"Aren't we going to make it so obvious that the chairman will find out?" Modi reminded him somewhat displeased.
"Even if we get discovered, we still have to leave the instance." Ye Bugui snorted lightly, "Even if we kill him."
The three people next to Ye Bugui did not interrupt him. After all, they were all people who had fought their way to the S-level dungeon. They had killed countless monsters and were no different from the chairman of the group.
"Open the door." After arriving at the farm gate, Lu Shi said to Black Jack behind him.
The four of them walked around the farm, turning up almost the entire surface to look inside, and to their surprise, they actually found a stone door that looked like a cellar.
At this moment, Blackjack looked around the stone door, and judging from his expression, he was definitely surprised.
"I don't remember having such a place on my farm."
"Could this be a trap?" Modi immediately warned, seeing that Ye Bugui and Lu Shi were about to jump off the stone gate.
"I'll use my ability for a moment," Lu Shi said softly.
He was preparing to activate the character cards within his body, but something strange happened; he seemed to have lost contact with the cards.
In short, his abilities disappeared.
“Your ability is ineffective,” Modi said softly, not in a question, as if he had already realized this.
"How do you know?" Lu Shi asked in return.
"The first thing I did after regaining consciousness was to use my ability. The result, obviously, was that my ability disappeared," Modi said casually.
"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Ye Bugui frowned and looked at the other person. "If we lose our ability, won't we be unable to resist that chairman?"
“Well, I think if the game is set up like this, there must be a way to break it, right? We can’t just lose like this.” Modi had a good attitude: “Let’s go, it seems we have no choice but to go down.”
At this moment, Lu Shi walked up behind Ye Bugui and whispered, "Why do I feel like every step we've taken along the way has been within this chairman's expectations? This feeling is very strange."
"Don't think too much." Only then did Ye Bugui feel powerless, a feeling of helplessness that far exceeded that before they regained their memories.
Even though they remembered everything, even though they knew that everything here was an illusion, and even though they guessed that what they were in front of might be a trap, they still had no choice but to step into it.
This feeling of powerlessness is quite distressing.
"Could there be monsters down there?" Blackjack, who was at the very back, coughed loudly, and you could hear a faint fear in his voice.
"Perhaps." Ye Bugui looked at this expert from the Falcon family, who was now behaving like a timid old man, and couldn't help but want to laugh.
“I’ve lost my powers,” Blackjack said softly, as if reading Ye Bugui’s thoughts from his expression. “I’m no different from a grumpy old man. I hope there aren’t any monsters down there.”
Upon opening the stone door, a downward staircase appeared before them.
Looking at it, Lu Shi seemed to see the four large characters "Invite the enemy into the urn".
The four of them had no choice but to suppress this strange feeling and then silently walked down the stairs.
"How long is this staircase?" Blackjack couldn't help but ask, feeling like he'd been swaying on it for hours.
Ye Bugui raised his head, seemingly trying to find the stone gate they had just come down from, but found that he couldn't see it at all.
When he looked down, he found that he couldn't see the bottom at all.
"I'm starting to suspect we're heading straight to the Earth's core," Ye Bugui joked. "We've made such a commotion here, and the chairman hasn't even reacted. I think he probably thinks we're courting death!"
Lu Shi, who was directly below Ye Bugui, suddenly sniffed hard with his nose, and then his beautiful eyebrows immediately furrowed together.
"Can you smell something strange?"
"Smell?" Ye Bugui followed his example and sniffed, but unfortunately couldn't smell anything. He had to admit, "No, are you sure there's a smell?"
“Hmm.” Lu Shi nodded affirmatively. He glanced at the expressions of the others and, realizing that none of them could smell anything, said, “It’s an animal smell, a primal, putrid smell.”
After this adjective was used, Blackjack, who was about to climb down, suddenly stopped.
"Is it a monster?!"
If Blackjack initially used a questioning approach, his words turned into a scream.
Because he witnessed with his own eyes a giant bird made entirely of bones take off and rush towards them.
Yes, just as Blackjack feared, they actually encountered a monster.
"No!"
The moment the monster charged, Blackjack realized his heart had stopped beating.
He lied. Just now, when facing Ye Bugui and Lu Shi, he actually said that he had had enough of living, so he was willing to take risks.
But when faced with the reality of life and death, he realized that he was not prepared to leave this world at all, and he wanted to live.
Just as Blackjack closed his eyes, he heard a murmur that was completely inaudible.
That was the whisper of God.
He understood the meaning: it was telling him to give up resistance and return to the illusion.
This seemed to suit Blackjack's intentions perfectly, and he betrayed the group almost without hesitation.
The moment he closed his eyes, Blackjack vanished.
The giant bird, whose entire body was covered in fire, also disappeared along with it.
When Blackjack woke up again, he was lying in his bedroom.
He opened the window, glanced at the vibrant farm outside, and smiled.
"It's time to water them."
He had clearly forgotten his original identity, and it seemed that ending his life as a well-off farmer was the most correct choice.
The three people still hanging on the stairs had calmed down, but they still couldn't believe what they had just discovered.
"I didn't see wrong, did I? A monster just flew by," Ye Bugui asked immediately.
After Lu Shi and Modi nodded, Ye Bugui continued, "But strangely, that monster just let us go like that. That doesn't make sense."
“Did you guys feel something?” Lu Shi put his hand to his forehead, as if a small piece of memory had been pulled from his mind: “There were four of us who came down.”
“No,” Modi firmly retorted. “There were only the three of us from beginning to end. Those players who only wanted to indulge in illusions didn’t need us to wake them up.”
"Really?" Lu Shi bit his lip, and seeing that Ye Bugui didn't refute it, he finally admitted it. "Then how did we get down?"
"The wine cellar." Ye Bugui stretched out his hand and waved it in the air, as if to cheer Lu Shi on: "How could you forget everything?"
“I haven’t forgotten,” Lu Shi said confidently. “I just have a slight memory problem. Let’s continue!”
This time, they climbed for an unknown amount of time before they actually saw the bottom of the passage.
"We've arrived!" After jumping down, they were somewhat relieved to find that this was not an abyss, as if they were not far from the exit.
Ye Bugui went over and checked Lu Shi to make sure he wasn't injured before saying, "Shall we continue? There seems to be light ahead."
They seemed to have entered a cave, and there was a beam of light in front of them, as if luring them there.
Unfortunately, they never had a choice.
"I'll go first," Ye Bugui stepped forward, then looked back at Lu Shi: "If I get into danger, you all run back immediately, don't worry about me."
“How could that be?” Lu Shi immediately retorted to Ye Bugui, “I’m not the kind of person who would abandon my teammates.”
Modi, standing between the two, suddenly felt so out of place; he should have been under the car.
"How about I go first?" He glanced at the two of them and joked, "You two just got married, it's better if you don't separate."
This joke made them both blush. They looked at each other, unsure of what to say next.
"Ahem." Ye Bugui has always been a domineering CEO, when has he ever been so shy! "I married him because I had amnesia, we are just ordinary friends."
Lu Shi nodded in agreement: "That's right, we're just ordinary friends. The marriage was an accident and doesn't count."
At this moment, Modi displayed a strange attitude: "What's wrong with you two? I was just joking, why are you taking it so seriously? Your reaction is not right."
Fortunately, the three of them didn't have time to continue the topic. Modi walked in front, heading towards the direction of the beam of light.
When they got closer, they finally saw the shape of the light source; it was actually a flower.
A small, white flower that glows, looking so pitiful.
However, the three of them only lost their abilities, not their intelligence, so they naturally understood that there was definitely something wrong with the flower.
They ignored the white flowers without hesitation and continued walking forward.
As they ventured deeper, they soon arrived in a new world.
It was an ocean of light.
In front of them was a field the size of a football field, now completely covered with glowing flowers.
All the light converged, as if to blind them.
Just as Lu Shi opened his mouth, all the flowers suddenly sprang up from the ground, revealing their true forms.
Beneath each white flower, what nourishes them is a wet, soon-to-be-turned-soil corpse.
Chapter 67
☪ Dream Come True Group 13
The corpses swarmed forward, their white flowers still glowing, but no one found the scene before them comical.
But just as the corpse was...
The corpses swarmed forward, their white flowers still glowing, but no one found the scene before them comical.
But just as the corpse approached them, it suddenly stopped, as if it had been frozen in place.
The faces of the corpses were still clearly visible, and Lu Shi recognized them without any difficulty; they were all residents living happily in the group.
There's a startup mogul featured in the promotional video, a little girl who loves buying croissants, and even his "best friend" Azi.
The sight sent chills down the spines of all three of them present.
If they could see their own dashboard, they would see that their sanity is dropping rapidly.
Although all the players lost the system's functions in the instance, this did not affect the audience's attendance.
Lu Shi's live stream room is now attracting more and more viewers.
They were initially bored out of their minds, after all, who wants to watch a casual everyday life in a survival game?