Chapter 135 Good Night

His abdomen felt like it was filled with cement, a mixture of dirt and the fishy smell of stomach acid. He was unable to walk and could only hold on to the bathroom wall while vomiting uncontrollably.

Sun Yuancheng breathed hard, and countless images flashed through his mind.

Everything that happened in just a few hours overloaded his brain. He was frightened by various potential dangers and unable to fall asleep. It seemed as if he was in control of Sun Yuancheng's body again.

Fearful, timid, cowardly.

Back then, he was so weak that he sacrificed his dignity in exchange for a little shameful safety, but now, escaping would only lead to death.

What Li Ziyue said to him when he was choosing a room was still ringing in his ears.

"If no one comes later, then your room 8 is absolutely safe tonight," he said solemnly. "If you can survive the second day, don't choose rooms 3/9/6/12 on the third day. Rooms 2 and 8 can accommodate a maximum of two people, rooms 4 and 10 can accommodate a maximum of two people, and so on."

"According to the room rules, a maximum of eight people can survive on the third night, and there may be fake people among these eight people, leaving even less room for survival for players. If I'm not by your side at that time, you have to adapt to the situation."

This sentence sounded like the last words of a dying man. Sun Yuancheng was anxious on the spot: "No, brother, what are you talking about?"

"This high-level pseudo-human instance is very different from the one six years ago. I don't know how long I can survive," Li Ziyue checked the time. "You should have some initial ideas about what kind of instance could wipe out the top ten teams in the rankings for so many years."

"Due to my speculations, I can't tell you too much."

Li Ziyue put his hand on his shoulder and said solemnly: "Remember, no matter what situation you encounter, you must keep your mind simple."

"You are the most suitable one among our group. You have little dungeon experience, but a high talent. We have been trapped by the dungeon into the way it wants us to think. You, a blank sheet of paper, can see many things that we subconsciously ignore with our 'experience'."

He pinched Sun Yuancheng's ear and said, "When I first met you, I said you were a lot like me. You are a lot like the old me who had the courage to try everything. This part of me died a long time ago. And now, it will be resurrected in you. I believe in you."

It was less than ten minutes before twelve o'clock, and the night sky was already filled with dark clouds. The air became increasingly humid, and a chill lingered in my nostrils.

"Since I came to this instance, I have treated every separation as forever. Forgive me for being a little talkative tonight," Li Ziyue said with a gentle look. "Sun Yuancheng, you were once suppressed because of your talent, but you did not give up on yourself or end your life hastily. You walked out on your own and came to the place where we first met."

"I took you with me in the next few dungeons. You discovered very early on that I relied on others to survive, so you tried hard to play the role of a 'chatty but in need of protection' rookie. Until the 'Snowstorm Villa' dungeon, you completed your mission very well without me."

"You can already stand on your own." Li Ziyue smiled.

Sun Yuancheng's throat seemed to be blocked by something, and he spoke incoherently: "You don't doubt me..."

In fact, Sun Yuancheng knew clearly that Li Ziyue was very cautious and that the 'three real people' he mentioned earlier might not include Sun Yuancheng.

Li Ziyue just shook his head: "It doesn't matter."

"No matter who you are, real or fake, I want to tell you this."

"Time flies so fast," Li Ziyue lowered his eyes, "I always feel like the primary pseudo-human copy was just yesterday. I'll see you again today, and then we'll have to say goodbye."

"No..." Sun Yuancheng choked.

"Thank you," Li Ziyue ruffled his hair, "I never felt like you were a burden, and I'm glad to be able to clear these dungeons with you."

Sun Yuancheng's heartbeat was very fast, and gradually mixed with the muffled thunder in the distance.

Li Ziyue's expression and the dampness in the air reminded him of the rainy night in the "Suicidal Farmer" copy.

At that time, Li Ziyue protected him under his umbrella, letting the corrosive rain burn his back.

Sun Yuancheng was standing in the corridor looking at Li Ziyue, who had a fever due to the rain. Li Ziyue was already in a trance, his eyes were half closed, his upper body was soaked, and rain was dripping down his hair on his forehead.

His long eyelashes were like fragile butterfly, flapping their wings quietly on a rainy night.

Sun Yuancheng called his name again and again.

Li Ziyue's body was shaking in Sun Yuancheng's hands.

I can't wake him up.

Sun Yuancheng seemed to see a haggard butterfly about to drown in the water, its wings were torn and it could no longer fly.

What was Sun Yuancheng's mood at that time?

What is Sun Yuancheng's mood now?

Li Ziyue's tone slowed down. He stroked Sun Yuancheng's head, raised the corners of his mouth, and showed a complex smile: "In the primary pseudo-human copy, the script you gave yourself was 'a new idiot who knows nothing'."

"For this instance, you need to play the role of a 'genius who looks down on all levels'. Only in this way can we have a chance of clearing the level."

Sun Yuancheng stood there in a daze.

genius.

Everyone hopes to become a genius among millions, except Sun Yuancheng who is afraid of becoming a genius.

"I'm sorry for asking you to bear so much without my permission."

Li Ziyue's voice gradually became hoarse: "If possible..."

A few words uttered from his lips, but suddenly a bolt of thunder struck, drowning out Li Ziyue's last words.

Sun Yuancheng didn't hear anything, he only saw the expression on Li Ziyue's face in the light.

It was the loneliness of gazing at a lighthouse in the distance on a deep rainy night, where only a tiny ray of light was lit. His eyes were long and narrow, and contained clear springs rising and falling.

Sun Yuancheng's heart trembled with the night wind. He didn't know that he was pulling Li Ziyue's wrist uncontrollably. He opened his mouth to say something, but Li Ziyue didn't respond.

He only saw Li Ziyue saying goodbye to him.

Li Ziyue said "good night".

Not "goodbye".

…

Li Ziyue huddled in the corner of the narrow aisle, covered his mouth, and forced down his painful cough.

Liu Yuche was still gasping for breath beside him. He had just given her some medicine and it would take some time for her to recover her strength.

Li Ziyue did guess wrong, but he never does anything that only has one set of options.

Since he entered the third floor, he has been extremely alert. The dampness in the corners of the walls did not match the normal flow of water, the spider webs that were only half-broken, and the smell of blood mixed in with the turbid liquid...

Everything showed him that his previous guess was wrong.

What he needed to do now was to wait, wait for the so-called hunter to become the prey and fall into the spider web he had laid.

The situation was worse than he had imagined.

While the twin murderers had not yet discovered their location, he checked the remaining bullets in the small-range sniper rifle that Liu Yuche had modified.

There are four left, one more, which means that the person who targeted Li Ziyue when he was still on the second floor was not Liu Yuche.

In other words, there is an unidentified person lurking on the entire third floor.

But all this is not the point at hand.

Li Ziyue has not forgotten why he risked his life to come out of the room. He must now kill the twin murderers, otherwise nothing will be possible.

Liu Yuche now has the strength to bandage his wound himself.

[Congratulations on finding the twin murderers. The "Mouse Eats Cat" mission has progressed 50%. Please take more measures to increase your exploration.]

The task progress directly increased from 20% to 50%, but there were no item rewards or prompts.

Li Ziyue pondered over the previous sentences again and again.

[Task Tips: Far away in the sky and close at hand]

The twins once said on the radio: You want to put us in an endless prison.

Endless…Twins…Near and Far…

The moonlight was clear, and there was a small pool of clear water in front of Li Ziyue. With the help of the light, he was able to see his own reflection in the water.

Mirror.

Li Ziyue pursed her lips into a straight line.

"Bang!"

The sound of deliberately silenced gunfire rang out in the night sky. Liu Yuche threw the gun without bullets on the ground. She forced herself to prop up half of her body and said to Li Ziyue, "Let's go."

As Li Ziyue looked behind him, he saw a small silver-black snake lurking in the gap between the turbid water and the wall. At this moment, the snake's head exploded and it was lifeless.

His brows twitched slightly and he pulled Liu Yuche.

"etc."

Then he tilted half of his body to reveal one of the twin murderers hiding behind the snake.

That thing had a human head and a snake body, and could sneak along walls. Wherever it passed, there was only a slight rustling sound of scales colliding. If Li Ziyue's hearing wasn't better than that of an average person, he would not have been able to detect it.

“So he’s hiding here.”

The snake man licked the bleeding tip of the knife.

This scene seems familiar.

Li Ziyue frowned, thinking of the snake nurse and the bear doctor he met in "Snowstorm Manor".

Is it a coincidence?

No.

Li Ziyue deliberately hid here. There was a small area of collapsed wall behind him. The moment he saw the snake man, he took Liu Yuche and crawled into the room through the hole in the wall.

The dust and damp water droplets in the room mixed together, causing people to cough constantly.

The next moment, both of them stopped moving.

With the help of moonlight, we could see extra footprints in the house. Only a small part of the footprints was left. It was obvious that the person did not want to leave any traces, but due to limited time or other reasons, there was no way to clean up the footprints while walking.

The footprints disappeared in the bathroom of the room.

Liu Yuche already had the gun loaded.

"That person is still in the room." She pulled Li Ziyue's clothes.

At the same time, many poisonous snakes that kept spitting out their tongues appeared inexplicably in every corner of the room. Li Ziyue moved his fingers slightly, and a little liquid dripped from his fingertips. Then a lot of sticky liquid appeared on the ground. They spread everywhere and quickly stuck to the snakes' seven inches.

In an instant, a series of crackling and rotting sounds were heard in the house.

"Rain's power?!"

Liu Yuche was slightly surprised.

Li Ziyue has never been seen using his supernatural powers in a copy.

Li Ziyue just nodded and said nothing.

There was still a small stream of rain flowing along the edge of the wall towards the toilet. Li Ziyue closed his eyes slightly, sharing his vision with the rain.

It turned out to be him.

The next moment, Li Ziyue grabbed Liu Yuche's arm and pushed her towards the bed. The ground cracked in an instant, and the long and wide knife cut the ground from bottom to top into ruins as if cutting soft objects. The other twin, who was as strong as a bear, crawled out from the ground.

Before anyone could catch their breath, countless snakes suddenly appeared from the ceiling, their bodies stretched straight and they fell down at high speed.

Li Ziyue put his hands on his waist, and when the bear man was about to chop at him, he placed a broken mirror in front of him.

The bear man seemed to be looking into the eyes of Medusa, and when he saw himself in the mirror, his movements froze instantly.

"you……"

He took a few steps back, seemingly surprised at Li Ziyue's gamble with his life.

Li Ziyue was gasping for breath among the pile of snake corpses.

His hand was cut by glass fragments and blood was flowing.

What Li Ziyue hates most is acting rashly when conditions are insufficient. The most disgusting thing about high-level pseudo-human copies is that it always makes you feel that clues are easy to obtain, but leaves you at a loss at the critical moment.

Li Ziyue was indeed gambling just now. He made the simplest inference based on the existing information and concluded that the so-called endless prison was two mirrors facing each other.

Mirror upon mirror creates countless mirror images.

And here, the eyes are also a mirror.

At this moment, the bear man's neck was suddenly pierced by a sharp and cold object. He shook his hairy body, snorted coldly, and bounced the sharp ice off his body.

Sure enough, just like the two zombies, Snake and Bear, ordinary attacks could not break the monsters' defenses.

Li Ziyue narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Li Ziyue!"

Hearing a familiar voice, Li Ziyue raised his head and looked towards the bathroom.

There, half of Zhang Xingzhi's face was revealed.