“Then let’s have them leave quickly; I can’t wait to see him again.”
On the other side, Bo Yanan and the others were busy spreading the antidote.
It was estimated that it would take at least a week to completely resolve all the zombies.
Bo Yanan had originally planned to bring over the little zombie during this week, but unexpectedly, all the healthy zombies that were about to receive the antidote suddenly transformed back into humans.
“The virus is gone!”
Someone suddenly shouted.
Then others noticed the situation and cheered together.
“The virus is really gone! That’s great! We don’t have to live this anxious life anymore!”
While the others joyfully celebrated, Bo Yanan felt a sense of silence and loneliness.
Seeing Bo Yanan’s not-so-good expression, a researcher asked with concern, “Researcher Bo, what’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell? Now that the virus is gone, you don’t need to work so hard. Hurry back and rest!”
The speaker’s tone was filled with excitement at the news of the virus finally disappearing.
Bo Yanan absentmindedly walked back to his quarters, constantly pondering what to do about the little zombie.
With the sudden disappearance of the virus, the instance would soon end, and the instance notification had already arrived at that moment.
In just a few minutes, there was no time to take the little zombie away.
It seemed he would have to find another opportunity to enter this instance again.
“Congratulations to the players for completing the instance. This instance will close in one minute. Please leave as soon as possible.”
As the system urged, player after player vanished from the instance.
When the last player left, a system notification quietly appeared on the forum’s homepage.
“Another instance has been permanently closed. Does anyone know the reason?”
“This is already the third instance that’s been permanently closed! This kind of situation didn’t happen before; why is it appearing so often lately?”
“Is it possible that our horror game district is going down? I asked friends from other districts, and they haven’t encountered this situation.”
“The romance district has had such incidents. It’s said that every instance cleared by their top player has closed because the boss inside fell in love but couldn’t get the person, which caused them to go rogue and chase the player out of the instance. Without the boss, the instance had to close.”
“Bro, that’s the romance district. We can’t say the bosses in our horror district are like that! It’s quite disturbing to say; just think about what those bosses look like and their cruel methods—who would dare to attempt to deal with them?”
“Exactly, bro. In the past, some newcomers tried to mimic the romance district’s strategies to challenge those bosses, but they all ended up as nothing but bones. Let’s be honest, if someone doesn’t look good, they shouldn’t entertain such thoughts. You can’t say someone looks better than the number one in the romance district, then go try to charm those bosses. That’s probably why these instances are permanently closed.”
Chapter 68: Dating Instance?
Song Jinshi had just exited the instance and hadn’t even checked the settlement rewards when he was pulled away by Sui Han.
With a flicker, the two appeared in the villa of the base.
Song Jinshi recalled what Sui Han had said in the instance, shrank his neck, and replied awkwardly, “Um, I’m a bit tired, I think I’ll take a nap now.”
After saying that, he closed his eyes, pretended not to see Sui Han, and self-deceivedly walked toward his room.
One step, two steps, the bedroom was right in front of him.
Finally, when he reached the door, Song Jinshi forced himself to suppress his slightly cheerful steps and pretended to feel utterly exhausted as he entered the room, then closed the door behind him with a weary sigh.
Locking it, turning around, and lying on the bed—everything flowed smoothly.
Song Jinshi finally let out a sigh of relief; he didn’t want to discuss the past with Sui Han anymore.
Unknowingly, Song Jinshi drifted off to sleep.
While Song Jinshi adapted well to the horror district, the romance district was in quite an uproar.
“Is there anyone who can explain? Are we going to close down in the romance district? Recently, I entered a low-level instance, clearly just to charm the lowest-level target. But she acted like a freak from a high-level instance, suddenly throwing me off just as I thought I was about to complete the task, then gave me a sinister and twisted smile.”
“Me too! My last instance was the same situation. Although I was a bit luckier, at least she told me why she was playing like that. She said their top boss went insane, and as a corporate worker, she was heavily exploited but couldn’t fight back. After all, the pay was too high, so she had to vent her anger on us.”
Many responses followed this post, and they all echoed similar experiences, wanting to know if their romance district was closing down, prompting such behavior.
“Also, I’m part of a team run by a certain top player. I want to say it’s not just the people in the instance who have issues; our boss is also having problems! He hasn’t been himself lately, completely losing interest in food and tea, madly going into instances daily to find someone, not believing he’s dead and insisting he’s lost in the instance. Our team is genuinely terrified of saying anything wrong and being thrown into an instance.”
“Our team is the same; he absolutely refuses to believe that person is dead! We now can’t even mention their name, but it’s true their name has turned gray on the leaderboard, which everyone knows means they’re gone.”
“I heard there’s an impressive newcomer in the horror district next door. After finishing the first instance, they sky-rocketed to the leaderboard, and many big players in their district are looking for him.”
Once this was said, it successfully shifted the focus to the neighboring district.
“I heard the instances there have permanently closed, and the discussions in the neighboring district have gone crazy. Some people in our district even want to switch to theirs, thinking maybe their difficulty has lowered. They would rather face the demons and monsters there than continue suffering in our district.”
“Do you guys think that newcomer could be the second Song Jinshi? Don’t you think his experiences are quite similar to Song Jinshi’s?”