He said emotionally, "Huang Mo once told me that his high school was very strict and the academic pressure was enormous. His homeroom teacher always told them not to think about or do anything else but to focus on their studies! His parents were often called in because of his poor grades and his love of playing basketball. Every time his mother went to school, his homeroom teacher would ask her to remind him to focus on his studies and not think about anything else..."
The banging on the door became more and more intense, and the door panel almost fell off the door frame.
Xia Jing quickly raised the next question: "But the teacher is in school, there is no need to contact through the phone. The things that appear on the phone must not be anything in the school."
Liu Yi nodded quickly and trembled as he said, "Huang Mo's family background is also not good. His father has a violent tendency and always beats his mother in front of him. It has been like this since he was a child. If Huang Mo goes up to stop him, his father will beat him too. He cried and told me many times that his mother wouldn't let him protect her. Every time his father started beating people, his mother would tell him to go into the room and not to listen or watch..."
Everyone was on edge.
"Don't listen, don't look" appears here!
Liu Yi's tears fell: "Calling the police was useless. He dragged his mother to his grandmother's house. As long as his father begged, his mother softened her heart again. She even felt that even for Huang Mo's sake, they couldn't divorce... Then Huang Mo also despaired."
"Later, his mother may have had a mental problem. After being called to school by his homeroom teacher several times, she repeatedly told him that studying was the most important thing. She endured this kind of marriage for him, and he had to study hard for her and make a name for himself, so that they could escape this family."
"His mother wanted him to listen to the teachers and her, not to hear anything, not to see anything, and certainly not to think about anything. He just needed to study, study, study! He lived on campus in high school. Later, even when his father beat him, his mother would call him and yell this at him over and over again!"
"I remember in my senior year of high school, Huang Mo told me he was going crazy."
"One time his mother called him in the middle of the night. He was startled because he knew that when his mother called, she must have been beaten again. But when he was about to answer the phone, he suddenly felt confused. He was thinking, what should he do now that the call has been answered? It seemed like he couldn't do anything!"
"He told me that he was completely stunned at the time. He looked at his roommates blankly, wanting to ask for help, but his roommates were all sleeping. They slept so peacefully. Why could they sleep so peacefully? Why was he the only one who was going crazy?"
"He wanted to kill his father and then commit suicide several times. When he heard the sound of his phone vibrating, he felt like his heart was going to explode and he was about to die—"
Everyone felt heavy-hearted and chilled to the bone after hearing these words.
This copy actually started from a family tragedy.
At this moment, the cell phones in everyone's pockets suddenly vibrated.
Wang Yueran and the others were shocked by the vibration.
The next second, there was a loud "bang" and everyone looked back - the door panel had been completely knocked crooked, revealing a crack.
The NPC glared at them fiercely outside the door, and tried to force the door open, trying to break in.
Xia Jing made a prompt decision: "——answer the phone!"
A few people woke up and quickly took out their mobile phones. When they saw the incoming call was "Mom", their hearts tightened.
After looking at each other, the six people answered the phone at the same time. Then they heard the sounds of kicking, crying and screaming coming from the six mobile phones, which was creepy and chilling.
"Silently! Silently!! Don't listen, don't look, don't think!! Just study, you have to study hard for me, mom is doing this for you——"
"Ha, no matter who you call, it won't save you. Come back here!"
A sinister male voice sneered on the other end, with a hint of sadistic glee in his laughter.
Then the sound faded away, as if the man was pulling the woman over. However, the screams, cries, and triumphant laughter pierced everyone's heart.
The old lady's hands were shaking with grief, and the other people's faces were also very ugly. In addition, the NPC was about to burst in. Jia Qing asked with red eyes: "I'm already thinking that this is a dream. Why, why can't I leave here?"
Suddenly, Wang Yueran screamed, and at the same time Liu Yi and Jia Qing were so scared that they threw their phones away.
——Two huge human heads suddenly popped out of each mobile phone and appeared in the dormitory like balloons.
A man and a woman, the man has a ferocious face and looks like a demon.
There was a cut on the woman's forehead, and blood flowed down her cheek, mixing with her tears.
Six identical male heads mocked maliciously, "No one will save you no matter where you run to, no one will save you, bitch!"
Six identical female heads cried out, "Momo, don't listen, don't look, don't think!!"
"Don't listen, don't look, don't think!!"
The crying became more and more shrill.
The six female heads and six male heads quickly turned black in color, as if they were stained with ink, or as if they had melted completely. Apart from two eyes and a mouth embedded in the darkness, no other facial features could be seen, just like skeletons.
And those pairs of eyes quickly turned into the shape of crescent moons, and their mouths were grinning grimly, as if they were laughing at their fear.
Jia Qing was horrified: "Something has changed! His parents have turned into octopus monsters!"
Wang Yueran exclaimed: "It's not just his parents!"
Several people followed her gaze and saw that the NPCs had already rushed in. Those NPCs no longer looked like humans, but had all turned into a pitch-black mass of monsters with eerie smiles!
——Huang Mo saw the faces of his parents and teachers on that cover!
The NPC rushed towards them, and the monster in the phone kept screaming, "Don't listen, don't look, don't think!"
Everyone's heart beat suddenly faster, and the speed quickly increased to an abnormal level. The whole heart was about to explode, and the head was about to explode!
A terrifying premonition came over everyone - they would be completely devoured by these monsters in the next second!
Xia Jing and Song Yang's cold voices woke everyone up and refreshed their spirits: "Don't forget, this is a dream!"
——This is a dream!
This is not a real copy world. Huang Mo's parents and the teachers and NPCs in this school all overlapped with the identities of monsters in his dreams!
These are not the real main monsters of the dungeon!
They want to escape from this original dream world!
The moment this thought was born and solidified, a strong sense of dizziness struck everyone—
…
In the quiet space, the sound of the second hand clicking is particularly clear.
Liu Yi suddenly opened his eyes from the darkness, his eyeballs were filled with bloodshot and his pupils were trembling.
He was panting violently, his chest heaving.
A small round clock is close at hand, embedded in a metal panel.
Liu Yi realized that he was in a narrow metal warehouse and could not move at all.
Because he woke up suddenly from his coma, his consciousness was still a little fuzzy, and he had no idea what he was doing or what to do next.
In this daze, suddenly, with a "clang", the metal panel in front of him was forcefully lifted up, and the entire deformation flew out.
Before Liu Yi could react, a thick black tentacle had already reached in quickly, rolled him up, lifted him out of the sleeping cabin, and lifted him into the air.
The tentacles almost broke his body at the waist. Huge pain spread throughout his body, and Liu Yi let out a cry of pain and terror from his throat!
The next second, a silver light flashed, the tentacles were cut off at the root, and the monster's scream pierced Liu Yi's eardrum!
Liu Yi and the broken tentacle fell heavily onto the metal floor. He felt excruciating pain all over his body and his vision became blurred for a moment.
He gasped, propped himself up tremblingly, and raised his head——
A slender figure stood with its back to him, like a sharp sword, standing upright on the roof of a sleeping cabin, blocking his vision.
The man held a huge machete in his hand, and the inky monster blood slowly flowed down the blade, and a lot of it splashed on the man's white shirt.
At this moment, the entire "laboratory" was in chaos, with shouting and fighting sounds mixed together, and props and tentacles flying everywhere.
Amidst this chaos, Xia Jing smiled happily and sighed with satisfaction: "The main course is finally about to begin."
*
The huge space is made of metal on all six sides.
Nine sleeping cabins are placed in the center of the space, six of which have their roofs opened.
The monster had obviously broken in from outside the door. At this moment, a small number of its tentacles were still squeezed outside and could not get in, almost squeezing the door frame out of shape.
Black mist swirled all over its body, its thick black tentacles danced wildly, and its main body was like an octopus, with thin, curved crescent-shaped eyes embedded in its dark body. Its eerie, pale mouth was wide open, revealing fine, sharp teeth.
In the chaos, Wang Yueran screamed while standing back to back with the old lady, chopping off the tentacles that were rolling towards them one by one.
The broken tentacles flew in all directions!
Just as Jia Qing cut off one tentacle, he was hit head-on by another tentacle into the corner and hit the wall, screaming "Ouch! Shit!"
The wall behind him was lined with a row of wall-mounted filing cabinets. When he bumped into one of them, a drawer fell down and a document fell out.
Jia Qing took a closer look - "The Nightmare Sleep Experiment No. 417".
There is no need to think about what base the experimental address is, it must be the place where they are now.
The document states that nightmares are a large number of man-eating monsters that can not only eat humans directly, but also make humans dream and devour their souls in dreams.
This experiment was reached after a deal between humans and the nightmare clan. The experiment involved separating the nightmares and the participants, locking them in two separate rooms, and using sleeping cabins to record the participants' dream processes.
...And their current situation is obviously that the nightmare demon violated the agreement, broke out from the room where it was imprisoned, and came directly to eat people!
"Damn, what kind of copy is this? It's so complicated and yet it's only two stars?!" Jia Qing couldn't help but complain.
As soon as he finished complaining, he thought - only three out of nine players died. Judging from the death rate, it was indeed a two-star copy!
Jia Qing was speechless!
Not far away, Song Yang felt that the dagger was inconvenient, so he exchanged his space bag for a machete of the same type as Xia Jing's - they all bought it from the official supermarket - he rolled over to avoid a tentacle coming towards him, jumped high and swung it downwards, breaking several tentacles at once!
The monster screamed and wailed, and its tentacles danced even more violently because of the pain!
Song Yang turned around and chopped off all the tentacles around him. As soon as his vision was cleared, he saw Xia Jing stepping on a thick tentacle and rushing towards the monster's main body.
The young man curled his lips and said without turning his head: "I cut it down, and the main part of it belongs to me!"
Song Yang: "...Who told you that?"
For a player of Song Yang's level, there is no way he would enter the dungeon just for points. Killing monsters is a necessary task.
Everyone can work together in the dungeon, and when it's near the end, they can become competitors.
No matter how good a person Song Yang is, he would not be humble at such a time.
After thinking about it, he snorted and laughed, stabbed a tentacle that was attacking him, then used the momentum to jump, climbed onto the tentacle, threw the machete lightly, held the handle in reverse, and rushed towards the monster's body!
The monster's tentacles were chopped into pieces and black blood spurted everywhere.
It kept struggling and roaring, it wanted to eat all these hateful humans!
However, when it focused its attention, it saw the two players who had been chopping it the most enthusiastically rushing towards it. The look in its eyes was like seeing a fried chicken drumstick, radiating a green light of intense desire...
It's frozen, it's frozen!
Its crescent-shaped eyes finally turned into a round expression of shock!
Not giving it a chance to turn around and run, Xia Jing and Song Yang jumped up together, gripped their machetes tightly, and stabbed downwards -
"Ouch—"
After the eardrum-piercing screams, all the noises stopped...
Wang Yueran, the old lady, Jia Qing and Liu Yi were all covered in black blood, as if they had rolled in ink.
They were panting and tired like dogs. Looking ahead, they saw Xia Jing and Song Yang had already started to cut the main body of the monster silently and quickly, as if they were saying, "No one helps anyone, no one stops anyone, whoever cuts faster and more will make the profit."
The other four people: "..."
Damn, these two people are really not human!
At the same time, they also felt it clearly.
The option of "Exit the copy" emerged in their minds.
This copy is finally over.
*
After most dungeons are completed, players will be given twenty minutes to exit the dungeon.
The laboratory was littered with tentacles. Song Yang and Xia Jing alone definitely couldn't collect them all, so Liu Yi, Jia Qing, Wang Yueran, and the old lady picked up some.
Xia Jing had almost filled the space bag at the monster's main body.
Only when the energy density of the monster's body is above 100 can he extract energy and use it.
Different monsters and different parts of their bodies have different energy densities, so he has to wait until he returns to the safe house and weighs these parts on the scale to know whether they are qualified.
Of course, there have been cases in the past where Xia Jing went to great lengths to bring back a bunch of monster body parts, but the overall quality was substandard.
So in order to make the trip to the dungeon not in vain, Xia Jing not only collected ordinary monster body parts, but also naturally had to obtain the monster's attack parts, that is, monster props, to enrich the inventory of his small supermarket.
However, at this moment, he had not yet found the nightmare's attacking part.
Xia Jing stood up, his body was already covered in black. He raised his arm, wiped his face, and took a breath.
When the player obtains a monster item, the system will automatically prompt him in the brain and give the corresponding usage instructions.
Xia Jing turned his head as if he had a premonition, and saw Song Yang holding the only white bone from the nightmare's main body in his hand, with his head lowered and silent.
After a few seconds of silence, he raised his head and gave Xia Jing a meaningful smile.
Xia Jing: "..."
Xia Jing's tone rose slightly: "Did you get it?"
"Yes, it's the bone of a nightmare. Holding it in your hand gives you three chances to disturb someone's mind in their dreams," Song Yang said slowly with a lazy smile. "Although it's not very useful, I've accepted it. I can exchange it with others for props when I have the chance."
Xia Jing narrowed his eyes and stared at Song Yang as he put the things back into the space bag. His gaze was too intense.
Song Yang had never seen him like this before, and couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Why, do you want it so much?"
Xia Jing immediately met his eyes and nodded seriously.
Song Yang raised his lips and offered his encouragement in a sly manner: "Then classmate Xia, try harder next time."
Xia Jing: "..."
He stared at Song Yang's back as he turned and walked towards Jia Qing with a smile, his eyes unfathomable.
Jia Qing and his team had already opened the remaining three sleeping cabins, and as expected, Huang Mo, Xu Jin and Jin Nan were "sleeping" inside.
Liu Yi and Wang Yueran cried so hard that it was time for them to formally say goodbye to their good friend.
Jia Qing felt a little sad and a little scared. When Song Yang approached, he whispered, "Brother Yang, if Liu Yi and Huang Mo hadn't grown up together and knew what he had encountered before, would it have been difficult for us to pass the last level?"
Once NPCs break in, there will inevitably be conflicts with them, and some of them will definitely be locked up in a small dark room.
And what will they encounter if they are unable to leave the original dream world?
Song Yang thought for a moment and said, "In this dungeon, once the player starts to 'go back', they will no longer dream new dreams and will only stay in the first dream layer."
"But it's impossible for a dungeon to give players unlimited time to explore, so the most likely scenario is that the dungeon will have a shorter time limit. If it can't be cleared within the limited time, the dungeon will be closed directly, and no one will be able to leave."
For ordinary dungeons, players are given a maximum of seven to ten days to stay in the dungeon.
For this type of dungeon, it is very likely that players will only have one or two days left after reaching the final stage.
Thinking of this, Jia Qing shuddered.
Any star-level copy should not be underestimated.
Wang Yueran calmed down and was talking to the old lady.
Song Yang thought about it, walked over and handed the old lady a key.
This key is silver-white and looks like an ordinary key, but there is a ":)" symbol engraved on the key, indicating that it is a product of Smiley City.
The old lady looked puzzled: "Child, what is this you gave me?"
Xia Jing had walked over at some point, glancing at the key and then at Song Yang.
Song Yang explained, "In addition to selling items, the official supermarket in Smiley City also sells players' personal spaces. Each personal space comes with five keys. This key can open my personal space. Grandma, take it. Just hold the key in your palm and silently think 'open the door' to enter. If you encounter any problems in Smiley City in the future, you can always come to my space to find me."
The price of a personal space starts at 100 points, which is not affordable for ordinary players. Therefore, when Wang Yueran and Liu Yi saw the key, they showed envy.
The old lady was also a little surprised and quickly refused, "How can I be so embarrassed..."
"There's no point in leaving extra keys unused," Song Yang put the key in the old lady's hand, "Please keep it."
"Oh, thank you so much..." The old lady said with a wry smile, "But at my age, it's already lucky to have passed this level. I can't say what will happen next."
Wang Yueran immediately said, "Grandma, don't say that! So, after we leave the dungeon, we'll go to a game hall. Stand still and I'll find you. I'll show you around and help you get familiar with the place and the rules. Then we can go into the dungeon together and look after each other!"
"Oh, by the way, Grandma, were you sucked into Smiley City after being hit by an electric bike? Smiley City only sucks newcomers in when they're somewhere where surveillance cameras can't see them, or where there are no passersby. After you were hit by the electric bike, the person who caused the accident must have gotten away, right?"
As Wang Yueran continued to analyze, he became angry.
The old lady nodded: "It seems, it seems so. Before I fainted, the man should have run away..."
"What a scumbag!" Wang Yueran cursed. "After leaving Smiley City, the player's injuries in real life will be mostly healed, but you still need to go to the hospital quickly..."
The old lady no longer has any relatives in reality.
She looked at Wang Yueran muttering to herself, tears welling up in her eyes. She smiled and replied, "Hey," "Hey," "Grandma knows."
On the other side, Song Yang noticed that Xia Jing had been glancing at the key.
Song Yang was so happy again that he teased, "Why, you want this too?"
An idea suddenly occurred to him, and he said, "It's not impossible to give you one, but you have to exchange it for your true identity."
Xia Jing raised her eyes and looked at him with a smile.
Song Yang also looked back at him with a smile.
"No," Xia Jing glanced at him lightly, and said firmly, "I will find a way to get what I want."
Song Yang: Oh wow.
After Xia Jing finished speaking, he closed his eyes and clicked the "Exit Copy" option.
His consciousness fell into darkness, and at the same time, the system's mechanical sound rang in his head...
"Congratulations to player Xia Jing for passing the two-star dungeon 'Don't Think!'"
"A two-star dungeon has a maximum score of 30 points, and player Xia Jing scored 30 points for completing it!"
"Player Huang Mo has died, and his total points of 96 will be distributed; player Xu Jin has died, and his total points of 58 will be distributed; player Jin Nan has died, and his total points of 159 will be distributed."
"The total points to be distributed are 313 points. Player Xia Jing received one-sixth, which is 52.17 points. After rounding, it is 52 points."
"Player Xia Jing's total score for clearing the game is 82 points. The current accumulated score is 82 points. Please keep up the good work!"
*
After Xia Jing came out of the login room, he looked at the time.
They had been playing in the dungeon for so long, but only an hour had passed in the game lobby.
He put his hands in his pockets, turned around and walked briskly towards the official supermarket.
Consumption is an activity that Xia Jing must do every time he passes a dungeon, and the official supermarket at this moment is as crowded as before he entered the dungeon.
When Xia Jing entered the supermarket, Song Yang and Jia Qing just came out of the two adjacent login rooms.
Jia Qing had sharp eyes and recognized Xia Jing at a glance. He said, "Hey, Brother Yang, isn't that Xia Jing? Let's go, we have to buy some supplies!"
As soon as they entered the supermarket, they saw Xia Jing...spending like crazy.
Most players still cherish their points very much.
Buying props is a last resort. No one will feel confident when entering the dungeon without a knife.
People like Song Yang who spend a lot of money to buy personal space have enough points and also need a private area where friends can come to discuss plans.
But apart from that, the rest of the products in the supermarket, such as puffed foods, grilled skewers, bonsai... who would buy such things? It's not like you really want to live in the City of Smiles!
But Xia Jing just kept shopping as if no one was around, as if he wanted to spend all the points he earned from passing the levels, which attracted people around him to look at him frequently. Song Yang and Jia Qing also looked puzzled.
Xia Jing once did an experiment.
He wanted to see if he could accumulate points to 10,000 like the official players.
The result was a failure. If his points were not spent within ten days after being obtained, they would be cleared to zero, just like the system discovered a bug and fixed it.
These "ten days" naturally refer to the time in the game hall, but Xia Jing himself can only enter here every seven "game hall days". Therefore, from then on, he would use up most of his points immediately after passing the level, leaving only a few points to enter the login room a week later.
At this moment, he finally picked up the hot pot base from the shelf.
He had never been interested in this thing before, but after hearing Jia Qing say that in the copy, he suddenly wanted to try it.
As soon as he picked up the things, Song Yang's low and cold voice sounded behind him: "Are you planning to settle down here?"
Xia Jing turned around.
Song Yang looked amazed. "Your points from a two-star dungeon aren't high enough to be squandered like this, right? How long will it take you to accumulate 10,000 points like this?"
"That's right, Brother Jing, you can't eat hot pot anywhere," Jia Qing also came over and said with a heartache, "If you don't have money recently, let's exchange contact information. I'll treat you after we go out. Let's go tonight, how about it?"
Xia Jing blinked and asked, "What do you usually put in your hot pot?"
Jia Qing: "That's a lot. Let's start with a pot of mutton rolls and beef rolls, and order some tripe and thousand-layer tripe. Then, some small liver, big knife waist slices, palm treasure and fish——"
Xia Jing looked at the official supermarket and squinted his eyes and said, "There don't seem to be that many kinds of ingredients here."
Jia Qing almost fell down on the spot - why did he say so much, and this guy still wanted to buy food here?!
Do you think the players' miserable faces are particularly appetizing?
Song Yang felt even more strange, but before he could say anything, someone suddenly shouted, "This week's rankings are out!"
Suddenly, many people put down what they were holding, rushed out of the supermarket and ran outside.
Jia Qing also hurriedly pulled Song Yang to see the rankings.
Xia Jing walked slowly to the official supermarket's holographic "cashier" to pay the bill.
He walked out of the supermarket and looked at the largest holographic screen in the center of Smiley City.
At this moment, the system bulletin board on the left half of the holographic screen anonymously displays the points of the top two hundred players.
First place, 1781 points.
Second place, 1778 points.
Third place, 1736 points.
Fourth place, 1622 points.
…
Many people were quickly copying down this ranking with their heads down.
Many players will compare the changes in rankings every week. Although the ranking list is anonymous, at least in the top 20, if there is a significant change in someone's points, players can get a lot of information.
"The first place ranking should remain unchanged. This week's score increased by 238 points... No four-star dungeons were opened this week, so this guy probably entered two three-star dungeons, or one three-star and one two-star."
"Damn, it looks like last week's eleventh place is gone!"
"No more?"
"The original points gap between 11th and 12th place has now shifted to between 10th and 11th place!"
"Is this another one broken...? Hey..."
"Maybe it's possible that I spent a lot of points?"
"It doesn't look like the points reduction is due to consumption, because the trend of points after 11th place is the same as the trend after 12th place last week. The 11th place last week should have been lost."
In the game hall, countless people looked up at the ranking.
This ranking represents the progress of their players as a collective as they move towards the goal of "Escape from Smiley City."
They hoped that the vanguard could go faster and reach 10,000 points faster.
They wanted to know if reaching 10,000 points would really be the end of it all.
However, every time the rankings are announced, there are surprises and sorrows.
Some people move forward, while others fall completely.
They still have a very long way to go.
After Song Yang glanced at the rankings, he glanced at the young man next to him.
The young man was extremely powerful. If he had been in Smiley City for some time, his accumulated points should have been quite high, so it wouldn't be surprising for him to break into the top 200.
However, if he squandered all his points like this every time after clearing a dungeon, he would not be on this ranking at all.
How could a player not care about his points at all?
Song Yang felt even more suspicious.
As if noticing his gaze, Xia Jing looked at him, chuckled, turned around and left.
Song Yang paused, but ultimately didn't call him.
When Jia Qing reacted, Xia Jingren had disappeared.
He looked around confusedly, wondering, "Brother Yang, why don't you ask him for his contact information in Smiley City? We are brothers after all!"
"Who is brother to who?" Song Yang said coldly, "Are brothers here so easy to make friends with?"
Jia Qing choked.
Song Yang's dark eyes calmed down.
He said slowly, "The gameplay of the Smiley City dungeon is ever-changing. Next time we meet, you might be my opponent."
*
In the corner of Smiley City, at the end of a winding narrow corridor.
The safe house looked just as it did when Xia Jing left.
Flowers bloomed quietly by the window, two goldfish were sleeping head to head in the fish tank, and a golden retriever was huddled against the foot of the sofa, with its eyes closed and its tail wagging in boredom.
The moment the door opened, Tuanzi shook his ears and jumped up.
A figure was projected onto the floor of the safe house.
Tuanzi wagged his tail and walked to the feet of the young man who opened the door, rubbed his trouser legs affectionately, and welcomed his return.
Xia Jing chuckled, bent down and scratched its chin, and said gently: "I'm back. Didn't wait long?"
Tuanzi responded to him happily with a "wooo".
Xia Jing narrowed his eyes and smiled, rubbed the dog's head again, then stood up and summoned the remaining monster body parts on the account before entering the copy. He extracted their energy, transformed them into a huge paper pad, and spread it on the floor of the living room.
He took out the space bag, untied the straps, and poured out—
The monster body parts in the space bag fell out one after another, and soon filled the entire living room of the safe house.
The fishy and smelly body as big as a mountain scared Tuanzi so much that he screamed and ran away with his tail between his legs.
Xia Jing laughed.
He bent down and, in a good mood, first found the poor microphone monster covered in black blood from the sticky meat. After wiping it clean, he gently placed it on the windowsill.
Xia Jing smiled and tapped the microphone monster's head with his slender fingers: "Okay, now you can play music."
The microphone monster trembled and grinned with an ingratiating smile.
Xia Jing curled his lips, the scenery outside the safe house suddenly changed, and the drifting began again.
At the same time, the microphone monster opened its mouth and released passionate rock music.
…
The electric guitar and bass work together, the rapid drum beats almost blow the roof off, and the intense music is deafening, which can almost shake a person's brain into a ball.
Outside the safe house, a group of players were about to be completely trapped in the forest swamp.
When they saw the safe house suddenly appear, one of the veteran players' eyes lit up. Before he could even yell "Help," the next second, rock music emanating from the safe house shook the swamp beneath them, causing ripples to form, swallowing them up a little more. The group of players stared blankly at their vision, which had become even shorter...
Xia Jing was humming a song in the house while counting the fruits of victory.
…
The scenery outside the window changed in an instant, and we arrived at a cemetery again.
A group of players were being hugged and bitten by zombies that jumped out of their coffins. Amidst their wailing, they suddenly saw a safe house that suddenly appeared. They cried and howled, and the next second they saw with their own eyes that a piece of rotten flesh fell off the zombies due to the rock music coming from the safe house.
The zombie quickly pressed the rotten flesh back onto the skeleton, then took a harder bite.
Players: "Oh my god—"
In the safe house, Xia Jing extracted energy from the monster's body with shining eyes.
…
The scenery outside the window changed again and we arrived at the bottom of the sea.
A group of players struggled to escape the sea monster's pursuit, but suddenly a house appeared in front of them. They whimpered underwater to remind each other, eager to swim over...
Then the rock music created a substantial wave, knocking them over into the gaping maw of the sea monster...
Players: wcnmmp!
Xia Jing used his abundant monster energy to expand the safe house into two new double rooms.
He opened his arms in satisfaction, tilted his head back, closed his eyes, and felt the growing size of his "little kingdom".
…
That night, the Smiley City Forum went crazy.
A post was placed high up in the front row and soon became "HOT".
The post is titled "How many people encountered the safe house today? Did anyone successfully get in?"
The next row of replies.
1L: "Oh, I saw it. I also heard some very exciting rock music. I've never heard of rock music being played in a safe house. Isn't that the store manager said to be kind and good-hearted? I thought it was a trap set by the dungeon to confuse me, so I didn't dare go in..."
2L: "Upstairs, the store manager is really beautiful and kindhearted. You are under some illusion!! [laughing and crying]"
3L: "Stop talking. I was bitten on the kidney by a zombie at that time. The rock music shook the flesh off the zombie's face. The zombie monster probably wanted to replenish its body and almost took my other kidney away..."
4L: "This is so funny, did the guy on the fourth floor come back after leaving the dungeon?"
5L: "Shocked, the beauty doesn't like gardening anymore and loves rock music?"
6L: "Fuck, I've been to a safe house before, why did the beautiful store manager suddenly change her style [covering face]"
7L: "Front row warning, front row warning, all players please get away from the safe house as soon as possible, rock music is very dangerous, rock music is very dangerous!"
8L: "Well, well, actually, I'm pretty good at rock singing. I don't want a high salary, just a few monster props. Manager, look at me [points fingers]"
9L: "Well, actually, I can be a resident singer. The salary I want is not high. Just one monster prop per week is enough. Manager, look at me [pointing fingers]"
10L: "Well, actually, I can warm the bed for the store manager while rocking and rolling with him. Will the store manager be willing to love me forever? [shy]"
11L: "The three of you upstairs, you have everything in your dreams [dog head]"
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After leaving the game hall, Song Yang and Jia Qing did not return to the real world immediately. Instead, they went back to Song Yang's personal space and met another good friend of theirs, Feng Shi.
In just a short while, another big event occurred in Smile City.
Feng Shi said: "A four-star copy just appeared."
Upon hearing this, Song Yang restrained his expression and went straight into the login room inside his personal space. He spent two points to check and found that the four-star copy was currently in the "0/5" status.
This is not surprising.
It is different from the one, two and three star copies that are updated all year round, retained all year round and can be entered repeatedly.
Four-star and five-star copies are rare. Once they are cleared, they will automatically disappear from the copy menu. They are one-time copies.
Even if these two types of copies appeared, ordinary players would not dare to enter them - entering would be a 100% death.
Therefore, every time a four-star copy appears in Smiley City, someone will post in the forum to gather high-scoring players.
After confirming the number of people, everyone will enter the dungeon together.
Song Yang carefully checked the title and cover of the four-star dungeon. After he came out, Feng Shi and Jia Qing looked at him and asked, "Are you planning to go in this time?"
Song Yang nodded without hesitation.
Although it was dangerous, he never intended to miss any four-star or five-star copy.
Even though it was such a dangerous matter, he seemed to have just decided where to travel, and his posture was still very relaxed.
He sat down on the sofa and asked, "Has anyone started a rally thread yet?"
Feng Shi shook his head: "Not yet, this four-star dungeon just appeared, someone should post about it soon."
Song Yang listened, opened the forum, and saw the first post about the safe house at first glance.
Song Yang paused.
He has been in Smiley City for ninety days and has entered fourteen copies in total. This frequency is not high, and he is stuck in the seven-day cycle.
But after all, I have entered the dungeon fourteen times.
But he had never encountered a safe house.
All his knowledge of this mysterious house came from fragmentary information on the forum.
Song Yang clicked on today's post and glanced at it casually.
Seeing the word "rock music," his eyes narrowed, and he subconsciously recalled the demonic sound released from the broadcast room during lunch break on the first day of the "Don't Think!" dungeon...