The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Chapter 117 My brain just jerked in my waist.

[Hello, is anyone there?] Li Can panicked a little.

He was curled up inside the city lord's body, clearly able to sense everyone's presence, but no matter what he did, he couldn't wake them up.

No one responded to him.

Trapped inside the city lord's body, he can only replenish his energy through the items in the gashapon machine's consciousness space.

She couldn't even cross the boundary through the thin membrane separating her body to connect with her younger sister, Li Lan.

Not to mention how to wake up Shen Yuan at his feet and Yang Mo to his side.

He became an isolated island.

Li Can tried to summon the puppets, but failed.

Currently, he is enveloped in a thick layer of mucous membrane, like a baby being wrapped in a womb, with only his internal space as his domain.

Even small movements are incredibly difficult, let alone struggling to get other items from the gashapon capsules out and take over its space.

The more he thought about it, the more suffocated he felt.

All I could do was desperately remind myself to stay calm.

Li Can took out several more crystal cores to replenish his strength, barely managing to stay awake and continue observing the memory fragments that occurred in the second act.

I see.

Having experienced the [Mirror of Past Lives] firsthand, Li Can now deeply understands the principle behind how this mirror traps and kills people.

Actually, the final questions shouldn't be too difficult.

The challenge lies in how to continue the entire storyline and how the person in the mirror can see all the scenes.

Otherwise, it's like sitting in a movie theater, holding a free ticket, with popcorn and a soda in your arms, while a long, pointless, and tedious movie plays on the screen, accompanied by the most soothing white noise as background music...

First, they brutally torment the already exhausted office workers after get off work, and then they deliver the most vicious physical blows.

And so it is, and so it is.

Apart from Li Can.

Everyone was sleeping soundly.

"Strange sir? Are you sleeping? I need your help..." In the flashback, a girl moved to the window and continued to call out to the city lord in the house, still unwilling to give up.

But her voice was still not very loud. From Li Can's perspective, it felt like scratching an itch through a boot, or the annoying buzzing of a mosquito.

Either make a loud noise and swoop down to devour the person, or just fly away.

Having learned from the previous scene, Li Can carefully observed the newcomer's eyes this time.

Brown pupils gleamed with a faint golden hue under the blazing sun.

The skin around the corner of the eye seemed a little loose, with faint traces of surgical sutures visible there.

Strangely, he could see clearly in the second act.

The footage from the first scene was reproduced, and the overall picture quality looked like it had been smeared with lard.

Compared to that, it's like going from 208P to high-definition 4K.

[Are these... the new eyes that have been replaced?]

So, the person who's come now should be a perfect person, but for some reason, she chose to trust the city lord and come to him for help...

[Help? What she's holding looks like a bundle containing a human head... and it seems to be dripping blood.]

Without anyone to watch the movie and discuss it with, Li Can could only talk to himself, repeating a few words to reinforce his memory.

With every small change that occurred in the second act, he felt a tremendous sense of dread.

He cannot afford to lose his composure.

He can't fall asleep.

He tried his best to remember the clues in the picture.

He needs to find a way to wake everyone up, otherwise, when the final question and answer session comes, he will be the only one left, and that will also lead to his death.

The rules are now completely clear: all four of you must work together.

It's not difficult, but it's not simple either.

[Damn it, why can't I stop sleeping?]

"Damn it, why can't I stop sleeping?"

The text messages Li Can sent from inside the city gate and the girl's voice outside the window eerily overlapped.

Upon hearing this, he shuddered, feeling as if he had been slapped in the face.

"Or I could just crawl in, stab him, and he'll wake up from the pain. Then I can quickly go back outside and knock on the door. That way, everything will look harmonious and peaceful, and I'll appear quite proper."

As Li Can listened to the strange girl's mutterings, alarm bells rang in his head.

Yes, yes, although your logic is flawed and your mind doesn't seem to be working very well, please be sure to maintain your style of doing things right and keep your word.

The girl's words served as a reminder to him that external pain could not only pierce the city lord's physical body but also awaken the inhabitant within him.

This is the simplest and most direct method.

"Sigh, forget it, maybe it's not a good idea. What if Mr. Wei finds out I did it? He might kill me."

"No, how can you give up so easily? Don't you even have the courage to try? How do you know he'll kill you? He might even be happy about it."

Li Canming knew the girl couldn't see his text comments, but he still chatted with her, talking to himself.

Forcibly compatible with systems from different times and spaces, and from different contexts.

"yes……"

【…?】 Li Can's mind suddenly flashed in his waist.

"Who is speaking?"

Can you see me speaking?

The girl standing at the window was extremely uneasy, clutching the bundle in her hand tightly with a knot.

With each bit of force applied to the fingers, the knuckles seemed to turn even whiter.

Li Can could feel her body trembling uncontrollably from excitement or fear.

However, before he could exchange a few more tentative words with the girl, the city lord, who was lying on the chair, slowly woke up.

He stretched out his arms and lazily yawned, his graceful posture like that of a cat.

"Xiaoqi? What are you doing standing here? How long have you been here? Come inside quickly." The young city lord's voice was still in the process of changing, hovering on the edge of a hoarse husky voice.

Every syllable spoken has the potential to break the bond of dedication.

He got up from the chair, opened the window wider, and then turned around to remove the latch from the door that had been tightly closed.

【Why is it this name again...?】 Li Can felt dizzy.

Even though the key character in the second act was a stranger, he had carefully observed the details of his face.

But the city lord called her "Xiao Qi".

How many "Huang Xiaoqi" are there in the eerie labyrinthine city?

It seems that ever since he entered the instance, and the city lord's growth experience has been inseparable from this "Xiao Qi".

[It might just be a coincidence.] Li Can silently put aside this strange thought that was currently on his mind.

At this moment, what he cared more about was what this "Xiao Qi" would do.

"Sir, this is my freshly chopped, defective head. Could you please perform another operation on me?" The girl stood somewhat awkwardly at the door, her voice shy and bashful.

With her other free hand, she gently stroked the suture line at the corner of her eye.

His brows furrowed slightly, as if he was not quite satisfied with his current appearance.

"Of course you can. As long as you have enough money to pay for it, you can have as many surgeries as you want."

"What if I want to replace your eyes?"

"No problem."

Li Can stared dumbfounded at their bizarre conversation. "Is this some kind of nonsense?"