Chapter 40: Game Lobby 2

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As soon as Zhou Zhou clicked in, his gaze was immediately captured by a pinned post with a bright red high-heat indicator at the very top.

[Thread Starter: Blast! I heard someone cleared the restricted instance "Insect Village" and unlocked the full-exploration achievement... and they are a super overpowered newbie player too. Does anyone know anything about this? (Curious face)]

The thread starter's words evidently shocked the players deeply.

[Wah wah wah, is this for real?!! Nobody has cleared the Insect Village instance for years, and even Ke Zhi, the top player on the previous newcomer leaderboard, perished right there. Could this person possibly be stronger than Ke Zhi?]

[Damn, when I first saw the words "restricted instance," I didn't even dare to click on it. To think this person is so amazing... clearing a restricted instance on their very first try.]

[Thread Starter: Exactly! No one has ever managed to clear the Insect Village instance, and the Escape Game system even classified it as a restricted instance. Now, it's actually been beaten against all odds.]

[This instance is truly a bastard, with an extremely high mortality rate and a terribly low clearance rate... Plus, the players are all assigned the identity of tourists who are destined to be sacrificed. This is practically an uphill battle from the start.]

[So this newcomer was also playing as a tourist?]

[Uh... doesn't seem like it. Rumor has it that it was some newly released identity card.]

[What? Insect Village doesn't have any other identities besides tourists. Are you shitting me?]

[Fuck, is the floor above a fucking idiot? Why the hell would I lie to you?]

The two users showed signs of starting an online flame war, exchanging increasingly harsh words.

[Player "Unreachable" and Player "5369536" have been muted.]

[Hahahaha, the person above is so hilarious. What are you even fighting about? Look at that, you just got muted, hehe.]

[Still, the tourist identity is indeed extremely difficult to handle. The instance boss holds the identity of the village chief, and he goes around hacking people to death like a rabid barking dog, which results in players basically never surviving past the third day.]

[What the person above said is so true... Even if you manage to survive past the third day, there is still a final boss waiting to be summoned at the very end... Otherwise, you still can't clear it. Isn't this just messing with people's mentality? (Dog head)]

[This instance, tsk tsk... A bastard! An absolute bastard!]

[Oh right, Ke Zhi from the previous session survived until the seventh day and missed clearing it by just a hair, but unfortunately ended up buried in this instance.]

[Thread Starter: So this newcomer is truly formidable... I'm really curious about their identity.]

The players quickly started chatting in the thread.

Most of them discussed the sheer terror of the instance itself, occasionally praising the newcomer player, inwardly concluding that this person must be some kind of super hardcore powerhouse.

The popularity of the post skyrocketed at an astonishing rate.

Someone in the know stepped down below to refute them.

[Hey hey hey, what are you guys even making a fuss about? This time, the Insect Village instance had multiple players participating, including dozens of veterans. It wasn't just that newcomer clearing it alone...]

[Ah, does the thread starter not know? Chu Shen and Liang Ye were also in this instance. It's totally normal for a group of top-tier experts to carry a newcomer through, right?]

[9494, you guys shouldn't praise them too hard, alright? Praising them without even figuring out the situation first... Truly impressive (Smile)]

Huh?
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The players were dumbfounded. Did they guess wrong after all?

Was it really just the top experts carrying a newcomer to victory?

However... as they thought about it this way, they couldn't help feeling that dragging two top-tier experts into a C-grade instance meant the Escape Game system must have gone completely crazy.

Wasn't it afraid of crashing the instance?

The players were thoroughly confused by the Escape Game system's operations.

Yet, remembering that if this restricted instance remained uncleared any longer, it would be permanently sealed off, they felt a glimmer of understanding.

The Escape Game system was casting a wide net, just in case one of the casually thrown-in players somehow managed to beat the instance.

And that newcomer probably cleared it by sheer blind luck.

However, someone suddenly replied to them.

[The person above is wrong. I... I am one of the survivors of the Insect Village instance... This newcomer didn't rely on any top experts, alright? She cleared it entirely on her own, and in fact, it was precisely because of her... that the top experts were able to clear it.]

What did it mean that the top experts could only clear it because of her? Could this newcomer actually possess something formidable?

The moment the players thought of this, they grew thoroughly energized.

[What do you mean? Do you have insider information?]

[Quickly, quickly post it out and let everyone take a look (Rose) (Thanks) (Thanks)]

Upon seeing this, the player with the insider information sent a message.

[I've already recorded and uploaded a screen recording of the instance livestream... Just a few more seconds... Wait a moment (Video x 1) (Video x 2)]

Once the videos finished uploading, the players couldn't wait to click inside.

Having discussed it for so long, they were genuinely curious about how this newcomer had managed to clear the game.

[Ding, this video involves instance clearance content and costs twenty points to unlock. Would you like to pay?]

The system prompt sounded.

The players paused for a second, but still prepared to redeem it.

Even setting the newcomer aside, footage of two Escape Game top experts clearing an instance was rare, and most such videos were hung in the main lobby, priced by tier.

Even the cheapest ones required a hundred points.

Getting to watch the experts clear the game for just twenty points meant they were making a profit.

Once the video opened, the players froze.

Because they saw a young girl within the livestream recording.

The young girl was simply too breathtaking.
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Even though the player's clearance video was extremely blurry, it could not conceal her beauty.

A beauty with snow-white skin, dark hair, and black eyes sat right on the lap of the instance boss, gazing pitifully at them with those moist, red-rimmed eyes.

To be precise, she was gazing at the tourists inside the instance.

So beautiful... So beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful... I like her so much...

I want to * her so badly.

Filthy thoughts spontaneously arose in the players' minds.

The video did not stop playing because of their dirty thoughts; it displayed the back-and-forth between Zhou Shan and the instance players.

Wait, why were the instance boss and Liang Ye arguing over this young girl?

Granted, this NPC was indeed gorgeous, but a foolish NPC shouldn't be worth paying attention to, right?

Also, by the way, which one of them was the newcomer?

The players grew thoroughly confused.

They continued to watch downward.

Skipping a series of sickeningly sweet, intimate scenes between the young girl and