Deadly Game: Almighty Boss’s Guide to Making Money

Chapter 1257. The Book at Night (45)

—We don't need to go together.

—The purple one is nearby.

—Oh my god, where did Sophie go?
—Indeed, only gentleness remains in the painting!

—Could it be that seeing how amazing everyone is made you angry?

—Could it be in the purple painting?

Chu Xue took a deep breath and walked towards the lavender field.

As soon as I got close, the mist in the painting drifted out, carrying a faint scent of lavender.

Chu Xue stared at her hands, muttering to herself, "How did my hands turn into paint? I'm going to become a painting..."

Everyone looked at Chuxue, who had a blank expression, wondering what was wrong with her.

Lin Xi was the first to react.

"Wake up, it's a hallucination!"

Huang Jingjing immediately teleported over, pulled Chu Xue back, and pushed her into the light shield.

The blank look on Chu Xue's face faded, replaced by a hint of annoyance.

"I can't believe I fell for that trick!"

“You’re not omnipotent either,” Ouyang Xichen smiled at Chu Xue, trying to reassure her.

Chu Xue looked even more annoyed.

Huang Jingjing teleported to the lavender field. The mist was still drifting. She held her breath and stared at the center of the lavender field.

There was a huge lavender there, its stamens glowing with a purple light.

She reached out to grab it, but just then, a hand suddenly reached out from the painting—it was Sophie.

Sophie's hand glowed with a purple light as she reached out to grab Huang Jingjing.

"Finally found you, the best material!"

"careful!"

Bai Yueming immediately threw a ball of fire at Su Fei's hand.

Sophie withdrew her hand, leaving a black mark on the painting.

Huang Jingjing seized the opportunity to grab the purple block and teleported back to the group.

As soon as the purple block collided with the other six colored blocks, the seven colors suddenly burst forth with dazzling light, converging in the air to form a rainbow.

The rainbow's rays enveloped the entire corridor.

Sophie's self-portrait began to shake violently, and Sophie in the painting screamed. The anger in the ultramarine's eyes gradually faded and turned into ordinary paint.

On the wall, the elegant oil painting also shone with light, its graceful outline slowly becoming clear, and finally it stepped out of the painting and landed on the ground.

"Wenya!" Qingqing was the first to rush over and hug her.

Wenya was still somewhat dazed and touched her body.

"I... I'm back?"

The plaster statues on both sides of the corridor have been restored to their original state.

David's head no longer turned, and Venus's broken arms drooped down.

Paintings such as "Red Storm," "Blue and White Porcelain," "Night Sky," and "Purple Lavender Field" have all been restored to ordinary paintings.

The shadow of an owl slowly appeared in the sky above the corridor.

"Congratulations on collecting the Aura, Hourglass of Time, Memory Profession, Literary Rune, Tower of Science, and Rainbow of Art. Now, proceed to the final door, find the Chapter of Eternity, and purify it to complete the game."

The owl's shadow circled twice on the rooftop, and when its wings swept across the chandelier, the warm yellow light suddenly became glaring.

A carved wooden door has appeared on the originally blank wall at the end of the art gallery.

The words "Eternal Corridor" are engraved in gold on the lintel, with tiny glitters embedded in the patterns, like scattered stars.

Lin Xi walked to the wooden door, her fingertips touching the carvings. The wood felt warm and smooth, unlike the coldness of ordinary wood. "They only said they were looking for the Eternal Chapter, but didn't mention whether there was any danger in the corridor."

She looked up, only to find that the owl had vanished.

"Xia Jin, could you tell me what I should be careful about in the Owl Corridor?"

Only Xia Jin could communicate with the owl when it wasn't present.

Xia Jin closed her eyes, and the faint golden light in her palm was weaker than before.

A few seconds later she opened her eyes, her brows furrowed slightly.

“The owl said that the Eternal Corridor contains ‘remnants of time’ that repeat the dangerous scenes we have experienced, and… if you are trapped by the remnants, you will be left in the corridor forever and become a new ‘fragment of eternity’.”

——Holy shit!
—Another new trap?

Can't this game give players a break?!

—Isn't this normal procedure?
—That's just how bad games are.

— Giving a heads-up in advance is already more than enough.

—Well, actually, what's abnormal is the episodes that encourage people to date and watch them date.

—A fleeting shadow of time?
—Will we see the scene of solving problems in the science and engineering area, or the scene of Wenya being arrested in the art area?
—Qingqing, please don't let them target you anymore, the child is almost traumatized by it!
—This time, vegetables, stop being so greedy!

"It's quite dangerous," Xiao Qin said slowly. "But even if it's dangerous, we have to go in!"

The wooden door creaked open, revealing not the darkness one might expect, but a silvery passageway.

The walls on both sides of the passage are like a water curtain, through which blurry images can be vaguely seen.

Some scenes depict them solving math problems in the science and engineering area, others show them vying for color blocks in the art area, and still others show Wenya's terrified expression when she is sucked into a painting.

"Is this the afterimage of time?" Guo Yuelang frowned.

"It's best if everyone stays away from the walls. The owl said that afterimages can trap people, and it would be troublesome if you got pulled in," Ouyang Xichen said in a deep voice.

His gaze swept across the paintings on the wall, landing on the scene where Wenya was sucked into the painting.

"Wenya, if you feel uncomfortable, don't look at those things."

Wenya nodded, took a deep breath, and took out a small piece of paint she had picked up earlier from her pocket.

That was what she brought with her when she came out of the painting; now the fragments gleam with a pale green light.

“This might be helpful. Back in the art district, the color blocks blocked Sophie’s attacks. These fragments might be able to dispel the afterimages,” Wenya said.

"You can see our situation in the painting?" Lin Xi asked.

Wenya nodded again.

Qingqing hugged Wenya again.

"Then you can only watch, not move, and not speak. It must be very frustrating."

Lin Xi thought about it for a moment and agreed that it was indeed quite stifling, and might even lead to despair.

As everyone walked along the silver passage, after about several dozen meters, the passage suddenly began to twist, and the afterimages on both sides became clear.

Lin Xi suddenly stopped and stared at the wall on her left.

The screen was playing footage of them entering the art gallery, showing Qingqing's fingertips touching her self-portrait, her eyelashes fluttering.

But the next second, the scene changed. Qingqing did not pull her hand back. Instead, she was grabbed by Sophie in the painting and dragged into the canvas!
"Qingqing!" Wenya instinctively tried to rush over, but Lin Xi held her back tightly. "It's an afterimage! It's not real!"

Lin Xi's voice was deep, but his gaze never left the wall.

"Look, there's no reaction from the rest of us in the footage; it's fake."

Qingqing saw it too, and she clutched Wenya's clothes.

“I know it’s fake. Sophie has already been purified by the rainbow, right?” She looked at Xia Jin.

Xia Jin nodded, a faint light flashing in her palm.

"The owl said that Sophie's dark energy has dissipated, and the afterimage is just the rules of the corridor simulating danger; it won't really harm us."