Card simulation, starting with the Goblin Deserter

In the dimly lit dungeon, goblin guards diligently patrolled—

Another cell not far from Hayes and Soraka.

Dressed in luxurious attire, "Gentry" threw his deck to the ground and growled angrily.

"Damn it, I can't use a single one!"

"Is this lousy secret realm even meant to be played in?!"

Is it reasonable for a card dealer to refuse the use of cards?

Beside Gentry, the butler, wearing a monocle, glanced outside the cell and said anxiously, "Young master, keep your voice down! It'll be dangerous if you attract the monsters from the secret realm!"

However, Gentry merely sneered, his voice remaining as loud as ever: "Does it make a difference whether the monster comes or not?"

"Neither of us can use a single card. Staying in this secret realm is a death sentence for us anyway, so we might as well—"

"Ah! Ah!!"

Before Gentry could finish speaking, the butler, who had been staring at the cell, suddenly cried out in surprise.

In that instant, Gentry broke out in a cold sweat. He slowly turned around, his mind racing with images of what he was about to see.

Even though he had considered all the possible horrors, when he actually saw the goblin guard's hideous face, he was still so frightened that he screamed and retreated until he hid in the butler's arms.

The goblin guard looked disdainfully at the two tightly embracing, snorted, took a note from his pocket, threw it into the cell, and left without even glancing at the two.

It took Gentry and his companion a long time to recover.

The butler stepped forward, trembling, and handed the note to Gentry. Gentry opened it and read it aloud, his voice still shaking.

"Hello, great detective, I'm Goblin King. Let's play a game."

"Answer the following questions and the cell will open. Please answer carefully..."

Gentry flipped the note over and froze when he saw the question on the back.

The text above reads: Solution: ∫(2ofvrVava dr= fatdr =8#+c.

The butler, who had come over, was bewildered: "Young Master, what is this? Can you even understand it?"

Gentry covered his head in deep thought: "I can understand a little bit."

"This must be a foreign word; let's translate it..."

-

Meanwhile, the guards, who had already traversed the entire dungeon, returned to Hayes and his companion's cell.

He clutched the note in his pocket and looked inside, only to find that the two guys in the cell were still lying on the bed sleeping, still in the position of man on top of woman, without even changing their posture.

"Wow, he can really sleep!"

The guard shook his head and left, feeling that none of this year's "great detectives" were reliable.

As his footsteps faded into the distance, Hayes and Soraka immediately got out of bed and began searching everything in the cell.

As Soraka lifted the crib board, she silently calculated in her mind.

"Hays, I calculated the guard patrol time to be 8 minutes and 32 seconds, is that correct?"

Hayes, who was intently examining the patterns on the wall, said without batting an eye, "Yes, it's the same as what I calculated."

Upon hearing this, Soraka clenched her fist happily, thinking that her timing ability had finally improved!

But her good mood didn't last long; half an hour passed—

Having found no clues in the cell, the two had no choice but to lie down on the bed for the sixth time, avoiding the guards' patrols.

Hayes was completely numb, and Soraka, who had initially been shy, gradually became more at ease...

"That doesn't make sense! We've searched almost the entire cell, and we haven't found a single clue!"

"Could it be that the secret realm storyline hasn't started yet, and we have to wait in this cell?" Hayes rubbed his chin, vaguely sensing that something was wrong.

Soraka, on the other hand, launched a second, more comprehensive search to make sure she hadn't missed any crucial clues.

She already knew that this secret realm had special rules and that decks could not be used. To be honest, Soraka was very scared at first, but Hayes, who had expected this, was too calm.

That's just how people are. They feel anxious and tense in unfamiliar spaces, but if they have a reliable friend by their side, they can relax immediately.

Although Hayes and Soraka had only just met, in this place, the latter already regarded the former as someone to rely on.

"Wait, Soraka, don't look for clues yet."

Upon hearing this, Soraka obediently stopped and quietly looked at Hayes.

"Sit down and give me your right foot."

"Okay, huh?"

Soraka nodded subconsciously, but by the time she realized what Hayes was saying, he had already walked up to her!

Soraka was stunned. She subconsciously obeyed Hayes's words, sat down on the ground, and let Hayes grab her right foot and put it on his lap.

"Wait, wait a minute! Hayes..." Under Soraka's panicked gaze, Hayes grabbed the chains on her ankles with both hands.

Take a deep breath, and then exert force suddenly!

The iron chain taut like a bowstring, and the next second it was snapped in two by Hayes!

Phew... Thank you, Longdan! Thank you, Linda!

Hayes breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Soraka and asked, "What's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing."

Soraka stared blankly at the broken chain in Hayes' hand. The "filthy" image that had previously crossed her mind had transformed into "Is this something a human could do?"

Hayes is really amazing!

Unaware that Soraka had become his fangirl, Hayes used the same trick again, breaking the chains on his feet as well.

Then he walked to the cage bars, grabbed them with both hands, and tried his best to break them, but he couldn't. However, he did manage to bend the two bars, forming an elliptical arc that he could barely squeeze out.

"How long until the guards come back here again?" Hayes asked as he squeezed out of the cage.

Soraka mentally calculated the time and said a number: "1 minute and 59 seconds."

Upon hearing this, Heston immediately signaled to Soraka not to come out and stay in the cell, while he himself walked towards the direction where the guards were about to arrive.

Soraka didn't ask Hayes why, and just obediently stayed in the cell, waiting quietly.

Less than two minutes passed quickly, and the inhuman, heavy footsteps gradually approached, causing Soraka to feel a growing sense of tension.

But soon, a muffled thud followed by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, and the footsteps disappeared, leaving only the rustling sound of clothes rubbing together.

Hayes, who had disappeared, reappeared at the cell door. He gestured for Soraka to come out while looking at the note he had just found on the guard, and asked in confusion.

"That's strange, the guard didn't have the key on him, we only found this."

He opened the note and quickly scanned its contents.

As Hayes read on, his expression grew increasingly strange, until finally he even laughed in exasperation: "So the correct way to pass the level is to wait for the guard to give the question?"

"Which idiot designed this secret realm? Are you kidding me?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the note seemed to be held up in mid-air by an invisible hand, and a line of small words gradually appeared in the blank space next to it.

[Team A detectives employed an unconventional method of "physical persuasion" to clear the level. Efficiency rating: High; Fun rating: Extremely high! Please keep it up!]

Soraka stared blankly at the words and asked, "Haise, are we being watched by something?"

Hayes didn't speak, but just quietly watched as another line appeared below the note, words that seemed to be written while suppressing a laugh.

[Since Team A's detectives have "convinced" the guard, please find your own way to the next level. Hint: He was supposed to lead you there.]

At that moment, Hayes and Soraka looked up simultaneously, their eyes meeting the guard's corpse lying two meters away, and both fell silent.

At that moment, Hayes even felt like he had returned to the world of the simulator, and he couldn't help but sigh to the heavens.

"Are you kidding me?"