The clock on the wall stopped at 8:15 PM, and two more corpses lay on the clean corridor floor.
Sheh didn't move; she was checking on Wang Zao's physical condition.
The vision in his pupils changed; the face of the eerie woman became distorted. She looked up at Wang Zao and, in the instant that time began to flow again, suddenly approached and killed him.
Shekh frowned, picked up Wang Zao's head, and stared at the woman reflected in his pupils.
The white light, cold as snow, seeped into people's hearts. Only after the players in the other rooms saw that the rooms had returned to normal did they open their doors.
Ding Xun came out of 301 and saw Wang Zao's decapitated corpse, and sighed softly.
He clearly told me at dinner not to go out casually on the first night, why doesn't this kid listen to advice?
Xue Ge from room 304 and the man in the gray shirt also opened their doors and came out. The atmosphere in the hallway was a bit off, and they didn't dare to speak.
Only the round-faced girl with a height of 305 tentatively asked, "What happened outside?"
Upon hearing this, Shi Jinzhe shifted his gaze from Wang Zao's face and asked the round-faced girl, "What's your name?"
“Um…” the round-faced girl hesitated for a moment before answering, “Zhuo Jiajia.”
"And you?" Shi Jinzhe asked the man in the gray shirt again.
"Yu Fu".
"Ding Xun, Xue Ge, Zhuo Jiajia, Yu Fu, and Gu Li." Shi Jinzhe read out the names of these people one by one, and then silently read out the names of Wang Zao and Xiao Yun.
He took out a photo he had taken at dinner and handed it to Ding Xun, who was standing nearby. "Did you notice anything unusual?"
Ding Xun took it, and a deep frown immediately appeared between his brows. "How come there are seven plastic mannequins?"
Shi Jinzhe closed his eyes briefly.
Sure enough, those nine were the real players in this instance, while the other seven were unknown and mysterious figures who had deceived everyone.
They were keeping it from him and Shekh; it was very targeted.
Shi Jinzhe couldn't understand how this was done. Logically speaking, Shehe had the card [True Knowledge], so illusions would be useless against her. However, since entering the dungeon, she had seen very little, while these ordinary players had seen much more.
A few wisps of breeze blew in through the window that Shekh had smashed. Shi Jinzhe went to look at Wang Zao's body again. The fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy had not yet fully grown up. He lay on the ground, and at first glance, he looked about the same size as Xiao Yun next to him.
A thought suddenly flashed through his mind, and Shi Jinzhe grabbed the tail of his thoughts, wondering if Wang Zao might have been mistaken for a woman.
But then he thought about it again and realized that something was wrong.
There was also a half-dead Gu Li on the ground. She could also be a target of the strange woman's attack, so why was she unharmed?
Shi Jinzhe called out to Gu Li, "What did you hear back then?"
Gu Li remained with her head down and pressing her throat, hearing his lack of response, as if her body was frozen, her limbs paralyzed to the point of losing the ability to move and speak.
Her silence gave Shi Jinzhe a bad feeling. He immediately activated the array, and golden light illuminated her skinless face. Gu Li was dead.
Xue Ge gasped, "The smell of blood is too strong. We didn't even notice she had no face."
“That’s not how it is.” Sheh put down Wang Zao’s head. “She just died, right after the lights came on, just before Shi Jinzhe questioned her.”
Xue Ge's pores nearly exploded, and he immediately took half a step behind Yu Fu.
In a dungeon, having the lights on makes no difference to walking in broad daylight. With the lights on and so many people around, a person can die silently.
And the timing of his death was so coincidental...
Xue Ge knew she shouldn't think that way, but she felt that if Shi Jinzhe hadn't asked her, Gu Li wouldn't have died, and the thing that killed her was trying to prevent her from saying it.
That might not be that important, because Gu Li was clearly a player who had just left the newbie stage due to lack of experience. She had only been in the instance for half a day and had been following the main group, so she couldn't get any useful clues at all. At most, she saw some strange phenomena that the two veterans hadn't seen.
She wasn't silenced; she was used as a tool for protest.
This is a warning from an unknown monster, a provocation. It utterly destroys and destroys Shekh in its announcement, and it can kill anyone at any time.
Xue Ge tugged at Yu Fu's sleeve, making him stand back.
Shekh noticed her subtle movements and looked at the two of them. "You knew each other before you entered the dungeon."
Yu Fu quickly denied it: "No, no, no, we..."
“You’ve completed three dungeons together; you’re regular teammates.” Shekh exposed their pretense of being “not familiar with each other and just temporarily teamed up.”
Seeing Yu Fu and Xue Ge's expressions change drastically, Sheh confirmed that she had no problem controlling the game; it wasn't that she had become weaker, but that this dungeon was unusual.
But where exactly does the problem lie?
Before the first night was even over, three of the nine real players had already died. Could the remaining four survive until tomorrow morning?
The injustice is unresolved and the debtor is nowhere to be found; this instance truly lives up to its name, as there is absolutely no connection between them.
"We can't drag this out. I need to go check on my teammates on the first and second floors," Shekh said as he left.
Shi Jinzhe followed behind her, and when they passed three corpses, he activated the formation, purifying the corpses until not a trace of ash remained.
They came for the black mist, and now other forces have intervened. The bodies of these three people cannot be directly recycled into the game; turning them to ashes on the spot is the safest approach.
Watching the two figures descend the stairs, Xue Ge and Yu Fu muttered to each other, "A copy of the game where someone kills without leaving a trace, don't you think they're afraid? How terrifying!"
She hunched her shoulders, feeling a bit uneasy, and unconsciously tightened her grip on Yu Fu's arm. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Why don't we follow them?"
Yu Fu: "No, you saw that Gu Li died right after Shi Jinzhe asked that question. It's more dangerous for us to stay by his side. This is to make an example of him. Don't be the one to be the chicken."
Xue Ge thought about it and agreed, "Then let's just stay inside. Sigh... I should have known better than to live so close to them. It's all just acting and spending money, a complete waste of time."
"Who says otherwise? I thought I could latch onto someone powerful." Yu Fu closed the door to room 304, and the two of them stopped talking.
The round-faced girl Zhuo Jiajia and Ding Xun, who remained in the corridor, exchanged a glance and then went downstairs together.
Sheh held the human head and looked at it for a long time, but he couldn't make the two of them understand one thing: Shi Jinzhe and Sheh might not be able to see the monsters in this instance.
They were there and should have been able to see the problem at a glance. However, Shi Jinzhe asked and Shehe wanted to see, which means they didn't understand how the three died either. It's highly likely that they didn't find the monster or didn't see it.
Such a mysterious and unpredictable dungeon monster is better off being able to bask in the aura of a powerful player than fighting alone. After all, these two are completely unharmed, which shows that the monster cannot hurt them.
Yu Fu said it was to make an example of someone, but who knows if it was just the monster bluffing? If these two find it troublesome and they still don't follow, they'll die without even knowing why.
Second floor stairwell.
Sheh and Shi Jinzhe walked side by side into the room and arrived at door 204.
An embarrassing whimper came from inside; as adults, they weren't stupid and knew what it meant.
Similarly, as players, they are not stupid either; a fake can't pretend to be real, and a fake is a fake.
Shehe turned the doorknob, thinking to herself that she and Shi Jinzhe couldn't see the monster, but the monster couldn't hurt them either, so there must be a point of balance and restraint here, and she had to find that point.
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