“Let’s go kill that monster!”

“Yeah! If we all work together, we can kill it just like we killed the wolves!”

“Yeah!”

As everyone started started cheering and hyping themselves up to kill the imaginary monster, i couldn’t help but laugh internally. Imagining how Andrew must have felt knowing that an imaginary monster took the blame for him almost made me laugh out loud. However, i controlled myself, before such things happened.

Everyone started to collect their weapons and got ready to face the terrifying imaginary beast. Keeping up the pretense of a helpful person, i grabbed the knife that i had picked up from one of the dead survivors after the clash in the ship to help in the fight.

Following everyone, we headed down towards the dark bottom layer of the ship. The threat of the monster and the dark and creepy atmosphere of the bottom layer of the ship haunted us. Everyone moved slowly, afraid of the monster that could jump out at them.

Step by step, we crept along the dark hallway, slowly opening doors and checking each room thoroughly. As we were walking in the darkness, a pungent smell invaded our nostrils. Most of the adults had a grim expression on their face as they realised what the pungent smell meant.

“ We need to go through with this! In the future, i think we will have to face more situations like this in this bloody game! If we fall back now, we won’t be prepared for the future!”

“Yeah, we should all be prepared for the brutalities we will be facing in the future.”

Door by door, we checked each room as the pungent odour got thicker and teased us with what was ahead.

Soon we got to the last door. This door led to a large open hall. It was so large and big that in the dark, we could not see the other side from our position. We had to walk into the hall and personally check the other side.

Slowly one by one, we entered the dark hall, the unknown horrors of the dark frightening us. The odour got stronger and stronger by the minute. After a minute of walking , i got nervous. It was now or never, if i made enough connections and got into Andrew and his wife hearts, this was the time Andrew would take me away. If i failed to bond close enough to them, this was where i would die.

My heart raced feverishly as a devilish smile crept up my face. Gambling with my life brought great joy and passion in my heart as i left truly alive. Any mistakes would mean my death. I didn’t even used the dice to increase the odds of my plan working as i felt confident that my gamble would pay off. With my years of manipulating people, i truly deserved to die if i could not even manipulate someone like Andrew.

Thus i let fate decide my life as i followed the group. Eventually, i heard a soft murmur and felt a hand grab my hand. A force pulled me fiercely as i was pulled towards the direction of the door.

Heh, too easy.

I laugh internally as my plan worked once again.

“Don’t make a sound, we need to get out of here,” Andrew whispered as Andrew and his wife dragged me towards the door. A hand covered my mouth, preventing me from saying anything while they dragged me as fast as they could to the exit of the hall.

When we exited the hall, Andrew slammed the door shut after releasing his poisonous gas into the Hall.

Andrew’s wife turned my face towards as i pretended i was scared and confused at the situation. Seeing my confused expression, Andrew’s wife held my hand gently and look at me with motherly affection.

“Come, follow me, i will explain to you what’s going on,” she said as she pulled me towards the stairs to the upper floors. Meanwhile, Andrew stayed behind to finish his business.

I continued to act scared and innocent as i followed her upstairs until we reach the the dinner area where we sat down.

“Lawrence, i know you are wondering what’s going on and why we suddenly dragged you out of the hall and trapped the others inside, so i’m going to explain,” she said as she gently stroke my hand.

“It started when after you left after eating breakfast the first time we ate together, Andrew turned to me and told me he wanted to discuss something very important in our room.”

“When we were alone together in our room, he came up to me and said that he wanted to kill everyone on the ship for points. At first i was flabbergasted at such a horrible idea but he started to explain why he needed to do it.”

“ He said that with our low amounts of points and us not having any good attacking or survival skills, the chances of us being able to live in the next round were very low.”

“ He the started explaining how we would all have died if we didn’t have the superior numbers in the fight at the loading area.”

“ When he said that, i started to see his way too, we felt that if we wanted to survive in this world, we needed to grow strong ourselves and not rely on others to protect us.”

“ So we devised a plan, we would ask one person at a time to accompany us to the bottom floor of the ship and then push them inside the hall and locked them in with Andrew’s poison. Slowly, we killed one after another, earning all the points the people we killed had and all the skills they dropped.”

“ We planned that when people started noticing people missing, we would stop. However when we realised that everyone was going to split up and search each floor, we came up with another plan.”

“We would kill those who went to the bottom layer to search and draw everyone into the hall. After drawing everyone inside we would escape the hall with you and shut everyone inside with the poison.”

“I’m sorry we had to do this but if we want to survive in this new world, we need to make some sacrifices,” she said as she looked me in the eye.

I acted hesitant at first then acted like i was debating before i reluctantly agreed to what she said.

“Great! We just need to use all the points we are going to earn and make ourselves strong and there is no chance we won't survive this damn game!” She said as she pumped her hands.

Minutes later, Andrew came into the dining room with a large and clunky trash bag. Andrew’s wife turned to him and nodded at him.

“ I knew you would follow us!” Andrew cheered as he patted my shoulder with his large hands.

He opened the large trash bag and pulled out a clear plastic bag. Inside it was a golden ball with a whip symbol. He placed the clear plastic bag in my hand and said “Take it, you don’t have any skills to survive the next round with, we would feel better if you had this.”

Taking the clear plastic bag, i opened it and grabbed the golden ball, a flux of energy entered me as a new skill was registered into my skill registry.

You have acquired class D skill : Water whip

Water whip : create a whip of water to attack foes or to form various task.

“ How is it? Can you use the skill?” Andrew asked in anticipation.

“ Eh, looks like i can’t use the skill yet, It says i don’t have enough mana to use it right now,” I lied. Since i had energy blast equipped, i could not equip water whip and show it off to them. Thus i had to lie and say i couldn’t use it. It would be weird and suspicious if i said that i already had another skill equipped.

Instead of lying, i could have just killed them right now when they were not expecting it .However since there weren’t any difference between me killing them now and later. I decided to let them live their last few days together in happiness before the arc stops.

“Aw that sucks then, i wonder why you don't have enough mana to cast, but whatever, i will try and help you get a better skill later, okay?” Andrew tried to cheer me up.

“Yeah why don't we go swim, we should at least enjoy the pleasures of the ship before the ships stops in 3 days,” I tried to change the topic.

“Yeah, let’s go, i could use a break,” Andrew smiled as he stretch his arms.

Time passed by quickly as we spent the 3 days in happiness, enjoying the spa, playing billet in the leisure room, swimming in the pool and taking shots in the bar. We were just chilling by the pool when we received the notification.

The arc stopping in 3 hours, be prepared to leave.

We were already prepared when we received the notification. All the equipments and weapons were in the large trash bag. All we needed to do was changed out of our swimming attire.

We all decided to meet up by the Arc’s loading area to watch the doors open as the timer reach 0.

“The next adventure awaits!” Andrew said as he faced the large doors of the loading area. Both of them stared resolutely at the door, prepared to face the start of the World Survival Games. However that was the last thing they felt as a blast of energy shot through their head, exploding it into pieces.

Blood spray everywhere from the headless body as it splash onto me who was right behind them.

Yuck, looks like i got to bathe again.

As soon as both of them died, an orb flew out from their bodies. I picked it it, receiving the poison gas skill and all the other skills they picked up from other people.

Just seconds after they died a notification poped up again.

You have kill Andrew Dawson, gaining all unspent points he had.

You acquired : 4320 points

Total points : 4370 points

Congrats on being the sole survivor of your preliminary round. For your accomplishment, you have been awarded the Sole Survivor title.

Sole Survivor : gains 10% in each stat when working alone.

Congrats! You are the 5th person to be awarded the sole survivor title for a preliminary round.

Wow, i wonder who those other 4 are to guess that killing everyone in the round is the best decision.