The young master looked excitedly at his boss, "Finally, you've arrived!" So he stopped panicking and continued to speak loudly into the microphone: "Everyone, think carefully. Since entering this Hungry Town, haven't you found it increasingly difficult to think of anything other than 'wanting to eat'?"
At first, eating only one meal a day was enough to keep my hunger level at a safe level. However, the more I ate, the faster my hunger level rose, until I had to sell my memories!
Mayor Pighead trembled with rage: "You're talking nonsense! The food in my town is all pure and uncontaminated. It's your own lack of willpower that's the problem! All the residents of our Hungry Town yearn for peace the most. How could we possibly do anything to harm you!"
When the commotion turned into panic, the players finally realized something was wrong. The so-called "taste upgrade" was actually a slow erosion of their right to choose!
Logically speaking, anyone with a modicum of sense should have noticed this long ago, but this instance has been imbued with beauty and fantasy from the very beginning. All the NPCs, and even everything that happens, are gradually eroding everyone's suspicions.
With the added assistance of all sorts of magical items in the Treasure Pavilion, players have long lost their ability to make judgments.
"What you're selling is definitely not food!" The young chef suddenly raised his voice, the static from the microphone piercing the noise of the room. "It's 'anchor points of existence'!"
His fingertips turned white from the force he exerted, and his gaze swept over the pale-faced players: "You thought you were pawning a memory? Wrong! Those bound memories are the ties you left in the real world. The more you lose, the harder it is to leave this instance, and in the end you will become 'hungry puppets' who only know how to eat and have no self!"
The reason most players can only stay in this instance for a month is because many players have been completely turned into puppets, losing all human characteristics and becoming cartoonish figures just like the NPCs forever!
Finally, some players completely understood.
"Just like those NPCs in the kitchen who are always chopping vegetables and have vacant eyes!"
These words struck the crowd like a thunderclap. Suddenly, a player pointed to a corner of the audience and screamed, "Yes! Yesterday, I went to the kitchen of a restaurant to get a drink of water and saw a chef start crying while chopping, muttering 'Who am I?' before mechanically picking up the cleaver again!"
"And the old lady who sells cloud cakes, I told her about my boyfriend pursuing me, and the way she looked at me was like she was looking at a product!"
"Damn, I thought we'd finally found a fair dungeon, but it turns out the trap is really deep!"
"Boss Whirlwind, what do we do now?!"
Qi Xu was still watching "Cooking Master Boy" with admiration. This was definitely the bravest episode ever for the child. Despite being flustered, unsure of himself, and with a slightly trembling voice, he still bravely stood up and said everything he needed to say.
When I first met him, I was timid and cowardly, always wanting to hide behind people. If you gave me a weapon, I would retreat to the back and not dare to take it, for fear that my bullets would hit my teammates in the back.
Now, he has been able to withstand the pressure, stand in front of all the players, and bravely reveal the truth of the dungeon... Qi Xu felt inexplicably emotional and proud at this moment.
The pig-headed mayor, the cartoon-looking man in a suit, and more than a dozen other NPCs from the Hungry Town who looked strong and robust all rushed onto the stage. Qi Xu tried to stop one of them, but couldn't hold back so many.
Because of the rule against physical violence, the only plan was to surround Qi Xu and take him away.
Fortunately, the other players also realized that they couldn't let Boss Whirlwind and the chef who spoke get caught, or they would be really doomed!
After being in this dungeon for so long, who hasn't eaten street food? If what the cook said is true, everyone should have unknowingly lost a lot of memories. We can't see the impact now, but will we really be able to leave on the day we leave?
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