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In the darkness, the shuffling grew closer, and Xiao Lan held his breath as he waited.

After a while, ‘grandma’s’ slightly rotund figure appeared. 2GSzB8

Xiao Lan was just wondering how a single person could make the sound of so many footsteps — it wasn’t like she was a centipede — when he saw a large crowd of small creatures following behind her.

At a closer look, all of them were small, gray mice which appeared to be the source of the shuffling. The strange thing was that so many mice were following behind her silently and not running about at all. It was a surprisingly synchronised scene. Their movements were even a little like a person’s; some of them were even walking upright and ramrod straight, like they were marching.

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There was even a slight sense of kindergarten children coming out on an excursion.

‘Grandma’ opened the door and waved her hand to indicate that the little mice could leave. After that, they saw the group of mice silently leave through a nearby window. ‘Grandma’ then surveyed her surroundings. Satisfied when she saw that there was no one around, she returned to her room and closed the door. sWwtja

It seemed that this was ‘grandma’s’ room; running into her returning to her room saved them the effort of continuing with their search, but ‘grandma’ was now inside, so they couldn’t go in.

They could only look for the next opportunity.

Xiao Lan wrote on the board: Let’s return first, and find a chance to come take a look tomorrow. 

The other two also nodded, and the three of them were about to head back.

At this moment, footsteps sounded in the corridor again. This time, there were much fewer people approaching. The three of them exchanged looks, then returned to the corner to hide.

After that, two figures appeared from around the corner closest to them; it was Gu Jiangke and Hu Yue.

There was no sign of any injury on either of them. As an intermediate player, Gu Jiangke shouldn’t find it difficult to deal with danger in a beginner’s instance.

The two stuck their heads out and scanned the area, and saw the three of them nearby. When Hu Yue saw Wang Taidi, it was like he had seen something dirty and his gaze twisted away. Conversely, Gu Jiangke smiled with the intent of saying hello. vrwOgZ

Gu Jiangke took out a pen and wrote in the air: Are you guys also looking for clues? How about we cooperate? 

Xiao Lan shook his head to show that they weren’t interested; after all, they had already found a lead. He then waved at the two of them to say, Do whatever you want, we’re leaving first. The three of them thus turned around and were about to return to their room.

Gu Jiangke was clearly a little unhappy. He glared at the backs of Xiao Lan and the other two, his eyes turning increasingly dangerous.

It had been a long time since he was promoted to intermediate rank, and he could be said to have some fame among the intermediate players. He was usually on the receiving end of flattery and pursuit by plenty of beginner players, and had long grown used to it. MUFOdu

Gu Jiangke truly didn’t dare provoke Wang Ke, whose vicious nature was widely known, but these two intermediate players looked very unfamiliar; they were probably newly promoted. To make it sound nice, they ranked as intermediate, but in fact weren’t any different from the beginner rank ba? They definitely didn’t have more items than he did. Who knew how they passed the little girl? It was probably just luck, or they relied on an item from Wang Taidi.

Two unknowns and the trash Wang Taidi dared to not give him face; wasn’t that too arrogant?

At that moment, Hu Yue saw the growing anger in Gu Jiangke’s expression, and he picked up the pen and wrote: Gu gege, how can they treat you like this ah? How outrageous. 

The anger in Gu Jiangke’s heart burned even brighter. These three fellows were definitely fucking lacking in lessons. pjt2zw

Xiao Lan and the others were walking forward when Xiao Lan and Luo suddenly paused at the same time.

Wang Taidi was still a little confused, and only saw them turn around to look behind them; a little golden bell was flying through the air towards them.

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‘Grandma’ had emphasised the ‘silence’ rule, and if this bell rang, it would definitely break that rule. Thinking of what happened before when a rule was broken, Wang Taidi’s heart turned cold.

He looked behind him and saw Hu Yue’s pleased face and Gu Jiangke’s gloomy expression. LNJFhp

The heck, were these two psychos?! No one provoked you, yet you want to come over to bite us. 

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Xiao Lan stared at the bell, prepared to catch it and ensure that it only released the softest sound, but Wang Taidi stopped him and shook his head as he mouthed: Item.

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Xiao Lan frowned and was just about to ask Luo to swallow up this thing with his black shadow, hoping that he wouldn’t get indigestion from it. rs89hN

Instead, a lump of soft mud suddenly dropped from the ceiling and coincidentally fell on the bell.

The bell’s trajectory was changed, and before everyone’s eyes, it was plastered to the floor a couple of meters away from Xiao Lan. Then… that was it.

Gu Jiangke and Hu Yue: “…”

Hello, customer service, there’s someone cheating here. Is no one going to care? njB0Wq

Under Gu Jiangke and Hu Yue’s dumbstruck expressions, Xiao Lan thought that this was probably the effect of the 20% luck ba.

The three gazes at the other party brimmed with ill will. Isn’t it our turn this time?

Wang Taidi took out an item that was like a screaming chicken and brandished it as he mouthed: This one is even more powerful. 

Xiao Lan reached out and accepted it. After testing the weight lightly, he pitched it at Gu Jiangke and Hu Yue. wU04yN

The screaming chicken cut through the air like it was flying, and was so fast that it was like a bolt of yellow lightning. It slammed into Gu Jiangke, who was standing in front, at a speed that one couldn’t react to. Then, it bounced up and down like it was alive and let out a hoarse shriek.

“Ah —

“AAAHHHHH —

“Ah —” Ys0CkF

The screaming chicken’s resounding cries were filled with a sense of existence in the silent house; a single bird was able to produce an effect comparable with an entire chicken coop.

Gu Jiangke’s face had already turned green. He tried to break away from the screaming chicken while Hu Yue tried to pull it away as well.

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They then realised that this thing couldn’t be beaten to death, crushed to pieces, or shaken off. Gu Jiangke looked at Xiao Lan and the others angrily, but how could there still be anyone where they had been?

Click. Qcl6u2

The sound of the door opening was extremely faint compared with the howls of the screaming chicken. ‘Grandma’ stood at the door in her pajamas, a bad expression on her face. Her tone was cold and dangerous. “Grandma said that good children have to keep quiet…”

Hu Yue: “Grand… grandma… we aren’t…”

Without waiting for him to finish, ‘Grandma’ picked up a thick and sturdy rod that was next to the door. “You two are really disobedient and bad children! Bad children have to be punished!”

With that, she dashed towards them at an extremely fast speed. pH12F3

Seeing that the situation wasn’t good, Gu Jiangke turned around and ran.

Hu Yue was conflicted for a moment. The screaming chicken didn’t chase him, but he had already been noticed by ‘grandma’, so he might not be safe either. In the end, he still decided that it was safer to closely follow his golden thigh, and he thus gritted his teeth and followed him.

On this night, the entire wooden house was filled with the sounds of an exuberant chicken.

Morning of the third day. XBlu4c

When the players got up and gathered, Xiao Lan realised that of the other two players, one was missing an arm and the other had a thick bandage over one eye, blood seeping through the gauze. Their complexions were ashen, and they looked like they were in a trance. It was clear that they were in a very bad state.

The lost limb had probably been taken by the little girl last night. As expected, she was pretty fierce.

The Advent World wouldn’t fix this sort of injury for you; you could only find an item to restore the limb yourself.

During their brief exchange, Xiao Lan learnt that the doll cloaks each of them encountered were all different; perhaps a different doll had been hidden in each room. lxKOrT

On the other end, Gu Jiangke and Hu Yue were still alive, but they had heavy eyebags and messy hair. Hu Yue even had a few injuries. It was clear that last night had been especially exciting.

When they saw Xiao Lan and the other two, their complexions were ugly, but they had no plans to go over and reminisce.

Breakfast was still vegetable leaves, but the players already no longer spurned them. They ate breakfast silently, the atmosphere a little heavy.

After eating, ‘grandma’ announced with a smile, “Children, grandma has something to do and has to leave for now. Today, grandma won’t appoint anyone to help with the chores; let’s clean together ba. GgdjvB

“Even if grandma isn’t here, you can’t be noisy. We’re a family, so all of you must be obedient, right?”

Under her focused gaze, the players nodded stiffly.

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After that, ‘grandma’ arranged the cleanup duty for each player and then left.

Seeing her figure disappear into the forest, the players sighed quietly in relief. B17Geo

“Do we… really have to split up and clean like she said…” the male player with a missing arm asked with a pale expression. Xiao Lan recalled that he seemed to be called Zhang Buqi.

“Otherwise?” Gu Jiangke retorted. “Do you dare disobey her?”

“Split up…” Zhang Buqi trembled from head to toe. “I… I want to go back to my room…”

It seemed that he really didn’t want to be alone. But what use was there in hiding in the Advent World? There was no way that the ghosts and monsters would let you off. pCnJqs

Hu Yue rolled his eyes. “Just go back if you want to, why do you need to tell us? It’s not like anyone here will stop you.”

Zhang Buqi looked timidly at the other players. No one stepped up to patiently persuade him otherwise, not even the short curls who seem to have a good nature. In the Advent World, no one wanted to save people who wanted to court disaster.

The players each left their seats and went to the locations which ‘grandma’ had arranged for them to clean up.

When only Zhang Buqi was left in the dining hall, he looked in the direction that the players had gone for some time, then looked in the direction of his room, caught up in hesitation and a struggle. QGYUpi

Xiao Lan had been assigned to a hallway. He went to the staircase and picked up some tools before he went to his designated location.

The hallway wasn’t that dirty; it could be seen that it was usually cleaned frequently.

Xiao Lan had worked as a cleaner before, and cleaned very quickly. After undergoing the standard sanitisation process, the entire corridor looked brand new. Xiao Lan even helped to prune the dead leaves of a bonsai in passing; even the harshest inspector wouldn’t be able to find any fault with him.

Making use of this cleaning opportunity, he carefully examined the hallway, but still couldn’t find the location of the key. K5U V9

After cleaning, there was still a lot of time left, so Xiao Lan headed to where Wang Taidi was, planning to take advantage of the moment when ‘grandma’ wasn’t around to check her room.

As for Luo, Xiao Lan would be able to sense him as long as he called out, so there was no need to specially look for him.

At that moment, Xiao Lan heard a crash in the distance, as if something had been knocked over, followed by the patter of flowing water.

A child’s giggle rang out faintly, and it seemed to be coming from the staircase. DCnETP

Xiao Lan got a bad feeling, and he carefully approached the source of the sound.

If he could save someone, he would do it in passing. If he couldn’t, he could observe and see what sort of danger there was. Given his current fighting strength, Xiao Lan still had the leeway to take this risk.

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Zhang Buqi was conflicted for a very long time, but finally decided that it was still better to be like everyone else, and chose to clean; he truly didn’t dare imagine the price for disobeying.

But he was missing an arm; not only did it affect his task, what was even worse was that he didn’t have any painkillers, so the pain of a missing limb kept tormenting him and making it hard to focus. 1ZNXdS

As he was cleaning the stairs, he heard laughter behind him. He turned around in alarm to look, but carelessly knocked over the water bucket at his feet. The water bucket rolled down the stairs with a crash, like a death knell prepared just for him.

“Heehee… caught a naughty child~” A child’s lively voice rang out behind his head.

“Heeheehee… Naughty child who didn’t clean properly…”

“Too stupid…” Es8Pyh

“Punish… Grandma said punish him…”

Zhang Buqi turned deathly white. Before he turned his head earlier, there had clearly been nothing at all. He turned back around stiffly, but his vision suddenly turned dark.

Feeling an ice-cold sensation on his face, Zhang Buqi hesitantly raised his remaining hand and slowly touched his cheek.

It was a pair of icy hands that were too small and bone-thin with sharp fingers. Perhaps it was a baby, or perhaps… it wasn’t human at all. LK zdA

The pair of hands firmly covered his eyes and couldn’t be torn away no matter how much strength he used.

After that, even more small hands grabbed his body and covered his mouth and nose. There was incomparable strength in these thin, frail hands, and they dragged him down.

Zhang Buqi struggled with all his might and had no time to care about the wound from his missing limb reopening. Unfortunately, his resistance was clearly futile in the face of the strength in these hands, and the ‘snap’, ‘snap’ of bones breaking rang out non-stop.

He had clearly been standing on a solid staircase, but he felt like he was gradually sinking into an abyss. It was very quiet, with nothing at all, and his consciousness also gradually faded. tCY5Pm

This might be a pretty good ending… This way, he didn’t need to face these damned games anymore…

By the time Xiao Lan rushed to the source of the sound, there was no longer any trace of Zhang Buqi on the staircase; only bloody gauze remained, along with a large amount of blood on the ground.

Clearly, the person who made the sound had already met a bad ending.

Xiao Lan carefully studied the traces left on the staircase, and noticed many sharp claw marks. They were placed close together, and the claws probably weren’t that big either. He just didn’t know what this thing was. FqQhRk

Suddenly, there was a burst of scattered giggles near his ear. “Heeheehee… are you also a disobedient and naughty child?”

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