The vast hall was deathly silent as Chloe Winston said calmly, "Over forty thousand people joined this experiment on the virtual network and not a single one cleared it. That means there has to be a Death Key, and the closer to the end, the more Death Keys there are."
"But you two are actually pretty lucky. Next step is Key 29, and there are 12 keys left after that. As long as you don't step on 2 Death Keys in a row, one of you is guaranteed to make it out alive." Chloe's eyes were clear as she looked at Lian Ke. "Since the real-person experience hall allows team play, that's the show giving guests a way to survive."
Only this "way to survive" meant stepping over a teammate's corpse to clear the level. That was exactly why Chloe had refused to team up from the start—she didn't want to be someone else's stepping stone to the finish.
