Chapter 25 - Death Game I
After looking at the chat room contents for a while, Lin Feng pressed the upgrade elevator button.
The elevator shook and rose to the 5th level.
“Ding, congratulations host for completing the task. Your reward has been issued.”
【Time Card: Can extend the elevator closing time on this floor by 1 hour.】
“Ding, please complete the upgrade task and raise the elevator to level 6. You will be rewarded with 1 upgrade chance for the super cowhide backpack.”
The upgrade progress was still 77% left, lacking 10 gold coins, 200 kg of wood, and 232 kg of iron.
The ventilation ducts on the 5th level elevator were even bigger, with the range expanded by over double. There was also an additional workbench.
This workbench wasn’t like the ones in games, where you just throw in materials and it makes clanking sounds, spitting out whatever you want.
This workbench just provided some tools, you still had to operate them yourself.
What was even more annoying was that you couldn’t take these tools with you.
You could only use them at the workbench.
Lin Feng fiddled with it for a bit and immediately lost interest. It seemed like his crafting skills were still stuck back in elementary school art class.
If someone told him to use these things to make a big treasure sword or a Zhuge crossbow, that would be pure nonsense.
At this time, Ye Hua had also successfully refined the salt.
Ye Hua: 【Big brother, the salt you wanted has been refined. I’ve listed it on the trading platform, accepting food as payment.】
Lin Feng: 【Ok, thanks.】
Lin Feng clicked on Ye Hua’s avatar and then found his listed trade info.
Trading for any food huh.
Not bad.
This kid wasn’t too greedy.
Lin Feng went to the pool, where a fat and plump grass carp was swimming, looking to be at least 2 jin.
“I’ll just give him this.”
After catching the fish, Lin Feng traded it to Ye Hua.
The salt he got wasn’t much, after all he didn’t give Ye Hua that much seawater.
This salt should be enough for Lin Feng to eat for 1-2 days.
The taste was salty with some bitterness, but Lin Feng was very satisfied. After coming to this world for so many days, he finally got to eat the first seasoned roasted meat.
Looking at the roast meat sprinkled with salt grains, Lin Feng wiped his mouth and started devouring it happily.
The little velociraptor beside him didn’t know why “mommy” was eating so deliciously today, but it loved to eat too!
After eating and exercising for a while, Lin Feng rested.
Soon it was midnight, and the system prompt sounded on time.
“Ding, the floor the host is about to enter is a death game floor. The host will need to participate in 3 death game rounds with other survivors before completing this floor. Entering this floor is compulsory. After completing the 3 death game rounds, you will be rewarded with 20 gold coins and 500 kg of any upgrade materials.”
“Ding, floor hint: Survivors participating in the death games will definitely play these games. During death game play, survivors cannot kill each other through means outside of the game.”
“Hidden mechanism: Survivors who commit suicide before dying after failing a game can get a chance to participate again, up to 3 times per person.”
Death game?
Similar to the hide and seek floor from before?
Lin Feng wondered in his heart, but he had gleaned one piece of info – there would definitely be no lack of survivors on the next floor. In that case, wouldn’t he level up explosively again?
He might even directly upgrade the elevator to level 6!
【Ding dong! Elevator descending, please hold on.】
Soon the elevator broadcast sounded. Lin Feng took a deep breath, then walked out after it stopped.
Right after stepping onto the floor, another elevator broadcast sounded from above.
【Welcome to play Deadly Pool.】
【Each ball represents one part of your body. Pocketing a ball means you lose that body part. The one who pots the black ball wins.】
【After the game ends, the winner will not lose any body parts from potted balls, while the loser will lose all body parts from potted balls.】
【Game start!】
…
After the broadcast ended, a very nervous looking girl appeared in front of Lin Feng.
“Hi, let’s start the game then?”
“He-Hello, brother. I, I’m not very good at this…”
Looking at the nervous girl, Lin Feng did not relax his vigilance, because he felt this was all an act.
The system had prompted earlier that anyone who could enter the game floors would definitely play these death games.
Lin Feng used to be in a city pool club, ranking 2nd in the club, so he was pretty good.
This girl was definitely not as simple as she looked on the surface. He would test her skills with the break shot.
“Ladies first, how about you break?”
Lin Feng smiled lightly, then took a step back.
The pool balls were already racked, but they did not have numbers. Instead, each ball had a different human body part, like eyes, nose, heart, kidneys, stomach, brain, etc.
“Or brother, you can break first. I’m afraid I won’t break well. I’m just a weak girl…” She suddenly smiled. “Oh yes brother, what’s your name? I’m called An Qingqing.”
“Hehe, I’m called Gu Chen. But you should still break first, having the break is an advantage after all.”
Lin Feng gave a fake name, then pretended to be captivated by An Qingqing.
He slowly shuffled his feet forward, and just as he was about to reach out to touch her face, An Qingqing dodged away.
“Alright, I’ll break then!”
An Qingqing rolled up her sleeves, revealing a section of fair and delicate forearm. Naturally, Lin Feng played along.
She was doing this to seduce him right? As expected, An Qingqing was now glancing at him from the corner of her eye.
Gloating inwardly, another man falls for my beauty.
“Brother, don’t look at me anymore, I’m getting nervous~”
“Okay okay, I won’t look at you. Go ahead and break.”
Lin Feng sneered inwardly. He had observed An Qingqing’s grip earlier – she had played before but her skills were probably very poor, otherwise she wouldn’t be pretending to be innocent.
With Lin Feng’s previous experience as a part-time coach at the pool club, he could tell An Qingqing’s act with one glance.
Bang!
A crisp sound rang out, and two balls sank – Lin Feng’s eye and her ear.
“Ah! I’m sorry brother Gu Chen, I didn’t mean it. If I had known, I wouldn’t have used so much force. I was just afraid I wouldn’t break them apart, so I used too much strength. I’m sorry, I’m sorry…”
An Qingqing looked at Lin Feng with eyes full of self-reproach and tears.
Her acting really was quite good.
“It’s fine, the balls that go in on the break are random anyway. Don’t blame yourself.”
Lin Feng said indifferently.
“Okay brother…”
An Qingqing leaned down again to look. She couldn’t pocket any of these balls from here.
So she casually took a shot, and as expected, didn’t sink anything. But the observant Lin Feng immediately realized An Qingqing was playing safety.
After a few more rounds, An Qingqing’s balls would likely all be in good positions. By then even if he wanted to win, he wouldn’t be able to.