Deadly Game: Almighty Boss’s Guide to Making Money

Chapter 1225. The Book at Night (13)

Lin Xi, Huang Jingjing, and Guo Yuelang pushed open the third stone door.

A glass lamp sits in the room, with a note that reads: "Everyone, hold hands and infuse the lamp with the power of friendship to obtain the 'Light of Friendship'."

The three of them immediately joined hands.

The glass lamp emits a warm light, which converges into a white ray of light—the "Light of Friendship".

The moment all three conditions were met, the three stone doors closed simultaneously, a loud bang came from the darkness at the end of the passage, and the door to the secret chamber slowly opened.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they returned to the passage and saw the open door to the secret room.

They entered the secret room.

In the center of the secret chamber sat a huge stone coffin, covered with strange patterns, and surrounded by black mist.

Above the stone coffin, three points of light floated—the “Blood of Courage,” the “Tears of Family,” and the “Light of Friendship” that they had just obtained.

Three points of light slowly merged into the stone coffin, and the lid of the stone coffin began to slowly open.

There was no corpse in the stone coffin, only a beating black heart, surrounded by black mist, within which one could vaguely see the struggling soul of a loser.

—Holy shit.

--What the hell.

—Suddenly seeing a heart was quite frightening.

—Yes, it's still black.

—Why are this year's players so calm!
—They're all pretty bold.

—I thought Xiaobai would be scared.

—No, no, our little white one is only cute on the surface; in reality, she is quite calm.

—Back then, when I saw ghosts drifting into the village, I wasn't scared at all.

—A corpse lay beside me all night, and I wasn't afraid.

—She's just too love-struck; she blushes whenever Jin Shujiu is mentioned.

"That's the heart of the 'Time Guardian'!" Lin Xi said. "Everyone, attack together and destroy it!"

Just then, the stone coffin suddenly shook violently, and a tall, dark figure jumped out of it.

The shadowy figure wore a black cloak, a skull mask, and held a scythe; it was none other than the "Guardian of Time"!
—Isn't this thing dead?

—Did it open his heart and activate him?

—How does he live without a heart?

—Don't worry about what happens in the game, he's alive anyway.

—Well, he's not that scary after all.

—Stronger than that heart.

—To be honest, you get used to it after a while, but it feels abrupt when you see it suddenly.

—And those spirits are quite frightening too.

"You insignificant humans, how dare you trespass into my secret chamber and attempt to destroy my heart?" The Time Guardian's voice was icy and chilling. "Today, I will turn you into books on a bookshelf, trapped here forever!"

The Time Guardian raised his scythe and slashed at the crowd.

Ouyang Xichen immediately drew his dagger to block the scythe's attack, but was forced back a few steps by the power of the Time Guardian.

Bai Yueming drew his peach wood sword and thrust it toward the Time Guardian's chest, but it was blocked by the black mist.

"Everyone be careful! His mist can block attacks!" Huang Jingjing warned.

Looking at the heart of the Time Guardian, Lin Xi suddenly thought of a solution.

"Let's combine the power of the three conditions and attack his heart together! That's his weakness!"

Everyone immediately did as instructed, gathering the "blood of courage," "tears of kinship," and "light of friendship" together to form a colorful pillar of light that shot towards the heart of the Time Guardian.

The Time Guardian's expression changed. He tried to block the beam of light with his scythe, but the beam pierced through his body and struck his heart. "No—!"

The Time Guardian let out a shrill scream, its body began to slowly dissipate, and the black mist gradually disappeared.

The heart inside the stone coffin stopped beating and turned into a pile of dust.

As the Time Guardian disappeared, the surrounding bookshelves began to collapse, and the fog gradually dissipated.

At the end of the passage appeared a large door with the word "Exit" written on it.

The group exchanged smiles, all revealing smiles of relief at having survived a disaster.

As Banxia looked at the exit, she seemed to see her father's figure waving to her.

Lin Xi thought of something and touched her pocket.

"Here I am." The hoarse voice rang out again, and the boy reappeared. "Thank you for ending this cycle of reincarnation."

"Can't you come with us?" Lin Xi asked.

Banxia also looked at the boy.

“I’m already dead, so of course I should stay here with the others in the cycle of reincarnation,” the boy said, then suddenly remembered something. “Does any of you have a key?”

"Me," Quan Quan said.

“Give it to me!” the boy said. “I will use that key to lock the door here and shut out the outside world and the books.”

"Don't you feel lonely when you can't get out?" Banxia asked.

“No, you have your world, and we have ours,” the boy replied.

Quan Quan took out the key and handed it to the boy.

The boy took the key, walked to the door, and opened it.

As dawn broke, they had endured another tense night.

—The task was completed ahead of schedule again.

—72 hours, like a joke in a broken game.

—What a joke! The others haven't even finished the game yet!
—Damn, I was so focused on 1, 2, and 3 that I didn't even notice there are only 66 players left.

—I noticed there were more people in the live stream a while ago, but I didn't have time to ask.

—Did they break a taboo, or was there some other reason?

—They all died in the library, seemingly without violating any taboos.

—Some were crushed to death by bookshelves, some died in illusions, they were all different.

As Lin Xi walked out, she glanced at the live stream a few times.

Seeing that there were only 66 players left, her heart sank, but she quickly calmed herself down.

For a 200-player dungeon, since there was no initial warning against using items that allow for instant completion, it should be allowed.

If props are used from the beginning, not only will they be unaware of anything, but the viewers in the live stream will also be unable to see anything.

The number of viewers was enormous.

Their strength is definitely greater than theirs.

Since the game has shut down the dungeon that everyone can complete, it will still design an upgraded version or open it in other areas. Therefore, it is impossible for them to close the dungeon by completing it.

The only thing we can do is try to reduce the number of people who are eliminated or die.

Next, we need to find out the situation over there.

It would be best if they could turn off the game themselves, or turn off games that are too dangerous.

"It's dawn." Bai Yueming said, then looked at Lin Xi with a grin. "You've completed the game two nights in a row, so you should be used to your reversed sleep schedule by now!"

"I don't need to get used to it; I can sleep anytime."

"Hey, I'm rich!" Xiao Bai exclaimed in surprise, handing the phone Guo Yuelang had given him to Lin Xi. "The reward from the red envelope dungeon has been deposited into this account."