Prison Island

Chapter 10 Death Hide and Seek

As soon as the game started, conflicts arose among the four radiators.

The organizer threw four identities on the ground and asked them to fight for them, and the fight immediately became really intense.

Of course, all this was also due to the instigation of the young man with the silver hand.

He monopolized four of them, so naturally he attracted three people to attack him.

But if they monopolized four, destroyed two, and released one, they would force the other three to kill each other.

A dog collar caused a bloody fight among three people, while the young man who caused all this was watching the show as if nothing had happened. It was really ironic.

The newcomers were stunned. Both the strength of the men and the viciousness of the young man with the silver hand made them tremble in fear.

And what was the game? It was cat and mouse, and they... were the mice.

They don't even have the right to choose, their identities are directly handed down to them.

It seems that the organizers are also very clear that these people are not qualified to participate in the "identity snatching" and simply skip this step for them.

"Where is Brother Kun?" Su Le came to his senses when he saw them fighting, but found that Gao Xin was gone.

It turned out that Gao Xin had already run into the courtyard at the beginning of the game.

"Oh oh..." Su Le didn't bother to watch the show anymore. He rushed into the door and followed Gao Xin's footsteps.

The yard is large and full of greenery, with fresh lawns, flowers, small bushes, and a few banana trees.

On the inside of the courtyard wall, there is a large circle of crystal decoration, which is extremely luxurious.

Directly in front of it was a large mansion, standing in the center of the courtyard, with four floors and lavish decoration.

Suler ran after him, searching the lawn: "Where's the dog collar that was thrown in?"

At the same time, mice also came in one after another, and they were also searching in the yard.

Su Le glanced at him and didn't look at him, and decided to follow Gao Xin first.

Gao Xin curled his lips, turned sideways and showed him what he had in his hand: "I took it a long time ago."

He was the first one to come in. At that time, the young man with the silver hand had not yet thrown the collar, and a group of people were still watching the show outside.

After this, Silverhand threw the collar, which was almost like throwing it in his face.

Seeing this, Su Le said, "Without these two collars, at least two people would have died outside!"

Gao Xin nodded and said, "These two collars are crucial."

Su Le asked, "Brother Kun Ku, are you planning to trade these two collars with people outside and let the old dog protect us from being killed by the old cat?"

Gao Xin looked at Sule in surprise and asked, "Why don't you think of wearing it around your neck?"

"Eh?" Su Le was startled: "We are mice, can we have two identities at the same time?"

Gao Xin shook his head: "I don't know, but why not give it a try?"

Su Le's eyes lit up and he said, "I see, you mean we can survive by being dogs!"

Gao Xin's face darkened. Why did you say such harsh words?

But he did think about it. Anyway, the rules didn't say you couldn't have two identities. Now that they had two dog collars, why not give it a try?

He immediately ran while trying to pry open the dog's collar with his hands.

But he couldn't pry it open until he rushed into the hall of the mansion.

It's too hard, how can it be so tight? I saw the bearded man prying it open easily before.

Gao Xin closed the door of the mansion and glanced at the richly decorated hall.

"Let me try." Sule stretched out his hand.

Gao Xin handed him one, and Sule's muscles suddenly tensed up, with veins bulging on his forehead.

What's more, it actually opened up a crack, about the width of a child's wrist.

But it didn't last long before the air deflated and the alloy collar immediately locked back together.

"Huh... No, it's too tight, brother." Su Le panted.

Gao Xin was ashamed, this young man was much stronger than him.

"The two of us together!"

As Gao Xin spoke, he and Sule each held half, their bodies almost falling over, and they pulled frantically to both sides.

This time, with the combined efforts of the two, they were able to pry the collar open enough that it could barely fit around a person's neck.

But they even leaned their bodies over, feet against feet, using all their strength, including their own body weight... How can they wear this?
As soon as he stood up straight, he couldn't hold on any longer and the collar buzzed tighter.

"Damn! Why is it so hard to drive!" Sule couldn't believe it.

Gao Xin gritted his teeth and said, "The organizers should have considered the possibility of the mouse getting the dog collar, and didn't even give us the chance to wear it."

"It's as if to say, without the power of a dog, you are not even qualified to be a dog..."

Sule lowered his head in dejection. It was easy for the radiator outside to wear this thing.

But they couldn't pry it apart even with their combined efforts, how fucked up.

It’s as if a mouse is a mouse, born to be a mouse, and can only be a mouse, so it has to hide here and hope not to be hunted by a cat.

"Thank you for your hard work, brother. It seems that we can only use the dog collar to negotiate with the people outside." Sule said.

Gao Xin couldn't refute it, but doing so was too dangerous.

Although giving the collar to the person outside is tantamount to saving a life, it is a bit presumptuous to expect the other party to protect them because of it.

There is no binding agreement at all, and they are absolutely the weaker party.

"Not yet. There's a cat outside. And the cat came in first! That guy is so vicious... and smart."

"So the negotiation with the dog you mentioned can only be done in the ten minutes when the cat comes in first and the dog hasn't come in yet."

Sule was a little confused. Why did he have to wait until then?
Isn't it just the opposite? Isn't it better to talk to the dog while the cat can't get in?
But Su Le still nodded and said, "Brother, I will listen to you."

By this time there was a great deal of commotion in the yard; all the mice had come in, looking for their collars.

"You have less than twenty minutes to find a hiding place. Get familiar with the terrain first."

As Gao Xin spoke, he started searching everywhere on the first floor.

Observe every possible hiding place.

This mansion is very large, with many rooms, and is luxuriously decorated in European style, with stone carvings and murals everywhere.

In the center of the hall is a luxurious and spacious staircase covered with precious carpets, which splits into two steps on the left and right halfway up the hall, leading to the second floor.

There is a huge wall clock on the wall halfway up the floor.

Gao Xin saw it when he just came in. The time was around 2:2 in the afternoon.

It didn't take two minutes to cross the yard, but even if it delayed some time, it meant that the game started at exactly two o'clock.

The game lasts two hours, which means it will end at four o'clock.

In addition, they also noticed that there were crystal ball-like decorations inlaid in various angles and places.

Come to think of it, it’s a bit strange that there are also such crystal decorations in the yard.

Do you like crystals so much? It's okay if you put them in one or two places, but if you put them everywhere, it's a bit weird.

"Isn't this a surveillance camera?" Gao Xin murmured.

Su Le was stunned: "It's really possible! Didn't the Japanese say that the Atonement Game was watched live by the rich and powerful? This might be the scanner that broadcasts 3D images."

Gao Xin's face darkened and he stared coldly at the crystal balls, as if he was looking at eyeballs.

Behind these eyeballs, there are many powerful people who may be enjoying the food and drink and admiring their embarrassment.

This made him feel sick, but there was nothing he could do but ignore it: "Never mind, let's look for more places where people can hide."

"Ah."

Gao Xin went to stroll around the first floor and hid the collar.

Suler first noticed the fireplace. He leaned in to observe it for a while and said, "Brother, how about we hide in the chimney?"

Gao Xin also went to take a look. The chimney was very deep and dark. If one could climb to a high place, one would indeed not be able to see people from below.

If they were discovered, they might climb out of the chimney top and find another hiding place.

It is indeed a very good choice.

"Can you climb up?"

"it should be OK."

Su Le crawled in and picked it up. He used his hands and feet to hold on to the walls around him, and after a few "hey ha" sounds, his body climbed up steadily.

Gao Xin's mouth twitched, but he still gritted his teeth and continued to climb up.

But the chimney was too wide and it was difficult for him to exert any strength. He managed to push himself up to less than a person's height before falling down, covered in dust.

"Oh, I can't. You hide here and I'll look for it."

Gao Xin walked out of the fireplace covered in dust and dirt, just in time to meet Jin Meimei and another ferocious-looking newcomer who broke into the mansion.

Jin Meimei looked at him and suddenly fixed her eyes on Gao Xin's crotch.

Gao Xin forced a smile: "Beauty, do you like looking at me so much?"

Jin Meimei pouted and said, "Did I get the dog collar for you?"

Gao Xin was stunned and said, "Dog collar? What's the use of that thing? Why don't you hide quickly?"

After saying this, he walked away as if nothing had happened, as if he was about to find a hiding place.

Looking at Gao Xin's back, Meimei was confused but said nothing.

The other newcomer with a fierce look, seeing that Gao Xin was indeed only wearing a pair of shorts and did not look like he could hide two large alloy collars, immediately fixed his eyes on the fireplace.

“If the person who came in first took it, he must have hidden the collar in here!” The ferocious-looking newcomer growled and rushed in, starting to search.

Suddenly he noticed someone climbing above him, so he immediately picked up something and threw it upwards: "Get down!"

He jumped up and smashed things upwards for several times, and finally knocked Suler down.

Then he pounced on him, grabbed Su Le with his hands, and fumbled around.

But Sule was not wearing any clothes, just a pair of shorts, and I knew there was nothing on after touching him.

"What are you doing? What are you doing? I climbed up here with great difficulty... Hey, hey, hey, where are you touching?" Su Le looked confused.

"Damn...where's the collar!"

Su Le said innocently: "I didn't take it. What's the use of that thing? I hid it with great difficulty, why did you smash it down for me?"

"Get out of here, this place is mine." Seeing that he didn't find it, the ferocious-looking newcomer also climbed up like Su Le, thinking that he might be hiding in a secret compartment or something.

Even if not, this is still a good hiding place.

Seeing that he had taken the position, Su Le decided it was no longer possible to hide there, so he hurried to catch up with Gao Xin.

Just as the two were about to go upstairs and reached the stairs.

The bald man suddenly came with eight newcomers: "Wait, kid, stop right there." Gao Xin didn't even turn his head and didn't want to pay attention.

The bald man quickly caught up with him and shouted, "Boy in shorts, do you have the collar?"

Gao Xin turned around, looked around, then touched his bare chest with a speechless look on his face.

The bald man was stunned and felt it was a bit outrageous.

He immediately turned his gaze to the others: "Everyone, let me search you!"

He noticed someone in the fireplace and rushed in to pull the person down.

The fierce-looking guy wanted to get angry, but he saw that the bald man was quite tall and there were so many newcomers following him.

So he suppressed his anger and said, "Those two guys came in first. They must have hidden the collar."

The bald man looked at Gao Xin again: "Where did you hide it? Hand it over quickly!"

Gao Xin rolled his eyes and said, "Are you all crazy? Why are you looking for collars instead of finding a hiding place?"

The bald man said in a serious tone: "Don't play dumb with me, kid. How can you escape the pursuit of the radiator just by hiding in this game?"

Gao Xin was puzzled. "How can it be impossible? The rules tell us that the mice must enter a limited area, find a hiding place, and survive for 120 minutes."

"This is the most direct and clear way to survive as a mouse. I don't ask you to find a collar."

The bald man curled his lips and said, "Do you know how strong the radiator is? Although I don't know the strength of the four people outside, I think it shouldn't be difficult to find someone by listening to their breathing in the same room."

"You expect to hide from the radiation users for two hours in a house like this. You're really screwed!"

Gao Xin shook his head and said, "Just hiding in plain sight is definitely seeking death."

"But in this game, there must be a real hiding place designed to make it difficult for the old cat to find it, otherwise it would become a one-sided massacre, right?"

Everyone was stunned. What was the real hiding place?

At this time, Na Meimei said: "You mean... there is a hidden area?"

Gao Xin nodded and said, "The rules specifically mention the restricted area, including the entire area including this house. Is it possible... that there is more than just the house that can be seen by the naked eye?"

Everyone fell silent.

Na Meimei agreed, "Indeed, the rules tell cats and dogs to enter the house, but tell mice to find hiding places in a limited area... This description seems to imply that we have other areas."

"It's very possible to find a place like this, and then hide until the end of the game."

When everyone in the field heard this, their eyes became hot. What's the point of looking for a collar? They just needed to find a hiding place quickly.

The bald man asked anxiously, "Where will it be?"

Meimei curled her lips and said, "Where else could it be? It can only be underground. Rats are best at digging holes. There must be a hole hidden in the house that leads to the underground area."

The bald man immediately shouted to the others, "Find a hole! We must find a passage to the underground. Whoever finds it, share it, and we can all survive together!"

All of a sudden the mice were busy, hammering and banging everywhere, trying to find hidden passages or something.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Gao Xin turned around and walked upstairs, and Su Le hurriedly followed him.

After they went upstairs, Su Le whispered, "Brother Hard Work, didn't they search you?"

Gao Xin breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Luckily I was only wearing a pair of shorts, otherwise they would have searched me for sure."

In fact, the dog collar was hidden on his body, but it was not simply hidden in his pants, but was worn on his thigh.

One for each leg!
Although he was very thin, his thighs were very large, and the middle part of the collar was not very big. It was now clamped around his legs, almost killing his blood.

But doing this, paired with shorts, at least it can't be seen from the outside that there's something hidden.

Plus, he was pretending to be genuine, and he really only had a pair of shorts on, which were loose and hanging around, and didn't look like he could hide anything there, so the man let his guard down.

"Brother Hard Work, why are we going upstairs when we are looking for an underground cave?" Su Le asked in confusion.

Gao Xin glanced at him and said, "Who said we were looking for an underground cave?"

Su Le was stunned: "Ah? Didn't you just say..."

Then he was stunned. This was what the woman said. In fact, Gao Xin only suggested that there was a hidden area.

Gao Xin said: "There should be many hiding places in such a large mansion, but I think none of them are definitely safe."

"Don't forget, the scope of hunting rats also includes the so-called hiding areas."

"You have to think about it from the organizer's perspective. Do the dignitaries want to see the rats hide in an invincible hiding place? The simpler the way to survive, the harder it must be to achieve."

"The first 20 minutes are too important for us. Time is tight, so there is no need to spend too much energy looking for such a place."

Sule was stunned. Yes, even if there is an area outside the house, it is also within the hunting range.

"So... this is a trap?"

Gao Xin spread his hands and said, "I don't know. I only know that the first floor is the most dangerous, because the old cat will most likely start from the bottom and search upwards floor by floor."

"That group of people tried their best to find the so-called rat hole on the first floor. If they found it, it would be fine. If they didn't, they would be wiped out..."

Su Le pondered and said, "So...are we going to hide upstairs now?"

Gao Xin checked various places and said, "Just get familiar with the area and find a few hiding spots that are convenient for relocation."

"People give you the identity of a mouse, so don't really treat yourself as a mouse. Let the dog restrain the cat, that's the way to survive."

"In this game, hiding is our last resort."

"After all, it's too passive... If I were a cat, and I couldn't find the mouse, I would just destroy everything in the scene. I don't believe the mouse can hide..."

Sule shuddered and began to realize what "the hunting range includes all areas including the house" meant.

"I understand. The real way to survive is to let the dog in. Brother, are you really not going to deliver the collar now?"

Gao Xin shook his head firmly. Su Le had no choice but to search the second floor with Gao Xin to familiarize himself with the place.

The second floor is arranged in a circle of rooms, and the corridor overlooks the entire first and second floors because the height of the lobby on the first floor connects the two floors.

"Look, brother, there are secret doors connecting the rooms in this row. The same should be true on the other side."

"If the old cat wants to enter our room, we can move to another room secretly."

Sule told Gao Xin about his discovery, but Gao Xin just looked down.

"Not good." Gao Xin found that he and Sule left charcoal ash wherever they walked.

That was stained in the fireplace, both of them were black and left footprints when they walked.

"We need to find a place to wash up!"

Su Le also saw it when he looked down, and the two of them hurried to find the bathroom.

They soon entered the bathroom on the second floor, which was very luxurious and had a large bathtub. They started to wash up immediately.

Since I had no clothes anyway, I just took a shower and then went to the closet in the next room to find some clothes.

Suler changed into a silk casual outfit and put on a pair of sneakers. He said happily, "This place is really well prepared. There is everything in the room."

"Look at how big this closet is. There are so many clothes in it. We can even hide in it."

Gao Xin also changed into a similar set of clothes. The material of this clothes was very good. Even though the size was not very close fitting, it was very comfortable to wear.

He said, "Hiding in the closet is like seeking death, isn't it?"

"This isn't just any hide-and-seek. The price of being found is death!"

Su Le nodded. If he really had to rely on hide-and-seek, he would have to find another way and think of a very unique hiding place.

"Hmm? Look, there's another person outside."

Suler pointed outside the window, and Gao Xin saw that not everyone in his front yard had entered the mansion, and there was still one person who had not yet entered.

The man sneaked around the gate and went into a bush beside the gate, separated from the radiators outside by only a wall.

You know what, from the surface you really can't tell that there's someone hiding.

"Wow, that guy is hiding at the gate!" Sule widened his eyes.

Gao Xin looked strange: "I thought that when the old cat came in, he would go straight to the mansion without carefully searching the door?"

Su Le clapped his hands and said, "You know what, it's really possible that we overlooked that place."

"Old Cat will definitely search the more complicated places first, from the first floor to the fourth floor. Only when he can't find anyone in the mansion will he consider the area at the gate of the courtyard."

“It can be said that as long as you avoid the first wave, you will be safe for a long time.”

"The old cat's search time was only a hundred minutes in total. There were twenty mice, so the average time to find each mouse was only five minutes."

Gao Xin grinned and said, "That doesn't make the calculation. The old cat may have killed several mice in a short period of time."

Su Le hummed and said, "I know, but this person is betting that the old cat will ignore the gate for a long time, and the other mice will delay it for a long time."

"Besides, he is closest to the door. When the time comes, he can immediately rush out."

"Hunting mice can only be done within a limited area, that is, the area within the courtyard wall. Once outside, there is no indulgence for the old cat to kill him."

"It's even possible that he could just rush into the elevator and run away..."

Gao Xin shook his head: "This is gambling with your life."

"Eh? Damn, this works? Look, you've worked so hard, the steps in the lobby on the first floor can actually be lifted up! Could it be that we have found a tunnel?" Su Le suddenly exclaimed again.

Gao Xin turned around and saw that everyone in the lobby on the first floor was still frantically searching for the so-called hidden area.

One of the experienced glass men was groping around and knocking on the stairs, and seemed to find something strange about one of the steps.

He lifted the carpet, searched carefully, found a place that could be moved, and then pried open the marble slab on the steps.

It was indeed empty inside, which attracted a crowd of people to watch.

But unfortunately, this is not a secret passage, but rather a narrow coffin that can only accommodate one person!

It can be seen that some people were so happy that they actually started fighting for this place.

I don't know what they discussed, but finally a senior person was allowed to enter. The person next to him waited for the other person to lie down, and then helped him close the marble slab, restoring it tightly, and covered it with the carpet.

At this point, looking from the outside, there is nothing unusual about it, it looks like an ordinary stair step.

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have imagined that there could be a person hiding in the stairs.

"This step is deliberately designed for mice to hide. Have you noticed the inside of the stone slab? There is also a crystal ball." Gao Xin said.

Su Le sighed: "It's too hidden, who can find it!"

"Sure enough, there are many good hiding places in this mansion. If everyone can hide in such a place, then the old cat may not be able to find many mice."

Gao Xin frowned slightly and said, "Two hours... He might suffocate to death in there."

"Uh..." Su Le was stunned: "No way?"

Gao Xin shook his head. "I'm not sure either, but it feels so narrow inside, and the steps and slabs fit tightly together, there might not be enough air."

Su Le's mouth twitched: "This is too bad."

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PS: Sorry. I mainly polished the plot of this book, and wrote it in a relatively detailed manner. In fact, you can enter the game at the beginning, but the description of too many book friends and characters delayed it, so I posted more in order to move forward as soon as possible. As a result, the editor said that I updated too quickly, and the book had more than 50,000 words at the beginning, which was not conducive to the system's recommendation, and asked me to slow down... After repeated consideration, I only updated one chapter today, which is also 6,000 words.

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