Chapter 2 Chapter 1 A New Beginning

The place was called "The Colosseum"—an ancient, narrow passage leading to an open field in the middle of the sea.This magnificent maritime structure is supported by three huge stone pillars.In the middle of the venue is a sunken circular iron cage, below which are imprisoned some terrifying creatures that are about to move.The spectacle around the arena is breathtakingly beautiful, but what it reveals is a chilling aura. The four boys stood in the four directions of the sea arena, ready to fight.One was very excited, the other was calm and calm, but the other two seemed nervous, especially the boy wearing glasses, whose legs were trembling unceasingly.

"Hang Yi, I regret it, we still..." "You are the one here who has no reason to be afraid, Lu Hua." Hang Yi (male number 12) reminded. "Your 'defense' is invincible." "But I'm afraid of strange, disgusting creatures..." Lu Hua (male No. 9) said palely, "I don't know what's locked down here!" "You'll know soon." Ji Kairui (male No. 10) said with a stern face, "Get ready, it's coming!" The circular iron cage in the middle of the arena opened, and the first batch of monsters came out—four purple toads with spikes and tentacles on top of their heads, bigger than a hippopotamus, jumped out.There are several small holes on their sticky bodies, which breathe like nostrils, and a long and curled tongue protrudes from its mouth, covered with pustules, which looks disgusting.

"Oh, No!!!!" Lu Hua covered his cheeks in horror, almost fainting. "What is this?! It's 100 times more disgusting than I imagined!" The four toad monsters moved slowly a few times, then jumped up at an astonishing speed, and rushed towards the four people on the arena respectively.They opened their mouths wide open, as if they wanted to swallow their opponents whole. Hang Yi reacted quickly, dodged it with a roll, then quickly inserted the big sword into the scabbard tied behind his back, pulled out two powerful pistols from his waist, and shot at Toad while reminding: "These guys are poisonous. Don't fight them in close quarters!"

"You know it by looking at it." Ji Kairui bit his finger, and compared his left hand to the shape of a pistol, he fired a bullet made of coagulated blood at the toad.This kind of bullet is much more powerful than ordinary bullets. Hang Yi fired more than ten shots to kill the monster, but Ji Kairui only took two bullets to kill it. Hang Yi and Ji Kairui easily killed the two toad monsters, but the situation on the other side was not optimistic. Sun Yuchen (male No. 19) narrowly avoided the toad's pounce, and really didn't dare to fight this huge monster, so he ran towards Lu Hua in a panic.But Lu Hua's biggest weakness was that he couldn't face the disgusting creatures at all. He couldn't raise the defensive wall, so he could only run away screaming loudly with his head in his arms, and almost collided with Sun Yuchen who was running towards him.

"What are you doing, Lu Hua?! Use a circular defensive wall!" Sun Yuchen shouted. "I, I..." Lu Hua trembled with fear, "When you encounter disgusting things, you can't use superpowers!" Hang Wang looked impatient, and raised his pistol to shoot the other two toads, but Ji Kairui pressed down his raised hands. "Let them deal with it themselves." "But, if Lu Hua can't use the defensive wall, wouldn't it be a dead end?" Hang Yi said anxiously. "If they can't even face this kind of challenge, they will die sooner or later." Ji Kairui said.

Hang Yi was speechless, he could only cheer for Lu Hua and Sun Yuchen in his heart. The two toad monsters jumped up again and attacked from different angles. Seeing that Sun Yuchen and Lu Hua were inevitable, Sun Yuchen shouted: "Lu Hua, use the defensive wall! Otherwise, you will die!" At the juncture of life and death, Lu Hua could only forcefully suppress his fear.He closed his eyes tightly, shouted, and pushed his palms forward—— "Bang, bang!" With two loud noises, the two toad monsters hit a transparent and solid defensive wall, fell heavily on the ground, and smashed the stone floor.Lu Hua and Sun Yuchen opened their eyes together, only to see a "square defensive wall" stretched out by Lu Hua's hands.Lu Hua was taken aback, apparently he didn't even know that his superpower could take on this form.

"Why isn't it a round defensive wall?" Lu Hua said in embarrassment, "The square defensive wall can't cover me!" Two toad monsters climbed up from the ground, they bypassed the defensive wall in front of them, ready to attack again.Sun Yuchen knew that he could no longer hide, and he could no longer rely on the panicked Lu Hua.His eyes were wide open, and his two fingers pointed forward—the shattered stones on the ground flew up, and under the command of "Intention", they flew towards the toad monster like bullets.Hard rocks hit the toad's fragile head and eyes.After screaming a few times, the two toads fell to the ground.

"Yeah! That's great!" Hang Yi happily ran towards the two partners. "I knew you could do it!" "Scared me to death..." Lu Hua said in shock, "I want to get out of here..." "This is only the first wave, so you can't do it?" Hang Yi said, "Didn't you all behave very well just now?" "I might die in the second wave!" Lu Hua said with widened eyes, "Who knows what more disgusting monster will come out?!" "You guys better stop chatting, the second wave of monsters has come." Ji Kairui watched a black shadow slowly rising in the middle of the arena.

What appeared this time was a terrifying monster in a black robe floating in the air. It held a two-meter-long blood-red sickle in its hand, and it looked as terrifying as a god of death.Sun Yuchen trembled with fright after just touching the monster.He shook his head in horror and said, "No... I can't solve this guy with 'ideas'." Even Hang Yi became hesitant, he knew the power of the "Black-robed Reaper" - different from the toad monster just now, this is a terrifying character who can decapitate people in an instant.Just when he was hesitating whether to continue, a very uncoordinated voice suddenly came from the arena——

"Ding dong, ding dong." Doorbell rang. Startled, Hang Yi turned his head and asked Lu Hua, "Did the door close when they went out just now?" "I... can't remember..." At this moment, two girls with shopping bags from the supermarket pushed open the door and entered.As soon as they stepped through the door, they saw the astonishing and terrifying scene in front of them, screamed in fright, and dropped the shopping bags in their hands to the ground. "Oops! Xin Na and Jing Xiaoran are back!" Sun Yuchen shouted.But before they could react, the black-robed Grim Reaper in the middle of the arena swung his scythe at lightning speed and attacked the two girls.

"Ah!" Xin Na and Jing Xiaoran (female No. 28) screamed.Ji Kairui raised his arm, intending to shoot the black-robed god of death with the "blood bullet", but it was too late. Just when Reaper's scythe was about to hit Xin Na's neck with a finger's width, the surrounding strange scenes disappeared together with the black-cloaked Reaper - 0.5 seconds slower, and Xin Na would meet the real Reaper. In an emergency, Hang Yi released his ability "Game", and they stood in the big house rented by Han Feng - the base camp of the "Guardian Alliance". "Huh..." Hang Yi let out a long breath, and sat slumped on the ground, too frightened by the shocking scene just now, to be speechless.Xin Na and Jing Xiaoran stood there in a daze, unable to get out of the panic for a long time. Han Feng (male No. 27) walked into the door with two boxes of things in his arms, and noticed that the people in the room all looked terrified and terrified.He saw the screen of the Ps3 game "Devil May Cry 4" on the TV screen, and guessed what happened before.He put down the things in his hands, stared and said, "Hang Yi, you used superpowers to turn this place into a game scene again?" Hang Yi swallowed his saliva: "I just want to use my free time to exercise the superpowers of the few of us..." "Then don't practice in the base camp! Anyone who enters your ability will be brought into the dangerous game world! Did Xin Na and Jing Xiaoran almost get injured just now?" "It would be fine if it was just 'injured'." Jing Xiaoran said with fear, "Xin Na's neck was almost cut off by that monster." "What?!" Han Feng stared at Hang Yi. "I was wrong, I will never use superpowers in the house again." Hang Yi walked up to Xin Na guiltily, "Are you okay, Xin Na." Sina shook her head. "It's nothing. Fortunately, you disarmed your super power in time." She picked up the shopping bag and the items scattered on the ground. "We just went to the supermarket downstairs to buy some things, and we almost died when we came back. Hang Yi, can't you be more peaceful!" Han Feng reprimanded. In fact, no one needs to scold him, Hang Yi has already felt guilty and blamed himself to the extreme, and he wants to slap himself hard twice - if he accidentally kills his favorite girl with super power, he doesn't want to live anymore. Xin Na saw that Hang Yi was extremely regretful, she forced a smile, grabbed Hang Yi's hand generously, and said: "Okay, it's all right. In fact, it's our fault, we forgot to lock the door when we went out. " Hearing Xin Na's relief, Hang Yi felt even more uncomfortable. He blushed and said, "Xin Na, I assure you, this kind of thing will never happen again." Xin Na smiled and nodded: "You don't have to blame yourself too much. In fact, I can understand your feelings—try to train your superpowers stronger so that you can deal with various possible attacks." "That's right." Ji Kairui said, "Practice has proved that in addition to 'leveling up', training can also enhance superpowers. Only by constantly getting stronger can we survive this competition." He looked at Xin Na and Han Feng and the others Bought something back. "You look pretty busy, though - cookies, chocolate, fudge, beef jerky...and a whole case of beer and drinks - are you going to have a party?" Han Feng blushed and said, "No matter what, the quality of life should be guaranteed..." "Great. I guess you've already ordered massage chairs and mahjong machines?" Ji Kerry said sarcastically. Han Feng looked a little embarrassed.Jing Xiaoran smoothed things over and changed the topic: "Why did we stand at the door just now, everything was normal, and just opened the door, and entered Hang Yi's 'game world'?" "After training, I have been able to control the scope of my ability." Hang Yi said, "I narrowed the scope to only within the living room. Only those who step into this area will enter the game world." "That's right." Mi Xiaolu (male No. 49) walked down the stairs. "So I was safe upstairs." "Wow, that's amazing." Jing Xiaoran said in admiration, "You guys are getting more and more proficient at mastering your own superpowers." "Each of us has improved to varying degrees, or tried some new ways of using superpowers." Ji Kairui glanced at Han Feng, "Except for those who are content with the status quo and don't want to make progress--burnout will It kills people." He dropped the words and went to another room. Han Feng rolled his eyes, too lazy to argue with Ji Kairui.He sat on the sofa, tore open a bag of potato chips, and said while eating: "Then what should I do? Create 'disasters' every day? Not every superpower is suitable for training." Everyone sat on the sofa.Lu Hua said: "Han Feng, have you thought about it? In fact, your ability is the most valuable for research. 'Disaster' covers a wide range." "Of course I know," Han Feng said irritably, "but it's for this reason that I dare not experiment lightly." "Maybe you can find an empty place to try." Lu Hua said. "Please, we are in the city now, how can there be any 'empty and uninhabited' places? Besides, no matter where it is, creating a disaster will not be a good thing." "Maybe you can try it in my 'game world'." Hang Yi said. "Forget it, your game world is a disaster." Han Feng said with widened eyes, "I've seen it before." "I can find a game scene where there is no danger..." "I don't want to try." Han Feng shook his head and refused. "I don't want to use my powers at all if it's not an emergency. I don't want people to think I'm a disaster." He opened another box of chocolates. "I want to bring happiness to everyone, like chocolate brings people - don't you want some?" "Thank you." Lu Hua, Mi Xiaolu and Jing Xiaoran each took a piece of chocolate from the tin box. "Okay, let's get down to business." Sinna said, "My dad told me that after the earthquake, the Mingde Foreign Language Training Center needs to undergo strict and careful inspections for safety reasons. It is estimated that we will not even think about going there again within six months. gone." "Isn't this just right?" Sun Yuchen said, "In this situation, who would dare to go back to tutoring? At least the people in class 13 would not dare." "Listen to me. We can't go to Mingde's current teaching place for the time being. But the person in charge, considering the tuition fees, can't keep students from attending classes for a long time and delay their studies, so they contacted some schools in the city and planned to borrow them. Their school buildings house Mingde students in different schools," Xin Na said. "It's really not a good idea." Han Feng asked, "Which school will the students of Class 13 be assigned to?" "The students in classes 10-20 are all arranged in Congzhou University." Xin Na said. "What university?" "Yes, only universities can provide so many classrooms." "Then when are we going to have class there?" Mi Xiaolu asked. "tomorrow." "Tomorrow?" Lu Hua said in surprise, "Then why haven't we received the notification from the training center?" "I don't know, maybe the teacher will call or send a message to inform us soon." Sinna said.Seeing Hang Yi frowning, she asked, "Why don't you speak, Hang Yi?" "I'm thinking, just like what Han Feng said—maybe it's really not a good idea." Hang Yi said worriedly, "It might be better if the 50 people in class 13 are scattered, but once they get together, it's hard to guarantee There will be no recurrence of a terrible event like the earthquake." "There is no doubt about it." Han Feng said, "It is impossible for 50 people to unite as one. Someone will definitely take action." "That's right, gathering again is simply to make it easier for the people in class 13 to fight each other." Sun Yuchen said. "Then what do you mean, we shouldn't continue taking tutoring?" Lu Hua asked. "The question is, with so many people in class 13, will everyone think so?" Hang Yi said. Everyone fell into silence.At this time, Jing Xiaoran's cell phone rang, and she glanced at the caller ID and said, "It's Pei Pei." Pei Pei (female No. 39) is Jing Xiaoran's good friend in Class 13.Hang Yi said: "Maybe she just called to inform you about the tutoring the day after tomorrow, please answer." Jing Xiaoran picked up the phone, and just after saying "Hello", he heard Pei Pei on the other end let out a long breath: "Thank God, you finally answered the phone. Why didn't you answer my call yesterday?" "Maybe I didn't hear it." Jing Xiaoran asked wonderingly, "What's wrong?" "Answering the phone means you're not missing, right?" "Missing?" Jing Xiaoran was taken aback. "Why do you think so?" Everyone on the sofa sat up straight and looked at Jing Xiaoran together.Ji Kairui also came out of the room, leaning against the wall with his hands crossed.Jing Xiaoran turned the phone's voice on hands-free, everyone heard Pei Pei's voice, her voice contained confusion and anxiety: "I don't know what to say... The thing is this - this morning, Teacher Nie called me and asked me to try to inform the students in Class 13 that I will go to the temporarily rented teaching building of Congzhou University tomorrow. I felt Strange - shouldn't this kind of thing be done by the monitor? Why do you ask me to do it for you? "I asked a question. Teacher Nie told me that he had contacted temporary monitor Ruan Junxi (male No. 31) and deputy monitor Tong Jiayin (female No. 37), but could not get in touch with them. I asked what happened. Teacher Nie But he hesitated and refused to explain, and just asked me to be responsible for notifying everyone. "I hung up the phone. I was really puzzled, so I called Ruan Junxi's home. It was his mother who answered the phone. She looked very anxious and told me in tears that Ruan Junxi disappeared two days ago. I called again The same is true for Tong Jiayin's family. Then, I found out that several people from Class 13 also disappeared at about the same time." The news brought by Pei Pei caused the temperature in the room to drop several degrees, and everyone's heart was raised.Jing Xiaoran asked urgently, "Who else is missing?" "As far as I know, apart from Ruan Junxi and Tong Jiayin, Lian En (male number 14), Luo Xingchen (male number 1), Dong Manni (female number 46) and Yi Fang (female number 18) are also missing. Amazingly, they all disappeared around the same time." Jing Xiaoran opened his mouth and said nothing for a long time: "So, why don't you call to see if I'm missing?" "Yes, if you are free now, I want to meet you. Xiao Ran, there are some things... I want to tell you face to face. " Jing Xiaoran covered the phone receiver and asked everyone for their opinions. "Pei Pei said she wants to come to me now, what should I do?" Hang Yi thought for a moment and said, "You let her come here." Han Feng said in a low voice: "In this way, our base camp will be exposed. We don't know what her superpower is. What if she..." "I believe Pei Pei is trustworthy. Among the people I plan to win over to join the alliance, she is already there." Hang Yi said, "Besides, don't you care about what she just said?" Han Feng stopped talking.Hang Yi signaled Jing Xiaoran to tell Pei Pei the address with his eyes. "Pei Pei, I'm now..." Jing Xiaoran told his friend the address in detail. "Come and find me." After hanging up the phone, Jing Xiaoran said, "She said she'll be there in twenty minutes." Hang Yi stood up from the sofa and paced back and forth, looking very anxious.Lu Hua couldn't help asking: "Hang Yi, do you suspect that what Pei Pei said about 'disappearing' actually means that they are... dead?" "I don't know." Hang Yi's heart was beating wildly. "I have a feeling it might be worse than we thought."