Chapter 568: Rotting Corpse in the Safe Zone?!

Countless dry bones piled up like a mountain; it's not hard to imagine that before it was a sea of corpses and blood, with blood flowing like a river.

Ka!

Su Yang stepped down and snapped a leg bone; looking down, the hollow eye sockets of a skull and bone stared straight at him.

It seemed godless yet godlike, as if accusing his crimes.

"This area... is at least thirty kilometers from the Small Wooden Cabin," Su Yang frowned.

That means the terrifying Typhoon at dawn blew Cao An to a place sixty li away.

And before that, Wang Daohui had taken him here.

Cao An picked up a few bones as toys and smashed them against a human brain.

In fact, a certain signal had already been emitted, but Su Yang did not notice.

Wang Daohui's anger was also to use intimidation to guard this earth‑shattering secret!

"No wonder he allied with Su Peixian, and no wonder he wanted to strike first," Su Yang realized.

All of this was neither a spur‑of‑the‑moment idea nor simply for revenge.

Fundamentally, Wang Daohui did not want any players other than Cao An to discover this place.

"Let me see how explosive this so‑called secret really is," Su Yang felt a stir.

He then stepped forward, walking over the corpses.

The Woman on the side tiptoed, lowering her head to carefully look for a place to set foot.

She seemed to have a taboo against the dead, choosing the soil between bone piles as her footing.

Afraid of being tainted with ill omen.

"All manner of ghosts and deities, mistakenly intruding upon the immortal realm, no blame, no blame," the Woman clasped her hands and whispered softly.

Cao An, as if back home, sometimes picked up a hand bone to wield as a sword or staff, and sometimes kicked a decayed skull like a ball.

He played with great delight.

"Su Yang, this place is so fun!" Cao An said happily.

"Yeah, it's much more fun than a plane."

"Do you also like it?"

"I love it immensely, wish I could stay here forever."

"Hehe, me too."

The two's 'bizarre' conversation made the Woman's hair stand up, and she subconsciously kept a few steps away from Su Yang.

In her view, although the other party hadn't shown any evil thoughts for now, she couldn't guarantee whether beastly instincts would flare up later.

Moreover, Cao An indeed seemed foolish, but anyone with eyes knows he will have moments of clarity.

Therefore, the Woman must stay fully alert.

After walking over three hundred meters, Su Yang suddenly smelled a strong stench of decay.

It was pungent and made one want to vomit.

His nose twitched, and he immediately chose a direction and hurried forward.

Upon approaching, the smell grew even richer, even stinging the eyes.

Su Yang brushed aside the bushes before him and stared, his complexion suddenly hardening.

"Who is he?!"

The Woman heard the voice and hurried over.

In her haste she even forgot her taboo, stepping on the corpses as she ran over.

Afraid of missing something important by being a beat late.

However, when she saw clearly the figure before Su Yang, her complexion changed dramatically.

She saw a rotting corpse, its whole body crawling with maggots, lying in the bushes, with no good flesh left and bite marks everywhere.

Its face was unrecognizable, features blurred, impossible to discern its original appearance.

Bzz—

Su Yang's movement disturbed the flies beside the corpse, which swarmed, causing the Woman to step back a few paces.

"How could there be... a not‑fully‑decayed corpse here?" the Woman exclaimed.

Su Yang furrowed his brow, stripped off his pants with his bare hands, examined, and said, "It's a male."

"Could it be the missing Eighth Player?!" the Woman blurted.

"Impossible!"

Su Yang shook his head to deny.

First, Deception cannot be broken; even a corpse must be Summoned.

Second, when Su Yang submitted the Task last night, he clearly saw a 100% safety coefficient, meaning his partner also completed the Task.

Finally…

"Based on the level of decay, he's been dead for at least a week," Su Yang said.

"But," the Woman said with doubt, "we entered the game yesterday; a week ago we were still in the Buffer Period."

"Two possibilities," Su Yang extended a Finger, "this so‑called Safe Zone has the effect of Accelerating time flow; freshly dead corpses will decay rapidly in a short time, attracting flies."

He then extended a second Finger: "Second possibility—this Death Game involves more than just us few players."

When she heard the first possibility, the Woman somewhat agreed.

But as Su Yang mentioned the latter possibility, she widened her eyes, full of shock.

"Impossible, the game confirmed eight players; the rules can't be wrong!" the Woman shook her head like a tambourine.

If Su Yang is right, this Death Game involves more than eight people.

Then this place, littered with corpses and bones, does it not mean there are at least a few thousand players?

In such a huge area with so many people, how to locate the same camp, and how to locate the enemy camp?

Most importantly, this has never happened before; ignoring NPCs, even at the top there are only 16 players.

"Possible or not, the test will reveal it," Su Yang said calmly.

"You seem to have missed something; yesterday Yan Luoshu was also blown away by a Typhoon, and this corpse is very likely his!" Woman said.

"Yan Luoshu's height is half a head shorter than his, and his build is also slimmer; you know that well," Su Yang said.

"What about Cao An? He left from here yesterday," Woman said, pointing at a man not far away who was kicking a ball.

"Living people Vision Perception cannot discern any clue; even if seven days here equals one day outside, accelerating the passage of time still cannot reveal anything from appearance," Su Yang shook his head.

If it were seven years, perhaps one could still see signs of aging from the exterior.

Su Yang had reason to suspect that this Safe Zone had a direct connection with a Hidden Achievement.

"Then how do you want to test?" Woman asked.

"Very simple: kill a prey and leave it for a night, then you'll know," Su Yang turned his head toward her, with a mysterious meaning at the Mouth corner.

Woman felt a sudden jolt in her heart, reached toward her back waist cautiously and said, "What are you trying to do?"

"Don't panic, I won't kill you," Su Yang said while cutting open the corpse's clothing, "and because of your Innate Talent... I also cannot kill you."

How does he know?

Woman's expression grew increasingly solemn, and the gaze she cast toward Su Yang's back carried a few more hints of surprise.

"Stop pretending; since you dared to follow me here, it means you have considerable means of self‑preservation, even Countermeasure methods."

Saying that, Su Yang tilted his head and continued, "So don't pretend to be harmless and frail; your acting is good, but it doesn't match your character design."

Upon hearing that, Woman's expression suddenly calmed, and her previously kind and gentle visage vanished without a trace.

In its place was indifference.

"Being blunt and exposing it, aren't you afraid of dying here?"

Su Yang tossed the corpse's tattered clothing aside, forced himself to endure the stench and nausea while pulling the maggots off the flesh and blood.

"Of course I'm afraid of death, but with your level and ability, you are still far from being able to frighten me."