Who Will Die First

Everyone was extremely frustrated. "Damn it, why did they design it so tightly?"

"There's still a way. We can use a rope, hang one end from the second floor, then add some weight to pull it..." Meimei came up with an idea.

Everyone's hopes rose again. It was indeed a good method, just rather troublesome. They would have to arrange everything carefully.

But just then, the bald man suddenly erupted into action. While everyone was thrown into confusion and Gaoxin had yet to steady himself, he charged forward and grabbed the Mechanical Battle Axe.

"Awwooo!" Sule reacted incredibly quickly. With a sudden lunge, he raised his body and bit down, hanging entirely from the bald man's arm by his teeth.

"Ah! Are you a dog or something?" The bald man cried out in pain, but still refused to let go. He directly yanked the giant axe free.

Gaoxin lunged over as well and grabbed the giant axe with him.

Meimei shouted, "What are you doing? Let go!"

Before the bald man could say anything, Gaoxin instead yelled at Meimei, "Shut up!"

Silver Hand turned his head slightly. Hearing the commotion, he asked, "Was the giant axe stolen?"

Gaoxin said coldly, "Not yet."

He struggled against the bald man, the two of them gripping the giant axe at the same time.

But the bald man had grabbed it first, and his hand was in the better position. He quickly found the trigger.

"Vroom!"

The giant axe activated!

Sule was still biting the man, hanging from his arm.

Gaoxin's pupils shrank. At the critical moment, he hurriedly released the axe, grabbed Sule, and yanked him aside. The two of them fell together.

At the same time, the bald man stumbled. His entire body was dragged along by the giant axe, which swung out with a whoosh.

The roar of the blade tearing through the air swept past. The axe cleaved into the ground beside them, sending marble flying, and the bald man crashed to the floor as well.

But he quickly turned around, raised the giant axe toward everyone, and shouted, "Nobody come any closer!"

Gaoxin's face darkened, but he said nothing.

Sule roared, "You damn bastard!"

If Gaoxin had not saved him, he would have nearly been split in two!

The others were also shocked by the sudden turn of events and glared angrily at the bald man.

If the giant axe was not in Gaoxin's hands, Silver Hand could directly go and take the collar.

Silver Hand had no hands now... There was only one way for him to take the collar... kick Gaoxin's head apart.

The bald man said coldly, "I don't give a damn about you. Since this giant axe can protect one person, why the hell would I open the collar?"

Meimei said angrily, "Open the collar, and we can all live!"

The bald man stood up and leaned against a pillar, holding the axe with both hands. "It's not that I didn't help, but I can't open it."

"Who knows how much force it takes to pry this thing open?"

"Wouldn't it be better for me to just use the axe?"

Though Silver Hand could not see, he still locked onto the bald man's position.

"Silver Hand, don't come any closer, or I'll kill you with one swing!" the bald man shouted anxiously.

Silver Hand faced him and said, "The collar was clearly designed so that a Glass Person couldn't open it, and a Glass Person's strength can't exceed three times his own body weight."

"Based on how it felt earlier, opening the collar should require roughly three or four hundred kilograms of force."

Three or four hundred kilograms!

It sounded difficult, but if they followed Meimei's method, they should still be able to open it.

However, they needed the bald man's help. After all, the collar was around Gaoxin's neck. Without a second person who could move freely to cooperate, it was nearly impossible.

Not to mention Silver Hand, who was watching them like a tiger stalking its prey...

So they had to get the bald man to help. Even if he merely held the axe in front of Silver Hand as a deterrent, it would be enough.

"...Do you understand now? Come help us, damn it!" Meimei urged.

The bald man's face was cold. "Why don't you have Silver Hand help? Don't you trust him? Let him open it."

Everyone was speechless. But since the man was determined not to get involved, they could only look toward Gaoxin.

Gaoxin still said nothing. He merely watched Silver Hand.

"So this is the Redemption Game..." Silver Hand murmured before letting out a low laugh. His appearance was terrifying, making that smile even more frightening.

"Not saying anything? Don't want to reveal your position?"

"You're forcing me to kill at random..."

Only then did everyone understand why Gaoxin had not said a word after the giant axe was taken.

He had not wanted to reveal his position. The commotion earlier had been extremely chaotic, and Silver Hand did not know which footsteps belonged to Gaoxin.

But if Silver Hand got angry, killing everyone would not be impossible.

"Can't you just give up the collar? Can't you take fewer Redemption Vouchers? Didn't you say you truly didn't want to kill us? Didn't you say you acknowledged Gaoxin?" someone pleaded.

Silver Hand shook his head. "I must get it. There's no room for discussion. You're not worth me giving up these Redemption Vouchers."

At that moment, Gaoxin suddenly charged toward the bald man and spoke at the same time. "That's right. Of course we're not worthy!"

"What do you mean, familiarity comes from fighting? You weren't even willing to ask my name!"

Hearing his voice, Silver Hand locked onto his position and charged straight over.

Everyone was stunned. Damn it, they were still going to fight!

The bald man was also shocked. "Don't come over!"

He swung the giant axe, the wind howling around it.

Gaoxin made a detour, aiming for the area behind the pillar where the bald man stood.

Silver Hand followed closely behind. Hearing the wind, he made a slightly wider detour. Although his absolute speed was greater than Gaoxin's, he could not catch up immediately when circling the pillar. After all, Gaoxin could see.

Especially with the bald man swinging the giant axe between them.

The bald man planted his feet firmly and swung the giant axe left and right, his back against the wall as he tried to force Silver Hand back.

Silver Hand could not see and could only rely on sound. He kept a certain distance as he circled the pillar, but Gaoxin's footsteps remained behind the bald man.

"Isn't your name Gaoxin? Why would I need to ask?" Silver Hand chuckled.

Gaoxin panted heavily. "Before, only people called me Brother Xin Ku. It was only after that that people started saying my full name."

"To you, we're probably just a group of useless slaves. Whether you know us or not is meaningless."

Silver Hand chuckled softly. "Couldn't I simply need to know your nickname? On this island, hardly anyone calls others by their real names."

"I gave you plenty of chances. You were the one who didn't believe me."

Gaoxin said harshly, "How am I supposed to trust someone who swore he would definitely kill me?"

"I also tried to trust you, but after you came back from upstairs, your stomach had grown a whole round bigger. Did you go to the third floor and eat the meat in the kitchen? You weren't seriously looking for the bald man at all, were you?"

"All the wounds on your body have already scabbed over. Even the spot where your arm was freshly cut off has sealed up, yet you stopped healing afterward... You're so weak because you lack nutrients, aren't you?"

"You need to recover your strength, so you started speaking properly and giving me so many chances."

"Even after I cut off one of your arms, you still gave me chances!"

"Am I your father? This isn't acknowledgment. You're merely enduring it!"

"As long as you eat something and recover some strength, it'll be enough for you to kill every one of us."

Gaoxin's words hit everyone like a revelation. They stared wide-eyed, their hearts sinking to the bottom.

During that period of peace, Silver Hand's condition had indeed improved considerably. He was no longer as miserable as when he had just come out of the bath.

Perhaps his injuries required special substances, but ordinary food should still have restored some of his strength. That was why he could run so quickly again.

So he had deliberately used a calm, enlightened tone to conceal his weakness?

That was right. No matter how much he admired Gaoxin, it was impossible for him to remain so calm after having an arm cut off. Damn it, even if Gaoxin were his biological father, he would still have kicked him a couple of times, right?

"Say whatever you want."

Silver Hand suddenly stopped. He had clearly realized that circling the pillar like this would not let him catch Gaoxin.

He could no longer afford to fear the giant axe. Feeling that he had recovered a great deal of strength, he decided to deal with the bald man directly.

"Gurgle..." A section of flesh on his body suddenly began to churn, looking exceptionally horrifying.

Seeing this, Gaoxin shouted, "Baldy, stop standing there! Go up and cut him!"

The bald man was startled. Then he saw Silver Hand squeeze a small fruit knife out from the wound at his side.

Clearly, he had taken it from the kitchen upstairs earlier as well.

Since all his clothes had been burned away and his entire body was rotten flesh, the only place he could store items was inside that flesh.

This was a True Wolf, all right. He was like an iron man.

"Whoosh!"

The knife was squeezed out by his muscles and shot straight into the bald man's arm.

The bald man screamed, and his swinging motion with the giant axe faltered.

Silver Hand immediately attacked. With a straight kick, he sent the bald man flying and slammed him hard into the pillar behind him.

"Pfft!" The bald man vomited a mouthful of blood. His internal organs were probably ruptured.

Silver Hand had no hands, so he simply continued forward, pressed himself against the bald man, and viciously bit down on his neck.

Gulp, gulp, gulp. He sucked mouthful after mouthful of the bald man's blood.

"Ahhh!" the bald man screamed. Suddenly, he pulled something from his pocket and pressed it hard. Crackling sparks burst out.

It was a crude electric shock device made by hand.

"Ugh..." Silver Hand jerked from the electricity and let out a muffled groan.

Everyone froze. They had not expected the bald man to have a weapon of his own. Right, he was not a newcomer.

To participate in the game, one had to have at least a few tricks up one's sleeve.

"Ugh... roar!" The electricity sent Silver Hand into a vicious frenzy. Instead, he bit down harder, tearing at the flesh of the bald man's neck.

"Ah..." The bald man suffered terribly, his entire body convulsing while one hand still clung tightly to the giant axe.

He wanted to hack the other man to death, but the other man was pressed too close, pinning him against the pillar.

Was he supposed to hack himself as well?

As it turned out, he really did exactly that. He activated the battle axe with one hand and swung it in a half-circle with a whoosh, cleaving into Silver Hand's back.

The bald man had truly gone all out. The axe did not leave his hand this time.

Silver Hand's eyes widened. The electric shock had slowed him for a moment, leaving him no time to dodge. The blow struck him squarely in the back.

Spurt! He spat out a mouthful of blood and threw his head back with a howl. His body twisted violently, instantly flinging both the giant axe and the bald man away.

But he himself dropped to one knee and could not stand.

His spine had been severed!

Yet he was not completely paralyzed like an ordinary person, and the bleeding stopped soon afterward!

"The blood of a Glass Person is truly useless..." He spat out a mouthful of blood foam in disgust. To him, an ordinary person's flesh and blood had only the effect of ordinary food.

Despite suffering such a heavy blow, he was still alive. Instead, the muscles on his back began to writhe, and his body swayed. Judging by the look of it, he seemed capable of fighting again.

Everyone remembered how terrifying Tianshe was. They were both True Wolf Level, so one swing of the axe was definitely not enough.

At the critical moment, Gaoxin appeared behind him with a rope. While Silver Hand still could not move, he slipped the noose around his neck.

"Come help!" Gaoxin shouted. He gripped the end of the rope extending from the loop with all his strength, then hurled the other end toward the bald man.

Pulling both ends together would tighten the noose.

But relying on his strength alone to strangle Silver Hand to death was nothing more than a joke.

He had hoped the bald man would help, but when he looked over, he found that the bald man was already unconscious!

Looking more closely at his injuries, Gaoxin was stunned. His carotid artery had ruptured, and he was covered in blood.

This was bad. He was truly the only one left now.

Just as Gaoxin was about to release the rope and hurry over to pick up the axe, a figure suddenly darted out and bit down on the rope!

It was Sule!

Sule clamped down on the rope and writhed into a death roll, wrapping it around his own body several times.

Seeing this, Gaoxin could not let go either. He could only run backward and yank desperately on the rope.

The pillar was right beside them. After all, Silver Hand had just pinned the bald man against this stone pillar.

Gaoxin led the rope around the stone pillar in a circle, then came back around to Sule.

Sule was dragged along by the rope. Gaoxin arrived in time, grabbed hold of him, and braced one foot against the stone pillar.

At this point, Gaoxin and Sule were pressed together, each gripping one end of the rope and straining with all their might.

On the other side, the noose around Silver Hand's neck continued tightening, dragging him hard against the stone pillar.

Silver Hand, the stone pillar, and Gaoxin and Sule formed a straight line of three points.

"Chk! Chk..." Silver Hand's neck was tightly constricted. His body twisted and struggled desperately, but he had no hands...

He had no hands!

He had no way to tear the rope apart. He was as thin as a rake, and with his spine injured, he could not exert full strength with his lower body. In an instant, he seemed like a worm of flesh writhing against the pillar.

"Ugh..." His eyes bulged as he realized that things had taken a turn for the worse.

"Roar—ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ah!" Silver Hand rasped hoarsely as he desperately leaned forward, using his neck like an iron rod in an attempt to break the rope.

But a noose only tightened the more one pulled.

The noose had become extremely small. Silver Hand's neck looked like a pillow cinched by an iron collar, compressed into an utterly unnatural shape.

His face swelled up, and blood seeped from several wounds on his already ghoul-like features.

An ordinary person would have died long ago.

Yet he stubbornly held on and continued straining with all his might.

The force he exerted nearly made Gaoxin lose his grip on the other side of the stone pillar.

"Can't let go... can't let go..."

Gaoxin's hands were bleeding, but he gritted his teeth and persisted. He could sense Silver Hand's struggling strength growing greater and greater.

Clearly, his spine was recovering, allowing him to use more and more strength.

Once his lower body could exert its full force, he might even be able to drag them along!

"We have to kill him now!" The veins on Gaoxin's forehead bulged. With one arm around Sule and the other wrapped around the rope, he exerted all his strength.

But then he saw that Sule's eyes had rolled back. It turned out that the death roll earlier had also wrapped the rope once around his neck.

Even so, Sule still did not release his bite. His eyes rolled back, but he continued clamping down on the rope.

"Fuck! Sule!"

Gaoxin was frantic. Judging by the situation, Silver Hand might not be strangled to death, but Sule probably would be first.

But what could they do? Were they supposed to let go?

At the critical moment, Liu Xu came running over, pulling herself along with both hands. She threw herself beside Sule and grabbed the rope around his neck.

Not only did she add another source of strength, but she also eased the pressure on Sule's neck, giving him room to adjust.

Then came Meimei. Her shoulder was shattered, but she could still wriggle her way over. She bit down on the rope and hung her entire body from it.

Seeing this brutal death match had reached the point of waiting to see who died first, the others had no time to think. It was time to fight with everything they had.

One after another, they arrived and hung themselves from the rope.

There were eight of them in total. Working together, their combined weight alone was nearly six hundred kilograms.

But Silver Hand suddenly let out a wailing roar. "I can't die!"

His neck twisted even further out of shape, and the sound was like a ghost shrieking and a wolf howling!

It made everyone's scalps tingle!

This SR-Class wasn't about to break through again, was he?

At once, everyone whimpered as they pulled with all their might. Some could still move their wrists and desperately wind themselves around the rope. Others bit down with their teeth. Even with their mouths full of blood, they refused to let go.

"Bang!"

A tremendous force struck, and everyone was dragged into the pillar.

Fortunately, they had the pillar to brace against.

They pulled with all their strength, feeling as though they had even exhausted the strength they would have in their next lives.

"Grrr—ahh—roar!"

Silver Hand howled as if he were crying. His eyes bulged, and the stone pillar behind him was smashed into several pits, shedding powder in a frantic stream.

Yet the damned rope simply would not break. It just would not break!

His mind had already become muddled. His thoughts were melting away. He could not accept it. He had never imagined that he would really die at the hands of these Glass People.

How could this be? He had not taken his revenge yet!

In the darkness of his mind, he seemed to see a ray of white light. A girl was waving to him, so pure and immaculate.

"Sha..."

"Shasha!"

Silver Hand suddenly kicked out with both legs. The floor cracked apart, and his half-arm smashed the pillar, sending stone fragments flying. His own neck was nearly severed by the rope.

Everyone pulled in unison. Their bodies nearly came apart. Some struck their heads against the pillar, splitting them open. Others spat out teeth mixed with blood, and the rope slipped loose.

"Fuck! What did he say?"

"It's Chinese! He's shouting 'kill'!"

Hearing that, several of them ignored their broken arms and fallen teeth, switched to the other side, and bit down again. They had to keep fighting!

"Shasha!"

Silver Hand yanked again, and everyone was jolted into the air.

That guy had finally come down from the stone pillar. Then he raised his foot and kicked backward again with all his might!

"Boom!"

The force was so great that it sent everyone flying.

The eight of them slammed into the stone pillar and bounced off, scattering across the area like flowers raining from the sky.

One after another, they landed with blood streaming from their heads. Their minds went blank, and the rope slipped from their hands, lashing about like a whip.

"What... what kind of joke is this...?" Everyone was completely dumbfounded.

Silver Hand had used nothing but his neck, without his hands, to fling all eight of them away.

That guy had broken free of them. Dragging the rope behind him, he staggered out from behind the stone pillar.

His head looked horrifying. Dark red and bluish-purple were mixed together, the flesh of his face was swollen and mangled, and countless blood vessels had been forcibly burst.

"Shasha..."

Silver Hand stood there like a vicious ghost. The muscles in his neck writhed as they tried to force the noose open.

At the same time, indescribable changes were occurring throughout his body. It seemed as if its texture had changed, as though his cells were dissolving into some other substance.

This time, it seemed to be a qualitative transformation!

"Fuck, fuck, fuck!"

Several people looked ashen and collapsed on the ground, unwilling to move.

On one hand, they were utterly exhausted. On the other, they were simply too desperate.

Could this guy even be killed?

They were tired. Let the world end already. Hurry up.

Everyone had given up hope of surviving. This thing simply was not something ordinary people like them could defeat.

But Gaoxin suddenly moved. He desperately charged toward the giant axe and picked it up.

He was exhausted too. He could no longer even lift the forty- or fifty-kilogram axe, so he could only drag it along the ground.

Even so, he had to charge forward using the last of his strength.

The giant axe glowed blue as it scraped violently across the ground.

Sparks flew like lightning!

He refused to accept this. He was too unwilling to give up. Why? He had done nothing wrong, yet he had been sent to this hellish place.

He had already exhausted all his strength and wracked his brains, but still could not survive?

Was it simply because he was an ordinary person, while his opponent was an SR-Class?

"Let's see who dies first!" Gaoxin roared as he charged to Silver Hand's side with all his strength and swung the giant axe upward.

There was not the slightest hesitation in this strike. He only wanted to shatter whatever stood before him.

Squelch!

The giant axe rose from below and cleaved Silver Hand apart, cutting straight from his crotch to his shoulder and splitting him into two!

But that was not the end. Carried by the force of the giant axe, Gaoxin spun once with it, sweeping around in a great windmill before striking again!

Silver Hand seemed to be at a critical point in his transformation. On top of that, he was too weak, and he did not move at all.

With a hiss, his head flew into the air, and barely any blood spurted out.

"Fuck! Xin!"

Everyone was stunned. Just when they had given up hope of surviving, Gaoxin had killed Silver Hand with two swings of his axe.

"Phew..."

Gaoxin was so exhausted that his head spun. He planted the axe heavily on the ground, barely able to remain standing.

He had no strength left and could only pant violently.

"Sha..."

Hearing that demonic voice, everyone stared in horror at the severed head. He still wasn't dead?

Gaoxin's vision was spinning, but he still bit through the tip of his tongue and tried with all his strength to lift the giant axe.

He could not pull it up.

At the same time, Silver Hand's face twisted. He seemed to realize the state he was in.

All his consciousness was rapidly disappearing. He said hysterically, "Shasha... no... I can't die..."

Only at this moment did Gaoxin understand that it was a name.

"You can't take revenge anymore." Gaoxin's breath came like bellows.

Silver Hand tried to move, but he could not. Using the last of his strength, he rasped hatefully, "Fuji...wara...Tomo..."

The head finally fell silent.

Until the very end, he had not been thinking about killing the person who killed him. He had been thinking about that enemy.

Gaoxin stood there staring at the severed head, panting for a long while. Then he once again mustered his strength, pulled out the giant axe, and hacked down hard. He did not stop until the head had been smashed apart, only then finally relaxing.

"Waaaah..."

"We won... Fuck, we finally killed him!" The others burst into tears.

Gaoxin dropped onto the ground, then went completely limp and simply lay down.

He looked at the ceiling, desperately wanting to sleep.

But when he thought that this was only his first game, his first day after arriving on Sin Prison Island, he felt despair.

Even if he walked out of here, he would still fall into the hands of those Wa people. The thought tormented him so badly that he could not close his eyes.

"Urgh..." A groan suddenly came from nearby.

Gaoxin abruptly sat up.

Looking around, he realized that the sound had come from the bald man.

The man had lost too much blood, but he was not dead yet.

Meimei said, "Brother, end his suffering."

Gaoxin stood and slowly walked over, leaning on the giant axe as he stared at the bald man, who was barely clinging to life.

Then he glanced at the time. It was 3:25 p.m.

There were still thirty-five minutes until the game ended.

"Brother, he won't live until the game ends." Meimei's words carried an implication.

Gaoxin laughed hoarsely. "The game? Heh heh heh..."

His laughter was manic, as though he had gone insane.

Sule panted, puzzled. "The bald guy is going to die soon anyway. Why bother with him? He's a menace!"

Meimei said quietly, "Brother is a cat..."

P.S. Sorry.