These guys, who were animals from head to toe, were dressed in bright human clothing, holding brightly colored feather fans in their hands, and wearing scarlet rouge on their mouths. Some were even holding pipes while talking and laughing with their legs crossed.
The difference was that they had evolved from walking on four legs to walking on two legs, and the original claws had become hands. Except the head that was much larger and looked more ferocious, there were no other differences from people.
But that was surprising enough.
Under the light, the faces of these animals seemed to be possessed by demonic distortions, becoming hideous.
Ridiculous, so ridiculous.
The young man was wearing a white prison uniform that reached his knees. Because the cage was not tall, he was forced to sit on a soft cushion, exposing his excessively slender legs.
His hands and feet were bound by iron chains, and his white hair fell down his back and hung behind him. The excessively pale skin intertwined with the cold-colored iron chains accentuated a sadistic beauty.
The dazzling lights on the auction platform fell from high above, stimulating his light pink pupils to water.
Seeing the “cat” in the iron cage raising his head, the guests let out bursts of surprised sighs, whistles, and cheers.
“What beautiful eyes, what a beautiful coat and coloring!”
“Look at those legs, that’s the cat of my dreams. Three days of use is not a loss.”
“I haven’t seen such a pure-blooded cat for a long time. I don’t know what breed it is?”
“It seems to have been caught from outside. You can tell by the color scheme that it’s a rare variety. It’s the kind that has a price but is not available in the market.”
The real animals cheered and commented matter-of-factly on the humans placed on the auction block.
Just when Zong Jiu saw the faces of the audience clearly, the sub-system spoke slowly.
[You feel a sense of surprise, because the situation in front of you is beyond the scope of your understanding. The distorted and hateful faces of these “audiences” make you feel flustered, so… pass a sanity check]
Zong Jiu: “???”
Sanity value, also known as san value, is one of the special rules announced by the system before entering this instance.
All trainees had their own san value, which could also be understood as mental value or sanity level.
The higher the san value, the more determined the trainee was.
If you saw something beyond the scope of your understanding, it would cause the sanity value to drop. If it dropped too much at once, the trainee was likely to fall into a short-term state of blackout or confusion.
If the san value goes to zero, the trainee would go crazy permanently and even the system couldn’t save him.
“No.” Zong Jiu debated with the sub-system in his mind, “Do you think I felt panicked when I saw these animals just now? Are you serious?”
Sub-system: […]
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After being silent for a while, it hesitated to speak out. [But this is a rule. You have never seen an animal-like human before. These creatures are born with filthy and evil qualities, and their temperament will pollute you and affect your reason]
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[Oh, okay then]
[But if their evil aura really pollutes you, I will ask you to pass a sanity check at any time]
Perhaps it was also because it detected the trainee’s current sanity that the subsystem accepted his proposal with great humiliation.
After all, Zong Jiu’s words are not untenable. For example, ordinary people needed to pass a sanity check when they saw a corpse, but a murderer didn’t need it when he saw a corpse, and he would even become more excited. Logically speaking, this was in line with the rules of the system.
On the other side, after the crowd of spectators below marveled at the beauty of the cat in the cage, the host seemed to want to extend his staff into the cage to tease this beautiful but lazy little guy.
With such an action, the audience below immediately protested.
For some reason, every move of this particularly beautiful cat seemed to have a different kind of charm, and it can easily capture their hearts.
“What are you doing? How dare you touch such a precious cat with your dirty cane?”
“Do you want to torture the cat with this action? Can you have some empathy?”
“You can’t even buy a hair from this beautiful cat with half a year’s salary at the circus, so get out!”
Not only the audience surrounding the auction stage, but also the high-rank boxes came with cold reprimands, which scared the host to the point of slipping to his knees and falling directly to the stage.
Ironically, these viewers were enthusiastically discussing the production of fur before they knew that the auction item was a “cat”. After knowing it, a completely different side appeared.
Two circus servants with an ox head and a horse face and huge waists immediately walked out from backstage and dragged the host who was involved in abusing rare animals from the auction stage.
Soon, a new host was sent up.
The new host was obviously more sophisticated.
In order to calm the anger of the audience, when it appeared, another cage covered with red cloth also appeared.
Zong Jiu, who was sitting in the cage, finally reacted. After being prompted by the system, he stopped looking at the distorted animal faces below and instead looked at the cage next to him.
“A similarly rare species, a species that has not appeared in the past hundred years—”
The red cloth fell in response.
Tsuchimikado, who was dressed the same as him and was tied in a cage with iron chains, helplessly faced the fanatical gazes below.
“It’s a dog!”
“Oh! A cute puppy dog! This breed is the legendary husky!”
Cheers no less than when Zong Jiu appeared on the stage almost overturned the entire auction room.
Tsuchimikado: #$%! (whispering a series of curse words in his mind)
The next moment, he also received a sanity prompt from the system.
As a normal person with obvious emotional fluctuations, the Yin-Yang Master naturally couldn’t escape the test like Zong Jiu did.
So he was forced to pass a sanity check.
Of course the sanity check failed.
[You threw 2 points, and two points of sanity were deducted]
[Current sanity value: 48/50]
[You have fallen into the additional state of sanity deduction]
The next second, Zong Jiu saw Tsuchimikado’s eyes become unfocused and he hit the iron cage railing, causing alarm in the audience.
Zong Jiu: “…”
Fortunately he escaped the sanity check.
He looked away, frowning and thinking about the current situation.
It was obvious that in this instance, there was some very peculiar exchange of identities between animals and humans.
Human beings had been reduced from the status of rulers to animals that could be controlled at will, while animals had become the status of humans as rulers.
And looking at their situation, it was obvious that they were divided into many grades for humans just like humans classified animals. Unfortunately, right now, they didn’t know the basis on which animals divided human species.
Zong Jiu was a little curious, wondering what the other humans in this S+ rank instance were like.
“System, do you have any other tips on how to find a way to link to the main system?”
[Sorry, I am just a sub-system with limited capabilities. I can only respond when trainees need to roll, and cannot plan specific action routes for trainees]
[But before disconnecting, the system sent a message]
[Twenty years ago, five teams of survivors once entered this S+ rank instance. If we can find the clues left by these five teams of survivors, we may be able to reconnect with the system]
The sub-system picked and choosed the information that could be conveyed to the trainees.
In fact, the main system transmitted much more information than it told the trainee.
After the Instructor used his authority to query, the system actually found an unexpected piece of information.
This S+ rank copy was not classified to the Dark Dimension in the beginning. Even just twenty years ago, the system had a cooperation with this S+ rank instance.
But unfortunately, a total of five teams and nearly a hundred survivors entered that time, but in the end they were all wiped out.
Calculating the timeline, it was exactly after the five teams of survivors entered the instance that this S+ rank instance moved from the Light Dimension to the Dark Dimension.
As a high-dimensional existence, although the system had no emotions and personality, it had always calculated things exactly.
Originally, it planned to abandon the two trainees directly after discovering that they had lost contact. After all, there were too many uncertain elements floating around in the Dark Dimension, which might even contaminate the system itself. It had been prepared for many years, so if that happened, the purpose of holding the Thriller Trainee competition would fail.
But it couldn’t do anything about the Instructor using his authority.
On the other side, the host who displayed the two not-for-sale products announced loudly, “We will first hold off on the Items not for sale. Next, we will auction other collections. The three-day right to use the products not for sale will be auctioned in the last hour of the auction. Please stay tuned.”
The high curtain slowly fell, covering the two huge iron cages.
They were temporarily moved to the back.
Zong Jiu looked at the surrounding environment.
The backstage of the auction stage was very large. When the curtain fell, there was a dark staircase leading to an unknown direction directly underneath.
There were also some other auction items stacked here besides them.
For example, there were pieces as thin as a cicada’s wing and looked like a butterfly’s wings under the light. It was an unknown product that was exquisitely made.
Tsuchimikado’s face looked a little ugly, “Everything hanging over there is human skin.”
In fact, there was no need for the Yin-Yang Master to speak, Zong Jiu could see it.
This human skin was different from the human skin peeled off the old woman’s body with mercury in the Famine Village instance. It was a human skin fur coat made by tearing off a piece of scalp and hair together.
The hair on each piece of human skin was still attached to the scalp and could be dyed in any color, becoming the luxurious fur coat for the animals.
Not just human skin, there were countless human artifacts displayed backstage.
There was yellowish corpse oil, bracelet accessories made of polished white human bones, jewelry inlaid with human nails, and small statues carved from teeth.
“In this S+ rank instance world, humans are animals in the eyes of animals.”
Zong Jiu understood, “They treat humans as cruelly as humans treat animals in other worlds.”
Because just like how humans viewed animals, when animals were in a dominant position, humans weren’t so different.
The distinction between high and low in the food chain had always been cruel.
Mal posso esperar para ver como o Diabo está. Obrigado pela tradução!
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