Chapter 505: The Gap (1)

In front of the highest building.

Nearly a hundred players had gathered.

The Bartender was at the entrance.

In front of him stood a sign:

'The Method of Lingtai Second Realm Cultivation is placed on the top floor, first come, first served.'

'Rule 1: Registration fee is 200 Points.'

'Rule 2: For the sake of fairness, all Initial Secret Rooms in this building are generated by this world. There is no form of overlay whatsoever. Please pay attention and distinguish them.'

'Rule 3: Although this building is tall, it only has three floors. When paying the registration fee, please note whether you have a team. After it begins, players of the same team will be teleported into the same Secret Room.'

'Rule 4: This area in front of the building cannot possibly be overlaid.'

The five rules were all very simple, among which the second, third, and fourth rules required players' attention.

The second rule: The Secret Rooms generated by this world have no overlay, but players' Skills can overlay them. Please pay attention to the Initial Secret Room.

The third rule: There are only three floors. If you find a fourth floor, it means you have already been overlaid. The reason the building is so tall yet only has three floors is to prepare it for players; players can overlay to their heart's content. Your team will be teleported into the same Secret Room.

The fourth rule: Everything you see right now is real.

Among them, the fourth rule was the most important. If The Bartender wanted to earn Points, it was naturally impossible to let players overlay this area. Everyone guessed that even if it were overlaid, it would probably be instantly dispelled by the consciousness of this world.

From this, it could be seen that Si Jincheng's Skill was already on the verge of numerical bloat; his consciousness might be the consciousness of this world.

It had to be said that in this world, as long as one spent Points, the service was quite thorough. Weren't even the rules reminding players of what to pay attention to?

The crowd withdrew their gazes and searched through the crowd, not finding the three top-tier Five-Star teams.

Only then did they feel much more at ease.

After all, this place could not be overlaid. As long as they didn't see those three teams, it meant they wouldn't appear in the Secret Rooms inside the building.

Some people also pondered.

Only three floors meant there might be many Secret Rooms on each floor.

Were the Secret Rooms in series or in parallel?

In series: Must clear every Secret Room on each floor, which is more troublesome.

In parallel: Clearing one Secret Room allows you to directly go up to the second floor, which is simpler.

But at a time like this, no one would be foolish enough to go ask The Bartender.

They went up one by one to pay the registration fee.

200 Points/person.

For ordinary Three-Star players, this might be a huge fortune, but for these hundred or so players, although it stung a bit, they could still cough it up if they gritted their teeth.

Soon.

The crowd finished paying the registration fee. After organizing everything, The Bartender said loudly: "Good luck to everyone!"

The next moment, the hundred or so players in front of him all vanished, teleported into the first floor.

…

This was a Secret Room.

But there was nothing inside the Secret Room—no items, no doors, no windows, not even the most basic of hints.

"Boss?" Ma Guoyuan looked at his captain in confusion.

Captain Feng Yucheng chuckled lightly: "I was wondering earlier: since it's fair, if everyone is teleported together, players would be able to remember the various scenes in the Secret Room before it is overlaid by Virtual Overlay. This would be unfair to virtual Skills."

"It seems this is a blank Secret Room, and it only contains our team."

"If my guess is correct, after we use our Skills, this Secret Room will merge with a real Secret Room. In other words, if we use our Skills here, we should be able to overlay the real Secret Room later."

The four were overjoyed.

Virtual Overlay-type Skills were basically invincible below the Second Realm of Lingtai Heart Cultivation, but the premise was not to use them in front of the opponent.

Thus, the group drew their guns.

"Ghost Whisperer: Clear Glass World!"

"Ghost Whisperer: Overlapping Shadows Rebirth!"

"Ghost Whisperer: Vengeful Ghost Stepping Stone!"

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, five gunshots rang out. The Secret Room turned black, and in the darkness, the five of them were momentarily stunned.

Three Skills, yet five gunshots. This meant three Secret Rooms had merged: two blank Secret Rooms and one real Secret Room.

In other words.

In another blank Secret Room, two players had also used their Skills.

When the light was restored.

This was a Secret Room.

There were ten people in the Secret Room.

Feng Yucheng sized up the extra team.

Five unfamiliar Youths, one of whom had a regular colored gun tucked into his waist. The captain leading them had regular features and looked like a young Leon Lai, even sporting a fluffy middle-part hairstyle from the eighties and nineties of the last century.

The other party was also sizing them up.

Both sides withdrew their gazes and began to survey this Secret Room. This was a...

An electric Sauna Room. There was a glass door in front, but it had no handle, indicating it was an automatic door, the kind that slides sideways.

Through the glass door, they could see the lockers opposite the outside of the glass door. There were five rows of lockers, with four lockers in each row, and all of them were numbered, numbered in sequence from left to right.

A floor tile in front of the glass door was very special.

On the left and right sides of the floor tile, there were two small rectangular holes each, which was very strange.

The left, right, and rear walls of the Secret Room, as well as the ceiling, all had a row of electric heating plates, about two meters long and one meter wide, looking like red-hot branding irons, continuously raising the temperature of the Secret Room.

Aside from this, there were no other clues.

The ten people withdrew their gazes.

Han Fei glanced at Li Xiaohai, who closed his eyes and opened them shortly after, saying:

"There is."

Hearing this, Han Fei helplessly spread his hands toward Feng Yucheng: "Put it away?"

Seeing his boss nod, Ma Guoyuan somewhat unwillingly drew his Liar-Slayer:

"Ghost Whisperer: Clear Glass World!"

"Retract!"

Han Fei didn't believe him and looked at Li Xiaohai again, who shook his head.

'The Virtual Overlay has been retracted, but five gunshots rang out in the Secret Room just now. Our team used two Skills, so their team should still have two Skills that haven't been retracted.'

'There are only ten people in this Secret Room, which means the Secret Rooms on the first floor should all be in parallel.'

'Whoever escapes the Secret Room first...'

'Is the first to go to the second floor!'

'If we're even a step slow, we might be overlaid by the Whisperer's Escape Room of other players!'

Thinking up to here, Han Fei had no thought of Infighting with them and hurriedly looked for clues.

Feng Yucheng shared the same thought.

The two teams both walked toward the benches without exception. One team picked up bath towels, and the other team picked up face towels, examining them carefully.

But to their disappointment, whether it was the bath towels or the face towels, they were terrifyingly white, without any information on them.

The temperature inside the Secret Room grew higher and higher, so hot that people broke out in a cold sweat. They all took off their coats, took out water from their bags, and gulped it down.

But as they drank.

Feng Yucheng and the other four noticed that Han Fei's team was missing one person, leaving only four people.

Alarm bells rang loudly in the hearts of the five. They drew their Liar-Slayers and looked around, while the Id Player in the team closed his eyes for a moment and said in astonishment: "There is no Virtual Overlay Skill!"

'No Virtual Overlay? Then how could their team be missing one person?'

However, their vision blurred, and the four people in Han Fei's team also vanished.

Only their team was left in the Secret Room.

…

At the stairwell leading to the second floor, Han Fei's group of five, who had already cleared the Instance, were running upwards.

If it weren't for the fact that whoever reached the top first got it.

They definitely would have stayed in the Secret Room just now to pit those five to death before clearing it.

But even so.

When they arrived at the second floor, they were astonished to find that they couldn't push open the door to the first blank Secret Room no matter what, which meant there was already someone inside.

In other words.

Clearing the first floor...

Someone was even faster than them. Han Fei hurriedly led his team further inside, trying to avoid merging with the first blank Secret Room on the second floor.