Lin Yi

"Bang! Bang!"

"Open the door, Lin Yi! I know you're home!"

Lin Nieran pounded on the door of apartment 404 Building One Unit One, making a deafening bang.

A short while later, a boy wearing a tattered hoodie opened the door with a blank expression.

"Your house is really cold, just like before." Lin Nieran looked at the red-eyed boy in front of him, his smile still lazy and leisurely.

Lin Yi glared at him irritably, his half-face covered in scars, making him look like a demon, with crisscrossing knife marks.

He knew he would come looking for him, so he did it while his parents weren't home, just like before.

"Now can you tell me what you've been hiding from me? Why did this supposedly dead Instance come back to life? Is it related to your disappearing act in the Lily Weird Zone?"

Lin Nieran's smile faded, and he stared directly at the boy who was now a head shorter than him. "Don't try to hide it from me, Lin Yi. I know you better than you know yourself."

Lin Yi remained unmoved, his face, now without the mask, looking even more terrifying. "What can you do if I don't tell you?"

"Your personality is really annoying. Who can be your friend besides me?"

Lin Yi face, which made him look even more frightening.

"If you dislike me, just go away. Nobody asked you to come here."

Lin Nieran muttered to himself, "Strange, are you a participant in the Instance now, or Instance weird NPC? You seem to be acting more like your childhood self."

His three cards, Moonlit Night Bai Yang and Flower Language, have also entered the Instance. He can sense that they are active and knows their approximate location, so they should all be recognized as participants in the Instance.

I just didn't expect Lin Yi to be identified by the Instance.

[This neighborhood looks both old and new; the facilities inside are outdated, but the exterior decoration looks quite modern.]

[Perhaps because it was renovated later?]

[Aside from being a bit eerie, it doesn't seem too dangerous.]

[You're really talking without understanding the situation.]

[How many people have died? Look how many live streams have gone black!]

[After the live stream disappears, someone else will take over, and I'm really on edge watching it.]

Qin Rang and Tao Yuan stood at the top of the stairs looking out, and the camera in the live broadcast room followed their eyes to the outside of the Happy Residential Complex.

Above their heads, there was Unit One. Further out, you could see that they lived in Building Number 4.

That's a really unlucky number.

The buildings in the residential complex were spaced far apart, and the temperature was low on a winter morning. The two of them were only wearing thin clothes and were shivering from the cold.

The temperature on Blue Star has long been extremely volatile due to mysterious reasons, but now their Residential Zone are equipped with temperature control systems. Even in Danger Zone and Weird Zones, the temperature will not be too extreme.

It's been a long time since I've felt such a bone-chilling cold.

"It still feels the same cold I experienced when I was a child. This must be the South," muttered Tao Yuan, a southerner. Wearing a skirt, she no longer cared about looking pretty or elegant; she just wanted to hurry back and change her clothes.

Qin Rang a little better off; he was wearing a thick suit.

"Go back and change your clothes first. I'm not sure if there's a sickness setting here. I'll walk around the area first."

"Good."

Tao Yuan rushed upstairs. Qin Rang hadn't gone far when, just as he turned to the left side of the building, he encountered a woman walking by with a dog.

The woman's attire was strange; Female Specter, wrapped in a down jacket, nothing particularly unusual.

But the black hunting dog she was holding possessed an unusually strong energy, its clear black and white eyes gleaming with a sharpness that was not of animal origin.

It's as if their roles have been reversed; it's not the person walking the dog, but the dog walking the person.

The woman smiled when she saw him, "Qin Rang, you're so late for work today."

Does this woman know him?

Qin Rang, unsure of their relationship, chimed in, "I had some things to do today. You're out walking your dog in this cold weather?"

"There's nothing I can do, dog owners don't get to sleep in." The woman yawned widely, her dark circles practically falling off her eyes. "I'm not going to say anything more, Lucky keeps tugging at me."

"Okay, go ahead and get busy."

After watching her leave, Qin Rang walked a little further to the side. He was in Building 4 of the residential complex, with Unit One and Unit Two connected. To the side was Building Five, and in front of it were Building One and 2.

Building Three, which should have been sandwiched in the middle, is gone.

In front of Building One and Building 2 is a small hospital. On the top floor of the hospital, there is a large "+" sign and a lily logo, which should be related to the Lily Hospital across the street.

In front of the hospital is a large recreational square, where you can see some strange figures moving around from a distance.

Looking further ahead, you see Building Eight; similarly, Building Six, which was sandwiched in between, has also disappeared.

"I'm here." Tao Yuan ran over, already dressed in a women's down jacket, with the strap securing the Chainsaw around her waist, and also brought Qin Rang a large black coat.

"Did you find anything?"

Qin Rang briefly explained his guess, and Tao Yuan nodded. "Shall we go find the others now?"

"Good."

Each member of their team had a location associated with Weird Object. Qin Rang and Tao Yuan took out their small round pieces and instantly sensed something was wrong.

There are indeed six flashing red dots on this small disc, but even though he and Tao Yuan are clearly together, why does it show that they are hundreds of meters apart?

Tao Yuan and Qin Rang were both startled, a chill running through their hearts, a chill that went straight to their bones.

Their eyes met, Qin Rang was the first to calm down. He re-examined the six points of light and smiled at the somewhat wary Tao Yuan: "It seems the C-level Weird Object has failed. This is an S-Class Aberration Instance, so it's normal for lower-level Weird Object to not work."

As he spoke, he put the small round piece back into his pocket. Tao Yuan glanced at his smiling, fox-like eyes and breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good. I almost thought I'd encountered a weirdo that could mimic others."

Without the locator, finding their teammates would be virtually impossible, so the two decided to go and scout ahead first.

After passing Building Five, they looked at the other half of the community road, where there was a wall and no road.

It seems that only buildings Building Three and Building Six have disappeared from the entire residential complex; the other buildings are all intact.

The two walked to the side of Building One and Building Two. As soon as they entered, they heard the sound of shattering glass and a heavy thud.

The two walked quickly, and the muffled sound attracted the attention of many people, who all gathered around.

On the ground, a young man dressed in a blue and white school uniform, who looked like a student, lay in a pool of blood and broken glass, his eyeballs bulging, as if he had seen something terrifying before he died.

Tao Yuan looked down at the fifth floor, where a window had a large hole in it. Looking at the lifeless person lying on the ground, he realized that the person was a participant in the Instance, as their body had not undergone any strange changes.