Chapter 226: Battle Royale (3)
Because Everly cracked the password incredibly quickly, only five minutes had passed from the official start of the game to her successful escape from the cell.
Aside from Everly—and Misha, who had received hints from her while they were in the car—there were probably no other contestants who had managed to solve the puzzle and leave their tiny prison cells yet.
Even so, Everly moved with extreme caution, because the organizers of this game were filled with malice and had not revealed the full truth to the contestants.
The killing game was a specially organized death-match escape game created to satisfy the twisted tastes of certain powerful elites and wealthy people. The entire process of the game would be livestreamed to those rich spectators through the collars worn around the players’ necks, as well as fixed surveillance cameras installed across the island. Each round also featured gambling pools worth tens of millions, with bets placed on who would ultimately secure the final survivor slot.
At the same time, in order to satisfy the wealthy spectators’ perverse desire for slaughter, the organizers would release five precious “island entry slots” every season. These five individuals were known within the killing game as “Butchers.”
The Butchers possessed an extremely high degree of freedom. They were allowed to land on the island three days in advance to familiarize themselves with the environment or set traps, doing whatever they pleased.
As VIPs of the game, the Butchers received enormous privileges. The organizers placed no restrictions on the items they could carry, nor did they ever prohibit the Butchers from killing anyone. Before the game began, the betting pools even included an option for “all contestants wiped out, Butchers win.” It was one of the most popular betting choices, and in many past games, every player had indeed been massacred by the Butchers.
This round of the game also featured five dangerous Butchers.
For example, one of them was nicknamed “Turret” by movie fans. His trademark was being heavily armed from head to toe, carrying all kinds of guns and ammunition and turning himself into a walking weapons platform. Everywhere he went, it was “rat-tat-tat,” gunning people down on sight.