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Chapter 538 Money Makes the World Go Round

She only has her upper body left.

Her upper body, less than a meter long, was covered in blood, and her hair was soaked in blood. Her face was full of terror, her eyes were wide open, and her mouth was agape, as if she had screamed madly before she died.

The less than one-meter-long half of her body was suspended above her head by a rope, and fresh blood kept dripping from the spot where she had been cut in half, dripping onto Coco's face.

Cang Yue... died completely.

Coco wiped her face and struggled to get up, but her hand touched something cold.

She looked down and saw that her hand was on a neck that was about to be twisted off.

She looked down her neck and saw a cold body wearing familiar clothes.

Looking up, there was a face contorted with extreme terror.

He was born in the Xia Dynasty.

he died.

The corpse lay there, tripping them up.

The flashlight illuminated the area beside him, and Wang Chuan stared blankly at Cang Yue, whose body was now only half-dead, and didn't react for a moment.

Without further hesitation, Coco scrambled to her feet, picked up the flashlight, and continued running forward.

Wang Chuan, startled by the light, finally came to his senses. He looked away and stumbled to his feet, trying to continue running forward, but was tripped by Xia Jianren's arm and almost fell.

Then he noticed a strange face peeking out from the darkness behind him, staring at him with a half-smile.

It was Zhao Shuang's face; she caught up with him.

Upon seeing this, Wang Chuan immediately turned and ran away, not daring to look back.

He ran desperately through the dark tunnel, but no matter how hard he tried, the crawling sound behind him didn't get any farther away; instead, it grew closer and closer...

Wang Chuan ran until his chest felt like it was going to explode, and the potholes on the ground tripped him up so many times that he almost fell.

When he stepped into the hole for the eighth time, he suddenly felt a burning pain in his ankle.

He looked down and saw a pale hand with prominent blue-purple veins gripping his ankle.

Wang Chuan opened his mouth, as if to shout.

But before he could even shout, he was suddenly dragged backward and disappeared into the darkness.

Coco ran desperately ahead. When she heard no footsteps or crawling sounds behind her, she knew that Wang Chuan had probably been killed.

But she didn't have time to feel resentment and regret for her teammates; she had to survive first.

As Coco ran forward, the tunnel grew wider and higher, but Coco instinctively felt that this was not the way out of the cave.

really.

After running for a while, she finally saw the end of the gloomy tunnel.

A wall blocked her escape route. A flashlight swept across the wall and she saw a pile of corpses lying haphazardly at its base. The strange female corpse at the top was none other than Zhao Shuang's body.

Presumably, it was seeing this that Zhao Shuang remembered that he was already dead.

Her gaze lingered on Zhao Shuang's corpse for a long while before she slowly turned away.

Behind me was a dark tunnel.

Zhao Shuang, who should have been dead, was standing there, grinning at her.

There was nowhere left to run; she was in dire straits.

At this point, three of the five players who entered the instance have died.

Only she and Gu Mian remained.

And now, the ghost is standing right in front of her, reaching out its hand to her...

But just then, Coco suddenly took out something quite large from her inventory: a millstone that was one meter in diameter and waist-high.

At the same time, the three-digit number in her game currency column was rapidly decreasing, turning into "0" in just a few seconds.

This made things even worse for Coco, who was already struggling financially. [Money makes the world go round.]

[Introduction: Money is omnipotent, even to ghosts. Perhaps you can escape while the ghost is busy grinding grain.]

[Function: Each use will deduct all of the user's game currency. After using this item, all nearby spirits will automatically grind the millstone, with the grinding time proportional to the game currency spent by the user.]

[Tip: If you spend enough money, this item can temporarily evolve into 'Money Makes the World Go Round']

This is a special item she received during the college entrance examination activities.

The moment the millstone appeared and the game coins reached zero, Zhao Shuang's hand, which had been reaching out to Coco, suddenly changed direction, pushed onto the nearby millstone, and began to spin.

The scene was quite comical.

But Coco had no time to appreciate this comical scene. She took a deep breath, rushed past Zhao Shuang who was pushing the millstone, and ran into the dark tunnel.

If the opening isn't at this end, it must be at the other end!
Coco didn't have many game coins to begin with, and she knew that this special item wouldn't hold Zhao Shuang back for long, so she grabbed her flashlight and ran forward as fast as she could.

Sure enough, just over twenty seconds later, a chilling rustling sound came from behind her.

The crawling sounds were even more frantic than before, as if it had been angered by Coco.

By this time, Coco had run more than 200 meters, crossed the corpse of Cang Yuexia Jianren, and also saw the already dead Wang Chuan.

She didn't stop, running frantically forward, the tunnel becoming narrower and narrower, and the overhead view getting lower and lower.

She had no choice but to run forward with her back hunched and head down, which greatly reduced her speed.

The worst part was that the tunnel was shrinking, and Coco was bent over with her arms constantly rubbing against the wall, making it almost impossible for her to run.

And this tunnel is showing a trend of shrinking further.

Coco was devastated: "How could this be! Is there no exit here?!"

The crawling sounds behind them grew closer and closer, as if they were already behind them.

Just as Coco thought she might be wrong and believed that the tunnel actually had no exits at either end, a ray of light pierced the darkness ahead.

She looked up excitedly; it was light shining in from outside.

Upon seeing this glimmer of light, Coco mustered all her strength and ran swiftly through the narrow cave, her back bent low, while the crawling sounds behind her were almost right next to her ears.

The light grew stronger, and Coco could see clearly that it was indeed the exit.

She took a deep breath and rushed outwards, and finally, the light enveloped her completely.

The damp, musty smell of the tunnel is gone, replaced by the fresh scent of trees.

Just as she took a deep breath, she suddenly felt a soreness and numbness in her shoulder.

She turned her head and saw a twisted hand covering her shoulder.

Looking back at the hand, there was Zhao Shuang with a wide-open mouth and a strange smile: "Got you."

Coco turned to look at her, but didn't move.

Just as Zhao Shuang slowly moved her hand, intending to grab Coco's neck, she suddenly felt a tightness on her scalp.

She mechanically turned around.

She saw that her hair was being grabbed and lifted up by a hand.

Then came Gu Mian's face, which grew larger as she approached. She saw the person in front of her open and close their mouth, uttering a sound—"Got you?"

Meanwhile, the fat man, who was waiting idly in Gu Mian's room, noticed that the announcement had been updated.

[Announcement (June 25, 19:02)]

[The main character of the 'Amnesia' instance has died in the line of duty. This instance will no longer be available. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.]

[List of players receiving compensation: Gu Mian, Keke]

Great, having a stockpile of drafts is really helpful. [Tactical overconfidence]

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