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He opened the wooden door and returned to Level 0 of the world.
"Self-repairing?"
Yang Tao looked at the wall he had dug out earlier, which had now returned to its original state.
"Doesn't this mean infinite resources?!"
If the Backrooms could truly be 'infinite' in a meaningful sense, it would definitely be good news for him.
The damp carpet still emitted a putrid odor.
"It would be great if this space could refresh its supplies…"
Honestly, compared to other 'levels', Level 0 was like a Novice Village ; it allowed people to quickly adapt to the Backrooms world.
Entities and monsters were almost extinct.
However, Level 0 was not suitable for a large number of humans to survive, primarily because Level 0's properties prevented people from encountering each other.
Furthermore, it was a nonlinear space, meaning there was no returning the way one came; basically, once you walked through, there was no possibility of turning back.
Yang Tao reached out and touched the wall covered with yellow wallpaper, mumbling, "I remember it's like, if you glitch into the wall, you can reach Level 1…"
He wasn't very familiar with the Backrooms, having only accidentally seen some level descriptions and learned some superficial information.
He placed his hand on the wall and walked forward; as soon as he touched a 'wrong' block, he would be teleported to Level 1.
"11121… 11122… 11123…"
Suddenly, a pitch-black arm reached out from within the wall and grabbed his wrist. The immense strength caused his body to uncontrollably 'drill' into the wall.
The sudden change made Yang Tao's heart almost leap out of his throat.
-13
Red numbers appeared, but this time they were on himself.
"Damn it, I forgot about this old trickster…"
The normal version of Level 0 only had the Duller, that old trickster. It was full of malice towards humans, but if you spotted it and ran towards it, it wouldn't attack but would instead flee directly.
The Duller would 'cut' its arm out of the wall to pass through it and capture prey on the other side, then drag them into its own room.
Just like Yang Tao.
By the time he was pulled into another room, a stone sword had already appeared in Yang Tao's hand.
The Duller's appearance was more like an Endermen than the Electric Wire Twitcher, except it didn't scream.
It was tall, gray, humanoid, with a fragile skeletal structure, no facial features, and most conspicuously, two long arms.
"You little punk, today you're definitely in for a bad time!"
He slammed the stone sword onto the Duller's arm, and in the next moment, Yang Tao understood what a fragile skeleton meant.
With a crunch.
The Duller's arm was directly shattered by the stone sword, and the hand gripping him loosened.
However, despite such injury, it made no sound. After being attacked, it turned and ran, and although its body looked extremely awkward, its escape speed was truly fast.
In the blink of an eye, the Duller vanished from his sight.
"Didn't they say this thing only attacks Wanderers with low SAN? Has my SAN value dropped?"
This was not good news.
However, he didn't see any strange illusions or hear any voices, nor did he feel any physical discomfort.
After all, his idealistic digitized body simply didn't have that function.
(Idealistic digitization meant that Yang Tao could switch between data and physical form as needed, for example, to break the Duller's arm.)
Encountering both Bacteria and the Duller consecutively in Level 0 was completely beyond what could be described as winning the lottery.
Yang Tao looked at his remaining 7 health points and couldn't help but curse under his breath, "What rotten luck."
"Next time I encounter the Duller, I definitely need to break its leg first."
He wasn't worried about his health at all.
Because… he could revive.
On the first day of his transmigration, he personally experienced the revival function. The cause of death was simple: he just fell to his death.
After all, when he transmigrated, he wasn't directly standing on Bedrock.
Continue exploring.
The Duller had already fled. No matter how unlucky he was, it was impossible for him to encounter two Entities consecutively. If he did, then he would take back everything he said.
The buzzing sound of fluorescent lights came from his ears. As he rounded a corner, a wooden door came into his view.
Yang Tao: "…"
This wooden door was completely different from the wooden doors in Minecraft; it was just an extremely ordinary brown wooden door, but its appearance in the Backrooms indicated that it was not ordinary at all.
"Did my SAN value really hit rock bottom?"
He took out a stone axe from his backpack and walked over, staring intently at the wooden door. In the Backrooms, a series of 'observation' phenomena often occurred.
It existed when you looked at it, but it might disappear the moment you turned around or even blinked.
Yang Tao breathed a sigh of relief after placing his hand on the metal doorknob.
"This door isn't an illusion… Could it be the Manila Room?"
The Manila Room was an isolated square room that could be found in Level 0, with thick walls and named for its unique beige wallpaper (Manila paper).
There was no 'isolation effect' unique to Level 0 here, and it was also a place where Wanderers could meet each other in Level 0.
He pressed the doorknob, opened the door, and walked in. Just as he thought, this was indeed the Manila Room.
The room wasn't large, similar to his own Overworld, except that the surroundings weren't mist, but walls covered with Manila wallpaper.
The room's furnishings were very simple, with only a table and an ordinary office chair. The fluorescent light above emitted a comforting glow, but what was annoying was that the fluorescent light in the room also made a buzzing sound.
"No other Wanderers? Well, there aren't that many people who glitch into the Backrooms; it's not a good place anyway…"
Yang Tao walked towards the wooden table in the middle of the room. On the table were some folders with MEG emblems.
Inside were a field guide to the most common and dangerous Entities, and a guide to important levels.
Yang Tao opened them, glanced at them casually, and then lost interest: "This information isn't as detailed as what I already know…"
He tossed the files back onto the table.
These items were placed here by the MEG organization to help Wanderers get a rough understanding of the Backrooms, but these files needed to be replaced manually.
This meant that after he took them, the MEG people would still need to send someone to deliver new files.
The reason they didn't put more at once was because the items in the Manila Room would also refresh.
He scanned the surrounding walls and quickly found a section of the wall that was distinctly different from the others.
Although all were illuminated by the fluorescent light, this particular section of the wall was noticeably brighter than the rest.
"Found it!"
This was a 'glitch' (error).
He walked over and extended his hand towards the wall. A strange suction force came, and the next moment, he felt his body fall into a puddle of water.
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