This duel with the third reversed lasted for nearly half an hour.
During this long period of time, the chat room has been flooded with messages from Bula and Fedo.
【chat】
[Bula]: Where is she? Where did she go?
[Fedo]: Haven't you been sticking to her all the time?
[Bula]: I turned around and she was gone, and now I can't sense her presence at all...
[Bu La]: @Yu Xiangnan
【Bula】: Don't scare me! (?′ω`?)??
[Feiduo]: Let's look around. It's possible she triggered some special mechanism and was pulled into an independent space, which is why we can't contact her.
[Bula]: Very likely
[Bula]: Wait, is she testing us?
【Feiduo】: What does that mean?
[Bula]: So, is it possible that she deliberately hid to test our abilities?
【Fei Duo】: ?
[Feiduo]: It feels like only you could do something like this.
【Bula】: Hehe
Just as Yu Xiangnan was about to get up, a furry thing pounced into her arms with lightning speed, and it was quite heavy.
Fortunately, she managed to regain her balance in time.
Looking down, I met Bula's big, teary eyes.
[Bula]: Waaaaah, where did you go? I was so worried!
Yu Xiangnan sighed slightly and didn't hide anything, saying, "I was just pulled into a special space by the reversed third position and fought with him, so it took some time."
She spoke casually, as if she were talking about something trivial, but the bloodstains on her body and the torn clothes betrayed her.
After all, in this world, wounds disappear once health is restored, but clothes don't automatically heal.
Fedor and Braran also noticed this detail. Moreover, when the words "third reversed" reached their ears, their expressions changed drastically, their eyes filled with shock.
Almost simultaneously, the chat box popped up.
[Brahma]: The third reversed position?!
[Fedo]: Third reversed?
Yu Xiangnan nodded, his face serious, and said, "Do you guys remember that in the 'Escape from the Surface Project' instance, there was someone who launched a sneak attack? That person clearly didn't go all out; they ran away after hitting him, and it looked like they were testing him."
"The fight just now confirmed to me that the two attacks were made by the same person. Moreover, this person even revealed his identity, calling himself 'the third reversed'."
[Bula]: Wait, wait, wait, if this person is really the third reversed, why can he freely enter and exit the Blue Star survival instance? Is it another bug nail?
[Bula]: We haven't done anything immoral or heinous, so why do people always come looking for trouble? It's infuriating! A bunch of lunatics!
[Fedal]: There aren't that many bug nails in the world... It could be other tools or special methods.
[Bula]: Okay
Bula's gaze swept carefully over Yu Xiangnan until he was sure that Yu Xiangnan was unharmed. Only then did his tense nerves relax and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
It's unlikely that the guy who calls himself "Third Reversed" will reappear anytime soon.
Yu Xiangnan planned to resolve the immediate issue first before considering this matter.
She quickly entered the abandoned mountain god temple, her eyes searching around the interior.
Not long after, in an inconspicuous corner, she found an ancient stone statue.
Thick dust completely covered the stone statue.
She reached out and wiped the dust off the stone statue. As the dust settled, the statue's outline became clearer, and the previously blurry patterns on the base gradually emerged.
They were strange and obscure lines and shapes, intricately interwoven.
Upon closer inspection, she discovered a series of continuous lines with several uniquely shaped symbols interspersed along them, some resembling ancient star markings and others resembling simplified mountain outlines.
These patterns seem a bit different from the eerie patterns in the town...
Before she could figure it out, the [Key Clues] panel popped up automatically.
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[Key Clues]
Clue 1: (Funeral shop owner) "There's an old book hidden away in the town's cultural center warehouse that mentions 'When Yin and Yang are reversed, evil spirits will appear.' The things that have happened in the town these past few days are probably fulfilling this ominous saying."
Clue 2: (Carpenter) "Kid, listen to your uncle's advice, don't go to that mountain god temple at the entrance of town that's half collapsed! A few days ago, I was collecting firewood nearby and saw a yellow notebook with some crooked and eerie lines drawn on it. They looked a bit like the marks that appeared on the bodies of those 'possessed' people in the square."
★ Clue: Mysterious patterns on abandoned stone statues
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Clue 3: (Grain station staff) "There used to be a supply and marketing worker in town who brought back a strange wooden box. The recipient was the old Wang family who died in a flood years ago. The patterns carved on the box and the movement of the stars in the sky these past few nights are both inexplicably eerie."
Clue 4: ? ? ?
Clue 5: ? ? ?
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Compared to before, there is now an additional clue marked with an asterisk below Clue 2. This clue is the mysterious pattern on the abandoned stone statue, which is a close-up of a high-resolution photo.
I must say, this story-driven dungeon is quite novel.
However, this means that each player's choice will affect the entire situation. This implies that surviving this predicament solely on one's own strength has become impossible.
This feeling of powerlessness, of not being able to fully control one's own life and death, inexplicably makes people irritable.
She speculated that the most likely outcome of the bad ending would be the complete annihilation of all players.
But no matter what, as long as there is even a sliver of hope for things to improve, we should not give up easily.
At this moment, the setting sun was casting its western shadow, and twilight gradually enveloped the earth.
The town's cultural center is at the other end of town, and it's clearly too late to get there now. After a moment's thought, Yu Xiangnan decided to deal with the bodies in the body bags first.
All eight corpses were damaged to varying degrees, and in their current condition, even if they were reused, they would be difficult to utilize to their full potential. Therefore, Yu Xiangnan selected the five most severely damaged corpses, used [Copy Plunder] on one of them, and then buried it.
Oh, rest in peace...
The setting sun, like fire, cast its last rays, draping this desolate land, permeated with an eerie atmosphere, in a thin veil of blood.
The surroundings were eerily quiet, and Yu Xiangnan's figure stretched long in the setting sun. She stood alone, holding a cold iron shovel in her hand, and beneath her feet lay the corpses of players from different planets.
Her feet were firmly planted on this land, but it gave her no sense of security.
Seeing that Yu Xiangnan had been standing there for a long time without moving, Bula became worried, so he quickly ran to her side with his short legs and looked up.
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