Chapter 15 He Eats More Than Monsters

Li Mo's arrival meant that Yin Xiu was safe. As long as he stayed with him until dawn, he would have escaped this disaster.

But after avoiding that invisible existence and spending a night with another mysterious and strange person, Yin Xiu still couldn't calm down.

"Looking for me?" Li Mo pushed open the door and stood at the door with a smile. His figure blended into the darkness of the living room. Even though Yin Xiu couldn't see clearly, he could guess the smile on his face.

Yin Xiu slowly exhaled, sat up and briefly told him what had just happened, and how he, as a roommate, now needed to fulfill his obligations.

"I'd be very happy to stay in this room and watch you all night." Li Mo's voice sounded very happy, and there was no intention of refusing at all.

"There's no other bed in the room, and I won't let you sleep in my bed." Yin Xiu was very alert. He was ready to spend the whole night curled up in a chair.

But after Li Mo entered the room and closed the door, he walked to the chair inside the room and sat on it upright, with his usual smile on his face, "It's okay, I'll just sit here."

Yin Xiu stared at his figure silently. The room was dark, and his figure was also dark, silent and motionless, as if he did not exist in this room. However, that gaze fell on him clearly, without any restraint.

Just think of it as a punishment for accidentally triggering the rules. Even though I didn't die, enduring Li Mo's gaze all night is still a punishment.

Yin Xiu turned over and lay back on the bed. In order to block Li Mo's sight, he wrapped himself tightly with the quilt, but he could still feel his eyes wandering over him without any obstruction.

It was late at night, and most people in the live broadcast room had gone to bed. Only a few people were still staying up, wanting to see if anything would happen tonight. Occasionally, a few sporadic messages would float by in the barrage.

"Yin Xiu's roommate seems so weird. Why is he just sitting there staring at Yin Xiu?"

"It's really strange... He's been sitting there for an hour, and he hasn't moved at all. I almost started to suspect the chair was a sculpture."

"Doesn't he ever sleep?"

"Not only did he not sleep... He didn't move or speak, but just sat there staring at Yin Xiu with a smile on his face. My uncanny valley effect kicked in, it was a bit scary..."

"Yin Xiu's roommate is indeed not an ordinary person. It's so weird."

"Something appeared in the living room..."

Following this message, the players who were still waiting immediately moved closer to the screen and saw a huge black shadow slowly appearing on the screen of each player's living room, wandering and patrolling in the living room.

"What the hell is this? The thing that appeared in the living room before was clearly invisible, so why is it visible now?"

"No, no, no... This doesn't feel right, guys. This doesn't seem to be the same as the previous one!"

"Could this be the one mentioned in the dungeon rules?"

"That's impossible... Then what was that before? The one before that was clearly following the rules, like quietly entering the player's room."

"But now this one has a more spooky feel to it, and it follows the dungeon rules by patrolling the living room the entire time. This completely fits the rule of not going to the living room at night."

"But the one before..."

After someone thought for a few seconds, he suddenly realized.

"I feel like I might know the truth, guys!"

"Could it be that the previous one wasn't really a monster within the rules, but rather it was imitating a monster within the rules?"

"Why do you say that?"

"Because I thought it was a bit strange before. It can follow the player into the room, which means it has obviously discovered the player. If it discovers the player but doesn't attack, then that goes against the rules."

"The other party obviously pretended not to notice the immobile players and followed them into the room in order to comply with the seventh rule."

"What you said makes some sense, but there is no evidence."

But as soon as this question came out, the picture on the screen immediately provided evidence.

The monster wandering in the living room turned around for a long time, then slowly moved its dark figure to the player's door and knocked on it.

"Who is it?" The player in the room was woken up by the knock. He was still a little groggy when he heard the familiar voice of his roommate coming from outside the door.

"It's me, open the door."

"It's the middle of the night, what happened?" As soon as the player heard the voice of his roommate, he let down his guard and hurriedly got up to open the door.

But the moment the door opened, the black shadow rushed into the player's room and stood motionless behind the player.

When the confused player opened the door and faced the empty living room, he shuddered and instantly woke up. He trembled and did not dare to look back at the person behind him. He immediately began to call his roommate according to the information in the rules.

After shouting for several minutes and standing stiffly at the door for several minutes, his roommate slowly opened his door and walked out.

When the roommate appeared, the shadow behind the player instantly disappeared, leaving the player running over with tears in his eyes to hug his roommate, and then immediately dragged him into the room.

The player in the copy was lucky enough to avoid death, but the players watching outside the screen broke out in cold sweats.

"Brother in front... you really are a great prophet. Damn, this is the weirdness written in the rules! The action pattern is completely reasonable."

"But what exactly is that... that invisible thing that appeared in front? Why is it imitating the monsters in the rules?"

"Since it appeared in the living room, pretending to be a rule monster, perhaps it was to take over this identity."

"No way... Then when the players discover there's a second Rule Monster in the living room, won't they realize the first one is fake?"

"I haven't figured it out yet. I don't think it wants to kill a specific player, but has other motives. If it wants to kill a player, it can do so in the living room. There's no need to sneak into the room. Sneaking into the room should be to comply with the rules."

"As for the appearance of the second rule monster you mentioned..."

The players in front of the screen were puzzled for a while, and couldn't guess how the person who wanted to replace the identity would deal with this problem.

Then, something new appeared on the screen.

As expected, the real copy of the monster appeared in the living room outside Yin Xiu's door. After wandering around for a while, it knocked on Yin Xiu's door in an orderly manner.

But the other party only knocked once. Li Mo, who had been sitting in the chair for an hour without moving, suddenly stood up, strode to the door, opened it, and reminded with a smile on his face immersed in the night, "Keep your voice down."

His action shocked a large group of people in front of the screen.

"What is he doing?! Why would he just open the door?! He's my roommate, this is against the rules!"

"Wait a minute... he's the roommate. He's already in Yin Xiu's room. So... can the ghost still get in?"

"Wait! The next screen has the answer! The spooky creature dragged the roommate into the living room and killed him! This is the player who was tricked by the fake spooky creature before! His roommate is also in the room!"

"Then Yin Xiu, my roommate..."

Everyone's breathing held as they watched helplessly as the dark shadow standing at the door suddenly twisted its body, stretched out its hand, grabbed Li Mo's shoulder, and dragged him into the darkness of the living room.

In the turbid picture, liquid seemed to splash out, and then a scalp-numbing chewing sound was heard in the darkness, biting and tearing, as if swallowing something.

"Dead, dead... Yin Xiu's roommate is really a newcomer. He died on the first night..."

"Hey, Yin Xiu is going to solo. I wonder how he'll react when he wakes up and sees his roommate dead in the living room."

"Cold, of course. He is a very cold person."

"It's hard to say. Anyone who is accepted as Yin Xiu's roommate must be one that he really likes, right?"

Along with the discussion in the barrage, the biting that lasted for several minutes in the living room slowly stopped, as if the food had been finished.

As everyone was sighing with emotion, a black figure calmly walked out from the darkness of the living room, calmly returned to Yin Xiu's room, and closed the door.

“?!”

"Yin Xiu's roommate... is still alive?"

"He... why is he covered in blood? No, no, no... why is he still alive? I just heard the sound of eating. Isn't it the monster eating him?"

"Is it possible that he ate the monster?"