Passing through the mist filled with the fragrance of flowers, Yin Xiu left the town and entered the instance.
He met the town mayor, who was incredibly eager to see his appearance, and Yin Xiu immediately waved his hand.
When he saw the warden, who was self-righteous and trying to satisfy his spiritual needs, he immediately dismissed him.
Finally, he met Rimor, who was both human and alien.
This monster both craves his appearance and wants to satisfy his spirit; it's incredibly clingy.
"Boyfriend! Boyfriend!" On the long road, with Li Mo holding him on the left and a bunch of tentacles pawing at him on the right, Yin Xiu struggled to move forward.
He could have just cut her off, since it wasn't real anyway, but his boyfriend's moans and groans beside him were unusually soft, filled with extreme pleasure.
There are also people who can get excited and overjoyed just by being by his side, which is very precious to Yin Xiu.
This attention was like a piece of candy in Yin Xiu's life, small yet containing immense sweetness, soothing the bitterness of the past.
He didn't know how to hold onto these things that he might lose, so he could only patiently and trustingly hold these little candies together in his palm, not wanting to lose a single one.
Passing through the last wisp of white mist, Yin Xiu returned to the pitch-black space that had started from there.
From afar, he saw Ya Ya excitedly clenching her little fists and talking to the giant tentacle ball lying on the ground: "You have no idea, I was suddenly thrown into a gloomy place, it was so annoying, so I just destroyed the whole place."
"Guess what happened after I destroyed the house? I got loot! Suddenly a bunch of monsters dropped and gave me food! My stomach is so full!"
The giant tentacle ball lying on the ground also pinched the tips of its tentacles and exchanged fist bumps with Ya Ya from a distance, saying, "I had some too! A monster fell down there too! I ate it! I ate them all!"
"No! I ate more! My brother will definitely praise me later!" Ya Ya proudly puffed out her chest.
"Me! I have so much! I…" The little tentacles crumpled into a ball, stumbling as they tried to keep up with her pride.
But Ya Ya turned her head and saw Yin Xiu. Completely ignoring the tentacle ball, she rushed to Yin Xiu and hugged his lap. "Brother! You're back! Where did you go?"
"I went to a strange space, but it's all over now." Yin Xiu didn't know what had happened in this space. He was dizzy and the scene changed, but it seemed to be over now.
"Hehe! Brother, Ya Ya helped you this time too, brother, praise me." Ya Ya stood on tiptoe and stretched her head towards Yin Xiu, wanting to pat his head.
Just as Yin Xiu's palm landed, before it even reached Ya Ya's head, a stream of sticky liquid suddenly appeared beside him and pushed his palm away.
The viscous liquid gradually grew larger in Yin Xiu's palm, eventually coalescing into a human shape.
Li Mo's head was pressed against Yin Xiu's palm, and he smiled with his eyes narrowed, "Boyfriend, touch me too?"
Ya Ya pouted, glared at Li Mo, and swung her fist to punch his leg, but Li Mo didn't budge.
Yin Xiu helplessly reached out his other hand and patted Ya Ya's head. It was just right to pat two strange creatures with both hands, but these two always had a bad relationship, which was annoying.
Another road stretched out behind them, this time without fog and quiet. The three gathered together, as if everything was over, and all they had to do was follow the road to its end and see what was happening.
But Yin Xiu always felt uneasy.
On the other side, in the pitch-black space, a dark figure angrily smashed the chessboard, its tentacles pointing at Ye Tianxuan opposite, "It was you! You cheated! You let him smell your smoke!"
"Oops... I've been found out." Ye Tianxuan said lazily, casually raising the hand holding the cigarette from under the table. He took a puff and exhaled a thick cloud of smoke into the other person's face.
"I didn't cheat, after all, I'm a piece too." Ye Tianxuan slowly placed one of his pieces from his other hand next to Yin Xiu. "I just forgot to put it there."
The white mist that Yin Xiu had walked through was all Ye Tianxuan's smoke. Each time he passed through it, it kept him conscious and allowed him to calmly face everything he saw.
Facing the shadowy figure's anger, Ye Tianxuan remained calm and collected, flicking the ash from his cigarette. "No matter what, he has reached the end. The game is over. And soon, the little darling you want will come here with her boyfriend, carrying a knife, to kill you."
"Aren't you happy, counterfeit goods?"
Faced with Ye Tianxuan's taunts, the shadowy figure sneered, "So what if I lost? Do you think you've won?"
The surrounding scenery flashed, and the blob of slime enveloping the town's players appeared.
Ye Tianxuan frowned, staring at those people. "What do you want to do?"
With a slight wave of his hand, the shadowy figure instantly transported all the players from the small town to the school where Ye Tianxuan was located.
Faced with a large number of players suddenly landing, the players who were originally clearing the dungeon were also confused. They didn't even have time to react. Suddenly, everyone in the entire dungeon seemed to be greatly affected, and began to become distorted and no longer human.
The school's perpetually dark sky was slowly opening up, and the darkness that people saw was all giant tentacles enveloping the entire school.
The sea emerged at night, and the entire school floated on the water, swaying precariously. Meanwhile, a distorted, dark wind was forming in the sky, violently whipping the eerie creatures that filled the school.
Ye Tianxuan stared coldly at everything there, watching the sky above the school become distorted, the school swaying on huge waves, the lights flickering, and countless players who had turned into monsters crowding the playground, their twisted bodies intertwined, becoming more and more like monsters.
They had lost their human form, forgotten themselves, yet their instincts still raged within them. Their empty eyes stared at the sky, murmuring repeatedly, "Save me...save me..."
Ye Tianxuan could even recognize familiar faces among them.
"Only you in this entire instance can restore a person's consciousness," the shadowy figure chuckled, its tentacles reaching towards Ye Tianxuan. "And you know what the price you'll pay."
"Ye Tianxuan, your small, pitiful candle flame will be lost in this sea storm, and your light will never be able to illuminate anyone again."
Ye Tianxuan remained silent, coldly smoking as he faced the incessantly mocking monster.
The monster laughed, but suddenly stopped, staring straight at Ye Tianxuan. "You don't need to expect Yin Xiu to arrive here in time to kill me and stop the school's anomaly."
"Have you forgotten? There's a half-hour time difference between your space and his. Only here, every step you take in the game will correspond to Yin Xiu half an hour later. But now the game is over. By the time he arrives here half an hour later, your school will have already been destroyed."
Ye Tianxuan suddenly looked up and was surprised to find that he had planned this all along.
Facing Ye Tianxuan, who was finally showing some emotional fluctuations, the shadowy figure smiled and said, "But I can give you a choice, perhaps a choice that goes against your will."
"As long as you hand over all the cigarettes you have now, you can be safely sent out of this instance without consuming any more lifespan."
"You have a long life ahead of you, and you have plenty of time to do what you want. There's no need to die in this instance for them. You are the most perfect person among humans, and no one's brilliance can surpass yours."
The monster beckoned with its calls, but they had no effect whatsoever on Ye Tianxuan's smoke.
"Now that you've taken my cigarettes, no one can stop your influence in this instance anymore, right?" Ye Tianxuan lowered his eyes again and counted the cigarettes in his box. He was so calm and collected that it was as if he wasn't the center of the conversation.
The monster twisted all its tentacles, its anger and impotence directed at Ye Tianxuan. "Why are you unmoved? Anyone would waver in the face of death, why aren't you?"
"It's not worth risking your life for those cheap people."
Ye Tianxuan casually closed his cigarette case, stood up from the table, and said, "Didn't you want to see how I die? Open a passage for me? Let me go back to school."
The monster exclaimed in disbelief, "Are you serious? Are there really people like you?"
Ye Tianxuan, a cigarette dangling from his lips, grinned and said, "Want to come and see for yourself?"