Luo Rui and Princess Qie ran away with grim faces. Shehe opened his mouth, and Shi Jinzhe consciously took the initiative to feed him.

Lettuce soaked in sauce wrapped around rice and diced braised meat, one bite and the crisp, juicy flavor instantly lifted Sher's spirits.

While waiting for the second bite, she asked, "You weren't this slow before. If someone had been talking like this back then, you would have thrown a knife at them long ago. How come you still have the patience to listen to their nonsense now?"

Shi Jinzhe: "It's not that I want to hear it, but I don't know what the survival crisis is right now. We can't get out of this building, so the crisis can only come from inside. But there are only 48 players inside, so I want to observe each person's characteristics more. Like those two people just now, the woman doesn't have a clear understanding of herself, and the man is a snob who flatters the powerful and belittles the weak. It's very difficult for two people like that to successfully get to the wedding. To put it bluntly, I don't think they'll live more than three days."

"Are you afraid that if they die, they'll become monsters in this building in a confined space?"

After a moment's thought, Shekh and Shi Jinzhe, who rarely disagreed, said, "But if there are monsters, this instance should be closer to battle royale than survival. There is a difference between the two. Battle royale is for all players and involves indiscriminate killing, while survival will vary in difficulty depending on the orderly preparation of the current player. Well-prepared players can artificially increase their safety level. The difficulty of a survival instance is different for each player."

Shi Jinzhe paused in his feeding, the chopsticks stopping right in front of Shehe's mouth. "What you're saying seems to make sense, 'horrifying lovers,' 'horrifying...' So survival means surviving under the lover's clutches?"

Shekh leaned forward and bit off a piece of rice from his mouth. "The danger comes from the closest people, that's very likely, but we can't rule out the possibility that, as you said, it could also harm other players."

"Then I believe you, you definitely won't hurt me." Shi Jinzhe said confidently, his voice sweet and cloying, making the players at the next table's table ache.

But while he was still dumbfounded and unsure of what to do, others had already deduced the conclusion from the copy title and category.

The young man wearing frameless glasses muttered under his breath, "Advanced players are really amazing."

"What? What did you say?" His companion was a man, and he was the first one in the crowd to shout that if you have a girlfriend, you can find a same-sex companion.

The game doesn't say that same-sex teams are not allowed, so the two single players simply teamed up and played together.

Similarly, there was another pair of female players who didn't want to team up with male players, but rather with someone of the opposite sex. The four of them sat at the same table, all prepared for the worst, ready to switch teammates and form an opposite-sex team if the dungeon didn't allow same-sex teams.

The woman with short, ear-length hair took a bite of her sandwich and heard her teammate next to her scoff, "What are you thinking? You've read the forums and know they're a couple, yet you still want to break up their team?"

"I'll give it a try. Being a couple doesn't mean we have a good relationship. I heard that this white-haired man's skills are related to healing, so I want to give it a shot."

The frameless bespectacled man across from me asked, "What are your skills?"

"Four words."

"...Four words. That woman is also a high-level player. Even if we don't talk about feelings, she wouldn't abandon two for four. You're really interesting."

"Yeah, I'm interesting, so I'd rather find a woman than a man like you," the woman with short, shoulder-length hair retorted, her temper flaring instantly.

"Oh ho, you've got quite the high opinion of yourself. You can't stand the truth? I wouldn't even look at you."

"You don't need to look up to me. Your girlfriend's willingness to be with you is a contribution to the liberation of all mankind. You two are a match made in heaven. I should be grateful for being single."

"Alright, stop arguing."

Another male player tried to mediate, saying, "You're all so hostile. If you can't stand someone now, how are you going to get through the next few days? Which player isn't arrogant? The question is, does your skill match your arrogance?"

The woman with short, ear-length hair sneered, giving the male player who was trying to mediate a look that said, "You're not worthy of me." She continued, "If you want to take sides, don't try to be a peacemaker. If you're trying to mediate, you're not strong enough, so aren't you afraid of getting beaten up?"

"you!"

Shi Jinzhe kept an eye on the four people on the other end, listened to the whole thing, and asked Shehe with his eyes: What do you think?

"I'd kill them all."

Her voice wasn't loud, but it effectively broke the tense atmosphere.

The fact that someone could overhear her conversation with Shi Jinzhe and still choose to create friction with their companions suggests that their brain is just for show.

In this instance, the only options for dealing with people you don't like are either to kill them to prevent future troubles or to tolerate them and get along. However, these four people actually chose to argue.

Those four are truly insane.

Shekh rarely found humans agreeable, and thinking back to the previous instance, he sighed, "The people in that instance were the most normal."

Since entering this instance, apart from Liang Fengzhi and Lin Xian, the other players she encountered were all somewhat dim-witted.

Shekh suspected that they hadn't actually crossed the border as many times as they had reported.

“They’re all exaggerating to boost their competitiveness,” Shi Jinzhe explained to her. “Honesty is a virtue, but not in a game. In this round of dungeons, at least most people don’t live up to the hype; they’re not as experienced as they claim.”

"I can tell."

At least those four people couldn't copy the correct answer even with the reference answer right next to them.

After finishing their meal, the two walked up to the fifth floor.

As they passed A505, Sher heard a conversation inside. Both of them were still alive, and Lin Xian was explaining games to Liang Fengzhi.

Although they have ulterior motives, at least they do practical things.

Shekh walked ahead, took out the key from Shi Jinzhe's trouser pocket, and opened the door. "Humans and normal people should be divided into two kinds of creatures."

"That makes sense, you're right."

They took out the door to the safe house and went inside to rest.

Shi Jinzhe said, "Go to bed early, so it's easier to wake up if anything happens at night."

Shekh listened to his advice and went to sleep, adjusting his state in advance.

...

Midnight, Room A705.

The inexperienced Princess Cut had finally fallen asleep when she suddenly heard a strange scratching sound behind her.

She opened her eyes and saw Rory scratching his arm vigorously in the darkness.

"It's so itchy..."

He couldn't take it anymore, so he increased his strength and moved from his arms to his back, scratching incessantly.