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"After all, in the eyes of other players, you are currently the player who is closest to the truth of the dungeon."

"If we extrapolate from this point..."

He concluded, "Even if we don't make a scene, other players will most likely come looking for us. So... you're telling me to yell and scream just to embarrass me, right? You bastard...!"

“You’re overthinking it,” Fan Xiao said. “Those two cannibalistic players don’t know I’m coming in. Do you think they’re going to search for me from the void?”

"In a very short time, you figured out how to stay safely at Qingshan Academy by tricking them."

Mercury said, "Players like you who can clear levels quickly usually aim for higher dungeon ratings."

"Therefore, in order to fulfill the conditions of the second mission, there is a very high possibility that you will voluntarily enter Green Mountain Prison."

“It wouldn’t be difficult for those two guys to figure this out if they weren’t stupid.”

“They know you’re a formidable guy, so they’ll definitely team up to come after you.”

You're overthinking it.

Fan Xiao was speechless and said, "According to your logic, wouldn't I have already been thinking about using cannibalistic players to scheme against other players back when I was at Green Mountain Academy?"

"Do you think this is a game of chess? Thinking ten moves ahead for every one move you make?"

"It was just that you shouted a few times, why are you bringing up a conspiracy theory? Could it be... you were so embarrassed that you broke down? No way?"

"..."

Mercury narrowed his eyes: "I don't believe it if it were anyone else, but with you... I think the possibility is quite high."

Fan Xiao is an old liar; he only says things that benefit himself.

Such a cunning guy, to say he didn't plan ahead... no one would believe that!

"So you started planning this so early?" Guan Yao exclaimed. "How insidious... Oh, right, insidious here is a compliment."

"I already said there aren't that many twists and turns."

Fan Xiao sighed, "It's all because you guys are always outsmarting thin air that my reputation is getting worse and worse."

"Come on, you're kidding me." Mercury scoffed.

At that moment, footsteps could be heard from both ends of the corridor.

Fan Xiao and the others quickly stood back to back and looked in two different directions.

Two teams of players walked towards them.

One group consisted of three foreign players: a brown-haired man carrying a black man named Bob on his back, supporting him with one hand while using the other to support a blonde woman named Ashley.

Like Bob, Ashley's arm was twisted, suggesting she had suffered a serious injury.

The other team consisted of the two cannibalistic players that Fan Xiao had tricked into joining—the bald man and the tattooed man.

Upon seeing Fan Xiao, both of them displayed obvious anger.

The atmosphere at the scene became somewhat tense.

"You...you actually got in!"

The bald man glared at Fan Xiao and said, "You dare to play us... I'll make you pay a heavy price!"

“Alas,” Fan Xiao sighed, “We were born in the same pot, why are we so eager to fight each other?”

"Fuck you!" the tattooed man roared. "You're not a cannibal player at all! You have an item that can disguise your player ID, don't you!"

“Brother, you’ve misunderstood me,” Fan Xiao laughed. “I really am a cannibalistic player.”

He pointed to Mercury and the others around him: "My previous actions were all forced upon me by them. They outnumbered me and had the upper hand. What could I do? I was desperate too."

"..."

The tattooed man was furious.

The bald man didn't look much better.

Even at this point, this guy is still saying things like that, clearly looking down on their intelligence!

"Let's all stop for a bit."

The brown-haired male player standing on the other side suddenly spoke up: "This school is so dangerous, we don't have time to argue."

He looked at Fan Xiao and asked, "With that commotion just now... were you fighting multiple monsters?"

“Yes, six,” Fan Xiao said. “That was really dangerous; we almost died here.”

"After you won the battle, you didn't leave immediately; it seems you were waiting for us."

The brown-haired male player concluded, "And those shouts... were you deliberately luring us here?"

"Let's skip some unnecessary nonsense."

Fan Xiao grinned and said, "You want to get information from me about how to leave Green Mountain Prison."

"Perfect timing. I'm currently testing the method of leaving, and I need someone to be at the forefront and act as my guinea pig."

"Our ultimate goals don't conflict, so why don't we cooperate... what do you say?"

Before the brown-haired male player could respond, the bald man on the other side hissed, "Cooperation? You wish! I don't want to be tricked by you again."

"Today you either tell me everything, or... you die here!"

"Haha, threatening me?"

Fan Xiao revealed a contemptuous expression and said, "It is indeed five against five now, but you have two cripples on your side."

"You dare to make threats like this? Who gave you the courage?"

"You bastard! Who are you calling a cripple?!"

Behind the brown-haired male gamer, Bob, a black man, wore an extremely angry expression: "Say that again if you dare! I'll kill you!"

"Hey...you stupid groundhog, watch your tone of voice!"

Fan Xiao sneered, "For God's sake, I can forgive your rudeness right now, but only this once."

"If you keep swearing... I'll kick your ass hard with my boots! I swear I will!"

Bob: "..."

“Battles between players rarely rely on physical strength,” the brown-haired male player said with an unchanged expression. “My two teammates were only physically injured, but their use of items is not restricted, and their combat ability remains intact.”

"What, you want to resort to violence too?" Fan Xiao asked.

While asking the questions, he noticed something unusual—the brown-haired male player seemed to be deliberately avoiding mentioning Bob and the blonde female player's names, referring to them instead as "the two teammates."

Judging from the current state of their team's injuries... could there really be monsters that can curse players with their names?

Moreover, this monster has already caused them to suffer a loss once.

Fan Xiao couldn't be sure if he was overthinking things.

“You have a criminal record, I don’t trust you.” The brown-haired male player looked at Fan Xiao and said bluntly, “It’s safer to get information from you by getting information from you than to cooperate with you and risk being scammed by you.”

"Heh, if you're so confident in your abilities, how come you crippled your two teammates?"

Fan Xiao looked at the brown-haired male player's back: "I remember... the person you're carrying is called Bob, right?"

Upon hearing this, the brown-haired male player's expression changed.

Bob looked terrified, glancing around nervously.

"I see, so there really are..."

Fan Xiao was immediately filled with emotion.

He just said it casually and tried it out... I didn't expect it to actually trick someone.

Could he really be a scumbag?

"Our affairs are none of your business!"

The brown-haired male player looked at the bald man and the tattooed man behind Fan Xiao and the others: "Now that things have come to this, you guys shouldn't be hiding anything."

"I know! I don't need you to remind me."

The bald man clapped his hands.

The next second, a slight noise came from below the large hole in the floor.

Five figures jumped out of the cave and landed between Fan Xiao and the brown-haired male player.

Three of them were players from the "outer region faction" to which Guan Yao previously belonged: gloomy man, high ponytail man, and glasses man.

The remaining two were subordinates of the female player with the katana; they were the two who disappeared in the villa in the surface world.

"That woman with the katana had four subordinates. Two disappeared from the villa, one disappeared from Aoyama Academy, and now only two have come... The remaining one is most likely dead."

Fan Xiao counted the number of people present and found that apart from the female player with the katana and her other subordinate who were still at Qingshan Academy, all the other players who had entered the dungeon and survived were present.

"I was wondering how you guys could be so brave; it turns out you had five helpers."

Fan Xiao looked at the five new people and smiled, raising his hands and saying, "Don't make a move yet. I admit defeat. If all ten of you join forces, we are no match for you."

"Heh..." the bald man sneered, "You think you can just admit defeat like that? You're really something..."

"and many more!"

The gloomy man suddenly reached out and interrupted the bald man's threats, saying, "We only agreed to provide some assistance if a fight breaks out, but we didn't say we had to take action."

He looked at Fan Xiao: "If you can tell us how to leave here, I can agree to cooperate with you on behalf of the five of us."

"That guy's a total jerk!" the bald man said unhappily. "You actually dared to believe him?"

"Hmph... This school is dangerous enough with so many monsters roaming around it. At this critical juncture, I don't want to get involved in infighting with you guys!"

The gloomy man sneered, "Besides, if you want to kill someone, that's your personal feud, it has nothing to do with us!"

Upon hearing this, the bald man and the tattooed man frowned deeply.

The brown-haired male player on the other side also frowned.

Fan Xiao is too dangerous. If we can deal with him by force, we should be forceful and not follow his lead. That was his thought.

However, if others do not cooperate, he will be unable to implement a hardline strategy.

"Congratulations, you've made the best choice."

Fan Xiaochao smiled gloomily and said, "Don't worry, I know better than you how dangerous Green Mountain Prison is."

"We were just ambushed by six monsters, and we almost lost our vehicle."

"I also want to leave this awful place as soon as possible. There's no need to hide the truth about the dungeon."

"so……"

He paused for a moment, then continued, "I can tell you everything about the truth and the intelligence. Let's all go together to find the last clue and share the risks we may encounter."

"Tell me the truth first."

"That's what the brown-haired male player said."

“Okay,” Fan Xiao nodded, “The truth behind the story begins with school bullying…”

He began to recount the information he had gathered and the speculations that arose from it, saying everything that needed to be said.

Since all the logic corresponded to the current state of the copy and there was readily available evidence to prove it, the people didn't really doubt its authenticity after hearing it.

Of course, Fan Xiao didn't reveal that he had found half of the diary.

He pointed to a classroom behind the bald man and the tattooed man and said, "That classroom is where the victim is from Qingshan Academy."

"The clue was, unsurprisingly, hidden there; the victim's desk was the second to last in the row next to the window seats."

As soon as they finished speaking, the bald man and the tattooed man's expressions changed, and they quickly left their original positions, putting some distance between themselves and the "victims' classroom".

"See? Everyone thinks it's dangerous."

Fan Xiao then said, "I certainly wouldn't dare to risk going in myself; I need more people to participate in the exploration."

"The more people participate, the smaller the risk will be for each individual."

"This is the plan. What do you think... there might be some pitfalls in it?"

“That’s definitely a well-laid plan,” the brown-haired male player nodded. “If we want to get out, we have to get into the classroom. The key is… who goes in first?”

“To be fair, we should all go in together,” Fan Xiao said. “Whoever finds a clue will reveal it publicly, how about that?”

The brown-haired male player thought for a moment and couldn't find anything wrong with it.