Ironclad Group Chat: Red and Black Lists Engraved with Heroic Epics

Pushing open the hotel room door, Xing finally breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing a beautiful figure waiting outside.

At least, the fireflies were still with her.

After discussing it for a while, the two came to a preliminary conclusion: this place, which was almost a 100% replica of the Daydream Hotel, was closely related to the family's conspiracy!

Whether to unravel the mystery or to escape this place, they must continue their exploration.

The environment here is very strange. The floor of a certain corridor will writhe like waves, and in some places it will break off abruptly. The two have to use the [Dream Wine Tower] to move through the walls and even the ceiling, which poses a considerable challenge to their sense of direction and their brains.

Along the way, they also encountered monsters quite different from those of the Dream Theater Troupe—Memory Realm Memes.

Fortunately, it wasn't all for naught. Along the way, the fragments of memory brought many words, even heartfelt words, almost all of which were related to one person—Mikhail.

The two explored almost the entire area, but ended up in a dead end, a living room with no way out, where only a puzzle depicting a door stood in the middle.

With a "let's give it a try" attitude, the two started working on the puzzle again.

The moment the last piece was pieced together, the completed painting shone brightly, shining into the wall and transforming into a real door.

Liu Ying exclaimed in slight surprise, "Ah! The wall has disappeared... It feels like we're almost at the end... right?"

With no other options left, the two pushed open the door and entered, unaware that the atmosphere had subtly shifted.

After passing through the corridor, I entered another room, which was cluttered with miscellaneous items and poorly lit.

But in the center of the room stood a magnificent and precious treasure chest, bathed in a beam of light from the ceiling, as if it were the main character.

Liu Ying scratched her head. This arrangement was a bit too deliberate, wasn't it?

"Uh... only one treasure chest? Okay, shall we open it and take a look...?"

[Star: Of course! How could there possibly be any well-preserved treasure chests in the places I've been? That would be a disgrace to the name of pioneers.]

[March 7th: You didn't open the trash can with this mindset, did you?]

Xing opened the treasure chest with great anticipation, and it shone with golden light!

And then... that was it.

A loud alarm clock rang, startling the two. Then the treasure chest vanished into thin air, leaving their hands empty.

Click! All the lights suddenly turned on instantly!

However, the eerie blue light, like a ghostly flame, did not convey any "normal" impression compared to before; instead, it appeared even more bizarre.

"...What's going on?!" Firefly trembled. "Why are all the lights on? It's so scary..."

[Star: Could it be... that treasure chest was actually a power switch?]

[Silver Wolf: Firefly, there's no need to play the weakling at a time like this.]

Xing and Liuying chose a door to open, but were stunned when they entered.

"Identical rooms?"

The circular room contained six identical large doors, arranged like a honeycomb. Many of the old, unplugged televisions in the room flickered with static, creating a jarring white noise that was truly irritating.

The memory brought with it the voice of a little boy, echoing continuously in the air: "■■Help■■■Help■■……"

[Huo Huo: This, this feels like...]

[Tail: It's like a scene from a horror movie; a random sudden attack would send this little fox screaming in terror.]

[Huo Huo: Stop, stop talking!]

[Star: Mikhail-senpai, what kind of weird setup is this in your house? It's so eerie! The me in the light screen who knows nothing... ugh, I'm getting goosebumps all over!]

[Mikhail: Ahem, who says a haunted house isn't a kind of amusement ride?]

[Star: I was just saying... what if something weird suddenly jumps out and shoves us in the face later?]

She wasn't afraid of ghosts and knew the inside story, but that didn't mean that something that suddenly appeared wouldn't scare her so much that she "lost her color."

Mikhail: This... so many years have passed, and I don't know why I've become like this.

……

We must find a way to escape from here!

Xing and Liuying acted quickly, randomly pushed open a door, rushed to the other side of the corridor, and entered another room.

Sure enough, it was exactly the same as before.

The two kept fleeing and entering new rooms, but the familiar appearances made it seem as if they were going around in circles.

The little boy's voice came again, mumbled indistinctly: "■I said■you■cannot■■open■the box■..."

Xinghe and Liuying felt a chill run down their spines, and cold sweat broke out on their brows.

Opening the box... Could it be the alarm clock treasure chest from before?!

[Hanabi: Got it. If you want to take down Hoshi, disguise the trap as a treasure chest. She'll fall for it 100%.]

[Star: I...I really can't refute that.]

Twisted words rose up around them: Mikhail, come back... We're at our wits' end... Help!

Xing and Liuying exchanged a glance and both saw the seriousness and anxiety in each other's eyes.

Here, it's clear someone has died a gruesome death during a chase. What could be lurking here?!

The two of them wandered aimlessly through the rooms like headless flies.

As soon as the door was opened, the little boy's screams filled the air, startling both of them.

The little boy's voice was hoarse from crying: "Please...I'm so scared..."

The two even noticed that, without realizing it, the incessant ticking of the clock was getting faster and faster, as if it were reminding them to leave before something happened, or like a merciless countdown to judgment.

I burst through another door, and the alarm clock rang loudly once again.

All the televisions lit up at once, their lights flickering intermittently in the dream, as if teetering on the brink of collapse like an extremely weak signal.

Firefly suddenly realized something: "The TV's flash is so bright... Watch out, there seems to be something there..."

Boom!

The television suddenly lit up again, then quickly went dark.

"Hmm..." Xing lowered her arm that had been shielding her from the light, and subconsciously opened her eyes to look at the television in front of her, which was now filled with static...

Gone! The snowflakes in front of her suddenly transformed into a hideous purple vertical pupil, staring intently at her through the television screen!

Xing broke out in a cold sweat, and the next second, all the television sets turned into vertical pupils.

They've been found?!

"Woo woo woo~!" A mournful roar came, and purple mist exploded from the ceiling. A hideous and twisted monster descended from the sky, its sharp claws or fangs indistinguishable as it pounced on the monster without warning.

Liu Ying opened her mouth wide: "W-what kind of monster is this?"

[March 7th: This... feels a bit like the guy who spilled memory fluid all over Sunday!]

That time, only a shadow was shown; the real body was never seen at all.

[Sunday: ...Yes, that's it.]

[Star: @Gallagh, you're the one who caused all of this, right?]