"It's just a rag doll! What are you yelling about, you grown man?!"

After the scream, a woman's shouts echoed from inside the hospital, sometimes near, sometimes far, but Su Lin heard them clearly.

"Anna?"

Su Lin raised an eyebrow; it seemed he had run into an acquaintance in this match.

"This is definitely not a doll! It's definitely a ghost! Run away! Let's get away from it!"

Immediately following was the shouting of Fatty Song Daqiang. Although Su Lin could hear the voice, he couldn't judge the distance.

"You knew there was something fishy going on in this match, weren't you prepared at all?!"

Anna's voice complained, "What a coward! We're not really going to die. At most, we'll just lose some resource coins."

"Is this game afraid of dying? It's afraid of dying from poverty! Deducting money from my account is worse than killing me!"

The fat man retorted, and their conversation echoed back like waves, carrying a hint of eeriness.

"Something's wrong with this building; we can't judge the spatial distance."

Su Lin murmured to himself, looking down at Xiao Linlin in his arms, and asked softly, "Linlin, there's something I need to tell you."

"Um?"

Xiao Linlin looked up and heard the fat man and Anna's voices: "Were they the two survivors?"

"Big brother, it's normal to encounter them. Your last match showed that the matchmaking system in the escape game is unfair. Survivors in higher areas will encounter survivors in lower areas."

Xiao Linlin paused, then said in a low voice, "Of course, we can't rule out that this is a special effect of the current game, or perhaps some kind of special monster is disguising itself as someone you used to know."

That's not what I meant.

Su Lin shook his head, looked around, and whispered, "It's my escape talent. In the first two matches, after the three-minute safe period, I would gain a new talent effect."

"But this time, the talent prompt didn't appear in time."

"Ten minutes have passed, I don't think the system should be causing any issues like [game lag], right?"

Su Lin frowned and voiced his doubts, knowing that Xiao Linlin was unaware of this detail.

After all, Xiao Linlin wasn't by his side when the talent effect appeared in the previous two matches, and he didn't see any related talent prompts.

"Is the system lagging?"

Xiao Linlin was stunned when she heard this. She looked up at Su Lin, and her eyes, which had regained some of their liveliness, suddenly became empty, just like those of a normal blind person.

She withdrew her telepathic perception and began thinking in a different state.

She looked around and pondered silently.

A moment later, Xiao Linlin pointed towards the parking lot: "There doesn't seem to be any searching in the area behind us?"

“I’ve seen that place. It’s outside the hospital gate, facing the parking lot gate. It’s pitch black outside, with no streetlights.”

Su Lin looked in the direction of the sound, explained, and asked in a low voice, "Is there a problem?"

"If I'm not mistaken, that should be a hidden escape point."

Xiao Linlin said softly, "Big brother's talent effect is related to the mechanism itself. With the powerful coverage of the escape game, it is impossible for [lag] to occur."

"Aside from that reason, that leaves only the influence of the match itself; considering the timing of the older brother's talent appearance, and the information released before the current match, I think there's a possibility..."

"We haven't even started the game yet?"

Su Lin offered his guess, but Xiao Linlin shook her head: "The game has already started, otherwise the game notification wouldn't have appeared. We were just lucky."

"I guess we're the only survivors around the entire building. The escape points for this match are all hidden. It seems mysterious, requiring us to search for clues and solve puzzles to find the escape points, but it's actually quite simple."

"Escape here should refer to leaving the [hospital]. Teams outside the building can actually search the area at the start of the game and leave directly from the parking lot instead of entering the hospital. This should be a hidden [speedrun] method."

Xiao Linlin blinked, her bright eyes returning to their usual sparkle: "Of course, the probability of that is low, because that would also be considered a [successful escape]. Big brother's talent can retain new effects as long as he successfully escapes, so the talent notification should have appeared long ago."

"Therefore, the second possibility is that due to the current impact on the game, the older brother has not gained the talent, or has not gained the talent [temporarily]."

"temporary?"

Su Lin frowned; Xiao Linlin's analysis seemed to have entered a stage that she couldn't understand.

"That's right. First of all, we already know one thing: the talent mechanism is higher than the game world, so the big brother's talent effects and talent prompts will definitely appear! This is a certainty!"

"But the older brother's talent prompt did not appear, which is a contradictory result, showing that the [game world] is higher than the [mechanic effect]."

"This is incorrect. After eliminating all unreasonable answers, there is only one reason left: the game world creates the illusion that the talent has not appeared, and although the older brother's talent level is very high, there is a small flaw and bug in it."

"That's the new effect of Big Brother's talent. It will only appear at the start of a new game, specifically after the three-minute safe period."

"So, the bug is [time], and [time] itself is a special influencing factor in this game."

Xiao Linlin paused, then whispered, "Big brother, do you remember? The game information clearly stated that [time always stays between midnight and 3 a.m.], and I initially thought it was a special gameplay mechanic where time kept repeating and cycling."

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