Super Righteous Player
Chapter 502 - 43 Nightmare: Spore Mill_1

Chapter 502: Chapter 43 Nightmare: Spore Mill_1

[Falling into a nightmare, creating instance...]

[Detected that the current instance has special properties: Web, Phantom Dream]

[After dying in this instance, you will not be forced to exit the instance]

[This instance will not distort]

[Different people entering this instance will experience different changes]

[Each time you enter this instance, different changes will occur]

[Instance difficulty: Twisted]

[This instance has a total of 12 save points, and each death increases the erosion rate by 1%]

[This instance does not provide an introductory storyline, but there are decryption rewards]

[Instance loading complete]

Four Dark Tiles slowly opened his eyes.

As his agility attribute continued to increase, the dizziness he felt every time he entered a nightmare had also gradually stopped affecting him.

Once the dizziness had gradually dissipated, Four Dark Tiles realized that he was in a forest on the outskirts of the city.

The trees in the Underworld were bizarrely odd. Bathed in the light from the dome above, the twisted and deformed trees had few leaves, their trunks covered with damp moss, looking like monsters with wooden hides.

And Four Dark Tiles was right in the middle of this "forest."

At his feet was a crooked path trampled out, leading deep into the forest.

A girl’s naive whisper echoed in Four Dark Tiles’ ears:

"Bystanders are no different from wrongdoers... both are to be condemned."

Then, a side quest prompt appeared before Four Dark Tiles:

[Enter the Sporogenesis Mill]

At that moment, a stream of comments passed before his eyes.

Seeing someone else challenge the Sporogenesis Mill, players clicked in happily to watch the misfortune unfold.

Instances like this one aren’t very friendly to those who play them... but to the audience, they’re undoubtedly fun.

"—Yah! Four Dark Tiles bro, a rare guest indeed!"

"—Didn’t they say you were sick of it, has the kid already been born?"

"—The bets are open, will Four Dark Tiles bro die eighteen times today, I’m betting a Chaozhou beef hotpot dinner! I’m off to open the bets on the forum, everyone who’s free come watch!"

Damnit, why!

If only I could bet myself, I would totally rig the game!

Four Dark Tiles muttered to himself.

But his feet never stopped.

Instead of moving forward, he turned around and started walking without looking back.

No matter how you put it... after dying so many times, he had already become very familiar with the process.

—He had completely memorized the upcoming sequence.

"...Heh, ha... ha... ha..."

Heavy panting and the squelching sounds of boots stepping into damp soil grew clearer in front of Four Dark Tiles.

However, Four Dark Tiles had no doubts and walked silently forward.

Before the person entered Four Dark Tiles’ field of vision, they slipped, crashing heavily into the muddy ground.

Four Dark Tiles took a couple of steps forward and saw a dark-skinned man in tattered leather armor, with slightly gray hair at the temples, fallen on the ground, his hands dirty from the fall.

"...Jobe?"

The messenger looked up in surprise at Four Dark Tiles, his face showing a pleased expression, "Come over, give, give me a hand... I don’t have the strength..."

So Four Dark Tiles indifferently walked over.

"—Yah, Messenger Bro has fallen again."

"—This time Messenger Bro didn’t run two steps before falling."

"—This is called respecting the elderly and cherishing the young, letting Bro run a few less steps."

"—This is probably the flop king."

"—Not bad, didn’t just stand there waiting for the messenger to come..."

"—No choice, the messenger runs slower than walking."

The barrage of comments mocked.

After all, having died so many times in Four Darknesses meant that other players had watched it happen that many times.

On the first day, as they didn’t take the instance too seriously and got a bit cocky, none of them streamed it live.

But after they had died all night and realized that the instance was really tough... they maintained live streaming their subsequent attempts.

Other players had been watching for a long time and had the mechanics of the initial part down pat.

They naturally knew: if you walked straight ahead upon first entering the nightmare, you would certainly not encounter the messenger.

You must stand still and wait for three minutes for the messenger to arrive, panting from behind.

But no matter when or where you encounter the messenger.

—The messenger would always fall down out of sight.

Afterward, the messenger would definitely reach out, asking the player to pull him up.

This already hid several death flags.

If you proceed straight ahead, you would end up in a "forest maze," unable to discern north, south, east, or west. If you accidentally took the wrong direction, you would be attacked by fierce beasts from the Underworld.

You must possess the messenger’s token to see through the illusions and find the real path.

If you travel with the messenger, you indeed would also find the way. But you would then wipe in a trap room later due to being overweight.

And if you were to pull up the messenger at that moment... it would also be a death flag.

In this nightmare, their hands must be "clean" nearly the entire time.

According to Four Darknesses’ current theory, they needed to kill the messenger outside of the maze.

As for the method—

Four Darknesses had a dagger and a gun in his possession. But he had no spare gunpowder or bullets.

If he attacked the messenger with the dagger, he would face fierce resistance. In the struggle, his hands would easily get stained with blood or he would be knocked to the ground. That would almost certainly lead to death.

—It seems that there’s only one solution at the start.

Four Darknesses stopped about three or four steps away from the messenger.

With a clean shot, he killed the messenger right where he stood.

Only after the messenger gradually stopped breathing did Four Darknesses use his foot to flip him over. He reached out cautiously and took out a desiccated leaf sandwiched between two pieces of glass from the pocket inside his embrace.

It looked like some sort of specimen.

When he touched the leaf specimen, two lines of data appeared before Four Darknesses:

[Desiccated Leaf]

[—It is the tree’s token, often leading people out of the maze]

Following that, the world in front of Four Darknesses seemed to become even more colorful.

To be more precise... it felt like "the contrast had increased."

A white arrow appeared on the ground, vaguely pointing forward.

Only then did Four Darknesses move forward.

Although there were no bullets left in the gun, and there seemed to be no chance to pick up more, it was still better to take it along.

—It’s a club again, isn’t it?

Soon, Four Darknesses entered the pitch-dark forest.

The path trodden by people had already vanished—there was no sun in the Underworld, so it was impossible to judge the direction by shadows.

Yet, Four Darknesses could still see a white arrow emerging on the ground, steadfastly pointing in the correct direction.

As Four Darknesses walked in this direction, the trees in the distance gradually faded with his steps. By the time he walked past, where there had been no road before, a path had opened up.

And if you didn’t follow this direction... you were basically doomed.

No matter how powerful those beasts were, if during the fight or flight their hands got stained with blood or dirt, it was a case of "some are still alive, but it’s already dead."

—Please do us all a favor and restart.

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