When Ina saw the strange eye, she wasn't surprised. Instead, she frowned and said, "I feel like I've seen this eye somewhere before."

In the lobby of the game world, a player's skills.

But she couldn't remember who it was.

Su Deng had no clue where this eye came from or what it was, so she decided to stop thinking about it for now.

The remaining five players hid in the village and fled out of the village.

But those eyes are densely packed, almost everywhere on every road, with very few blind spots.

A few minutes later, a scream pierced the night sky.

Ina shuddered. "Won't they all die?"

"I will live." Su Deng smiled casually.

Ina: "..."

She wanted to kill Su Deng again.

Su Deng wanted to see if the eyes in the village would be of any use to her, so she didn't hesitate and went straight to meet them.

But the eyes seemed oblivious to her, flying straight past her without causing her any harm, even as the light swept over her.

Ina looked at her, wanting to try too, but not daring to.

Since she was not bound by the rules of the game, it didn't matter. Su Deng walked directly out of the village. When she reached the village entrance, she felt her ankles sink, as if she were being dragged down.

Su Deng looked down and saw several silk threads on her ankles and legs.

Puppet monster...

It's that again!

Su Deng took out a dagger and cut it in half, then darted to the side and looked around defensively.

"Giggle giggle..." The little girl's laughter echoed instantly, making everyone's skin crawl.

……Grass!

Why is it so persistent!

Su Deng frowned, looking around warily.

Yina dodged the two ghostly eyes and ran over from the corner, "Su Deng, did you hear a child laughing?"

Su Deng looked down at her feet, "That's the monster that captured your shadow."

"Huh?" Ina also looked down at her feet.

The shadow is still there!

Su Deng, abandoning his previous nonchalant attitude, coldly said to Yina, "If you don't want to die, hurry up and escape from the village!"

It's less than 100 meters from the village entrance.

There are four minutes left to escape.

Ina raised an eyebrow, and without the slightest hesitation, she turned and ran out of the village, saying, "We'll meet again someday."

Su Deng chuckled and looked around, noticing a doll in a red dress on the roof to her left.

The boss in this dungeon is a monster that can turn people into puppets.

She's been there since the orphanage, constantly guiding her to find her true self.

But every time, it failed.

This monster is both tangible and intangible; it can turn people into puppets and control them to travel through every game instance...

The game instance she is currently in starts in the real world when Qin Xian was five years old. The game quests that are released afterward are all instances that are opened one by one in the form of "Number X night".

The game names are different, but the "Number X Night" is always consecutive.

Every night, Xiao Yao and the puppet monster that controls the silk threads appear.

Fukumori Village is on the fourth night.

If you can't kill the monsters, after Fukumori Village ends, you will enter the fifth night's game instance.

If we can't kill her, will it just keep going on until the Nth night?

...Is it possible that she has been in the same timeline from beginning to end, that is, in the same place without moving?

...Just as 404 initially stated, these were instances within multiple worlds, but in reality, all the instances that took place at night were superimposed illusions. As for the other players, they were all teleported in from the game world specifically to target her!

Are all of this being manipulated by puppet monsters?!

As soon as this idea popped into Su Deng's head, she became increasingly suspicious.

If that's the case, killing the puppet monster will allow you to escape!

Otherwise, she would be trapped here forever.

They can't die, they can't get out, it's endless.

Su Deng looked up, her gaze fixed on the doll on the ceiling. "Do you still want to play games with me?"

"No!" A melodious voice came from the doll with a cheerful laugh. "Sister, you're too slow. You couldn't find me."

Su Deng said coldly, "What kind of person are you if you can only hide and conceal yourself?"

"It's my sister's fault for not being able to find me, how can you blame me for hiding too well?" The monster's voice sounded somewhat aggrieved.

How can we make the monster's true form appear and kill it?

Su Deng pondered as she walked out of Fushou Village.

Nothing could stop her; she successfully left the village within ten minutes.

The monster kept laughing, a sound that was both eerie and chilling.

[404: Only one human player survived at the end of this instance; the player has failed this instance.]

[404: Welcome to the fifth night, "The Puppet Castle." Players must survive and escape the Puppet Castle within a limited time, and their health must remain above fifty.]

Starting from the collapse of the D-rank otherworld and the new star leap race, the game rewards and personal summaries for each entry and exit from the game instance disappeared.

Only health points are displayed.

The game instances of the past few nights have been completely illogical, and even somewhat chaotic and hybrid.

Thinking about it more carefully now, Su Deng became even more certain that she was in a virtual game illusion created by the puppet monster, which explained why the monster could come and go as it pleased...

Su Deng licked his lips, looking at the newly appeared dark castle before him, a strong killing intent flashing in his eyes.

This night will be the last night of this instance.

"Hehehe..." The puppet monster's laughter echoed again, "Sister, the new game begins~"

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