The few players who had been confused by Mu Chen were brainstorming, constantly wavering between "I still have my senses" and "Actually, I'm just a fool blinded by a filter."

So, the next morning, when Mingmei appeared before everyone again, she found that the players were still able to greet her calmly and said they were going out.

Yes, going out through the main entrance.

"How long will you be out? Do you need us to prepare lunch?"

Even though everyone knew that the lunch at the store was terrible, they were swayed by Mingmei's sincere inquiry. Daya was the first to say that she could make something.

"Okay, be careful and don't get separated."

Mingmei's worried tone made them, who had been suspicious of her despite their filtered perception, lower their guard a little more.

Daya and Wang Wenfei were the most affected.

How could an NPC who "looked like Mingmei" be a bad person?

They still remembered everything they had discussed the night before.

They didn't plan to continue exploring the vegetable garden. There were fragmented corpses in the ground and dense forests outside. Encountering evil spirits there would be like fighting on their home turf. They decided to go out through the main entrance to see what the world outside was like.

The main road in front of the entrance was wide and open. Fighting there would be much better than in the back, right?

So, early in the morning, they braved the heavy rain and walked out of the inn together.

After leaving the inn, the group turned around and saw the main entrance of the inn that they had been heading towards that night without paying attention to.

Just like the view from the back, the front of the inn was also very dilapidated, with mottled moss on the walls, peeling and faded signs, and a slip of paper seemingly stuck to the drafty door.

"This..."

Julian walked closer and looked at the broken "slip of paper" still stuck to the wall and the door frame. Although it was very blurry, he used his character's knowledge to identify it: "It's a police seal."

As he spoke, Julian looked up. In the real world outside, when he looked into the inn, Ah Nian's clean and retro inn now looked dirty and messy, full of dilapidation and clutter, and—

A woman covered in blood, her hair disheveled and obscuring her face, was standing behind the dusty, cobweb-covered bar.

Julian: !!!

Seeing Julian suddenly take a few steps back and almost slip on a puddle, only to be steadied by Charlie, they followed Julian's horrified gaze.

"Hiss!!"

Everyone gasped in unison, helping Julian take several steps back!

"I'll go! Is that the boss?"

Charlie couldn't believe that the usually beautiful female boss could look so terrifying in her original form!

"How much torment did she suffer before she died? Covered in blood..."

Wang Wenfei directly attributed the blood on Mingmei's dead body to Mingmei herself.

Daya, standing beside her, also shook her head in pity. "That's terrible! By the way, what about her partner? What does... what did the mysterious merchant look like in death?"

As Daya said this, they mustered their courage again and craned their necks to look inside, wanting to see Mu Chen, who had always seemed so nice to them.

As a result, the shock this time was even greater than the last!

What came into their view was a man wearing a raincoat with blood all over his head!

The man was lowering his head, hugging Mingmei from behind. As if sensing their gaze, the man suddenly looked up—

"Holy crap!"

Mu Chen's pale, purplish face instantly broke the players.

Was this a two-for-one deal?!

The evil spirit in the raincoat who had been chasing them was Mu Chen!

Subconsciously, the group's bodies were very honest. With horrified expressions, they turned and ran!

A voice seemed to tell them that as long as they didn't go back to the store, everything would be fine!

"Game planner! You xxxx!"

The frightened players ran in the rain, raising their heads and roaring at the sky!

…

"Pfft~"

Seeing the players' expressions as if they had seen a ghost, and then turning around and running away, Mu Chen couldn't help but laugh.

Mingmei, on the other hand, could deduce from the players' gazes and reactions that they had missed important information again!

Mingmei stared with dead fish eyes at the blood-stained noose hanging in front of the bar.

For a moment, she was despairing that the players hadn't discovered such an important clue.

Seeing the noose, it would be easy to associate it with the fact that she was hanged to death, right?

"Evil spirits" usually liked to chop people with axes. Her unusual way of dying was definitely strange, which could lead them to deduce that she might have committed suicide.

Then, they could deduce that she might be the legendary "evil spirit," right?

But...

"If they go to the battlefield like this, won't they be killed by the Zerg?"

Mingmei asked with concern.

···

She remembered asking her brother why he wanted to return to Hua Lan Star after the banquet that day. Her second brother only said that within the next ten years, there would be a fierce battle between humans and the Zerg.

Although it generally took five to ten years to graduate from an interstellar military academy, once a war broke out, military academy students with three or more years of experience could participate.

Mingmei felt stifled when she thought of these classmates' rash and know-it-all behavior in the game.

"Who knows? There are still several years left. There's still a chance to salvage it."

Mu Chen even used the word "salvage." Mingmei could only twitch the corners of her mouth and say nothing.

"However, they really overreacted to your appearance."

In Mingmei's eyes, he was still a clean, smiling man. She didn't know what the real thing looked like in those people's eyes.

"Yeah. After all, my death appearance..."

As Mu Chen spoke, he made eye contact with Mingmei. Before he could even ask if she wanted to see his death appearance, she nodded and said, "Change. I'm not afraid."

Anyway, her death appearance was even more terrifying.

Hanging to death, she was only discovered by the police after many days. At that time, her entire shoulder and neck sagged, and her two arms were stretched long and hung at her knees. Because of the noose, her entire body seemed to be artificially divided into three sections.

The head, the unnaturally long neck and above the waist, and below the waist.

If her body had been discovered any later, the part below the waist might have broken off due to gravity. If that happened, the players who saw her death appearance today might have been directly scared to tears.

Mu Chen smiled and agreed. In a flash, she saw a man in a raincoat, looking embarrassed with injuries on his head.

This look was really like when she chased the players yesterday.

"No wonder..."

Mingmei smiled helplessly, then took out the axe and raincoat from under the bar again. Looking at the rain outside and the electronic map of the players' escape routes in her mind, a strange smile appeared on her face again.

Let's end this game like this~

Mingmei thought, she also wanted to experience the joy of clearing the game.