I went berserk in the game of gods.

Chapter 34: A knife on the head of the word sex
An Li was the first to respond to Cao Yu's command. She immediately sat in the passenger seat and manipulated the repulsive force field to blast away all the vehicles blocking the road, clearing the way.

After the fitness instructor and the businessman got into the car, Cao Yu floored the accelerator and drove towards the suburbs.

An Li continued to use props to clear the way, while using repulsive force to assist the vehicle in turning quickly.

With their combined efforts, the two drove out of the city in less than twenty minutes, shaking off the monster's pursuit and arriving in the sparsely populated suburbs.

An Li's face had turned pale from using the props repeatedly. This was also why she didn't use the props to lift herself up and fly away directly.

Because flying requires the props to keep running, she can't fly very far before exhausting her mental energy.

Fortunately, this dungeon only restricts stamina, not mental energy recovery.

An Li took out three bottles of mental potions and drank them all in one go.

The fitness instructor and businessman in the back seat felt sorry for them after seeing this scene... Just how rich do you have to be to drink recovery potions like water!
"Thank goodness we managed to get a car!" The fitness coach breathed a sigh of relief. "Our stamina has been dropping and we can't recover. If we keep running after those monsters, let alone 15 hours, we probably won't even make it to dawn."

"I thought it was a supernatural survival story, but it turned out to be a zombie apocalypse... That was close."

After adjusting his mindset, the businessman suggested:

“I’ll drive. It’s 8:30 p.m. now, and there are still 22 hours left until the dungeon ends. We’ll probably be driving around in circles in the suburbs for the rest of the time. You guys are strong, so you need to conserve your energy. Leave this kind of small thing to me.”

"Don't worry. This feast of flesh and blood monsters shouldn't last that long," Cao Yu replied. "But if you want to drive, I have no objection."

Hearing this,

Before the businessman could say anything, An Li in the passenger seat had a brightening look in her eyes and asked Cao Yu, "Have you completed the puzzle?"

“There’s still one more investigation to be done, which can only be conducted during the day,” Cao Yu replied.

Then, he found the right moment, brought the car to a stop, and handed over the driving to the businessman.

An Li also suggested switching seats with the fitness instructor and sat down in the back row with Cao Yu.

After the vehicle started and continued driving, Cao Yu said:
"The monsters in this city are the dead people mentioned in the dungeon hints. They weren't buried in their graves and are still haunting us... I think everyone understands that by now, right?"

“Well, the facts are undeniable,” the businessman driving said. “So… does that mean the problem can be solved simply by building them graves and burying them? But how should the people of this entire city be buried?”

"We could get a tombstone and write 'The Tomb of All People in the City of Truth'," the fitness coach suggested.

“We’ve tried that, but it didn’t work,” An Li said.

"...You tried it during the day?"

The fitness instructor was somewhat surprised.

Then, he recalled that he had met An Li and Cao Yu again at the police station... and for a moment, he was even more surprised:

"Wait a minute, you guys started building tombs right from the beginning! Does that mean you deduced from the start that the people in this city were dead?"

"It's not that exaggerated, it's just a bold guess, and I carefully verified it."

Taking advantage of a spare moment, Cao Yu drank a bottle of mental recovery potion, adjusted his condition, and continued:
"However, tonight's anomaly confirms the correctness of this guess. The tomb we built is located on the edge of the fountain square. It has no effect during the day, but at night... the tomb is still there, but the dead cannot rest in peace, which proves that other conditions are still lacking. However, we don't need to worry about this for now."

"Don't worry about it?" the fitness coach asked, puzzled.

“This is a bonus,” Cao Yu said with a smile. “You don’t need this if you just want to pass the game normally.”

He then offered his own guess:
"This city is a huge, false 'common grave,' which encloses the dead but does not bury them."

The people living here share a common, almost life-or-death desire: to eradicate the poachers. The entire city has poured its passion into this cause.

This situation is illogical, even if they are all dead. Unless…

"Unless this wish was imposed on them by someone else!"

An Li suddenly interjected:

"This city, this fake 'common grave,' is very likely man-made, and there is a creator!"

Cao Yu's speech helped her break through the fog that had been shrouding her thoughts.

By changing the perspective and applying the logic, the answer suddenly became clear to her.

She continued:
"The so-called eradication of farming players is like a pre-designed script, with the creator pulling the whole city to act out the script he likes... or rather, wants to see. This is probably why those flesh-and-blood monsters we encountered are all crying for help. They must want to be free, to rest in peace."

"Well, that's pretty much it."

Cao Yu nodded, then added:
"What if there are uncooperative individuals in this scenario, that is, us players?"

“I get it, bro,” the fitness instructor replied. “As long as we cooperate with the performance and please the ‘Creator of the City of Truth,’ we can become like the residents of the City of Truth and no longer suffer from hunger… which means the negative buff of losing stamina will disappear, right?”

"This guess lacks concrete information, but... it does correspond to the background content of the dungeon." The merchant driving the car suddenly realized, "So, what you meant when one of you said you were going to the police station and the other asked if it was related to the background content of the dungeon?"

"If I'm not mistaken, this crisis of flesh-and-blood monsters will end after dawn."

Cao Yu continued speaking:
"The instance opens at 6:30, less than an hour and a half before the flesh monsters appear."

In such a short time, players are expected to complete intelligence gathering, discover anomalies, deduce the logic, go to the police station, sign up to participate in the hunt for the farmers... until finally killing at least one farmer. Putting aside the difficulty of the controls, the time commitment alone is simply too short.

Therefore, I guess the challenge in this instance is divided into two parts: the first part is 'zombie survival' at night, and the second part is playing the role of the 'creator of the City of Truth'. Of course…

He reminded:

"In the end, this is just a guess with little basis. The crisis of flesh and blood monsters might continue until the end of the dungeon. So let's not have too high expectations and wait and see what happens after dawn."

Neither the businessman nor the fitness coach had any objections.

Unbeknownst to them, the two had already begun to follow Cao Yu's lead. Cao Yu and An Li exchanged a glance, their understanding unspoken.

What they were just discussing was a normal... or rather, a common way to clear the game, which did not involve attacking the "Creator of the City of Truth".

If this creator truly exists, given the scale of the crisis in this city... this instance might very well have the conditions to achieve an S-rank rating!

……

the other side.

Cao Yu and his three companions were not the only ones to encounter the crisis of flesh-and-blood monsters.

The first two to encounter danger were the man with glasses and the bald man.

From the moment the bald man entered the dungeon, he kept glancing at An Li, even though An Li was wearing a Pikachu hood.

It's obvious that he's someone who can't control his own desires.

After leaving the square, the two wandered around the city and found out some information—for example, the players in this city were all a bit abnormal.

The bespectacled man originally planned to return to the fountain square to meet up with the other players and chat, but the bald man suddenly said:

"Among the players who entered the dungeon this time, there is an exceptional one."

"You can tell even when other people are wearing hoods?" the bespectacled man asked.

"Looks like you know who I'm talking about. You figured it out too, didn't you?" the bald man sneered.

"Let me warn you, those two 'robbers' are no ordinary people," the bespectacled man warned. "If you want to die, don't drag me down with you!"

"Don't worry, I can tell who the dangerous people are," the bald man said. "For example, everyone in this city is a righteous little white rabbit."

I agree with that.

The man with glasses nodded.

He knew what the bald man was planning, but he had no intention of stopping him.

He took this physically strong but simple-minded guy into the dungeon with him, his purpose being to trick him into venturing into dangerous territory so he could gather intelligence from the various perils.

Now that the other party was taking the initiative to commit suicide, he naturally went along with it, saying, "You want to play around?"

“That’s right.” The bald man’s smirk remained unchanged.

"It's getting dark, we need to meet up as soon as possible." The bespectacled man hesitated.

"Don't worry," the bald man encouraged, "it won't be long."

"...Fine," the bespectacled man said. "I'll only give you twenty minutes!"

then,

The bald man successfully triggered the Flesh Monster Crisis 20 minutes before Cao Yu and the others, at 7:30.

He risked his life to uncover a piece of intelligence—directly attacking the residents of this instance would immediately trigger a small-scale mutation of the residents.

The bespectacled man learned of this information immediately, but his expression turned quite grim... He was surrounded by flesh-and-blood monsters!
……

The bespectacled man wasn't having an easy time, and the man with the green tea personality wasn't much better off.

He originally joined the team, which consisted of female warriors, female executives, and round-faced ladies, because they were easy to talk to and communicate with, and because there was strength in numbers.

As a result, the four of them spent a considerable amount of time just figuring out the direction of their intelligence investigation and making the decision to go to the cemetery.

Along the way, the round-faced woman kept striking up conversations with him, asking him to take care of her as a guy. He was mindful of his public image, so he could only feign compliance.

Upon arriving at the cemetery, they found nothing and had no choice but to return to the fountain square.

Halfway there, they encountered a crisis involving flesh-and-blood monsters.

In this critical situation, the round-faced woman performed very poorly, constantly hiding behind him. Not only did she serve no purpose throughout, but she also acted as a source of pressure, urging and directing him to quickly kill the monsters and clear the way.

The team was eventually scattered by the monsters. Seeing that things were not going well, the female warrior and the female executive showed no sense of teamwork and ran away.

The round-faced woman was surrounded by monsters and kept shouting for him to save her.

"Grass!"

The man with the green tea personality couldn't keep up his act anymore. After yelling angrily, he ran away.

……

At five o'clock in the morning, the sky began to lighten.

The businessman, driving along, saw through the windshield that the first thing he noticed was the blood and flesh covering the ground, melting into the gradually brightening light.

He immediately became excited:
"That's right! Our guess was correct! The city is returning to normal!"

"Go to the police station," Cao Yu reminded him.

"it is good!"

The businessman turned the car around and sped away from the suburbs to the police station.

(End of this chapter)