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After last night’s utter failure, the noise outside tonight seemed to have changed tactics, and was called — “Come ah, beat me ah”.

The couple was still arguing. The meaningless content paired with the penetrating voices had a refreshing and rousing effect at night. Ky9Guc

The footsteps on the other side also changed their previous mechanical style and turned rhythmic, and was sometimes close, sometimes far. It was like a crowd currently dancing a late-night disco outside the door.

Xiao Lan conceded; he was getting restless.

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Putting down the pillow covering his ears, he began to seriously contemplate if running out to beat this group up now would affect him clearing the instance later.

Noticing Xiao Lan’s slight dilemma, Luo leaned over slightly. He looked at Xiao Lan, and a black shadow appeared on his fingertips to form a few words in the air. 【Need my help, sir? 】 nPXszH

Xiao Lan used his eyes to ask: What help?

Luo unhurriedly reached out, a black mist on his fingertips. He stretched out his hands to Xiao Lan’s ears.

Although Xiao Lan was a little dubious, he didn’t avoid it and merely waited to see what Luo would do.

Ice-cold fingers brushed against his ears gently.

After that, Xiao Lan felt the noise around him suddenly become distant; it was as if the clamour was happening far away so that only an extremely faint sound remained by the time it reached him.

This was simply more useful than any sort of earplugs!

Luo drew his hands back and gave him a light smile. 【Apologies, the current me can only do this much.】

This effect was already too awesome. Xiao Lan gave him a like. k bJVX

【I’ll wake you up if there are any abnormalities. Please rest easy.】

With Luo’s help, Xiao Lan went back to sleep. This time, he slept especially well. It seemed that he had gotten used to Luo’s gaze, and he didn’t wake up even when he was being stared at.

The next morning, Xiao Lan left his room in high spirits.

The rainstorm continued outside the window, turning the morning sky pitch-black. GkcEqN

The few players sitting around the dining table all had black eyebags. Nothing could be seen with Wu Ting’s exquisite makeup, but only he himself knew that he had applied a heavy layer of concealer under his eyes today.

They hadn’t been able to sleep for practically the whole night thanks to the noise outside their doors, yet they didn’t dare use items to soundproof their rooms in case they missed any important movements which might lead to them dying by accident.

The players looked at Xiao Lan with his glowing face and Luo with his usual expression. How did these two sleep so well? They might not wake up even if they were tossed out onto the streets in the middle of the night.

Xiao Lan noticed that He Rui still didn’t show up. z1Ar7u

Although Meng Ze said He Rui had things to do, it still made one wonder if this person was already dead in some unknown corner.

Breakfast was still congee; today’s congee was a dark red.

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Although the landlord hadn’t appeared for a very long time, the food still appeared on time for each meal; the players also didn’t want to know how these things were made.

Aside from Xiao Lan, the players all ate with numb faces. They just had to endure a little; after today, they could return to the player hub to eat human food. UsFwv9

Meng Ze was like the rest, mechanically shoving breakfast into his mouth.

The congee in his mouth tasted sticky, and had the fishy smell of ingredients which had been prepared very half-heartedly. He would occasionally bite into dregs like small crushed stones and wood shavings, which made the eating experience even more unpleasant.

Suddenly, he bit into something strange. It was round and seemed springy, and was roughly the size of a tangyuan.

Strange. When he ladled some of the congee out earlier, had there been something this big? 1BLl3q

He was thinking about just chewing and swallowing it, when the round thing in his mouth suddenly turned.

Stunned, Meng Ze promptly stopped chewing and carefully felt it. At that moment, the thing in his mouth didn’t react, as if he had been mistaken.

He relaxed slightly and was just about to chew again.

The thing in his mouth spun several times, and the sensation was especially obvious in his mouth. A58ca2

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“Pu —” Meng Ze hastily took out a tissue and spat out the thing in his mouth, attracting the attention of all the players present.

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Under Meng Ze’s alarmed gaze, the eyeball seemed to have found its target, and slowly turned to meet Meng Ze’s eyes.

“AH —”

Meng Ze could no longer take it, and threw down the bowl and chopsticks in his hands as he screamed.

He was utterly terrified. pVA1Jq

One had to know that he wasn’t an intermediate player at all; he had just accidentally obtained the ability to control an invisible bug for surveillance, and it was He Rui who came to his door to ask for his help. He promised that Meng Ze would profit from it and clear the game along with He Rui, and that he would get half the items obtained in the instance; only then did Meng Ze agree.

They had worked together twice before, which could be considered to have gone smoothly.

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In the end, in this game, they were defeated at the very first step.

After that, He Rui basically disappeared, and didn’t help Meng Ze at all. He could only hide in his room on his own. Even when Duan Xueyin offered to go with him, he didn’t dare go out to look for clues at all. 4TrCZD

“What do I do… What do I do…” Meng Ze was falling apart. The eyeball was still staring right at him. No matter where he was, the eyeball would swivel in his direction; there was no way to escape it.

But in the eyes of the other players, Meng Ze was shouting and screaming at a piece of beef he spat out. His expression was sincere and his movements were exaggerated, and even a little comical.

Duan Xueyin quietly asked, “Is he hallucinating?”

Wu Ting looked at Meng Ze, whose face was covered in tears, and lost his appetite. “He might have been ensnared. You don’t care?” F1ceb0

Duan Xueyin shook her head. “It’s like this team is playing around: one refuses to go out no matter what, and the other can’t be found. I don’t want to bother with them.”

Wu Ting revealed a queen-like smile. “That’s why I said a team formed halfway through is useless.”

Duan Xueyin nodded in understanding. She would be an idiot if she joined a trash team like this ever again in the future.

To avoid his breakfast — which didn’t look good in the first place — from becoming even more disgusting when he saw how Meng Ze’s snot was practically about to fly out, Wu Ting resolutely stood up and gave Meng Ze a slap to bring him back to reality. f ceId

“Pa —”

The crisp sound of a slap landed on Meng Ze’s face as his crumbling mind was smacked back into place.

The instant Meng Ze woke up, it was as if he had evaded some extremely threatening beast; he no longer cared about his breakfast, and fled from the dining table. He ran back to his room, and it even seemed like he was barricading the door with junk.

Wu Ting wiped his hand and looked at the shut door in disdain. “Tch, pussy.” S7fAKG

Until breakfast ended, there was no sign of the evil cult believer.

The players still at the table exchanged mutually understanding glances. It seemed that the final tenant had met with disaster.

The landlord didn’t appear, and all the tenants were dead. Now, only the players remained in all of 404.

After breakfast. z nhUg

When he passed by the evil cult believer’s door, Xiao Lan felt that something wasn’t right.

In the past, a smell of incense always permeated the evil cult believer’s room.

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Each time the door was opened, one could also see the walls in the room covered with strange portraits; many odd things also hung from the ceiling on messy strings. His room always looked very dark.

However, the light leaking out from his room right now was unexpectedly very bright. XD H2E

Xiao Lan reached out and pushed against the door. There was no lock on the door, so it opened easily.

The room was pretty much the same as Xiao Lan’s: a ratty old bed, a pile of junk, and stained walls; it was as if all the evil cult believer’s things had disappeared overnight.

Xiao Lan looked at where the incense burner had been placed in the past; although the walls were as dirty as ever, there were no traces of smoke. There also weren’t any holes in the walls or signs that things had been pasted on and then torn down from the walls; it was as if the evil cult believer who chanted about god all the time had never lived here at all.

Xiao Lan and Luo then split up to look at the rooms of the other dead tenants. NP0YmL

It was the same in all the rooms Xiao Lan entered, as if all traces of the previous tenants had disappeared overnight. This place was already very strange to begin with, and there was now a dangerous sense of some big event right around the corner.

Xiao Lan was just about to leave the room and meet up with Luo, but when he turned around, he discovered that the door behind him had disappeared.

Where the shabby entrance should have been was now a sturdy wall, as if someone had replaced everything when his back was turned.

Xiao Lan turned vigilant. He hadn’t noticed the change behind him at all. Given how sensitive his senses were currently, that was inconceivable. 9k5Se0

This was already the second time this had happened in the game.

The room was still the same, quiet and rundown. It was just that the door had disappeared. Thanks to the low wattage light, the dim lighting gave the room a slightly hazy appearance.

“Da —”

“Da —” 28r95B

“Da —”

The crisp sound of high heels clacking on the ground rang out above Xiao Lan’s head.

Xiao Lan lifted his head and looked at the ceiling. It sounded like a woman in high heels was pacing back and forth upstairs. However, the elevator in this place only went up to four floors, and there were no stairs which went up.

“Da —” UtbneS

The footsteps came from a different location this time, on the other side of the room upstairs.

It was as if the high-heeled person had suddenly teleported to another spot.

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Xiao Lan took out 【This is a dagger coated in highly toxic poison】 and tried calling for Luo at the same time, but there was no reply. This room was like a separate space which isolated him from the outside world.

“Da da da da da da —” BjzxLm

The footsteps sped up and became more intense as they went back and forth rapidly on the ceiling, the incessant sound a little ear-piercing.

Suddenly, Xiao Lan felt a faint gust of wind behind him. He subconsciously darted to the side.

“Whoosh —”

There was the sound of a fleeting, cutting breeze, and something brushed past his back. Qu3IdK

Xiao Lan turned his head. There was nothing there.

He calmed his heart, and amidst the clamour of the high heels, carefully felt for the slightest change around him.

This time, it was on the right.

Xiao Lan abruptly took a step back, and the dagger in his hand slashed out at a spot that looked completely empty. TS02cV

“Ting”. The dagger seemed to collide with something sharp.

But there was still no sign of the thing that was attacking Xiao Lan, and it disappeared again after the attack.

The endless sound of high heels accompanied the phantom attacks, as if they wanted him to sink into terror first.

Xiao Lan wasn’t anxious. In the course of his training, when he had been beaten or killed over three hundred times, he had learnt to be patient and to lie in wait. rg4LWu

A true hunter wouldn’t be confused by external appearances. No matter what that thing was, even if there typically weren’t any signs of it, it would definitely reveal something the moment it attacked.

After his seventy-fourth breath, he was attacked once again.

This time, it came from behind Xiao Lan and on the left. The other party seemed to have lightened its movements, and only put on a sudden burst of speed the moment it was very close to Xiao Lan.

But it still couldn’t avoid Xiao Lan’s perception. Sc7mRO

Xiao Lan moved extremely swiftly and twisted his body at an inconceivable angle. The sharp wind cut across his cheek, but brushed within a millimetre of his skin. Once again, the attack failed.

After that, Xiao Lan swung his dagger and stabbed at a spot that looked completely empty.

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“【This is a dagger coated in highly toxic poison】 deals *** damage, additional toxicity: wisteria.”

Although wisteria couldn’t be considered highly toxic, it could cause nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, and could be considered a pretty good poison for a fight. svSyG

Imagine your opponent battling diarrhea while still needing to deal with you; how miserable would that be?

Success!

Looking at the scarlet blood on his dagger and the system notification, Xiao Lan instantly understood that it was a living thing which was attacking him and not the monster that this room wanted him to think it was.

Furthermore, given this anonymity, there was a high chance that it was a player. HSFAWb

Xiao Lan persisted, and slashed in the direction of dripping blood.

“【This is a dagger coated in highly toxic poison】 deals *** damage, additional toxicity: chocolate.”

A heavy fragrance permeated the air; it wasn’t hard to imagine the smooth and mellow taste in one’s mouth.

Xiao Lan: “…” tbSme1

Can’t you be a little cooler at a time like this?!

What the fuck is chocolate? Big brother dagger, do you think our target is a dog?!!

At that moment, it seemed that the person attacking Xiao Lan was feeling the might of the wisteria, and a sudden urge to go shit messed up their moves.

Following the bloodstains, Xiao Lan attacked several more times. He couldn’t pinpoint the exact location, but his opponent just barely blocked Xiao Lan’s attacks. 3eL6kV

Seeing that the situation was going south, the other party simply slipped away.

There was a sudden fluctuation in the air, and the endless sounds of footsteps above his head disappeared while the door appeared once more, as if peeled out from thin air.

The next second, Luo broke down the door and entered. “Sir!”

Xiao Lan waved his hand. “I’m fine, but the guy escaped.” LP4EBn

Luo quickly went over and examined Xiao Lan carefully at a very close distance.

That handsome visage that was suddenly so close, coupled with such sincere eyes, made Xiao Lan feel a little uncomfortable.

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He patted Luo’s shoulder lightly. “Don’t worry. I’m really fine. Instead, the guy who attacked me has it worse.”

Luo only sighed in relief once he confirmed that Xiao Lan was truly safe and sound. ABTMYS

Seeing the black figure which was practically plastered to his body finally withdraw some distance away, Xiao Lan also let out a quiet breath of relief. For a person with normal aesthetics, the attack of a sudden beauty was still pretty lethal.

Luo, however, had no plans of letting the attacker off.

The matter of Xiao Lan disappearing twice in a row in front of him made Luo extremely unhappy.

His expression was a little gloomy. These things clearly shouldn’t be able to block him at all. MPyw8q

Although he had no memories, Luo had this feeling that he should be omnipotent.

And not like this, which was weak, helpless, useless, and unable to even protect someone important to him. Although Xiao Lan himself was very strong and progressed very quickly, this didn’t affect Luo’s desire to protect him.

It was as if an ingrained arrogance made him unable to put up with the current situation.

Luo said in a low voice, “Sir, give me some time. I will bring him to you.” rsUuG

His voice was cold and stern, and contained an unwavering iciness and bone-chilling murderous intent.

Seeing the rather violent expression in Luo’s eyes and the dark air which surrounded him, a subtle trace of sympathy emerged in Xiao Lan’s heart for his attacker.

Rest in peace.