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Day six, the rain stopped.
2:50 PM
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But the sky remained terribly overcast.
I stood by the apartment window, looking out.
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The lower floors below were completely submerged, muddy water carrying various debris a scene of pure apocalypse.
My phone vibrated. A system prompt abruptly sounded.
**[Beginning point calculation. Phase Two final ten–minute countdown.]**
**[Live streaming enabled in group chat.]**
But no one in the group chat replied to these messages anymore, because the class group, which once had 50 members, now only
had 3.
Me, Finn, and Chloe.
My points were still 1500. The other two had 1400.
**Host ‘Finn‘ detected near safe house vicinity.]**
“Thud!!”
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Almost as soon as the prompt appeared, the reinforced security door of my apartment rattled with a mighty bang.
The heavy metal door remained unmoved.
“Iris! Open the door! I know you’re in there! We’re running out of time!”
Finn’s hoarse roar came from outside the door, laced with barely supp
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I walked to the door, not opening it, not responding, just listening quietly.
Finn’s voice took on a pleading tone, “Iris, I was wrong before, I apologize! But this isn’t the time to argue! It’s too dangerous outside! We have to fight together, survive together!”
Chloe, however, sent a series of voice messages in the group.
“Survive together?”
“You, who betrayed your teammates without a second thought, have the nerve to talk about fighting together? If your true colors hadn’t been exposed yesterday, and everyone started guarding against you, you would have screwed over even more people!”
“Shut up!”
Finn seemed enraged, turning his shouts towards me.
“Iris! Don’t listen to her! She killed so many people, she’s a lunatic! She just wants to stir trouble between us, to stop us from teaming
up!”
Chloe once again let out a cold laugh in the group.
“Heh, Vice President, playing the good guy now? Weren’t you the one who instigated everyone to isolate her, telling them about her confession as a joke to me? Weren’t you the one who, to suck up to me, hinted to everyone to push all the heaviest physical labor onto her? Now you’re acting all deeply affectionate?”
Finn’s voice suddenly rose, his tone filled with righteous indignation.
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Finn’s voice suddenly rose, his tone filled with righteous indignation.
“When did I ever do such a thing? Don’t you dare slander me!”
“If you didn’t do it this time, you’d do it next time. You’re just a backstabbing piece of scum!”
They argued more and more fiercely.
I opened the door.
