Unlimited Cycles of DeathChapter 22

Mu Qin and Xu Fu arrived before the entrance of the church. They had originally wanted to go in through the back door of the church, but they soon found that the church’s back door had also been blocked by some unknown person. Someone had used the abandoned tables, chairs, and cabinets in the church to seal the back door. Mu Qin and Xu Fu had tried lightly pushing that door, but the door was tightly blocked and didn’t budge at all.

In order to enter the church, the helpless Mu Qin and Xu Fu could only bypass the back door and return to the church’s front door. They then discovered that the front door was not firmly shut. Instead, it was slightly ajar, and the crack in the door revealed a sliver of dusky light. tPuGmF

Mu Qin took the lead and walked forward, standing to the side of the door, reaching out with his right hand to lightly push the door open. This heavy wooden door made a rumbling noise when being moved like some sort of aging creature’s long groan. In the quiet environment, it appeared particularly obvious.

However, neither Mu Qin nor Xu Fu were in the mood to worry about a small matter such as the sound being noticeable. After they pushed open the door, they surveyed the inside from the entrance. The situation inside the church wasn’t too different from when they left earlier. The candle chandelier had been smashed down and lay shattered and scattered on the ground. There was still Cheng Guoxu’s corpse to the side, motionlessly leaning against a chair’s leg… already thoroughly dead.

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Mu Qin and Xu Fu looked at each other. Mu Qin took the lead in striding forward into the church. His pace was unhurried, slowly coming beside Cheng Guoxu who was lying on the ground and looking down at Cheng Guoxu.

Cheng Guoxu’s eyes were shut, and his whole body was dripping blood. He had countless wounds and lay limply. He had already been dead for a long time, and the blood flowing on and below his body had started becoming sticky and solidifying. He emitted a bloody scent and an odor of decay. That was the smell of death. mze2dh

When Mu Qin looked down at Cheng Guoxu’s body, Xu Fu also unconsciously walked beside Mu Qin and looked at Cheng Guoxu with him, spurning Cheng Guoxu along the way, “Let him die too easily. I should have properly tortured him, tortured him until he died.”

Mu Qin thus replied to Xu Fu, “What you’re saying makes me feel more and more that you’re the killer.”

“The ‘killer’ in the game is just an identity imposed onto you by the system.” Xu Fu sneered, “I said before. All the players who have entered this game are sinners. Among them are all kinds of murderers, rapists, drug dealers, human traffickers, robbers… there are all sorts of guys. In the last round, the ones I encountered were all these kinds of b*stards. If any single one of them were let out, they would all receive everyone’s disdain and society’s condemnation. They all deserve to die!”

Mu Qin looked at Xu Fu with an indifferent gaze and said, “So you killed all of them and then lived to the end.”

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Mu Qin’s single sentence caused Xu Fu’s pupils to slightly contract. He couldn’t help squinting his eyes and watched Mu Qin with a sidelong glance, “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“There’s no meaning,” Mu Qin seriously said, “I’m just thinking, you said before that you’ve only experienced two games including this one. Then in the previous game, you, as a newcomer… how in the world did you live to the end all by yourself?”

Xu Fu ridiculed, “Do you think I don’t have the ability to survive until the end?”

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“Of course. You have it,” Mu Qin exposed a hint of a smile that contained some indifference, “As long as you are the killer, then you will have the ability to survive until the end.” cijtun

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The entire second floor looked dim, without a single sliver of light and completely shrouded in darkness.

Xu Fu also saw this ladder. Thus, he turned to Mu Qin and whispered, “Do you think we still need to go up to the second floor? I bet up there has definitely already been searched.” YEKgWh

“That’s what I think as well.” Mu Qin looked up at the staircase’s gap, staring at the shadows of the second floor, “I’m afraid that killer has already taken away the props we’re looking for.”

“It’s been taken away?” Xu Fu felt doubt at Mu Qin’s words. He took out the Fool card that originally belonged to Mu Qin, raised his arm, and aimed at the second floor. He found that the surface of the tarot card was still shining.

As a result, Xu Fu said, “No, that’s not right! It seems like he hasn’t taken away the props. The card is still shining…”

“Of course, he’s already taken it away,” Yet Mu Qin stressed this point. He raised his head and gazed at the shrouded shadows at the top of the broken staircase, “He is currently holding the props, standing upstairs, and watching us.” mni3Wf

The tone of this sentence of Mu Qin’s was somewhat eerie, startling Xu Fu and scaring him until he was shivering all over. Xu Fu lowered the tarot card in his hand and followed Mu Qin’s line of sight up towards the second floor’s staircase landing. It was overly dim inside the church. It was a dark and indistinct expanse, and nothing could be seen clearly… Even though nothing could be seen clearly, Xu Fu really felt that there was someone standing in the shadows of the staircase landing, because the other person’s gloomy gaze extended over from above, casting onto Mu Qin and Xu Fu’s bodies.

Although Xu Fu was slightly frightened, he quickly calmed down and swiftly made a very bold move. Xu Fu suddenly rushed over, running over to the stairwell in a few steps, and pulled down the ladder that was propped against the staircase landing. Under his forceful movement, the ladder collapsed to the ground with a rumble.

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“Sure enough, as you expected, this guy is still on the second floor,” after Xu Fu made the ladder fall over, he backed up a few steps and returned to Mu Qin’s side, “Making the ladder fall over, let’s see how he’ll come down!”

After hearing Xu Fu’s words, the killer upstairs seemed to let out a slightly hoarse laugh, the kind of laugh that contained some contempt. Then, he moved. Mu Qin saw him appear to take a step forward. His shoes stepped on the edge of the stairs’ landing, exposing a corner. Eo3WGJ

Mu Qin suddenly realized something. He reached out and grabbed the forearm of Xu Fu who was standing beside him, saying, “Run!”

As soon as Xu Fu heard, although he still hadn’t understood Mu Qin’s thoughts, his body had already begun instinctively acting. Xu Fu immediately turned around and ran towards the entrance of the church.

At the same time, the killer standing on the landing of the stairs also leaped from upstairs, directly jumping down towards Mu Qin and Xu Fu’s location. His leaping action was like a pitch-black crow spreading his wings in the envelopment of the shadows. He emitted an evil and suffocating breath in all directions, terrifying yet full of indescribable charm.

Mu Qin originally should have followed Xu Fu and run, but he paused a little in place. He couldn’t help but focus on the killer’s figure. He watched the other person leap down from the top and stably land on the ground, landing just in front of Mu Qin. The opposite party put away the enormous, pitch-black wings and exposed fangs and claws at Mu Qin. He was like some sort of monster, revealing an evil grin towards Mu Qin. C1Xqom

Mu Qin seemed to have been intimidated by him, causing Mu Qin to rigidly stand in place without movement, coming in close contact with the terrifying killer.

Yet the killer did not immediately come forth to attack Mu Qin. The killer slowly stood straight and reached out towards Mu Qin, seemingly wanting to touch Mu Qin’s face with his fingers.

However, at this moment, Xu Fu, who had already run out a few steps, realized that Mu Qin had not kept up and couldn’t help but look back, shouting Mu Qin’s name. Mu Qin was called. Only then did he recollect his attention, immediately taking a few steps back, turn around, and follow Xu Fu to run out of the church, leaving behind the killer standing in the same spot. He was still maintaining that gesture of lifting his right hand to touch Mu Qin’s face.

The killer didn’t remain stagnant in place for long. He knew he should act. Now was the best time to hunt. LBaCK7

Faking death earlier was for the sake of breaking away from the group, for more easily acting solo, and for the opportunity of creating an alibi. Later, meeting Mu Qin, the killer lured Mu Qin into using his Fool card. When Mu Qin used his Fool card, the killer saw the face of his card light up when it was aligned in the direction of the church. The killer thus knew one of the props the humans needed to find was in the church, so after Mu Qin left, the killer soon went to the second floor of the church. He took the lead and got the key for the main exit. This key was placed on one of the tables in the office on the church’s second floor.

As long as he got the key, the killer would then be able to ensure the human side wouldn’t be able to easily escape. The humans needed to think of a way to injure or control the killer once and snatch the key from the killer’s possession. Only then could they open the exit’s door.

If they couldn’t snatch the key back from the beginning to the end, couldn’t open the door, and couldn’t beat the ghost, then everyone on the human side would face group extermination here.

This wasn’t Zhou Yue’s first time being the “ghost.” He had cycled in this game for a pretty long time. His experience was too rich, and he knew what should be done, what should be done to force these people into dire straits. qTY 0i

However, many times past, none of these newcomers knew that they had already fallen into a desperate situation.

The killer chased after them out of the church and found that Xu Fu and Mu Qin were already gone. The air was filled with the grassy scent of damp soil after rain but was also mixed with some other smells. The killer made a simple observation of the traces on the ground… as long as it was somewhere a living creature had passed by, there would always be clues left behind. Footprints in the mud, the curvature of the foliage, even if the traces weren’t clear, these weren’t problems for Zhou Yue, who had a hunter’s intuition.

Thus, Zhou Yue soon knew which direction Mu Qin’s group left in. However, he wasn’t in a hurry to chase them because he could tell. Mu Qin and Xu Fu had deliberately run to him to attract his attention.

Drawing his attention was for the sake of leading him elsewhere. vI yhr

What was the purpose of leading him elsewhere?

Zhou Yue looked back at the church. He had already gotten the key from the church, therefore there was no longer any need to search this church. The closest building next to the church was only that apartment building. The apartment building was Zhou Yue’s “spawning point.” As soon as he woke up, he was in one of the rooms on the fourth floor of the apartment building, so he simply searched the entire apartment building. There was nothing there.

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

Besides Mu Qin and Xu Fu, besides Cheng Guoxu who was dead in the church, besides the woman, Han Li, who Mu Qin had previously said had temporarily lost mobility due to a high fever, there should be one more person.

Mu Qin and Xu Fu deliberately coming over to attract the killer’s attention was to allow the remaining person to act alone more easily. JxrBWL

Zhou Yue thought of this. He licked his lips and gave up continuing with Mu Qin and Xu Fu. Instead, he turned around. He decided to wander a lap around the apartment building and church. That last person was definitely nearby. Zhou Yue would soon be able to find him.

At the same time, Mu Qin and Xu Fu, who had run out a distance and were squatting under a tree, turned back, and looked towards the church for a while. Xu Fu said, “He didn’t follow up.”

Mu Qin also couldn’t help but frown, “He discovered that we’re luring his attention. He won’t be fooled again. Following, he will definitely go look for Qiu Zijia.”

“Then what should we do?” Xu Fu was a bit anxious. e8Hcds

“There’s no way,” Mu Qin sighed and felt it tricky, “Let’s go back and attract him again. With us at the side disturbing, even if he doesn’t want to be fooled, he will still be led by us.”

Xu Fu could only acquiesce, “Alright. I think we need to move quickly, otherwise it will be very dangerous for Qiu Zijia.”

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BunnyGod: Idk I didn’t like this chapter… I don’t like this mode of interaction 🙁 I just want Mu Qin and Zhou Yue to be happy *sigh* but then there’s no story

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