Compared to the scene of harmony and joy with Xu Yintang, another player in the same instance is facing a much more dangerous situation. After all, as soon as they enter the instance, they have to face the terrifying start of being surrounded by the black-robed people. Zhou Qian did well not to scream on the spot.
Calm down! Calm down, calm down, calm down—
You are now one of them; don’t panic, you can still make it.
Zhou Qian dared not even take a deep breath, trying to minimize her presence among the black-robed people. Moonlight cast their shadows on the carpet, and the elongated, slender shadows of the black-robed people resembled twisted serpents, about to devour her small, helpless, and pitiful self.
Zhou Qian got goosebumps just thinking about it. As a rookie who had only played one game, a modern-day female college student who was out of shape and had poor endurance, her skills were probably not on par with many excellent novice players. Her acting skills were subpar, she had a weak heart, and she panted like a dog after running 800 meters… But she had the Player Forum!
Knowing she was weak, she had to find a way to compensate. Zhou Qian took the guides from the game gods on the player forum seriously, including the classic instance, “Night of the Birth of the Gods.” So as long as she followed the steps in her memory, there should be… there should be no problem!
After encouraging herself in this way three or four times and discreetly taking out the wolf repellent spray she had prepared from her system backpack, Zhou Qian finally had some confidence in surviving in the instance.
She mustered the courage to observe her surroundings out of the corner of her eye, trying to memorize the paths and terrain she had passed, and listening to the casual conversations of the black-robed people around her. She cross-referenced known information to confirm the locations of the sacrifices and the progress of the ritual.
The instance scene for “Night of the Birth of the Gods” was a luxurious three-story villa. The first floor was used for large-scale gatherings of the faithful and the final ritual, with a large number of ordinary believers gathered there.
The second floor, where she was now, contained rooms for storing ritual supplies and rooms for the organization’s leaders to use, and it was patrolled by multiple squads of black-robed people like those around her to prevent anyone from infiltrating and disrupting the night’s ritual.
The room where the sacrifices were held was on the third floor, and a senior believer would check on the sacrifices every half hour.
Zhou Qian bit her lip, contemplating her next action plan.
She definitely had to go to the third floor. In “Night of the Birth of the Gods,” players had only two roles, and since she had drawn the only “believer (imposter)” role, the remaining players must all be the “sacrifice” roles, locked on the third floor, waiting for her to open the door to rescue them.
The more they stuck together as a team, the better their chances of surviving until morning and completing the mission.
Zhou Qian didn’t expect a miracle in a low-level instance and hoped they would have players experienced in the game, preferably those who had read the guides, like her. “Night of the Birth of the Gods” was known as the “beginner’s graveyard,” and the death rate was extremely high for the sacrifice characters who weren’t prepared. Even though it was not a nice thought, Zhou Qian was really glad that she hadn’t drawn the “sacrifice” role.
Lost in thought, Zhou Qian nearly bumped into a black-robed person who suddenly stopped in front of her.
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Danger!!!
Zhou Qian involuntarily held her breath, clutching the anti-wolf spray tightly, hesitating on whether to strike first.
“What’s wrong?” The person next to her also sensed that something was off, interrupted their gossip with others, and asked the one who had stopped.
“…a smell,” the person replied while sniffing, “it smells like bugs.”
Cold sweat ran down Zhou Qian’s forehead as she tried to swallow her saliva as naturally as possible, feeling her heart thumping loudly in the silence.
Please stay quiet… Heart, don’t beat so loudly…
However, one of the black-robed people was not concerned about their companion’s alertness. With a laugh, they said, “Don’t worry about it. Under the Mother Goddess’s gaze, those little bugs can’t get in.”
“Besides, even if they did get in, they would have no way out.”
His tone was light-hearted, but it carried a genuine sense of murderous intent as he reached out to his companion for agreement, saying, “Right?”
Thankfully, he chose the person on his left, and Zhou Qian, who was standing to his right, was so terrified that she couldn’t catch her breath. She was very self-aware of her acting skills.
…
She desperately hypnotized herself not to mind the continuous, thick, red liquid seeping through the door crack, or to think about what might be behind the door. She reached out to grasp the door handle and twisted it with all her strength.
“Clunk.”
The sound of the lock getting stuck was faint, yet mocking, mercilessly blocking Zhou Qian’s attempt to open the door.
Locked…?
The muscles on Zhou Qian’s face froze in an eerie and ridiculous expression. She reluctantly tried to twist another door, only to hear the mocking sound of the lock again.
This… this can’t be…
Ha… hahaha…
Suddenly, Zhou Qian didn’t know what the most appropriate reaction was, especially when she realized that the one thing she had forgotten in her nervousness before going upstairs was the need for a key to open the sacrifice room. This key point had been replayed in her mind multiple times.
But she… but she…
Zhou Qian couldn’t help but bang her head against the wall, emitting a choked sob from her throat.
How could she have forgotten something so important…?
Although she had prepared lock-picking tools and practiced, there was no way she could pick this many locks in half an hour with her level of skill…
In the moment her psychological defenses broke, the shadow of fear that had been hovering outside her soul entered, and the system issued a rational warning.
Regardless of whether she chose to leave immediately and hide, waiting for the next wave of people inspecting the sacrifices to get the key, or whether she took a gamble and tried to pick a few locks – no matter how she chose, she couldn’t just stand there.
Thinking this, Zhou Qian suddenly heard faint cries for help coming from deep within the corridor. Her spirits lifted, and she quickly walked in the direction of the sound.
“Save me…”
“Help me…”
It is close… the door was right in front of her…
“Clang.”
The sound of keys hitting metal woke her up from her daze, Zhou Qian immediately halted in her tracks. She snapped to attention with a start, hurriedly geting down from the windowsill. She had almost jumped, she thought she was right in front of the door where the cries for help were coming from.
Zhou Qian patted her chest, still shocked, and, following the direction of the sound from a moment ago, saw a set of keys a few steps away from her.
They were so obviously thrown there, glistening with a brilliance more captivating than gemstones.
Zhou Qian swallowed hard, from below looking up at the direction where the keys had fallen, clutching the wolf-repellent spray in her hand. A shape that was difficult to distinguish passed over her eyes, like octopus tentacles or an agile snake.
Behind!
Zhou Qian turned around abruptly, raising the spray. Although there was nothing behind her, she could unmistakably sense the presence of something that had been there before and might still be lingering—a certain kind of presence, like the essence of darkness itself.
It was difficult to describe, hard to grasp, but merely touching that presence made her head spin and her stomach churn as if she’d been struck.
However, at the same time, she shifted her body, grabbed the set of keys, and, enduring the nausea and dizziness, she approached the nearest door and desperately inserted the key into the lock.
In this instance, the only ones who would provide her with items for assistance were her teammates. She couldn’t waste that opportunity…
As for the option of rescuing herself and then discarding the keys and running away—this game was full of players who were paranoid, not used to teaming up with strangers, and that teammate who had helped her already appeared to be no saint. The fact that this expert who could easily solo the instance was willing to help a noob like her and even actively give her items was already quite good.
Zhou Qian had heard of stories where some high-level players intentionally killed their teammates to clear instances faster, and she didn’t want that to happen.
Author’s Note –
Zhou Qian: Are we really in an instance? [Self-doubt]
Zhou Qian: Scared to death by the big shot, clinging to myself (╥﹏╥)
Zhou Qian: Fighting for my life in the instance while also preparing for a high-level math exam (╥﹏╥)
Zhou Qian: Why are there such sufferings in the world?
Studying for Math Exam and scary instance is cruel.
When you study for an exam all night and absolutely choke when it comes time 😭
Can’t wait to read more, am loving this so far 👀 Thanks for the translations <3
Girl I’m praying for you 💀
Lol why do I think that our mc is going to pretend to be an npc like a certain someone I know 😂
Eyyyy is it possible that the someone you’re speaking of has a sweet tooth and is an actor…?
Can you tell me what novel please thank you!
The Days I Clear Escape Games Pretending to be an NPC
Thank you for your translation ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I can’t wait for people to be scared of him. He has already lost most of his sanity and now is more closer to a monster than human.
+1
ash sister!!! you got this!!!