Chapter 325: God-Tier Carrier's Limited-Time Return!

Currently, there were eight players left in the entire building: six mice and two cats.

The players who had cleared the stage were: the Four-Star Pan-faced Woman, Qiu Yinong, the Fitness Blogger, Zhou Zhan, Guan Xiong, and the Three-Star female player.

Among them, Zhou Zhan and the Three-Star female player cleared the stage carrying a lie.

There were also two dead players: both were Gao Lan's teammates.

At the same time, calculating from the number of times the cats had searched the entire building, they had searched for two rounds, and the third round had reached the eighth floor.

Therefore, the search time was:

24 + 24 + 8 = 56 minutes.

Of course, this number wasn't exact. After all, going downstairs also took time, so it had been about an hour in total.

Meanwhile, the mice entering the venue early on the first floor and the cats discussing their search plan took roughly 20 minutes in total.

Currently, the mice who hadn't been touched yet were: Chen Ran, Short and Fat, and Big Gold Tooth.

In other words, in the next 40 minutes, if these three mice were not touched, they would automatically clear the Secret Room.

There was another question here: how much time had passed since Chen Ran used Eternal Kingdom?

The cats only went upstairs to search 20 minutes after the game started. When they reached the third floor, Chen Ran used Eternal Kingdom, therefore...

Chen Ran used Eternal Kingdom at around the 23-minute mark. It was now the 80th minute of the game, which meant there were only 3 minutes left before the effect of Eternal Kingdom ended.

…

Gao Lan arrived at the eighth floor and saw Lin Xuan there. The latter gave him a middle finger. Gao Lan innocently spread his hands: "It was Senior who told me to do this before he disappeared."

Hearing this, Lin Xuan froze.

'Han Bing's death caused my identity to be exposed, terminating the plan. But the basic framework has already been laid out. The next problem is how to deal with the Five-Star Youth.'

'But since the plan has already gone bankrupt, it's very difficult to deal with the Five-Star Youth. At this point, we'll think of the Senior from Gao Lan's skill effect.'

'I will inevitably provide Gao Lan with a lie in another space to let him summon the God-Tier Carrier again. Fuck, the abacus beads are flying right into my face.'

'There's another problem. When players die, they turn into an instance. Clearing that instance means the legendary Ultimate Death. The fact that this Senior can be summoned means he hasn't suffered Ultimate Death yet.'

'But why must he design it so that Gao Lan summons him again? And this is also full of uncertainties.'

'Unless the Senior's skill is related to karma, allowing him to directionally make Gao Lan summon him. He must have some ulterior motive...'

'I don't know why, but I have a feeling that this Senior has his eyes set on Chen Ran.'

'After all, if this instance has any special trait that makes the Senior so persistent on being summoned a second time, it can only be Chen Ran, the legendary True Self Player.'

…

At the same time.

In a certain instance, a youth sat cross-legged on a wasteland, his eyes tightly closed.

This instance was classified as taboo because there was no Instance BOSS.

Or rather, the BOSS had died long ago, but for some reason, the instance hadn't disappeared.

What was even stranger was that for this type of instance, if matched normally, players would instantly clear the stage upon reaching the Third Secret Room, but they wouldn't receive any instance clear Rewards, nor would their days in the 18th Level be reset.

That wasn't all.

Among the players who cleared the stage, one would receive the special item of that instance.

If the player holding that special item initiated a match for that instance again...

The outcome would be total annihilation.

Therefore, such instances were collectively called taboo instances. Regarding taboo instances...

Many people had deduced the truth about them.

The answers they arrived at were basically unanimous:

Namely, in such instances, after the BOSS is killed, the players inside should theoretically be able to clear the stage, but due to some reason, they are unable to leave and become trapped in the instance.

…

In the vast white world, a tall building rose from the ground. The building had 18 floors, with six rooms on each floor, and none of them had doors.

Before long.

Six players appeared on the first floor. These six people arrived in front of the elevator screen and read the rules regarding the 【Mouse Game】.

After reading the rules, a handsome youth among them spoke, "This kind of game is simply a freebie for me."

The other five didn't refute him. Soon, they established Future Lies. The handsome youth transferred the delicate-looking youth and the suit-wearing youth into other spaces, and two people from other spaces were transferred over.

They hid on the first floor.

Not long after, twelve more players were teleported to the first floor and likewise read the 【Cat and Mouse Game】 rules on the elevator screen.

The scenes experienced in the instance where Chen Ran and the others were located played out one by one in the Distance-Free Technique.

Until Chen Ran used Eternal Kingdom.

These scenes experienced a brief stutter and frame drop, but quickly recovered.

The evolution continued.

Zhou Zhan being taken down by Distance-Free Technique, the Fitness Blogger clearing the Secret Room on the eighth floor, the Three-Star female player being coaxed into a lie on the first floor, Lin Xuan and Gao Lan continuously stealing the beams and replacing the pillars, Xu Jingzhou being coaxed into a lie and dying from Judgment, and even Qiu Hua blocking Ye Qian and Guan Xiong touching Lin Xuan disguised as Qiu Yinong—all appeared within...

The youth's Distance-Free Technique!

At the end, the scene froze on the conversation between Lin Xuan and Gao Lan on the eighth floor.

At this point, the youth slowly opened his eyes.

He whispered softly, "Next, Gao Lan should be summoning me."

Thinking up to this point.

He pulled out his Liar-Slayer, pointed the gun at the boundless sky, and said calmly:

"Ghost Whisperer: Spring Flowers and Autumn Fruits!"

The wasteland instantly went dark. In the darkness, the youth seemed to reminisce, "When will the spring flowers and autumn moon end? How much of the past is known..."

He closed his eyes again.

At the same time, the frozen scene in Distance-Free Technique stuttered and dropped frames once more.

Then, the playback continued.

Lin Xuan saw Gao Lan use his skill and transferred him back to the original space.

"Do you have a plan?"

Gao Lan nodded. Seeing this, Lin Xuan asked somewhat uncertainly:

"So fast? You should know our opponent is a Five-Star player."

"So fast? You should know our opponent is a Five-Star player."

The two spoke in unison. Lin Xuan's eyes widened as if he were looking at a monster.

"How did you know what I was going to say?"

"How did you know what I was going to say?"

This time, Lin Xuan's shock turned into horror, while Gao Lan said calmly, "By cooperating with Chen Ran, you can have him use Eternal Kingdom. My threat level to you guys is practically zero. You don't need to fear me."

As the scene deduced to this point, the youth suddenly opened his eyes, a faint smile hanging on his lips, as his body gradually faded and disappeared from the wasteland.

Cat and Mouse Game Secret Room.

【Senior?】

【I am here.】

The next moment, the Senior took control of Gao Lan's body. He looked at Lin Xuan, who understood and transferred him back to the original space.

Eighth floor.

"You have a plan?" Lin Xuan asked.

Gao Lan nodded. Seeing this, Lin Xuan asked somewhat uncertainly:

"So fast? You should know our opponent is a Five-Star player."

"So fast? You should know our opponent is a Five-Star player."

The two spoke in unison. Lin Xuan's eyes widened as if he were looking at a monster.

Next, the conversation between the two was exactly the same as the scene the youth had deduced using Distance-Free Technique on the wasteland.

As if predicting the future.