A strange male voice announced the start of the last game. At the same time, a wooden door was projected onto the white wall of the secret room, which was covered with messy bloody handprints of various sizes.
[Only when you reach the deepest part of the exile area will you have a chance to leave alive. This door is the only way to the next level. You have 24 hours to find it.]
[I don't need to explain the consequences of not finding it, right? ]
24-hour limited-time dungeon. Yue Ya thought of her experience in the Black Crow Studio. Could it be that the Black Crow had known that there would be limited-time dungeons in the Exile Land, so they used that method to train them?
The game officially begins, a bright red 24-hour countdown appears above the secret room, and the enclosed space instantly becomes more tense.
To make matters worse, this wasn’t the only countdown, a second countdown soon appeared below it, with a time limit of – 30 minutes.
[Welcome to the first level of the Exile Land. You have 30 minutes to crack the first secret room. If you exceed the time limit, you will receive a beautiful little gift from the boss. Kiss~]
This "啾咪" immediately silenced the players.
Ke Ke rubbed her ears and complained, "The system style here seems to be a little off. Is this one of the penalties for failing to challenge the full-level dungeon?"
Twelve rubbed the goose bumps on his hands and said, "I admit, I was upset by that sound."
[I've also been screwed! Please don't add drama to yourself, system. Thank you]
[This is the first floor. How many floors does the Exile Land have in total? It can’t be eighteen, right?]
[Maybe two floors]
[A beautiful little gift from the boss, which was sent away immediately after being accepted]
[How to crack this secret room with nothing in it? Can you just tear down the wall?]
[Wait a minute, wait a minute, I don’t quite understand why the host took the initiative to come to the Exile Land? Shouldn’t he challenge the full-level dungeon first? What is his purpose...]
"Forget it," Ke Ke sighed, "Time is too tight, let's get started. Does anyone have a teleportation item? Let's see if we can teleport out of the secret room directly."
Yueya and Shier both indicated that they had props of this type.
Yue Ya took out the tracking scroll: "If there are no special restrictions, I only need to imagine what the door looks like, and the tracking scroll can lead me to it."
Ke Ke nodded: "You try it."
Yue Ya closed her eyes and recalled the door she had just seen. The tracing scroll slowly unfolded in the air, and the drawing paper was blank.
Yue Ya tried to find Yun Yu and Zhuang Yan through the scroll again, but still failed. He put away the scroll and said, "The item is ineffective."
"Let me try it too." Twelve took out a pen and drew a door on the wall. After he finished drawing it, he pushed it, but the "door" on the wall didn't move at all.
Twelve shook his head: "It seems that these props are banned. The copy will not let us take advantage of loopholes. Let's honestly look for clues to crack the secret room."
Lao Ji sighed, "This is the only way, but there is nothing in this secret room except the wall. I don't know where to start."
"Then check these walls first," Yue Ya looked at the Red Ghost King, "It's your turn now."
"Me?" The Red Ghost King pointed at his nose with a big question mark on his face: "Is it my turn?"
Yueya nodded: "Try to go through the wall."
[Maintain troops for a thousand days and deploy them for a moment]
[I haven't raised it for a day yet (dog head)]
The Red Ghost King was very obedient. He touched the wall with his palm and winked at Yue Ya: "I can't get through."
"Even ghosts can't get through it," Twelve folded his hands and said seriously, "Then the wifi certainly can't get through it either."
“…”
"Stop joking. Each of you will be responsible for one wall and start investigating," Ke Ke said seriously. "Just because it looks blank doesn't mean there's nothing there. There may be some small mechanisms or secret passages hidden deep inside. We only have 30 minutes. The difficulty of the secret room shouldn't be very high."
The players checked the walls separately. No one communicated during this time, and the secret room was so quiet that only the sounds of footsteps and breathing could be heard.
Suddenly, the secret room fell into darkness, and even the scarlet countdown disappeared.
The players reacted quickly and took out lighting props one after another. The lights drove away the darkness and illuminated everyone's faces.
"The secret room suddenly became dark, which made me think of a question," Twelve said, "There is no light in the secret room, so where did the light come from before?"
Yue Ya looked around: "It's probably the same as the source of this darkness."
Keke: "The countdown disappeared. I just happened to take a look before the light disappeared, and there were still 25 minutes left."
Yue Ya held the lantern and measured the distance to the wall with his feet. His eyes darkened and he said, "The secret room has shrunk."
Twelve lights were held high and observed carefully: "It really shrunk, and the wall moved? It can't shrink every five minutes, I can't stand it."
Ke Ke frowned and said hesitantly, "Do you think the light is brighter than before?"
Yue Ya looked around again and took a deep breath: "The secret room is still shrinking! It's not that the lights are getting brighter, it's that the space is getting smaller again."
Twelve's face turned pale and he tightened his grip on the lamp handle: "We could hardly notice the movement of the wall."
"The secret room continues to shrink, and we might be squeezed into a pulp by the wall. I think this copy is not that complicated, so let's just tear down the wall." Lao Ji said in a deep voice and rolled up his sleeves.
Yue Ya held him down and said, "Don't be impulsive. In this type of chamber dungeon, violently demolishing the wall may bring more serious consequences."
Keke: "I agree with Yueya's opinion. There is still time. Don't panic."
As soon as he finished speaking, the lights in their hands all went out, and the secret room fell into pure darkness again.
Twelve cursed, "Our lamps are all expensive items. It's impossible for them to break down all at once. They must have been affected by the dungeon. In this case, even if we take out a hundred lamps, we won't be able to illuminate the room."
All light sources were blocked, and Yueya couldn't even see the screen in the live broadcast room.
"Tick, tick..." The sound of dripping water was heard in the secret room. Due to the closed environment, the echo was quite loud, and it sounded like the roof was leaking.
The players were on edge. After the dripping sound appeared, they stopped talking and pricked up their ears alertly.
"Tick..." The cold liquid dripped onto Yue Ya's head and flowed down along the gaps in his hair. His scalp felt numb and he touched his head, only to find his hand felt sticky.
A strong smell of blood went into my nose. It wasn't water leaking, but something was dripping blood.
The red-clothed ghost king approached Yue Ya and quietly grabbed his sleeve: "It's so scary hereqvq."
Yueya: "Maybe there are people like you in the secret room, can you show some promise?"
"cannot."
Yue Ya noticed that the person next to him was breathing heavily, so he asked, "Twelve, are you feeling unwell?"
"I..." Twelve took a deep breath, his voice a little hoarse: "I feel a little claustrophobic. I feel suffocated if I stay in this environment for a long time."
"Fear?" Hearing this word, Yue Ya remembered the conversation before he fell into the exile land. The strange male voice asked him what he was afraid of, and he replied that there was nothing to be afraid of.
"I'm not simply scared or timid," Twelve explained in a low voice, his voice trembling a little, "Whenever I'm in this kind of environment, I can't help but break out in cold sweats, my heart rate speeds up, and I have difficulty breathing. It's okay now, but if the space gets smaller or the time I'm confined gets longer, the symptoms will get worse."
"Don't be dominated by fear. Break the 30 minutes into smaller pieces. You need to hold on for at most six 5-minute periods. We will face it with you." Yue Ya patted his shoulder gently. "If I'm not mistaken, the light will appear soon."
"I only need to hold on for 6 five-minute sessions..." Twelve exhaled, not feeling so tense anymore. "Now that I think about it, it doesn't seem that hard to endure."
The darkness retreated silently, and the secret room was shrouded in light again. The lights in the players' hands also emitted light.
"The light really appeared!" Twelve rubbed his face, and his pale cheeks became more red. He asked Yueya excitedly: "How did you guess it?"
"I guess the dungeon won't kill us right away in the first level. This secret room still has a pattern. It wants us to have enough time to find clues, so the 'lights' will be turned on sooner or later," Yue Ya pointed to the countdown that reappeared and said in a light tone, "Exactly ten minutes have passed, which means that light and darkness alternate every five minutes."
Twelve suddenly realized: "You can think of these things in such a short time. You are really sober and calm."
Ke Ke nodded in agreement: "The psychological quality is indeed good."
"I can stay calm because I don't have claustrophobia," Yue Ya looked at Twelve, with starlight reflected in his dark pupils. "I think this instance is made up of your fear... or your fears. Before entering the instance, did you talk to the system?"
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