Doomsday Train, I went crazy by hoarding billions of items.

Chapter 161 You Never Truly Left Earth
Jiang Ran calmed down and suddenly asked, "Was our world... also in the game?"

The smaller text reappeared after a long time: "Not so."

Jiang Ran was taken aback.

She originally thought that Blue Star might also be a parallel universe that originated from Paro Island, but Xiao Zi said it wasn't.

Before she could ask any more questions, the text in small print was updated again.

"It's a long process of takeover... Even they need fresh blood."

Jiang Ran frowned sharply: "So, they actually had their eyes on Blue Star a long time ago, only thinking about dragging Blue Star into the game?"

The smaller text appeared quickly this time: "Yes and no. What they've always wanted is energy. In fact, you've never truly left Earth."

Never truly left?

Jiang Ran suddenly realized something: "You mean, Blue Star is actually fine?! It's just that we, the residents of Blue Star, have been trapped in the game? Then what exactly is my diary...?"

The small characters seemed to be typed out on the spot, each one popping out one by one.

"A diary is just a record, but it could also be a reason to be targeted. As for Blue Star, we'll find out once we go out and see for ourselves."

Jiang Ran wanted to ask more, but the line of small print suddenly disappeared and never appeared again.

Jiang Ran sat on the carpet with a puzzled look on her face, her mind replaying the pictures in the diary and the words written in small print.

If I was targeted because I accidentally discovered these things, then what was the reason for my closeness to the heart?

But the only good news is that if Earth is still intact, does that mean that if we can leave the game, we can really return to the real world?
As for the fact that what Big Eyes always wanted was a human being, Jiang Ran understood the meaning behind it.

What it has always wanted is intense, violently fluctuating emotions.

Or rather, it is the energy that bursts forth based on these emotions.

Therefore, the extreme natural disasters and various crises set up in the dungeon are all designed to stimulate the players' "potential," whether good or evil, in order to unleash the strongest emotions in a short period of time.

As for people like myself, they'll probably become walking corpses after their value has been squeezed dry, continuing to harvest faith points.

It can be described as squeezing the marrow from the bones.

But what does Xiao Zi mean by telling him to go out and see for himself at the end?
Realizing that she had been so preoccupied with Xu Tian's family and Jiang Man since entering the instance that she hadn't even had a chance to leave the room, Jiang Ran decided to go out and see what was going on.

Stepping out of the villa, the sky outside was completely dark. What was shocking was that the sky, which should have been clear, had somehow turned into a thick, viscous black ink, which had been splashed across the entire sky and was even slowly dripping down!
The dripping black liquid, after touching the ground, wobbled and stood up, transforming into a barely discernible human shape, with only its eye sockets gleaming with a ghostly blue light.

They weren't moving fast; they walked slowly and aimlessly, as if searching for something.

Jiang Ran found a long knife and slowly approached one of the dark figures.

The dark figure seemed to have caught Jiang Ran's scent, paused for a moment, and then moved at a speed more than ten times faster than before!
Although Jiang Ran was momentarily startled by the sudden acceleration, she acted without hesitation, severing the black figure's head with a single stroke.

The commotion quickly attracted the attention of the shadowy figures nearby, who slowly made their way toward Jiang Ran.

But it seems that as soon as they get close enough, they suddenly accelerate, just like that shadow before!
Moreover, Jiang Ran discovered a very serious problem—the first black shadow she beheaded, although it seemed to have melted and turned back into black liquid, got up from the ground again after a short while! She tried to deal with these black shadows with water, fire, and electricity, but they couldn't be penetrated by water, couldn't burn, and weren't conductive at all.

No matter how you try to disperse the shadows, they will eventually rise again.

They are completely unkillable!

What's worse is that these small black dots are still slowly dripping down from the sky. At this rate, it won't be long before the entire city is covered by these shadows!
Jiang Ran even tried to burn them with the flames that had killed Xu Yunxuan's family of three, but the flames went straight into their black bodies without causing a ripple.

Is this what the small print was meant to show me?

But this only suggests that what you'll face in this instance is probably even more bizarre; it doesn't offer any other clues.

Jiang Ran looked around but didn't see anything else that could be considered a clue.

Given her speed, if she wasn't trying to test the nature of these shadowy figures, she naturally wouldn't let them get close.

Seeing that there was no good way to kill them, she had no choice but to give up and return to the villa.

Jiang Ran even went to the second-floor balcony to observe for a while and found that as long as there was no one around, those dark figures would wander aimlessly like ghosts.

Fortunately, the villa area where she lived was sparsely populated, and there were not many people wandering around at night, so no screams of someone being murdered were heard.

She closed the front door and installed the alarm before returning to her room. She then had time to open her chat history and ask Xiaobai and Majik where they had been abandoned.

Let's also see if any clever players have discovered the weaknesses of these shadowy figures.

To her surprise, she found that she could no longer contact Xiaobai.

I can't make the connection in the literal sense.

After entering this instance, her game panel only showed her alt accounts: Miss, Little Spinning Top, and Jing Lian. Her exclusive chat box with Xiao Bai was gone!

What does that mean? Does it mean that skills are not allowed in this instance?

But the alt she created with Annihilation is still perfectly fine.

Jiang Ran frowned, only then realizing that she had been distracted by Jiang Man and hadn't thought of Xiao Bai's personality. If they were really separated, Xiao Bai would definitely try to contact her first.

And Magik...

He had sent a message to Jiang Ran beforehand: "Master, I'm back at the mental sanatorium and can't get out. That old bastard GOD has come back to life. If you have time, come and rescue your slave. If you don't have time, don't worry, I won't die anyway, I'll always be waiting for you. [Location]"

The location is hundreds of thousands of miles away; unless teleported, it's impossible to get there in a short time.

Jiang Ran closed his chat window. Just like Majik himself said, he wouldn't die anyway, so let's just wait and see.

She needs to figure out what happened to Xiaobai first.

If it were just a dungeon restriction, that would be one thing, but if it's Muya and her group causing trouble...