Slaughter Cruise

Day Seven in Reality.

The third game was about to begin.

Everyone stared nervously at the Game Panel.

System: [Insufficient number of participants. Players will now be randomly selected to make up ten million Players for the Survival Game.]

[Congratulations, you have successfully entered the Survival Game—Slaughter Cruise.]

[Initial items: Mobile Phone ×1, Room Card ×1, Backpack ×1.]

[Current mission: Survive for fifteen days.]

[Current number of survivors: 100000.]

[As this is your third time entering the Survival Game, Constitution, Speed, and Strength base attributes each +5.]

[As this is your third time entering the Survival Game, lottery draws +1.]

[You have 4 lottery chances. Draw now: Yes, No.]

With boundless resentment toward Lord Ghost Messenger, Ye Zhao confirmed in her heart: Yes.

[Congratulations, you have obtained 1 cubic meter of Personal Space (merged with the Player's original Personal Space).]

[Congratulations, you have obtained Basic Self-Defense Technique ×1.]

[Congratulations, you have obtained an Attribute Page: Constitution +1.]

[Congratulations, you have obtained an Attribute Page: Speed +1.]

[Scan successful: Create Basic Self-Defense Technique ×1, requires 100 Creation Points.]

[Note: During the game, survival time has already been counted toward Creation Points and Prophet experience.]

[Note: Items not from this world cannot be brought into the game (excluding game items). They have been automatically placed in System Space and will be automatically returned to the Player after the game ends.]

Ye Zhao learned Basic Self-Defense Technique, took out the defensive hairband with 10 durability remaining from her space, and used it to tie up a high ponytail. Then she checked her current personal attributes.

[Name: Ye Zhao]

[Constitution: 206 (without equipment effects)]

[Strength: 105 (without equipment effects)]

[Speed: 106+50 (equipment effect)]

[Defense: 10]

[Note: A Player's personal base attributes are not included in the statistics.]

[Possessed talents: SSS-Rank Creation, SSS-Rank Prophet]

[Elemental ability: None]

[Personal Space: 5m³]

[Creation: Level 2]

[Creation Points: 5400]

[Experience: 30%]

[Prophet: Level 1]

[Experience: 25 (Note: 24h ≈ 1 point)]

[CD: 00:00:00]

When Ye Zhao opened her eyes again, she found herself aboard an enormous ship, surrounded by people like herself, all holding room cards with bewildered expressions.

She looked up and saw gigantic cruise ships lined up across the sea. The ships were towering and magnificent, stretching beyond the eye could see. Players were waving and shouting at the Players on the opposite ships. "Hey! Friends over there, can you hear us?"

The voices carried far away. It seemed as though they were heard, yet also as though they were not.

"Holy shit, I roughly counted—there are over two hundred cruise ships here? Maybe even more? Don't tell me all the Players are here? This is way too spectacular!"

"Is this the game world? It's incredible, just like the real thing. It feels like we've come to another world!"

"Haha, look, there are even seagulls! Is this really just a game? Could we have traveled to another parallel world?"

"This place doesn't look dangerous at all!"

"I drew an Elemental Card. So this is what an Elemental Card looks like!"

"Where's the Elemental Card? Let me see it!"

"..."

The Player who had shouted about drawing an Elemental Card realized he had misspoken. He shoved the person beside him away and quickly ran off, while several others immediately chased after him.

Ye Zhao looked at her room number: 9009, Room 9 on the ninth floor. A very auspicious number.

Rather than lingering on the deck, she first examined the ship's layout and found her room.

The cruise ship had ten floors, with a thousand rooms on each floor. Each room housed two people, meaning there were at least twenty thousand people aboard a single cruise ship.

Every floor had a public dining area, and simple food had already been laid out in the public dining area.

Everyone could use their room card to collect food.

Although Ye Zhao had a storage space, she could not bring items from outside this world into it, so she did not have much food at the moment.

She took a vegetable salad, twenty cheese-baked lobsters, three portions of pasta, and a glass of orange juice before finding a seat and digging in.

She also asked a hotel staff member, "Excuse me, is there a shop? I'd like to buy some daily necessities."

Yet no matter how she asked, the staff member merely lowered their head in silence, as if they had not heard her at all.

[Skill level insufficient. Unable to Scan game NPCs.]

So they were game NPCs.

Ye Zhao found a seat and ate. There were not many people eating in the restaurant at the moment; most were still outside taking pictures and chatting, looking extremely excited.

Only after Ye Zhao finished all the food on the table did she feel somewhat full. She got up and took another three sandwiches, three bottles of mineral water, and a glass of orange juice to pack up and take away.

No one came to stop her even after she carried the food out of the restaurant. Ye Zhao immediately turned back and packed several more sandwiches, water, and a few large apples, stuffing her backpack until it bulged.

A few people saw her stripping the place bare and could not help pointing at her. "How embarrassing, eating and taking stuff..."

Ye Zhao did not even spare them a glance as she carried her pile of things back to room 9009.

Not long after Ye Zhao left, several more people came to the restaurant, ate and took food, then hurried away.

Some people, though it was their first time participating in the Survival Game, had sharp instincts and followed suit, eating and taking food before leaving quickly.

In room 9009, Ye Zhao made a circuit of the room. After confirming that no one was there, she put all the food into her storage space.

The room was exceptionally small. Two beds had been placed side by side, with only enough space between them for one person to pass through. If two people sat on the edges of the beds, they would not even have room to stretch out their legs.

There was a small window, through which she could clearly see another tall, imposing cruise ship.

There was also a bathroom, barely large enough for one person to stand in. The toilet was pressed right up against the sink, and everything was pitifully small.

Ye Zhao turned on the faucet, and clean water gushed out with a rush.

Just then, the other player assigned to her room came in. He was a man dressed entirely in black. Both of them froze when they saw each other, then looked down at the room cards in their hands. Neither had expected their roommate to be of the opposite sex.

But this was the Survival Game—anything could happen.

"Hello, my name is Wen Bai. I also have room card 9009." He spread out his room card. After Ye Zhao confirmed that his card number was indeed 9009, she took out her own card to show him, indicating that she too was assigned to 9009 and had not entered the wrong room. "Ye Zhao."

"Hello." Wen Bai smiled. He looked refined and gentle as he pushed up the silver-rimmed glasses on his nose. "Please rest assured, I'm not a bad person. I won't hurt you."

Ye Zhao smiled as well, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

Bad people never said they were bad people, just as Ye Zhao claimed to be a wealthy woman with a conscience and a loving heart.

Ye Zhao said, "I'm going out for a walk."

Wen Bai said, "All right. Shall we add each other's contact information first?"

The game was indeed not bad. The phones they had been issued already had X-Messenger installed, and everyone was in one large group chat.

Ye Zhao saw that it showed 20,000 people.

A group of twenty thousand people was incredibly lively. Messages flew by so quickly that it was dizzying to watch.