ancient town
At that moment, the fruit of the Phytolacca acinosa in Jian Tanxi's bag suddenly flew out and landed in Professor Pan's mouth.
Professor Pan seemed to have his mouth pried open by an invisible force, and swallowed the pokeweed fruit.
Immediately afterwards, Professor Pan frowned and hurried back to his room.
Xie Wei asked, "Professor Pan, why are you eating the fruit of the pokeweed?"
Professor Pan, suppressing his discomfort, said, "It wasn't that I wanted to eat it; it was a mirror reflection... Before, to get a puppet to say 'I submit,' I fed one of the pokeweed fruits..."
Xie Wei also remembered this incident and murmured, "The punishment isn't over yet... Professor Pan, how are you? Do you need to take a healing pill?"
"It's okay, I'll rest for a bit and then I'll feel better after I throw up."
Professor Pan went back to his room to rest, and soon after, he began to vomit and have diarrhea.
He was quite old, and felt very weak after being poisoned. He took a healing pill and felt better.
The players gathered in Professor Pan's room, still shaken.
Fortunately, the punishment is over now, and they are safe for the time being.
Xie Wei said, "Today is only the ninth day. Will there be new difficulties tomorrow?"
Jian Tanxi said, "It shouldn't be. We've already overcome the biggest challenge, so we should be safe from now on."
Everyone was too tired, so we went straight to rest.
When Jian Tanxi woke up on the tenth day, she felt very weak and could barely stand up. She walked unsteadily and had to hold onto the wall to stand.
The situation was similar for everyone else.
Dora asked, "We should be able to get out today... I hope the referee will just teleport us out; I don't want to walk anymore."
Xie Wei said, "I feel like I'm seriously ill, and I don't want to get up at all... I hope my body can recover immediately after leaving the instance."
At this moment, the referee for this level—the hunter—appeared.
The hunter said to the players, "I'm surprised that you all survived to the tenth day. In the past, players either killed each other at the beginning or died from mirror reflection on the ninth day. Now, you only need to cross one more suspension bridge to leave."
The hunter floated ahead, and the players quickly followed.
Everyone felt like their legs were filled with lead, and they didn't want to walk at all, but they had no choice but to.
Qu Chen lay down on the ground. Jian Tanxi and Professor Pan kept encouraging him to stand up, but he didn't move.
Professor Pan had no choice but to carry him on his back.
After walking for half an hour, the players arrived at a large river. The river was turbulent, and many ferocious crocodiles were lurking there.
The hunter said, "You can go now."
Zhou Wangliang asked, "Where's the suspension bridge?"
"The suspension bridge hasn't been lowered yet. Go over there and press your fingerprints on the pillars. Once we collect the fingerprints of eight living people, the suspension bridge will appear."
Everyone looked to the side and sure enough, they saw a wooden pillar with a glowing button on it.
The players went over and took turns pressing their fingers on it.
Then, a suspension bridge slowly descended, landing on both banks of the river.
However, the suspension bridge is very old and looks unstable, and there are no railings on either side.
The suspension bridge was made up of old wooden planks connected by only a few old ropes. Moreover, the planks were very narrow, roughly the width of a human body.
Even if the players were in good health, it would be difficult for them to walk across the bridge, let alone now that they can barely stand.
Xie Wei said directly to the hunter, "Giving us this kind of suspension bridge is clearly an attempt to feed us to the crocodiles."
Hunter: "I didn't just grab you and throw you to the crocodiles. You still have a chance to live. Figure it out yourselves."
"..."
Jian Tanxi suddenly remembered one of her special abilities.
"Superpower activated—things will work themselves out when the time comes."
At this moment, another relatively stable bridge appeared out of thin air on the river, which was related to Jian Tanxi's supernatural ability.
The new bridge is wide and stable, and it has railings. If everyone is careful, they shouldn't fall off.
Everyone was overjoyed and helped each other across the bridge.
Afterwards, the hunter said, "Congratulations to all players for clearing the dungeon—Mirror Puppet. Now, let's distribute the rewards."
A mechanical voice rang in Jian Tanxi's mind: "Congratulations to player Jian Tanxi for making the greatest contribution in this level, and obtaining superpower 2 and item 4."
Superpower 1: Super memory. Can remember everything I've seen in the last half hour.
Second ability: Life Link. You can randomly select a person and synchronize your physical state with theirs. When you are injured, they will also be injured; when you die, they will also die. And vice versa.
Prop 1: One box of disguise rouge.
Item 2: 1 bottle of hair growth serum.
Item 3: Illusory Wisteria Flower. Waving wisteria flowers in front of enemies can slow down their reactions and reduce their perception.
Item Four: Lucky Owl. The owl will screech when in danger.
Jian Tanxi found some more props in her bag. She reached out and touched them; the psychedelic wisteria flowers felt like real flowers, and the auspicious owl looked like a wooden ornament.
Li Zhe said to the hunter, "I lost three fingers in this game, so I need more compensation! My current reward doesn't seem very generous."
Hunter: "A ruthless person like you is lucky to have survived. You want more rewards? How about I reward you by making you a crocodile's dinner?"
Li Zhe remained silent.
Then, the hunter took out an ecosphere containing 300,000 people and asked Jian Tanxi if she wanted it.
Jian Tanxi accepted it.
Then, the players were teleported out.
This time, Jian Tanxi was transported to an ancient town.
The ancient town is full of small bridges and flowing water, and every household hangs lanterns. It should have been a very lively place.
But now, it's completely silent here, with only the sound of flowing water.
Because there was no electricity, the lanterns along the street also went out, and the only light source was the starlight.
Professor Pan and Qu Chen were still by his side. Qu Chen was lying on the bridge, looking at the small boats in the river, seemingly very interested.
Professor Pan said, "Tanxi, how about we go boating together?"
"good."
Jian Tanxi and Professor Pan took Qu Chen's hand and walked onto a boat.
Jian Tanxi and Professor Pan had both rowed boats before, but they were not proficient.
After studying it for a long time, the two of them finally managed to get the small boat moving forward.
Qu Chen laughed happily, leaning over the bow of the boat and paddling with his hands. He scooped up some seaweed and stuffed it into his mouth, but Jian Tanxi quickly took it out.
Jian Tanxi said, "Xiao Chen, why are you still eating random things? We'll give you the edible things, but most of what you get on your own is inedible, understand?"
Qu Chen: Smiling.
Jian Tanxi: "..."
After playing for a while, Professor Pan said, "Actually, I've always wanted to travel, but I've always been too busy with work to go. Later, I even fainted and was hospitalized because I was too tired. I never expected so many things to happen after that. It was only during the gap between the two games that I had time to play a little."
If I had known the world would undergo such a dramatic change, I wouldn't have worked so hard. Traveling to more places would have been much better.
Jian Tanxi said, "It's not too late to start traveling now. The only downside is that we can't choose where we travel. We'll just have to go wherever we're teleported to, haha."
“That’s right, we’re just like this little boat, drifting with the current. It’s all thanks to Qu Chen that I can have some fun. Otherwise, I would be so depressed.”
"But we'll have to part ways after one more round of the game... Did you still not get the companion spray this time?"
No. You don't have any either?
"Um."
"There's nothing we can do but hope we'll have another chance to meet in the future."
"Professor Pan, you must try your best to pass the test. We will meet again someday."
"Um."
Qu Chen was a little sleepy, but he didn't want to go into the cabin to sleep; he wanted to sleep next to Jian Tanxi and Professor Pan.
Jian Tanxi patted his body, hoping he could fall asleep sooner.
She thought of Qin Man, wondering how Qin Man was doing now.
Qin Man must miss her son Qu Chen terribly after being separated from him for so long.
The next few days were uneventful, so the three of them stayed in the ancient town, sometimes hiking or going to the park in their spare time.
On the fourth day, they encountered a small group of young men who tried to steal Jian Tanxi and her companions' props, but Jian Tanxi and Professor Pan fought them off together.
To avoid bad people as much as possible, they moved to a relatively remote place.
Jian Tanxi likes quiet and has thought before that once she has saved enough money, she would find a place to live in seclusion.
Unexpectedly, her wish came true in a strange way. Now that there's nobody around, wherever she lives is considered a secluded life.
However, even knowing that no one was outside, she still felt a strange sensation. This feeling contained a profound sense of loneliness, which she could only try her best to avoid thinking about.
She had two people with her, but Professor Pan was too old and might not live for many more years; Qu Chen couldn't speak and couldn't understand complex sentences.
She spends a lot of time practicing martial arts so that she can stop thinking about random things.
She would often take out the ecosphere to check on it, and seeing that the humans inside were living well made her feel more at ease.
However, she noticed that the people in the ecosphere would often sit blankly or wander around the streets, as if searching for something.
Those people were probably looking for places and people they were familiar with, but they couldn't find them.
They may not even know that they are no longer on Earth.
A few days later, Jian Tanxi and the other two entered another instance.
This time, they arrived at the outside of a mountain villa.
Ahead lies a luxurious and exquisite villa, surrounded by beautiful scenery of mountains and water—it's a wonderful place.
This place is probably a tourist attraction. The owner of this house must be someone important to have a house in a tourist area.
Jian Tanxi and Professor Pan planned to find other teammates first, but Qu Chen started playing around.
Just then, a voice suddenly came from not far away, a mixture of surprise, sadness, and disbelief: "Xiao Chen!"
Then, a woman ran over and hugged Qu Chen.
When Jian Tanxi and Professor Pan went over to take a look, they discovered that the woman was actually Qin Man, Qu Chen's mother.
Jian Tanxi and Professor Pan were also pleasantly surprised and greeted Qin Man.
Qin Man looked at them gratefully: "You've been taking care of Qu Chen for me all this time, haven't you? Thank you so much..."
Jian Tanxi said, "Actually, we only spent a short time with Qu Chen. We didn't know who he was with before. Professor Pan sprayed me and Qu Chen with a companion spray, but after this game, the companion spray will wear off. Qu Chen will be separated from us, and he will be separated from you too."
Professor Pan said, "In any case, it's good that you and your son were able to meet again. Perhaps there will be opportunities to meet again in the future."
Qin Man said, "I got an item—Powerful Companion Spray, which can be sprayed on three people, allowing them to team up together for the next six games. I can spray Professor Pan, Tanxi, and Xiaochen once each, so we won't have to separate for the next six games."
Jian Tanxi was overjoyed: "Great! Let's use it when this game is over."
Everyone was very excited to be reunited after so long.
However, Qu Chen pushed Qin Man away and hid behind Jian Tanxi.
Qin Man asked in surprise, "What's wrong with Xiao Chen?"
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