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Inside the lounge.
There were about ten people in the room, sitting scattered around.
Qi Man was holding something that looked like a ticket in her hand, examining it closely.
Xin Mingqing sat down next to her and tapped his fingers on the table. "When are we leaving?"
Qi Man put the thing down. "Now."
This ticket-like thing is a team ticket. This time, her team was paired with Xin Mingqing's team. Qi Man looked at the team ticket and hesitated for a moment. In the end, she still didn't write Jiang Huali's name on it.
She hasn't returned yet, and the next dungeon is quite difficult. This team-up ticket can not only be used to form a team, but also to specify the dungeon you want to team up with by writing the other person's name on it.
Qi Man and her group had been inquiring in the black market for the past few days, giving away several rare items they had, and finally found out about a dungeon that might contain a core item.
The next dungeon is called "Carnival Underground Arena". You can't tell what it is just from the name. You'll have to go in to find out how dangerous it is.
Qi Man stood up, looked around, and said calmly, "Let's go to the mission hall."
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Jiang Huali sat listlessly on the altar.
The surrounding lights were dim, and she felt drowsy.
Just as I was about to fall asleep, I suddenly heard footsteps.
She shuddered and looked in the direction of the sound.
It's Mo Ci who's back.
"You're finally back!" Jiang Huali jumped down from the altar and ran towards the Ink Shrine. "When can you send me out?"
Mo Ci's expression turned colder. He remained silent, grabbed Jiang Huali's wrist, and placed something on it.
Jiang Huali looked down and saw a black pattern on her wrist, which at first glance looked like a small black snake tattoo.
"What is this?" Jiang Huali raised her wrist and asked curiously.
“Mark it,” Mo Ci replied.
"Oh—" Jiang Huali lowered her hand and tugged at Mo Ci's sleeve, "Are you going to follow me to the next dungeon?"
Mo Ci frowned slightly in displeasure. "You want to leave me here alone?"
She had kissed him like that before...
She took the initiative.
Seeing the somewhat resentful look in Mo Ci's eyes, Jiang Huali laughed twice to cover it up, "How could that be? It's so dangerous in the game, I wish you were with me."
Jiang Huali released her grip on Mo Ci's sleeve and thought for a moment, "Then let's not waste any more time. There's no point in staying here anyway, let's set off now?"
Jiang Huali frowned. "I wonder if Qi Man and the others have gone into the dungeon yet."
Her eyes turned back to Mo Ci, "You can locate my teammates, right? Can you take me to them?"
Upon hearing this, Mo Ci did not answer, but simply stared at her.
After a moment of silence, Jiang Huali sighed first, kissed Mo Ci on the cheek, and said helplessly, "Is this okay now?"
Mo Ci was finally satisfied and took her hand.
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Welcome to the dungeon "Carnival Underground".
There are no side quests in this dungeon. The main quest is to survive in the dungeon for forty-eight hours. Completing the main quest will clear the dungeon.
Jiang Huali opened her eyes and found herself sitting in a chair with a rectangular wooden table in front of her. On the table was a sign with four large characters written on it: Ouyang Pingxun.
Mo Ci was not by her side.
She was in a room with white walls and wooden floors. The room was extremely simple, with only a table and two chairs. She was sitting in one chair, and the other chair opposite her was empty.
The room is a bit small.
Jiang Huali looked at herself. She was wearing a bright red dress that reached her knees, and high heels with heels that were eight centimeters high.
She had a bag in her arms. Jiang Huali opened the bag and found a medical record, some cosmetics, and a mirror inside.
Suddenly, the door to the room opened.
The door wasn't actually closed, just slightly ajar, and a middle-aged man in a white coat walked in.
The man had a kind face and gentle eyes. He walked to the opposite side of Jiang Huali, pulled out a chair, and sat down.
"Miss Jiang, I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting."
Ouyang Pingxun took out paper and pen, and gave Jiang Huali a warm smile, reassuringly asking, "Miss Jiang, has your insomnia improved recently?"
Jiang Huali closed her bag and said, "I feel a little better after taking the medicine, but I have nightmares when I fall asleep and wake up very quickly."
Ouyang Pingxun's smile remained unchanged. "So, what is your nightmare?"
"Click—"
Jiang Huali closed the door to the clinic.
She held the doctor's diagnosis in her hand; the handwriting was so illegible that she couldn't decipher it.
The doctor, Ouyang, just asked her about some of her symptoms and said that the dosage of the medicine might not be enough, and that he would prescribe more medicine for her.
...What an unreliable doctor.
Jiang Huali walked towards the pharmacy in her high heels. She was now an ordinary office worker who had been suffering from severe insomnia recently and had been to the hospital many times without improvement.
After hearing about it, her colleagues in the office recommended that she come to this private hospital.
"I used to have insomnia too. I went there once, took some medicine a few times, and now I feel great!"
After visiting this hospital, she went back and took the medication, and her insomnia symptoms did indeed lessen considerably.
However, she still often has nightmares after falling asleep, in which a disheveled woman always haunts her.
So she went to the hospital again.
After paying the bill, Jiang Huali waited at the pharmacy window.
Through the glass window, everything seemed normal inside the pharmacy.
This private hospital is quite large, but only the first floor is open to the public; access to the second floor is prohibited, and a warning sign is posted at the stairwell.
That's strange.
After Jiang Huali took the medicine, she opened the bag and looked inside. The medicine was packaged in a traditional Chinese medicine bag, and the contents were a dark liquid.
Just by looking at it, Jiang Huali could smell a fishy stench.
The label on the Chinese medicine bag reads: "Twice a day, one bag each time."
Jiang Huali carried the large bag of medicine toward the exit. When she passed the staircase leading to the second floor, she stopped and observed it.
It looks normal.
As Jiang Huali was pondering, she suddenly felt a gentle pat on the shoulder.
She was startled and turned to look.
What came into view was Ouyang Pingxun's smiling face. He withdrew his hand and said, "Miss Jiang, why are you standing here? You should go back and drink your medicine and get some rest."
Jiang Huali smiled at him and said, "Nothing much. I was just about to go back when I passed by. I was just a little curious—what is this second floor? Why can't we go up there?"
Ouyang Pingxun smiled helplessly and said, "Miss Jiang, this is the second time you've asked me this. Didn't I tell you last time? The second floor is being renovated, and it's full of obsolete medical equipment."
"However, even if it is an obsolete medical device, people cannot just go up on it casually, in case they accidentally trip and fall."
"Miss Jiang, are you right?"
Jiang Huali: "Oh, I see. I'm so sorry, Dr. Ouyang, I've been having such bad insomnia lately that my memory is failing me."
Dr. Ouyang waved his hand, "Ms. Jiang is a patient of our hospital, there's no need to be embarrassed. Our hospital is one of the best in treating insomnia, and I believe Ms. Jiang will recover soon."
After saying goodbye to Dr. Ouyang, Jiang Huali left the hospital.
Jiang Huali was a little unaccustomed to the high and thin heels of her shoes and walked rather slowly.
"This hospital is located in a rather remote area." Jiang Huali stood by the roadside waiting for a taxi, but half an hour had passed and not a single one had come.
The weather was rather hot, which made people even more irritable.
In addition, her character in this instance is a "severe insomniac office worker," and now she feels her head starting to buzz.
Recalling her conversation with Ouyang Pingxun, Jiang Huali fell into deep thought. There must be something wrong with the second floor of that hospital. Usually, places with such blatant "No Entry" signs are where brave and fearless protagonists venture in, discover shocking secrets, and solve mysteries.
Speaking of which, Jiang Huali still doesn't know where Qi Man and the others are, and how she can reunite with them.
The place where the Ink Shrine is now nowhere to be found.
Jiang Huali looked down at the black pattern on her left wrist.
However, this instance is very strange. The instance is called "Carnival Underground", but she appears in the hospital and now needs to go home to take medicine to treat her insomnia. Where does this "underground" come from?
After waiting for a long time, a taxi finally arrived.
Jiang Huali waved to stop the taxi. Jiang Huali opened the back door and got in. She found that besides the driver, there was another person sitting in the back seat.
It was a woman with long, wavy hair, bright red lips, and she was also wearing a red dress, albeit a long one, with sunglasses perched on her high nose.
It looks cool.
Jiang Huali looked at herself again. Her red dress was a little wrinkled, and she looked unsteady in her high heels. Coupled with insomnia, her face was pale and haggard.
The woman noticed Jiang Huali's subtle movements and smiled, "A mission taker?"
Jiang Huali looked over in surprise, unsure whether to nod or shake her head.
Seeing her hesitation, the woman smiled knowingly and said, "Isn't it easy to see why you think this taxi stopped?"
Taxis usually don't stop halfway after picking up a passenger, so Jiang Huali was probably able to get into this car because the lady asked the driver to stop.
Hearing this, Jiang Huali nodded and replied, "Yes."
The woman took off her sunglasses and tossed her hair. "If I hadn't just come back from the cemetery next door, you might not have been able to catch a ride before dark in this desolate place."
Jiang Huali hesitated for a moment, then looked at her sincerely, "Thank you."
The woman chuckled. "You're so cute. My name is Zhou Cui."
She stretched out one hand, her fingers long and slender, painted with bright red nail polish.
Jiang Huali shook hands with her.
"Jiang Huali".
Zhou Cui asked Jiang Huali, "Where are you going?"
Jiang Huali then realized she had forgotten to tell the driver, so she replied, "Hongsheng Garden."
"Oh, what a coincidence, me too."
Zhou Cui tapped her lips with her finger. "It seems the gathering point for this mission is all in Hongsheng Garden."
Inside the instance, all players are usually gathered in one place, not too far apart.
Once we get back to the neighborhood, we should be able to find Qi Man and the others.
Jiang Huali looked at Zhou Cui, recalling what she had just heard, "You just came back from the cemetery?"
Zhou Cui nodded. "Yes, my refresh point is there."
It seems that this instance is quite large, but the larger the instance is, the harder it is to find its core location.
However, judging from the main quest of this instance, whether or not you find the core location is not important; you just need to get through the forty-eight hours.
Of course, some people who want to get more dungeon rewards will also choose to go to the core area to explore.
Jiang Huali: "Is there a cemetery next to the hospital?"
Hospitals are inherently places with heavy yin energy, and being built near a cemetery, I wonder if it will attract any unclean spirits.
Jiang Huali touched her arm.
Zhou Cui seemed to sense what she was thinking and put her sunglasses back on. "It's not surprising that there are ghosts in the dungeon, is it?"
Jiang Huali laughed awkwardly, "Haha, I'm a little afraid of ghosts."
Zhou Cui curled her lips with amusement, then suddenly leaned closer to Jiang Huali and said, "Oh?"
She sniffed Jiang Huali's shoulder and said, "You have a powerful aura about you."
"You shouldn't be afraid of being haunted by ghosts, right?"
Jiang Huali looked at Zhou Cui.
Zhou Cui noticed her gaze, tapped her nose, and smiled, "My nose is quite sensitive, I hope I haven't offended you."
Jiang Huali didn't seem to care much and said, "It's nothing."
Mo Ci had marked her body; how could she not smell?
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