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

Lu Tiannan looked at Shen Yi, who had run a distance away, with a troubled expression. Shen Yi stood still and did not move. Lu Tiannan was still two fists away from the doll.

A sharp cry echoed through the narrow path.

The sound came from the crying face doll that Lu Tiannan had casually pulled off his head and then discarded.

The smiling dolls all stopped in their tracks, and the first row began to laugh loudly, passing the laughter from row to row. The laughter grew louder and louder, drowning out the crying dolls' cries.

The smiling doll continued forward, smiling as it went.

Helpless, Lu Tiannan continued walking forward while pulling the crying face doll from above his head.

At first, the laughter hurt Lu Tiannan's ears, but as more and more crying face dolls were pulled off, the two sides could barely mix together and sound a little better.

The important thing is that the army of crying face dolls can block the path of the smiling face dolls.

After walking through this area, Lu Tiannan realized that it was soundproof, which explained why Shen Yi hadn't made a sound.

"Ah...this is torture. You make me suffer all the pain alone, brother, you're so mean. How could you just leave the vase there?"

Lu Tiannan hummed a little tune and continued walking forward. This place was very clean, not at all like a haunted house.

The walls were all white with graffiti, without a single crack. The graffiti was all on the bottom, like a child's drawing.

Lu Tiannan saw Shen Yi looking at Morse code on a wall and found it very interesting.

Didn't you say you didn't recognize them? To force yourself to watch even though you don't know them—that kind of spirit deserves praise.

Lu Tiannan walked over slowly, a hint of resentment in his eyes.

“My brother left me and ran away, which really saddened me. I slept with him for so many nights, so even if I didn’t do anything special, I still put in a lot of effort.”

Xi Mingzhu was still listening to 0561 translate these things when he heard Lu Tiannan's last sentence and squinted and sneered.

"How dare you bring that up?"

Lu Tiannan took off his glasses and smiled innocently as he looked down.

"Why should I be embarrassed? Not only did I warm your bed, but I even cooperated with the bondage game. Are you saying you're still not satisfied?"

Xi Mingzhu's brow twitched as he recalled the incident.

On the day they returned to the lounge after leaving the second-floor dungeon, Xi Mingzhu tied Lu Tiannan's hands together that very night. The ties were loose and made of soft material.

Xi Mingzhu thought that this way, Lu Tiannan wouldn't be able to hug him again the next morning.

As expected, he didn't hug her the next day. His legs were still wrapped tightly around Xi Mingzhu's waist, like an octopus reincarnated.

So the next evening they improved the method, binding both hands and feet. They thought this would be the most thorough way, right?

As Lu Tiannan slept, he freed himself from the things binding his hands and contentedly cuddled Xi Mingzhu for another night.

Therefore, they tied him up tighter the following night, but unexpectedly, they couldn't hold Lu Tiannan at all. Xi Mingzhu was also surprised that he slept so soundly next to Lu Tiannan, and even when he was entangled by the octopus, he didn't wake up until morning.

Shen Yi's current body has an unusually high quality of sleep, unlike her previous body which had shallow sleep.

He couldn't get rid of him, and when he asked Lu Tiannan to sleep with him, they would always stick together in their sleep. Xi Mingzhu was really at his wits' end.

"..." Xi Mingzhu couldn't explain why he was dissatisfied with this matter.

Lu Tiannan's current state of intimacy surpasses that of all the people around him in his predecessor's life, yet the two of them are actually testing each other and are not really familiar with each other.

Xi Mingzhu wasn't foolish enough to take Lu Tiannan's casual expressions of affection to heart, and besides, Xi Mingzhu didn't understand this kind of feeling; he had never tried to like anyone before.

According to 0561, both the protagonist and the antagonist in this world are career-oriented and focused on conquering the seventh level of the dungeon. It's just that Lu Tiannan took a detour and became a troublemaker.

Seeing that Shen Yi remained silent for a long time, Lu Tiannan put his glasses back on and smiled faintly.

"Just kidding, don't be angry. What clue did you find, brother?"

Xi Mingzhu repeated the translation of 0561.

“These drawings were done by Peter. The Morse code is the clue left behind. I guess the content in the drawings corresponds to Morse code. Both methods can be used to pass the level.”

"Hmph~ Whether you can understand the Morse code or not doesn't matter. After all, you can survive by running fast or playing with a doll."

Xi Mingzhu neither agreed nor disagreed with Lu Tiannan's words.

However, some unlucky individuals did not escape this fate. While terrified of the doll, they remained at the beginning, recording Morse code. Mistaking the Morse code for important information, they wasted too much time, and by the time the smiling doll fell and the skeleton was being pieced back together, it was too late to run.

It was surrounded by smiling dolls, but its journey ended when the skeleton broke its neck.

Seeing Lu Tiannan start humming a tune again, Xi Mingzhu asked casually, "Want to listen again?"

"of course."

As Lu Tiannan listened, he squatted down to look at the paintings on the wall.

Shen Yi said in a cold and unhurried voice, "The mothers in these paintings are all played by demons. Peter doesn't want to be found by his mother. Only by helping Peter get rid of his mother can he receive the favor of the angels and gain the privilege of leaving."

The two main characters in the dungeon are contradictory: one is obsessed with finding his child Peter, while the other wants to break free from his mother's control forever.

Lu Tiannan slowly stood up and casually asked, "Brother, do you think the NPC at the door is lying, or Peter is lying? Or are they all lying to deceive us?"

"These are all one side of the story."

Lu Tiannan chuckled, "That's right."

Further ahead were two tightly closed doors, one painted with an angel and the other with a demon.

Lu Tiannan smiled as he looked at the exquisite patterns painted on the door; the choice between angels and demons had long been a factor in his mind.

"Brother, we're being forced to choose between two conflicting accounts. Whom should we believe?"

Helping the child Peter opens the door with the angel painting, while helping the mother NPC opens the door with the demon painting.

This instance uses choice-based divergence to distract players from the very beginning.

“Lu Tiannan, the NPCs at the entrance didn’t follow any of us.”

"Yeah, indeed."

Xi Mingzhu said in a deep voice, "By choosing which faction to represent, we may not be fighting against NPCs, but against other players."

Lu Tiannan looked at Shen Yi with great interest, his tone playful.

"Us? Brother, are you so sure I'll choose the same door as you?"

“You will choose the devil.” Xi Mingzhu’s confident tone surprised Lu Tiannan.

She smiled faintly again in an instant.

"Knowing me too well isn't good. What should I do? I like my brother even more now."

After Lu Tiannan finished speaking, he pushed open the door to the demon and went inside.

But instead of waiting for Xi Mingzhu to follow closely behind, he saw familiar faces—other players.

Players who take other routes and choose the same Demon Gate as Lu Tiannan.

Lu Tiannan remembered that the bald, burly man in front of him was the first player to choose the Demon Gate to enter this room, walking in a separate direction.

The bald, burly man was initially wary of the other players entering, but when he saw Lu Tiannan's appearance, he subconsciously looked down on him, his eyes revealing disdain and contempt.

Lu Tiannan saw the three empty boxes on the table, and then noticed the closed door not far from the big man.

My mind immediately conjured up the Morse code on the wall: [You will obtain the key to get out through certain means.]

Hmph, who knows how many players will compete for the three keys.

A very cunning instance, a game of mutual destruction.

That really suits his taste.

It's a pity Shen Yi didn't come along. He can't continue being just a pretty face. It's really unpleasant that someone dressed so handsomely has to fight.

Lu Tiannan stared at the three empty boxes and curled his lips.

No one said you can't have three keys.