Curse Reply: I'm going to fight the Myriad Corpse Immortal, the highest level one!

She turned her head to look at Xia Jie beside her, a big smile spreading across her face.

"A rather interesting alien curse system. I probably won't forget this battle for a week, Wasabi."

She moved the magic staff on her shoulder to a more comfortable position and tilted her head.

"The sparring is over. Would you like me to show you around the metaverse?"

Xia Jie glanced at her, then at the handsome and straight Ruyi Wand. Although he didn't need a guide, he wouldn't mind if someone was willing to take him along.

"Row."

"Lead the way."

Chapter 152 Granny Liu Visits the Grand View Garden

Splat!

Cowboy hat, pistol, cowboy boots, and a man who has not eaten the fruit of the split-up.

Has the metaverse always been like this?

Xia Jie looked at the minced meat on the ground that was gradually returning to human shape, and turned to ask Xiao Lu.

The Thunder Warlock and Thunder Dung Monster had barely stepped out of the login square when a man dressed as a cowboy suddenly appeared in the sky, falling silently and crashing into a puddle of mud.

"It's always been like this. You won't find it strange anymore once you've seen it enough."

The little deer shrugged indifferently, walked forward, and kicked the budding humanoid lump of flesh twice with moderate force.

From her X-ray perspective, the bones beneath the skin of the person in front of her were already in place because of her just the right amount of force.

“We encounter several people like this who suddenly appear in the sky every week.”

"One in ten of them messed up while trying to use spacetime abilities, and nine in ten they got stuck in the back room theme park."

"Although the person in front of us isn't wearing the classic yellow protective suit, judging from his demeanor and attire before he was smashed, he should be a member of the 'Cowboy Gang,' an organization of backroom players, conducting an experiment to cut out the backroom."

"In pursuit of the ultimate immersive experience, members of this organization will voluntarily seal off some of their memories and permissions, and take the virtual back room as an adventure as a real alternate dimension."

"They don't even know they're playing a game until they die or are successfully cut out."

"For them, the back room is fake, but the thrilling adventure is real."

To satisfy Xia Jie's curiosity, the deer stepped over the half-crippled player who hadn't died from the fall and therefore hadn't triggered the resurrection mechanism of the online game, and waved to Xia Jie.

"They're quite adept at it."

Xia Jie lowered her head, her gaze sweeping over the eyes of the corpse lying on the ground as it gradually returned to its place. She muttered a complaint and stepped over it as well.

The Backrooms is a collective online collection of strange tales that originated on the 4chan forum in May 2019.

Its core premise is that when a person accidentally "cuts out" of reality, they will enter an alternate dimension called "Back Room".

This space is like the embodiment of "error," or a funhouse mirror reflecting reality, where everyday things are distorted and deformed, forming multiple alternate spaces full of bugs and strange entities.

In the worldview of "The Back Room," the normal Earth is called "The Front Room," which is the spiritual homeland that almost everyone who has strayed into the Back Room dreams of.

Xia Jie speculated that the current back chamber of the metaverse, as well as many other fantasy worldviews, mostly appeared after the inner world of the one-person world was added.

It can be said that the setting of the interior as both fantasy and reality instantly increased the freedom of the metaverse by several orders of magnitude.

As Xia Jie's hair was disheveled, behind him, the cowboy who had completed his self-healing slowly regained his senses. His memories were unsealed, and he was stunned for a full half minute before finally letting out a long sigh of relief.

He left home, fell into a back room, encountered a monster, survived perilous situations, and joined an organization.

Growth, love, betrayal, reunion, reunion, sacrifice, farewell...

A profound sense of bitterness filled my heart.

It turns out that all his hardships and wanderings were entirely his own fault.

"strong enough."

The cowboy rubbed his head, his eyes shining. As an immortal being, this experience had restored the vitality of his youth.

A trip to the back room is more beneficial than harmful.

He looked at his life experience task list, which clearly stated:

"First stop, an immersive backroom survival experience, a special edition for the Cowboy Gang."

"Second stop, the virtual world of wish fulfillment, where the world's gaming level drops by ten thousand times, but I remain unchanged."

"In the third stop, as the only male in the world, please use your ability to return from death to create a perfect ending where everyone survives in a sexually repressed world full of yanderes."

"The fourth stop, the Great Chaotic World, the main plot of which includes historical gaps, national destiny arenas, dimensional chat groups, the fusion of multiple worlds, live streaming from the sky, high-level martial arts, the revival of spiritual energy, the revival of mysteries, the awakening of all professions, the invasion of the abyss, folk tabletop role-playing games, and the main god space..."

"Fifth stop, re, Love Subaru's life starting from scratch."

"Sixth stop, O God, activate!"

"Seventh stop..."

These are all foods recommended to him by his predecessors that immortals must try.

At this moment, a dozen meters away—

Lu Ziyun threw the Ruyi Cudgel into the air.

The iron rod tumbled and rose to its highest point, bringing with it a string of tiny sparks of lightning, before falling straight down. The tip of the rod struck the stone pavement with a "clang," bounced twice, and pointed to an inconspicuous alleyway to the left.

"That's it."

She bent down to pick up the magic wand, walked towards the alley entrance, and didn't look back.

There are so many things to explore in the metaverse that the two, who both suffer from decision-making difficulties, unanimously decided to leave the choice to fate.

Xia Jie followed her, her gaze sweeping over the buildings on both sides of the alleyway. From the outside, the alley was so narrow that only two people could pass side by side. The surface was an orange-yellow inflatable mat, similar to an inflatable castle, and the uneven surface underfoot felt like walking on freshly baked bread.

The air in the alley was filled with a faint smell of rubber, mixed with some kind of indescribable sweet fragrance.

The moment I stepped out of the alley, my view suddenly opened up.

The architectural styles on both sides of the street are so chaotic, it's as if someone stuffed blueprints from dozens of eras into a blender.

On the left is a cyberpunk skyscraper with steel frame and glass, on the right is a wooden Edo-style townhouse, and in the middle is a Gothic spire with purple vines climbing its exterior.

Several thick cables stretched across the sky, with rows of lanterns hanging from them, shining with different colors of light.

You can even find a vibrant mix of black and white here.

Among these oddly shaped buildings, there is one thing that stands out in particular.

It is not large, only about two meters square, and is a small crystal palace made entirely of translucent pink crystal.

Every facet of the palace's exterior wall refracts the surrounding light, breaking down the chaotic colors of the street into a soft halo.

Above the palace, which had a hole but no door, hung a plaque with three characters written on it—

"A haven of gentle comfort."

The characters are gentle and the strokes are rounded, as if they were written with a brush dipped in moonlight.

Pure and flawless, yet possessing a certain hidden and alluring charm.

"This thing..." Xia Jie stopped in her tracks, "...a luxurious doghouse?"

"more or less."

Lu Ziyunyi also stopped and pointed in the direction of the crystal palace with her Ruyi Wand. "Don't be fooled by how small it is, like a doghouse. If you put your hand through that hole, you can enter a small world."

She raised her chin, indicating that there was indeed a palm-sized round hole at the bottom of the Crystal Palace, like a dog hole at the base of the wall, with smooth, rounded edges and a faint pinkish glow.

What's inside?

"A life of extravagance and debauchery." When Xiaolu said these four words, there was a subtle sense of "you know what I mean." "One minute outside is like a day inside. As for the specifics of how extravagant and debauched it is, I won't go into details. You can judge for yourself."

Xia Jie glanced at her.

Then he squatted down.

Little Deer paused for a moment, then asked, "What are you going to do?"

"want."

Xia Jie casually replied, and resolutely put her right hand into the palm-sized round hole.

I've built such a huge empire, can't I enjoy it a little?

The edge of the cave entrance felt warm and smooth to the touch, exuding coolness and fragrance, enveloping his wrist like cool water, and then he disappeared with a "pop".

The little deer stood still, the magic staff in its hand hanging down. The expression on its face changed from astonishment to speechlessness, and then from speechlessness to a relieved "Fine, whatever makes you happy."

She leaned against the siren head of a police car disguised as a lamppost, took out a milk tea from who-knows-where, took a sip, and then looked down at the player forum on the crossover website.

A new post in a corner of a local forum:

The unranked new player "Wasabi" is suspected of using a Concept-based ability in a duel. Below, I will seriously analyze the nature and limitations of this ability, and also discuss how to manually control the Deer to counter-kill Wasabi.

Posted by: The All-Knowing Scholar Driven by Interest & Information Comes to Me Even If It Doesn't Come

She blinked, closed the post, and continued scrolling down.

About two minutes later—

With another "pop," Xia Jie was "spit out" from the round hole, as if an ice cream machine had forcibly squeezed out a complete human shape.

He stood up, brushed off non-existent dust from his shoulders, his expression unchanged, and even his hairstyle remained intact.

Little Deer swallowed the milk tea and looked him up and down.

"Is a little horse driving a big truck?"

“It’s not a large vehicle,” Xia Jie said solemnly. “It is truly a paradise. At first, it was narrow and difficult to pass through, but after passing through dozens of times, it suddenly opened up.”

The little deer was silent for three seconds before looking at the small hole beneath the crystal palace.

"...You call that a paradise?"

"This cave is not the same as that cave, this narrowness is not the same as that narrowness, this passage is not the same as that passage."

Xia Jie waved her hand, not wanting to say anything more, but feeling relaxed and at peace.

The taste of Peach Blossom Spring is truly wonderful. I'm grateful for the great hand of fate, which prevented the magic wand from pointing in another direction.

The little deer covered its forehead speechlessly: