Excessive ferocity due to caution

Dawn breaks.

Zhao Yi made a phone call to Liu Meimei.

"Manager Liu...yes, I'd like to ask for a day off."

"Well, it's nothing really, just nausea and wanting to vomit... I think I might be pregnant."

"What? Men can't get pregnant?"

"Oh, okay... then let's compromise. I'm not pregnant, how about you grant me half a day off?"

"Okay!"

Zhao Yi hung up the phone.

The two people beside him stared at Zhao Yi with suffocating eyes.

Taking leave is no problem...

But don't make up such an outrageous reason!

Before getting pregnant, you should at least make it clear that you're gay!

Zhao Yi said to the two of them:

"Next, let's proceed according to plan..."

"Don't let anything go wrong."

Li Qi asked:

"What if something goes wrong?"

Zhao Yi:

"If anything goes wrong, not only will you die, but your ancestral graves will be dug up!"

Li Qi was completely bewildered:

Why?

Zhao Yi patted her on the shoulder and said earnestly:

"Because if you make a mistake, it will cause me a lot of trouble..."

"And me? If I can't find my target for revenge, I'll go after their family, their pet cats and dogs... and even their ancestral graves!"

Li Qi:

"..."

Grass!

So you're the one trying to dig up my family's ancestral graves!

hateful!

"Most importantly... you must show enough panic, a desperate and helpless state."

"Only then will Liu Meimei tell you how to deal with Xiao Hong."

Before they left, Zhao Yi reiterated the key points of this play to the two of them.

Although the two didn't know why Zhao Yi was so certain that Liu Meimei would tell them Xiao Hong's weaknesses.

The "Help!" message on the bathroom mirror in the players' apartment was left by Liu Meimei.

This means that Liu Meimei is not capable of dealing with the dangers in the orphanage.

She placed her hopes on the players.

The normal course of events should have been for the players to help Liu Meimei, but now they're pinning their hopes on Liu Meimei's help...

The two found it somewhat absurd.

However, they still listened to what Zhao Yi said.

From the beginning of the game to now.

They had all seen Zhao Yi's performance.

Moreover, they themselves really had no clue about the clues in this instance.

Looking in the direction the two left.

Zhao Yi went to the restroom, stood in front of the mirror, and laughed at the person in the mirror.

He picked up a towel and wet it a little.

Erase the words on the mirror.

"You don't need help anymore."

"Your story... ends with me."

You're welcome.

Zhao Yi threw away the towel, straightened his clothes, and turned to leave the apartment.

We headed towards the church.

This is exactly what Zhao Yi guessed.

The golden light at the church entrance has faded.

Sure enough, the church was open to the public as long as it wasn't between midnight and sometime in the early morning.

Only when the midnight bells ring does the interior of the church emit a dazzling golden light.

Those golden lights will prevent those who have not been blessed by miracles from entering the church.

The cemetery is lit during the day.

The church was dark.

No light, but you may enter.

A red carpet stretched out from the entrance toward the center.

On the chanting platform, there was a simple piece of clothing.

The folds are neat and orderly.

Zhao Yi walked closer and reached out to stroke it.

Upon touching it, he immediately realized that it was a human skin!

In an instant, the devout chanting of scriptures reached Zhao Yi's ears intermittently.

Very faint.

In a daze, Zhao Yi saw an elderly nun, her back hunched, standing in front of the prayer altar, praying slowly and calmly.

This chanting can suppress people's desires.

Without desire, there would be no bloodshed.

The old nun was too old.

The life candle has reached the end of its time.

Her chanting grew softer and softer.

Finally, at some point, the old nun's trembling lips closed forever.

Later, three children came in.

One of them... was none other than Little Red!

"She's finally dead."

A little girl spoke with great resentment.

"But the miracle continues, we can't leave this place!"

Xiao Hong tilted her head and pulled a knife out of her hand.

"Those who are blessed by miracles cannot touch the source of miracles."

With a swift movement of her blade, she peeled the old nun's skin off!

Then they poured a basin of boiling oil onto the old nun's flesh, quickly frying her body until it was cooked.

Then she took out many thorns and stabbed them hard into the old nun's corpse.

After such a venting of anger, the old nun's body had become a pile of rotten flesh.

"Two people are still alive... I'm not reconciled!"

The only little boy had a distorted face and a sickly smile on his lips.

"I'll go... and kill them!"

At this moment, the girl who hadn't made a move the whole time spoke coldly:

"Keep the bell ringer and the female manager's corpses; I have a use for them."

"If you dispose of their bodies, I will kill you."

The boy was unwilling, but he dared not.

He shouted at the girl with all his might:

"Have you forgotten how they treated us?"

"You actually helped them?"

"I demand an explanation!"

The girl turned her head away and looked at the boy as if he were a dead man.

"explain?"

"Since when... have you dared to ask me for an explanation?"

boom!

The boy angrily punched the wall next to him, startling the entire church.

He kept cursing and swearing, then stopped talking to the girl and went out on his own.

After he left, the girl knelt down, folded the old nun's leather bag neatly, and placed it on the lectern in the church.

Unlike Xiaohong and the boy's madness.

Her movements were calm and graceful.

He even nodded to the nun's human skin as a sign of respect.

But there was no respect in her eyes.

All that remained was endless coldness...

...

The illusion ends here.

Upon seeing this illusionary realm that recorded the past, Zhao Yi showed no surprise whatsoever.

Actually... he had already guessed most of what was going on in the orphanage based on the clues he had.

From the very beginning, this was a quagmire that someone had set up, from which there was no way to escape!

If the player does not resist, they will die at the hands of Little Red!

If the player resists... they will sink deeper and deeper into the quagmire!

Extreme difficulty dungeons

One wrong step, one wrong step!

The two sides are completely unequal in strength.

In the game, the player is on the defensive at every turn.

Outside the game, players will be brutally defeated by the dungeon boss.

So...where is the way out?

Zhao Yi fell into deep thought.

The system will never give them a dungeon where they are guaranteed to die.

Recalling every part of the orphanage, the area that remains completely unexplored is the director's office building.

Last night, the seriously injured Xiao Hong escaped into that building.

When Zhao Yi chased after him, Evil Eye warned him not to enter the building.

There are dangers inside that he cannot handle!

But now it seems... he has no choice but to go.

Instead of trying to stop the boiling water by adding more water, it's better to remove the fuel from under the pot!

Zhao Yixiao checked his time and headed straight for the dean's office building.

The white porcelain avenue leading to the dean's office building can be observed from the window of Liu Meimei's office.

So Zhao Yi took a detour.

Perhaps due to the time, when Zhao Yi arrived outside the dean's office building, the "top danger" had changed to "high danger".

The level of danger has decreased.

Zhao Yi's heart skipped a beat, and he went straight into the dean's office building.

There are no staff members here.

An eerie emptiness...

...

Inside the management office.

Liu Meimei's eyes flickered slightly, and the corners of her mouth lifted.

She said calmly to Meng Huo in front of her:

"I'm sorry... I don't know what you're talking about..."

"The ghost stories you're telling me are utterly absurd. If you have any complaints about your work, feel free to tell me, or you can resign. As for the missing children at the orphanage, I'll call the H City police station, and they'll handle it..."

Meng Huo raised an eyebrow, his expression already showing some anxiety:

"Manager Liu, I believe you know more about the orphanage than anyone else... otherwise, those two words wouldn't be left on the mirror in our apartment."

"Little Red is getting more and more terrifying... If you don't help us, we'll all die after tonight!"

Liu Meimei remained unmoved.

"Alright, Teacher Meng... there's a Bible that the old priest left deep in the cemetery on the west side of the church. If you really feel uneasy, go and take the Bible back to your apartment..."

"Although I've reiterated this to you many times, there are no ghosts in the orphanage. After today, I don't want to hear about the orphanage being haunted... Do you understand?"

Her tone was unfriendly.

The two were kicked out of the office.

Meng Huo and Li Qi exchanged a rather excited glance.

Zhao Yi is really amazing; Liu Meimei actually gave them a clue to survive!

"Church cemetery..."

"We'll go there during our lunch break!"

The two agreed on a time to go back to class.

Knowing that the children they had befriended would not pose a threat to their lives, the two relaxed considerably. They tried to cultivate goodwill with the children as much as possible while attempting to extract information about the depths of the church cemetery from them.

However, these children are very sensitive about that place and never talk about it.

Seeing this, the two had no choice but to give up.

...

Dean's office building.

Zhao Yi activated his Evil Eyes and quickly searched the office building.

At midnight, he saw with his own eyes that Xiao Hong had escaped to this place.

However, Little Red is nowhere to be found now.

Perhaps it is hiding somewhere healing its wounds.

Zhao Yi went up to the top floor and, with the help of Evil Eye, avoided some dangerous rooms before arriving at the dean's office.

He has progressed through the game instance to this point, and he still hasn't seen the Dean.

There is no danger in the room.

Pushing open the door, the inside was found to be quite clean and tidy.

It's obviously cleaned frequently.

There was almost nothing inside, except for a book.

The Code of Suffering.

Zhao Yi flipped through the Codex of Suffering, his mind racing, analyzing it to himself:

"Take pain as a source of strength, draw strength from moments when your spirit is on the verge of collapse, and view suffering as a form of spiritual practice..."

"I see……"

"It seems the orphans in the orphanage are all practitioners of the Codex of Suffering; no wonder their power underwent a qualitative change after the miracle blessing..."

"The miracles and blessings bestowed upon the orphanage do not empower these children; such blessings are a one-sided punishment."

"However, because these children have all practiced the Codex of Suffering, they gained immense power when they were punished!"

"Let's start from the beginning—these orphans have mental problems. They killed their own families but were not arrested by the police. Instead, they were sent to the Miracle Orphanage. This shows that the Miracle Orphanage exists specifically to house and punish these orphans with serious mental illnesses."

"But the Miracle Orphanage didn't know that these orphans weren't born with mental problems. Under the guidance of some unknown force, they had practiced the Codex of Suffering, regarding physical and mental pain as their training. That's why these orphans killed their own families and obtained the power of 'regret' from it..."

"The orphanage gathered these children together and used the Sixth Miracle to bless them, making them forget everything that had happened before. Inadvertently, this also deprived these children of the pain of remembering and regretting their loved ones, and deprived them of their strength..."

"That's why they've been able to stay at the Miracle Orphanage so peacefully for so long."

However, there are always exceptions...

"Among the orphans taken in by the Miracle Orphanage, there should be three who...escaped the blessing of the Sixth Miracle!"

"The blessing of the Sixth Miracle made the other children forget that they had practiced the Codex of Suffering, so they feared those terrifying blessings, which to them were actually six horrific punishments..."

"But those three orphans who didn't lose their memories used the blessings bestowed upon them by the orphanage to gain unprecedented and terrifying power..."

"However, judging from the past images projected in the church just now, it can be inferred that the orphanage's blessings are not limited to these six types... Otherwise, the power difference between Xiao Hong and the other two wouldn't be so great, to the point that the little boy would follow the lead of another unknown little girl, and even in extreme anger, he wouldn't dare to resist..."

"So there must have been other miracles and rules at the orphanage, but they were erased..."

"After all, almost all the clues so far have been left by Liu Meimei... She could easily have tampered with them."

Thinking of this, Zhao Yi's eyes flashed with a sharp light:

"My suspicions were correct; that woman really does have a serious problem..."

"The word 'Help' in the bathroom, the note about miracles and blessings in the living room, and the materials, hospital rules, and clues deliberately left for us in the office..."

"Is everything under her control...? It seems the one impersonating Liu Meimei is that nameless little girl..."

"The fake Liu Meimei, Xiao Hong, and that lame and blind teaching assistant—these three orphans put on quite a show for the players..."

"But... what is their purpose?"

Zhao Yi pondered for a moment, then a warm smile appeared on his face:

"However, these past two days, it's been haunted at night, but normal during the day..."

"The three of them are constantly creating panic and fear among the players... but they are not directly killing the players."

"Gives players a chance to breathe."

"From a motivational perspective, they probably want to use fear to control us and make us help them accomplish something..."

"Although there are many ways to control people, in 'conscious control,' fear is often the safest method, since people are simply incapable of calm thinking when they are in extreme fear..."

"The fact that they have chosen this method indicates that what they want players to help with is very important and cannot go wrong."

"Could this be... the way out?"

"Things are getting interesting..."

...

Studio.

Brother Zhao's analysis shocked me for a whole year!

Although much of it is speculation, I feel that Zhao Yi's analysis is pretty much accurate...

Oh no, he really got away with it!

: ……

P.S.: This is the only one for today; this dungeon is about to end.

I've always been keen to try bigger stories, but I've always ended up failing.

As I wrote, three strange questions popped into my head:

who am I?

Where am i?

What am I supposed to do?

Oh shit.

I'm going to sleep now, and I'll finish up the dungeon tomorrow.

Thanks for reading, goodnight my darlings!