Mistaking a horror game for a romance novel, he unexpectedly became a legend.

Song Yi and Lu Xiao triggered a surprise event in the game just five minutes after entering it. Everyone else was worried that they would die that night, but the two of them seemed to have really received some surprise. Their eyes were crinkled with laughter. I have never seen anyone so happy after entering the game.

Song Yi: "Shall we go out and take a look together?"

Lu Xiao: "Let's go?"

After saying that, the two of them swaggered out of the dormitory.

Inside the auditorium, the girls' group's performance had ended, and the soldiers emerged from the auditorium still feeling quite excited.

Dinner is at 6 o'clock, and it's already 5:40. Everyone is heading to the cafeteria after leaving the auditorium.

Song Yi and Lu Xiao went out to familiarize themselves with the environment. This game provided too little background information, and they had to discover a lot of it themselves.

Seeing everyone heading towards the cafeteria, I guessed it was dinnertime.

In this game, players will have a fluorescent bar above their heads indicating their identity and level, which is visible only to the player. When they come out of the auditorium, players will notice their peers and then huddle together in a very tacit manner.

Xu Dachun had only been standing at the door for two minutes when seven players gathered around him. The group was now walking towards the cafeteria, and occasionally players from other teams would join them.

Xu Dachun was very satisfied with the start of the game; the players seemed to be very united. However, when he saw Song Yi and Lu Xiao coming towards him, he suddenly froze on the spot.

The players following behind were confused: "What's wrong, Brother Xu?"

Xu Dachun didn't speak, but his eyes were filled with conflict. Everyone followed Xu Dachun's gaze and saw two players, Song Yi and Lu Xiao, who were laughing like idiots.

Cheng Donglai understood why Xu Dachun was conflicted; it was some player who said it later:

"Song Yi and Lu Xiao, are they the two who offended the NPCs right at the beginning of the game?"

Xu Dachun nodded: "It's the two of them."

Cheng Donglai understood why Xu Dachun was conflicted. These two were too conspicuous; they caused trouble as soon as they entered the game and didn't know how to restrain themselves at all.

Players with an NPC resentment value exceeding 30 will be visited by the NPC at night. Everyone sticks together to reduce risk, but if these two people stick together with them, the team's risk level will probably increase.

Cheng Donglai: "Should we talk to them?"

Cheng Donglai didn't refuse the two people's participation, as that would seem to make them seem heartless, since they were all players.

However, his indifferent attitude and apparent attempt to distance himself from the situation were enough for everyone to understand what he meant.

Xu Dachun's dilemma at this moment was not that Song Yi and Lu Xiao had caused trouble as soon as they entered the game, but that he was trying to determine whether Lu Xiao was the same Lu Xiao.

Inside the lobby of the horror game, the leaderboard displays the total score of the top 100 players. All players use their game IDs, but currently only Lu Xiao is using his real name (Song Yi changed his name to his game ID before appearing on the leaderboard), so Lu Xiao is a special case.

Another point is that there are poster booths in the game lobby with the top scorer and the top newcomer, and Lu Xiao and Song Yi's posters are always hanging there. However, due to the game's protection mechanism, the faces of players who meet for the first time in the game will be blurred by the system. Therefore, Lu Xiao's appearance now is different from the Lu Xiao he saw in the game lobby.

None of these players had played the game with Lu Xiao twice before, so none of them recognized him.

Xu Dachun: "That Lu Xiao, could it be the Lu Xiao who's number one on the leaderboard?"

Cheng Donglai laughed when he heard this: "Brother Xu, are you kidding me? Didn't you see that Lu Xiao's head says level 38? How could level 38 be number one on the leaderboard!"

The other players laughed along with Cheng Donglai: "Yeah, Brother Xu, you're overthinking it. There's no such thing as a coincidence."

Xu Dachun: "That's true, but if a high-level player helps a low-level player, the player's score will be compressed to the same level as the low-level player. It's a bit too coincidental that they are both level 38."

Cheng Donglai remained nonchalant; he simply didn't believe such a coincidence could happen.

"Brother Xu, you're being too cautious, but I still don't think so."

Most players were on the same side as Cheng Donglai, while Lu Xiao and Song Yi never looked at them. Their idea that the two on the other side would join forces with them was simply wishful thinking.

Xu Dachun: "Okay, let's go in first."

Upon entering the cafeteria, Song Yi had hoped to try some local specialties, but upon seeing the food, he laughed at himself for being overly optimistic.

The cafeteria is self-service. The two big men carried their trays around and took a little of everything. After taking a little of everything, they found that there was only one serving of rice and three kinds of pickled vegetables on their trays!

Spicy cabbage, spicy radish, spicy sweet potato leaves, and a bowl of bean sprout soup. Song Yi's plate had two more fried dumplings than Lu Xiao's, while Lu Xiao's plate had two more small meat patties, about the size of coins, that looked like fried bacon.

When the two sat down with their trays, they both saw helplessness in each other's eyes.

This was probably the meal that left them most helpless; if they ate it, it would taste terrible; if they didn't eat it, they would still be hungry.

Song Yi: "It may not taste good, but it'll fill me up."

Lu Xiao nodded: "Your dumplings look good, what kind of filling are they?"

Song Yi picked up a dumpling: "Why didn't you pick any? They must be meat-filled. Why don't you go and pick up two more?"

Lu Xiao's eyes were filled with suspicion; he didn't quite believe it was minced meat.

Lu Xiao: "You eat first, and I'll get more if you like it."

Song Yi took a bite and cut off half of it. When she saw the filling inside, she found it tasteless. After eating half, Song Yi showed the other half to Lu Xiao:

"It's filled with vermicelli, a carb-filled carb, this is the first time I've ever had it."

Lu Xiao chuckled: "Why don't you go and get two more meat patties? How can you not eat meat?"

The next moment, Lu Xiao took a bite and his expression changed.

Song Yi, who was about to pick up a meat pie, immediately sat back down:

"What's wrong? Is it good? Chicken or pork? Is it Huba?"

Lu Xiao showed the filling to Song Yi: "It's not a meat pie, it's made of tofu."

Song Yi chuckled. The bean sprout soup was as bad as swill. Even in a secluded place like Shiliu Village in the Ailao Mountains, Song Yi could eat stewed goose. He never expected that the food here would be so bad!

Song Yi couldn't take it anymore: "Stop eating! I have hot and sour noodles in my backpack, how about..."

Lu Xiao also had some food in his backpack, any one of which would be a hundred times more delicious than these. The two of them stood up with the tray and were about to leave when a loud bang came from behind them.