These guests from Zone 1 have always been Ryan's big clients, and he always sends them invitations whenever there's an exciting match in the tower.

"Only VIP guests can participate?" Lu Zhan asked.

“Of course.” Someone in the top-floor room gave a knowing smile. “He said it’s a grand event.”

"The owner of the instance in the Qingshan Middle School instance has emerged," the masked man said.

Unlike the others who were unaware of the situation, the people in Zone 1 certainly knew about the Qingshan Middle School instance—although it was located in a remote town, the instance was extremely difficult after the mutation, and almost no one was able to leave the instance.

The team they sent to the instance had also entered this instance, and in the end, only the team leader escaped from the instance.

"The rules of the dungeon aren't complicated." The captain escaped by tearing open the dungeon space using a special item—for which he paid the price of half his body. He was a member of Lu Zhan's dungeon team, and after returning to Zone 1, he immediately received secret treatment in his room.

During the treatment, the team leader told Lu Zhan about the strangeness of this instance.

“But He Xueqing has no intention of letting anyone go,” the captain said to Lu Zhan. “It’s an unsolvable deadlock.”

"Whether you realize it or not, He Xueqing is possessing a team member, and it doesn't matter if you help him or not." The captain was also very distressed when he said this. "We have tried many methods, but He Xueqing has no intention of letting anyone go."

"On his last night, he will kill everyone."

“Even if you’re his roommate, even if you helped him during the day for the first few days and prevented him from being bullied… it’s all useless,” the captain told Lu Zhan. “He will still kill everyone on the night of the seventh day.”

"He is a vengeful ghost."

The team captain drew the role of He Xueqing's teammate, and the other party temporarily possessed the identity of a teammate.

He even noticed something was wrong from the beginning, and also discovered the secret of the night—he frequently went to various instances and was familiar with the rules of these instances—and had also helped He Xueqing when he was bullied.

So when He Xueqing still decided to take action on that final night, the captain was completely baffled.

He felt he had found the optimal solution, but it was still unsolvable for He Xueqing. She was like a vengeful ghost from a horror movie, and nothing could resolve her hatred. In the end, the captain used up all his items before he finally left the instance, though half of his body was also forcibly removed.

Lu Zhan didn't express any opinion at the time, but just smiled and said to the captain that he had worked hard.

Then the captain went into the garbage dump.

Upon hearing He Xueqing's name, Lu Zhan looked up in surprise, "He's out?"

To be honest, if He Xueqing weren't so difficult to capture, he would have liked to add Qingshan Middle School—the unsolvable vengeful ghost—to his work. Lu Zhan was very satisfied with this theme.

“Ryan used some methods to get He Xueqing into the tower,” the masked man said.

He also shared information about Cen Yu's exit from the Qingshan Middle School instance, which piqued Lu Zhan's interest.

"It's a pity we can't see the process in the copy of Qingshan Middle School," Lu Zhan said regretfully.

Unlike the dungeons they artificially created, dungeons like Qingshan Middle School, which appeared at the beginning of the apocalypse, have no room for their intervention; these dungeons have their own owners.

"Because it's so rare, only guests in the VIP rooms can be invited," the masked man said.

That's not surprising.

Unlike ordinary matches, Ryan must have paid a higher price to trap the dungeon's master.

There's no way to recoup costs by relying on those lowly people... That's what the people at the top all think.

Several people who frequently went to the tower to watch the matches suddenly became interested in the competition, as they were also curious about the mysterious abilities of the owner of the Qingshan Middle School instance.

...

Cen Yu squatted in the bathroom, looking at the screen the system was sending him with a bit of confusion.

"What is He Xueqing doing here?"

Although he knew that He Xueqing would most likely not disappear after the Qingshan Middle School instance ended... why would this person go to Ryan's tower?

After sending the 30-year-old video to Ryan, Cen Yu did not contact Ryan directly, but he knew roughly what Ryan was planning.

He asked the system to keep an eye on Ryan's movements—guessing that Ryan would be hosting a grand event to attract a portion of the people from District One.

Cen Yu had considered many possibilities, but he never expected that Ryan would use He Xueqing as bait.

"Would He Xueqing agree?" Cen Yu suspected that He Xueqing had been possessed by some evil spirit—he didn't care that He Xueqing was the evil spirit that liked to possess people.

Not only did he agree, he even offered his own ideas. The fat cat snorted a few times. "He came up with the entire theme for the project."

"I think he'd be good as a reality show planner if he didn't become a ghost," the fat cat said discontentedly.

Cen Yu looked at the images the system was sending him.

The promotional slogan for this match was also extremely exaggerated—

"Come and fight me if you're a warrior! Legendary dungeon boss He Xueqing, you only have one chance for revenge!"

Cen Yu: "...?"

Has He Xueqing been holding back in the dungeon for too long?

Cen Yu didn't want to linger in the bathroom for too long, so he secretly talked to the system and asked it to remove the shield—Lu Zhan had no respect for other people's privacy whatsoever, and the room's surveillance was comprehensive and without blind spots.

When he left the bathroom, He Yuxing was not in the living room.

He searched around the room before finding He Yuxing in the garden.

Standing in the garden, they could see the beautiful scenery displayed on the screen. There was plenty of food, fresh air, fresh fruit, and rare candies and chocolates. If there really was an Eden after the apocalypse, it would probably look like this.

But they all knew it was fake; countless bones from the wilderness were used to build this towering building—the Tower of Babel in the Garden of Eden.

He Yuxing sat on the grass, and Cen Yu walked over and sat down next to him.

“Xiao Yu.” He Yuxing still looked worried. “Why are you wearing the same clothes as the Virgin Mary?” He seemed to find something wrong more and more.

He seemed to understand why he was an angel, but he didn't understand why Lu Zhan wanted to dress Cen Yu up as the Virgin Mary.

Cen Yu touched the grass on the ground, something extremely rare in the apocalyptic world covered in yellow sand. He gently touched the grass beside him and then said to He Yuxing, "Maybe he's a fan of some kind of mythology."

He was nonchalant, as if he wasn't curious about Lu Zhan's purpose.

“They were eventually expelled from Eden,” Cen Yu said.

"They" could be either the legendary Adam and Eve, or the group of nobles in District 1.

He looked at He Yuxing, "Because of the snake and the apple."

The tattoo on Cen Yu's lower abdomen is a rotten apple with snake bones wrapped around it.