Chapter 63, The Slaughter Begins

When the last person emotionally expressed the fears in everyone's hearts, the atmosphere in the hall became extremely tense. At the slightest provocation, all the guests present would collectively go berserk and launch indiscriminate attacks.

Zhong Bingxuan and Li Hanmo exchanged a glance, then stood back to back, wary of the strange rampage.

"If Fu Yucheng doesn't come soon, we'll be late."

Zhong Bingxuan was worried that Fu Yuchen might get into trouble while trying to snatch the VIP invitation, so she sent him a message, but he didn't respond. She wanted to tell Li Hanmo that they should try to find him while there was still some time.

But then the hall changed. The original red silks all turned into red lanterns, the candles became white candles, and the tables were stained with a putrid, bloody red.

The entire hall appeared eerie and sinister. What terrified the players even more was that it was filled with rules about death and was divided into two types of visitors.

Rule number two for VIPs is that they must stand under the red lanterns, away from the white candles.

The second rule for guests is to run wildly under the red lanterns and stop motionless under the white candles.

Moreover, the timing is different. Zhong Bingxuan has changed to a VIP invitation, which means she must attend the banquet at 11 p.m.

However, the wedding banquet was scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. and end at 11 p.m. If Zhong Bingxuan missed this time slot, she didn't know what might happen.

There's also Rule Six for VIPs: Join us for a midnight party and savor the feast.

This looked very wrong, making Zhong Bingxuan's hair stand on end. However, since rule two was known to be correct, Zhong Bingxuan had no choice but to bite the bullet and pull Li Hanmo to stand together within the range of the red lantern's illumination.

"I'm sorry I'm late."

Fu Yucheng rushed over before the gate closed, almost missing the banquet.

"Have you finished preparing your invitations?"

Zhong Bingxuan saw that Fu Yuchen had changed and guessed that he had already received the invitation, but something seemed off.

Fu Yuchen did not approach the red lanterns and kept a certain distance from the white candles.

If Fu Yucheng successfully obtained the VIP invitation, he should now be near the red lanterns and away from the white candles.

"I did receive it, but I heard some bad news, so I didn't use the VIP invitation."

Fu Yuchen recounted how he had encountered Wen Yuelan on the road, been recognized by her, and chased her for several hundred meters before finally hiding in a secluded garden fruit tree. It wasn't until the banquet was about to start and a nanny came looking for Wen Yuelan that she voluntarily left the tree.

Fu Yuchen wanted to leave the fruit tree, but he heard someone under the tree say that there would be a grand transformation ceremony at the banquet tonight. They would take advantage of Wen Yuelan's husband running away, eat all the guests, and turn the distinguished guests into their own kind.

As if to verify that Fu Yucheng was right, when the clock struck 11, some people subconsciously ate some of the food at the banquet and turned into little lambs that bleated later.

The VIPs, who were once so refined, were no longer as polite as before. When they saw the guests who had changed, their eyes lit up, and they pounced on them and devoured them alive.

"Oh no, the guests have become two-legged sheep, and the VIPs have turned into cannibals."

"It should be a violation of rule six, that eating any food or drink served at the banquet after the banquet has ended, turning into a two-legged sheep and becoming food on the plate of the VIPs."

"And what about the VIPs?"

Li Hanmo pointed to the VIPs whose eyes were gleaming with predatory intent. It's impossible that everyone has such a peculiar fetish, right? That's highly unlikely. In the last instance, the high-society people they encountered, even if they were obsessed with power-for-sex transactions, were not interested in doxxing at all.

Even when food became scarce, Li Hanmo never saw a nobleman who had the habit of eating human flesh.

In a time of abundant food, it is impossible for a VIP to become so hungry that they resort to cannibalism.

Don't say the VIPs didn't know these lambs were transformed humans. They're not blind; the guests were transformed right in front of them. Anyone with a conscience wouldn't dare eat them.

"Oh no, it's related to the red lanterns and white candles. Hanmo, come here, we need to change the invitations."

Zhong Bingxuan looked at the VIPs who had undergone changes and found that they were all within the range of the red lanterns and the white candlelight. The rules stated that VIPs would be fine if they stood within the range of the red lanterns, but they should stay away from the white candlelight.

It seems that this was to avoid being turned into a cannibal and becoming a puppet in the hands of the Wen family.

"The Wen family is quite audacious, actually scheming against so many people at once, and they are all nobles of high status."

"With the resurgence of the supernatural, anything is possible."

Fu Yucheng, who had already experienced more than ten dungeons, scoffed at Zhong Bingxuan's naive idea.

"Compared to this rule, I am more concerned about the potential risks behind the VIP status."

While the rules may seem extremely friendly to VIPs, they actually conceal layers of traps, waiting for VIPs to inadvertently step into them and become their puppets.

After Zhong Bingxuan finished speaking, she handed her invitation to Li Hanmo, who took it and switched identities.

After the two switched identities, the Red Lantern noticed the change and began attacking Zhong Bingxuan and Li Hanmo.

Li Hanmo carried Zhong Bingxuan and quickly broke through the encirclement. When they encountered white candles, Zhong Bingxuan tried her best to extinguish them to reduce the chance of more and more white candles appearing.

Zhong Bingxuan decisively gave up her VIP status because the number of white candles was increasing, and if she continued to use her VIP status to hide, she wouldn't even have a place to stand.

Zhong Bingxuan would rather be bitten, strangled, or beaten to death by the monster than become a puppet in its hands and eat those disgusting things.

Becoming a guest increases the difficulty of survival, but it helps to deal with the white candles, reduce their number, and try to survive until morning.

Fu Yucheng had just checked and all the doors were closed. He had previously considered not entering the banquet hall and waiting for Zhong Bingxuan and Li Hanmo outside.

The problem is that a thick black fog appeared outside the door, and everyone outside, whether players or NPCs, was swallowed up.

Fu Yuchen tried every means to deal with the black mist, but all to no avail. He had no choice but to risk breaking into the banquet hall.

"You may need to arrive at the banquet hall before 11 o'clock and leave the hall after 11 o'clock. Only then will the black fog outside be unable to affect you. You can't leave too early or too late."

Zhong Bingxuan had guessed this idea before, but since there was no fact to prove whether it was right or wrong, he put the matter aside.

"Handsome guy, look over here, look at us."

A series of silvery female voices suddenly rang out in the hall, and some people looked up without warning.

"Beauty, great beauty, I'm here."

Then, completely captivated by the ghostly figures, he stumbled and ran towards them.

Zhong Bingxuan glanced at him seemingly unintentionally, while the VIP looked at the beautiful woman with lustful eyes, then followed him away, and nothing happened.

Those who were guests were not so lucky. As soon as they stepped forward, they saw the stunning beauty change her expression and swallow the audacious guest who had violated the rules of death whole.

This verifies the correctness of VIP Rule Five and Guest Rule Five. In this test of beauty, guests must resist the temptation of beauties, otherwise they will become food for the beauties and indirectly merge with their beloved's body.