The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Chapter 222 Jack, the Dwarf Butler

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"Welcome to the single-player adventure game. Dear player, I am your personal navigation assistant. You can call me Jack."

Standing opposite Li Can was a young dwarf dressed in a dark blue suit. At that moment, the dwarf Jack was holding a rectangular card in his hand and reciting from it.

His hair was combed meticulously, parted to the side in a 3/7 ratio, without a single strand out of place.

The well-tailored suit fit his body perfectly, and the brand-new leather shoes gleamed with an impeccable shine.

When Li Can first entered the instance, she steadily observed his every move.

Elegant, truly elegant.

Li Can could even picture Jack sitting in a solid wood chair, swirling champagne in his hand.

Although he was short, it was still hard to hide the impact of his handsome face.

Jack continued reading the game rules, but waited a long time for a response from the new player.

The surroundings were quiet, which was a bit unusual.

He looked up from the card with some confusion, and after seeing Li Can's face clearly, he began to tremble involuntarily.

His well-fitting suit now looked rather tight, making him quite uncomfortable.

It was a fear ingrained in his DNA; a voice was howling inside Jack's head.

Run! Run!

"One, two, three..." Li Can and the dwarf Jack faced each other, his face full of friendly smiles, but he was muttering an unknown count, making it unclear what he was trying to do.

Li Can counted to three, raised his right hand and waved, preparing to greet Jack.

Jack, on the other side, seemed to have seen a ghost, ignoring the game progress cards and starting to run away without looking back.

Li Can could hear the sound of the seams of his clothes snapping.

"Sigh..." Li Can was a little annoyed. He had tried his best to be friendly, so why were all the NPCs in this one-man dungeon so afraid of him?

Sigh, can't there be more trust between people?

He took a few steps forward, bent down and picked up the game progress card that Jack had left on the ground, his expression somewhat melancholy.

"It's still the same old game flow. As expected, when the pseudo-aliens designed the game, they just changed the name but not the essence."

"The world is indeed a giant makeshift operation."

However, Li Can knew that the game designers probably didn't expect that someone would be refreshing the same type of dungeon like Li Can did at the beginning.

Because of another time-space pause, he couldn't match with other players, so the solo dungeon became a place where Li Can could keep exploiting the bug.

Li Can said that this would be the last instance he would enter, not because it was time for him and A Yun to pack up and officially leave the mountain, but because it was indeed the last solo instance on Blue Star at this moment.

He felt uneasy if he didn't clear this away, even though he didn't have OCD, it still got to him.

On the other hand, Li Can did intend to practice various secret techniques here.

"The first level is the Death Pendulum, the second level is the Card Game, the third level is What's in the Hat, the fourth level..." Li Can carefully read through the game process described on the cards, a total of seven levels.

All of them are trick games that require intelligence to pass.

If it were him in the past, when he entered this kind of intellectual challenge, he might have carefully considered the possibilities of various clues.

But now he's a seasoned veteran, capable of conquering all sorts of solo dungeons.

Moreover, the secret manuals and the laws of time he possesses do not allow him to be too low-key.

After all, he came here to use it as a practice ground.

Sometimes, looking at things from a different perspective reveals that the word "rules" is only for civilized people.

When you encounter someone who doesn't play by the rules and completely ignores them, it's utterly useless.

"Dear player, hello... I don't know why I'm shaking a little right now, but... could you please give me back my game card? I'll die if I lose this..."

After running a long way, the dwarf Jack realized that he had left behind the most important thing.

So he had no choice but to force himself to overcome his fear and turn around. At that moment, he cautiously approached Li Can and made his request.

"Oh, you want this? Here, you can have it back." Li Can casually handed him the card.

Jack shakily reached out his hands to catch it, his previously restrained expression now carrying a sense of relief at having lost it and then regained it.

"Thank you so much. As a way of repaying you, I will serve you even more diligently and responsibly in the rest of the game."

A slight upward curve appeared on Li Can's lips. Just as he was about to hand the card to Jack, he suddenly pulled back, and Jack missed.

Jack: "?"

Li Can suddenly thought of something, but he had no clue what it was. He wasn't deliberately messing with Jack.

"Wait a minute, I've changed my mind. Before returning the card to you, I have a few questions I'd like to ask you, and I hope you can answer them truthfully."

Jack frowned, his body still trembling with fear, but he mustered his courage and spoke with considerable anger:

"Sir player, I think you're provoking me. Are you sure you want to play these tricks on your game assistant in the game?"

"Aren't you afraid I might do something in the next level...?"

Jack, feigning mystery, led Li Can to speculate about underhanded dealings.

But in reality, this childish trick couldn't fool Li Can at all.

He had long been familiar with similar excuses and pretexts among his dwarf race.

In reality, the game NPCs here don't have high authority and can't do anything to disrupt the game rules. If they violate the rules, even NPCs will be punished.

Those kinds of punishments are something that ordinary people and NPCs really can't escape unless they have players with very strong superpowers.

Li Can, however, was not afraid.

He'd seen plenty of game punishments.

"I'm not afraid," Li Can said firmly.

Jack, who was still planning how to deceive Li Can, was suddenly caught off guard by him.

"what?"

Li Can wasn't going to beat around the bush. "I'll get straight to the point. I'll ask and you answer. Don't worry, I have absolutely no desire to possess this little card of yours."

"...Okay, Mr. Player, may I ask?" Jack hesitated for only a few seconds, showing he was quite good at reading people.

He could tell that Li Can was exceptionally confident, so he dared not act recklessly again.

Li Can was also observing him.

In the past, when entering dungeon games, Li Can was either focused on clearing the level or wholeheartedly studying the rules and secrets.

This time he finally had some free time and could think more deeply.

"Where are you NPCs when you're not active in the instanced game? How can you be sure you're a living, breathing person and not just a program of code?"

"If you die in a dungeon, will you really die?"

Are you sure you're you?