Chapter 69: Pinching Beans (1/2)

After quickly reading through the game’s introduction, everyone immediately started looking around without saying anything.

Bai Yan’s eyes ran around his surroundings, despite him being outside. Among the mixed crowd of 11, the majority of them held their cellphones in their hands while wearing sneakers and clothes that were suited for physical activity, as if they were all prepared to run.

There was only one girl who looked like she was in junior high.

The young teen appeared to be empty-handed. Her feet sported a pair of cute cartoon slippers, while she wore a set of comfy pajamas on her body. It was clear as day that she was dressed differently from the rest.

When Bai Yan’s eyes first landed on this young girl, he came to realize that she must have been that Liu Xiyu.

As it should be, the moment he found out about Liu Xiyu’s identity, everyone had also come to the same conclusion. Well, people who managed to survive up to the seventh level weren’t blockheads.

While Bai Yan was standing in his original place, carefully observing her, there was already someone who had approached Liu Xiyu to talk to her.

A man who had a crew cut walked to Liu Xiyu’s side, appearing amiable and kind while doing this, and asked her in a friendly manner, “Little sister, do you know what this place is?”

However, he was yet to be discouraged. Rather, he kept on saying, “Then, do you know of a way to wake you up?”

“I know.” Liu Xiyu sheepishly recoiled one step back, and her expression swayed as if she didn’t like this idea, “If I can leave this building… Or, if I can walk further than before, I’ll be able to wake up.”

The weight of the information from Liu Xiyu’s words was heavy. She obviously knew a lot of things about this dream world.

When she heard this, a random woman couldn’t help but interrupt, “I heard that this place is a dreadful cellar, could you tell us more about what will happen next?”

Liu Xiyu was good at talking, and when facing two or more inquiries, she still wasn’t fed up with answering them, “Next, we’ll stroll below the building, and inside there are numerous rooms. Each room houses a game. If you finish the game successfully, you’ll be able to leave the room and continue down the stairs.

I always move like this every time. There are moments that when I walk for a long while, I’ll suddenly be able to wake up. There’s nothing special about it.”

“Game? What specific game is it?” Another middle-aged woman asked urgently.

“It’s… It’s a somewhat terrifying game.” Liu Xiyu’s eyes hovered over everyone, her eyes flashing dully as she lowered her head in a somewhat guilty manner, “I also don’t remember what specific game it is. I only know that it’s terrifying in there. I can only remember the items inside, but I can’t make sense of what I was looking at. Every time you clear the game… that is how you clear it…”

Liu Xiyu was obviously hiding something from them, but the many human spirits present there could naturally see that she was hiding something important.

A rather gloomy man dressed in a dark jacket walked closer and pinched a small chunk of Liu Xiyu’s arm all of a sudden. Liu Xiyu awkwardly bit her lip, and contrary to what one might expect, wasn’t mad, only saying, “I can’t feel pain because I’m in my dream…”

Liu Xiyu’s secrecy left the black-clothed man quite unsatisfied. But, the app already decided that whoever dies, Liu Xiyu still wouldn’t die. So, he didn’t dare treat her too excessively and could only resentfully go back.

“Do you people still have any questions left? If not, we should move out quickly. I can feel something chasing us from behind.” Liu Xiyu gazed behind them while her face instantly colored with fear.

After saying this, Bai Yan suddenly sensed that behind Liu Xiyu had transformed into incomparable darkness.

As they journeyed down the stairs, only a dark light illuminated their path, seeming to hint that they should move forward.

Liu Xiyu intentionally stayed at the back of the group while the looming darkness attacked forward little by little behind her.

This time, without the need for Liu Xiyu’s warning, everyone could also feel something in the darkness quietly going towards them.

They all sensed the same thing. If they let this darkness engulf them, they would completely sink into Liu Xiyu’s nightmare and change into a plaything for the ghost living in the darkness.

Along with Li Xiyu’s footsteps, the darkness also progressed as if it was vigorously pursuing the girl’s steps.

Looking back at this scene, Bai Yan had a sort of enlightenment. However, this was the girl’s dream and dreams naturally chased after its owner.

The stairs seemed to last forever.

Everyone was walking down the narrow stairs, counting their progress, step by step.

Along the way, the guy with a crew cut suddenly had a bright idea, so he asked the girl, “In your eyes, what do we look like?”

“You’re all lumps of black, but your bodies are different. I can recognize the differences.” Li Xiyu added, “Moreover… You all don’t have faces!”

Upon hearing this, the man with the crew cut felt a bit better about why the girl showed discomfort towards him earlier.

In Liu Xiyu’s eyes, they were some sort of faceless monsters. Frankly speaking, being able to stay with them meant that the girl’s mental tolerance was already quite strong.

On their journey down, Bai Yan, as well as the other players, went over Liu Xiyu’s words, attempting to find a way to survive with the information she had just divulged.

…

“We’re here.” Ye Shangyu, who was in front of the group, suddenly said.

When Ye Shangyu went down the stairs, everyone also went down one after another.

Bai Yan was right in the middle when everybody was going down and was hurriedly sweeping a glance at his surroundings.

The life-like darkness behind that was still slowly following them, and ahead of them appeared three rooms.

“Three… Taking into account Liu Xiyu, we are twelve, so four people should enter one room?”

Bai Yan cautiously observed the three rooms and saw that each room was tightly shut.

One simply couldn’t see through the thick sturdy iron doors.

However, the ice-cold iron doors still revealed a little something… At the bottom of the iron doors, there were bright lights that lit up the ground, and large bloodstains sprinkled on top of the floor. They had been there for a long time, evident from the blackish-red stains.

These seemed to make clear that these three doors weren’t that simple.

The three iron doors looked exactly the same as one another, so much so that a person with OCD could die by just choosing among them.

But, every single player who had reached the seventh floor kept their cool.

Some of them even studied the dried bloodstains on the floor, wanting to observe the patterns on the stains to decide which door they should go through after.