chapter 99

Chapter 99

Although the Giant Deer was huge, its charging speed was incredibly fast. Luo Jia Bai had no time to pull Lu Li away, and when he saw the antlers pressing against Lu Li, his heart nearly stopped in terror.

Then things took an even more horrifying turn.

The Giant Deer suddenly stood upright like a human, a seam splitting open down its belly, from which two long human Arms extended.

The Arms dangled to the floor, growing like Vines to Lu Li’s feet, twisting upwards as they grew.

When fully formed, they became a chair.

The Giant Deer severed the chair-shaped end of its Arms, retracted the rest, and gestured toward Lu Li in invitation.

The deer said, “If you’re tired of standing, you can sit and play.”

Lu Li raised an eyebrow. “…Thanks?”

“Don’t mention it.”

The deer rubbed its nose and sneezed again. “The last time I smelled flowers must have been in my previous life.”

Luo Jia Bai: ?! Again?

He turned his head stiffly. Not far away, a Corpse, split open by antlers, still lay on the ground.

Does this deer have some kind of split personality?

Seeing the Giant Deer’s mood return to normal, the other Players, who had just been frightened, grew bolder again. They complained about unfairness. “Why!? Why does he get special treatment?”

“I was also the first to clear the last C Grade Instance! The deer just hasn’t noticed me yet!”

“Didn’t Lu Li just clear a Bug Instance? I’ve heard there are Other Players who’ve cleared Bug Instances too. He’s not the only one, he’s not that special.”

“Looks like we can’t kill him in the lobby. We’ll have to think of something once we’re inside…”

“Did you see the new post on the Forum? Apparently, he’s cleared two Bug Instances in a row. Two in a row! What kind of ridiculous luck is that…”

“Quiet!” The Giant Deer’s eyes turned red. It walked on two legs up to the Player who was being arrogant, lowered its head, and skewered two Corpses with its antlers.

“When I’m talking, nobody else is allowed to speak!”

The Players in the lobby instantly fell silent.

Only the sound of countless mouths on the antlers feasting on flesh remained.

The Giant Deer drew its Arms back into its chest, then pulled out a long, bloodstained Iron Chain, flinging it onto the ground with a loud clang.

“This Game Instance is rated B. Number of official Players…” It paused, looked at Lu Li, counted on its fingers for a moment, and got the answer.

“Eight! I am the Guide for this round. This is the selection phase, but your expressions aren’t nearly terrified enough! That makes me very dissatisfied!”

The spots where the Iron Chain struck the floor cracked open, the cracks quickly snaking past every Player. Slime oozed out, and countless Vines sprouted densely upward.

The Vines grew hundreds of meters high, the ceiling of the lobby rising higher and higher with them.

At the base, there was a locked door.

Lu Li looked up, following the Vines with his eyes.

When the Vines stopped growing, from about halfway up, a Key hung suspended. Every dozen meters higher, another Key appeared-five Keys in total stretching to the very top.

The Giant Deer grinned. “Climb to the top, grab a Key, then return to the bottom and open the door. Whoever walks out alive is the winner.”

A thin, transparent membrane gradually covered the gaps between the Vines, sealing each Player inside.

“Oh, and there are five locks on the door. I can’t quite remember which Key opens it.” The Giant Deer let out a sinister, chattering laugh. “Try them one by one. One of them is bound to open it.”
“Start struggling for your life now!”

After the Giant Deer finished announcing the rules, some Players had already started screaming.

“The water is suddenly flooding in here! If we climb all the way up and come back, the bottom will already be submerged. I can’t swim! Damn it, why is the selection round always so hard!”

“Climb! The water’s rising! There’s no time!”

“The water is corrosive? My skin is starting to rot-I need to use an Item quickly!”

As more and more water poured in, the Players’ space for survival grew smaller and smaller.

Watching Luo Jia Bai already bury his head and climb hard, maintaining his lead in first place, Lu Li let out a sigh of relief as he sat on his Vine chair.

Some Players were still at the bottom of the Vine, trying to burn or hack at it with fire and knives, refusing to believe that only the Key could open the door. They tried to break through the door at the bottom using other Weapons.

In the end, it was futile. By the time these Players decided to climb up, they had already fallen far behind the others.

On Mirella’s side, Fenny had returned. He flapped his wings desperately, pressing down on Mirella, who was about to climb, then gestured at her skirt, signaling her not to move and to change to an Item that could defend against the corrosive water.

Fenny himself flew upward, retrieved the Key in the quickest way possible, then dove back to Mirella’s side.

Lu Li glanced around at the climbing progress of the surrounding Players and could roughly estimate who would be the last to enter the Instance.

Except for one male Player who chose to stay at the bottom.

He had his back to Lu Li, his figure thin and young, his hands moving back and forth across the five door locks.

He wasn’t trying to destroy the door by other means.

He was picking the lock-without using a Key.

He had exchanged for relatively cheap anti-corrosive clothing and gloves, and the water had now reached his thighs.

Lu Li withdrew his gaze and tapped on his Wristband to check the basic information of the Live Stream Room:

[Audience: 168,980]

[Total Live Stream Room Ranking: 2nd (tied)]

[Points: 679,000]

[Real-time Bullet Comments: Enabled]

Lu Li checked his Points balance again.

He had just used Points to unlock his homepage, so after the deduction, there shouldn’t be much left.

The Bullet Comments in the Live Stream Room were also full of question marks:

[*Spirit Money* 10,000 tipped, the Streamer’s Points balance still seems to be over 600,000. The homepage costs 880,000 Points, so if you add that in, he originally had over a million Points? He earned that much in the last Instance!]

[The Ghost Friends are tipping so fast I can’t keep up. Luckily, I have three eyes and can focus on watching the Streamer outside the Bullet Comments.]

[Lord Fenny even sent a gift-is that a commission from the gift?]

[No, gifts are calculated separately for the Live Stream Room’s popularity.]

Lu Li thought, maybe the boss paid his salary.

But when the D Grade Instance was settled, Bosi only gave out a little over 200,000 Points. Did the C Grade Instance come with a raise?

He was just looking at his Wristband when someone unlocked a lock.

“I’m the first.”

The boy’s hair wasn’t even wet from the water. He held up the lock he had just picked open.

Lu Li looked up and saw it was the same person he had noticed earlier.

He had opened the lock without a Key.

The boy took something from his chest, kissed it reverently, and murmured:

“Hurry up.”

“Hurry up and start. I want more Points.”

Lu Li looked at his hand.

Clutched tightly was an oval-shaped necklace.