Chapter 101: [Beauty Above All] A Makeover
In the end, everyone went together, but they acted separately.
Some people went directly through the main entrance to inquire, while others sneaked into the hospital.
The group of them together was too conspicuous. So no matter which way they went, they were separated.
Out of the twenty-six people, twenty chose to act, and the remaining few didn’t come out, probably planning to act alone.
Bai Cha naturally chose to sneak into the hospital, after all, she was the one who proposed it.
The city didn’t seem as lively as when they first arrived. Maybe it was time for people to go back to rest and sleep.
The whole world seemed to quiet down.
Most of the lights were also turned off, only the huge screens on a few buildings were still lit, repeatedly playing advertisements promoting plastic surgery.
A cold wind blew through the streets, rolling up the flyers on the ground.
Bai Cha casually picked one up.
It was still a flyer for Beauty is Innocent.
Zheng Yue was still following her. Bai Cha thought for a moment, then took out her mirror and pretended to look at the faces of the people in the mirror while looking at the flyer.
In reality, the mirror inadvertently swept past Zheng Yue’s side.
Sure enough, there was another head behind his head.
A head after plastic surgery, whose gender couldn’t be distinguished and whose appearance was rugged.
That head also reacted quickly, looking over when the mirror shone on it, but Bai Cha had already retracted the mirror.
She continued to pretend to look at the flyer and also glanced around.
Whoa, good heavens.
It seemed that all that flashed by were human heads.
[Eek!]
[This is really strange. Is this what this instance is like?]
[Is there anyone else who has seen this instance who can explain it?]
[Those who have seen it say that generally, players spend the first night understanding how to earn money, searching for information online. It’s rare for them to directly find the diary, let alone share information]
[Yeah, the previous players also had a group, but there usually wasn’t much information exchange in the early stages]
[So is it because everyone found the diary that so many human heads suddenly appeared? Is this a flying head? But what does it have to do with plastic surgery?]
[Head… swapping? A makeover?]
[Damn! You’ve hit the nail on the head!]
Bai Cha glanced at the comments and had already casually thrown away the flyer in her hand.
The flyer was no different from the one they had received earlier.
Only the people on it were different.
But that flyer flew in the wind for a moment, and then, as if it had hit something, it stopped in mid-air and flew towards Bai Cha.
It was as if a head was pushing that flyer forward as it flew.
After flying a certain distance, the flyer fell to the ground.
Bai Cha heard that subtle sound and glanced back.
She narrowed her eyes, temporarily deciding not to startle anything.
But thinking about the possibility of a head lying behind her own head…
Bai Cha pondered for a moment and suddenly opened the system panel.
Seeing this, Zheng Yue asked curiously, “Are you going to buy some props? An invisibility cloak?”
Bai Cha’s hand paused slightly, then she casually searched for an invisibility cloak.
200 points per piece, can hide for three minutes, not being discovered by any existence, except in special circumstances.
Very good, just that phrase “special circumstances” meant this cloak might not be worth the price.
The system’s favorite thing to play was word games.
For example, the ex-boyfriend’s name incident in the previous instance.
When she found her ex-boyfriend’s name with the help of the NPC, she received a notification sound. But in fact, that name wasn’t her ex-boyfriend’s, but his cousin’s.
The system’s words were ambiguous, making people think that was her ex-boyfriend’s name, but thinking about it, it didn’t make sense.
Everyone didn’t remember what her ex-boyfriend’s name was, how could there still be such a name on the registration form?
And then the news of someone coming to the door followed closely.
After a series of clues, everyone would subconsciously assume that the name on the registration form was her ex-boyfriend’s name.
But in fact, her ex-boyfriend’s name had already appeared, but because she hadn’t collected all the clues about the name, the system hadn’t announced it.
So when the system said she had found his name, it didn’t necessarily mean Qi Wenzhen, but was just a notification after all the clues were collected.
The same applied this time.
When you see the last page of the diary, be careful.
In most cases, the first reaction upon seeing such a prompt is, “Am I being targeted?”
Isn’t that the usual trope in horror games? When you see a name, find an important relic from a deceased spirit’s life, you might become its target.
Especially when the door then rings.
If Bai Cha hadn’t used the mirror at that time, and had seen nothing, or had used other props to check and found nothing…
Just like the invisibility cloak saying “except in special circumstances.” What if this was a special circumstance, and other props couldn’t detect these human heads?
After checking around and feeling that everything was fine, she might have turned around and gone back. Then the human head would have taken the opportunity to latch onto the back of her head.
So Bai Cha gave up on the invisibility cloak and searched for what she wanted in the store.
Zheng Yue was still talking to her.
“Do you think we’ll encounter danger if we go to the hospital later? It seems like this world is just about distorted aesthetics right now. Because the owners of those diaries really longed to become beautiful.”
When Bai Cha shared the diaries with them, she had torn off the actual writing on the last page.
That’s right, she was that bad.
She made it so that each of them would be targeted. But she didn’t tell them the truly important clue.
However, anyone who was a little careful should have been able to notice. No one said anything, and she wasn’t the only one with ulterior motives.
If these players, after playing so many games, still couldn’t discover the hidden real clues, then what did it have to do with her?
“The game prompt told us to take good care of our faces. Do you think… will the owners of the diaries corresponding to each of us swap our faces?”
Zheng Yue was still talking. As he spoke, he felt fear. He suddenly felt the surrounding wind become colder.
“Hiss, this wind is so cold. Why do I feel like someone is staring at me?”
Although Bai Cha didn’t look in the mirror, she could roughly guess that the human heads around them might have all looked over because of his words.
Her expression remained unchanged as she gently comforted him. “Don’t worry too much. It’s only the first day. We can stay in this instance for 30 days. It won’t be that dangerous right from the start.”
Yeah, right.
All the players found important clues right away. She didn’t believe they could stay in this instance for another 30 days.
Zheng Yue forced a smile. He didn’t know why, but he felt his face was a bit tight. He raised his hand and touched it.
“It won’t really… but…”
Zheng Yue didn’t dare to mention face-swapping again, but the more he cared about such things, the more uncomfortable he felt.
Bai Cha said seemingly understandingly, “If you want to know, just go to the plastic surgery hospital and take a look. You said, the plastic surgery project where the person looks the same before and after the surgery, is it really the same person before and after?”
The surrounding air became colder.
Zheng Yue swallowed. It wasn’t an illusion; his facial skin really felt a bit tight.
He looked around and suddenly stopped, a chill running straight from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
There was a shop on his right. It was closed now, and the shop had glass doors. In the darkness inside, the people outside could be reflected.
He saw that there was another head behind his head. And that head’s face had already buried itself into his head.
