Day of Imprisonment

“He's dead!” Lin Qiqi said at that moment.

Luo Xi didn't doubt this.

The [Soul Viewer] can see the soul light of everyone within their line of sight. According to Lin Qiqi, as long as someone is alive, their soul will glow, whether strongly or weakly, with varying colors. But if she can't see the soul light on someone, it means that person is already dead.

When it comes to judging life and death, Lin Qiqi is faster and more accurate than a professional doctor.

A person, who knows how long he had been playing games in the internet cafe, then just starved to death in his seat.

No bloody slaughter, no terrifying ghosts, like a candle burning slowly to its end, a withered leaf falling from a branch, peaceful and natural.

But at this moment, An Zhiyan and Lin Qiqi both felt an indescribable sense of terror, a feeling that even gave them goosebumps.

They were both veterans, having seen too many terrifying death scenes in their past experiences, acquaintances, strangers...

But the scene they saw at this moment was the most peaceful, and also the most shocking.

“Auntie, the customer at machine number 24 doesn't have enough credit, tell him to log off.” The internet cafe manager's voice came from over there. Almost in the next moment, a terrifying sense of oppression suddenly appeared, like a train suddenly rushing in.

It was a middle-aged woman without pupils, not tall, slightly chubby, wearing a blue cleaning uniform. She was even very polite, asking Luo Xi and the others to step aside, then walked over to take off the dead man's headphones, and like carrying a dead stray cat, she lifted the corpse out.

At the same time, she sprayed the table and sofa with the cleaning agent she carried, and then wiped it meticulously with a rag.

Finally, she left carrying the corpse.

An Zhiyan's face was already a little pale.

She had never imagined that a human life, a corpse, would be treated like cleaning up a stray cat's body.

“If you're scared, you can still leave now.” Lin Qiqi noticed An Zhiyan's expression and said.

“No, I've seen this kind of situation too many times, and isn't every reincarnation accompanied by death?” An Zhiyan said. At this moment, she had already adjusted her mentality.

The corpse that was just removed was obviously a veteran Memory Gatherer, even a strong person who had survived hundreds of cycle days, but even they couldn't escape the fate of death in high-difficulty level scenarios.

Even in higher-level level scenarios, death can no longer be repaired with [Memory], and may not even be able to rely on cycle day to be reborn, which means true 'death'.

They will become amnesiacs, or they may completely disappear from the Day of Imprisonment.

The three continued to walk inside. Some of the machines along the way were already vacant, possibly because someone had died in that seat not long ago.

According to An Zhiyan, this Lin Yixuan had only been missing for three cycle days, so he wouldn't be haggard yet.

But it also illustrates a problem.

Those people who looked withered, like mummified corpses, had been trapped here for a long time, possibly at least a dozen, or even more than dozens of cycle days.

“This place is indeed very special.” Luo Xi took a deep breath. Although the air was turbid and stuffy, he seemed to like this smell, as if it evoked some distant memories, or it might just be his strong adaptability.

An Zhiyan went over to try to 'wake up' Lin Yixuan, but this was destined to be futile.

“The rules are the rules, don't waste your energy.” Lin Qiqi said, while on the other side, Luo Xi had already found their seats.

“Number 46, 47, 48, we're lucky, in a row, which one do you choose?” Luo Xi asked.

Lin Qiqi sat on seat 46, while An Zhiyan sat on 48.

That left Luo Xi with machine number 47.

The three sat down and turned on the machines.

Soon they entered the system, and there was a desktop on the screen.

In the next moment, something strange happened.

“Luo Xi, something's wrong, here…” An Zhiyan looked down at her mouse, which had suddenly turned into a terrifying ghost hand, tightly gripping her. She immediately spoke, but when she turned her head, she was stunned. At this moment, she felt as if her heartbeat was about to stop.

Beside her, where was Luo Xi?

All around was darkness.

Except for the computer screen in front of her, the keyboard and mouse on the table, and the sofa under her butt, there was nothing else.

That's right, the mouse had turned into a terrifying ghost hand, and was now holding her hand tightly with its fingers intertwined, like lovers holding hands.

The cold touch on her hand instantly made An Zhiyan's head spin.

But after all, she was also the vice leader of the Awakened Association, and had basic psychological qualities.

She almost forcibly suppressed the urge to scream, controlled her sanity that was about to collapse, and took several deep breaths to stabilize herself.

“This is normal, because this is Yongge Supermarket, even Lin Yixuan is trapped here, so it's not surprising that anything happens here. You must be calm, if you panic, you will inevitably make wrong decisions, and death within the Day of Imprisonment is often caused by wrong judgments…”

An Zhiyan self-hypnotized, strengthening her will.

This was not the ability of a card, but a self-regulation method after a long time of practice.

It was still effective.

An Zhiyan calmed down.

She ignored the ghost hand holding her hand, because she found that this ghost hand, like a mouse, could control the cursor on the screen.

Besides, she also saw clearly what was on the computer screen.

There was only one icon on the desktop.

A plain, unadorned, pure black icon with 'Evergreen Supermarket' written below it.

Taking a deep breath, she double-clicked to open it.

In the next moment, a dizzying sensation swept over her. An Zhiyan felt as if she was being sucked into the screen by a ball of black light, or perhaps, only her 'soul' was being sucked in.

In short, when she came back to her senses, she found herself standing in a desolate wilderness.

The surroundings were equally dark, and the wind, unique to the wilderness, blew on her body, making her feel a bone-chilling cold.

Like the northern wind, it was like a knife.

Hiss!

An Zhiyan staggered and looked down at her calf in disbelief.

There was a wound on it, as if it had been lightly scratched by a blade.

"This wind is not right!"

An Zhiyan realized that the surrounding wind contained some kind of fierce evil spirit, which would roar from time to time and then suddenly extend its claws to attack.

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She immediately realized that staying where she was would only lead to death.

Run!

But where to run?

In just a few seconds, An Zhiyan already felt several wounds scratched on her by those blade-like ghost claws.

The pain made her highly focused.

She immediately used a 【Healing】 card to repair the wounds.

Carefully examining the surroundings, there seemed to be something ahead.

Getting closer, it was a signpost marking directions.

It pointed to the four directions: 'East, West, South, North'.

An Zhiyan knew that she was alone now, and she had to find and move in the right direction, otherwise she might die in this unknown place before she even found Evergreen Supermarket.

She immediately pondered.

She could only seek answers from that riddle about Evergreen Supermarket.

"When the sun shines brightly, you hear the echo of the midnight bell, seek the door in the direction of Gen, tell the Dragon King a joke, and he will let you enter Evergreen Supermarket."

Just then, An Zhiyan heard a bell ringing.

Although faint, it was indeed a bell, seemingly far away, ringing continuously.

"The echo of the midnight bell is right, it must be, I heard it, then the next sentence is seek the door in the direction of Gen. Gen is a trigram, the direction is northeast, the northeast direction..."

An Zhiyan immediately followed the direction of the signpost, found the northeast direction, and then walked forward without hesitation. During this time, she was attacked again, but she also knew that she could not stop, otherwise she would die even more miserably.

The pain all over her body made her want to stop several times, but the instinct to survive and the reason she had not yet lost told her that she must keep walking.

She found the next signpost and continued to locate her direction and move forward.

The surrounding darkness remained unchanged, the terrifying attacks remained unchanged, the only change was the bell ringing in her ears, which seemed to be getting louder and clearer.

Finally, when An Zhiyan was about to give up, she saw a strange clock tower with a strange thing standing below it.

A dragon, walking upright, wearing clothes!

This feeling was very shocking. The creature that only existed in myths and legends was actually standing alive in front of her at this moment. The silver-white scales, the slender and curved neck, the huge dragon head, the fluttering dragon whiskers...

The wind stopped.

The attacks also stopped immediately.

Immediately afterwards, An Zhiyan heard the dragon open its mouth and murmur: "Chen Dragon wears starry armor, dances through the traces of time and space, the dragon pearl reflects the universe, its majesty shakes the heavens and the earth."

After speaking, it reached out and pulled a rope, the clock hammer swung, hit the bell once, and instantly the bell rang melodiously, echoing endlessly.

An Zhiyan's spirits lifted. This should be the 'Dragon King' in the riddle.

And the last sentence in the riddle was 'Tell the Dragon King a joke, and he will let you enter Evergreen Supermarket'.

"Tell a joke?" An Zhiyan racked her brains, then coughed and cautiously said, "Mr. Dragon King, then, shall I tell you a joke?"

The Dragon King glanced at An Zhiyan and nodded extremely arrogantly.

"Okay, then I'll start."

An Zhiyan said, "A person was walking down the street and saw a merchant selling parrots. He saw that the parrot was very beautiful, so he asked the merchant if the parrot could talk? The merchant said: Of course! Don't believe me? Hold its right foot. The person did as he was told and held the parrot's right foot. He heard the parrot say very clearly: Hello! Hello! The person was very happy. The merchant said again: Hold its left foot again. The person did as he was told again and held the parrot's left foot. He heard the parrot say very clearly: Goodbye, goodbye... The person was even happier and immediately bought the parrot. After returning home, he was overjoyed, touching the parrot's left foot for a while, and touching the parrot's right foot for a while. The parrot also obediently said: Goodbye, hello. Suddenly, he had a whim: What would it say if I held both of its feet together? So he grabbed both of the parrot's feet. He heard the parrot say loudly: Damn it! Are you trying to knock me down!?"

After speaking, she looked at the Dragon King with anticipation.

The latter was silent for a moment, then slowly shook his head.

He was obviously not very satisfied.

An Zhiyan's scalp tingled a little, but fortunately she immediately thought of another joke: "Mr. Dragon King, I have another one. The teacher often educates everyone in class, saying that when you see other people's defects and misfortunes, never laugh at them. One day, I said to the teacher: Today there was a child in the school who fell into a puddle, and everyone laughed, only I didn't laugh. The teacher said that I did the right thing and praised me, and then asked me: Who fell into the puddle?"

She looked at the Dragon King and found that the other party also showed curiosity, and she was happy in her heart.

"It's me!"

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At this moment, the air seemed to be frozen, and An Zhiyan felt that her heart was about to jump out.

After a long time, the Dragon King raised his hand, and a door under the clock tower opened at this time.

"Go in!"

An Zhiyan took a few steps after entering the door before she heard a burst of laughter coming from behind, which was almost inaudible.