Upon hearing the word "sister," Yin Xiu's pupils suddenly trembled slightly, and he froze.
The teacher smiled meaningfully, squinting at his wavering gaze, then slowly looked at the other players, "I wonder if, having such an item in your hands, you will choose the road home, or this already dead person."
The players exchanged glances, then hesitated before looking at Ye Tianxuan. Their eyes, however, immediately hardened upon meeting his gaze. "Of course, we choose Boss Ye!"
"The props can only take one person home! But Boss Ye can take many people home! Boss Ye is our way home!"
Their voices were strong and resolute; even if they wavered for a moment, they immediately regained their composure.
Yin Xiu lowered his eyes indifferently, "I will find my sister myself, I will not rely on such things."
It seems that they have already set their goals in their hearts and will no longer feel lost.
The teacher wanted to say something more, but the aunt next to her patted the teacher and said, "Okay, stop lying to them. The props are very powerful, but why don't you mention the side effects? Tell them the truth."
The teacher pursed her lips and said calmly, "Actually, if you make a wish for something unrealistic, problems will arise, because fulfilling a wish is an illusion."
"The road home you are taking is just your imagined way home, and you will be lost in it forever. The sister you want may not be a real sister, but just an empty shell of your imagination. This prop cannot create anything real, but it can use what you currently have to fulfill your desires."
"For example, if you have a broken vase and hope to restore it, then it can be restored because all the pieces of the vase are here. The props just piece the real pieces together to fulfill your wish. If the vase is missing a piece, the props will use a fake piece to fill in the gap and fulfill your wish. However, the props don't care whether the fake piece will leak water."
Yin Xiu pondered, "I need to have Ye Tianxuan's complete body and his soul. Only when I have both can I use the artifact to revive him?"
"More or less." The teacher said casually, but still kindly added, "If his fate is to reach a point of death in a month, perhaps this premature death is a chance for him to change his destiny."
"By determining his lifespan by one month, performing a divination that he has died once, and then resurrecting him, a person's fate will be changed."
"If he is resurrected within a month, then a month later, he will die again in accordance with fate."
Under her aunt's supervision, the teacher said everything that needed to be said and added everything that needed to be added. If she misbehaved, her aunt would hit her and make her confess honestly.
After listening attentively and taking notes of everything, the players nodded earnestly.
They've figured it out: preserve Boss Ye's body and soul, obtain the item, and use it to revive Ye Tianxuan a month later. That way, Boss Ye can come back to life without dying within a month!
The players were overjoyed and began discussing how to find out about the items and retrieve them after leaving the dungeon.
While the discussion was still in full swing, the teacher poured cold water on the situation, saying, "The dungeon isn't over yet. Today is only the sixth day of the dungeon. You can only leave after you graduate tomorrow, the seventh day."
"We still have to go to class! The school is about to fall apart!" The players were in tears. They never expected that being caught in a dungeon would mean having to attend a class before leaving. It was too painful.
Looking at the wailing students, the teacher smiled enigmatically, as if she were seeing her students who had died many years ago. Although those children were not good, even very bad, they were still students she had taken care of for a long time, and she would be saddened by their deaths.
This is why she could never like Yin Xiu.
I didn't care in the past, but the knot in my heart is still there.
Auntie, however, nudged the teacher again and whispered, "Why did you hide one of the conditions for resurrection?"
"What does it matter? Even if one thing is missing, Ye Tianxuan can still be resurrected. It's just a side effect... which isn't a bad thing for him." The teacher sneered.
Ye Tianxuan died because he exhausted his lifespan. To revive him, we would need to replenish his lifespan. It should have been the lifespans of others that were given to him.
He can live as long as others give him what he deserves.
However, if you revive someone using their soul and body without taking this into account, the item will automatically fill the lifespan gap.
But props don't understand what the end of life is.
This person will possess an infinite, void-like lifespan granted by the item, and will no longer be able to die naturally.
But... such a thing, when placed on a sickly person with a short lifespan, becomes subtly strange.
Ye Tianxuan may die of illness or be killed, but apart from dying of illness or being killed, the lifespan of the void, no matter how much he consumes, will not affect how long he lives. What affects his life is only his body.
Judging from Ye Tianxuan's past behavior of consuming lifespan, the false replenishment, which was a side effect of the prop, unexpectedly came in handy for him.
This ordeal seemed almost like it was meant to be for him; once he got through it, his life would be even better.
If he hadn't died here, but instead abandoned the people of the town and chose to live for the remaining month, then his life would have only lasted this one month.
It can only be said that those destined for greatness are ultimately favored by Heaven.
His choices and the corresponding results were what he deserved.
The teaching building collapsed, the dormitory was completely destroyed, and the entire school was torn apart. The instance was basically destroyed, but the instance's mechanics remained the same: there was no way to leave until seven days had passed. The players inside could only spend tonight.
Those with storage space specially selected a suitable prop to preserve Ye Tianxuan's body. It wouldn't rot or disappear inside, and it would be just like it is now when taken out next time. This way, they could search for props with peace of mind.
According to the dungeon rules, the players still had to attend classes. Since the classroom was destroyed, the teacher made them sit in an open space to listen to the lesson, while the aunt found a clean place to set up a large pot and start cooking.
Having experienced all sorts of environments in dungeons, the players showed no fear whatsoever about spending the night in a dilapidated, ruined school.
During class, the players listened attentively. After all, learning to survive in the town was no different from attending a class. Their focused attitude and the fact that they always took out paper and pen to take notes made the teacher very gratified.
So her lecture today was normal. She took the opportunity to talk about things that players would almost never hear from monsters.
"Do you know what the relationship is between your town and the instance?" The teacher tapped the tattered blackboard with chalk, his slender figure bending down to gaze at the rows of people sitting below.
This naturally includes Yin Xiu, Ya Ya, and Li Mo.
Someone raised their hand, "The town and the dungeon are connected. The town is like a rest hall for the dungeon, a place for players to rest."
"Yes and no." The teacher smiled and glanced at Li Mo, then turned around and drew a white blob of chalk on the blackboard. He then drew a large circle around the blob, and then another circle inside the large circle. Pointing to the outermost circle, he said, "This is the location of your town."
"Is that circle inside a dungeon?" a player asked curiously.
"Yes." The teacher nodded.
"Then what is that white blob you drew? It's the one that's surrounded by the dungeon!"
"This…" The teacher slowly raised his eyes to look at Li Mo, "This is the reason for the creation of the dungeon, the source of all disasters. It is very dangerous, so the dungeon surrounding it is a seal, and the town on the outside is another layer of seal. Even if it manages to break through the dungeon and come to the town, it will not be able to leave the town and reach the real world."
The players were a little confused, but they quickly jotted it down: "What is it?"
"An existence that should not have been born into the world. It appeared because of offerings, and eventually took the form of a calamity, devouring its surroundings, twisting humanity, and forming the copy you are experiencing now."
The players didn't understand, but basically, there was a terrifying monster deep inside the dungeon. "So, outside our town, is that the real world? The place we came from?"
"Yes." The teacher nodded slowly. "The further away you are from it, the safer the environment becomes, such as a small town. And the high-risk dungeons you have experienced are the closest to it."
"As for where it lives... going in here is almost the same as dying."