Group One Had Gone Missing

The sky was overcast, and after several hours of tedious marching, the Group One Group Two who had gone to scout ahead prepared to return.

Unfortunately, the daytime island exploration yielded no valuable information, and the group returned soaked in sweat and covered in dust.

Yu Xing's face darkened.

He'd be exhausted even traveling light, let alone carrying such a heavy camera.

This made him doubt himself more than once, wondering if he had let himself become too weak and indulgent before, as he was far worse off than the average person.

Furthermore, strategists can exchange points for physical enhancements. As long as the enhancements are within a reasonable range for humans, they can generally obtain them. Therefore, strategists' physical constitutions are generally much stronger than those of normal people.

This made Yu Xing even more embarrassed.

Unbeknownst to him, viewers in the live chat were speculating whether he was creating a persona or acting on purpose, and then praised his acting skills.

Of course, many people also say that perhaps Xing was not in good health to begin with, and then didn't have time to change his constitution or get something else done. After all, he's a newcomer, and maybe he has some troubles in real life, or urgently needs money or something.

Yu Xing naturally couldn't see any of this.

Dragging his camera, which had captured nothing but plants, he followed the Group Two back to camp as night fell.

Wu Runhao came out to greet him personally. In fact, Yan had a walkie-talkie on him and kept reporting his work to Wu Runhao as they walked.

Wu Runhao knew that the Group Two had not encountered any "dead spirits," but they had photographed many flowers and plants that were not found in the outside world, and had also collected a lot of samples while ensuring their own safety.

Now that's great! Those bored researchers at the camp finally have something to do—without the undead, studying the plants and flowers is a good alternative!

Perhaps we can discover the reason for the formation of the undead?

The Group Two rested on the spot under the watchful eyes of the idle people in the entire camp. Yu Xing and Old Liu were called away by Wu Runhao, who gave them a brief report on the day's filming results.

Wu Runhao copied the video, transmitted it back to the ship, and handed it over to Zhou Jing and the paranormal researcher to analyze. Only after they finished all the work did he finally frown.

Yu Xing had been following him, asked upon seeing this, "What's wrong, brother-in-law?"

Wu Runhao didn't answer him, but his brows furrowed deeper as he pulled out his walkie-talkie.

The walkie-talkie hasn't rung since the Group Two returned to camp.

But this is not normal.

Because Group One hasn't returned yet.

The return request from the Group One Armed Unit came in at the same time as the Group Two. The Group Two had returned half an hour ago, but the Group One had not made any move.

He turned on the walkie-talkie and tried to contact Group One, but there was no response.

Yu Xing raised an eyebrow, knowing that under these circumstances, Group One was most likely in trouble.

He looked up at the sky. Night was falling heavily on the Dead Spirit Island. There was no moon or stars in the sky, only a deathly silence.

Legend has it that the Dead Spirit Island is very dangerous at night.

Regardless of who initially spread the rumor, this is the clue given by the deduction, assuming everyone accepts it.

Night has fallen, Group One still hasn't returned.

Yu Xing guessed that Group One wouldn't be coming back.

This could be the opportunity to break the rules in this simulation; otherwise, it would be too difficult for the simulation participants who are then assigned to roles within the camp.

"Something's happened." Wu Runhao's third attempt to communicate with Group One failed, and his face turned frighteningly pale.

In his mind, even if he had encountered danger, he wouldn't have disappeared so suddenly without even sending out a distress signal.

Moreover, that was an entire Armed Unit squad!

Ten experienced, fully armed elites!

It's gone just like that?

A fire was lit in the camp, and soon everyone noticed that Group One had not yet returned.

"What's going on?" People were talking about it.

As the leader and the person in charge of this island exploration, Wu Runhao could only reassure those at the rear and then summon the Group Two members to inquire about the situation on the island again.

Nightmare genuinely had no idea what had happened. Group Two had a smooth run, but if Group One had bad luck, she couldn't control it.

While the leadership and the Armed Unit were exchanging ideas, Yu Xing had already been sent back to his tent by his "brother-in-law" and was having dinner with Old Liu.

Old Liu's face also looked uneasy; ever since he learned that something might have happened to Group One, he had been feeling uneasy.

After a long pause, he grabbed Yu Xing's arm and asked, "Fang Xiaoyu, do you think... Wu Runhao will send someone else to find Group One?"

"How would I know?" Yu Xing shrugged, not intending to appear too enthusiastic.

There are now only two possible scenarios. The first is that Wu Runhao orders the Group Three or Group Four, who were resting during the day, to immediately enter the jungle and search for people based on the Group One's route.

The second option is to rest first, given the unknown dangers at night, and then organize a rescue operation the next day when it gets light.

The former would put three or four groups in danger, while the latter would almost be a death sentence for Group One —if Group One didn't return, it meant they were in great danger, and even if they weren't all dead yet, they would basically all be dead by the end of the night.

It all depends on which choice Wu Runhao makes.

In such situations, if the strategist is keen to control the pace, they will try to offer their own suggestions.

Yu Xing only wanted to take the opportunity to observe the movements of others and didn't have any ideas about the general pace... After all, he was just an ordinary clue NPC!

Just then, Yu Xing felt a strange gaze upon her.

A thought struck him, but he remained outwardly calm, greeted Old Liu, said he needed to use the restroom, and then left the tent.

The team's lighting equipment was quite complete, Yu Xing could sense that the technological level of the world being simulated was much higher than that of reality.

At this time, each tent had a light source, and fires were lit between the tents, so the path was not completely obscured.

The feeling of being stared at did not disappear; on the contrary, it became even stronger.

Yu Xing yawned, wondering who was "sizing him up".

Anyone could be involved.

In his mind, there should be one predictor left on the ship, making four in the camp including himself, one in Long Zhou, and two more unknown.

Instead of wandering around, he moved away from the crowd to a secluded grove and actually unzipped his pants to relieve himself.

Qu Xuanqing explained to him that in order to protect the privacy of the divination participants, the live broadcast angle would be turned to other places when the participants were taking a shower or using the toilet, so as to ensure that the audience could not see anything.

If someone uses the time spent in the toilet or showering to gather clues, the live stream will show their voice or film the upper body of the male deducer, while women have more freedom to conceal their identities.

So Yu Xing isn't worried about the audience, but that gaze is still there.

In such a place where noise is easily made, Yu Xing, with Yu Xing abilities, could easily find his pursuer by listening to details like footsteps. But now he was certain that there was no "human" beside him.

Therefore, gazing is not human.

"That's going too far..." Yu Xing had seen in the initial comments that Yan was a woman. He felt that unless Yan was a female hooligan, she wouldn't stare at him while he needed to relieve himself; it was pointless.

Judging by his name, he suspected that Carlos was testing him.

Carlos and his companion have no conflict over hunting rings; for them, cooperation might be more valuable.

However, Yu Xing had only gone through one simulation with Carlos, and they had spent most of that time apart. He couldn't be sure of Carlos's character—what if he betrayed him?

Yu Xing smiled to herself, resolved the issue gracefully, pulled up her pants, and walked back.

Suddenly, specks of white light in the distant jungle caught his attention.

"What's that?" he murmured, squinting as he looked.

Within the white light, several hideous human faces could be vaguely seen.