Chapter 264 [(*^▽^*)]

Lin Leyou was indeed happy to see Xue Rui get the mission items, but now, looking at the exhausted Xue Rui on the screen, she felt a little sorry for him. Now was the time to send him a message.

Lin Leyou, "Are you very tired?"

He casually asked the system, "Can he sleep in my lounge?"

The system replied instantly.

System message: No!

Lin Leyou then thought of his music room, which was filled with corpses.

"Can he go to the music room to rest?"

System message: No!

Lin Leyou curled his lips. He knew it. There were no loopholes to exploit. This rest room was for NPCs to rest. The music room outside had lost its quest items and was no longer open to players!

If that's the case, then there's nothing we can do.

While observing his surroundings, Xue Rui replied to Lin Leyou's message, "Seeing Brother Lin send me a message and show concern for me makes me feel less tired."

Lin Leyou smiled and said, "Let's find a place to rest."

Xue Rui didn't ask Lin Leyou how he knew his current situation; he accepted everything calmly.

Xue Rui, "We can't find it yet..."

Lin Leyou said, "Just find a place anywhere. If anyone comes, I'll call you. Remember to put your phone under your head."

Xue Rui blinked. If that's the case, then Lin Leyou can't sleep and has to keep an eye on things here?

This won't do! Whether I rest or not is fine, but what about Lin Leyou...?

Lin Leyou had no idea what Xue Rui was thinking. He only saw that Xue Rui not only didn't find a place to rest, but instead entered the next level, looking like he was determined to pass it.

Seeing this, he was about to message Xue Rui to take a break, but he quickly burst out laughing, "Haha! This is... haha..."

The secret room Xue Rui entered was only about ten square meters in size. It was completely empty except for a countdown timer hanging above it.

The countdown started as soon as he entered the secret room. The countdown lasted for six hours. The purpose of the secret room was simple: once you entered, you could leave as soon as the countdown was over. Otherwise, you could either use a prop to leave or just wait patiently!

There is no third way.

If Xue Rui wants to leave now, he'll have to use a valuable item. Is it worth it? Absolutely not!

Moreover, Xue Rui happened to need a rest.

Looking at the countdown, he knew perfectly well what the secret room was about, and a sense of foreboding crept into his heart. Sure enough, he soon received a message from Lin Leyou.

Lin Leyou said, "It is fate, so just accept it."

Xue Rui: "Understood."

He was speechless. Since he needed to rest anyway, he might as well lie down and go to sleep. After all, once someone was inside this countdown room, no one else could come in.

After lying down, Xue Rui quickly fell into a deep sleep. Of course, he didn't forget to put his phone under his head as a pillow, not so that Lin Leyou would remind him, but for peace of mind.

Looking at Xue Rui sleeping soundly in the picture, Lin Leyou suddenly felt sleepy, but he didn't go to sleep. Who knew if this secret room was really reliable?

What if a player suddenly appears while Xue Rui is sleeping? Xue Rui is sleeping so soundly, wouldn't he become a lamb to the slaughter?

So I still need to keep an eye on it myself. Although it will take several hours, he doesn't really care about such a small number of points.

Every time he rents that gold-plated item, he gets a million points. Of course, now a 5% handling fee is deducted, but it's not much less. Anyway, Lin Leyou doesn't care about the handling fee.

So, Lin Leyou looked for some interesting things to play with, ate snacks, and kept an eye on the situation inside the secret room in the video.

Two hours passed, and everything was normal; Lin Leyou hadn't discovered anything.

However, at this moment he remembered the swimming pool that had been blown up by the purple grenade earlier. Luckily, Xue Rui wasn't inside watching; if he had been...

The purple-grade grenade, as expected of a grenade that requires 500 points to purchase, blew the entire pool to smithereens, sending fragments flying everywhere.

Not to mention the water in the pool, which was everywhere, leaving no corner of the entire swimming pool untouched. Even the locker room doors, which were closed, were shaken open, and the pool water even rushed into the locker room, soaking everything inside.

Lin Leyou thought of the terrible state of the swimming pool, and then of his own music room.

His lips twitched. Actually, his music room wasn't much better. For example, the piano in the middle of the room had been smashed to pieces by Wu Leng.

It's really thanks to his skill that he was able to smash the entire piano to pieces with just one blow. There were fragments everywhere. If people didn't know that this thing used to be a piano, probably eight or nine out of ten people wouldn't recognize that it originally belonged to a piano when they saw these pieces.

And those corpses in the music room, I won't go into details, but they're definitely disgusting to look at. Come to think of it, aren't those corpses just like they're next door to him?

When did he become the kind of person who could rest and sleep peacefully even when there were mountains of corpses next door?

As this thought crossed Lin Leyou's mind, he realized once again that something was wrong with him. If it were his past self, he would have found even seeing a dead person terrifying.

Unlike now, killing people is as easy as chopping melons and vegetables, without any psychological burden.

However, it seems that he is only like this in the infinite world. Once he returns to the real world, some of his emotions will return to him.

It's impossible for him to just kill someone on a whim, and his personality and emotions aren't that different from those in his previous life.

Lin Leyou blinked. "Forget it, why think about these things?"

He was puzzled as to why he had thought of this again. He shook his head to clear the thought from his mind before continuing to lie back and relax, waiting for time to pass.

Two more hours passed, and with about thirty minutes left before the countdown to the end of the escape room, Xue Rui woke up.

The first thing he did after waking up was to take out his phone from under his head and send a message to Lin Leyou: "Brother Lin, it's your turn to sleep."

Lin Leyou blinked after receiving the message, but did not refuse. He was indeed feeling a bit sleepy, so he decided to go to sleep.

"Okay, then it's my turn to sleep."

Lin Leyou turned off the screen, then rolled around on the bed a few times while hugging the blanket. After hesitating for a while, he decided to go wash up first. Who knew if the inhabitants of this infinite world would also get cavities?

After washing up, he lay comfortably on the bed, hugging the soft blanket, and quickly fell into a deep sleep.

After receiving the message, Xue Rui smiled, put away his phone, and quietly waited for the countdown to end.

When he left the escape room, there were less than two days left until the end of the escape room. He wondered how the other players were doing.

Xue Rui couldn't see Lin Leyou's condition, so he didn't know if Lin Leyou was really asleep. He thought for a moment, then gently tilted his head and called out "Brother Lin".

He then checked his phone. After two minutes, he still hadn't received a message. He tried again and called out "Brother Lin" once more, but still received nothing.

Xue Rui called out a third time, but there was still no response. Only then did Xue Rui realize that Lin Leyou had indeed gone to sleep.

In that case, he can be a little more unscrupulous.

When Lin Leyou woke up... no, that's not right. He didn't wake up naturally; he was woken up by a system notification.

"System notification: Less than one hour remains before the BOSS is deployed at the exit location!"

System notification: Distance to the exit location...

The system notification kept ringing until Lin Leyou was fully awake, and it only stopped when it made sure Lin Leyou had clearly heard the message.

Lin Leyou immediately checked the countdown. Huh?!

Originally, there were still two days left, which was about forty hours. How did I end up with only ten hours left after taking a nap?

I slept for thirty hours straight?!

No way!

That's impossible, unless the system has been tampered with.

Lin Leyou: "System, what's going on with this countdown? I slept for thirty hours?"

"System notification: To avoid residents getting bored, their sleep time has been extended."

Lin Leyou's lips twitched; he knew it was the system's doing.

Well, staying in this lounge for forty hours is indeed very boring, so extending his sleep time is not unacceptable.

He was just a little angry that the system hadn't informed him beforehand.

"System, you need to let me know in advance about these things from now on, understand?"

The system is not responding; it's playing dead.

Lin Leyou didn't care whether it replied or not, as long as she heard it, that was enough.

He opened the screen where Xue Rui was. Xue Rui was with a group of other players who looked a bit disheveled but were still handling things quite well. There were thirteen of them in total, including Xue Rui.

"System, how many players are left?"

"System notification: There are 18 players remaining in this instance!"

Great, there are 18 left. There are 13 in front of this exit. Where are the remaining 5?

The system had previously indicated that there was less than an hour left before they were transported there. This meant that the remaining five players would either die within an hour or arrive here within an hour to join Xue Rui and the others.

Lin Leyou rubbed his rumbling stomach. Great, it really did look like he'd been starving for thirty hours. The system hadn't lied to him.

He ate snacks while sitting on the bed watching Xue Rui.