Everyone's playing hide-and-seek: This crazy beauty has maxed-out third eyes.

Dragon Kingdom Strategic Command Center.

Jiang Lai stared at the screen, the broadcast voice still bouncing back and forth between D and S.

"Chief of Staff, what's wrong with the game system?" Chen Zheng put down his pen.

Jiang Lai didn't say anything.

Chen Zheng stood up and walked to the big screen: "An An used Zhuangzi's Dream of a Butterfly to awaken the cats' consciousness, and the game immediately stopped the dungeon by flipping the table. Then she entered the prize pool, and the system started acting up again."

"Looking at the two things together, the game is targeting her," Chen Zheng judged, adding that the reason for moving the grain might also be involved.

Jiang Lai tapped her fingernail on the table: "Not absolutely. If it were a specific case, a D-rank would be fine. But now it's clear that two conflicting results are being applied to the same person, which means there's a discrepancy in the game's internal judgment mechanism."

Chen Zheng turned to look at her.

"One set of rules wants to give her the worst, while another set of rules thinks she deserves the best."

Jiang Lai's voice was very low: "The game is not a whole, Lao Chen, there are two sets of logics pulling each other inside."

Chen Zheng found it hard to believe that the game had two sets of logic?

On the screen, the white light from the beam suddenly flashed.

The broadcast finally stabilized.

[Congratulations to Lin Sui'an, a player from the Dragon Kingdom, for winning an S-rank reward: Sealed Spirit Poker.]

Jiang Lai withdrew her hand from the table.

S-class, won.

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The white light in the pillar dissipated, and Lin Sui'an walked out, holding a deck of cards in his hand; the cards had a black background and gold patterns.

Li Yu was the first to rush over: "Shh! Shh! What happened just now?! The broadcast kept jumping back and forth between DS!"

"I don't know." Lin Sui'an flipped through the cards in his hand. "The game probably malfunctioned."

Lina followed behind, her face still flushed with nervousness: "Did you feel anything in there?"

"I felt the light flickering, just like when the light bulbs in the hospital corridors were faulty when I was a child."

Lydia glanced at the cards in her hand: "S-rank Spirit Sealing Poker, congratulations."

"Fifty-four cards." Lin Sui'an rubbed the cards in his hand a couple of times. "They can seal fifty-four souls."

Li Yu's eyes widened: "Then the cat can..."

Lin Sui'an held up a finger to her lips and shook her head at her.

Li Yu swallowed the rest of his sentence. There were other players from other countries around, and there were some things he couldn't say.

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In the Dragon Kingdom's live stream room, the barrage of comments was at an alarming rate.

momo: S-rank!!! Another S-rank!!! An Shen, what kind of lucky physique do you have!

A native of Zu'an: My heart almost stopped when the DS was jumping back and forth just now. Are you trying to give me a heart attack with this game?!

Another day alive: Sealed Spirit Playing Cards!! Fifty-four cards! Combined with Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream, isn't this just a cat collection card?! No, a bizarre collection card!

An Shen's Little Fan: So An Shen got an S, Xiao Yu got an S, and our Dragon Kingdom has two S's in one round! Ahhhhh!

Never eaten vegetables before: Sister Koi, are you really a lucky koi? My child has never eaten vegetables before, can you bless me to eat vegetables soon?

Koi Fish: I guarantee it! It'll be here tomorrow! Trust me!

The nutrient solution tastes awful: LOL, Sister Koi, how can you accept anything?

Go China! No matter what, we had a great harvest this round!

----

The game broadcast isn't over yet, let's continue.

[43 countries have been detected that still have territory on this planet.]

There were 48 left in the last round, but there are five fewer this round.

In the next round of the game, seven additional players will be randomly selected from the 43 countries.

[To meet the minimum participation requirement of 50 people.]

Li Yu leaned closer, her voice so low that only the two of them could hear: "An Shen, 43 countries now, fewer and fewer."

"Um."

"Those vanished countries..."

"Don't think about it." Lin Sui'an patted her head. "Thinking about it is useless. Just save your own life."

Li Yu pursed her lips and nodded.

"Lin." Alex walked over and spoke to Lin Sui'an, his tone much more subdued than before.

Lin Sui'an looked at him without saying anything.

"I drew an A-grade item." Alex held the mirror forward to show it off. "A magic mirror, a stripped-down version. You can only ask one question, and it will shatter after you ask it."

Suddenly, an image popped into Lin Sui'an's mind—Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?

"Lin," Alex called her again, "what do you want to ask?"

Lydia stood to Lin Suian's side, and Lina also took half a step forward.

Alex raised his hand slightly to indicate that he meant no harm: "Don't be nervous, I'm here to discuss cooperation."

"If you ally with me, I'll let you ask this question."

Tanaka twitched the corner of his mouth behind him but didn't say anything, while Park Jung-hoon lowered his head and stared at the floor.

Lin Sui'an looked at Alex for two seconds: "An alliance?"

"right."

"Aren't they your allies?" Lin Sui'an nodded his chin toward Tanaka and Park Jung-hoon.

Alex's expression remained unchanged: "They are them, and you are you."

Tanaka's face turned green for a moment, but he quickly swallowed it back.

Lin Sui'an didn't take the mirror. She put her hands in her pockets and tilted her head to look at Alex.

Alex.

"Um?"

"In this round of the game, I think I saw you push other players to block the monster."

Alex was startled. The dungeon was completely dark; how could she see anything? But that wasn't a big deal: "It's a survival game; naturally, your own life comes first. I believe any player in a crisis would make the same choice as me."

"Oh, I'm not interested."

"Um?"

"I have no interest in forming an alliance with you."

"Why? Based on the items, I have an S-rank and an A-rank. I'm definitely stronger than them, right?" Alex pointed at Lina and the others.

Ignoring the angry glares from Lina and the others, Alex continued to flaunt his wealth: "By the way, in the last round of the Devil's Forest dungeon, I also managed to snag a treasure chest and opened it to find a crucial item related to the game. If you're willing to form an alliance with me, I'm happy to share information with you."

"Not interested."

Alex, seeing her unyielding attitude, became somewhat angry: "Fine, Lin, I'm only giving you this opportunity because you have some ability. I hope you won't regret it later."

Seeing that Lin Sui'an didn't want to talk to Alex at all, Lina rolled her eyes at them: "You dare to push others to take the fall, who would dare to ally with you? Aren't you afraid of being tricked to death by you in the next second?"

Alex stared intently at Lina: "I hope you'll be just as confident when your country perishes."

After saying that, he left with his two henchmen.

Congratulations to all players for clearing the Dark Night Marketplace dungeon.

The next dungeon will open in fifteen days.

[Game exit countdown: 10, 9...]

"Happy New Year, see you in the next game."

"Give me all the cats, quick!"