Chapter 103 Chapter 103 There's another feeling, like being at home...
Xu Yi smiled for a while, then frowned again.
She felt that her emotions were not right.
She really should hate Zhao Chang for what he did.
If he were a policeman or a doctor, it would be understandable for him to leave her during their marriage due to urgent duties.
But whether his reason was to save the world or to enter a bizarre world, Xu Yi couldn't understand his behavior.
Such irresponsible behavior is a clear indication that she is not actually that important to Zhao Chang.
"Beibei, I feel a little unwell," Xu Yi said.
【What's wrong? 】
"Reason tells me that I should hate Zhao Chang, but another voice in my heart seems to tell me that Zhao Chang is also innocent, that he has his reasons for doing so, and that as his lover, I should understand him."
[Then find out whoever told you Zhao Chang was innocent and beat them up! What sympathy?! Shameless bastard, that voice definitely belongs to Zhao Chang.]
Xu Yi looked puzzled. After thinking carefully, she realized that the voice that had made her understand Zhao Chang really did belong to him.
Once my thoughts became clearer, the impact of the sound seemed less severe than before.
Don't let hatred consume you. Stay rational. Zhao Chang isn't as important to you as you think. Without him, you're still the wealthy Miss Xu, a top student from a prestigious university, and the future heir to your family company.
[Xu Yi, you have so many things you can do. For example, right now, you're still a top-tier player with cheat codes, and Zhao Chang can't affect you at all.]
"Beibei, thank you. I don't know why, but after talking to you, I feel like my mind is exceptionally clear."
[There's no way around it, I'm just that kind of charming woman.]
Thinking about Zhao Chang isn't a big deal. It's okay to think about him. You should still think about your enemies. If you don't hold grudges, how will you get revenge when you encounter that bastard in the future? He made you lose face in front of your family and friends so much; just let him stay in the ghost world forever. Anyway, it's no different from him being dead now.
Looking at those words, Xu Yi felt a sense of relief and was no longer as upset as before.
I learned some of the rules of the Ghost Realm from Xiang Bei before. Being chosen is not actually forced. Only if the other party agrees will they be teleported to various instances.
Of course, this does not exclude the possibility that the rules of the supernatural world may also be used to manipulate people.
Most players regretted their decision after realizing they would actually die, and had no choice but to grit their teeth and continue.
What Xu Yi couldn't understand was why Zhao Changming agreed to their marriage, knowing full well that they were going to get married.
Was he really tricked by the rules?
I still feel that even though he left such a ridiculous note, he was certain that I would wait for him to come back like a gazing stone waiting for its husband.
Based on his previous thinking, Xu Yi might indeed do that. But Zhao Chang was so certain; did he already know in his heart that he had him completely under his control?
If that's the case, then could she suspect that her relationship with Zhao Chang wasn't as pure as it seemed?
Xu Yi really wanted to ask Zhao Chang this question in person. At this moment, she still hoped that Zhao Chang could live and that one day in the future they would meet in some instance.
How could she not feel any resentment after receiving such a generous gift?
Even knowing that all of this was true, Xu Yi couldn't accept that the other party had only left behind a note as an excuse.
Why not tell her in person when you have time to write a note?
When they meet again in the future, she will definitely greet Zhao Chang properly.
Xu Yi closed her eyes and repeatedly told herself not to think about anything related to Zhao Chang.
She tried to distract herself.
There are currently three survivors.
It had started raining outside sometime earlier, and Xu Yi glanced at it before preparing to go out and check.
In the hallway, she encountered Miao Xin, who was coming down from upstairs.
Upon seeing her, Miao Xin immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"You're still alive. Who's the other person who's alive? Should we go look for them?"
Xu Yi shook her head. She wasn't familiar with the other people and didn't want to pay too much attention to them.
This world was truly beyond her imagination, as if the horror movies she had watched before had all come true.
However, Xu Yi wasn't afraid.
"Do these dungeons have any items?" Xu Yi asked.
Miao Xin nodded. "Yes, when I cleared the game, I was rewarded with a Hammer of Oblivion. However, I can only use it when attacked by strange attacks. I can't use it if there are no attacks."
"Will it be given to me after I clear the level?" Xu Yi asked doubtfully.
Miao Xin sighed, "That's right, but I only cleared one more dungeon than you, and I don't have much experience. I was just lucky in the last dungeon; I only cleared it by strictly following the rules."
"It's already quite an achievement to be able to follow the rules," Xu Yi said.
Many people who fail to clear the game are swallowed by the monster because they are careless and don't pay attention to the rules.
Perhaps because Miao Xin was the first person to strike up a conversation with her, Xu Yi was willing to talk to her more.
But Miao Xin was still scared. "Like the guessing game yesterday, it really depends on luck. I was terrified."
They talked as they walked downstairs.
As I went downstairs, I saw another mission participant, who was the third person to survive.
When the other person saw them, they paused for a moment, holding an umbrella in one hand and hiding the other hand behind their back.
However, the other person's gloomy expression made Xu Yi feel very uncomfortable.
"It's blood!" Miao Xin exclaimed, covering her mouth.
Seeing that they had noticed, the other party simply stopped pretending and took out his hand from behind his back, in which he was holding a cat.
The cat was covered in wounds and had long since stopped breathing.
Upon seeing the dead cat, System 9639 instantly went berserk.
Xiang Bei calmed the system down, but couldn't help but frown.
Xu Yi looked at the other person and frowned. "You broke the rules."
Rule 3: You may not kill any sentient being in the community.
Cats are also conscious animals.
The other party didn't care. "It's just an animal. Besides, I'm fine. Don't make a fuss."
Xu Yi pursed her lips and took two steps back.
Miao Xin covered her mouth and looked behind the other person with a look of horror.
The gloomy man sensed something was wrong and turned to look.
His vision was first blocked by the umbrella, but when he removed the umbrella, it suddenly slipped from his hand, and he was pulled by a tentacle. The monster was covered in mouths, and its tentacles pulled him and tore him to pieces.
Miao Xin covered her mouth with one hand and gripped Xu Yi's arm tightly with the other.
My whole body was shaking.
The electronic voice sounded again.
Currently, there are two surviving mission participants.
Peace returned to normal.
"It's just the two of us left," Xu Yi said.
"Aren't you afraid?" Miao Xin asked Xu Yi with a puzzled look.
Her expression was too calm, as if she had seen it all before.
"Are you really a newbie quest taker?" Miao Xin asked doubtfully.
She didn't know that Xu Yi was seeing things differently than she was; she only felt that Xu Yi was unusually calm. Miao Xin even suspected that Xu Yi was a max-level player who had just finished a game and was now back in the beginner's village.
Even the big shots can't let go of little Camilla.
That's how all those novels are written.
Miao Xin voiced all her doubts.
"Of course not, this is really my first time here. I'm just not afraid of those things," Xu Yi explained patiently.
The others looked terrified before they disappeared.
Miao Xin tentatively told Xu Yi what she had just seen, but Xu Yi had not seen any of what she was talking about.
[You have a cheat code, so what you see is different from what others see.]
Xiang Bei sensed her confusion and offered an explanation.
Xu Yi wanted to see the real scene.
Xiang Bei remained silent for a while before speaking.
Are you sure you want to watch this? It's... well, it'll make you nauseous.
Before, when Xiang Bei was watching, she could make herself some food. Anyway, she wouldn't gain weight and didn't feel full, which was great for her.
However, she has had no appetite for the past two days. When she wants to eat, she looks at the true face of the ghost, and after looking at it, she doesn't want to eat anything anymore.
Xu Yi wanted to watch, so Xiang Bei switched her to a dual-perspective view.
The ghostly world in her eyes also gained color.
"Do you remember, according to the rules, there's a door that you can use to get out?" Miao Xin said.
Now only the two of them are left, and Miao Xin is extremely panicked.
"Let's go take a look," Xu Yi said, holding up an umbrella.
Miao Xin followed beside her.
Not far along, I ran into the aunt from yesterday and her little grandson.
The little boy was walking around bouncing a ball while muttering something to himself. If you got close, you could hear him singing a nursery rhyme.
Xu Yi finally saw the child's appearance clearly: he had no legs, and even the ball he was bouncing was a human head.
And the children's grandmother, when she smiled at them, opened her blood-red mouth wide.
Miao Xin's face turned pale. They all recognized whose head it was, after all, the red hair was quite eye-catching.
Upon seeing them, the little girl ran over, clutching a human head, and said with a grin, "Sister, play ball with me!"
Xu Yi decisively switched the perspective of the hanging device, and after confirming several times, he saw only an ordinary child and an ordinary ball.
She agreed.
Miao Xin agreed with a pale face. If she didn't agree, her head would turn into a ball and be bounced by this strange child.
The three people stood together, bouncing the ball and passing it to the next person.
"Alright, alright, it's time to go home."
After playing for a while, the aunt came over and took her grandson's hand, saying, "It's raining. You can play with your sister next time."
The child picked up the ball and waved at them, saying, "Goodbye, sisters."
Once the person had walked away, Miao Xin breathed a sigh of relief.
Xu Yi then switched to a normal person's perspective.
When I passed by the pond in the community, there was a sign next to it that said swimming was prohibited.
She remembered the rules that only she could see; those seemed to be hidden rules.
That means you can swim here.
Moreover, standing by the pond, you can see the window of her current home.
Xu Yi looked at the sign and felt something was wrong. He walked over and touched the sign, triggering a hidden rule that only he could see.
Miao Xin looked at the rules and said, "That means this prohibition token can be violated."
That's right.
"I didn't expect there to be such a rule here. I can swim, so why don't I go down and take a look? I don't know what might be hiding in the water."
Before Xu Yi could speak, Miao Xin had already taken off her coat and started rummaging around inside for a while, but found nothing.
"Come on up." Xu Yi reached out and pulled Miao Xin up.
They checked all four exits of the community again.
Miao Xin even took notes on the paper and analyzed the situation logically and with evidence, "Which door do you think is the real exit?"
“East Gate,” Xu Yi said.
She can see it.
After the cheat is activated, some things can be observed, such as the east gate of the community having color, while the other gates do not.
"Huh? But I think the door we came in through yesterday was more like the exit."
Miao Xin also explained the reasons behind her guess.
Xu Yi looked at her and said, "It's the East Gate."
"Why?"
"My intuition."
Miao Xin: "..."
After staring at Xu Yi for a while, Miao Xin realized that the previous guess from the max-level player was wrong. Xu Yi was probably really playing this dungeon for the first time and didn't understand the rules at all.
This is a strange world; relying on intuition will only hasten their demise.
"If we make a mistake, we will really die, and once we die, we will never be able to return to the real world."
In Miao Xin's heart, she felt that the East Gate was the least likely, because the security guards at the East Gate were more terrifying than any of the monsters she had seen.
But seeing Xu Yi's confident demeanor, she hesitated again, "Could it be that the most dangerous place is the safest place?"
Miao Xin scratched her head in distress.
"How did you get in?" Xu Yi suddenly asked.
"You mean how I got into this dungeon?" Miao Xin sighed. "I was playing a haunted house murder mystery game with my friends when I suddenly heard an electronic voice inviting me to join the game. I thought it was a script arranged by my friends, so I agreed, and that's how I ended up here."
Miao Xin is clearly someone who was tricked into entering this bizarre world.
"And you? How did you get here?"
"The groom ran away on his wedding day, saying he came here to save the world. I've come to find him and get some answers," Xu Yi said calmly.
Miao Xin opened and closed her mouth, but couldn't say a word for a long time.
In the end, it all turned into a sigh.
"Let me first clarify that I'm not gloating, it's just that compared to your situation, I realize my own situation is much better."
Xu Yi didn't say anything more.
Looking at her cold and aloof appearance, Miao Xin felt that she could understand her. If the groom ran away when she got married, unless he was really dead and couldn't come, she would definitely catch him and tear him to pieces.
Even so, it's only because Xu Yi has a good attitude; if it were her, she would be cursing that scumbag to death behind his back. She didn't say any words of comfort aloud; she felt that compared to Xu Yi, she was the one who needed comforting.
Because she doesn't have Xu Yi's calm mindset.
I can't maintain this calm demeanor no matter what I face.
When she first entered the community, she chose to gravitate towards Xu Yi because Xu Yi looked too calm and confident, which made her think that Xu Yi might be a hidden big shot.
Well, it wasn't exactly a wrong guess.
For newcomers to survive until only the two of them are left in a dungeon on their first visit is quite an achievement.
Miao Xin reflected on herself seriously and felt that she should learn from Xu Yi's mentality. She shouldn't be so easily startled, as it makes her seem unsteady.
"Let's go out for dinner," Xu Yi said, glancing at his watch.
It's almost lunchtime.
Her parents told her to eat at a restaurant outside, even though it wasn't in the rules, but they had mentioned it in an electronic announcement, and she shouldn't disobey them.
Xu Yi looked at Miao Xin, who was hesitating, and said, "I'll go first. You can watch me go out if you're worried."
She won't die, but she broke the rules and will be kicked out of the instance quest.
At that time, to others, it might have seemed as if she were dead.
After saying that, Xu Yi walked out towards the east gate.
Miao Xin wanted to follow, but when she got close to the gate, she hesitated.
She was afraid of dying, so she called out to Xu Yi twice, trying to persuade her to come back, but Xu Yi did not stop and walked straight towards the gate.
Miao Xin covered her eyes in nervousness, her heart pounding in her throat.
She waited a long time without hearing the electronic announcement, then peeked at Xu Yi through her fingers. When she saw him walk outside, she breathed a sigh of relief. She tentatively approached him, then ran to his side.
"It really is the East Gate! Your intuition is amazing."
Miao Xin felt that Xu Yi was like a max-level player returning to the beginner village.
That's incredibly calm; it's not like it's their first time here.
It also gives you the feeling of strolling around your own home.
Sitting in the restaurant, Miao Xin drank tea instead of wine, saying, "Although I'm older than you, from today onwards, you're my sister, my dear sister, Sister Yi. From now on, I'll follow you."
Xu Yi simply smiled.
They have to go back after eating. Even if they run out of the residential area, they can't leave the instance until they complete the task.
Only after successfully clearing the level will the path to the next dungeon open.
The three-day countdown above has less than fifty hours left.
"As long as you don't break the rules, you'll be fine. Be careful when you get back," Xu Yi reminded him.
Miao Xin nodded, still feeling uneasy.
However, I was still a little scared when I went back with Xu Yi.
She took a deep breath and reassured herself, "It's okay, everything will be fine if I follow the rules."
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