Chapter 612: End of Volume: Is Qiong Dead?

When he thought of that possible solution, Lin Ye couldn't help but shake his head.

All along, he had thought he needed to use various rescue methods to save the family of four, avoid accidents and mishaps, and keep all four of them safe and sound.

As it turned out, there was no problem with that.

Once someone died,

everything would reset, and he would have to start all over again.

However, there was a certain problem with the method.

His original three methods—if his strength were sufficient, he could have forced his way through—would have worked, but the three attempts and the targeting by the dungeon world were enough to show that using normal methods to clear the level was almost impossible.

And an eerie dungeon, no matter how high the difficulty, would never leave no way to clear it.

A method inevitably existed; what he needed to find were the clues to discover that method.

During the three resets, he had been trying his best to find ways to avoid car accidents, but accidents happened one after another. Kasugano's father died twice, and the mother died from a sudden illness.

All three attempts ended in failure.

If he wanted to try to take the family away using similar methods again,

Lin Ye didn't feel he had any confidence.

The "Final Destination"-like targeting accidents were hard to avoid, and these similar crisis attacks didn't happen just once or twice, but three, four, five, six, seven times, until death occurred.

The intelligence gained through repeated resets didn't help as much as he had imagined for subsequent responses.

The method was incorrect.

Lin Ye realized this point: the method to clear this dungeon was definitely not just about saving people.

This idea had popped up at some point, but he hadn't found the method until now, when he finally thought of it.

"Brother..."

"Brother..."

With wailing words, the girl with long silver hair pulled on Lin Ye's clothes, tears in her eyes, pleading with her whole face. For her, the loss of her mother was another huge blow.

Kasugano's father held his wife and wept silently. He was full of disbelief and couldn't accept this tragic fact, but he had no choice but to accept it.

Kasugano's mother had already closed her eyes, and her body no longer had any reaction.

If she could have received timely treatment, the possibility of survival would have been high, but as things stood... unless a hospital was right in front of them, it was basically too late.

Furthermore,

Lin Ye was very certain that under the dungeon's targeted death, the mother couldn't possibly survive.

If the mother survived, the father would likely encounter a death attack, and of course, he himself might as well.

This reset should be nearing its end.

"Save..."

"Mom."

"Brother, save Mom."

Qiong's sorrowful, sobbing tone rang out continuously.

She had witnessed the departure of her loved ones,

and she couldn't bear her mother's passing.

For her, she hoped her parents and brother would all live, live forever.

"Qiong,"

Lin Ye squatted down and looked directly at this well-behaved, obedient, and cute girl. He reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, his eyes full of heartache.

A little girl who had lost three loved ones in one accident, leaving only herself—the blow to her could be said to be absolute.

She only hoped her family was still alive; what was wrong with that!

This eerie dungeon was built precisely on the foundation of this longing.

"It will get better,"

"It will get better."

He repeated this sentence softly.

In a few seconds,

everything in the dungeon fell into silence.

The crying, the shouting, the wailing—everything stopped.

Lin Ye only looked at the girl in front of him in his field of vision; his body could no longer move.

Not long after,

his consciousness sank into darkness.

Time passed second by second,

and his consciousness slowly recovered from the sinking darkness. Lin Ye opened his eyes and witnessed the same scenery once again.

The same car, the same parents in the front row, and beside him was still that cute girl with long silver hair who looked slightly tired but couldn't help but look at the scenery outside the window.

"Brother..."

Qiong noticed Lin Ye's gaze toward her and asked with a curious and confused expression.

"Mm, Qiong."

"What's wrong? Is there something on Qiong's face?"

"Yes."

Lin Ye reached out. The girl closed her eyes subconsciously, but seeing that Lin Ye didn't touch her, she opened them again.

"Brother..."

She was very strange; she just felt that her brother was very strange today.

"Dad, Mom, and I will all be fine,"

"At least this time, no one will be hurt."

Lin Ye's words reached the girl's ears, but they only brought more confusion to her; her curious expression intensified.

"Brother, what are you saying?"

"I'm saying, Qiong, you can take a nap now,"

Hypnosis superpower activated.

Lin Ye looked directly at the girl,

their eyes met, and the hypnosis ability began to take effect.

"Forget all the worries, forget all the pain, have a good sleep. I, Father, and Mother will all be fine, everything will pass smoothly,"

"When... Qiong wakes up, everything will be normal,"

"Everything will be as it was."

Qiong's eyes became unfocused, and her body seemed to want to struggle to move, but she soon closed her eyes.

She leaned back quietly and fell asleep,

her breathing light and steady, her expression calm.

Lin Ye looked at the girl snuggled up beside him and looked forward.

The vehicle drove steadily.

"Yu and Qiong have such a good relationship,"

"Twin brother and sister, their relationship must be good."

"You must take good care of your sister in the future, don't bully her,"

The father in the driver's seat and the mother in the passenger seat smiled as they talked about the close relationship between the brother and sister.

Lin Ye responded with the most sincere attitude.

The car drove on with a 'swish, swish, swish...',

and Lin Ye didn't make any unnecessary moves.

No truck appeared,

no sedan appeared,

and after reaching the tunnel, no accident scene blocking the road appeared.

It was as if nothing had ever happened.

It was as if the accidents in the previous few cycles were errors.

Soon,

a light appeared ahead,

a blazing white light like a ray of hope, piercing through all the darkness of the tunnel.

Not long after,

the car passed through and entered the blazing light,

and Lin Ye also closed his eyes.

He didn't know how much time had passed,

but Lin Ye felt his feet step onto solid ground.

The air was filled with a faint sense of dust and mold.

This was...

Lin Ye opened his eyes.

A residential room.

This was the room on the second floor of the Kasugano house, the room he was in before he finally left and entered the dungeon.

Lin Ye realized he had returned.

He had successfully cleared the dungeon mission.

[Reality routine mission 'Rabbit Doll's Trial' has been completed.]

[Reward 1: 4000 Game Points. (Blessing 'Point Splitting' is in effect)]

[Reward 2: 300 Experience Points]

[Reward 3: Random Blue Quality Item X1]

The settlement notification for the Eerie Game had also arrived.

The mission had been successfully cleared.

At this point,

Lin Ye also confirmed his judgment.

The requirement of this dungeon mission, 'to live', was not really about Kasugano's father, Kasugano's mother, and the character he played, Kasugano Yu, living in the true sense.

It was about making Kasugano Qiong believe that her three relatives were alive.

As long as he made Kasugano Qiong avoid realizing that her relatives had encountered an accident, he could successfully change her cognition.

In other words, even if he didn't use his hypnosis superpower, as long as he found a way to make Kasugano Qiong fall asleep in time, reducing her cognition of the outside world, he could avoid the appearance of accidents and allow the family to reach their safe destination smoothly.

Although Kasugano Qiong in the dungeon was set to have no knowledge of the accident, in reality, deep down in her heart, she still knew a little bit.

It was precisely because she knew this that accidents would appear and happen. His three attempts all met with various mishaps and accidents, leading to someone's death.

Because in Kasugano Qiong's subconscious, this trip would definitely have an accident, and her relatives would definitely die, so no matter how he struggled, it was difficult to avoid and successfully overcome it.

But as long as he made her fall asleep, lose consciousness, and fall into a deep sleep, this consciousness would temporarily cease.

The related accidents would then not appear.

Clearing this dungeon was very simple if you found the right method, but if you couldn't find the accurate method, it was very difficult to clear.

Players would gradually lose their reason and judgment as they encountered failure after failure and were subjected to eerie erosion with constantly rising infection rates, finally meeting a fate of failure and death.

It wasn't hard to say it was hard, but it wasn't simple to say it was simple.

"I have experience for when I encounter similar eerie dungeons in the future."

Lin Ye looked around the room, and finally, his gaze fell on the black rabbit doll on the room's floor.