Super Righteous Player
Chapter 492 - 33 The Life Chosen By Oneself_1

Chapter 492: Chapter 33 The Life Chosen By Oneself_1

Just a few days ago, when Niusel gave them the house... under the indication from Neve Tower, they were also given the "key" to enter the local nightmare.

Before going to sleep, lock the door from the inside and tie a cloth around your left ankle—that was the key to enter the "Sporogenesis Mill".

Yes.

The local nightmare of this underground city is called Sporogenesis Mill.

It is a Twisted Tier nightmare, and its content leans towards horror puzzles. And it’s the kind of horror puzzle with death traps—you might be walking and suddenly fall into a pit and die, or you might be investigating something, accidentally take a few extra glances and then suddenly kick the bucket.

The worst part is that dying three times in this dungeon doesn’t get you kicked out of the nightmare.

There are special logout points, you must reach that location to exit... That exit point was found by Charge on the second day.

Lin Yiyi and the others grinded for eight hours straight on the first day and didn’t wake up until six in the morning.

Despite being in the Underworld where sunlight doesn’t reach, Mr. Radiance still dutifully woke them up.

In this dungeon where dying once increases the erosion rate by 1%, Lin Yiyi’s erosion rate climbed by 17% without even seeing a chase scene, or even a single enemy with a health bar.

By the way, Jiu’er gained 15%... She is currently the fastest in progress, and the latter part of the map was all informed to the Lin siblings by her.

This is because, as an instinct-driven player, Jiu’er unconsciously avoided many traps. This directly led to her skipping lots of traps without even noticing.

Charge, on the other hand, jumped to 31%.

This was not because Charge was stupider than the other two... On the contrary, he was likely the most adept at horror puzzles among both groups of players. He had not died twice at the same point despite the many deaths in the same eight hours, which proved his ability.

But he had a bad habit, namely, he was too curious.

Even without the skill that’s written as "Handy" but read as "Eagle Eye", his eyesight was the sharpest. Being very familiar with this genre, Charge could always detect at first glance if something might be dangerous to investigate.

However, he couldn’t resist his curiosity.

So he tried anyway.

The result was death.

Out of his thirty-one deaths, twenty-five were due to this.

Seeing mushrooms that were planted, of course, you wouldn’t step on them; but if you guessed Teemo might have buried a mushroom somewhere, and you weren’t a hundred percent sure, without a scan, you’d want to step on it to reveal it. You feel extremely uneasy and uncomfortable if you don’t step on it, thinking that the surroundings are very dangerous...

Although you’d also feel uncomfortable after stepping on it.

So Charge didn’t make much progress, but he pretty much tested and found most of the death traps ahead.

This was also why Lin Yiyi and Jiu’er didn’t want to move—since Charge loved to step on mines, they figured they might as well let him go ahead and clear the way first.

With the strategies he summarized, they could save some erosion rate.

—Cleansing erosion rate had to consume Annan’s favorability.

Although they didn’t know why, this favorability somehow always seemed hard to accumulate... just like a currency used in mobile games that requires real-money purchases.

If it were actually a mobile game, Lin Yiyi would certainly have just spent real money.

But the problem is, this game doesn’t have a channel for microtransactions!

To avoid meaninglessly increasing their erosion rate, they now unanimously agreed to let Charge scout ahead—find the mechanisms and then come back to tell them.

Even though they say that his little brother could be sent out casually.

But really sending your own little brother out as a tool to scout for mines still feels a bit heartbreaking...

Considering how hospitable Niusel has been, it wouldn’t hurt to ask this local for some completed strategies, such as:

"...like where there are traps, or where there are more convenient items," for instance.

Lin Yiyi asked with a smile, "You’ve been here for so long; you must have encountered it, right?"

"It seems you really have entered the nightmare," Niusel said, touching his face in surprise.

... Do you actually doubt that we would ever enter the nightmare?

Lin Yiyi suppressed the urge to retort.

Where is the basic trust between people?

— I’ve clearly told you that we’re here to play the copy! Did you never believe us at all?

"Don’t be angry, don’t be angry," Niusel apologized repeatedly upon seeing Lin Yiyi’s face darken, "I am just a bit surprised...

"After all, the Sporogenesis Mill is indeed notorious—a ’nearly unsolvable large-scale nightmare.’ Many clergies have come here attempting to conquer it but couldn’t make any sense of it.

"Although it started out as just a silver-tier level, this nightmare has a very troublesome characteristic—dying multiple times in the nightmare does not allow you to exit, directly causing those who came to resolve the nightmare to instead die within it. Eventually, the nightmare’s scope grew larger and larger, advancing to the Twisted Tier... Initially only encompassing the black mushroom mill nearby, it has now expanded to encompass most of the city."

So far, the nightmare with a zero success rate.

While the key to entering this nightmare isn’t so easily triggered, it’s not impossible either.

A nightmare where one immediately respawns after death, and no matter how many times one dies, one isn’t ejected—for those without reason, it’s essentially death upon accidental entry. Although one could escape by staying still until daylight... or perhaps log off at a special offline location, the ordinary people who can’t maintain rationality in their dreams certainly can’t achieve this.

"So, we definitely won’t keep any records here."

Niusel said this, and couldn’t help but laugh, "After all, we don’t have... our own clergy here."

"Oh, right."

Lin Yiyi realized.

This is the irreverent Underworld Federation.

Neither the Lady of Mystery nor the Lady of Silence have temples here... which also means that the Underworld won’t have clergies who regard purifying nightmares as a glory and duty.

People come here to purify nightmares, surely for the purpose of extracting power from them.

When a nightmare’s difficulty is extremely high.

No one really tries to solve it.

— Because it’s "not worth it".

"Have you never entered this nightmare?"

Lin Yiyi asked.

Niusel shrugged: "Would you charge towards a cannon?

"I do not consider myself smarter or more experienced than those seniors who died in this nightmare. They’ve already proven with their lives that this nightmare is unsolvable... so naturally, I won’t try it again.

"This is actually respecting their outcome; controlling the spread of the ’key’ is somewhat more effective than purifying the nightmare directly. When you go to other Underground Cities, you will gradually understand this. In each city, there will be several difficult nightmares, and even some cities are named after nightmares... like ours."

This handsome and tall man with a gentle demeanor simply spread his hands and casually spoke some cruel words: "Without clergies advancing in succession to purify nightmares, we can only choose compromise and coexistence with high-difficulty nightmares. Our Sporogenesis Mill is still not too bad, at least the ’key’ is not so easily triggered.

"Only those young people with burning passion, who are blind to reality, dreaming of becoming Transcendents... will try to enter the most dangerous nightmares, where the ’keys’ are openly available. Because they can’t get keys to nightmares that are easier to purify, they can only enter those that have been made public.

"—Each city has its unique rules. This is our life... and also the reason why many residents move away.

"...Of course, it’s also the life we have chosen for ourselves."

The man paused, revealing a bitter smile.