novelraw Chapter 185: First Hunter Kill
Chapter 185: First Hunter Kill
Even though over a hundred million people had already become Chosen Players, in terms of proportions among the crowd, those selected to qualify as players were still extremely few.
And now, it seemed like the whole of Tokyo was sleepless, watching this game not just as Chosen Players, but as the vast majority—ordinary players.
Everyone seemed to have a kind of unspoken agreement, focusing intently on the images in front of them that came from who-knows-where.
“The World Number One in this game... can already do this much?”
“If I had a chance, would I also have a shot at a different kind of life...”
“The Tokyo Tower collapsed? So what if it did....”
“So many games have already passed—why is it that some people can become players from the very beginning, while I still haven’t been chosen and am just a normal person!”
“The gap is already this wide... if I’m any later, will it already be too late?”
......
Among all the voices of discussion, aside from dread, what was even more prevalent was a kind of anxiety—an anxiety called, “If I don’t get a chance soon, it’ll be too late.”This feeling appeared fairly in everyone’s hearts, yet very tacitly, no one said it out loud to anyone else.
Only among the contestant players, those with sharp intuition felt as if... many people were watching them.....
......
“Who are you?!”
On the Black Knight, Xie Antong asked in confusion and surprise at the motorcycle below her. She felt that the situation was exceeding her expectations.
Just now, when she was about to use her precious teleportation token, the roaring, massive motorcycle had pulled her straight onto the bike.
The metal exterior shell instantly wrapped around her. Its function wasn’t just to block outside attacks—it seemed more like it was just to prevent her from being flung off.
If a player’s special ability was turning into a motorcycle, that would really be too imaginative.
“Me? I’m called Black Knight!” Black Knight carved a terrifying arc on the road, as if circling along some kind of route, and proudly answered as it did.
What the hell was he even proud of? Xie Antong didn’t get it.
After getting a completely meaningless name, she frowned slightly and said directly:
“Excuse me, are you human?”
“Hah~ are your eyes not only on your feet, but also wearing shoes?” Black Knight clearly sounded exasperated.
“I’m that masked guy’s... subordinate, I guess. Here to carry out his orders.”
“Sin?!” Xie Antong was instantly shocked. “He told you to take me out of here?”
“Nope.” Black Knight was very decisive.
Xie Antong: ......
“Sigh, he didn’t say anything, but it was convenient, and I’m guessing he’s probably okay with it. After all, he didn’t specifically say ‘don’t go deal with that woman over there.’”
“That so...”
Xie Antong furrowed her brow. She still didn’t know when “Sin” had gotten this kind of top-tier weapon with its own consciousness.
It had a will of its own, so it just happened to bring her out? Didn’t that reason sound a bit far-fetched?
“What mission did he give you?”
“Uh, am I even allowed to say that?”
“Forget it, I’m guessing you’re not.” After a brief thought, Xie Antong quickly cut herself off.
Considering how she’d just gotten completely screwed over, she had every reason to suspect that even knowing might be part of the trap.
As she sped through the streets with the Black Knight, Xie Antong’s hair stood on end. She suddenly slapped the bike beneath her and shouted.
“Watch out!”
Before the words even finished, a large pickup truck suddenly barreled straight toward them from the corner. Both vehicles braked and swerved simultaneously, making a screeching sound that gave people goosebumps.
Screeech~~~
“You mtherfing woman driver, don’t you even watch the road?! Huh?! Got a brain disease or something?! You f*ing...@#！”
After narrowly dodging the collision, the other driver immediately rolled down his window and started cursing, totally unreasonable.
“The f***?!”
Black Knight didn’t let it slide. Its aggressive chassis extended all sorts of weird gadgets, making the whole vehicle look like a hedgehog.
“I hadn’t even started cursing yet, and you’re already mouthing off? I think you’re...”
Smack!
Black Knight was about to charge, but then suddenly felt a slap on its body and froze.
Then it heard Xie Antong’s voice.
“Don’t stop! Go! Remember the task ‘Sin’ gave you—go!”
Black Knight had been about to say it wouldn’t delay anything, and that two rounds of ramming would be enough to smash that thing to pieces.
But hearing Xie Antong’s voice, it thought for a moment and decided to listen. With a twist of the frame and a roar from the engine, it quickly vanished at the end of the road.
After it left, the driver got out and kept cursing behind them for a while. Then, his expression gradually turned cold, and he pressed his Bluetooth earpiece.
“Found the suspicious vehicle you mentioned. But the person in it seemed to be a woman......”
“Didn’t manage to stall them, didn’t fall for it... They just suddenly took off.”
“Me? Of course I’m not dead. How the hell would I be talking if I was dead.”
......
“Sigh, I don’t think you understand this old man’s skills. If I’d really wanted to, I could’ve ripped that guy apart in under a few minutes.”
Black Knight was still bragging as it raced along. From its perspective, it couldn’t see the serious look in Xie Antong’s eyes.
Xie Antong said, “You should have self-awareness, right.”
“Don’t you feel that something’s very off with Tokyo today? The people here all act kind of weird, not like normal folks......”
From the earlier World Top 20 battle—so many spectators watching, thrilled without a trace of fear.
To that sudden traffic accident just now—people’s irritability and violence.
And even though Tokyo nightlife was said to be decadent, it was this late, and still every street had people walking around....
Does everyone in Tokyo live at night? They all sleep by day and roam by night? That’s impossible.
“Sigh, now that you mention it, the damn Japs really have no manners,” Black Knight started cursing. “During the day, it’s all traffic jams and car crashes, people yelling at each other.”
“Oh yeah, earlier today there was another random crash like that. My bro got his leg broken by it.”
“What?!” Xie Antong was startled. “It already happened during the day?!”
“Yeah.”
Then there’s no way this was a coincidence.....
“Go somewhere with fewer people. Let me down first....”
Just as she was about to say something else, suddenly, her Player Game Panel displayed an unusual broadcast.
【The 34th eliminated player has appeared!】
【Killer——Hunter!】