Ch. 281 - Information on Player Islands
Halfway through his flight, Yang Yi suddenly remembered something. He was a vampire now, a creature of darkness that could not tolerate sunlight.
With it being so bright outside, was it really safe to leave the tower like this? Wouldn’t ultraviolet light burn him?
It was his first time being a vampire, and he had nearly suffered for his lack of experience. Fortunately, he felt nothing unusual. There was no burning sensation, no searing pain.
He lifted his gaze, wanting to check whether it was day or night. What he saw instead was a bright moon hanging high in the sky, surrounded by vast amounts of drifting debris.
The moon looked as though it had been slashed by something. A huge crescent-shaped crack split its surface.
And inside that crack… there seemed to be clusters of buildings.
Yang Yi chose a safe spot to land, dispelled his transformation, stood on the outer wall, and looked up.
His pupils had contracted to pinpoints, leaving almost nothing but the whites of his eyes. The sight was unsettling.
“What on earth is that?”
Yang Yi frowned deeply.
Judging by the outline alone, the crack combined with the moon itself looked eerily like a face stretched into a wide, crazed grin, only missing the rest of its features.
So, what exactly was that crack? Had the moon split open on its own?
【Structure beyond comprehension. Sanity -30】
Yang Yi’s eyes began to itch. He raised a hand to rub them, only to discover, to his shock, that his eyes were gone, replaced by smooth, flat skin.
His vision vanished instantly.
At the same time, he felt a strange pressure, because his nose was gone as well, taking his sense of smell with it.
After a quick check, he realized that the only thing left on his face was a mouth. Even his ears showed signs of shrinking.
“What kind of twisted thing is this?”
He cursed, realising that he had unknowingly fallen into a trap.
Luckily, he reacted quickly. He performed emergency self-treatment, using a vampire’s sharp claws to forcibly slash his own face, carving out facial features, and restoring his vision and sense of smell.
After that incident, he no longer dared to look upward casually.
【You have discovered key intelligence related to Player Island No. 04 - Moon Island. You have gained a large amount of player points.】
“That’s a player island… and it’s in the sky?”
Yang Yi wanted to look again, but held himself back.
The player island was suspended high above the sea at an unknown altitude. Just looking at it caused side effects. Better not to look at all.
He sprinted toward the C-zone harbour. There were only a little over five hundred metres left to his destination.
What he failed to notice was that when he had carved out his eyes and nostrils earlier, he had also torn the corners of his mouth, ripping them open almost to his ears.
……
Yang Yi ran along the outer wall at full speed.
Along the way, he saw many house mice with no eyes or noses.
Yet they moved as if nothing were wrong, completely unaffected, and even attacked him.
“So, if you’re not aware of it, you’re not affected?”
Yang Yi dealt with the small number of mice easily using just his feet, muttering to himself as he did so.
That seemed to be how the mechanism worked.
Before he touched his face, he hadn’t known his eyes were gone, so his vision hadn’t been affected.
A few seconds later.
Yang Yi arrived outside the open-air harbor.
This was the C-zone port, an area related to scientific research and medical facilities, so there weren’t many docked ships, only a dozen or so.
The ships varied greatly in style, but they all appeared to be ordinary vessels. Differences in size, decoration, and onboard equipment made them seem worlds apart.
They also shared a common feature.
At the central deck area, each ship had a retractable canopy installed, likely meant to reduce the moon’s influence.
The docks were no exception. Curtains or dark plastic sheets hung in many places, especially around entrances and cargo-loading areas.
Yang Yi observed from the outer wall for a while instead of heading down immediately.
As far as he could see, there were no humans or rat slaves in sight, only house mice scurrying back and forth.
He took a deep breath, but smelled no trace of blood.
Only distant gunfire echoed faintly.
“Where is everyone?”
Yang Yi muttered, then leapt down into an open area.
The moment he landed, an overwhelming drowsiness washed over him, as if he hadn’t slept for ten days and nights. He immediately felt the urge to lie down.
But vampires didn’t need sleep.
They only entered long periods of dormancy when severely deprived of blood.
Yang Yi shook his head, sensing that something was off about the drowsiness…
“Yang Yi?”
A familiar voice called out, and the sleepiness vanished at once.
Yang Yi straightened up and looked over. His hazy vision snapped into sharp focus and he froze.
He was actually seeing Suna inside the nightmare.
She looked pleasantly surprised, wearing light makeup that made her look subtly alluring.
She hurried toward him and spoke as she ran.
“Why are you here too? Are you also trapped in the dream…?”
“Stop right there!”
Yang Yi raised his high-output beam hand cannon and aimed it at “Suna,” questioning her in a cold voice.
“What are you? How can you take on Suna’s appearance, and imitate her this well?”
“Yang Yi, I’m not in the mood to play games with you right now! Do you even understand the situation we’re in?”
“Suna” shot back immediately. Every frown and gesture landed squarely in Yang Yi’s eyes.
Objectively speaking, there wasn’t the slightest flaw in her expressions.
If it weren’t for the fact that, as she ran over, the skin on her face and body had been flaking off like debris, revealing octopus tentacles underneath, Yang Yi really wouldn’t have noticed.
By the time she reached him, “Suna” had already turned into an octopus-like monster.
Her chin was a mass of writhing tentacles. Only the upper left half of her face was still draped in torn human skin. Her arms and legs had completely become tentacles as well, more than a dozen of them, tangled together to crudely mimic human limbs.
“Yang Yi, how did you get here? What role did the dream assign you? I am-”
“Suna” was still trying to play her part, as if unaware that she had already given herself away.
Buzz!
Disgust surged up inside Yang Yi. He pulled the trigger without hesitation. The beam cannon punched straight through her body, and shock spread across her face.
The scene shattered.
It was as if Yang Yi had taken a nap. He sat up from the floor, his mind a muddled haze.
He had actually fallen asleep inside a nightmare and then dreamed again. He was still in the C-zone harbour.
Judging by the situation, he must have fallen asleep the moment he entered the port.
Beneath the plastic sheets and curtains, large numbers of players were sleeping as well. They now woke up in unison, as though they had all just experienced a long dream.
Suddenly, Yang Yi felt something strange on his arm.
At some point, a house rat had crawled onto him. It was about the size of an orange and had already bitten into his arm, opening a wound and preparing to burrow inside.
“Fuck!”
If he hadn’t woken up just now, he would probably have been parasitised already!
Yang Yi immediately tore off an entire chunk of flesh, flung the rat to the ground, and stomped it into pulp, making quite a commotion.
“Damn rats, there’s no guarding against them!”
He cursed, as the wound on his arm healed back to normal.
Then, all of a sudden, he felt countless gazes turn towards him thick with malice.
“You people…?”
Yang Yi sensed something was wrong. The awakened players were all abnormal, their eyes filled with undisguised hatred and hostility.
“How could you treat a rat like that? They’re innocent!”
One player shouted first, sparking a chorus of agreement.
“Exactly! Rats are so cute!”
“Even if you’re the captain, you can’t abuse rats like that! That was a living creature!”
“Captain Dije, you have to pay for that rat with your life!”
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