Chapter 1046: Oh wow, survival variety show meets an ex! 16

Watching others search for symbols to decipher the stele, Bai Xuan only felt death approaching infinitely, with absolutely no motivation to search.

Bai Xuan even wondered if leaving this place would mean she no longer counted as one of the women.

Holding onto such a hopeful thought, Bai Xuan quietly moved to the outermost edge, only three steps from the exit of Jushizhen.

Because of the rules, Bai Xuan didn't dare leave completely, but she luckily huddled in the outermost layer; her body trembled from fear, she felt no pain in her mouth, her lips were chapped, and she nervously bit at dead skin.

She stared intently at the backs of the other two women, for the first time hoping that someone among the guests would die.

【What is this sister doing? Sitting in place waiting to die?】

【Is Bai Xuan's mental state off? She looks quite strange.】

【Don't be too harsh…… No one can stay normal when facing death.】

Shen Yi noticed Bai Xuan's oddness, was about to walk over and ask what happened, when a gust of wind blew up, raising the sand on the ground.

She instinctively turned her head and closed her eyes, waiting for the gust to pass, then heard a loud shout beside her ear.

Bai Xuan's piercing scream drew everyone's attention.

"Bai Xuan!!"

Shen Yi, who was closest to her, turned and shouted in disbelief.

Yu Sui shot out a branch, but it was too late.

Bai Xuan was bound by a vine, her legs upside-down, swinging in the air, and her head slammed hard against the sharp edge of the jagged stone.

In an instant, the point pierced her temple, Bai Xuan was nailed whole to the megalith, her eyes wide open, dead without peace, her body still being battered by the wind.

Blood slowly flowed from her forehead, dripping down the megalith onto the ground.

【Ah ah ah Mother!】

【Holy shit…… that speed is fast.】

【I didn't even see when that vine appeared!】

【This way of dying is too cruel……】

Although everyone knows that this wilderness survival entails life-threatening danger.

Likewise, no one expected the guests to die in this manner.

The deathly silence spread within Jushizhen.

Shen Yi, closest to the corpse, was even splattered with a drop of blood; her legs went weak, she stumbled back several steps and fell to the ground, her face turning pale.

Su Nai rushed to help her, but her body also trembled slightly.

Both girls clearly understood in their hearts just what kind of calamity they had just escaped.

But who could guarantee that such good luck would always be theirs?

"I've broken open the…… third one."

Zhong He's voice trailed off, seeming extremely complex: "Just a few seconds."

Just a few seconds later, perhaps seeing the third picture, Bai Xuan's death might have had a turning point.

Even more coincidentally, Jin Chen also broke open the fourth picture just a few seconds before Bai Xuan's death.

It's really too coincidental.

Jin Chen frowned at her corpse, only looking away after a long while.

He Chao's tone was somewhat complex as he gazed at the corpse for a long time.

"Xie Shao… go take her corpse down, at least give the girl a decent burial."

Xie Shao didn't know what benefit he had gained, but now he obediently follows He Chao's words.

Even though afraid, he climbed onto the megalith, carried Bai Xuan's still-warm corpse down, and laid it flat.

The other guests gathered around Jin Chen, watching him and Zhong He decipher the two pictures.

In the stele's grid, the deciphered third picture is divided into upper and lower parts.

The upper part shows the upside-down corpse being dragged away, which happens to match Bai Xuan's ordeal.

Yet this picture attracted the attention of several people.

In the upper part there is a speck resembling a pattern, but Yu Sui could tell it was part of a code, just like the set he found in the dirt pile.

He Chao also saw it, but his position gave him an unclear view; just as he moved closer, Jin Chen pushed him away.

"Don't get too close, you're blocking the light."

Jin Chen seemed to complain offhand, wiping the stele with his dirt-covered hand, which happened to cover that pattern.

He and Yu Sui exchanged a glance; the latter blinked, indicating he had already memorized it.

He Chao didn't see the code, feeling a bit annoyed he clenched his fist, but he couldn't directly ask in front of so many people, otherwise it would be too blatant; he could only let it go for now.

As for the lower half of the picture, it depicts a completely different ending.

The girl who was hung upside down did not die; the person hiding behind the corpse put away the knife in hand, reached out to the girl, and pulled her to safety.

But at the end of the lower picture there is a forbidden symbol.

After observing, Jin Chen's distinctively knuckled finger pointed at the lower picture, then pointed to the person holding the knife in the second picture.

"Bai Xuan's death is related to this person."

Zhong He: "But Bai Xuan can only connect to the fourth picture through death."

The fourth picture depicts some kind of sacrificial ritual.

The nine surviving people lay down, the girl's corpse was again hung upside down, this time with beast claw marks, having emptied the contents of her body.

【So that means… Bai Xuan's death was inevitable.】

【What a cruel miss… a moment of silence.】

Su Nai didn't quite understand, pointing to the forbidden symbol in the lower half of the third picture.

"What exactly does this mean? If Bai Xuan doesn't die, the story of the comic ends here, and we can all break out."

It's only because of Bai Xuan's death that the later part unfolds, so this ending was discarded.

Just as no one expected Bai Xuan's death, no one can answer this question.

Yu Sui pondered repeatedly, then said coldly: "Too coincidental."

Bai Xuan's death, to some extent, matches the speed at which the symbols were deciphered.

He lifted his gaze, scanning everyone, and said: "Unless someone is controlling the situation."

It both guarantees their speed in deciphering the symbols and allows Bai Xuan to die instantly in such a short time.

Xie Shao's brain was almost bursting; he simply couldn't understand how a perfectly fine survival situation turned into this ghastly state.

Now, after Yu Sui said that, it almost seems as if the murderer is among them!

He suddenly had a brainwave, loudly pointing at Yu Sui and shouting: "Then that means only you have a dagger in your hand—perhaps the person holding a knife in the picture is you!"

Yu Sui's gaze slowly moved onto him, devoid of warmth.

"I like killing people directly."

Xie Shao: "..." Are you proud!

But once some words are spoken, they inevitably arouse suspicion.

Lin Gui's gaze occasionally flicked to Yu Sui and the dagger at his waist—"Yu Sui's dagger... really raises suspicion."

Jin Chen drew his dagger and flung it to the ground: "What, having a knife makes you the murderer?"

Then I am too.

Zhong He glanced at them silently, then also pulled a small military curved blade from his pocket.

Su Nai raised her hand: "I have one too."

Lin Gui: "..."

〖Hehehe, doing this will make Lucky King Lin Gui lose face! (dog head)〗

〖What's wrong with reasonable suspicion? Better to mistakenly kill than let go, in case there's a murderer among them. 〗

〖Laughable, why not just separate those with knives? See if Lin Gui can still survive. 〗

Lin Gui bit his lower lip, edging behind He Chao, and said: "I'm just speculating... let everyone keep an extra eye out."

After all, Bai Xuan died obscurely; I naturally hope everyone can survive safely.