In Nightmare City, players choose to accept dungeon missions through the mission panel. The system will randomly assign them, and no one can know in advance what kind of dungeon they have chosen.
Moreover, the locations for completing tasks are also strange and varied, like the Love Academy copy that Coli and Shirley did before. After accepting the task, you will arrive at a room in a building somewhere in the Nightmare City according to the location given on the task panel. After entering, you will be teleported to the corresponding copy.
Find the escape exit and exit from the same place.
Zhou Zhou, He Ya and Qian Le formed a team and accepted the copy. Now they have to go to the location given on the task panel - Room 99 of the underground street.
The three of them arrived at the corresponding location according to the map. The underground street looked very desolate, and Room 99 was more like a small wooden house surrounded by four wooden boards and with a roof. It was so small that even Guang Heya would feel crowded if he went in alone.
Qian Le stood outside the cabin and asked hesitantly, "Could we have taken the wrong path?"
Zhou Zhou looked at the map again. The location marked on it was the same as the sign hanging outside the cabin.
"Yes, it is here."
"Just go in and take a look." Heya reached out and pushed the door open, then bent down and walked in.
Zhou Zhou also followed in. Although Qian Le really wanted to complain about why the quest location was so small and shabby, and what kind of copy it was, he quickly followed in because everyone else had gone in.
The space inside is not as small as it looks from the outside, but there are no windows on the four sides and the view is very dark.
Heya frowned and took two steps towards Zhou Zhou and Qian Le: "Is this the location of the dungeon?"
I don’t think so. Zhou Zhou was not sure either. After all, this was his first time entering a dungeon.
Just when the three of them were feeling strange, the ground suddenly shook and began to slowly descend.
Heya put his two big hands on Zhou Zhou and Qian Le's shoulders: "You have small arms and legs, be careful not to fall."
When the ground was shaking, the amplitude was very small, so Qian Le didn't feel anything. Instead, Heya's big hand like a palm fan pressed on his shoulder and he was almost knocked down.
Qian Le: ...It was intentional, definitely intentional.
Zhou Zhou stood very steadily. Even though the force on his shoulder was a bit strong, his feet did not move at all. Instead, he said thank you to Heya.
After that, the three of them remained silent. Apart from some friction sounds from the ground as it descended, the only sounds around them were their breathing.
After an unknown amount of time, the ground finally stopped sinking.
Heya was the first to step forward and open the door, which led to a luxuriously decorated living room.
From Zhou Zhou's side, the door of the cabin looked old and dilapidated, but the other side of the door was a white carved lacquer door, which created a huge contrast.
Three people entered the living room from the cabin. There were already quite a few people in the living room. When they heard the sound at the door, they all looked over here.
Everyone was a little surprised to see Heya's tall figure, while Zhou Zhou and Qian Le were walking behind Heya, covered tightly, so few people paid attention to them.
The carved lacquer door is located in the middle, with the dining room on the right and the living room on the left. In the middle, there is a spiral staircase, and there are corridors on both sides above. It can be seen that this is a two-story villa.
At this time, there were people sitting at the dining table and on the sofa. Hea walked straight to the living room. When he was almost there, his steps suddenly paused slightly, then returned to normal and continued forward.
Zhou Zhou glanced at Heya, then looked around curiously. At this time, the carved lacquer door was closed, and from the window one could see patches of green plants in the distance outside, making this place feel like a manor.
There were people sitting on the three sofas. Except for the single sofa, the other two sofas were very large and each could seat five or six people.
He Ya walked towards the sofa in the middle where only a girl was sitting, then sat down in the middle, and called Zhou Zhou and Qian Le to come and sit over as well.
Without waiting for Zhou Zhou to react, Qian Le alertly sat next to He Ya, and then pulled Zhou Zhou to sit on his other side. Although he was still a little scared when facing Heya, it was too dangerous to let Zhou Zhou sit next to that guy.
Luna, who was originally sitting alone at the edge of the sofa, glanced at Heya who was sitting next to her with dissatisfaction, but did not say anything. After all, she couldn't afford to offend Heya given his size.
Luna turned her head, brushed her long hair, and continued to look at the person sitting on the single sofa next to her. She smiled and asked, "What's your name? I asked you for a long time but you didn't tell me."
Her tone was gentle, with a hint of coquettishness, and coupled with her beautiful appearance, everyone sitting on the sofa on the other side looked over.
The man sitting on the sofa seemed not to hear anything and said nothing. He sat casually, but gave people a very oppressive feeling, and his temperament made people difficult to approach.
Luna was very interested in such a man. She could tell at a glance that this man's status was definitely not low, and he looked more handsome than anyone she had ever seen. Being a little cold doesn't matter. She is confident that she is not bad and can definitely make him look at her with admiration.
Heya sat there watching the show with great interest. Zhou Zhou had been looking at the decoration and furnishings in the house. He thought this house was very good. If he had enough points to buy a house, he would also buy one like this.
Noticing that everyone around him was looking to the other side, he also stretched his head to look over there curiously. The single sofa was on the left, and Zhou Zhou, who was sitting in the middle, was blocked by Heya and could not see what was happening over there at all.
A very cute girl, and another one, huh?
Zhou Zhou's eyes lit up: "Al?"
Elvia raised her head and looked with her ice-blue eyes at Zhou Zhou, who was sticking his head out from behind Hea and looked very happy.
He nodded towards Zhou Zhou. Although there was no change in his expression, this action still made Luna next to him freeze for a moment.
She said nothing when asked, pretending not to hear, and responded when others spoke.
Luna was holding back her anger, but she still chuckled and said, "So your name is Al, have you two known each other before?"
The questioning tone made Elvia frown, but Zhou Zhou answered honestly: "I know him. He saved me."
Zhou Zhou said this and turned to Alvia, "Al, you left in a hurry last time and I didn't thank you properly. Can you add me to your contact information? I'll treat you to a meal."
As expected, Alvia had long guessed that Zhou Zhou would be eager to take a step further after seeing him. He looked at Zhou Zhou meaningfully and said, "Let's talk about it after the instance is over."
You cannot add friends in the dungeon, you can only add them after leaving the dungeon, so this is a normal excuse.
Zhou Zhou thought the other party agreed, and nodded at Elvia with a smile on his face. Anyone could see that he was in a good mood.
Perhaps because he had been alone for too long, the people he met in the Love Academy had a different meaning to Zhou Zhou.
Keli and Shirley needed his help to complete the task, so they added each other's contact information. Both of them were his friends.
And Al was the first person who saved him. Zhou Zhou never met him again after that. He always felt very sorry and thought he would never see him again.
I didn’t expect to meet you again here, it’s great.
Luna couldn't laugh anymore. These two people were already discussing their next date right in front of her, as if she didn't exist.
"El, can you guide me on the quest later? This is my first time playing and I don't know what to do." Luna pleaded, and then looked at Heya unintentionally, "You three came in together, are you a group? That's great, unlike us, who only have two people."
The provocation was too blunt and anyone could tell what she was up to. Heya snorted coldly and didn't bother to pay attention to her. Anyway, his mission was to follow Zhou Zhou, and the rest could just be a show.
While they were talking, a few more people came in from outside.
The task panel suddenly made a sound, and everyone immediately stopped talking and looked at their own task panels.
[Instance Name: Villa Phantom]
[Mission content: Successfully survive for 24 hours and find the exit. 】
Looking for an exit again, and this time it also comes with successfully surviving for 24 hours. Does this mean that this place is very dangerous?
Zhou Zhou looked at the name of the copy. Does "Strange Shadow in the Villa" mean that there are strange things in the villa? I wonder if there are ghosts, he thought with some anticipation.
"Where do you think the exit will be?" After a period of silence, someone finally spoke up. A boy with fluorescent green hair asked.
"The villa is not big. It won't take long for so many of us to search it, so it shouldn't be that simple. Maybe it's somewhere other than the two floors we have seen?" Another man in his thirties wearing glasses guessed.
After all, looking out the window, there is only one villa around, but there is a warehouse behind it and a few sheds next to it, which are probably used to raise livestock.
These places are also likely to be exits.
The man closest to the door looked very impatient. Hearing this, he walked straight to the door. "It's no use standing here and guessing. I'll go take a look."
He opened the door and walked out. The moment he closed the door, Zhou Zhou heard the same door closing sound on the other side of the house.
Many people heard the sound. Everyone looked towards the spiral staircase and found that the man who had just walked out appeared at the door behind the spiral staircase. That should be the back door of the villa. He went out through the front door and went straight back to the back door.
The man seemed a little dumbfounded. He had clearly walked out, so why did he appear here again the next moment?
Heya sat on the sofa with his arms folded: "Looks like there's no need to go outside." Since he couldn't get out, it meant that the exit was inside the villa.
There are currently twenty people on the first floor of the villa. Finally, everyone decided to split up and look for an exit in the villa.
Those who originally came in as a team will naturally continue to stay together, and the other people who are alone will form teams of two or three.
Luna looked at Elvia, her beautiful eyes full of anticipation.
Alvia didn't even look at her and said to Zhou Zhou, "Do you mind adding one more person?"
Just as Zhou Zhou was about to nod, Luna objected: "It was clearly agreed that we would form a team of two or three people. If you form a team of four, it would be unfair to the others."
"Forget it then." Alvia stood up and walked upstairs alone.
His movements seemed slow, but when Luna stood up, he had actually walked around the corner of the second floor and disappeared.
She stamped her feet angrily, secretly glared at Zhou Zhou, and found someone else to team up with.
Zhou Zhou was still looking at the second floor, wondering why El was walking so fast and didn't notice Luna's little movement.
"Hey, what are you looking at? Start looking quickly." Heya asked, standing in front of Zhou Zhou with his tall figure.
"Oh oh." Zhou Zhou quickly came back to his senses and looked for a exit with Qian Leheya.
The three of them searched in the living room on the first floor and basically did not change their location, mainly because Heya looked too aggressive and no one dared to assign him another place.
After searching for ten minutes, a scream suddenly came from above.
When the players on the first floor looked up towards the source of the sound, a person fell from the fence on the second floor and landed directly on the floor on the first floor.
Blood continued to ooze out from under him and spread to the floor.
The people on the first floor quickly gathered over, their faces mixed with confusion at the sight of this tragic scene.
"It should be the man wearing glasses from before." Qian Le guessed with a frown.
Zhou Zhou squatted down and looked carefully for a while: "Judging from the color, it should be."
Several people were speechless when they heard his description. Although they also identified it in this way, it felt weird to say it this way.
The person on the ground could no longer recognize his original appearance, not because he fell so badly, but because he was blurred out!
From head to toe, with the red mosaic spreading outward on the ground, the whole picture looks like nothing can be seen.
The humanoid mosaic is motionless, so this player must be dead.
The horror of someone dying inexplicably at the beginning of the game was replaced by such a cool operation, and the dead were even blurred? It’s worthy of being an official game.
The human-shaped mosaic on the ground was covered with a layer of white mist at some point, and then the white mist began to condense and turned into a human figure, gradually starting to separate from the dead person's body.
This familiar shape made Zhou Zhou's eyes light up, and he couldn't help but reach out to grab it.
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