs and lack of facial features, burst into a shower of blood, disintegrating into a puddle of flesh.
The frail young man collapsed, staring dumbfounded at the towering figure wrapped in bandages who had just saved him.
From his hidden spot, Yao Ye watched this all-too-familiar scene. For a moment, he was frozen, but then his expression darkened, and he clenched his teeth in resentment.
This musclehead!
Would he save anyone who was injured?
For some reason, watching the bandaged man rescue others filled Yao Ye’s heart with a stifling sense of injustice. His scarred fingers tightly gripped the wild grass nearby, the veins in his hands bulging from the force.
He had speculated as much yesterday, but…
Why save these lunatics who weren’t worth saving?
Looking at the scene in the distance, Yao Ye’s eyes turned bloodshot, and he bit his lips until they bled. He looked like a madman on the verge of snapping.
On the open ground, the petrified youth trembled, looking up at the terrifyingly imposing bandaged man before him. His lips twitched as he tried to muster a grateful smile.
“Th-thank you…”
Dark blood seeped continuously from a wound on his head. Wherever the tainted blood flowed, grotesque, pulsating lumps formed on his skin. Yet, unaware of his transformation, the young man seemed oblivious, simply relieved at his good fortune.
The imposing Judge said nothing. He raised his long blade and, with a swift, effortless motion, decapitated the youth, whose head had begun to transform.
“Ah!!!”
The remaining four survivors screamed in succession, taking advantage of the momentary distraction to flee the scene. The Judge showed no intention of pursuing them. Instead, he turned his gaze to Brother Li and the others hiding nearby.
The Judge’s blood-streaked bandages made him look incredibly horrifying at that moment.
Seeing that the Judge had spotted them, Brother Li and the rest hastily packed their bags and ran as fast as they could.
Hidden nearby, and having been observing the situation on the open ground, Yao Ye held his breath, his breathing rapid.
Was he dead? He was!
But… why?
Why didn’t the giant man kill Yao Ye last night?
Seeing the bandaged behemoth still standing in the same spot, Yao Ye averted his eyes and retreated to his corner to calm his agitated emotions.
The fear of death and the thrill of seeing his enemies die mingled together, making Yao Ye’s already fragile nerves even more susceptible.
Once he had calmed down, Yao Ye peeked out of his hiding spot to check on the humongous man.
Suddenly, a face wrapped in white bandages appeared before him, startling Yao Ye so much that he retreated back into his hiding place with a sharp exclamation.
Seeing this, the Judge, looking somewhat guilty, stood up and withdrew his prying gaze.
He had scared Yao Ye…
But… Yao Ye looked so cute when he was frightened too…
Yao Ye, looking timid and defeated, stared up at the towering bandaged figure. After a moment, a flush appeared on his pale cheeks, his eyes still gleaming with the excitement of moments ago.
“H-Hello…”
With his trembling fingers hidden behind him, Yao Ye forced a brilliant smile.
Since… he didn’t kill him, did that mean… he was special? Could they… become friends?
If they became friends, he could ask for a favor, right?
Helping him kill the bad guys… would be okay, right?
Yao Ye obediently got up. His eyes, fixed on the reticent bandaged figure, were filled with childlike innocence interspersed with a hint of unsettling morbidity. He offered a gentle smile.
He wanted to kill those who had bullied him…
The Judge silently watched Yao Ye, observing the soul of his beloved youth tainted by the island’s malevolence, turning his once-pure spirit into one stained with vengeful crimson.
“What’s your name? Thank you for before. Can… we be friends?”
Yao Ye, his hand still trembling, reached out to the bandaged figure, his smile as tender as when he was a young boy.
The Judge remained silent, frozen in place.
Ahhhhhh cliffhanger! 😭 I can’t wait for the next chapter!!
Aaah what an ending to be left on 👀 I can’t wait to read more, thank you so much for TLing! ♥️