Chapter 154: I Didn't Ask You to Be So Ambitious!

The regional channel was quiet for two seconds. Then, like poking a hornet's nest, it erupted into noise!

"6 minutes 59 seconds??? Did I see wrong??? It's less than a second shy of seven minutes??? Can a person do that?"

"I didn't misread, did I? It's really a Hell-level Instance???!!!"

"Damn! I bet two hours! Lost it all!!!"

"Ahhh Wu Ya!!! Wu Ya!!! I want you to be a bit more ambitious, but don't be *this* ambitious!"

Cheng Shuili: "Laxative, born that way."

She curled her lips slightly, clearly full of arrogance yet pretended it was all basic operation, calmly scrolling through the regional channel.

"hahaha I knew our Wuya Dalao would bring a surprise, went all‑in and finished under an hour!"

"Upstairs you're not alone, hahaha. I just shouted in our group, and the veterans of the 1000‑point zone all went all‑in under an hour! After all, during the Newbie Protection Period, Wuya Dalao already showed full strength!"

"I don't get all that, I just bought the one with the biggest payout, should make a lot now!"

"hahaha that's hilarious! The brothers who opened the market must be green‑faced!"

"Are the brothers who opened the market still here? Can we still bail now? @DogGamblerNoHouse"

【DogGamblerNoHouse】:...... Currently queuing on the rooftop, do not disturb.

"Isn't... this reasonable? The top of the Normal level takes 9 minutes, yet the Hell level is faster???"

"Did Wuya Dalao climb out through a window??"

"Show me one you flipped?"

"I testify! I am that door in the Hell-level Instance! I saw Wuya Dalao walk in and tear us all apart!"

"Upstairs, wake up, you're just a compressed biscuit."

"Is this the point?! The point is how he did it?!"

"@Wu Ya Zuo Fei Ji Dalao request guide!!!"

"Stop asking, it's a pointless question. Wuya Dalao's intelligence and observation far exceed ordinary people! He said it, we probably can't understand it."

【Qing Shan Yuan Xing】: As everyone knows, Sherlock Crow is our Number One Dalao.

"Whoa! The top Epic-level Dalao also got blown out!"

"Fight! Fight!"

"Opening! Opening! Qing Shan vs Wu Ya! 1 to 10 payout! @DogGamblerNoHouse, start another round!"

【DogGamblerNoHouse】: Get lost!!!

"What kind of hype is this? Is there something wrong with your brains? Let me be blunt, Qing Shan doesn't even deserve to hand shoes to Wu Ya."

"The logic is that logic, but your words are too harsh; aren't you really not afraid of Qing Shan solo‑killing you?"

Cheng Shuili watched silently, mentally giving a like to the person who said "doesn't deserve to hand shoes".

Exactly!

She, Number One, truly deserving, stop faking injuries, OK?

The idea just popped up, and the regional channel's tone shifted again, actually questioning the difficulty of the Hell-level Instance.

"The system must have messed up the difficulty, right? How could it be six minutes? According to the big names on the regional channel, the Elite level already has five doors! Between Elite and Hell there is an Epic level, so the Hell-level must have more than six doors!"

"Wu Ya's six‑minute record means what, do you get it? It means Wu Ya solved the puzzle, found the key, and opened a door in under a minute! How is that possible?!"

"And! Why does the Hell difficulty only publish Wu Ya's result, when they said eight people participated? Where are the other seven's results?"

"The other seven weren't published because they didn't even enter the same difficulty?"

"That speculation makes sense! How could anyone find the clues, the key, and open the door in less than a minute?! That's impossible."

"I personally took part in the Elite Instance; even ignoring clue‑finding, if Wu Ya walked in and saw where the clues were, he still needs time to read them! How could he open the door instantly?"

Indeed!

How could the door be opened in an instant?

Cheng Shuili was a bit helpless at first, but now she finds it amusing. After all, she went in with the key—how is that not a kind of strength?

Yet the regional channel's claim gained many supporters, who clamored for the system to verify Wu Ya Zuo Fei Ji's results and to publish his decryption process in the Instance.

The system, of course, would not agree to such an unreasonable request.

The broadcast system dutifully read a script prepared by other subsystems, silently quickening its pace to finish early, when the usually silent system in charge of this Instance suddenly handed her a script.

The meaning was clear: overtime, insert this first.

The broadcast system cast a plaintive glance, but thinking of the end‑of‑month salary for three melons and two dates, it agreed.

Better than nothing, right?

【Detected multiple players questioning this Instance's difficulty, re‑opening the Hell-level Instance "Labyrinth Gate"! All doubters receive one free trial! This Instance's results overwrite the first Instance's results, but the results will no longer be publicized!】

【Additionally, the requirement for appearing on this leaderboard: any player on the leaderboard must have a duration no greater than five hours!】

"What?"

"What does that mean? Are we entering the Hell-level Instance?"

"No more than five hours? So besides Wu Ya Zuo Fei Ji, everyone else took over five hours in the Hell level, right?"

"Makes sense, the system also announced that eight people joined the Hell-level Instance; if the leaderboard has no threshold, they'd automatically be the top eight, which is awesome, right?"

"System, you should've said that earlier! If you'd said it sooner, I wouldn't have doubted!"

"That's a good thing! From now on we can say we've tackled the Hell-level Instance!"

"Bullshit! Didn't you see this Instance's results overwrite the first one's? If we fail this time, regardless of whether you succeeded the first time, a thousand Game Coins will be deducted! A thousand Game Coins!! Do you have that in your pocket?"

"Damn! It's over."

The system's broadcast not only caught the regional channel agitators off guard, but even Cheng Shuili was startled enough to lift her head.

This this this...

How does this seem like it's supporting her?

The moment that idea popped up, Cheng Shuili shivered all over, her eyes widened, and she hurriedly threw the dirty thought away!

Support her?

Even without deliberately messing with her, it's already a decent system.

The claim that she received 25% of the supplies but only got air just happened.

All the incidents that occurred before, one after another, were Cheng Shuili's path to get here! This damn system has only ever gotten deeper pits, never the ultimate pit!