After mixing the last cup of "Misfortune," Gu Xinghe's seventh day of work at the Misfortune Tavern officially came to an end.

Perhaps the legendary identity of the unlucky bartender will become a true urban legend with his departure?

They rested peacefully in the staff dormitory for the night.

The next morning, the seven gamers, including Gu Xinghe, gathered again in the tavern's lobby.

At this point, their working life at the Tavern of Misfortune was coming to an end.

Of course, this also means that they all successfully completed this instance.

The tavern manager, Carl, handed five bottles of wine to Gu Xinghe as payment for his seven days of work.

The reward for other players was the same as the three bottles of wine that had been marked on the game system panel.

Gu Xinghe noticed that the rewards for completing the main storyline quest in this instance were distributed by the tavern itself.

Instead of what happened in the [Rose Manor] instance before.

The Rose Nebula Potion obtained by completing side quests is actually provided by the game system itself.

From this perspective, the game system is more like a quest guide.

"We welcome Mr. Gu Xinghe to visit the tavern again for business discussions next time."

Gu Xinghe nodded calmly.

The remaining six players who survived this instance all breathed a sigh of relief and left the tavern.

The individual player-owned dungeon livestream rooms have been closed.

When Gu Xinghe reached a deserted area, the game system activated teleportation.

Experiencing this spatial teleportation again, Gu Xinghe couldn't help but think of—

How exactly does the game system arrange for players to enter these dungeons?

Although the instances he had entered, such as [Rose Manor] and [Tavern of Misfortune], were both posting job advertisements.

But how does the game system help players successfully "apply" for these positions?

Or rather, are the people in this world aware that there are players playing a dungeon game among them?

Banishing these unanswered questions from his mind for now, Gu Xinghe set aside the wine he had brought back from the Tavern of Misfortune.

After returning to Rose Manor, he was finally able to calm down and process the prompts from the game system.

Congratulations to the player for clearing the dungeon - Doom Tavern!

[Dungeon rewards are being settled]

Main Quest: 1/1

[Side Quest 3/3]

[Quest completion rewards: Liquor from the Doom Tavern, Special Bartending Spices Liquid, Replica of the Eris Mirror Lens [Side Quest 2 and 3 rewards have been combined]]

[Pleasure]

Seeing the game system's emotional state reappear, Gu Xinghe couldn't help but think again about the purpose of the game system he had previously tested.

He once speculated that the game system was a strange object.

Its purpose is precisely to eliminate this special type of superimposed small source of pollution.

But after experiencing this instance, Gu Xinghe felt that he had gained a better understanding of the system.

This "removal" of contamination from a copy is not about directly destroying it, but rather about "understanding" it.

Because the unknown can cause pollution.

Therefore, the game system attempts to understand and analyze these special small sources of pollution, which it calls "dungeons".

It's like an advanced computer with artificial intelligence constantly analyzing data.

If the main quest of each dungeon is merely to allow players to survive in the dungeon in the most basic way...

Side quests can be seen as the game system trying to uncover the truth behind the formation of dungeons, which are small, special sources of pollution.

This speculation is not without basis.

Thinking of this, Gu Xinghe extracted the rewards from the system, excluding those from the main quest.

The actual rewards for completing side quests provided by the game system—

Special cocktail flavoring liquid, and a replica of the Eris Mirror lens.

The special spice liquid used in cocktails is actually the special "spice water" used in the Doom Tavern when making the three signature cocktails.

This is also the real reason why customers find the drinks in the tavern so memorable.

But what Gu Xinghe really cared about was the reward given after combining side quests two and three.

Its name, "Mirror of Eris - Replica," reveals a clue.

Compared to the original version that Eris gave him.

The replica lens is a small mirror about the size of a palm, and it looks much neater.

This is also the basis for Gu Xinghe's belief that the game system is understanding and analyzing relevant information.

Compared to the real Eris Mirror lens that Eris gave him in the Mirror Dimension.

The game system's task rewards seem more like an attempt to replicate the original after analyzing relevant data.

The Rose Nebula Potion from the previous instance is a special cocktail spice liquid, which is also a reward from another side quest in this instance.

It might be difficult to distinguish between the two.

But Eris is the original form of the Magic Mirror, possessing self-awareness.

Compared to the real fragments of the magic mirror that it gave Gu Xinghe, they appeared somewhat "magical" to the naked eye.

And as a copy provided by the game system.

In the case of this kind of conscious life being simply "data copied", it seems to lack some of its spirituality.

The two lenses, which look different in appearance but have some similarities in their core functions, were carefully stored away.

Gu Xinghe looked at his player panel, which had undergone some changes after completing a game instance—

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