Chapter 117: I Want to Blend In! I Want to Chase My Dreams!

The "Wish Fulfillment" dungeon was originally a single-player survival dungeon.

Single-player survival dungeons are among the most difficult types of games within the Abyss Game at any given difficulty level.

If you set aside the threats from other players in melee and deathmatch modes, and look solely at the difficulty of the dungeon itself, it might even be the single most difficult.

The difficulty of a single-player survival dungeon lies in its extremely low margin for error; one careless step and the player dies, with no teammates to pass on information from within the dungeon.

A lack of information means countless successors will trip and fall in the exact same pit over and over again.

For instance, right now, just by randomly encountering a colorful bus, one could run into two lingering grudges, and both of these grudges died in the exact same pit.

The owners of these two grudges must have stayed in Yifu City for a while, having seen the colorful bus more than once, and were both preparing to board the colorful bus to enter the teleportation point.

It’s just that one chose to blend into the crowd, while the other chose to kill all the dancing dolls on board and drive in themselves.

Relying on the colorful bus, much like the last words of other vanished colorful buses, the two entered the teleportation point and arrived at a place called Dream Plaza.

Most of the citizens of Yifu City gathered in this plaza, led by the committee, loudly shouting their wishes for the future.

The two players among the grudges were both discovered by the Miracle Committee members in the plaza, and for the same reason.

That was because, while passing through the teleportation point, a prompt came from the bus, signaling that passengers on board must think about blending into Yifu City.

Having seen with their own eyes how outsiders who wanted to blend into Yifu City were manipulated by various dolls under the influence of a strange power, the two players dared not follow the instructions on the bus.

The result was that as soon as they entered the plaza, they, who had not blended into Yifu City, stood out like candles in the dead of night.

Immediately after, amidst the voices of the Miracle Committee members leading the citizens in shouting "Expel the loners," the two met their end.

In a single-player dungeon, unless one possesses powerful life-saving skills, the margin for error is extremely low.

Overly conservative approaches will instead lead one into a death trap.

However, once a single-player survival dungeon begins to erode reality, it is forcibly converted into a group dungeon.

The two problems—a lack of life-saving skills and a low margin for error—are both resolved.

Hearing Wu Chang's speculation, Shi Ning deemed it highly probable and selected two players who possessed life-saving skills; to be safe, Shi Ning even personally crafted a paper doll for each of them.

The paper dolls were covered in talismans and possessed the effect of transferring a negative status once.

In the event that the thought of blending into Yifu City truly caused them to be controlled by the Miracle Committee, they could transfer the control through the paper dolls and regain their senses.

After finishing the preparations, the two found a colorful bus and drove toward the direction where the dolls and citizens had disappeared.

The colorful bus vanished smoothly, and two or three minutes later, news came from the two.

Everything is safe.

They claimed to have arrived at a special plaza where all the captured citizens were gathered; the dolls in the plaza did not ask why there were fewer people on the colorful bus, but instead formulaically told everyone on the bus to go make a wish.

After the test succeeded, Shi Ning left four groups outside to continue searching, while the remaining three groups followed the same method to enter the plaza and continue tracking.

In the group with Xiang Jianxing and Wu Chang, Wu Chang provided the key hypothesis, and Xiang Jianxing was the highest combat power besides Shi Ning, so he was naturally chosen to enter the plaza next.

They each picked up a mask from the dancing dolls, put the masks on their faces, started the colorful bus, and drove toward the target teleportation point.

As they drove to the target location, the surface of the colorful bus shimmered with a faint light, and the next moment, their vision blurred; the road that had been outdoors turned into a tunnel.

Inside the tunnel, an emotionless electronic voice came from the colorful bus's intercom.

"Attention passengers, the next stop is arriving: Dream Plaza."

"Dream Plaza is the birthplace of miracles and the core welfare of Yifu City. To ensure your safety, please recite in your heart: I want to blend in! I want to chase my dreams!"

Wu Chang clicked his tongue; he had wanted to complain about this earlier. "I want to XX, I want to XX"—this slogan format was just too tacky.

The guys on the Miracle Committee must have been in pyramid schemes before. He and Xiang Jianxing recited the slogan according to the prompt, and you really have to say, after the slogan was finished, the tension of being inside the dungeon eased, and instead, a sense of relaxation like returning home emerged.

It was as if the two of them were originally residents of Yifu City.

Wish fulfillment—the ability of this dungeon is somewhat interesting.

Passing through the tunnel, the two arrived at Blessing Plaza, parked the car under the gaze of seven or eight staff members, and followed the instructions to the Dream-Chasing Zone.

Even ten meters away from the parking lot, Wu Chang's eyes remained fixed on the staff members, his gaze full of reluctance.

If he were clearing this alone, he would ensure not a single one of them could run away.

One person is 40 experience points; watching the experience go to waste is a sin.

In the plaza, the kidnapped citizens of Wanghai City were fanatically shouting their dreams.

When they first encountered the dolls, most citizens were fearful and terrified, but after being brought to the plaza by the dolls and half-forced to make a wish, everyone's attitude did a complete 180-degree turn.

Making wishes for free in the plaza was actually effective.

After making a wish, their backs stopped aching and their legs stopped hurting; many nearsighted people took off their glasses, and many women with appearance anxiety suddenly had skin that looked naturally airbrushed.

!

The most absurd part was that many middle-aged men with thinning hair suddenly had so much hair they needed to have it thinned out in the blink of an eye.

These aren't thugs at all; these are clearly their benefactors!

It is said that the wishes they had fulfilled were all trivial matters, and as long as one's heart was sincere, any wish, no matter how big, could be realized.

Once this was said, people went practically insane, shouting the slogan for their lives.

Even the most shameful wishes were shouted out loud, for fear that if their voices were too soft, it would seem insincere and wouldn't count.

People are just that realistic.

No wonder those antisocial players who snuck into the plaza were marked as loners and annihilated by the collective wish in a second.

This powerful mental energy did not come from the committee's coercion, but from people's heartfelt wishes.

Cutting off someone's path to wealth is like killing their parents.

Wu Chang could believe that if he and Xiang Jianxing stood up and shouted that they were officials here to rescue them from this den of demons,

the two of them would be cursed to death by the crowd in the next second.

Among the fanatical crowd, a woman wearing a suit and a golden mask wandered about.

She would stop from time to time to give pointers to the citizens beside her.

According to the information from the grudges, these guys wearing golden masks were managers in the Miracle Committee, all of whom were Yifu City citizens who had successfully realized great wishes.

When the golden mask walked back and forth, she once paused for a moment in a corner.

In the corner sat a person all alone, someone Wu Chang was very familiar with—it was none other than He Wei, the dorm's fourth-ranked member whose sexual fetishes could scare away evil gods, the Seed Emperor.

He gave Xiang Jianxing a look, and after the golden mask left, he quietly crept over.

Wu Chang patted He Wei on the shoulder and teased, "Yo, why are you sitting here alone? Don't tell me your fetishes are so weird that you aren't allowed to join the orgy."

He Wei froze for a moment, then revealed a shy expression.

"Boss, you heard that just now?"

Wu Chang: "..."

Holy crap, A-Wei, you're for real!

(End of chapter)