The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Chapter 179: End of this instance game

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Li Can took the large red leather notebook, held it in her hand, and gently stroked the black characters on it, feeling somewhat dazed.

"Ah, is today the first day of our new city's establishment? Yang Mo, when did you write it on? I didn't even notice it when I was making the certificate cover." Shen Yuan belatedly pointed to the date and asked.

"And this eerie labyrinthine city... it sounds so familiar to me these past few days. Haven't we seen it before in the mirror world...?"

Yang Mo and Wang Defa were still persistently digging a temporary foundation underground, sending a door frame the size of a double security door into it.

As he filled the soil with a shovel, he replied, "Yeah, I was thinking that since we've already played house with Dazhuang, we should make it more formal and write the certificate more realistically. After thinking it over, I decided to just treat today as the first day of the city's construction."

"Anyway, the city gate has already been installed, hasn't it?"

"As for the origin of the eerie labyrinth city, I can't remember. Maybe there was a similar name before. I've thought of many names for the merged upper and lower city, but none of them are as fitting as this one."

He filled the last gap in the ground with soil, then stepped on it to compact it, which put his mind at ease.

"Even if it's just a gate, it counts as a city. By the way, where did our city gate plaques go?"

"Here it is." Li Lan's veins bulged as he carried a stone-carved arched sign from the back of the truck with one hand and a stone statue that had originally resembled a strange guest in the other hand as he walked over.

These are the final steps in building the city gate, and the gatekeepers.

Li Can's eyelids twitched as he watched his sister's strongman stance.

Now that her superpowers have awakened, he has no doubt that he could be killed by her with a single punch if he is caught off guard.

"I carved it, and the words are mine! What do you think?" Shen Yuan followed behind Li Lan like a little butterfly flitting about.

Without even breaking a sweat, Li Lan stacked the plaques on the city gate and piled the stone statues beside it, thus completing the basic structure.

She examined the large characters above; they were vigorous and powerful, completely unlike the handwriting of a young girl, creating a striking contrast.

"Hmm, very good."

Shen Yuan was very happy to receive Li Lan's praise, and she was even happier flying.

"Alright, let's finish this quickly. We'll have a lot to do when we get back. Dazhuang, come here, take the certificate and get ready. I'll activate the stone statue button at the city gate right now," Yang Mo said promptly.

He pulled Li Can's arm, straightened his body, and positioned him facing the new city gate.

Holding the certificate in his arms, Li Can looked through the city gate, which was neither too big nor too small, and saw a wall made of dense, black particles, which was impenetrable.

His voice was hoarse, and he paused, then said, "Okay."

Wang Defa and others voluntarily stood guard on the side, constantly keeping a watchful eye on the surrounding situation.

In this scenario, none of them were more eager for Li Can to succeed.

"Beep..." Yang Mo connected with the stone statues guarding the city gate.

That large, originally unremarkable rock seemed to be activated by something in an instant, rapidly transforming until it once again evolved into the bizarre form that Li Can had witnessed before.

Its big, bouncy head is like jelly, and its two limbs are placed on the sides of its body. It's a small ball that sways with its body.

The part that extends from the big head towards the feet becomes thinner and thinner, turning into a pointed little tail.

"..." Li Can stared at it for a long time, then turned to look at Yang Mo and the others, and finally said those words.

"I want to leave the city," he said to the city gate guards, holding his exit permit.

The stone statue behaved exactly as Li Can had seen it before, simply nodding without saying a word.

Although Li Can now knows that the underlying logic of this thing is just a technological product of the former Upper City, he still feels an absurd sense of unreality when facing this strange creature.

The stone statue seemed to have a fixed operating pattern; it used animal-like tentacles to reach in front of itself and scan the bright red certificate of leaving the city on its surface.

After confirmation, the certificate was swept across its empty surface by its light, turning into dust and dissipating.

Before Li Can could even express her regret that the certificate had been destroyed, Shen Yuan's voice rang out in a pitiful tone.

"No!... Ah, I made this by hand..."

Before she could finish speaking, the originally gloomy city gate suddenly seemed to have been triggered by some special mechanism or program.

The area around the gate appeared exactly the same as before, yet now it was radiating a dazzling, brilliant light.

A powerful suction force drew Li Can's body uncontrollably deeper inside.

He didn't resist the suction, but went in naturally.

After his body passed through the gate, a yellowish scroll appeared in the sky.

There are lines of large text above.

There are lines of large text above.

[Congratulations to the player for successfully leaving the city. This instance of the game has ended.]

[Here, the winner can freely explore the materialized map of the eerie labyrinth and choose when to leave; the loser will remain here forever.]

[Game rewards will be distributed after the winner leaves the map; please check your account promptly.]

Li Can's heart was pounding. When he turned around, the scene was gradually fading away.

Yang Mo, standing beside him, remained in his final hands-on-hips position, looking towards the gate.

Shen Yuan's mouth was open and not closed, as if she was still complaining about the destruction of her exit permit.

The dark curtain formed by the continuous dark particles in the distance is also disappearing, and in its place are blue skies, white clouds, and lush green mountains.

The ordinary dirt ground underfoot has changed dramatically in the blink of an eye, transforming into a city street paved with bluestone slabs.

New urban buildings rise from all sides, creating a truly eerie and mysterious city that will appear in the future.

The streets were bustling with people, and it was no longer possible to distinguish between people from the upper town and those from the lower town.

However, their figures were just afterimages, able to pass directly through his body.

It doesn't appear to be real-time people, but rather a recorded playback of city footage.

These are all future development scenes derived from the final outcome of the dungeon's storyline.

It allows players in the instance to clearly see the outcome of their match after the game ends.

Li Can thought this was pretty good.

After all, he was also very curious about what the mysterious labyrinthine city would be like in the future, and now he could see it in advance.

Li Can's gaze then turned to Wang Defa, Li Lan, Zhou Ye, and the others. It seemed that they were not affected and could still move around freely, just like him.

However, just like the notification after each instance ends, if you don't have a pass, the loser will be stuck here forever.

In layman's terms, it means being completely and utterly destroyed within the instance.

I'll never have the chance to go out again in my life.

Fortunately, the first base they entered this time had a large number of people, and each of them had a pass, so none of them were in any immediate danger.

Zhou Ye stretched and finally relaxed.

"Finally, I don't have to perform anymore. Phew... It's finally over. I've been looking forward to this day for so long."

Li Can and the others looked at Zhou Ye, who was currently the only one still unaware of what had happened with Wang Defa.