After comprehending the clues in the Fengling Temple's treasure bag, Yue Ya and his companions came to a strange studio.

The studio has a door, but it cannot be opened.

According to the game process, they should now be in the game lobby with other players waiting for the points to be settled, and the live broadcast is still going on. But now, their live broadcast rooms have been forcibly closed, and the system has not appeared.

Yue Ya looked out the window. Outside was a garden full of flowers, with no end in sight. There was no one in sight, but there were a few crows perched on the tree trunks. They noticed Yue Ya's sight, turned their bloodshot eyes towards him, and made hoarse cries.

The fact that crows can be heard means that the studio is at least not completely isolated from the outside world.

Yueya walked to the window and tried to open it, but found that she couldn't reach the window handle. Looking at her small palm, Yueya was silent.

Why hasn’t his curse disappeared yet? !

"Let me do it." Zhuang Yan walked behind him, easily grasped the window handle, twisted it down hard, and pushed it out. The window didn't move at all. He tried all the windows in the studio, and all of them were locked.

Zhuang Yan's mind suddenly turned, and he condensed flames on his palms to attack the window. With a loud bang, only a faint black mark was left on the window. However, Zhuang Yan was attacked by a powerful airflow and was knocked into the opposite wall!

Zhuang Yan fell heavily to the ground and bit his hand in pain: "My hand!"

When the accident happened, Yue Ya was very close to Zhuang Yan. The airflow only attacked Zhuang Yan, but the aftermath shocked Yue Ya. His mind was confused for a moment before he slowly became clear.

Yun Yu immediately helped Zhuang Yan up. After seeing his injuries, she was shocked: "Yueya, Zhuang Yan's hand is broken! How are you?"

Yue Ya shook her head: "I'm fine."

Yue Ya came to Zhuang Yan. Zhuang Yan's forearm was shattered by the unknown energy. The broken end was charred and the broken bones were exposed, which looked very scary.

Zhuang Yan was sweating profusely from the pain, and only managed to hold on by willpower and not faint: "This studio... may have been set up with a very powerful confinement array... Forced attack will backfire with multiple forces... This is a secret room..."

"I know. Don't talk for now." Yue Ya performed a healing spell on Zhuang Yan, and a new arm slowly grew out.

After leaving the dungeon, Yue Ya's physical strength was fully restored. The curse that did not disappear only suppressed his Pi Xiu bloodline, but did not affect his skills.

Zhuang Yan moved his new arm, his lips still pale: "Thank you."

Yue Ya looked around and said, "This is Black Crow's studio. She is unfathomable. We don't know if she is a friend or an enemy. We have to be careful."

“Black Crow…” Yun Yu frowned and looked around: “She took great pains to lead us here. Where is the thing she wanted to give you? There are only paintings and painting materials here. It seems that there is nothing special…”

Yun Yu thought of the biggest label on Hei Ya, and her face changed: "Could she have hidden it in a painting?"

There were several easels in the studio, all with drawing boards on them, some finished and some half-finished, and dozens of paintings of different sizes hanging on the walls. If each painting was a space, or even a copy, then looking for something without any information was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Zhuang Yan smiled bitterly: "It's a painting again. We really come from the painting and go back to the painting. It's hard to tell the real from the fake. I even think that this studio is just one of her paintings. Could it be that the whole game is just a painting?"

Yue Ya thought for a moment and said, "Black Crow's ability shouldn't be that terrifying, otherwise she wouldn't have set up such a complicated chain of traps just to give me something. I feel like she did this to deceive the main system, or other eyes."

What's more, in the letter that Black Crow sent to Yue Ya in the sleeping copy, he mentioned that "the higher-ups have already noticed something", which shows that she is not the highest authority in this game.

Yun Yu nodded: "You also used similar methods to take away the souls of two awakened NPCs."

Yue Ya looked at the painting on the wall and her eyes darkened.

Yue Ya felt a long time ago that her entry into the game was not accidental, but inevitable. This feeling became even more obvious when she was able to absorb the spiritual energy in the game and use it for herself.

This game steals the spiritual energy of their plane, and the source of the spiritual energy of their plane is related to the guardian god. Chen Chong said that Yue Ya, who has the blood of Pi Xiu, may be the reincarnation of the guardian god. If this is true, then the spiritual energy in the game originally belonged to Yue Ya.

Yueya is just taking back what belongs to him.

He had a strong intuition that what Black Crow was going to give him was something that once belonged to him. As long as he got that thing, all the mysteries of this game would be solved.

Yue Ya's thoughts were interrupted by the system that suddenly came online -

[All surviving players receive a Level I dungeon clearance reward of 64,000 points.]

[Player "Crescent Moon" ranks first in clearance contribution rate, and gets the first prize of 900 points and a blind box opening reward. ]

It seems that although he was not the first player to leave the dungeon, his contribution rate for completing the game ranked first, and he still received the first place reward of 900 points.

"I received the bonus points for clearing the game," Zhuang Yan said. "It was the first time I counted the points outside the game lobby. It felt a bit awkward."

Yun Yu frowned even more tightly: "Won't the main system notice our absence from the points statistics?"

As he was speaking, a picture frame appeared in front of Yue Ya, with four blind boxes arranged inside, waiting for him to choose.

Yue Ya thought for a moment: "This picture frame is connected to the game hall. She moved the real blind box here. Black Crow is cautious and will not leave any loopholes. I guess she arranged a substitute for us in the game hall."

Zhuang Yan: "It's possible. After all, it's not difficult for her."

Yueya raised her hand and touched one of the blind boxes. After a moment, the blind box opened:

[Rare skill (appearance rate 0.001%): Reversal. ]

[Instructions: 1. Reversal requires strong mental support. 2. If the technique is interrupted, it will backfire. 3. The first-level reversal can reverse the direction, the second-level reversal can reverse injuries, and the third-level reversal can reverse life and death.]

It was common for Yue Ya to open a rare skill. Zhuang Yan and Yun Yu had become accustomed to his incredible luck. They said "Wow" and then calmed down. It would be surprising if Yue Ya opened a useless blind box one day.

After opening the blind box, the picture frame disappeared. Yue Ya checked the skill card and found that there was indeed an extra "Reversal Spell".

After that, Yueya's system counted other gains. This live broadcast reward hit a new high, with a full 100,000 points reward. When absorbing spiritual energy in the basement, Yueya divided the ghost money he earned into two parts for Zhuang Yan and Yun Yu. The remaining ghost money and materials were converted into points by the system, which was nearly 10,000 points.

Yueya's points suddenly approached 300,000, and with the addition of a rare skill, his player level was upgraded from I to O, which is equivalent to going from level 9 to level 15.

The level gave him more permissions. From now on, he could bring any three players below level O into the dungeon.

This time, Zhuang Yan and Yun Yu’s live broadcast also received a lot of rewards, and their skills also improved a lot in the copy, and both of them were promoted to K level.

"Congratulations to Mr. Yue for reaching Level O. We are one step closer to our goal." Zhuang Yan looked at his companions with a smile, half squatted down, and stretched out his palm.

Yun Yu also squatted down, took the lead in putting her hand on top of his, and smiled: "Everything is for the protection of our homeland."

Yue Ya put his hand on it, with a faint smile in his eyes: "For our homeland."

Lulu appeared beside Yueya, imitated them, put her hands on him, and said seriously: "Lulu will also protect Brother Yueya's home!"

Fengfeng appeared quietly and gently added a black-gloved hand.

Fei Fei jumped off Yue Ya's shoulder and put his furry paw on the top: "Meow!"

Even though their postures were a little funny in order to accommodate Yueya's height, a close bond was formed between them the moment Yueya pressed his hand down.

The studio became quiet, and the previously unresolved problems came back to the forefront.

Zhuang Yan took a deep breath and pulled himself together: "Since the studio is part of the game, it must have rules. How about we investigate it carefully first?"

"Okay," Yue Ya said, "But this place is by no means completely safe. Be careful when investigating."

Zhuang Yan was still frightened by what had just happened and nodded hurriedly.

Yue Ya walked around and found that all the objects in the studio were wrapped in a faint aura, especially the pens. He didn't find anything special, but he found a pattern.

He returned to the easel with Yellow Spring Inn and The Mall of the Dead and said calmly, "These are the only two paintings I've seen. Black Crow placed them in such a prominent position. There must be a reason."

"We just came out of Huangquan Inn. We can't possibly go back," Zhuang Yan said. "Does Black Crow want us to go to the Undead Mall? I remember you said it was only a C-level copy."

Yun Yu looked at Yue Ya: "Is there anything special about the Undead Mall dungeon? Do you have any deep memories?"

Yue Ya recalled: "I auctioned off the boss, does that count?"

Yun Yu: “…”

Zhuang Yan: "As expected of you."

"The most memorable thing in that dungeon is Black Crow's paintings. The best one is directly connected to the NPC Little Butterfly's hometown, Yinjian Village. When I cleared the dungeon, I also went to see the legendary path that the boss climbed up..."

Yue Ya seemed to have thought of something and his expression changed slightly.

Zhuang Yan was halfway through listening, and he became curious and asked, "What is that?"

"Miracle Valley." Yue Ya continued, "It is rumored that the Miracle Valley leads to the mouth of hell. As long as a corpse is thrown into the valley, the dead person will crawl back alive. I suddenly remembered that it was Black Crow who invited me to see the Miracle Valley."

"The Mouth of Hell?" Zhuang Yan shuddered. "It can't really be the way to hell."

Yue Ya stretched out his hand towards the "Undead Emporium" with a firm look in his eyes: "Even if it leads to hell, I will go there again. The spiritual energy there is rich and it may be the core of the game."

The moment his hand touched the painting, Yue Ya heard a clear female voice.

【Welcome to the Black Crow Studio, please be sure to abide by the rules. 】

This is not Heiya's voice, but it is not ruled out that she uses voice changing.

[To open the hidden paintings, you need to find the 'key' first. The 'key' fragments are hidden in four paintings. ]

[You only have 24 hours to enter the painting. If you cannot find a way out, you will be killed. You can take any treasure in the painting without any restrictions.]