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After all, once they hear a child's laughter, they have to find the cat within 10 minutes.

This school is quite large; if this black cat runs off, it might take 10 minutes... to find it.

Nobody wants to know what will happen if they can't find it, and nobody dares to try.

"what is your opinion?"

Mercury looked at Van Shaw, who had not yet expressed his opinion.

"Forget it," Fan Xiao shook his head and said, "Other players will probably do this, let others take the fall for us. Let's see how it goes first. As for us... let's play it safe and give up on the imprisonment."

"Letting others take the fall... are you sure other players will do that?" Jinna reminded her, "Maybe everyone thinks that way, but then no one does anything, and nobody actually does it."

"As long as we can find the cat, it doesn't matter whether it's imprisoned or not. Besides, I reckon there's more than one cat."

Fan Xiao said, "Does anyone have a tracking device? We can use it on this black cat."

"A tracking device... that's a good suggestion. But it also has its flaws."

Yan Jun said, "We need to make sure that our companion who uses the tracking device stays with us at all times. Otherwise, if something happens to him, the cat will be hard to find, and things will get very complicated."

"I have tracking abilities, let me handle this."

Luo Hao, who had been silent until now, suddenly stood up.

Suddenly, he pulled out a knife and, without batting an eye, cut some flesh from his own arm.

"Brother, you...you don't feel pain?"

Yan Jun's eyes twitched when he saw this.

Luo Hao didn't answer him, but took the severed flesh and approached the black cat.

At this moment, Fan Xiao had already picked up the fearless black cat and, together with Luo Hao, had the other party use a thin rope to tie the flesh and blood to the black cat's body.

At the same time, his mind recalled what he knew about "planarians".

Luo Hao inherited the genes of planarians, tardigrades, and cockroaches, making his immortality practically maxed out.

Among these, planarians are the organisms with the strongest regenerative ability, possessing almost unlimited regenerative capacity.

Whether cut horizontally, vertically, or obliquely, or even if muscles, skin, intestinal reproductive system, or "brain" are cut off, these segments of a planarian can regrow into several planarians within about a week.

In nature, the survival ability of planarians is almost unparalleled.

Of course, players... or rather, low-level players, certainly can't do that.

Fan Xiao had seen players who inherited ant genes, but at most they could only exert a few times their physical strength briefly, not reaching the exaggerated level of ants.

As for Luo Hao... Fan Xiao guessed that, thanks to the characteristics of the planarian gene, he should be able to sense and control the flesh and blood he had separated from him from a distance.

Good genetics can have an effect that is almost as good as natural talent.

It may even surpass talent.

After the flesh and blood were tied up, Fan Xiao glanced at Luo Hao's arm, where the cut flesh and blood had begun to regenerate.

At this rate, it should be back to normal in less than half a minute.

Fan Xiao placed the well-behaved black cat on the ground, stroked it, and smoothed its fur.

"Meow."

The black cat rubbed against Fan Xiao's leg again.

Watching the interaction between the person and the cat, the people standing at a distance were all a little apprehensive.

Several minutes had passed since they encountered the black cat.

This Brother Fan Zui... isn't he afraid at all?

It wasn't until Fan Xiao left the black cat and returned to the group that this continued.

Yan Jun couldn't help but retort, "I have to say... you're incredibly bold!"

“Confidence comes from strength,” Fan Xiao shrugged. “It’s just that you’re too timid.”

"Hehe..." Seeing that he had been rebuked, Yan Jun mocked, "Many players with average skills have a strange confidence in themselves. It seems that you are one of them."

"I wouldn't call it unbelievable confidence; all I can do is wipe out all the players in this dungeon in one go."

Fan Xiao thought for a moment and assessed himself, "I'd say I'm only moderately confident."

"...You're really good at bragging!"

Yan Jun's eye twitched, his tone carrying a hint of disdain.

We even cleared the entire dungeon... We're all D-rank players, who's afraid of who?

Fan Xiao smiled.

Yan Jun felt inexplicably uneasy.

Perhaps it was the sense of urgency brought by the black cat... After making a mental judgment, he said, "Let's get out of here quickly. We can't stay with a cat for too long. Let's go look for other cats. If we find any, we should mark a few more to be on the safe side."

He turned to Luo Hao and asked, "Brother, you should be able to hold on, right?"

"can."

Luo Hao nodded.

Losing a little flesh is nothing to him.

Tracking items are actually not uncommon; many E-rank items can perform this function.

But now we're in a dungeon, where danger lurks at all times, so naturally we need to always have our best four items equipped—attack, defense, and escape... Players don't have extra item slots specifically for tracking items.

After leaving the riverbank, Fan Xiao and his two companions went to investigate the area around the student dormitory.

They found the second cat outside the student dormitory.

Then they found a third cat inside the dormitory building.

They are an orange tabby cat and a Scottish Fold cat.

"Judging from this situation, there seem to be a lot of stray cats at Hope Middle School."

Jinna frowned slightly and said, "This instance is an independent space, and it is not connected to the outside world after it is closed. Where did so many stray cats come from? How do they survive without food?"

"Who says there's no food? Isn't this it?"

Fan Xiao pointed to the inside of a student dormitory room with the door open.

The four of them looked in the direction he pointed and saw some snacks scattered on the moldy bed.

The bed was covered in dust, but the snack wrappers were spotless and looked brand new.

This scene immediately put the four of them on their guard.

"Snacks?" Yan Jun asked doubtfully. "This place has been abandoned for so many years, how could there be snacks here? Did you see this pile of snacks just now?"

“I didn’t notice,” Mercury shook his head, then looked at Van Shaw and asked, “You found the snacks, did you notice them just now?”

No. However, we can make a simple guess.

Fan Xiao laughed and said, "The snack bags are spotless, as clean as new. They're obviously fresh. Maybe someone saw us arrive and left some snacks for us. And...aren't we all starving?"

"Waiter... Look at this place, it doesn't look like anyone's here at all. It's more like a ghost's den," Yan Jun said. "Besides, who would dare eat snacks that suddenly appeared out of nowhere?"

"Don't dare to eat? That's not necessarily true. Haven't you noticed that your hunger level has increased? Ever since the dungeon started, my hunger has been steadily increasing, and I imagine it's the same for you."

Fan Xiao cautioned, "At this rate of increase, our bodies will eventually give out. Even if we manage to hold on, with all our attention focused on fighting hunger, we'll be at a significant disadvantage when danger arises."

“Didn’t we bring food?” Yan Jun said. “I have a lot in my storage space. If you don’t have enough, I can share some with you.”

"When I walked behind you just now, I tried some compressed biscuits, but they didn't work."

Fan Xiao shook his head: "I estimate that only the food in this instance can fill our stomachs and replenish our strength."

Chapter 162 The players are too realistic!

"It's not working...!?"

Yan Jun was startled.

The others frowned as well, and took out food from their storage space to try a few bites.

After chewing the food into their stomachs, they found that their hunger did not diminish in the slightest.

"It's really useless..."

Mercury glanced at the pile of snacks in the dormitory room and said, "The appearance of these foods is quite illogical."

"The game's prompts make us both wary and accepting of illogical things, which is contradictory."

"So, should we collect this food or not?"

This issue has left everyone in a dilemma.

The best way to be vigilant is to stay away from it and ignore it.

Acceptance means collecting these foods as normal food for later consumption.

Given their current rate of increasing hunger, without the food supplies in the dungeon, they'll likely face a very difficult time later on.

But... is it dangerous to touch these foods?

“I think it’s best not to touch it,” Jinna said. “It’s too dangerous to touch something of unknown origin that doesn’t make sense.”

"Take it with you for now and put it in the player's storage space. It should be safe, right?"

Yan Jun proposed.

Luo Hao remained silent, seemingly without any good ideas.

Mercury turned to Van Shaw and asked, "What do you think?"

“The old method,” Fan Xiao laughed, “Let other players take the hits first, and we’ll proceed once everything is clear.”

"What if the other players don't do it?" Jinna reminded them. "And even if they do, and something happens to them, we won't know since we weren't with them."

"It's not dark yet."

Fan Xiao said, "After we finish exploring the school, we'll meet up with the other teams before dark and exchange information."

"I would suggest making intelligence sharing a long-term collaborative project for the next few days. In order to facilitate further intelligence sharing later, other teams will certainly not give out perfunctory information, lest they be kicked out."

"If they didn't test this either... well, if they didn't do it, they didn't. It's only the first day, so the hunger level isn't high. They can endure it without the food in the instance."

"Hmm... then let's leave it at that."

Mercury nodded: "We've already marked three cats, which is enough to protect ourselves. Let's put the search for the cats on hold for now. Let's check the school's swimming pool first, and then look for student IDs."

"no problem."

The proposal was accepted by the other four people.

The group of five left the second floor of the dormitory building and went down the stairs on the other side.

Nobody knows where the school's swimming pool is.

However, these types of sports facilities are usually concentrated in the area surrounding the playground.

If you walk around the perimeter of the playground, you should be able to find it.

After reaching the corner of the stairs, the five people found a second piece of black clothing discarded on the ground.

The pungent smell of expired paint wafted over, making one instinctively want to cover their mouth and nose.

Fan Xiao walked over and picked up the clothes, only to find that, like the previous one, there was paint on the cuffs and collar.

"Black clothes, black paint... Investigators may have applied paint to their bodies, causing paint to stain the collar and cuffs of their clothes."

"The paint and clothes are all black, which is equivalent to turning oneself into a completely black person. What is the purpose?"

His double victory led him to deduce a piece of information.

Perhaps this is also a means of ensuring safety.

He turned his clothes inside out, revealing the inside.

Mercury and his three companions approached him, craning their necks to watch.

Inside the clothes, there were twisted words formed by bloodstains: "Ghosts! Ghosts! There are ghosts everywhere here!"

"..."