Lego City.

The new city, forged from various metals, reflected dazzling sunlight. Shi Jinzhe squinted, gazing at the amusement park ahead.

The roller coaster with its rotating tracks, the dreamy Ferris wheel, and the towering drop tower—all the visible amusement facilities were closed, and the amusement park was quiet.

Two hours have passed since I left the coffee shop, and nothing unusual has happened at Jimu City; everything is stable.

Jiang Ling lagged behind him and Shehe by a step. When he caught up, he stood at the entrance of the amusement park and scanned inside through the iron gate:

“The north is a damp, watery area, corresponding to the Rat direction. Jiang Yinxue has seen it from the air. The amusement park in front has a lake and waterways, which is the largest lake in the vicinity.”

Shi Jinzhe nodded: "Even artificial water features are rare in Jimu City. We haven't seen a single pond along the way, so this is the most likely place."

Shekh spoke up, raising his hand to corrode the door: "We need to speed things up. I sense someone inside. We don't know if they have any crystals on them. If they do, we can't let them get away with it."

"Then let's move even faster." Shi Jinzhe manipulated the golden vines, splitting off a section before entering the amusement park and leaving it outside the door.

Beside a murky green lake, a strange building stands facing the center of the lake.

With its gaping maw serving as the entrance, the haunted house features a creature shaped like a crawling rat, quietly awaiting visitors.

The unpainted metal blocks diminish the sense of realism; if it weren't for those two overly long and large front teeth blocking the doorway, it would be hard to immediately think of a rat.

Inside the dimly lit haunted house, seven people are crammed into one room.

The woman in the lead was a woman with a high ponytail, around twenty-eight or twenty-nine years old, with exquisite makeup. Beside her was a middle-aged man with short brown hair.

The middle-aged man held two crystal stones in his hands, one crystal clear and the other frosted. Apart from their identical shape, the two crystals were nothing alike.

However, as time went by, the frosted part gradually became transparent, and its light transmittance increased dramatically, making it more and more like the other part, until it became exactly the same.

The middle-aged man with brown hair compared them one last time, and after confirming that there were no problems, he handed both of them to the woman with the high ponytail.

"【Deceptive】This skill is really good."

Yang Wenxin smoothed her ponytail, took away the real crystal, and then directed another man named Qin Liu to change the metal form and put the fake crystal into the building blocks.

"Will this work? There are plenty of shrewd people in the regional points competition. Do you think you can fool them?" A girl in a floral dress questioned.

"I'll fool them for now." Yang Wenxin confirmed that there were no flaws in the newly added building blocks, turned around and walked out. As she turned back, she patted her floral dress: "Use your [Perception Confusion] skill."

There are seven players from her region in this round. With more players, there will be fewer strong skills, so it's more appropriate to use them in combination.

The floral dress's perceptual confusion can interfere with a person's five senses, causing others to have cognitive errors. Although it has little offensive power, it is very useful as a support in a team.

It is especially effective against players with high accuracy, allowing them to avoid fatal blows every time.

Yang Wenxin walked around the corridor and explained to the six people behind her: "Some players will definitely want to get one first to avoid collecting all twelve crystals. Especially for players who have never seen a real crystal, this fake one can temporarily lower their guard. As long as their search speed slows down, it's the same as us speeding up."

“But,” she paused, her tone shifting from calm to hard, her face becoming serious, “there are seven of us. I can’t guarantee that every one of you will have a crystal. You all have to find your own way to survive. You can’t rely on me entirely.”

"Understood," the blue-haired young man at the back nodded in response.

"I can do it too," Qin Liu nodded in agreement.

Yang Wenxin waited for a while, and then only these two people responded to her.

She sighed and thought, "Oh well, they're all veteran players who've played at least eight games; they're all arrogant."

My life is my own; take it or leave it.

Anyway, just let her make the most of their skills while she's still alive.

After the seven people circled the rat-infested house several times, a glimmer of white light appeared at the end.

At the exit, Jiang stood with his arms crossed, listening to Sher relay the same message.

"That's quite something, using fake crystal to fool people." She turned her gaze to Shi Jinzhe and asked, "This one can't be fake, can it?"

Shi Jinzhe shook his head: "There's no one else at the landing point where Sheh and I landed, so the probability of it being a fake is low. Besides, even if it is fake, it doesn't matter. If she dares to make fakes, it means she must have real ones. We can just snatch them."

“That makes sense.” Jiang Ying pretended to massage Jiang Yinxue’s shoulders a couple of times, then gave him a push from behind. “It’s your turn to shine. Good luck.”

Since she met Crystal along the way, she didn't need to wait until the end.

Shi Jinzhe has a crystal stone in his hand now, and she needs one too for better cooperation.

In places like this, only when two people offer equal prices can the scales of suspicion be kept balanced.

Jiang Yu had been in the game for too long and knew how suspicious players could be. She didn't have any crystals, so it seemed fine for now, but it was hard to say what would happen in a while.

What if Shi Jinzhe suspects that she might try to steal the crystal out of impatience or because she feels unsafe?

Teammates can be wary of each other, but excessive wariness will lead to the assumption that everything the other does has ulterior motives, ultimately resulting in a falling out.

Jiang Yinxue stumbled from the push. "Call me brother if you need anything, but treat me like this if you don't."

It's been seven years, and it's always the same. Next time, even if she kowtows to herself, he won't come out again.

"Don't call me again next time." Jiang Yinxue held her sword, her feet quickly freezing into ice, which stretched into the deep corridor.

Shi Jinzhe was still standing at the door, not letting Shehe in.

There are players inside who can sense interference, so this place isn't suitable for Sher to perform well. Let Jiang Yinxue dismantle it first.

The low temperature brought by the frost quickly seeped through the clothes and into the skin, and the sound of the ice crystals blocking out the loud "crack" as the door structure sank.

The rat's gaping mouth suddenly snapped shut, and Shehra, who was passing by, pushed Jiang to avoid the falling metal teeth.

The haunted house door suddenly slammed shut from the outside, leaving only a few red lights from the security cameras inside, which at first glance looked like the eyes of a monster spying in the dark.

The exit was closed, and Yang Wenxin, who was about to reach the end, immediately took a step back.

"It's so...so cold." The woman in the floral dress shrank her neck and rubbed her arms together. "It still feels that damp, cold feeling."

"Hiss, now that you mention it, I feel the same way. It feels like my pores are frozen."

"This is a haunted house, there can't really be ghosts here..." The middle-aged man with brown hair touched his neck, which was covered in goosebumps.

"That can't be, it wasn't there when we came in."

Yang Wenxin stood there, listening intently for a few seconds. She heard only the sound of clothes rubbing together, but no footsteps. She realized that she might really be seeing a ghost.

This is such a hassle.

Her skills weren't very effective against ghosts. Glancing at her teammates behind her, Yang Wen gave the order in her mind, "Turn around and run!"