Buddhist player

As a hidden reward from his beginner trial dungeon, the [Full Set] is a one-of-a-kind item, which he has listed on the auction house.

...But Bai Chen never expected that he would see this photo again.

Actually, encountering this photo again isn't a problem. After all, the player who spent a high price to buy this item isn't necessarily a non-issue; they could become your teammates in the next dungeon run.

However, the timing was wrong.

Not only was the timing wrong, but the location of the photo was also incorrect.

It could appear on Qing Shiyi's body, or on the fat man's body, but it should never have appeared in that drawer in the archives.

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【Item Name: Family Portrait】

[Type: Special Item/Consumable]

[Quality: Rare]

[Special Effect: Gift. A safe zone with a radius of 20 meters is created around this photo. The safe zone lasts for a minimum of 10 minutes and a maximum of 30 minutes.]

[Status: Used, now a special collectible.]

[Note: This was the last gift from the family before their obsession faded.]

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He realized something was wrong after finding the photo in the drawer.

Not to mention that the photo was placed in a location where it could be easily discovered, the fact that the photo had already been used is even more chilling upon closer inspection.

As a consumable item for survival, under what circumstances would someone have no choice but to use it?

If he wasn't mistaken, the person who took this family photo was Qingyi, and the person who used the photo was most likely her as well... even though she had no recollection of the incident.

He had found it strange before that these players, who were all level 10 or above, could not even see the most basic quest traps. Instead of going into the boss questline, they spent a lot of useless time solving useless side quests. But if they already had problems, then it would be easy to understand.

The problem started with the knife-cut noodles, then the fat man, then the door panel, and then the Qing ritual.

But he didn't know exactly where the problem lay.

Qingyi should have realized it by then, otherwise he wouldn't have deliberately left this photo in the drawer. Whether it was him or other players later, as long as they found this photo in the archives, they could easily deduce the fact that their teammate had a problem based on the state of the photo.

...However, embarrassingly, the other side seemed to have forgotten to assess the difference in combat strength between the two sides.

If it weren't for his resourcefulness, he probably would have been left there, and tomorrow he would have gone to the platform like everyone else to welcome his new companions...

"So, what exactly is this catastrophic start?"

Unconsciously, Bai Chen felt a toothache.

In the beginner's trial, although his teammates also had their problems, at least there were a few reliable people around. But in this instance, he is not only all alone, but also faces being hunted down by his teammates...!?

Suddenly sensing the impending danger, Bai Chen lunged to the side without any hesitation.

The next second, the wall he was leaning against exploded with a roar, and amidst the flying debris, Qing Shiyi, wielding a spiked club, appeared at the breach.

"Damn! How could it be so fast!?"

Cursing under his breath, Bai Chen tossed a card towards the other side while busy reapplying the transparent potion to himself.

And then...soaring through the sky, my heart soared.

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Because he had only been there a short time, Bai Chen was not very familiar with the layout of the town. In terms of familiarity with the terrain, he was far inferior to the other four.

However, thanks to the large amount of medicine and the fact that these people were somewhat stiff, he managed to hold his own for a time... and even had a slight advantage.

As long as the medicine points haven't run out, he will never lack supplies.

He had actually considered using sedatives or poison to subdue the four people who were relentlessly pursuing him. The hundreds of medicinal properties recorded in the pharmacopoeia gave him enough room for trial and error.

But the problem is, the state of those four people is rather strange.

He did succeed once or twice, managing to subdue Qing Shiyi or Menban through trial and error with various drug combinations, thinking he would subdue them first and then deal with the rest. But what happened next was far beyond his expectations.

The first time, after he successfully took down Qingyi at the cost of injury, before he could even react, a hand reached out from the shadows and cleanly severed the other's head.

He initially thought Qingyi had been killed by the door panel, but just a few minutes later, he saw the other person holding a spiked club following behind him again.

Shocked by the other's resurrection, he deliberately returned to the place where the other had died, only to find that the body had vanished and even the bloodstains on the ground had disappeared.

The resurrection of Qing Yishi is a complete mystery.

The second time, at the cost of another wound on his leg, he seized the opportunity to poison the door panel. Then, the other party was smashed to pieces by Qing Shiyi with a spiked club.

Minutes later, the door panel, which had seemingly come back to life, reappeared.

The third time, after paying a heavy price, he simultaneously knocked down both Qing Shiyi and Menban.

Just as he was leaning against the wall, panting and thinking about how to hide the two men, they suddenly both died right in front of him. According to the analysis in the "Pharmacopoeia" later, the two men were probably cursed to death by the fat man from a distance.

Minutes later, as their bodies disappeared, the two unharmed people reappeared.

The fourth time, he simply took matters into his own hands and sent his two teammates to their deaths.

Then, unsurprisingly, they were resurrected again.

Facing an enemy that is virtually indestructible, capable of reviving after death and returning to peak condition, the battle is utterly meaningless; in fact, his condition only worsens.

The only way to turn the tide and prevent them from recovering through suicide is to take down all four of them at once.

Unfortunately, that fat guy was very cunning and never showed up. As long as we couldn't get rid of him first, no matter how many times he managed to bring down Qing Shiyi and the others, he could always remotely curse them to death and revive them.

Even when he risked using the Pharmacopoeia to check their condition, he couldn't find any problems, because their physical condition was perfectly normal... except for that curse.

Actually, he had considered using the [Pharmacopoeia] to break the curse on them as soon as he knocked them down, but the fat man's curse killed them much faster than he could break the curse.

What bothered him even more was that the other party seemed to have pinpointed his location with some kind of precision. No matter where he hid, the other party could catch up in the shortest amount of time, so he didn't even have time to rest and catch his breath. He was forced to fight back, let alone try to find the fat man's whereabouts.

At first, he was able to handle things with ease, but as his injuries gradually increased, his condition was getting worse and worse.

...From the very beginning, this was an unsolvable situation.