Chapter 93

Feng Bujue shone his flashlight around to see the general situation there . After confirming that there were no traps or something like that, he swaggered there .

The corpse had long become a skeleton . From the bones, he could recognize that this was a male . Apparently, after he died, wild animals had been playing with his corpse for a while . He was probably dragged here from somewhere else, but it was hard to tell where was his death scene though .

The clothes on the corpse must have been soon dragged by the other wild animals . Feng Bujue crouched down next to the skeleton to check it . Soon, he found a small iron box in one of the pockets of the corpse’s clothes .

The iron box looked as thin as a finger, around the size of a small photo . Perhaps it was used to carry photos . The box had some rust, which was a normal phenomenon in such humid environment . Feng Bujue took out his dagger and attempted to open the box from its edges .

There was no photo inside the box, only a pencil and a folded piece of paper which was filled with words .

[Name: A Message from the Unknown Dead]

[Type: Related to the plot]

[Quality: Shabby]

[Functions: Unknown]

[Being able to be brought out of the scenario: No]

[Remarks: Although you’ve found this, you don’t need to read it at this moment . Once you read the content, everything would never be the same . ]

At the first glance, Feng Bujue felt something odd with the item’s properties and the remarks . It seemed it was something important that the dead had left there . But what about ‘don’t need to read at this moment’?

“Would it . . . change the plot if I read this paper?” Feng Bujue mumbled, “‘Do not need to read it’… Now, there’s only me in this scenario . In the next two hours, I just need to be careful and 90% that I could finish the game . However, if by any chance I happen to read this… it would bring some bad changes…”

If there were another player, he would give it up immediately . But to Feng Bujue, this was his Achilles heel . If you find a beauty to seduce him, he could let the girl sit in his lap without a small surge in his heart; but if you put a pile of papers in front of him and tell him that no one could explain or reason these details, he will absolutely storm over and grab them .

At this moment, Feng Bujue’s reading addiction had burst out—he felt unbearably itchy . Unless there was a teammate like Like Rain to take it away from his sight, he must read it .

He unfolded the piece of paper and shone his flashlight on it . Turned out it was written in Russian .

Feng Bujue’s heart slightly sank as an extremely horrible thought popped up in his mind, which turned out to be true in the next couple minutes .

Although this novelist reasoning was kind of a genius, he didn’t know Russian . Fortunately, the system had the translation function, so the Chinese translation appeared in his menu .

[If someone saw this letter, I’m dead already . This is good for me, as a relief, and I deserve it . ]

[My name is Zaroff, the owner of this island . Perhaps you have met someone addressing himself as General Zaroff in the castle . Perhaps not yet . No matter what, you should know he is a counterfeit . He’s called Rainsford . ]

[I have invented a hunting game, in which I was hunting down human preys . Rainsford used to be my prey, also the only survivor in my game . I can still recall every detail of that hunt . He was very excellent in using only one dagger to kill a Malaysian trapper and catch a Burmese tiger . I was also a good person . I have taken the upper hand many times, but I was kind enough to let him go . ]

[He survived up to the third day and won the game . I lost, but my mood wasn’t bad since it was an exciting hunting game for me . As I had promised, I let him recover in the castle and then I gave him enough food and water for his trip on a sailing boat to leave the island . ]

[I thought that I would never meet Mister Rainsford again in this life . Unexpectedly, he came to the island again six months later . ]

[He told me that after he had left the island, he started to miss our game and that the other kind of entertainment couldn’t stir him up . He thought he wanted to join me . ]

[At first, I didn’t accept his request, and I also wanted him to leave . However, he did not hesitate to make himself a prey and beg me again . ]

[I thought I’m a crazy man, but at that moment, I knew he was truly insane . ]

[So I had the second game with him . Moreover, I had declared that I wouldn’t give him mercy . If he could survive my hunt for three days, I would let him be my hunting partner . ]

[I had never expected that he would succeed again, even easier than the previous time . I didn’t even know how he did it . In those three days, he hadn’t appeared once in my shooting range . He seemed to be able to listen to things from very far away . Before I can approach him, he had already left with a speed even faster than mine . His traces showed that he was as agile as a monkey, however, I couldn’t understand why he seemed not to need food, excretion, sleep or rest . ]

[On the third day, I had released three hounds and made them chase after Rainsford . Later on, I only found three dead dogs . None of them died because of traps or cuts from daggers . Someone had killed them barehanded . ]

[Afterwards, Rainsford started to hunt with me . Since then, his behaviors had become very strange, always asking me to trap more people here . I told him if we caused too many troubles in the sea, the government would notice us . However, he was like a greedy addict who could never be satisfied . ]

[He had improved the traps in the sea and started to import more wild animals . I told him that those animals could harm us too, but he ignored me . Rainsford then completely lost his mind . He is 10 times crazier and crueler than me . ]

[Nine days ago, I thought I would kill him when he was asleep . This is not an act of a gentleman, but I have no other choice . Maybe I have created this demon, so now I have to finish him myself . ]

[When I was sneaking into his room, he was already waiting for me behind the door, wearing a sinister grin on his face . ]

[Ivan pushed me from behind and subdued me . He then threw me into the cell . He was my most loyal servant and he would never betray me . I’m not superstitious, but I could only assume that Rainford had controlled Ivan through some kind of mysterious spells, so it could explain many things . ]

[Today, I’m a prey . During the past nine days, Rainsford always knows where I am . I know that, but he will never come to see me or kill me . Moreover, he will never let me approach the castle or leave the island . He wants me to die hopelessly in the mouths of those wild animals . Being torn apart by the claws of my ‘preys’, it will be the best mockery he got for me, a great and proud hunter . ]

[On the fourth day, I met a dying sailor . He got ambushed by a tiger . He told me that there was a man who called himself General Zaroff and forced them to play a game . At that moment, I understood that I was replaced . ]

[Everything is coming to an end now . I have wounds all over my body, and I have a fever . I don’t know for how long I haven’t closed my eyes . If death is coming for me sooner or later, at this moment, I only hope that it will come to me serenely and quickly . ]

[I’m writing this not for my repentance or my redemption . I just thought I should leave a message to someone… Rainsford is not a human . He’s an unknown evil incarnation . ]

[Hurry! Get away from here! As far as possible! Even if you have to drown yourself in the sea, don’t stay on the island!]