Are you kidding me?! The boss of the Hell Dungeon is a loli!

Hongye, wearing an ill-fitting blue and white school uniform, walked through the thick fog. Suddenly, her steps slowed down, and her cold, sharp eyes followed her intuition, looking in the direction of Jiang Luo.

The thick fog was blown away by the wind, allowing Hongye to see the white-haired little girl standing among several dead students.

Her fingers tightened around the 53 practice book, the veins on the back of her hand bulging. A strange, inexplicable sense of familiarity welled up from the depths of her heart, as if a lingering fear from her subconscious was climbing up her spine.

[Host, that human player named Hongye seems to recognize you.]

"You're overthinking it. Lolo completely erased her memories back then."

Jiang Luo rolled her eyes inwardly, too lazy to pay any attention to this lowly player whose memories had been altered. Even if Hong Ye racked her brains, she would only think of her as a pitiful little thing who needed protection.

The most important thing now is to find that heartless old soot sprite, Naya, and get revenge.

Hongye stood there for a while, unable to piece together the fragmented memories in her mind. Her teammates' urging interrupted her thoughts.

She shook her head to suppress the strange feeling of unease, then turned around and led her three teammates back to the playground.

Jiang Luo smacked his lips as he watched the backs of those foolish players. He was about to turn around and urge Lin Meng to continue leading the way when he noticed that the usually calm and collected academic genius beside him had stopped.

Lin Meng's dark, unfocused eyes were fixed on the direction Hongye had left, so much so that she didn't even notice the 53 practice book she was using as cover falling to the ground.

This is even more abnormal than the sky falling down. Jiang Luo personally witnessed this human girl calmly doing her homework while the monsters were eating people.

The scene that could cause this humanoid walking cheat to malfunction was definitely not simple. Jiang Luo leaned over and poked Lin Meng's calf with his elbow.

"Big sister, what are you daydreaming about?" Jiang Luo looked up at her delicate and cute face, feigning innocence and confusion as she asked.

Lin Meng didn't lower her head, but stared into the depths of the thick fog for a while before slowly squatting down to pick up the "53" workbook from the ground and dust it off.

"Strange... that person didn't die in the dungeon." Lin Meng's dry, hoarse voice exploded in Jiang Luo's ears.

Jiang Luo almost bit the strawberry lollipop in her mouth to pieces, and directly reached out and grabbed the hem of Lin Meng's school uniform.

"Big sister, you just said in the classroom that the countdown to death for everyone in the building has been reset to zero!" Jiang Luo's loli voice became shrill with surprise. The meaning of "reset to zero" was that everyone would have to die in this lousy school.

Lin Meng hugged the book to her chest and started walking again.

"That's how it was originally. Every ant in this school has no tomorrow." She turned to look at Jiang Luo's wide, red eyes, her words flowing without pause. "But just as that woman stepped into the school gate, I saw the zeroed-out numbers above her head start jumping again."

Lin Meng stretched out a pale finger and drew an infinity symbol in mid-air, indicating that the woman's fate had been forcibly continued by a stronger force.

The shadow beneath Jiang Luo's feet churned like boiling water, and Jiang Xiaobai, hidden within it, opened his fang-filled mouth and let out an irritable growl.

This is a high-level, bizarre dungeon created by Nyarlathotep himself.

With Momiji's strength, it's simply impossible for her to clear the dungeon.

Not to mention that Jiang Luo has absolutely no intention of helping Hongye right now.

Or perhaps this red leaf itself holds some hidden trump card that can break the rules?

Jiang Luo stroked his chin, lost in thought. He recalled that in Dracula's castle, Hongye had indeed taken out the Dawn Grail, which was specifically designed to counter the rules of the vampires. However, she had already taken that thing. This woman was now penniless and had no way to fight against that madman Naya who didn't know any martial arts.

Perhaps this human being is the variable in this story?

The system popped up in an inopportune, mocking electronic voice.

"What do you mean?"

Jiang Luo cursed inwardly. In the face of absolute power, what variables or constants mattered? They were all just high-quality leeks for her to extract fear points from.

But it was just a joke from the system.

Jiang Luo silently kept it in her heart.

After all, this instance is not a well-designed instance like the one in the Mysterious World, but an instance that Nyarlathotep forcibly descended upon using his power.

It's possible that there are some variables she's unaware of.

Jiang Luo loosened the hem of Lin Meng's school uniform and stuffed the tattered teddy bear, now shrunken to the size of a palm, back into the pocket on her chest.

Regardless of how Hongye survived, she currently has no interest in this player with an overflowing saintly heart, nor does she intend to lend a helping hand to help the other party clear the game. As long as it doesn't interfere with her settling scores with Naya, she can do whatever she wants.

Jiang Luo put on that soft, obedient expression again and jogged a few steps to catch up with Lin Meng.

"Since that big sister is so amazing, then we don't need to worry about her." Jiang Luo tugged at Lin Meng's backpack strap and shook it a couple of times, continuing to maintain that innocent and carefree mask. "Big sister, didn't you say you could help Luo Luo find the person who lured Luo Luo here? Where is that person hiding? Luo Luo wants to go find him and play right now."

"Let nature take its course."

Lin Meng let Jiang Luo hang on her schoolbag like a koala, her dark eyes looking towards the flagpole in the center of the playground.

The fog on the playground was thicker than elsewhere. The dead students in school uniforms around them looked like soulless puppets, mechanically converging on the flagpole. The stench of blood mixed with the stench of rotting corpses in the air made one's eyes sting.

"This is a school." Lin Meng's voice was flat. "If you want to find the principal in this school, you must abide by the rules of the flag-raising ceremony."

"Okay, okay, I'll believe you this time."

Jiang Luo rolled her eyes in disgust. She was here to cause trouble; who wanted to raise the flag with these dead people?

Just then, the old loudspeakers in the four corners of the playground burst out with a piercing shriek. The sound was like countless rusty iron hooks scraping against glass, making the eardrums of everyone present ache.

Attention all teachers and students, the flag-raising ceremony is now beginning.

The deathly electronic voice on the radio rang out again.

Please remain standing.

If you hear any classmate calling your name during the flag-raising ceremony, you must not turn around.

[Those who violate this rule will have their flag raised to the highest point in place of the national flag.]

Jiang Luo walked barefoot on the overgrown plastic track, watching as several dead students walking ahead suddenly stopped in place. Then, as if some invisible force had forcibly peeled off their flesh, dark red blood splattered all over the ground, and the entire playground instantly turned into a horrific slaughterhouse.

Just as Jiang Luo was about to watch the show, a voice that was both incredibly familiar and unsettling came from the thick fog behind her.

"Jiang Luo, your red scarf fell on the ground."

Jiang Luo's small body froze on the spot, the crimson light in her eyes surging to its limit.

That was clearly the voice of Dracula, the old bat!