Chapter 027 Mirage (IV)

Kai's voice flashed by.

Just for the other party's generosity in sending godhood again and again, if it weren't for the previous agreement with Lei Ming, Dong Jin felt that he might really be able to reach a mutual choice with this god of ecstasy in the end.

However, based on his observation of Kai's personality, this person is obviously the kind of person who is enthusiastic today and gives up tomorrow. When the time comes, Kai might reject him in return.

So, he still sticks to his previous idea and just accepts the olive branch without doing the work.

Isn't it better to just take the money without doing the work? Why bother to be pretentious here.

Dong Jin, who was clear-headed, memorized the location of the fragment of Bai Day's godhead and directly threw this sudden episode behind his mind. He was seen saying "morning" to the audience in the copy live broadcast room while raising his hand to open his door.

There was no movement in the room next door where Lei Ming was, and he did not hear any screams from other places all night.

It seemed that yesterday was Christmas Eve, but today was not necessarily the case.

Dong Jin lowered his eyes and looked at the golden envelope in his hand - this was what he found on the ground when he opened the door just now. There was also a similar envelope at the door of Lei Ming, and the contents inside should be invitations to the evening banquet with similar contents.

The content of the invitation letter is as follows:

"Dear anchor, welcome to Mirage Island."

"I believe you have already visited the scenery of the island yesterday. I wonder if there is anything on the island that can make your heart beat?"

"If not, don't regret it. We will prepare a dinner party for you at 20:00 tonight."

"Perhaps at this dinner party, even those with a heart of stone can feel the taste of heartbeat."

"Not only tonight. On the eve of the tsunami coming and drowning everything, we will hold the same dinner party every night at 20:00."

"I hope you will be on time. If you fail to arrive before the deadline, you will automatically fail the 'Unmoved Challenge'."

This is obviously a trick that the organizers came up with to prevent the anchor from being sloppy and to facilitate conflicts.

Under this practice of wanting to create chaos in the world, after tonight's banquet, even if the monsters are patient and do not take action, the trialists who have roughly understood the situation will probably take action to eliminate the competitors.

But let's talk about tonight.

Not long after leaving the room, Dong Jin had just gone to the kitchen to make breakfast when he met the dining companion who hurried over.

Considering the sufficient meal money that the little fat man voluntarily provided every time, he didn't care whether the breakfast was light or not, and directly replaced the ordinary pepper with the devil spicy, striving to make this monster feel at home.

"You cooked rice with devilish spicy food early in the morning, but you didn't eat a bite? How can you be so wicked?!"

Under the angry scolding of a group of anchors who were blinded by the spicy taste, Dong Jin, who only drank porridge from beginning to end, successfully harvested a lot of emotional fluctuations.

Rounding it off, the whole homestay was also attracted to him this morning.

Maybe this is the correct way to open the "Don't Be Attracted Challenge"?

When Dong Jin took the money and went out again under the angry eyes of everyone, it started raining again on Mirage Island.

On the way to the opera house in a taxi, Dong Jin deliberately observed the water level at the seaside, but in the end he didn't figure out anything. Without cheating, he really didn't have the ability to calculate when the tsunami would come by visual observation alone.

But if he couldn't solve the natural disaster, could he not solve the human problem?

Dong Jin looked at Lei Ming, who walked into the theater with a weary look not far in front of the taxi, and then looked at the actress who came out of the theater with heavy makeup on and became angry after just a few words with Lei Ming. A plan suddenly came to his mind.

Before getting off the bus, he deliberately gave the large bill in his hand to the driver, and asked casually, "Who is that beauty?"

The driver looked at the red-haired, blue-eyed actress he was staring at and said,

"Are you talking about Xin Ge? She is very famous in our Mirage Island! She is the prima donna of the Water Opera House. It is said that she is the lead singer and lead singer of the new opera in the theater. Coincidentally, the CD she just released in my car happened to be."

After getting the information he wanted, Dong Jin smiled and thanked the driver, and walked straight towards the actress.

At this moment, the "Eye of Truth" was also supplementing him with some more specific information:

[Xin Ge: female, actress and singer.]

[Although her acting skills are average, her singing level has reached the pinnacle. ］

［She looks cold and irritable, but she is actually emotional and warm-hearted. ］

［Because she is too kind, she is always cheated of her money by scumbags, and is often ridiculed by the owner of the opera house, Sithe. ］ Are you

often cheated by scumbags? Dong Jin, who also approached the other party with bad intentions, felt like he was shot in the chest.

But he didn't think about cheating money. He had already set up the three vests that made money for him at night. He was not short of money, and now he just wanted to get an admission to the opera house from Xingge.

Dong Jin, who didn't hold an umbrella but tied up a black umbrella and used it as a walking stick, seized the opportunity and when the tip of the umbrella happened to catch the bottom of Xing Ge's high heels, causing Xing Ge to lose balance and bump into him with her back, he fell directly behind him.

"Hiss... what's that? You don't hit the umbrella, but use it as a guide stick? You can't even see such a beautiful woman in front of you, and you still come straight up, are you blind or are you looking for a scolding?"

Xing Ge first took a breath of cool air because of a twisted ankle. After checking her ankle and finding that she was not injured, she immediately stood up in a hurry and started to scold Dong Jin.

After scolding for a while, she got no response and could not help but frown and look at Dong Jin.

She first looked at Dong Jin indifferently as he fumbled for the umbrella on the wet ground with a wry smile. When Dong Jin lifted his half-wet hair, revealing his stunning face and his pair of black pupils that seemed to be out of focus, Xin Ge's frown deepened.

After a while, when Dong Jin finally touched the umbrella and stood up with the reaction force of the umbrella tip supporting the ground, Xin Ge not only frowned tightly as if she had finally confirmed something, but she even began to fidget.

After taking a deep breath, she asked hesitantly, "...Can you not see?"

Dong Jin, who was used to pretending to be blind, neither confirmed nor denied it directly. He just smiled apologetically and said,

"From the sound of your voice, are you Miss Xinge?"

"It's an honor to meet you! I have always admired you and bought many of your CDs, which accompanied me through the most difficult years. Many times when I was about to collapse in the darkness, as long as I thought that one day in the future, I might have the honor of hearing your live performance, I slowly got through it."

"Of course I know very well that for someone like me that is just an unrealistic dream. But when I heard that the opera house released a new opera in the past two days, I don't know why, I wanted to try my luck here, thinking what if I could hear a line or two of your singing outside the theater?" "It happened that

Mr. Sit, who was staying in the same B&B with me, forgot something this morning, and I volunteered to deliver it to him on impulse. I didn't expect to cause you trouble in the end..."

"I'm so sorry, are you hurt? If you are, please tell me and I will compensate you for all your losses."

After Dong Jin finished speaking, Xing Ge was completely sure that he was blind.

Thinking back to the mean words she had said to this admirer before, such as "guide stick" and "are you blind?", she was no longer restless at this moment, but had evolved to the point where she would slap herself in the face when she woke up in the middle of the night.

She deserved to die for being so mean to such a good fan!

Xin Ge, who was full of sympathy, no longer bothered about the fact that she almost fell. She quickly rummaged through her exquisite shoulder bag and pulled out an old opera CD. She signed her name on it while saying,

"I'm not hurt. Thank you for your love. I just happened to have an extra CD, so I'll give it to you."

After stuffing the CD into Dong Jin's hand, she continued casually,

"By the way, do you have anything to do next? I always felt that something was not going well during the recent opera rehearsal. Before you give the gift to Xi Te, would you like to go in and listen to my rehearsal and give me some advice?"

Dong Jin, who was flattered, accepted the invitation and successfully followed Xin Ge into the theater. At an angle where no one noticed, he sighed inaudibly.

Originally, he brought up Xite because he thought that if Xingge saw through his blind disguise or didn't fall for his tricks, he would have another excuse to sneak in. He didn't expect that the effect of this trick would be far better than he expected.

The "Eye of Truth" was right, Miss Xingge was indeed a beautiful and kind person.

If he had such a thing as a conscience, he would definitely feel guilty about this.

And now, he can only pray for Xingge that the world will have fewer liars and more sincerity.

At this moment, although the audience outside the dungeon knew that Dongjin entered the opera house to look for clues to the dungeon, his difficult-to-comment way of entering still opened their eyes. To use a sentence from the barrage:

[Who wouldn't be confused by this performance that even Green Tea and White Lotus would feel ashamed of themselves? ］

On the other side, Dong Jin, who finally stepped into the theater, also received the updated mission information on the game panel.

[Side Mission 3: Enter the Water Opera House (Completed).]

This branch mission was triggered when he got off the car and walked to the front of the opera house. It took no more than ten minutes from triggering to completion, which is also unique among the trial players.

At this time, Xing Ge, who was busy with rehearsal, took him to a private room on the second floor with the best viewing point, and quickly told him: "It should be okay for you to listen here by yourself for a while? I will come to take you out after the rehearsal is over."

"If there is anything urgent, Xi Te's private room is next door. He should appear there when the rehearsal starts, and you can go directly to him then. But that guy is a monster after all... You know, he is very dangerous anyway, I don't recommend you to see him alone. Even if you really want to bring him something, it's best to wait for me."

After giving the instructions, Xing Ge left in a hurry under the repeated urging of others.

Dong Jin naturally couldn't wait for Xing Ge to come back and go to visit Xi Te with him. If that happened, wouldn't all his lies be ruined? So from the beginning he was ready to leave after listening to the opera.

As the lights in the opera house suddenly dimmed, the intense piano sound took the lead. Gradually, cellos, violins and other instruments began to join in in an orderly manner, and then this mysterious opera finally kicked off slowly in the music.

The opera began with the decision of God to drown the world with a tsunami.

The unknown male singer on the stage sang in a low and majestic voice with the tone of a god:

"With these ten days as the limit, your joy, anger, sorrow and happiness are the source."

"It will come from the sky and go to the earth, endless and drowning the world."

The other party's unique and superb singing voice sang the indifference and arrogance of the gods in just a few sentences.

Then there is another transitional melody that changes from slow to fast, and then it is the middle chapter of the opera.

The middle chapter describes the chaotic scene of human beings facing the coming tsunami, panicking and killing each other, while trying to save themselves. This part is sung by Xin. She sang in a trembling voice:

"Who is crying? Who is moaning?"

"Who is in this rushing tsunami, holding a ship, celebrating the coming of the end of the world?"

The opera came to an end with a series of complicated lyrics.

It was a duet between men and women, and each sang with passion.

It was not until the very end that Dong Jin heard the two of them singing together for the first and last time:

"When I was happy, it came. When I was afraid, it came."

"The moment it drowned everything, I prayed devoutly to God,"

"But God never came from beginning to end..."

After listening to this high-level opera quietly, Dong Jin concentrated on analyzing its plot.

In general, the content of the entire opera is a bit like the story of Noah's Ark on Earth. ①

But unlike Noah who built an ark to survive the flood under God's punishment, the ending of this opera is a tsunami that destroyed the world and no one survived.

Recalling the lyrics he had heard before, Dong Jin kept thinking about a series of clues he had discovered before.

From the copy name "Mirage", to the unknown "Unmoving Challenge", to the tsunami notice that only existed in the local news corner, to the sharks that did not migrate due to the tsunami last night but floated to the surface of the sea to attack Lei Ming, and the setting that whether humans attack monsters or monsters attack humans, they must first cause enough emotional fluctuations...

Dong Jin suddenly came up with a hypothesis.

If we assume that this tsunami does not exist for the time being, but is born out of human emotions as sung in the opera, then everything makes sense.

The so-called "no-heart-beating challenge" is just a guise to attract attention, and is actually a way to make the anchors have a preconceived idea that "a super-large tsunami is coming."

As time goes by, when their panic reaches a certain level and affects the audience in the live broadcast room to panic together, the virtual tsunami will become a reality and eventually submerge the island completely.

But this speculation still has a problem that cannot be explained, that is, why the monsters on the island do not run away.

After thinking for a while, Dong Jin immediately corrected his guess: Maybe this is because the tsunami did not completely turn from virtual to real.

The tsunami is likely to remain illusory, and it will only submerge those who truly believe it exists.

If this is true, then even if the trialists exchanged their boat tickets and plane tickets, as long as they did not realize that the tsunami was actually an illusion, no matter where they fled, they would still be drowned by the illusory sea that spread across the world.

——Is this the real reason why the dungeon is called "Mirage"?

——Because everything in the dungeon is just an illusion like a "mirage".

Dong Jin, who had figured everything out, looked at the game panel again.

As early as the opening of the opera, two advanced tasks appeared on his game panel.

[Advanced Task 1: Discover the truth about the "tsunami". ]

[Advanced Task 2: Reveal the truth about the "tsunami". It seems that

just listening to the opera is not enough to complete the advanced task one, he has to really speak out his reasoning just now.

But now is not the time to speak out the reasoning slowly.

Dong Jin glanced at Xin Ge who was impatiently talking to the male lead singer, and prepared to slip out of the opera house before the other party came over. However, at the moment when he was about to push open the door of the private room, his hand stopped.

At this moment, there was no need for the "Eye of Truth" to tell him who was behind the door, because the man behind the door had already opened the door first.

Lei Ming, dressed in a suit and tie today, is no longer the wolf bitten by a shark last night.

He was just leaning against the door, with his dark golden eyes drooping as if smiling:

"I heard from Xinge that I left something at your place? What was it?"

"Ah... I know. It's your life, right?" At

this moment, Dong Jin finally knew what it meant to shoot himself in the foot.

He really shouldn't have deceived kind people, and now his retribution has come, hasn't it?