Chapter 33, Murder While in a Coma

This means that time is passing faster, and they have less safe time to explore the dungeon.

"If time slows down at night, we'll be in even worse shape."

Zhong Bingxuan could only sigh, never expecting that her words would come true.

"Okay, you go to the lobby and check the situation first. Arlene and I will go to the big tree and split up."

Fu Yucheng and Zhong Bingxuan couldn't wait for dawn. They planned to investigate the tree that night to prevent any major changes in the instance and the team from being wiped out due to insufficient clues.

"Okay, I wish us all a safe return."

"Pah! Pah! You fierce woman, don't make promises you can't keep. Just thinking about it is fine, but saying it out loud makes it easy to keep your word."

Fu Yucheng felt uneasy at Zhong Bingxuan's serious demeanor, so he quickly spat a few times to get rid of the bad luck and left with Zhong Linlin first.

After saying goodbye to her teammates, Zhong Bingxuan headed towards the lobby. However, this time, she felt uneasy, as if something big was about to happen, perhaps because of the psychological suggestion left by Fu Yucheng's behavior.

On the other side, Wang Boyang sat on the high platform, and Wang Jingjing tried to lean on him like a little bird, but Wang Boyang slapped her away.

"Be honest, you're such a grown man, aren't you ashamed at all?"

"Hmph, now that I'm coming back, you look down on me, don't you? Wang Boyang, don't forget who helped you bring my sister back. Otherwise, given how much she hates you, how could she have come back?"

If Zhong Bingxuan were still here, she would have noticed that Wang Jingjing, who used to be meek and submissive to Wang Boyang, now dared to speak with a strong voice, and there was something important that she was unaware of.

"Shut up and do your job. If you ruin my plans, all the wealth and glory you desire will vanish like bubbles, and you will be reduced to ashes."

Wang Boyang made a harsh statement, and the people in the hall lowered their heads and pretended to be blind and deaf. Wang Jingjing pouted, not daring to continue to refute Wang Boyang's words, lest she anger him and make him disregard everything and kill her.

No one spoke, and the scene was completely silent. It was in this silent atmosphere that Zhong Bingxuan entered the hall.

Zhong Bingxuan already sensed something was wrong, and the silence in the hall made her feel even more that something had changed and that the plan needed to be implemented as soon as possible.

During this meal, Zhong Bingxuan was on high alert. She tried to find excuses not to eat the food, but a warning voice in her mind reminded her that she had to eat this meal unless she wanted to die a quick death.

After finishing her meal, Zhong Bingxuan fell into a coma. The next day, she woke up in a daze, having stood up Fu Yucheng and Zhong Linlin. She had been unconscious all night, and anything could have happened during that time.

It's time to use the clue book we robbed from the player in the last instance. Zhong Bingxuan has a feeling it might be related to the original owner's mother, Wang Jingzhu.

Just as Zhong Bingxuan took out the clue book, there was a noise at the window. She put the clue book back on her pillow, watching the window warily, holding a Nine Nether Ice transparent dart in her hand, ready to throw it if anything seemed amiss, hoping to buy herself a chance to escape.

This dungeon is so frustrating. She hasn't fought a single enemy and has been led around by NPCs the whole time. There are too few clues in the dungeon, and her situation is becoming very bad. She must change her strategy for the next dungeon and find the clues earlier. Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle.

Li Hanmo jumped in through the window, and Zhong Linlin scrambled in through the window as well. It was likely that Fu Yuchen helped Zhong Linlin jump in through the window.

Fu Yucheng's subsequent entry into Zhong Bingxuan's bedroom also indicates that Zhong Bingxuan's earlier idea was correct.

"Why did you choose to climb through the window when there's a perfectly good front door?"

Zhong Bingxuan found it amusing and got out of bed to get a handkerchief to wipe Zhong Linlin's sweat, seeing how tired the little girl was.

But as soon as her feet touched the ground, her whole body ached as if it were falling apart, causing Zhong Bingxuan to cry out in pain.

"Ah Xuan, are you alright? Come sit on the bed and don't push yourself too hard."

"What happened? What exactly happened last night?"

Zhong Bingxuan realized that something was wrong with her body, and she had the illusion that something was bursting out of her body.

"I'm sorry, Ah Xuan. Last night was an emergency, and I was a little too rough with my hands."

Li Hanmo looked at Zhong Bingxuan through the window with a guilty expression. Zhong Bingxuan looked at the others in confusion. In her opinion, if it weren't for the critical situation, Li Hanmo would rather slit his own throat than harm her in the slightest. What happened last night that required him to be so cruel to her?

Unconscious, Zhong Bingxuan was completely unaware of her surroundings and could only rely on her teammates to help her recall the past.

As soon as she said this, no one spoke up, and everyone looked terrible. It was Fu Yucheng who, seeing that no one was willing to speak up, had to step forward and explain the situation himself.

"Don't even mention that fierce woman. If Li Hanmo hadn't happened to be reporting the mission to the hall with his own father from this instance and hadn't seen that something was wrong with you and interrupted the possession process, you would have been dead and your body would have belonged to someone else."

Zhong Bingxuan's beautiful eyebrows furrowed involuntarily. She knew that the atmosphere yesterday was very strange and that something bad might happen to her, but the fact that her body was taken over was still somewhat unexpected.

No, to be more precise, Zhong Bingxuan didn't expect this to happen so soon. She thought it would happen in the last day or two. Yesterday was only the third day, and this happened. In the next seven days, the players will have an even harder time.

"It was Wang Boyang who wanted to use my body to resurrect his ex-wife, Wang Jingzhu."

The question was phrased with an affirmative tone, clearly indicating that Zhong Bingxuan already knew some important clues and was not at all surprised by Wang Boyang's actions.

"Yes."

"It's only been a few days, and they're already playing this big. Will the later players even have a chance to survive?"

There were already two or three powerful and bizarre enemies in the dungeon, among which Wang Boyang was the most unbeatable, similar to a dungeon boss. Now, they've added Wang Jingzhu, the former wife who is comparable to a dungeon boss. How are players supposed to live?

"Generally speaking, early-stage dungeons impose extremely high restrictions on the supernatural. This situation rarely occurs unless there are inside stories we don't know about, or there are other situations that we have overlooked, resulting in a significant reduction in the supernatural restrictions."

As a veteran player who has cleared many dungeons, Fu Yucheng is the most qualified to speak about dungeon restrictions. Having experienced at least several Supernatural Revival dungeons, he has never seen one that immediately goes on a killing spree, trying to wipe out all the players.

Even with the previous difficulty level of Zhong Bingxuan's dungeons, there were still ways to target the fatal weaknesses of the Faceless Mudman, ensuring that even the weakest ordinary people could be dealt with in the early stages, without taking lives right from the start.

"Could it be that I pulled some crazy move and prematurely lifted the restrictions on my ex-wife?"

Zhong Bingxuan recalled that on the first day, she guessed that the original owner might be possessed by her own biological mother and actively use the ghostly spirit Wang Jingzhu.

Could it be that her actions prematurely unlocked some of the dungeon's restrictions on the Weird, making the players' situation even worse?

"It probably has little to do with what you did before."

Fu Yuchen refuted Zhong Bingxuan's conjecture and recounted in detail what happened last night when he and Zhong Linlin went to that strange tree.