absurd deduction game.

After eating and drinking to his heart's content in the Yorikef instance, Yu Xing received a silver pistol as a reward from the Ideal Country.

This is an ordinary offering. Its function is to fire an unlimited number of silver bullets to suppress evil spirits and filthy monsters, but the effect is mediocre.

The second function consumes sanity to create enhanced bullets, which are quite powerful, but have obvious side effects and need to be considered carefully.

Overall, it's not bad, but you can't bring it into Yin-Yang City because ordinary offerings have no effect there; only title abilities and core offerings can remain unchanged.

It's better than nothing, I suppose.

Besides the pistol, Yu Xing also received a scolding from Zhao Mou.

When Yu Xing was delirious, Zhao Mou was too lazy to reason with him. Now that Yu Xing was sober, the vice-captain gave him a thorough scolding for twenty minutes—and also dragged Carlos and Zhao Yijiu into it, even though the two of them hadn't done anything wrong, and the latter hadn't even gone to the dungeon.

Qu Xianqing, who was actually fooling around with Yu Xing in the dungeon, turned cold just as Zhao Mou was about to speak, and then smoothly left to play with Zhu Yan.

When Zhao Mou got tired of rambling and went to get a water glass to soothe his throat, Yu Xing, who was bored, patted Carlos, who had been dragged into this mess, and with a "plop," Carlos was flattened into a flat paper figure.

Yu Xing: "..."

walk slowly.

He turned to look at Zhao Yijiu.

Zhao Yijiu's face remained expressionless, revealing nothing, but the shadows around her were already stirring restlessly, clearly about to give up and run away.

Yu Xing smiled and said, "Let's go get some skewers?"

Zhao Yijiu: "Let's go."

When Zhao Mou returned with the cup, he only saw a paper corpse and two empty chairs.

He laughed in exasperation. He had intended to figure out where these guys were, but then he changed his mind and gave up. What could he do? He was too kind-hearted. Being with this group of guys who were either younger or much older than him, he always had to worry about so much. He was practically turning into a male mother.

Forget it!
……

After that, time passed little by little.

Rumors about Yin-Yang City were gradually revealed within the system's internal sections, and even those at the lower levels of the deduction team came to know about this place that sounded like the final instance.

Although it has nothing to do with them, it is clear that everyone is paying attention to news related to this copy.

Every remaining ticket that appeared sparked a fierce battle among various factions. Broken Mirror, who already had a ticket, stopped participating and took a spectator's position.

They participated in the simulation games at a normal frequency, and their reputation grew. After all, there were only a few teams whose overall strength could stand at the top of the game and whose members rarely changed, making them even more eye-catching than the big guilds.

As winter approached in the new year, the rankings of the various factions underwent some changes.

The Undead Investigation Team overtook Midnight Guild to take first place, while Midnight Guild moved up to second.

The third one is still a single prism, and the broken prism goes straight up to the fourth one.

It's worth mentioning that the Mysterious Eye Guild, which was originally ranked fifth, underwent a major change, losing many members and dropping out of the top ten. The Research Institute dropped one place to fifth, while the Hourglass Guild remained in sixth place.

The seventh guild, Ghostly Fellowship; the eighth, Desire Rose; the ninth, LSP Foundation; and the tenth, Full Moon Guild—these guilds are roughly equal in strength, their rankings fluctuate frequently, and they compete fiercely. Several noteworthy events also occurred during this time.

After the incident involving the Eye of the Mysterious Guild, some "insiders" came forward to accuse the Research Institute of being a neutral, theoretical guild on the surface, but actually sabotaging the Shadow of the Mysterious Guild behind the scenes. They claimed that it was Ren Yi, a highly respected member of the Research Institute, who was responsible for the attack and demanded that the Research Institute provide an explanation and take responsibility for the matter.

The research institute's approach was to prohibit all their guides and materials from being made available to those who were making such noise.

Without them saying a word, the clamorers quickly disappeared. Some shut up voluntarily, while others were silenced by other guilds that wanted to curry favor with the research institute. Almost everyone supported the research institute, and no one said a word against Ren Yi, making the surviving strategists of the Mysterious Eye seem particularly desolate.

Of course, what the mysterious eye said was true. As an intelligence operative, Zhao Mou gossiped about it with his team members after learning the truth.

—It was the people of the Mysterious Eye who caused Zeng Lai's soul injury. Regardless of the direct cause of Zeng Lai's injury, it was a scheme set up by the Mysterious Eye behind the scenes.

Therefore, Ren Yi did not hold back after learning about this. He also devised a plan to trick the Mysterious Eye and avenge his good brother.

If this matter were made public, there would be too many points of contention, so it's better to keep it a secret. Whoever is unlucky deserves it, and we'll keep whatever we want to say to ourselves.

Zeng Lai's injuries seemed to have healed. Ren Yi borrowed the birdcage from Zhao Mou without explaining what he did with it. When he returned it some time later, Zeng Lai came bounding over, his cheerful laughter mixed with Northeastern dialect, lasting for a full three minutes.

In addition, other guilds also had some gossip. For example, the fortune teller Zhao Ruru completely broke ties with the Zhao family and joined the Midnight Guild. It is said that he is very close to Medusa and has a close relationship with the Midnight Vice President Xu Shu.

For example, Lan Wu, who was just a pretty face in everyone's eyes, suddenly rose to prominence, his strength increased dramatically, and he directly sat in the highest position after the vice president of Shenye. He even obtained a ticket on his own.

Furthermore, Xu Huan of the Xu family, who was inseparable from "Sha," the guild leader of the Hourglass Guild, was seriously injured. He and Sha obtained a ticket together, which Sha kept for himself. Xu Huan seemed to have become a pawn and no longer had the qualification to act with the guild leader.

In response, the taciturn and emotionless Sha said: "Nonsense, she just told Xu Huan to focus on recovering from his injuries."

As the number of tickets decreased both openly and covertly, the system simply implemented a countdown timer. Regardless of whether the tickets were obtained publicly or secretly, the countdown would decrease by one.

There were a total of 23 tickets, and on the evening of the third day of the Lunar New Year, after the New Year holiday, the countdown reached "1".

There's only one ticket left.

At that time, Yu Xing was accompanying Zhu Yan back from an outing. During the day, they visited Han Jiang, the criminal police officer who usually took care of Zhu Yan, together as brother and sister.

As soon as the two returned to the apartment, they saw Zhao Mou, Qu Xianqing, Zeng Ranran, and Zhang Yu playing cards.

Zhao Yijiu sat behind her older brother, watching and learning. Carlos, because cheating was too easy, was forbidden from sitting at the table by everyone as a precaution, and sat on the sofa scrolling through his phone out of boredom.

Upon their return, the group hastily greeted Yu Xing and then warmly greeted Zhu Yan. They pulled Zhu Yan to the card table, where Zhu Yan glanced at Zhao Yijiu with some apprehension. Zhao Yijiu ignored her and moved away, following Yu Xing to the sofa.

Although I'm already in my final year of junior high, people still set off fireworks outside the window from time to time, which is quite beautiful.

Yu Xing enjoyed the view for a while when suddenly, a system notification appeared in her ear without warning.

Number of tickets not yet claimed: 0

All tickets have been allocated, and the prerequisites for opening Yin-Yang City have been met. Before the Yin-Yang City instance opens, this system will conduct a "mock exam" for all ticket holders to help them familiarize themselves with the environment within Yin-Yang City.

This simulation is for single players only. Please be prepared, as the instance will open in 10 minutes.

[Due to the unique nature of this instance, death within it will not result in true death; the player will be reset to their state from a point prior, with no limit on the number of times this can be repeated until the instance is cleared.] (End of Chapter)