Chapter 13: Frenzied Slaughter

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[111111]: What a coincidence, I also met a lunatic today!

Shi Yao never expected that Mister Numbers would be the one to reply to her.

She had been acquainted with Mister Numbers and the others for about two days now, and they had played more than ten hours of PUBG together, but this was the very first time he'd talked to her.

Shi Yao stared at her phone screen incredulously, and after confirming three times that she wasn't seeing things, she replied: [That sure is a huge coincidence.]

Shi Yao thought that the conversation would end right there, but to her surprise, yet another notification popped up on her phone screen.

[111111]: Yeah.

A single word. Even through the screen, Shi Yao could vividly feel the perfunctory intentions behind the message.

She was afraid that the atmosphere in the group would turn awkward if she didn't reply, but she also had no idea how to respond to [111111]'s words. Racking her brain for some time, she concluded that a person who could make the reticent Mister Numbers speak up was no doubt a lunatic profoundly skilled in the Art of Lunacy, so she tapped on her keyboard and replied: [The lunatic you met must be more of a lunatic than the lunatic I met O(∩_∩)O~ ]

[111111] didn't respond.

Shi Yao heaved a sigh of relief.

As expected of a master, even speaking to him required her to think hard. It was fortunate that he didn't speak any more than that.

Even though [111111] didn't respond to Shi Yao, the atmosphere in the chat group didn't turn awkward. This was because [Expert of the Monkeys] joined in at this moment. [Sis Yao, Juice and I just ended our Duo match. Are you coming?]

It was still early, and there was still some time before her bedtime. Plus, she didn't have any lessons tomorrow morning so she could sleep in. Thus, Shi Yao replied: [Alright, I'll log in to the game now.]

As soon as Shi Yao logged on, a notification popped up on the screen:

[Juice] invited you to a team.

Shortly after entering the room, Shi Yao heard [Expert Of The Monkeys]'s voice, "Boss, we're still lacking a player. Are you coming?"

[111111] didn't respond.

[Juice]: "Come and play two rounds, boss?"

[Expert Of The Monkeys]: "Yeah. It's still early, what else are you going to do?"

Perhaps it was just Shi Yao's imagination, but there seemed to be something different with [Expert Of The Monkeys] and [Juice]'s tones today. It felt a little... a little... Shi Yao pondered for a moment, but she couldn't find a suitable adjective to describe it.

They seemed to have convinced [111111] because Shi Yao could hear the vague melody of the game's login BGM. 1  Following which, [111111] joined the team as well.

[Juice] started the game.

On the plane, Shi Yao noted that no one had marked down the jumping coordinates, so she asked, "Where are we going to jump?"

Ten seconds later, [Expert of the Monkeys] gave a brief reply, which was strange given his talkative nature, "Primorsk should do."

Usually, when they played, [Expert of the Monkeys] and [Juice] would always have endless words to say, but today's voice chat was unnervingly quiet. Even the usual tribute offering throughout the game— 'Sis Yao, there's a Med Kit for you here, come over and get it', 'Sis Yao, there's a Level 3 Military Vest here, come over' —had lessened considerably.

So it wasn't just her imagination. There really was something different with [Expert of the Monkeys] and [Juice] today.

After noticing the peculiar atmosphere in the air, Shi Yao's words lessened as well.

It was very silent throughout the duration of the game when compared to two days ago.

[111111] knocked out [Wish To Be Lazy and Rich] with AWN.

[111111] killed [Wake Up Youngster] with M416.

[111111] killed [Proud Of My Bad Grades] with grenade.

[111111] killed [Wish To Be Lazy and Rich] with grenade.

[111111] died in the Redzone.

On the third round, it took these five notifications for Shi Yao to finally realize, to her astonishment, that the one in a peculiar state today wasn't Expert or Juice, but Mister Numbers...

Mister Numbers had always been a very skilled player; Shi Yao was well aware of this. There had never been a single occasion where he would risk being poisoned to death in the blue zone just so he could kill everyone in sight.

Due to this sudden realization, Shi Yao began taking special note of [111111] when the fourth round started.

Yet, due to her inattention, she, who was rarely box-ified right after jumping while teamed up with Mister Numbers and the others, ended up being killed by another person with a pan shortly after she landed.

Thus, Shi Yao switched her spectator view to [111111]'s.

She hadn't noticed it before, but now that she was paying attention to Mister Numbers, she really had the shock of her life.

Instead of gearing up, [111111] picked up a gun right after landing and began searching for other players to kill.

He was a formidable player in the game, but he would still humbly gear up in the earlier phase. But in this round, he didn't even bother going around looting items...

Even more bizarre was when he engaged with other players—he didn't bother to take cover at all. Instead, he would simply face them head-on...

Within three minutes after the game started, he had already wiped out all of the enemies in the military base.

After slaughtering the other players, Shi Yao thought that [111111] would start to gear up. Contrary to her expectations, he only picked up a few magazines, and without paying any heed to [Juice] and [Expert of the Monkeys], who were busy looting items behind him, he quickly found a motorcycle and drove off.

He first headed to Novorepnoye and slaughtered everyone there using that brutal and direct method from earlier. He then made his way to Mylta.

After [111111] had slaughtered his way down to Pochinki, he ended up being killed because he ran out of bullets. Only then did it finally strike Shi Yao—Mister Numbers was not playing to win today but to carry out a massacre...

Even through a phone screen, she could vividly feel the overwhelming killing intent radiating off him.

Was he trying to vent his bad mood by frenziedly slaughtering everyone in the game?

[Expert of the Monkeys]: "Sis Yao, ready?"

Pulled back from her thoughts, Shi Yao realized that the game had already come to an end.

She quickly pressed the ready button as she mused over what she'd seen.

That explained why there was something different about Expert and Juice's tone today. She had been searching for a word to describe it, and she finally found one:  careful . They were speaking very carefully, very different from their carefree and joyful tones in the last two days...

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