Don't pretend, everyone knows you're the villain!

Lu Tiannan drew the curtains, and the room was brightly lit by the lamplight.

He pulled out a chair and leaned back casually. "What are your thoughts, brother?"

Shen Yi replied calmly, "It's not safe."

No matter when the bloodstains were stained, leaving them there without erasing them will serve as a guide for bad things.

Lu Tiannan knew that the Shen Yi in front of him was different from the one who teamed up with Spider Classroom, and he was willing to play with the Shen Yi in front of him.

After all, the Shen Yi he dreamed of was indeed dead.

"I asked the receptionist, and she said that starting tomorrow, I will have to change my room key every day."

Xi Mingzhu took off the Bodhi seed bracelet from his wrist and fiddled with it between his fingers, casually suggesting, "Shall we go for a walk?"

No sooner had he finished speaking than a knock sounded on the door.

dong dong dong...

His fiddling fingers paused, and his gaze fell fixed on the door.

Lu Tiannan also sat up slightly and looked over, asking in a lazy tone, "Who is it?"

dong dong dong...

Lu Tiannan gasped and hissed, "This isn't good, brother."

"It seems like we have a guest who doesn't understand our language."

The gentle whisper carried a chilling undertone.

Xi Mingzhu shifted her gaze to Lu Tiannan, still maintaining a cold demeanor.

"Not going to keep up the act?"

dong dong dong...

The knocking occurred at a steady three-knock interval, followed by a 30-second pause.

This is the third time.

“Since you’ve agreed to protect your brother this time, there’s no point in pretending anymore. It seems like your brother doesn’t like burdens.” As he spoke, Lu Tiannan got closer and closer to Shen Yi.

Xi Mingzhu counted the time in her mind, but there was no fourth knock on the door. "Stop."

“Brother, why don’t you guess if the thing outside has left? It’s really hard to tell what it is without a peephole,” Lu Tiannan said slowly.

The knocking did not cause any concern or panic among the two people inside.

"Not a player."

Shen Yi's answer made Lu Tiannan chuckle softly.

"Why not guess? If you guess, I'll go and confirm it. Don't you want to know the answer, brother?"

It's like whispering a lure, luring the other person into a trap you've set.

Xi Mingzhu couldn't understand what Lu Tiannan was thinking. "Whether he left or not, he'll come back. The answer doesn't matter."

The smile on Lu Tiannan's lips faded, and he pursed his lips.

"Brother, you're so boring."

He went to open the door, but there was no one there. Lu Tiannan walked straight out of the room.

There was a red handprint on the wall near the entrance, but not on the doors of 302 and 304.

It's a marker.

What Lu Tiannan found interesting was that a red lantern had been placed in front of room 301 at some point, a strange quirk.

Feng Tianlan was still muttering about the value of healers, saying that this kind of violent and deadly dungeon was not suitable for him.

Gu Junbo had ignored Feng Tianlan until he noticed that the lantern at his door had been used once, at which point he spoke up.

Something was being driven away by the lantern.

Feng Tianlan stopped his rambling and reacted strongly.

"So fast? We just got in and haven't done anything yet! What's the rush of those bastards?!"

Gu Junbo contacted his two other teammates while responding to Feng Tianlan.

"Perhaps it's a time-limited instance."

Feng Tianlan let out a wail and collapsed onto the bed.

"Brother Gu, you're really unlucky. Time-limited games are much harder to pass than story-driven clue-finding games. I shouldn't have come!!"

"It's related to two other people. The time-limited ones appeared when Mingxu and I entered the game together."

Time-limited dungeons are difficult regardless of the level.

Most of the plot-driven stories are fairly standard, with only a few presenting significant challenges.

There was no news about time-limited items on the forum.

So far, it seems that only Gu Junbai and Zhai Mingxu have completed time-limited dungeons.

Zhai Mingxu was seriously injured as a result, and it took him two weeks to fully recover.

Reflecting on yesterday's experience, Feng Tianlan commented on Lu Tiannan and Shen Yi, "That tall player was indeed quite intimidating, and the other one seems to have just awakened his talent, so he shouldn't be too powerful."

Gu Junbai did not take into account the relative strengths of the other two.

He was thinking, there are six rooms on the second floor, four rooms on the third floor, and the fourth floor is still unknown.

If the time-limited task requires them to stay in every room, then it would take at least four days for six people to survive in three groups.

The lantern can ward off evil spirits three times, but it's hard to say whether it will last until today.

If any player dies, the situation will be more difficult than ever before.

Of course, this is a guess based on the time spent in the living room. If not, then it would be a little simpler.

Hopefully it's not what I think. If it is what I'm guessing... even Gu Junbai isn't entirely confident he can get his three teammates out.

Just then, the other two teammates messaged, "Boss, something's knocking on the door... It's knocking three times, three times each time. Should we go out and check?"

Gu Junbai looked solemn and said to Feng Tianlan, "The things driven away by the lanterns have gone downstairs."

Feng Tianlan paused, "Shall we go take a look?"

"Don't go yet. I'll have them lock the door and keep any usable defensive items nearby."

Gu Junbo did not intend to act rashly; with a healer by his side, he might not be outmatched in a fight.

Today is only the first day.

This is not the time to risk everything.

Inside room 303, Lu Tiannan finished recounting what had happened outside and then looked at Shen Yi's expression. Unfortunately, her indifferent eyes showed no sign of panic or helplessness.

There wasn't even a basic sense of tension.

It's too calm.

Lu Tiannan said slowly and deliberately, "Brother, being targeted right from the start is not a good sign."

Xi Mingzhu put the bracelet back on his wrist and said calmly, "It's too late to say now."

Lu Tiannan rested his chin on his hand, looking at Shen Yi with great interest.

"Is this your first time in a second-level dungeon, brother? Aren't you scared?"

Shen Yi parted his thin lips slightly: "Does being afraid have any effect?"

Xi Mingzhu always understood one thing: once panic arises in one's heart, it will develop in an uncontrollable direction. It is an emotion that does not help control the situation, and the worst result is death.

He has no fear of death now, so he is at peace.

0561 couldn't help but remind him: "Dear host, please try your best to survive."

Xi Mingzhu remained silent. His calmness did not mean he did not want to live. If something really came knocking on his door, he would definitely take action.

Food appeared on the table in the room at noon; bread and mineral water were provided regularly within the instance.

The door marked with bloody handprints remained tightly closed. Without hesitation, Lu Tiannan picked up a loaf of bread, broke it open, and shared it with Shen Yi.

He also unscrewed the bottle cap and placed it next to Shen Yi.

Xi Mingzhu didn't stand on ceremony and accepted it as soon as it was handed to him.

As Lu Tiannan slowly chewed the bread, he suddenly offered his conjecture: "Brother, this instance doesn't seem to belong to the story category."

"It's been a whole morning, and I haven't encountered any NPCs with plot clues at all. All I've come to are supernatural ghosts and monsters."

Lu Tiannan paused here, then chuckled softly.

"If it's a time-limited paranormal game, we need to find a safe area as soon as we finish eating. We change room cards every day, and the things that come to haunt us are unpredictable."

If it's accumulated hatred, then more than one person might come knocking on the door the next day, and by the third or fourth day...

The situation of things piling up is so much fun.

In time-limited dungeons, the safe zone is an excellent guarantee for surviving until the last day.