Chapter 1860: Chapter 1705: Escape Game 57

Although the map had suddenly changed, because they were together with Miao Shuangshuang, Lin Yu and Chi Qing were in fairly good spirits and weren’t overly tense.

Miao Shuangshuang looked around. This seemed to be a park: trees lined both sides, the grass was lush and green, and there were benches for people to rest on.

The three of them were standing on the walkway. Miao Shuangshuang grabbed Chi Qing and Lin Yu and walked over, planning to sit on the bench to rest their feet and discuss what exactly this Death God’s Playground was about.

But just as Miao Shuangshuang pulled Chi Qing and Lin Yu down to sit, she heard a faint creaking sound in her ear. The sound was very, very slight, like something snapping.

Ever since entering the game, Miao Shuangshuang had maintained a high level of vigilance. She didn’t know where the danger would come from, so she could only stay on guard in all directions.

The moment she heard that sound, Miao Shuangshuang instinctively felt something was wrong. Her first reaction was to drag Chi Qing and Lin Yu and sprint in the opposite direction of where the sound had come from.

Fortunately, Chi Qing and Lin Yu’s reactions weren’t slow either. Even though they hadn’t noticed anything off, the moment Miao Shuangshuang yanked them, they knew something had happened and immediately followed her force to dash forward.

With the two of them cooperating, Miao Shuangshuang easily dragged them more than ten meters away, and just as the three of them rushed out, they heard a thunderous crash behind them.

The three of them turned back and saw that at the bench where they’d planned to sit and rest, a huge streetlamp had toppled over, landing squarely on the bench!

The streetlamp was made entirely of iron, with a base wrapped in concrete, extremely heavy. When it came down, the whole bench shattered. If the three of them hadn’t left in time, there’s no way any of them would have escaped; they would all have been crushed to death.

This was basically brushing shoulders with Death itself. It wasn’t the same kind of terrified shock as seeing a ghost, but it made their adrenaline spike all the same.

Chi Qing and Lin Yu clutched their wildly pounding hearts, unable to calm down for a long while, while Miao Shuangshuang strode quickly forward to inspect the fallen streetlamp.

The concrete base that had been used to fix the lamp in place was completely split open, and the pole inside was covered in rust. Miao Shuangshuang knocked on the upper section and found that part was still fine.

Lin Yu kept watch on their surroundings while Chi Qing leaned in to look, unable to help complaining, "Damn, it’s rusted like this inside and they still don’t replace it? They’re just waiting for an accident to happen—total corner-cutting."

Miao Shuangshuang continued knocking upward along the lamp pole, then shook her head and said, "No, that’s not it. The upper part is still really solid. I used half my strength and nothing happened. If it were rusted through, I’d have dented it with a knock."

She had barely finished speaking when a scream sounded behind them. Miao Shuangshuang, Chi Qing, and Lin Yu immediately turned to look and saw a woman lying flat on her back on the ground.

A broken tree branch had pierced into the woman’s eye. Her body was still convulsing and twitching on the ground, but very soon she stopped breathing.

Miao Shuangshuang stared at the branch—lush with leaves, still bearing a string of small white flowers—and her expression grew grim. That branch didn’t look in any way like something that would just snap off suddenly.

Not to mention, how could a broken branch just so happen to stab straight into someone’s eye and kill them? It made no sense at all.

Miao Shuangshuang recognized the dead woman. She was a player; Miao Shuangshuang had seen her earlier at the entrance passage, when she’d been pulling two people aside to discuss forming a team. She hadn’t expected her to end up dead here in the blink of an eye.

"No, no way, De–Death God’s here! Don’t tell me Death God really came!" Chi Qing stared at the woman’s corpse-like state and finally muttered.

"Death God really did come. This way of dying is exactly the same as Death God’s killing methods in Final Destination. No mistake about it. No wonder this game is called Death God’s Playground."

Lin Yu, face deathly pale, picked up the thread. Final Destination was an insanely famous movie; countless people had seen it, and even those who hadn’t watched it had at least heard the name.

Miao Shuangshuang had naturally heard of the movie, but she’d never been interested in foreign, especially Western, films. She’d heard of it and had a vague idea of the plot, but had never watched it in detail.

Miao Shuangshuang looked at Lin Yu and Chi Qing. "What’s Final Destination about?"

Chi Qing looked at Miao Shuangshuang like she was some kind of curiosity, and said in shock, "Sis, you haven’t even seen something as famous as Final Destination? Your entertainment life is way too barren."

Miao Shuangshuang frowned. So what if she hadn’t seen it? She just didn’t like Western movies—everyone looked more or less the same, and with her face-blindness she couldn’t tell who was who. What was wrong with that?

Lin Yu took the initiative to explain: "Final Destination is actually a bit similar to what we’re going through. We’re people who already died and were dragged into this game to trade for a chance at survival.

In Final Destination, it’s people who escape an otherwise certain-death outcome by accident who get targeted by Death God, and then Death God uses all kinds of methods to kill those who escaped.

The killing methods are similar to what we’re experiencing now—using things that look like everyday, common situations you see all the time in real life, that almost never cause accidents, to kill people."

"And the scariest part of Final Destination is that under the malice of the big boss Death God, the protagonists all get wiped out—none of them survive!

It’s that kind of series where if the main character doesn’t die in this movie, they’ll die in the next, known as the most malicious series ever. It depressed the hell out of me when I watched it—never seen protagonists suffer that badly." Chi Qing added on the side.

After that, Lin Yu and Chi Qing took turns giving Miao Shuangshuang a quick rundown of the plots of Final Destination 1 through 5. Miao Shuangshuang drew one conclusion: Death God’s Playground was basically a replica of Final Destination.

"For players, the hardest parts of this playground are, first, that danger is everywhere, coming from every aspect around us, impossible to guard against.

Second, we never know when danger will strike, so our nerves stay strung tight and we can’t rest at ease. Over time, there’ll definitely be moments of mental exhaustion, and that’s when Death God will find an opening.

The lucky thing now is that my combat skills are still intact; we’re not actually at the level of ordinary people. The physical condition you two have now is equivalent to that of well-trained special forces soldiers, far beyond normal people.

With that, as long as we’re cautious and work together, it won’t be too hard to survive these three days.

That’s also one of our biggest advantages. Compared to those players whose physical enhancements and items were completely taken away, turning them into true ordinary people, it’ll be much easier for us to clear this level."

While the three of them were talking and analyzing the game, the police had already rushed over at high speed and were methodically handling the female player’s corpse.

From the moment the police received the call to the moment they finished dealing with her body, no more than five minutes passed—an unreasonably fast response.

But this game world was an unreasonable existence to begin with, so a bit more irrationality wasn’t anything to be surprised about.

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