The sensation of being dragged was so familiar. When they opened their eyes again, Li Ang and the others had returned to the tatami room on the second floor of the Fushen House, exchanging glances.

Wanli Fengdao glanced at the evening glow outside the window and said with some uncertainty, "Is it... solved?"

Xing Hechou walked silently to the front of the room divider, reached out to pull open the door, and lifted the blue dust cover.

It was spotless; there were no piles of corpses, nor a little girl crying and banging on the door.

"What just happened," Xing Hechou turned to look at Li Ang, "was it something that truly occurred, or was it purely an illusion?"

"Who knows." Li Ang spread his hands and said calmly, "The Shengnan King's Dream has always blurred the lines between reality and fantasy. If it concerns you, you can discuss the matter with the Japan Islands' official organization after leaving the dream and ask them to investigate clues related to Tennyo Yiji."

"Hmm." Xing Hechou nodded.

The Fushen House case could almost be singled out as a high-difficulty script task, its style both healing and depressing. In the outcome achieved through everyone's efforts, Fushen Pingyuan successfully dismantled the leadership of the Yiji Shrine Organization, rescued his brother and granddaughter, and revealed the full story of the event to the public. Arguably, the players had done their utmost, maximizing the chances for Fushen Pingyuan to return to a peaceful life.

But for the character "Fushen Pingyuan," he still had to live in the world, burdened with his cousin Xiu Lai, who had undergone a prefrontal lobotomy, and his still-young granddaughter.

I can only wish him luck... Wanli Fengdao sighed silently in his heart, then something else occurred to him, and he shook his head with a bitter smile.

The longer he spent in the killing field games, the harder it was for him to distinguish between the scripts and reality. People in the script worlds also had flesh and blood, emotions and desires, their own life trajectories, and moments of brilliance. Feng Dao simply couldn't treat the NPCs of the script worlds as a group of mechanical, unfeeling objects, existing only to be exploited by players for their utility value, as some players could.

[Abnormal Event Reward 1: Experience Point 300]

[Abnormal Event Reward 2: Game Coin 500]

The System's announcement sounded, and Li Ang's spirits lifted. Now that he knew the player panel would change after Level 20, he naturally paid close attention to Experience Points.

After exchanging a few words with his teammates, Li Ang discovered that the Experience Points they gained were subtly less than his by a few dozen. After all, the Shengnan King's Dream wasn't like a standard group script task; rewards for each player were calculated separately.

Having slaughtered many evil spirits in the Rainstorm Forest earlier, and adding the reward from the Fushen House event, his Experience Points had just reached 1,280/1,300 at Lv13. Resolving one more unusual event would likely catapult him directly to Lv14. Based on this alone, the trip to the Shengnan King's Dream had already paid for itself.

Setting aside levels for a moment, the group discussed their next move.

Li Ang asked, "What about that compass that can guide us to the second layer of the Shengnan King's Dream? Where is the entrance?"

"Let me check," Xing Hechou said, taking out a pocket watch and glancing at it. After making a few rounds in the tatami room on the second floor, he finally determined that the entrance to the second layer was inside the floor of the tatami room on the second floor of the Fushen House.

He asked the other players to stand back, then squatted on the ground, pulled up the mats, and dismantled the floorboards.

Below the dismantled floorboards was a pool of crystal-clear shallow water. Through its surface, one could vaguely see glistening waves surrounded by mountains, resembling a lake.

"This should be the entrance." Xing Hechou took a deep breath, slowly stood up, and looked toward Li Ang and the others, saying seriously, "According to the think tank's previous analysis, the level of chaos and danger in the Shengnan King's Dream will increase with each deeper layer. The Fushen Pingyuan case we just encountered was actually quite difficult. Going further down, it's hard to say what we might encounter..."

"Alright, Old Xing," Wanli Fengdao shook his head. "After all the hard work to get here, not going down to have a look would leave us really itching to go. If we encounter any danger, we'll just run away."

Xing Hechou did not speak and shifted his gaze to Li Ang and Liu Wu Dai. After receiving an affirmative response, he nodded and took out a... rabbit from his backpack slot.

It was a palm-sized little rabbit that could fit into a coffee cup, with long ears and snow-white fur, currently sleeping with its eyes closed. It looked incredibly adorable, cute enough to instantly win the hearts of females of all ages.

Xing Hechou wasn't getting the rabbit out to make roast rabbit on the spot; in fact, it was an item with a very special use.

[Name: Sleeping Wily Rabbit (Level 3 Replica)]

[Type: Creature]

[Quality: Rare]

[Attack Power: Extremely Weak]

[Defensive Power: Extremely Weak]

[Special Effect: Self-replication. When startled, a Level 3 Replica Wily Rabbit will automatically begin to replicate. It can create 1,000 Level 4 Replica Wily Rabbits within one hour. After creating a total of 1,000 replicas, the Level 3 Replica Wily Rabbit will fall into a deep sleep. The physiological activity of Level 4 Replica Wily Rabbits is identical to that of an ordinary teacup mini rabbit.]

[Note: Bunnies are so cute; how could anyone eat them? SLURP.]

[Note: Although the bunny looks cute and indeed is very cute, please don't hold it in your hand for long periods to pet it—this thing could awaken from its sleep at any moment and start replicating wildly.]

[Note: Wily Rabbits of Level 3 Replica and above can be recharged using the Twin-Rabbit Jade Pendant.]

This Level 3 Replica Wily Rabbit was a containment item rented to the Special Affairs Bureau by the Heterodox Academy. Elite agents of the Special Affairs Bureau generally each had one. Not only could it be used for a snack, but it could also be paired with other equipment and items to detect potential dangers ahead.

Xing Hechou placed the palm-sized Wily Rabbit in his hand and carefully poked the bunny.

The little white rabbit, which had been asleep until then, immediately woke up startled, jumping up and splitting in mid-air into four with a BANG.

Xing Hechou swiftly caught the one that was whiter and stuffed it into his backpack slot. He then made a tiny cut on the skin of the remaining Level 4 Replicas, letting their blood drip onto an A4 sheet of paper. Afterward, under the curious gazes of his teammates, he threw all the Level 4 rabbits into the water in the middle of the floor and carefully observed the paper for any changes.

After a while, the A4 sheet showed no changes.

Xing Hechou also heaved a sigh of relief and explained to his teammates, "This paper is a bit like the Life Cards in 'One Piece.' It's capable of monitoring the life status of the blood donor over long distances, regardless of spatial separation. It seems there's probably no immediate lethal danger under the water."

There's also this trick? Li Ang was taken aback upon hearing this, eyeing the piece of paper in Xing Hechou's hands covetously. "Does the Special Affairs Bureau sell these?"

"They do, but they're rather expensive," Xing Hechou replied. "Also, their function isn't as powerful as the original Life Cards. They can only be used for very weak life forms; ordinary people can't use them. This paper has already been registered with the rabbit's information. I can give you a new one if you want."

"Sure, I'll transfer the money to you later."

Since transactions couldn't be made on the spot within the Shengnan King's Dream, Li Ang nodded, took a fresh piece of paper from Xing Hechou, and stored it in his backpack slot.

Using the Origin of Life, he felt he could probably develop some new applications for this paper.

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