Buddhist player

Perhaps because he was truly exhausted, Bai Chen slept very soundly.

When he woke up, it was already past four in the afternoon. He had slept for almost eight hours. Although he still had a terrible headache, it was much better than the previous pain that felt like his brain was about to explode.

Bai Chen pressed his temples hard with his hands and sat up from the sofa.

The living room was silent, and outside the window, the sky remained a pale, almost grayish white, the entire town shrouded in a hazy mist.

Sitting at the coffee table, Xiaoqi was concentrating on drawing something on a piece of white paper, which was scattered all over the table.

There seemed to be a battle going on in the living room. The coffee table, sofa, and walls all showed signs of damage. In the open space in front of the coffee table, a figure covered from head to toe with a white sheet lay quietly.

It's unclear whose twisted sense of humor it was, but besides the white bed sheet, four white candles were lit at the four corners around the figure.

"You're awake?"

Noticing the commotion coming from the sofa behind him, the little girl put down her pen and turned around to look at him with a hint of surprise.

"Where are the others?"

He nodded in response, his gaze sweeping over the figure covered with a white sheet on the floor, and Bai Chen asked a question.

"Him? He went out to collect it..."

Before the little girl could finish her sentence, the roar of a motorcycle echoed in the courtyard outside. Not long after, Quantum Self-Brake, still carrying that spiked club on his shoulder, rushed in from outside.

Upon seeing that someone had already woken up, he visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you, Sanqing, you're finally awake. I thought you were going to sleep until evening."

As he spoke, he casually handed a few sheets of draft paper to the little girl sitting at the table.

"Are you drawing a map?"

Without responding to the other person's words, Bai Chen picked up a piece of white paper from the coffee table, glanced at it, and raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, this is the key to your success in clearing the game."

Xiao Qi took the piece of white paper and nodded.

"I'm not too clear on the specific procedures for clearing the level, but I understand the general direction. They told me... In this town, there is a building that is perfectly hidden. It cannot be seen directly, but it can be located on the map by completing the map data that has been reconstructed over several days. The reason why this town is reconstructed every day is to hide the existence of that building."

"and then?"

Bai Chen frowned as he looked at Xiao Qi in front of him.

—Clearly, what the other party is talking about now is the experience of the few players who had cleared the game before.

"...I've never been inside that building, and I don't know what it's like inside, but if you can successfully locate that building, you'll be halfway there."

After a brief silence, Xiaoqi spoke again.

"Those people must have actually left, because at that time, the fog that shrouded the entire town briefly disappeared for a period of time, and the sun reappeared."

"So you're thinking about drawing maps now... but what about after that?"

Shaking his head, Bai Chen stood up from the sofa.

"That's just a temporary fix; once they leave, everything will go back to normal. It's nothing..."

"But this is a proven and correct way to leave!!"

Seemingly in a hurry, Xiaoqi loudly interrupted him.

"You can't stay here long. Once you cross a certain threshold, this town will swallow you up. And we don't have much time left. To successfully locate that building, we need at least three days' worth of town maps. You simply don't have time to waste!!"

In the past 3700 days of the cycle, she had considered going to the town to find the existence of this hidden building, but not to mention whether she could get past her parents first, it was impossible for a ten-year-old child to draw the entire map of the town in one day.

You see, the dangers in the town aren't just the fog monsters that emerge from the blood mist. After dying nearly 500 times trying to come up with this idea, she had to give up.

"No... never mind, whatever."

Bai Chen wanted to say something, but looking at the expression on the little girl's face, he gave up the idea.

"Uh... I think she's right about that."

At this moment, the quantum self-braking device raised its hand.

"Based on our previous calculations, we can only hold out for a maximum of five days. Locating the location of that hidden building requires three days' worth of maps, plus the daily exploration needs. Our remaining time is actually very tight, so we must start our operation as soon as possible..."

"Who said I haven't taken any action?"

Rolling his eyes, Bai Chen was speechless.

"I just want to say that your method is too slow; I have a faster way."

Just like the fog that can be seen everywhere in the town, the town's landscape, which changes every day, is also the most likely anomaly for players to notice. Anyone with a sound mind would not give up investigating this aspect.

For example, with the knife-cut noodles, she initially tried to draw a map, but the plan fell through when the other party was captured by the town.

To be honest, if there hadn't been so little time left yesterday, he would have drawn the map himself.

"A faster way...you mean your unseen, hidden helper?"

After a moment of stunned silence, the quantum auto-brake quickly recovered.

"Pretty much. It has an art background and is very mobile, so drawing maps is just a natural task for it. I assigned it this task before I went to sleep this morning."

Bai Chen took a can of Coke out of his backpack, opened it, took a sip, and shrugged.

"Judging by the time, it should be almost finished by now."

"...Why didn't you say so sooner?"

Unconsciously, Quantum Self-Binding's lips twitched slightly.

...If that's the case, then what was the point of him driving his motorcycle around the town for seven or eight hours? Was he just exhausting himself?

"You didn't ask."

Bai Chen glanced at the other person with a look of disgust.

"On the contrary, I gave you such detailed instructions, but you still let the battle spread to the living room, it's so noisy, okay?"

Although only one of the four was left, it would still be difficult to find him if he was determined to hide. After all, there is no such thing as being able to guard against a thief for a thousand days. In addition, he was really sleepy at the time, so he simply took the initiative to ambush and set a trap.

With the team's strongest fighter gone, and only one sick person and a small fry in the living room, he didn't believe the other party wouldn't take the bait.

Meanwhile, to ensure everything went smoothly, in addition to writing the plan in advance and hiding it in a card to give to Quantum Self-Stop, he also kept the Hand of Painting Prison hidden in the dark as an insurance policy.

In the end, his scheme was quite successful... although the process wasn't perfect.

He was sleeping soundly when suddenly there was a loud noise in his ear...

Quantum self-braking: "..."

For a moment, he was speechless.