Chapter 131 I found you. It was a black cat with wings...

The room was filled with various mirrors, and the reflected light hurt her eyes.

Cecilia looked at several rooms in succession, all with different interior styles, but she did not see the room they had passed through.

"Huh? Why is the door open?"

A cold voice came from the side, and a round snowman jumped out from the door of the "Extreme Cold Hell" room, and looked around at the situation in the corridor.

A head also popped up in the "reverse world" next to it. It was a mirror man, whose entire body was made of mirrors, reflecting the appearance of the surrounding objects.

The mirror man looked at the snowman, then at Cecia. He scratched his head and asked in confusion, "Will it allow us to come out?"

"Who knows, but it hasn't been around lately, so it might just ignore us."

The snowman moved its heavy body and quietly came to the corridor. It jumped twice on the spot, and after seeing that nothing had happened, it walked out openly.

Its body is made of snow, it has no legs, its arms are two tree branches, it has a carrot stuck in its nose, and its eyes are made of black buttons.

"Are you new here? Why haven't I seen you before?"

The snowman looked at Cecia, looking her up and down curiously.

After leaving the system, they seem unable to independently distinguish between players and their own kind.

The "it" they were talking about might be the person she was looking for.

Thinking of this, Cecia concealed her emotions calmly and said, "Yes, I just arrived not long ago. When did it disappear?"

"It's been almost a month."

The snowman was simple-minded and answered truthfully.

One month?

If the time flows at the same speed in every room, she has been in this copy for almost a month.

Is “it” hiding on purpose because it’s afraid of being found, or is there some other reason…

As Cecia thought, she followed the two monsters. Her eyes swept across the wall, her gaze fixed on the graffiti on it.

It was a black cat, a black cat with wings.

The childlike drawing style reminded her of the "Special Mental Hospital" dungeon, where an NPC had also drawn a cat with wings and named it "Yiyi", saying that it was a skin repairer.

Obviously, the appearance between the two is very different...

wrong.

Her thoughts paused, and the chaotic thoughts in her mind suddenly connected.

The black cat calls itself a "guide", and compared to the NPC in the dungeon, it is more like a system maintenance personnel and should be able to travel between different dungeons.

Perhaps there is a connection between black cats and skin retouchers?

"Xia! Stop being in a daze! Think of a solution!"

The voice of the teddy bear interrupted her wandering thoughts, and she came back to her senses and refocused her attention on the current copy.

Although the NPCs treated her as one of their own kind and would not harm her, this was not a long-term solution. Not to mention how long this situation could last, even if it would never be exposed, was she going to be an NPC for the rest of her life?

What about the humans in the safe house?

Now there is a malfunction in the copy, which is most likely caused by Boris, and Black Cat cannot repair the malfunction in a short time.

In this case, she couldn't pass the customs according to the normal process. Then, if she wanted to pass the customs quickly, there was only one way.

Cecia put the teddy bear into her pocket. The system page stopped at the stage of selecting the axe, and then she patted the snowman on the shoulder.

"how--"

"I found you."

Before the snowman could react, she whispered those words, and his kind and peaceful expression instantly cracked. The thick ice and snow on his body melted quickly, revealing his rotten skeleton.

"I'm sorry, my friend, but you have the wrong person."

The snowman, or perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a skeleton now, moved its body, making crackling sounds all over, and approached Cecilia with a ferocious look on its face.

"…Are you a player?"

The mirror man on the side reacted and took a few steps back vigilantly, trying to distance himself from Cecilia.

Unfortunately, Cecia forcibly held down its body and spoke again: "I found you."

The mirror man's body was shaking, and the smooth mirror surface made a "cracking" sound. Cracks appeared on the mirrors of various shapes, and finally they all shattered under the weight.

The scattered fragments wailed and stuck back to the mirror man, but this time they were not flat, but pointed their sharp spikes towards the outside world. The mirror man almost turned into a "hedgehog man".

The NPCs in other rooms heard the noise and came out one by one to investigate the situation, but none of them could escape Cecilia's "clutches."

Every time someone comes out, she says "I found you".

This caused all the monsters to go into a state of rage, and they all chased her madly.

"Thea! You're crazy!!"

The teddy bear looked at the pursuers behind him in disbelief. He anxiously grabbed Cecia and said, "You will become the target of everyone's criticism if you do this! How can you deal with them alone?"

"If you can't beat them, run away!"

As Cecia spoke, she ran forward as fast as she could, not forgetting to irritate the NPCs along the way.

Now she has no way out, she must find "it" to pass the level. In this case, she has to find "it" even if it means angering all the monsters.

As long as they can pass the level, she and other players can leave the dungeon immediately without having to worry about being chased by monsters.

“This is crazy!”

Looking at the growing group behind him, Teddy Bear couldn't help but worry, "Maybe we will be caught up before we find it, and then we will be dead!"

"Death? That's better than being stuck in this crappy place."

Cecia sneered and didn't care.

"Do you still remember the guy named Bo? Do you want to become a pervert like him and enjoy killing NPCs?"

The teddy bear stopped talking.

Without verbal interference, she ran at full speed, but the corridor seemed to have no end, and the rooms in front were endless. She didn't know how long it would take to test the owners of all the rooms.

What if these rooms are infinite?

This is not a solution...

In a hurry, she suddenly recalled what the black cat guide said -

“Don’t just pay attention to what’s in front of you, it may always be there for you.”

"It" has always been with her?

If the guide was not lying, then "it" was not in any of the rooms, otherwise how could it have been by her side all the time!

Cecia's steps suddenly stopped and she was almost caught by the nearest monster.

At the teddy bear's scream, she narrowly avoided the attack and ran forward again.

【呲——￥%&】

[Player Switch - Open - Room "Horror Photo Studio" - Room 130 - "Gaze into the Abyss" -]

The sound of the loudspeaker came again, mixed with a lot of noise, and the content of the broadcast was intermittent, as if it was saying that she had opened many rooms.

Could it be that leading the NPC out of the room and angering them also counted as her initiation?

Cecia was puzzled and subconsciously looked back at the place where the sound came from.

A red and white speaker was hung high on the ceiling. Even as she ran at such a high speed, the sound did not diminish at all, as if it moved with her movements.

It's strange to say, in other copies, the system mechanical sound is played directly in the head, only this copy uses the speaker...

Wait, something seems wrong.

If the number of rooms is infinite, then no one will be able to clear this instance. And the system cannot give unsolvable puzzles.

But the original rules did emphasize that "it" took over the identity of the room's owner... unless, unless the information given at the beginning was wrong.

When I first entered the dungeon, the announcement sound malfunctioned, and I didn't have time to finish explaining the rules. After it returned to normal, the sound was obviously different from before.

From then on, the broadcast voice no longer sounded in my head, but was broadcast out from the loudspeaker.

If the system information is replaced from the moment the rules are explained, then the so-called "it" in the room owner is misleading false information.

So, the person who has always been with her and is most suspicious... is Laba?

Cecia had a strange look on her face. She glanced at the horn directly above her, and using her last bit of strength, she increased her speed and chopped down several of the pursuers who were close by.

Then, she found the right angle and focused her eyes on the red and white speakers above.

"I found you."

As soon as these words came out, all the NPCs behind him froze instantly, and the noisy sounds returned to silence, as if time had also been paused.

“…Oh, I’ve been found.”

The speaker was silent for a moment, then it vibrated and made a sound completely different from before.

It was no longer a mechanical sound that was forced to be rigid, but a vivid, lively, childlike voice.

"How did you find me? I hid so well..."

As the sound came out, the red and white speaker vibrated again and again, "Hmm, could it be that the sound I just made just now gave you a hint? If I had known, I would have kept silent!"

The speaker sounded a little annoyed.

"Even after such a long time, you didn't doubt me at all. I didn't expect that you would fail at the last moment... Never mind, no matter what, you win."

"You are the most interesting player I have ever seen. I wanted to keep you as the room owner—"

The speaker was silent for a moment, then the pitch rose again.

"It's not too late now, why don't you consider it? I will give you the largest and most luxurious room, and you can do whatever you want with it. How about it, are you tempted?"

"Not very good."

Cecilia refused coldly.

"Why……"

The speaker sighed in disappointment. "Alright, alright, a forced melon is not sweet. Hacking the system has consumed too much of my energy, and now I can't force you to stay."

"Go ahead, I need to rest."

As soon as she finished speaking, the red and white speaker on the ceiling disappeared instantly. At the same time, a familiar mechanical sound rang in her mind.

[Congratulations to the player for successfully cracking the truth of the world. The copy "Hide and Seek" has been cleared. Do you want to leave the copy immediately? ]

[Note: If you select No or do not make a selection, the system will automatically force the player to leave the dungeon after five minutes.]

Hearing no movement outside, the teddy bear came out and looked at Cecilia with blinking eyes.

"Xia! We have successfully cleared the dungeon. Can we return to the real world now?"

Meeting those innocent eyes, she couldn't bear it and gently stroked the little bear's head.

"Yeah, it's all over, we're going home."

She pinched her furry cheeks and selected "Yes" on the system page.

Little Bear, see you in the next copy.

[Leaving the instance, settlement is in progress...]

[The dungeon "Hide and Seek" has been cleared. The player "Chesia" has achieved the achievement "Kill a Hundred Houses". You will be rewarded...]