Chapter 37
After entering the mural, Jiang Lele's vision became pitch black.
There was no light source around, so she could only continue moving forward subconsciously based on her feelings.
"Lele? Are you in front?"
The next person to follow in was Yang Yufei, who shouted nervously.
Jiang Lele said lightly, "Hmm," "I'm here."
This sound immediately eased the tension of the three people behind, and everyone continued to move forward in the darkness.
Finally, a few minutes later, a strong light source appeared in front of Jiang Lele.
She subconsciously blocked the light with her hands, and the dazzling white light became even more eye-catching.
When we walked out of this long tunnel and came to another world, the things around us were indeed a little different.
Jiang Lele's body passed through the mural and came to the bedroom of another world.
The decoration and furnishings of the bedroom seem to be no different from those across the street, but surprisingly, all the hanging objects in the room are exactly the opposite of what they were just now.
Especially the clock that represents time, the hands and numbers on the dial are all reversed at this moment.
"Hey, the murals on these walls are also opposite to the opposite side, just like the feeling of being reflected in a mirror." Yang Yufei walked to one of the murals and observed silently.
Chu Yue'er and Su Rui were each vigilantly searching for clues in the room.
But apart from the placement of things and the opposite side being reversed, there was nothing unusual about this room.
Suddenly, "Boom——"
After several loud noises, the whole room began to shake.
Jiang Lele walked to the bedroom balcony and looked out the window.
She remembered very clearly that the scenery outside the balcony of her room was very beautiful, with blue sky, warm sunshine, and roses swaying in the wind.
But the world before me is completely different from before.
It was a ruined area shrouded in dark clouds. Every now and then, a powerful missile would fall from the sky, suddenly blasting a huge crater on the flat ground.
The dust covering the ground was splashed up by the impact of the bomb, and under the impact of the strong airflow, small sandstorms were formed, slowly swirling towards the distance.
"Why is this world... like this?" Su Rui said in surprise after seeing the same scenery.
The contrast between the two worlds is so strong that it is a bit surprising.
The room was still shaking from the explosions outside.
"How about we split up and quickly find some clues? This place looks a bit dangerous and we shouldn't stay here for long." Chu Yue'er suddenly spoke.
Everyone nodded.
Jiang Lele picked up the mace and went out first, saying, "I'll go take a look outside the manor and be back in half an hour."
Everyone was still relatively confident in her, so without saying anything, they went their separate ways to look for other clues.
Jiang Lele walked up the stairs to the first floor.
The closer you get to the ground, the more you can feel the shaking of the earth caused by the bomb.
Jiang Lele pushed open the gate of the manor, and the dim light from outside shone in, followed by a sense of dead silence and despair.
Although the atmosphere here is very desolate, Jiang Lele still has a faint sense of familiarity, and this sense of familiarity seems to be even stronger than the world just now.
Relying on his subconscious instinct, Jiang Lele kept walking and walking until he reached the big pit a few meters outside the manor.
In the previous world, there was also a big pit at this location, but the pit was surrounded by gorgeous roses. If you looked from a distance, you could only see clusters of roses, and the hidden pit was difficult to see.
Jiang Lele walked to the edge of the big pit in front of him, squatted down, and looked into the pit.
Surprisingly, a rose grew in this deep pit.
A single red rose grew gracefully in the pit. Explosions from the outside world continued to rang out, but no matter how noisy the world was, the red rose continued to grow freely.
In that world, the crater was the only blemish on the entire Rose Manor.
But in this world, the crater has become the only safe haven for the entire manor.
Jiang Lele stood up and looked up at the dim sky.
The mission of this dungeon is to find the owner of the manor.
But can it really be found?
Half an hour later, Jiang Lele, Yang Yufei and the other two gathered together again in the original bedroom.
Yang Yufei's expression was not very good. She took out a notebook and said, "This is the clue I found, but... it's not good news."
Jiang Lele took the notebook and read the contents:
[According to the clues I found, I am the 1,7819th player to enter this dungeon. When I entered, the dungeon's clearance rate was 0%, which means that no one has successfully found the dungeon owner to date.]
The edges of the notebook pages are a little yellowed and look quite old.
Chu Yue'er's expression grew serious. "If this handwriting was written by previous players, then it means that until now, no player has truly completed this dungeon."
As soon as the words fell, the atmosphere on the scene became tense.
Jiang Lele broke the silence, "Have you found any other clues?"
She glanced at Su Rui and Chu Yue'er.
They both shook their heads and said, "No."
Suri: "It's really strange. Everything in these two worlds is reversed, but other than that, there's no other useful clues."
Jiang Lele took the initiative to tell everyone about what he had discovered outside just now.
The difference between the rose and the crater made everyone a little confused.
Yang Yufei boldly suggested, "How about we pluck the roses from this world, take them to the other world, and plant them there?"
They really couldn't find any clues, so they had to try their best.
"I think we can give it a try." Chu Yue'er nodded in approval.
But Su Rui raised the opposite opinion: "But that bouquet of roses is the only color here. If we pull it out, there will be no living things in this world. Isn't that a bit wrong?"
Yang Yufei hesitated for a moment. "Then why don't we bring all the roses from the other world here and plant them? That would be a huge undertaking."
For a moment, everyone was a little confused.
Jiang Lele did not participate in the argument, but just walked out of the room carrying the mace.
"Let's go."
The other three came back to their senses, and Chu Yueer asked, "Le Le, what are you doing?"
"Pull the roses." Jiang Lele answered without turning his head.
Chu Yue'er was stunned for a moment, "Le Le, do you have any clues?"
Jiang Lele: "No, but I just suddenly wanted to pull out that rose and try it."
Now, the three people who were originally entangled became even more nervous and hurried to catch up with Jiang Lele.
Su Rui began to persuade her earnestly, "Sister Lele, how about... let's rethink this? What if removing it causes adverse changes? Wouldn't that be very dangerous?"
Yang Yufei said the same thing: "Yes. Since our only clues right now are this rose and the crater, we should be more cautious."
Chu Yue'er: "How about we go back to the manor and look for other clues?"
None of the three people's persuasion could stop Jiang Lele.
A few minutes later, Jiang Lele jumped directly to the bottom of the bomb crater which was several meters deep, bent down and pulled out the bouquet of roses.
[Warning! Warning! The world is about to collapse! Players please evacuate immediately!]
[Warning! Warning! The world is about to collapse!]
Yang Yufei and the other two: “???”
When she came to her senses, Chu Yue'er quickly shouted to Jiang Lele: "Lele, hurry up, let's go back to that world first!"
Yang Yufei quickly lowered a long rope to the bottom of the crater.
Jiang Lele grabbed the rope and climbed up.
Accompanied by the sharp alarm, the four people began to flee quickly towards the manor.
The constantly shaking earth and the crumbling dark sky seemed to be about to collapse at any time.
The increasingly thin air made Jiang Lele's heart beat faster.
When Jiang Lele found the mural that he could travel through, he paused and subconsciously looked back at the world outside the window.
The sky seemed to become even darker than before, and the whole world was so silent as if there was no living person.
She could feel the world was about to collapse.
But in my heart, I felt a little reluctant.
"Le Le, what are you standing there for? Let's go." Yang Yufei saw Jiang Le Le suddenly stop in a daze, and quickly reached out to hold her hand, and walked towards the mural together.
The moment Jiang Lele passed through the mural, countless unfamiliar images suddenly flooded into his mind.
Her brain was swelling to the point of exploding, and she subconsciously raised her hand to cover her forehead.
"Le Le? What's wrong with you?" Yang Yufei pulled Jiang Le Le all the way back to the safe world.
Jiang Lele frowned and shook his head. "A lot of images suddenly appeared in my mind just now, and they seemed to be from Rose Manor."
"This copy is too weird. If we stay here like this, we might go crazy soon." Yang Yufei complained.
Obviously, she regarded Jiang Lele's strange reactions as negative effects brought by the copy.
"Oh right, I just suddenly remembered that we've all overlooked a very important issue. Our current abilities don't seem like we should be randomly assigned to an extinction-level dungeon. So, we were forced in this time by a dungeon bug."
Chu Yue'er suddenly spoke up.
After being reminded of this, Yang Yufei immediately thought of something, and her eyes lit up, "Oh, right! We can contact the copy supervision department directly!"
Since dungeon bugs have appeared frequently, the dungeon monitoring department has opened a player helpline.
If you are forced into an incompatible copy, you can call the Copy Supervision Department for help.
"I have my cell phone with me. I'll call right away." Su Rui took out her cell phone, found the hotline of the Copy Supervision Department, and dialed the number.
After a while, Xiang Bai's tired voice came from the other side: "Hello, hello, this is the copy supervision department. If you have any questions, please describe them briefly."
From Xiang Baicangsang's tone, one can tell that he must have experienced a lot of overtime work recently.
Su Rui cleared her throat. "We're going to file a complaint with the team. There seems to have been a dungeon bug yesterday, dragging the four of us, players whose average strength is only at the rare level, into an extinction-level dungeon. It's driving us crazy. What do you think we should do about this?"
Yang Yufei emphasized, "Yes, one of our players is nearly driven insane by the dungeon's hallucinations. I hope you can expedite the process."
Xiang Bai sighed inwardly, "Got it. Report your player information and the dungeon situation. I'll register them first."
"I'm Su Rui, and the other three players are Jiang Lele, Yang Yufei, and Chu Yue'er. The dungeon we're in is called Rose Manor."
Su Rui quickly reported the information.
Xiang Baibi, who was registering his information, paused: "?"
Because of various experiences, Xiang Bai has developed a stress reaction to the name Jiang Lele.
"Jiang Lele again?!" Xiang Bai suddenly shouted.
Su Rui quickly took away the phone, and only put it to her ear again after hearing the shouting from the other end stop.
"Ah, what's wrong?"
Xiang Bai's face was gloomy. "It's okay. You four better behave yourself. This is an extinction-level dungeon. If anything goes wrong, you can't bear the responsibility."
"Yes, we are very honest." Su Rui nodded.
But at this moment, Su Rui suddenly covered her phone, coughed awkwardly, and whispered to the others, "Should we tell Captain Xiang about the world collapse over there just now?"
Yang Yufei quickly shook her finger at her, indicating that it was not necessary.
Chu Yue'er did the same thing.
Su Rui understood, took her hand away from covering the phone, and continued to emphasize to Xiang Bai, "Captain Xiang, don't worry. We are really honest."
After registering all the information with Bai Lu, he snorted coldly, "That's better."
"Alright, I've registered. Within the hour, a guard will be there to escort you out. Until then, just be careful to protect yourselves."
After saying that, Xiang Bai hung up the phone.
Su Rui breathed a sigh of relief, "Great, we can be rescued directly within an hour."
Everyone relaxed their nerves.
Only Jiang Lele looked at the bouquet of roses in her hand hesitantly.
She was wondering whether she should stick the bouquet of roses into the bomb crater.
"Le Le, you're not really affected by this copy and have hallucinations, are you?" Yang Yufei stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Jiang Le Le.
Jiang Lele came back to his senses and shook his head. "It doesn't seem to be an illusion, but... there are indeed many more images of this copy in my head."
"You said it wasn't an illusion, so it must be. This dungeon doesn't look dangerous on the surface, but it must be hiding some hallucinogenic effect. If the player can't discover it, they will be trapped in this illusion forever."
Yang Yufei concluded firmly.
Hearing this, Jiang Lele had to temporarily suppress the idea of inserting roses and began to wait for rescue from the copy supervision department.
At this time, in the copy supervision department, the guards who had just received the rescue information were chatting.
"Oh my god, the dungeon has been going crazy lately. They've even dragged players with rare-level skills into an extinction-level dungeon, and the most unsolvable one, the Rose Manor dungeon."
"Rose Manor? What kind of copy is that? I don't think I've ever heard of it."
"That dungeon is closest to the dungeon system's core program. Once a player clears it, they're likely to come into contact with it. There are too many uncontrollable factors at that time, so in recent years, very few players have randomly landed in that dungeon."
Xiang Bai, neatly dressed, walked in solemnly, "A group of people chattering like this is unbecoming. Everyone, cheer up! We're heading to the Rose Manor dungeon right away."
Team members: “Yes!”
Xiang Bai was about to lead the team to set off when he suddenly received a message from the boss Xu Zhongguo:
[Xiang Bai, when you go to the Rose Manor dungeon this time, bring Jiang Lele to see me. If she doesn't want to come, tell her that I'm willing to tell her the whole truth.]
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