Chapter 111: [Beauty Above All] Returning to Reality
Bai Cha swiftly looked in the mirror and saw four large blood-red characters above her head.
And the monster also instantly turned its gaze over, firmly locking onto her alone.
“Crap!”
She started running.
[Ah, this… Did the streamer offend this kind of monster before? How is it directly locked on?]
[Good heavens, streamer, you’ve got some taunt skill on you.]
[Quick, quick, the last ten seconds!]
[Nine seconds!]
Bai Cha had already been caught up by the monster.
The dodder vines on the ground rapidly coiled up, covering Cold Mountain and the Pig-Butchering Knife, attacking the monster while simultaneously moving Bai Cha to a farther location.
This kind of completely crimson, tall monster had very strong combat abilities.
[Eight]
Bai Cha was caught up again.
She used the last charge of the prop card that Xiao Xiao had given her.
The monster was electrocuted, its body paused for a moment, and Bai Cha used this opportunity to jump directly into the crowd.
[Seven]
The monster began to tear through the crowd.
In any case, the blood-red characters above her head kept the monster’s target fixed on her alone.
The other fleeing players also noticed this situation.
Liu Shuaicai hesitated for a moment and threw out a binding lock.
The binding lock only held the monster for three seconds.
But that was enough.
[Three]
Bai Cha gathered all the dodder seeds she had released and缠住 (entangled) the monster.
[Two]
The monster tore through the dodder vines again and again.
[One]
It broke through the vines and reached for Bai Cha.
A figure pulled Bai Cha, and the monster only tore her clothes.
It was “Zheng Yue.”
Bai Cha was stunned, and then something was stuffed into her hand.
[Teleportation successful!]
Teleported to the settlement interface, Bai Cha also breathed a sigh of relief. She first looked at the thing in her hand. It was a key.
Not knowing its use, she decided to put it away for now.
She had tried her best to conserve her own strength.
Even so, this instance had used up more than a third of it.
But it wasn’t a loss.
She roughly understood how to destroy the so-called game core.
[Congratulations! You have successfully cleared 《Appearance Supreme》! Your performance in this game was S-rank! Reward points: 1600]
[However, due to your active destruction of this instance, causing damage to the game, 1600 points will be deducted!]
[Your rewards for this game: Li Qianyao’s Blessing!]
[Congratulations! You have obtained Mysterious Fragment ×24. Collect 999 to receive a grand prize.]
[Congratulations! You have obtained a Mysterious Key.]
[Your title ‘Ghost’s Bane’ has been upgraded to lv.2.]
[Settlement complete. Do you have any further questions?]
Bai Cha: “…”
So destroying the instance would deduct points.
That guy Xu Mingwang hadn’t told her that.
She had also spent more than 800 points in this instance, and in the end, she only gained more hatred. On the surface, this was a huge loss.
Fortunately, in the long run, it wasn’t a complete loss.
She had roughly figured out what the so-called destruction of the core meant.
“Now that the instance is destroyed, can fragments still be obtained from other places?”
[Yes, dear. If you enter instances that contain fragments in the future, you will receive a system notification.]
“Then I have no more questions.”
Teleported back to the game lobby, Bai Cha found that Xu Mingwang hadn’t returned yet.
A day had passed since she entered the instance.
When she returned to reality, it was evening.
Several resumes she had sent out had already received replies.
However, she felt quite tired after returning to reality.
Actually, she was already very tired, but her condition in the game was better. Suddenly losing that strength made the feeling of fatigue even more obvious.
After hesitating for a moment, she didn’t reply to the interview matters for now.
Logically, she knew she should find a job and first graduate smoothly from school.
But… from the moment she entered the game, could she really still live the life of an ordinary person?
Bai Cha quickly lay down and went to sleep.
In her dream, her door was knocked on again.
The difference was that this time, the person knocking on her door was Xu Shengsheng.
“Sis, are you ready? We need to go out.”
Bai Cha was still drowsy and found it hard to open her eyes, forcing herself to get up with difficulty.
Her mind was still a blur.
But she felt something was wrong.
She walked to the front door intending to open it, but stopped at the last moment.
She tried her best to recall in her mind when she had agreed to go out with Xu Shengsheng.
It seemed like there was such a thing, but was there really?
Bai Cha suddenly woke up with a start.
It wasn’t dawn yet.
Looking at the time, it was only three in the morning.
Bai Cha lay back down, and in her drowsiness, she seemed to be pulled back into that dream again.
She endured the sleepiness, opened her eyes, and picked up her phone.
She opened the game app, clicked on the forum, and searched: How many days do warning dreams usually last?
There were a lot of posts below.
[I’m so done, I’m going to be scared to death by these dreams! I’m so afraid to sleep!]
[I dreamed for three days this time, it was the same every time. I already have psychological trauma, and I haven’t even entered the instance yet, but I’m already terrified.]
[Why do the warning dreams have five senses? I really don’t understand. Last time, a monster cut me in half at the waist, it hurt so bad!]
[Did you guys really get any important clues from the warnings in the dreams? I didn’t anyway, at most I know what type of instance it is.]
[+1, I feel like it’s not a warning at all, it just means you’ve been targeted by a new ghost.]
Bai Cha’s eyes were so sleepy she couldn’t keep them open. This drowsiness wasn’t her normal state. Usually, after waking up from nightmares or other dreams at night, she found it very difficult to fall back asleep, and she wouldn’t be this sleepy.
But both times she had these dreams, she was so sleepy she couldn’t open her eyes, as if something was covering them.
Thinking of this, she raised her hand and touched her eyes, but there was nothing there.
In the end, she gave up. Let it be a dream. She didn’t care about dreaming, but the feeling of being controlled in the dream was very uncomfortable.
However, surprisingly, after falling asleep again, she slept until dawn without having those strange dreams.
Instead, she had her usual recurring dream of running up and down countless staircases, never able to go up or down.
It was very tiring.
Every time she had this dream, she felt as tired as if she had really run all night.
Bai Cha glanced at the time, intending to lie down for a while longer, but found that she had received many messages from Xu Shengsheng at some point.
Her phone was always on silent.
One reason was that she was afraid of being disturbed while sleeping, as her sleep quality was already very bad. The other reason was that every time she heard her phone’s notification sound, her heart would jump suddenly.
It was very uncomfortable.
So she simply put it on silent, whether she received messages and calls depended on fate with that person.
Opening her phone, Bai Cha glanced at it, her expression gradually becoming serious as she sat up in bed.
Xu Shengsheng: Sis, are you still not awake? Damn, I can’t sleep, I had a nightmare, it was so scary! I even dreamed about you!
