Chapter 155 [(*^▽^*)]

After hearing the system notification, Lin Leyou felt very frustrated, and with his short temper, he immediately swore.

"grass!"

What a rip-off!

Is it because everyone knows that the dungeon guardian quest is a trap, and that's why no one is coming?

No wonder they rushed to take me there after I received the mission. It wasn't because they were in a hurry to get me to complete the mission, but because they were afraid I wouldn't go after I realized what was going on!

Very good, very good. That's what he's thinking now too. If this task appears in his job postings again after he goes back this time, he will definitely not accept it again!

What kind of ridiculous task is this?

The sensing item, which can only be used within this instance, was stolen by a player, and the person who accepted the quest had to compensate them with 100,000 points.

He strongly suspected that the compensation of 100,000 points was a conspiracy by the owner of this copy, that is, the owner of this amusement park!

After all, he could probably guess that even if the player took the item, the player would probably only be able to use it within this instance, but the function would be reversed to search for the monster's location instead of the player's location.

conspiracy!

It's definitely a conspiracy!

Lin Leyou gritted his teeth, but with players chasing after him, he hurriedly arrived at the haunted house.

This haunted house is big enough, and there are enough colleagues inside. If these players insist on coming in to hunt him down, he can kill them all together with his colleagues inside.

He doesn't mind reaping more points and small amounts of money!

Wait a minute, isn't this item also the reason why these players are chasing me?

Otherwise, why would players be able to find him even though he's hiding so well? Why don't players go find other monsters?

Could this task be a scheme used by the mastermind behind this instance to extort points?

After waiting for a few minutes, he actually sensed the group of players approaching. They were still up to no good; were they really targeting him?!

Very well, let's put aside the props for now and get on with the immediate matter first.

Since that's the case.

Lin Leyou turned and walked into the haunted house. This time, as soon as he entered, he saw a female ghost hanging on the wall not far away. "Huh? Why are you here again?"

Lin Leyou: "A group of players are chasing me outside."

"Oh, you're really in a bad situation. But it's okay, since you're here, just come with us."

Lin Leyou: "No problem."

That was his original plan.

He immediately hid deeper inside, and even obtained some blood-stained bandages and a dirty, tattered coat from a monster in a white coat that had been disemboweled.

Upon closer inspection, it is indeed a white lab coat. Excellent, it's almost impossible to recognize that the original design of this thing is a white lab coat.

Without any disgust, Lin Leyou put on the coat and then wrapped the blood-stained bandages around his body in the same way he used to do when he was a butcher in Qingshui Town. It looked very intimidating!

Fortunately, the red stuff on the blood-stained bandage wasn't real blood, but rather dye that smelled of blood.

The monster in the white coat patted his shoulder. "They're in. Thanks for bringing so many players. Looks like our haunted house has had its best performance this time!"

Lin Leyou said, "Let's go, leave them all here."

"Hahaha... No problem, leave them all here!"

This was the first time Lin Leyou had ever collaborated with a monster while completing a mission. Although they were colleagues, it was really hard to feel any connection with them just by looking at their appearances.

The players outside were initially reluctant to come in, since some of them had been inside haunted houses before and had come out alive, and they were particularly averse to haunted houses.

"There are so many monsters inside. If I go in, I'm very likely to die. I only managed to escape by sheer luck before. I've already collected five stamps, which should be enough to clear the level directly, but I don't really want to..."

"Fortune favors the bold, are you scared?"

"The bold get rich while the timid starve. Don't say such unlucky things. Just tell me if you're going in or not."

After much deliberation, one of the two players, who had been to haunted houses before, shook his head and said, "I'm not going in."

The other one didn't refuse, although he still felt it was dangerous, but in the end he gritted his teeth and agreed, probably because he thought that everyone this time was very powerful, and if they cooperated, they might really be able to wreak havoc inside.

"In that case..."

They looked at the player who had said he couldn't go in and said, "You can stay outside by yourself. If you encounter any monsters, remember to deal with them yourself."

"Alright, let's not waste any more time. Let's go in quickly. That monster must have known we were chasing it. It knew it couldn't beat us, so it fled here to hide. Therefore, we should be strong enough to intimidate these monsters."

"Hurry up, it's worth several hundred points! And there are other monsters in the haunted house, why don't we kill them all together? Maybe if we kill a few more, everyone can get several hundred points in the end!"

Just as they were about to go in, some more players emerged from the mist; it was another team of ten players.

The two looked at each other, and for a moment they remained deadlocked.

It was the first person to arrive who broke the eerie atmosphere.

"You guys are here at the haunted house too?"

"Yes...after all, haunted houses have the most monsters, so we want to give it a try."

"Why don't you go to the Ferris wheel? That monster is lying on it, it's easy to find and easy to fight, since it can only stay on the Ferris wheel and can't get off."

"Oh, you mean that one? We've already taken it down. It was super easy. Everyone thought it was no challenge, so they wanted to check out the haunted house. I never expected to see you guys here."

"You've come at just the right time..."

"Well, since we don't know exactly how many monsters are in the haunted house, why don't we all go in together? It'll be safer that way!"

Safer my foot!

The passageways inside the haunted house are narrow and long; even ten people entering together would create a very long queue, let alone more than twenty people!

If the last player dies, the players at the front may not know it in a short time, since the players in front have to keep moving forward.

In addition, the haunted house is very dark with low visibility, and you will be harassed by various monsters, as well as many unpredictable traps, and the doors may even suddenly close and separate you.

Having more people in the game doesn't necessarily give you an advantage. You might be vulnerable to being picked off one by one by the enemy. Rather than dying here and failing to clear the level, it's better to leave now and check elsewhere for monsters.

"If we die, we fail to clear the dungeon, and we don't know if the points we earned in the dungeon will be enough to cover the deductions."

"Should we still go in?"

"Let them see. If they go in, I'll go in too."

"Hey, you! I'm talking to you. You just said you weren't going in, are you really not going in?"

The player who had just said he wouldn't go in nodded calmly, "Yes, I won't go in. Anyone who doesn't want to go can team up with me and go to the main gate. We'll clear the level and leave now."

Upon hearing this, a few people actually showed expressions of wanting to leave, since they were all just playing their own games anyway.

Having obtained enough stamps and also jointly killed several monsters to gain satisfactory points, they were naturally unwilling to take any further unnecessary risks.

About ten minutes later, seven players wanted to leave immediately, while fifteen remained, wanting to try their luck in the haunted house.

"Since you want to clear the level, let's go now. There are fifteen of us, which is just right."

"Then be careful, and I wish you all success in clearing the level."

Then, the fifteen people went into the haunted house one by one, while the players left outside watched them go in.

After they all went inside, someone whispered, "Do you think how many of those fifteen will come out alive?"

"Who cares? Let's go. I hate these gloomy places the most. This time, we'll definitely get a lot of points for clearing the level. It's worth it."

"I don't know how difficult the next dungeon will be. I need to save enough points so that if I fail to clear it next time, my points won't be deducted to a negative number."

Upon hearing this, everyone's expressions turned sour, and the atmosphere immediately turned cold.

"By the way... have you ever seen how someone who's had their points deducted to a negative number die?"

"Never seen it before."

"I've never seen it either."

"We don't know each other in the real world, so we've definitely never met. In the dungeon, points are only deducted after you fail to complete the dungeon. Only the person in the dungeon can see it; we can't see it either."

"Hey, guess how he died."

"How else could he have died? He died suddenly, like from a heart attack. These kinds of diseases are hard to diagnose, and even if you take him to the hospital, they won't be able to find anything."

"That's true, it's terrifying."

"So you really believe that? What if it's a scam? Maybe you won't die at all!"

"Then why don't you give it a try? Let us verify it?"

"..."

The player who had just spoken immediately fell silent. No one had ever witnessed how someone with a negative score died. Some people were bound to have doubts, but doubts aside, no one would use themselves as an experiment.

"Alright, alright, let's hurry up and go, lest something unexpected happens."

Only then did everyone carefully form a team and enter the fog area, completely leaving the haunted house and heading towards the main gate.

Perhaps because they had been hunting monsters elsewhere, no monsters appeared near them as they walked to the gate.

Upon seeing the amusement park gate, everyone walked out together, and soon their figures disappeared beyond the mist, successfully completing the challenge.

Lin Leyou has now disguised himself as a monster doctor and is currently working with his colleagues in the haunted house to set up traps. To be honest, there are some traps that even he can't see through.

The reason Xue Rui was able to get out of here safely before must have been because these colleagues showed leniency.