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“So, there’s really no way out of here?” Ji Dong asked.
A short silence fell in the cellar.
The survivors looked at each other hesitantly.
Finally, it was the old priest who coughed, “There is indeed a way ……”
He saw several newcomers all looking at himself with burning eyes, and added resentfully, “I mean, a way that might work.”
“Don’t beat around the bush,” Rose said, exasperated with his stammering, and eagerly pursued an answer.
“Just say it!”
“It’s better if I speak.”
Annie, who seemed to have a habit of ruffling her hair when she was agitated, frowned before speaking.
“When we first came back to town, Merry was still alive…… She was a female researcher at the Institute. She told us that the ‘Moon God Stone’ inhibits the growth of ‘Judas Tears’, and that when they are near the ‘Moon God Stone’, they can’t generate that particle force field…… so…..”
The chestnut-haired woman paused.
Ji Dong, however, understood her meaning, “So if we want to leave Sunset Town, we have to get that ‘Moon God Stone’, right?”
The moment he uttered these words, he quickly glanced at the watch on his wrist, and, indeed, saw the hands on the watch jump forward a small amount.
——Crap, guessed it right!
——This cheesy plot, can it get any better!
——So, we’re going to risk being mobbed by a horde of monsters to find the legendary “Moon God Stone”!
Sure enough, Annie answered “yes”, and the old priest sitting in the chair nodded in agreement.
Rose immediately asked.
“So where is the ‘Moon God Stone’ now?”
She had also seen the change in the progress bar on her watch, and knew that they had finally figured out the correct route to the plot.
Annie fiddled with her hair in annoyance, “The ‘Moon God Stone’ is currently in the Research Institute.”
Hearing her answer, Rose instead sensed something was wrong, “If you all knew where the stone was, why didn’t you go find it?”
The red-haired beauty had entered the [Film] three times. Naturally, she knew that the [Peach Blossom Spring] paid great attention to the logic and rationality of each [Film]. Even Annie and the priest and the surviving soldiers, the locals who belonged to the [Film], behaved consistently with their identities and never acted in a way that was unreasonable.
So if the group of people in the cellar had not gotten the “Moon God Stone” and left Sunset Town yet, it was definitely not because of any “We are not the protagonist so we dare not move” bullshit or a lack of rational reasoning.
Rose speculated that there were only two possibilities to explain why the survivors were still trapped here. The first was that they had tried but failed to leave with the “Moon God Stone”, and the second was that there was something that prevented them from getting the stone.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
In short, whatever the reason, it meant that the challenges they would face were much more difficult than simply breaking through the siege of a group of monsters.
——Shit!
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This was only an F-level difficulty [Film] but why did it feel so much harder than the first two [Films] she’d experienced?
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“Because we can’t get in.”
Annie grabbed her hair, “The Research Institute has now entered the first level of alert. My ID card as a logistics personnel can’t open the door at all.”
“Didn’t you have a researcher before? Just… What was the name of that person…”
Fatty Wong snapped.
“That person does not have an ID card on her? She can’t get in either?”
“If you mean Merry ……”
The old priest showed a sad face, “She was on her way to the Research Institute when she was attacked by a Skeleton Monster and dragged into the woods, that person is gone……”
Another survivor soldier also nodded, “It’s true, I was there at the time, not only her, but two others also didn’t make it back.”
The old priest lowered his eyes, and his fingers reverently drew a circle on his chest.
“May the gods of the sun and moon protect their souls.”
Ji Dong heard this and reflexively shivered.
Even though Ji Dong was not a man of great imagination, he could remember the mountain route they had traveled when they arrived—where even sunlight couldn’t penetrate, and he could imagine a Skeleton Monster springing out from behind the trees, biting a woman, and dragging her right into the woods.
This caused his rather strong little heart to throb and thump. It was getting tough to control the expression on his face to not break his calm and collected persona.
Annie was also depressed.
“Tsk, you should not have let a weak girl take a risk like that!”
The soldier shook his head helplessly.
“The door lock requires double verification with my fingerprints and iris in addition to a swipe ID, so we had no choice but to bring her along.”
“Then, then ……”
Fatty Huang’s voice shivered as he asked.
“Isn’t there any other way? Are we just going to be stuck here waiting to die?”
As soon as his voice fell, all the survivors focused on the fat man in a white corset, and all of their expressions looked quite subtle.
“Allow me to confirm.”
Annie spoke slowly.
“Looking at the way you’re dressed, all three of you should be researchers sent from headquarters, right?”
Ji Dong quickly recalled in his mind the messages that were poured into his head when he first entered this [Film] and nodded.
“Then……”
Annie continued to look at them with that wonderful look, “Don’t you have ID cards?”
——Crap!
A fine layer of sweat sprang up on Ji Dong’s forehead.
——What ID card? Do I have one?
——It’s over! I put it in my backpack! I was in such a hurry to escape that my bag was left behind in the small clinic and I didn’t even take it out!
At that moment, Ren Jianmo, who was sitting next to Ji Dong, gingerly pulled out a thin transparent card from one of the pockets of his overalls.
“Yes, we do have one.” He said in a flat tone.
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And so the plan was settled.
After dawn, tomorrow, Ji Dong, Ren Jianmo, Mo Tiangen, and Rose—these four participants—along with four soldiers, would leave for the Research Institute located in the mountain mine site to find the “Moon God Stone” that would supposedly enable them to pass through the translucent film.
Fatty Huang, on the other hand, was terrified by the difficulties of this [Film], and he refused to take the risk. Despite being chastised by Rose, he was steadfast in his refusal to leave the cellar that could block the monster.
“In case, in case you all don’t return, at least, at least I still have an ID card here!”
He justified with a red face.
“You can’t put all your eggs in the same basket, isn’t that right?!”
Rose was disappointed with his selfishness to preserve his own life, but in front of the eyes of the “locals”, she could not reveal her identity as a participant and speak too frankly.
In the end, the redhead could only suppress her anger and remind him of the reality of being in a [Film].
“Temporary security is not the solution, you know!”
However, Fatty Huang, who had been scared by the monster until he wet himself, had completely forgotten that he had previously reminded Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo to be careful about the ‘plot killings’, and now he just wanted to stay in a safe place and live in the [Film].
He pretended to not understand what his leader was saying, and continued to insist on the argument of ‘dividing the eggs’ as if he could be a flame of hope to prevent their group from extinguishing, if the rest of the group failed.
Rose had to give up on this former subordinate, leaving him to fend for himself and pull back.
“By the way, I’m coming with you guys.”
Annie grabbed the cigarette case from Rose and lit up another one.
“Tomorrow morning, I will go with you.” She said. “You guys don’t know the way anyway, you have to have a guide, right?”
Ji Dong and the others knew that what she said was right.
But if they could, they didn’t want such a young woman to accompany them through this.
In Ji Dong’s opinion, even if they were only the aborigines of this [Film], and they had nothing to do with the actors from the [Peach Blossom Spring], they had their own feelings, emotions, and desires, just like any other living person. Even if they could live again as long as their program was reset, they were not NPC’s made out of the 0s and 1s in binary code.
“You two big brothers.”
Ji Dong turned his head to look at the two soldiers among the survivors, “Do you two not know how to go to the Research Institute?”
The two soldiers shrugged simultaneously.
“Last time we lost Merry halfway and just turned back.”
One of the soldiers thought for a moment and added.
“Of course, we have a map, if we follow it, we should still be able to find it ……”
“Haha.”
Annie opened her mouth and interrupted him, “No need for maps, are you not afraid to get lost in the mountains and lose time for nothing? If you have me to lead the way, you don’t have to worry about that.”
She raised her head and swept her gaze over the people one by one, with an unusually resolute attitude.
“I must go tomorrow, take me with you!”
After finalizing the plan to head to the Research Institute tomorrow morning, several people decided to take advantage of the time when the sun was still not up to rest a little longer.
The old priest took out the little food and water they had left and distributed it to a few newcomers who had lost their bags.
“These are the rations we gathered from the town.”
The old man’s face looked a little sad.
“But later, those monsters found out that we would search for food and water house by house, and would hide in the houses before we’d arrive to catch the survivors by surprise… Many of us died, so we didn’t dare to go back after.”
He picked up a small bottle of mineral water and handed it to Ji Dong, “When we finish eating these, there won’t be any more left, and we don’t know what we should do.”
Ji Dong remembered that when they first came to the town, they also entered a wooden house, and found the “skin” shed by the monster inside.
Fortunately, they were lucky at that time and didn’t encounter an ambush.
He took the water the old man handed him, opened the bottle cap, took a small sip, and then handed more than half of the rest to Ren Jianmo.
Ren Jianmo was stunned when he saw how natural his action was.
But he still opened the bottle and took two shallow sips from the mouth of the bottle that Ji Dong had drunk from.
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The author has something to say:
[Peach Blossom Spring] (Rascal-like): What? A monster that can be physically killed is an F-level difficulty! I refuse to commit suicide!
The Editor also has something to say:
That ending…That was a kiss~
ahhh indirect kiss ;D
thank you for the chapter!
Thank you for the chapter！
The 5th member of Rose’s team might as well be non-existent for all the presence they have!