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Is Chapter 543 really that pleasing to the eye?

“The name of Miss Qiao’s world sounds formidable,” the fat man pondered. “Perhaps it’s too terrifying to be suitable as a dungeon?”

As he pondered this, he looked at Xiao Qiao again: "So, Miss Xiao Qiao, could you describe what your world is like, and why that world doesn't appear in the dungeon?"

Although he asked the question, the fat man didn't expect Xiao Qiao to say anything useful.

Sure enough, the group saw her put down her fork, as if she was thinking seriously.

They waited.

About half a minute later, she seemed unable to describe it any longer, so she picked up her fork again and continued to eat the meat on her plate.

Gu Mian and the other two waited in vain.

So the group decided not to question Xiao Qiao any further. There was another person from a lower-dimensional world upstairs in this building; they could go and ask him.

The fat man held a glass in both hands, filled with orange juice he had just squeezed out with a juicer: "Doctor, Xie Bi'an seems to be away from his room these past few days. I've been secretly observing him recently and found that he goes out early in the morning and doesn't come back until evening. He's incredibly fast; he disappears in the blink of an eye."

To put it nicely, it's called secretly observing; to put it bluntly, it's spying.

The fat man had been spying on Gu Mian for many years, and he was quite adept at it.

"Does he go into the dungeon every day?" Gu Mian stroked her chin. "There are indeed quite a few ticket booths around here."

Although Xie Bi'an is nowhere to be found all day, you can still catch him if you keep an eye out.

A few days later, Gu Mian finally cornered Xie Bi'an one evening.

When they saw him again, he was still the same as before, looking like a mummy from head to toe. His parents couldn't even recognize him.

"Is there something you need?" Xie Bi'an asked gently as he was cornered downstairs at the hotel.

Gu Mian didn't know how the other person saw her standing in front of him.

The cloak completely covered his face, not even revealing his eyes, so Gu Mian couldn't see them.

Liu Ruyan suddenly appeared out of nowhere and was leaning against the side watching the two of them with an expression of watching a show.

A moment later, Xiao Qiao also appeared. She stood straight next to Liu Ruyan, staring intently at Gu Mian and Xie Bi'an.

Chu Changge appeared alongside Xiao Qiao, and the three of them stood in a row, looking just like spectators waiting to watch a show.

Perhaps not wanting others to overhear Gu Mian and Xie Bi'an's conversation, one of the audience members, Chu Changge, moved closer to Gu Mian and said, "Go ask outside."

It's unclear whether he's keeping an eye on Liu Ruyan or Xiao Qiao.

Gu Mian then put her arm around Xie Bi'an's shoulder and shoved him towards the door, saying, "You've been disappearing like a ghost these past few days, making it so hard for me to find you. Are you playing hide-and-seek with me?"

As she said this, Gu Mian had already pushed Xie Bi'an to step out the door.

Chu Changge followed closely behind the two.

Just as Gu Mian was about to say something more, he suddenly realized that something was wrong with his surroundings.

Xiao Qiao was craning her neck to watch the three people's backs when they suddenly disappeared two seconds after stepping across the threshold.

The three people disappeared right under her nose.

Xiao Qiao opened her mouth slightly, then ran to the spot where the group had disappeared, looking around, but couldn't find a single hair.

"Where is everyone?" She stared down at the ground, as if trying to burn a hole in it with her gaze.

Liu Ruyan also came over. She looked around at the empty surroundings and frowned: "I'm afraid we've entered a special instance."

Special copy?

Gu Mian looked at the panel that had suddenly appeared in front of her.

[Triggering the special instance 'Hide and Seek Alone']

[Number of players: 7]

[Insufficient players detected, randomly adding teammates...]

[Matching successful]

[Instance Introduction: 'Hide and Seek for One' is a famous urban legend. Players need to fill the doll with enough glutinous rice, red thread, and body tissue (mostly hair or nails), and then sew it up with red thread to play 'hide and seek' with the doll.]
Because the original 'Hide and Seek Alone' game was too complicated, this version has been simplified, omitting the step where the player pretends to be the ghost and searches for the doll.

[Instance Mission: The game begins upon entering the instance, where a doll plays the role of a ghost, and players need to hide;]
The first hour after entering the instance is a hiding time for players. During this period, the 'ghost' will not move. After one hour, the 'ghost' will move to find the player who filled in the body tissue. After the 'ghost' moves, the player can still move freely.

Mission accomplished if you are not caught before sunset.

This dungeon doesn't seem to have any tricks; you just need to hide and avoid being caught by the dolls.

After the three of them looked at the introduction panel, everything went black.

When the lights came on again, the surrounding environment had changed.

When Chu Changge opened her eyes, she saw a large bathtub.

The bathtub was filled with water, and a brownish-yellow teddy bear, as tall as a person, floated on the water.

Its belly had been cut open, but it had been stitched up with crooked red thread, so it seemed that the copy had done all the preparations for them.

This is the restroom. Just turn around and you'll see a large mirror hanging on one wall, reflecting Chu Changge's image and the teddy bear in the bathtub.

He quickly stepped out of the bathroom, his eyes searching for something that could tell him the time.

It was a one-bedroom apartment with a living room, kitchen, and bathroom. There was a clock on the coffee table in the living room. He picked it up and glanced at it; it was seven o'clock.

Looking out the window, it was already broad daylight. According to their mission, they needed to survive until sunset.

The sun won't set for another ten hours or so...

Meanwhile, the other players had already gathered together.

Three players are gathered in the living room of a residential building.

Looking at their names in turn, their game nicknames are Huai Xin Zhen Yue, Bai Wu Wu Wu, and Liu Yi Ji.

Bai Wuwuwuwu is a female player, and the other two are male players.

At this moment, all three of them wore expressions of confusion and fear, because they had not entered voluntarily, but had been inexplicably pulled into this special instance.

With actual death possible in dungeons, players are extremely resistant to them.

But there was nothing the three of them could do but accept their bad luck.

"Hello, hello..." Liu Yiji looked at Bai Wu beside him and checked her name on the player panel.

This instance did not assign a "name" to the players.

Bai Wu replied subconsciously, "Whether it's you or not..."

The group was still in shock and filled with fear.

Liu Yiji was the first to calm down. He looked around and saw that it was a four-bedroom, one-living-room house. The doors of three of the bedrooms were open, and they came out of the three bedrooms.

He remembered what he had seen in his bedroom and looked at another male player: "Pillow Moon, when I entered the dungeon, there was a big doll sewn with red thread in my room. You have one in your room too, right?"

The male player named Huaixin Zhenyue nodded slightly.

Seeing that the two seemed quite familiar with each other, Bai Wu asked, "Do you know each other?"

Huai Xin Zhen Yue explained, "We were friends before this game started, and we always went into dungeons together. When we were selected for this special dungeon, we happened to be not far apart, so we were brought in together."

As Huai Xin Zhen Yue was explaining, Liu Yiji was walking in front of several open doors and looking inside.

In each room, there was a long, rectangular plastic basin filled with water, on which floated large dolls sewn with red thread.

These dolls are all enormous, almost as tall as a person.

Each of these three dolls corresponds to one player.

The thought that these things would rise up and hunt them down in an hour sent chills down Liu Yiji's spine.

He quickly looked away.

At this moment, Huaixin Zhenyue began to ask Bai Wu, "Did you enter this instance by yourself?"

“No,” Bai Wu shook his head, “I was with my friend, her nickname is ‘Yu Ji’s Suicide’ but she doesn’t seem to be around nearby now…”

Did Yu Ji commit suicide?

Huai Xin Zhen Yue felt that this name was unlucky and that he would eventually slit his own throat.

However, even if it's unlucky, there's no way to change it now, and besides, now is not the time to talk about whether the name is lucky or unlucky.

Because the introduction stated that the first hour was safe, the group did not immediately flee.

Huai Xin Zhen Yue glanced at the wall clock with the hour hand pointing to "7" and the minute hand pointing to "1": "Since we're together now, why don't we discuss this instance first, a one-person hide-and-seek... I've heard of this game before."

This is a dungeon where real death is possible; they can't just wander around aimlessly as soon as they enter.

We need to analyze it first.

Bai Wu nodded slightly: "I've heard of this game before. It seems to be a very famous supernatural game."

Huai Xin Zhen Yue recalled: "The steps of that game were almost the same as those described in this instance. It involved stuffing glutinous rice and fingernails into a doll, sewing it up with red thread, placing the doll on salt water, and then playing hide-and-seek..."

"However, in the original game, the person first plays the 'ghost' to find the doll. After finding the doll, they stab it three times with a knife and then say 'It's your turn.' Only then does the doll play the ghost."

However, this instance removes the stage where players dress up as ghosts and directly lets dolls play the role of 'ghosts'.

Players must run for their lives from the very beginning.

"Why?" Huaixin Zhenyue wondered. "Could it be that they're afraid players will damage the ghost? Surely no player has that ability?"

“After all, this is a horror instance,” Liu Yiji’s voice came, “making players dress up as ghosts to find dolls doesn’t really provide a scary experience, so deleting it is understandable.”

At this moment, Liu Yiji was standing in front of the closed door, his face filled with doubt.

The copy didn't instill any memories in them, so they didn't know what was inside the door.

Just as Liu Yiji was standing at the door, puzzled, he suddenly heard the sound of the doorknob being turned.

He looked down and saw that the doorknob was turning, as if someone was turning it from behind the door.

Then, the tightly closed door was suddenly opened.

Liu Yiji, standing in front of him, was startled and took a big step back.

The sudden opening of the door startled the other two people in the living room, who hadn't expected there to be anyone else in the house.

The three of them turned their gaze to the direction from which the sound came, and behind the door stood a handsome young man in a white coat.

I once finished writing a copy in a single night in a fit of extreme anger!
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