Ark Chess Player.

His legs had lost all feeling, and he staggered to one knee on the ground, large beads of sweat dripping from his forehead, as if his body temperature was rising.

Sarkaz's powerful physique prevented him from collapsing on the spot, but even so, he felt drowsy, his head feeling muddled as if there was a ball of water sloshing inside.

"What are you?"

Lin Lu, with a roguish air, reloaded a tranquilizer dart, held the black gun, and slowly stepped forward, ready to fire another shot at any moment.

After all, it's an unmodified, basic tranquilizer gun. It might be effective against ordinary people, but this is a Sarkaz, a Sarkaz with extremely high resistance in all aspects.

"Haven't you witnessed the Rose Sword Technique? My master once said, what is a sword saint? It's someone who kills anyone more skilled in swordsmanship than you with a spear and a musket. That's a sword saint. If you have any complaints about this, that's fine, no problem. When you get to Rhodes Island, go find a purple-haired Feline Guard operator. If you have any questions, go to her. She taught me all of this."

"you--!!"

You should take a break!

Lin Lu raised his middle finger and pressed it against Yan Ke's head, who was kneeling on the ground, giving him a crisp, loud flick on the forehead.

"Bam—"

Yan Ke's head felt like something had exploded, and his stubborn resistance immediately surrendered. It was as if an electric current shot straight to the top of his head, leaving his mind blank.

The katana crashed heavily to the ground, instantly melting Yan Ke's indignant and hateful gaze. His eyes widened in shock, as if he had witnessed something unbelievable. He kept staring at Lin Lu as he fell, until his eyelids finally slammed shut, his face a mixture of resentment, regret, and a subtle hint of pleasure.

...Huh? Pleasure?

Lin Lu's villainous smile suddenly turned awkward.

Lin Lu suddenly remembered something: his hands were hands that could make girls obey him… Ugh, what a rude way to put it. It was clearly his personal charm that could soothe the empty, lonely hearts of girls and guide their lost souls onto the right path. Whether it was Amiya, the Filin medic, or Kal'tsit, Specter, and Witch, their admiration for him was like a never-ending river.

"No way, no way, no way."

Lin Lu nervously squatted down and poked Yan Ke's cheek. The man's face was covered in sweat, and the sticky, slippery touch of his fingertips made his hair stand on end.

As Lin Lu's hand lingered on Yan Ke's cheek for longer, the cold-faced man's tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed, and his sleeping face transformed from one of deep resentment to one of utter humiliation.

"Ah...this..."

Yan Ke's delighted smile startled Lin so much that he fell to the ground with a thud, stumbling backward several steps, his worldview nearly collapsing.

Lin Lu raised his left hand, looked up at the sky, and exclaimed, "My... my King's Power!!"

It seems that he can not only make female operators feel relaxed, but also put male characters into a state of drowsy relaxation, unlocking CG scenes.

Fortunately, Lin Lu realized the seriousness of the problem in time. If he had accidentally gone to the men's bathhouse with the medical operator Ansel while on Rhodes Island, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

This big spear isn't something you can just suppress.

An anemone that appeared out of nowhere squatted next to Lin Lu, her gaze shifting back and forth between the Doctor and Yan Ke, her eyes narrowing into a comical shape, and a smile curling up at the corners of her mouth.

"Hey~ Doctor, you—"

"Stop! Shut up! Don't say another word!"

"No no no!"

Just as Yinlianhua was about to drive off, Lin Lu glared at her fiercely, and she shut her mouth, looking aggrieved.

Lin Lu got up and made up his mind to keep his distance from male operators from now on—except for Ansel.

Before anyone knew it, the bear cubs had all gathered around, but to be precise, only one person was leading the way.

Sonia, with her brown-streaked hair, stared intently at Yan Ke lying on the ground, then at Lin Lu, who looked like a frail scholar.

She looked shocked, seemingly unable to believe how this seemingly frail man had defeated the Sarkaz swordsman.

"What...what did you do to him?"

"I went up and slid in to tackle him."

"Slide, slide tackle?!"

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"He lunged at me, and I slid over him and just raised my hand up."

Lin Lu covered his face with his right hand, tilted his head back, and struck an extremely arrogant pose.

"Then he punched his brother so hard he threw up, really."

"Yeah."

Sonia didn't believe Lin Lu's nonsense. She had seen it when she caught up from behind. From her perspective, the Sarkaz infected person collapsed without any warning.

Her gaze unconsciously drifted to Lin Lu's palm, but Lin Lu naturally concealed the weapon while putting on a show, leaving his hands empty.

"Whatever."

The truth that Sonia learned from her hellish life was that if you can't figure something out, don't dwell on it.

Being alive is a good thing, and enabling more people to live is an even greater thing. There's no need to think too much about anything else.

"That car is yours, isn't it?"

Sonia pointed to the Noah motorcycle next to Lin Lu.

Before Lin Lu could speak, the silver lotus flower flashed its headlights twice and rubbed its black and gold front end against Lin Lu, acting very intimately.

What does it mean to assist? What does it mean to show off? The era of driving a luxury car and putting water bottles on the roof outside a university is over. Now it's the age of artificial intelligence!

Lin Lu was surprised to find that Yin Lianhua suddenly became intelligent. Fortunately, he instinctively remained silent, issued six dots, and looked at the girl calmly.

Sonia's expression changed slightly. She took a deep breath and pulled out the short axe hidden behind her back.

"What are you doing!?"

Lin Lu's proud composure crumbled in an instant. He instinctively turned to the side, his armored trench coat protecting him.

Damn it, did Anemone's jinx work again?!

Lin Lu was horrified. Could it be that I really shot this child's father in the head three years ago? But I didn't adopt a daughter, so it shouldn't trigger this flag... Amiya?! Wait! Amiya, is that you?! Promise me, Amiya, will you use the Flame Fist on her?

"You saved Rada's life. Without your medicine, Rosalin probably wouldn't have made it either."

Sonia's voice trembled as she clenched her teeth, two voices arguing within her.

The girl felt that time was almost standing still, and she was caught in a self-contradiction, as if her body was falling.

Her lingering humanity told her that this person was one of the few who had offered them a helping hand in all these days.

We must never repay kindness with enmity. If we attack this person, how are we any different from the infected members of the Reunion Movement?

"it does not matter."

A person who looked exactly like her suddenly appeared beside her, with a sinister smile on his lips, sharp and ruthless eyes.

"You see that car? If you can take it, you can leave this hopeless city. Haven't you been dreaming of escaping here? Now is your best chance." Another version of her, shrouded in shadow, spoke, a familiar yet strange voice echoing in his mind, like a demon chuckling in his ear.

“He just saved us! Without him, Rada would have died, Anna would have died, Rosalind would have died, Natalia would have died! And I could have done nothing, I couldn’t have done anything!” Sonia roared in her heart.

Winter, General Winter, was the name Sonia was called with fear by the students at Peterheim High School. She liked the nickname; it was cool, but she knew it all too well.

She doesn't deserve it.

She doesn't deserve it yet, at least not now.

No matter how much she enjoyed landing her fist on her enemy's face, and how reassuring the sensation of bone touching the other's face was, there were limits.

Faced with those mutated monsters, monsters who were once students themselves... she was utterly helpless. Her hands trembled, her breathing became erratic, and she could do nothing alone.

Sonia once fantasized about fighting against a torrent of steel alone in her dreams, confronting a giant beast by herself, and being able to face her father's slaps without fear.

The reality, however, was cruel. When she saw the monster, she wanted to run away and hide, and she dared not and did not want to face it head-on.

If Sonia had no one to protect by her side, she might even perish from her own fear and eventually become one of these monsters.

She was just an idealist, self-righteous, and hypocritical hero.

"You're right. Without him, we would all have died here sooner or later."

Surprisingly, the part of me that was smiling so maliciously agreed with this, but...

"But what if he just leaves like that? How much longer can we hold out here? That mixture of rice and water with weeds, the moldy, green-spotted bread, the barely drinkable filtered liquid... Ha, all of that will be burned to ashes in the second fire. You won't even have any left to eat. Wait, are you going to keep eating that meat? Even if you did, how much meat is left to eat in this city?!"

Sonia's other self in her consciousness was like an actor, performing with great emotion.

She grinned maliciously and pointed at the girls behind Sonia, as if taking stock of the food in the refrigerator.

"Who should we start eating? Right, let's start with Natalia! Isn't she a noble from Fourth Middle School? Who doesn't hate nobles? If the noble students hadn't attacked the commoner students from the very beginning, plundering food, fighting for resources, and building their so-called bases, using their numbers as an excuse to enjoy the food at the food station, laughing as they watched others fight tooth and nail for a few grains of rice, standing high above and looking down on everyone's lives, maybe things wouldn't be like this now! It's all their fault, it's all their fault!"

—Not entirely, if there hadn't been that first fire, if there hadn't been that fire.

"Yes, but don't forget, you started the second fire."

—Me! I...I just wanted to find their leader, to talk to them, but I accidentally knocked over the candlestick, and then...

"Yes, yes, yes. Whether it was unintentional or reckless, so what? You know the outcome better than anyone else."

The twisted self displayed an extremely mocking smile, taunting, "This fire shattered the stronghold of the nobles and also destroyed the last food supply point in the school! Everything is beyond repair. This fire caused the indiscriminate chaotic fighting among the students to burn down all obstacles. We could have held on for a few more days, but in the end, you burned everything to ashes!"

Like a clown's manic laughter, the dark side speaks of the regret that Sonia has been accumulating over the days, plunging a sharp blade deep into her heart, causing unseen blood to flow.

"Ah, let's eat Rosalyn after we finish Natalia! There's not much flesh left in the first place, and those monsters even took a piece off her. We have to take her while she's still fresh."

Sonia, her gaze lingering on the shadows, looked at Rosalind, who was limping. The short-haired girl wore only thin clothing on her upper body, the sleeves of which were torn. The arm that Rada had previously wrapped with her own clothes was now bandaged. Rhine Lab's emergency spray was more effective than expected, not only stopping the bleeding but also bringing the girl back from the brink of death. There's a reason why Kroos is so expensive.

"You are General Winter, she is General Summer. One is the harsh winter, the other the blazing summer. You should be irreconcilable enemies, you should be fighting to the death. What made you soften your heart and accept her? Isn't the excuse you need enough? Just how scared are you that you need to find a sense of security like this? Don't forget, when she came to you, you had just chopped those traitors who tried to kill you while you were asleep into pieces. It's a pity that you hadn't made up your mind then, otherwise you would have frozen them as food reserves, and maybe you could have survived this winter."

Shut up!

Sonia screamed inwardly, but with a playful smile on her lips, she refused to let her go.

"Remember that incident? Rosalyn went to confront the Reunion Movement, but she returned unharmed. Everyone else who tried to break out was killed by that little white dwarf. Why was she the only one who survived? What did she do? What did she sacrifice? Why did all the masked people disappear the day after she returned? Everyone who remained at the school, whether noble or commoner, turned into monsters. Black pus flowed from their swollen, ruptured limbs, and their heads split open, revealing new heads, like insects breaking free from their cocoons. In the end, the monsters wandered the school hand in hand."

Rosalyn wouldn't do that; it has nothing to do with her! It's all that little dwarf's fault, all his fault!

"Really? You dare say you've never had such a thought?" The chaotic self laughed loudly. "I am you, and you are me. This is my thought, and it's also your thought."

—Stop talking, I've heard enough. Get out, get out of my mind!

"Not enough, not enough! Everyone has a place according to your own order. Next is Rada, ah, such precious medicine was used on her halfway, what a waste. I hope she can take responsibility and make Natalia and Rosalind as delicious as possible before it's her turn. Even I would find it hard to swallow if I just tore them off..."

--shut up! shut up……

Sonia felt as if all the blood in her chest was about to drain away. She no longer had the strength to argue. In self-reproach, she was slowly losing something very important; her humanity was disappearing.

"The last person. To be honest, I didn't expect it to be her."

The bizarre, malevolent creature fixed its gaze on the blue-haired, blue-eyed girl, and suddenly burst into a terrifying, maniacal laugh.

"Hahahaha!! Why her of all? Huh? If she hadn't brought those people here, you wouldn't be dreaming about those traitors who want to attack you every night, right? What is it that makes you put her first in your heart? Is it because she shares the same name as your mother, Anna? Don't make me laugh. I am you, I know you, I understand you. You're just using her as an excuse. As long as there's a reason, violence isn't unacceptable, is it?"

A chaotic and evil self-awareness stretched out its arms, and pieces of walking clothing rose from the ground, surrounding Sonia at its center.

Their gazes were fixed on Sonia. They had no bodies, no heads, but Sonia could sense that they were laughing, a half-smile.

"A school uniform that can walk is truly imaginative for self-protection."

The pitch-black creature, shrouded in darkness, scoffed disdainfully: "Indeed, compared to headless zombies, this scene is a bit more peaceful."

—It's so noisy, get out, get away from here!!

Sonia wanted to escape, but she had nowhere to go. The moving school uniform surrounding her gradually revealed the shapes of her companions.

Anna, Rada, Rosalind, and Natalia stared at her expressionlessly, as if they were conducting a trial.

The shadowy figure, now completely plunged into darkness, stood in the middle of the crowd and pronounced to Sonia: "You are guilty."

--I don't.

Natalia, stained with blood, stared blankly at her. She lowered her head and murmured to herself, "You saved me because of your guilt in starting the second fire."

—I don't want to kill you.

Rosalyn, clutching her arm, forced a smile, her lips twitching as she endured the pain: "Don't take it so seriously, you just accidentally hurt yourself."

—I can't stop thinking about this!

Rada, her body pierced by the monster, her blood pooling on the ground like a lake, stared at Sonia and said, word by word, "You deserve to die."

—I am not guilty of such a crime.

The pages of the red-covered book were scattered on the ground, her braids came undone, and Anna, her glasses broken, hung the familiar short axe around her neck and wiped it away.

"I hate you."

"I……"