Chapter 1 I'm Leaving~

Having changed into light and simple clothes, Mingmei was about to leave with her equipment.

She turned her head to look at Mu Chen, who hadn't changed into his pajamas yet, and instructed, "Sleep well. You can handle tomorrow's daylight scenes yourself. Hopefully, you can provide some psychological counseling for them. I'll need to sleep during the day."

"Okay, good luck~"

Mu Chen gazed at Mingmei tenderly, which gave her, who was playing a villain, especially a murderous psychopath, for the first time, great encouragement.

"Yes! I'll earn credit points to support you!"

After saying that, Mingmei even gave Mu Chen a rare sweet smile. Just as Guigui was about to praise Mingmei's increasing emotions and expressions from behind the scenes, the next second, Mingmei turned her head away from Mu Chen, and that sweet smile instantly twisted into a sinister villainous expression.

Guigui: [...]

Just 0.01 seconds before, Guigui was about to say, "Oh, not bad~." At this moment, it swallowed the words back down.

It was already starting to think about another matter: who should it message about Mr. Yan Hui's decision to have its host and her boyfriend switch roles, resulting in its host's temporary (?) darkening?

Should it report him to Master Liuliu?

Or should it send a message to Mr. Yan Hui, telling him that this behavior was risky and shouldn't be done again?

Or should it... say nothing and wait and see how its host reacts?

The tangled Guigui had already seen its host silently walk into the kitchen and put on the raincoat hanging on the wall.

Beneath the raincoat was a sharp axe. Mingmei put on the raincoat without hesitation and picked up the axe.

The heavy rain outside continued to fall. Mingmei looked at the rain outside the window, pulled the hood of the raincoat, directly covering half of her face, and went out the door.

The signal to trigger the boss's action in this instance was when players tried to escape the hotel.

As long as the player left the hotel grounds, Mingmei could attack—eliminating a player was worth 2 credit points.

Upstairs,

"R-really going to take a look?"

Lu Xiaoyao looked at Leng Youyou, who was already packing her equipment. Clearly, the other party was studying medicine at military school, so how could she show such a reckless side in the game?

"If we don't go out and take a look, how will we know whether we are living in an illusion, and what we see through the window is the real outside world? Or... is the reality before us, and what's outside the window is an illusion, and all the unusual things around us are just left behind to induce us to believe that everything before us is fake?"

Leng Youyou's long string of nested arguments made Lu Xiaoyao a little dizzy, so Leng Youyou also felt that there was a reason why Lu Xiaoyao was not her partner tonight.

"Ready yet?"

A knock came from outside the door. Leng Youyou opened the door and saw that Mandy and Wang Wenfei outside were also ready. She nodded to confirm that she was ready as well.

"Did you eat your boxed lunch?" Wang Wenfei asked again about the spicy stir-fried pork boxed lunch.

"Yes, I ate it."

Through Leng Youyou's line of sight, they had already seen the finished boxed lunch in the corner of the room. Mandy looked at the time on her watch and said, "It's already twelve o'clock. I was watching at the stairwell for a while just now, and there's been no movement downstairs at all."

The three nodded and were about to leave. Lu Xiaoyao, worried, held a candle in her hand and stood at the door, watching Leng Youyou and the others leave.

As if still remembering Lu Xiaoyao, Leng Youyou suddenly turned her head. Sure enough, she saw Lu looking like a little puppy abandoned by its owner, clinging to the door. Seeing her turn her head, her eyes instantly lit up. So she instructed, "If you're scared tonight, stay in the same room with Hu Yue. You can take care of each other."

"Okay…"

Lu Xiaoyao hesitated and nodded. Taking advantage of the fact that they hadn't gone downstairs yet, she walked to the next room in three steps or two. Hu Yue naturally had no objections to Lu Xiaoyao's request.

"Don't worry, Julian and Charlie will be watching at the window. If they really encounter something in the vegetable garden, we can find out in time."

"Then... then let's go to Charlie's room and see if there's anything we can help with."

Hearing that the people next door still had things to do tonight, Lu Xiaoyao felt that she should also do something. Asking her to sleep while her companions were in danger was something she probably still couldn't do.

"You?"

Hu Yue raised her eyebrows. She remembered that Lu Xiaoyao had been so scared that she hugged Julian and pushed him. She asked uncertainly, "What can you do over there?"

"Anyway, I can do anything as long as I don't have to use the telescope!"

…

Back door of the kitchen.

"See it?"

Leng Youyou and the other two stood in the backyard after leaving the kitchen. The surrounding scenery had not changed.

Wang Wenfei held a flashlight and shone it on the situation in the yard. It was similar to what they had seen downstairs during the day. The few of them looked towards the vegetable garden together. Likewise, the flashlight still showed it to be so green.

Unfortunately, as long as they thought of the scene they had seen through the telescope upstairs, the expressions on the faces of the three were a little indescribable.

The heavy rain falling in the dark night sky drenched everyone, and the piercing cold instantly sobered their minds.

No wonder there were spicy stir-fried pork boxed lunches.

Such cold rain falling might really cause death due to hypothermia.

"Look! Light!"

Mandy pointed to the window on the second floor. Everyone looked up and saw the flashlight flashing constantly.

That was the signal they had agreed upon with Julian and the others.

If they could see themselves when they appeared in the backyard, they would use a flashlight to flash, indicating that they had seen them.

In response to Julian and the others, Wang Wenfei also flashed the flashlight in her hand, indicating that they could also see the other party's flashlight.

At least they had reached a consensus on this point.

Regardless of whether the surroundings were real or illusory, what they could believe was that their companions were real.

Comforted by the flashlight signal upstairs, the three quickly walked to the door leading to the vegetable garden in the backyard.

Just standing at the door, the scene they had seen through the second floor earlier kept flashing back in their minds, as if giving them psychological preparation.

They didn't know whether stepping out of this door would show them a vibrant vegetable garden or a spiritual world of corpses and limb carnage.

"Are you all ready?" Mandy held a dagger in one hand and pressed the small door in the backyard with the other, standing in front of the two girls. Wang Wenfei behind her was concentrating on shining the flashlight for Mandy: "Ready."

"Me too."

Leng Youyou stood at the rear, her body half-turned, her eyes looking around, afraid that something would appear from behind to attack. Hearing Mandy's question, she also responded, "Ready."

Two minutes ago, upstairs.

"So, everyone didn't go to the vegetable garden during the day... then the figures I saw in the vegetable garden at the beginning of the day weren't you?"

At this moment, Lu Xiaoyao and the other three were squeezed into a room. Julian held a flashlight and telescope to help the people downstairs keep an eye on the surroundings, while Charlie, with Hu Yue and Lu Xiaoyao, once again talked about what happened during the day.

"Didn't we say earlier? It was raining so hard, everyone was watching in the kitchen."

"Didn't any of you go out to take a look at the time?"

"No." Lu Xiaoyao shook her head honestly, not understanding why the other party was asking her this, so she asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"If none of you went out, then what I saw during the day..." Saying this, Charlie's face was also extremely ugly, and he said incredulously, "Could it be that the figures in the vegetable garden that Mandy and I saw during the day were these things at night..."

Before he could finish his words, Julian suddenly rushed to the window, not even bothering to turn on the flashlight, and shouted towards the backs of the three people who had already entered the vegetable garden, "Run—!"

Just now, after watching everyone enter the vegetable garden, his flashlight accidentally shone in the direction of the visual blind spot in the corner, and a reflection appeared!