Chase Game

Ling Miaomiao opened her eyes and saw dim candlelight, mottled walls, and iron railings as thick as her forearm.

"This is... a dungeon?"

Her mind began to receive information.

The queen taking a nap, her maidservants stealing the white jade bracelet, hiding, being interrogated, being imprisoned...

Scenes flashed rapidly through her mind.

"Hmm, so I'm now the maid who stole the white jade bracelet, but the white jade bracelet isn't on me right now... Let me think, oh! So it's over there."

"But this thing is now the players' target..."

The girl paced back and forth in the dark, damp dungeon, her reflection shimmering in a puddle on the ground.

If Ling Yi were here, he definitely wouldn't recognize that this is Ling Miaomiao.

Because the original owner of this body was a maid, she had short hair, was taller, and had freckles all over her face.

Ling Miaomiao's soul temporarily resided here.

After a short while, she stopped, clenched her right fist and punched it into her left palm, a slight smile playing on her lips, and said:

"If the original plot was supposed to develop this way, then I'll make a slight change."

The girl suddenly transformed into a little sparrow, flapping her wings and flying out through the gap in the railing.

……

In the lounge on the 18th floor of the association, Zhang Haiping was smoking a cigarette while Wang Xiangyu was scrolling through his phone.

"stop!

Don't scroll away, listen to me first!

You are a successful man... You are responsible and have a sense of duty...

Now, all you're missing is one thing: our genuine leather wallet that exudes masculine style...

Oh!

Since that's the case, I have no choice but to buy it...

Wang Xiangyu was just tricked into the payment interface when he suddenly froze.

Her face, which had been beaming like a chrysanthemum, suddenly turned serious.

Zhang Haiping also noticed the anomaly, exhaled a cloud of smoke, and quickly asked:

"What's wrong?"

Wang Xiangyu narrowed his eyes, seemingly lost in thought, and said:

"The dungeon difficulty has jumped to level B."

Zhang Haiping's eyes widened, clearly shocked:

"Will the difficulty increase further?"

Wang Xiangyu stood up, walked to the window, and explained to Zhang Haiping with his back turned:

"It's not a secret, it's just that you don't have 'authority in the game,' so it's normal that you don't know."

Zhang Haiping and others listened to Wang Xiangyu's follow-up remarks.

"Generally speaking, players like me who have obtained 'game authority' can be called 'high-level players', possessing abilities such as opening dungeons and initiating PvP."

"But there is an even more special group. They are guests chosen by God, not pursuers and fugitives, but have a completely new identity: 'God's Chosen Ones'."

"Those guys are really like they've been cheated."

They can enter the ongoing game through some kind of medium and even take items out of the game.

"But only in story mode, where they have what they want."

They rarely interact directly with players, which seems to be disadvantageous for them as well; sometimes they even have to avoid them.

This was the first time Zhang Haiping had ever heard of the "Chosen Ones," and he was so shocked that he forgot to smoke.

"So, that means the Chosen One intervened in the 'Stolen Item' copy?"

"right."

"What do they want?"

"The 'Game Source' can only be retrieved within the game. I only know the name; I don't know its specific function."

Two siblings, unaware of each other's identities, are in the same game. One has to hide from the other players, while the other has to track down a thief, and they end up as rivals.

……

Ling Yi and Rogers arrived at the dungeon, where they learned that the maid's name was "Lia". Later, they were led by a soldier to the cell where she was being held.

But the soldiers and Rogers were dumbfounded. The cell was intact, but where was that big, living person?

"Witchcraft! Your Highness, she must be a witch; she used witchcraft to escape!"

Whether the soldier was afraid and trying to shirk responsibility or something else, he just happened to be right by accident.

Ling Yi observed the layout of the cell and fell into thought.

The disappearance of the maid Lia can almost be seen as her fleeing to escape punishment.

If no evidence is found tomorrow, she will be released without charge. However, perhaps due to pressure from the "four detectives," she has to change her plans and escape from prison ahead of schedule.

But now that the cell is intact, how did she escape, and where will she go?

At that moment, a "tap tap tap" sound came from the stairs leading down to the dungeon.

Ling Yi was all too familiar with that voice; it was the sound of Li Fang's high heels, his opponent from the first game.

However, Li Fang is already dead beyond any doubt, so naturally she can't jump out again.

Emerging from the shadows was Yuan Xiangqing.

She was clearly taken aback when she saw Ling Yi, probably because she didn't expect someone to get there before her.

"Lia vanished into thin air."

Ling Yi released the information first.

Yuan Xiangqing remained silent, her haughty eyes scrutinizing Ling Yi.

In the dim candlelight, the perfect curves of this mature woman were even more accentuated.

She stepped forward with cat-like steps, and with each step, the pleats of her cheongsam tightened, outlining her rounded figure.

When she came to Ling Yi's side, she was level with him, wearing high heels.

She looked at the empty cell with her own eyes before speaking:

"I went to Leah's room first, and then I found this."

Yuan Xiangqing handed Ling Yi several tattered sheets of paper, with burn marks on the edges.

"Huh? Was it found in the brazier? Why didn't we find it when we searched it before?"

Rogers raised a question, but Yuan Xiangqing did not answer.

Ling Yi had a guess: this thing might be a restoration of her skill.

Since Yuan Xiangqing didn't say anything, she certainly wouldn't inquire. It was already quite generous of her to share information with him.

He scanned the contents of the tattered letters and pieced together a message.

Leah fell in love with a soldier named Grytton, but neither of them wanted to live a life of poverty.

So they decided to have Leah steal the Queen's jewelry and treasures, and then have Grytton hide them in a secret place.

After three days, when no evidence is found, Leah is released without charge, and the two elope.

In the normal course of the story, Leah wouldn't just disappear into thin air. Once the group finds their way here, captures the soldier Gritton, and forces him to reveal the whereabouts of the treasure, the matter will come to a perfect end.

This is consistent with the difficulty of a D-level dungeon.

But now that the Chosen One Ling Miaomiao is impersonating Lia, the difficulty has jumped from D-level to B-level, which complicates matters.

However, Ling Yi and the others were unaware of this; they simply assumed it was still a D-level mission.

"Besides the white jade bracelet being stolen, were there any other pieces of jewelry stolen from the Queen?"

Ling Yi suddenly asked.

Prince Rogers glanced at the two of them and said innocently:

"Yes, but those things are gone and gone. Only the white jade bracelet is important."

...a big dog.

Ling Yi cursed inwardly.

He asked this question because he had previously thought that only the white jade bracelet had been stolen, so he had complicated the motive for the crime.

Smart is mistaken by smart.

Only after reading the letter Yuan Xiangqing brought did he suddenly realize:

Damn it, he was just a thief who valued money over his life.