Lucky billion players, you've never seen one before / I can accumulate my own luck

However, Fan Xiao didn't care about all that. With a gamble in mind, he repeated the process and spun the wooden stick a few more times.

After the fifth rotation, he quickly picked up several books on the stick and looked at them.

Then he came across a rather interesting book—a compilation of folk tales and legends.

However, few of the legends mentioned above have a real-world counterpart; most are fictional, like the fictional "Kazaki City."

Fan Xiao glanced at the table of contents a few times, and just as he was about to put it down, a line of text caught his attention—"Hell Under Hatred".

Hell... Hell... Green Mountain Hell... He quickly turned to the corresponding page and began to read carefully.

"Hell Under Hatred" tells a short story about revenge.

The plot is roughly about a female protagonist whose entire family was murdered. She wants revenge, but because she is too weak, she begins to study how to curse people.

Ultimately, she found a spell that could send someone to hell, and incorporated it into a small game, which she then "coincidentally" delivered to her enemy.

The children of the enemy were very interested after hearing about the game and asked their elders to play together.

The elders couldn't refuse, so they joined in the game. After they finished playing... everyone had finished playing.

Both adults and children were cursed and sent to hell.

Meanwhile, the female protagonist also went to hell because of her crime of murder.

The story concludes with a moral lesson, using allegory to tell people that harming others ultimately harms oneself.

"Nonsense..." Fan Xiao thought to himself.

The theme of this story was very different from his style of doing things, so he didn't like it and felt it was a bit too petty.

The message conveyed throughout is that you should let go of hatred and repay evil with kindness, because hatred will only bring you pain.

So, if someone can kill your friends and family, you can't retaliate; you have to forgive them, all for the sake of inner peace... What exactly is this inner peace?

"Although it's a fictional story within a dungeon, it does quite fit some of the twisted ideas in Japan... No wonder it's a dungeon from here."

"A mini-game adapted from a spell that can send you to hell... This must be the way to the other world, right?"

"I just don't know what the danger situation is like in the other world..."

Fan Xiao was a little surprised that he was able to find clues so quickly.

Perhaps I'm very lucky today.

Boom! Suddenly, the villa trembled, and the walls and floor began to shake slightly.

"There is a situation!"

"A prop? Or something else?"

"The sound seems to be coming from the first floor, let's go down and check it out!"

Everyone in the study stopped what they were doing.

Fan Xiao also stopped and met up with his two "teammates" on the first floor.

When they arrived, they found that nothing had happened on the first floor, and there was no infighting or private fighting among the players.

The previous booming sound was caused by the three foreign players attacking the villa's gate.

They finally made up their minds and began the attack.

Boom, boom... The attacks from the props kept exploding at the gate.

The brown-haired male player launched the fiercest attack, completely destroying the original gate, but the spatial barrier remained.

Seeing that the three of them could attack without any problems, the other players couldn't help but become tempted.

"Speaking of which... should we try attacking together too?"

"Give it a try. Many hands make light work. Maybe we can really break through the spatial barrier."

"What if there's an impact? The three of them are only temporarily fine, which doesn't mean they'll be fine forever."

"We've come this far, we can't worry about anything else now!"

Many players chose to attack together.

For a moment, the roaring sound inside the villa was incessant.

The female player with the katana took the initiative, and together with her four subordinates, destroyed a large area of ​​the floor near the gate.

Other players were not to be outdone and began to attack as well.

After attacking for a minute or two, the villa was on the verge of collapsing from the shaking, but the spatial barrier remained intact and continued to function reliably.

The brown-haired male player frowned: "We can't get out..."

"Right now, rather than worrying about whether we can get out or not, I think we should be more concerned about how many people are missing from our respective teams."

Fan Xiao suddenly spoke, interrupting the brown-haired male player.

Upon hearing his words, the players in the lobby on the first floor immediately began to investigate the surrounding situation.

They then discovered that the bespectacled male player from the other player's camp was missing.

Two of the female katana player's subordinates were also missing from her party, turning the five-person party into a three-person party.

"Just a heads up, one of our players disappeared before we even entered the villa."

Fan Xiao added.

"What happened?" Bob, the Black man, demanded. "Why didn't you tell me about something this important before?!"

“There’s no need,” Fan Xiao said. “The disappearances are unpredictable and random. Even if I told you, you wouldn’t be able to do anything about it; you could only wait.”

“You have no right to make decisions for us!” Bob said angrily. “Whether there’s a pattern or not, we’ll judge for ourselves.”

"You think my judgment is inaccurate?" Fan Xiao frowned and said, "Are you... discriminating against me?"

Bob: "..."

He really wanted to kill this pretty boy!

How can you be so annoying!

"You don't need to lie like that."

The brown-haired male player suddenly interjected, saying, "You didn't tell us the real reason for this, because you wanted to observe, right? To observe how others disappear."

"If we panic and act unnaturally after we find out about this, we won't be able to figure out the pattern of the disappearance."

"Whatever you think."

Fan Xiao shrugged and said, "The fact that players disappear also indirectly confirms that my 'other world hypothesis' is correct. Moreover..."

He laughed and said, "I've just found a way to enter the inner world."

"what way?"

Guan Yao quickly asked.

The female player with the katana and the others also looked over, their eyes filled with a sense of pressure.

The player will disappear—this is probably the danger of staying in the villa indefinitely.

Who knows where they'll be moved to after they disappear?

It's even possible that they might die...

And the disappearance is random and without any pattern...

The unknown can always be frightening.

We must leave this place immediately.

Realizing this, they all looked at Fan Xiao, their expressions suggesting a power grab.

“Don’t be nervous,” Fan Xiao said with a smile. “I don’t intend to keep this information to myself. Of course I will share it with you.”

Dangerous places should not be visited alone.

Chapter 292 Split up

Fan Xiao led everyone from the villa into the courtyard, where they gathered around the long table in the center.

There were originally 19 people, but now there are only 15 left.

The fate of the four missing people remains unknown, and the expressions on everyone's faces are far from pleasant.

"Now you can tell me exactly what the method is, right?"

Mercury, who had been silent since the dungeon opened, finally spoke.

He glared slightly at Fan Xiao, perfectly blending into the "coup-taking atmosphere" of the scene.

It was as if he would immediately start a fight if Fan Xiao didn't speak.

Luo Hao, standing next to Mercury, also revealed a slightly fierce look in his eyes.

"What's the rush? I was just about to say it."

Fan Xiao maintained his smile and placed the two pages he had previously torn from the book on the long table: "The method is in here, take a look first."

"Found it in a book?"

Guan Yao picked up the paper out of curiosity and began to read its contents.

The others did not rush to seize it.

After everyone had finished reading, Guan Yao started a discussion: "Isn't this... a bit too presumptuous? The book only records a folk legend, which looks more like a fable."

“Just give it a try,” Fan Xiao shrugged. “If it doesn’t work, we can go back and look for it again. There’s no harm in trying.”

“I agree to give it a try,” the female player with the katana said. “We have no other way to break this deadlock.”

"I have no objection to giving it a try, but..."

The gloomy man frowned and said, "If this game with incantations is real, we'll be going to hell... And there's Kashima City in hell? And Aoyama Academy there? That doesn't make sense, does it?"

“I also think it doesn’t make sense, and it’s too risky to do it this way.”

The brown-haired male player chimed in.

Guan Yao asked, "So what do you plan to do?"

"Search the villa again and see if you can find any other information."

The brown-haired male player said, "If we can determine the form of the inner world, what dangers it contains, and which method of entry is the safest... gathering all this information would undoubtedly be more reliable."

"No one said there's only one way to enter the inner world, right?"

"We know nothing now. If we rush in rashly, we might as well stay in the villa and wait for the inner world to swallow us up, just like those three people who disappeared."

"Your suggestion is too passive."

Fan Xiao cautioned, "Don't forget the third warning the dungeon gave us—if you find that everyone around you has disappeared, please be careful, you may have been targeted."

"Being targeted here, without a doubt, refers to being targeted by the dungeon boss."

"There should be a difference between actively seeking a way to get in and passively being swallowed up."

"The difference lies in..."

After a pause, he concluded, "It's likely that the former won't be targeted by the dungeon boss, or the probability of it being targeted is low."

"And the latter... those who were forcibly swallowed, they're obviously already being watched. Are you sure you want to stay and wait?"

"This one……"

The gloomy man hesitated.

After thinking for a moment, he looked in the direction of the female player with the katana and asked, "You are players from the 010 division, have you ever heard of any spells that can send people to hell?"

"If it's just a rumor, then there are naturally quite a few."

The female player with the katana replied, "Mythological descriptions of hell are nothing more than monsters, punishment, suffering, reincarnation, and so on."

"The background description of this instance mentions Kashima City and Aoyama Academy. We can't find the academy in the villa, so it must be in the Otherworld."

"In the usual legends of Hell, there are no academies. The legends from the outside world aren't very useful for us, after all..."

She said indifferently, "The background of this instance is fictional."

That being said, she still briefly mentioned what she knew about the forms of hell.