[The twists and turns Master Xu Xi has experienced tonight are truly dramatic.]
[I thought Xing Ge, who's keeping vigil on the first night, would be in the most danger.]
[Hard to say. Generally, the first night is actually quite safe because many dangers need time to ferment.]
[Makes sense. I think the last day isn't bad either, because many instances simply don't last until the final day.]
[? What kind of hellish statement is that?]
[Something's off. Don't tell me he got infected with that unlucky kid's misfortune, look at all these unexpected twists.]
[I still want to know why Master Xu Xi chose to take over Shi Weiwei's vigil shift tonight.]
[I'm curious too. 248 never does anything unnecessary, there must be a purpose.]
[Speaking of the little unlucky egg, has his live stream recovered?]
[It recovered a long time ago. His perspective is quite different from the other players, a bit like an inner world.]
[Not good, who understands how jittery I am right now? I always feel like the instance is about to mutate in the next second.]
[I thought it was common knowledge that instances he's in are guaranteed to have unexpected changes ()]
[...I'm going to keep an eye on that kid for a while, I'll report back if there's news.]
[Eh, where is Master Xu Xi going?]
Originally, the young man was coldly watching the flames in the stove hearth, staring expressionlessly for quite a while before suddenly turning and walking towards a small door on the other side.
[He's probably going to investigate outside the small door.]
However, the young man seemed to have a very clear purpose. Once out the door, he went straight along the path.
He appeared to have an exceptionally clear target.
At the same time, outside the instance.
Ever since the young man on screen proactively suggested changing the vigil personnel, Ji Yang had remained silent, as if pondering something.
[What are you doing, San Shui?]
[I know, he's cosplaying The Thinker.]
[I bet this guy is trying to understand Master Xu Xi's thought process.]
Ji Yang looked at the live stream comments and finally spoke: "I'm not trying to understand him, I'm thinking about something."
This statement immediately piqued the curiosity of the live stream comments, and they all asked what it was.
"Ahem, let me state in advance," Ji Yang cleared his throat lightly, "this is just my personal speculation."
He switched the view to Hang Ze's live stream.
The originally pitch-black screen had returned to normal.
In the frame, a young man wearing an earring was mingling among a group of blurry human figures, surrounded by swirling incense smoke and flickering candle shadows.
That was clearly another funeral.
Among the seven players, besides Xing Ge who needed to keep vigil, only Hang Ze had proactively stepped out of the side room on the first night after hearing the strange conversation outside the door.
It turned out that was a special clue unique to the first night of the instance. At least, nothing similar had appeared again since the second night until now.
But correspondingly, the danger factor was also visibly high.
After he was dragged into the coffin, his live stream went dark for a short while.
It was just a black screen, not a shutdown, meaning the person was still alive.
The Xu Xi he was most concerned about appeared utterly nonchalant, as if completely indifferent to being in a life-or-death instance, casually wandering around the mansion.
The other players were also cautiously and carefully searching for clues related to the instance. Only Hang Ze's side was the most unpredictable.
Not to mention this kid also had an extremely fatal unlucky constitution.
This made him instinctively feel that the variable would most likely emerge from the other party.
Therefore, he paid a bit more attention over there.
Sure enough, after Xu Xi spoke up and took on the vigil duty for the second night, Hang Ze's live stream also lit up.
The other party crawled out rather disheveledly from a coffin that was noticeably smaller than Master Shen's.
Clearly, the other party had dug up a hidden clue.
But—
Ji Yang glanced at the live stream comments urging him to hurry up and stop keeping them in suspense, then pointed at Hang Ze on the screen: "Folks, do I even need to introduce this guy?"
The live stream comments immediately perked up, chattering all at once, listing this player's various nicknames: "The famously unlucky egg," "The walking instance mutator," "The little plague god who always gets beaten up," and so on.
Ji Yang nodded: "So what is he doing now?"
The live stream comments expressed confusion.
[What else could he be doing? It looks like he's... wait a minute.]
Seeing that some comments had caught on, Ji Yang continued: "I'm sure some folks here have definitely watched this unluc—ahem, this player's live streams. Those who have watched should know what his next step usually is after digging up a hidden clue."
The live stream fell silent for a moment, before an overwhelming flood of comments erupted the next second.
[...Holy crap! Is the instance going to mutate!?]
[It's only the second day, ber!??]
[Wait, I suddenly thought of a possibility. You guys think... 248 suddenly changing the vigil order wasn't because he knew something big was going to happen tonight, was it?]
[Damn! You might be onto something!]
Ji Yang, who had been watching the comments, looked at those speculations and spoke up: "Of course, like I said, this is all just my personal conjecture."
Otherwise, he really couldn't understand why 248 would suddenly take on the vigil job for no good reason.
Even the timing was so coincidentally precise.
Ji Yang switched the view back to Xu Xi's live stream.
After burning the offerings, the true purpose hidden beneath the young man's nonchalant facade seemed to finally reveal a tiny hint of its edge.
