Chapter 1959: After the Rewind, Love You Again 35

「Someone. 」 Jin Chen lowered his voice, and he and Cheng Chuan hid behind the stone pillar inlaid with shells.

Ruan Fu walked past in a lab coat, her whole demeanor cold as ice, with several people clearly of lower status than him following behind her.

Indeed, that's the case.

Cheng Chuan sneakily glanced at Jin Chen, thinking this trip really shouldn't have been taken.

Jin Chen sent a message to Ruan Fu, asking where he was on a business trip and when he would return.

As Ruan Fu stepped into the lab's main gate, her steps paused slightly, and after a moment she replied to the message.

Ice-cold wife (knife-stabbing version): In F Country, I'll be back at most in a week.

Jin Chen didn't ask what the business trip entailed, and Ruan Fu didn't say anything either.

"I just heard them mention angels, judgment, those words," Cheng Chuan thought only of the next game level, "Could it be the theme of the next level?"

Jin Chen: "……"

"You're addicted to playing?"

"Tsk."

Cheng Chuan wouldn't say it, but since leaving prison, only the game still feels exciting.

Especially with a thigh to hold onto, he doesn't have to worry about dying at all.

"Oh… fuck." Cheng Chuan suddenly jabbed Jin Chen with his elbow, "Who is that person? I'm not seeing things, am I?"

Yun Zaozao is here too!

He's also wearing a lab coat!

Jin Chen could no longer retort, even feeling like a monkey being observed in a fenced-off area.

【Oh, this is literally the Truman's World·Death Game Version.】Ling Gun Gun sighed, not forgetting Jin Chen's instructions, extending his consciousness tendrils into this lab, delving into the core data.

At this moment, the main core database control room.

"The new batch of people with implanted brain-machine interfaces are in place; the game can be started at any time, Ruan, you required the newcomers to be inside as well."

Ruan Fu grunted, his gaze on the virtual screen suddenly shifting to Yun Zaozao: "Don't tamper anymore."

Yun Zaozao's fingertips hooked the controller; not knowing what he was thinking, his promise lacked sincerity.

"Rest assured, it won't happen again."

Afterwards, he pressed the controller.

——

〖This place is pure white.

This place is the void.

This place will have no deceit, no secrets, only naked souls. 〗

〖Welcome players to the game level: Angel Eye's Judgment〗

〖Main quest: complete self-judgment, offer your soul to Him. 〗

White light flashed, Jin Chen and Cheng Chuan quickly exchanged glances, then began observing their surroundings.

A square, narrow room, everything pure white, with only a door and a giant eye hanging from the ceiling, its depths like the abyss humans fear most.

The giant eye turned, slowly meeting Jin Chen's gaze—icy, mechanical, devoid of warmth, like an enlarged mechanical eyeball.

"Holy shit! Jin Chen, you kid finally showed up."

Gao Kai rushed over, "I thought I could only clear this level on my own."

Players who knew Jin Chen all smiled; even though the scene was eerie, they weren't that scared anymore.

Until another person appeared.

"Huh...?" Gao Kai was dazed, staring blankly at Protagonist Chen.

Protagonist Chen was even more dazed and afraid than him.

"Where is this? You… how are you here?" Protagonist Chen obviously hadn't recalled Gao Kai; seeing Jin Chen and Cheng Chuan, he became even more surprised.

Just a second ago he was still in the basement!

With just that sentence, who the real Jin Chen was was instantly exposed without doubt.

The other players weren't villains; the protagonist's halo didn't do much for them, so they all moved behind Jin Chen.

"Boss, this guy couldn't be your twin brother, right? How... the gap is so huge."

Jin Chen had a sudden insight, realizing what Ruan Fu meant that day when she said she'd think of a solution.

Dying in the game counts, more or less, as being killed by Ruan Fu and Yun Zaozao—fine.

Facing Protagonist Chen's bewildered and panicked gaze, Jin Chen raised an eyebrow somewhat mischievously: "Not brothers; he wants to steal my identity."

And then what?

With Boss Jin's identity snatched away, who will now lead them to speed-run the death game!

Protagonist Chen hadn't even figured out the situation before being met with hostility from the players in this room.

Or Cheng Chuan couldn't resist the strange feeling in his heart, gave him a brief explanation, after which no one bothered the still-dazed Protagonist Chen, and they began researching clues.

There are 10 players in this room.

Following the Angel Eye's gaze, they looked at one of the white walls; after fumbling for a while, a floating feather pen appeared.

Afterwards, the game prompt sounded.

〖Welcome to the Confession Room; please use this soul pen in turn to write down the worst thing you've done in your life, to be completed within 15 seconds. 〗

Immediately after, virtual numbers appeared above each of the ten people's heads, indicating their order.

Gao Kai was first.

The Angel Eye stared fixedly at him, as if probing his soul.

As his thoughts stirred slightly, the feather pen fell into his hand, and a writable panel appeared on the wall.

Gao Kai couldn't figure out the routine, and instinctively glanced at Jin Chen, "What do we do, bro? If we've done something bad, are we going to be punished?"

But it was obvious that, following the game's routine, not completing the task would definitely also result in punishment.

"Write first." Jin Chen said.

Under the gaze of nine pairs of eyes, Gao Kai swallowed, seeing the 15-second countdown start, and after trembling for a while wrote a sentence.

"Put laxatives in the food of the troublemaking idiot customer!"

Jin Chen: "......"

Others: "......"